Chapter 670 The taste has changed
Early the next morning, Qi Mei was in tears and reluctantly sent Xia Zihan and his group out of the city.
When she saw the motorcade leaving, she burst into tears and fell into Dongfang Yi's arms.
Dongfang Yi hugged her distressedly and coaxed her, "Don't cry. The year after next, when the child is older, we will go to the capital to visit your father, sister-in-law, and the princess."
"That will have to wait for several years." Qi Mei wiped away a handful of tears, and then wiped away another handful of tears. Just after wiping them away, they started to flow out again, as if there were endless tears in her eyes.
Dongfang Yi felt so distressed, "I told you not to come to see you off, just because I know you won't be able to part with it."
Of course she would be reluctant to part with it. She hadn't seen her little master for several years.
You know, the three lives of her Qi family were saved by her little master. If her little master hadn't been so kind and kind, she wouldn't be living a good life now, and she might have been forced to death long ago. Or maybe he's still making a living by performing on that street corner.
Then she wouldn't be able to meet Dongfang Yi.
Everything she had was given to her by her little master. In her heart, the little master was not her master, but her sister, her biological sister, no, she was closer than her biological sister.
It was a relative she could protect with her life.
Of course she would be missed.
……
The boxes on the carriage were filled with fragile gems and jades. After the convoy left the city, Xia Zihan ordered the convoy to move as slowly as possible, especially the ten escorts driving the carriage. Xia Zihan gave instructions again and again. , Be sure not to let the carriage bump too hard.
As for the half-person-high box of warm jade, Xia Zihan placed it directly on his carriage.
The carriage she was riding in was bought later. After arriving at Sun City, Chu Jingqi ordered it to be enlarged and widened by nearly a third. In addition to a small bed that could squeeze two people into it, there was also a A small table, a bench padded with thick cotton cushions, a small bookshelf, and a small drawer for snacks and tea.
The carriage was large and there were many things. Xia Zihan stuffed the chest of drawers under the bed and then moved out the place where Nuan Yu was placed.
"Ayu, you didn't sleep well last night. Take off your coat and go to sleep for a while. I'll wake you up at noon."
Chu Jingqi reached over, untied the straps of her cloak, took it off, and hung the cloak on the hook next to the bookshelf.
Xia Zihan glared at him angrily, "It's not all your fault. You forced me to drink so much goat's milk, which made me feel uncomfortable all afternoon. At night, you still tormented me."
I asked for it three times, each time for more than an hour. It almost tortured her to death, causing her to wake up late in the morning and lose her energy.
"Mutton nourishes the body. You have weak bones, so you need to drink more. I know it tastes bad, but you have to drink it patiently. From now on, I will buy you dried plums. When you drink goat milk, Eat a few pieces of dried plums and you will feel better.”
Goat milk is the most nutritious food produced by ewes raising lambs. If the lambs eat it, they will grow up strong. If Ayu eats it, it will also be good for their health.
He also decided that after returning to Beijing, he would raise two ewes in a circle with a fence on the grass in the greenhouse and provide her with goat milk in the future.
"Stop drinking it. I won't drink it anymore. Aqi, if you dare to give me goat's milk again, I will fall out with you." Xia Zihan's eyes were bulging with anger, like a frog.
"Hmm." Chu Jingqi said perfunctorily.
Yesterday, she said she wouldn't drink. In the end, she drank two large bowls.
"No matter, I won't drink anyway." Xia Zihan lay down on the small bed, got under the quilt, covered his mouth, and yawned several times before closing his eyes.
After a while, the person fell asleep.
Chu Jingqi closed the car curtains to prevent the cold wind from entering. Then, she sat on a short bench, reached into the quilt, took out her hand, held it in her hand, kissed her again and again, and stared at her with her eyes. Her sleeping face lasted for a long time.
No matter how long it takes, I can't get enough.
Because we walked slowly, we didn't arrive at the small town at noon. We ate dry food on the way and settled our meal.
Xia Zihan was sound asleep, so Chu Jingqi didn't wake her up. He took out the small stove, boiled a pot of hot water, brewed a pot of Dahongpao, grabbed two pieces of meat cake, took a sip of tea, and a mouthful of meat cake. A meal.
After eating and drinking, Chu Jingqi took off her shoes, got on the small bed, got into the quilt, hugged her, and slept together.
Xia Zihan hummed twice, as if he felt uncomfortable being squeezed.
Chu Jingqi turned over, hugged her, and turned around, she was sleeping on him. The two of them were like stacking arhats, their bodies close to each other.
His hand gently stroked her back, "Good boy, go to sleep. I'll wake you up when we get to the next place."
As if she heard his voice, she was about to wake up. After humming twice, she fell asleep again.
In the evening, the convoy finally arrived at a small town. Because there were too many people, the inn could not accommodate them, so they chose a relatively open place outside the town to rest. This time, the head escort of the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau is named Li Sangwu. He is in his mid-twenties and is the nephew of the chief escort of the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau. He is very good at martial arts and is also the elder brother of the other escorts of the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau.
The third senior brother who came with him was the second escort leader and the third youngest.
They seemed to be very accustomed to this kind of life. As soon as the convoy stopped, Li Sangwu almost didn't think about it and ordered the third brother to take ten people to the town to buy steamed buns. He also divided his brothers into three groups, one group of fifty people to guard the escorts. , another group of 20 people went hunting in the mountains and forests not far away, and another group of 20 people were responsible for lighting fires, collecting firewood, fetching water and other sundries.
After Li Sangwu finished his instructions, he went to talk to Zheng Wenting.
He and Zheng Wenting seemed to be very familiar with each other. The two were sitting next to the newly lit fire, talking and laughing, but Zheng Wenting seemed to be a little absent-minded, and his little eyes would glance at Xia Zihan's carriage from time to time.
Xia Zihan also woke up, but Chu Jingqi didn't let her get up. He said plausibly, "The cold wind in the northwest is strong at night, so don't go out to blow the cold wind. If you get cold, our trip will be delayed. It's warm in this car. We will eat in this car. Whatever you want to eat, I will tell you to go to the town to buy it.”
They have an employment relationship with the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau. According to common sense, if there are not many escorts hired, they have to take care of people's meals. But if there are too many escorts, hundreds of them, they have to pay more employment fees, but no matter Everyone has his own meal.
After the carriage stopped, Shengji came to ask what they would eat at night.
Xia Zihan had no appetite at all. She lay in his arms and said lazily, "Buy sesame seed cakes, steamed buns, whatever. Buy some pickles. I want to eat them."
"Why, don't you like salty food?" Chu Jingqi frowned, a little worried that she drank too much goat's milk yesterday and damaged her sense of taste.
"I don't know, it's just that my mouth is light and I want to eat something salty." Xia Zihan was too lazy to move at all and closed his eyes again.
"You, you are a doctor, what's wrong with your bones, why don't you check your pulse?" Chu Jingqi took out her left hand, put it on her right hand's pulse, and then asked, "How is it?"
"It's nothing." She was so lazy that she couldn't muster the energy to check her pulse. She wasn't sick, but she was tired from his torment last night and still felt sleepy.
Chu Jingqi thought she had taken her pulse seriously, so she breathed a sigh of relief and gave some instructions to the farm outside the carriage, "Then buy some salted vegetable pancakes and a pot of chicken soup. You can take care of the rest."
"Oh, by the way, there is a small stove on the carriage. You can buy a small stew pot, some seasonings, and a marinated chicken."
Chu Jingqi gave a lot of orders, and Xia Zihan asked, "What are you going to do? Are you going to make chicken soup for me?"
Then he pouted and said unhappy, "I'm not a patient. My body and bones have been nursed back to health long ago."
"You've lost a lot of weight compared to when you were in the capital, and you agreed, no, I have to make up for the lost flesh on your body, and make your body strong and fleshy, and I can't even touch it. Comfortable.”
The last words were spoken in her ear, so quietly that only she could hear them.
Xia Zihan's face turned red, she puffed up her face, raised her fist, and punched him in the chest, "Zi Lang, you didn't have enough trouble last night."
"No, I will never have enough of you. I want more tonight."
Xia Zihan's eyes widened in disbelief, "That's not possible, this is on a carriage."
"I will be very light and will never be noticed."
How could you not notice it?
There are bodyguards with martial arts skills around here. The slightest disturbance can alarm them. How could they not let others know what they were doing?
"No, you can't say anything. If you dare to do anything wrong, I will drug you and let you sleep all the way back to Beijing." Xia Zihan threatened him with a serious look.
Soon, raw materials were bought.
A pot of chicken soup with red dates and wild ginseng, four salted vegetable pancakes, a basket of steamed buns, two red rice buns, two packages of pickled vegetables, and I even bought two small bowls, plates and spoons, and washed them carefully.
There is also a food box, which contains a raw and marinated native chicken.
Sheng said, "It just so happened that the restaurant owner's wife gave birth to a son this morning. This pot of chicken soup with red dates and wild ginseng was stewed for his wife. After simmering it all afternoon, the servant gave him an extra two taels of silver. He didn't say anything. Even the pot and chicken soup are sold to the slaves.”
"Then what does his wife eat?" He even sells the chicken soup that his wife eats. That boss is really...
Looking at the steaming chicken soup in the stew pot, Xia Zihan couldn't bear to eat it and wanted to ask Shengdi to take it back. However, she also knew that if she really ordered Shengdi to take it back, Aqi would definitely be angry.
However, this is their postpartum chicken soup.
How could she bear to eat this?
"Princess, I own a restaurant, so I can save my wife's food and drink. When I went there, the restaurant's business was very good, and there were many good things in the kitchen. There was no shortage of chicken, duck, and fish. That one I also bought the marinated chicken from his house.”
(End of chapter)