"Ma'am, let's go."
Wei Zhan finished eating the lotus root powder soup, waited for his wife to finish eating, then pulled her away.
At this time, the boatman also rowed over with more than twenty lotus roots on the boat.
Wei Zhan let Yingbao get on the boat first, looked back, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Xiao Mo did not follow.
The two of them sailed through the dense lotus leaves on the boat. They washed a piece of tender lotus root and took a bite. It was extremely sweet.
The boatman laughed and said, "In a few days, we will have water chestnuts and chicken head rice here. If you come again, you can eat them."
Wei Zhan smiled and said, "Come and buy some when the time comes."
Yingbao was busy picking a few large lotus leaves, putting the lotus roots on them, then turned around and carried them ashore.
The lotus roots are the most tender at this time and are very delicious when eaten raw. She wants to bring some back for her parents and grandparents to try.
Well, bring some for my mother-in-law and others.
The boat soon docked, and Jiang Jie and Luo Zhao also came back. They also bought a lot of lotus roots.
"Sister, let's go back now. It's getting late." Jiang Jie said.
Yingbao looked at the sky. The sun was already setting. "Okay."
He turned around and asked, "Did anyone send lotus root powder?"
The maidservant Mudan nodded: "Yes, I have already paid."
Xinghua said, "It's a cloth bag, placed on the carriage."
Yingbao walked up to the carriage and took a look, then asked Mudan to take some of the bag of lotus root powder out and give the rest to Jiang Jie to take back.
So, Mu Dan poured half of the lotus root powder on the big lotus leaf and gave the remaining half bag to Jiang Jie.
After the carriage returned to the city, Wei Zhan said goodbye to his brother-in-law and went straight home with his wife.
As soon as I entered the yard, I met my eldest sister-in-law Cao and my second sister-in-law Yu.
"Hey, Qilang and his wife are back!" Cao greeted them with a smile: "Did you have a good time outside?"
Yingbao said politely, "It's OK."
Cao took a look at the lotus leaf bag in Mu Dan's arms and asked curiously, "What did my sister-in-law bring back?"
"I brought some lotus roots. Would you like to take some back to try, sister-in-law? They taste very good." Yingbao said.
"That's great." Yu smiled and said, "I haven't eaten lotus root for a long time."
Yingbao turned around and told Mudan: "Give some lotus roots to the first and second ladies."
"Yes." Mu Dan walked forward and gave four lotus roots to Yu and four to Cao.
Cao took a look at the things in her hand, twitched her lips, and said with a smile: "Thank you very much, Seventh Brother's wife."
Yu also said: "The lotus roots are indeed fresh and tender now, thank you, Seventh Brother and Sister-in-law."
"We're a family, why be polite? I'll take the rest to my mother-in-law to try." Ying Bao nodded to her elder and second sisters-in-law, and walked with Wei Zhan to her mother-in-law, Madam Wang's courtyard.
Cao held four lotus roots and watched Wei Zhan and his wife walk away, with a curl of her lips.
He returned to his yard and threw the lotus root directly on the ground. "You're giving this thing away as a gift? Even if she doesn't find it shabby, I still do."
The eldest daughter, Yuzhu, came out of the house and saw the lotus root on the ground. She asked, "Mother, why did you bring this back?"
Cao rolled her eyes and said, "That was given to you by your aunt, the county lady."
Yuzhu: "Why did Aunt Qi think of giving this to me? Is our kitchen short of lotus roots?"
"I was born into a poor family, but I treasure everything. Zhu'er, you asked someone to take it away and throw it away."
Cao said as she walked into the inner room and asked the nurse: "Have you sent someone to pick up my sister?"
The nanny took a sip of tea and said, "They've already gone. They should be here in about ten days."
Cao nodded and sat down on the bamboo couch: "It's really hot, I'm afraid it's going to rain."
The little girl immediately took a fan to cool her down.
The nurse said, "It's time for the rain to fall. If it doesn't, the rice seedlings in the field will die of drought."
Cao didn't understand much about these things, nor did she care much. She was only thinking about how to get close to her brother-in-law Wei Zhan when her sister came.
It seems that the father-in-law is the boss of the family, but the real boss is the mother-in-law.
My husband's biological mother and my father-in-law were childhood sweethearts and could even say a few words to him, but now she is old and has been abandoned by my father-in-law in the old house in Luzhou.
Seeing that Wei Zhan was about to have a child, Cao was very anxious.
Because once a legitimate grandson is born in the Wei family, his father-in-law and mother-in-law will no longer take these illegitimate children into account.
So, she had to find a helper to distract her brother-in-law.
As a man, it's inevitable that he will cheat. Once he does it for the first time, there will be a second time. Who knows, he will probably make that peasant girl angry and leave.
Just as I was thinking about it, a strong wind suddenly blew outside, and soon the sky was covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder.
"Ouch! Go and close the window!" The wet nurse stood up and ran outside to shout at the maid to close the window.
In the new room in the west courtyard, Yingbao was lying on the bed, eating lotus root slices while asking Xuanwu in her heart: "Why did the Supreme Immortal imprison me?"
"Because someone said you were possessed by a demon." Xuanwu replied.
"Why did you become a demon?"
"You were probably forced to do this by your biological parents."
Xuanwu wasn’t quite sure before because Yingbao never mentioned her biological parents.
Later, he gained a general understanding of the story from the stories automatically generated in the Tianyan book.
In addition, after her master was reincarnated so many times and was abandoned by her biological parents every time, Xuanwu finally understood why Yingbao turned evil and became a demon.
They are only in the mortal world. If they were in the fairy world, the behavior of her blood relatives would be even worse.
Because the law of the jungle prevails in that place, and the strong are respected, the monks will do anything to seize the opportunity.
In the mortal world, brothers and sisters kill each other and their fathers in order to fight for property and the throne.
Those monks would do anything to fight for a little bit of opportunity and endless life.
In order to obtain the rare treasure, the biological parents of the little master dug up the body of their child, who was only a few years old, and searched carefully, even picking out a few bones, but in the end they found nothing.
He then used her flesh and blood to make elixirs and used her as a humanoid elixir for many years until she became possessed by a demon and escaped.
The Tianyan book shows that the witch was very cruel and murderous after she achieved great success in her cultivation. She once went back for revenge and killed the entire Chen family.
But she let go of a woman, Chen Tiantian, who had brought her food.
Unexpectedly, this action would cause her to lose her soul later.
Xuanwu sighed and threw out a cantaloupe: "Here, I planted it for you. It's ripe."
The melon rolled on the mat and was caught by Yingbao.
She stood up and found a knife to peel the skin.
Ever since she destroyed the cave, it has become inconvenient to store things, let alone grow things on the golden glowing object. Now everything has to go through Xuanwu's hands.
Alas, since she owed it a drop of blood, she could only bear with it for now.
When Wei Zhan came back from his mother's place, he saw Ying Bao peeling a cantaloupe.
"Where did the melon come from?" Wei Zhan walked over and asked.
Yingbao: "Someone else gave it to me."
Wei Zhan immediately became alert: "Who sent it? How come I don't know?"
Yingbao peeled the melon and cut it into small pieces on a plate. "What if I told you that?"
Wei Zhan picked up a piece and ate it, and found the taste very familiar.
He was relieved and sat next to his wife and said, "After the two-day holiday is over, I will go to the Ministry of War to see if there is any letter of appointment for me."
He has been back in Beijing for a long time, and it is time for the court to assign him a position.
When the time comes, I will take my wife with me to take up the post, preferably away from the capital.