As there was no special earthen kiln for roasting lamb, Jiang Yanyi could only build a makeshift fire pit in the yard.
The sheep delivered by the butcher Ma today are all very fat. Even without the fur and internal organs, one sheep still weighs about 50 kilograms.
Jiang Yanyi cut the meat in the thick part, found a large wooden basin, and mixed refined flour, salt water, eggs, turmeric, and water into a paste-like sauce. The hot sauce she usually uses for seasoning in her shop is dogwood sauce. Today, in order to make the roasted lamb taste better, she also used the pepper powder that she had been reluctant to use since she bought it.
The spiciness of dogwood is lighter than that of pepper, and it lacks the fragrance of pepper, so pepper is shockingly expensive on the market. Even wealthy and powerful people will only ask their chefs to use pepper in cooking during festivals or when entertaining guests.
Although pepper is also a spicy seasoning and has the word "pepper" in its name, it is completely different from chili peppers. Pepper is shaped like a Sichuan peppercorn without an open mouth, is white in color, and has much higher requirements for the growing environment than chili peppers.
Jiang Yanyi mixed pepper powder into the sauce and smeared the sauce on the whole lamb while sighing: "When my peppers are grown, pepper will give way to others!"
She only bought a tiny bit, and it was so expensive.
Qiu Kui also followed Jiang Yanyi's example and smeared the sauce on the whole lamb. She had been learning cooking from Jiang Yanyi for a while. It was only after Jiang Yanyi started teaching her that he discovered Qiu Kui was surprisingly stubborn.
Learning to cook basically starts with handling all kinds of ingredients, and knife skills are a must, needless to say, and require years of practice. No matter what Qiu Kui learns, she must follow Jiang Yanyi in terms of movements, postures, and even the angle of picking and cutting vegetables. If she can't do it the same as Jiang Yanyi, she won't learn it.
This also led to the fact that she was a very slow learner, but her basic skills were very solid.
Jiang Yanyi applied the sauce and rubbed some salt into the cut. The sheep was quite heavy and her foot was injured. Even if she had to lift it up together with Qiu Kui, she was afraid that if she wasn't careful, the whole sheep would fall into the ash pile.
Jiang Yanyi was going to the clothing shop next door to ask Uncle Chen for help in hanging the whole lamb on the rack above the fire pit.
She opened the door and found two people standing outside the store, like door gods.
These two were Chu Changping's close associates. Jiang Yanyi had met them before. She asked, "Why are you two here?"
The two of them clasped their fists and said, "We are here to protect Miss Biao on the orders of the Third Master."
Jiang Yanyi noticed that the neighbors were all looking in. Thinking that she would have to do business on this street in the future, she felt a little uncomfortable and said, "Come in."
Her shop was closed, but the two men were still standing at the door, looking strange.
The two were a little hesitant.
Jiang Yanyi said, "I'm roasting a sheep in the yard. The sheep is quite heavy and I can't hang it up. Can you two help me hang it up?"
The two of them then entered the store, but the door was left half open to avoid suspicion and to prevent someone from making trouble.
With the help of these two people, the skin of the roasted whole lamb was quickly hung above the fire pit. Whenever there was any heavy work, they were the first to do it, and Jiang Yanyi and Qiu Kui felt a lot more relaxed.
One of them is Yang Xiu, and the other is Bing Shao. The former is quite knowledgeable about the ways of the world and always knows how to speak appropriately. The latter is like a taciturn person who basically only does things and does not talk.
After Jiang Yanyi cuts out the mutton to be hot pot, he blanchs the remaining lamb chops, puts them into the pot, adds onion, ginger, aniseed, fennel and other seasonings and stews them until the meat and bones are separated.
When it comes to smoked lamb chops, the most important step is naturally the smoking process. Considering that the smoke would be too heavy if smoked in the kitchen, Jiang Yanyi asked Yang Xiu and Bing Shao to move the big pot outside and set up a tripod in the yard to place the pot on top.
The whole lamb roasted over the fire pit has a burnt aroma, while the stewed lamb chops have a rich meaty aroma with a strong mutton smell.
Yang Xiu and Bing Shao followed Chu Changping from Yongzhou to Xizhou, then from Xizhou back to the capital, and finally fled all the way to Xizhou. They often had no hot meals, and the most common thing they ate was cold and hard dry food. How could they enjoy these delicacies
At this moment, just smelling the mutton made my stomach rumble several times.
Yang Xiu swallowed and asked, "Cousin, what are you going to cook in this pot?"
In his opinion, the cooked lamb chops were completely ready to eat.
Jiang Yanyi was busy adding firewood to the fire pit. "Let's smoke the lamb chops, they will taste better. I'd like you two to go to the Protectorate to inform my uncle, and then come here to eat. Also call everyone who is staying at the inn, so that we can use up the mutton that's been stockpiled in my store."
After the two of them heard the news, one went to the Protectorate while the other ran back to the inn to call the rest of the brothers to come over.
The pot was heated up, and Jiang Yanyi threw two handfuls of tea leaves into it to fry them until fragrant, then sprinkled some brown sugar that he had cut early in the morning. Thick smoke instantly rose from the pot. Jiang Yanyi put the sieve on it, then spread all the cooked lamb chops in the colander on the sieve, covered the pot with a lid and simmered it for a while.
Thick smoke continued to billow from the edge of the pot, and a sweet, burnt smell filled the air.
Qiu Kui pointed at the pot with some concern and said, "Hua Hua, it's burnt!"
Jiang Yanyi added a few more pieces of firewood to the fire pit. "It's okay. This is how you make smoked lamb chops."
The fire can be turned off after three minutes of smoking. Jiang Yanyi simmered for a while before opening the lid of the pot. After the sugar smoke rushed out, the lamb chops on the grate were golden in color, as if they were coated with a layer of sugar, but because they were smoked, the color was more natural and looked more beautiful.
Jiang Yanyi tore off a small piece of meat and tasted it, then nodded with satisfaction: "This is the taste!"
The mutton is tender and well-flavored before being boiled. The smoking adds a hint of tea aroma and sweetness. The sweetness of the smoked food is just right and does not make people feel greasy.
When she turned around, she saw Qiu Kui staring at her eagerly, swallowing saliva like a puppy that couldn't get a bone. Jiang Yanyi felt distressed and amused, so he broke off a lamb chop and handed it to her: "Try it."
The lamb chops were cooked till soft and the meat and bones fell apart with a slight touch.
Qiu Kui picked up the lamb chop and started to eat it. It was so delicious that he was reluctant to take the lamb chop out of his mouth to make room for talking. He could only open his pair of dark eyes wide and nod wildly at Jiang Yanyi.
The east wind was blowing in the evening, and the aroma of smoked lamb chops in the yard drifted towards Feng Mansion.
The servants of the Feng Mansion could not help but gasp when they smelled the smell: "What delicious food did the shopkeeper Jiang next door make today? Why does it smell so good?"
Xing Yao walked under the eaves carrying the hot medicinal food from the kitchen. He looked at the two servants expressionlessly and asked, "What are you yelling about?"
"Guard Xing." The two servants saluted and lowered their heads tremblingly.
Xing Yao said, "Go down."
The two servants then felt relieved and left quickly.
Xing Yao stood there and sniffed, then glanced in the direction of Jiang Yanyi's shop and couldn't help but say, "It smells so good."
In the study, Feng Shuo, his staff and Chu Changping had just finished discussing important matters. As they came out of the study one after another, they all smelled the sweet and burnt meat aroma and sniffed deeply a few times.
Those who didn't know the truth thought it was the chef from Feng Mansion who was preparing dinner and they praised him a lot.
Chu Changping was the last one to leave. As soon as he reached the door, he ran into the servant who was waiting outside to deliver a message.
"Sir Chu, someone from yours has asked to pass on a message outside the mansion, asking you to go to Jiang's Gudong Soup for lunch later." The servant had a smile on his face.
"Thank you." Chu Changping nodded to the servant. He was originally worried, but when he smelled the fragrance in the air, he actually felt a little hungry.
As soon as Chu Changping left, Xing Yao came into the room carrying a food box containing medicinal food: "Master, it's time to eat the medicinal food."
Feng Shuo lost his sense of taste in his early years, so his sense of smell is more acute than that of ordinary people. He sat behind the desk and looked at the defense map and asked, "What is she cooking tonight?"
This "she" naturally refers to Jiang Yanyi.
Xing Yao recalled the smell of meat brought by the wind outside, swallowed his saliva and said, "It seems to be a roasted whole lamb, and smoked lamb chops."
Feng Shuo looked at the medicinal food in front of him and suddenly lost his appetite.
A dozen of Chu Changping's cronies sat at two tables in Jiang Yanyi's restaurant. The broth in the copper pot was boiling, so they could eat mutton at any time. On the table were several large plates of roasted whole lamb and lamb chops. They had never eaten such delicious food before, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that they ate voraciously.
Jiang Yanyi was afraid that eating too much meat would make one feel sick, so he grilled some garlic eggplants on the grill.
Chu Changping looked at her skillful flipping technique and suddenly felt that he didn't know this niece anymore.
He said, "Uncle remembers that you couldn't even hold the knife steadily when you were cooking."
Jiang Yanyi also knew that her cooking skills were far inferior to hers. She said, "When I was in the military camp, I worked as a kitchen helper in the Fire Camp for a while. The chef in the kitchen took me in as his apprentice. I thought that I could always find a job if I had a skill, so I learned these from him."
It is true that she did take Chef Li as her master.
Chu Changping heard her casually mention it, but he could imagine how difficult it was for her during that time. The mutton in his mouth was delicious, but Chu Changping felt like he was holding a piece of coptis root, very bitter. He said, "Ayi, you suffered."
Jiang Yanyi put the roasted eggplant on a plate and took it over. "Uncle, don't say that. I'm fine. When I was in the capital, I always thought that the square well I saw in the yard was the sky. Now that I have experienced a lot in Xizhou, I have seen the vastness of the world and am no longer bound by the past. I did a lot of wrong things in the past, and some of the punishments I deserved, but I harmed Yan Gui..."
If the original body had not plotted to ruin the heroine's innocence, the original body's brother would not have taken his anger out on the Emperor and had his legs broken.
She was able to live again by borrowing the body of her original self, and she treated the relatives of her original self as her own.
Speaking of this topic, the atmosphere is inevitably heavy.
Chu Changping patted Jiang Yanyi on the shoulder: "Some things are not your fault, don't take it all on yourself. Yan Gui is very worried about you. If it weren't for the fact that the Chu family's Pi emperor is keeping a close watch on you, he would have sent you a letter."
Jiang Yanyi felt her eyes moisten a little, she asked: "How is the injury on his leg?"
"The situation was urgent when I left the capital, and I haven't seen Yan Gui's injuries with my own eyes, but I heard that the skin on the kneecaps of both his legs were shattered, and he probably won't be able to stand up in this lifetime." Chu Changping's voice trembled as he said this.
Jiang Yangui was just a teenager, and Shangshu Jiang always beat or scolded him, while Madam Jiang doted on him. This also led to Jiang Yangui's rebellious character at this age, and he often fought cocks and ran dogs with a group of playboys in the academy.
But since there were factions in the court, it was natural that the sons of ministers would also form factions when studying in the academy.
Jiang Yangui's legs were interrupted by another group of playboys, and they pushed out the son of a minor official as a scapegoat. Outsiders thought it was just a group of young people playing around and didn't know how to handle the situation well, so the matter was just covered up, and the one sitting on the dragon throne was still a clean and wise ruler.
Chu Changping sighed and said, "Your mother was spoiled by her family when she was a girl, and she has never been able to figure things out even after she got married. If the matter between you and Yan Gui hasn't made her realize it, I plan to take Yan Gui with me and educate him myself after I take them both out of the capital, so that he can be a companion to your cousin Chengmao."
Chu Chengmao was the only son of Chu Changping. He defied the emperor's order and refused to marry the princess. His first wife, whom he married after three matchmakers and six engagements, eventually lost her virginity during childbirth and passed away within two years.
Over the years, he raised his only son by himself and never had anyone else around him. The two elders of the Chu family felt sorry for their son and wanted to persuade him to remarry, but he was away from home all year round and the two elders could not reach out to him.
He acted as both a father and a mother to Chu Chengmao, and brought him up very well. Two years ago, Chu Chengmao passed the imperial examination and became the runner-up. However, Chu Chengmao had the same temperament as Chu Changping, and later he gave up literature and took up martial arts.
To be fair, the original siblings were not well educated. One reason was that Minister Jiang neglected to discipline them, and the other was that Madam Jiang doted on them too much.
Just like what Chu Changping said, when Madam Jiang was a girl in the Chu family, she was spoiled by her parents and brothers because she was the youngest child in the family. Later, she married Shangshu Jiang. At that time, Shangshu Jiang's family was not well-off. She would throw a tantrum and go back to her parents' home if she was not satisfied, and the Jiang family could not do anything to her.
As the brainless and vicious mistress in the original book, Mrs. Jiang possesses almost all the standard characteristics of a brainless and vicious mistress: she is irritable, easily angered, stupid, cannot tolerate illegitimate children, and cannot teach her own children well.
Jiang Yanyi heard Chu Changping talk about his future plans, and then said, "I plan to keep this antique soup shop open. If mother is willing, she can come to my place."
Even though Mrs. Jiang had many faults, she had nothing to say about her two children. It was just that she herself was not a smart person, so she naturally could not teach her children well.
Chu Changping originally thought that Jiang Yanyi's opening of a restaurant was just a temporary measure. Now that he heard Jiang Yanyi say that she wanted to keep it open, he thought she was being polite: "Even if your uncle is incompetent, the money is enough to buy a yard for you and your daughter and to provide some servants. Why do you have to do all this, Ah Yi?"
As night fell, the temperature dropped sharply. Jiang Yanyi stretched out his hands and warmed them above the charcoal basin: "Uncle, don't worry, I just want to find something to do. Once I am busy, I won't have any random thoughts and I will feel at ease."
Chu Changping was an open-minded person. He thought that his niece had gone through so much, and perhaps her state of mind had changed. She didn't want to be a young lady who never left the house. He also respected his niece's choice and said:
"Then it's up to you. Since you insist on continuing to run this restaurant, your uncle will leave a few people for you to help. If you want to go out, take them with you. There is no peace in Xizhou City right now."
This was exactly what Jiang Yanyi wanted. She had always wanted to find two waiters who knew Kung Fu, and now she had found one. She said, "Thank you, uncle."
"Silly girl, why are you still thanking your uncle?" Chu Changping shook his head and laughed.
A room full of people were eating when someone suddenly knocked on the door outside the shop.
Jiang Yanyi opened the door and saw that the person coming was Fuxi, the housekeeper of Feng Mansion.
He smiled and said, "The prince asked me to bring some wine over."
Several servants behind him were holding Huadiao wine. Jiang Yanyi took a quick look and saw that there were at least five or six jars.
Jiang Yanyi thought that the wine might be given for his uncle's sake, so it was difficult to refuse. He stepped aside to let Fuxi enter the house: "Thank you for coming here. Please come in and have a seat."
Fu Xi smiled and said, "I won't bother you any more."
He signaled to the servant behind him to carry the jar of wine into the house.
Chu Changping recognized the voice as the steward of Feng Mansion, so he went forward and exchanged a few words of greeting.
Jiang Yanyi couldn't think of what to give as a return gift, so he went to the backyard to remove a leg of lamb from the roasted whole lamb, picked up a few lamb chops and wrapped them together, then took them out to Fuxi: "A little food is not enough to show respect."
Fuxi took the lamb legs and lamb chops while being polite, ended the conversation with Chu Changping in a few words, and left with the servants.
Chu Changping had a lot to say, but he had to swallow it back. He stood at the door with a subtle expression. Why did he feel that the steward of the Feng Mansion had been talking to him about trivial things for a long time just to wait for Jiang Yanyi to chop the lamb legs and lamb chops and bring them over
Chu Changping felt that he must be overthinking it.
Although the roasted whole lamb and smoked lamb chops are delicious, who is the King of Liaonan? Would he care about these
He didn't know that at this moment, in the west wing of the Protectorate, which was only separated from Jiang Yanyi's courtyard by a wall, a certain noble prince was sitting in a pavilion with a windproof bamboo curtain, eating lamb chops.
***
For the next two days, Jiang Yanyi's restaurant was closed. Several families who wanted to eat hotpot sent people to ask several times, but they all returned empty-handed.
Originally, these people didn't take the slander thrown by the Hu family to heart, but now they are somewhat blaming the Hu family.
I can't control what you want to do to others, but if you leave me with nothing to eat, then I will be unhappy with you.
The Hu family has been having a particularly hard time recently. They had received instructions from Magistrate Xie and bribed three ruffians to ruin the reputation of Jiang Yanyi's Antique Soup Shop as a way to vent their anger.
Unexpectedly, they learned that Jiang Yanyi's shop was closed, and before they had time to be happy, their own flower shop, cloth shop, rouge shop, and silver shop were all closed down.
The Hu family was dumbfounded and rushed to seek help from Xie Zhizhou, but Xie Zhizhou was now in a very difficult situation and had no time to care about them.
Fan Yaonian, who was originally thought to be climbing up a high branch, came to Xizhou with the emperor's secret order. He didn't dare to confront Feng Shuo head-on. Now the whole city of Xizhou is under blockade, and Fan Yaonian is hiding from place to place and has no time to take care of himself.
The Hu family had no choice but to spend money to find connections everywhere, but with Feng Shuo in control, the officials the Hu family approached did not dare to accept their gifts. Occasionally, they approached a few officials who had a good appetite, but they thought that they would no longer have mutton soup to eat, so they would not be friendly to the Hu family.
In comparison, Jiang Yanyi's life was much more comfortable. He would bask in the sun in his backyard every day, play with his parrot, and when he had nothing to do, he would cook some delicious food for himself to nourish his body.
Because of his injured foot, Jiang Yanyi would always ask Qiu Kui to help deliver the medicinal food to the Protectorate, and then the doorman would pass it to Feng Shuo.
When Jiang Yanyi got up today, she found that her feet were not so painful anymore, but she had difficulty stepping on the ground. Just as she finished stewing the medicinal food, someone knocked on the door. It was the housekeeper of General Han's mansion who came to invite Jiang Yanyi to their mansion to help prepare a banquet.
"Today is a day off, and General Han is getting married. We originally wanted to invite Master Li, but we heard that Master Li's old backache has recurred, and he is in the military camp and cannot come. Master Li asked us to come to you, Shopkeeper Jiang." The housekeeper was a kind person, and spoke in a gentle manner. "The old lady in our mansion also said that the pots in your shop are well made. She is relieved to invite you, Shopkeeper Jiang, to come and host the banquet."
The news that Jiang Yanyi's hotpot restaurant had closed in the past few days had spread throughout Xizhou City. I guess Chef Li had also heard about it in the military camp and recommended her to host a banquet. I guess he was afraid that she would lose business. This time, by hosting a banquet at Han's house, she could get to know more powerful people, making it easier to attract customers in the future.
For chefs in this era, the quickest way to become famous was usually to host a banquet at the residence of a high-ranking official. If the food they cooked was delicious, word of mouth would spread and their fame would spread.
Chef Li meant well, and Jiang Yanyi thought that his foot injury had healed a lot, so it was difficult to refuse, so he accepted.
She had wanted to go to Feng Mansion in person to deliver the medicinal food today, but now she had to ask Qiu Kui to help take it to the doorman, while she took Yang Xiu and Bing Shao to Han Mansion to prepare the banquet.
Passing by a pharmacy on the way, Jiang Yanyi bought a lot of tonic herbs. He thought that since a general in the barracks was getting married, there would definitely be many people in the barracks who would go to congratulate him. If he met someone he knew, he could ask someone to take the herbs to Chef Li.
***
Fengfu.
When Xing Yao presented the medicinal meal brought by the doorman to Feng Shuo, Feng Shuo was reading an official document.
Seeing that it was Xing Yao who sent it again, Feng Shuo threw away the official document in his hand and asked, "Is her injury still not healed?"
Xing Yao said, "I think she is not well yet. If the master cares about Miss Jiang, why not send her some supplements?"
Feng Shuo had previously asked someone to investigate the past of Jiang Yanyi and Lu Linyuan. He read through the thick stack of papers without missing a single word, and Xing Yao felt chills at the thought of his expression.
He had been serving Feng Shuo for so many years, but he had never seen him with such an ugly expression.
Feng Shuo remained silent. When he thought of her almost paranoid love for Lu Linyuan and what Chu Changping yelled outside the clinic that day, "You are still protecting him," he felt a lot of dark anger boiling in his heart.
I have been avoiding her these days because I am afraid that I will not be able to suppress my jealousy and scare her and push her further away.
Feng Shuo pinched his brows and asked, "Is Han Lubo getting married today?"
Xing Yao said: "It is today. The invitation was delivered to your house a few days ago."
"When he gets married, I have to go there in person." Feng Shuo stood up and picked up the cloak hanging beside him. Xing Yao hurried forward to help him put it on.
Everyone knew Feng Shuo was cruel and violent, but his prestige in the army was unmatched. Privately, he and his generals were also close friends.
As Feng Shuo walked out of the mansion, he thought, I should go and attend the wedding banquet, and then buy some small gifts for Jiang Yanyi on the way back.
This is the limit of lowering one's posture.
If there is only Lu Linyuan in her heart and eyes, why should he make himself miserable
He thought he was open-minded and able to let go of things, but he did not notice that his face had become frighteningly gloomy, and the legs of the servant who was harnessing the carriage at the door were shaking.
The Han family held a wedding banquet and invited more than one chef. Jiang Yanyi was the only female chef among them. She was mainly responsible for stewing dishes and making soups.
Jiang Yanyi opened her own hot pot restaurant, currently only selling clear soup pots, and her skill in making soup is impeccable. As long as she can control the heat, she has nothing to do most of the time, and she can lend a hand when other chefs are too busy.
The chef of Lai Fu Restaurant was also invited to help. Jiang Yanyi was originally worried about causing trouble, but the chef of Lai Fu Restaurant turned out to be a fat and kind-hearted man with a big belly. He spoke in a very humorous way, and he would say some funny things from time to time, making everyone in the kitchen laugh.
"I've tried the antique soup in Shopkeeper Jiang's shop. It tastes amazing! I went back and told the shopkeeper that it was a good thing that Shopkeeper Jiang started his own business. If I had come to Lai Fu Restaurant to be a chef at the beginning, I would probably have lost my job!" The chef of Lai Fu Restaurant spoke in a loud voice that could be heard throughout the kitchen.
He was in charge of cooking, flipping the pan with his left hand and the spoon with his right hand, his movements were not vague at all, and he was talking like a storyteller: "The restaurant owner said that it wouldn't work, he had to quickly invite Manager Jiang to work in the restaurant. I said, it's too late! He's doing a good job as a manager, why would he want to be your cook? Give the manager position to him, and see if he will come!"
"The shopkeeper is silent now. Now it's not me who's going to lose my job, it's him!"
This statement was obviously exaggerated, but everyone in the kitchen still burst into laughter.
Jiang Yanyi said, "Master Yao, please stop teasing me. How can my little shop compare to Lai Fu Restaurant?"
Yao, the chef of Lai Fu Restaurant, said with a smile: "I have known your master, Lao Li, for decades. He said that you have a talent for cooking. Don't be so modest, little girl."
The banquet was more enjoyable than Jiang Yanyi had imagined. Not only did she get to meet several famous chefs, she also got to listen to them complain about their own employers, or talk about the unscrupulous vendors who sold inferior products as good ones when buying ingredients. There were all kinds of funny stories, and the laughter in the kitchen never stopped.
Jiang Yanyi's foot injury had not yet fully healed, and she felt uncomfortable after standing for a long time. After she finished preparing the stew and soup that she was responsible for, she informed the cooks at the stove, said hello to the kitchen manager, and went outside.
The kitchen manager asked her to go and sit at the table. Jiang Yanyi hadn't even contributed any money, so she was naturally embarrassed to go.
She planned to go outside and take a look to see if Zhao Tou'er had come, so that she could ask Zhao Tou'er to give the tonic herbs to Chef Li.
But maybe there were too many guests in Han's house today, Jiang Yanyi looked for Zhao Tou'er for several times but couldn't find him, nor did she see a familiar face. Her feet were aching, and there were too many people and Jiang Yanyi couldn't find a place to sit temporarily, so she could only walk to a secluded place on the ground with melon seed shells and peanut shells.
There was red paper on the ground left by firecrackers, which looked very festive.
There is a lake in the Han Mansion with a pavilion built on the lake. As winter is coming soon and it is very cold here, no one comes here.
Jiang Yanyi was about to sit in the pavilion. He limped in and found someone inside.
It was Lu Linyuan, with a book covering his face. He must have been tired and was taking a nap on a chair. When Jiang Yanyi was looking outside before, the railing blocked his view and he couldn't see him at all.
Hearing the footsteps, Lu Linyuan seemed to be startled. He took off the book covering his face and sat up in a panic, bowing his hands apologetically: "I am sorry for my rudeness."
When he saw clearly that the person coming was Jiang Yanyi, Lu Linyuan's expression became even more unnatural.
He had never been rude in front of Jiang Yanyi. The reason why he fell asleep in the pavilion of Han Mansion today was that the affairs of the government office were too complicated. He could not finish dealing with all the trivial matters even if he stayed up late every day. He was really too sleepy.
Jiang Yanyi was afraid that he would misunderstand that it was another accidental encounter that she had deliberately created, so she explained, "I saw that there was no one here from the other side of the lake, so I came here. I didn't know Mr. Lu was here. Sorry to bother you."
She knelt down and wanted to leave. Seeing that she was struggling to walk, Lu Linyuan knew that she had an injury on her foot, so he stopped her and said, "Rest here. I have something to do in the front yard."
Jiang Yan felt that Lu Linyuan's attitude was a little strange. Why did he seem like a different person today
Unexpectedly, Feng Shuo had also arrived at the Han Mansion at this time. He felt that the front yard was noisy, so the housekeeper of the Han Mansion hurriedly led him to the compartment in the flower hall to rest. However, the way to the flower hall would pass by the lake.
Feng Shuo saw from afar two figures in the pavilion across the lake, a man and a woman, who seemed to be a young man and a young lady from a family who were taking this opportunity to have a tryst.
He had no interest in these things and was about to look away after a casual glance, but suddenly he felt that the figure of the woman looked familiar.
After a closer look, it was the little cook who had a foot injury and was so weak that she couldn't even walk a few steps to bring him medicinal food!
And that man was none other than Lu Linyuan!
Feng Shuo's face darkened instantly.
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