"Cousin?" Yang Keyi called out to Lu Wan'er, who was lost in thought.
"Oh, Cousin, I'm fine." Lu Wan'er came back to her senses and restrained her jealous gaze.
She turned to Yang Keyi and shook her head. Biting her lip, she explained in a low voice, "I thought I met an acquaintance."
Hmph! She was the daughter of the Lu family, the richest family in Fanluo City. Yet, she had humbled herself and courted the man she fancied. Not only did she not receive the same response, she was even humiliated by him.
How could this be tolerated?!
Thus, a trace of ruthlessness flashed through Lu Wan'er's eyes.
How could another woman enjoy the man she couldn't have so easily?!
No, she wouldn't allow it.
Lin Siyao should be hers!
How could Su Shuiche be worthy?
Looking at Lin Siyao and Su Shuiche being lovey-dovey in the corner, Lu Wan'er was so angry that she almost went berserk.
Unfortunately, the bamboo chopsticks in her hand were broken in two.
"Cousin?"
Yang Keyi, who was engrossed in eating, looked up at her in surprise when he heard the sound. "Cousin, is there something on your mind?" He followed Lu Wan'er's gaze in puzzlement and swept his gaze forward.
Judging from his cousin's expression, she had clearly seen someone.
"Shut up!
Eat your food! "
Lu Wan'er saw that Yang Keyi had caught her in the act and immediately flew into a rage out of humiliation. She glared fiercely at him and growled in a low voice.
Yang Keyi blinked in confusion, but seeing Lu Wan'er so angry, he kept quiet and didn't ask any more questions.
According to his mother, this beautiful and moving cousin of his was going to marry him.
This time, he and his mother had traveled thousands of miles to this remote Fanluo City mainly to discuss the marriage.
If everything went well, he would be able to marry his cousin next spring.
But, did he see wrong? Her eyes were so fierce just now. Where was her previous elegance and loveliness?
Lu Wan'er was also very vexed at this time.
Although Yang Keyi was a bit of a blockhead, he was very obedient and considerate towards him.
Moreover, the Yang family was a prestigious family in Fengtai City.
Although it was a bit far from home, it would still take seven to eight days by carriage.
However, if she married him, she would definitely enjoy endless wealth and glory in the future.
After calming herself down, Lu Wan'er regained the elegant charm of a rich young lady. She smiled tenderly at Yang Keyi and said, "Cousin, I'm sorry. It was my fault just now.
I just … Sigh, it's a long story.
If Elder Cousin doesn't find Wan 'er bothersome, I'll tell Elder Cousin the details after we finish our meal. Is that okay? "
After all, Lu Wan'er had been in the Poetry Society for a long time with complicated interpersonal relationships. When it came to words that were 70% fake and 30% true, she did not pause at all.
However, she would not really tell Yang Keyi about her feelings for another man.
Unless her brain was caught in the carriage door.
However, towards Su Shuiche, she really wanted to find an excuse to belittle her.
She even thought of hiring the "Wind and Thunder Gang", who took money without batting an eye, to teach Su Shuiche a lesson for her. Even if she did not want to take her life, she definitely did not want to let her off so easily.
As for Lin Siyao, Lu Wan'er was not a fool. With his outstanding martial arts attainments, how could the "Wind and Thunder Gang" be a match for him?!
Moreover, even if Lin Siyao made her taste embarrassment and indignation that she had never experienced in her life, she still could not forget him and could not bear to part with him.
Because of this, that day when she was chased out of the courtyard by Lin Siyao's big dog and staggered back to Hua An's house, she still did not mention a word about it to anyone else, including her father.
It was only because she still had a trace of obsession: She hoped that Lin Siyao would feel guilty for treating her like that and would privately apologize to her.
As a result, she persuaded Hua Kang to stay at Hua An's house for a few days.
Until the mistress of the Lu family, Lu Wan'er's mother, Lu Qiaoying, sent someone to Fanhua Town to urge them, saying that her concubine in Fengtai City and her cousin who was three years older than her had come to visit. Only then did she reluctantly follow Hua Kang back to Fanluo City.
However, she did not expect that when they met again, it would be in such a situation: at "Wuqin Zhai" after half a month, such a beautiful scene that made her envious and jealous.
How could she, Lu Wan'er, hold back her resentment?!
… …
Looking at Lu Wan'er who stepped out of "Wuqin Zhai" before the two of them, Lin Siyao's eyes flashed with a coldness that could freeze one's heart to the bone.
He had already felt it when Lu Wan'er sat down and glared at him and Shuiche from afar from time to time with jealous eyes.
Lin Siyao's heart flashed with a faint sense of uneasiness when he sensed the fluctuations of hostility just now.
He hoped that Lu Wan'er would not do anything to harm Shuiche.
Otherwise, humph!
… It's just a mere Lu family!
If Fanluo City lost the richest person in the night, he believed that many people would clap their hands in joy!
… …
"Wheat flour, glutinous rice flour, red beans, sesame seeds, sugar, cooking wine, salt … Is there anything I missed?"
Su Shuiche counted the things she had just bought. These were mainly ingredients for making dumplings and glutinous rice balls.
"Almost all of them are here."
Lin Siyao glanced at the big cotton bag, then looked up at Su Shuiche who was a little tired from shopping. He tied the cloth bag tightly and held it in one hand, then put his other hand around her. "Are you tired?
Let's go home first.
If you think of anything else, we can come again. "In any case, with his speed, it would take him less than two hours to make a round trip.
"Alright." Su Shuiche nodded. She really could not remember anything else that was urgently needed.
"We still have to go to Wu Qin Zhai to pack roast duck." She remembered the food she had prepared for Dabao and the others.
"Got it." Lin Siyao glanced at her teasingly.
He was a little jealous when he saw how much she cared about Dabao and the two lazy and delicious wolves.
… …
On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, every family in Blossom Town sent off the Kitchen God.
Tian Dabao's long-awaited annual vacation also arrived as promised.
However, even though it was a vacation, he still had to run around Xiufeng Peak every morning and practice the Mysterious Heaven Sword for an hour before he was allowed to move freely.
For example, he would run to the sunning ground near the ancestral hall and show off to the other children.
Fortunately, although Tian Dabao's intelligence was impaired, he was still very childish, so he did not go overboard when playing with other children.
It seemed that after learning from Lin Siyao for half a year, his temperament had become much more restrained.
It was no wonder that even Aunt Tian began to wonder if the blood stasis at the back of his head had dissipated.
Because most of the time, his words and actions were no different from an ordinary twelve-year-old boy, except that he would occasionally be shameless and unable to control his mouth.
Because of this, the Tian Family's attitude toward Lin Siyao was even more respectful.
Whenever there was delicious food, they would send Dabao or Aunt Tian herself to deliver it to Su Shuiche and Tian Dabao.
Even the other residents of Blossom Town also looked at Lin Siyao with new eyes.
How could they not admire him?
The blood stasis that even doctors found difficult to treat was completely removed in less than half a year with Lin Siyao.
Not to mention Tian Dabao's body, which had to be warmed up in the winter, had not suffered from any illness since he started practicing martial arts.
In the middle of winter, he could go out in two unlined clothes, or at most a thin cotton jacket.
Therefore, a few more farmers wanted to send their sons to Lin Siyao to learn martial arts.
Even if they did not need any profound martial arts in the future, just being able to avoid illness and have superior physical strength was worth it.
Lin Siyao naturally refused.
What a joke, did they think he was running a martial arts school?
One Tian Dabao was enough for him to work hard.
He did not want to trouble himself by picking a few more children to be his disciples.
If it were not for the fact that he wanted more people to protect Su Shuiche and his children in the future, he would be too lazy to accept disciples.
He admitted that he did not have Si Chong's eccentric hobbies.
If he saw a child with a good constitution, he would accept one.
Now there were more than twenty children calling him master, right?
Tsk tsk, a twenty-three year old master with more than twenty disciples.
Just thinking about it made his hair stand on end.
Lin Siyao shrugged and returned to the southern courtyard to catch his disciples.
After chasing away Tian Dabao, who had finished practicing the Mysterious Heavenly Sword but was still clinging to Su Shuiche's side and refusing to go home, Lin Siyao cleaned up the inside and outside of the house.
Su Shuiche took a basin of water and wiped the furniture in the house.
Then she took off the quilts, pillowcases, bed sheets, and all the cushions and seat covers in the central room, the west room, and the kitchen that had been used for two months. They were all replaced with new ones.
The bed was replaced with a set of purple and gold peony-embroidered quilt pillowcases that matched the furniture.
The bed sheets were made of pure white fine cotton.
The other cushions and seat covers were made of silver embroidered satin covers that matched the pink and blue tablecloth tablecloth.
Looking around the brand-new house and then looking at the clean and refreshing courtyard outside, Su Shuiyong couldn't help but smile.
"Ah Yao, drink some water and rest for a while."
She made a pot of black bitter buckwheat tea that Aunt Tian's family had just sent over a few days ago and poured a cup for Lin Siyao and herself.
She called out to Lin Siyao, who had just finished cleaning up the courtyard and was about to go to the kitchen.
"Okay." Lin Siyao went to the central room as he was told.
"It's very fragrant!" He took a sip of the black bitter buckwheat tea and sincerely praised.
"Yes.
Aunt Tian's family planted a few rows of black bitter buckwheat last year. In one year, they collected a total of fifty catties and gave some to the neighbors.
Ah Yao, how about we also plant some next year? "
Su Shuiche held the cup and from time to time took a few sips of the fragrant black bitter buckwheat tea. Her expression was very satisfied.
"Okay." Lin Siyao nodded with a smile.
As long as she liked it, there was nothing he couldn't do.
The two drank a few cups of tea and chatted for a while. After resting for a while, they got up and went to the kitchen to prepare the desserts and fruits that the Kitchen God needed.
The dough for the dumplings and five-fortune pancakes had already woken up.
Lin Siyao first rolled out the ninety-nine dumpling skins one by one and gave them to Su Shuiche, who had finished mixing the stuffing and was eagerly waiting on the side. He found it funny as he pinched the tip of her nose. When he saw that there was a trace of white flour on his finger, his faint smile turned into a hearty laugh.
Su Shuiche looked at him in confusion. She turned around and looked at the basin of clear water on the basin rack. Only then did she understand Lin Siyao's prank. Under his rare bright smile, she also dipped her finger in the white flour and wanted to poke his face.
The two laughed for a while until her delicate lips were fiercely sucked and wantonly invaded before she shyly struggled out of his embrace.
Su Shuiche started to do the work that she had volunteered to do early in the morning — making dumplings.
She prepared three kinds of stuffing: meat stuffing, pickled cabbage stuffing, and green vegetables and mushroom stuffing.
She had made dumplings twice with Lin Siyao before. Although she was still a little new this time and the dumplings she made were not beautiful, they were not broken or cracked.
Lin Siyao smiled as he watched her make a few cookies. Once again, he couldn't help pinching the tip of her delicate nose. Amidst her silent protest, he turned around with a smile and started making large, round, five-fortune cookies filled with bean paste, which symbolized auspiciousness and joy.
Kitchen God Day — Little New Year's Day — quietly arrived amidst the warm and happy preparations of the two …
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