An Xuetang was truly tired, closing her eyes and falling asleep soon after.
It was strange, she always slept lightly and couldn’t fall asleep with someone around, but somehow this time she slept exceptionally soundly.
When she woke up, the sun was about to set. She had slept for six hours straight.
As soon as An Xue Tang moved, Mo Yun Jing put down the book in his hand and said in a low, dark voice, “Awake?”
An Xue Tang was startled, and then she realized her situation.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw that handsome face, so striking it was almost heavenly. She couldn’t help but feel, actually, being stuck in this poor place wasn’t so bad after all. At least she could still see this charming face.
“Well, you…” An Xuetang began, but after racking her brains for a long time, she couldn’t think of what to say.
She simply sat up. After a nap, her body had mostly recovered.
“Hungry? Yunliu is preparing dinner.”
Mo Yunjing said faintly, An Xuetang looked over, his face was still pale, and those deep eyes, though they seemed cold and indifferent, were extremely beautiful. An Xuetang felt like she was about to be sucked in within minutes.
“Do I have something on my face?”
“Uh…no, no.” An Xuetang lowered her head. Damn it, she had just unconsciously fallen for him.
She got out of bed nervously, quickly put on her shoes and ran out, “I’m going to check the kitchen.”
Mo Yunjing’s gaze followed her figure, filled with inquiry. This woman looked…unordinary.
An Xuetang dashed out of the house and patted her chest. Really, why did her heart beat so fast for no reason?
Yunliu was dealing with a wild chicken in the yard. He heard a noise and looked up, “You… Sister-in-law, you’re up. I’ll be roasting the wild chicken later. Could you please go to the village to buy some staple food?”
Regardless of how unsuitable this woman’s status is for his master, she is at least his master’s wife in name now, so it is only right that he calls her sister-in-law.
An Xue Tang raised an eyebrow. “You still need to buy staples?” He wasn’t cooking?
Yun Liu’s face flushed awkwardly. “Uh… I can’t cook, I only know how to roast some wild game.”
“I’ll do it,” An Xuetang rolled up her sleeves. To be honest, she really didn’t want to eat those hard, lumpy buns.
When you go to the village to buy food, you can probably only get steamed buns.
Before entering the kitchen, An Xuetang suddenly turned back, “And after you’ve prepared the pheasant, don’t roast it. Take it to the kitchen, I’ll cook it.”
“Good.”
Yunliu thought, An Xuetang was at least a country girl, cooking should be no problem. It seems she’s not completely useless.
An Xuetang entered the kitchen and started rummaging through the ingredients. There was a small bag of white flour, a small bag of rice, a large bowl of coarse salt, and a small pinch of fine salt.
Besides, there are no other condiments!
What is she supposed to do without any oil? <<<
Well, at least we still have pots and pans.
Back then, there was no electricity or gas. An Xuetang stared at the hearth for a long time, sighing deeply before finally starting to work.
Luckily, she could still start a fire.
An Xuetang washed the rice and started steaming white rice.
Yunliu was quick. He brought in the prepared pheasant soon, “Sister-in-law, are you really going to cook it? Maybe I’ll just roast it for you?”
An Xuetang smiled. “Don’t worry, you’re sure to have a good meal tonight.”
Yun Liu said nothing more. He placed the wild chicken in the pot, and An Xue Tang told him to go outside first. She wasn’t used to having people around when she worked, and besides, he couldn’t really help.
An Xuetang picked up the wild chicken and took a look. It was quite fat. Thinking that there was no oil at home, she picked up her kitchen knife and cut off the fatty parts of the wild chicken in three or two moves.
Then, she put a handful of salt inside the chicken’s belly. After thinking for a moment, she left the kitchen and walked around the wooden hut. As expected, she found several wild chives and ginger. At the same time, she also unexpectedly saw a small patch of shepherd’s purse.
She picked some scallions, a piece of ginger and a handful of watercress. After returning home, she washed the scallions and ginger, then cut them into small pieces and put them inside the chicken’s belly.
After the water boiled, An Xuetang put the chicken into the pot and cooked it.
After that, she washed the purslane again. After the chicken was cooked, she started stir-frying the purslane with chicken oil… An Xuetang said this was also her first attempt, but the taste was surprisingly good.
At this moment, within the room of Mo Yunjing, his expression was grave and his eyes sharp. Yunliu, bowing with both hands, almost pleadingly addressed Mo Yunjing, “Master, please, must you keep a child!”
Mo Yunjing’s expression was cold. “I’m just a dying man, why bother others?”
“Yunliu cried urgently, “Master, even if…even if something truly happened to you, your subordinates would still need a young master. Please grant us this favor.”
“I am poisoned, how can you guarantee my child won’t be affected?”
Yunliu choked and his expression changed drastically. He hadn’t thought about this at all.
He only knew that his master must leave behind a child, or what would become of them all? They would dedicate their lives to their master and the future little master.
He chose An Xue Tang mainly because she was beautiful. It was said that her father used to be a scholar, so although such a woman wasn’t qualified enough to bear children for his master, she was at least better than other country bumpkins.
Right now, he couldn’t find anyone more suitable than Ian Xue Tang.
His master’s poison had invaded his five internal organs and six bowels. He tried many methods but couldn’t cure him, so… he wanted to let his master leave as much behind as possible.
“But, my master…”
“Don’t try to persuade me, my mind is made up. Tomorrow, you will send her away. All the previous divorce talk was a lie. Let her not carry any psychological burden. If she needs help, do your best to assist her. After all, she was my wife for a day.”
Yunliu anxiously knelt down and clasped his hands together, saying, “Master, that’s what I spent all my savings to buy back for you. Please, Master, consummate the marriage with her and leave an heir.”
Yunliu thought, even if the little master was born with flaws it didn’t matter, at least the master had an heir, wasn’t that enough?
If he were to just sit there and watch his master leave without doing anything, he couldn’t bear it.
“Yunliu, I have made up my mind about this. Besides, even if I sleep with her, how can I guarantee that she will get pregnant? If she doesn’t conceive, wouldn’t that ruin the girl’s life?”
Mo Yunjing was a ruthless and decisive person throughout his life, certainly not someone with a kind heart. However, when he heard the little girl’s soft voice saying she was hungry, he inexplicably felt a pang of sympathy for her and didn’t want to harm her.
How was he physically? He knew it himself, in a few days he would be dead anyway. Why bother ruining her life?
Just as Yun Liu kept persuading Mo Yunjing, An Xuetang in the kitchen was dumbfounded. The spatula in her hand clattered to the floor.
My God!
What kind of superpower or cheat did she get?
How could she possibly hear everything her cheap husband and Yun Liu were saying so clearly?
As soon as she finished stir-frying the wild chives, a question popped into her mind: I wonder what her cheap husband and Yunliu are talking about.
Next, something strange happened. She suddenly heard a conversation between her cheap husband and Yunliu.