border cook

Jiang Yanyi had just been hit by a carriage not long ago. Although she was also frightened by the back arrow this time, she was very calm after reacting.

She glanced at the crowd below, and Yang Xiu and Bing Shao, who were disguised as ordinary people, nodded to Jiang Yanyi calmly, holding back and not moving.

Earlier, Jiang Yanyi's sister and brother were nearly knocked down by a carriage. Yang Xiubingshao was sent by Chu Changping to protect Jiang Yanyi's safety, but they were not there.

This time, Jiang Yanyi only brought Huo Jianjia with him to raise donations, but Yang Xiu and Bing Shao were all watching secretly.

The guards of the wealthy merchants also rushed forward at this time, and protected their masters and hid in the Laifu Restaurant.

Mrs. An Shao had never experienced such a dangerous situation. When she stood up with the help of the maid, her legs became weak and her face turned pale.

She was sitting next to Jiang Yanyi just now. When the arrow came, her mind was blank and she was in a daze. Now her heart is beating violently, as if it is about to jump out of her throat.

Jiang Yan felt that her maid could hardly support her, so she hurriedly helped her: "Is Mrs. An okay?"

Mrs. An's hands were cold, she reluctantly nodded to Jiang Yanyi: "It's okay."

She was just a bystander who was frightened like this, but Jiang Yanyi, who was almost killed by a sharp arrow, had a calm expression on her face. Mrs. An couldn't help feeling a little admiration for Jiang Yanyi in her heart. There is always something special.

If it were any noble daughter from an aristocratic family today, she might not be as calm as Jiang Yanyi.

Jiang Yanyi helped Mrs. An Shao into the private room that shopkeeper Xu prepared for them alone, and said to the waiter at the door: "Go and invite a doctor."

The waiter hurried out to invite the doctor.

Although Jiang Yanyi knew that Huo Jianjia was good at martial arts, she was still a little worried. She was also afraid that some wealthy businessmen would have evil intentions and take this opportunity to send someone to snatch the money for the donation. After appeasing Mrs. An, she went out to find shopkeeper Xu.

Shopkeeper Xu was in a state of desperation right now, and when he met Jiang Yanyi, he bowed so much that he almost knelt on the ground, and said as if a catastrophe was imminent: "Shopkeeper Chu, today's accident is really a disaster. If the prince finds out, I hope that shopkeeper Chu will help Xu." Say something."

Jiang Yanyi naturally knew that shopkeeper Xu could not have arranged the person who shot the sniper, so she asked, "Where is the banknote for the donation?"

At this time, Shopkeeper Xu never dared to covet this money again, he hurriedly said: "I locked it in the warehouse, and there are many boys watching, so there will be no accidents."

But Jiang Yanyi said: "People's hearts are separated, and the money raised today is not a small sum. If someone pretends to be a thief and steals the bank notes, the situation can be dealt with by shopkeeper Xu himself."

The shopkeeper Xu is not stupid to be able to sit at the head of the chamber of commerce immediately after the collapse of the Hu family. He has dealt with merchants for many years, and he knows who and what virtues are better than Jiang Yanyi. Take it lightly.

He bowed deeply to Jiang Yanyi again: "Thank you, shopkeeper Chu, for your reminder, shopkeeper Chu's great kindness, Xu will never forget it."

After instructing Shopkeeper Xu, Jiang Yanyi turned around and was about to go back to the private room when he saw that the waiter who had just gone out to invite a doctor had already led a female doctor upstairs.

There are only a few "medicine" halls on Duhufu Street, and the doctor Jiang Yanyi who sits in the hall can almost recognize them all. The female doctor who goes upstairs is bloated. , why did you rush over so quickly?

Probably because of the lessons learned from the female travel doctor before, the female travel doctor has never been caught. It is said that she is proficient in disguise, so that the officers and soldiers who searched cannot start.

Jiang Yanyi's nerves tensed up when he saw the female doctor.

She went around the lobby of Laifu Restaurant, and Yang Xiu Bingshao was now pretending to be a diner and mixing in the lobby. After seeing Jiang Yanyi coming downstairs, he followed her quietly to the backyard.

"Boss, what's wrong?" Yang Xiu asked.

Jiang Yanyi said in a low voice: "Just now the waiter in the restaurant brought a female doctor upstairs to see Mrs. An Shao. I'm worried that she is a female doctor surnamed Fang from the previous court."

They have noticed the female doctor Jiang Yanyi mentioned, but the female doctor is bloated and gray-haired. She is obviously an elderly doctor, and there are women in the restaurant who are surprised, so the two didn't think much about it. , and became vigilant.

Yang Xiu asked, "What should I do?"

Jiang Yanyi said: "It was definitely aimed at me. If she wanted to save Jiang Yanxi, she would not dare to kill me. The previous arrow might be trying to lure Jian Jia away."

"Mrs. An is still in the room. In case I go up first, the two of you will pretend to be waiters in a restaurant and come in to refill tea and watch me wink."

Yang Xiu and Bing Shao responded one after another.

Jiang Yanyi turned around and went upstairs.

In the private room, Mrs. An Shao sat at the table of the Eight Immortals and asked the gray-haired doctor to feel her pulse.

"Young Madam was frightened, so she can just rest for a few days, I prescribed a soothing prescription, according to this prescription, you can grab the medicine and take it a few times, and you will be fine." The doctor's voice was surprisingly kind and gentle.

Mrs. An thanked her, and said to Jiang Yanyi: "Miss Chu, let this female doctor take your pulse."

Before entering the room, Jiang Yanyi wasn't sure if the doctor woman was a traveling doctor surnamed Fang, but after entering the room, she could smell the "medicine" smell on her body which was different from that of ordinary doctors, so she was basically sure. .

I can't do it as a cook, but my sense of smell and taste are sharper than others.

Jiang Yanyi had wind-cold scraping before, and smelled the "medicine" on the female doctor's body, which was exactly the same as the doctor's body.

Unavoidable that the female travel doctor noticed, Jiang Yanyi pretended not to know her identity and said, "The arrow didn't hurt me, but there was another murder case involving horses and wounding people in the east of the city, and the government officials were delayed there. I don't know when I'll be here."

She said this on purpose to let the female traveling doctor relax her vigilance, after all, the later the government officials came, the more chances she would have, so she wouldn't go to extremes and fight to the death.

After Fang Zhi changed her appearance, she was no different from an old lady in her [-]s and [-]s. When she heard that people from the government would come later, her eyes moved slightly.

Mrs. An Shao was kind-hearted, and she couldn't help sighing when she heard that there was another murder case near the end of the year.

Fang Zhi said at this time: "I see that the girl's complexion is not very good, and she has a state of yin deficiency and fire. The old woman has practiced medicine for many years, and her medical skills are still good. If the girl can trust the old body, you might as well let the old body do acupuncture for the girl. Fan?"

Jiang Yanyi thought it was strange that she could trust her, and evaded: "Thank you doctor for your kindness, it is not convenient to go out, I will ask you to come to the house for a pulse later on."

Fang Zhi rashly proposed acupuncture, but Jiang Yanyi's polite refusal left her unable to find a reason to speak again.

Fang Zhi could only smile and said yes, when she went to pack her medicine box, she touched the smoked bamboo tube in the compartment of the medicine box.

"Guest officer, I'm here to bring you a pot of hot tea!"

At this moment, Yang Xiu came in with a teapot, Bing Shao followed behind him with a plate of pastries, Fang Zhi had already touched the bamboo tube of Miyan, seeing this situation, she had to put down Miyan first .

Jiang Yan watched her calmly, and when Yang Xiu Bingshao put the things on the table, he gave them a hands-on look.

Before Fang Zhi could react, Bing Shao stepped forward and took off her hands, and Fang Zhi died in pain. Voice.

Madam An Shao was so frightened that Huarong turned pale. She stood up from the stool and looked at Jiang Yanyi in shock: "Miss Chu... this is..."

Jiang Yan felt relieved that Fang Zhi was subdued, and said, "This person is a key criminal wanted by the government!"

Bing Shao pulled the human, leather mask, and mask on Fang Zhi's face, and Mrs. An Shao saw that the wrinkled old lady instantly turned into a middle-aged woman with a fierce face, and she took a step back in fright. .

The people from the government quickly rushed over, and it was only then that Mrs. An realized that what Jiang Yanyi said earlier about hurting people with horses was just a lie to the female doctor.

Jiang Yanyi thought that the people who came were just some young people from the government, but when he went to the window, he was stunned when he saw a man with a solemn face on a tall horse.

Why did he come in person?

A snowflake fell leisurely from the window, the houses on both sides of the long street were row upon row, the eaves were covered with a thick layer of snow, and the dead leaves and branches beside the road were covered with frost, looking from a distance, it looked like a jade tree generally.

Feng Shuo was dressed in military armor, his figure was a bit more straight than a pine and cypress, and his face was cold. He snorted at the dark cloud horse, which was half a head taller than ordinary war horses, and the hot breath he exhaled formed a white mist in the air.

As if sensing her gaze, Feng Shuo raised his eyes on the horseback and looked this way.

There were more and more snowflakes flying, and a large piece fell down. It finally cleared up for a long time, but it snowed again.

Jiang Yanyi saw Feng Shuo look away, turned off his horse, and seemed to be heading directly to the restaurant.

Her heart skipped a few quick beats for no reason.

In the restaurant, as expected by Jiang Yanyi, a wealthy businessman took a fancy to the opportunity brought by the "riot" and asked someone to pretend to be an accomplice to rob the chamber of commerce for donations. Changed the bank note.

After negotiating with shopkeeper Xu to find out that the situation at that time was Song Lushi of the government office, Feng Shuo went upstairs to look for Jiang Yanyi.

In appearance, An Yongyuan was much more vicious than Feng Shuo, but Mrs. An dared to punish An Yongyuan to kneel on the washboard, but she didn't dare to look at Feng Shuo more. After Feng Shuo entered the room, she didn't dare to take a breath. .

Seeing the complaint, Jiang Yan thought that the people from the government could send Mrs. An back home, and the safety would be guaranteed, so she asked Mrs. An to go back first.

Madam An Shao couldn't wait for her, she didn't even say a few polite words to Jiang Yanyi, and hurried away with her maid.

Jiang Yanyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he looked at Feng Shuo and said, "Look at you scaring people."

Concerned that Yang Xiu Bingshao was still in the room, Feng Shuo didn't do anything out of the ordinary, just glanced at Jiang Yanyi and said, "Why didn't you scare me?"

This sentence doesn't seem to be provocative, but Jiang Yanyi felt inexplicably hot, and she hurriedly said business: "Look who I caught for you!"

Feng Shuo raised his eyebrows and looked at the ground. He had never seen a female doctor before, but after interrogating the old department in the prison, he asked the artist to draw a portrait of a female doctor based on the confession. Combined with those characteristics, he still recognized it at a glance. He came out, "The big palace lady next to the queen?"

Fang Zhi gave a stern slap: "The 'chaotic' officials and thieves! My Daqi's country is definitely not something you can sit on like a rat!"

Feng Shuo sneered: "You can't sit still, your Great Qi Kingdom has been destroyed for more than ten years."

Fang Zhi's face turned ugly in an instant.

Feng Shuo told Xing Yao who was waiting at the door: "Take him away!"

Xing Yao quickly brought the guards into the room and dragged Fang Zhi away, Feng Shuo glanced at Yang Xiu Bingshao who was still in the room.

The two pretended not to see his eyes, hung their heads in the room and refused to leave.

Who is Feng Shuo, so he can naturally guess that it was probably Chu Changping's order. In the end, he just "rubbed" Jiang Yanyi's hair: "I will credit you later, but no more risks are allowed in the future!"

He came here from Xizhou camp only after he heard that someone shot a cold arrow and almost hurt Jiang Yanyi.

Jiang Yanyi was happy in his heart, with a smile on his face: "The military funds I raised are roughly 15 taels!"

This amount was unexpected to Feng Shuo, and he raised his eyebrows in surprise: "You held a knife to someone's neck and 'forced' them to donate?"

If it weren't for the concern that Yang Xiu, Bing and Shao were still in the house, Jiang Yanyi would have pinched the flesh on his arm and twisted it hard.

She gritted her teeth and said, "No."

Feng Shuo saw that she looked like a cat with "hair blown", a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, with a rare gentleness, "Let's go, I will personally send you back home."

Jiang Yanyi was afraid that Huo Jianjia would be in danger, so she asked Bing Shao to find someone. She just finished speaking, and then she ran into Huo Jianjia when she went downstairs.

Huo Jianjia was still holding the bloody Guan Gong knife in his hand, and no one dared to approach her within a foot of her. When they saw her walking that way, the surrounding people automatically made way for her.

But Huo Jianjia was dejected, with a gray face, as if he was an unlucky guy who thought he was unlucky.

The first thing I said when I met Jiang Yanyi was, "Boss, I cut too hard, I forgot to keep alive."

Before killing all the people who attacked the noodle shop, Jiang Yanyi said that he wanted to live, and Huo Jianjia kept this matter in mind.

Jiang Yanyi didn't expect her to be so annoyed because of this, so she comforted her: "It's okay, the mastermind has been caught."

Huo Jianjia's eyes lit up again.

Knowing that the mastermind was the female wandering doctor who killed her father, Huo Jianjia wished to cut off her head immediately with a big knife. Jiang Yanyi told her that the government would still have to interrogate the female wandering doctor. Just let me go."

She turned around and returned the Guan Gong knife to the guy in Laifu Restaurant. The guy took the big knife and looked at the blood that hadn't dried up on it, his legs went limp for a while.

***

The female travel doctor was imprisoned, and part of the military funds was raised. Jiang Yanyi felt that the tension in his mind that had been stretched for several days suddenly loosened.

When she is in a good mood, she likes to tinker in the kitchen and ask Huo Jianjia and Okra what they want to eat.

When Huo Jianjia was gnawing steamed buns and soaking noodles in the noodle shop, she often heard Bing Shao say that Jiang Yanyi’s chai-pot rice was a must. She had been here for a long time, and she hadn’t tasted Jiang Yanyi’s chai-pot rice, so she immediately said she wanted to eat it. Chai pot rice.

Yang Xiu Bingshao would never argue with a little girl. Although Okra wanted to eat sausage and rice, but Huo Jianjia was thin and small like a bean, she unconsciously let her have some, and finally dinner was firewood rice.

The tender potatoes planted in winter and the green and pleasant peas are fried in a large oil mixed with sesame oil. The potatoes and peas are covered with a layer of light golden oil. It's very tempting.

Jiang Yanyi only put some salt, and some ingredients need thick oily red sauce, but the authentic taste of chai pot rice is authentic.After frying, she added some water to the pot so that the potatoes and peas at the bottom would not be burnt, then covered the rice that had been boiled to seven maturity, and poured the mellow rice soup that had been drained from the rice along the side of the pot.

The aroma of the rice is almost fully boiled into the rice soup. If you use the rice soup to cook rice in a wood-fired pot, the aroma of the rice will be more intense after it comes out of the pot. It's just that the control of the heat is more demanding.

In order to match the rice in a firewood pot, Jiang Yanyi also stewed a pork rib soup. The soup added medicinal ingredients such as ginseng, astragalus, angelica, and tea tree mushroom. The entrance is soft and tender, not at all firewood, the soup is fresh and mellow, warm and nourishing.

The preserved bacon Jiang Yanyi was fried with old salted vegetables and garlic sprouts. Before it came out of the pan, a group of people were overwhelmed by the smell and waited for the meal at the kitchen door.After the old salted vegetables are soaked in the oil from the bacon stir-fry, they have a special flavor. If you pick a chopsticks of old salted vegetables and grilled rice, you can have another half bowl if you are full.

Huo Jianjia was so full from this meal that she could only slump beside the stove to lift her dead body.

Aunt Guo hurt her hand, Yang Xiu and Bing Shao consciously contracted the dishes.

When he had a rare free time, Jiang Yanyi was talking to the two little girls by the stove, and Huo Jianjia would respond to Jiang Yanyi from time to time. The okra, who used to like listening to Jiang Yanyi's stories the most, put all his attention on the soles of his shoes.

Jiang Yanyi knew that she must have made it for Blacksmith Luo just by looking at the size of the sole.

Thinking that this silly girl would have to marry as soon as the new year was over, Jiang Yanyi suddenly felt a little sad like an old mother.

She said to Qiukui: "When you get to him in the future, if he dares to treat you badly, you must come back and tell me, don't be foolish."

The dry firewood in the stove was crackling and burning, and Okra raised her head to look at Jiang Yanyi in a daze, her eyes slowly turned red, and she nodded and said yes.

Huo Jianjia held his stomach and changed his position with difficulty, and said coldly: "If he dares to treat you badly, I'll cut off his head!"

This success scares Okra into his hand.

She quickly said: "He is very kind to me, every time he comes to see me, he will buy me sugar figurines or candied haws."

Huo Jianjia said: "My father bought it for me before."

She glanced at the coarse cloth Okra used to cover the soles of her shoes, and asked, "It's so cold in Xizhou, when you put on the soles of your shoes, put them in sheepskin to keep warm."

When she used to travel all over the country with her father, whenever she came to the northern border, her father would have someone order a pair of sheepskin boots.Thinking of the past, Huo Jianjia's eyes were slightly sad.

Okra held the needle in her hands and brushed her temples, before continuing to needle: "The shop only sells whole sheepskin materials, I don't need that much."

The sheepskin used to make clothes is not just peeled off from the sheep, but also has to go through many processes. After being treated in this way, the price has also doubled several times.

Huo Jianjia heard the words and said: "The sheepskin scroll is useless anyway, you can cut it off and put it on the sole of your shoe."

She looked at Jiang Yanyi: "What do you think, boss?"

Okra also looked at Jiang Yanyi eagerly.

Jiang Yanyi didn't have any hope for the sheepskin scroll now, and said, "Take it and use it."

When Qiukui heard it, she happily went to get the sheepskin scroll. She drew a shoe shape with blacksmith Luo's size with charcoal, picked up the scissors and started cutting.

Jiang Yanyi smiled and shook his head. While he was feeling emotional, Okra, who looked like he was cutting a shoe with scissors, suddenly asked in surprise, "What is this?"

Jiang Yanyi looked back at her: "What's wrong?"

Okra came over with the sheepskin scroll and showed it to Jiang Yanyi: "Huahua, there is something inside!"

Jiang Yanyi was stunned when he saw the compartment in the middle of the sheepskin scroll exposed after cutting it open.

No wonder Chi Qing and the others pinched the edge to find the compartment and couldn't find it. It turned out to be in the middle.

She took out two hand-sized and yellowed blueprints from the compartment, and looked closely by the firelight, and found that the blueprints were indeed maps, but the writing was only the size of sesame seeds.

Now that the outside world knows that the treasure map is fake, they no longer stare at Xizhou, but the treasure map is actually real!

Jiang Yanyi's heart was pounding, if Feng Shuo secretly sent someone to find this treasure now, not only would he not have to worry about being robbed by the green forest, but he would also be able to build up the military defense of Xizhou quietly.