Queen's Development

Chapter 23 Snails
After entering the vegetable butcher's shop, Yuzhi quickly bought some fresh pork belly, small green vegetables, green garlic sprouts, green onions, ginger and garlic. Seeing that there were still some scraps of money left, she bought another old hen and bought what A Lan gave her. All the food money was spent.

Yuzhi was holding a vegetable basket in one hand, and Qingcha was carrying a frisky old hen. The two walked out of the vegetable butcher's shop with a smile and walked towards the county government.

As soon as he walked past Yuchuan Bookstore, Yuzhi saw someone selling pears with a load on the side of the road, and couldn't help but feel moved—Lin Jia's throat was swollen and sore, and her voice was hoarse, just in time to buy some pears for him to boil pear water for him to drink!
Seeing Yuzhi looking at the pear seller with piercing eyes, Qingcha couldn't help laughing: "Yuzhi, do you want to buy pears? But we've already used up the money Alan gave!"

"Second Young Master has a sore throat, I just gave him stewed pear water to drink." Yuzhi narrowed her eyes and smiled, "You forgot, I still have a penny!"

Qingcha disapproved a little, and muttered: "Buying pears for the young master, why spend our own money..."

Yuzhi glanced at Qingcha with a smile, and said softly: "It's the young master, not someone else, why are you so stingy?"

Although Qingcha still disapproved in his heart, but it was not his own money that was spent, so he kept silent and followed Yuzhi to buy pears with a pout.

Yuzhi put down two vegetable baskets and carefully selected six perfect big Sydney pears. Seeing that there were actually a few big red apples under the straw covered by the other burden, she bought four more apples and took the rest of the books. All the broken silver was spent.

After the pears and apples were placed in the vegetable basket, it was obviously much heavier, so Qingcha and Yuzhi carried the heaviest vegetable basket and walked forward together.

Even with the help of Qingcha, Yuzhi was still exhausted, but she was always strong and didn't take this trivial matter to heart.

As soon as Yuzhi and Qingcha walked into the east side door of the county government office, they saw the handsome Helian county lieutenant walking towards him with Wang Qingyu.

Yuzhi rushed to the side of the road with her green tea, making way for the Helian county captain.

Wang Qingyu followed behind He Lianshan, seeing Yuzhi and Qingcha, two timid girls carrying such a heavy thing, couldn't help feeling a little soft-hearted, looked up at Yuzhi, but didn't dare to make a sound.

At this moment, He Lianshan in front said calmly: "Wang Qingyu, go and help them send their things back to the county government house!"

Wang Qingyu felt relieved, and hurriedly said respectfully: "Yes, my lord!"

With Wang Qingyu's help, Yuzhi and Qingcha felt much more relaxed.

When they arrived at the gate of the inner house, Wang Qingyu exchanged some pleasantries when she saw A Chi coming out, handed the heavy things to A Chi, and was about to say goodbye and leave.

Yuzhi and Qingcha thanked the enthusiastic Wang Qingyu.

A Chi carried two vegetable baskets, and couldn't help saying, "Why are they so heavy?"

Yuzhi smiled: "I bought some Sydney pears and apples, and stewed pear water for you tonight!"

Qingcha hurriedly said: "The money for pears and apples is Yuzhi's own money!"

Ah Chi heard this, and hurriedly said: "Yu Zhi, you can go and find A Lan to report in a while!"

Yu Zhi hurriedly said: "Forget it, this is what I want to buy, why bother!"

She has always been generous and generous, and doesn't take these things to heart.

Hearing what Yuzhi said, Ah Chi didn't say anything, and headed to the kitchen of the inner house with two vegetable baskets.

Yuzhi wrapped her hair with a scarf, washed her hands and went into the kitchen, and with the help of Qingcha, she showed off her skills and began to make the shredded pork noodles that Second Young Master wanted to eat.

She is very organized in her work, first planning in her mind, and then starts to get busy in an orderly manner.

Yuzhi first reconciled the noodles, covered them with a clean damp cloth, and then began to shred the pork.

At this time, the green tea has washed all the necessary vegetables such as green vegetables and green garlic sprouts.

Yuzhi then chopped green garlic sprouts, shredded green onion, shredded ginger and sliced ​​garlic for later use.

After the noodles woke up, Yuzhi began to knead and roll out the noodles, and then cut out the noodles carefully, and only then did the tea start to burn.

After frying shredded green onion, shredded ginger and sliced ​​garlic in hot oil, Yuzhi put in the shredded pork and started cooking.

After the shredded pork was fried, she poured water into the pot and covered it with a lid.

In just two quarters of an hour, Yuzhi prepared a pot of delicious hot pot noodles.

She served it in a tureen, sprinkled some chopped green garlic sprouts on top to enhance the freshness, and then looked at Qingcha with a smile: "Qingcha, please send the noodles to the young master!"

Qingcha was really timid about Lin Jia, so she begged: "Yuzhi, you go, I'm afraid of the second son..."

Yuzhi was a little helpless, so she could only say: "I'll talk to you when I come back!"

Qingcha clasped his hands together and waved at Yuzhi, very cute.

She has never had her own opinions, and now her wish is to follow Yuzhi all the time, so she would rather let Yuzhi do the work of showing her face.

Seeing this, Yuzhi smiled and twisted Qingcha's chubby cheeks, took off the scarf that wrapped her hair, and carried the tureen on a tray to the main room.

In the dark bedroom of the landlord, the lamp was on, and Lin Jia was leaning against the pillows on the bed and reading the file.

After Yuzhi entered, she quickly moved the small kang table on the couch in front of the window to the bed, then put the noodle bowl on the kang table, lifted the bowl lid, and said with a smile, "Young master, please eat noodles!"

Lin Jia had no appetite at first, but smelling the aroma of hot pot noodles, he couldn't help but feel a little hungry. He raised his eyes and looked at Yu Zhi, seeing Yu Zhi looking at him earnestly, his heart warmed, and he silently picked up the chopsticks.

He picked up a noodle with chopsticks and tasted it, and found that the noodle had somersaults and a good taste.

Lin Jia took another sip of the noodle soup with the silver spoon prepared by Yuzhi, and found that the soup was rich in flavor, and immediately whetted her appetite, so she ate some more rarely, and finally finished the whole bowl of noodles.

Yu Zhi was waiting on the side, seeing Lin Jia eating so deliciously, she was very happy, looked at Lin Jia with a smile, and thought: The second son is too weak, and he is only 16 years old now, and it is time to grow his body, so he has to do it for him. He is making up for himself!

Subconsciously, she regarded Lin Jia as a child, and when she saw Lin Jia finished eating the bowl of noodles, she asked softly in a coaxing tone, "Second Young Master, do you need another bowl of noodles for you?"

Lin Jia shook her head and put down the silver spoon in her hand.

Yuzhi hurriedly handed over the fragrant tea that had been brewed in advance, waited for Lin Jia to rinse her mouth, and then went to clean up the mess.

After Yu Zhi cleaned up and came back to serve, she found that Lin Jia had fallen asleep.

When he was awake, his face was expressionless, and he looked very unruly, but when he was asleep, he showed the childishness that a 16-year-old boy should have, and he looked very good.

The shape of his lips is beautiful, the lips are light pink, but they are still a little dry and peeled, and they look whitish.

Yuzhi was thinking about the next thing to do—boil medicine for Lin Jia and stew pear water that clears away heat and nourishes the lungs, but she moved very quickly to help Lin Jia raise the brocade quilt, and went to the kitchen to get busy.

When Lin Jia woke up, she found that the bed in front of the window was brightly lit with a candlestick, and Yu Zhi was sitting on the bed, reading a book facing the candlestick.

She lowered her head and looked very concentrated. The candlelight shone on her snow-white and tender face, which seemed to cast a layer of soft light on her, making her face more crystal clear.

Lin Jia was lying on the bed in a daze - he was used to sleeping alone, and he was not used to having one more person in the room, and he was still a girl.

The window was pasted with snow-white moonlight paper, facing the candlelight, looking at the shining white, I don't know what time it is.

Lin Jia moved and wanted to sit up with her hands on the bed, but she had a fever for too long, and she didn't have any strength in her body, so she didn't sit up.

He took a deep breath and tried to sit up again.

Yuzhi was reading the story book, when she heard the movement on Babu's bed, she immediately put down the book and walked over quickly, but Lin Jia just struggled to sit up, when the skirt of the white silk jacket on her body fell apart, revealing her Yuzhi just walked over to see Lin Jia's chest clearly, and was stunned.

It was only then that Lin Jia realized that Yuzhi had seen him all, and his mind went blank at the moment, and he was stunned for a moment before he realized, his face was red and his ears were red, and he stretched out his hands to tighten his clothes.

Yu Zhi stood there dumbfounded, but said in her heart: Second Young Master is really thin, you can see the two rows of ribs, I have to make some delicious and nutritious food in the future, so that Second Young Master can make up for it... , the second son looks too thin and weak, and he needs to exercise his body well... But, how to exercise?Have to ask an expert...

Lin Jia blushed and took the outer robe aside and put it on her body.

Just now he was startled by Yuzhi, and a layer of sweat broke out on his body instantly, but now he is much more relaxed.

Yuzhi seemed to walk away.

After a while, Lin Jia heard Yu Zhi's voice with a smile: "Second Young Master, it's time to drink the medicine. I brought the medicine here. You can drink it now!"

Lin Jia's face turned even redder, burning hot. He raised his eyes to look at Yuzhi, and found that Yuzhi was standing in front of the bed with a bowl of soup medicine, looking at him tenderly.

Seeing Yuzhi like this, the little boy in Lin Jia's body began to act coquettishly: "Then you have to give me the candied fruit from last time."

Hearing this, Yuzhi squinted her eyes and smiled, a pair of small dimples appearing and disappearing on her cheeks, very cute: "Okay!"

Lin Jia looked up at Yuzhi, to see how she made the candied fruit.

Yuzhi put the medicine bowl on the small bedside table, took out the prepared oiled paper package from her sleeve pocket, and unfolded the oiled paper package with a smile for Lin Jia to see—there were several pieces of candied apricots on the oiled paper !
Her favorites are small snacks like mints, but since she found out that Lin Jia likes these sweet and sour candied fruit, she prepared some preserved apricots, which she took out when she was going to coax Lin Jia to drink medicine.

Lin Jia found that Yuzhi was the incarnation of the snail girl and could conjure anything. He ate a piece of candied apricot first, and then drank all the medicine in one go.

After drinking the medicine, Lin Jia had no choice but to turn back into an adult, and told Yu Zhi: "Go and ask Ah Qing to bring the pen, cinnabar and inkpad."

Yuzhi had already spotted the stack of files on the bedside table, and knew that Lin Jia might want to write official documents, so she agreed, and was about to go out and ask Ah Qing to come in and wait on her.

Lin Jia raised her eyes and saw Yuzhi was about to leave, she suddenly felt a little bit reluctant, and hurriedly said: "Yuzhi, what are you going to do for dinner?"

Yuzhi turned around and smiled, her eyes turned into sweet crescent moons: "My lord, this servant has stewed chicken soup for you in the kitchen, made chicken soup wontons, and served it with sesame biscuits!"

Lin Jia listened, looking forward to it, nodded and watched Yu Zhi go out.

After Yuzhi left, he continued to read the dossier sent by County Wei He Lianshan.

He had just arrived in Zhao County, and the backlog of official affairs from the former magistrate was really piled up, and what He Lianshan sent was only a part of it.

Lin Jia had just arrived here, so she had to deal with one by one, and sort out all aspects of Zhao County through these official duties.

After reading for a while, Lin Jia looked at the file in his hand and found a problem.

Yuzhi had just walked to the gate of the inner house, and was about to go to the small kitchen on the east side, when she suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, and hurried over.

The gate was open, and Yuzhi looked out, but found that it was empty and there was no one there.

Yuzhi was wondering when she suddenly found a letter on the ground.

(End of this chapter)