Chapter 7 Eating Alone
After the items were delivered to a nearby open space, Ye Qingran dismissed the delivery boy with a few words, lying that a fleet of vehicles would be arriving soon. "Where did you get so much money?"
Ye Zhuoyu frowned, knowing that she was not favored in the palace. Let alone a reward from the emperor, even her monthly salary would probably be withheld. Such a huge sum of money inevitably made him feel uneasy.
Ye Qingran was busy counting the rice noodles and various grains sent by the shopkeeper, and replied without raising his head: "I'm going to steal the treasury!"
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Ye Zhuoyu thought she was joking, and stared at the mountains of rice. Grain, "How can we bring so many things with us on the way to exile? You are really becoming more and more careless in doing things. Do you want to move them back bit by bit?" He frowned, but he also helped to think of a way, "I am still in the capital. I'm an old friend. You wait for me here. I'll go find them and borrow some carriages. I can carry as much as I can. I'll have enough food on the way."
"Brother, leave this to me. Don't worry, I promise you one. I won't take away even the rice!"
Ye Qingran never thought of hiding it from him. In the original setting, her brother was the most secretive and took good care of her. He was just a soft-spoken person. She pushed Ye Zhuoyu's back and asked him to wait outside for a moment. She saw a red light flashing in the warehouse and all the rice noodles were put into the space.
She walked out with empty hands. Ye Zhuoyu angrily rebuked "Nonsense" and raised his feet to step into the warehouse. However, he closed his mouth from ear to ear in shock. He pointed at the empty ground with trembling hands and rubbed his eyes with his hands, " Where are these things?"
"They say I can move them away."
Ye Qingran raised his eyebrows and pointed to the outside of the alley, "Don't leak the secret, let's go!
" With tacit cooperation, the brother and sister successfully raided the blacksmith shop and purchased primitive iron blocks that could be used to forge weapons, fifty bows, dozens of eight-claw hooks and anchors, and fifty swords; they bought them at the clothing shop. Twenty pieces of ready-made clothes for men and women, thirty sets of cotton coats, cotton trousers, and cotton socks, and ten sets of armor that can prevent wind and cross the river. At the medicine shop at the east end of the street, Ye Qingran directly bought all the medicine-making equipment and application materials in their shop. The medicine packets for acupuncture, anti-inflammatory medicine, hemp powder, gold sore medicine, and various pill furnaces for making pills were all collected, totaling a total of twenty taels.
The money box in the space only went down to a small corner, so it can be ignored.
But Ye Qingran bought more and more supplies, which were neatly stacked in the space.
At this moment, Ye Zhuoyu finally discovered that there was something different about his sister, but since she wanted to hide it, he didn't ask or tell.
When the two returned to the camp of the exile team, Xu Qiang looked at the late morning sky and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's put food on the table today. Let's go on our way after eating."
Xu Qiang motioned to the other officers and soldiers to distribute the food issued by the court to everyone according to the number of people, two hard pancakes that could not be chewed and a bowl of clear porridge with only a handful of rice grains. , Jiangjun Mansion is slightly better, and there are two or three hot cornmeal nests.
"Where are the dishes? Are there no meat dishes?"
The Su family, the pampered Qing of Dali Temple in the capital, looked at the food they received with clear soup and watery food. They felt uncomfortable in their stomach and intestines before eating, so they asked loudly. Xu Qiang said with a strong and sarcastic attitude: "What? I thought you were Mr. Su from the capital? There are no meat dishes. There are wild vegetables here. If you want to eat them, you can come and get some!"
The green cold wild vegetables are really good for the body. , but the taste is really hard to compliment.
Before Ye Qingran left the palace, she had already eaten a whole crystal elbow in the imperial dining room. She was not yet hungry at the moment. She sat there, staring blankly at the two cornbread in her hands, and smoothed over the various thoughts that appeared in her mind. information, trying to take advantage.
When Ye Guodong and his wife Jiang saw her like this, they gathered all the nests in their hands and walked to Ye Qingran, "Ran'er, daddy knows that you feel uncomfortable, but you should eat as much as possible. The road ahead will be difficult. Come on, how can I bear it when my stomach is empty?" He loved his daughter very much, and his eyes were full of love.
"Dad, you and mother should eat more."
Ye Qingran saw that the two of them were almost untouched. "Even if you often fight on the battlefield and are used to living in the open, you are no better than you were in your prime. You still need to be careful." She said. Pushing Wowo back again, the two father and daughter actually felt like they were trying to give in. Ye Qinglian looked on from the side, stood up jealously, and grabbed both nests.
"Sister doesn't eat, I eat!"
"How can dad be partial? I haven't eaten enough, and you and mother don't care about me!"
Ye Qinglian complained. Ye Qingran looked at the residue at the corner of her mouth. If she hadn't noticed it, Wrong, this skinny sister has already eaten two nests and two bowls of porridge, can she still eat more? The capacity in this belly is really quite big!
"Mom and Dad, I'm going to walk around in front to see if I can hunt something to start a small stove."
"Don't worry, it'll be fine. I often went to the mountains in Yaowang Valley..."
Ye Qingran found an excuse to leave everyone, Arriving alone in a dense patch of grass halfway up the mountain, she took out two pheasants and hares newly bought in the capital from the space, held their ears, and let them roll around on the ground twice, creating the illusion of gray patches. She was satisfied. He nodded, "This looks like game!"
After counting silently in his mind for half a quarter of an hour, Ye Qingran carried them back to the camp.
"Mom and Dad! Look what I hit!"
Ye Qingran called out loudly, attracting the attention of the people around him. Ye Zhuoyu recognized it at a glance as the thing they bought, and did not open it. He only stepped forward to take it, " It tastes best when you pluck the feathers and roast them!"
"Master, if you see it, give it to your brothers too."
Ye Qingran walked towards Xu Qiang carrying a pheasant and bribed them.
Several officers and soldiers swallowed their saliva and thanked Ye Qingran one after another, and their attitude towards her was even more pleasant.
A short-handed manipulator but a soft-spoken manipulator, Ye Qingran has a very good grasp of human relations and sophistication.
The crackling dry firewood lit up a half-meter-high flame. Ye Zhuoyu handed the two roasted chicken legs to Ye Guodong and Jiang. They hesitated and wanted to push them to Ye Qingran, but saw her spread the two wings directly in her mouth. Started chewing, "I like to eat this! Just leave me alone. These things will go bad if you don't eat them. It's safest to send them to the Five Zang Temple as soon as possible!"
"I...I want to eat it too!"
Ye Qinglian She was so greedy that her mouth watered, but the four nests had already made her unable to eat even half a piece of meat.
She reluctantly took a bite, and then tears of disgust flowed down her face. She bent over with her hands on her knees and vomited.
Ye Qingran shook her head, hoping that her sister would remember the consequences of being greedy.
"Where did you get it? Get some for us!"
The uncle of the Ye family, who had been quiet and honest for a while, assumed the posture of an elder brother and said bossily to Ye Guodongyi, "Did our mother teach you to eat alone since you were a child? "