Helpful Mu Yuchen

"Lady, is the food good? How's the taste of the meat and leeks?" Mu Yuchen asked eagerly.

After all, it's his first time ever coming close to cooking food, and he still is a little concerned about the taste of the food he cooked.

But he did follow his lady's instructions, so it should be fine, right?

Liu Xiaolan saw his eager eyes and secretly sighed. She forced a smile on her face and said, "Uhm, it tastes nice… You eat some as well…"

Just what is this meal? Dark meat burned on the pan, almost as if he forgot to put the cooking oil inside… And are you sure these are leeks? Why does it looks like charcoal?

It seems she needs to quickly recover, otherwise if she continues to eat food like this god knows for how long she can keep up her act.

Perhaps tomorrow she should spend some money and buy some food for them in the city before they leave for the village? It might cost more money, but it's still better than eating Mu Yuchen's food...

But what Liu Xiaolan didn't know, was the fact that Mu Yuchen followed the instructions she gave to him, at least in his own mind he did.

Liu Xiaolan did ask him to be careful with the amount of cooking oil used to not get burned, so he didn't add too much. He also didn't want to use too much salt since it cost money earned by his lady, but with the burned taste it doesn't matter anyway for now.

Liu Xiaolan bitterly eat her meal and cursed the Liu family. All their fault, otherwise how would she need to torture herself eating this thing?

Once Liu Xiaolan had enough of this wonderful dish, she sighed and was about to begin her work again. While they didn't sell all of their prepared chestnuts for today, if her sales continue to grow, than it's possible that she will run out of them tomorrow afternoon.

The worst thing that can happen to a merchant is a possibility to earn money but losing it because of the lack of preparation.

"Lady, what are you doing? I already said, I'll take care of the lady, so if the lady needs something she should just tell me…" Mu Yuchen said as he helped Liu Xiaolan get back into the bed.

Liu Xiaolan looked at her little fool and had a dark face.

He wouldn't also want to prepare the chestnuts by himself, would he? She can sacrifice herself for a few days to not make him sad, but if his products are taken for sale, wouldn't it be a total catastrophe?

Let's not say that she wanted to grow her business, but if someone tasted his burned craft, wouldn't her chestnuts business be completely broken?

Liu Xiaolan smiled bitterly. She thought about it and used the most gentle voice she could come up with. "Little fool, but I need to prepare the chestnuts for tomorrow?"

"Lady is injured, chestnuts can wait. We still have some left, and if lady needs more I can do them myself, lady just needs to tell me what to do…" Mu Yuchen said.

"But people buy our chestnuts because they know that I put all of my strength into preparing them. Wouldn't it be a lie if suddenly someone else made them?" Liu Xiaolan asked gently.

Anyway, she can't let him cook any chestnuts. Even if she has to make some small lies this time, she needs to let Mu Yuchen give up this idea!

But how could Mu Yuchen agree with her? "Lady, they won't know who cooks them, what if lady's injury gets worse?"

Liu Xiaolan felt that she had no other choice but to use her ultimate weapon. She rubbed her eyes a little and tried to force some tears out. "But… but how could I do that, what if we lose our clients because of doing something like this?"

Her little fool could ignore many things, but once he saw her tears he had no choice but to agree with her. It seems that her position in his heart is still very good.

Mu Yuchen looked towards Liu Xiaolan and sighed. His lady is truly a little stupid sometimes, just a little thing like this and she's ready to cry. What's the issue, isn't it just losing some money?

But after thinking about it for a moment, Mu Yuchen understood. After all, his lady's favourite thing is money. Sigh, he might as well let her do what she wants this time, just make sure she doesn't hurt herself anymore…

Once they were done speaking and Liu Xiaolan jumped into action and was ready to prepare another portion of chestnuts for tomorrow's sale, she knew she was wrong.

Her little fool might agree with her words and let her do something, each time he would try to take over!

Cooking them in water to loosen the shells on the chestnuts is still easy and she doesn't mind if he does it. Same goes with taking off the shells, but she's truly not disabled, is she?

How hard could it be to do these things? It might take her a little more time if she had to only use one hand, but she's not disabled. She can do some work as well!

However, it seems that this time her little fool wasn't ready to compromise.

Liu Xiaolan could only helplessly look at him and sigh. Let's just forget about it, these things are still relatively easy to do. The biggest issue will come out tomorrow, when she needs to take care of the temperature during the frying process.

It seems like she needs to think of a reason to get Mu Yuchen away during the time she finishes the preparation in the morning. Otherwise if he once again offers to 'help' her, wouldn't all of the chestnuts prepared today be useless?

It's not like anyone likes the taste of burned chestnuts…