Ancient Foodie Survival Guide Chapter 86
Tled by Serena Love
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Chapter 86: Love Package from Beijing
After losing a tube of sauce, the atmosphere of the East Palace's professional freeloading team was down.
There is less and less sauce in the past few days. After getting used to the previous flavorful taste, and then now could only dip a little bit of sauce, they really feel that steamed buns are tasteless.
As a result, the common people found that the crown prince and his team's vigorous spirit was gone. Instead, they were slumped and depressed.
It seems that the assassination attempt gave them a thorn in their hearts.
Especially the crown prince. He should be very sad that an assassin, disguised as a common person, tried to assassinate him.
In fact, the crown prince is really sad.
"It's all this prince's fault." He sighed, "If it weren't for protecting this prince, Qing Zhang would not throw out the sauce tube to save me."
Everyone was silent when they thought that they could only eat white steamed buns in the next few days and have to eat dry buns on their way back.
"His Royal Highness, it's not your fault." Xie Xun couldn't bear their depression. He stood up to comfort him.
"Yeah." The prince nodded, looking sober, "Bo Yuan, you tell me. We lose one tube, and you only have three tubes left?"
Xie Xun instinctively felt something was wrong with this question. He frowned and looked at the prince. He was just about to answer when he suddenly felt a circle of hopeful eyes.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, the crown prince continued to sigh. He shook his head and said, "Three tubes, there are only three tubes, such small three tubes..."
Xie Xun: ...
Is this question just to test him?
Is it possible that he would hide some sauce tubes to secretly dipping buns at night?!
"Ah, my wife didn't expect that I would share this over-rice sauce with everyone, so she only made the amount for myself, which should have been more than enough for one month." Xie Xun said silently.
The prince nodded in agreement, "Ah, indeed. My cousin would not have thought of this." Although he agreed on the surface, he exclaimed in his heart that Jiang Shuyao didn't pay attention to the East Palace group (including him). What was wrong? It seemed that they had acted too restrained and never left a deep impression on her.
Xie Xun twitched his brows, "His Royal Highness, be careful. You and my wife are not cousins."
The crown prince chuckled and said, "Cousin-in-law, cousin-in-law, come over here now." He stood up and put his arms around Xie Xun's shoulders, "Bo Yuan, with the relationship between us, you don't have to be cautious."
Xie Xun: ...Forget it.
The crown prince and his colleagues are among the top-notch young talents. They are very shrewd in political affairs. But why are they so detached from their usual behavior? He often felt powerless and felt that if he wanted to continue working with them in the second half of his life, he could not bring them out from their delusion.
The group of people bitterly ate the remaining over-rice sauce, not even letting go of the sauce attached to the inside of the tube. After finishing their work, they stayed for three days to rest, and everyone is ready to return to Beijing.
They have achieved their goal. They can't delay coming back, but they don't need to rush too much.
In this case of river embankment corruption, the crown prince's group has served perfectly. They strengthened the river embankment, regaining people's hearts, and seizing corrupt officials. Of course, he also arrested a group of assassins and sent them to Beijing.
Because the crown prince was almost assassinated, the local officials did not dare to let him return alone. A young general stationed near the state capital personally escorts them back to the city.
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Life over there is bitter, a day is like years, but Jiang Shuyao's life is as happy and peaceful as ever.
Since Zhou-shi followed her to learn how to cook, the two thought about food every day. Sometimes they went out of the house to stroll around. They were very comfortable. Only when Jiang Shuyao felt the empty bed in the dead of night would she think of her husband, who worked hard outside.
Thinking of this, Jiang Shuyao was very guilty. After all, supervising the construction of the river embankment is a chore and it is very likely that they would encounter danger. She has to think about him no matter what.
Just when she reached the peak of her guilt, an urgent messenger was sent to Duke Xie's mansion.
Xu-shi was the first to receive the news. When she heard the word "urgent," she was a bit worried. But when she heard that the crown prince sent the messenger in a hurry, she was panicked.
Xie Li also lost his usual composure. He is an old fritters in the officialdom, so his first reaction is to think about the relationship of interest behind the riverbank embezzlement. There are many things involved, not to mention the presence of the crown prince. There are so many people are staring at them. Could it be...
A family letter arrived from the messenger. There was also a message from the crown prince: Don't tell anyone.
He shook his hand, and his teacup almost fell off.
"You send it to younger sister-in-law. You don't have to tell mother for now." He pondered for a while and said solemnly.
Xu-shi nodded in a panic. She composed herself and hurried to the third branch.
Jiang Shuyao was thinking about Xie Xun when she saw Xu-shi hurriedly approach her to hand her the letter while trembling.
"This letter was sent urgently by the crown prince, and the prince also said that we shouldn't tell anyone." Xu-shi said this so that Jiang Shuyao had a mental preparation before opening the letter.
Jiang Shuyao's heart sank. It hurts even more when she thinks that she was living these days comfortably, and she didn't care about her husband.
She took a few deep breaths and opened the letter with trembling hands. The first thing that caught her eye was the densely packed and squeezed-up letter, each paragraph with different handwriting.
...???
Jiang Shuyao was dumbfounded, and after a closer look, she found Xie Xun's handwriting on the first line.
He said some homely things and asked her if she was well. Then he said that he was all well and would return to Beijing soon. At this point, he suddenly stopped mid-sentence when he just started to write some delicate young men's thoughts.
Then, a line of dashing fonts broke into her eyes.
"Cousin is well?"
Jiang Shuyao's nervous and bewildered mind was smashed to pieces. After patiently reading the crown prince's chattering, it was nothing more than how miserable they were, how frightened they were when they met the assassins, and the point was how pitiful they were after the sauce was gone.
After that, it was Lin Cheng. After some blabbering, he also mentioned the sauce. Various handwritings followed. Some claiming to be the nephew of her fourth aunt in the next branch, and some were claiming to be the son of a close friend of her mother when her mother was in Jiangnan. A family letter was ruined by these people and turned into a classmate letter.
In the end, the letter paper was full, and those who have not had a chance to write would also squeeze out a line at the corner of a corner of the paper.
Thousands of words can be summed up in six words: The East Palace Team needs you(r food).
After reading the letter, Jiang Shuyao's expression was heavier than before opening the letter.
The prince's "Don't tell anyone" should also because this is too embarrassing.
Xu-shi was so frightened that she dared not breathe. She whispered, "Sister-in-law, what is the bad news..."
Jiang Shuyao recovered her mind and shook her head, "No bad news."
Seeing that her expression was still heavy, Xu-shi swallowed, "Then why are you looking like this?"
Jiang Shuyao sighed and looked into the distance, "I'm just trying to suppress some rebellious thoughts." For example, can the crown prince sit on the throne securely with this East Palace team? The crown prince was nearly assassinated this time. Should the officials of the East Palace reflect on their usual unreliable behavior?
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On the second day, when everyone from the East Palace embarked on the return journey, Jiang Shuyao's "love package" arrived successfully.
When Xie Xun received the package, he was surrounded by a group of people who knows where they came out from.
"Hey, why is the package so big? Is it bread in a wooden box?"
"If it is sauce tubes, probably there will be ten tubes!"
"Hiss—" Someone gasped.
"Look at your unpromising appearance." Lin Cheng triumphed, "you only know sauce tube and sauce bottle. Haven't you thought of something better than sauce tube?"
He shook his folding fan. He was suave, like a contemporary counselor, "For example, a sauce pot!"
Everyone uttered unseen compliments, "Brother Lin has a great view, Brother Lin has a great view!"
Xie Xun pushed them aside. His face was cold and indifferent. A little guy in his heart was jumping in annoyance.
He put the package on the table and carefully opened it, and it turned out to be a wooden box inside.
He put his hand on the lock of the wooden box, and everyone's eyes followed his hands.
Xie Xun: "...This is what my wife sent me. I am going to open it now. Should you go away?"
It was really not good to stay. Everyone looked at each other, and they walked out of the room silently, leaving Xie Xun in the row of bleak backs.
Xie Xun opened the wooden box. There were two letters on the top layer, one for him and the other is for narration.
Xie Xun first picked up the private letter and read it carefully. Jiang Shuyao's handwriting is still ugly, but it was indeed very cute in Xie Xun's eyes. She doesn't like to write letters like normal people, but she writes whatever she thinks of. He read the letter as if she was standing in front of him and talking for a while.
A smile appeared on Xie Xun's face, and his exhaustion of many days was completely removed at this moment.
It is Xie Xun's first time acquainted with affection, and he inevitably read the letter over and over again.
The group of people waiting outside the house was impatient, "Why is it taking so long?"
"Why don't you go and see?" Someone suggested.
They nodded, peeked out their heads secretly, and saw Xie Xun holding the letter and reading it carefully. He was smiling like clouds and rain. His eyes were shining like stars, completely unlike his usual cold face.
Just now, they were menacingly prepared to continue to use their cheekiness to enter his room, but now everyone swallowed nervously.
"Then what, who just said that he was going to ask him?"
The person in the front stepped back three steps immediately. The person standing in the second was stunned and then retreated. Then it was the third person's turn to be stunned...
The young general responsible for escorting them back to Beijing stepped into the inn and saw this weird scene—a group of people wandering in a circle in the corridor, who knows what they were doing.
He held his chest with an incomprehensible look on his face. The group of noblemen in silk clothing all look like dogs. How come they don't look like smart people?
After Xie Xun finished reading the private letter, he picked up the second letter and read it.
This letter is only for official business. It was explaining the simple method of using the sauce and bacon.
Bacon?
Xie Xun put down the letter, opened the bottom of the box, and saw a large package of cut bacon.
The bacon was cured, steamed, and smoked. As long as it is stored in a dry place, it will not have any mosquitoes or flies for ten days.
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Xie Xun thought for a while. He took out the sauce jar, then close the wooden box and hide it in the shade.
For the time being, it's better not to let outsiders know about it or else who knows what sort of ridiculous things will happen again.
He held the sauce jar and walked out of the room. Everyone who was chasing each other in a circle stopped at once.
They looked down and saw the jar in Xie Xun's hand. They are showing a contented expression.
The group of people honestly followed Xie Xun and went downstairs. The young general had already sat down with his lieutenants. They were all different from the noble sons who had grown up in Beijing.
"Let's set off early tomorrow morning." The young general, Lian Liu, is most uncomfortable with these kinds of civil servants from Beijing, "Don't procrastinate. If someone is not here when we leave, we will continue on our way."
As soon as he said this, the people who were still smiling and preparing to say hello froze.
After Lian Liu finished speaking, he ignored them, then ordered the waiter to serve food, "I want meat."
Everyone from the East Palace couldn't sit with other soldiers. In the end, they could only sit at the same table with Lian Liu.
The food is usually set in the middle of the table. The waiter was stunned and placed a few big bowls of stew.
After six days of not eating meat, Lian Liu felt panicked. Seeing that the stew was coming, he swallowed. He was thinking about grabbing more meat and eating only meat. He couldn't eat the rest of the soup.
He was about to act but was stopped, "We are still waiting for His Royal Highness."
He was taken aback. The crown prince actually wanted to have a meal with his subordinates?
Before he could digest this fact, he saw the pampered and noble sons of the East Palace raised their hands and said to the waiter, "Get me two steamed buns."
"I want it too. Bring three, the big one!"
"Just give us a basket!"
Lian Liu: ...Who is the spoiled one here?
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