Chapter 351 - Chapter 351: Chapter 347: Stranger_1 (1/2)
Chapter 351: Chapter 347: Stranger_1
Yingbao got up early in the morning, washed up, first went to feed the chickens and ducks at home, and then drove them out of the yard.
She collected a dozen chicken and duck eggs from the nest and placed them in a grass basket.
Then she went to the kitchen to fill up two large jars with water.
Chunniang was already up and cooking. She first boiled a large pot of rice porridge, then mixed up a basin of dough to make egg pancakes.
The side dish was home-made sweet and sour pickled garlic, and there was also fermented beans and stinky tofu.
This kind of stinky tofu was not actually stinky at all. It was made by naturally fermenting tofu, and the taste was very delicious.
Some radish slices and cilantro were added to the tofu, which was a great accompaniment to meals. Mr. Wu particularly loved this stinky tofu, and he had to have it at every meal.
“Yingbao, are you planning to stay at home?” Mr. Wu asked as he sipped his porridge.
Yingbao nodded.
She felt that her life was quite good now. Without realizing it, she had cured all the people with scabies in the surrounding villages, and no one had come to see her for treatment today.
No wonder, the villagers had been quite healthy in these years, and even if any child had a headache or fever, they just needed to get some medicinal syrup from Yingbao.
The medicinal herbs used for treatments were all gathered from the wild by the villagers, who kept a portion for themselves and gave the rest to the Divine Doctor.
Mr. Wu asked again, “Yingbao, have you ever thought about going to Shu Region?”
Yingbao shook her head, “As the saying goes, we must not travel far while our parents are alive. I will stay at home to accompany my parents.”
Her parents kept the two-story mansion in good order, saving her a lot of trouble. She didn’t want to leave her parents and roam around.
Mr. Wu picked up a piece of egg pancake, spread some stinky tofu on it, rolled it up and ate it with relish, saying, “Your Uncle Wu has only two more years to fulfill his duty. I wonder if he will stay in his post.”
His son didn’t want to remain in office and even contemplated resigning, which made Mr. Wu very anxious.
He wanted Yingbao to persuade him, and perhaps his son would change his mind.
“Uncle Wu will certainly not remain in office,” Yingbao said with great certainty.
In her dream, Wu Daozi returned to the capital for his appointment and was promoted one level higher. He later served as an official in Yuzhou Prefecture.
Mr. Wu didn’t say anything more, and continued eating his egg pancake rolled with stinky tofu.
It was good if that kid didn’t hold any public office. Then, their father and son could settle down here, find a wife for his son later, even a village girl would do, as long as he could extend the Wu Family lineage, social status was not important.
The old man watched the children running around every day, envying them greatly, wishing that his own son would get married right away and give him a bunch of grandchildren.
By then, he would take some trouble to cultivate them one by one, like Jiang Jie.
Yingbao had no idea what Mr. Wu was thinking. After finishing her meal, she went to write.
Actually, she was writing down the things she needed to buy.
She still needed to buy some seeds and farming tools, and also needed to spare some time to get a few water gourds.
Most of the land of the Jiang Family was now managed by hired farmers, so Chunniang and Jiang Sanlang were not very busy.
But they still needed to supervise during sowing, or else they would end up using too many seeds without noticing.
Everyone had their meal and went off to do their own things, leaving only Chunniang and her daughter at home.
After tidying up the dishes and chopsticks, Chunniang picked up a vegetable basket and went to pick vegetables in the field.
She saw three people standing outside their house.
“Who are you looking for?” Chunniang, seeing strangers, couldn’t help but become alert.
The visitor smiled and said, “We’ve come for a consultation. Is your Divine Doctor at home?”
“Where are you from?” Chunniang noticed their strange accents and asked.
One of them flashed a moment of impatience on his face, but still smiled and said, “We’re from a nearby village. Someone in our family is seriously ill, so we wanted to request the Divine Doctor to visit.”
Chunniang flatly refused, “I’m really sorry, my daughter is just a young girl and she doesn’t make house calls. If you want a consultation, you should bring the patient here.”