Chapter 440： lotus root

“Madam, let’s go.”

Wei Zhan finished the lotus root starch soup and waited for his wife to finish eating too, then he picked her up and left.

At this time, the boatman came over with a boat and put more than twenty lotus root joints on the boat.

Wei Zhan let Ying Bao get on the boat first. He looked back and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Xiao Mo didn't follow.

The two of them took a boat and walked among the dense lotus leaves. They washed a piece of tender lotus root and took a bite. It was extremely sweet.

The boatman chuckled and said, "In a few days, we will still have water chestnuts and chicken head rice here. If you come again, you can eat them."

Wei Zhan smiled and said, "Come and buy some when the time comes."

Ying Bao was busy picking a few large lotus leaves, put all the lotus roots on them, then turned around and carried them ashore.

The lotus roots at this time are the most tender and delicious when eaten raw. She wants to take them back to her parents and grandparents to try them.

Hmm, bring some more to my mother-in-law and the others.

The boat quickly docked, and Jiang Jie and Luo Zhao also came back. They also bought a lot of lotus roots.

“Sister, let’s go back now, it’s getting late.” Jiang Jie said.

Yingbao looked at the sky and saw that the sun was already heading west, "Okay."

Turning around, he asked again: "Has anyone brought lotus root starch?"

Maid Mudan nodded: "Yes, I have already given you the money."

Xinghua said: "There is a cloth bag on the carriage."

Ying Bao walked to the carriage and looked at it, and asked Mu Dan to divide out some of the bag of lotus root powder and give the rest to Jiang Jie to take back.

So Mu Dan poured half of the lotus root powder on the big lotus leaf, and gave the remaining half of the bag to Jiang Jie.

After the carriage returned to the city, Wei Zhan said goodbye to his brother-in-law and returned home directly with his wife.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I met my eldest sister-in-law Cao and my second sister-in-law Yu.

“Hey, Qi Lang and the seventh brothers and sisters are back!” Ms. Cao greeted with a smile: “Did you have fun playing outside?”

Ying Bao said politely: "It's okay."

Ms. Cao glanced at the lotus leaf bag held in Mu Dan's arms and asked curiously: "What did my brother and sister bring back?"

“I brought some lotus roots with me. Would you like to take some back to taste? It tastes very good,” Ying Bao said.

"That's a good feeling." Yu smiled and said, "I haven't eaten lotus root for a long time."

Ying Bao turned around and told Mu Dan: "Give some lotus roots to the eldest lady and the second lady."

"Yes." Mudan stepped forward and gave four lotus roots to Yu and four to Cao.

Ms. Cao glanced at the thing in her hand, twitched her lips, and said with a smile, "Thank you very much, my seventh brother and sister."

Yu Shi also said: "The lotus roots are indeed fresh and tender now, thank you to my seventh brother and sister."

“Why are you so polite? I’ll take the rest to my mother-in-law to try.” Ying Bao nodded to her eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, and walked with Wei Zhan to the yard of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Wang.

Ms. Cao held four lotus roots and watched Wei Zhan and his wife walking away, curling the corner of her mouth.

He returned to his yard and threw the lotus root directly on the ground. "You want to give this thing away? She doesn't think it's shabby, but I still think it's shabby."

The eldest daughter Yuzhu came out of the house, saw the lotus roots on the ground, and asked, "Mother, why did you bring this back?"

Ms. Cao rolled her eyes: "That was given by your aunt, the county principal."

Yuzhu: "Why did Aunt Qi think of giving this as a gift? Our kitchen is short of lotus roots?"

"You are a poor man who regards everything as a treasure. Pearl, you ask others to take it and throw it away."

As Mrs. Cao said this, she walked into the back room and asked the nanny, "Have you sent someone to pick up my sister?"

Nanny took a sip of tea and said, "We've already gone. I think we'll be there in about ten days."

Ms. Cao nodded and sat down on the bamboo couch: "The weather is really hot. I'm afraid it's going to rain."

The little girl immediately took a fan to cool her down.

Grandma said: "It's time for rain. If it doesn't rain, the seedlings in the field will die from drought."

Ms. Cao didn't know much about these things and didn't care much. She was only thinking about how to get in touch with her brother-in-law Wei Zhan when her sister arrived. The father-in-law seems to be in charge of this family, but the real head of the family is the mother-in-law.

My husband-in-law’s own mother and father-in-law were childhood sweethearts, and she could talk a few words in front of him, but now she is old and was abandoned by his father-in-law in his old house in Luzhou.

Seeing that Wei Zhan was about to have a child, Mrs. Cao was very anxious.

Because once a legitimate grandson is born in the Wei family, the father-in-law and mother-in-law will not count them as the descendants of the common concubine.

So, she had to find a helper to distract her brother-in-law.

Men, there is no one who doesn't cheat. Once there is a first time, there will be a second time. I'm sure the mud-legged county owner will be angry.

Just as I was thinking about it, a strong wind suddenly picked up outside, and soon there were dark clouds, lightning and thunder.

“Ouch! Go and close the window!” The nanny got up and ran outside to call the girl to close the window.

In the new house in the west courtyard, Yingbao was lying on the bed, pinching lotus root slices to eat, and asking Xuanwu in his heart: "Why did the Supreme Immortal imprison me?"

“Because some people say you are possessed by a demon.” Xuanwu replied.

“Why become possessed?”

“I guess you were forced to do so by your biological parents.”

Xuanwu didn’t know much about it before, because Yingbao never mentioned her biological parents.

Later, he got a rough understanding of it from the story automatically generated by the Tianyan Book.

Coupled with the fact that her master has been reincarnated so many times and was abandoned by her biological parents time and time again, Xuanwu finally knows why Yingbao turned black and became a demon.

They are still in the mortal world. If they were in the fairy world, the behavior of her blood relatives would only be worse.

Because the law of the jungle prevailed in that place, and the strong were respected, so in order to seize the opportunity, the monks did everything they could.

In the mortal world, in order to compete for property and the throne, brothers and sisters killed each other, killing brothers and killing fathers.

Those monks will do anything to compete for a little chance and endless longevity.

In order to obtain the rare treasure, the biological parents of the little master dug up the child's body and searched carefully, even picking out a few bones, but found nothing.

Later, he used her flesh and blood to make elixirs and used her as a human elixir for many years until she became possessed and escaped.

Tianyan Book shows that the witch who has achieved great cultivation is very cruel and has too much desire to kill. She once went back for revenge and killed the entire Chen family.

But she let go of a woman, Chen Tiantian, who had brought her food.

Unexpectedly, this move would cause her to lose her mind.

Xuanwu sighed and threw out a cantaloupe: "Here, the one I planted for you is already mature."

Metal Gululu rolled on the mat and was caught by Yingbao.

She got up and found a knife to peel it.

Since she destroyed the cave, it has been inconvenient to store items, let alone grow things on the golden luminous body. Now everything has to go through Xuanwu's hands.

Sigh, who told her to owe it a drop of blood? She can only endure it for the time being.

 Wei Zhan came back from his mother's place and saw Ying Bao peeling a cantaloupe.

“Where did you get the cantaloupe?” Wei Zhan came over and asked.

ˆ Yingbao: “A gift from someone else.”

Wei Zhan suddenly became alert: "Who sent it? Why didn't I know?"

Ying Bao peeled the cantaloupe, put it on a plate and cut it into small pieces. "Is it okay if you know?"

 Wei Zhan picked up a piece and ate it, feeling that the taste was very familiar.

He felt relieved, sat next to his wife and said, "After the two-day holiday is over, I will go to the Ministry of War to see if there is a letter of appointment for me."

He has been back in Beijing for a long time, and it is time for the imperial court to assign him a position.

When the time comes, he will take his wife with him to take office, and it is best to stay away from the capital.

(End of this chapter)