" Father, what are you looking at?" Qi Shuyan asked as he noticed Father Lin looking somewhere. He tried to follow the gaze of his Godfather but Father Lin interrupted him by standing in front of him. He looked down at Qi Shuyan before saying in a low yet cheery voice, " There is nothing, I was just looking at all the people who came to congratulate your sister-in-law, let's go inside.
Your sister-in-law is going to cook something good."
" Yeah!" Qi Zhi nodded as he pulled his elder brother inside the house while Father Lin glanced at Qi Zhen one last time and then walked inside the house as well.
Qi Zhen who saw Father Lin glare at him felt rather uncomfortable. He thought that Father Lin and these bastards would die in the famine but they somehow managed to survive and even came to this place, if he did not deal with them then he would be the one in trouble!
On the other side, Su Wan was taking care of the hairy crabs. She first left them to steam and then started to crack them open one by one to collect crab roe.
" Is this fine? If that man sees Father then he would definitely cause trouble for him," Lin Yan asked as he collected the crab meat by cutting the shell of the crabs with the help of seafood scissors something Su Wan asked the blacksmith to make in bulk as they would need them a lot in the future.
Su Wan who was done collecting the crab roe turned to look at Lin Yan and smiled with a confident look on her face, " Don't worry. He will not try to make a move for the time being, with the imperial decree in my hands he will only try to make a move behind our backs. However, with Second Madam Lai keeping an eye on him, do you think that we need to worry about them?"
She pulled the bowl of crab meat and started to shred it into large pieces of meat.
" What if Second Madam Lai gets caught?" Lin Yan asked. He placed the scissors on the kitchen platform and then turned to look at Su Wan solemnly. " I am not trying to be pessimistic but still."
Once the sauce was done Su Wan poured it on the noodles that had been boiled along with the sauce and then handed it to the maids who followed her to the Big Ocean City from Dong Tong town. She asked them to be careful while serving as the guards outside were not just any guards but the Imperial Guards!
" Don't worry, Madam. We know what to do," the maids bowed as they took away the trays. And because Su Wan thought that crab sauce noodles were not enough, she decided to make some braised pig totters as well. Since the ones who were sitting outside were Imperial Guards she could not just serve them one dish.
This was her chance to tell the Emperor that she was doing a great job while staying at the Big Ocean City.
Thus not only did she make braise totters, but she also brought Sichuan fish with pickles mustard greens. It was not only velvety and smooth but also salty and tangy. It was so flavourful that when she was pregnant, Su Wan could not have enough of it!
She was sure that the Imperial guard would love these flavours!
On the other side, once the dishes were served the first one to start was none other than Yun Zhao as the Lin brothers did not have any official title yet they could not sit together with the imperial guards.
" Mhmm, this is really good. Just one bite and I can feel all my stress leaving my body," Master Yun sighed with contentment as he bit into the tangy, slightly spicy and juicy crab sauce noodles.
When the Imperial Guards saw Master Yun eat so happily, they all swallowed hard and could not help but take a bite as well.
The second they slurped the noodles, their eyes lit up with joy as they had never eaten something so delicious.