"Taotao and Mrs. Chen get along well. She thinks Shanghai is safe and wants me to help the Chen family relocate their household registration to Shanghai. It’s just a small favor, so I had someone else take care of it. At that time, I had a property given to me on the outskirts, so I just passed that house along to the Chen family."
"As for any farmers delivering vegetables, I really don’t know. After the Chen family moved to Shanghai, we lost touch. It was just a chance acquaintance anyway."
"Looking at the timeline, the Jiang Weiguo you remember seeing should be Master Jiang’s younger brother. That matches up in age as well." Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs ɴovᴇl_Firᴇ.ɴet
Chen Huihong sighed, "What a coincidence! Xiao Qin, you’ve completely explored all the Jiang family’s recipes. From Jiang Chengde to his sons, many of your recipes are from their family."
"Isn’t that quite normal?" Luo Jun said, "Jiang Chengde was a famous chef in Beiping. You should know best how skilled he was after freeloading in Beiping for so many years. Back then, it wasn’t common to have classes. Skills were passed down from father to son, master to apprentice—essentially all family traditions. Most famous chefs had some sort of family connection."
"It’s perfectly normal for Qin Huai’s recipes to be of a high level and from the same lineage."
Chen Huihong was convinced.
Qin Huai sighed, "This is indeed quite a coincidence."
"When I heard the name Jiang Weiguo in my dreams, it felt familiar. Seeing his chopping techniques, I could basically determine that he should be Master Jiang’s younger brother. The way he grips the knife and his chopping motion are exactly like Master Jiang Weiming’s—absolutely a family tradition."
Luo Jun impatiently interrupted, "So what? You specifically made a video call in the group just to tell me you found Jiang Weiming’s brother? If you had seen this memory 60 years ago, maybe I could have told Jiang Weiming. It’s been so many years now. I’ve found that private detective and still haven’t heard any news. It’s completely useless."
Qu Jing tentatively defended the private detective, "Actually, they’re pretty impressive."
"No, no. The main reason I found everyone was to ask about the characteristics of the Three-legged Golden Toad. It seems like it’s an auspicious beast, but how did An Youyou first live so..."
Chen Huihong directly interrupted Qin Huai, "Because that’s the way Three-legged Golden Toads are!"
"Perhaps in the human world, begging is considered undignified, but Three-legged Golden Toads originally live in ponds, and their favorite thing is to cover themselves with mud and sunbathe, collecting what they consider valuable gold and silver treasures, swallowing them into their bellies. Meanwhile, they raise a few frog tribe underlings to lie in a row and sunbathe."
"Begging is the most fitting and comfortable profession for them."
"And it’s quite easy to recruit underlings."
"Three-legged Golden Toads mainly go through their tribulations by begging, gathering a bunch of underlings to form a begging gang. An Youyou’s scale is considered small, mainly because the times are unsuitable for development, too dangerous." Chen Huihong, who in her first life was shot by a bandit, felt An Youyou’s concern was quite valid. Ordinary spirits indeed can’t avoid bullets.
"That’s right, I’ve also heard that frog spirits choose to be beggars as their first option for overcoming tribulations. They especially like transforming into young boys and girls in ragged clothes for convenient begging," Qu Jing agreed.
Cheng Gong also nodded, "Indeed."
Luo Jun expressionlessly asked, "So, is that your only question?"
Qin Huai only felt his head was full of question marks.
No, you spirits really are...