Jinnian thought for a moment, "I’ll go with you guys, and I’ll take you to the Song Family’s Medicine Garden to see her."
Shen Ci naturally wouldn’t refuse, "Alright, we will drive over, and you can come and stay at my place the night after tomorrow."
"Okay." Jinnian originally didn’t want to delay his return, but thinking about Shen Ci and Han Zheng possibly moving to Imperial to develop their careers, Meng Chuyue was likely to stay in Imperial too.
In that case, he had to prepare himself to possibly move back to Imperial as well.
Although it was not a good idea to resign now, in case Meng Chuyue and Shen Ci someday decide to return to Hai City to live, but since he might not return to Hai City again, he had to tidy up some things. The extra time would be perfect for that.
At around four in the afternoon, Song Enzhi heard that Meng Chuyue was planning to cook her own meal and decided to invite herself over.
It wasn’t that she was thick-skinned, but her culinary skills were also quite good.
Her so-called freeloading was actually wanting to team up with Meng Chuyue.
Her ultimate reason wasn’t that she disliked her previous meals, but that she didn’t want to dine with Su Xiufeng, Song Ennian, and Song Enyu.
She always felt that continuing to eat with these three stubborn characters would definitely ruin her stomach.
To avoid being disliked by Meng Chuyue and to make herself less embarrassed, she brought over a chicken from the Song Family’s specialty medicine field.
Worried that Meng Chuyue might not have a clay pot, she also brought a medium-sized clay pot hanger.
Even though Sister Xiang had someone send ample rice, flour, seasonings, and fish, meat, and eggs to Meng Chuyue, and even got her a new fridge, Meng Chuyue still brightened up at the sight of the medicine field chicken and clay pot hanger in Song Enzhi’s hands.
Now, boredom was her biggest issue.
With the medicine field chicken, she could use her abundant free time to make a delicious soup.
She assigned the task of killing the chicken to Xiao Yuan and looked around the kitchen and medicine cabinet. Not finding goji berries, red dates, or other essential ingredients for a fine chicken soup, she smiled and said to Song Enzhi, "Second Miss Song, could you get some high-quality goji berries, red dates, ginseng slices, astragalus, dang gui, longan, and lotus seeds for me? I’ll use them for the chicken soup, hmm, and it’s not for nothing, we’ll eat together later."
Song Enzhi said getting the medicinal herbs was no problem, and eating together was even better for her, but "Can all these go into the chicken soup together?"
"Of course not all at once, some for today, some for tomorrow. Ah, your father can also drink this soup. If possible, I’d like to make chicken soup every day."
I really like your idea, but drinking chicken soup every day... won’t it make you fat?
She glanced at her slender wrists, thought for a while, and decided to eat for a few days and then see.
Perhaps she had the kind of physique that wouldn’t get fat even if she drank chicken soup every day.
Song Enzhi quickly brought over a lot of high-quality medicinal herbs.
Not only what Meng Chuyue had asked for but she also took the initiative to bring some lingzhi, Polygonum multiflorum, donkey-hide gelatin, Gastrodia, and bird’s nest...
Should she say Song Enzhi was naive or sly?
Nevertheless, she truly liked it.
She looked at nearly half a pound of top-grade bird’s nest with a smile, "Remember to come over tomorrow morning for bird’s nest."
Song Enzhi was delighted, "Hmm, sure, what time should I come? It won’t be good if I wake you up too early."
Meng Chuyue thought for a while, "What time do you usually have breakfast?"
"Then come over at 7:30."
Song Enzhi nodded with a smile and rolled up her sleeves to assist Meng Chuyue.
Meng Chuyue didn’t hesitate.
She assigned Song Enzhi some simple tasks, and they cooked and chatted together.
Their chat revolved around the Song family’s medicine field chicken.
Meng Chuyue only now learned that the Song family was most famous not for their medical skills, but for their medicinal herbs and medicines.
The medicinal families in Imperial included their family among four others. The other three were the Lee Family, the Yun Family...