At this moment, Guihua shouted from outside, "Doctor Gu——"
Yun Jiao knew she was bringing vegetables, so she quickly went out to meet her.
The two went to the kitchen, and Guihua took out the things from the basket one by one, "There was beef for sale in town today. I remembered you said to buy it whenever it’s available, so I bought some."
"Beef is really expensive, though. A pound of beef costs thirty coins, which is enough to buy three pounds of pork."
As she spoke, she awkwardly added, "The butcher who sells meat sees me buying meat every day. He gave me a set of intestines without charging me."
She deliberately mentioned this to see if Yun Jiao wanted the intestines. If she wanted them, Guihua would give them to her; if not, Guihua would keep them for herself.
Yun Jiao smiled, "That’s great. However, I’m not fond of intestines. Can you cook them, sister-in-law?"
Guihua nodded, "I can, indeed. I watched my mother cook them at my parent’s house before; it does take some effort."
"That’s good then. You can go about your business, sister-in-law. I won’t keep you."
Seeing Yun Jiao didn’t take the intestines, Sister-in-law Guihua left grateful.
Yun Jiao rinsed the rice and started cooking. She placed the roast chicken wrapped in lotus leaves bought from the county on the stove. As the stove heated up, the roast chicken warmed up quickly.
She then sliced a bit of meat to stir-fry with celery and made a seaweed egg soup with some dried shrimps added. She tasted it; the flavor was quite fresh.
With just two dishes, Mrs. Chen came over to take a look but didn’t interfere.
During the meal, at first Gu Chuan was hesitant, not daring to even pick the dishes. Mrs. Chen broke off two chicken legs, giving one to Jiang Youzhi, and the other to Gu Chuan.
Seeing his sister didn’t say anything, Gu Chuan accepted the chicken leg.
Eating the chicken leg, Gu Chuan was almost in tears. The last time he had a chicken leg was when his father took him to the county, and that was half a year ago.
Holding the chicken leg, Jiang Youzhi felt somewhat heavy-hearted.
He wanted to give this chicken leg to Liu Er. Follow current ɴᴏᴠᴇʟs on 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵✶𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✶𝓷𝓮𝓽
He saw the longing in Liu Er’s eyes.
But he also knew very well that his body truly needed nutrition now. He needed to recover quickly so he wouldn’t burden the family.
He glanced apologetically at Liu Er, secretly vowing to buy him many, many chicken legs in the future.
After the meal, Yun Jiao went to Liu Er’s house to hire his carriage to go to her parent’s home.
Seven or eight miles away, the carriage reached in less than half an hour.
The courtyard gate was open, and the carriage drove straight in. Yun Jiao led Gu Chuan off the carriage.
Gu Mei heard the commotion outside, got up and peeked out of the door, seeing Yun Jiao leading Gu Chuan, and even having a hatchet tucked into her waist. Her heart skipped a beat, thinking that Yun Jiao must be back to demand her share of the silver!
After all, when Yun Jiao got married, besides her clothes and luggage, she didn’t receive any dowry.
Gu Mei hurriedly shut her door.
Yun Jiao pretended not to see her and first went into her father’s study, packed all the books into a big box, and then, with Gu Chuan lifting one end and Liu Er lifting the other, they carried the box onto the carriage.
Gu Mei peeked through the crack of the door, seeing Yun Jiao lifting a box onto the carriage. She feared Yun Jiao might take something valuable and was about to come out, but then thought about it again: she had carefully searched the house several times already, and there was nothing valuable here. Who knows what junk Yun Jiao was taking?
Better not to go out, to avoid Yun Jiao’s madness.
After setting down the box, Yun Jiao went to Gu Chuan’s room to gather his clothes into a large bundle, rolled up the quilts and mattresses, and also put them on the carriage.
Having done all this, Yun Jiao went to Li Shi’s room.
Li Shi seemed asleep, lying with her face inward, motionless.