Listening to the complaints inside, Ye Chengkuan frowned.
Gradually, I realized that this girl from the Hua family might not know how to cook, so I had no choice but to get up and walk into the kitchen, supporting my waist.
In the billowing smoke, only two figures could be seen panicking to put out the stove fire.
After the thick smoke gradually dissipated, Ye Chengguan looked at the two men with dirty faces, slowly waved his sleeves to disperse the pungent smell in the room, and said embarrassedly: "It's true that I made the mistake of blaming the handsome man."
After apologizing to the store again, he sent the store away, then walked to Hua Rujin, took out the handkerchief, wiped the ashes from her face, and said: "I'll do it, you just need to add more firewood.
"
"Oh, that's okay too."
Hua Rujin smiled coquettishly.
She obediently sat down by the stove fire and handed over the firewood as he ordered, watching quietly as he skillfully fiddled with the pots and pans.
Soon after, the kitchen began to be filled with delicious aromas, making people's mouths water.
"I didn't expect that the number one scholar is not only very knowledgeable, but also very good at cooking."
After taking a look at the two dishes he had prepared, Hua Rujin complimented them sincerely.
"Studying abroad all year round, this is just the most basic survival skill."
Ye Chengguan replied without arrogance or impatience, feeling somewhat disappointed in his heart.
When I first met her, I thought that this girl was just like an ordinary country girl. I never thought that the talent, knowledge and courage she showed would make people applaud her time and time again. Instead, she was a skill that ordinary girls can master.
Nothing to do with it.
This is really different.
For a moment, he didn't know what to say at all.
Hua Rujin silently stared at the man in front of her, somehow becoming more and more pleasing to her eyes.
In his memory, the original owner spent most of his time at the house of his elegant cousin to study, and rarely had any contact with the work in the kitchen. The most he did was help his two cousins sort medicinal materials.
Even after returning to Hua's house, Mrs. Meng, the second-bedroom woman, was still worried about her and did not dare to let her into the kitchen, for fear that the original owner had tampered with the food.
After all, the original owner was not a good cook like himself.
Well, if you marry such a virtuous wife and go home, it would be a very good thing for your husband and children to have a hot bed every day.
Just thinking about the past between the two of them and her current situation, she didn't dare to think too much about it.
Waiting for Ye Chenggui to make three dishes and one soup, and steaming the rice, the two of them sat in the quiet living room and ate leisurely.
The shopkeeper secretly glanced at the two handsome young men in the corridor, and thinking about their ambiguous actions in the kitchen just now, he felt a sense of contempt in his heart.
"It's such a pity that these two gentle and handsome gentlemen have broken sleeves. Fortunately, they asked for two rooms, which is not an insult to their gentleness."
He sighed silently, left the waiter behind, and went straight back to the house.
"You've worked hard today, take good care of yourself."
Ye Chenggui filled a bowl of fish soup and handed it to Hua Rujin, full of concern.
"You worked hard too."
Hua Rujin glanced at his waist and put some vegetables into his bowl.
The waiter felt sick to his stomach and sneaked away.
Hua Rujin noticed the abnormality and couldn't help raising her eyebrows: "What's wrong with them?"
Ye Chengguan glanced at her outfit and seemed to understand something. He quickly shook his head and said, "It's okay. Just be careful when staying in the countryside."
Thinking of Shu Jinxuan, he suddenly felt sour in his heart: "Fortunately, Miss Hua is fine today, otherwise your cousin"
"My cousin."
Hua Rujin looked at his malicious eyes and immediately realized that he was thinking about that night again.
Well, if he knew that I was staying in the countryside with Mr. Ye at the moment, what he would say would be even more unpleasant.
Ye Chengguan sighed silently: "Fortunately, it will be tomorrow."
"How about tomorrow?"
Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Hua Rujin quickly asked.
"nothing."
Ye Chengguan shook his head: "Let's eat quickly."
The two of them ate up all the dishes on the table, and then Ye Chengguan asked the waiter to prepare hot water for Hua Rujin to bathe, but the waiter looked embarrassed.
Hua Rujin immediately thought of something and asked hesitantly: "But there is not enough water prepared in the inn?"
After all, this place is close to the Chu River, and most people rely on the water from the Chu River to survive. There should be very few people digging additional wells.
The cost of drilling a well for a small inn like this is not small.
The waiter nodded with a grimace: "I would like to invite you two young masters, Haihan, because the water in the Chu River suddenly turned black, and our inn is next to the downstream section of the river. It is too far to go to the northwest to fetch water. We only have daily
We have to go to several wells in nearby towns to buy a few loads of water to temporarily maintain the store's business. There are so many merchants coming and going in the past few days, so we really are not very well prepared."
Hua Rujin listened to the waiter's complaints and truthfully told Ye Chengwei what she had seen on the riverside.
"Go down."
Ye Chengguan gradually fell into deep thought.
After waiting for the waiter to retreat, he asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Why did the perfectly good river water suddenly turn black and smell of coke?"
"Maybe the answer lies underwater."
Hua Rujin replied uncertainly.
But I'm afraid it's difficult to get a definite answer to this question.
With limited technology these days, it is really difficult to explore the secrets of the river bottom.
But then he thought about it, he had already come into contact with those floating corpses today, so he should be able to find some clues.
Staring at him intently, Hua Rujin asked cautiously: "What did Mr. Ye gain from going to Yizhuang today?"
Ye Chengguan didn't want to admit that he had been to Yizhuang, but the girl who made such a fuss in front of Yizhuang today was obviously sure that she was inside.
Thinking back to the conversation in the forest just now, he had no choice but to reply truthfully: "Those corpses are probably old, but they are well preserved, and most of them don't have wounds from swords. Even if they do, they look more like...
Bruises caused by impact with a hard object.”
He raised his eyes thoughtfully and looked at Hua Rujin. He slowly shook his head and said: "According to the conclusion drawn by Wu Zuo's autopsy, most of these people died of suffocation. Many of them had the smell of coke in their mouths and noses, but their whole bodies
There were no burn marks on the upper and lower parts, so the death was not caused by fire."
"I remember hearing rumors from everywhere that those floating corpses were the corpses of soldiers who sank to the bottom of the river during the war."
Hua Rujin also gradually began to murmur in her heart: "If it is the remains of the soldiers, even if it is a recent battle, it is a big battle that Taizu fought across the river. It can be said to be more than 20 years ago.
It’s impossible for the corpses to be so well preserved, and the smell of charcoal in their mouths and noses is even more unexplainable.”
"It's really puzzling."
Ye Chengguan smiled bitterly and said: "Today, the number of floating corpses recovered from several Yi Zhuangs is close to 2,000. According to people from the Inspection Department, there are still new corpses added every day. Such a huge number would not have been caused by the war if it were not caused by the war.
It’s really hard to find any other explanation.”
Hua Rujin has no memory of this in her mind.
Although Jiang'an County and Jiangling City are not far apart, they are still divided into two counties. In ancient times when information was limited, the people at the bottom knew very little.
If the number of people killed was really caused by the disaster, and the number was so shocking, there should be traces.
After thinking about it, she reminded Ye Chengguan: "Mr. Ye, have you checked the county annals?"