Beautiful Peasant Girl: The Young Marquis's Beloved

When Mu Lingxuan and the others came back, it was already the evening hour. Liu Donglai went to the west wing.

"Uncle Liu, is everything ready here?" Mu Lingxuan stood by the window and asked lightly.

"Reporting to the young general, we have 2,300 kilograms of mushrooms and nearly 7,600 kilograms of pork. Everything is ready and we are just waiting to set off." Liu Donglai replied respectfully, and after thinking for a moment, he added,

"Okay, notify them and set off at noon tomorrow." Mu Lingxuan nodded.

"Yes, I will obey your command!" After bowing, Liu Donglai was about to leave. As soon as he raised his foot, Mu Lingxuan called him again.

"Uncle Liu, Huaijin heard that Sister Xu'er made new food today?"

Liu Donglai's mouth twitched. The news was indeed accurate. "My Lord, I know that the northern border is bitterly cold and I am worried about you, so I made some food that is easy to store and carry. I have asked my servants to prepare some for the general and the deputy general as well."

He would never say that his daughter prepared it specially for him, huh!

Upon hearing this, Mu Lingxuan glanced at Liu Donglai and vaguely felt that Uncle Liu seemed to have some hostility towards him. But after taking a closer look, it seemed that the hostility was gone and he didn't understand why.

"Then Huai Jin would like to thank Sister Xu'er and Uncle Liu on behalf of my father."

"They are just some local specialties. You are too polite, Major General. If there is nothing else, I will go and inform the others."

"Ok!"

Liu Donglai walked out of the room with a silly smile on his face, which disappeared in a flash. He then called Uncle He to send someone to notify them.

In the main room, Xu Ruolan was packing luggage for her husband, and Liu Xu was helping her.

In addition to the new underwear and shoes and socks, there was also a quilt and two sets of cotton clothes. There was also a deerskin vest beside the bed, which seemed to be prepared for Liu Donglai to wear.

"Mom, why is there another one here?" Liu Xu asked puzzledly, looking at another smaller bundle on the head of the kang.

"This belongs to your uncle Mancang. There is no woman in your third grandfather's family, so mother asked your aunt Mo and the others to help make two sets of clothes and shoes and socks. The cotton-padded jacket was also taken from the workshop."

Xu Ruolan heard from her husband that he was seriously injured before, and it was Mancang who led people to stop the pursuers and ran back with him on his back, otherwise...

Thinking of this, he said to his daughter, "Xu'er, if it weren't for your uncle Mancang, your father wouldn't know what would happen. When you pack the braised meat and dried meat, don't forget to pack some for him as well."

Uncle Gensheng is probably limited in his preparations.

Liu Xu didn't know about this and nodded when she heard it.

"Mom, why doesn't Third Grandpa find a wife for Uncle Mancang?" She remembered correctly that Liu Mancang was about twenty-one or twenty-two years old.

"It's all because of poverty." Xu Ruolan sighed, tied the bundle in her hand and said,

"I heard that your third grandfather had arranged a marriage for him before, but the girl despised the poor family here and the lack of a wife before she got married. She felt that he would have to do everything by himself, so she broke off the engagement. Later, someone suggested finding another one for him, but it seems that your uncle Mancang did not agree. Instead, he learned hunting from your father in his spare time."

"Oh!" I guess he was sad. But although her cousin was not handsome, he looked decent. Maybe the Liu family had good genes, so the younger generations in the family were not short and ugly. When they grew up, they were at least 1.7 meters tall.

"That man is really blind. He will regret it later." Her uncle Mancang is now a centurion, which shows that he has a promising future.

"Who regrets it?" Liu Donglai heard half of the sentence as soon as he entered the room and asked with a smile.

"Dad, you're back. Brother Huaijin asked when you will leave?" Liu Xu asked, tilting her head back.

"We have to leave at dawn tomorrow and be back to the camp before the New Year." The journey back was different from the journey here. The carriage was loaded with heavy objects and could not move as fast. Even if we traveled at night, it would take nearly ten days.

Then Liu Donglai asked again: "You haven't told Dad yet, who is going to regret it?"

"I was talking to mother about the family that broke off the engagement with Uncle Mancang."

Liu Donglai was puzzled when he heard this, "Oh? Why did you think of that family?"

"Your daughter is worrying about her uncle Mancang's marriage!" Xu Ruolan said with a smile, "By the way, I asked someone to prepare some clothes for Mancang. You can send them to him later. Don't let anyone see it, or else you will be blamed for not having enough clothes."

Liu Donglai thought about it and nodded, "Well, I'll go there later."

"Then I'll go pack the dried meat now." Liu Xu said and was about to go out.

"Wait." Liu Donglai called Liu Xu, "Bao'er, can you share some of the dried meat and braised meat with your other uncles and brothers? It doesn't have to be much, just a token of appreciation. Otherwise, I'm afraid your uncle Mancang won't dare to take it."

It was obvious that the thing was made at home. They could think of it, but Mancang couldn't. That boy looked stupid, but he was actually very smart.

"Don't worry, Dad. I've prepared it long ago. It's just that Uncle Mancang's was the same as everyone else's, so I gave him some of the beef I kept at home. Anyway, we have plenty of beef at home." Liu Xu said, patting his chest.

After saying that, he ran out. After a while, he came back with two bags of oil, about two or three pounds. "Dad, this is for you! I won't pack the blood sausage for him. You and brother Huaijin can bring more later, and we can eat together. They are all steamed, and you can roast them over the fire or boil them."

She made a lot of blood sausage, using all the pig blood from the morning, about two hundred pounds. She kept a few dozen pounds at home and packed the rest for them.

There were two kinds of braised meat, and the meat weighed more than 50 kilograms. However, the slightly spicy one weighed more than 10 kilograms, and only her father and Mu Lingxuan had it. Everyone else weighed about 1 kilogram each.

There wasn't much dried meat left. Out of more than 100 pounds of beef, only about 40 pounds were produced. Only half a pound could be given to each person to taste, otherwise there wouldn't be much left for her father and the others.

It’s also because there are many servants in the family now, otherwise what is made would only be enough for my father and Mu Lingxuan to take away.

"Thank you for your hard work, Baoer." Liu Donglai held his daughter on his lap and said:

"Dad will leave again tomorrow, and I don't know when he will be back. Dad knows you are a smart child, but my girl, since ancient times, it is a crime to possess a treasure, so you must learn to hide your shortcomings, don't you understand? Regarding the new grain planting at home, you must not tell anyone else what you said this afternoon, not even your second uncle! Remember?"

Liu Xu nodded carefully, "I know, Dad, I told you and Mom."

"Well! Don't tell anyone else in the future. At the very least, don't let it out until you or our family are able to protect ourselves. When your second uncle and his men come, tell them what you said at first. As for the yield, just say that the foreigner said so. The details will only be known after the harvest. Always say half and leave half, and leave yourself room for maneuver. Do you understand?"

Liu Xu listened to his father's earnest instructions, and his heart ached and his eyes swelled. He lay in his father's arms and replied in a muffled voice: "Daddy, don't worry, Xu'er understands."

The fatherly love that she did not receive in her previous life, she experienced from Liu Donglai in this life. It was so warm that she could not help but rely on him.

"Be good at home. Our family doesn't need a kid like you to work so hard. You are still young, it's time for you to play. Go find some friends to play with. As for your previous plan, write it down and give it to your uncle He. Let him discuss it with your uncle and the village chief. If she asks, push it to your mother. Just practice martial arts, eat, drink and have fun."

"Puchi, Dad, you are teaching me to be a playboy!" Liu Xu raised his face from his father's arms and laughed.

"That can't happen. I know my daughter. It won't work! Yueyue, don't you agree?"

"You've already said everything, what can I say? Even if your daughter is really a playboy, can there be anything bad about her in your eyes?" Xu Ruolan rolled her eyes.

"Well, my Bao'er has always been fine!" Liu Donglai said and nodded heavily, which made Xu Ruolan and her daughter laugh out loud. When the two children saw this, they rolled over and over babbling.

After a while, Liu Xu looked up and said, "Dad, you have to take good care of yourself, okay? Just like Grandpa said, saving your life is the most important thing. Mom, my brother and I are waiting for you at home!"

Liu Donglai looked at his daughter, then embraced his wife, "Don't worry, Daddy will. Daddy will also try to find a chance to come back to see you, but there may not be many opportunities. Oh, I should have known better than to get promoted!"

After he was promoted to Lieutenant General, he had no chance to come back.

"It's okay, you can ask Brother Huaijin to bring us a letter. Mom and I will also send you a letter if there is anything happening at home."

The family chatted in the house for a long time until the servant came outside the door to announce that it was time for dinner.