Qu Jingyao told her brother that she had already sent the grain seeds to the small courtyard in the valley, and he could plant them at any time.

She also stored a lot of food there, just in case.

Liu's heart, which had just calmed down, became heavier again after hearing her words, and she asked what was going on between the two of them.

"Mom, it's not a big deal. It's just that there's a war going on in Yuan Shao Country, and we're just being prepared. This matter must not be disclosed."

Liu suddenly nodded with a serious expression.

She also heard Cui Lian complain today that food in the town was becoming more and more expensive, but she didn't expect it was because of the war.

Qu Jingyao then took out one hundred taels of silver and handed it to Liu.

"Mom, keep this for safekeeping. The others are hidden by my daughter."

Liu had never seen so much silver in all her years at the Qu family. She refused with a worried look on her face: "Yaoyao, you should keep this for now. If you leave it with me, I don't know where to hide it!"

Seeing Liu's embarrassment, Qu Jingyao shook her head helplessly and finally took out ten taels of silver and handed it to Liu, and she put the rest away again.

Qu Qingchen looked at Bai Guo who was collecting prey in the yard. He asked his sister: "Yaoyao, does that girl still not know that you can understand what animals say..."

Qu Jingyao smiled and nodded, reassuring the two not to worry and to first see if Baiguo was loyal and trustworthy.

Qu Qingchen reminded her not to be careless and be careful about everything.

"Don't worry, brother. I'll have to sell the prey tomorrow. Just take it to Yuxuan Pavilion and ask for it."

She told Liu that she would take all the pearl flowers to the town tomorrow and directly bring them to the temple fair. She had previously mentioned this idea to Wanniang, and just happened to lead everyone to Wanniang's embroidery workshop to buy them.

Liu nodded and praised it as a good idea. She and her daughter happened to go to the temple to burn incense for the old immortal.

Qu Jingyao didn't expect that she just made up an excuse, but her mother and brother took it seriously. Forget it, let it be!

"Mom, let me go cook with you. We're having roe deer meat tonight."

After saying that, Qu Jingyao took Liu's arm and walked out of the main hall. When passing by Dabai and his wife, she did not forget to ask her brother to get some grass for the two to rest at night.

"Okay, I'll go get some hay."

Bai Guo's technique was very skillful. He peeled the rabbit skin very completely, cleaned each one and hung it in the yard to dry.

The roe deer meat was also prepared. Liu was lighting a fire in front of the stove at this time, watching her daughter processing the roe deer meat. Her skillful technique made her sigh softly.

My daughter has been following me around the kitchen since she was little, and she learned to cook at an early age, which was also hard for her.

The mother and daughter were busy in the kitchen.

"Yaoyao, what are those things you put there? They look like medicinal herbs to me."

Liu looked at her daughter in confusion as she threw something into the pot and asked.

Qu Jingyao raised her head, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and raised the corners of her lips: "Mom, that is indeed a medicinal herb, but it can also be used as a seasoning."

Liu nodded half-heartedly, but soon the meat in the pot began to emit a fragrant aroma, which even Qu Qingchen, who was weaving a meadow weave in the yard, could smell.

"It smells so good!"

Bai Guo came in from outside the yard carrying a bucket of water. She paused and sniffed the fragrance, swallowing her saliva with her throat rolling.

She carried the bucket to the kitchen, and the aroma became even stronger.

"Master, am I in for a treat now? It smells so good!"

Qu Jingyao looked up with the spatula in her hand and saw Baiguo pouring the water in the bucket into the water tank. Then she stared blankly at the meat in the pot and joked.

"Eat as much as you want this time." Qu Jingyao raised her eyebrows and smiled generously. The master and servant were joking here.

At this moment, Dabai and his wife were squatting in front of the kitchen door, like two well-behaved big dogs, which made Qu Qingchen laugh out loud unconsciously.

The two big beasts didn't look so scary at this moment.

A quarter of an hour later, Liu called everyone to eat.

"Send the ginkgo nuts to the village head's house first, so they can have a taste of the roe deer meat."

Qu Jingyao handed the big bowl in her hand to Baiguo.

"Don't worry, master. I'll go right away." Bai Guo ran quickly out of the yard.

Not far from the Liu family's courtyard was a relative of the Qu family. The couple was standing in the yard, smelling the aroma of meat wafting over and swallowing their saliva.

"Master, do you think that Liu has found a lover? Otherwise, how can she afford to eat meat? What do you mean by doing business? From what I see, you are making dirty money. Ugh!"

"Mom, I want to eat meat. I'm craving meat." The boy next to the woman looked up with a dirty face, holding her trouser legs and humming desperately.

The man yelled at the boy with an unhappy look on his face: "Shut up, you meaty bastard! Where did the meat come from? Your father can't even eat meat, what are you doing here?"

The boy was so scared that he cried out "Wow". The woman hugged the child and coaxed him while yelling at the man with a cold face, asking why a grown man would take his anger out on a child.

The man looked at the crying child and the unreasonable woman, and said angrily, "If you want to eat meat, then go out and sell it!"

The woman reacted and raised her voice a few notches, cursing at the man's back as he walked out of the yard.

The neighbors soon heard the noise and came out to watch. Some of the more curious ones squatted in front of the door with their bowls in hand, listening and eating. It didn't matter that they came out, the aroma of meat wafting from Liu's house made the food in their hands instantly become difficult to swallow.

As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people. Many people are jealous of the Liu family's life. They were forced to leave home with nothing but are becoming more and more prosperous.

"Bah, the whole family makes dirty money."

Bai Guo, who had just returned home, happened to hear this. Without thinking, she quickly jumped forward and gave the woman two loud slaps in the face.

"Clap"

"Ah! How dare you hit me, you little bitch? I'm not going to..."

Bai Guo took advantage of the situation and grabbed her wrist, which was baring its teeth and claws, and twisted it violently, causing the woman to wail immediately.

"Ouch! It hurts so much! Are you going to kill someone?"

"I'm going to teach you a lesson. If I hear you slandering my wife again, I'll make you disappear from Lingshui Village. My wife is kindhearted and doesn't like to argue with others, but you've let me get away with it."

Baiguo glanced at the people around him with cold eyes, scaring them so much that they quickly dispersed and turned back to their own yard.

"boom"

The courtyard doors of every household were tightly closed, leaving Bai Guo standing in front of the empty alley, scanning the surroundings with cold eyes.

Qu Jingyao and her daughter had no idea what was happening in the village. Just as they had set the table, Baiguo came back.

"Baiguo, hurry up and wash your hands and have dinner together." Liu called out to her with a smile, and Qu Jingyao came to Dabai and his wife with a basin.

"Dabai, Baixue is ready to eat. Try this. If you don't like it, the kitchen will leave two roe deer legs for you."

Bai Xue sniffed the cooked roe deer meat in the basin, her big head shaking, while Dabai took a bite directly. After swallowing the first bite, he raised his head and rubbed his wife beside him.

Seeing the two of them eating happily and not rejecting each other, Qu Jingyao felt relieved.

"Master, something happened at the Qu Family Ancestral Hall. I heard that old man Qu Hongsen was so angry that he vomited blood."

Liu's mother and son looked at Baiguo in confusion.

Baiguo laughed out loud in relief, and danced with joy as he shared the news he had just heard from the headman's house with his masters.

"Master, you don't know. The villagers are saying that the Qu family has done too many bad things and that's why they are being punished. Suddenly, a group of rats appeared in the ancestral hall and destroyed all the ancestral tablets. It made me laugh to death."

A sarcastic smile appeared on Liu's lips, and she called them to eat, saying that the Qu family had nothing to do with them from now on.

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