Peasant Woman is in Her Prime - C131

Both of them were panting heavily when they kissed.

Jin Xiaolou was even sweating profusely. Gao Lang laughed with interest, “I never thought that my wife would actually know this much!”

Jin Xiaolou raised her chin, looking extremely proud: “There are so many things you can’t think of!”

With that, he ran forward two steps, then turned around and smiled at Gao Lang as he winked. “What’s even more interesting?”

“Then I must give it a try.” When Gao Lang said this, the smile on his face suddenly changed.

Jin Xiaolou was startled, frowned and said: “It’s not what you think!”

Gao Lang laughed even more heartily: “No matter which type, I can become that!”

With that, he raised his eyebrows, went up to Jin Xiaolou and pulled him away angrily, and before she could take two steps, Gao Lang suddenly stopped.

“What’s wrong?” Jin Xiaolou asked suspiciously.

Gao Lang pointed with his finger. Not far away, in the snow, a cluster of dark green grass was especially eye-catching.

“Wuli Herba.” Gao Lang said.

“What Wuli Herba?” Jin Xiaolou was stunned.

Gao Lang walked forward, crouched down, and carefully pulled apart the snow surrounding the small grass. There were only five Wuli Herba s, and their dark green slender leaves rolled up, looking more lively than ever in the cold.

“The reason why the crown prince came here this time is to look for this herb. The emperor is already severely ill, and the new doctor Miao in the palace said that only this Wuli Herba can cure him.” Gao Lang continued, “However, this Wuli Herba only sprouted after the initial snow, the crown prince had no success and returned, I did not expect us to meet it.”

Gao Lang reached out and grabbed the grass roots, and with a bit of effort, he pulled out the entire Wuli Herba s from the loose snow.

Wiping away the snow, he said slowly, “The barbarians should have left by now. It’s time for us to go down the mountain.”

Jin Xiaolou looked at the Wuli Herba in Gao Lang’s hand and could not help but ask, “You … You want to save him? ”

“Yu Qing, I want to kill him, but Yu Yi has no choice but to save him.” Gao Lang said faintly, “After all, he’s the emperor of the nation of Great Zhou.”

The next day, the two of them bade farewell to Zou Miaomiao before descending the golden mountain.

There were no pursuers at the foot of the mountain, and the two of them continued on their way to the twenty-fourth city.

Just as he entered the city, he saw Chang An and Hu Shan.

Ever since Chang An had protected the crown prince’s safety that day, he had come all the way south to search for Seventh Elder. He had stayed in these twenty-four cities for a few days, searching the surrounding area of the Wuli River.

He even called for the tiger to lead a small group of horses and clear the area of bandits and search for people.

The Seventh Elder didn’t find him, but he did exterminate a lot of bandits.

Jin Xiaolou quickly pulled Chang An and asked him if she had seen Gui Qi, but Chang An just shook his head.

Seeing that Jin Xiaolou was disappointed, Hu Diao comforted her: “No news is probably the best news, young lady be at ease, we will patrol back and forth here, there will be a day when we can find him!”

Immediately after, Gao Lang bought a horse for Jin Xiaolou and handed the Wuli Herba over to her: “Ol ‘Five made a deal with South Yi for personal gain, but this mountain of Great Zhou is exchanged with the blood and sweat of others, he cannot be moved an inch. You go first, I have to guard here and clear the chaos in Wuli River.”

Gao Lang planned to split his troops and get Chang An to escort Jin Xiaolou back to the Xin Ning. After a bit of reorganization, he would head north to the capital and send the Wuli Herba to the palace, protecting the life of the Emperor, so as to prevent chaos in the world.

Gao Lang, on the other hand, stayed behind at the Wuli River with Hu Dian. After the war was settled, he would return to the capital.

Although Great Zhou Nation was still a land of peace, it was a time of internal and external troubles. If one was not careful for a moment, then the hundred years of foundation would be destroyed.

Even if Jin Xiaolou was extremely worried, she could only nod her head and ride her horse. She glanced at Gao Lang and amidst the rustling cold wind, the man who stood tall felt confident and at ease.

After passing Bo Gu temple, Jin Xiaolou wanted to take Zhou Shuli’s corpse back for burial. However, they heard from Chang An that on their way here, they had already found Zhou Shuli’s corpse and had ordered people to bring it back to Xin Ning long ago.

Seeing Jin Xiaolou’s sorrowful expression, Chang An said: “During the war, human life was like a blade of grass, that fell when the wind blew, and then burned to ashes. Next year, new grass sprouts will grow again, who will remember the scorched earth?”

As he spoke, he let out a long sigh. “Seventh Elder wanted to pacify the war, saying that it was for Great Zhou. In fact, he was merely blown away by the wind, so he knew how painful the grass was.”

Jin Xiaoluo understood that the current Zhou Dynasty was a peaceful one after the founding of the kingdom. The nobles in the capital had long forgotten what war was like, but Gao Lang was different. He had seen his loved ones’ deaths with his own eyes, so he valued what they had sacrificed.

When the two of them returned to the Xin Ning, the sky had already darkened.

Jin Xiaolou was curious, she decided to listen to Chang An going to Mountain Note to take a look.

When she arrived at Mountain Note, she discovered that the shop had already been reopened. The lantern at the entrance was slowly lit, Kuang Ruyue took a chair and sat at the entrance, there were still some customers eating in the shop.

Seeing Jin Xiaolou coming back from afar, Kuang Ruyue was so excited that she couldn’t even stand steadily, and immediately shouted towards the house: “The shopkeeper is back!”

Lv Yun carried Lin’er and ran out. Upon seeing Jin Xiaolou, Lv Yun’s tears could not be stopped.

Kuang Ruyue saw that Lv Yun was crying and immediately reached out to wipe her tears: “What are you crying for, the shopkeeper is back, this is a good thing!”

She only looked behind Jin Xiaolou, but did not see any shadow of Gui Zhi. In her happiness, there was always a hint of worry.

Jin Xiaolou received the Lin’er, and it was as if all the children were the same every day. In just a few days, she already felt that Lin’er had grown a bit bigger, and became a little afraid. She almost couldn’t see him again, and as he thought about this, her hands unconsciously tightened around Lin’er.

“Hurry up and go into the store. The wind is strong outside!” Kuang Ruyue welcomed them inside and told the kitchen to make some meat porridge and some snacks for them.

As Jin Xiaolou ate, she told them everything that had happened in the past few days.

When she found out that Gui Qi had been kidnapped and left without a trace, Lv Yun once again shed tears.

They had seen Zhou Shuli’s corpse and even went to Wellhead Village to bury him.

That corpse’s appearance was extremely frightening. Lv Yun really could not imagine what would happen if such a person were to obtain the Gui Qi.

However, when Jin Xiaolou mentioned Gao Lang, Kuang Ruyue said: “This shop was only opened once again because of him.”

“Right, it’s all thanks to him!” Lv Yun choked, “He cleaned up the shopkeeper’s grievances, and the culprit was indeed Da Chun. The day before yesterday, Da Chun had already asked about it and beheaded him.”

“What?” Jin Xiaolou was shocked, “How did Da Chun recognize it?”

“He has no choice but to admit it!” “On the night that you went to Bo Gu Temple, Gao Lang found the clothes that Da Chun was wearing when committing the crime and the rope that was used to strangle Ru Yi …”

Jin Xiaolou nodded her head in a trance. It turned out that Gao Lang said that he was late because of this matter.

It was just that Jin Xiaolou did not expect Da Chun to bite him to death and did not reveal the reason for his actions in the Autumn Moon Wine.

“Then what about the Autumn Moon Wine?” Jin Xiaolou asked as she took a bite of her honey-roasted chicken wings.

Kuang Ruyue replied: “Just like before, just like how we did at home. Two days ago, I also went to the village in the suburbs to rent land and set up a farm, following our pattern of delivering fresh ingredients everyday.”

Jin Xiaolou nodded her head, she put down her chopsticks, and decided to go to the capital. Before she leaves, she would do one last thing for Mountain Note.

“Miss Lv Yun, why did you buy so much ice?” Owner Yu, who came to the Happy Restaurant, asked the waiter to move the ice from the ice cellar out while asking Lv Yun, who was beside him.

This was the first time Boss Yu saw someone spend such a high price to buy ice this winter.

It was understandable that the ice was tight in the middle of the summer. In the winter, it would only take a short time before the river froze. Besides, everyone wants to be warm this season, so who would think of that ice lump as a treasure?

Lv Yun smiled at Boss Yu and said unhurriedly: “Our shopkeeper has developed a new dish called the fried ice silk seed. He mixed the ice and milk to make a fluffy ice shard and then wrapped it with a ball of powder and fried it in a fire. This kind of food is the most delicious!”

These words made Boss Yu want to try something new as well. He kept praising him and it was even the idea of the Mountain Note Boss Jin who came up with this new thing one after another!

As they spoke, the two carriages brought out a hundred taels of ice.

Lv Yun gave her the silver and turned to leave.

As he walked, he acted as if he was talking to himself, “There aren’t many in our Xin Ning who would have an ice cellar. I wonder if there’s enough ice.”

After getting up the carriage, he carried the ice cube back to the Mountain Note and waved it all the way back. The passersby all peeked their heads out and whispered to each other, discussing about what the Mountain Note was up to.

When they were done with the crowd, Lv Yun finally moved the ice cube into the shop and went in front of Jin Xiaolou.

“How is it, did you get ice cubes?” Jin Xiaolou then proceeded to sew on Xiao Yi who still had not finished her work.

Lv Yun nodded her head, yet she was still puzzled: “Shopkeeper, why did you want me to tell that Boss Yu about our new dish? I’m worried that Qiu Yue will learn it!”

After he finished speaking, he grumbled: “That Boss Qiu Yue, has always been like this, pulling away more than half of our Mountain Note’s business!”

Jin Xiaolou laughed: “If he wants to learn, then let him learn. Don’t be afraid.”

“Then do we continue to buy ice?” Lv Yun asked with her eyes wide open.

“Of course! “We have to buy it no matter how much silver we have!” Jin Xiaolou raised her brows, “Whether or not Mountain Note can surpass Qiu Yue depends on whether or not we can make a new dish this time.”

On the other side of the street, where there were many people entering and exiting, Tong Song heard what the attendant below had to say and his face turned black.

Only after a long time did he finally pull down the abacus. “Go, go quickly! Stealing in front of them, buying all the ice that could be bought with Xin Ning! ”

“But, we’ve never heard of fried icicles before.” The shop assistant frowned.

Not only the waiters at the front, even the chefs at the back of the autumn moon had never heard of eating like this before.

“What do you know?” Tong Song picked up the feather duster and knocked it on the head of the doorman, “If you knew everything, why are you still running around here? I should have become a boss long ago to earn big money! ”

The shop assistant thought that it was true, following Mountain Note was always a good idea. Recently, Qiu Yue’s business had become even better after following Mountain Note to introduce new dishes.

“Alright!” The waiter put the handkerchief on his shoulder and quickly ran out, heading towards the Fragrant Storey Inn on the west side.

In the entire Xin Ning, there were only two restaurants and a butcher’s shop, and they were both very small, used to store some frozen meat and frozen vegetables.

Mountain Note spent one hundred silvers to buy the ice cellar of the Pleasant Restaurant, and the waiter ran over to the Delicious Restaurant and paid one hundred and eleven silvers to freeze all the ice in the ice cellar.