Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 214

Not long after, the young man was summoned.

After the salute, he looked confused, and obviously didn’t understand why they called him there.

Eunuch Shangshan continued to lie without blushing, “Look, sir, this worker is deaf and mute, and so useless. It’s not worth it for you to be angry with people like this.”

“Then let him chop wood in my place, and you.” Old Master Wen angrily looked at Gu Yin, and continued, “Go and build a small stove, I’ll see if you dare to be lazy in front of me!”

“This…” The palace servant who served Old Master Wen couldn’t make up his mind.

“What’s the matter? The old man can’t get the job done?” Old Master Wen said, and was about to leave the house again, “Then I’ll go to see his majesty and let him tell the difference!”

Emperor Longqing couldn’t meet anyone. If that incident got bigger, Old Master Wen would find that Emperor Longqing was seriously injured. There was no need for the rebels to attack and destroy the guards’ hearts.

“Don’t be angry, I’ll listen to you, and let them make one here!”

Old Master Wen lived in the house of the second head of the original bandit village, which was quite spacious.

The palace servants moved the tables and chairs beside the bed to one side to make room for the young man to chop wood, while Gu Yin set up a small stove, put a clean slate on it, brushed it with lard, and put a plate next to it that was prepared in advance with diced meat and vegetables.

She waited until the oil on the slate started to sizzle, then put the diced meat and vegetables on it to roast.

After a while, the smoke began to rise in the house, Gu Yin took a fan, and the smoke went toward the palace servants who were guarding the house.

When they were young, they were selected to serve the Emperor closely. They couldn’t stand it and started to  cough. Without realizing it, they stood outside.

When they stood at the door, the old man with a stern face asked Gu Yin, “Why are you looking for me? Were you worried about me?”

Gu Yin held back her smile, pretended to be reprimanded and said with a guilty conscience, “I didn’t look for you, this one was looking for you. I’m just helping.”

The axe split the wood, and the young man’s voice sounded at the same time, “The situation is special, master forgive me.”

As the sound of chopping wood became intense, the young man continued, “I asked to see you because I heard that the man was going to slaughter the town and put the blame on the rebels.”

“Impossible!” Old Master Wen immediately refuted, the anger on his face was no longer a fake, and he said, “I know you are a member of the rebel army, and your position is different from his. He is the one I look down on. Although he is not as good as his father and grandfather, he won’t do things that are inferior to pigs and dogs.”

“You can try to verify it,” the young man chopped the last bit of wood, stopped talking, and stuffed the chopped wood into the small stove.

Slaughter the town?

When Gu Yin heard that, her hand holding the fan and fanning the fumes tightened, and her fingernails dug into her palm.

The slate roasted in the back was almost done, and finally sprinkled with seasonings such as cumin and chili noodles, and put it in a bowl.

“Hmph, wouldn’t it be better to do this earlier?” Old Master Wen snorted softly and tasted the slate roast directly, which was a lot more than usual.

Later, Gu Yin and the young man went down, Gu Yin’s face was pale, even her lips were white, and Eunuch Shangshan looked a little guilty, “Little lady, don’t blame me. It’s just that I can’t do errands well and got you scolded.”

Gu Yin took a deep breath and smiled with a pale face, “I don’t blame you, I was lazy and should be punished.”

“Hey, go, let him help you,” Eunuch Shangshan also ordered the young man to stay together as a pair of wild mandarin ducks.

“What’s wrong with you?” Manager Zhou was cooking a big pot of rice in the kitchen, and he quickly asked when he saw her face was wrong.

Others didn’t know, of course, Manager Zhou knew the relationship between the old man and Gu Yin, and also knew that she deliberately cooked preserved eggs and lean meat porridge to communicate with the old man.

“It’s fine, I’ll just rest,” Gu Yin smiled weakly and sat on the small bench in the corner.

The young man followed her to chop wood next to her, and he used the sound of chopping wood and Manager Zhou’s spatula as a cover, and asked in a low voice, “Are you scared?”

When Gu Yin nodded, the young man sighed slightly, and his eyes fell on her palm.

Her nails were trimmed short and round, but she pinched out a bloodstain on her palm, one could imagine how uncomfortable she was.

“Why?” Her throat tightened.

After asking, without waiting for the young man to answer, she figured it out on her own.

When the abolished Emperor was in Hanshan Town, he naturally would not do anything to the people. But now that he had led people out of Hanshan Town, a large force of the rebel army should be chasing after him soon. During that time difference, if he sent someone to slaughter the town, claiming that it was done by the rebel army just because the people of that town received the abolished Emperor, the people would be angry.