Queen of flowers - Chapter 20

Many neighbors were watching the show with excitement.

The next door’s neighbor, Jin Sanbao, came and asked Yong Ruo casually, “Who was the man? He looked very generous.”

Yong Ruo replied casually, “A worker in the house of the noblewoman I met yesterday. She said that the plum blossoms were so beautiful, and the elders loved it so much that they asked for a bigger one.”

“Just for this, they gave away so many things to your house?” Jin Sanbao said in disbelief.

“How do I know what the nobles think of?” She shook the box in her hands to the neighbours. “No, the nobleman also left me a famous name post. If I encounter any difficulties, I can come to their door for help. Really good, right? “

The neighbors all around claimed that it was her luck, and someone said, “With such a blessing, everything will get better in the future!” The tone was full of envy and jealousy.

Yong Ruo said, “Thanks for your good words!” She turned into the yard and closed the gate.

By letting the people around her know that she “had a patron,” she could avoid some troubles, so naturally, she would not hide it away, lest those who were overbearing the thought of bullying her family would leave them alone.

She wondered if the trick would scare those who stole from dogs?

Locking the door, Yong Ruo returned to the main room.

The three people in the room, with tears in their eyes, were still twitching; Yong Miao climbed up on Zhou’s bed, and laid on the side of Zhou with his clothes, hugging her through the quilt, and buried his face in it. She couldn’t see his expression; when she calmed down, she patted his back gently and comforted him softly.

Yong Ruo suddenly felt that it was cruel for children such as Yong Qiao and Yong Miao to face the pain of their parents’ death.

Seeing Yong Ruo coming in, Zhou asked weakly, “Has he gone?”

Yong Ruo nodded, “Yes!”

“From which noble family is he?”

Yong Ruo shook her head, “I don’t know which family he belongs to. I only know that his surname is Feng.” In this regard, Feng Gongzi didn’t take the initiative to tell her about his family, so she did not ask anything.

“Feng?” Zhou’s eyebrows froze slightly, and she said to herself, “Feng is ​​the surname of the country’s royal clan. Could he be the son of the clan?” And asked Yong Ruo, “Did the nobleman Feng bring a guard? Did the guard have weapons?”

“Here! Feng Gongzi has a lot of guards around him, wearing swords, and one of them had a longbow.”

Zhou Shi nodded, “That’s right! The nobleman Feng must be the son of the clan; maybe he is a prince.” She breathed twice and said, “If they dare to take a long sword with a longbow and swaggered across the city, they must have military positions in the army; or such guards are only eligible for the royal family. The ordinary officials’ family are usually accompanied by a stick or a hidden dagger……”

Yong Ruo said, “I see! Mother, you say less and rest more!”

Zhou smiled bitterly, “There will be more time to rest in the future!” Looking at the box on Yong Ruo’s hand, “What are you holding?”

Yong Ruo said the famous name post.

Zhou opened the box, looked at the name post, and wondered, “This name post is a bit weird. Mostly for the name post of a distinguished person, they use a red paper, and the boy is obviously of extraordinary status but actually used white paper. And draw plum blossoms on the famous name post? “She shook her head, puzzled,” I don’t understand.”

Yong Ruo couldn’t tell her more, and said, “Maybe Feng Gongzi disdains the vulgar approach?”

“Maybe!” Zhou Shi couldn’t think more, and she waved her hand to let Yong Ruo take it and put it away properly. Suddenly she sighed again, “If only in the past … we had such a famous name post … the situation of our family would have been different today,” and tears sprang back in her eyes.

Yong Ruo silently packed the famous name post in the box, stood in the yard for a while, and went to the kitchen.

The food box that Feng Gongzi sent was placed on a low cabinet. She opened the food container and looked at it. The upper layer of the food box contained some delicate and easy to store snacks, and the lower layer contained half a box of buns and half a box of dumplings, she picked up the food box and took the tableware to the main room.

“The dim sum dishes and pasta by Feng Gongzi look delicious,” she told Yong Qiao and Yong Miao, “Everyone can eat two pieces of dim sum, but not more, if you do so, you can’t eat dinner at night. Don’t eat cold dumplings. Let’s heat them up and serve them with yesterday’s leftovers. “

She also ordered Yong Qiao, “After eating, handle the leg of lamb, pick out the meat, preserve it, and buy some radish to make dumplings tomorrow. Then pick the lamb bones and stew the lamb soup. “

Yong Qiao had studied with Dad Yong for a year, and he had practiced basic skills. It wasn’t a problem for him to make home-cooked meals.

She asked Yong Miao to stay with their mother, and went out of the main room, took a hatchet, put on protective gloves, and cut a few bamboo.

The yard floor of the hut of the poor households wasn’t paved, but they mostly were planted with a few bamboo that were used to prepare brooms, chicken cages, bamboo fences, etc… In the Yong family’s, besides the plum tree, there were also a few bamboo plants.

After picking out the bamboo branches, she sawed one of the bamboo pieces with a saw and cut them into small pieces and then used an ax to break through these short bamboo tubes and cut them into long bamboo nails. She didn’t make them perfect, as she only wanted them to be sharp.

After spending a lot of time and making a full basket of bamboo strips, she broke open another bamboo and cut it into a half-height bamboo strip. After thinking, she chopped two more bamboo and sawed the bamboo poles into several sections, each half-height, with one end flat and one sharp.

Yong Qiao had already processed to cook the leg of lamb, and came over and asked, “Sister, what are you doing?”

(This translation belongs to wordrain)

Translator Miao: It’s my first time translating an ancient novel. Give me advice where necessary! Thanks for the love this novel is getting! 

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