Mingshan Village occupied a vast area, and even the kitchen was a separate small courtyard. In the open space in front of the main house, other courtyards were filled with various flowers and plants. Only the kitchen opened it up and planted some onions, ginger, and garlic for daily side dishes.
At this time, the meal had passed, and each courtyard was sending the food boxes, dishes, and chopsticks back for cleaning. Jiang Rui didn’t need to do this work. At this time, she was pulling onions from the two ridges of land in the courtyard.
“Sister Zhang, have you seen the Owner of the village?” Liu Liu turned the washed bowl upside down in the bamboo basket and asked curiously.
“I’ve seen it before.” Sister Zhang stopped what she was doing and thought for a moment before continuing: “It must have been the winter of the year before last. The person serving Mr. Xiao in Xizhuyuan slipped in the snow and asked me to help deliver food boxes. I walked along the wall and saw someone coming from a distance, so I stepped aside. It wasn’t until I heard them talking and knew that one of them was the Owner of the village that I couldn’t help but look up secretly.”
Liu Liu hurriedly asked: “How does the Owner of the village look? Is he as handsome as they said?”
Sister Zhang smiled and said, “You little girls. But having said that, how can the Owner of the village be said to be handsome? Don’t talk about you, my sister, I have never seen anyone better looking than the Owner of the village in my age. And that demeanor… Oh, I can’t even explain it.”
“You should know that the Owner of the village has limited legs and feet and relies on a wheelchair to get in and out. But at that time, a group of people came, seven or eight disciples, each of whom was also an extraordinary person, but instead, they became a foil to the Owner of the village. Let’s put it this way, whenever you see our Village Owner, you won’t be able to see anyone else in your eyes.”
“Really…” Liu Liu murmured yearningly but couldn’t help but regret: “It’s a pity that I have been in the mansion for more than a year, and I haven’t even seen the Owner’s back, let alone the Owner’s face.”
“This is normal. We usually only stay in this small courtyard on weekdays and go in and out through the side door and the back door. However, the Owner of the village is in the main courtyard and does not easily move around the house. Moreover, he has to travel around the world and do great things for most of the year. How can we easily encounter him? Don’t tell me that you have only been here for a year or two, ask Sanniang, has she ever seen the Owner of the village after she has been here for so long?”
Liu Liu was speechless and asked Jiang Rui on the other side of the courtyard loudly, “Sister San, haven’t you seen the owner of the village?”
Jiang Rui straightened up and said jokingly: “I haven’t seen him before. When did you see him, remember to come back and talk to me.”
Before she possessed this body, she had met Ling Yuan in her soul state. After becoming Qin Sanniang, how could a little cook have the chance to meet a superior like the Owner of the village? Although he was from Jianghu1Jianghu (江湖; jiānghú; ‘rivers and lakes’) is a Chinese term that generally refers to the milieu in which many Chinese wuxia, outlaw fiction, and romantic fantasy stories are set.
The term is used flexibly and can be used to describe a fictionalized version of rural historical China (usually using loose influences from across the 1000 BC–280 AD period; a setting of feuding martial arts clans and the people of that community; a secret and possibly criminal underworld; a general sense of the “mythic world” where fantastical stories happen; or some combination thereof. and the rules in Mingshan Village were not as strict as those in ordinary high-end courtyards, not everyone could run around.
However, even if Jiang Rui had never seen Ling Yuan, she could sense him in the crowd and recognize him at a glance.
“Okay!” Liu Liu puffed out her chest and responded.
After washing the dishes, Wu’er and Xiao Xu worked together to carry the bamboo basket into the kitchen. Because Mama Li hadn’t come back, they could still have some free time. Sister Zhang and others sat in the courtyard, picking green onions and talking in the sun.
Just as they were talking about the big maids in the main courtyard, a man suddenly walked in from the door of the courtyard. He was tall and handsome. He was wearing a lake blue brocade robe with a four-finger wide belt around his waist. He looked indescribably chic.
Few outsiders were willing to step into the place where the kitchen fumes were, and besides, they could tell at a glance that the visitor had an extraordinary status.
Sister Zhang quickly stood up and said cautiously: “May I ask what your orders are, the distinguished guest?”
The person who came was naturally Liu Xingfeng. Before he entered the small courtyard, he took a curious look at it. From the outside, the kitchen of Mingshan Village was no different from other courtyards.
But when he entered, he realized that it was a different world. There was a woman and a little maid sitting in the yard, and there was another maid on the ground beside the wall. She had her back to the door, so he couldn’t see her face clearly. But, she must be young.
His eyes turned around between the three of them, secretly guessing that the woman who spoke was the person he was looking for, so he was a little more polite before he spoke: “May I ask who is Qin Sanniang?”
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