I just want to live a good life

Chapter 324 Fragrance

Su Nuan was busy preparing hot pot in the kitchen, and called Su Qingmo to help her.

One of the two people made the pot base while the other washed the vegetables, and soon the hot pot was on the table.

Su Nuan was troubled with the last piece of meat. She was a good cook but not good with a knife, and she was most afraid of cutting meat.

It’s hard to cut fresh meat, let alone frozen meat.

Su Qingmo was not much better than her. The meat he cut was thin in some places and thick in others.

Su Nuan had no choice but to ask for help, "Um, Lao Liu, please do me a favor."

Lao Liu glared at her. Just when she thought he would reject her request, Lao Liu asked, "What for?"

Su Nuan chuckled, "Help me cut the meat."

Lao Liu, who had been her assistant for a few days, knew that she was not good at cutting knives, so when he heard that she was going to cut meat, he didn't say anything and rolled up his sleeves to help.

"Thinner."

"It doesn't have to be that thin. If it's that thin, it will get mushy when it's put into the pot."

“It should be even.”

"Cut horizontally."

"..."

"Are you done yet?"

Su Nuan saw that her requirements were almost met, so she shut up obediently.

There was a charcoal fire burning on the table, and the spicy pot bottom was bubbling.

When the last plate of meat slices was served, Sansiwu also came back on time.

"What about people?"

Zhao Zong asked.

"Ran."

The fourth one answered.

Zhao Zong was stunned, not because the person ran away, but because of the calmness with which the fourth brother answered this question.

"How could you let him get away? Don't you have brains? If he runs away, he may come back with his men at any time. We can't stay here anymore."

The fourth brother said aggrievedly: "It's not that we don't want to chase him, it's that we really can't catch up. If he wasn't unfamiliar with the environment and got lost in the forest, we would have been left behind long ago."

"He's so powerful!" Zhao Zong couldn't believe it. "Where did this guy come from?"

"do not know."

"Can't you tell the martial arts routine?"

Zhao Zong asked.

The fourth brother continued to answer: "I was always running and had no chance to do anything."

Zhao Zong was stunned and murmured, "I've never heard of such a master around the prince!"

At this time, Su Nuan said at the right time: "Why don't we eat first."

Her words caused everyone to look at Zhao Zong with hope in their eyes.

Zhao Zong was seen by everyone and didn't bother to investigate Chu Qi's background. He said in a deep voice: "No, we have to leave quickly."

The tone is unrelenting.

Everyone's faces suddenly fell.

"I will definitely take a carriage. Put the hot pot in the carriage and eat while I walk."

Lao Liu was unhappy when he heard this, "Why are you eating alone?"

"The carriage is so spacious, you can sit in with us. So many things are ready, it would be a waste if we don't eat them!" After Su Nuan said this, she felt the eager eyes from the third, fourth and fifth people, and added, "Everyone can take turns to eat."

After saying this, without waiting for Zhao Zong's consent, he called Su Qingmo to carry the pot with him and walked out.

The sixth one came happily to help, and the third, fourth and fifth ones also came with nothing to do.

Seeing that everyone was craving for the hotpot, Zhao Zong did not stop them.

It's not that Su Nuan is obsessed with eating hot pot, she really wants to keep everyone here for a while. But then, after eating, wipe your mouth and leave, there will be no trace. She thought of a way to move the hot pot onto the carriage, and then she could sprinkle some hot pot base along the way as a mark to guide the people who saved her.

Of course, the prerequisite for doing this is that Chu Qi can really move reinforcements here.

Everyone worked hard and quickly loaded everything into the car. Su Nuan poured the vegetables that couldn't fit into the pot with a wave of her hand.

At first, Zhao Zong was a little suspicious of Su Nuan's purpose, but when he saw the fragrance wafting out of the carriage and Lao Liu praising it inside, he no longer had any doubts.

He's just a foodie, what threat can he pose?

At this time, in the Prince's Mansion, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who had not slept for three days, had just fallen asleep when he was awakened by voices outside the door.

It was the guard at the door arguing with a woman.

"Your Highness has ordered that no one may enter."

"I have something urgent to do with him."

"I'm sorry Miss Leng, Your Highness hasn't had a good rest in the past few days and just went to bed."

Leng Yue is not a reckless person. He must have something important to tell her at this time. Maybe it is related to Xia Qingyan. Thinking of this, Mu Yunting stood up.

"Let her in."

Since the prince had spoken, the guards had no choice but to let him go.

"Meet His Highness the Crown Prince."

Leng Yue bowed.

"Get up. What's the matter that brings you to me?"

Mu Yunting's tone was calm, yet distant.

"Your Highness, Leng Yue heard that my sister has taken back the old house of the Xun family. Leng Yue dares to ask you for a piece of Xun family property."

Mu Yunting frowned. He thought Leng Yue would talk about Xia Qingyan, but he didn't expect that she would come to ask him for his property. His expression, which had been somewhat indifferent just now, became even colder now.

"The Xun family's assets have been returned to the eldest daughter of the Xun family. If you want, go find her."

"Your Highness, this property is not in the name of the Xun family. Back then, my father sent my mother to an orchard outside the imperial city. Perhaps he wanted to give her a place to rely on, so he transferred the orchard and the house to her name. But after the Xun family got into trouble, the house was transferred many times.

Leng Yue begs His Highness to help get the orchard and the house back. Leng Yue is willing to pay money to compensate the current owner of the orchard."

Although Mu Yunting was unhappy, Leng Yue had a special identity. The teacher owed her when he was alive, and he had the responsibility to make up for it to the teacher.

It's just an orchard and a house. No matter who their current owners are, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince says he wants to buy them, the other party will definitely not dare to refuse.

Without thinking too much, Mu Yunting agreed to the task and immediately sent someone to investigate the owner of the orchard and the house.

This was originally a small thing, but I didn't expect it to bring such great rewards.

At this time, Chu Qi, who Su Nuan had high hopes for, was following the carriage that Su Nuan was riding in from a distance.

The fragrance rising from the carriage drifted all the way. Chu Qi swallowed his saliva and followed carefully behind.

He thought about going back to find his senior brother, but he also thought that once he escaped, these people would abandon the house. When he went back to find his senior brother and ran away, his senior brother would definitely blame him for being unreliable.

So he escaped and then quietly returned, and sure enough, he saw a group of people hurriedly leaving in front of the house.

He didn't have time to think and just followed behind, thinking about what to do all the way. However, he was not good at such things. Apart from being tempted by the aroma of the hot pot, he couldn't think of anything else.

Su Nuan in the carriage had no idea about this. She was still fantasizing that Chu Qi would bring Mu Yunting to save her tonight.

I was so happy that I couldn't hide the smile on my face while eating hotpot.

This made Zhao Zong even more certain that this woman was a foodie.

In order to prevent the soup from spilling out, the carriage moved very slowly, but even so, soup still spilled out from time to time. Su Nuan controlled the tilt of the pot very well, so that the spilled soup flowed to her feet and then dripped down through the gaps in the wooden boards.

Everyone's attention was on the hot pot and no one noticed the winding traces on the road.