Lu Jing picked a basket from the pole and handed it to the middle-aged woman, "Your fruits and vegetables."
The latter did not open it in a hurry, but looked at Lu Jing and asked, "Don't you need to confirm again? Maybe I am a liar like him. After all, I don't look like a young prince."
"It doesn't matter," Lu Jing shrugged and pointed at the old fisherman. "He said something very good. It's just a basket of fruits and vegetables. If you give it to the wrong person, you can give it to the wrong person. The worst I can do is give it to the real little one next time I come here. The Marquis will bring another basket."
"Do you know where this place is?" the middle-aged woman said in surprise when she heard this.
"Jinghu Valley." Lu Jing answered honestly.
"Then do you know who lives in Mirror Lake Valley?"
"Uh, paper... people?"
"That's right. Since you know who we are, Wu Han must have reminded you that we are not easy to deal with. In fact, even if the teachers from the academy come to Jinghu Valley for business, most of them are cautious, but you are free and easy. , doesn’t seem to worry at all about screwing up the errand.”
Lu Jing felt a little guilty when the middle-aged woman told him something important.
Fortunately, the middle-aged woman who called herself Little Marquis didn't dwell on the matter anymore. As she spoke, she reached out and opened the basket, looked inside, and then said to Lu Jing.
"When you go back, tell Wu Han that I received the items and am very satisfied with them."
Lu Jingding nodded, then picked up the pole and prepared to go find Ding Liu and the man who made the medicine.
He had already made up his mind not to look or ask too many questions in the Mirror Lake Valley, to keep a distance from everyone as much as possible, to finish his job as a courier honestly, and then call it a day.
This was the safest way. However, he had only taken two steps out when he heard the middle-aged woman say again, "Do you know why I call you Little Marquis?"
Lu Jing could only stop helplessly when he heard this, turned around and asked, "Why?"
"In the early years, the number of paper people in Jinghu Valley was not that large, and everyone basically lived their own lives and rarely interacted with each other. But later, as the number of people gradually increased, and the paper people had different personalities, various There will be more troubles.
"And the academy doesn't allow us to fight, so any problems can only be solved through discussion, but just sitting down is of no use. After all, you say yours and I say mine, and in the end no one can convince the other.
"So there needs to be someone who can make decisions. This person is called Xiao Hou Ye. The reason why he is called this name is because the person who did this was called Xiao Hou Ye at first, but then Xiao Hou Ye died, and When everyone gathered together, they simply elected a new little marquis to continue what the previous little marquis had not finished.
"But the new little Marquis doesn't need to die. Instead, it will be changed every seven months. Now it's my turn to do it."
Lu Jing listened silently as the middle-aged woman explained the origin of the young marquis. He knew that the latter would not tell him such a thing for no reason, even if it was not a secret.
Sure enough, after a pause, the middle-aged woman continued, "Are you sick?"
"Why do you say that?" Lu Jing was stunned.
"Because the three baskets of vegetables Wu Han asked you to send were not chosen by random people. Ding Liu and the person who cooked the medicine are the two people with the best medical skills in Jinghu Valley. As for me, as the young marquis, those who live in Jinghu Valley Paper figures, more or less, have to give me some thin noodles.
"If you come for consultation in the name of delivering food, then the three of us are the people you must see." The middle-aged woman said calmly.
Is this where the trap turns out to be?
Lu Jing secretly wiped a cold sweat after hearing her words. Wu Han really had no good intentions and wanted to start with medicine first to see if his cultivation aptitude could still save him.
And the most disgusting thing is that this guy didn't explain... As a result, Lu Jing was kept in the dark the whole time. He thought that as long as he didn't talk to the people in the valley, there would be no danger, but he didn't expect that the door-to-door delivery was going on. You are the one.
Fortunately, the middle-aged woman reminded her in time, so Lu Jing hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Since the young master recognizes Ding Liu and the decoction maker, can you hand over these two baskets of fruits and vegetables to them on my behalf?"
The young Marquis was already 70% sure that Lu Jing came to Jinghu Valley for medical treatment, but when he heard the latter's words, he became a little confused again.
What's the meaning? Could it be that I had guessed wrong, that this boy was not here to see a doctor, but really just here to deliver food?
No, this is not possible.
Jinghu Valley is almost the most secret place in the academy. Most students don't even know that there is such a place in the academy until they leave. Even those who want to teach must first report to the tutoring and supervising school to get the tutoring You can enter only after getting approval from the prison.
Wu Han didn't know how to send this new student in. If it was just to deliver food, there would be no need at all.
Thinking of this, the young Marquis looked at Lu Jing strangely.
But she still answered Lu Jing's question first, "I can help you deliver the fruits and vegetables for Ding Liu and Jian Yao to them."
Before Lu Jing could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the young Marquis change his subject, "But if they have anything else to say to Wu Han, they want you to listen to it yourself, so you'd better come with me." trip."
What Xiao Houye said was half true and half false, because Ding Liu and the two people who cooked the medicine rarely went out of the valley on weekdays, and as doctors, they inevitably needed medicinal materials to make medicines.
Although they have cultivated their own medicinal gardens, it is impossible to grow all the medicinal materials. They often need to purchase a certain or a few medicinal herbs from outside, so they can only entrust the academy to do this.
It's just that it wasn't through Wu Han. The reason why the young marquis said this was actually because he wanted to see with his own eyes what Lu Jing's purpose was in entering the valley.
When Lu Jing heard this, he also knew that he couldn't escape. In fact, letting the young marquis deliver the food was just a temporary solution, because he would have to deliver the food for two whole months, and it was impossible to let the young marquis deliver it every time. He wanted to help, so he just nodded and said, "Then I'll go too."
With the young marquis leading the way, Lu Jing was spared the trouble of searching for someone in the valley. The two of them walked half a circle along the lake shore and soon arrived at Ding Liu's residence first.
I saw a few clusters of platycodon planted outside the small courtyard, and there were also mandala and datura around. These are flowers that can be used as medicine.
The young Marquis stepped forward and knocked on the firewood leaf in front of him. Not long after, he saw an old man with gray hair and a childlike face, who didn't know how old he was, pushed open the firewood leaf from inside.
After he went out, he first bowed his hand to the middle-aged woman and said, "Little Marquis, I see that your complexion is rosy, your breathing is even, and your eyes are alert. You should not be sick."
When the latter heard this, he pointed at Lu Jing and said, "I didn't come to find you, it was him."
