The yard Chen Ziyang said is not bad, the surrounding area is quite secluded, and it is suitable for a person to live alone and cultivate himself.
The original owner died less than a month ago, so the courtyard is still clean, and Li Fenglan likes it very much. After some haggling, Li Fenglan finally won one hundred taels.
After buying the house, it was not yet noon.
Chen Ziyang had just helped Li Fenglan tidy up the yard. He patted the dust on his hands and said with a smile, "I will tidy up in the afternoon and add some things, and you can live in it at night."
Li Fenglan said: "Don't worry, it's almost noon, sister will treat you to dinner."
Chen Ziyang scratched the back of his head: "No need, it's not a big favor, and I don't have much contribution. Besides, you are a guest in Xiangyang, and I haven't invited you yet."
"The kid is young, but he's quite polite. Please treat me, sister. You probably don't have much money on you."
Chen Ziyang was a little embarrassed: "My parents are very strict and usually don't give me any money."
"Let's go to the best restaurant in Xiangyang. I'm just in time to tell my sister interesting things about Xiangyang."
The two siblings walked towards the restaurant talking and laughing. Apart from not knowing how to call people, Li Fenglan liked everything else about this cousin. He is passionate, does not bully the weak, and is very compassionate, but sometimes his mouth is a little bit poisonous. This reminded her of someone.
The two of them arrived at the restaurant, and Li Fenglan ordered a table of delicious dishes. During this period of time, she was running around and didn't have much time to eat properly. Now she seized the opportunity and was ready to have a big meal. She was quite concerned about her figure some time ago, but now she doesn't have any burden on her. She thinks she looks good and doesn't know who to show it to, so she might as well make herself comfortable first.
Chen Ziyang is underage and in the final stage of growth. He was hungry all day yesterday and ran all night. He didn't eat in the morning, so he was already hungry. When the two siblings saw the food being served, they ignored the politeness and began to cook with revenge.
Li Fenglan felt full after eating for a while, and quietly watched Chen Ziyang gobble it up.
"What about that?" Li Fenglan asked, "What do your brothers and sisters call you?"
Chen Ziyang didn't bother to swallow his food: "They all call me by my nickname."
"What's your nickname?"
"Panpan...Sister, you can't call me by my nickname. I'm already fifteen, I look too young."
"Okay, don't shout."
Chen Ziyang ate a big meal, put down his bowl and chopsticks for a while, and asked: "Sister, you said you have nothing to do with Changfeng Tower, and you pretended to be anonymous, but you gave your real name before anyone asked you. , doesn’t this make sense?”
"I've said it all. I'll try to see if they believe it or not. It's best if they don't believe it. If they believe it, I'll move to another place."
"Then when someone asks you what your name is, how should you answer?"
Li Fenglan smiled: "I have a fake name, called Zhusha, how about it?"
Upon hearing this name, Chen Ziyang's eyes widened: "You were the one who caused trouble in Poyang Lake some time ago??"
Li Fenglan was instantly discouraged: "The name has spread... Then I'll call you Mulan from now on. Also, if you don't want me to call you Panpan, you can honestly call me Sister Lan from now on, do you hear me?" It belongs to my eldest sister, it looks so old."
Chen Ziyang nodded: "Sure."
After that, continue to eat.
While the two were eating, Li Fenglan suddenly heard fighting and scolding coming from the street. She looked at the door of the hotel and saw a pretty woman who looked slightly older than Chen Ziyang chasing three men.
Chen Ziyang took one look at it and said, "Here we go again."
Li Fenglan asked: "Do you know him?"
"Her name is Chu Jiaoer. Her grandfather and my grandfather had a very good relationship, and her parents often visit our family. Her parents died of illness ten years ago, and my uncle has been raising her."
Li Fenglan asked: "So I have a good relationship with you."
Chen Ziyang's eyes dodge: "It's okay, they're just ordinary brothers and sisters."
Li Fenglan smiled secretly, and asked again, "She is fighting with someone, why don't you go and see her?"
"Don't worry, she has some skills.
The three people she beat were local scoundrels. Dumpling often taught them a lesson and they were used to being beaten... Sister, do you still want to eat? "
"I won't eat, I'm full."
"Then let's go."
The two of them paid the bill and came out of the restaurant. They saw Chu Jiaoer, who had just beaten someone, angrily walking towards the restaurant.
Before Chen Ziyang had time to say hello, Chu Jiaoer looked at Li Fenglan and then at Chen Ziyang, and asked, "Who is this sister?" Her tone was unkind, and Li Fenglan could hear the uneasy smell of vinegar.
Chen Ziyang replied: "Yesterday I was chasing those gangsters, and the person I met on the road was named Mulan."
Li Fenglan deliberately wanted to give them both a shake. She leaned towards Chen Ziyang and said with a smile: "I just heard Ziyang talking about you. You are sister Chu Jiao'er, right?"
Seeing Li Fenglan's deliberate intimate gestures, Chu Jiaoer was filled with jealousy. She ignored Li Fenglan and said, "Plate, if you don't go home to eat at noon, you will eat other people's food. Be careful of my aunt scolding you."
Chen Ziyang explained: "I'm doing a favor for Sister Mulan. I can't refuse when people treat me to food."
Chu Jiaoer rolled her eyes and murmured in a low voice: "Repay Ziyang, return sister Mulan, that's a very kind statement."
After saying that, he ignored Chen Ziyang and turned around and walked towards his home.
Li Fenglan suppressed a smile and pushed Chen Ziyang: "Why are you standing there so stupidly? Why don't you catch up? Didn't you see that he was jealous?"
Chen Ziyang wondered: "Jealous? Whose jealousy is it?"
"Listen to sister, hurry up and say a few nice words to make her happy, otherwise you will never get a wife in your life."
"Then what do you do over there?"
"I'm such a big man, and I can't take care of myself? Go quickly."
Chen Ziyang quickly caught up with Chu Jiaoer who was very angry.
Li Fenglan looked at the backs of the couple. The girl was angry and ignored, while the boy was trying to comfort her. It was obviously a beautiful scene, but Li Fenglan couldn't help but feel a little envious.
…
In the afternoon, Li Fenglan bought a lot of things, including new mattresses, pots and pans, and some new oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, firewood, rice, oil and salt - yes, Li Fenglan wanted to cook for herself.
When she left Yangzhou, she took some money with her. She could save enough to spend three to five years, but if she couldn't save it, something would happen during this period. As a girl, her family didn't have much means of making a living, so she had to spend money sparingly.
After tidying up all afternoon, the courtyard was finally tidied up. Just as he was about to take a rest, he heard a knock on the door.
"Who?"
"Sister Lan, me."
"come in."
What surprised Li Fenglan was that Chu Jiaoer actually came with her.
Li Fenglan asked: "Why are you here? Didn't I tell you, don't come to me anymore?"
Chen Ziyang smiled and said, "Others don't know who you are, so what are you afraid of?"
Chen Ziyang pointed at Chu Jiaoer: "I told little dumpling about you."
Li Fenglan raised her forehead and said, "You are a child after all, why can't you hide your words? I am the God of Plague. Don't go around telling others, lest you get into trouble."
Chen Ziyang shook his head: "Little dumplings are not considered outsiders."
Chu Jiaoer clasped her fists and said, "I've met Sister Mulan. I was abrupt at noon. I hope you can forgive me."
Li Fenglan smiled and said, "What's so abrupt about this?"
Chu Jiaoer blushed with embarrassment.
It seemed that this cousin had some tricks up his sleeve and resolved the misunderstanding in time.
Li Fenglan asked: "What are you doing here at night?"
"Oh, it's nothing. I just want to see if you have cleaned up. If not, we will help you clean up."
"I've finished taking care of it, no need to help... I said, come over at dinner time, do you want to take advantage of me for another meal?"
Chen Ziyang said hurriedly: "No, I just asked you to spend money at noon, and we are here to help."
Li Fenglan smiled mysteriously: "Sister, I do have a favor that I need your help with."
Li Fenglan doesn't know how to cook at all. She has only entered the kitchen when she has grown up.
There are only a handful of times. Now I have to save money. I can't eat out every day, and there's no one around me who knows how to cook, so I have to rely on myself.
But she has no confidence in her cooking skills, or in other words, she has no cooking skills at all, so she doesn't know the price of these things in the kitchen. When I was shopping in the afternoon, I was cheated out of a lot of money by vendors.
Fortunately, there were two people who were willing to devote themselves to trying the dishes. Li Fenglan thought why not use this opportunity to practice her cooking skills.
As Li Fenglan was busy in the kitchen for more than an hour, four "delicious dishes" that looked like evil heretics were brought to the table.
Looking at the food on the table, both children's faces turned green.
In the next three days, the residents of Xiangyang City discovered two very strange things: Miss Chu, who usually chased local gangsters all over the streets, did not go out on the streets anymore, as if she was ill. Chen Ziyang, a pretty boy from Jingshui Street, was also sick for three days. I heard that several doctors visited his family during those three days. The doctor who visited them said that the two children had started talking nonsense and kept shouting "Help", "Don't give me food" and so on. The family members even went out of town to ask Taoist priests to perform exorcisms.
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Li Fenglan has been living well in Xiangyang these days. Apart from the fact that cooking her own meals is really unpalatable, she has found that living alone is not that difficult.
Growing up next to Chen Yi, the three sisters in Xiangyang spoke fluently. Living alone in the city, no one thought she was an outsider. Read the book
Chen Ziyang liked this cousin very much. He would go to her every three days and pester Li Fenglan to tell him the interesting stories he had encountered. Sometimes Chu Jiaoer would also come with her. Li Fenglan couldn't help but sigh. She met Linghan half a year ago. At that time, Amber pestered Linghan to talk about the interesting things she encountered. In the blink of an eye, half a year passed and she became an old man in the eyes of her cousin.
It was late at night, and the city of Xiangyang was silent. The lights of thousands of houses were extinguished, and only the stars in the sky gave off a little light.
Li Fenglan was sitting on the ridge of the main room, with a pot of wine and a wine cup in hand. She stared blankly at the crescent moon in the sky. It seems that my drinking capacity has become higher. I used to talk nonsense after three drinks, but now I am alone, and I am still not drunk after drinking more than one or two drinks. It is said that drinking wine relieves sorrow, but why does the more you drink this wine, the more sorrowful you become?
July is over, August will soon come, and in more than half a month, it will be another birthday. It’s just that no one is with me on this birthday, so I won’t receive any more gifts.
