Sick Man Turns Out to be a General

3When Mu Chen carried the fish back, he saw Shen Jingli and Qing Sheng sitting in the courtyard, picking vegetables as they talked.    3

    

Seeing Mu Chen come back, Shen Jingli clapped his hands, got up and welcomed him. Taking the fish from Mu Chen's hands, he introduced his to him: "This is Aunt Ming's Third Daughter-in-law, his name is Qing Sheng. Qing Sheng, this is my husband, Mu Chen. He is ranked fourteenth.    

    

Qing Sheng raised his head and looked at Mu Chen, he was immediately stunned by Mu Chen's imposing manner, and wiped his hands off his apron, then anxiously stood up and shouted: "Hello, Fourteenth Brother."    

    

Mu Chen slightly nodded, and changed the topic: "Where's Third Grandpa? 'Haven't you come back yet? '    

    

Shen Jingli turned and handed the fish over to Qing Sheng, then answered loudly, "Third Grandpa is still at the patriarch's house, drinking tea and chatting with great-uncle Pi, he said that he will be back by himself later."    

    

"Yes." Mu Chen nodded in understanding and looked at Qing Sheng again. He muttered to himself for a while and said: "Yifann will be back tomorrow.    

    

Just as Qing Sheng let Yu Shuang out, she was again stunned when she heard him. She wondered in her heart how Mu Chen knew that his boss was not at home.    

    

Mu Chen and Shen Jingli looked at each other for a while before turning around and returning to their room. Xun Er, Huaixin and Mu Xi were playing Go, and when they saw Mu Chen come in, Xun Er and Huaixin ran over and hugged onto his legs while Mu Xi stood up shakily with his hands on the bottom of his jacket.    

    

"Master, you're back." Jin Yu and Nian Hua, who were accompanying them, quickly stood up and saluted.    

    

Mu Chen nodded, then sent them out to get water and make tea.    

    

"Father, why did you just return?" Xun Er misses you. " Xun Er climbed up while grabbing onto Mu Chen's leg.    

    

Mu Xi occasionally raised his eyes, seeing how Xun Er was sticking to Mu Chen's body and "acting mighty", he couldn't help but feel that it was strange. At the same time, he felt that Xun Er was very powerful, to actually dare to pester his father and act like a spoiled child.    

    

"Huaixin also really misses Uncle Mu. Huaixin also really misses Uncle Mu." Huaixin raised his head, raised both his hands and shouted.    

    

Mu Chen's seriousness usually made the other children avoid him, but Huaixin was not afraid of him and even liked to get close to him.    

    

Mu Chen glanced at the two kids and bent down to pick them up. His eyes immediately narrowed into slits as he smiled, shifted his little butt, and sat even more stably in the crook of Mu Chen's arm. He then pulled on the clothes in front of Mu Chen to curry favor with him, rubbing his face with his pink cheeks.    

    

"Daddy, I have a new friend." After the little guy finished acting coquettishly, he immediately began to show off in a complacent manner. If he had a tail, he would probably go up to the sky.    

    

Turning his head, he said to Mu Xi, "Brother Xi, quickly come over. This is my father, is he the great general?"    

    

Mu Chen had long noticed that the timid child was standing at the back. He seemed to be very afraid of strangers as his hands anxiously grabbed onto the hem of his clothes and bit his lower lip.    

    

Xun Er had been waiting for a long time, but still did not see him come over, so he climbed down from Mu Chen's embrace and ran over, holding his hand as he pulled him over, and said to Mu Chen happily: "Father, this is Big Brother Xi, this is my new brother."    

    

Huaixin was also very excited, he hurriedly interjected, "Brother Xi is a good person. He plays Go with Xun Er and me."    

    

Seeing the two children so happy, the look in Mu Chen's eyes softened, and the corners of his mouth curled up. Seeing this, Mu Xi felt that this uncle of his was not that difficult to get along with, and so he crisply called out, "Hello, uncle."    

    

Mu Chen nodded and put Huaixin down as well. He patted Xun Er's little head and said, "Daddy wants to change his clothes, bring Huaixin and Brother Xi out to play."    

    

Hearing his father use this tone to discuss with him, Xun Er felt that he had received a lot of attention. Raising his chest, he patted his chest and guaranteed: "Okay, leave this to me."    

    

Xun Er was very happy, holding onto a person's hand, he walked out. Jin Yu brought a basin of warm water over, and when she saw this situation, she couldn't help but laugh.    

    

When Xun Er pulled Huaixin and his sister into the courtyard, Shen Jingli and Qing Sheng had already picked a big pot of vegetables and was eating dessert while chatting about how things were at home.    

    

"Mama …" Xun Er shouted. He immediately abandoned his friends and ran to Shen Jingli's side, climbing onto Shen Jingli's knees and sat there, smiling as he said, "Mama, Xun Er wants to eat fish soup tonight."    

    

He saw that the bowl was filled with fish. The fish that he caught had cut open the corner of his mouth and was still alive and kicking. He placed them in the basin and started to churn.    

    

"Be good, I'll make it for you." Shen Jingli looked at him and said.    

    

Xun Er immediately continued: "Xun Er is very obedient. If you don't believe me, ask Big Sister Jin Yu."    

    

Jin Yu, who was called out, was a little confused. She did not understand that she just wanted to bring the wooden basin back to the kitchen.    

    

Although she was happy that Young Master called her big sister, but she did not hear a single word that the Madam had just said.    

    

"Sister Jin Yu, do you think I am obedient?" Seeing Jin Yu not saying anything, Xun Er asked again.    

    

"Good, Young Master is the most obedient." Jin Yu immediately nodded in agreement.    

    

Xun Er immediately turned his head to look at Shen Jingli, smiling very proudly, "Mama, Big Sister Jin Yu said that I'm very obedient."    

    

Seeing that his son was acting cute towards him, Shen Jingli could not help but laugh inside. He reached out to rub Xun Er's little head and agreed: "Alright, I'll make you a fish soup to steam the eggs tonight."    

    

Xun Er clapped happily, then got down from Shen Jingli's lap and ran over and pulled Huaixin and Mu Xi along to play.    

    

"Xun Er is really a good boy." Qing Sheng praised.    

    

That's because you've never seen his mischievous look before, Shen Jingli thought in his heart as he got up and went to wash the picked wild vegetables.    

    

"Let me do it." Seeing that Shen Jingli was going to wash the vegetables, Qing Sheng followed him over fearfully. He had heard from his mother that this sister-in-law was the County Prince of the capital, so how could she let him do such menial work?    

    

Qing Sheng scrambled to wash the vegetables. Since he had no other choice, Shen Jingli decided to let him take care of it, and then looked at the fish in the pot. There were three of them altogether, two big bigheaded fishes, one of them was estimated to be more than three kilograms and the other was a small grass fish.    

    

Seeing those two bigheads, Shen Jingli wanted to make pickled fish tonight, but he didn't have any pickles at home.    

    

"Jin Yu." Seeing Jin Yu coming out from the kitchen, Shen Jingli called out to her, "Go to Aunt Qing's house next door and buy some pickled vegetables."    

    

"Alright." Jin Yu washed her hands, then went out to buy pickled vegetables.    

    

On the other side, Qing Sheng had already washed all the wild vegetables. He noticed that they did not bring a chef, so he took the initiative to say: "Sister An, let me cook tonight."    

    

Seeing that he really wanted to show off, Shen Jingli nodded, then said: "I'll do it with you."    

    

After going to the capital, he had not cooked much, and suddenly felt nostalgic for his skills. Yes, he could even make some snacks for the children.    

    

Qing Sheng did not expect Shen Jingli to say that, but after thinking about it, he understood again. He was afraid that Shen Jingli felt that it was embarrassing letting him, a customer, help him cook, so he said that.    

    

The two of them worked together. Qing Sheng cooked dinner tonight, and Shen Jingli made some snacks for the children.    

    

Seeing that there were quite a lot of ingredients in the kitchen, Shen Jingli decided to make a glutinous rice bean curd.    

    

First mix a certain amount of glutinous rice flour, rice flour and sugar, add cold water, stir evenly, form batter, then steam in the boiling pot, about 40 minutes out of the pot, cool a little, and then knead again to make the dough taste even better, then spread the dough, spread a layer of bean paste, roll it up, then cut it into small pieces, and then stick with the cocoa.    

    

However, Shen Jingli didn't have the coconut coconut coconut at his side, so he didn't cook it. After cutting it into pieces, he put it to the side and started to make cat ears.    

    

There were two types of cat ears, one was the pasta, it could be cooked by stir-frying and sprinkled with soup for eating, and the other was the snack, fried cat ears. Shen Jingli craved this when he was young, so the method was not too complicated.    

    

First, he distilled the brown sugar and filtered out the larger particles inside. Then, he used the sweet water and flour to make a piece of the red dough. Then, he mixed some flour and added a little salt to make the same dough.    

    

Both dough were rolled into three-millimeter sheets, and the white sheets were placed at the bottom, and the red sheets were placed on top. Fifteen minutes later, the two sheets were rolled into thin rolls.    

    

Finally, he sliced them into thin pieces and fried them in a frying pan. Then, the crispy red and white cat ears were made.    

    

"Mama, is the fish soup ready?"    

    

Just as Shen Jingli fished out the cat ears and placed them on a plate, putting them in the shade to cool, Xun Er came in shouting. As he walked, he also sniffed with his nose.    

    

"Mama, what did you make to eat? "It smells so good." The children were all greedy, salivating whenever they smelled good food.    

    

Mu Xi and Huaixin followed behind, holding hands. The two of them were a couple and the difference in age was relatively small. After an afternoon of teamwork, they had already become good friends.    

    

Qing Sheng saw that his son's face was filled with smiles, which made him sad yet happy at the same time. He hurriedly brought out the fish soup for them, "This fish soup's temperature is just right, you guys quickly come and eat it."    

    

Upon hearing that the fish soup could be eaten, Xun Er turned around and followed Qing Sheng into the living room. He didn't even greet Shen Jingli, which made Shen Jingli feel both funny and angry, to the point of saying that he had raised a little ingrate.    

    

After eating the fish soup, they also ate a small piece of red bean roll with glutinous rice and drank a cup of milk. After eating their fill, they packed a bag of cat ears and went out to find other children to play.    

    

"Don't go too far, it'll be dinner soon." Shen Jingli instructed them.    

    

"Got it." Xun Er responded perfunctorily as he pulled Mu Xi and Huaixin and ran off.    

    

Seeing that his son had gotten along well with the kids, Qing Sheng couldn't help but wipe his tears and say emotionally, "This kid can finally play with the other kids, I'm so happy."    

    

Seeing him like this, Shen Jingli knew that he was worried sick for that child.    

    

"..."    

    

The dinner was prepared by Qing Sheng, who helped out by the side.    

    

Qing Sheng's cooking skills were very good. After eating a meal, he was praised repeatedly by the few men in his family, to the point where he felt somewhat embarrassed.    

    

After the meal, Shen Jingli packed two pieces of cloth and placed a set of accessories on the table for Qing Sheng to bring back. Qing Sheng tried his best to refuse them, but he could not endure Shen Jingli's insistence and decided to accept them.    

    

After Qing Sheng left, everyone returned to their rooms.    

    

Shen Jingli sat in front of the copper mirror and combed his black hair, then told Mu Chen about Qing Sheng.    

    

"Yifann is the clan leader's third son, and I heard that when he was born, it was difficult for his to give birth. He caused Madam of Patriarch to suffer for half a life, and Madam of Patriarch felt that this child was not very good to his." Mu Chen told Mu Yi Cheng everything he heard, "When Yifann reached the age of marriage, the Madam of Patriarch initially picked out a lucky lady from the village, but Yifann disagreed, she married the pair from a poor Elementary Scholar family, and that was Qing Sheng."    

    

"Although Madam of Patriarch doesn't like Yifann, he treats his family well, whatever good stuff they have, they're all divided up by her brothers, they spent a portion of the money on the branch family's house."    

    

"Every family has its own problems. As for their family matters, they will handle them by themselves. You don't need to get involved."    

    

Human feelings were always complicated. As an outsider, Shen Jingli didn't know what to say. He nodded and went to bed.    

    

Mu Chen extinguished the candle flame and extended his arm to hug Shen Jingli. Shen Jingli turned his body over and rolled into his embrace.