Listening to the complaints inside, Ye Chengwei frowned.

gradually realized that the girl of the Hua family was afraid that she couldn't cook, so she had no choice but to get up and support her waist and walk into the kitchen.

In the billowing smoke, only two figures could be seen in a panic extinguishing the fire.

When the smoke gradually dissipated, Ye Chengwei looked at the two people with dirty faces, slowly brushed his sleeves to disperse the pungent smell in the scattered room, and said embarrassedly: "It's me who blames the dude." ”

After apologizing to the shopkeeper, he walked away from the shopkeeper, and then walked up to Hua Rujin and took out a handkerchief, wiping the cigarette ash on her face while instructing: "I'll come, you just need to add firewood." ”

"Oh, that's fine."

Hua Rujin smiled wryly.

Obediently sat by the stove, handed the firewood according to his instructions, and watched him quietly and skillfully fiddle with pots and pans.

Soon after, the smell began to fill the kitchen, and people were gluttonous.

"I didn't expect that Zhuang Yuanlang not only learned five cars, but also learned cooking skills."

Looking at the two dishes he made, it was really full of color, flavor, and flowers, and he complimented him sincerely.

"Studying outside the home all year round is just the most basic survival skill."

Ye Chengwei replied without arrogance, and there was some loss in his heart.

When I first met her, I thought that this Nizi was the same as an ordinary country girl, but I never thought that the talent and courage she showed would make people applaud again and again, but she was not touched by the skills that ordinary girls would have.

It's really different.

For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

Hua Rujin stared at the man in front of her silently, and somehow the more she looked at it, the more pleasing it became.

In my memory, most of the time, the original owner was fostered in the house of his elegant cousin to study, and he rarely came into contact with the work of the kitchen, and the most he did was to help the two cousins sort medicinal herbs.

Even after returning to Hua's house, Mrs. Meng in the second room was still worried about being wary of her, and did not dare to let her enter the kitchen house, for fear that the original owner would do something in the meal.

After all, the original owner is not a good cook, like himself.

cough, if you marry such a virtuous helper and go home, it is also a very good thing for the husband and children to heat the kang head every day.

Just thinking about the past of the two and her current encounter, she didn't dare to think about it.

Waiting for Ye Chengwei to make three dishes and one soup, and after steaming the rice, the two sat in the quiet living room and used the rice leisurely.

The shopkeeper secretly glanced at the two handsome young students in the corridor, and then thought about the ambiguous movements of the two in the kitchen, and felt a lot of disdain.

"It's a pity, the two pretty sons who are gentle and elegant have broken their sleeves, but fortunately they asked for two rooms, which is not insulting."

sighed silently, left the shopkeeper, and went straight back to the house.

"You've worked hard today, make up for yourself."

Ye Chengwei took a bowl of fish soup and handed it to Hua Rujin, full of concern.

"You're working hard, too."

Hua Rujin glanced at his waist and put some vegetables into his bowl.

The shopkeeper looked at him with a burst of nausea and nausea, and also sneaked away.

Hua Rujin noticed the abnormality and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and said, "What's wrong with them?" ”

Ye Chengwei glanced at her outfit and seemed to understand something, so he quickly shook his head and said, "It's okay, just stay in the countryside and be careful." ”

Thinking of Shu Jinxuan, his heart suddenly became sour: "Fortunately, Miss Hua is okay today, otherwise your cousin"

"My cousin."

Hua Rujin looked at his ill-intentioned eyes, and suddenly realized that he was thinking about the events of that night again.

cough, if he knew that I was sleeping in the countryside with Ye Gongzi at the moment, I am afraid that what he said would be even more ugly.

Ye Chengwei sighed silently: "Fortunately, tomorrow."

"How's tomorrow?"

Hua Rujin saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, and hurriedly asked.

"Nothing."

Ye Chengwei shook his head: "Hurry up and eat." ”

The two ate a few dishes on the table, and then Ye Chengwei instructed the shopkeeper to prepare hot water to bathe Hua Rujin, but the shopkeeper was embarrassed.

Hua Rujin immediately thought of something, and asked hesitantly, "But the water prepared in the inn is not enough?" ”

After all, this place is close to the edge of the Chu River, and most families rely on the water source of the Chu River for survival, and few people should dig another well.

The cost of digging a well in a small inn like this is not small.

The shopkeeper nodded with a bitter face: "Please also invite the two sons Haihan, just because the water of the Chu River suddenly turned black, and our inn is next to the downstream section of the river, it is too far to go to the northwest to get water, so we can only rely on a few wells in nearby towns every day to buy a few loads of water to temporarily maintain the business of the store, and there are many merchants coming and going these days, so I am really not very well prepared." ”

Hua Rujin listened to the complaint of the shopkeeper, and told Ye Chengwei what she had seen by the river before.

"Let's go down."

Ye Chengwei gradually fell into deep thought.

After waiting for the shopkeeper to retreat, he asked with a puzzled expression: "Why did the good river water suddenly turn black, and it was filled with the smell of coke?" ”

"Maybe the answer lies underwater."

Hua Rujin replied uncertainly.

But this answer is difficult to get for sure.

In these years, technology is limited, and it is too difficult to explore the secrets of the bottom of the river.

But after thinking about it, he had already come into contact with those floating corpses today, and he should be able to find some clues.

Looking at him intently, Hua Rujin cautiously asked, "What did Ye Gongzi gain from going to Yizhuang today?" ”

Ye Chengwei didn't want to admit that he had been to Yizhuang, but this girl's fuss in front of Yizhuang today was obviously determined that she was inside.

Thinking back to the conversation in the forest just now, he had no choice but to reply truthfully: "Those corpses are probably some years old, but they are well preserved, and most of them have no wounds from the sword, and even if they do, they are more like bruises left by the impact of hard objects. ”

Raising his eyes thoughtfully, he slowly shook his head and said: "According to the conclusion of the autopsy, most of these people died of suffocation, and many of them had the smell of charcoal in their mouths and noses, but there were no traces of burns on their bodies, and it was not caused by fire." ”

"I remember hearing rumors from all over the place that those floating corpses were the corpses of soldiers who sank to the bottom of the river during the war."

Hua Rujin gradually muttered in her heart: "If it is the remains of the soldiers, even if it is a recent battle, it is a big battle that the great grandfather fought across the river back then, not to mention more than 20 years, the corpses cannot be preserved so well, and the smell of charcoal in their mouths and noses is even more inexplicable." ”

"It's really puzzling."

Ye Chengwei smiled bitterly: "Now the floating corpses salvaged from several Yizhuang are close to two thousand, according to the people of the Inspection Department, there are still new corpses every day, such a huge number is not caused by the war, it is indeed difficult to find other explanations." ”

Hua Rujin has no memory of this in her mind.

Although Jiang'an County and Jiangling City are not far apart, they can always belong to two counties, and there are very few things that the people at the bottom can know about the ancient information blockage.

If it was really because of the disaster, the number of people killed was so shocking, it should be traced.

After thinking about it, she reminded Ye Chengwei: "Has Ye Gongzi consulted the county records?" ”

(End of chapter)