mtl008 Chapter 40: He wanted to take her as a concubine. How could he think of that?
Chapter 40: He wanted to take her as a concubine. How could he think of that?
Jinnan, who was picking sweet potatoes in the distance, saw Yuan Si's eyes sparkling.
Seeing that it was a pheasant, Yuanman dealt with it herself. Killing and plucking the chicken was a piece of cake for her.
After finishing the chickens, the wild boars were almost killed.
Yuan Man watched the butcher removing the bones from the pig and saw that he was even removing the meat from the ribs. He quickly said, "Don't remove all the meat from the ribs."
The butcher took one look at her and stopped shaving the fan, leaving the whole fan in its place.
Yuanman looked at the cut meat and selected a large piece of pork belly, a piece of pork belly, and a piece of spare ribs and marinated them with seasonings.
After chopping the firewood, Gu Cheng wiped the sweat off his face and came over. Seeing her cutting branches, he couldn't help but look at the pickled wild boar meat.
"Ma'am, can I have a meal here? It looks delicious."
Yuan Man glanced at him, shrugged his shoulders, nodded and agreed, "As you wish."
After all, he is a customer. It’s just a meal. I can afford to be so picky.
After the butcher had dealt with the wild boar, Yuan Man didn't even need to ask him to do anything, as he dealt with the roe deer himself.
Yuanman called Manager Li and asked him to keep two wild boar legs and distribute the rest to the farmers as a snack for them.
After expressing his gratitude, Manager Li asked the butcher to divide the pork so that they could take it home when they got off work.
The butcher cut the meat into strips according to Manager Li's request.
Each of the twenty farming households can get nearly four pounds of meat, which can be eaten for a long time after being pickled with salt.
Yuanman looked at the time and started to light a fire and grill the meat.
At noon, Manager Li rang the gong to stop work and take a break, and then the farmers began to line up to get the meat.
Jinnan and his brothers and sisters watched them receive the meat. Looking at the smiles on their faces, he couldn't help but think of how they begged in the past.
They would be happy for a long time when they got a steamed bun, let alone a piece of meat.
During those two years, they had never seen meat.
Yuan Man ignored them and focused on roasting the meat in his hands.
This was her original purpose, so she naturally would not interrupt them.
Gu Cheng went to check the yield in the fields.
After the farmers had received their meat, there was still some wild boar meat left, so Manager Li came to ask Yuanman if he wanted any.
Yuan Man thought about it and asked Manager Li to take two more pounds and keep the rest. He also kept the pig liver and pig heart that were originally going to be thrown away.
In fact, she really likes to eat pig stomach and pig intestines, but considering the feelings of the cooks, she didn't order them.
The barbecue smelled more and more fragrant, attracting all the children to gather around. Even Gu Chen ran back and sat down to eat the meat.
Yuan Man brushed on the last layer of honey and said loudly, "Get ready for dinner."
After roasting these meats, prepare the ribs, roast chicken and roe deer. The pheasant and roe deer are roasted whole, and the fire is low, so you only need to turn them over occasionally and you don't have to keep an eye on them.
Yuanman took off the meat and buried the sweet potatoes in the charcoal fire. He was about to take Yuanbao and let Grandma Liu eat it first.
Granny Liu was unwilling to do so and let Yuanman eat first.
Yuanman knew that her hands must be sore from holding Yuanbao for so long, so he snatched Yuanbao away and let her eat first while she could hold Yuanbao while eating.
"It's delicious. It's so delicious." Xiao Yaer was the first to shout out.
The children were eating happily and just nodded without saying a word.
Gu Chen was reserved at first, but after taking two bites he immediately sped up and was almost competing with the children for food.
While Yuanman was eating, Yuanbao kept moaning, staring at the meat in her hand with light in his eyes.
"Hey, our little Yuanbao is still young and can't eat meat. He can only eat moths when he grows up a bit."
"Ah, ah." Yuanbao waved his little hands and shouted.
Yuanman had no choice but to ask the wet nurse to take Yuanbao back to the carriage to feed him.
Yuanman and the others ate a little and stopped moving. What they didn’t expect was that they could finish all the roasted pork belly and pork tenderloin!
Finally the ribs were ready, and everyone ate another one. Everyone was so full.
Because they really couldn't eat it, they all looked at the pheasant and roe deer with regretful expressions.
Yuan Man tasted some roe deer meat, smiled and shook her head, "If you like it, I'll make it for you next time. Look how full you all are."
"We can heat these up in the evening and eat them later so they won't be wasted."
"Walk around for a while. If you feel sleepy, go to the courtyard to rest. You can eat roasted sweet potatoes later."
"I'm not sleepy. I still want to pick sweet potatoes." Jingxi said suddenly.
Jingxi and Xixue are not talkative. They usually follow Jinnan and do whatever he tells them to do.
Jingxi spoke up this time, which made Yuanman very happy. "Okay, then you guys play for a while. I'll call you when the sweet potatoes are cooked."
Grandma Liu also ate a lot, so she got up and followed the children to the sweet potato field to take a walk to digest the food.
Gu Cheng looked at the six children, and then at the Yuanbao in Yuanman’s arms.
"Madam, the father of this child..."
Yuan Man looked at him and said, "I wonder why Master Gu is asking about the father of my child?"
Gu Cheng coughed lightly and said, "It's like this, it's the man you met in the dilapidated temple before, he..."
"Well, he wants to take you as his concubine. What do you think?"
Yuan Man thought there was something wrong with his ears. "What did you say? Say it again."
Gu Chen was a little speechless, "Well, don't you find that he looks very similar to this child?"
"According to the investigation, he is 80% likely the father of the child."
Yuan Man shook his head subconsciously and said, "Impossible."
"How could he be the father of my child?"
Gu Cheng explained, "Last May, he was poisoned and fled to Sanlipi outside Mingzhou City. And you also appeared there for some reason."
"Well, the day we met you in the ruined temple was exactly the day after you gave birth."
Yuan Man looked at him and asked, "Besides this, do you have any other evidence?"
Sanlipi, that’s where the original owner’s accident really happened.
Gu Cheng glanced at the child and said, "Does it count if they look alike?"
"The child looks a lot like his father."
"Oh, and he was wearing a silver and gold mask."
As soon as Gu Chen said this, Yuan Man confirmed it, it was true.
No wonder I smelled a familiar scent when I walked past him that time.
Want to take her as a concubine!
His brain was broken, but hers was not. The man's identity was obviously not simple. She was living a good life now, so why should she dig her own grave?
So, she would never admit it even if she was beaten to death.
So Yuan Man said coldly: "There are so many people in the world who look alike, they can't be used as evidence."
"Besides, I have never seen any masked person, so your investigation is wrong."
Gu Cheng: “…”
Anyway, he has brought his message home, and if the other party doesn't admit it, there's nothing he can do.
Anyway, he felt there was no hope, so he was not surprised at all by his wife's attitude.
Yuan Man secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he stopped talking.
She thought that tomorrow she would put the Hanging Hall away first, and then ask Yuanyue to arrange it, and then move in as soon as the sweet potatoes and potatoes were harvested.
He wanted to take her as a concubine. How could he think of that?