Su Pan’er had long been salivating, and she picked up her blanket noodle and stuffed it into her mouth.
It was perfect in color, aroma, and taste.
Indeed, it was as delicious as she had imagined!
Not until she drank all the soup did Su Pan’er feel satisfied and put down her bowl.
Unintentionally, she looked up and saw a very familiar house across the street.
Wasn’t this Registrar Bai’s house?
A closure order was still hanging on the front door, while the bare branches of the big tree inside the courtyard were sticking out beyond the wall, quivering in the cold wind, making the place truly desolate.
"Boss, is that house across the street empty?"
Su Pan’er casually asked the boss, who finally had so free ti.
"Ma’am, are you referring to Bai Residence across the street?"
The boss glanced at the house across the street, grinning, "Isn’t it empty right now! This area used to be bustling with people and quite lively. But ever since that Registrar Bai got arrested, the place has beco deserted. Seeing that no one was taking care of this place temporarily, I just took the opportunity to set up a stall here for a few days."
"Boss, you’ve got quite an eye for opportunity! Impressive."
Su Pan’er gave him a thumbs-up.
Setting up a stall here wasn’t sothing anyone could have the courage to do. If Registrar Bai wasn’t dead, he might co back to cause trouble. This boss sure has guts and is ticulous!
The mixed noodle stall boss grinned broadly, "Oh, stop it Ma’am, you’re flattering ."
"You’re too modest, Boss."
Su Pan’er chuckled, and didn’t make any further comnt.
She’d co out today to buy so things and check out properties. When she suddenly saw Bai Residence, she couldn’t help but rember the secret tunnel under the garden and her thoughts began to race.
Having lost her shopping mood, she quickly returned ho.
As soon as Su Pan’er arrived back at the governnt back office, she urgently summoned Kid Li.
"Is the Master still busy out front today?"
Kid Li didn’t dare to lie, "Yes, he’s been busy. The Master has been busy from dawn till now, he hasn’t even had his lunch yet. It’s been left out and got cold a long ti ago!"
Frost had already fallen and Changze County was situated in a valley of the mountains. Mists hung over the area every morning and wouldn’t disperse until midday. Every exhale turned into mist, not to ntion the thin layer of ice on the water that ford early in the morning.
"What’s he doing in such cold weather? If he eats cold food and gets sick, what then?"
Su Pan’er thought for a mont, then turned and headed toward the front office.
On her way there, she rembered that Qin Yi was currently officially on duty, so what would she be considered doing there?
She promptly turned around and returned to the back office, instructing the kitchen to prepare cherry pork, soft fried pork loin, stir-fried baby bok choy, and winter lon soup to be packed into the Eight Treasures Food Box, and had Kid Li deliver it to Qin Yi. She further instructed that Kid Li must make sure Qin Yi ate before returning.
Not long after, Kid Li returned with the empty food container, indicating that Qin Yi had already eaten.
Su Pan’er was finally satisfied and went back to her room.
To her surprise, as she entered, she felt an odd atmosphere inside.
She imdiately raised an eyebrow.
"How did you get in here?"
The rascal pig wasn’t in Luoyan Village, was it? How did it get here?
"How dare you question , it’s all your fault!"
The rascal pig was rolling around the floor in a rascally and shaless manner, "You heartless wicked woman! You, you don’t care about your Grandpa Pig at all, completely disregarding the tis we’ve shared together in hardships. You selfishly left with a man to eat and drink well, while you randomly discarded Grandpa Pig?"
"Get lost! You rascal pig, get out of my sight!"
Su Pan’er was pissed off by its unruly manner! She lifted her foot and kicked it away, then retaliating with an icy faced counter-question.
"Who was the one who, at the beginning, vowed to that they would surely take care of Xiyue?"
"And who abandoned Xiyue there, not giving her even a bite of food or sip of water for two consecutive days, while you yourself vanished without a trace?"
"And still, who gnawed away more than half of that at Lingzhi mushroom, leaving the barely alive remainder, throwing it into the pool?"
"Hm, why aren’t you speaking now?"
Su Pan’er kept badgering it, stepping forward after every question.
The rascal pig kept retreating step by step, its head lowered, its eyes rolling round and round and round.
Seeing that it was cornered against the wall, with nowhere to retreat, the rascal pig straightened its neck, and started to wail, its mouth chomping non-stop.
"This matter, I, Grandpa Pig, am not to bla..."
It erected its fan-shaped pig ears, its piggy eyes rounded: "Grandpa Pig just felt that that, that at Lingzhi mushroom was too fragrant, too fragrant, and Grandpa Pig couldn’t resist eating it. Afterward, I just looked for a safe place to digest it. But, but Grandpa Pig had absolutely no idea that that thing would cause Grandpa Pig to sleep for so long. That’s why, so..."
"Alright then!"
Su Pan’er was furious to the point of exploding!
Rushing forward, she grabbed its pig ear and gave it a hard twist: "Didn’t I tell you last ti, that at Lingzhi mushroom needs to be combined with other dicinal ingredients to make the delicious sugar-coated pills that you love! You just look at you, you actually ate it all in one go. Not only did you completely waste its dicinal properties, but now you don’t even get to eat the sugar-coated pills. You deserve it!"
Upon hearing these words, the rascal pig’s tears began to trickle down non-stop.
It rolled about on the ground!
"Pan’er, an Pan’er, you knew that Grandpa Pig couldn’t resist, but you still deliberately put it in front of Grandpa Pig to tempt ? Woo woo..."
In the end, it seed like she was the one in the wrong.
This detestable rascal pig!
"Keep wailing then! I’m punishing you by not allowing you to eat for three days, let’s see if you dare to repeat this."
Su Pan’er was a mixture of anger, annoyance, frustration, and couldn’t bear to listen to its wailing anymore. She turned around and left the house.
"Oh no! Seriously..."
Behind her, there ca a renewed wail from the rascal pig, Su Pan’er didn’t reply, but she was quite satisfied with this rascal pig that had co chasing all this way to find her.
She couldn’t stop the corners of her mouth from stretching upwards into a smile.
Things at the governnt back office had basically been settled, she turned back after a short round trip, feeling bored, she suddenly thought that Ke’er was schooling in the courtyard, and she turned again and went to the courtyard.
In the courtyard, Ke’er’s clear voice reading aloud was continually echoing.
Qin Yi had hired two tutors for Ke’er, one to teach literature, the other martial arts. Seeing Ke’er seriously following his tutor’s instructions, his earnest attitude made Su Pan’er couldn’t help but smile, nodding in satisfaction.
She quietly stood outside, listening to the tutor’s instruction until the class ended, and Ke’er ca out after bidding goodbye to his tutor, only then did Su Pan’er go forth to greet him.
"Fourth Sister! Why have you co?"
As soon as Su Ke saw her, he dashed over: "Fourth Sister, Fourth Sister, did you see the tutor just now? Did you see Ke’er in class? I tell you, the tutor praised Ke’er for making rapid progress in his studies today!"
The mont he blabbed rapidly, chattering non-stop.
"He praised your progress so as to encourage your perseverance, and not for you to be complacent and self-satisfied."
Su Pan’er ruffled the top of his head.
"Ke’er knows that, Fourth Sister!"
Delighted, Su Ke hovered around Su Pan’er, not willing to let go of her arm.
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