magic eye doctor

Chapter 3807 Excuses
Wu Shao, who works as a video uploader, uploads videos to the platform without caring about how others feel after watching them. She hums a little tune as she runs downstairs.

When she came downstairs, the handsome young men had already torn the cooked bamboo shoots and were busy mixing them with seasonings and packing them into jars.

Yesterday's pickled bamboo shoots were pickled bamboo shoots. This time, the little girl changed the recipe, made chili oil, and created the most famous dish in Province C—chili oil bamboo shoot slices.

The ingredients used in the little girl's exclusive recipe are mixed with bamboo shoots. Even if the flavors haven't fully penetrated due to the short cooking time, the bamboo shoots are still crisp, tender, and fragrant, making them irresistible.

The handsome guys hurriedly packed the side dishes into jars and sealed them.

Zhou Tianxing also received a small bottle, which was just a small bottle like the ones used for fermented bean curd, just for them to taste.

The handsome guys, including Ren Shaolan, were given 5L glass bottles as their share.

By the time I finished preparing the dishes to go with the rice, it was almost 9:30.

Zhou Tianxing and Zhou Tianming happily went home with their bottles of snacks.

The handsome young man put his younger sister to bed early, while he and his friends stayed up late to prepare braised pork, steamed chicken in bamboo tubes, and steamed pork with rice flour.

Zhou Qiufeng and Le's father didn't compete with the young people for work; they went to bed early.

Yan Lao, Lan San, and Hei Jiu, two handsome men, along with Chao Shao, Ren Shao, and Wu Shao, three good-looking young men, stayed up late making food. Since they had nothing else to do, they also gathered ingredients and made skewers.

We grilled and ate some of the skewers right away, but stored most of them in a special box in the food storage room.

In the middle of the night, an old man and five young men worked together to knead yellow mud, wrap several chickens and fish in it, and put them into the ashes of the stove.

The Le family makes medicinal cuisine, and the air above Meicun is filled with fragrance all night long. The villagers can also smell the fragrance when they wake up in the morning.

Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, got up early in the morning and went to the backyard to see if there was anything she could help with. She saw Old Man Yan and the handsome guys happily turning over mud balls.

The couple quietly went back to the front of the building to wash up and then went into the kitchen to make breakfast.

As dawn broke, the Le family's breakfast was ready.

The little girl stayed late, only showing up when it was almost lunchtime. Even though she was the last one to get up, everyone was still worried that she hadn't slept enough, so they handed her the bowls and chopsticks.

The Le family made sour soup noodles this morning, and the side dishes included the red oil bamboo shoots they made last night.

The main dishes to accompany the rice were steamed pork with rice flour from last night, a plate of braised pork slices, a clay-baked chicken, and two clay-baked fish.

Pickled bamboo shoots left overnight are crisp, tender, and delicious, making them a perfect accompaniment to rice.

Yan Lao and the others each ate two bowls of sour soup noodles and about ten steamed buns, and were quite satisfied with their meal.

After enjoying a delicious meal, Ren Shaowu, Lan Sanhei Jiu quickly changed their clothes, grabbed their tools, and followed the hostess of the Le family to the mountains to find bamboo shoots.

The handsome young man, Chao Shao, and the little girl didn't go. In Wu Shao's words, "Chao Shao, you are a breathtakingly beautiful young man. You should only be responsible for being beautiful. Searching for bamboo shoots all over the mountain is not a job for someone like you. If you go up the mountain and get scratched on the face by thorns, that would be a big problem."

Of course, that's a nicer reason. To put it more simply, it's like this: Young Master Chao, you're too weak and slow. Going up the mountain with you will only be a hindrance.

As for the little girl, her hair is too long to run all over the mountain, so she only needs to prepare the seasonings for the food; she doesn't need to worry about finding the raw materials.

The handsome young man, rejected by his parents, silently carries the burden of being labeled "weak" and becomes a left-behind child.

Zhou Qiufeng didn't do any housework. After finishing her meal, she picked up her basket and set off. Le's father fed the pigs, chickens, and ducks, and then went to herd the cattle.

The handsome young man took on the task of washing the dishes, while Old Man Yan tended the stove.

The little girl went for a stroll in the rice paddies early in the morning to observe the rice plants. When she returned home, Zhou Tianxing had also arrived, and she tutored him on the second floor.

The big wolfhound, unusually, didn't cling to the young lady. He followed the male master of the Le family to herd cattle and acted as his bodyguard.

After finishing breakfast, Zhou Tianming went to his uncle's house to play. He, along with the handsome young man Chao Shao and Old Man Yan, took on the important tasks of making braised pork, steamed bamboo tube chicken, and braised pork belly.

Zhou Qiufeng led four handsome young men and set off a little after seven o'clock. They traveled on the mountain for several hours and did not return home until nearly midnight.

They met Le's father, who was herding cattle, on their way down the mountain, and they went home together.

Zhou Qiufeng is a native rural woman who has worked in the mountains since childhood. She is quick and nimble, and when her basket is full, she uses vines to tie the bamboo shoots together and carry them home.

Ren Shao and Wu Shao are cultivators with agile skills, while Lan San and Hei Jiu are amphibious warriors who can adapt to combat in various terrains. Their skills are also quite good, so the four of them each gained something similar to that of the Le family's mistress.

After the five people, laden with their purchases, returned home and washed up, it was time for dinner.

After having lunch at Le's house, Zhou Tianxing took the bamboo-tube chicken and a bag of braised meat that Sister Le had packed for him, went back to his own home, packed his luggage, and then went to the village street to take the bus back to school.

The day was April 7th, a Sunday, and also the last day of the Qingming Festival holiday. Students were returning to school, and those who had gone home to sweep tombs were also returning to their workplaces.

Zhou Tianxing thought that the afternoon bus was usually only for students, but when he arrived at the stop, he found that there were many people, and most of them were adults going to work.

He arrived early and got a seat, while those who arrived later had to stand.

Not long after Zhou Tianxing left the Le family, Liu Lu, Zhang Poluo, the Cheng brothers, Chen Dalian, and Brother Zhou arrived at the Le family as scheduled to make braised meat. They first delivered the ingredients to the Le family, and then each went back to carry a bundle of firewood.

After Village Chief Zhou and Grandma Zhou Man sent their grandson to school, they, along with Aunt Zhou the Skinflint, carried firewood and meat to the Le family's house.

The braised meat prepared by the handsome men was still in the pot, and it was ready to be braised. When the Le family's neighbors arrived, the handsome young men took over and scooped the braised meat out.

The village chief and Zhou Bapi each had a leg of meat. Zhou Xialong, Liu Lu, and a few other guys bought a pig together, slaughtered it, removed some of the fat that was not suitable for making braised meat, and made braised meat from the rest.

There are too many ingredients to fit in one pot, so I divided the braising liquid into two portions and used two separate pots to braise them.

The ingredients were put into the braising pot, and a group of guys went to the main room of the Le family's house to help peel bamboo shoots.

Liu Lu and Cheng Youbei and a few other friends arrived at Le's house first. Their wives were doing housework at home. After they finished their chores, the women and the elderly in the family also came to visit Le's house.

With so many people helping to peel the bamboo shoots, it was done very quickly.

Before peeling the bamboo shoots, Zhou Qiufeng boiled water in the kitchen. Once the water boiled, she took the peeled bamboo shoots and blanched them.

Young men and handsome men were scalding bamboo shoots, and the women were helping to tear them apart. The men were a bit slower and didn't join in the fun.

Many hands make light work; with so many people to tear the bamboo shoots, a batch of bamboo shoots was torn apart in no time after being taken out of the pot.

The little girl added the seasonings according to the proportions, while Wu Shao and the handsome Lan San and Hei Jiu were responsible for mixing them. After mixing well, they were put into jars. The bamboo shoots harvested this morning were all made into pickled bamboo shoots.

After finishing their work, Ren Shaowu Shaolan Sanhei Jiu acted as porters, transporting the pickled bamboo shoots and red oil bamboo shoot slices that had been made over the past three days, as well as the boxes of medicinal food that had been packed, to the front of the village office building and first sending them into the helicopter cabin.

After delivering the medicinal cuisine to the helicopter and returning to the Le family home, Ren Shaowu and the handsome young man packed their bags and embarked on their journey back to Shishi.

Zhou Tianming hitched a ride with the handsome guys and also received a medicinal meal from Yue Yun.

Chao Jia's son and his friends are all high-achieving students and handsome. When they were at the Le family's house, Zhang Poluo and the others lacked confidence from the bottom of their hearts, and they were not very open in their speech and were quite reserved.

When the dazzlingly handsome teenagers returned to the market, they were free from pressure and spoke freely, chatting happily.

Zhou and the others didn't go to work in the afternoon. Instead, they stayed at Le's house and chatted happily. Time passed quickly, and it soon became evening.

They ate dinner at the Le family's house every night. In the evening, the men went home to feed the livestock, while the women cooked at the Le family's house.

As the Le family enjoyed their lively dinner, the car carrying the handsome young man and Ren Shaowu arrived at Shishi. The young men took a detour to take Zhou Tianming to the station.

Zhou Tianming arrived at the station, picked up his ticket, and waited for more than forty minutes before boarding the train.

Ren Shao and his cousin, Le Shan, were dropped off at the train station. After returning to the administrative center of Shishi City, they didn't go back to their rented apartment but instead went to Chao Shao's staff residence to freeload.

Actually, he was pretending to freeload off the land, but his real intention was to get the medicinal cuisine.

Their medicinal cuisine is still on the little girl's helicopter and will not be delivered for another two days. The little girl felt sorry for her handsome brother and packed a box of medicinal cuisine for him to bring back to eat. Ren Shao and Wu Shao were envious and decided to eat the big spender's food.

Two handsome young men clung to him like glue, impossible to shake off. The pretty boy was truly helpless and could only let the two little tails follow him home.

The three bought rice and steamed buns on the way back to the staff dormitory, heated up two more medicinal dishes, and finished their belated dinner in high spirits.

In a good mood, Wu Shao urged the handsome young man to call the little girl to let her know he was safe, while she chattered away beside him.

After a long fifty-minute phone call, Wu was quite satisfied.

Little Loli: "..."

The little girl put down the phone, glanced at her father Aunt Feng, Old Man Yan, and the handsome Lan and Hei men, all grinning at her, and didn't want to say anything.

Fortunately, the neighbors all went home early after dinner and didn't realize that Wu Shao was a talkative and clingy person, otherwise Wu Shao's aloof image would have been completely shattered.

Yan Shen and Lan Sanhei Jiu found the little girl's utterly hopeless expression particularly amusing.

Le didn't dwell on it much. She chatted with her family for a while, went to bed early, got up early the next day, ate breakfast, and was taken to a certain place in Shennong Mountain by the head of the family.

Zhou Qiufeng took her brother's motorcycle and dropped her child off at a certain location before heading home herself.

The little girl, carrying a large backpack, ventured into the mountains, then threw the backpack into a storage container. She then traversed the mountain ridges to reach the medicinal herb garden left by her great-grandfather and grandfather.

While the little girl was setting off for the herb garden on Shennong Mountain, the head of the Xuanyuan family, a family of cultivators, and several elders also set off. They split into two groups, one going to the capital and the other to Xishi in S Province in Jiangnan.

Several elders of the Xuan family, along with seven or eight middle-aged and young people, went to Xishi City in S Province to continue helping Miss Yue rebuild her old house. The head of the Xuan family, along with the young master of the family, went to the capital.

When the Xuan family head set off, the leaders or heads of several sects and families in the cultivation world, or important figures of their sects/families, also embarked on their journeys to the capital.

The Xuan family head and his entourage flew to Beijing. The large iron bird was fast, and although the flight time was not long, they spent a lot of time waiting for their luggage and taking a taxi back to the Xuan family villa after arriving at their destination. It was already late afternoon when they arrived at the villa.

Young Master Xuan and the young members of his family waited in the backyard of the teahouse. When the family head arrived, they quickly welcomed him into the inner courtyard.

The Xuan family youths, who were well-prepared, first brought water for the head of the family and the young master to wash their faces and hands, and then presented them with fragrant wine and fruit.

The guards who accompanied the head of the family to the capital temporarily relieved themselves of their guard duties upon arriving at the villa and went to wash up.

After drinking his tea, the head of the Xuan family didn't ask about anything else and went to eat first.

After lunch, I rinsed my mouth, washed my face and hands, and then returned to the main room.

The young people of the Xuan family brewed tea again and replaced it with fresh fruit.

After resting for a while, the Xuan family head finally got down to business: "Which sects or families have contacted the Xuan family in the past two days?"

"The day before yesterday was fine, no sect or family contacted the Xuan family. Yesterday, ancient cultivation sects and families called one after another, saying that their envoys would arrive in the capital within two or three days."

Xuan San Shao immediately returned to Lin, took the notebook, and reported the sects or families that had been notified in advance one by one. He said, "The heads of the Hua family, Jiang family, Si family, Ji family, and Zhou family arrived in the capital last night. This morning, the young masters of the four families personally came to inform me that they have arranged for their heads to meet with you after you arrive in the capital."

In addition, Chen Shaozhu from Jiangnan returned home to pay respects to his ancestors and returned to Beijing yesterday afternoon. Chen Shaozhu said that his family is relatively poor and he is busy working at the young girl's old house to earn money to support his family, so he will not participate in the investigation of the reason why the Huang family's ancestral graves in Shishi turned to ashes.

And then there's the Helian family. They said they live far beyond the Great Wall, and it's currently the season for lambing and planting crops, so they can't spare any resources. If the ancient cultivators organize a trip to E-North, their family won't send any elders to participate.

"The Chen family is a bunch of thieves, and even the Helian family has learned to be cunning." Young Master Xuan laughed heartily upon hearing this. Listen to what the Chen family of Jiangnan is saying—they claim their clan is poor?!

The Chen family of Jiangnan, a family of ancient martial arts practitioners, has always passed down its martial arts tradition. In the era when transportation mainly relied on the Grand Canal, they controlled several canal routes and were one of the most famous canal transport families in Jiangnan, extremely wealthy.

Even in modern times, the Chen family still operates shipping companies and seafood businesses, with annual net profits of at least tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions.

For a family like that to claim poverty is utterly laughable.

The Xuan family hasn't even started talking about poverty, but the Chen family has. Young Master Xuan wants to ask the Chen family, aren't you afraid of contradicting yourselves one day by talking nonsense like this?

The Helian family's reasoning was plausible. The Helian family lived outside the Great Wall, and H Province was located in the northeast, where winters were long and springs were short, and spring came late. This was indeed the busy season for planting.

Hearing the Chen family use poverty as an excuse, the Xuan family members couldn't help but laugh.

The head of the Xuan family also laughed out loud: "The Chen family and the Helian family are really clever. They don't want to waste even a little bit of effort. To be honest, if our Xuan family weren't the head of the family, I would also say that our Xuan family is poor and has to work hard to earn money and grow crops."

Unfortunately, since we're on duty, there are some things we can't avoid; we still have to go through the proper procedures.

Xuan San Shao added with a smile: "There's more, the Tang Clan said they are skilled in poisons, and the matter in Shishi is not in line with their research direction, so they are not interested."

Master Ayu said they were busy taking measurements for the little girl's old house. Building a house is a joyous occasion, and it's not advisable to go to a gloomy place.

The Wanqi family and the Fu Zhai family also said that their families mainly focus on medicine and wouldn't get involved, as would the Feng family and the Duan family...