Diplomat's Wife

Chapter 289 Are Those People Delivering Bad Food Again?

It has been raining in Miancheng for more than half a month, and the rain may be heavy or light, but it never stops for a moment.

Mu Qiqi was arranged to live in a corner of the back garden of the General's Mansion. According to local customs, women's status is not high, so it is impossible for them to live in the upper room of the master's house.

Even if Mu Qiqi is the wife of the Prime Minister of Jinling, given the current relationship between the two countries, Xi Mian would not entertain her as a guest, and keeping her in the General's Mansion, in the eyes of the locals, is already treating her extraordinarily "Take care of".

After all, the "General's Mansion" is like a miracle in the hearts of the Ximian people.

The hut is not big, and the wooden body is a unique style of local architecture, with a thatched roof for shelter from rain and sun.

It is said that it used to be the flower house that Mrs. Buchar loved and took good care of. After the wife passed away, it gradually fell into disuse, leaving only flower pots with withered grass.

Having nothing to do, Mu Qiqi asked for some flower seeds from the gardener. Ten days have passed, and the flower pots that were once reborn with withered grass have sprouted new shoots, and some flower pots that have grown rapidly have already bloomed with buds and buds. to be released.

At lunch time, a soldier came to the greenhouse.

Xiaobing went straight into the greenhouse without saying a word, opened the food box, and spread the food inside on the table, two dishes and one soup, the staple food was rice, which was already a very rich treat in a place where supplies were poor.

Mu Qiqi stood outside the balcony, holding a gourd to catch the rainwater dripping from the roof, watering the flowers with the rainwater, she had been doing this for the past few days.

Seeing Xiaobing coming out after delivering the meal, Mu Qiqi smiled and said "thank you" to him in Ximian dialect as usual.

Xiao Bing turned his eyes slightly to one side, looked full of disdain, snorted and left.

Now, who in the general's mansion doesn't know that Mu Qiqi is the granddaughter of the devil who washed Miancheng bloody back then?

Such people, even if they are full of smiles, even if they are gentle and kind, in their eyes, all of these are just the appearance of this woman's charm, so they will not be fooled by this woman from Jinling.

Not long after Xiaobing left, the sound of his leaving footsteps was still ringing in my ears.

On the other side, the sound of steady and hasty footsteps came from far to near. As soon as Mu Qiqi raised her head, Gu Yuyu came back, with her hands behind her back, and there seemed to be something hidden behind her.

When Ouyang Ping left, all the staff in Jinling were asked to evacuate. Gu Chenyu stepped forward and strongly recommended himself to stay at the risk of offending Buchar. Naturally, Buchar would not agree.

But Gu Yuyu's reason for staying, he said that he was the personal interpreter of the Prime Minister's wife, this point is irrefutable, and finally Buchar agreed to let him stay.

In a country with a language barrier, Gu Yuyu's existence really reassured Mu Qiqi a lot.

"Back?" Mu Qiqi asked with a smile.

Gu Yuyu nodded, and then asked, "Are those people here to deliver bad food again?"

The situation in Ximian is difficult, most of the people eat one meal a day, it is a little better when they arrive at the General’s Mansion, after all, they still have two meals a day, but the soldiers in the kitchen have bad intentions, and the food they send is not overnight soup or sour food. Flavored staple food.

After more than half a month, Mu Qiqi has lost a lot of weight.

Mu Qiqi sprinkled the collected rainwater into the pot soil, and said, "Go and have a look, pick the edible ones and keep them, and bury the rotten ones in the soil as fertilizer."

Her indifferent tone seemed to not mind at all being treated poorly.

These days, no matter what Mu Qiqi said, this man always followed orders, but today he stood there angrily like a wooden man, motionless.

"Go!" Mu Qiqi yelled, Gu Yuyu was originally from a military background, with a fresh blood, she thought he was angry.

"Mrs. Jin, let's eat something else today."

"Other?" Mu Qiqi chuckled, "What fruit did you pick again?"

During the day, Gu Yuyu would disappear from time to time, and when he came back, he would always have something more edible in his hand. She didn't know where he got these things, it was like magic like.

The man who was always indifferent, his icy thin lips were slightly raised, and then the hand hidden behind his back was slowly raised. Only then did Mu Qiqi see clearly that what he was holding in his hand turned out to be a hare. Hiding behind her all the time, it turned out to be a surprise for her.

Having not eaten meat for half a month, Mu Qiqi looked at the fluffy rabbit with bright eyes, unconsciously pursed her lips, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"This is a hare, skinned and disemboweled, sprinkled with some salt, roasted and eaten, it's very delicious." Gu Chenyu stared at the prey in his hand, also with a complacent expression.

After saying that, he wanted to take action, pulled out the saber in his trousers, and went to the back room to slaughter.

Unfortunately, at this moment, the rabbit who thought it was dead suddenly moved, and then struggled in a dying state.

Gu Yuyu raised his palm, and was about to strike it down, Mu Qiqi quickly pressed his arm, and persuaded, "Forget it!"

Thinking that such a cute rabbit was about to be killed, she felt a little cruel.

When she was in France, she raised a white short-eared rabbit with Ba Ye. It was a white meat ball, so cute and cute. Maybe it was because of the friendship from that time. She always felt that rabbits were so cute. Things are pets and should not be eaten.

"But..." Gu Yuyu frowned in confusion. Even though he was a special soldier, the ability to forage in the wild was one of the special trainings, but in Ximian, most of the food that could be eaten was searched by the people. It took him a lot of trouble to find such a rabbit.

But you haven't eaten much for two days, but before he finished speaking, Mu Qiqi reached out and snatched the rabbit from him, hugged her in her arms, and stroked it gently.

The rabbit seemed to know that she was the savior, so he stopped struggling and lay motionless on his stomach, very well-behaved.

"It's also a life, let's keep it, I don't know how long it will stay here, it can relieve boredom!" Mu Qiqi smiled bitterly.

As she spoke, she went to the eaves and sat down on the wooden steps with her long legs stretched forward, her little feet wearing a pair of local bamboo slippers just drenched in the rain.

Gu Yuyu looked at Mu Qiqi's back, and saw her kicking her feet, playing with the rain, looking innocent and carefree.

It is really hard to imagine that such a seemingly innocent and polite girl, who is even reluctant to kill a rabbit, would not hesitate to use herself as a hostage to stay in this tiger's den and wolf's den not long ago.

"Actually, you also know that it's easy to stay, but difficult to go back. Why do you have to do this?" Gu Yuyu asked her.

"My luck has never been bad, we will go back soon, and I will go back to celebrate Ba Ye's birthday!" Mu Qiqi smiled, but she also knew that this was just self-consolation.

Gu Yuyu took a deep breath, didn't say anything, as introverted as he was, he was never the type to poke people's sore spots.

Mu Qiqi continued: "Think about it, on the day we came to Ximian, the captain said that the weather here was not suitable for landing. What happened afterwards? The rain stopped right after that! Am I lucky? ?”

As she spoke, she turned her head and looked at the man standing behind her, with her sweet smile on her face as always.

Gu Yu Yu thoughtfully avoided her gaze, lowered his head, as if he didn't want to expose her.

"What's wrong? Am I wrong?" Mu Qiqi's eyes were sharp, and she quickly saw through.

Gu Yuyu frowned, thought for a long time before looking up at her, and said, "Madam Prime Minister, that's artificially stopping the rain."

"Ah? Stopping the rain artificially?" Mu Qiqi frowned. She had heard of artificial rainfall, so why is there such a thing as artificially stopping the rain?
Gu Chenyu explained in a professional tone: "The principle of artificial rain stopping is similar to artificial rainfall, but it is more difficult to control in terms of difficulty, and the cost is huge. Although it only stopped raining for half an hour that day, I am afraid that the cost has already been paid. It's on the order of tens of millions."

"Xi Mian probably won't spend this money for us, right?" Mu Qiqi lowered her eyes and asked, "Is it Jinling?"

Gu Yuyu continued to analyze and said: "Nowadays in China, there is only one that has this kind of technology, has an independent launch pad, and can make an emergency response in the first place."

Mu Qiqi looked at him expectantly, waiting for the answer.

"Ordnance Industry Group." In the end, Gu Yuyu gave the answer.

"Aunt Xin?" Mu Qiqi was extremely surprised.

"The president of the Ordnance Industry Group, Bai Suxin, does Mrs. Jin know each other?" This surprised Gu Yuyu.

The new president of the Ordnance Industry Group seldom showed up in the country, and when she took office, it caused a wave of turmoil among the group's top management, because no one thought that the old man of the Bai family would actually spend his entire life's accumulated family business in the end. In the end, it was handed over to such an illegitimate daughter who was rumored in the market.

What surprised Gu Yuyu even more was that this Boss Bai actually had a long friendship with the Prime Minister's wife, and that sentence of auntie Xin clearly revealed the rather close relationship between the two.

"Not very familiar." Mu Qiqi interrupted the topic with one word.

The political status of the Bai family is quite special. No matter how close she and Aunt Xin are in private, on the surface, she still has to stick to her political stance to avoid being misrepresented.

　late, second watch,

　　
　
(End of this chapter)