Ye Zhen pushed the donkey cart behind her and entered the back door. Huang Fuchen asked her to wait while he sent the vegetables to the kitchen.
"Nanny, why is the city so quiet today?" Ye Zhen took out a handful of melon seeds from her arms, stuffed some to the old maid next to her, and asked with a smile, "I haven't been in the city for a long time. If I didn't have to help Uncle Wang deliver vegetables today, my father wouldn't have brought me here."
The old maid looked at Ye Zhen while eating melon seeds. "How long have you not been in the city?"
"That's a long time. My father let me work at home all day and only let me play in the nearby woods on weekdays." Ye Zhen's tone was full of grievance.
"Your father is good for you." The old maid whispered, "There is nothing fun in the city. Let's go quickly after sending the vegetables to the kitchen."
While talking to the old maid, Ye Zhen's eyes had been quietly looking around and found that there were guards standing in every corner. Unfortunately, in the dark, Ye Zhen could not see the faces of those guards clearly.
"Nanny, what kind of people live in such a big house?" Ye Zhen continued to ask curiously like a country boy.
"Brat, why do you ask so many questions?" The old maid seemed to think of something, and the look in her eyes became frightened.
Ye Zhen looked at her doubtfully. Was the person living in this house so horrible?
"Ah ah ah …" Suddenly, a scream came from the direction of the kitchen.
The old maid's face changed, and she hurriedly threw away the melon seeds and ran over. Before she reached the kitchen, she saw a man covered in blood coming out of it.
He stood in front of the old maid, his face blue and gray in the light.
"Yan … Yan Daxia, what do you want?" The old maid asked in a trembling voice.
Ye Zhen was shocked when she heard the name of the old maid. Yan Daxia? Is it Yan Jintang? She looked carefully at the man's face and found that he was somewhat similar to Yan Xiaoliu. It was really Yan Jintang!
It turned out that he was not dead!
"Next time you give me such disgusting food, I will eat you." Yan Jintang said coldly to the old maid.
The old maid was so frightened that her legs trembled. "Yan Daxia, but … there is no cook …"
"Find one, or you die." Yan Jintang no longer looked at her and left.
"Oh my god." The old maid was so scared that she fell to the ground. Where was she going to find the cook? Almost all the people in the city had run away. If it were not for the fact that she had nowhere to go and could not leave, she would not want to stay here.
Originally, there were a few kitchen maids, but they were inexplicably killed by those crazy people. She had finally found someone who was willing to cook for her, but now she was killed. Where could she find a normal person now? Everyone in the city had run away.
Ye Zhen remembered that Huang Fuchen was still in the kitchen and hurriedly ran inside.
"Master …" Ye Zhen whispered. When she saw the dead man in the kitchen, her eyes widened and she almost vomited.
"I'm here." Huang Fuchen walked out from a small door. "What happened?"
Before he could finish his question, he saw everything that had happened in front of him, and panic flashed in his eyes. "Yaoyao, are you alright?"
"I'm fine. Yan Jintang killed him. Didn't he find you?" Ye Zhen asked in a low voice.
"I just sent the dishes to the cellar," Huang Fuchen said. "I came up when I heard the noise."
"You … you clean up the kitchen, and I will give you another five taels of silver." The old maid came over and stood at the door of the kitchen and said to Ye Zhen.
Huang Fuchen said, "We are just delivering the dishes."
"Dad, mom is about to give birth to a younger brother. We have no money to buy supplements." Ye Zhen took Huang Fuchen's hand. "They hired a cook here. Didn't we cook in the teahouse before? Why don't we earn a few silvers first and then go back? "
"Yaoyao!" Huang Fuchen scolded her in a low voice. It was too dangerous here. He must send her out of the city.
Ye Zhen ignored him and turned to look at the old maid. "Nanny, are you going to hire a cook?"
The old maid looked at Ye Zhen. This boy clearly saw the cook being killed, but he didn't feel afraid? "Do you know how to cook and cook?"
"Yes, dad and I used to do this." Ye Zhen said.
"Clean up the kitchen first and make a few dishes to try. If they are acceptable, I will let you stay." The old maid said, but she sneered in her heart. What a country bumpkin! He obviously saw the cook being killed, but he still dared to stay.
"No, we don't want to stay and be cooks." Huang Fuchen shook his head. Although he didn't see what Yan Jintang had become, he knew that Yan Jintang was no longer a normal person just by looking at the cook's death. It didn't matter if he stayed, but he couldn't let Yaoyao stay here.
The old maid sneered. "Since you have come here, it is not so easy to get out. I can't stop you, but those people are not ordinary people. They can kill you with one finger."
Ye Zhen said with a smile, "We will stay."
"You are sensible. Hurry up and clean up the kitchen and make a few new dishes." The old maid said angrily. If they couldn't find a cook who could cook, Yan Jintang would kill her.
"Yes." Ye Zhen immediately responded.
Huang Fuchen's face was already gloomy.
"Master, this is an opportunity for us to work in the kitchen," Ye Zhen whispered. "We must stay in this big house. Since Yan Jintang is here, it means that others should also be here."
"Do you know what you are doing?" Huang Fuchen scolded, "It is too dangerous here. You must leave."
Ye Zhen said, "You just heard it. Even if we didn't offer to stay, the old maid would not let us go. There are people in the corner, and they have all taken poisonous pills. If we work as cooks here, maybe we will be responsible for the meals of the whole house. Wouldn't it be easier to save them and give them the antidote?"
"You leave the antidote. I will make it. You leave." Huang Fuchen said.
"No, if I leave, you can't finish it." Ye Zhen shook her head gently. "Let's not waste time. Hurry up and clean up the kitchen. Even if you want me to leave, I can't leave now."
Huang Fuchen took a deep breath. "Get out of the way. I will clean it up. You wait outside."
"Okay." Ye Zhen nodded gently and glanced at the corpse. "This means of killing … What is the difference between this and a beast?"
"Don't look at it." Huang Fuchen said lightly.
Ye Zhen clenched her fists. The poisonous pills made the originally generous and kind people crazy and cruel. She must wake these people up.
After a while, Huang Fuchen finally cleaned up the kitchen. He looked at Ye Zhen and asked, "Can you cook?"
"At least it is edible." Ye Zhen said, "Let me cook."
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(Nine-headed Bird Academy)
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