Si Hongjing held the medicated patch helplessly.
He hadn’t expected that Yuan Ying would remember just a casual mention.
“If the lady has any needs, I will definitely repay her kindness even if it means holding grass and offering a ring.”
Si Hongjing had always felt that these words were too empty and meaningless.
But now…
Facing Yuan Ying, he could only utter these empty words.
Early the next morning, Si Hongjing wrote a letter and sent a messenger with the letter and medicine back to the capital.
His mother was constantly monitored in the palace, so sending it openly was better than sending it secretly.
If nothing major had happened in the imperial city, the emperor still needed him to guard the border, so he wouldn’t even deny him this small favor.
However… thinking of the delayed food and reinforcements, Si Hongjing was not so sure.
At this time, the heavy rain forecast in Wannan arrived as scheduled.
The sky was as dark as dusk, the villa’s doors and windows were tightly closed, and the heavy rain poured down from the sky, making a crackling sound.
The trees in the courtyard also bent at the waist in the wind, almost uprooted.
After lunch, in this dim and rain-battered atmosphere, Yuan Ying fell asleep again.
She woke up three hours later.
It had been raining for more than ten hours, and the heavy rain showed no signs of subsiding. Fortunately, the villa was on high ground and there was no water accumulation.
But the village suffered…
The rainwater rose, flooding the land.
The villagers who relied on the weather for their livelihood were as anxious as ants in a hot pot.
Not to mention the drowned crops, the slightly ripe vegetables and fruits would rot in less than half a day if they were soaked in the ground, so they had to be picked and sold immediately.
But vegetables and fruits were already difficult to sell in rural areas, and now it was raining heavily and no one was buying, so where could they sell them?
Therefore, Yuan Ying received a call from the melon farmer before she was fully awake.
The melon farmer asked Yuan Ying if she was still buying melons.
He could sell them to her at a low price. The original price for bulk purchases was two mao per jin, but now he would give it to her at one mao per jin, and the villagers could also send her the vegetables cheaply if she needed them.
Listening to the old man’s anxious and hoarse voice, Yuan Ying said that she would take as many vegetables and fruits as were ripe and edible.
Anyway, there were so many people in Si Hongjing’s army, so they should eat the soaked ones first, and they would definitely be able to finish them without hoarding.
Even though she had built a shed yesterday, Yuan Ying was still drenched by the rain swept by the gale when she went to open the gate for the villagers in advance.
The villagers came one after another half an hour later.
They were all drenched, their rain boots covered in mud.
“Thank you, girl! Otherwise, I really wouldn’t know what to do.”
“Girl, these melons can’t be left! They must be eaten quickly, can you sell them? Don’t let them rot in your hands!”
“I didn’t expect it to rain for so long, the ground is flooded up to our knees, I should have unloaded them all and sold them yesterday.”
The villagers thanked Yuan Ying one after another.
If it weren’t for Yuan Ying, their fruits and vegetables might really have rotted in the ground.
Especially when it came to settling the bill, Yuan Ying still calculated according to the normal price from last time.
“Oh, I was wondering why this girl looked a little familiar!”
One of the aunties said, startling Yuan Ying, who thought she had been recognized.
But who knew, the next second she heard her say:
“So it’s a kind-hearted fairy!”
Yuan Ying: …
Everyone thoughtfully arranged the fruits and vegetables neatly under the shed, stacking them all the way to the door.
While stacking, they wondered if it would be inconvenient for Yuan Ying to open the door.
Yuan Ying thought, it was precisely because they were stacked at the gate that it was more convenient.
After the villagers left, Yuan Ying took a hot shower, ate a piece of bread, and waited for Xu Shi (7-9 PM) to arrive.
With Si Hongjing’s personality, knowing that there was a heavy rain in Wannan, unless there were important military affairs, he would definitely come to see if she needed help as soon as possible.
Sure enough.
At seven o’clock in the evening.
The door was opened from the outside.
Rumble rumble—
The watermelon against the door rolled directly into another world.
Si Hongjing quickly stepped back and looked at Yuan Ying’s courtyard through the door.
The wind and rain continued.
And the shed that had just been built yesterday was full of vegetables.
He hadn’t arranged for anyone to guard outside today, so he first asked the servants to call some soldiers from the barracks to move the food before coming to find Yuan Ying.
Yuan Ying stood under the shed, waiting for Si Hongjing to come, and told him the cause and effect.
Listening to Yuan Ying’s words, Si Hongjing’s gaze towards her became even brighter.
“You are a person with great righteousness!” he exclaimed.
“I just think this is something that can be done easily without much effort.”
The person who truly has great righteousness is him.
After the two praised each other, Si Hongjing began to move the food in the wind and rain.
As for Yuan Ying…
She was forcibly arranged to stay in the house and watch dramas.
Because the food had to be arranged with the military camp, Si Hongjing left after moving the ingredients.
On the other side.
After the soldiers received the news and rushed over, they found that the door of the general’s bedroom was not closed.
And some food was scattered next to the door.
They moved the food out first, and just as they were about to ask where the general had gone, they saw some ingredients appearing out of thin air next to the door.
The men were so frightened that they ran away.
But after calming down, they remembered the origin of the food.
The food sent by the immortals, if it wasn’t conjured out of thin air, could it be that the immortals carried it down from the sky themselves?
The soldiers quickly returned to the door of the bedroom.
In a short while, many watermelons and small green vegetables had appeared near the door.
They quickly went to pick them up.
When Si Hongjing came back, he saw that there wasn’t much food piled up in the room.
And the soldiers were startled by the sudden appearance of the general.
“General! Where, where, where did you come from?” the soldier asked, his eyes wide and stuttering.
“From the immortal’s place, of course.”
“Otherwise, where do you think the food came from?” Si Hongjing asked back without changing his expression.
That’s right.
The general must have been summoned by the immortal.
It couldn’t be that the immortal came down to Dongping Pass every day!
The men earnestly bowed to the void and said some flattering words to the immortal before moving the food again.
After returning to the barracks, they told the other soldiers about seeing the general and the ingredients appear out of thin air.
Now, the soldiers in the barracks who didn’t quite believe in immortals and thought it was a delaying tactic devised by the generals to boost morale finally believed it.
Seeing the general appear out of thin air with their own eyes.
How could it not be magic?
Yuan Ying and Si Hongjing didn’t expect such a result under the circumstances.
Moreover, because the ingredients from yesterday had to be eaten as soon as possible, the soldiers all ate their fill, which was rare, and they were even more grateful to Yuan Ying.
The Jin spy’s phrase ‘ill-fated star’ may have really caused fear in the soldiers and people.
But in just two days, their malicious plan was declared a failure.
If the general hadn’t gone to the gods to get food, they would have been killed by the Jin army long ago, or starved to death.
Therefore…
He was the patron saint of their Dongping Pass.
Definitely not an ill-fated star who would kill everyone.