“You’re here!”
When Si Hongjing arrived in the evening, he was greeted by Yuan Ying’s eager smile.
She was already exceptionally beautiful, with a celestial appearance and flawless features. Now, with a smile in her eyes, she was even more radiant, like a pearl emitting a halo and a beautiful jade glowing. Even the noble ladies of the capital couldn’t compare to her.
His gaze quickly shifted elsewhere as if burned, and he took out a cloth bag from his sleeve.
“These hairpins, I wonder if Miss likes them?”
Yuan Ying accepted them but casually put them aside, staring intently at Si Hongjing.
“Is… is there something wrong?”
The young general, who could remain calm in the face of an approaching army, suddenly became nervous.
“No.” Yuan Ying withdrew her gaze, inwardly pondering his expression. “The medicine has already been delivered. You sent so many hairpins, do you want me to buy something else for you?”
“Yes…”
Si Hongjing felt that he was troubling Yuan Ying too much, but he could only bite the bullet and say,
“Could Miss Yuan Ying help me purchase some food? Anything that can be eaten will do! The soldiers are really too weak.”
“The hairpins are a gift for Miss, I will pay separately for the food.”
“You can also make any requests, and I will try my best to fulfill them.”
“Okay.”
Yuan Ying readily agreed. Seeing that Si Hongjing seemed about to get up, fearing that he would perform a three-kneel and nine-kowtow ceremony, she quickly added, “I have conditions. When the city is successfully defended and we are safe, you must take me on a tour of Daqian.”
She thought, if she could live in ancient times for a while, would her acting skills…
However, Yuan Ying cherished her life.
Before Dongping Pass successfully defended the city and defeated the enemy, it was full of dangers, and she would not go.
“Me?” Si Hongjing was stunned.
“I don’t know anyone else.” Yuan Ying thought that a general like him must be very busy, so she changed her mind and said, “You can have someone you trust take me…” That would also be fine.
“I can.”
Before Yuan Ying could finish speaking, Si Hongjing interrupted her.
So eager? Not like his steady style.
Yuan Ying looked at him suspiciously.
“In short, thank you for your help, Miss.” Si Hongjing promised, “If that day really comes, I will definitely take Miss on a tour of Daqian.”
However, before that, he still had to give her the money.
Thus, in addition to the hairpins, Yuan Ying also received a large pile of gold and silver ingots.
The number of medicines in the military camp was far from enough, and medicines were urgently needed to save lives, so Si Hongjing still couldn’t exchange many pleasantries with Yuan Ying and returned to Daqian.
This time, there were a full thirty boxes of medicine.
Before coming, Si Hongjing had instructed several soldiers to wait outside for orders, so as soon as the medicine arrived, they carried it to the camp.
With these medicines, only a very small number of heavily injured soldiers still failed to save their lives, and the situation of others was much better than before.
And Deputy General Guo finally discovered the clues from the soldiers carrying medicines out of the general’s mansion.
The general collected those hairpins and jade ornaments, probably to give to the immortals, right?
…
Yuan Ying’s residence was remote, with few houses around.
That’s why her best friend, Li Yuxin, was so worried and sent her a safety package for girls living alone.
Also for this reason, Yuan Ying’s crazy buying spree didn’t attract much attention.
Early the next morning, Yuan Ying drove out to shop, breathing in the fresh air without the smell of car exhaust that filled the city.
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She was simply going to stock up.
Rice, flour, grain, and oil, she bought whatever she saw, and each item was in quantities of X50, X100.
Chain supermarkets could deliver to her door, so she didn’t have to do it herself.
As for meat, vegetables, fruits…
Yuan Ying went directly back to the village to collect them.
She wanted all the pigs from the pig farm that were ready to be sold.
She bought all the vegetables and fruits that were to be sold to the price-cutting vegetable vendors at wholesale prices.
The villagers only knew that someone suddenly lived in the villa at the end of the village next to the mountain that had been built but had never been occupied, and they didn’t know the identity of the person who came.
Now, hearing that she was willing to buy their vegetables and fruits without cutting prices, and even paid a deposit in advance, they directly ignored her strange appearance in full gear.
Yuan Ying didn’t have free time until the afternoon.
Her mind was full of Si Hongjing.
Oh no, it was Si Hongjing’s behavior, manners, and micro-expressions.
Yuan Ying recalled the tragic scene of the battlefield, and then thought of Si Hongjing bowing and saluting when he thanked her, as if something had broken out of its shell.
She practiced in front of the mirror for two hours, but didn’t know if she had really improved.
So, she recorded it with her phone and sent it to Director Li, who was filming the female general.
“If there is divine help, I am willing to exchange my flesh and blood for the peace of the people for a lifetime.”
[Are you kidding me? You can act like that for me?]
The director replied almost instantly.
Yuan Ying looked at the director’s angry reply, and her first reaction was to laugh out loud.
It seemed that her acting skills had really improved.
Unfortunately, Yuan Ying soon couldn’t laugh anymore.
She looked at the message she sent in the dialog box to explain, but was greeted with a bright red exclamation point, and was so frightened that she quickly called Director Li to explain the whole story.
Fortunately, Director Li reluctantly believed her explanation that she had ‘attended an acting class’.
“The new play is still a costume drama, and I can leave you an audition opportunity. See you in Beijing in two weeks.”
Yuan Ying didn’t expect to get a job opportunity because of this video, and she was overjoyed and quickly shared the good news with Li Yuxin.
And as a close friend, Li Yuxin’s concern was—
“In the beginning, you fell in love with Xu Nianyu in order to film a sweet idol drama, but your acting skills didn’t improve. Don’t tell me that now you’re alone in the wilderness and your Ren and Du meridians have been opened up!”
“It’s not the wilderness…”
“The point is, who is helping you!”
“I promise, I will tell you when I have the opportunity!”
In the end, Li Yuxin hung up the phone with suspicion only after Yuan Ying repeatedly assured her that she would not be deceived.
Speaking of Xu Nianyu, Yuan Ying quickly opened Weibo.
Seeing that the Weibo she posted was still on the hot search list, she snorted and put away her phone.
After Xu Nianyu was photographed cheating by paparazzi, he actually had the nerve to issue a statement saying that he was rehearsing.
What kind of good person rehearses alone late at night, mouth to mouth, may I ask!
Not only that, the scumbag even joined forces with the agency to put pressure on her, asking her to post on Weibo that she believed him.
She believed a hammer!
[Bye bye, I’m not playing anymore! Scumbag is yours, you’re welcome! @Xu Ningning]
Yuan Ying broke up with the scumbag, terminated the contract with the company, and left this Weibo that had been hanging on the hot search list for many days, and returned to her very remote hometown.
It’s a pity that she has haters all over the entertainment industry and a terrible reputation, so Xu Nianyu’s fans are still trying to clear their idol’s name, saying that her words are not credible at all, and so on.
…
Night.
As soon as Si Hongjing opened the door, he saw mountains of goods and Yuan Ying lying on the only small open space in the yard, watching the stars.
She seemed unhappy.
He keenly noticed her low mood and asked, “Has the Miss encountered any difficulties? Is there anything I can help with?”
Yuan Ying’s dim and uninteresting eyes fell on him.
After a few seconds of pause.
She suddenly sat up from the rattan chair.
“Yes.”