Chapter 198: Sending Messages

Midnight arrived quietly amidst the sound of horse hooves.

Chu Tiankuo had been leading 5,000 elite soldiers on the road for a whole day. The horses were so tired that they were running slower and slower before he stopped. “Rest on the spot for two hours. Everyone, get some sleep. I’ll keep watch tonight. Everyone, have a good rest.”

“Yes!” The 5,000 elite soldiers stopped in unison and dismounted.

In the cold night, everyone found a tree to sit down by, leaning against the trunk, closing their eyes and falling asleep, just to quickly recover their physical strength.

Chu Tiankuo found a big tree to sit down at a distance from the crowd. With a thought, he took out Shen Xingnong’s letter that only had the word “good” written on it, looked at it for a while under the bright moonlight, and then took out a brush and ink and wrote directly on the paper: “Rest for two hours, keep watch tonight, hungry.”

Shen Xingnong was not asleep yet. She was about to exit the Creation Space when a piece of white paper floated down.

She felt a little strange. How could this paper float down?

She reached out and caught it, and glanced at it. It was his reply.

Could it be that because she was in this Creation Space, the letter Chu Tiankuo left for her came directly to her?

The space of these two beads was truly magical.

Since objects could be exchanged, could people be too?

Shen Xingnong’s gaze fell on the passage, and then she glanced at the pots of thriving plants on the antique shelf. She always felt that this was possible.

Shen Xingnong withdrew her gaze. Thinking that he was rushing day and night, she exited the space, came to the desk, and wrote back: “I’ll cook you a bowl of noodles, fifteen minutes.”

With a thought, she put away the note and went to the kitchen to cook noodles.

The bone broth was ready-made. Shen Xingnong had put it in the small stove to simmer before, and now it was ready. She planned to wait until tomorrow morning to directly add noodles to it for convenience.

Shen Xingnong directly cooked a bowl of tomato noodle soup with bone broth, and also fried a poached egg and added a few green vegetables to it.

It was very simple and was done in fifteen minutes.

When Chu Tiankuo saw the message on the letter, he replied: “No need, I have dry rations. It’s late, go to sleep.”

But before he could wait for Shen Xingnong’s reply, he knew that she had gone to cook noodles.

He could only walk further away until the soldiers could not see him before sitting down.

Fifteen minutes later, with a thought, a bowl of steaming hot noodles appeared in his hand.

This was the first time he had eaten food she cooked herself, and it was also the most delicious noodle soup he had ever eaten in his life.

He didn’t expect it to be under these circumstances, and in this way.

In the cold night, this bowl of noodles dispelled all the cold and fatigue.

Chu Tiankuo replied on the white paper: “Delicious, good girl, go to sleep!”

Shen Xingnong took back the empty bowl, saw the content of the letter, and replied: “Okay, I’ll make it for you again tomorrow. Salute to the cutest people!”

Chu Tiankuo raised his eyebrows when he saw the content of the paper. The cutest people?

He touched his face, wondering how he could be associated with cuteness.

Well, he took the pen and crossed out the word “cute.” It must be that she was embarrassed to confess directly, so she deliberately added an extra word.

It should be “Salute to the most beloved people”!

Chu Tiankuo stuffed the letter into his arms instead of putting it in the Silver Bead. He took out the Soul-Soothing Herb and put it aside to sleep.

The soldiers not far away were dreaming of eating hot and spicy noodle soup.

Shen Xingnong waited for a while but did not receive a reply, so she went to sleep.

She never imagined that she could still “send messages” with people in ancient times, and she didn’t even have to pay for the messages.

~

The next night, Shen Xingnong cooked a bowl of chicken porridge for Chu Tiankuo, and by the way, asked how many soldiers he had brought with him this time.

Knowing that he had taken the lead with 5,000 elite soldiers, Shen Xingnong decided to send a bowl of hot porridge to this group of cutest people who were rushing day and night, and could only rest for two and a half hours a day, including meal time.

Cooking porridge for 5,000 people was not an easy task. Shen Xingnong left this matter to Songbai to arrange.

It would be inconvenient for her to arrange it in the village herself, as people would wonder who she was cooking so much porridge for.

Anyway, Songbai knew that Chu Tiankuo’s two beads were treasures of heaven and earth.

✿✿✿

So for the rest of the journey, every evening, Chu Tiankuo would leave the team fifteen minutes early to arrange the porridge.

This made the soldiers, who were mentally prepared to gnaw on cold and hard dry rations all the way, instantly feel like they were receiving star-level treatment!

After a bowl of hot porridge, their fatigue disappeared a lot, and they arrived at the battlefield two days earlier than expected.

A month later, Shen Hanyu and the Jin Kingdom Emperor finally arrived in Futai County after traveling day and night!

Sleeping for only two or three hours a day, Shen Hanyu felt like he was about to wither!

Shen Hanyu decided to have a good night’s sleep at the Welcome Inn tonight and go to Peach Blossom Village tomorrow.

The Jin Kingdom Emperor, however, said impatiently, “Let’s go! We’ll sleep when we get there!”

He didn’t want to wait a moment longer!

He couldn’t wait to see his little cotton-padded jacket.

Shen Hanyu rolled his eyes. “Where will you sleep when we get there?”

The Jin Kingdom Emperor said matter-of-factly, “At my empress’s place!”

They had children, had bowed to heaven and earth, and as the emperor, he never thought that anyone would dare not let him sleep in their house.

Shen Hanyu rolled his eyes. “In your dreams! She hasn’t recognized you as her husband yet. Look at yourself in the mirror. Don’t scare my imperial sister!”

Of course, the Jin Kingdom Emperor, a big man, couldn’t carry a mirror with him. He touched his face and glanced at his son, who had serious dark circles under his eyes and messy stubble, looking like a sleazy man. After thinking for a while, he said, “Let’s rest for a night and go tomorrow!”

That night, the Jin Kingdom Emperor lay in bed unable to sleep. He thought, the third child was right. He had to win over his daughter and her mother with sincerity.

He couldn’t use his identity as the emperor to intimidate them, lest it backfire. It would be troublesome if they didn’t recognize him.

He had to take it slow!

He had to win over the child’s mother first and get her to agree to go back to the country with him. Only then would his princess go back with him.

And there was also the mother-in-law. If he couldn’t win over his daughter’s mother and grandmother, he wouldn’t even think about his daughter acknowledging her ancestry and returning to the clan.

However, the Jin Kingdom Emperor, who was used to women fawning over him and going to great lengths for him, began to have a hard time!

How could he please his mother-in-law and the woman?

The next day

Madam Gu and Shen Xingqing went to the workshop to work after breakfast.

Shen Ruoxi and Shen Xingnong were left at home.

Shen Xingnong spent less time in the workshop now. She stayed at home every day, entering the Creation Space to revive medicinal herbs and extract high-purity alcohol.

This alcohol was prepared to disinfect the wounds of injured soldiers.

Shen Xingnong was busy in the house, while Shen Ruoxi was washing clothes in the courtyard. There were also quilts to be washed today.

It was almost New Year’s Eve, so the quilt covers at home had to be washed clean and prepared for the New Year.

Shen Ruoxi would only go to the workshop to help after watering the vegetables and washing the clothes.

Shen Xingnong would send her there at that time and check if there were any problems.

Li Yong came in carrying a load of water and skillfully poured it into the large water tank.

Li Yong would now bring Shen Xingnong’s family a full tank of water every day. Shen Ruoxi was already familiar with him and at least not afraid of him anymore. She smiled and said, “Thank you, Brother Li.”

Li Yong smiled. “You’re welcome.”

He saw that Shen Ruoxi was having a little trouble wringing the quilt by herself, so he stepped forward. “I’ll help you.”

The two of them wrung the quilt together to make it drier. Yesterday, when Shen Ruoxi washed Shen Xingnong’s quilt cover, he helped her wring it dry, so Shen Ruoxi didn’t hesitate to hand him one end of the quilt.

So when Shen Hanyu arrived with the Jin Kingdom Emperor, what he saw was his wife wringing the quilt with another man!

There will be a power outage from morning to night tomorrow, so updates will be unstable.