Wei Shiqi watched Ye Zhinan approaching. His eyes were full of provocation, but his body curled up as if frightened, and he kept shouting.
"Please spare me! I didn't mean to disturb your vegetable picking!"
Slap!
Ye Zhinan raised her stick and dropped it. A snake was thrown to the ground. Then she stepped forward and struck a fierce blow with the stick, cutting the poisonous snake in two.
After the on - lookers let out exclamations, they quickly changed their tune.
"The girl is so brave!"
"Miss Ye is truly kind - hearted! Miss Ye saved you, Wei Shiqi, but you still slandered her."
Hearing this, Wei Shiqi's eyes were full of astonishment. He looked at the snake cut in two on the ground and stamped on it.
"Thank you, Miss Ye, for saving my life!"
With that, he left angrily.
Ye Zhinan's dark eyes swept over the crowd, and she pointed at the wild vegetables all over the ground.
"Whose are these?"
Everyone waved their hands hurriedly.
"No, no. Miss Ye, you can just take them home."
"It's good that they don't belong to anyone. Everyone, be my witness today. Don't let this place become someone else's land in a couple of days."
With that, she picked up her basket and walked away without looking back.
As soon as she walked down the mountain, she saw Qin Yihuai looking intently up at the mountain.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine!"
Suddenly, Ye Zhinan seemed to remember something. She stuffed the basket into his hands and ran back up the mountain.
After a while, she came down the mountain with something long in her hand.
"A snake!"
Qin Yihuai involuntarily took a step back. Looking at the thing in her hand, his eyes were full of shock.
How could this woman be like this...
"This is a good thing. Come to my place. I'll treat you to snake soup!"
Before Qin Yihuai could wave his hand to decline, he was dragged away. By the time he came to his senses, he was already sitting at the Ye family's dinner table.
Not far away came the arguing voices of the Ye mother and daughter.
"You always give me difficult tasks. I don't know how to make snake soup!"
Han Xiangmei stood far away and didn't even dare to look at the skinned and boned snake.
"Dear mother, I'll tell you how to make it. Look, the guest is already seated. We can't just serve a plate of wild vegetables, can we?"
In the distance, Qin Yihuai thought: I don't mind the wild vegetables!!!
Ye Zhinan and Han Xiangmei were still "fighting".
Every time Ye Zhinan took a step forward, Han Xiangmei took a step back. Until she backed out of the house, she was no longer willing to go in.
She stood outside and shouted, "If you want to make it, do it yourself. Anyway, I won't do it!"
Ye Zhinan was helpless. She knew her own cooking skills. Not burning down the house was the minimum requirement.
But now, everyone was outside the kitchen, and she was alone in the room with the "naked" snake.
It's better to rely on oneself than on others.
She rolled up her sleeves. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was looking, she secretly slipped into the space. She found some seasonings for making snake soup and a cookbook, which she hid in her sleeve.
She originally wanted to take out some seeds, but was afraid that she would be unable to get out once she entered the vegetable garden. So she gritted her teeth and left the space.
Han Xiangmei was worried outside that her daughter would blow up the kitchen. She was really worried. But when she came in, she found the room empty.
"Where is she?"
Oh no!
Ye Zhinan happened to run into her mother when she came out. But if she appeared so suddenly, she would surely scare her mother. So she lit the straw piled up beside.
"Fire!"
Ye Yingfeng was the first to notice the smoke coming out of the kitchen. He quickly fetched water from the water tank. But a gust of wind blew, and the fire burned even more vigorously. The little water was far from enough.
Ye Zhinan was stunned. She didn't expect the fire to be so big. She quickly took out a fire extinguisher from the space and put out the fire on the straw pile in a few strokes.
"Mother, are you okay?"
Ye Zhinan pulled Han Xiangmei out of the kitchen. Looking at her mother's ash - covered face, she felt extremely guilty.
"I'm fine. Where were you just now? You really can't be allowed to cook anymore."
Although Han Xiangmei was complaining, her eyes were constantly sizing up her daughter. Only after repeatedly confirming that she was okay did she feel relieved.
At this time, Ye Yingfeng and Qin Yihuai came back from the river carrying a big bucket of water. But the fire was already out. The mother and daughter were standing outside, with ash on their bodies and faces.
Just as Ye Yingfeng was about to step forward, he felt a shadow flash by. Qin Yihuai stood in front of Ye Zhinan, his face slightly gloomy and his eyes solemn.
"Don't cook anymore in the future!"
Maybe this was a blessing in disguise!
Ye Zhinan was extremely embarrassed. She hung her head, staring intently at the ground, wishing she could dig a hole and hide in it.
She originally wanted to treat guests to a meal. Who would have thought that instead of having snake soup, they all got covered in ash.
Oh, the snake!!!
At this moment, she remembered the snake placed beside the stove. She ran towards the kitchen at full speed.
Qin Yihuai couldn't even hold her back and could only follow closely behind.
When they went in, Ye Zhinan was holding something gray and sobbing silently.
"If you want to eat it, I'll buy it for you in the town."
Qin Yihuai didn't know how to comfort people, especially a crying woman who was holding a snake.
"This is not bad either. I've never eaten roasted snake before, but it smells quite nice."
Ye Zhinan turned around, showing a smile on her ash - covered face.
She wasn't crying. She was smiling excitedly because of the smell of the roasted snake.
Seeing this strange woman in front of him, Qin Yihuai didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
The kitchen was burned down. Instead of being sad, Ye Zhinan pointed at the ashes all over the place and said happily to everyone, "The land in the back yard has fertilizer now."
Seeing this, Qin Yihuai silently pulled Ye Yingfeng aside and said, "I'll help you rebuild the kitchen."
Ye Yingfeng stared at him for a long time. From his firm eyes, he seemed to see a hint of threat. Then he glanced at Ye Zhinan beside him and tightly held Qin Yihuai's hands.
"It's a deal."
Hearing this, Qin Yihuai let out a sigh of relief.
He was afraid that Ye Yingfeng would blame Ye Zhinan, so he had to offer his help.
Ye Shenyan watched for a long time and then smiled contentedly. He picked up a piece of snake skin and put it in his mouth.
"The taste is not bad!"
"Right? I knew it would be delicious!"
Ye Zhinan put down the ash, wiped the dirt off her hands, and also picked up a piece of snake skin and put it in her mouth, chewing it crunchily.
"Inspector Qin, are you sure you don't want to try? It's really delicious!"
With that, she picked up a piece of snake skin and held it in front of Qin Yihuai.
The snake skin was only 0.0001 centimeters away from his mouth. As long as he opened his mouth and took a slight breath, he could suck the snake skin into his mouth.
Qin Yihuai was struggling fiercely in his heart. Whether to eat it or not was a problem.
If he ate it, Ye Zhinan would be happy, but Qin Yihuai would be unhappy.
If he didn't eat it, Qin Yihuai would breathe a sigh of relief, but Ye Zhinan would be sad.
While he was struggling, Ye Shenyan had been observing for a long time.
This scene seemed familiar. Not eating snake meat reminded him of someone.
But that person...
Ye Shenyan's eyes were sharp. He stared closely at the person in front of him, as if exploring, as if looking for an answer.
There was no moon tonight, and the stars were sparsely hanging in the sky.
Ye Zhinan was lying in bed, looking at the stars in the sky. Suddenly, she seemed to remember something and immediately entered the space.