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Chapter 1908: Strangeness in Familiar Places
Cui Yan is very tight-lipped.

Even though Yi Shuo showed great interest in the gourd, the other party only gave a brief introduction about it.

It is extremely difficult to get information from Cui Yan.

For a whole hour, Yi Shuo didn't get the answer he wanted.

This made her a little discouraged as she was looking for an opportunity to talk. She felt that her ability to find out secrets was too poor. She had been in the car with Cui Yan for an hour but did not get an answer from him.

Finally, we arrived at the familiar Laoshu Hutong.

After Yishuo came to the Empress Dowager's side with his medical skills, he seldom came back here. After all, Zheng Wukong was not around, Zhang Xuezhou and others were also away on a long journey, and there was some generation gap between Yishuo and several older brothers.

She has her own small house and lives comfortably there.

Coming back again after more than half a year, Yi Shuo inevitably felt a little unfamiliar.

The air was filled with the fishy and meaty smell of pork, which tasted a bit strange.

She searched for a few seconds before she confirmed that the smell was coming from the house of Zhang Xuezhou and others.

It was normal to cook at home these days, but the smell was a bit strong. Yi Shuo felt that he would not be able to concentrate on making medicine living in such a place, and this pig smell was also a taboo for medicinal materials.

"Is Master Dongfang at home?"

Cui Yan knocked on the door politely, while Yi Shuo stood on tiptoe to take a look at teacher Zheng Wukong's house.

The house was quiet. Zheng Wukong was not there and many of the senior brothers rarely came to live here. Yi Shuo felt that the door of the house was still locked.

"Which one?"

A strange female voice was heard and Yi Shuo quickly turned his head back.

"The door is not locked, you can just push it and come in!"

After the voice was heard again, Cui Yan had no choice but to push open the door awkwardly.

The several times stronger smell of meat came towards them. Yi Shuo felt his nose was choked and a little uncomfortable, while Cui Yan felt like he had taken a bite of greasy and fishy fatty pork.

Cui Yan works in Anle Palace, so his body is well-pampered, and the taste of his food is completely different from that of a hungry person or someone doing physical work.

The food that everyone in Zhangjiazhuang enjoyed so much was a torture for Cui Yan.

"Where is Lord Dongfang?"

Cui Yan pushed the door open and saw two elderly cooks in the kitchen making a fire and cooking meat, and two helpers in the courtyard cutting meat and washing internal organs.

There was another young woman who was squatting in the yard, playing with ants out of boredom.

Cui Yan thought about it and decided that the person he was questioning was the young woman.

"Your life..."

The young woman raised her head and took a look. She was about to speak, but when she heard what Cui Yan said about Lord Dongfang, she immediately took her words back.

"Dongfang Shuo went shopping early in the morning!" the young woman replied boredly.

"Shopping? He's shopping at this time?"

Cui Yan opened his mouth.

He arrived not too late, it was the end of the Si hour and not yet noon, which was the perfect time to cook.

Normally, everyone would go home at this time.

Cui Yan looked around and didn't understand for a moment whether Li Shaojun, who was seriously ill, should eat a large amount of pork. After all, the amount of pork was really too much.

As for someone like Zhang Xuezhou, he actually went out shopping when his seriously ill friend was staying with him. This kind of character is a bit too casual.

Normally, Zhang Xuezhou should have invited some doctors to come for Li Shaojun, and the courtyard would have been filled with the smell of boiling medicine, which would have been consistent with Cui Yan's imagination.

"Is Taoist Master Li Shaojun here?"

Cui Yan changed the subject.

The master was not at home, but he still had to do his work. As long as Li Shaojun was still healthy, he would send Li Shaojun an invitation to Anle Palace, and then Li Shaojun would enter the palace to meet the Empress Dowager.

In this small piece of land in Chang'an City, Cui Yan would never think about whether Li Shaojun would refuse to enter the palace.

In short, if you are seriously ill, you should rest; if you are not seriously ill, you should enter the palace.

Even if Zhang Xuezhou was lying down like he had done before, Cui Yan felt that he was qualified to enter the palace.

According to Cui Yan's judgment standard, as long as Li Shaojun does not die within a short period of time, he meets the criteria for entering the palace.

He asked Li Shaojun, which made the young woman raise her head and look at Cui Yan, and then look at Yi Shuo behind Cui Yan.

"That lie... Li Shaojun is feeling a little unwell. He feels that he needs to go out for a walk. He may come back after he has walked!"

"Go for a walk?"

Cui Yan was also very dissatisfied that Li Shaojun was not at the house, but he was very satisfied with the young woman's mention of "going out for a walk".

Since Li Shaojun can still walk, there will be no problem for him to walk to Anle Palace.

He was so worried that he even paid for a medical officer to come to his house, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

"Then can I wait here for Master Li?" Cui Yan asked.

"Then you just wait there!"

The young woman nodded, apparently not minding that Cui Yan occupied a small space in the courtyard.

Cui Yan opened his mouth at her unreasonable response, feeling that this woman had no social skills at all. Not to mention the palace attire he was wearing, even if ordinary people came to visit him, they should be given a place to sit and a bowl of water instead of letting them stand and wait.

"Cai Ma, come and help us carry the meat out and drain it!"

"coming!"

When a woman in the kitchen called out, the young woman jumped up and ran to the kitchen with a flattering look on her face.

"Can you make me some stir-fried pork liver today?"

"Today we are eating pig intestines. You may not be used to it at first, but it tastes delicious once you get used to it!"

"What's that fat intestine? The one that's used to stuff shit in?"

"Jia Zhiyuan, wash your intestines clean, so I can feed you some shit!"

"I don't eat shit!"

There was a whispered exchange of words in the kitchen, followed by a loud drink, and then a low reply from the man who was washing his large intestine in the courtyard.

Cui Yan thought about the pig intestines, and then thought about these people eating pig intestines. For a moment, he felt uncomfortable in his chest.

"Has Lord Dongfang's family fallen to the point of eating excrement?"

Cui Yan had never eaten pig intestines in his life. Only those extremely poor people who were starving would use these internal organs as food.

He didn't expect that Zhang Xuezhou's family was so poor.

Even though he had been a hard-hearted man for so many years, he couldn't help but feel a little sad, thinking that Zhang Xuezhou's condition was getting worse and worse after his brain injury.

"Master Dongfang went out shopping. He is very likely eating outside. Maybe these foods are for the servants. The situation at Master Dongfang's home looks a bit bad. The servants can only rely on pig intestines to fill their stomachs!"

His mind was full of thoughts, and he found a place to sit down.

Cui Yan had a lot of messy thoughts in his mind, while Yi Shuo looked around.

The room was full of people, and she didn't know any of them. This once familiar place was so strange that Yishuo found it difficult to adapt.

"Master Cui, the smell of pork here is a bit strong, which has a great impact on our noses that can distinguish the smell of medicine. I'm going to take a walk upwind. I won't go far. Just call me if you need anything."

Yi Shuo whispered something to Cui Yan, which made Cui Yan almost excited and wanted to go out for a walk at the same time.

But as long as he thought about the need to use the most sincere and serious attitude when carrying out the Anle Palace mission, he nodded in agreement with Yi Shuo's behavior and sat down abruptly.