My whole family sucked my blood; after being reborn, the little cook went on a killing spree.

Perhaps due to staying up late, Su Wan Ning felt dizzy.

The image of Lin Yuwei's panicked face flashed before his eyes: "Sister, it's terrible! That mountain delicacy soup... You have to go home quickly... I'll take responsibility... Trust me, I have a way..."

He then brought her a letter of recommendation and personally escorted her out of the palace.

Lin Yuwei's method was to directly take credit for her work and climb the social ladder!

Unfortunately, one mountain delicacy soup was not enough. Lin Yuwei also stole the set of medicinal cuisine recipes that she had developed for the Crown Prince. However, although those recipes included ingredients and methods, the quantities and cooking times were not detailed. In order to extract all the information, the Lin family had been coaxing her for another three years.

In her past life, she only learned the truth before she died. At that time, Lin Yuwei had already become the Crown Princess. But heaven had eyes and gave her a second chance. This time, she was determined to drag Lin Yuwei down with her!

Powdered to dust, bones shattered!

Su Wan Ning suppressed the murderous intent in her heart, and when she looked up again, she had put on a perfectly timed smile. "Mountain delicacy soup, huh? I'm thinking of a fresh way to make it."

"You can also make mountain delicacy soup? Tell me more about it."

Xu Lingxi was in high spirits.

"Actually, it's a matter of ingredients. For example, the yams in the palace are of very good quality, but they don't have the same rich flavor as the yams that grow in the wild."

Su Wan Ning lifted a corner of the carriage curtain and looked around carefully. "We don't have any here. Once we enter Jizhou, we should be able to find wild yams. We can try wild yam vines this season. In September and October, we can dig up wild yams. Once we have all the ingredients, I'll make you a mountain delicacy soup."

"Really? Then it's a deal!"

Xu Lingxi is already looking forward to it.

Unfortunately, it wasn't a major inn at night; there were only some vegetables and coarse noodles, but a few chickens.

Su Wan Ning cooked a pot of chicken soup, rolled out noodles, shredded the chicken into thin strips, and seasoned it only with salt and pepper. The noodles were smooth, the vegetables were crisp and tender, and the chicken was dry and fragrant. It was quite warming and made her feel very comfortable in her stomach.

The next morning, I got up early again and made pumpkin and millet porridge, along with two stir-fries, a few meat patties, and some snacks to eat on the road.

Despite traveling during the day and trying to prepare food in various ways at night, no one found the journey boring.

Xuancao drove the carriage at breakneck speed, shortening the journey from four days to half.

On the morning of the third day, as soon as they stepped into Qingshan County, they saw the people who had come to pick up Xu Lingxi.

There were at least twenty people in the procession, and one old woman couldn't wait for the carriage to stop. She jumped down and was about to hit Xu Lingxi.

"I told you not to sneak away! You're such a little devil, you almost scared this old servant to death!"

Xu Lingxi was stunned for a moment before she came to her senses and pleaded with a grin, "Aunt Zhou, I was wrong! I just missed you and Grandfather! You have no idea how bored I was in the capital. My father wanted to find eight hundred people to match me with every day!"

One sentence was enough to change Zhou's mother's expression.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Qingfang took out the basket she had prepared beforehand and diverted Zhou Mama's nagging, "Zhou Mama, Miss has been talking about you all the way here. These wild vegetables were all picked by Miss herself, and she will cook them for you to try later."

The basket was full of fresh, tender green leaves and round little red berries.

Just an ordinary little gadget.

Mrs. Zhou glanced at it and didn't want to look any longer, but not wanting to offend her young mistress, she smiled and said, "Then thank you in advance, Miss."

Xu Lingxi snorted and pulled Su Wanning over, "Aunt Zhou, don't look down on me, I learned this dish from Chef Su!"

"This humble woman, Su Wanning, greets Madam Zhou."

Su Wan Ning bowed politely, without saying anything more about the basket on her back.

Words are useless; you have to taste it to know how rare and delicious that basket of fresh wild game is.

"No need for such formalities, Madam Su."

Madam Zhou raised her chin, and a maid handed her a bulging purse. "I must thank you for taking such good care of my young lady along the way. This is a gift from the matriarch."

"Then I thank you, Ancestor."

Su Wan Ning smiled, took the purse and squeezed it. It was round and heavy in her hand. It wasn't loose silver, but copper coins. This bag contained at most five hundred coins.

Given Xu Lingxi's generosity, the old ancestor wouldn't be so stingy.

Is it possible that Zhou's mother looked down on her, so she kept most of it, convinced that she was too ignorant and brainless to see through it, or that even if she did see through it, she would just meekly swallow her loss?

In her past life, she certainly wouldn't have thought so much, but now, she's going to assume the worst about everyone, especially the Xu family!

She wouldn't accept this loss.

Her thoughts raced for a moment, but in the blink of an eye, Su Wan Ning quietly boarded the carriage, hid the purse under the cushions, and wrote a note.

Then, he got off the bus with his baggage.

Xu Lingxi immediately ran over, "Where are you going? Come ride with me in this car, I'll take you home!"

"You should go back with Aunt Zhou quickly. I need to settle down in the county town first. The city gate is just ahead. I can walk there by myself."

Su Wan Ning politely declined, saying, "I left the address in the car. You can have someone come find me later."

"Alright then."

Xu Lingxi was still worried about Su Wanning, so she had Xuancao drive her while she and her group changed routes and sped off towards the manor in Xiushui Village.

Upon entering Qiufeng Manor, instead of immediately visiting the ancestor, he went into the kitchen and busied himself for a while before carrying the food box and heading straight to the ancestor's courtyard.

"Ancestor! Have you missed me?"

Before the person even entered the house, their excited voices drifted in first.

On the soft couch, an old lady with a full head of white hair smiled broadly, "You little rascal, slow down."

The clattering of footsteps suggested they had come running.

Madam Zhou frowned. "I don't know how that Madam Su bewitched Miss. She insists on making those herbal leaves as soon as she enters the house, as if they were some kind of magic elixir?"

The young lady's refusal to heed her advice frustrated her greatly and made her dislike Su Wan Ning even more.

"You old fool, it doesn't matter what the things are like, this is your child's filial piety! Don't say anything out of line later!"

The old lady glared at her.

"Who's talking nonsense?" Xu Lingxi strode in, then forgot what she was saying, excitedly taking a plate of food from the food box. "Grandmother, please try my Spring Mountain Snow Plum!"

"Wow, look at the nickname they came up with."

The old lady was also very interested. Because of her age, she couldn't see the plate clearly when she was too close. She could only see a fresh spring color in the white jade plate, with some red spots of varying shades, which suited the name very well.

She leaned back a little, squinted, and exclaimed in surprise, "These are wild yam vines and wild raspberries? I haven't eaten them in years!"

As he spoke, he reached for his chopsticks.

Madam Zhou stopped her, saying urgently, "Grandmother, don't eat it! It might be poisonous! How could Miss know the difference..."

"It's not poisonous, Aunt Zhou!"

Xu Lingxi panicked, "The poisonous one is the yellow yam, its leaves are much rounder and more swollen! I'm not stupid! Lady Su taught me all that!"

"I learned a lot from that trip."

The old lady gave her an approving look.

Xu Lingxi said smugly, adding a piece of food to the old lady's plate. "She's really amazing. I'll invite her to cook for your birthday celebration."

"Don't be fooled by a cook who's been kicked out!" Zhou's mother said earnestly.

Xu Lingxi stomped her foot in anger, "Aunt Zhou, they were granted permission to return home by grace!"

"Alright, alright, whatever Miss says."

Mother Zhou scoffed inwardly. There was no such thing as a favor. It just sounded nice. Who knew what the little cook had done wrong?