The legitimate daughter was reborn, and the emperor’s little Jiaojiao went crazy.

The little girl buried her head and ate the noodles with relish.

A man in a silk shirt came over and called out, "Old Liu, give me a bowl of sweet and spicy dumplings."

"Okay!" the shopkeeper responded, "Please sit down."

The man in the silk shirt sat down at the empty seat at the table next to him and waited.

When Shi Anxia heard the words "sweet and spicy dumplings", her whole body stiffened and her fingers couldn't help but tremble.

Someone couldn't help but ask the store owner, "What are sweet and spicy dumplings? Dumplings? How do dumplings open? Won't they fall apart if they open?"

The shopkeeper smiled and replied, "You will know if you try a bowl. It is just a penny more expensive than ordinary noodles, but it is packed with more ingredients."

"No, it's a penny more expensive."

Cen Yuan knew that An Xia might have thought of the past in Guanzhou. After a moment of silence, he asked in a considerate and low voice, "Do you want to eat?"

Shi Anxia pursed her lips and nodded, "Let's have a bowl and eat together?"

"Okay." Cen Yuan reminded her, "Then you should eat less of the Soul-Stirring Noodles."

"I can eat more." Shi Anxia lowered his head and took a mouthful of noodles. When he heard Cen Yuan say, "Shopkeeper, give us a bowl of sweet and spicy dumplings as well," he thought of someone in his heart... a noble person from long ago.

When the man in the silk shirt heard someone shouting "sweet and spicy dumplings" with him, he immediately became excited and talked more. "Their sweet and spicy dumplings are the best! I like them. Old man Liu, you see, I said someone would like them."

Old man Liu turned his head and smiled, "Open-mouthed dumplings are mostly filled with meat, which is expensive and few people eat them. I dare not make too many, as it would be a pity if they go bad. My guests, please wait a moment. I have to make them now."

Shi Anxia turned her head and saw that the old woman had already started wrapping.

She stared from a distance without blinking.

"You can go over and watch her bag." Cen Yuan reminded her.

The little girl's eyes sparkled, and she used a handkerchief to wipe the corners of her mouth, "Then I'll go?"

"Go." Cen Yuan watched her walk away, her back looking determined and lonely.

He remembered what she said in her previous life: My mother can make dumplings, and they are delicious.

At that time, they searched every corner of the capital, but could not find any store selling open-mouthed dumplings.

Cen Yuan even felt the same way as everyone else, that if the dumplings were opened, they would fall apart once cooked. Not only would opened dumplings fall apart, even dumplings that were not opened would sometimes break and fall apart.

Later, Shi Anxia made a meal of open-mouthed dumplings for him in the deep palace... and then she cooked a whole pot of them, leaving the skin behind and the filling behind.

He still ate all the food, whether it was skin or filling, just because she made it herself.

The Queen Mother of a country made dumplings for him personally.

Shi Anxia stood there and watched the old woman make dumplings. She used a kind of soft dough with moderate thickness, removed the four corners, and cut it into round shapes. She placed the fillings on top, and then made the same way as making crescent dumplings, only wrapping halfway and opening it.

"Shopkeeper, won't this fall apart when we put it in the pot?" Cen Yuan stood next to Shi Anxia at some point.

The old woman smiled and shook her head, "Young man, you don't know this. Open-ended dumplings are not boiled in a pot, they are steamed in a steamer over high heat." As she spoke, she put the wrapped open-ended dumplings into the steamer.

Shi Anxia suddenly realized, "It's not boiled!" She felt like she had boiled it somewhere before and it fell apart. The skin was the skin, the filling was the filling, and no one would eat it.

She didn't think about it and asked, "Mother-in-law, what is this stuffing made of?"

"It's mainly pork mixed with fish, with a little chopped vegetables and seasonings."

Shi Anxia looked at the steaming steamer and said, "Old man, are you from Guanzhou?"

The old woman responded with surprise, "You are very knowledgeable, young lady. Did you recognize that Kaikoujiao is a famous snack in Guanzhou?"

Shi Anxia replied softly, "When I was a kid, I went there."

She did not have a good impression of Guanzhou, as all her bad memories from her childhood were from Guanzhou.

But there is also someone there who makes her miss him infinitely and search for him desperately.

When she was reborn in this life, while she was busy dealing with Aunt Wen and her grandmother, she also asked her eldest uncle and her uncle to find an acquaintance to pass a letter to the Guanzhou government, asking them to help secretly search for this person's whereabouts.

In addition, she also spent a large sum of money to hire the "Si Hai Tang" in the underworld to secretly find someone for her.

Finally, before getting married, after knowing that Cen Yuan was Emperor Heng of Liang, he asked him to send secret guards to look for her.

However, there has been no news so far.

That person was the "Mother" that Shi Anxia had called...

A'niang made dumplings for her personally, and they were this kind of open-mouthed dumplings.

She enjoyed the meal very much, but her mother's eyes were filled with tears.

That day, Shi Anxia stood aside and watched her mother making dumplings. "Mother, the dumplings you make have small mouths."

"Does our little Ye Zi like to eat dumplings with little mouths?" A Niang smiled gently, with tears in her eyes, as if she wanted to engrave her little appearance deeply in her mind.

"I like it." Little Leaf answered obediently.

"If you like it...eat more." A'niang couldn't help crying out loud.

Xiao Ye wiped away A Niang's tears and said, "Don't cry, A Niang. Xiao Ye likes to eat the dumplings A Niang makes, the dumplings with small mouths."

A Niang tried hard to smile, "Little Ye Zi, if you leave the Ye family in the future, will you still remember A Niang?"

Xiao Ye blinked his eyes and put his hands on his chest. "Leave A Niang here with Xiao Ye. Xiao Ye will always remember A Niang. But why did Xiao Ye leave the Ye family?"

A'niang looked around for a moment, and told Shi Anxia everything without caring whether she could understand or not.

Although Shi Anxia was young, she really understood.

She was horrified.

That night, the Ye family wanted to bury her alive.

A'niang knelt and begged the head of the Ye family for a long time before she got the chance to have him personally make dumplings for her.

She cried and said, "Father, this is the last meal. Please let me make dumplings for her for the last time."

She even said, "Father, maybe this last meal of dumplings will make Xiaoye remember how well our family treated her..."

Only then did the head of the Ye family agree.

After this meal, at three o'clock in the morning, the Ye family was going to bury her alive.

It turns out that the Ye family had a purpose in mind when they bought Shi An Xia and raised her.

The ancestors of the Ye family were powerful officials, but subsequent generations were weaker than the previous ones. Someone in the family made a mistake and was banished from the capital, never to have another chance at an official career again.

So the Ye family started to do business, and at first the business was smooth and they accumulated a lot of wealth. But after three generations, things started to go wrong. They lost money selling cotton, antiques, and porcelain.

The head of the Ye family became anxious and found a Feng Shui master named Jin Yangzi to look at the Feng Shui of the ancestral home.

After reading it, Jin Yangzi pointed out the problem: the Ye family’s ancestral home lacked a guardian ghost.

The head of the Ye family spent a lot of money to ask Jin Yangzi to resolve the problem.

Jin Yangzi looked at the pile of silver, but shook his head, saying that it was difficult to find the house-guarding ghost.

The head of the Ye family asked, what's the difficulty?

Jin Yangzi said that he wanted to find a little girl with a dignified appearance, a full forehead, hanging earlobes with moles on her earlobes, a hidden mole in the forehead, and a mole on the back of her neck to be the ghost embryo. The younger the better.

A girl with this kind of face is either an evil spirit among the Yin, or a dragon and phoenix among the Yang.

The head of the Ye family sent all the Ye family members out to look for someone with this characteristic.

What the hell, the Ye family actually found him.

The Ye family paid a high price to buy the little girl named "Chu Jun" and named her "Xiao Ye Zi".

Tsuyoko said that the little girl should be kept warm by covering herself with red clothes first.

When she was eight years old, they buried her alive under the locust tree in the ancestral home. In this way, she became a house-guarding ghost, and the Ye family would have good fortune from then on.