Xiao Qing had just come in, and he didn't know what they said before, and when he heard Chu Shaoyuan talk about an errand, he raised his head from the bowl and asked, "What errand are you going to do?" ”

Chu Shaoyuan glanced at Xiao Qing, who was eating a mouthful of oil, with disgust, and didn't want to pay attention to her, but thinking that Chanyi was very kind to her, he tilted his head sideways and said, "My father wants to arrange an errand for me, and I will ask Xiao Pei to come over and be my close guard, so that he doesn't have to go back with a blue nose and swollen face." ”

Xiao Qing saw the undisguised disgust in his eyes, the corners of his mouth twitched, he took out a handkerchief and wiped the oil stains on the side of his mouth, "That's a good feeling, my second brother won't have to work so hard in the future," and went to get a spoon of soup to drink, "You don't know, he shouted tired as soon as he came home these days, saying that his back hurts, and he didn't bother to wash and fell asleep so stinky, no matter how his little servant shouted, he couldn't get up, and he had to rely on me to kick him up, so he went to wash and sleep." ”

Chanyi couldn't help shaking her head and sighing, there are always many things about their brother and sister that make people feel incredible.

She smiled lightly, picked up a rib and put it on the plate in front of Chu Shaoyuan, and changed her head, "It is said that the food in the Eight Immortal Mansion is delicious, but I think that except for the fish maw pot chicken, the food in the Eight Immortal Mansion is not much different from the cook in the house," and then she asked softly, "Is the food in the palace delicious?" ”

Chu Shaoyuan turned his head to look at her, his eyes were bright: "The dishes made in the imperial dining room in the palace look fine, but in fact, the taste is not as delicious as in your own small kitchen, there are small kitchens in each palace, and you only need to go to the imperial dining room to get the ingredients every day. ”

As he spoke, he picked up the rib with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, his tone became lighter, "It's that many sisters and brothers in the palace don't recognize it, and the queen pulled it and recognized it once, but she still looked dizzy, and she couldn't recognize which one was which for a while, and it was too troublesome to want to go out of the palace." ”

Chanyi saw that his feelings were a little low, and comforted: "It's good to wait for you to move out after you have been knighted in a few years." ”

Chu Shaoyuan smiled gently, and when he saw that her soup bowl was empty, he went to serve chicken soup to her, and said softly: "I'll go back after eating in a while, and my father should ask me about my decision today." ”

Xia Mingche nodded, thought for a while, and said, "If you have nothing to do these days, you can sort out the map of the northwest first, so that it will be convenient for the future." ”

Chu Shaoyuan understood in his heart that he was afraid that the Tartars would attack in the future, and he, as the prince, could not avoid this battle, so he bowed his head and said: "Presumably, the map in the palace should be the most complete." ”

Xiao Qing heard the word map, his eyes lit up, and he was still chewing food in his mouth, so he said: "My eldest brother and I had experience when Sichuan-Guizhou was in turmoil, those maps are useless at all, you need to measure them inch by inch, and sometimes you need someone who is familiar with the terrain over there to guide, because a place will change every year, and those maps in the palace are a few years ago." ”

Chan Yi thought that Xiao Qing was a military general in his previous life after all, and he understood these things better than them, and agreed at the moment: "What Sister Qing said makes sense. ”

Xia Mingche glanced at Xiao Qing, with a soft smile on the corner of his mouth, and then said to Chu Shaoyuan: "Fortunately, the eldest brother went to the northwest with Wang Jue, you send them a letter, and let them take a look in the northwest to see if the Wei family has a complete map, if not, go and test it yourself." ”

Chu Shaoyuan nodded, "These are not difficult things. ”

Speaking of Wang Jue, Xiao Qing suddenly remembered something, turned his head and asked Chanyi: "Evening Zhao, did Wang Jue send Sang Luojiu to your house?" ”

Chanyi was stunned, but she didn't expect the topic to suddenly jump to this, and nodded: "On the second day, Dingguo Hou sent five jars of wine, I heard the eldest brother say, he sent a jar to your house before leaving, what's wrong?" ”

Xiao Qing looked at Chanyi in surprise, and muttered, "Why didn't you listen to the porter," and then suddenly realized, slapped the table, "It must be Xiao Pei, this kid secretly hid and drank it all alone!" ”

Chanyi was amused by her reaction and laughed, and comforted her: "It's okay, I still have four jars at home, and the eldest brother doesn't know when he will come back, anyway, there is nothing to do, otherwise you come to my house as a guest, and I will secretly open a jar for you to taste?" ”

Xiao Qing nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay! I said I wanted to be a guest at your house a long time ago, but I'm afraid you will dislike me......"

Chanyi couldn't help but glare at her: "Sister Qing just broke my heart when she said this, when did I dislike you?" ”

Xiao Qing knew that she was speechless, and hurriedly put the osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root with chopsticks on her plate, with a smile on her face: "It's better if you don't dislike me, I'll go to your house today to bother, don't bother me." ”

She looked like an apology, which made Chanyi smile helplessly, and put the lotus root slices she had given herself into her mouth, "Sister Qing will go back with me in a while, and I will ask the maids to fill a jar for you to go back." ”

Xia Mingche looked at Xiao Qing's face with a happy look, and said with a smile: "I remember that the bamboo leaves in the Qinfu wine shop are also very good, and the Tusu wine in the Wang family tavern is even more high-quality, if you are good wine, you can let the shopkeeper of the tavern send some to the house to hide, and take it out to drink in a few years, it will taste better." ”

Xiao Qing was full of depression when he said this, and waved his hand, "Don't mention it, when I was ten years old, I secretly buried twenty jars of Jinhua wine and Xinfeng wine in the yard, I thought that I would dig it out in a few years, and the taste would be more fragrant than my father's pear blossom white, how do I know that when I was fourteen years old, I followed my eldest brother to Sichuan and Guizhou for two years, and I came back a few days ago, thinking about getting up and drinking a jar, but as a result, hey, it's all gone, and the wine in a yard is buried separately, and it was all dug up and drunk." ”

Xie Xuanyun laughed, "It must be Xiao Pei who drank secretly, he is famous for being a good drinker, once when I passed by the candle alley, I saw him and Shen Boyan sitting on the braised meat stall drinking, drinking together and talking with eyebrows, I leaned over to listen to them chat, guess what they talked about?" ”

Xiao Qing asked curiously, "What are you talking about?" ”

Xie Xuanyun shook his fan, quite a bit of a good son's taste, raised his eyebrows and said: "Seeing that they are chatting seriously, I will sit at the table behind them, Xiao Pei said that his father's nose is getting smarter and smarter, and his eyes are getting better and better, even if he secretly scoops a gourd of wine, he can be discovered, Shen Boyan immediately answered, saying that the wine in their wine cellar is watched by the handymen, and his little servant is usually not allowed to approach, only on festivals let a pot be poured out for him to drink, one day he secretly took advantage of the darkness of the night to avoid a room of miscellaneous servants, Sneaked into the wine cellar and secretly picked up a jar of wine, felt it out and put it under the bed, and planned to come out the next day, but it was discovered the next day, you know, Lord Shen's temper, smelly and hard, Shen Boyan said that he was beaten heavily that day, saying that he couldn't get out of bed for several days, and his butt hurt. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard it, Shen Boyan was the sister-in-law of Shen Wei, the scholar of the Ministry of War, and the neighbor of the Xiao family.

Xiao Qing snorted and said dissatisfied: "Of course I know that he did it, no one else in the family can do this kind of thing except him, otherwise I can fight him when I meet, he can't be a brother, unlike my eldest brother, I know that I want to feel sorry for my sister, he is good, not to mention letting me everywhere, I have to have something good, and I have to swallow it all." ”

Chanyi couldn't help but hold her forehead, and wanted to say girl, you didn't let your second brother go, the whip was wielding a tiger and a tiger, even if your second brother wanted you, it was very difficult.

Xiao Qing looked at Chanyi, then at Xia Mingche, and said in a quiet tone: "Wanzhao, I really envy you, your two brothers are so good to you, unlike my second brother, who knows to grab wine and eat with me all the time." ”

Chanyi heard the bitterness in her words, thinking that she lost her mother in her early years, and General Xiao had not renewed the strings, she couldn't help but feel a little sorry for her, smiled, glanced at Xia Mingche, and decided to sell the second brother temporarily, and took a few things from childhood.

"Don't look at the two brothers who are good to me now, but you would never have imagined that the two of them made me happy all day long when they were young, I still remember when I just changed my baby teeth, the second brother said to me, the baby teeth have to be swallowed into the stomach to grow new teeth, I was young at the time, I didn't understand this, and I saw that the second brother said seriously, I believed it, and I was about to stuff the baby teeth that had just faded into my mouth, but I was found by the nurse, and quickly stopped me, and turned around to tell my mother about it, my mother reprimanded him fiercely, and he didn't dare to say it again."

Xia Mingche heard Chanyi talk about his troubles when he was a child, Jun's face turned red, and he hurriedly defended: "Wanwan, you were only six years old at the time, when did this happen, how do you still remember it!" And didn't I tell you at the time, it was my eldest brother who told me when I changed my baby teeth, saying that I would have to swallow it to grow new teeth, and I swallowed several ...... in a row."

Xiao Qing looked at Xia Ming Chele: "Why were you so stupid when you were a child?" This kind of thing will be believed. ”

Xia Mingche lightly covered his eyes with his hands and looked ashamed, "Because at that time, my eldest brother said that he swore that he had such a good tooth because he swallowed all the baby teeth, so he would grow so well, and also said that I looked very ugly at that time......

Even if Xia Mingche is a very smart and resourceless teenager, he will have such a simple and lovely childhood.

Xiao Qing looked at Xia Ming Chejun's face with a thin layer of redness, as if a crack had been made in his original perfect mask, and he could see the softness in his heart from that opening, and he couldn't help but jump in his heart and lowered his head.

Xie Xuanyun also laughed on the side, "Brother Mingchen also said this to me, but my mother put away my baby teeth early in the morning, and I just want to swallow it." ”

Chu Shaoyuan looked at the few people with smiles on their faces, and suddenly thought that when she was six years old, she had not yet entered the mansion, and she had never seen her at that time, which was quite regrettable.

After a meal and a chat, it was finally time to break up.

Chu Shaoyuan stood up and reluctantly said to Chanyi: "Wanwan, don't worry, I will definitely be able to do it." ”

Is he talking about his previous promises?

Chanyi raised her head and looked at his serious appearance, did not ignore the title in his mouth, since he said that he wanted to marry her, he did not call her "sister" again, she smiled and asked, "Why don't you call her sister?" ”

Chu Shaoyuan's eyes were shining, and he called softly: "Sister......"

Chan Yi only felt that his "sister" tone was long and tactful, like a little milk cat with its paws, gently scratching her heart twice, and her face turned red.