CHAPTER XVI

Saying goodbye to the old man next door, Su Yan hurried to the county seat.

Most of the slaves in the Tang Mansion are from Yangle County, and Mrs. Tang can take Tang Yinchu to move away overnight, but it is impossible to take these slaves away, Su Yan is going to find a cook in the Tang Mansion this time.

A few days ago, the little grandson of this cook had a fever that did not go away, and Su Yan had been to her house a few times to know where her family lived.

Finding the small courtyard according to her memory, Su Yan gently buckled the door knocker and said loudly, "Is anyone at home?" ”

"Who?" A woman who looked to be fifty or sixty years old in an ochre-colored gown came out of the house and opened the courtyard door, "It's Dr. Su!" Come on, come on, come in! ”

Su Yan shook her head and excused herself, "Auntie, I won't go in, I came this time to ask you ......"

The woman interrupted her, "Doctor Su wants to ask about the lady and the young master, right?" Without waiting for Su Yan to nod, she smiled and said, "I don't know how much, I just heard that Mrs. said that Chang'an's family has some things to deal with, and she is very anxious, so she left overnight and will not come back in the future...... The lady next to me didn't say anything, and those of us who are subordinates are not easy to ask. ”

It wasn't that she had suffered any difficulties, so Su Yan was relieved.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year was just a few days away, Su Yan bought some rice, noodles, vegetables and meat at the market and put them in the carriage, and spent a few copper plates to hire a chariot to drive her and Zhongkang back to the village.

When she returned to the village, it was time for lunch, and Su Yan, with the help of Zhong Kang, put the things she bought in place and started to make lunch.

Xu didn't see her for more than two months, Su Yan was cooking in the stove room, Zhong Kang sat at the door of the stove room with a small wooden pier, looking at Su Yan with his hands on his cheeks, and his eyes kept rolling with her figure walking back and forth.

The kitchen knife kept rising and falling, and there was a very rhythmic tapping sound when it collided with the board, and Su Yan's thoughts gradually drifted away.

That day in Gu Jiang's house, she actually had a lot of things she wanted to ask Ah Chu, but she fell asleep before she could ask.

She wanted to ask him when he had recovered his mind? And how is it restored? What is abnormal in the body after recovery?

Also, she had always thought that Uncle Jin was just an ordinary housekeeper, but she didn't want to witness Uncle Jin, who was nearly half a hundred years old, playing a big knife with her own eyes.

There were many doubts she couldn't ask at the time, and she won't have a chance again.

When chopping vegetables, it was most taboo to be distracted, Su Yan was stunned, her hand did not keep up with the speed of the knife's movement, the sharp blade slashed across her fingers, and opened a gap, and in an instant, bright red blood rushed out.

"Shhh

The pain in her heart struck, Su Yan came back to her senses, and before she could raise her hand to check the injury, Dou Xian, who had been paying attention to her behind her, had already rushed to her side.

The scarlet blood on the white and lustrous index finger was particularly eye-catching, Dou Xianjian frowned, and immediately grabbed Su Yan's index finger and put it in his mouth.

The fingertips were wrapped in a piece of warmth, Su Yan was stunned, and looked up at his lips following the hand that was caught by Zhong Kang.

The angular thin lips are tinged with a faint crimson, and at this moment his thin lips are slightly opened, with a white finger in the middle, which shows the red and tender lips color, and the combination of white and red brings great visual impact.

Su Yan's face turned red for a moment, and she tried a little hard to pull her finger out of Zhong Kang's mouth, but he took it deeper, and the tip of her tongue tightly curled her fingertips, and the rough tongue coating slashed across her fingertips to bring bursts of □□.

Su Yan only felt as if her face had been put into a steamer, hot and hot, but the "culprit" was still ignorant and innocent, her eyes lowered and she was concentrating on sucking the blood from her fingertips.

"Zhong, Zhongkang......" Su Yan bit her lip and tried her best to suppress the strange feeling in her heart, "You let go, I'll rub the medicine." ”

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Dou Xian obediently opened his mouth to let Su Yan withdraw his hand, and in the process, the tip of his tongue once again crossed Su Yan's fingertips, intentionally or unintentionally.

Almost the moment she withdrew her hand, Su Yan turned around and ran out of the stove room.

Dou Xian looked at Su Yan's back and fled, and the corners of his mouth hooked up with an inexplicable smile.

Tang Yinchu's idea was clear to him, who was also a man, and moved away overnight without saying a word after saving his little wife, but he just wanted his little wife to keep him in mind and worry about him all the time.

A faint smell of blood permeated the tip of his tongue, and Dou Xian's eyes were deep-

It's good to pay attention, but it depends on whether he is willing or not.

In the previous life, he took his little wife back to Chang'an early, because many things did not happen, and Tang Yinchu died violently at the end of the year, and the little wife was sad for a long time, and even cried several times.

Now I think that it should be because he took away his little wife, and no one can solve the poison in Tang Yinchu, so he died of poison.

Snow Song. Changan.

This town is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger.

***

In the middle of the moon, every household is sleeping, and the small mountain village is silent.

"Don't!"

An exclamation woke Dou Xian up from his light sleep, and he stepped down from the kang and hurried to the east house.

On the kang in the east house, Su Yandai's eyebrows were tightened, a fine and dense layer of sweat beads on her forehead, her head couldn't stop shaking slightly, and she muttered in a low voice: "Don't, please don't!" ”

Seeing her like this, Dou Xian's heart tightened instantly, he leaned over and put one hand behind Su Yan's head to let her lean on him, patted her body with the other, lowered his head and whispered softly in her ear, "Medicine, medicine, medicine, I'm here, don't be afraid, I'm here......"

In her sleep, Su Yan was repeating yesterday's experience, and suddenly, the scene changed, back to when she was a child, the master stood in front of the house and lovingly called her milk name, she was very happy, and opened her arms to run into the master's arms, but she pounced.

Su Yan woke up in an instant, sat up from Dou Xian's arms, and looked at the quilt in front of her, looking frightened and a little dazed.

"Lady."

A low call came from behind her, Su Yan turned around, and was stunned, "Zhongkang, why are you in my house?" ”

The night deeply concealed the pity on Dou Xian's face, and he replied in a mellow and ignorant voice exclusive to "Zhongkang": "I heard the lady shouting 'don't', it seemed to be sad, so I came." ”

You're sad, so I'm here.

I don't know why, it was obviously a very common sentence, Su Yan actually felt relieved, her heart that was worried about nightmares slowly settled, looked at the sky outside the window, she said in a low voice: "It's still early, you go back to sleep quickly, I'm fine." ”

To add credibility, a smile tugged at the corner of her mouth.

Clinker Zhongkang shook his head, reached out and stroked her cheek, wiped the corner of her mouth with his thumb, and said softly: "Don't laugh if the lady is unhappy." ”

Su Yan was stunned, and only after a long time did she murmur, "How do you know I'm unhappy?" ”

The nightmare woke up someone on the side, and she was actually very happy.

"Because the lady is very afraid! How could he be happy when he was so scared. Zhong Kang said.

Yuehua was shining on the ground in front of the window, Zhong Kang had his back to the moonlight, Su Yan couldn't see his face clearly, but his mind appeared when he said this.

Seriously, with a slightly gentle look.

"Sleep, I'll watch over you, and I'll leave when you're asleep." Seeing that Su Yan didn't speak, Zhong Kang gently pressed her shoulder.

Su Yan lay down according to his strength, Zhong Kang tucked the quilt for her, squatted in front of the kang and put her arms on top of each other on the edge of the kang, her head resting on her arms, and her eyes looked at Su Yan without blinking.

Su Yan thought that she would be very uncomfortable, and even thought in her heart that she would pretend to sleep so that Zhong Kang could go back to sleep, but she didn't expect that under Zhong Kang's gaze, she would fall asleep quickly.

I slept even more peacefully than I used to.

The abduction left a shadow in Su Yan's heart, until years ago, she was still having nightmares every day, and every time she woke up from a nightmare, Zhong Kang would always stay by her side, gentle and firm.

Su Yan didn't notice that she was getting closer to Zhongkang day by day.

***

Children, don't be greedy, after Laba is the New Year; Laba porridge, drink it for a few days, and it will be twenty-three; Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky; twenty-four, sweep the house; Twenty-five, grinding tofu; Twenty-six, go buy meat; Twenty-seven, slaughtering a chicken; Twenty-eighth, put the face hair; Twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns; Thirty nights to stay up for one night; The first and second days of junior high school are full of streets.

Amid the laughter of the children, Chinese New Year's Eve came.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, according to the custom, every family has to stay up for the New Year, and the family gets together to talk and laugh and stay up all night.

Chinese New Year's Eve can allow the elders in the family to prolong their lives and health in the new year.

Since Dr. Han's death, Su Yan has no longer stayed up for years, and goes to bed early every Chinese New Year's Eve, and this year-

Su Yan put the prepared sugar melons and balls on the small table on the kang and beckoned Zhong Kang to sit down, "Zhong Kang, you can't sleep tonight, you know?" ”

She doesn't need to stay up for years without relatives, but Zhongkang is not.

"Why?" Zhong Kang was puzzled.

Crushed a piece of sugar melon and put it in her mouth, the sweet taste invaded the entire mouth, Su Yan squinted her eyes in a very good mood, raised her hand and twisted a whole sugar melon and handed it to Zhong Kang's mouth, "Do you remember your aunt?" ”

"Remember!" Zhong Kang opened his mouth to take the sugar melon that Su Yan handed to his mouth, "Ahhh He stuck out the tip of his tongue and hooked the sugar crumbs from the side of his mouth into his mouth, adding, "As gentle as a lady!" ”

Su Yan supported her hand, looked at him with a smile, and said softly: "If you don't sleep tonight, your aunt will always be happy next year, are you willing?" ”

"Hmm!" Dou Xian lowered his head to hide the love in his eyes.

It's a pity that A-Niang has already gone, if A-Niang is still alive, she will definitely like her very much.

"Then when will not sleep make the lady happy next year?"

Suddenly, Huo Ran heard Zhong Kang ask.

His dark eyes looked straight at her, and there was an expectation on his face that could not be ignored, Su Yan was stunned for a long time before softly saying, "It's the same, it's also tonight." ”

"Oh." Zhong Kang nodded thoughtfully, and after a while, he raised his head, and his words were full of excitement: "I won't sleep tonight!" Lady remember what you said, and be happy all the time next year! ”

The emotion in his eyes was too warm, Su Yan didn't dare to look at his eyes for a while, she lowered her eyes and looked at the round and small sugar melon in front of her, and nodded lightly, "Hmm." ”