20. Winter melon preserves
Su Xi pursed her lips and subconsciously looked around, this is clearly the inner courtyard, how did Fu Shaoyun bring Li Yan. She took two steps back, her eyes rolling slightly, "Why is Cousin Shaoyun here?" ā
Fu Shaoyun didn't miss her small movements, and the smile in Peach Blossom's eyes deepened slightly, "The Luyang Hou Mansion sent a pot of ink chrysanthemums, and my grandmother ordered my subordinates to move to the backyard and let me come with me." ā
Su Xi lowered her ears in annoyance, this Duchess of Qingguo was really well-intentioned, and she had to match her with Fu Shaoyun. But there are so many girls in the backyard, isn't Duchess Qingguo afraid that Fu Shaoyun will collide with other girls? Besides, why is Li Yan here? As soon as she saw Li Yan, she remembered the things in her previous life, and remembered the days when she and Li Yan had the same bed and dream, and she was a little uncomfortable.
Fu Shaoyun saw her rejection and introduced: "This is Li Yan, the eldest son of the Luyang Marquis Mansion, and he is also my cousin. ā
Su Xi lowered his head in the direction of Li Yan, and did not look up at the person: "Li Gongzi." ā
This attitude of drawing a clear line could not be more obvious, and if you don't look at it, you just don't want to have any contact. Li Yan looked at the little girl in the octagonal pavilion, because she lowered her head, Li Yan could only see her thick eyelashes and small chin, she was not tall, and she was only about ten years old. He suddenly remembered that day in the General's Mansion, this little girl also had such an attitude, lukewarm, and even with a hint of disgust.
Li Yan's face did not change, nodded and said, "Miss Su." ā
Fu Shaoyun asked the subordinates behind him to move the flowers over and put them in a more conspicuous place, suddenly remembered something, and asked Su Xidao: "I just saw you drinking tea, and you seem to be quite dissatisfied with the flower tea in my house?" I don't know what's wrong with this tea, it can't even enter Sister Xi's mouth? ā
Su Xi originally wanted to go away, but now he had to explain: "The hibiscus flower tea itself has a light floral taste, which is easy to make people feel tasteless, although mint and orange peel are added to this flower tea, but these two have a strong taste, not only can not mention the fragrance of the petals themselves, but it is even more suppressed." If you try to cook it with Emei snow buds, the tea will taste much better than it does now. ā
Su Xi usually likes to drink tea, and has collected many precious tea leaves in his previous life.
Fu Shaoyun raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and chuckled: "I don't know if Sister Yi will feel ashamed when she hears your words." ā
This hibiscus flower tea is made by Fu Yi, and every time a guest comes back from the Qingguo Mansion, he uses this tea to entertain him. Most people will praise the tea for its fragrant and elegant taste, and then praise the girl in Qingguo Mansion for her ingenuity, which is her own family, and she also thinks that Fu Yi's tea is made well. There are few people like Su Xi who said so bluntly that the tea was not good, and gave Jian yƬ.
As everyone knows, Su Xi didn't deliberately step on Fu Yi, but she didn't know that this tea was made by Fu Yi, if she knew, she wouldn't bother to say it.
It doesn't matter to her whether Fu Yi's things are good or not, she wishes they would never be good.
Li Yan, as a loyal fan of Fu Yi, naturally couldn't help but hear Su Xi's words, and said: "Each flower is in its own eyes, this tea does not fit Miss Su's mouth, it does not mean that it is not a good tea, maybe some people love this tea taste." ā
Su Xi silently rolled his eyes in his heart, this "someone" refers to himself, right? This Li Yan really likes Fu Yi very much, she just said that this tea is not good, and he couldn't help but stand up and refute himself. His thoughts about Fu Yi are simply Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it, he was blind in his previous life, how could he not see it?
Su Xi was too lazy to deal with Li Yan, pretended not to hear him, pointed to the other side and said, "I'll go over there and take a walk, so as not to disturb Cousin Shaoyun and Li Gongzi." As he spoke, he walked away.
"Young." Fu Shaoyun stopped her, took out a small round box with painted moire pattern from his sleeve, handed it to her, lifted his lips and smiled slightly: "I know you are coming today, this is the winter melon candied fruit I ordered someone to buy from the Four Seasons Preserved Fruit, try it." ā
Su Xi didn't know whether to answer or not, hesitated for a while, and slowly shook his head under Fu Shaoyun's gaze. She said: "Thank you Cousin Shaoyun for your kindness, but I don't like to eat candied fruit now, Cousin Shaoyun don't give me anything to eat in the future, not to mention that it bothers you, it may be misunderstood if others know about it." ā
Fu Shaoyun's movements were slightly sluggish, his eyes were a little stunned, and he quickly smiled: "What did the little girl say?" I'm your cousin, and it's my intention to bring you delicious food, so what's wrong with that. As he spoke, he knocked on Su Xi's head, and said, "I think a lot at a young age, let's go on, look at how much meat you don't have on your face, can't the people in your family treat you harshly?" ā
Su Xi said: "Of course it's not ......"
Fu Shaoyun saw that she still didn't answer, so he handed the small round box to Tingyan on the side, slowed down his tone and said, "Try it first, if you don't like it, I won't buy it in the future." ā
Speaking of which, Su Xi couldn't refuse even if he wanted to. Until Fu Shaoyun and Li Yan walked away, Tingyan held the sugar box like a hot potato, turned his head and asked Su Xi: "Girl, what should I do about this......
Listening to Yan serving by Su Xi's side, I knew that she didn't eat any sweets recently, let alone sweets, and she ate less food.
Su Xi thought about it, it was Fu Shaoyun's intention, and he couldn't throw it away, so he said, "Give it to you and Tinghe." ā
*
Fu Yi and a few girls were playing guessing the order.
Li Anyi turned around and stuffed the pine nuts into one hand, gathered them into a fist, and raised them in front of Fu Yi to ask her to guess which hand the pine nuts were, not only to guess which hand they were, but also how many they were.
Fu Yi thought for a moment, stretched out his finger and pointed at Li Anyi's left hand: "I guess it's this hand, there are three pine nuts." ā
Li Anyi's eyes widened in disbelief, and he slowly spread out his palm, and there were indeed three pine nuts lying inside. Is Fu Yi a god? Li Anyi went up and pestered her: "Sister Yi, how did you guess?" Sue me. ā
Fu Yi smiled silently, and then Su Lingrong and Su Lingyun also tested her separately, and she guessed them one by one.
Li Anyi's eyes were as big as copper bells, and he shouted: "This is impossible, did Sister Yi secretly watch it?" Otherwise, how can you guess it? ā
Fu Yi smiled: "I am willing to lose the bet, okay, the three of you have to do something for me." ā
Li Anyi said: "If Sister Yi doesn't tell me how I guessed, I won't help you do things, who knows if you are cheating." ā
Fu Yi was also good-tempered, she didn't bother with her, she still had a smile on her face, and said, "Since Sister Yi wants to know, I'll sue you." Actually, I'm not sure which hand it is, but I do find that if I look at which hand and your face looks flustered, it must be in that hand. ā
Li Anyi showed a look of enlightenment, but he still didn't give up, "Then how do you know how many we have?" ā
Fu Yi said: "Your hands are not big, if you put too many pine nuts, it will be easy to see, usually between three and seven." Sister Yi's birthday in March, Sister Rong likes 'five' the most, as for Sister Yun...... I casually guessed seven, but I didn't expect to guess correctly. ā
After learning the truth, guessing the order becomes less magical. However, Li Anyi was still quite convinced by Fu Yi, and was willing to gamble and lose: "Sister Yi, what do you want us to do?" Anything but picking the stars in the sky. ā
Fu Yi was amused by her tone, pointed to the peach tree next to the octagonal pavilion and said, "I see that the flowers on that tree are blooming well, you can help me pick a peach blossom." ā
This is very simple, Li Anyi walked towards the Octagonal Pavilion with Su Lingrong and Su Lingyun.
When he arrived at the peach blossom tree, Li Anyi looked up, looked for a peach blossom that was blooming just right, stood on tiptoe and was about to pick it off, when he suddenly heard a slightly surprised voice not far away-
"Second brother?"
Li Anyi looked curiously, because through a moon cave door, she could only see a horse-faced skirt with colorful embroidered flowers and birds, the skirt was a little familiar, she thought about it, it seemed that the nine girls in the General's Mansion were wearing such a skirt today.
Who is the Nine Girls talking to? Li Anyi couldn't see who the other party was standing on, she withdrew her arm, deliberately changed directions as if nothing happened, stood on the other side of the peach tree, and while observing the peach blossoms, she secretly glanced into the door of the moon cave.
At this glance, he was stunned.
Across from Su Xi stood a man who looked as big as her brother Li Yan. Maybe it was not good to enter the backyard, so she stood outside the door of the Moon Cave, and only called Su Xi out, she just heard Su Xi call the man "second brother", then he should be the second master of the general's mansion, Su Zhi.
Li Anyi has never seen such a good-looking person, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, plump and handsome, and the aura around him is a little cold, but looking at Su Xi's eyes is very soft, just standing there, it gives people a feeling of being like a breeze. Li Anyi forgot to pick the flowers, and it wasn't until Su Lingrong and Su Lingyun picked the flowers and called her that she suddenly came back to her senses, hurriedly said goodbye to a peach blossom, and when she turned her head to look over, Su Xi and the man were gone.
*
Su Zhi came to Su Xi for something important.
The people from the General's Mansion came with the news that the old lady suddenly fainted when he was practicing boxing today, and the masters in the mansion were not there, so the steward hurriedly ordered someone to invite a doctor first, and then came to the Qingguo Mansion to inform the Yin family and the Yu family.
Su Zhi also came to the Qingguo Mansion today, and after getting the news, he came to look for Su Xi, and the three of them hurriedly returned to the General's Mansion with the Yin family. The third lady Yu stayed behind to explain to the lady of the Qingguo Mansion, and then led Su Lingrong, Su Lingyun and the sixth master Su Zhen back to the house.
When Su Xi and the others rushed to the bedside of Mrs. Su, Dr. Hao was administering needles to him. Doctor Hao is a doctor specially hired by the Su family, with good medical skills, Xinglin Chunnuan, and also the master of Tinglu, and he sees the major and minor illnesses of the Su family.
Su Qingbo was lying at the head of the bed, with silver needles pierced in several big points on his body, his eyes were closed, and there was no movement.
The eldest lord Su Zhen also rushed back from the officialdom and asked worriedly: "Doctor Hao, what's going on with my father?" ā
Dr. Hao checked the old lady's pulse again and said, "The old lady's onset is sudden, and the initial diagnosis and treatment should be a stroke disease." ā
Su Zhen was shocked, the old lady would punch every day when he got up, and besides, he had just come down from the battlefield a while ago, how could he say that a stroke would be a stroke? He said, "But what is the cure?" What will happen to my father? ā
Doctor Hao said: "Thanks to the old lady's perennial boxing and fitness, it is because this illness is not too strict. If you take care of yourself with daily medicinal diet and acupuncture treatment, you will recover slowly. ā
Su Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, respectfully arched his hand towards Dr. Hao, and said, "Then there is Dr. Lao Hao." ā
Doctor Hao prepared a few flavors of medicine for Su Qingbo, and asked Tinglu to go to his house to grab the medicine and boil it, and feed it to the old lady to drink.
The old lady heard about the family in Xiangshan Nunnery, and hurriedly asked people to pack up their things, and rushed home from the mountains overnight, and arrived at dawn the next day.
When the old lady saw Su Qingbo half-lying on the bed and couldn't move his lower body, she couldn't help but redden, and sat at the head of the bed and wept silently. Su Qingbo had already woken up, but his legs couldn't get off the ground, seeing this, he grabbed the old lady's hand tightly, wiped her tears with the other hand, and said in his mouth: "Why are you still crying when you are old?" Wouldn't it be laughing at you if your children and grandchildren saw it? Dr. Hao said that as long as I am properly conditioned, it will not be a problem for these two legs to stand up and walk again. ā
The people in the second and third rooms were outside all night yesterday, and they were driven back by Su Qingbo early this morning, and now only Su Zhen is outside.
Tan Shi collected his tears and said, "You can recuperate well, I will serve you in front of you, it doesn't matter if you can't walk, you won't have to go to the battlefield in the future." I've long felt that it's too dangerous to fight, and you won't listen to me. ā
The old lady shook his head and said, "Woman's opinion." But he didn't say anything more.
The old lady's illness is a year, and the whole family has been very careful in this year, for fear that something will go wrong and aggravate the old lady's condition. During this period, Emperor Zhaoyuan learned about the old general, and asked Chang Gonggong, the most face-worthy man in the palace, to send many precious supplements, and said, "I hope that General Su will recover soon, I am very worried."
As a result, many courtiers who had held a wait-and-see attitude since the stroke of the old general Su could not be calm, and they collected medicines and supplements from all over the country and came to the general's mansion to visit Su Qingbo. For a while, the general's mansion was full of people, and the supplements in the treasury could not be placed, which really made the king steward distressed for a long time.
A year later, Su Qingbo was not only able to get off the ground, but also slowly moved with a cane.
After Su Xi finished studying the clan every day or practicing dance from Dong Lan, he would go to the upper room to visit the old lady, and occasionally accompany the old lady to walk and talk. During that time, the old lady recovered very quickly, and when she got up in the morning, she could still play half a set of boxing in the yard, of course, it was not comparable to before she was sick, but it was not easy.
Another year has passed in the blink of an eye, and a goose feather snow has just fallen during the day, and today is Chinese New Year's Eve, which is also Su Xi's twelfth birthday.