CHAPTER XXVI

When he was woken up this time, Brother Liu didn't lose his temper, although he was very sleepy, he still rubbed his eyes and ran to the dining table to sit down, holding the bowl and snoring and drinking vegetable soup.

Liu Momo knocked on Brother Liu'er's bowl with chopsticks and said, "Be careful of being hot, you little brother, do you eat with your eyes closed, be careful to eat into your nose." ”

"No, I'm hungry and want to eat quickly." Brother Liu put down the bowl and pouted.

Liu Momo handed the bowl of steamed eggs with minced meat specially for Liu Ge'er to Liu Ge'er, and said, "Oh, eat this, two eggs, and a lot of minced meat, eat it while it's hot." ”

Brother Liu immediately showed a big smile in his eyes, leaned over and shook Liu Mo's arm, and said coquettishly: "Ah, you are so good, you are the best for me." ”

"Don't be coquettish, eat quickly, go home and sleep after eating, you're tired this morning."

"Oh!" Liu Ge'er nodded vigorously, scooped up a large spoonful of minced meat and steamed eggs with a spoon, blew a few times and stuffed it into his mouth, squinting his eyes and laughing while eating.

After eating, Liu Momo cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and the family went back in the heavy rain, Du Qiyue went back to the room alone, found a copy on the bookshelf, and then got on the bed and read it.

In the evening, the rain outside did not decrease in the slightest, but rattled with thunder. Liu Momo's family didn't come over for dinner, so Du Qiyue cooked a bowl of noodles by himself, cut some shredded meat and put it in. After eating, there was nothing to do, and Du Qiyue was too lazy to read under the oil lamp, so he went to bed early.

At this time, in the guest room of Wu's mansion, Zhao Yiyun was leaning on the bed to play Go with Wu Mingyao, and Mama Shu Ci saw that the time was almost up, so she waved her hand and asked the people to go to the kitchen to bring dinner in.

"Yo, I didn't notice that it was already dark, and I happened to be hungry, so my cousin let me have dinner here." Wu Mingyao saw that he was going to lose the same game as the previous games in this game of chess, so he simply put down the chess pieces in his hand, stretched out his waist strangely, and glanced at Zhao Yiyun with a flattering smile. Seeing that Zhao Yiyun didn't object, he looked at Mama Shu Ci with a smile and said, "Mama, have you asked the kitchen to send more dishes?" ”

"I've called, I know that you must stay to eat, young master, so I'll ask the kitchen to bring your portions. It's cold today, and I also asked the cooks to make a mutton warming pot, which is made from a few months old lamb, and the meat is very tender. Mama Shu Ci said with a smile.

Wu Mingyao drank a bowl of tea and said: "This is good, it is best to eat mutton in such weather, and the smell of little lamb is small." By the way, is it spicy? ”

"I forgot, but the fresh soup in the warm pot is thick, and the taste is good, and the young master must like to eat it too." Mama Shu Ci said, glancing at Wu Mingyao where Zhao Yiyun couldn't see.

Wu Mingyao's whole face wrinkled, blaming himself for not having a heart and saying the wrong thing. Zhao Yiyun loves to eat spicy things, but his current physical condition, I'm afraid he can't eat things with too strong taste. Wu Mingyao hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the fresh soup is also delicious, Mama asked her subordinates to get some angelica and codonopsis, cut them into cubes and put them in the soup to cook, and drank them to nourish blood and qi." ”

Mama Shu Ci answered, and was about to call the little girl to bring the medicinal materials, but Zhao Yiyun hurriedly stopped her and said, "Mama don't go." Mingyao, I eat those body-tonifying herbs every day, but I don't need to eat more. ”

"Cousin." was rejected by Zhao Yiyun, Wu Mingyao looked at him and shouted, "I really didn't mean to mention it, I just didn't expect it for a while." ”

Zhao Yiyun smiled, sat up straight, hugged the big on his body, and said, "I don't know your virtue yet, you, you don't want to eat anything else all day long." He waved his hand again and said to Qin Yun, who was standing on the side and waiting: "Qin Yun, you go and mix some chili sauce for the young master, you do this best, let's be a guest, don't treat the master badly." ”

Wu Mingyao rolled his eyelids, leaned on the couch and posed as a scoundrel and said, "Cousin, you just make fun of me, you still laugh at me when you know that I am not promising." ”

"I think you're good like that." Zhao Yiyun looked at Wu Mingyao's lazy appearance and said: "Although this is a small place, there is a lot of glory and wealth that you should have, but without those unclear troubles and unavoidable calculations in the capital, I think it is very good." ”

As soon as Wu Mingyao heard this, he turned his head to look at Zhao Yiyun and asked, "Cousin, what do you mean by this?" ”

"I'm going back this time, I'm afraid I won't be able to stay long in most of them, rather than not knowing what barren mountains and wilderness I will be sent to, it's better for me to ask myself to come here, I'm afraid my body won't get better for a year and a half, and I can take care of myself here." Zhao Yiyun stared at the chessboard in front of him and said faintly, how much ambition he had once galloped on the battlefield could only be turned into unwilling to be buried deep in his heart, he looked like this now, he just wanted to find a quiet place away from the capital after burying his father and mother. He has so little dignity left, he doesn't want to stay in the capital and provoke the eyes of others, but provoke unnecessary right and wrong.

"Cousin, what are you talking about, I am the second son in the family, and I should have gone out separately, but the elder brother in the family was narrow-minded and was assigned to this kind of place. You are the concubine of the Marquis of Jingyuan, the real heir to the title, how many merits have your uncle and you won on the battlefield, who dares to occupy your position! Wu Mingyao slapped the table and said loudly.

"If I am only seriously injured, I am still a gentleman, and I have the emperor's reward, naturally no one will dare to snatch my seat. But I'm ...... now. Mingyao, you know that my uncle has been looking forward to controlling the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion for decades, and now that he has such a good opportunity, he will not let it go, maybe he has already figured out a way to calculate me as soon as the news of my serious injury comes back. Zhao Yiyun said.

He knows his uncle Zhao Ziqing's mind very well, it stands to reason that he is the only child in the long house, and his parents are naturally reluctant to let him follow martial arts, but when he was a child, he didn't know how many times he was almost assassinated by the people in the second room, so that he could have some ability to save his life, his father let him learn martial arts. Now his sick body, as long as he suffers a little cold or eats the wrong thing, he can die, if he doesn't know each other, Zhao Ziqing may do something for the title.

Wu Mingyao also knew a little bit about the affairs of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, and after listening to Zhao Yiyun's words, he could only suppress his anger and snort unwillingly.

A heavy rain fell for three days, and Du Qiyue also nested at home for three days, until the rain completely stopped before going out, as soon as he went out, he knew that there were a lot of big things in the three days of peace and tranquility for him.

The first thing is that Du Liangsheng, who has been resigned to his fate and endured the oppression of his family for so many years, suddenly proposed to split the family, his father and mother and three brothers were naturally reluctant to let the two main laborers of the family leave, and they were unwilling, and said a bad word, as a result, Du Liangsheng beat the three brothers silently, took his and Hua Ge'er's things and moved them to the Du family's ancestral hall.

There is also the Qi family's livestock shed was washed down in this heavy rain, crushing two old sows and seven chickens, these livestock and poultry were raised by the Qi family brothers, and after being crushed to death, no one admitted that those who died were raised by their own family. I don't know how many times the Qi family quarreled in the past three days because of this, Wang Sanxiang also fought with her concubine several times, and every time Wang Sanxiang was beaten, she would be beaten by her own father, and now she has taken Qi Shu back to her parents' house, and when she left, she cried and said that she wanted to leave.

At this time, Du Qiyue was sitting on the ox cart going to the town, and several people sitting next to him were chatting about what had happened in the past three days.

"Hey, I said that this good life should have done this a long time ago, how much did this Hua Ge'er suffer with him, now he finally conceived a child and was beaten out, half of his life is gone, don't say if he can have a child in the future, his body may leave the root of the disease!" A woman sitting to the left of Du Qiyue said, her words full of sympathy, but her expression and tone were one of schadenfreude.

"Who says it's not, you see that Du Liangsheng has worked hard for so many years, and it stands to reason that he should have earned a lot of money, but now he can't even get the money to get medicine for Brother Hua, and he didn't get anything when he was separated, so he could only take his sick brother to live in the ancestral hall. The other brother said with a little disgust.

"It's also that the old couple is too confused and too partial, the fortune teller was just a few words of nonsense to make so many things, if Du Liangsheng really hit the Shak family, their family should have died a long time ago, how can there be leisure to treat people harshly!" The woman from before said.

"Alas, let's not talk about their family, let's talk about Wang Sanxiang's family, did she really take Qi Shu back to her parents' house? How many days will it take to come back this time? ”

All the way, these people were chattering non-stop, and it wasn't until the ox cart stopped at the city gate that Du Qiyue felt that his ears were quiet. He jumped off the ox cart, found a big puddle on the side of the road, and carefully sorted out his demeanor against the shadow boy reflected on the water, and then raised his head and strode in the direction where Zuifulou was located.

Today, Du Qiyue came to the town to find Wu Yaoming to take over the position of pastry chef, but he knew in his heart that he couldn't be a master chef at the beginning, and it was estimated that he was a miscellaneous worker. But Du Qiyue is not worried about this, if he has the heart to do his job, it won't take long to become a master.

When Du Qiyue arrived at Zuifu Building, Wu Mingyao had not yet come, and there were only shopkeepers Li and a few cleaning servants in the empty restaurant. Shopkeeper Li saw Du Qiyue immediately put down the abacus in his hand, walked out from behind the counter with a smile and said, "Xiaoyue, you are here, our young owner has sent someone to ask you several times in the past two days!" ”

Du Qiyue made a gesture and said, "Uncle Li, it's not that I can't go out because it's raining in the past two days, otherwise I would have come three days ago." ”

"Then come with me, while you are free now, I will take you to the Shaodong's mansion to give you a position." Shopkeeper Li beckoned and said, turned around and walked to the backyard with Du Qiyue.

The Wu Mansion is on the next street, and there is not much way to pass through the back alley of the Zuifu Building, and the shopkeeper Li took Du Qiyue to turn a few corners and soon arrived at the side gate of the Wu Mansion. Shopkeeper Li was about to let the doorkeeper go in to report, the side door opened, and then Wu Mingyao's personal servant Liu Ming walked out with a basket.

Shopkeeper Li walked up and greeted him and asked, "Brother Liuming, good morning, what are you doing when you go out so early in the morning?" ”

Liu Ming glanced at Shopkeeper Li and laughed: "It turned out to be Shopkeeper Li, no, our young master just ate breakfast and thought that the porridge and side dishes made by the cook didn't taste good, so I took the time to go out and buy some fresh vegetables and vegetables to come back so that I could make a few side dishes for the young master." ”

"Brother like this, you just let the next little guy do it, why bother to go yourself?"

"Shopkeeper Li, you don't know, our young master loves to eat the side dishes I make the most, I have to pick the dishes myself and cook them myself, so I can rest assured." Liu Ming helped the hairpin on his head and said quite smugly.

"So that's the case, then presumably your craftsmanship is the best." Shopkeeper Li boasted.

Liu Ming's face was a little more proud, and asked, "Shopkeeper Li, did you come here so early in the morning to find the young master?" ”

Shopkeeper Li hurriedly pulled out Du Qiyue, who was standing behind his buttocks, and said, "Didn't the young owner tell Du Langjun last time that he would let him work in the restaurant, he came today, and I brought him over to meet the young owner." ”

"That's what happened." Liu Ming seemed to have just seen Du Qiyue, glanced at him from the corner of his eye and said to Shopkeeper Li: "Then Shopkeeper Li, take advantage of the young master's meal to take him over, the young master has an appointment today, and he will go out after breakfast." ”

"Thank you brother for reminding me, I'll take him in." Shopkeeper Li answered.

"Then you guys go in quickly, I need to hurry to the market to buy groceries." Liuming said, then pulled the basket on his arm and walked away quickly.