There are several ice packs in the carved wenge single-layer food box, and a delicate and small white jade cup is placed in the middle, the lid of the white jade cup is hollowed, and you can vaguely see the red bean cold porridge inside.

Yu Xia was entangled in comparison, the white jade cup was not as big as the bamboo soup spoon in her hand!

Xu Qirong saw that Yu Xia's face was entangled, he stood up and glanced inside the food box, and was also stunned! She didn't expect Xu Qidie to send a red bean cold porridge so stingy!

She really wronged Xu Qidie, according to Xu Qidie's meaning, she had to divide the pot of red bean cold porridge into three equal parts, one for her father and mother-in-law to eat, one for her and Xu Qimoth to eat, and one for Fenghua Courtyard. Xu Qidie thought that the fifth sister had a good relationship with the second sister, and would definitely ask the second sister to eat together.

But the fifth wife, Bai Shi, thought about the rumors in the house that Miss Wu had a big appetite, and thought that although this red bean cold porridge would cool off the heat, the child would inevitably have stomach trouble if she ate too much, so she only asked Xu Qidie to send such a small cup.

Yun'er looked at the small cup of red bean cold porridge, and then looked at the two small bowls about the same size as the white jade cup, and was stunned: "Didn't the girl want to invite the fourth master to eat red bean cold porridge together?" ”

Xu Qirong was silent, and said with some grief and indignation: "Leave the white jade cup, leave a glass spoon, and remove everything else." After a pause, he added, "Actually, I don't want to eat red bean cold porridge today." ”

Yu Xia nodded, thinking that Master Xu Si would come over soon, so he hurriedly packed up his things and withdrew. But I thought in my heart that tomorrow I must let the kitchen make a pot of red bean cold porridge.

When Master Xu Si stepped into Fenghua Courtyard again, he had already changed into a white brocade robe, holding a folding fan with the surface of a landscape fan painted by Tang Zhizhou, and only a simple topaz jade pendant fell on his waist, with a gentle smile on his face, and he had a feeling of being white-clothed and beautiful in the play.

There was a sensible big girl in the courtyard, and when she inadvertently looked up and saw such a fourth master Xu, she couldn't help blushing and hurriedly avoided it.

Master Xu Si coughed lightly, and after making sure that the expression on his face was kind as a father again, he strode inside. As soon as he stepped into the hall, he saw his youngest daughter and two maids staring at a white jade cup on the table.

Master Xu Si smiled: "Scorching, it's really rare, this is the first time you have invited your father to eat this year!" ”

There is no small kitchen in Pingqiu Courtyard, what to eat, it has always been the Xu family's big kitchen that has been sent over. Master Xu Si doesn't pay much attention to what he eats, and when Shen goes, he basically eats whatever the kitchen sends. Xu Qijin remembered Master Xu Si, every time she made something delicious in her small kitchen, she remembered to send a copy to Pingqiu Courtyard, but Xu Qirong, no matter what delicious food Fenghua Courtyard made, she remembered to send a copy to Fenghe Courtyard, which also had a small kitchen, but she didn't think of sending a copy to Pingqiu Courtyard.

Fourth Master Xu glanced at the white jade cup on the table again, and choked: "This is what you left?" He suddenly remembered the rumors in the house that Miss Fifth had a lot of food.

Xu Qirong didn't expect Master Xu Si to adjust his mood so quickly, and immediately waved his hand to signal Yu Xia and Yun'er to go out to guard, and he stepped forward to help Master Xu Si sit on the chair, and personally brought the white jade cup to Master Xu Si, and said: "Seventh sister is stingy, so she only gave such a small cup, and Daddy should take it as a taste!" ”

Master Xu Si was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and teased Xu Qirong: "I ate it, you don't have to eat!" ”

Xu Qirong pursed his lips and shook his head: "Daddy, eat it, I don't like to eat red bean cold porridge today." ”

Master Xu Si haha: "If you don't like to eat today, will you love to eat tomorrow?" Then he hesitated, thinking that he had changed his clothes and hurried over to eat the red bean cold porridge invited by his little daughter, and thought that there was a small kitchen in Fenghua Courtyard, what Xu Qirong wanted to eat, naturally someone would do it, so he didn't shirk it, and really picked up the white jade cup and ate it.

Xu Qirong was stunned, is there such a father!

After the fourth master Xu finished solving the red bean cold porridge in two bites, Xu Qirong began to ask: "Daddy, do you know why grandmother moved to the Buddhist hall?" ”

Master Xu Si choked, almost choked on the last mouthful of red bean cold porridge, and wanted to make a straight face, but the mouth of the eater was short, and he just ate the red bean cold porridge that his little daughter saved from between his teeth, how embarrassed was he to make a face! You can't blame him for being a father's gluttony, you can only blame her for being too careful as a daughter!

Master Xu Si felt a little aggrieved: "You used your father as a gunman today, I didn't say anything about you, and now you still want to talk from me?" ”

"Why did you suddenly pay attention to your grandmother?" Master Xu Si was not stupid, and after thinking about it carefully, he realized that something was wrong in this matter, "Did the eldest princess tell you something today?" ”

Xu Qirong hurriedly shook his head: "Today, the eldest princess went to the summer retreat, and she is not in the eldest princess's mansion." I suddenly paid attention to my grandmother because, because, because I thought that I sent so many things to the Buddhist hall, there were always one or two things that my grandmother liked, and maybe she also liked scorching! ”

Master Xu Si glanced at Xu Qirong with scrutiny, as if he accepted Xu Qirong's statement, and said with a wry smile: "How could she have something she likes." ”

"Huh?" Xu Qirong was a little puzzled.

Master Xu Si sighed: "When Daddy was young, he also sent a lot of things to the Buddhist Hall, the puppet people that Daddy liked, the New Year's paintings that Daddy got outside, the paintings that Daddy drew by himself, and the articles written by Daddy in the school ......" Speaking of this, Master Xu Si shook his head.

Xu Qirong asked, "What happened later?" ”

Master Xu Si flexed his fingers and flicked the beads hanging on Xu Qirong's braid: "It's all burned, Mama Gui burned it." Seeing that the little daughter's eyes were unbearable, Master Xu Si hurriedly explained, "The Buddha Hall is a quiet place, a place where the Bodhisattva lives, and we mortal things are defiled there when they are placed there." ”

Xu Qirong couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic to Xu Tingyuan. Although his mother died early in his previous life, his father remarried, and he was disgusted by his father, he was also favored by his father when he was a child. But what about her father? When he was still in infancy, his grandfather went, and when he was ignorant, Princess Pingtai went to the Buddha hall and ignored him ever since. Even the eldest uncle, who was connected to him, was not close to this younger brother, and finally even opened an ancestral hall to drive him out of the Xu family.

This is the pity of the hateful, right?

Master Xu Si was still trying to comfort his little daughter who didn't seem to be in a very good mood: "It's okay, we don't lack that little thing, you send it every day, maybe for the sake of your sincerity, the Bodhisattva will leave the thing." "Maybe you gave too much, and people were too lazy to lose it and burn it, so they stayed.

Xu Qirong couldn't help but ask, "Then why doesn't Daddy continue to send it?" ”

Master Xu Si paused and explained: "Maybe it's because my father believes in Buddhism and doesn't believe in Bodhisattva!" ”

Xu Qirong choked, thought for a while, and said, "But does grandmother believe in the Bodhisattva?" Grandmother doesn't want to live in a Buddhist hall either! The reason why I said this to Master Xu Si was because Master Xu Si at this time made her feel sad, and secondly, she found that she was too young after all, and she couldn't do many things by herself, so she wanted to find an alliance.

Master Xu Si waved his hand: "There is no one in this world who believes in a Bodhisattva more than her, and she herself is a Bodhisattva." ”

Xu Qirong raised his head in disbelief, lowered his voice, and said the original information he heard from the Buddha Hall today: "Sue your father, as long as I am here, he will not embarrass their brother." Those old things, no matter what he found, should be gone! ”

Seeing that Master Xu Si's face changed, Xu Qirong continued: "Daddy, who is he?" What is the old thing? ”

Before Mama Gui sent Master Xu Si out, Master Xu Si was upset, so he stood outside the Buddha Hall for a while, but saw Mama Gui walking out with her little daughter in her arms, and did not see him, so she picked a secluded road all the way to Fenghua Courtyard Er. Master Xu Si was surprised in his heart, and subconsciously followed.

Along the way, I only heard my youngest daughter ask her grandmother why she moved to the Buddha hall and Mama Gui's last sentence, "Then the fifth young lady will die", and her heart was very angry. But I don't know what they said in the Buddha hall before.

At this time, when he heard Xu Qirong say this, his heart moved slightly, and when he spoke again, there was eagerness in his tone that he didn't notice: "What else did she say?" ”

Xu Qirong thought about it, and said it usefully: "Grandmother also asked Mama Gui to take me to a secluded road, so as not to be seen." ”

Fourth Master Xu frowned.

Xu Qirong didn't let Master Xu Si have a trace of escape, and said directly: "Someone in the mansion forced grandmother to live in the Buddhist hall, and someone in the mansion wanted to harm us!" ”

Master Xu Si was startled, staring at Xu Qirong like never before, how could he not know that his little daughter was so smart! Using him to sneak into the Buddha Hall without saying anything, he can deduce such a conclusion based on the words of the Buddha Hall!

Master Xu Si thought for a while, and finally said, "She didn't mean that, she just didn't want us to disturb her." Scorching, don't go to the Buddha hall again in the future, okay? If you are not happy, you don't have to send something, the Xu family will not shorten her usefulness. ”

Xu Qirong was surprised in his heart, Xu Si's attitude clearly knew something but was unwilling to say it. Or because she was too young to bear to involve her, or because she couldn't say it.

Somehow, Xu Qirong subconsciously thought of Master Xu Si's life experience...... Does he know his true origins? Otherwise, why did Xu Ting enter the ancestral hall in his previous life and remove him from the family tree, he promised to be so neat!

Could it have something to do with his rebellion?

Master Xu Si's concealment aroused Xu Qirong's guard, and he subconsciously showed a childish smile: "I'll just say, everyone is a family, and my grandmother is a princess, how could someone force her to go to the Buddha Hall!" Then he sighed sadly: "I received a letter from my grandmother, saying that I was going to move to Jinju, I missed my grandmother for a while, and I thought that my grandmother could love me as much as my grandmother!" ”

The last sentence can be regarded as an explanation for sneaking into the Buddha hall by any means today.

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