Back in the East Factory, the sedan chair fell, and Leng Qingtang went to the south courtyard where he rested alone.

The night was deep, and the quiet courtyard seemed to fall into a deep sleep, except for the unknown autumn insects who were chirping in bursts, dumb or pleasant, tirelessly.

Leng Qingtang paused, and suddenly saw that there was still candlelight in Gu Yunxi's room. The swaying of orange and yellow colors reflected the silhouette of Yina on the window lattice.

When he looked at the silhouette, he was suddenly affected by the candlelight, and an extremely warm feeling suddenly rose in Leng Qingtang's heart. I haven't had such a feeling for a long time-

In the boundless black night, the picture in the eyes is particularly warm. The orange candle flame reflected the dark and slender figure, and instantly lit up a dark corner in Leng Qingtang's heart to be clear and transparent, making the heart that was originally depressed and boring suddenly bloom like the spring flowers after the north wind blew overnight, and it became bright in an instant.

Leng Qingtang walked to the front of the house and slammed the door a few times, and then walked into the room.

Gu Yunxi was sitting at the table, dozing with half of his cheek in one hand. When Leng Qingtang pushed the door in, her whole body was agitated and she woke up completely.

"Overseer, you're back?!"

Gu Yunxi rubbed his sleepy eyes and saw Leng Qingtang standing in front of him, stood up and became smiling.

"Girl, why don't you sleep yet?"

He asked with concern, and before he untied his robe, he approached, and the faint cold fragrance on his body, with a crisp breath that can only be found in the middle of the night, lingered in Gu Yunxi's nasal cavity.

"If you don't come back, I won't be able to sleep well!" Gu Yunxi tilted his head and smirked.

"Really?"

Leng Qingtang's eyes softened, and he was a little moved in his heart.

This honest little girl stayed up late on the first day she arrived at Dongchang, just to wait for him to come back......

His eyes were shining, and he smiled softly at her:

"Then I'll be back now, let's go to sleep obediently in a while."

"Overseer, drink this first!"

Gu Yunxi stretched out his hands with a smile and held up the lotus white jade cup on the table, but his face changed greatly when he just removed the lid:

"Oops! Oops! It's already cool, I'll go hot again! ”

"Don't be busy, give it to me, what's the treasure in there?"

He reached out to stop her and took the white jade cup.

Ginger red liquid, clear and transparent. When I got it in front of me, there was a faint sweet and mellow taste, and the dry mouth immediately gave birth to a moist Jin~ liquid.

Gu Yunxi stood aside and explained:

"At the time of dinner, Fanwei sent a message and said that the lady in the palace would leave you for dinner. Thinking that you might have drunk some wine, I made this bowl of kudzu flower soothing soup with sour jujube powder in it. Kudzu can sober up wine, and the powder of sour jujube Renyan can help you sleep the most, and you will be more comfortable when you drink it. However, I don't know when you will come back, and it will be cold......"

"You did it again?"

Leng Qingtang looked at the soothing soup in his hand, and then looked at Gu Yunxi, who had a sweet smile.

Although the soup was cold, his heart warmed up more and more at this time.

"Hmmm! You try it, and you don't know if the taste is to your liking. ”

Leng Qingtang has an independent small kitchen in the south courtyard of the East Factory, and there is a special cook to take care of each meal. Today, he was told that the overseer was having dinner in the palace, so his cook was relatively leisurely, and he only prepared some dinner for Gu Yunxi.

Gu Yunxi and Xiao Xiaoshen returned to the courtyard after separation, and they didn't have anything to do, so they simply went to the small kitchen and took a turn.

She was pleasantly surprised to find some sour jujube powder and dried kudzu flowers. Thinking that the overseer was eating in the palace, drinking alcohol was inevitable, so he made a bowl of soothing soup with the ingredients at hand.

Although this soup uses few ingredients, it is the most particular about the heat and water temperature. If the heat is too big, the water is too boiled, and the medicinal effect of dried kudzu will be scalded, and then mixed with sour jujube powder, the jujube powder will be hugged into a sticky ball, and it will not be dissolved in the kudzu water.

It is necessary to boil the well water to half temperature with a low fire, stir with bamboo chopsticks while sprinkling sour jujube powder until the powder is all dissolved, and then put a little rock sugar. After the water is completely boiled, extinguish the fire, put dried arrowroot flowers in the sour jujube soup, and cover the pot. Use the heat of the soup to bring out the medicinal effect of kudzu. After a while, drain out the kudzu residue in the soup with clean gauze.

The soothing soup is done.

Now that the autumn night is cold, the soup is no longer hot.

"It's okay......" Leng Qingtang smiled and glanced at the lost Gu Yunxi, took a spoon, scooped a spoonful, put it in his mouth and tasted it:

"It's not cold, it's still warm, the girl can rest assured ......"

Then he took the bowl and poured the whole bowl of soup into his stomach in one go.

Sweet and sour, the unique sweet fragrance of kudzu lingers between the lips and teeth, and the aftertaste is endless.

The only downside is that the soup is completely cold. Just now, Leng Qingtang made up a little lie in good faith, saying that the soup was warm, but he didn't want to trouble Gu Yunxi to run to reheat it.

She cared about him, and he felt sorry for her—

Obviously, he hadn't eaten anything in the palace, but at this moment, Leng Qingtang's empty stomach was full of sour and cold liquid, and he only felt that the cramps in his stomach were unbearable.

But he pretended to be relaxed and enjoyable, took the handkerchief handed by Gu Yunxi and wiped his mouth, and praised:

"Well, it's delicious! Delicious! ”

"Really?!"

"Of course it's true!"

Gu Yunxi was really overjoyed, his eyes smiled like a crooked crescent, and the inside was brightly lit by candles, as brilliant as stars hanging high in the clear night sky.

Leng Qingtang put the bowl aside, looked directly at Gu Yunxi with a soft gaze, and suddenly had a hint of reluctance to leave, and wanted to find some topics to chat with her for a while. But it was not early now, and he knew that he had to leave again.

"Okay, I'm done drinking, now are you going to be more obedient and go to bed obediently?"

He leaned over to keep his face closer to hers.

A little dim candlelight on the table lined the small face pressed under the flat hat with a warm and lovely face.

Leng Qingtang suddenly had a ridiculous idea, and he wanted to reach out and hold the clear and clear facial features in front of him, but the reason was still there, and the impulse was finally suppressed.

"Sleep well, sleep well......"

He grabbed her shoulder and patted her lightly twice, letting her go a few steps to the door.

"Overseer, you sleep well."

Gu Yunxi stood at the door and watched him go back to his bedroom, and closed the door with a smile.

At the same hour, the west courtyard wing of the East Factory was particularly lively. It's early to go to bed, and the guards who sleep in the Chase shop just come to their heads and get together to chat. The center of the topic is naturally Gu Yunxi, who is new to the East Factory.

The overseer accepted the apprentice, and he was a young and handsome little apprentice, and this news was the most lively topic among the guards of the East Factory recently.

"Hey, I said, have you all seen the little apprentices that our overseer accepted? I heard the factory servants who served in the main hall say that they look so good! ”

A small, emaciated fanwei was surrounded by a room full of colleagues, babbling and dancing as they spoke, and the people gathered around him listened so intently that they forgot to blink their eyelids.

"I heard that his name is Yun Guan'er, he is not yet sixteen years old, and he went to the school guard factory in the afternoon, and many factory officials have seen him......"

Another fan guard chimed in:

"The apprentice of the Overseer, that identity is not the same as ours, right? As soon as he entered the East Factory, he moved to the south courtyard where the overseer lived, and he didn't come to sleep in the Chase Shop at all! ”

The short and thin fan guard just now frowned as if he was thinking at this time, and then jumped off the bunk and stood in the center of the wing, looking puzzled:

"When you talk about this, I think of a strange thing, I heard the doorman of Dongchang say that when the overseer came back from the Gongyuan last night, he rode a horse instead of a sedan chair, and I don't know who was sitting in the sedan chair, and then this Yun Guan'er came. Everyone said, Heng can't be the apprentice who sits in a sedan chair and lets the master ride a horse, right? I guess, the sedan chair can't really be Yun Guan'er, right? ”

Someone came up with an idea:

"You are so curious, why don't you ask Sun Bing, who is serving in the Southern Courtyard, he saw that the heavens were guarding the master and apprentice, what was he not clear?"

"Hey! Why didn't I ask? That Sun Bing is no different from a mute, just keep his head down and die without saying a word! There are also Fan Wei who followed Cheng Qianhu, those people's mouths are very strict, and they can't pry them open at all! ”

Someone else coaxed:

"What's that called? He is a young man sitting in the sedan chair of the Overseer? Why is he not the Overseer! Could it be that he's still a little girl who can't ride a horse! ”

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone immediately burst into laughter.

"Peng" –

The door of the wing room was pushed open forcefully, and Xiao Xiaoshen stood in front of everyone with a gloomy face.

The guards hurriedly retracted their voices and stood up one after another to salute:

"Xiao Ye, I haven't slept yet......"

"I want to sleep, can I sleep me!"

Xiao Xiaoshen learned from Leng Qingtang's appearance with his hands behind his back, swept his eyebrows coldly at the crowd present, and shouted fiercely:

"What are you making a fuss about! Mentally exhausted? Tomorrow I'll go to Rolling Stone Mountain! ”

The corners of Xiao Xiaoshen's clothes, which were short and thin just now, were very flattering with a hippie smile:

"Master Xiao, don't be angry, aren't we talking about the apprentice of the Overseer......"

Xiao Xiaoshen slapped Fan Wei's hand, then dusted off the corner of his clothes, and gave him a disgusted look:

"The apprentice of the Overseer, who you also want to talk about? Malier hurry up to the bunk, and don't sleep anymore to make noise to the overseer of the southern courtyard, see how I punish you! ”

"Yes, yes! The little ones go to sleep right away, and they sleep right away......"

The guards agreed stupidly, and went to the bunk and lay down, not daring to have anyone who could easily speak.

Xiao Xiaoshen patrolled the wing room for a week, then retreated and left, returning to his residence.

Xiao Xiaoshen lives in the main house of the West Courtyard.

When it was dark, the overseer didn't have any instructions after coming back, Xiao Xiaoshen took a bath and was about to sleep, but he heard a lot of noise in the wing. He went out and listened for a while, and then he heard the idle guards gossiping again. Originally, they didn't take it seriously, but later they actually mentioned his sister Yunxi, and the more they talked, the more outrageous it became.

In a fit of anger, Xiao Xiaoshen pushed the door in, and then scolded all the guards who loved to chew their tongues to bed.

The overseer has instructed that the less people know about Gu Yunxi's disguise as a man in Dongchang, the better. A little suspicion is not restrained and dispelled, and it is easy to cause problems after a long time.

Entering the house and closing the door, Xiao Xiaoshen let out a long breath and said secretly:

Sister Yunxi, this is the first day you have come to the East Factory, and there has been such a discussion in the East Factory. There are still a long days to come, and all eyes are on you, how long can we keep it a secret for you......

Xiao Xiaoshen began to realize that it seemed to be much more difficult to keep the secret of a woman's disguise as a man forever for his sister Yunxi than to complete any of the difficulties assigned by the Overseer, after all, her appearance was too clear and standard. Even if it's really a man, it's the kind of beautiful man who makes it easy to think about it when you see it-