Chapter 23: Shortbread
The next morning, when Cai Ling was dressed up, it was already the beginning of the morning.
The guards with knives who temporarily took the position of the children took the position of brooms and cleared the snow in the courtyard, and each move was quite methodical.
Cai Ling stopped, admired for a moment that their bodies were as light as swallows and tread on the snow without a trace, resisted the urge to clap their hands, pulled up the hat of the lake blue cloak and covered their heads, and wanted to walk past them without a trace.
She was going to the dining room to get something, and then rushed to Peach Blossom Valley.
The dining room was on the right side of the lobby, and the chatter of Tao Tao could be heard in the distance, and she had deliberately detoured, but she had to pass in front of the lobby. She tiptoed for fear of alarming the people in the hall.
"Subordinates, see Miss." The guards suddenly put down their brooms and said in unison.
She also bowed her hand and lowered her voice: "You don't need to talk about these false courtesies. ”
"Who am I, such a sneaky person." Tao Tao happily came out of the hall, gently hooked the brim of her hat, revealed her face that was gradually rising in anger, and leaned over her ear and said, "Eldest sister, since you have already gotten up, why don't you come to have breakfast with your younger brothers and sisters?" Are you angry with your brother-in-law? ”
Cai Ling glanced at him, and put on the cloak and hat again: "Since breakfast is ready, it's not too late for me to eat and leave." “
"Going? Where are you going? Tao Tao hurriedly asked.
She didn't answer, but stepped on him, and when she saw him screaming in pain, she couldn't help but smile.
When he entered the house, someone came to pick up the cloak, and when the hat was taken off, the smile was still on his face, and after meeting the eyes of Shen Muchi, who was sitting on the main seat, he closed his smile and gaze and sat next to Meng Ming.
"Big sister." Tao Tao jumped back, "It's late at night since you came back last night, brother, I was worried about you, and I wanted to talk to you, but when I saw you and Manyun busy in the dining room, I thought there would be some surprises waiting for us this morning." I went to the dining room just now to find a good meal, but there was nothing but the dishes they cooked. “
Cai Ling smiled: "Naturally, it is well hidden, and it won't let your little mouse find out." “
"It's a pity...... Tao Tao pretended to be a little sad, "After my brother-in-law came, my eldest sister no longer loved my brother." ”
"You ......" Cai Ling was about to be blown up. When he raised his eyes, Shen Muchi was holding a spoon to drink porridge, but he could still see his thin lips gently hooked.
"Originally, tell me yourself, when have you ever seen you cook in person over the years?" Tao Tao pouted.
"You ......," the anger was half offset by guilt, "I'll leave you a plate of the almond crisp, and I'll get it in the dining room later." ”
"Huh. Sister is so nice. Tao Tao happily ate the steamed bun.
At this moment, the woman wearing a water-green skirt and a light cloud bun was supported by the maid to cross the threshold, walked to Shen Muchi, and bowed, "Young master." ”
Cai Ling was stunned, although it was outside the gate, it was the monarch who was sitting on the main seat, she just sat down with a big grin, in the end, it was not as good as Liangming Yue, and she couldn't help but sigh slightly.
Tao Tao touched her with her elbow before she realized that she should stand up and wait for Concubine Liangxian to sit down to eat.
Her ass had already left the stool, and she suddenly threw the steamed bun in her hand and turned to leave.
Tao Tao looked at her with a horrified expression and reached out to pull the corner of her clothes.
"I'll go get something in the dining room." She made up a lie.
Although Concubine Liangxian is the master of Weiyang Palace, but this is the Song Mansion in the north, her identity is that the eldest lady of the Song family married a merchant surnamed Jiang in Chang'an, and now Jiang Shangjia came here to find his wife and brought a concubine, when the concubine sat down, let the wife stand up and greet her, will she still be curtsy in public?
Spread it out, does she still have half a face?
These things have been done smoothly in Weiyang, and there has never been half a minute of whispering.
But now, she actually wants to fight for Song Lingling.
"Sister Ling, slow down." The delicate voice came from far and near, and when she turned her head, the woman with beautiful eyes had already walked in front of her, she was originally slightly higher than Cai Ling, but this time it was only to her chest, and she had already bowed her knees: "Sister greetings Sister Ling." “
Cai Ling was stunned again, and looked down at the woman in front of her like a wooden chicken, the black and soft green silk, and a weeping plum blossom on the cloud bun. He watched in a daze, until Tao Tao touched her with his elbow again.
"Mingyue, get up quickly." She came back to her senses and hurriedly half-squatted to help.
Compared with Mingyue's knowledge, he is too stingy and can't be elegant! She cursed herself and walked to the dining room guiltily.
But when the box of almond crisps was taken out of the cupboard, all the gloom vanished.
This is a pastry made by herself, although Manyun has helped a lot, it is her first work, I hope the little shepherd boy will like it.
Leave a plate and let the guards give it to Tao Tao after she left, then quietly slipped to the door of the mansion, jumped into the carriage and left quickly.
In the harsh winter weather, the hills around Peach Blossom Valley were already covered with snow, but the man sat by the frozen lake and fished.
Cai Ling carried the food box, holding back a smile, still thinking about whether to disturb Yu Moyan.
"Since you're here, come and sit down." On the stone table in the hexagonal hall by the lake, there was a pot of wine that he warmed.
"Don't drink?" He poured wine for her, but she hesitated.
"It's really hard to ask for a drink with my son. How can you not drink it? She smiled brightly and raised her glass to drink it all.
"Wait." He took the wine from her hand and glanced at her pale cheeks, "Is the menstrual affair unclean?" ”
"This ......" Dengshi's red cheeks were like a blooming camellia in the wind and snow, and his brain was spinning rapidly, if he was honest, he wouldn't have rescued him, right? But though she was never informal, she was still ashamed to speak about such women's things.
"How many days does each month last?" He grabbed her wrist with one hand, and the two fingers of the other were already on top of her pulse.
"It's hard to say. Sometimes ten days, sometimes half a month. It's not bad than this time, it's intermittent for ten days, and it's clean today. She still didn't want to give up the chance to heal.
"Not bad?" He frowned at her and asked.
Damn it! The divine doctor frowned, was she terminally ill? I really want to cry without tears, if I don't let him see it, maybe he can survive for a year or two. In this way, does she need to explain what happened?
He let go of her hand and motioned for her to sit on the stone bench, her heartstrings tightened, and she almost sat down, and heard him say, "It's all right." If you take the medicine twice a day, you will be cured after a month. ”
Will it be cured?
She jumped to her feet, eager to hug him and shoot him wildly.
The little master of the Taiyi Bureau was helpless, and when she finally became a fourth-grade female official and had the opportunity to find a more senior imperial doctor to see a doctor, they all said that this was an incurable disease, so she gave up, thinking that it would be nothing if she couldn't give birth to a child, and she didn't even have a husband anyway.
Now such a big problem can be easily solved by him.
"Divine Doctor, Divine Doctor, Divine Doctor!" After all, there is a difference between men and women, and they don't dare to hug him, they only jump around him in circles.
"What did you bring?" His thick eyebrows furrowed, the corners of his lips curled, and he looked at the food box she had placed on the table.
"Almond crisp." She thought that she didn't bring anything to show her inner gratitude, and that she had already made a lot of almond crisps, and it would be good to give him a few pieces, so she took out a plate of pastries and put it in front of him, "Eat, eat, eat." I made it with my own hands. ”
He had only tasted it, and she hurriedly leaned over and asked, "How?" Is it tasty? ”
With a smile in his eyes, he stared at her and ate most of the rest in one bite, "Well, it's delicious." “
She smiled with satisfaction, and the other party pointed to the falling snow on the plum tree outside the pavilion: "The teapot and tea are all prepared for you, go and collect snow to make a pot of tea." “
"Yes!" Cai Ling raised her eyebrows and smiled, and carried a black iron kettle to the outside of the pavilion to collect the snow on the leaves. She collected it very carefully, lest she miss the whitest snow closest to the flowers.
The people in the pavilion did not forget to warn aloud: "Don't stare at the snow for too long, beware of snow blindness." “
What is snow blindness? She didn't understand, so she just did it, looking up into the distance.
At the pole of the eye, an ink-colored figure rode away, and in an instant, it was already hidden behind the mountain.
This icy and snowy road is so slippery, there are still people who dare to ride a horse?
She thought to herself, and lowered her head to continue collecting snow.
In the fragrance of tea, he still asked: "How can I suffer from this disease?" “
"Once, during that visit, I accidentally fell into the river?" She buried her head in a sip of tea, not daring to look him in the eye.
"What river is so unclean?" The cold tone was obviously unhappy with her perfunctory.
Anyone can deceive, but Mr. Yu definitely can't.
She didn't know why she secretly gave birth to such a sentence in her heart, she felt funny, but she calmly told what happened to the Huanyi Bureau, and in the end, she couldn't help laughing at herself: "I think that although my house is not a royal family, but it is also a hairpin family, how can I take a fancy to that little shawl and brown sugar water?" So it is in response to the sentence: the fish swims in the shallow pool and is played by shrimp. But it doesn't matter, since then, I have established myself in the Huanyi Courtyard, and others no longer dare to bully me. “
"Don't dare?" He made no secret of his contempt.
"Alright." Cai Ling put down the teacup, "It's reluctant." ”
He smiled lightly and put the teacup in front of her, waiting for her to pour it again, "So why are you sullen this time?" ”
If he doesn't want to be a famous doctor, can he be a spy?
Cai Ling said in her heart, and for a moment she thought that it was rare for someone to be willing to listen to her confide in her heart, so she said quietly: "My husband, you have also seen it, and there is nothing particularly good, but I just can't help but like him. When I got married last year, I was older than other girls, but I was so happy to be able to marry him. “
"But as long as we are together, there will be trouble, so I erased all the thoughts of being with him for the rest of my life and came to this place thousands of miles away."
"Who knew he was coming, I used to run after him, who would have thought that one day he would come all the way for me. I was very happy, and said that I was ten thousand happy, but later I learned that there was his beloved concubine who was walking with him. “
glanced at Yu Moyan and saw that he was still listening carefully, so he continued: "It turns out that he only came here with a mission, but I am embarrassed to be amorous again." ”
Yu Moyan asked, "Is that task related to me?" ”
She smiled bitterly: "That's right, it's indeed related to Childe." The ancestors in the house were infected with diseases, eating all kinds of expensive medicines, and they were temporarily stable, but they were still looking forward to being cured by medicine. ”
Mo Yan ate another piece of almond crisp, and said lightly: "You have told me all this." At first, I thought you made it up, but now that I see you so pitiful, I will go. ”
Cai Ling's eyes widened: "Don't be in a hurry to make a decision. Think about it again. If I go, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back to Peach Blossom Valley in the future. Have you really had enough of the fishing-like life of idle clouds and wild cranes and Jiang Taigong? “
"Enough is enough." He replied.
How did you get the job done so easily?
Cai Ling stared at Yu Moyan tightly, and saw that his words didn't look like a joke.
She pinched her face again, it hurt, and she wasn't dreaming.
She sighed and said, "You probably have a crush on me." ”
He smiled slightly, lowered his eyelashes, and did not reply.
She was actually amused by her own words, and she couldn't stop.
After a while, he said: "I have always admired Yu Gongzi's talent, so I tried to prove your innocence no matter what, in fact, it was not to help you, a large part of the reason was to help myself." First, I can't bear to watch the people I admire suffer, and second, and more importantly, I still have a lot of Childe's paintings in my gallery. ”
"In addition to landscapes, can there be flowers and birds?" His focus has been diverted again.
"Not much, let's have three volumes." She thought about it.
"Take it and burn it." He didn't even raise an eyebrow.
"Why? I'm still counting on making a lot of money! Cai Ling was busy.
"Don't you know? I only paint landscapes, never flowers and birds. He said coldly, "In addition, you can be comfortable with the price reduction this year?" ”
The smile froze on his face, his little face was red and white, and the hair on his forehead that was ruffled by the cold wind did not have time to be removed, as if he had gone mad.
She quickly turned her face away, not daring to look at him again.
It turned out that he had already known all this, and he knew that she was Jiang Cailing, the proprietor of Moyuan Pavilion in the capital, and he also knew that he was on a pilgrimage.
But even so, he was willing to go?
"Yu Gongzi didn't have to make a decision so quickly. It's not too late to think about it for two more days. ”
Although she was wondering if he had taken the wrong medicine and why he was so gentle to her all of a sudden, she had to persuade him to think about it carefully, after all, this was Mr. Yu, whom she had admired for a long time, and she had loved his paintings, and after getting along, she liked his elegance and demeanor, and deeply admired his medical skills.
"Miss Song......" Chu Ci, who came from afar, took Xiaochuan and raised his hand to greet her. They were followed by a little shepherd boy who had been beaten in the face.
"Auntie." Xiao Chuan, who doesn't like to talk, greeted her softly.
"Ogawa is good." She crouched down and took her into her arms.
"Did you bring me something?" The little shepherd boy held his head high.
Cai Ling glanced at his blue nose and swollen face, couldn't help laughing, and hurriedly handed him a plate of almond crisp: "I brought you almond crisp, thank you for helping last time." But he didn't break his promise. “
The little shepherd boy hurriedly grabbed a piece and put it in his mouth, and ......before he could swallow it, he spit it out, "It's tasteless, it's still a little bitter......"
Only then did she remember that she seemed to have forgotten to put candy, and she looked apologetic.
"It's not good for children to eat sweets!" She argued forcefully, and asked Yu Moyan again, "Yes, Master Divine Doctor." ”
"Yes." He was quite cooperative and replied with a smile.