"I don't!" Miao Peilan twisted her waist and coquettishly, "When I get home, there are people everywhere, I don't have a chance to talk to you, just talk here and go back!" ”

"Okay!" Zuo Shaoyang hugged her tightly, covered her hands in the palms of his hands, and warmed her hands with hot air.

Miao Peilan giggled happily, snuggled in his arms, and happily talked about what had happened, including the hardships and happiness of the autumn harvest, the joy of selling the double harvest of twenty acres of land before someone else's family made a big profit, the envy of the people in the four miles and eight towns, the distress when transplanting medicinal herbs, the excitement of successful transplanting, and so on.

Zuo Shaoyang also briefly said that he regretted his marriage on a blind date three times, and treated Qiao Qiaoer, Qiao Qiaoer followed him back to Hezhou, and he also treated a high-ranking official, and the high-ranking official recommended him to participate in the imperial examination, so he had to return to the capital after the New Year.

When Miao Peilan heard this, her smile suddenly froze, as if she was frozen by ice and snow.

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" You don't like me to take the imperial examination? ”

"No, no!" Miao Peilan hurriedly melted away her stiff smile, but smiled reluctantly: "It's just, it's just that my brother is leaning on Jinshi, isn't it, I'm going to be an official in the capital?" ”

"Isn't it good for me to be an official?"

"Of course it's good, it's just that my brother is kind-hearted, once he becomes an official, I heard that officials eat people and don't spit out bones, can my brother fight them?"

Zuo Shaoyang smiled: "Hehe, don't worry, if I become an official in the medical examination, I will also be a medical officer, an official who treats people, although I have the name of an official, in fact, I don't have much power, I still treat people, no matter people, no matter money, no matter things, I don't have to intrigue with people, and I won't be eaten and I won't even vomit bones." ”

Miao Peilan was immediately happy: "That's fine, it's just that my brother is an official in the capital, and after that, Lan'er won't be able to see my brother." ”

Zuo Shaoyang caressed her cold face lovingly, and smiled: "Stupid! This time, you go to Beijing with me to take the exam, if I really pass the first place in the medical examination and become a medical officer in the capital, you will accompany me, okay? ”

"Really?" Miao Peilan's heart was so full of joy that she couldn't believe her ears, and looked at him with a loss.

"Hmmm! Of course it's true! Your mother and younger siblings will stay in our house in Hezhou, and with my mother here, I will take care of them. ”

"Okay!" Miao Peilan jumped and jumped around Zuo Shaoyang, she could enter Beijing with her sweetheart, and she could be together in the future, she felt that the happiness in her heart was bubbling out like spring water, rippling all over her body. Then he thought about it, and said with some worry: "But will the master agree?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang was stunned for a moment, his father attached great importance to his entry into Beijing this time, and had high hopes for himself to become a medical officer in the future, and anything that might damage this matter might be strongly opposed. Miao Peilan is just a concubine, if they go to the capital together, the two live together, which is a bit similar to living together without marriage, especially if she has not married a wife, she lives with another woman who is not even her concubine, this is only afraid that it will cause criticism, and my father may not necessarily agree.

However, Zuo Shaoyang had already made up his mind to convince his father, so he smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll tell him." ”

"Hmm!" Miao Peilan nodded, "What about the little sister?" Will she come with us, too? ”

It had been discussed last time, and the three daughters served a husband together, so Miao Peilan naturally thought of her.

"If she wants, she can go together."

"Well, let's go ask her."

"Don't worry, let's talk about it after the New Year. I'm going to leave after the New Year. ”

Miao Peilan glanced back at the fields under the hillside and the medicinal herbs on the hillside, and said, "But what about the fields?" ”

"Rent it to someone else to plant."

"Where's the herbs?"

"Leave it to someone else's care."

"They don't take good care of it!"

"Learn, recruit a few medicine farmers, pay them a little higher, teach them well these days, you can learn, growing medicinal herbs is easier than growing crops. No problem. ”

"No!" Miao Peilan knew that these were rare medicinal materials, which could not be bought in the pharmacy, and they were important medicinal materials that were indispensable for Zuo Shaoyang to treat people's diseases, she had been taking care of these medicinal materials, and she had feelings, and now she wanted to leave them behind, she was really reluctant, and said with a raised face: "Or, let's transplant them to the capital, right?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang smiled: "Transplanted to the capital? The capital is not as good as the countryside, there are fields everywhere that can be cultivated, and there is no place to plant them. ”

Miao Peilan said to herself: "If only we could move the old mansion to the capital, there is a back garden as big as the old mansion, and these medicinal herbs can be planted." ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Yes, a high-ranking official gave me a house, but unfortunately it is very small, it is okay to grow flowers and plants, but it is not possible to plant medicinal materials on a large scale." -- Master Qiao's house is quite spacious, several times larger than our old house, and many places in the back garden are empty, if it is used to grow these medicinal herbs, it should be enough. She got sick this time, and I've been treating her, and this time she came back with me. However, it is a place for people, and you can only look at the eyes. ”

Miao Peilan hurriedly said: "Miss Qiao'er came to Hezhou to see you for treatment last time, and it happened that you entered the capital, and she also came back with you?" ”

"yes, yes."

"How's her sick?"

"It's better, but it still needs time to recuperate, and she can't be in a hurry, so she can only be treated slowly."

Miao Peilan gritted her teeth lightly, reached out and hugged Zuo Shaoyang's neck and said, "Miss Qiao'er is not your sister-in-law, tell her, borrow her back garden to grow medicinal herbs, okay?" ”

"This ......"

"If you are admitted to the medical examination and settle in the capital, you will need these medicinal materials to treat people in the future. I know you're embarrassed, I'll tell her! She still gets along well with me. ”

"That's okay, as long as she agrees, of course it's good, but I have to wait for me to get the first doctor, and I am an official in the capital again, and I have to live in the capital for a long time to do this, and besides, it is not good to transplant in the winter now, and I will wait until the spring flowers bloom."

"Okay, I'll tell her yes first. When the time comes, ask someone to transplant it. ”

"Okay."

A cold wind blew, Zuo Shaoyang shivered, and Miao Peilan smiled: "Okay, see you are cold like this, let's go back!" ”

The two stepped on the vast snowfield hand in hand, talking and laughing as they slowly returned to the city.

The two were not in a hurry to go home, and went straight to the fragrant tea shop.

The tea shop has changed, the door has been changed to three thick silk and cotton curtains, and the wooden walls and windows on the street side have all been redone, and the windows have all been changed to floor-to-ceiling windows, reducing the number of window lattices, and pasting a transparent but not breathable white gauze to make window drawer paper, so that the lobby looks very bright.

The two of them lifted the curtain and entered the lobby, and immediately felt warm. I glanced at it and found that there were large copper stoves all over the lobby. A large brass pipe leads out of the kitchen, around the four corners of the lobby, and then extends outside, presumably from the chimney of the stove. Using the waste heat of boiling water to keep warm, Sang Xiaomei's idea really coincides with herself.

It's very warm in this tea shop, no wonder there are a lot of tea customers, almost all of them are full, and the noisy laughter is very lively.

Huang Qin was carrying a large copper kettle and talking to a few tea customers, behind the counter, Father Sang was rummaging through the account book, but he didn't see Sang Xiaomei, probably boiling water and adding firewood in the kitchen.

Huang Qin saw someone picking the curtain and coming in, and greeted her with joy: "Guest officer drinking tea, please sit ......, Zuo Gongzi?" Is Zuo Gongzi you? ”

Zuo Shaoyang was carrying the bright window on his back, and Huang Qin looked a little dazzling at the light, not sure about it, but just surprised.

"Sister-in-law Qin, it's me, I'm back from the capital. Business is good. Zuo Shaoyang smiled.

Huang Qin screamed, came over and grabbed Zuo Shaoyang's arm, as if he was afraid that he would turn around and run, he turned around and shouted at the kitchen: "Little sister! Zuo Gongzi is back! ”

In the lobby, they were talking in a mess, Huang Qin's voice, all the people turned their heads to see, many people knew Zuo Shaoyang, not only because he used very cheap medicine to treat stroke, but also cured many people of dermatitis edema, and was awarded the title of "model of supporting the army" by the general during the famine, and more importantly, during the famine, the Zuo family was hungry and squeezed out food from between their teeth, and made Chinese medicine porridge with Chinese medicine that could satisfy hunger, saving countless hungry people. Many of the people present had received medicinal porridge in the Zuo family and received favors from others, so when they saw Zuo Shaoyang coming in, they all got up and greeted each other: "Young Master Zuo is back!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly returned the salute: "Hello everyone! ”

Someone who has a good thing knows the purpose of Zuo Shaoyang's entry into Beijing, and said with a smile: "Young Master Zuo, how about going on a blind date in the capital?" Did the bride get it back? ”

Zuo Shaoyang smiled: "Not yet, we countrymen, how can it be so easy to marry the daughter-in-law of the capital home." ”

Another person smiled and said: "Others can't do it, young master, you are the 'model of supporting the army' canonized by the general, and the girls in the capital are not all princesses and county lords, and the daughters of ordinary officials and eunuchs, so you can't send them up." ”

The other smiled and said: "What you said is not right, even if you are the princess and county lord, Young Master Zuo can match it!" ”

"That's that......"

They were coaxing and talking, but Zuo Shaoyang didn't talk, his eyes had already fallen on the pretty Sang Xiaomei standing at the door of the kitchen.

I haven't seen her for a few months, Sang Xiaomei has become more and more delicate, three thousand green silk is held behind her head, tied with a snow-white silk silk, wearing a moon-white right-hand collar small sleeve short undergarment, the same moon-white pleated skirt, and a white linen belt tied around her waist, which strangled her small waist to the fullest, and in the smoky and slightly dim lobby, like a spring flower between the mountains and cliffs.

Originally, Sang Xiaomei was going to wear filial piety, but when she opened the door to do business, she couldn't always wear hemp and filial piety, so others wouldn't come to the door, so after Sang's mother was buried, Sang Xiaomei and Huang Qin both wore white dresses and tied a linen belt around their waists, and they had the right to wear filial piety.

"Little sister!" Zuo Shaoyang nodded to the tea guests who greeted him, and walked through the lobby and came to Sang Xiaomei.

Sang Xiaomei looked at him with a beautiful face that was happy and disgusting, her willow eyebrows were raised lightly, her eyes were shining like stars, there were rippling water, and her eyelashes were also wet. Softly called: "Young Master! ”

(To be continued)