There are many kinds of lotus in the lower reaches of the Baishui River, every July, the lotus leaves cover the surface of the river, and the lotus reflects the sun is the most pitiful.

The sons and ladies of the capital, including Gui Bonian, are attracted by the elegant lotus flowers blooming all over the river, or linger on the riverside or sail in a light boat among the lotus leaves.

Diancui also likes to come here to raft on the river, but what she loves is the lotus seeds in the lotus seat and the lotus root under the lotus leaves.

"The gentle posture is light, and the dotted round pond is also pitiful. A few points flew to the lotus leaf rain, and the twilight fragrance was divided into the small river sky. Zhuzi's new lotus is really wonderful, wonderful! Li Sang looked at the lotus in full bloom in this river, and couldn't help but chant two lines of poetry.

"Well, it's so sweet! It's crispy and the lotus seeds are delicious! Sitting cross-legged on the deck, Diancui munched lotus seeds.

"Lotus seeds are delicious, after all, they are creatures, eat less, and you will cry again if you have a stomach." Yuan Zhiheng said to eat less, and the work of peeling lotus seeds in his hands has not fallen.

“…… The faint red is fragrant, and the half-open person folds the mountain house. It is only because it is clean and super dirty, which is quite like the wind flow pressing the people. Mr. Daozheng's lotus flower is even more beautiful and refined. Assistant Teacher Tang took over the words of the eldest brother Li Sang.

"This lotus root is white and tender, and the water is delicate, and it will be poured with round-headed glutinous rice when it goes back, steamed in the pot, and then poured with osmanthus honey, it will be delicious!"

"Okay, I'll dig some more with you for the teacher."

"I said, fourth brother, if you want to dig lotus roots, hurry up and dig them, can you not disturb our poetry." Yue Gongzi sighed, helplessly looking at the two laymen who knew how to eat and drink.

"Sixth Brother Yue, it's wrong for you to say that the teacher is yours, yesterday I remember that the lotus root soup was eaten by someone in the end." Diancui ate the sweet lotus seeds, and the sound was even more crisp.

Thinking of yesterday's steaming and fragrant lotus root soup, the son-in-law swallowed his saliva, waved his hand and let them go, for the sake of his mouth, he didn't dare to offend the fourth sister.

The corners of Yuan Zhiheng's mouth curled, leaning lazily on the plank, letting Diancui stand out for him, his eyes were like the sparkling waves of the river.

Diancui turned around and grinned at him.

There is no appearance of everyone's ladies at all, but it is extremely splendid, delicate and cute.

cough cough, Gui Bonian frowned and coughed, and said: "How many lotus roots does my sister want, my eldest brother will dig it for you, why bother others." ”

"No, how many lotus canopies does the fourth sister want, the sixth brother will go and pick them with you, why bother others!" Yue Gongzi couldn't help it again, blinked his eyes, and bit the word others heavily.

"Sixth Brother Yue makes fun of me again, and I will let the eldest brother throw you into this river!" Diancui's face was redder than the crimson lotus, but she couldn't do that shy appearance, so she only said viciously.

"Sixth brother, don't make the fourth sister angry, otherwise today's osmanthus glutinous rice root will not be your share." Li Sang hurriedly said.

The brothers here are all pretending to crusade against Gongzi Yue, Yuan Zhiheng got up and tied the rope of the small raft tied to the big boat, and asked loudly: "Can someone follow me to dig lotus roots?" ”

"I'll go, I'll go!" Digging lotus roots, I got into the lotus bushes in the shallows, and it was fun there, and I jumped down the raft with a little green.

"Sister wait for me, big brother will accompany you." Gui Bonian hurried to follow.

It's a pity that Yuan Zhiheng paddled down, and the little raft "staggered" and jumped away all of a sudden.

"Big brother, this raft is too small to carry too many people, don't worry, I'll be careful." Diancui kept his hand still in his mouth and shouted towards the big boat.

Gui Bonian stomped his feet, and pointed at Yuan Zhiheng, who was curled at the corners of his mouth, with his hand, secretly worried in his heart. My sister will be in time for the moon this year, and I must tell my mother when the time comes, so that my sister can keep some distance from Yuan Zhiheng in the future.

In the shallow waters of the river, there are flourishing lotus lotuses, and it is also a place where birds and birds haunt.

"Teacher, what do you see that?" Diancui was very excited, and pointed to a place for Yuan Zhiheng to see.

Although the two of them already have a relationship, Diancui still calls him a teacher on weekdays, and he also depends on her.

"Duck eggs, like?" Yuan Zhiheng picked it up and took a closer look and said.

"Give it to me, I'll see!" Diancui looked at it carefully and said in surprise: "This is a wild duck's egg!" If you wrap salt and bay leaves, star anise and clean yellow sand on the outside of it, and then put it in a clay pot, seal it with oil, paper and hemp rope, marinate it for half a month, take it out and cook it is a good appetizer! ”

It's eating again, Yuan Zhiheng couldn't help laughing, he knew that Diancui loved to make some strange food, but now it seems that in addition to fiddling with jewelry every day, she just eats it.

"It's a pity that there is only one ......," Dian Cui sighed.

"I see that there are a lot of wild birds here, and wild ducks account for the majority, and there will not be only one duck egg, I will accompany you to find it."

Yuan Zhiheng didn't want her wish to eat pickled duck eggs in vain, so he had to stop digging lotus roots and wanted to find wild duck eggs with her.

Fortunately, as he said, the small raft shuttled between the shallows, and a lot of wild duck eggs, water pigeon eggs, heron eggs, and even kingfisher eggs were collected.

"Those water pigeon eggs and kingfisher eggs are really small, and it takes a lot of effort to pickle them, so why don't you throw them away?" Yuan Zhiheng discussed with her.

Diancui held a whole number of eggs in the fence hat and swayed from side to side after listening to the teacher's words. Although the water pigeon eggs are small, they are certainly delicious to eat one by one......

"Good! I listen to the teacher. After saying that, he picked up the small waterfowl eggs and carefully put them back, leaving only the big wild duck eggs.

"Let's go dig the lotus roots." Yuan Zhiheng's voice was gentle and smiling.

Dian Cui looked at his wind-blown rippling eyes, ate and smiled, Teacher Dao is so good-looking, the eyes are good-looking, the nose is good-looking, and the mouth is also good-looking.

"No shame." Yuan Zhiheng only felt that the old face was hot, and this female apprentice was taught by him to be thicker than the man's skin.

It's really a female apprentice to shame the master, and the blue is better than the blue!

Although Diancui has a thick skin, he is not like Yuan Zhiheng, who took off his soap boots, rolled up his trouser legs and went down to the river to dig lotus roots. I had to pick a lot of budding lotus bones, and divide them on the raft, and there were words in my mouth every year that these were with the eldest brother, and these were with Sister Luman.

These two people are good, they both love this lotus flower very much, and they are really matched, if only they can achieve good things in this life......

Diancui was still slowly dividing the lotus bones, and Yuan Zhiheng took five or six washed clean, white, tender and delicate lotus roots on the raft.

"So much!" Dian Cui exclaimed: "It's enough for us to eat in the whole house for several days, Second Brother Tang and Sixth Brother Yue's family live in the capital, why don't you take a big root back with them to try it, and there are still a few left......

"You can give it to whoever you want." Yuan Zhiheng got on the raft, and washed the long lotus roots one by one with the water in the river, which was really fresh and tender!

Diancui thought for a while, clapped his hands and said, "Why don't you send a ...... to your cousin?"

"No!" Yuan Zhiheng's voice was full of anger and said quickly.

"Oh, if the teacher says no, then don't give it." Diancui didn't ask, just hurry up.

It's really too well-behaved and cute, Yuan Zhiheng looked at it and was a little unbearable, so he only said softly: "The Wu family is rich and rivals the country, I haven't eaten any good things and new things, you brought a silly lotus root, isn't it a joke." ”

The teacher is really knowledgeable, and the words used to describe the lotus root are also ingenious.

The two of them took a raft to the heart of the river, and Dian Cui ate a handful of lotus seeds, and then asked: "I remember that there are clouds in the book, and the lotus has seven tricks, and they all say that the seven tricks are smart and agile, why does the teacher say that this lotus root is stupid?" ”

"This ...... As a teacher, he said casually, "In the face of this smart and studious Dian Cui, Yuan Zhiheng can't say that he is looking at Wu Yi'an stupidly."

"How's your piano learning?" Yuan Zhiheng asked as if he had no intention.

Diancui sighed and said: "I've been really busy for a few days, and I don't have time to learn the piano from my cousin. ”

Since the day of the fight, I went with my cousin Wu Yi'an to take a quick look at the guqin, and when I came back, in addition to worrying about Miaozhu, I was cooking in the small kitchen, either Senior Brother Gu wanted to eat yellow finch bream, lotus leaf eight treasure duck, or Brother Yue wanted to eat lotus root small chop soup, and even the appetite of the master Guo Lao was also good, and he shouted for several days to eat kapok fresh meat and tofu stuffed, and he had to be tested for the craftsmanship of hairpins......

Where do you have time to learn the piano?

Besides, since the day she beat her, the last one to learn that Yuan Zhiheng went to ask his grandmother for marriage, she was overjoyed, and she just wanted to see him every day. Whatever everyone wanted to eat, she happily did it, just to listen to Yuan Zhiheng's gentle and smiling words when she sent food to the Guozijian.

"Teacher, why do you want to go to your grandmother to ask for marriage, you must know that it is taboo for us to do this." Diancui finished eating the lotus seeds, holding the lotus bones, and buried his red face in it, leaving only two eyes to stare at Yuan Zhiheng.

Yuan Zhiheng's paddling hand was stunned, he almost took the oars off his hand, coughed twice, and said seriously: "You and I are just talking about marriage, what's so strange about this." ”

"But the teacher obviously rejected this family affair before, this time," Diancui buried his face deeper, and said crisply: "This time, the teacher finally realized that he was already deeply in love with Diancui, and he couldn't extricate himself. ”

With a "bang", the wooden paddle completely fell into the river, Yuan Zhiheng looked at the bottomless river and was stunned for a long time, and finally simply gave up, walked to Diancui's side, and sat down.

ripped off the lotus bone in her hand, looked at her smiling eyes, and said, "If I knew this, I shouldn't have shown you those messy words!" ”

This apprentice is not only thick-skinned now, but also boldly and casually choreographed a play for him.

"You were drunk that night, and you really forgot everything?" Yuan Zhiheng asked again.

Diancui nodded, and said seriously, I only remember that my brother married Jin Lan, which was very touching, and then the eldest brother sent me back, so I fell asleep obediently, and I slept until the afternoon of the second day, and when I woke up, I heard that the teacher went to the old lady to ask for marriage and said that this life is none other than me.

After saying the last sentence, Dian Cui was already extremely proud, and smiled like a lazy cat that had eaten fish.

Looking at her smug look, Yuan Zhiheng smiled for some reason, and said: "A sentence that belongs to you makes you happy like this, and it is useless." ”