When the two returned home, it was already noon, Mo Xiaoxiao took apart the packaged plum blossoms, and prepared to send them to his father and mother, as well as his cousin, and Liu Ziyan volunteered as soon as she came back, picked up the ingredients and walked towards the kitchen with joy, saying that she wanted to make an eight-treasure porridge for her to taste.

Today is a gray and rainy weather, Mo Xiaoxiao wiped the white vase in the room, scooped some water in, poured it into the vase, and inserted the three neatly trimmed plum blossoms on the table into the vase, and for a moment it seemed that the light in the room became brighter, and it seemed that the light in the room became brighter, and it seemed that it had become amiable through the rainy weather, and the fiery red plum blossoms were inserted in the white net bottle, a kind of quiet joy, like a ball of thick ink, slowly blooming on the snow-white rice paper, which made people happy, but whenever they saw this plum blossom, Mo Xiaoxiao's heart always suddenly becomes melancholy, and she is interested in seeing things and thinking about people, which is where she comes from.

After doing this, she picked up an embroidery plate for embroidery, put it in her hand and felt gentle, but her heart was heavy, she sat in front of the window and turned her head, her eyes wandered out of the window, and let it be like a winding snake, crawling through the window through the black eaves, and passing to the mountains on the other side, her thoughts lingered, and she was stretched long, as if her body and mind were brought to that familiar scene again.

Under the red sandalwood carved window, there are two young women, they are of the same age, smiling like flowers, each holding an embroidery plate in their hands, spring flowers and autumn moons, phoenix mandarin ducks are in their hands, slowly becoming vivid, the light embroidery needle, wearing colorful needlework, like a dragon flying phoenix dancing on the white brocade, happily dancing for a while that vivid scene, the sky is like a peach blossom in the white cloth, as if alive, and the two women holding the needle and thread, smiling brightly tacitly.

It was just a moment of effort, everything disappeared, as if there was a wanton wind blowing, it was blowing from a distant place, it was numb, ruthless, and it didn't even give it time to think about it, it puffed up all its strength, and then the beautiful scene she had created with great difficulty was swallowed up at once, those phantoms were like a dream, and they disappeared in an instant, and only the sleeping foam-like particles were scattered in the air at will, which could not be captured. She tried to get up and grab the phantoms that were about to fly away, but she couldn't do anything, she could only watch them get farther and farther away.

Just when she was in a trance, a sudden voice in her ears pulled her back to reality, who was far away: "Miss, what's wrong with you, Miss, why are you in a daze by the window, this window is not closed, the wind outside is so strong, if you accidentally get infected with the wind cold, what can you do." ”

Mo Xiaoxiao heard her voice, only then did she react, quickly came back to her senses, turned back to her body, a shallow smile appeared on her face, and shook her head with a wry smile: "It's okay, I just think the room is too stuffy, I just want to breathe fresh air, aren't you going to boil porridge?" Why did you come so soon? ”

Mo Xiaoxiao said casually, as if she was hiding her restless thoughts, Liu Ziyan heard her ask like this, and hurriedly spoke.

"Miss, look at what time it is outside, it will be dark in a while, how can you call it fast, I have been busy in the kitchen for an afternoon today, I will show you my finished products, I have made a lot of you can send some to the master and the lady, and the eldest young master, you can express your heart, and let them taste the best of both worlds!" Liu Ziyan said with a smile.

Mo Xiaoxiao got up and followed her to the table, only to see Liu Ziyan open the lid of the food box with joy on her face, and in an instant there was a fragrance, and her face came to her face and directly enveloped her snort, as if there was a sticky sweetness, wafting in the air not like the fragrant fragrance of osmanthus, nor like the light fragrance of peach blossoms, it was a kind of taste that seemed to be just right, before I tasted it, I knew that it was sweet, and it was steaming white, and the viscous juice soup was soaked in boiled longan and soybeans, white barley and red beans, the fusion of the two is more beautiful, looking at her with a burst of joy.

Mo Xiaoxiao couldn't hold back the joy in her heart, and blurted out: "Wow, Ziyan, your craftsmanship is also amazing, I have never smelled such a fragrant smell, it looks very delicious, but I don't have a special understanding of it, can you tell me how you made it?" I want to learn too, and I look so appetizing! ”

"Hehehe, Miss, do you want to taste it first, and I'll tell you slowly!" When Liu Ziyan saw her little gluttonous cat, she couldn't help laughing, and took out a small ceramic bowl from the food box on the side, and gently scooped out no more and no less from the food box with a white spoon.

Mo Xiaoxiao couldn't help but salivate and carefully took the small bowl, held it in front of him and sniffed it gently: "Okay, then I'll taste it for you for the time being, well, it's really fragrant, although I don't know how it's made, but it looks really appetizing, so tell me how it's made!" ”

"In fact, the production of Laba porridge is very simple, Laba porridge, eight treasures as the name suggests is made of eight kinds of things, as for which eight treasures, it is generally made of barley millet, lotus seeds and red dates, longan red beans, black rice peanuts These eight kinds of boiling its production method is also relatively simple and easy to learn, in addition to longan and red date meat other than ingredients, all soaked in water, at least two hours or more, so that it can be completely soaked soft, but also easy to cook when cooking, cook porridge remember to be sure to warm the pot under water, and then change the heat to boil, Turn the heat down again. Don't underestimate the heat, change the heat at the right time to help the porridge be soft and rotten, and the first 20 minutes after boiling should be stirred for 10 minutes, and finally it will be crispy out of the pot, don't forget to add sugar when making it! That's how it was made. ”

Liu Ziyan said with relish, Mo Xiaoxiao also heard the general meaning, but she still didn't know how to make it so delicious.

Mo Xiaoxiao nodded, and tasted the contents of the bowl with relish: "I know, but your technique is too good, fragrant and viscous, the taste is not dull at all, but there is no greasy feeling in this sweetness, these ingredients are very accurate, all have the feeling of melting in the mouth, there is no slightest sense of pinching, and there is no cooking of the ingredients, it can be seen that your cooking skills are superb, let me really admire!" ”

"It's good if Miss likes it, Miss should you send some to the lord and Mrs., I cooked a lot." Liu Ziyan said again.

Mo Xiaoxiao wiped her mouth and said slowly: "Well, this is natural, but this time you have to go in person, my brother doesn't have to go for you and him to avoid suspicion, but my father and mother still have to make a trip." ”

"Why? Now that you know that Madame doesn't want to see me, why should I go and deliver them herself? Liu Ziyan listened to her words and expressed confusion.

"This is because he doesn't want to see you, there is a gap between you, so I want you to go in person, you need to impress her with sincerity, she has a very bad impression of you now, in order for her to eliminate her opinion on you as soon as possible, you must use your sincerity to impress her, let her know that you are not the kind of person he imagined, this is only one of them, and the second is that if he doesn't want to see you, you will no longer intersect with her, she thinks that you are a thief, and there is a ghost in your heart, so you do this, and it shows that you are a narrow-minded person with a small stomach, Therefore, it is reasonable for you to go in person, and my brother will go in person. ”

Listening to Mo Xiaoxiao's serious appearance, and said reasonably, Liu Ziyan suddenly realized, seemed to understand what she meant, and nodded in agreement.

Liu Ziyan said: "Okay, Miss without further ado, I'll send it over now, then you can also send it over to the eldest young master, otherwise it will be cold after a while, which will not be conducive to eating." ”

Mo Xiaoxiao nodded: "Well, by the way, remember to send these three plum blossoms over, and insert them into the vase in my mother's room when you enter the door, he doesn't like restrained people, you have to be generous and don't be timid, but remember?" ”

"Okay Miss, I remember, then I'll go now!" Liu Ziyan said as she separated the contents of the food box, gave her a salute, lifted the thing and prepared to leave.

After Liu Ziyan left, Mo Xiaoxiao put the remaining bowl of porridge into a food box, and sneakily took out a bottle of wine that she secretly bought today from under the bed, took it out, and put it in the food box together.

"Knock knock...!" Yang Zhe was reading and writing in his room, but was interrupted by a sudden knock on the door, and couldn't help but glance up, only to see a shadow outside the door, a slender woman standing alone outside the door, Yang Zhe gently put down the book in his hand, the corners of his mouth hooked a smile, and he didn't need to look to know who was coming.

"I know you came in, the door is unlocked." Yang Zhe said softly.

"Squeak...!" As soon as the words fell, the door was pushed open and a stunned person came out, there was no doubt that it was Mo Xiaoxiao, she just poked her head out, looked inside, and then turned her head to look around, the sneaky look was so strange.

"What are you doing at the door? If you don't come in, look at your sneaky appearance, what are you going to do to be unsightly? If that were the case, I wouldn't be with you. Seeing this, Yang Zhe couldn't help but smile and teased her.

Mo Xiaoxiao turned around and entered the door gently, and closed the tight door with her backhand, for fear of being discovered or something.

Mo Xiaoxiao turned around after closing the door, weighing something in his hand, and said seriously: "What are you talking about, I'm just looking to see if there's anything outside, what is an unsightly thing, if you don't go with me, you've been with me many times, is it still this time?" ”