Yikang smiled, "It's been snowing for a day today, and I'm a little worried about the lotus root in the paddy fields, so I'll come over to take a look as soon as the snow stops...... It ended up touching your ship. ”

"What kind of treasure is Lianzhi, worthy of our county lord not sleeping in the middle of the night to see the lamp?" Zeng Jiuyan looked at Bai Yi, "Medicinal herbs? ”

"Forget, you came to the West Bank with me to see it before." Bai Yi said softly.

"Oh!" Zeng Jiuyan then remembered, "You deserve that...... That one, it's for anesthetics, right? ”

"Hmm." Bai Yi put away the laughing gesture just now, "No wonder the quality of the lotus angelica sent by Xuanqingguan every time is so high, the county lord is attentive." ”

Yikang wanted to laugh, but then looked away a little reservedly and said softly, "After all, it was sent to the Tai Hospital to save the life and help the wounded, and it is a merit." ”

"Don't stand," Chen Yicong's expression was dull, and he quickly returned to his seat, "Let's sit down and talk." ”

Only then did Yikang untie the cloak on his body and hand it over to the palace man next to him.

When she was about to take a seat, she glanced at the people sitting around the table, and then walked around behind Zeng Jiuyan, "Little Marquis, can you sit opposite?" ”

Zeng Jiuyan turned his head a little inexplicably, "Why?" ”

"I'll sit here so I can talk to Bai Ling." Yikang laughed.

"Then you're sitting next to Bai Ling?" Zeng Jiuyan pointed to the empty seat on Bai Ling's right hand, "If you don't have a pair of chopsticks here, just add a pair of chopsticks." ”

Yikang narrowed his eyes, "...... Are you going or not? ”

"No, no." Zeng Jiuyan hugged his arms and said with a smile, "I'm sitting hot here, if you ask me to move the nest, I'll move it?" Besides, I'm not going, what can you do with me? ”

Yikang snorted, "If you don't go, I'll tell my sister tomorrow that I have taken a fancy to the little marquis of our Dingbian Hou family, and the matchmaker will come directly to your door the day after tomorrow to say kiss, do you believe it or not?" ”

Zeng Jiuyan's expression froze there.

“…… You can say that??? ”

Chen Yicong on the other side couldn't help but sneer, "...... She doesn't just say it, she does it. ”

Zeng Jiuyan made a trembling gesture at this time.

With a bitter face, he patted his buttocks and hugged the hot cushion he was sitting on and ran to Chen Yicong's side.

The palace people brought a new pair of dishes and chopsticks, Bai Ling took it and held it in his hand, and the palace people on the side stepped forward at this time to clean up the scraps left by Zeng Jiuyan just now.

"Don't think about my handsome face," Zeng Jiuyan grimaced after sitting down again, "My father won't agree to me going to a Taoist temple to be a son-in-law!" ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

In the midst of laughter, Yikang sat generously between Bai Yi and Bai Ling.

"Don't be sentimental," Zhang Jingzhen said with a smile, "Where is the county lord thinking about your handsome and beautiful face, the county lord is obviously in-"

Bai Yi coughed and glanced at Zhang Jingzhen with a complicated expression.

"Don't talk nonsense."

"Yes!" Yikang glanced at Zhang Jingzhen with a little sly, "Don't talk nonsense!" ”

Chen Yicong only paid attention to Yikang and Bai Yilai on the other side at this time - if it weren't for Zhang Jingzhen's half-sentence point, he might not have faintly noticed anything at this time.

But there are some things, once there is a clue, the whole situation becomes clear in an instant.

"I ...... Get out for a bit. Bai Yi stood up and walked in the direction of the bow of the boat, where the only night pot on the ship was placed.

A moment of surprise flashed in Yikang's eyes, but it quickly returned to normal.

This scene fell in Chen Yicong's eyes.

It was only in this sudden that his grudge against this county lord faded a lot, and even suddenly felt a little more sympathy.

However, Chen Yicong still lowered his head and drank, listening to the chatter and laughter of several people next to him, and occasionally interjecting a sentence or two.

Bai Ling on the other side looked a little sleepy, Yikang half leaned on Bai Ling's shoulder, and the two girls whispered a word or two from time to time.

Chen Yicong saw a complicated heart.

I don't know how long it took, but the boat finally stopped on the shore of a small island in the middle of the lake.

"Let's go! Disembarked! Zeng Jiuyan looked in the direction of the bow of the boat, "Bai Yi! What about you? It's been so long since I got to the hut! ”

"It's coming!" Bai Yi's voice came faintly.

"I'm not going with you," Yikang said with a smile, "I've been out for so long, it's time to go back...... Let the boatman take me back to where I got on the boat. ”

Zeng Jiuyan glared at her, "It's all here, are you going back now?" ”

"It's been out for too long, and it would be bad if my sister found out......" Yikang smiled slyly, "None of you are allowed to tell her about me sneaking out tonight!" Otherwise—"

"Then you put a hundred hearts," Zeng Jiuyan hurriedly said, "I see that the county lord of Yining must take a detour, if she really knows that you got on our cruise ship in the middle of the night, then what's the matter?" ”

"It's good to know!"

……

A few people watched the boat go away from shore.

When a few people turned around and walked towards the pavilion in the center of the island together, Bai Ling looked at Bai Yi.

"What do you see me doing?" Bai Yi noticed the sight here, "Look at the road." ”

Bai Ling shook his head with a smile, and took a few steps forward to keep up with Zeng Jiuyan's steps.

In the end, the five of them did not go to the pavilion in the center of the island, but went to another stone pavilion near the water's edge—the night wind woke everyone up from drunkenness, and the palace people set up a stove in the pavilion and put screens on three sides.

The orange lanterns flickered, and the wine was warm on the stove, but Bai Ling didn't want to drink anymore anyway, she just put her hand on the stove.

Seeing the water of Lake An, repeatedly washing over the nearby reef, the sound was like the waves of the sea.

The pavilion was getting warmer, but it was already the middle of the night, and the original noise had turned into a fireside talk.

Zhang Jingzhen and several people were very poetic, and each of them wrote poems - and then covered their names and asked Bai Ling and Bai Yi to taste them.

Maybe it was because he had slept in the carriage before, but Bai Yi was not sleepy at this time.

In the second half of the night, the sky began to snow again.

Chen Yicong ordered people to extinguish more than half of the lanterns on the island, and everyone quietly looked at the snow that gradually rose outside in the pavilion.

Zeng Jiuyan suddenly felt that there was a fly in the ointment in this situation - at such a moment, there should be a bamboo orchestra in his ears, so as not to feel lonely.

But as soon as this thought came to mind, he heard Bai Yi next to him humming a song quietly.

"In the garden late at night, it is quiet everywhere, only the wind is singing softly......"

Zeng Jiuyan stopped all his thoughts.

The rhythm of the song is a little strange, the key is even stranger, and the lyrics are also vernacular, neither like poetry nor like a folk proverb.

Who knows, Bai Yi just got up over there, and Bai Ling on the side also followed in a low voice.

The voices of the two men, one low, the other soft, sung through the cold surface of the lake, to the farther night sky.

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