"Wow! I've never seen an orange this big. Xue Yan's eyes widened, staring at the rare fruit as big as a watermelon on the table, turning around and looking at it carefully.

Xiao Anzi, who was Rong Ruo next to her, heard Xueyan call this fruit an orange, and couldn't hold back her laughter. Xue Yan's face turned red and gave Xiao Anzi a white look. He stood behind his sleeves.

Rong Ruo glanced at Xiao Anzi and reprimanded: "Don't be rude!" Don't hurry up and peel off the grapefruit for the sleeves. ”

"Huh!" Xiao Anzi quickly restrained her smile, picked up the fruit knife on the table and began to peel the grapefruit.

Huai Sleeve has never seen this kind of fruit, walked closer to take a look, and picked up a piece of peeled grapefruit peel and smelled it, a light and sweet fruit fragrance, Huai Sleeve suddenly felt clear, and couldn't help but praise: "What did you call this fruit just now?" It smells so good. ”

"This fruit is called pomelo, rich in the south, we can't see it in the north, I went to Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi to do an errand this time, and specially brought back some, because this thing is big, I am in a hurry, so I didn't bring much. I specially left a few for you, and I will send someone to your house in a while, and now you can taste it first, the taste is sweet and very refreshing. ”

As he spoke, Rong Ruo took a peeled pomelo pulp from Xiao Anzi's hand, carefully removed the last layer of milky white skin, and broke off a small piece and fed it to his mouth.

"Sweet and sour, refreshing, the taste is a bit like orange, but it is slightly thicker and crispier than the orange flesh, but the taste is lighter than orange, and it is delicious!" Wai Sleeve swallows the grapefruit in his mouth and savors its flavor.

"It's good if you like it, I'm still worried that you won't be used to eating it, and my mother won't like to eat southern fruits." Rong Ruo smiled.

Huai Sleeve smiled and asked, "You came here today to ask me to come out to taste grapefruit?"

Rong Ruo smiled, looked at the sleeve chewing grapefruit gently, and said: "A few days ago, you were in a bad mood for a few days because you accompanied me to visit the prison, and it was windy a few days ago. ”

Huai Sleeve really hurt his spirit for a few days for the sake of Hongyu, but he got better these days, and when he heard him mention it, he couldn't help but ask: "When will Hongyu be locked up?" What kind of law enforcement does the head of the palace do? ”

Rong Ruo shook his head and sighed lightly: "I'm afraid that the death penalty is confirmed, but when to ask for beheading, the date is not decided, who dares to ask Long Live Lord about these things that touch the head." ”

At this time, the breeze slowly blew through the side of the Lushui Pavilion, and the originally calm water surface was stirred up with ripples, and the late autumn wind had added a strong coolness.

"Go back to the house and sit, it's cool here, beware of a headache after a long blow." Rong Ruo withdrew the shawl on his body and draped it over his sleeve shoulders.

got up with his sleeves and walked towards the house with Rong Ruo.

After only taking a few steps, he suddenly heard a voice behind him: "Brother Rong, I thought you had entered the palace, but it happened that you were in the house." ”

Rong Ruohe hurriedly turned around and saw that the person who came was Gu Zhenguan.

Gu Zhenguan is a frequent visitor to the Ming Mansion, and he has met Huai Sleeve a few times, so he is familiar with each other. After seeing each other, Rong Ruo, Huai Sleeve and Gu Zhenguan entered Rong Ruo's study Tongzhi Hall at the same time.

"It's getting colder and colder, and when I went out today, I didn't wear a jacket, and when I rode on a horse, I felt the cold wind blowing in my vest." As soon as Gu Zhenguan entered the house, he rubbed his hands around the warm cage and said with a smile.

Rong Ruowen smiled when he heard this: "This is indeed a little cold. After that, he instructed Xiao Anzi: "You go to the small kitchen and ask to cook some rice wine dumplings." ”

Xiao Anzi agreed and ran out.

Gu Zhenguan said: "Why bother so much, drinking a few cups of tea will naturally warm up." ”

Rong Ruo said with a smile: "A few days ago, Yao Qisheng, the governor of Huguang, returned to Beijing to report on his work, and specially sent me some crab roe stuffed rice balls, which tasted very good, and you two just tasted them today." ”

Rong Ruo and Gu Zhenguan sat at the chess table drinking tea and chatting, sitting in front of Rong Ruo's desk with their sleeves in their arms, flipping through the manuscript of "Tongzhitang Collection" page by page, listening to the two of them chatting.

After drinking tea for a while, Gu Zhenguan lowered his voice slightly and said, "I heard something the day before yesterday, I don't know if it's true or not. ”

"What?" Rong Ruo asked.

"I heard that someone stabbed the ruby incident."

Hearing Gu Zhenguan's words, Huai Sleeve stopped his hand and listened carefully with his ears pricked up.

"However, no one knows that she is in my house, so why can she ......," Rong Ruo frowned.

Gu Zhenguan said in a deep voice: "The people around you are all old people, and you can trust them, but the guards in the front yard can't keep them even." ”

Rong Ruo frowned and said, "How could you think about it so coincidentally, who stabbed it?" ”

Gu Zhenguan said: "Except for the mansion over there, who else will stare at your mansion all day long." ”

Huai Sleeve could understand these words, and naturally knew that the "over there mansion" in Gu Zhenguan's mouth was referring to Suo Etu's mansion. frowned slightly, remembering the scene of that day, suddenly a flash of inspiration, and Gu Erren said, "Could it be that Baolan said it?" ”

Gu Zhenguan heard Huai Sleeve say this, smiled and waved his hand: "This is impossible, Baolan is just a stunned young man, and she has always been very arrogant, so she won't notice these subtleties." ”

Rong Ruo frowned and said: "Maybe it was unintentionally mentioned, maybe it was heard by Suo Etu, that day, Baolan came to my house, but he saw the red jade." ”

Gu Zhenguan nodded lightly and said, "It's possible." ”

Rong Ruo lowered his eyes and took a sip of the teacup.

Gu Zhenguan saw that Rong Ruo was silent, and said with a smile: "However, this matter was handled very decisively, and he only took this woman and did not mention the first half of your mansion at all, so Suo Xiang probably didn't expect it to be like this, heh!" ”

Rong Ruo heard this, and then asked, "Then can you hear when the emperor will deal with this matter?" ”

Gu Zhenguan shook his head and sighed: "This kind of thing, most of them are at the beginning of winter, and they can't survive the New Year's Festival. ”

When Huai Sleeve heard this, his left eyelid jumped a few times, and he couldn't help but think of the day when he visited Hongyu in prison, and his heart felt a sourness.

At this time, Xiao Anzi pushed the door in, and a maid behind him walked in with three bowls of steaming rice wine dumplings in her hands.

The three of them sat around the round table, and the maid carefully placed the rice balls in front of the three of them, added another silver spoon, and bowed out.

"You guys try this, it's delicious, even I, who never likes to eat glutinous rice balls, ate two bowls the day before yesterday." Rong Ruoxiao gave way.

Looking at a few goose-yellow fluffy balls in the bowl, floating in the rice wine soup, crystal clear, very beautiful, and smelling the slightly sweet aroma of rice wine tumbling out of the soup, I couldn't help but move my index finger, grabbed one with a spoon and sent it to my mouth. Who knew that as soon as he touched his lips, he couldn't help but "sizzle" and gasped for cold air, and his face suddenly turned red.

"It's hot, isn't it? Be careful and eat it when it's cool. Seeing this, Rong Ruo said with concern, his eyes were full of distress, and because Gu Zhenguan was sitting, it was not good to show it too obviously.

Huai Sleeve shook his head again and again: "It's not in the way, it's not hot." ”

Gu Zhen saw this scene and said with a smile: "Huai Gongzi was just burned by the rice balls, which reminds me of a joke related to the rice balls. ”