"Xue Yan, Er Gege specially asked me to send this over, saying that Xiao Gege is homesick, smelling the smell of his hometown, maybe he will have some appetite, you serve Xiao Gege while it's hot."

Hongqing brought a wax-colored delicate glass bowl on a tray, and it was covered with a warm hand towel, which at first glance knew that it had just been served from the fire.

Xue Yan carefully took the bowl from Hongqing's hand.

"Beware of the heat, I stewed this thing myself, I'm afraid that the kitchen here won't take care of our things in the north of Xinjiang, and it will be ruined." Speaking of which, this is still brought by the general and Xiao Gege when he came this year, and Er Gege is reluctant to eat on weekdays, knowing that Xiao Gege is homesick these days, so he took it out. ”

Xueyan and Su'er are both girls who came from northern Xinjiang, and when they smell this taste, they know that they are wild dried goods collected in the deep mountains of northern Xinjiang, and when they are stewed, they also add a few nourishing medicinal materials, which are unique precious health products in northern Xinjiang.

Xueyan has been out for many years, and has long been adapted to being far away from her homeland, as soon as Su'er smelled the smell of this hometown, she couldn't help but have a sour nose, reached out and took the soup cup from Xueyan's hand, brought it to the desk and said gently: "Xiao Gege, you smell this smell, how fresh!" It's your favorite monkey mushroom stew when you were a child, and it's stewed with monkey mushrooms from our northern Xinjiang in Ergege, do you taste it? ”

With red eyes, Su'er carefully lifted the lid and took a small bite of the soup to Huai Sleeve's mouth. coaxed softly: "Xiao Gege, you taste it first, see if Hongqing's craftsmanship is still not the taste of our family?" ”

Huai Sleeve didn't speak, only held the jade chess piece tightly in a daze.

Su'er couldn't help but beg: "Gege, please eat some, you just don't think about yourself, you have to think about Ergege." ”

Huai Sleeve heard Su Er mention Zhu Hetana, and woke up like a dream in a trance, looked at Su Er and asked, "What's wrong with my second sister?" ”

"You haven't eaten all day, and Ergege is so anxious that he is losing weight day by day." As Su'er spoke, she couldn't help but tears rolling down her cheeks.

Huai Sleeve was stunned when he heard Su'er's words, threw the few chess pieces he was holding back into the wooden box with a "bang", picked up the bowl of soup, and devoured a few bites.

Su Er and Xue Yan looked at Huai Sleeve in a daze, and when they reacted, Su Er excitedly picked up the clean soup bowl that Huai Sleeve drank and said, "Gege has finally eaten, and I have eaten it all, so I'll go and tell Er Gege." With that, he ran out with the empty bowl in his hand.

It turned out that when he came back from the Ming Mansion that day, he kept staring at the pair of chess boxes in a daze, sighing and crying from time to time, and he didn't talk to anyone.

Zhu Hetana didn't know why, thinking that she was enchanted with demons, so she was so anxious that she was at a loss, so she called Su'er to ask, only to know that Huai Sleeve was homesick.

It turned out that many years ago, Huai Sleeve had just learned to play Go, and the eldest sister Cong Gulun had given her an almost identical pair of Agate Go, and Huai Sleeve hid it as a treasure.

But just before entering the palace, this chess piece was asked to go by Eniang Dongguoer, Su'er watched Dongguoer Gege throw all those agate chess pieces into the heart of the lake in the back garden of the general's mansion one by one, and the chess pieces fell on the lake and splashed a splash, like an agate rain.

Before leaving, Huai Sleeve realized that not only the agate chess pieces, but also the mandarin duck sword, the green yiqin, and all her beloved things were all destroyed.

After hearing this, Zhu Hetana muttered: "Although my grandmother wanted to let Huai'er hide her clumsiness, this is too cruel to Huai'er. She was distressed and homesick, just like when I first got married. ”

After that day, Su'er overheard the gossip of the girl in the kitchen, saying that Ergege's meal had also decreased a lot.

Su'er, Xueyan and Hongqing are so anxious that they are afraid that the two masters will fall ill, but the root of the disease needs to be cured, and the root of Zhu Hetana's disease is Huai Sleeve, they only have to cure the disease of Huai Sleeve first, and Zhu Hetana will not be cured.

She said that homesick people, one is the people and things that miss their hometown, and the other is the food that misses their hometown, and she also mentioned that when Fujin first married in the capital, she was also homesick and couldn't swallow it.

Zhu Hetana was reminded by Hongqing, remembering that she still had the wild dry goods from northern Xinjiang that Ama specially brought to her last time, and took them out and let Hongqing stew them for Huai Sleeve with her own hands.

Early in the morning, Zhu Hetana heard that Su'er was excitedly holding the empty bowl and saying that she had eaten with her sleeve, and the stone hanging in her heart finally fell to the ground, and she felt hungry with an empty stomach, so she boiled millet porridge in the kitchen, and was eating a few vegetarian side dishes, when she saw Malhan coming in.

When Malhan entered the door, he saw Djukhtana drinking porridge, walked to the table and sat down, looked at the bright and delicious colors of the vegetarian side dishes although there were only a few vegetarian dishes, and said, "It seems that Fujin is in a good mood today." ”

Djukhtana only glanced at Malhan, then turned back to the little girl who was waiting beside her and said, "Go and serve a bowl of porridge to the adults." ”

At this time, Malhan did feel a little hungry, took the porridge in the maid's hand, and ate the side dishes. Suddenly remembered what Mingzhu told him just now, so he blurted out and asked, "Lord Yuezhang didn't bring a letter recently, right?" ”

Zhu Hetana didn't raise her eyelids, put down the dishes and chopsticks and replied, "Didn't you just come back from there?" You still need to ask me. ”

Malhan was speechless. He touched his nose and knew that he was bored, so he only ate porridge with his head shut and stopped talking.

In the backyard, after drinking soup with his sleeves, he was in a much better mood, picked up the chess pieces scattered on the table, and carefully placed the chess box on the bookshelf behind him.

Xue Yan saw that Huai Sleeve's temperament was much better, so she smiled and said: "Although the chess was sent by Lord Rong, after all, people didn't mean to upset Gege, and they were kind." Besides, in the past few days, Lord Rong has also sent ginseng and deer antlers, and snow clams and snow lotus, but unfortunately Gege only cares about his own discomfort, and he doesn't care about the good or bad of Lord Rong. ”

Huai sleeve frowned, turned to look at Xue Yan and asked, "Have you heard something?" ”

Xue Yan nodded honestly: "I have been self-reliant in winter, the cold is heavy, Lord Rong's cold illness has been committed again, and he has been lying at home to recuperate these days, Gege didn't notice that he hadn't come to our house for a while?" ”

"I thought he was busy with the affairs of the palace, is your news reliable? How do you know? Huai Sleeve hurriedly stepped forward and took Xue Yan's hand and asked.

"The day before yesterday, Hongqing asked me to go to the pharmacy to buy Chinese medicine for Gege to make soup, and I happened to meet Xiao Anzi in the pharmacy who also went to grab medicine, Xiao Anzi told me personally, and he also went to grab medicine for Lord Rong."