Chapter 293: A Beautiful Day
They have been following the little sister-in-law, and they will all go back. Lin Dai is the eldest boy, he pretended to be calm.
"Then did you see Song Jiu and Brother Niu?" Seeing that they were lost, Du Mei was worried about the others.
"When we were picking the flowers, we saw them go down the mountain." Lin Ying is a big girl after all, so she settled down at this time, and bowed her head a little embarrassed and said.
"Then let's go back, Uncle Lin, they should be in a hurry." Du Mei led the way, and the children of the Lin family followed.
Out of the mountains and forests, but saw that the sky was still bright, and the fire clouds in the west were spread out in the sky like a red satin, gilding the threshing floor with a layer of golden light, and people crowded together to gather here.
"Meizi, where have you been? The patriarch is looking for you. Du Zhong hurriedly grabbed Du Mei.
"What is the grandfather looking for me?" Du Mei glanced at the Lin family child behind her, and she followed Du Zhong by herself.
The children of the Lin family understood, and they were all over the scene looking for Du Ying sisters, they never dared to go to their own adults, let alone talk about getting lost in the mountains and forests, Lin Zhi held a large bouquet of colorful wild chrysanthemums in his arms, and happily gave Du Gui a handful.
Today is the Double Ninth Festival, the most particular respect for the elderly, tonight's banquet is very grand, is the highlight of the three-day flowing water banquet, not only the old people of Dujiagou are invited, but also invited several old people from the neighboring villages who are seventy years old to sit in the chief.
The man has Shen Zhanghua and Du Huaibing to accompany him at the table, and the woman arranges Du Mei and the patriarch's wife Deng to accompany him at the table.
Now that the elders are seated, the people below can gather around to eat at will. The children sat at a table, and the Xu family accompanied the Fengxian master and servant and the women of the Lin family to eat at a table, and the men of the Lin family were pulled to a table next to them by Niu Er and Song Shaohuai, and they drank together.
Tonight's banquet fully demonstrated all the cooking skills of Chef Lu, four dishes and eight bowls, frying, stir-frying, frying, stewing, stewing, steaming, twelve dishes are full of color and aroma, and the villagers eat with relish.
The elders at a table, politely toasted, respectfully replied, all of them were elderly people, but three or five cups, they were slightly drunk, and after eating longevity noodles, the sons and grandsons of the family came to take them home to rest.
Shen Zhanghua drank a few glasses with him, the soju was strong, he was too strong to drink, his cheeks were red, and he was a little drunk, he got up and went to the next table to say goodbye to Du Mei: "Meizi, thank you for your hospitality." After a few days to collect the taxes, I will come to pull the lint with me. ”
"Okay, I'm free these days, and I'll ginn the cotton first." Dumay turned to face him and said.
"Plum!" Shen Zhanghua's wine surged, he grabbed Du Mei's shoulders, and stopped talking.
"Shen County Order, isn't it uncomfortable? I'll ask them to make some strong tea. Du Mei did not doubt him, reached out to hold his arm, and turned his head to greet the aunt who served the food.
"No need!" Shen Zhanghua closed his eyes, Du Mei's Shen County order was more than strong tea to relieve hangover, which made him sober up instantly, and his hands hung down weakly.
"Are you okay?" Du Mei was a little worried.
"It's okay, I'm here in a carriage today." Shen Zhanghua pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled reluctantly, but his face was uncontrollably unable to move, and his whole face collapsed like a bitter melon.
"Shen County Ling is going back? We just happened to be together on the way. Song Shaohuai is a shrewd person, and he can see through the loneliness on Shen Zhanghua's face at a glance.
"Then let's go." Shen Zhanghua turned around and left, drank some wine, and he had the courage to offend people.
"Song Jiu, isn't your boat parked on the dock in Qinghe County, you can go with me." Song Shaohuai turned around and said to the thin boy. For all the potential rivals of the third child, he has to help clean them up first.
"I'm not leaving, so I don't have to come back tomorrow." Song Jiu half-leaned back in the chair and gnawed on the chicken's neck with both hands.
"Meizi's family is all women, you are a man, how do you live? Hurry up, come with me, Brother Ming'er, I'll send you again. Song Shaohuai saw that Song Jiu wanted to stay at Du Mei's house, how could this be done, he was in a hurry to coax him to leave.
"She obviously lives in a stone, he can live there, I can't live there?" Song Jiu had planned to stay at Du Mei's house, so he secretly inquired about the situation at her family all afternoon.
"Since you recognize me as your brother, why don't you come to live in my house, I have a lot of courtyards in my house, and I can live comfortably." Song Shaohuai tried his best to invite, but he had to directly tie people up.
"Thank you brother for your love, Xiao Jiu will definitely prepare a Bo Li to visit another day, I am in a hurry today, so I won't go for the time being." Song Jiu has the intention of a long-term relationship, where is he willing to come to the door empty-handed, and miss an opportunity in vain.
"You ......" In front of Du Mei, Song Shaohuai was inconvenient to attack, so he was so angry that he gritted his back molars, it was rare for someone to make him so forbearing.
"Forget it, he doesn't want to go back, so let's stay. I see that Fengxian is a little tired, you can take her back to rest earlier. Dumay interrupted their conversation.
"Okay, okay, I just want to stay a few more days, Meizi, you promised me to cook for me." Song Jiu saw Du Mei loosen his mouth, and immediately danced happily.
"What?" Song Shaohuai's eyes widened, this guy not only wants to stay overnight tonight, but also prepares to eat and drink here and not leave, this is repayable, isn't it obvious to block the third child.
"Madame asked the old slave to come and ask when I can go back?" Mrs. Zhang saw that Song Shaohuai's face was not good, so she came over and asked.
Song Shaohuai turned his head to look at Fengxian, only to see her eyebrows and eyes lowered, half-leaning on Xiaolian, covering her mouth and yawning from time to time, as if she was extremely sleepy, and he was very distressed in his heart.
"Let's go, Sister Fengxian's body is important!" Du Mei urged, she couldn't understand why Song Shaohuai was holding Song Jiu.
"Okay, let's go back first." Song Shaohuai couldn't, so he had to leave first. That's all he can do for Chu Lin.
After a while, the Ye Dan brothers came to say goodbye to Du Mei, and after a while, Niu Er and Hei Jiaolong said goodbye with the help of the followers, and the Lin brothers were worried about the work on Zhuangzi and wanted to go back.
Lin Ying glanced at Du Mei meaningfully, nodded and agreed.
Without the restraint of adults, the children of the Lin family are like birds out of the cage, eat hastily, and go to the play with a stool.
At this time, it was already dark, there was a crescent moon hanging in the east, and the horse lanterns of each family were hanging on the threshing floor, which was much brighter than the moonlight, and Chef Lu was stir-frying hot, and the aroma of stir-frying was permeating the thick night.
Du Mei touched the dogwood in her sleeve, and the five red fruits were connected together, which made her feel very relieved. She stood under the big willow tree, looking at the dark road, it was so late, Chu Lin hadn't come yet, she regretted it a little, she should have persuaded him not to come anyway yesterday.
Today's singing on the stage is very hard, and the costumes of singing are brighter than yesterday's, at this time, a boudoir dressed as a young lady walked to the stage with a maid Le Dan lotus steps, only to see her singing in a clear voice: "It turns out that the purple and red are all over the place, and they seem to be paid to the broken well." The beautiful scenery of the good day is the day, and the courtyard is ...... to enjoy it."
Du Mei was attracted by this voice, turned her head to look, and saw that the boudoir had a pretty face, light water sleeves, and a delicate and romantic charm.
"Look, so distracted?" With the man's warm voice, a large coat with body temperature was draped on Du Mei's shoulders.
"Third brother, you're here." Du Mei looked back, and the dark fragrance on the big coat was the smell she was familiar with.
"If you want to watch a play, why don't you go and sit under the stage, you can't see and hear clearly from such a distance." Although Chu Lin said this, he had a handsome smile on his face, he knew that Du Mei was waiting for him, which was enough to comfort him for his hard work of running hundreds of miles at night.
"I should have told you not to come at such a late hour." Du Mei was holding the big man, a little distressed by the man in front of him, in such a late autumn night, the wind was like a knife scraping the bones, and the cold slowly invaded the body, and it was easy to get the wind cold.
"I drank some wine with me in the palace, and it didn't get in the way." Chu Lin stretched out his big hand and touched Du Mei's face.
His fingertips were slightly cool, and there were thin calluses on his fingertips, caressing Du Mei's smooth and tender face, and there was a slight tingling sensation.
"But ......" Du Mei wanted to say something, but the words behind were swallowed by Chu Lin, and the wine was so intended, he held her like a jewel, his phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and he lowered his head. The female voices on the stage babbled and sang lingeringly, how can the beautiful scenery of a good day be wasted?
In an instant, the man's heavy breath came up, his snort contained a faint aroma of wine, and his lips were even hotter, as if there was still intoxicating liquor left. An arrow away was the stage, and Du Mei silently tapped him on the arm.
"Hmm~" Chu Lin pecked at the corner of her mouth unsatisfactorily, muttering very dissatisfied, but let go of her knowingly.
"Where's Xiao Qi?" Du Mei's face was red, and he didn't dare to look at him when he looked down.
"He practices martial arts during the day and reads at night, but he's busy." Chu Lin took half a step closer and took Du Mei in his arms, this girl was too easy to be shy.
"It's really a child's heart, and I was worried about him before." Du Mei said with some amusement.
"Mei'er, do you know he ......" Chu Lin groaned, and finally stopped the rest of the words.
"What's wrong with him?" Du Mei asked, looking up from his arms.
"Ahem, she said, I'll see you when she has real skills." Chu Lin thought about it and said, and after finishing speaking, he kissed Du Mei on the forehead dotingly.
"Let's go to the theater." The two of them stood under the branches of the big willow tree, the sky was dark, and although others could not see it, it was not good to stand here all the time.
"Okay." Chu Lin's heart was at ease, and he carefully reached out to help the dogwood fruit of her sideburns.
"Do you want it too? I'll keep it for you. Du Mei took out the dogwood that had been carefully selected for him from his sleeve.
"You put it on for me." Chu Lin bent over with his hands on his legs, put his head in front of Du Mei, and said very naturally.
Today's Double Ninth Festival, the palace gave dogwood sachets early in the morning, and Taihe Hall also sent a purse at night, and Ruyi personally embroidered the medicine sachet and hung it in his study, but Chu Lin preferred the kind given by Du Mei, which was pure and natural, and had a true taste.