Rumo listened to Zhang Yue's words, his footsteps paused obviously, Zhang Yue looked at him suspiciously, his expression could not be seen clearly in the dim light, and a sad voice came after a long time,

"My mother has been dead for many years, and she was only one of my father's many concubines."

Zhang Yue really wanted to smack his mouth, this mouth, "Ah, that, it's a pity, my aunt is so young, isn't it, Rumo, in fact, I want to say, I'm sorry, my mouth is so annoying..."

Rumo shook his head gently, "It doesn't matter, don't talk about me, let's talk about you, have you been living in the mountains?" How did you return Mr. Chu as a teacher? ”

"Oh, okay, I'm not a local, my home is in Xingji County, my father is a Xiucai in the county, and I have two younger brothers. When I was nine years old, my little brother was born, my father was busy with his studies, and my mother had to take care of my two younger brothers, so they had no time to take care of me. My parents agreed. I'm here, uncle, today. When I was 10 years old, when he took me to pay homage to my master, I met the master in the academy, and he accepted me as his apprentice, and then I lived in the academy, and this year is the seventh year. ”

"Your father and mother foster you at your uncle's house, do you blame them in your heart?" Rumo's voice was particularly nice in the night sky.

"It's not strange, my father and mother do prefer my younger brothers, and I usually pay less attention to me, but now I'm very happy, whether it's my uncle and aunt or my master and brother, they treat me very well, and I'm very satisfied with this."

"Do you miss your dad so much?"

"Well, I always want to go back and see them. However, the academy has rules, and disciples are not allowed to go down the mountain at will without the consent of the master, let alone leave the realm of the Wuling Mountain. Besides, my parents didn't know that I was studying here. I haven't seen them for more than seven years, and I really miss them, and the last time I wrote from home, my uncle told me that my eldest brother was admitted to the village school, and my younger brother also started to study in private school. I wonder how tall my brothers have grown? Hehe... My biggest wish this year is that I can go back to see them during the Chinese New Year, and then I will have to coax the master to approve me to go home. ”

"It seems that even if you haven't been on the knees of your parents for many years, your feelings for them are still very deep."

Rumo's voice revealed a hint of envy, Zhang Yue thought, oh no, her words may have stimulated Rumo, and hurriedly explained, "It's not so good, it's all the same, almost ha, my father is actually very strict with me, when I was a child, I didn't let me go up the tree to touch the birds, go down to the river to catch fish, my mother always said that I was not as valuable as my younger brothers.... Saying that I am my daughter's family is a money-losing goods. ”

Rumo listened silently, without saying a word, Zhang Yue said a lot of nonsense. In the end, the words were exhausted, the two fell into silence again, the mountain path became narrower and narrower, the two were originally walking side by side, at this time they could only walk back and forth, Rumo naturally walked in front, and walked on the mountain road at night, walking in front of both the duty of exploring the road, and had to guide the way for the light behind, this should have been done by her master, Zhang Yue was a little moved in her heart, looking at the thin and vague yellowing back under the faint lantern light, and suddenly an impulse surged up,

"Rumo, when the case is solved, I'll help you find a way to manage the inscription that my master wants to give your father's birthday, right?"

Rumo's body stiffened slightly, and quickly returned to normal, "Okay!" ”

"Well, that's it! Let's go, I'm hungry. Zhang Yue almost didn't bite his tongue after saying this, can he be hungry? Since he came out in the morning, Ji Rumo has been busy working everywhere with him, and he didn't have time to entertain people for lunch, and he was embarrassed to shout hungry at this time. Fortunately, Ji Rumo didn't say anything, and the two quickened their pace.

After walking for more than half an hour, they finally vaguely saw the gate of the academy, and after the two entered the academy, they did not return to Lize Xuan, Zhang Yue directly took Ji Rumo to the big kitchen of the academy. At this hour, the people in the big kitchen had already rested, but fortunately the kitchen door was not locked, she led Rumo into the kitchen, first rummaged through the cabinets, did not find ready-made food, lifted the lid on several large stoves, and the stove was empty. Rumo stood there quietly watching Zhang Yue jump up and down in the kitchen, rummaging left and right. After tossing for most of the day, I still didn't get anything.

Zhang Yue turned his head to look at the fire in the stove under the stove that had not been completely extinguished, and he had an idea. Turned around and said to Rumo, "Rumo, there is no ready-made food in the kitchen, it's too late at this time, the chef Aunt Wei must have rested, they are also tired all day, it's not good to disturb people's rest to cook for us, I'll make do with the two of us to eat." You sit down in a chair at the table over there for a while. After speaking, he casually tied the small flower apron by the stove around his waist,

Rumo opened her mouth and just wanted to say something, but when she saw Zhang Yue and a man actually wearing a small flower apron, a smile was dyed in his eyes, and he said softly

"Okay, do you need my help?"

Zhang Yue picked up a few pieces of firewood and threw them into the hearth, "No, you just rest, I'll be fast," After speaking, he threw a few more pieces of firewood, picked up the hollow cylinder next to him and blew it on the hearth, Rumo walked to the chair next to the square table and sat down, staring at Zhang Yue's movements quite curiously, and after a while, the stove was hot. Zhang Yue put water in the cauldron and boiled it, then took out the flour from the rice cabinet, and the noodles, rolled the skin, cut the strips, and cut some green vegetables and cut noodles into the boiling pot to boil, the noodles mixed with the vegetables rolled up and down in the pot, Zhang Yue suddenly remembered the braised pork that Daddy Zhao took today, so he turned it out, cut a few pieces, mixed it with soybean sauce and fried it evenly on the noodles that were fished out. In the end, Zhang Yue brought the two bowls of hot noodles to Rumo's face,

"Rumo, in the middle of the night, there are no good things, you make do with a bite, and I will make you two good dishes one day."

Rumo looked at the hot noodles in front of him, and then looked at Zhang Yue, who was sweating profusely, and did not take the chopsticks, but took out a handkerchief from his arms and handed it over, "Wipe the sweat." ”

Zhang Yue thought that he was really embarrassed, how to say that he was also a closed disciple of Mr. Huanchu, who was famous all over the world, quickly took the handkerchief, wiped his face indiscriminately, and said with a simple smile,

"Thank you, eat, eat, eat. They were all starving. After saying that, she picked up a large mouthful of noodles and stuffed it into her mouth, and the two of them ate it, Rumo ate very elegantly, picked a few lightly, opened her lips and blew hot air lightly, and ate in small gulps unhurriedly.

Zhang Yue secretly looked at Rumo while eating, and secretly exclaimed in his heart, he was so elegant, he used to think that Yuan Mo's eating was very good-looking, but he didn't expect Rumo's eating to be even better, every move revealed a noble temperament and good upbringing. And his fingers are really white and long, if these hands are women's, they must be very suitable for talking about the guqin. When she was thinking nonsense, Rumo interrupted her fugue with a word,

"Xiao Wu, is this kind of noodles with marinated meat sauce a recipe in your hometown?"

"Ah, no, my aunt used to live in Guangxi when she was young, people there like to put this braised meat sauce in the noodles, my aunt liked it very much, and then she returned to the north, still maintain this practice, I see that she has done more, and also likes to add some braised meat sauce when eating noodles, today borrowed Zhao's father's braised meat, and temporarily made a bowl of braised meat noodles, many northerners may not be used to it? How does Rumo feel? ”

A trace of sadness flashed through Rumo's deep eyes, and he lowered his head slightly,

"No, I like it very much, my mother, she is also from Guangxi, when I was young, she often did this for me to eat, at that time, our life was not good, often lack of food and vegetables, finally some meat, my mother was reluctant to eat, but made into braised meat sauce, can eat for a long time. I haven't eaten it in years. ”

Finished! Poked Rumo's sadness again, Zhang Yue didn't know how to comfort Rumo for a while, and blurted out, "Rumo, it's okay, if you want to eat this braised meat sauce noodles in the future, I'll make it for you!" ”

Rumo was stunned, and a trace of complicated emotions flashed in her eyes. Zhang Yue also felt very abrupt after speaking, his face flushed, and he quickly explained, "I mean, during your time in the academy, you want to eat, I will make it for you, although you may not stay for a few days... No, no... I mean, although we have only known each other for less than two days, I finally know why Senior Brother Dongyang admires you so much, you are a learned, educated, considerate, and righteous person.... I'd love to be friends with you..."What is this?" It was getting darker and darker, and Zhang Yue felt extremely embarrassed.

The corners of Rumo's mouth rose slightly,

"Thank you!"

"Thank you, thank me? Thank you, thank you? Zhang Yue was stunned and stammered.

"Thank you for making this bowl of noodles for me."

"Oh, yes, you're a guest. Besides, Senior Brother Dongyang asked me to help you in the letter! ”

Ji Rumo's deep eyes that shimmered like morning stars stared at Zhang Yue, Zhang Yue was a little embarrassed, so she simply buried her head in eating noodles, and the last two bowls of noodles were eaten by the two of them.

Zhang Yue extinguished the fire in the stove and simply cleaned up the kitchen. went back to Lize Xuan with Rumo, and when the two arrived at the door of Lize Xuan, they found that the oil lamp in the courtyard was still on, and there were several trance figures reflected under the light.

Zhang Yue looked at it, and it was Yuan Mo, Xiaotong, and Rumo's servant A Jing. Xiao Tong looked up and saw the two figures, and muttered, "Young master, you're back." ”