Thirty-fourth bayberry

Qin Lie didn't chew much, swallowed the cake twice, and said with a smile: "When I was outside, the dry food was so hard, and I didn't choke on it." ”

"How hard?"

Qin Lie said with a smile: "Once I met a horse bandit, someone who didn't take advantage of it for a while, took a bag of dry food and smashed it, and smashed a horse bandit to the point of foaming at the mouth. ”

Xiao Dong sighed: "Really? ”

"Nature is true. The bread is made so that it is strong and can withstand hunger, and it can be left for a long time. ”

"It's so hard, how do you eat it?"

"When there is hot soup, soak it in the soup, and when it doesn't, take a sip of cake and a mouthful of water, and swallow it when it is soft in your mouth."

The hardships were plain and insipid by him. Xiao Dong asked after a while, "Do you still have to run around like this now?" ”

Qin Lie heard the pity in her words, and somehow felt his face warm up slightly: "It's always like this when you go out." I can't take a shower for ten days and half a month, and I can't necessarily find an inn to stay in every day. Sometimes in the barren mountains and mountains, I have to deal with food and shelter for several days. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he regretted it, Xiaodong has always loved cleanliness, and he shouldn't say that he didn't take a bath for ten days and a half months. However, Xiao Dong's attention was not on whether to take a bath or not, and he held his cheeks and said: "No wonder when we go to Donghua Villa, you are so skilled in grilling fish." ”

She gestured with her left hand and right hand to Qin Lie: "Is this here?" The last time I practiced, I always felt that it wasn't right. ”

"It's going to be a little closer." Qin Lie's fingertips tapped on her wrist.

"Here?"

"Yes."

Xiao Dong pinched it, and sure enough, half of his forearm was so weak that he couldn't lift it.

"Ah, that's right."

Qin Lie smiled, rolled up his sleeves, and put his arms horizontally on the table: "Come, you look for it in my hand." ”

Xiao Dong glanced at him: "Okay?" ”

"Why not."

Xiao Dong tentatively stretched out his hand and nodded: "Is this here?" ”

Qin Lie shook his head.

Xiao Dong looked at it for a moment, and moved up another half inch: "Is that here?" ”

She didn't dare to use force, Qin Lie's lips pursed, telling herself not to be too tight.

Though...... Xiao Dong's fingertips ran over his skin, itchy and crispy, and whispered, "This is it." ”

Xiao Dong withdrew his hand, Qin Lie was stunned for a moment, and then put down his sleeves as if nothing happened: "I'm going out next month, do you have anything you want me to piggyback?" ”

"Where are you going?"

"Go west, pass through Ganzhou, Pingliang, cross Yishan, stop in Changdeok, and maybe go west again."

Xiao Dong's eyes widened: "Further west, what is that place?" ”

"It's already out of our Great Xia Kingdom."

"How long will it take?"

"Once you come and go, it will take three months."

"So far away...... Xiao Dong only walked around the capital, and the nearest one was to Xianyunzhuang. She can imagine how vast the world is outside, but maybe she won't be able to see it with her own eyes in this life.

"It's a good thing you don't go to the palace now, otherwise I won't feel at ease when I go. Think about it, what do you want? ”

"Yes," Xiao Dong nodded, and Zhengse said, "You must promise me." ”

"Say it."

"You...... Be sure to come back safely. ”

Qin Lie didn't expect her to say such a sentence, Xiao Dong solemnly repeated again: "You have to take care, go early and return early, it doesn't matter if the money is gone, people's safety is the most important thing." ”

Qin Lie whispered, "I know. ”

"You can't just know, you have to agree."

"Okay, I promise."

Xiao Dong smiled and pushed the plate with cherry cake closer to him: "Eat more." ”

Qin Lie said, "You eat it too." ”

"Okay."

The two of them each took a piece of cherry cake, and Xiao Dong's fingers were still gesturing on the other wrist.

"Take care of yourself."

"I know." Xiao Dong took a bite of the cake: "I heard that there are many Hu merchants in Changde, and those people are very fierce, as long as someone pays money, they will sell anything." ”

"Yes, some are nominally businessmen, but in fact, they also work part-time as robbers, and sell the looted goods again, and there are many such shops in Changde, and the price is two or three percent lower than others, but you can't ask where the goods come from." Qin Lie said: "The most Changde is gold ornaments, jade, spices, and other things brought by the Hu merchants. I brought tea, silk and porcelain with me on this trip, and it was in demand over there. ”

It's not early, and Qin Lie should go back. Xiaodong stood up and went to the window to see him off, and whispered again: "Go early and come back early, take care of yourself." ”

"Got it."

Qin Lie jumped out of the window like a big cat, his figure disappearing in the night. Xiao Dong closed the window and remembered the conversation they had just now, especially the last sentence he said, how did he listen to it...... Ahem, like a young couple who want to separate? The husband is about to go away, and the wife is earnestly admonishing?

Delusion, it must be an illusion.

Xiao Dong kicked his shoes and climbed into bed, turned over and lay down. Maybe it was too quiet in the room, and she listened to her heart pounding.

Qin Lie shouldn't be the kind she likes. In her previous life, Xiaodong had never had time to fall in love, but her ideal other half should be Sven, gentle and reliable. Well, probably like a man like King An. Qin Lie is different, if he wears a long shirt and ties a scribe's scarf, he can also charge Sven, but will Sven people jump out of the window every day?

After Qin Lie left, Xiao Dong didn't get used to it for a few days.

She's always used to leaving a window unlatched, but no one will jump in from there. Habit is such a wonderful thing, he may not feel how important he is when he comes, but when he does not come, it makes people feel empty and uncomfortable. Tomorrow life is still peaceful, but I always feel that something is missing.

The weather is getting hotter day by day, and the time for Xiaodong to take the needle is also shortened, because when the weather is hot, the hand pinching needle is always slippery. The bayberry is first ripe, and it is like a crimson jewel on a plate. Xiao Dong learned to make candied bayberry and bayberry juice with people in the kitchen, and also learned how to make bayberry wine.

I don't know where Qin Lie has gone, but he has not arrived in Changde. The capital is already hot enough, and I heard that places like Changdeok will only be drier and hotter than the Central Plains.

"County Lord, what do you want?"

Xiao Dong came back to his senses and put the bayberry in his hand back into the basket: "I was thinking of using bayberry to make a dish for my father and brother to taste." ”

The person in charge of the kitchen said with a smile: "Exactly, the weather is also hot at this time, and the bayberry is appetizing, and it is the most suitable for cooking." Bayberry tofu and shrimp in plum juice are all good, light and light. ”

"Then let's make tofu today, and shrimp tomorrow."

On the side of Xiaodong's Yufang Pavilion, the most skilled person in the kitchen is a Zhu lady, who has cut a piece of tofu into many sheets, each of which is thin and even, and snow-white and translucent like high-quality rice paper. Xiao Dong praised it, and couldn't help but think that ninety percent of his life would not be able to learn this kind of craft, but Qin Lie might be able to do it—when he should be careful, he was not ambiguous at all.

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