Chapter Forty-Six: Winter

Xiao Dong personally brought the soup and opened the lid, Qin Lie took a deep breath: "It's so fragrant." ”

Xiao Dong first served the soup to King An, and then scooped a bowl for Zhang Ziqian, Qin Lie, and Shen Jing in turn.

"This is made by Sister Xiaodong herself?" Shen Jing asked, "Then I can drink one more bowl." ”

"Well, the material was cut by someone else, and I just watched the fire and didn't do anything else."

King An tasted it and asked, "Put cherries in it?" ”

Xiao Dong nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, my father's tongue is really good." ”

Shen Jing was slightly puzzled: "There are still cherries at this time?" ”

Xiaodong explained: "It's not fresh cherries, it's pickled when it's fresh, it's served in the jar, and it's usually eaten as a snack, and it's used in the kitchen to make snacks, and I try to use it to make soup." A few days ago, I took dried peach stew, but unfortunately it didn't taste very good. ”

"No wonder there is a fragrance, and the aftertaste is also sweet."

Xiao Dong saw that they all drank it, and sat down to taste the soup himself.

Well, it's not greasy at all. An Wang usually eats more vegetarian food and doesn't like meat and greasy, so this soup should be delicious, right?

King An stood up: "You eat slowly, I'll be out of company first." ”

Xiao Dong hurriedly got up and went over: "Father, I'll go back with you." ”

Shen Jing and the three of them stood up to see each other off, and King An waved his hand: "Sit down, don't let down today's good wine." ”

Xiao Dong took the cloak and put it on King An, and he also put on a robe with eight brocades. Out of the door, King An said, "Let's take a walk and consume food." ”

"It's fine. So let's go to Merlin for a walk? The plum blossoms are blooming. ”

The cold wind blew, Xiao Dong touched his face, and felt slightly hot.

"I'm really happy today, I've been confiscating my brother's letter, and my father is also hanging, right?"

"Well, what's written in your letter?"

"It's cold, and the iron armor is frozen." Xiaodong is dressed so warmly and feels that the winter is difficult, I really don't know how Zhao Lu suffered there: "By the way, my brother also carved a little monkey with a bone for me, saying that it was a birthday gift for this year." In previous years, he gave me so many good things, but this year I think this one is the most special. ”

The pond is frozen, far away, can already smell the quiet aroma of plum blossoms, when the wind blows, only feel that the fragrance is clear and cold, refreshing. Walk forward again, turn the rockery, and see an old plum tree, the branches are strong, and the flowers are elegant.

Xiao Dong picked one to sniff it, and pinned it to the button on the placket with a smile.

"The next time I make clothes, I'll ask them to make plum blossom buttons for me. Is it good-looking? ”

An Wang praised with a smile: "It's good-looking." ”

Xiao Dong helped King An to walk forward again, and asked softly: "Father, that Zhang Ziqian ......"

"Huh?"

"I ...... Have you seen him elsewhere before? It always feels a little familiar. ”

King An raised his eyebrows slightly: "Have you seen it?" ”

Xiao Dong was a little puzzled, but now he can nod affirmatively: "I must have seen it, it's just ...... Can't remember. ”

An Wang dusted the tip of her nose: "If you can't think of it, just think about it slowly." ”

Oh, is this the attitude of being a dad? It's so irresponsible!

But since King An can trust him like that, he must not be an outsider...... Well, looking at his age, it is possible to say that he is the illegitimate son of King An.

"I still remember the winter before last, we enjoyed the plum blossoms together, painted and wrote poems, and also called the Qin girl to sing the song, and the plum blossoms she sang were so good." Xiao Dong shook his head: "It's a pity that her junior sister is much inferior." Well, I remember that my brother picked plum blossoms and boiled wine, and ...... and Zhao Zhi, Zhao Zhi also came that day.

Xiao Dong paused for a moment, and then said: "Now my brother definitely doesn't have this leisure, I really don't know what will become of him when he comes back." Is it like a majestic general, or like a wild man? ”

"You girl, don't you want to be better? Let's go and sit on the top of the pavilion. ”

"Okay."

The pavilion is built high, and from here you can see the plum blossoms far and near, and the fragrance is more and more clear and ethereal. When I close my eyes, I only feel that people are trapped in the fragrant wind stratus clouds. If you are not afraid of the cold and sleep here, you are afraid that dreams are also fragrant.

"Of the three of them, which do you think is closer?"

Xiao Dong was slightly stunned, and King An patted her hand: "Your brother is not here, if you are bored, you can talk to them, and if you go out, you can also let them accompany you." ”

Xiao Dong resisted the urge to complain.

How dare she talk to them? Still out of the house? Hu couldn't wait to tie her up with a chain.

"I'm not bored, I have a lot to learn."

An Wang smiled: "The soup you cooked today is good, it can be seen that it has grown." ”

Xiao Dong thought for a while: "Well, Brother Shen Jing is erudite and talented, and he has a good temper, but he is already out of office, and he doesn't have so much spare time...... "It's just too good to be true, like a beautiful artifact more than like a real person." And he is now living in his uncle's house, Xiao Dong doesn't think he has to live in King An's Mansion, but he just thinks ...... Well, it's not that close anyway.

"I haven't said a few words to Zhang Ziqian, and besides, he is a person that my father has to use, if I ask him to accompany me to do some inappropriate pastimes, it will be useless."

King An nodded.

Qin Lie ...... "Xiao Dong didn't know how to describe this person for a while. Usually calm like an old and sophisticated person, sometimes he is still childlike and does something very interesting. For example, the cat that gave her has many other things: "Brother Qin Lie should be a capable person, with a rough background, and he has a career with his bare hands." He didn't even tell me that the treasure of the four seas was his business at first, and you didn't tell me father. ”

An Wang spread his hands: "I thought you already knew." ”

"Father, how can you say that." Xiao Dong pulled him and shook him, shaking King An again and again: "Okay, okay." I heard Fuhai say, you went to the account office recently? ”

"Well, I want to see the daily eating, drinking, and flowers in our house, so the Fu steward will show me."

"Can you read it?"

Dong wrenched his finger and said: "The firewood and fruits sent by the inner government are not counted, and my father has rice, but our house still has to buy firewood, grain, and vegetables, and vegetables. I didn't read the accounts in my father's kitchen, but my small kitchen had three meals a day plus supper and snacks...... There is a lot of money spent...... "Xiao Dong lowered his head slightly: "On weekdays, I read a book and said that I was plastering, but I couldn't think of ...... on my body."

This is when the crow falls on the pig, and the light looks at the other person and becomes dark.

"What, you think you're extravagant?"

Xiao Dong nodded.

"Then have you counted, is your annual silver enough for you to spend?"

Xiao Dong calculated in his heart: "Well, if you don't count the clothes, you won't be able to eat enough......"

"Isn't this the end of it? You kid is honest and timid, and you can't do anything like extravagance. Compared to what kind of sparrow's tongue soup and gold silk are eaten at every turn in the house next to you, and you throw dozens of taels of silver at a meal, you can only be regarded as a poor girl. ”

Xiao Dong smiled: "The bird's tongue soup is not delicious." ”

"Huh?"

Xiaodong said: "I ate at the Queen Mother's place, it was honored by others, and the mother asked me if I liked it or not, I didn't think it was delicious at all, it was better for my brother to take me to Dongshi, and the stewed meat soup I ate on the street was only twenty wen a bowl, which was much better than the bird's tongue soup." ”

The father and daughter gossiped for a while, King An went to take a nap, and Xiaodong went back to the study, which was not over yet. Zhang Ziqian's face was also red, and Shen Jing had simply gone to the side of the couch and was crooked, covered with a thin blanket.

"Huh? How did he ......"

Zhang Ziqian said with a smile: "We revisited the wine just now, and he accompanied two more glasses, and it became like this." ”

Xiao Dong looked over and saw that he was sleeping very peacefully, and he was not worried.

Qin Lie pointed to a plate of steamed cakes: "Sister Xiaodong is full?" If you don't feel full, eat more. This honey cake is good. ”

Xiao Dong pinched a piece, saw the sticks scattered on the table, and asked, "You have made an order?" ”

"Alright, it's a pity you didn't catch up."

"Have you made a poem?"

"But don't, I'm not going to do it." Qin Lie waved his hand: "I'll drink if I lose, Shen Jing chanted a song of seven uniques, and Ziqian also got a couplet." ”

Xiao Dong smiled and said, "Fortunately, I'm not here, or I'd be making a fool of myself." ”

"If you lose, I'll punish you for making us another dish."

She looked at the three people in the room, and unconsciously remembered what King An asked her just now.

Okay, why do you ask this?

…… Could it be that King An wants to be among these three people......

Definitely not.

King An is very open-minded, but what enlightened father wouldn't do that.

What's more, Shen Jing seems to have already made a marriage.

When Shen Fang came a few days ago, she mentioned that Shen Jing's family affairs had been decided. I also brought some tea leaves, cured meats, parfaits, home brews or something from Hedong, and Xiaodong's return gift was very practical - four satin horses just cut New Year's clothes, four baskets of charcoal, and the rest was all food. Shen Fang thanked her: "Thank you, thank you, you have relieved my anxiety, and the charcoal and vegetables are expensive and difficult to buy when it comes to the New Year." Even the merchants who used to pass by the door every day didn't come, and they had to go far to buy a thread. ”

Xiaodong said: "There are only two people in the family this year, this year must be deserted, Sister Fang, if you have time, come over, it is better to live a little bit, and there are more people." ”

Shen Fang smiled and said that she would discuss it with her husband when she went back.

Shen Jing was so drunk that he couldn't go back, Qin Lie was so drunk that he blushed, and he strode away steadily - he couldn't go if he didn't go, even if the Hu family didn't come in person, the elite soldiers and strong generals under her were not dry food, and they stared him to death.

Xiao Dong went back and read Zhao Lu's letter again, holding the little monkey in his hand, laughing for a while, and being stunned for a while. Hu Shi begged over and looked at it: "It's really good to carve, the son of the world really can't forget his sister anywhere." Where? ”

"Give me that hibiscus box."

Hu Shi took the big red box with hibiscus flowers, and Xiao Dong carefully put the monkey inside.

A few days later, I heard a piece of news.

said that the emperor intended to marry the sixth princess, and there was already a candidate.

This is not important, the important thing is that Shen Jing heard that he is the first candidate on the list!

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Before I knew it, a year had passed...... I can't bear it.

Ask for a ticket.