"Oh, you're dazzled! Girl, come into the house and drink water. ”

The two cooked together in front of Xiao Yao's earthen stove, Xiao Yao was responsible for making the palm nest, Chu Chu was responsible for adding firewood to the stove, Xiao Yao's grandmother was helping to clean up the dishes on the side, burning and burning, Chu Chu burned the stove to the point that it only smoked, Chu Chu picked up the blowtorch and blew it, and when the fire ignited again, Chu Chu clapped his hands happily and laughed.

There was a black mark on Chu Chu's face, like a flower-faced cat, and Xiao Yao also laughed. After a while, a bowl of fresh crucian carp soup with wild leeks, a stack of fried dried fish in vegetable oil, a bowl of kohlrabi, then a small bucket of porridge, as well as sweet potatoes and pumpkin, were really hearty. The three of them had a beautiful meal.

After dinner, Grandma Xiao Yao said: "Haoran, you take Lin Er outside to play, you study in the academy all day long, it's very hard, you have to come out more to see the sunset." Chu Chu stuck out his tongue at Xiao Yao: "Grandma knows a lot." ”

The two of them got out of the hut and walked to the shore of this Jiangxin Island, until they came to a wetland, where the water and grass were abundant, and the sunset was red, like a huge orange hanging quietly in the sky, Chu Chu was stunned, and his hand couldn't help but reach over and hold Xiao Yao's hand. Someone coughed in the distance, and they were so frightened that they quickly let go of their hands.

At that time, the river was surging, gently lapping the shore full of weeds, as if the water was whispering and telling something to the shore. The night is blurred, the twilight is four, in the distance, the fishing fire is lit, the world at this moment is so charming.

Chu Chu bit his lip, thought for a while, and asked, "Senior brother, what is your greatest wish in this life?" Like other senior brothers, are you admitted to the Jinshi and become an official? ”

Xiao Yao thought for a while and said slowly: "One day, I hope to guard the breeze and bright moon of Lumen, and live a free life with the world, like an egret, fly wherever you want to fly, no fetters in this world, no worries in the world, three meals a day, coarse tea and light rice, a candle, an ancient scroll, a fish rod, enough." ”

"Senior brother, do you know why I have to stay in the academy?"

Xiao Yao looked at Chu Chu and took a breath and said: "For your unjustly killed father, from the first time I saw you, I knew that you were an extraordinary girl, although your body was tied, but your eyes told me that your soul left your body at that time, although I don't know where she went." ”

"I hope that I can also study and participate in the imperial examination, and the Empress Wu can be the emperor, and I can also be a female official, and I don't want a good person like my father to be killed for nothing because of someone's likes and dislikes,"

Xiao Yao pondered for a moment: "Is there really a woman as an official now?" There are also female officials in the palace who only do some housekeeping for the emperor in the palace. ”

Chu Chu thought for a while and said, "If you don't have it now, it doesn't mean that you won't have it in the future, I want to at least be a heroine like Mrs. Han, I believe that I can do it, senior brother, you will definitely help me, right?" ”

Looking at Chu Chu's warm gaze, Xiao Yao nodded, the firmness of her eyes suddenly ignited the feelings in Chu Chu's heart, she buried her head tightly in Xiao Yao's chest, listening to his heartbeat, feeling that she was the happiest woman in the world.