Before dawn, there were people holding lamps under the corridor, warm yellow candlelight and quiet footsteps.

Ren Yan got up, and the goose-faced girl set up the bed tent for her, and beckoned someone to bring in a handkerchief and basin.

She was not used to being served like this, so she finished washing herself, combed her long braid again, brushed her bangs that were about to reach her eyeballs in front of the mirror, and turned her head—

The clever girl was handing over the comb: "The seventh master got up, waiting for the girl in the side hall." ”

"Okay."

She held back the joy in her eyes, but she couldn't hold back her eagerness, combed her hair, turned out the small scissors in the sewing basket and clicked on her bangs, shook twice and turned around and ran to the side hall.

"Slow down." Gu Tingwen sat and ate tea, and smiled when he saw her coming, especially the hair on her head.

Master Ren's craftsmanship is superb, but in the end, the interlacing is like a mountain.

"Come on." He got up, pressed her down on the couch, and trimmed her bangs.

The fine black hair fell in the palm of his hand, and he thought it was interesting to look at it, and called for someone to take the bag, pour it in one by one, tie it tightly, and put it in the pocket of his jacket.

"What's there to keep here?"

At the entrance of the alley outside, he paid for two pieces of donkey meat to burn, and when he leaned over, he revealed a crimson strap, and Ren Yan inevitably had a hot face when he saw it, and muttered in a low voice.

There was no order to prepare breakfast at home, so the two of them went out hand in hand and melted into the hazy mist and bustling crowd of people on the street; Under his feet is the unmelted ice and snow, the soft collapse of the pattern printed on the soles of the layers, full of the smell of fireworks.

Gu Tingwen put the fire into her hand and smiled: "The first time I cut your hair." ”

"There are other girls?"

A joke.

He explained very seriously: "My distant cousin, who has been fostered in my house since childhood, has cut her fetal hair; She later married the fifth brother, a long time ago. ”

The fifth master has been gone for a long time, but she has never seen the female dependents in the Gu family, she asked cautiously: "Then ...... she?"

"Remarried."

Didn't you have another child and take it away?

Gu Tingwen didn't seem to want to mention more, and patted her hand: "Get in the car, it's cold outside." ”

"Okay."

The car that had always followed them slowly slid to the front, picked up the people and drove quickly out of the city.

After escaping from Baoding, there was a lot of gold and silver, most of which were saved by the mother, and some of the eldest ladies had to give them rewards and jewelry for the sake of face, which was enough for them to live for a few years.

It's just that my mother is seriously ill, and there is not much left to buy medicine; The rest was used to buy funerals and coffins, and then touched a piece of feng shui treasure, fortunately, there were enough.

At the beginning, the Taoist priest pointed to Xiaoqingliang Mountain and said that the sky was falling, but Ren Yan didn't listen to a word, but he just felt that the scenery here was good, and when the spring opened, it was a smoke and light, like the residence of his mother when she was a child.

Mother has suffered many hardships in her life, and she naturally wants to be quiet and dust-free behind her, but now the pines and cypresses are vast, quiet and deep, she should like it.

Ren Yan brushed away the snow and fallen leaves on the tombstone, gently pressed his forehead against it, and said in a small voice: "Mom, I'll come to see you." ”

The mountains and forests were silent, and a breeze blew away the snow on her head.

She closed her eyes, lowered her head, and listened silently to her heartbeat, as if there was a mother's laughter and tears.

After a long time, she wiped her eyes, turned around and took Gu Tingwen's hand, and smiled: "This time I brought your uncle here, I have a good life, and I am treated very well. ”

Her mother, she thought, would be happy.

"What did you tell my mother?"

The wind and snow in the mountains were getting thicker, and they had to leave. Ren Yan walked up and down the mountain road, curious about Gu Tingwen's conversation with his mother when he knelt alone in front of the grave.

He thought about it very seriously: "Please mother bless me." ”

"How?" She always felt that there was nothing good to say.

Gu Tingwen smiled: "Bless me in the hands of your yaksha, I can live a long life!" ”

She choked in anger, pushed him, and ran down the hill, ignoring people.

At the entrance of the alley of Hongpheasant Hall, the car stopped.

Ren Yan pushed the door and turned his head, and solemnly explained: "Gu Ting heard that you have seen my mother, even if it is decided to give me Ren Yan, you are not half-hearted, you have to wait for me wholeheartedly......"

"Wait until you marry me." He answered her more solemnly than she did.

That's what she meant, she didn't explain it, I think he should know, how to say it, it looks like a rough old man with five big and three rough.

Ren Yan glared at him, wanting to say something, but he caught a glimpse of He Quan smiling hard, swallowing all the words in his stomach, getting out of the car and turning around and running.

entered the hall in a hurry, and Senior Brother Yang was playing with a kitchen knife in the backyard: "What, the big insect is picking you up?" ”

Ren Yan rolled his eyes, put down the food box and asked, "If you don't work, what are you talking about?" ”

"I'm going to send cage chickens and ducks in a while, and I'll slaughter the hanging soup in the second half of the day." He went to Du Liren, "What the ancestor wanted, I didn't know what kind of tricks I was doing just now, and I shouted to return the first soup and the second soup." ”

"It's been hanging for half a month, and I see that there is still a week to drink and feast, what are you tossing?"

Senior Brother Yang pouted: "But let's talk about it, you have to tinker with new things, after all, Ming'er and his master have to live in the Gu Mansion and prepare, and burn their eyebrows!" ”

The master is busy, and even the upper and lower levels are like the wind.

After the chickens and ducks entered the yard, they followed the cart with pigs and sheep in the circle, and the masters picked a few that could be seen, and asked the handymen to help them all give knives in one go, and prepare soup with their hands and feet.

In the second half of the morning, Master Du tasted the freshly hung soup, and finally nodded, and the dark clouds that everyone was contemplating in their hearts slowly dispersed, and the outside became lively.

Someone called the shopkeeper to invite in, and two columns of young men in military uniforms were twenty or thirty, guarding the backyard tightly, and the leader finished comparing them into the roster of the Gu Mansion, which was called leading people out.

The pomp and circumstance of the New Year's Day banquet was huge, and the masters in the Pheasant Hall were invited away seventy percent; I don't know if it's a coincidence, Ren Yan's small kitchen will slip away, leaving her and her senior brother to guard the empty shelf.

There is also a master master and apprentice who are busy dealing with the evening meal, and she and Senior Brother Yang have become windmills, dancing vigorously, and even the dinner is made by the uncle at the right door, and the two senior brothers are sent to give it even.

The brothers and sisters squatted in the snowdrift under the tree, and gathered a mouthful of leftovers to scorch cold.

Senior Brother Yang froze so much that he complained: "What do you say, a good young grandmother is not appropriate, drink the northwest wind with here, poor bones and children!" ”

Ren Yan snorted: "Then I will close the kitchen tomorrow, and you will go with Uncle Du!" ”

"Don't mind, sister!" Senior Brother Yang's brain hurts, "I'll give him a hand, sooner or later he will have to kill me, you can see that your original junior brother has grown into an old man, and the last time I asked was just over twenty!" ”

Ren Yan looked at the sky with amazement: "Fortunately, I asked him to come out." ”

Senior Brother Yang looked at her: "I didn't see him let you go." For today, he's leaving, isn't our master just giving eye medicine, those masters are all being pulled to do chores, and there is nowhere to vomit if there are grievances. ”

It's not, but whoever takes her side of Ren Rouge has not been as good as Du Liren.

The two new masters in the white case are accustomed to watching the limelight, so they chose a secluded place to stand and watch her lively, but fortunately, they were not squeezed by Du Liren, and the original master apprentices could not be called a lesson.

None of the people in the back dared to get too close to her, or the shopkeeper had opened a new small kitchen for her, which would have made her a lonely person, and she couldn't turn around with any craftsmanship, and she had to roll up the cover and roll out of the Pheasant Hall?

She smiled: "It's okay, I'll avenge you and beat him down next month!" ”

Senior Brother Yang clenched his fists: "You have to make him look good, otherwise we won't have a good life." Having said that, do you have any tricks for next month's competition? ”

Ren Yan was at a loss: "We are all cooks, do you also understand, is it so easy to think of new tricks?" ”

Senior Brother Yang patted her on the shoulder: "Sister, hurry up, he is getting news from our master here, he has no other skills, but in terms of cooking skills, he is a big man after all!" ”

The person was just about to enter the door, but he turned out again, and whispered: "And our Senior Brother Mai, you guard against him, I saw him and the old man surnamed Du sneaking around a while." ”

Ren Yan laughed at his heart, but not long after returning to Gu Mansion, she saw Mai Fenghui and Du Liren coming out of the rockery in the small garden one after another; At first, I thought it was just that the masters had a limited range of action, but they happened to run into it.

But once or twice, the third time, she didn't think like that.

There are still two days left before New Year's Day.

Gu Tingwen was tripped by the secretary general in the office every day, and it was almost the middle of the night when he arrived home, although he was suspicious of Du Mai and the others, but there was no conclusive evidence, and it was difficult to open his mouth to him.

People are serious uncles and nephews, and if they get together to discuss something, can she still bully others and ask them?

She muttered in her heart, she walked around the small garden twice and didn't see Du Liren, nor did she see Mai Fenghui, and she was ready to go back to the house to rest, but she turned her face-

Mak Fenghui was standing in the verandah, panting slightly and looking bad.

There was a lamp in the garden, the wind was strong and the light was dim, and he was wearing a soapy cotton robe.

"Master Ren, don't you stop so late?" The voice is also hoarse, not at all like the gentle people in the Pheasant Hall,

Ren Yan was frightened by him: "Come out for a walk, you're about to go back, do you have something?" ”

Mai Fenghui didn't answer, but chuckled: "It's not good for me to ask, this was originally considered Master Ren's home, you can't go anywhere, it's abrupt!" ”

Ren Yan was speechless, looking at him.

The person is still the famous master Mai who became famous at a young age, but she always feels something strange, but at a glance, the well-mannered reader doesn't see anything.

The cold wind froze her spine.

"It's freezing, and Master Mai went back earlier and left." She smiled, beckoned the little girl who followed her, and went back to the room with a lantern.

"This is the newly hired master of the Seventh Master?" The little girl with a goose egg face has been with her for a long time, and she is much closer, and often chatters.

Ren Yan nodded: "Mai Fenghui, a Cantonese chef from Chaoshan, don't look at people young, his skills are worth three masters." ”

The little girl pursed her lips and smiled: "It's so good-looking, like a Sven reader, when I pass by the street, I think it's a gentleman who teaches at a university." ”

But no, just rush to this, Xiao Mei's little girl saw it at a glance.

Ren Yan smiled, sat in front of the mirror and combed his hair.

The little girl took care of her bedding and was still chattering: "...... If you hadn't explained it, I would have thought that Master Mai was an old man in our capital, with such an authentic accent. ”

Let her hands be scolded, and she will wonder where it is strange!

Mai Fenghui was born and raised in Chaoshan, and he returned to Beijing for the first time, and he was confused about what she said yesterday, but he can say it so well today?