When I arrived at the study, Rong Ruo gave a rough report to Mr. Gu about what he had read and what he was learning now, and said that Qingtong would come to invite him to dinner, and I was about to go back Rong Ruo stopped me, "Qingqiu, don't avoid it, there are no outsiders, let's go together!" Seeing that Mr. didn't show surprise on his face, he didn't shirk knowing that he was not a pedantic person, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

During the banquet, Rong Ruo and Mr. Gu talked very happily, there was a sense of seeing each other late, I couldn't interject just silently eating, Mr. Gu was very talkative, quite literate, this meal was eaten for a long time, I had already eaten full and did not leave, one was that it was not polite to leave the table early, and then it was to listen to their high-minded talk and increase knowledge, after the meal, Mr. Gu was already drunk, and sent Qingtong to send Mr. Gu back to rest, and then looked at Rong Ruo who was not drunk at all and couldn't help but wonder, "Didn't Rong Ruo also drink a lot of wine?" Why aren't you drunk? Rong Ruo smiled and said, "My alcohol consumption is very good!"

I asked Rong Ruo to go back to rest earlier, but he wanted to send me back, it was dark, he was holding a lantern, I followed him with a thin layer of ice on the road, I accidentally slipped under my feet and subconsciously dragged Rong Ruo in front, causing both of us to almost fall, finally stabilized my body and said if he held my hand and said: "Follow me, be careful", I said, "Hmm".

Rong Ruo's hands are very warm, and it is not uncommon to shake hands with boys in modern times, but now I am very nervous for no reason, I think my face must be very red but it is night, otherwise it would be embarrassing to be seen by Rong Ruo! After a while, I arrived at my residence, and I calmly withdrew my hand from my hand and said, "I'm here, you should go back and rest early!" Rong Ruo seemed to have something to say and hesitated: "Qingqiu, you, I ......", before I finished speaking, I heard Qingtong shouting, "Young Master", I asked, "Is there anything else?" Rong Ruo said: "It's nothing, you should rest early!" I saw that Qingtong had arrived, "Young Master, Mr. Gu has already settled and slept", "Okay, let's go back!" I bowed my head to Rong Ruo, watching him go with Qingtong, I also walked into the room, there was still a light sweat in the palms of my hands, I simply freshened up, took off my clothes and lay on the bed but couldn't sleep, so I had to get up again and take a copy of "Song Ci" and look crooked on the bed, but I couldn't look at it, thinking about what I just did, I didn't know what Rong Ruo wanted to say, and I didn't know when I fell asleep thinking about it.

When I woke up, it was already dawn, I got up and washed my face, combed my hair in a simple bun, and when I heard the footsteps outside the door, I knew that Bihe was coming, and the little girl came in with the curtain: "Sister, you are up, the young master and Mr. Gu have something to go out, let me tell my sister that I will not go to class today", I said: "Oh, I know, didn't the young master say where to go?" , "didn't say", I went to have breakfast with Bihe, and before I left Aunt Yin, I came, saying that the people below sent a lot of hawthorn for me to pick some and take it back to eat, I and Bihe came to the backyard kitchen with Aunt Yin, full of two large baskets, to say the least, there are two hundred catties, the hawthorn is big, the color is red is the best five-legged hawthorn, this kind of hawthorn skin is thin and the meat is not too sour, I said: "Aunt Yin, how to eat so many hawthorns?" Aunt Yin said: "I plan to make some preserved fruits, but I can't use so much, Qingqiu, you can pick some and eat them!" I'll send you some when I'm ready", I said, "Aunt Yin, I'll do something else, can you let me try it?" Aunt Yin responded: "Of course you can, Qingqiu, even if you try to let Bihe help you, I still have something to go first."

Sending Aunt Yin away, I asked Bihe to take some bamboo boards, split them into small strips with a knife, and carved them into bamboo sticks, picked some big round, bright red hawthorns and put them on, and wore six in a string, and went to the hawthorn core, Bihe asked, "Sister, what are you going to do?" "Sugar gourd! Haven't you eaten it? "I ate it when I was a child, but I haven't eaten it for a long time, and my sister can make sugar gourds!" "I haven't done it either, try it!" Don't blame me for not being delicious! ”。

In the past, when I was at home in winter, my mother would always buy some hawthorn and come back to make sugar gourds for us, as well as snow red fruits, which I liked to eat the most, alas! How is Mom doing now, is she okay? Thinking that I may never be able to eat the sugar gourd made by my mother in the future, I feel so sad, after a while we have worn more than 20 strings I also put on some oranges to make some patterns, boiled sugar, and picked some hard hawthorn to go, look at the sugar is almost the good hawthorn stained with sugar, the sugar is just used up, and boiled on the sugar to make some snow red fruit, also called sugar fried hawthorn, and so on, Bihe is simply stunned, I let Bihe taste good or not, Bihe left a string of sugar gourds in the right hand sticky a snow red fruit, looked at me with adoring eyes and said, "Sister, you are amazing, it's so delicious, it's better than what they sell", I also tasted it, although it can't be compared with what my mother did, but it's okay, I took a few strings of sugar gourds and some snow red fruits and asked Bihe to send them to Aunt Yin, and took the rest to Rong Ruo's Lushui Garden to see if he came back.

Rong Ruo and Mr. Gu have not come back, I put things on the desk and sit in the study waiting for them to come back, (Mr. lecturing room, not Rong Ruo's original study) casually flipped through the books on the case, to pass the boring time, this period of study is still very fruitful, at least it looks like the classical Chinese is not difficult, I am not interested in those "Spring and Autumn", "Zuo Chuan" and the like, only pick up some poetry and song books to read, but it is also a half-hung level, after reading for a while, I heard footsteps outside the door.

Qingtong held the curtain, Mr. Gu and Rong Ruoyu entered, I put down the book in my hand and said, "Sir, where have you been?" I'm only coming back now", Mr. Gu untied the cloak and hung it up before saying: "It's nothing, and Rong Ruo went to meet a friend", Rong Ruo handed the canopy in his hand to Qingtong and said, "Didn't Bihe tell you that you don't have to go to class today?" "Oh! I know, I just did this and wanted you to taste it, so I came over to see if you came back", I brought the sugar gourd and snow red fruit over, Rong Ruo and Mr. Gu took a string of sugar gourds, Mr. Gu took a bite and said: "Well, it's delicious, it's not too sour, Qingqiu, you will still make this!" , I saw Rong Ruo also look at me with curious eyes, I smiled and said: "I liked to eat when I was a child, and I learned to eat more", "Qingtong, come, give it to you", said and gave Qingtong two strings of sugar gourds and filled him with some snow red fruits, Rong Ruo sent Qingtong out to eat, he said thank you to me and ran away happily, alas! It's still a kid after all.

The days are so peaceful, Mr. Gu usually lectures in the morning, the content is very miscellaneous poems and songs, the four books and the five classics have everything, many times in the afternoon I will come to Rong Ruo's study to read, Rong Ruo sometimes read books and sometimes write something, do not disturb each other or even say a word in the afternoon, such a good time passes very fast, in a blink of an eye most of the winter has passed, Rong Ruo will return to the capital tomorrow, the day after tomorrow is the winter solstice, people are going to worship their ancestors, Rong Ruo also has to rush back to participate, Mr. Gu was also promoted into the court by Mingzhu, and at the end of the year, all the yamen were busy Mr. was going to take office in advance, so he returned to Beijing with Rong Ruo, Bihe said, Rong Ruo may not come back before the year, and there are a lot of things up and down in the Nianxia Mansion, although Rong Ruo can't do anything to socialize and socialize, I can't help but be a little depressed at the thought of restoring the previous coldness, and I feel a little sad when I think about the parting in front of me.

In a daze, Bihe came in and said, "What is my sister thinking?" , "It's nothing, have Mr. and Rong Ruo packed up?" "Well, it's cleaned up", "Bihe, I want to cook a meal for Mr. Rong Ruohe", "Okay! Sister, but you can cook, sister! "And Bihe came to the kitchen, it happened that Aunt Yin was also there, and was preparing to let the things she bring, all of which were some dry goods, as well as the preserved hawthorn fruit that Aunt Yin had drowned herself, Bihe said to Aunt Yin that I want to cook, Aunt Yin looked at me with suspicion, and finally nodded, Bihe gave me a hand, there are few vegetables in the kitchen, it must not be that there are greenhouse vegetables in winter now, but it's okay, I have something to do, and I have finally done it after a busy afternoon, braised pork, mapo tofu, yellow stewed chicken, braised fish pieces, fried bacon with capers, celery and peanuts, oil splashed tofu skin, hot and sour cabbage, and also made a radish duck pot.

Bringing the dishes to the table and looking at the table of dishes, Bihe said with admiration: "Sister, you are really capable, and the dishes are so good, whoever marries her sister is really blessed", "The little girl will be poor, go and invite your young master and husband to come!" As soon as the words fell, I heard, "Aunt Yin, what did you make so delicious?" It was Mr. Gu who came in, "Ah, sir, you are here, I was about to invite you" "Bihe, Mr. is already here, go and invite the young master!" Bihe ran out in response, I was afraid that she was too flustered and hurriedly said: "Bihe, you run slowly", before the words were finished, Bihe and Qingtong who was picking the curtain collided with a full arm and almost didn't knock down, Bihe saw Rong Ruo standing outside the door and didn't care where he touched, busy with his body to ask for peace, Rong Ruo let Bihe get up and then entered the house, and asked, "Where did you touch?" Hearing Rong Ruo's concerned inquiry, Bihe was a little flattered and said, "Young Master Xie cares, I didn't touch anything", I also stepped forward to take a look, and I was relieved to see that there was nothing wrong,! I said to Rong Ruo: "Hurry up and eat!" It's time to cool down in a moment".

Rong Ruo and Mr. Gu sat down one after another, and I also sat down and said: "Taste it, I made these things, but when it comes to the ugly words, don't say that it is not delicious", "Look at this dish, it is delicious, I thought it was made by Aunt Yin!" It turned out to be made by a girl in Qingqiu, let me taste it", saying that Mr. Gu took the lead in using chopsticks to clip a piece of mapo tofu, "It's delicious, the first time I ate this dish, what is the name of this dish", I replied: "Oh, this is called mapo tofu", seeing me and Mr. talking one by one, Rong Ruo did not interject, just silently and elegantly ate the dish, and looked at me with a smile from time to time, Mr. Gu was drunk on wine, and he was also good at wine, and after three rounds Mr. Gu was already drunk I got up with a cup and said: "This cup Mr. Jing, Mr. Xie's teaching during this time, Qingqiu, I will do it first for respect", said a drink and drank it all, Mr. Gu said drunken eyes: "Qingqiu is really a gentleman among women, I drank this cup of wine", I went to a full cup and said to Rong Ruo: "This cup respects Rong Ruo, thank Rong Ruo for saving his life and taking me in", saying that he was about to drink it all, Rong Ruo grabbed me and said: "Qingqiu, I have received your heart, don't drink it and get drunk", I broke away Rong Ruo and said: "Rong Ruo, don't stop me, I should drink this glass of wine no matter what" Saying that, he raised his glass, Before it reached his mouth, he was taken away by Rong Ruo and drank it all, Rong Ruo poured another cup and said, "Sit down!" Rong Ruo drank a few more drinks with Mr. Gu, Mr. Gu really couldn't drink anymore, Rong Ruo told Qingtong to send Mr. back, and left Bihe to help Aunt Yin clean up, and said to me: "Let's go!" I'll send you back. ”