After leaving with the two girls, Yang Jiao began to eat and drink with Hu Youyu, and Ma Qiushan still sat in place, drinking tea and chatting with them.

In the next two days, Xu Hongdou was lazy, and just wanted to stay leisurely in the small courtyard, read a book, or learn to meditate with Ma Qiushan.

On this day, early in the morning.

After breakfast, Xu Hongdou looked at the kitten raised in the yard and started to tease the cat on a whim.

And Yang Jiao held a palm-sized log and sat next to Xu Hongdou.

"Do you really know how to do wood carving?"

"Didn't I tell you before, do you really think I'm talking nonsense?"

"And what are you going to carve?"

"Whatever you like, you can carve."

"Then when the carving is finished, I want to appreciate your results." Xu Hongdou chatted with Yang Jiao and made the cat teasing stick at the same time.

At this time, she suddenly noticed that Big Mac had come to her, and said with a little surprise:

"Ah, you're up?"

"Well, you'll make a cat teaser?"

"I learned it online, and I learned it now and sold it, which is a bit ugly." Xu Hongdou saw Damai staring intently at the cat teasing stick in his hand, and immediately understood her thoughts, so he handed over the cat teasing stick with a smile.

"Thank you."

Just as Big Mac was teasing the kitten on the table with a smile on his face, Aunt Gui's loud voice sounded in the courtyard.

"It's coming, it's coming, I'm going to go out right away."

When the two girls heard the voice, they saw Aunt Gui on the phone, and when she hung up the phone, when she saw the people in the yard, she immediately shouted:

"Red beans."

"Aunt Gui."

After Aunt Gui walked over quickly, when she saw Damai, she couldn't remember her name for a moment, and Xu Hongdou immediately introduced:

"Barley."

"Yes, Big Mac, you've been here for a month, and we've met twice, right?"

When Big Mac heard this, he smiled embarrassedly.

"It's okay for you, go out with me and make flower cakes." Aunt Gui looked down at Xu Hongdou.

"The one with the roses in there." Xu Hongdou thought about it.

"yes, there's also a nipple fan, you probably haven't heard of it." Aunt Gui enthusiastically came to pull Xu Hongdou's hand.

"Go ahead, I won't go." The barley society had a panic attack and hurriedly refused.

"Look at you, this little girl, after you came, you hide in your room every day, and you don't come out to see people, you look at that face, you don't have any complexion at all, you want to go out for a walk." Aunt Gui said as she stepped forward and grabbed Big Mai's arm.

"I'm still not going, I'm not going to do anything." Big Mac refused.

"It's very simple, you can learn it, walk around." Aunt Gui didn't give Big Mac a chance to refuse at all, and forced her to get up.

"Red Bean, I don't seem to have eaten anything you made, remember to make flower cakes for my uncle and aunt, and Sister Hongmi, and give me some taste." When Yang Jiao lowered his head and carved wood, he suddenly opened his mouth.

"Okay, for your sake of cooking, of course I won't be stingy, I won't forget your share." Xu Hongdou said with a smile.

After the three of them went out, Ma Qiushan, who was meditating in the courtyard, sighed in a low voice:

"Oh, it's quiet."

"Ma Ye can't practice at home, and he will be disturbed by foreign objects." Yang Jiao didn't reply.

"It's true that I can't practice at home, and this heart of mine can't be still!" Ma Qiushan didn't refute either.

A few hours later, he licked his face to rub Yang Jiao's lunch, and in the afternoon, he invited Yang Jiao to drink tea, and after drinking for about an hour, Yang Jiao began to carve wood again, and Ma Qiushan also began his own meditation.

When it was getting dark, Yang Jiao went into the kitchen to prepare dinner, and when he was stir-frying, he saw Xu Hongdou sitting at the bar-style table with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I'm working hard to cook for you here, and you don't have anything to say?"

"Okay, I'll let you taste the fruits of my labor today." Xu Hongdou took out a piece of the flower cake that had been placed on the table before, and then walked into the kitchen, and saw that Yang Jiao's hands were not idle, so he saw that he was directly fed to his mouth.

Yang Jiao didn't say anything, took a big bite, and said while chewing:

"I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but I always feel that the flower cakes I eat now are much better than the flower cakes I have eaten before."

When Xu Hongdou heard this, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and then he snorted softly:

"Where is the psychological effect, you should be confident."

"Alright, ah, go on." Yang Jiao's mouth opened wide.

Seeing this, Xu Hongdou glared at Yang Jiao angrily, but still fed the remaining flower cakes to his mouth.

"I haven't fed you much when I see you, and it's easy for me to eat your hands with the flower cake like this."

"I didn't dislike you, you still disliked me first." Xu Hongdou slapped Yang Jiao and directly stuffed the remaining flower cake into his mouth.

"Eh, where is your former professionalism as a hotel manager, this gentleness, thoughtfulness, and patience are all gone."

As soon as Yang Jiao finished speaking, a dry cough appeared outside the kitchen:

"Ahem, I shouldn't have bothered you."

Yang Jiao's expression was still unfazed:

"Nana, this is already the last dish, the meal will start immediately, you can go and call Ma Ye first."

"Okay, Ma Ye and the others are anxious, that is, he called me to come and have a look." Nana laughed and turned away.

Xu Hongdou is not a teenage girl, so in the face of Nana's ridicule, she didn't appear any shyness, so she said:

"By the way, Big Mac will have dinner with us tonight, and now she's drinking tea with Ma Ye."

"It seems that it is useful to get out and about." Yang Jiao chuckled, and then commanded familiarly:

"Don't stand still, help me bring the finished dishes to the restaurant, and remember to take the dishes and chopsticks."

"That's a familiar sound." A trace of reminiscence appeared in Xu Hongdou's eyes.

"Don't you know it, every time I cooked, you were very diligent in serving dishes and bowls, and then your uncle and aunt habitually called you."

In the next few days, Yang Jiao and Xu Hongdou went to visit the tie-dye workshop, the wood carving workshop, and also went on a bamboo raft, and even went to the ancient city a few times.

At the entrance of the village, Yang Jiao parked the car and listened to Xu Hongdou, who was sitting in the co-pilot, say:

"I've already said in the group, it's late today, and I'll let them solve it by themselves for dinner."

"I guess there must be someone in the group who is ridiculing." As Yang Jiao spoke, he took out his mobile phone and clicked on the group chat, and saw Hu Youyu coaxing him for the first time, saying that he was distressed or something, and Nana and Damai were adding fuel to the fire.

Xu Hongdou didn't care:

"The joke is for sure, I remember that there is not a barbecue stall at the entrance of the village, we can eat this tonight."

"Just along the way, let's go."

The two didn't walk long before they came to the barbecue stall and saw a man in his early thirties, wearing a mask to prevent spit splashing and grilling skewers.

As soon as he saw Yang Jiao and Xu Hongdou, he immediately greeted him warmly:

"Judging by your appearance, you should be the new tenant of the small courtyard."

"How do you know we're new tenants in the courtyard?" Xu Hongdou was slightly surprised.

(End of chapter)