At this dinner, Xu Yi ate absent-mindedly.

The dishes are what she likes, the taste is also familiar to her, every bite is nostalgic, she should be happy, but she can't make up her mind.

Her mind is full of Cheng Niang.

She knew that Cheng Niang was in the capital, and the last time they were in Guangde Temple, they met by chance.

I didn't say a few words at that time, and Xu Yi also said that Cheng Niang must come to see her if she had the opportunity, but unfortunately they didn't meet again after that.

Later, a lot of things happened in Liu's house, and Xu Yi lived in Guangde Temple for a while, but he hadn't been there for a long time......

In addition to regrets, there are more worries.

Being able to eat the dishes cooked by Cheng Niang today, it was difficult for her to control her excitement.

Why did Cheng Niang come to the house?

She and her return home are boiling, Cheng Niang should have heard about it, right?

A Jian has not been to the court for a long time after treating his injuries, Xu Bai mentioned it, and there are many people in Beijing who are talking about it, which may also make Cheng Niang worried?

While thinking about it, Xu Yi was using rice, and unconsciously, he used half a bowl more than usual.

Seeing this, Mama Xia secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Recently, Madame has a mediocre appetite, and she once asked Dr. Yue to write an appetizing prescription, but Madame refused.

In fact, the reason is very simple, Mrs. is worried about Fu Guogong's leg injury.

I can't let go of my heart, and it's useless to take any medicine.

Now it seems that it is still necessary to adjust the dishes.

Liu Huan was also observing Xu Yi, and she watched her mother's every move.

Seeing that Xu Yi had a good appetite, Liu Huan also moved a few more chopsticks with her, and praised a few words from time to time, this fragrance and that one are good.

When she ran out, she asked, "Mother, 'Who is Cheng Niang?'

Xu Yi said: "She was a cook in the former mansion, and she left the mansion many years ago, and I liked her very much when I was a child."

"Because her cooking is delicious?" Liu Wan asked.

"Not exactly," Xu Yi laughed, "Maybe it's just fate......

Recalling the past, Xu Yi said softly: "When I was very young, my mother once said that the two things that people can't forget the most in this life are tunes and tastes.

My mother played the piano very well, and I used to hear her play it, and I learned from her, and I learned a little bit of it, and before I could improve, she left first.

Later, I also practiced all kinds of tunes she played, but it wasn't quite right, and the tunes I had under my hands were never the same as the ones she had listened to me back then.

I have consulted many masters, and I have also asked other piano ladies to play, each of them is good in their own way, but it is still not what I remember.

Later, I had to ask my father.

He laughed at the time, laughed vigorously, and he said, 'Of course it's different, all the songs I play are based on the score, and the same is true for the masters and piano girls, some people may have felt the wind and moon of the side plug, and the ones that came out were more exciting, but my mother was different.

The tunes she used to play to me were all for fun, and she played the tunes of coaxing children with any side songs and pre-battle battle songs, and she was gentler than Jiangnan Minor.

I still can't learn those tunes, but I remember them, and I always remember them."

Xu Yi didn't speak quickly, talking about those old things, with a smile in his eyes, but also a little moist.

Just like back then, after listening to her father's explanation, she held the piano and pondered by herself, and after a long time she raised her head, only to see that her father was still sitting there, and his eyes were damp.

The tune she tried to imitate, which was different and different, at that moment, also made her father can't help but think back to many past events.

Xu Yi bent his eyes: "Mother is really right."

She remembered her mother's tune, and she also remembered the taste of Cheng Niang's cooking.

She followed behind Cheng Niang and learned to cook the dishes that her mother liked, even if her mother couldn't taste them again, she also learned some dishes that her father liked, and let him taste them when her father returned home.

Those scenes of pictures were surging and rolling at the moment, making Xu Yi involuntarily and slowly spit out

Breathe a sigh of relief.

She had to rely on this breath to hold back her tears.

Liu Huanai listened to her mother talk about these past events, and her curiosity came up, so she turned her head and asked Xu Jian again, "When will that Cheng Niang come over?"

Xu Jian explained to Mama Xia and asked her to send someone to the kitchen to deliver a message, and then said to Liu Huan, "You call her 'Mama He's."

Liu Huan nodded to herself.

It seems that Cheng Niang is now surnamed He.

"She came to the house by herself?" Xu Yi asked, "How did Ah Jian know her?" I have a lot to ask her, how did she get to the capital, when did she come back, and how is she doing now......

Xu Jian said: "I heard her mention that there were some reasons why she left the house at that time. Her marriage was also the thread drawn by her grandfather, and her husband's family opened a shop, which was in the capital, and I often went to her to eat in the past few years. The county lord has been there before, and I know that you like Mama's craft, so I have a chance to invite Mama over."

Xu Yi was stunned when he heard this.

She didn't know any of these things.

It turned out that she and Cheng Niang had been not far away, but they didn't see each other for various reasons.

However, I heard that Xu Jian has often eaten Cheng Niang's dishes over the years, Xu Yi is happy in her heart, first, she is very relieved that Cheng Niang cooks, and secondly, this is the taste of "home" in her memory, Ah Jian loves to eat, and there is another connection between their blood mother and son, who have been estranged for many years.

While he was talking, Mama He came.

She had changed her clothes, and there was no fumes from the kitchen, and when she entered the house, she stood under the floor cover, and did not take a step closer.

Obviously she was born in the imperial dining room, and she has been in the Guogong Mansion for a few years, she is not a person who can have stage fright, but at this moment, when she sees Xu Yi again, her body even trembles slightly.

Subconsciously, Mama He looked left and right.

It is still the room where the girl lives in the boudoir, and the layout is very similar to that year, if it weren't for the fact that Grandpa Guo and Miss Wan were still sitting at the table, Grandma He thought, she wouldn't be able to tell what day it was.

"Mama will talk for a while," Xu Jian got up, "I'll go walk around the garden and eat and wait."

Liu Wan was clever and immediately stood up.

How could Xu Yi not know that they were making room for her?

"You are not allowed to go to the garden," she raised her voice eagerly, looking at Xu Jian, "Do you sit in a soft sedan chair to eat?"

Liu Huan burst out laughing.

Xu Jian also smiled, and didn't answer for a while.

"My brother and I are in the middle room," Liu Huan smiled and cleared the siege, "Don't worry, I won't let him out to blow the cold wind."

The brother and sister went to the middle room, and the grandmother of the He family sat down in the second room as she said.

The children were not in front of him, Xu Yi couldn't hold back in the end, and tears rolled down: "How many years have I not eaten the dishes you cooked......

"I'll do more in the future," Grandma He also reddened, "If you want to eat, I'll do it." I'm also sad that I haven't let you eat this satisfying dish all these years."

Xu Yi raised his hand to wipe his tears: "Ah Jian ate it for me."

"Yes, Grandpa Guo eats," Grandma He said, "and the county lord, the county lord loves to drink the soup I boiled, and the county lord eats sweet dim sum, and the other tastes are very similar to yours."

You don't know, in fact, I've gotten older in the past few years, and my taste has gradually become lighter.

The county lord likes me to use oil and sauce in the heavy portion, she often lived in the palace when she was a child, and the craftsmanship of the imperial dining room she ate was the kind I used to cook.

She said that she was used to eating when she was a child, and she couldn't forget it when she grew up."

At the mention of the county lord, Xu Yi smiled with tears: "I can't forget it."

"She tasted it in one bite," Grandma Ho laughed, "What about you?" You tasted it just now, right?"

"How can you not taste it?" Xu Yi said, "After you left the mansion, why didn't you have a letter? I thought you went back to your hometown, the mountains and rivers are far away, and it's common to cut off the news, but you are clearly in Beijing......

Mama He's sneered.

The inside story of leaving the mansion, she could confess to the Duke of Fuguo and the county lord that day, but she really couldn't say it to the girl.

Even if it's all in the past, she can't say bluntly, "Because she has a love for the old grandfather", "because neither the old grandfather nor herself wants to make the girl feel embarrassed and uneasy".

The white lies of the past have been concealed, and it is naturally impossible to mention them today.

Seeing the hesitation of the He family's grandmother, Xu Yi didn't ask.

It's been more than 20 years, and if it's hard to say, she definitely can't ask more.

As long as she can communicate more in the future and no longer cut off contact, she will be very content.

So, Xu Yi took the initiative to take the topic away: "Why does Ah Jian often go to your shop?"

There's nothing that can't be said.

Mama He said, "When the old grandfather's old injury recurred, he also wanted to taste some old taste, so he asked the grandfather to find it, and I made a dish for him. After that, Grandpa Guo went to Yumen Pass and returned to Beijing, and he often came."

Xu Yi was stunned: "Before my father left, you took care of all three meals?"

"No," Grandma He shook her head, "I only made a few dishes, all of which were liked by Grandpa Laoguo." I remember teaching you many years ago......

Xu Yi was stunned.

In the middle room, Xu Jian and Liu Huan did not speak, but only sat quietly.

Xu Jian's ear is good, and he can listen to the dialogue in the second room.

Hearing this, he lowered his eyes, and the light fell in a deep arc under his eyes, covering his eyebrows and eyes, and hiding a lot of emotions.

For a moment, he wanted to go in and interrupt the conversation, but he held back.

Just like at the beginning, he didn't remind Mama He not to talk about his grandfather's deathbed.

There are some old things that should be known to Mrs. Xu.

Mrs. Xu would have wondered, just as she stood outside her cell, stubbornly trying to hear Liu Jing say everything.

At the second table, Xu Yi didn't say anything for a long time.

Mama He also sensed something, and involuntarily held her hand: "Miss Yi......"

Xu Yi's eyelashes trembled, she looked at the He family's grandmother, and wanted to speak several times, but she couldn't make a sound in her throat.

But she didn't give up, she pursed her lips, with tears in her eyes, tried again and again, and finally forced a voice.

Word after word, word after word, word after word like weeping blood.

"Did I learn the those?" She asked, "Is there anything my mother likes?"

Mama He nodded emphatically.

"I've done it, right?" Xu Yi asked again.

Mama He nodded again.

It was also at this moment that she suddenly understood.

What the old grandfather missed during his illness was not her cooking skills, but the dishes that Miss Yi tried to make for him.

Obviously, as long as he opens his mouth, the girl can live in the kitchen, he ......

This father and daughter are really ......

Xu Yi cried.

hugged the He family's grandmother and cried breathlessly.

Mama He patted her on the back, just as many, many years ago.

On the side, Mama Xia was wiping tears with her back on her back.

It's good to cry out.

Madame, of course, has cried in the past few months, but she has collected them, and a lot of tears have fallen, but her emotions are not enough.

You still have to cry out loud, even if your eyes are swollen and your voice is hoarse from crying, it will be better in the next day, your emotions will be relieved, and you will be much more relaxed.

The cry was also heard in the middle room.

Liu Wan was stunned for a moment, then stood up abruptly, and craned her neck to look inside.

Xu Jian shook her head at her and motioned for her not to go in.

Liu Huan listened to him, and sat down again.

Xu Jian raised his hand and pressed his eyebrows.

I'm afraid that he ordered the charcoal basin early, the room was warm and a little stuffy, and he actually wanted to go out to breathe.

But he really didn't want to provoke Mrs. Xu for this trivial matter, so he didn't move, and only thought about what Mrs. Xu just said.

Tunes and flavors.

Lin Yunyan knows all the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she rarely touches the qin, but she loves sweetness, so sweet that Xu Jian can easily tell what dim sum she eats outside, which is what the little county lord likes, or the main dislike of this small county.

Of course, he also remembered other flavors.

For example, the bowl of somen noodles that is eaten separately, and the game that is occasionally hunted and grilled......

"I've done it, right?" Xu Yi asked again.

Mama He nodded again.

It was also at this moment that she suddenly understood.

What the old grandfather missed during his illness was not her cooking skills, but the dishes that Miss Yi tried to make for him.

Obviously, as long as he opens his mouth, the girl can live in the kitchen, he ......

This father and daughter are really ......

Xu Yi cried.

hugged the He family's grandmother and cried breathlessly.

Mama He patted her on the back, just as many, many years ago.

On the side, Mama Xia was wiping tears with her back on her back.

It's good to cry out.

Madame, of course, has cried in the past few months, but she has collected them, and a lot of tears have fallen, but her emotions are not enough.

You still have to cry out loud, even if your eyes are swollen and your voice is hoarse from crying, it will be better in the next day, your emotions will be relieved, and you will be much more relaxed.

The cry was also heard in the middle room.

Liu Wan was stunned for a moment, then stood up abruptly, and craned her neck to look inside.

Xu Jian shook her head at her and motioned for her not to go in.

Liu Huan listened to him, and sat down again.

Xu Jian raised his hand and pressed his eyebrows.

I'm afraid that he ordered the charcoal basin early, the room was warm and a little stuffy, and he actually wanted to go out to breathe.

But he really didn't want to provoke Mrs. Xu for this trivial matter, so he didn't move, and only thought about what Mrs. Xu just said.

Tunes and flavors.

Lin Yunyan knows all the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she rarely touches the qin, but she loves sweetness, so sweet that Xu Jian can easily tell what dim sum she eats outside, which is what the little county lord likes, or the main dislike of this small county.

Of course, he also remembered other flavors.

For example, the bowl of somen noodles that is eaten separately, and the game that is occasionally hunted and grilled......