The people of the Shen family, he has seen it three times in total-

The first time was to take him to Chen Yuqing to apprentice.

The second time was at his seriously ill bed.

The last time was at Chen Yuqing's funeral.

Xie Yinxue always felt that every time he met with the Shen family, he didn't have any good memories, and he didn't usually see how diligent the contact was, and on an ordinary holiday, there was no need to meet.

Not only that, Xie Yinxue didn't want the Shen family to send him gifts or moon cakes, saying that he couldn't use them, and he couldn't eat too many moon cakes, and it would be a waste to send them.

However, in the early morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xie Yinxue still received a mooncake that was packed in a carved green pear sandalwood box.

The carved pattern on the green pear sandalwood box is still Xie Yinxue's favorite pear blossom, the carving is exquisite, lifelike, and it seems that you can smell the sweet fragrance of pear blossoms in front of you, and the whole body perfectly caters to Xie Yinxue's preferences.

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Xie Lao: Two or three minutes?

Liu Buhua: Isn't that right?

NPC: Right?

Liu Buhua: Oh, it's been too long.

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Chapter 104

So much so that when Liu Buhua brought the wooden box of mooncakes to Xie Yinxue, he couldn't accept it, and he didn't accept it, after all, he had just lost a set of his favorite carved sandalwood tables and chairs in "Lock Changsheng" not long ago.

Xie Yinxue looked at it and sighed: "Didn't I say that you don't need to send me moon cakes?" ”

"This box of mooncakes doesn't seem to have been sent by my family." Liu Buhua was also confused about the origin of the green pear sandalwood box, "It is the same as the unsigned letter last time, it was placed at the door of our house, with a note written 'Gift Yin Xue, Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes', I took it when I saw it." ”

Oh?

Xie Yinxue's heart moved slightly when she heard this, and stretched out her hand to Liu Buhua and said, "Then give it to me." ”

Liu Buhua did as she was told, and handed the green pear sandalwood box to Xie Yinxue.

After Xie Yinxue got the wooden box, he first wanted to open it, but as soon as he lifted the lid of the wooden box, he suddenly stopped, and after two seconds, he pressed the lid back again, and coughed lightly: "Since it is a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake, let's wait until the evening to enjoy the moon and eat it." ”

Liu Buhua asked him: "Then I'll help you take it to the kitchen first?" ”

Xie Yinxue agreed: "Okay." ”

So Liu Buhua took away the green pear sandalwood box, and Xie Yinxue picked up the small note that was glued to the box and took a closer look - the vigorous and powerful handwriting on it was very familiar, and it was obviously from the same person as the letter that appeared last time.

Looking at the note and reading it for a moment, Xie Yinxue folded it, put away the letter from last time and put it on the bookshelf in his bedroom.

In the inner courtyard, Shen Qiuji and Chen's mother were busy setting the table and putting the dishes, and when they were arranged, they came to call Xie Yinxue and Liu Buhua to eat, and the four of them sat at a huge round table.

But the four of them didn't think so.

After eating the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner together, they will set up a low table near the pavilion, prepare moon cakes, osmanthus nectar wine and water chestnuts, and enjoy the bright and clear light of tonight together when the moon rises in the clouds.

But before that, Xie Yinxue had to make a video call with the Shen family.

It's just that although all the blood relatives who appeared in the video communication were Xie Yinxue's blood relatives, this phone call did not have the slightest sense of reunion and harmony for relatives during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and some were just restrained respectfulness and strangeness - Xie Yinxue sitting, they stood, lowered their heads and called Xie Yinxue "Seventh Uncle" according to their seniority, and then said the simple blessing that Xie Yinxue did not like to be complicated, so he thought about it early: "I wish Seventh Uncle a safe and healthy Mid-Autumn Festival, and everything goes well." ”

The Mid-Autumn Festival does not wish reunion, only good health, which sounds somewhat ironic.

Xie Yinxue bowed her head to greet them, with a faint smile on the corner of her lips, and also wished them: "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

At the end of the two brief pleasantries, the two sides fell into an awkward silence.

The Shen family's family is indeed grateful to Xie Yinxue from the bottom of their hearts and cares about his body, but if their concern is too warm, it will make Xie Yinxue feel uncomfortable, so they don't dare to say more.

Xie Yinxue has never been able to overcome Chen Yuqing's hurdle in her heart, and she also remembers the fate of her relatives and friends, so she will not take the initiative to get close to them.

However, on this festive day of reunion, Xie Yinxue did not want to snub them, raised his eyes and swept the Shen family in the video one by one, and found that this year there were a few more faces that he had never seen before; Similarly, there are a few of the old faces he is familiar with.

"What about Shen Huaishen?" Xie Yinxue directly asked Shen Qiujian, the new family owner standing at the front, "Didn't he come to congratulate me on the festival?" ”

"Yes, it's just that he wasn't in a good condition, so he didn't come downstairs to eat with everyone." Shen Qiujian replied, "Do you want to meet him?" I'll take you there. ”

After speaking, he took his mobile phone and walked upstairs, and after bypassing a few porch bends, he finally stopped and pointed the camera at a snow-white hospital bed - the previous head of the Shen family, on which Shen Huaishen was lying.

"Uncle, are you still awake?"

Shen Qiujian raised his hand and gently pushed the oxygen tube inserted on the bed, described the old man who was withered and about to die, and said to him: "Uncle Seventh is calling." ”

"Yin Xue called?"

The old man opened his eyelids tremblingly when he heard this, tried to find the right focus, and focused his eyes on the mobile phone in Shen Qiujian's palm.

Xie Yinxue also looked at him, looked at the pair of lifeless eyes, and blessed him: "Shen Huaishen, the Mid-Autumn Festival is healthy." ”

Shen Huaishen was panting badly, and it was very difficult to speak, but in the face of Xie Yinxue, he still tried his best to show a smile and said kindly: "Yinxue, I wish you a happy Mid-Autumn Festival...... You look a lot better. ”

Xie Yinxue also pulled her lips and smiled: "Naturally, I was dying the last time you saw me. ”

"Feng Shui takes turns, and now I'm dying."

Shen Huaishen sighed and said, but when he saw that Xie Yinxue was also smiling, his cloudy eyes brightened a little, and his face seemed to have more blood, which made him feel a lot more energetic: "Are you okay with Morberd there?" How did he learn from you? ”

Xie Yinxue said bluntly, pursed her lips and said solemnly: "People are doing well, but they are not very good at learning." ”

Shen Qiuji heard Xie Yinxue reveal his old background in front of his family, and muttered helplessly: "...... I really tried my best. ”

"It's not surprising that he didn't learn well." Shen Huaishen also spoke for Shen Qiuji, "After all, not everyone has a talent like you. ”

Hearing this, Xie Yinxue lowered her eyelashes and did not answer.

Shen Huaishen saw that he was silent, and reflected in his heart whether he had said something wrong, and after being cramped for a moment, he said blessings to Xie Yinxue again: "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, Yin Xue, you confiscated everyone's moon cakes this year, so do you have moon cakes to eat?" ”

Xie Yinxue's answer was still very brief: "Yes." ”

But he looked at the trace of concern in Shen Huaishen's eyes, and at the end he couldn't help but add: "Someone sent it to me." ”

"Okay, good, that's good......"

Shen Huaishen repeatedly recited the word "good" and lay back on the bed with his eyes closed, as if this short conversation with Xie Yinxue had exhausted all his strength, even if he wanted to say a few more words to Xie Yinxue, he was powerless.

All this evidence suggests that he is really dying.

But after Xie Yinxue hung up the video call, he still felt that this news had a strong sense of unreality - it was only seven years since he last saw Shen Huaishen at Chen Yuqing's funeral, and in his memory, Shen Huaishen has always been the head of the Shen family who is not angry and arrogant, and is in charge of all the major affairs of the Shen family.

Why is Shen Huaishen so old that he is dying now?

Xie Yinxue recalled it carefully for a long time, but found that Shen Huaishen's old age seemed to have early signs: it was the back of the sudden vicissitudes of life when he sent him to Mingyue Cliff; It was his bent back when he saw that he was seriously ill and knelt in front of Chen Yuqing; It was also the last time they met, and he was like Mu Xue's full hair.

"Master, what's wrong with him?"

Shen Qiuji looked at Xie Yinxue who was sitting in the pavilion, and always felt that since he saw the Shen family, he had lost a lot of weight in an instant, as if he could take advantage of the night breeze blowing between the cliffs and dissipate between heaven and earth in an instant.

Seeing this, Liu Buhua couldn't help but sigh: "I'm sad." ”

Shen Qiuji asked him, "What are you sad about?" ”

Liu Buhua slowly raised her head and said to a full moon: "The full moon is difficult for people to be full. ”

Shen Qiuji felt that he understood, but he didn't fully understand, just like Xie Yinxue seemed to be shackled by heavy sadness, and as if he was not sad at all, he often went to the kitchen to take out the box of moon cakes that were packed in a green pear sandalwood box, and invited them with a smile: "Come and enjoy the moon." ”

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Liu Buhua was very active about admiring the moon, and the first one sat down at a low table and poured osmanthus nectar wine for everyone.

Shen Qiuji doesn't like to eat moon cakes, especially last year, the moon cakes prepared by Liu Buhua were either jujube paste filling or red bean filling, one race and one sweet, which can almost make people tired to death, but this year, in order to meet the solar terms, Shen Qiuji thought that he had prepared water chestnuts to relieve greasy anyway, so he decided to eat a piece of it meaningfully.

But he will never eat sweet mooncakes again, and he wants to change it to something else. Therefore, before eating, Shen Qiuji asked Liu Buhua for the sake of prudence: "Big brother, are there any salty fillings in these moon cakes?" ”

Liu Buhua pointed to a plate of yellow-skinned mooncakes on the right side of the desk and said, "Yes, this plate is." ”

Shen Qiuji believed it, and didn't think much about asking deeply, so he pinched the yellow-skinned mooncake and bit it down with Liu Buhua's fingers, but he didn't chew a few bites, so he stopped his movements stiffly and asked Liu Buhua: "What kind of stuffed mooncake is this?" ”

Why does the filling have a crispy feeling of chewing the shell?

Liu Buhua told him: "Fried scorpion stuffing." ”

“……”

Xie Yinxue, who was opening the green pear sandalwood box moon cakes, couldn't help but be silent when she heard this, and Shen Qiuji didn't need to say much, she had already run to the side and vomited.

"Why did you throw it all up?" Liu Buhua still felt sorry for his scorpion, "It's a tyrannical thing." ”

Xie Yinxue mourned for half a second for the little apprentice who accidentally ate the scorpion filling, and then opened the lid of the green pear sandalwood box, and his eyes fell on the white mooncake in the shape of a pear blossom that was wrapped in slightly permeable oil paper in the box.

Although the style of this moon cake is simple, the stamens are carefully dyed bright yellow with gold leaf, and when you turn it over, you can see that there are eight blessing characters written in vermilion on the back [peace and joy, no illness and no worries], and the amount is exactly the size that Xie Yinxue can eat in four or five bites.

"Only one piece?" Liu Buhua looked puzzled, "Who sent it?" ”

Who gives only one piece of mooncake?

Moreover, although there are not a few people who know the address of Mingyue Cliff, but because there is a road formation around the mountain, it is impossible for the people under the mountain to come up to the mountain without the guidance of the owner.

"Who else but Bu Jiuzhao?" Xie Yinxue leaned back, raised her eyebrows and pronounced the name, "This mooncake should have been made by him." ”

"Is that him?"

Liu Buhua was stunned for a moment, and he could understand why there was only one moon cake in such a beautiful wooden box - Bu Jiuzhao definitely only wanted Xie Yinxue to eat the moon cakes he made, and others didn't even think about it.

And since there is only one piece of moon cake, Liu Buhua and others will not compete with Xie Yinxue, and Liu Buhua does not disdain to fight.

He grabbed the yellow-skinned mooncake and took a big bite, and said with satisfaction: "Can I have my scorpion mooncake delicious?" ”

Xie Yinxue smiled and didn't speak, but also pinched the pear blossom mooncake and bit off a piece of cake meat with her lips closed.

Who knew that the entrance of the moon cake was full of pear fragrance, the crust was soft and fine, and the filling was sweet and not greasy.

Chapter 105

On the seventh day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sky was extremely overcast, and the dark clouds were overwhelming, as if a heavy rain would fall at any time.