The two returned to their previous awkwardness, without saying a word all the way.

When I got home, I just got off the horse in front of the gate, and I happened to meet Mrs. Zhang and Qi Yifen walking over together.

The two stopped and saluted, and couldn't stop looking up and down at Tan Zhaozhao.

Mrs. Zhang asked curiously, "Big brother, sister-in-law, where have you been?" ”

Tan Zhaozhao returned the salute and looked down, he was still wearing Zhang Jiuling's white underwear, which was indeed very nondescript, and he couldn't help but be annoyed, blaming Zhang Jiuling for his cleanliness.

Zhang Jiuling squinted at Tan Zhaozhao and replied quietly: "I went to pick bayberry." But you have to pick it up, and if you pour your teeth carefully, you eat less. ”

The two wore hats, and each carried a small basket of delicate reeds not much bigger than a fist.

Mrs. Zhang said yes, she looked at the bamboo basket in Zhang Jiuling's hand, and said happily: "Since the eldest brother has picked it, half of it will be divided between me and Qi Niang." I don't want to go to the sun. ”

Qi Yifen looked at Zhang Jiuling with a smile and said to Mrs. Zhang: "Anyway, it's not far, and you won't be able to walk half a pillar of incense." Could it be that the eldest lady thinks that the bayberry picked by the eldest cousin and sister-in-law is sweeter? ”

Mrs. Zhang giggled and said innocently: "Big brother, I'll taste the sweetness of your bayberry." ”

Zhang Jiuling quietly took the bamboo basket away and said, "Some sweet, some not sweet." Bayberry has not been cleaned, how can it be eaten. ”

Mrs. Zhang didn't get the bayberry, so she pouted and muttered: "Big brother is really, the bayberry grows on the tree, how can it be dirty." ”

Zhang Jiuling indulged in a pet brush on her double bun and said, "Don't remember to eat while picking, eat carefully and spoil your stomach." Go early, go early and come back early. ”

Mrs. Zhang laughed happily, pulled Qi Yifen and said, "Qi Niang, let's go quickly." ”

Qi Yifen greeted Zhang Jiuling and Tan Zhaozhao, and was dragged away by Mrs. Zhang.

Tan Zhaozhao walked a few steps and turned around, and saw that Qi Yifen was also looking back, and smiled at her.

Qi Yifen hurriedly smiled back at her, and hurriedly turned her head and left with Mrs. Zhang.

Qianshan greeted him and led the horse to the stable. Zhang Jiuling slowed down and urged: "Go faster, what do you see?" ”

Tan Zhaozhao suddenly urged his heart to rise and said, "What is Da Lang looking at again?" ”

Zhang Jiuling was stunned for a moment, Tan Zhaozhao smiled and groaned: "Da Lang doesn't look at me, how do you know that I'm looking at people?" ”

"Naughty." Zhang Jiuling said with a smile.

Tan Zhaozhao continued: "Does Da Lang know that people are watching you? ”

Zhang Jiuling looked at her deeply and said, "Jiuniang wants to talk about the Tao?" ”

Tan Zhaozhao didn't dare, "Da Lang reads a lot, so I won't get an axe." ”

Zhang Jiuling seemed to snort, and Shi Shiran entered the courtyard gate.

On the shadow wall of the entrance door, it is planted with green ground brocade, that is, creepers, and the wall is full of verdant green.

Tan Zhaozhao looked at it again and again, and said, "It would be good if you planted wisteria, the flowers are blooming at this time." The roses on the walls are also beautiful. ”

Zhang Jiuling asked, "Jiuniang likes flowers?" ”

Tan Zhaozhao said: "I like it." ”

Zhang Jiuling said: "The flowers don't bloom for long, I like plants and trees more." ”

Tan Zhaozhao sighed, and irresponsibly came up with an idea: "Then use silk flowers, silk is too precious, and flowers made of coarse cloth should be used." Wood and stone carved flowers are also OK, and if they are broken, they will be replaced for a long time. But what lasts forever? There is a time for flowers to bloom, and a time for them to gather and disperse. ”

Zhang Jiuling glanced at her, his eyes inquiring.

Tan Zhaozhao avoided his gaze, and Shi Li said goodbye: "I'll go change my clothes." I'll come back when the books are collected. ”

Zhang Jiuling sighed, and Tan Zhaozhao entered the backyard from the hall.

After changing and washing, the eyebrow peas came in to clean up, and the white underwear had been gray for a few large pieces, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to wash it.

Tan Zhaozhao thought for a while and said, "Wash the underwear first." ”

If Zhang Jiuling wants it, he will return it to him. If not, dispose of it again.

Meidou thought of Zhang Jiuling's cleanliness and said with a smile: "Da Lang treats Jiuniang so well, even the underwear is given to Jiuniang to wear." ”

Tan Zhaozhao said angrily: "That's because my clothes are dirty and I ride a horse together, and he dislikes me." ”

Meidou said: "Bayberry is everywhere, Da Lang is biased to ride a horse and take Jiuniang to pick it so far." Xu Yuan also came to ask before, saying that the lady couldn't rest assured, and she was afraid that Dalang would be tired. ”

Tan Zhaozhao sighed secretly, his mother was worried, Zhang Jiuling was determined to be in the world, and the Lu family estimated that he would not be able to sleep every day in the future.

After resting for a while, Tan Zhaozhao wanted to have a lunch break earlier. Meidou went to get food, a few slices of roasted mutton, a bowl of soup cakes, two lamb liver Biluo, a stack of winter amaranth, and a few bayberry.

Winter amaranth is the okra of later generations, Tan Zhaozhao doesn't like to eat slippery vegetables, and he can't get used to eating lamb liver, so he asked Meidou to take these two dishes down and asked, "Didn't you make pineapple today?" ”

Meidou said: "Pineapple is precious and has always been rare. If Jiuniang wants to eat, the maid will go to the stove room to ask. ”

Spinach is spinach, and I never thought that it was also a precious vegetable in Datang. On the contrary, okra was more expensive than spinach in later generations, but it was a common and cheap dish in the Tang Dynasty.

There are soup cakes, mutton, and bayberry after dinner, Tan Zhaozhao is very content, and said: "Don't bother, that's all." ”

Meidou hesitated, bit her lip and said: "When the maid went to the stove to get food, she saw that there was a fresh gourd, and the maid went to ask for a copy for Jiuniang." ”

Tan Zhaozhao was stunned, smiled, and said, "It's okay, don't make trouble, you go and eat." ”

The eyebrow peas should be, and go out with Biro and winter amaranth. When I arrived at the door, I saw Zhang Jiuling coming over, and I hurriedly gave way to the side.

Zhang Jiuling saw that Tan Zhaozhao was already eating, paused, and said to the eyebrows: "Bring my food together." ”

Meidou should have retreated, Tan Zhaozhao saw Zhang Jiuling coming, and hurriedly got up to greet him: "Da Lang hasn't eaten yet?" ”

Zhang Jiuling glanced at her, sat down cross-legged, looked at the food table in front of her, and asked, "Why are these dishes?" ”

Tan Zhaozhao said: "It's hot, and I don't have much appetite. ”

Zhang Jiuling sighed, turned his head to look around, and said, "I'll ask Qianshan to go to the warehouse to get a set of Hu Qi Hu beds and put them in your room." ”

Datang sat on a high place and thought it was indecent to show his feet in public. After kneeling for a long time, there is a number, and the number is not for people to sit, but for people to lie on it and relax.

The bed is short, and it is far more comfortable to sit on it than to sit on knees or cross-legged. Zhang Jiuling put a set in the room in the front yard, and every time she went to dry books, she ran fast, because of his set of beds.

Tan Zhaozhao had been kneeling for a long time, and said happily when he heard the words: "There is Lao Dalang." ”

Zhang Jiuling only felt a flower in front of her, Tan Zhaozhao usually smiled, but she had never seen her smile so happily, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and they became a crescent moon, which made people can't help but feel warm in their hearts.

Meidou took the food and entered the house, and Tan Zhaozhao saw that on the food table in front of Zhang Jiuling, in addition to the roasted mutton, Biluo, and green pineapple, there were also steamed gourds and a bowl of sesame rice.

Tan Zhaozhao retracted his gaze and concentrated on eating the soup cake in the bowl. The dough of the soup cake is gluten, and she eats it happily.

Datang has a shared diet and a combined meal. The Hu Collapsing Hu bed is to facilitate the sharing of food, a large number of people sit together, like the later generations to eat happily.

The Zhang family has always shared food, and Zhang Jiuling never eats with others. Tan Zhaozhao likes the rules of food sharing, which is clean and does not need to be entertained.

was following Zhang Jiuling's rule of eating without saying a word, Tan Zhaozhao saw that the food table in front of him moved slightly, and the two food tables were combined.

Steamed gourd and pineapple are placed in the middle of the two tables.

Tan Zhaozhao bit the wooden chopstick, looking at it stupidly, Zhang Jiuling did not move the meal, and reached out to pick up the bayberry on her plate.

"Eat instead." Zhang Jiuling didn't raise his head.

The hand seemed to tremble, the bayberry was not clamped steadily, fell back into the plate, and rolled to the ground with another bayberry.

Zhang Jiuling hurriedly leaned over and picked it up and threw it into the slag hopper, the bayberry juice left two marks on the reed straw seat, he wiped it vigorously with a wet cloth towel, and it was finally clean.

Put down the wet cloth towel, Zhang Jiuling went to clean his hands again. After some tossing, he saw that Tan Zhaozhao was still biting the wooden chopstick, he sat down and pointed to the food: "Don't eat it yet, wait until it's cold." ”

Tan Zhaozhao hummed, still eating the soup cake in the bowl. Zhang Jiuling took a few mouthfuls of flax rice, and when he saw that Tan Zhaozhao didn't move the gourd and pineapple, his brows frowned slightly.

The last time she ate pineapple, she squinted and smiled and enjoyed it very much. When I eat the lamb liver I don't like to eat, my facial features are wrinkled, as if I am eating poison, smart and fresh.

Zhang Jiuling's eyes probed, looked at Tan Zhaozhao a few times, and simply took a clean wooden chopstick, sandwiched the pineapple and gourd in her bowl.

Tan Zhaozhao raised his eyes suddenly, Zhang Jiuling's eyes were dark, and he asked, "But you don't eat the food that comes from you?" ”

Tan Zhaozhao thought about it for a while, and ate the pineapple.

Zhang Jiuling stared at Tan Zhaozhao and said, "You will eat with me in the future." ”

Since there can be fresh and delicious meals, of course Tan Zhaozhao will not refuse, and said, "Okay! ”

Zhang Jiuling was rushed down by Tan Zhaozhao's crisp and neat, and then couldn't stop the corners of his lips from rising.

After getting along with each other for these days, Zhang Jiuling has a deeper understanding of Tan Zhaozhao. She seems to be gentle and gentle, but she is actually quite assertive. The personality is easy-going, but it does not lose its personality, round on the outside and square on the inside.

The taste of the steamed gourd is bland, but it is better than freshness, and Tan Zhaozhao is very satisfied with it. After eating, rinsing his mouth slowly, Zhang Jiuling leaned on the soft sac and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Tan Zhaozhao hesitated and said, "Da Lang go back and rest." ”

Zhang Jiuling was noncommittal, lay down on the couch, stuffed the soft bag under his head, used it as a pillow, put his hands on his chest, and said, "I'm sleepy, let's take a nap." ”

Seeing this, Tan Zhaozhao could only go to the bedroom to get the thin brocade quilt out and bend over to put it on his body.

Zhang Jiuling stretched out his hand and pulled, Tan Zhaozhao fell down without noticing, his arms were strong, he supported her, and put him on the couch next to him.

Before Tan Zhaozhao came back to his senses, he saw a caisson on the roof in front of him. She turned her head to the side in a huff, and heard Zhang Jiuling say seriously: "You use a lot of lunch, if you fall down, I'm afraid you will throw up." ”

Zhang Jiuling turned his head to look at her, with a faint smile in the corner of his eyes: "Sleep, I left all the bayberry, and told Qianshan to clean it, put it in the well to cool, and then you can eat it when you wake up." The bayberry trees on the mountain are nearly 100 years old, and they are sweeter than the bayberry at the bottom of the mountain. ”

Is this an explanation for going to pick bayberry?

With a stumble on his body, Zhang Jiuling put half of the brocade quilt on Tan Zhaozhao's waist.

Wei Liang's calloused hand covered the back of Tan Zhaozhao's hand. After a slight pause, she flipped without hesitation, wrapping her hand tightly in the palm of her hand.

Zhang Jiuling's voice was a little lower, and said, "If you want to go out, the mountain is the farthest place I can take you to right now." ”