...... The steaming water fills the air, and the air is filled with the unique fragrance of rice noodles.

Finally, I am looking forward to a steamed rice cake for the New Year!

Xingyan looked at the small piece of white and glutinous sticky cake on the palm leaf steamer in front of him, and looked at it for a long time, before carefully lifting it up and holding it in the palm of his hand:

"Do you eat it all at once, or do you eat half of it first?"

Just when he was hesitating, the white sticky cake in his hand, as if he was waiting impatiently, flew up all of a sudden, and stuck to his face with a "pop". Suddenly, Xingyan only felt a burst of warmth on his cheeks - he felt warm and comfortable wrapped in this warm and moist rice cake.

After only a short moment, the self-absorbed boy felt that something was wrong:

"I remember it's still summer, where did I get the rice cakes at home?"

So, the young man, who was sleeping soundly, woke up suddenly. Stretching his eyelids, he saw the familiar speckled marks on the stone roof, and Xingyan finally confirmed that it was just a dream of Nan Ke just now.

But...... Why is the damp and hot feeling in the dream just now still there? Moreover, this warm feeling seems to be still squirming on my cheeks!

When the sleepy-eyed young man turned his face to see what was going on, he suddenly felt that something soft and moist was sweeping over the tip of his nose!

This time, Xingyan was startled, and the hazy sleepiness was suddenly swept away. When he took a closer look, he found that the little girl was lying beside him.

"Huh, Qiongwei, what are you doing here?"

"Hey~ Brother is awake, I'm healing you!"

"Heal?!"

"Yes, brother, did you forget? You were beaten by Sister Xue Yi yesterday, and now your face is bulging!"

"Oh! I see. ”

After Qiong Wei's reminder, Xingyan completely remembered what happened last night.

Touching the swollen cheek on the right side of his face, Xingyan showed a wry smile, and said in his heart:

"I didn't expect that Miss Kou, who looks delicate and delicate, has a lot of strength in her hands......!

Thinking of this, Xingyan asked with some hesitation:

"Sister Qiong Wei, how did you 'heal' me just now?"

"Hey~ lick it with your tongue!"

“...... Lick your tongue?!"

"Yes, the little fox's leg was swollen on the stone, and his mother used her tongue to lick the wound for him. After licking it, it didn't take long to get better, and it worked!"

"Come, brother get closer, I'll continue to help you heal~"

As she spoke, the little girl came over again, stretched out her soft tongue with all her might, and just threw it on Xingyan's face.

"Oh, sister, don't mess around~"

This healing object is hurriedly pushing this little girl who is eager to save people.

"Brother, don't just hide! don't heal by mistake~"

Now, Xingyan is holding a hand against Xiao Qiongwei's cheeks, preventing her from coming up again, and the little girl does not back down, she only wants to come over to "heal" her brother. As a result, Xiao Qiongwei's cheeks, which had been raised a little bulging recently, were being pushed into a ridiculous appearance by the young man, and the little mouth was also squeezed up.

While the brother and sister were laughing and refusing, they suddenly heard a knock on the door, and someone was pushing the door in.

"It's Sister Xueyi!"

The person who pushed the door into the house was Kou Xueyi, who was in tears last night. Now, Kou Xueyi seemed to have returned to normal, holding a clay bowl in her hand, carefully carrying it into the room. Xingyan took advantage of the little girl's distraction, and got up from the bed as soon as she was bone, looking for her shoes, and getting down to the ground as fast as she could.

Although it is summer now, the stone house is cool, and Xingyan has always slept in clothes. It is precisely because of this that this Kou Xueyi will directly push the door in.

Xingyan straightened his clothes slightly, and saw that there was a pool of dark blue juice in the pottery bowl in Xue Yi's hand, and felt a little strange, so he asked:

"Miss Kou, this bowl is filled with ......"

"Bow to the hall master, this is the decoction that the sin slave suffered this morning, and it is about to be offered to the hall master to drink. ”

With that, Kou Xueyi stretched her hands forward slightly and handed the soup bowl containing the medicine in front of the young man.

"Heh~ Miss Xueyi has a heart. Thank you!"

As soon as he heard that this was a medicinal soup, he immediately felt that his right cheek was really hot, so he thanked him, quickly took the medicine bowl, and began to sip without hesitation.

The bowl of Wubi medicinal soup that the young man was drinking, although the entrance was very bitter, but it contained a special fragrance, just smelling the smell, it made people feel refreshed.

And the person who boiled the medicine was also very careful, this bowl of medicinal soup was cool in the mouth, and it was estimated that it had been soaked in the cold spring water for a long time, without a trace of inflammation.

Therefore, the combination of these three points of coolness and the three points of fragrance makes this bowl of bitter medicine not very difficult to swallow. After a while, Xingyan drank the bowl of medicinal soup presented by Xue Yi.

Putting the pottery bowl on the stone table next to him, Xingyan asked with some curiosity:

"This bowl of medicinal soup is really refreshing, it seems to be made by the Lang Zhong who has accumulated years - Xue Yi, what herbs are you using in this bowl of medicinal soup?"

Hearing the sober question, Kou Xue Yi replied:

"Bow to the hall master, there is a festival in this soup. ”

"Not bad! The taste of Jiehua is bitter and flat, which can eliminate dead skin and muscles, and activate blood and qi. ”

"And rohu. ”

"This taste is also appropriate, rohu can cure wind heat and dead muscles, moisturize the color, is exactly the right symptom. ”

"And Urushi. ”

"Well, the lacquer taste is bitter and slightly cold, it can soothe the dry skin and reduce the swelling of the limbs - but I am not so serious!

"And motherwort. ”

"Yo, knowing that the mother has a bitter taste, slightly cold and non-toxic, can remove cold and heat, and treat blood accumulation. Speaking of which, I was really surprised by you yesterday. ”

As soon as the words of Xingyan's unintentional quick words fell, he suddenly saw Kou Xueyi who was answering respectfully in front of him, "plopped" and bowed down the dust, touched the ground with his forehead, and said in a trembling voice:

"Last night, the maid was speechless, and he disobeyed the prestige of the hall master, please punish the hall master!"

"Alas, here we go again!"

Although Kou Xueyi's kneeling was quite sudden, judging from her various respectful feelings in the past, it is not surprising that she made such a move today after impulsively slapping last night. Therefore, Xue Yi suddenly knelt down, and Xingyan did not "accumulate blood and be shocked", and then said the opening words calmly:

"Miss Xueyi, the fault of yesterday is not entirely yours, and I also have something to think about; ”

"Besides, I'm afraid this bowl of medicinal soup just now took a lot of effort on your part, right? Seeing that you are covered with scars, you must have gone to the mountains early in the morning to pick herbs, right?

As he spoke, Xingyan stepped forward to pick up the snow.

When Kou Xueyi stood up and raised her head with the support of the young man, Xingyan saw that she was already in tears.

"Sister Xueyi, why are you crying again?"

The little girl next to her was full of confusion and was cautiously asking aloud.

"Qiong Wei, you don't know, this should be your crying sister Xueyi, who was moved to tears by what my brother just said - it's not light!"

In view of the entanglement after last night, Xingyan hurriedly explained. However, he still had some doubts in his heart:

"This Xueyi girl is really a little abnormal...... Is what I just said so moving?

Without reminding Yan that there were some doubts in his heart, the little sister Qiong Wei beside him was convinced of his explanation, and the little girl was gesturing her fingers and said with an innocent expression:

"Well, my brother just likes to listen to it. Sister Xueyi, it turns out that you and I love to cry!"

Hearing the little girl's innocent words, Kou Xueyi, who was full of tears, immediately disappeared and showed a faint smile:

"My sister didn't cry so much before. ”

The language was still slightly choked, but the speaker's mood was obviously no longer low.

The heartfelt smile on Kou Xueyi's face, although it seemed to be traceless, but in Xingyan's eyes, it had been magnified into an incomparably bright smile. Because, I'm afraid this is the first time that Kou Xueyi has shown a natural smile in front of him. Seeing this situation, Xingyan was also very relieved in his heart:

"It seems that the slap I received yesterday is worth it! In this way, this Kou girl seems to have completely untied the knot in her heart that has been depressed for a long time!"

Thinking of the palm I received last night, my eyes unconsciously swept over the pottery bowl on the next few cases. Glancing at this empty medicine bowl, Xingyan's heart moved:

"It's strange to say that this Kou girl knows so much about pharmacology. Although I know the names of these herbs from books, I only recognize some of the most common herbs. If I really go to the mountains to pick all the picks, I'm afraid it will be very difficult. ”

After he told Xue Yi about the doubts in his heart, this Kou Xue Yi told him that her family had been collecting herbs for a living, and she had been familiar with these herbs since she was a child.

This statement is also reasonable, and after a few sighs of praise, Kou Xueyi temporarily retired and went out of the house to fetch some cold spring water to cover his face.

Seeing that Xue Yi went out to fetch water, and finally let Xiao Qiongwei find a gap, the little girl hurriedly approached and enthusiastically suggested:

"Brother~ I'll lick it for you again, it's as effective as drinking medicine!~"

"Thank you, I'm feeling better now, next time!"

After this turmoil, Xingyan didn't have the heart to teach any lessons. So in the afternoon, he took Qiong Wei Xueyi to Nalian Lake for recreation.

When she arrived at the edge of the lotus pond, Qiong Wei was greedy for the clear blue water of the lake, so she shouted to go down to swim. And under her encouragement, Kou Xueyi, another member of the Sihai Hall, actually nodded half-shyly in favor of the proposal.

In this way, the always enlightened hall master could not object, so he had to agree to let them go into the water. And he himself had to stay on the shore of the lake and take on the task of watching the wind - this summer retreat of Sihaitang, although quiet and remote, is not completely uninhabited. In the shade of the willows on the southwest shore of Nalian Lake, there is a small bamboo raft tied to it, swinging leisurely by the water, and I don't know who the owner is.

In this way, these two virgin girls in the Sihai Hall want to go to this lake to bathe and play, and naturally the person who looks at the wind is indispensable. Although Qiong Wei and Xueyi were a little confused, they were very clear in their hearts, so they volunteered to take on the responsibility of looking at the wind.

Now, the hall master Zhang is sitting in the shade of the willows on the shore of the lake, looking nervously around from time to time, and the reeds where the second daughter hangs her clothes not far away are the area he focuses on.

Just when the young man was dutifully watching the wind, in the layers of green lotus leaves in the distance, there were bursts of coquettish laughter from his daughter's family from time to time.

And the coquettish laughter of these two girls when they were playing in the water reached the ears of the hall master Zhang who was sitting and watching the wind, which inevitably made him a little annoyed:

"If I had known that I had made the first proposal, I am afraid that the person sitting here sullen would not be me...... Speaking of which, I haven't practiced the 'Water Spell' and 'Instant Water Trick' for a long time. ”

Looking at the clear blue water in front of him, the young man couldn't help but feel a little greedy.

Sitting on the shore of the lake, after a long time, it becomes a little boring. So, Xingyan tossed the jade pendant he was wearing with him and chatted to pass the time. took this jade pendant and rubbed it on his right cheek, and came to the conclusion that this jade pendant could not reduce swelling.

Xingyan rubbed the jade in his hand, and involuntarily remembered its original owner, the girl Juying.

It's just that the boy has become more calm about this hazy relationship that can only exist in the past. Feeling the coolness of this piece of warm jade from his hand, he said to himself in his heart:

"Now you can at least often look at Ju Ying's portable jade pendant, it's already good!"

Before I knew it, the shadow was gradually moving westward, and after about half an hour, the laughter and laughter in the lotus waves were gradually calming down. After a while, Xingyan saw the two girls, dressed and strolling along the reedy shore.

After the clear water in the lake, the two beautiful girls in front of Xingyan still have a little crystal droplets on their powder, and after this slanting sun, they look extraordinarily Mingna delicate, just like the hibiscus in the bath water.

When he was awakening and feeling refreshed, he was surprised to find that Kou Xueyi looked at it slightly, and there was a circle of shy blush on the pretty face like a pink lotus in the lake.

Seeing this, the young man was very pleased:

"Well, it was really worth the slap I received last night. This Kou girl, who has always been as cold as a plum, actually knows how to be shy in front of me! It seems that she is really normal. ”

Slightly wiped off the dripping water on the tip of Qiong Wei's nose, and Xingyan led everyone in the hall to turn around towards the Thousand Bird Cliff.

Not long after the three of them reached Baoxia Peak, they saw several Shangqing Taoist priests on the opposite side, who were floating towards this side.

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