Wei Yu noticed Su Jiuyao's eyes and turned to look at him.
However, the young man walked away by himself, called several children into the house, and asked them about their recent situation.
Several sensible children were extremely worried when they saw the injuries on his face and hands. Children's emotions are very straightforward and they couldn't even ask a few words. Although Su Jiuyao said it was nothing, there was still a lot of crying in the room.
Wei Yufang comforted the baby, but when he was attracted by the situation inside, the baby flattened his mouth and wanted to cry.
"No, stop it..." Wei Yu was at a loss. She knew a little about being good at dancing with long sleeves, but she knew nothing about children.
Fortunately, at this moment, there were rapid footsteps outside the gate, and then Fei Lian's voice shouted: "I'm back!"
Wei Yu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that Xiao Fei Lian was like a savior, and the child who was originally in tears miraculously changed from crying to laughing when he saw Fei Lian, and kept kicking his calves trying to stand up. As if standing up to greet him, Wei Yu was stunned by the rapid change of feelings.
Although Fei Lian is a child, he handles things neatly: "Here are good white jade lotus roots, lean pork ribs, and Zhang Ji's tofu. Shopkeeper Ming knew how to make jade crumb rice, so he specially gave me some good sorghum rice and mung beans." , and some Japonica rice..."
Su Jiuyao asked: "Is there any more sweet-scented osmanthus honey left?"
Fei Lian scratched his head: "They all like to drink water mixed with sweet-scented osmanthus and honey, and there is only a little bit left."
Su Jiuyao said: "We can do it later, but now you go and make a drink for..." He glanced at Wei Yu: "Drink for inspection."
Fei Lian chuckled and said, "Brother Ninth, why do you give all the good stuff to the guards for inspection?"
Su Jiuyao ignored him, asked Fei Lian to look after the children, and then took the things himself.
Fei Lianfeng entered the room, and after a while, he came out with a rough white porcelain bowl and handed it to Wei Yu. Before Wei Yu could get it, he smelled a slightly sweet fragrance. He looked into the bowl and saw a little bit of delicate osmanthus floating on the light golden water. It turned out to be water mixed with osmanthus honey.
Wei Yuzheng was thirsty. As if he saw sweet rain, he drank water slowly with a bowl in his hand, and then strolled around the front hall of Chunyang Temple. Although it was simple and crude, it was an ancient Taoist temple passed down to this day, especially those The wood carvings and stone sculptures are quite impressive.
Wei Yu looked for a long time and felt a little tired. He came under the eaves. On the left side of the room was an old Taoist priest who was drunk to death. He was so drunk. On the other side, Fei Lian was leading the children. It was very noisy. Wei Yu didn't want to go anywhere. , I want to see Su Jiuyao cooking, but I don’t know where the kitchen is. This Chunyang Palace is worthy of the saying "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse". The place is quite big, but there are very few people, and the old ones are very old. For example, the old Taoist priest is too young, only two or three years old.
But Wei Yu didn't need to worry, because there was a strange fragrance in the air, as if invisible threads were pulling her forward, pulling her forward.
Wei Yuxunxiang turned around the corner door, turned across the hall, and saw Su Jiuyao.
The pot was sizzling, and a pottery pot next to it was steaming. The aromas from both places were equally tempting. Wei Yu seemed like a dog who had been hungry for countless days and suddenly discovered the delicious food. , was so excited that she didn’t know which one to go to first, and she also forgot to tell whether the fragrance that attracted her came from the pot or the jar, or both.
"What are you doing?" She pretended to stroll over with some reserve.
Su Jiuyao took out a piece of fried half-yellow tofu from the pot. Wei Yu looked at the attractive light yellow color and his eyes began to shine: "Give me a taste?"
"It's not done yet." Su Jiuyao put the tofu on the plate next to him.
Wei Yu couldn't help but get closer, only to find that he had fried several pieces. She looked at it a few more times, and the saliva in her mouth began to flow desperately.
Su Jiuyao was staring at the pot and noticed that she was not moving beside him, so he turned around and saw her looking at him longingly.
The young man hesitated to speak, and only said dullly: "This doesn't taste good."
"I just want to taste it." Wei Yu said shamelessly.
"Alas." He sighed helplessly, as if to compromise: "It's up to you. Don't complain if it doesn't taste good."
The light in Wei Yu's eyes almost burned the tofu on the plate: "I know, I know." He raised his hand to take it, but the young man stopped him: "The top is hot."
He took a pair of bamboo chopsticks and handed them to Wei Yu: "Don't worry, blow on it before eating."
Wei Yu originally wanted to use her hands, but when she saw this, she had to pretend to take it, picked up a piece, and saw that it was cut very thin and fried evenly and completely. She didn't have time to admire it, so she quickly blew it and took a bite carefully.
Fragrant, tender and smooth...the thin slices of tofu "exploded" in her mouth, and there seemed to be fresh juice overflowing. She narrowed her eyes slightly and couldn't bear to swallow it.
After coming back to his senses, Wei Yu said: "Why don't you just eat like this?"
Su Jiuyao looked at her in shock: "What are you talking about, making lotus leaf tofu."
"It's good to eat like this." She couldn't wait.
The young man pursed his lips, with an expression of hatred on his face: "Get out."
"Then I'll eat another piece," Wei Yu stretched out her chopsticks to pick it up, but her nose tilted to the side in a new and distasteful way, and she followed the wall out of the corner of her eye: "What is that?" she asked, staring at the casserole next to her.
"Lotus root and pork ribs soup. Originally..."
She didn't even have time to hear his explanation: "I'll give it a try..."
Su Jiuyao pursed his lips tighter: "It's not cooked yet."
Wei Yu sighed and took two steps back with difficulty before the boy got angry. When she was about to leave, she thought of a question: "How did you do this?"
Su Jiuyao paused: "What?"
"Cooking. At your age..." She originally wanted to say "your temperament", "You definitely don't seem to be someone who can do this."
Su Jiuyao lowered his eyes, and she saw that his extremely long eyelashes were drooping. They were less sharp and showed a bit of grace. They didn't look like he had been ruthless before.
He said: "Didn't you see it?"
"What did you see?"
"There are so many mouths in the temple waiting for food, so naturally... I have to be forced to learn some."
Wei Yu's heart was shocked: "But, but..."
Su Jiuyao didn't wait for her "yes", he just turned over a piece of tofu silently and said in a calm voice: "When people are the most miserable, they always want to eat something sweet. When they are the most hungry, what? They can all be eaten, so I want to make things more delicious and dilute the bitterness."
These simple words were like a flood and a hurricane, which almost engulfed Wei Yu and almost suffocated him.
"you……"
She thought of the ragged children outside, and her eyes suddenly became moist. She tried her best to suppress this feeling, coughed, and tried to make her words easier: "By the way, I passed by the restaurant of shopkeeper Ming earlier, and I heard that Fei Fei Lian makes Shunqi radish soup for her and gets two taels of silver per bowl. Is it also to feed these children?"
"right."
"These children..." Wei Yu wanted to ask about the origins of these children, but think about it, war, famine, accidents... there would be a few helpless orphans.
She changed the subject: "I heard shopkeeper Ming complaining that you refused to cook for her. It would be easier if you went... Are you not going because you are in the military?"
Su Jiuyao picked out the last piece of tofu: "I don't make things for outsiders, and I can't make them well."
"What...are you called an outsider?"
After a moment of silence, he said: "People I don't like."
Inexplicably, Wei Yu's originally depressed mood suddenly became a little brighter because of this. She took a step back and leaned against the door frame, and asked with a smile: "If you do it for me, then... I will be the person you like?"
Su Jiuyao didn't answer, but walked to the casserole and opened the lid. The smell that came out made Wei Yu forget all his questions and wanted to rush over.
The young man took a rough pottery bowl, scooped out a spoonful of soup, turned around and handed it to Wei Yu: "Drink."
Wei Yu took it with both hands with almost tears of gratitude and blew the hot air. He was almost intoxicated by the fragrant aroma, but there was still a trace of clarity: "Didn't you say it's not cooked yet? Give me the soup now. Do you want it?" Block my mouth?"
The young man pursed his lips, but this time there was a smile. He turned around and said, "You saved me, which means you saved them. Besides... at least, I don't hate you."
Wei Yu raised his lips and smiled, sighing: "Since you are still thinking about the little guys here, why didn't you think about the consequences before you took action?"
The young man's face cleared up but became depressed again because of these words.
Wei Yu also knew that he shouldn't say this, so he said loudly: "It smells so good, I won't tell you anymore." He took a few steps away with the bowl in hand and heard a faint noise in front of him.
She was reluctant to part with the bowl of soup she had just received. When she arrived at the corner door carefully, she saw an uninvited guest standing under the eaves. It turned out to be the very unpleasant shopkeeper Ming.
Mingli held a large food box in her hand and was chattering. Feilian and the other children stood in front of her, all of them looking excited.
Wei Yu didn't move forward either. He just leaned against the corner door to watch the excitement. He heard Ming Li say: "I'm thinking about you guys. Isn't this... I'll send you good things as soon as possible." .”
Although the children were full of expectations, they did not take action. Fei Lian said: "Shopkeeper Ming, what are you getting? If you want to give something, just let Brother Wanglai deliver it. Why don't you go there in person?"
Mingli didn't hide it either: "Little Guitou, I came here while I was eating. Why do you think I came in person? Where is Xiao Jiuyao?" She had seen Wei Yu beside her, so she deliberately said in a long tone: " I want to take advantage of others today and enjoy the good fortune."
Wei Yu was drinking soup by himself. Hearing this, he drank up the soup in a few mouthfuls, and his originally pale face became a little moister.
She walked over with an empty bowl: "Shopkeeper Ming, we meet again so soon."
Fei Lian took the food box, and Ming Li bowed hypocritically and said with a smile: "I don't dare to accept it. If I had known that you were a patrol inspector, I wouldn't have dared to embarrass you even if you were killed."
Wei Yu didn't answer, but when he saw a delicate paper-cut red word "Happy" on the food box, he couldn't help but smile and asked: "Hey, whose family is hosting a happy event?"
Fei Lian and the children were also looking around the food box, and Ming Li said: "Our top rich man in Changhuai County, Shopkeeper Xu, has a happy family. I believe that his family thinks highly of him and gave him this box of cakes and snacks. I I brought it to them, after all, I’m here to eat and drink, so I can’t come empty-handed.”
Wei Yu thought to himself that the audacity of shopkeeper Ming was as good as his own.
At this time, the voice of the old Taoist priest Baishi came to mind in the room next to him: "The Xu family, the Xu family is having a happy event today..."
Mingli raised her voice and said: "Of course, you old man can do calculations, but you haven't calculated them till now?"
Jiang Baishi snorted coldly: "Those charlatans can only defraud people of money. They talk about auspicious days and unlucky times. How can they see the truth? However, according to Zhuan Xu's calendar, today is the evil day of Sanniang. As the saying goes, 'Welcome the bride' If there is no man or woman in marriage, there will be no couple of orphans and widows, there will be no one to live in front of the house, and if the house cannot be built, then there will be a funeral. Not only will the marriage not be successful, but there will also be a bloody disaster."
Ming Li hurriedly spat: "Bah, you can accumulate some great virtue. If you don't raise money for a happy event, don't say anything depressing."
The old Taoist priest said: "Whether my words are effective or not, I will verify it within three days."
Wei Yu was listening leisurely, not paying much attention at all. Listening to the conversation between the two of them, a flash of light flashed through his mind, as if he remembered something.
