The wooden house is elegant and clean. The curtain-covered main room is covered with a mat made of reeds, with a small pine coffee table and two futons placed in the middle. Peng Qingying took off the clogs on her feet and walked into the house with bare feet. Li Yuan also followed her example and took off his shoes to avoid bringing dirt and grass clippings into the house.
Peng Qingying cast an approving look, pointed at the futon and said, "Sit down first, and I'll boil water for tea."
Li Yuan nodded and sat on the futon, looking around at the furnishings in the hall. The furnishings in the room are very simple. There are several wooden statues placed on the first incense eucalyptus. They are presumably the gods of the Five Streams as the Dongxi people call them. There are also three sticks of residual incense stuck in the incense burner.
There is a small bamboo stand near the main entrance, with several thin-waisted clay pots on it, and a few unknown flowers in full bloom in the pots. There are no decorations such as calligraphy and painting on the wall. There are only a pointed hat and a raincoat hanging on the wall. Other than that, there is nothing else in the room. It can be described as refreshing and quiet.
The breeze outside the house passed through the curtains, blowing softly, and the curtains swayed, making Li Yuan sitting in the house feel very cool and comfortable. He couldn't help but think that if it was the scorching heat of midsummer, he could live here to escape the scorching heat. If so, it should be an excellent place to escape the summer heat.
With soft footsteps, Peng Qingying, covered in leather skirt, walked out of the room, holding a crimson tea tray in her hand. Peng Qingying's silver hairband has been taken off, and she has styled her hair into a delicate flowing cloud bun in the style of the Han people. It has obviously been rearranged just now, and there are still traces of combing with a wooden comb dipped in water between her hair.
Peng Qingying gently brewed a cup of tea for Li Yuan. When the tea fell into the bowl, it made a sound of "coo, coo, coo," which was particularly pleasant in this quiet place.
"Captain, please have tea." Peng Qingying said with a smile.
Li Yuan grinned and said, "I wonder if you still remember that I like to drink water and make tea. Just now I was worried that you had cooked a big pot of tea soup."
Peng Qingying said angrily: "Who specifically remembers what kind of tea you like to drink? It's just that I also like drinking tea. If you want to drink tea soup, I can't make it..."
Li Yuan smiled and thought to himself, this girl's mouth is quite tough. The three states of Dongxi have been influenced by Han culture for I don't know how many years. In the governor's house of Xizhou, the tea is boiled with leftover ingredients. How can I drink clear tea? The truth? But there's no need to argue with her, just know it.
Li Yuan picked up the tea bowl and took a breath of the aroma and said, "Good tea, so fragrant."
"This is the high mountain tea on the mountainside of Wushan Mountain, but it is very rare. I picked it myself. You know, there are only a few dozen tea trees surviving on this high mountain." Peng Qingying said with a smile.
Li Yuan nodded and said: "Then I have to taste it." Then he picked up the tea cup and blew away the heat on the tea before opening his mouth to drink.
"Wait a minute, aren't you afraid that I'll put something in the tea? You know this is Cave Creek, and we are good at all kinds of poisons here." Peng Qingying suddenly stopped Li Yuan, tilted her head and looked at Li Yuan, her eyes twinkling. With a cunning light.
Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly and said: "Is it poisonous? Hahaha, I have no grudge against you, don't joke."
"It's hard to say... I can tell you that there is a strange poison in this tea. If you drink this tea, everything will be under my control from now on. What can I say? You will do whatever you want, and you will take it for granted. You must think carefully, the powerful Governor of Dongxi, and don’t let someone like me take advantage of you!"
Li Yuan laughed loudly, stretched out his mouth to drink the tea in one gulp, smacked his lips and said: "Good tea, good tea, you shouldn't drink it so much, you should taste it slowly! Well, being able to drink such good tea is a Chinese dream." So what if I'm poisoned? Besides, it's worth it if a beautiful woman like you controls your mind."
When Peng Qingying saw Li Yuan drink up the tea without hesitation, her face turned slightly red and she smiled. Just when he was about to speak, he heard Li Yuan shout: "No, I'm so hungry. Do you have anything to eat? Just bring it to satisfy your hunger. To quench your thirst, you need to quench your hunger. Send Buddha to Xi, this is the way to treat guests."
Hearing this, Peng Qingying got up and walked into the house. After a while, she came out with a delicate small box in her hand. She took out a few small dishes of snacks and placed them on the table. She put her hands on her hips and said, "Eat when you are hungry. You came to visit me and didn't bring anything with you." No gift comes, but you want to eat and drink from me. Is there a visitor like you?"
Li Yuan smiled and said: "You are Peng Guogong's biological sister. How can you be so stingy? Can you eat a few snacks to make you exhausted?" After saying that, he reached out his hand to grab the exquisitely shaped plate of snacks.
Peng Qingying spat: "As expected, it is easy for a man to have a wife, and not to be a householder! I live in the mountains, and I don't have maids or servants to serve me. Apart from simple rice grains sent up by my elder brother, I have nothing to eat or drink." You cook them all by yourself, do you think it’s easy to make these snacks?”
Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, then pointed his finger and praised: "It's amazing. You have such a status, but you can make enough food and clothing by yourself. To do this, I look at you in a different light! Since it is the pastry made by you, I want to eat a few pieces. ”
After saying that, Li Yuan stretched out his hand to twist a small piece of pastry and put it into his mouth. He took a bite and chewed it a few times. His eyes widened and he exclaimed: "Yeah! It's delicious. It's delicious. It's sweet and not greasy, and it melts in your mouth." With such a clever mind, whoever marries you will be really lucky!"
Hearing these words, Peng Qingying didn't know what to think about, and blushed suddenly. Naturally, she couldn't help but feel happy after receiving Li Yuan's praise. She hurriedly lowered her head and fluttered her long eyelashes and said: "Your mouth is really sweet, how can it be so delicious?" ..."
However, Li Yuan is really just sweet-talking. Since he took the post of Yuhou, the capital of the palace, last year, he has eaten countless exquisite snacks in Zhenzhen now. The taste of these snacks made by Peng Qingying is obviously far different. , and the proportion of seasonings was obviously wrong. It was sweet, but too sweet.
It doesn't melt in your mouth at all. It feels like a hard stone in your mouth. It must be melted with saliva before it can be chewed and swallowed. However, so what if you tell lies just to make her laugh?
"It's delicious. The key to whether a snack is delicious or not depends on the person who makes it. Eating snacks can reveal the thoughts of the person who made the snacks, and even the mood of the person who made the snacks at that time. This snack is so sweet, it must be When you do it, you must be thinking of something happy or the person you like."
Li Yuan was making nonsense, but pretending to mean it unintentionally, while he swallowed the sawdust-like snack with tea.
Peng Qingying seemed to have been told something that was on her mind. Her little mouth moved slightly and she said angrily: "The more I talk about it, the more mysterious it becomes. How can I have someone I like..."
Having said that, regardless of whether Li Yuan's words were meant for fun or as a deliberate hint, Peng Qingying still felt very happy. At this time, the embarrassment when the two met for the first time had been wiped away, and a wave of excitement began to rise in the air. A strange atmosphere comes.
