Ye Zhiqiu got up and went to the room to see his daughter who woke up from crying. Mu Mu followed behind jumping to see her sister.
The husband looked at the nervous wife and said, "It's not your first time to be a father. Naturally, the child is crying because he is hungry. There is a mother to feed her. Why do you worry?"
"Li Ye is different from Xiaoxue... He has never been worried about since he was born. Of course, except that it was much later when he could speak, I was in a more chaotic mood than now. I just hope that my daughter can be ordinary." ."
The master looked at the gentleman and said softly.
After a moment of silence, he continued: "Parents want their children to be strong, but at the same time, they also hope that they can live a safe and happy life without experiencing too much suffering."
The teacher looked at him and frowned and said, "Ye'er will suffer more in the future. It can be said that his suffering has not yet begun."
The master sighed slightly and said slowly: "There is nothing we can do about it. This is his life. He was born to be different. Fortunately, he met his husband. Otherwise, we would not know... Both of us are very grateful to you, sir, because We don’t have the ability to teach him, so we can only drag him to the master.”
The husband said displeased: "What you are saying is all nonsense. He is my apprentice, so I will naturally work hard to teach him well. Is it possible that in the future he will travel around the world and let people know that he has an irresponsible husband?"
Ye Zhiqiu carried Li Xiaoxue to the flower hall. Li Hongxiu moved closer and wanted to reach out to hug her, but felt something was wrong, so he had to lift the small silk scarf covering her.
After eating, Li Xiaoxue opened her eyes and looked at Li Hongxiu, feeling that the person in front of her was familiar yet unfamiliar. After a while, she looked at Li Hongxiu with a grin on her face and smiled.
This smile made her feel maternal in her heart, and she wished she could give birth to a baby tomorrow.
Mu Mu moved her head closer, looked at Li Xiaoxue in Ye Zhiqiu's arms, and opened her mouth to call her sister softly.
Li Xiaoxue, who heard the sound, opened her eyes and looked at the young lady in front of her, a little confused.
Ye Zhiqiu looked at her and smiled: "Is she still young now? If you want her to call you sister, you have to wait for another year. It will be almost ready by this time next year."
Mu Mu replied with a yes, but her eyes were fixed on Li Xiaoxue.
Li Hongxiu also stared at Li Xiaoxue blankly, reaching out to hug her, but she immediately took it back.
Ye Zhiqiu looked at the helpless Li Hongxiu and said with a smile: "She is too young for you to hold. If you like children, hurry up and get married to your husband. Work harder. You can be a mother by this time next year."
Li Hongxiu's face was suddenly stained with two red clouds, and she turned her head to look at the gentleman who was drinking tea with his wife.
When the master saw this, he laughed loudly, patted the husband's hand and said, "This restaurant is ready-made, you just need to say something, and I will take care of the posting and promotion for you."
The husband ignored him, knocked on the table and said, "Even if Hong Xiu and I are going to get married, we will have to wait until the disciples from Tianshan Mountain come down. His contribution to Hong Xiu and I's affairs will be indispensable."
Ye Zhiqiu smiled and said: "Why does this involve my Ye'er again? Isn't this a matter between the two of you?"
The Master was silent for a long time, with a look of helplessness on his face.
He said with emotion: "The problem is that if Ye'er hadn't shown so strongly that he could write poetry, Li Hongxiu wouldn't have noticed him. If he didn't notice him, he wouldn't have run into my yard again and again, so that I couldn't even take him with me. He hid in the depths of the Tianshan Mountains. I didn’t expect that Hong Xiu, a stubborn person, would be unreasonable and pursue him all the way up the Tianshan Mountains.”
"Tell me, is there a lot of confusion about this matter with Ye'er! He's not here... you asked me to go get married. If he finds out later, will he scold me for leaving him alone in Tianshan? Hiding in the city and being happy?"
The gentleman looked at the two of them and muttered.
The master didn't pay attention to the expressions of the two of them. He waved his hand and took the initiative to pick up the purple sand and heat tea in the cups of the master and Li Hongxiu.
Shaking his head, he said: "If according to your statement, my son who knows nothing about the world has become your matchmaker, do you think you are going to give our family a big red envelope on the day you get married? Come on. Stop the mouth of this ignorant father like me."
Li Hongxiu smiled and stared at the gentleman with a pair of phoenix eyes.
He said embarrassedly: "Oh, what is this? Even that little brat can be our matchmaker. This is what I am happy to do, okay?"
Ye Zhiqiu came over with the child in his arms, pinched Li Hongxiu, and said carelessly: "You are not a shy girl, if it weren't for my Li Ye, you and your husband would still be two bachelors now. What are you talking about?" When Ye'er comes down from the mountain, get this matter done immediately so that we don't have to worry about you two later."
The north wind was blowing lightly, and the master waved to Ye Zhiqiu, asking her to carry Li Xiaoxue to the back room to avoid the wind. Then he turned around and called Agui to bring the hot pot.
Agui, who was busy in the kitchen, responded and replied: "Just come!"
...
At half past noon, the large round table in the flower hall was filled with hot pot side dishes. According to the method Li Ye taught Ye Zhiqiu, two charcoal stoves were placed on the table.
There are two iron pots, one pot is filled with Sichuan peppercorn butter and spicy soup base, and the other pot is filled with mushroom, Polygonatum odorifera and Ganoderma lucidum soup base brought from Tianshan Mountain.
The antelope meat that Xiaoqing brought back was cut into six plates. Ye Zhiqiu asked Agui to leave two plates for the servants in the kitchen, and there were exactly four plates on the table.
Agui also prepared a lot of bamboo shoot tips, winter melon slices, lotus root slices, tofu, vermicelli, radish, and mushrooms as side dishes.
The husband patted away the urn prepared by the master, and suddenly a strong aroma of wine and hot pot spread in the flower hall.
He poured a full cup for the Master and Li Hongxiu, and the husband poured it for himself, and poured half a cup each for Mu Mu and Xiao Qing.
Mumu stood on the stool and shouted: "I want to put sesame sauce, peanut butter, salt, hot sauce, spices..."
Ye Zhiqiu had a headache, thinking that this little girl wanted everything, but when it came to eating, she showed her true nature as a foodie.
The master asked everyone to put in the sauce, pointed to the red antelope meat on the plate and said: "Try the meat brought from Tianshan in the night. Mu Mu, Xiao Qing and Madam should eat the bottom of the clear soup pot. Let's try it." Try the taste of this red soup.”
Li Hongxiu raised the wine glass in front of her, looked at Ye Zhiqiu and said, "Sister, if you don't drink, I will drink for you today. Come on, two great men, I'll drink with you!"
Mu Mu also imitated her and held up the wine glass, ran over and gave Li Hongxiu a gentle tap, then jumped back to sit on her stool.
Xiao Qing was very quiet. She just raised her cup and saluted Jie Hongxiu and her husband and wife, and took a small sip herself.
The master stood up, raised the glass in front of him and drank it all in one gulp, then looked at the husband without speaking.
The husband shook his head helplessly, thinking how could he meet a woman who loves drinking so much?
He stood up reluctantly, raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp. "I'm not good at drinking. I'll drink as you wish next."
Mu Mu glared at Li Hongxiu, does that mean you have forgotten what I told you? Be careful when drinking in front of your husband, or he won't want you anymore.
Li Hongxiu pretended not to notice, twisted and sat down.
He stretched out his hand, picked up a chopstick of antelope meat, and poured it into the hot pot with red soup.
Ye Zhiqiu asked Mu Mu and Xiao Qing to put meat and vegetables into the bottom of the clear soup pot, and Xiao Qing quietly helped put the vegetables.
Only Mu Mu kept chirping. "Xiaoqing, tell me honestly, did my brother treat you to hot pot on the mountain?"
Xiao Qing blushed and said: "Where is it? He just marinated the meat and grilled it to eat. I took a small sip of the wine, and he drank half the cup. The rest of the jar of wine was all drunk by Senior Ape. ."
"We can't let him be happy alone in the mountain. When the snow melts in spring, I will go up the mountain to find him!" Mu Mu clenched her fists.
While putting vegetables into the pot, the husband looked at Mu Mu and said, "The place where Ye'er is staying is extremely dangerous. Even I can't climb up. With your current state, you can only cry at the foot of the mountain."
Mu Mu didn't believe it and looked at Xiaoqing with her big eyes.
Xiaoqing looked at her appearance, covering her mouth gently and smiling. After a while, he said: "If I couldn't fly, I wouldn't be able to go to that place. I really don't know how Li Ye climbed up with Xiaobai in the first place."
Li Hongxiu drank three glasses of wine with his wife. Since he had not eaten any food, he was so drunk that he could not notice the details of the conversation between Mu Mu and Xiao Qing.
While pouring wine into his mouth, he expressed his feelings about life. He looked at his husband and said, "I really don't know how to live without you..."
The husband had a headache, so he quickly put some pieces of meat into her bowl, as well as some radishes and tofu.
He patted her back and said softly: "No matter how good the wine is, this is not how you drink it. Eat some meat and vegetables first, and then drink it when you are full."
"Hongxiu, look how kind your husband is to you, you can't bully him in the future." Ye Zhiqiu finished picking up the dishes for the two little girls, then picked up a piece of meat for himself, and brought it to his mouth with the sauce on it.
"Don't worry, sister, I will definitely not bully him. I will only follow him. Wherever he goes I will go? I will never separate." Li Hongxiu waved to Ye Zhiqiu.
The husband looked at the people around him and thought that although he had lived in seclusion in Fengyun City for nearly ten years, he always hid in the Zizhu Courtyard alone and enjoyed the peace and quiet.
In the past ten years, the number of social events has not been as high as in the past few months. It seems that no matter whether it is a man or a woman, once there is love, there will be care, and when there is care, there will be many worries.
He also thought that his disciples had actually followed the old monks of the Great Buddhist Temple to practice Buddhism very early. The Buddhists themselves were so cultivated that they didn’t even pay much attention to worldly affairs, let alone the small loves of these ordinary people?
But it happened that Li Ye was born with passion. He fell in love with two little girls when he was not very old, and even made a marriage agreement early.
When he went to Tianshan to practice, he found Mu Mu, a quirky little girl. He didn't know what this little girl thought about Li Ye.
Presumably he will not be able to avoid these worldly troubles in the future. If he cannot seek the Buddha, he will eventually be unable to seek himself.
Looking at the master who was drinking a small amount of wine, Li Hongxiu who was eating a lot of meat, and Ye Zhiqiu who was greeting the two little girls to eat vegetables with a gentle face, the husband let out a long sigh.
I have been practicing for decades or hundreds of years, and I have always wanted to stay away from the worldly world. I didn't expect that in the end I would let my apprentice drag me into this world of mortals.
At this moment, the husband finally let go of his attachments and accepted his fate.
I thought that following Li Ye around would be a great pleasure in life, having a gentle and kind-hearted Li Hongxiu by my side.
It's just that he likes to drink, and he needs to be disciplined when he comes back.
"Sir, eat more of this meat. This is your apprentice's filial piety to you. We have all benefited from you, and we cannot live without you."
Li Hongxiu, who was a little drunk, finally couldn't help praising her man.
Mu Mu drank half a glass of wine and was a little tipsy. He sat at the table, shook his little head like Li Ye, and recited a poem loudly:
It's snowing in the evening, and I can't help but drink a cup.
In an instant, there was joyful laughter in the flower room.
The wind outside the hall was blowing gently.
The snow in the sky is quietly sprinkled on the roof and garden outside the flower hall.
