The military conscription was in April every year. Nie Zhao did not tell Jiang Yue until the matter was completed. Life was the same as before, no different.
He made an unedged sword and handed it to Jiang Yue, letting her try to control it first, and then went into the kitchen to cook. Nie Zhao recently bought a few cookbooks and was studying cooking skills.
Today's dinner is pork sandwich, pickled tomato, and a pot of thick white and delicious fish soup.
Although the meat sandwich is filled with vegetarian food, he carefully controlled the heat and baked the cicada-shaped dough until it was golden and oily. When he put it in the basin, it made a crunchy sound. Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, extremely delicious.
There's nothing special about the pickled eggplant. He just added some marinated diced meat to it, which makes it taste more fragrant. The saved bits can be used for bibimbap or cooking noodles.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead and was very satisfied with his progress. When he went out to greet Jiang Yue for dinner, he saw her standing in front of the door with a sword in hand, talking to a boy in his late teens.
The man looked very familiar, like the young man who said goodbye to Jiang Yue in the academy a few days ago.
Nie Zhao felt that his memory was not bad, and he was not so dim-sighted yet.
The boy's face was as red as the last ray of sunset on the horizon, which was very annoying, especially when Jiang Yue was talking and laughing with him.
Nie Zhao walked forward, smiling but not smiling, and wiped his hands with his apron: "What? Your classmate? Let's come in and have dinner together."
Jiang Yue was an honest child. She really thought that Nie Zhao wanted to invite Rong Dainian, so she opened the door wide. She felt that if she wanted to marry him, she would have to have her third brother's consent.
Rong Dainian came in awkwardly and sat down at the table with them.
Nie Zhao didn't expect that he was really rude. He brought the food to the table angrily and said, "Eat."
Jiang Yue and Rong Dainian showed off: "My third brother's cooking is delicious, please try it quickly."
Apart from other things, Nie Zhao has now progressed to the point where at least the food looks good. Rong Dainian thanked Nie Zhao honestly and took a piece of meat sandwich. After taking a bite, his face turned green and white, but when he looked at Jiang Yue, He ate it with gusto, but he couldn't spit it out, so he had to bite the bullet and eat it in the bowl.
He felt that Jiang Yue was really pitiful for eating this kind of food with relish.
Rong Dainian thought he was being reserved, but in Nie Zhao's eyes, his distressed and pitiful look was a blatant attempt to take away his cabbage. His hand holding the chopsticks tightened tighter and tighter, and finally, There was only a "crack" sound, and the two chopsticks were broken into four sections and fell straight to the ground.
Jiang Yue and Rong Denian looked at him with shocked eyes. He clenched his back teeth and waved his hand: "It's okay."
He was sure that Jiang Yue didn't know anything. It was Rong Dainian, a black-hearted, filthy man, who deliberately wanted to seduce Jiang Yue. Jiang Yue was raised by him, and he knew best that she was simple and kind. , she didn’t understand anything, and it would be a dereliction of duty on his part if this dog named Rong was easily deceived at such a young age.
Nie Zhao knocked on Rong Dainian's bowl and glanced at him with a warning look: "Eat, don't look around, lest you see something you shouldn't see."
The meaning of the beating was already very strong. Rong Dainian quickly lowered his head and realized that it was Meng Lang who just met him.
Nie Zhao was a person who made the best of everything. Since Rong Dainian came to eat, he had to catch him and let him finish washing the dishes before leaving.
Jiang Yue looked at the other person's leaving figure and waved to him. Nie Zhao interrupted: "What are you looking at? Everyone has left. Come into the house and buy you something."
A bottle of very expensive moisturizer. Jiang Yue heard Li Baoyin say that her father had saved his salary for several months before buying a bottle for her and her mother.
Jiang Yue opened the lid and smelled it. It smelled really good. She liked it so much, but she put the lid back and said to Nie Zhao, "Third brother, I'll just smell it. You can take it back. Let's take it back." When I go out tomorrow, would you like to make some clothes?"
In fact, she has not grown much in height in the past two years, but the third brother has grown a lot visibly to the naked eye. The clothes he was wearing when we first saw him are now showing his wrists. When the cold wind blows in winter, his wrists will be blown away. Her hands were red from blowing. She didn't want any moisturizing cream. She wanted her third brother to make her own clothes.
She knew that the third brother was very spoiled by her. All the other classmates had been beaten, but she had not. As long as she cried, the third brother would not let her go. Even if the third brother did not make her own clothes in winter, he would make new ones for her.
The third brother was kind to her, but she didn't want to be a white-eyed wolf.
Nie Zhao pinched her face. Jiang Yue couldn't help but snort as the cracked area hurt by the cold wind.
"You still say no? Look, your face is so cold that the skin is peeling off." Nie Zhao washed a hot facekerchief and gently applied it on her face.
Jiang Yue said gloomily through the veil, "It's not that serious."
"How serious will it be? Wait until the whole face is frozen off?"
"Third brother, don't scare me." Jiang Yuezhen felt very uncomfortable thinking about the bloody scene.
Nie Zhao wiped her face clean, put some ointment on his fingertips, put it in his palms and rubbed it with his body temperature, then wiped it on her face little by little and spread it evenly: "Wipe a little in the morning, a little in the evening, it will get chapped quickly. It will be fine.”
Now that it's all been used, it can't be taken back. Jiang Yue raised her head and let him do what she wanted. She stretched her fingers into the jar and dug out a large piece.
Nie Zhao glanced at her, but without stopping, said, "Wipe your hands to avoid frostbite."
Unexpectedly, Jiang Yue kneaded it away and actually put it on his hand, rubbing it on the back of his hand and wrist. She smiled and said to him: "Third brother, you can use it too, your wrist is red from the cold."
Nie Zhao's heart suddenly softened, as if he had been stabbed by something. The cold hardness of the glacier turned into a trickling slanting wind and drizzle, which was stronger than the force of thunder.
His eyelashes drooped, covering the emotion in his eyes: "I bought it for you."
"Third brother bought it and we can use it together." Jiang Yue was still smiling.
Nie Zhao knew that even if he had ten daughters in the future, as long as they were even remotely like him, they would never be as well-behaved as Jiang Yue.
"Okay." He nodded.
After applying facial makeup on her, Nie Zhao helped her untie her hair and sent her to bed. The bed had already been covered with Tangbaozi, so she would be warm while sleeping and would not freeze.
"Don't kick the quilt off at night." Nie Zhao told her and tucked her in before leaving. Although spring is about to begin, the spring in the city is more hurtful than winter.
Jiang Yue nodded and watched him leave.
She touched her legs and felt itchy. It was so uncomfortable that she couldn't scratch it.
This year's spring rain seemed to come earlier than in previous years. Thunder rumbled in the middle of the night, and everything started to stir. Jiang Yue felt that her legs were even more uncomfortable, itchy, painful, itchy and painful, as if something had penetrated into the seams of her bones. It felt like it was inside, and she couldn't catch or scratch it. It seemed that she had to spread her legs and drain the bone marrow in order to relieve this feeling.
She couldn't help curling up, gritting her teeth and rolling over on the bed, stretching her limbs vigorously, but she didn't feel any relief at all, and she felt even more anxious.
In the middle of the night, she couldn't bear it anymore, biting the corner of the quilt and started to cry softly. As soon as she cried, Nie Zhao hurriedly put on his clothes and came in holding a lamp, with sleepiness written all over his face.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" He subconsciously put his forehead to hers. She hasn't been sick much in the past six months. What's wrong now?
Jiang Yue's cheeks were covered with sweat, and her hair became messy as she rolled it, sticking to her face and neck. Nie Zhao brushed it away for her, but didn't find that she was hot anywhere.
"It feels bad, my legs feel bad. My arms also feel bad. It seems like there are bugs crawling inside."
Nie Zhao lifted the quilt and heard the cracking sound of her bones.
"Where exactly?"
Jiang Yue pointed at each one and described the feeling to him.
The more Nie Zhao listened, the more familiar he felt.
"Third brother, am I going to die? You bought me facial fat for nothing." Jiang Yue raised her head, thinking that if she died, Third Brother would definitely be sad, but his life would be much easier and he would not have to worry about it again. With her as a dragster.
"...No, you just have growing pains." Nie Zhao dropped her hand hanging on his arm, "Just wait."
After a while, he went out to get a pot of hot water, twisted the handkerchief, applied it to her legs and ankles, and massaged the muscles on her calves: "I thought you would only be this tall in your life, but God is so open-minded. At least it makes you grow taller."
"Third brother, it's already this time, can you please stop teasing me." Jiang Yue bit the quilt and lay on the bed, miserable.
Nie Zhao said she had a lot of problems, but she still kept her mouth shut. The hot compress with the handkerchief really had some effect. Jiang Yue stopped complaining about the pain and fell asleep after a while, and the sky gradually became brighter.
Probably he couldn't go to school today. Nie Zhao felt that he would die young if he had to raise Jiang Yue for himself sooner or later, so he stayed up all night at every turn.
Rong Dainian did not see Jiang Yue in the college. He heard that she was sick and was extremely anxious. After school that evening, he ran to squat in front of Jiang Yue's house, trying to see her and inquire about her condition.
Nie Zhao went home with the pig bones he just bought and was going to make soup for Jiang Yue, when he saw Rong Dainian poking his head at the door.
You are so brave, you still dare to come?
"Ah!" Rong Dainian was suddenly photographed from behind. He turned around in surprise and saw Nie Zhao, and quickly saluted him, "Hello, Third Brother."
Nie Zhao smiled sweetly, but upon closer inspection, the smile did not reach his eyes. He hooked his shoulders and raised his chin slightly towards the alley beside him: "Come here, I have something to tell you."
Rong Dainian didn't know what Nie Zhao was thinking. Seeing how amiable he was, Dian Dian'er naturally followed him.
