[Comprehensive] The leader's knot occurs in this life

At three o'clock, when I came to the kitchen, the old cook was already busy in front of the stove.

"Boy Yang, what are you doing today?" He wiped his hands and asked back.

I glanced at the dishes on the long table and rolled up my sleeves: "It's raining, let's make something warm, stew wild mushroom and old duck soup in a crock pot, remember to skim off the oil, and I'll do the rest myself."

"Okay," the old chef turned around and soaked the dried wild mushrooms in water, and said with a smile, "I heard that you moved to the leader's place? It's really amazing. Even if Miss Suyun has been with the leader for so long, she has never That's how you flatter her."

I smiled: "It's still the same service, no difference."

The old chef shook his head: "This is different. It is the only one who can enter the teacher's house. Even the seven wives have to stay in the backyard. They are not allowed to come out without the permission of the leader. You are so personal every day. Even The elders and wives also want to curry favor! Young man, your future has come!"

"How can I, thanks to everyone's help," I said while chopping vegetables, "I came late, Uncle Xu, you have taught me a lot during this time, how can I be promoted without your leader? I am very grateful to you Oh, by the way, last time I asked Wang Dashao to buy some Longjing, and it tastes pretty good, I'll get you a couple of taels someday, and you can try it too."

When the old chef heard this, a genuine smile appeared on his face.

Since I came here, he has only been responsible for the three meals of the guards and maids, and occasionally helped me. I have also seen him once secretly tasted something I made, and then showed a puzzled expression.That's right, his craftsmanship is actually much more exquisite than mine, but it's not as flattering as the things I make. It's impossible for him to be squeezed by me so that he doesn't have a lump in his heart.

But after I came to the inner courtyard, I always deliberately made friends with him, bought him a drink from time to time, and gave him a walnut chessboard. He probably thought that I was quite sensible, and I was quite useful in front of the leader. Yes, I didn't dare to offend, my anger gradually calmed down. For so long, this old man didn't tell me his sincerity, but he never tripped me up.

The old chef caught the duck out of the cage, wiped the blood on its neck with a knife, and said: "Your mouth is like honey, no wonder the leader wants you to serve him."

I squatted down to add firewood, and I didn't forget to gossip with him. When the food was ready, I also coaxed the old man to smile, and told me about his daughter who was serving by the saint's side.

"My little girl, although she is fifteen or sixteen years old, she still looks like a child. She was reprimanded by the saint yesterday, she was slapped, her face was swollen, and she hid in bed and cried all night, pretending that I didn't know Well, alas, I am just such a daughter, I only hope that she will get married soon, and I don't have to suffer the pain of being a slave..."

I listened with a smile on my face, the old man never left his daughter in words, he asked me how old I was the day before yesterday, I answered, he nodded, and said casually: "I'm eighteen, it's time to start a family!"

If I still can't understand what he means by this, I will live in vain.

I turned the spoon, put a fried shrimp on a plate, and asked with concern: "Miss Xu, is everything okay? I happen to have some medicine for removing blood stasis and reducing swelling. I will bring it to you later. They say that the girl's face The most important thing is not to be careless."

The old chef glanced at me a little unexpectedly. After all, he hinted in every possible way before, and I looked like I didn't understand it, but he didn't think much about it. He probably thought that I had figured it out and was finally willing to marry a wife and start a family. , rolled his eyes twice, and said: "That's good! I'm worried about not having any good medicine! Let's do this, the leader rests at noon, and you probably don't have much to do, so help my old man go to the saint's yard ,OK?"

"Why not, I'm idle anyway."

The old chef twirled his beard and smiled, looking at me as if he was looking at his son-in-law. He asked me who else was in the family and what my parents used to do, and he almost asked me to go to the matchmaker to get married. .

I answered one by one with a smile, with a look of joy, but my hand calmly held the blue vial in my sleeve pocket.

It's really not in vain that I have been coaxing this old man patiently for months.

At noon, I went back with my food. Dongfang had already returned. I was lying on the warm couch and looking at the secret report in my hand. I don't know what I saw, and my face was a little ugly.

What happened outside again?I walked over to hold his hand, and said softly, "Master, let's eat."

"Pa" He threw me away with a cold face, without even looking at me, walked around me to the table and sat down.

I stared blankly at my hand that was slapped away, what's the matter, you were willing to hug me in the morning, why it's only been a few hours, and you're not even allowed to touch your hand?

Was it something outside that made him angry?Is this taking my anger out on you?Just let it go, it's okay.After thinking about it this way, I returned to my usual state and went to scoop up soup for him.

I held the thin porcelain bowl in both hands and handed it to him. Dongfang didn't answer it. His eyes stayed on the back of my hand. He seemed to be angry just now. The people who have practiced martial arts all the year round are strong. With such a slap, my hand turned red. .

He pursed his lips, as if regretting a bit: "Did it hurt?"

"No," my heart warmed up, and my tone softened a bit, "Master, let's drink a bowl of soup first. It's rainy and humid, so drink some duck soup. Uncle Xu and I have been simmering all afternoon. Would you like to try it?"

He wanted to pick it up, but for some reason, when he heard me say 'Uncle Xu', his face dropped again, and he said stiffly: "Don't drink!"

I was really confused by the second monk, so I had no choice but to put down the bowl, picked up a chopsticks of shrimp, and kindly persuaded: "Then eat something, okay? I have been peeling the shrimp for an hour."

He barely ate it.

I breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly picked up vegetables, and poured tea for him. Instead of soup, I had to drink tea...

Probably after filling his stomach, Dongfang finally looked better. He picked up a chopstick and lotus root clip, and suddenly asked: "Yang Lianting, you said you went to Heimuya when you were seven years old. What about your parents? Why don't you go back and have a look?" them?"

I blinked, not knowing why he thought of asking this, so I had to answer truthfully: "They died early, I wandered all the way to Dingzhou as a beggar, with no attachments and no home to return to."

He was startled, as if he didn't expect me to be like this when I was young, and looked up at me.Knowing what he was thinking, too many people have shown such expressions in front of me before, I smiled slightly: "Don't look at me like that, it's been so many years, I can't even remember what they look like, besides, I'm living now It's fine, and I'm not sad."

"Then...you are the only one left in your family?"

"Ah."

Dongfang was silent for a while, and said: "Since this is the case, you are afraid that you will have to marry a wife and have children? Otherwise... your Yang family should be extinct..."

I was startled.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Dongfang's eyes turned cold: "Yang Lianting, do you want to marry a wife?"

Think, I really want to marry you.But I was afraid that Dongfang would stab me to death if I said this, so I shook my head and said: "I will not marry a woman. If there is no future, then there will be no future..." I added another sentence in my heart: If you can give birth, I would rather give birth to him Seventeen or eighteen, dressed in a string of candied haws, slipping around for fun.

"You have to remember what you said today."

Dongfang took a deep look at me, put down his chopsticks heavily, and walked away with his sleeves shaken.

I was at a loss: Did he go to Chengde Hall to eat firecrackers today?

……

The afternoon sun suddenly became stronger. I broke off some fragrant cakes and threw them into the smoker cage. I glanced behind the screen. The gauze curtains on the bed were hanging down, and the breeze swayed slightly like water waves.Seeing that Dongfang seemed to be fast asleep, I walked out lightly and closed the door.

The long corridor is spacious and quiet, with luxuriant flowers and trees on both sides. I walked through the jagged shadows of the trees. After two cups of tea time, I saw Feige Lingxiao from a distance. On the mirrored lotus pond, I quickened my pace.

This is where Ren Yingying lives.

In the yard, two or three well-dressed maidservants were sitting on the steps chatting and embroidering. I glanced, but I didn't see the daughter of the old chef. I knew this girl in my previous life. Girl, except for Ren Yingying, almost everyone has been provoked by me...

I went up to talk to those maidservants, and one of them lazily pointed to a small door on the east side, saying that Miss Xu was being punished by the saint to work.I thanked you and looked for it.

Sure enough, there was a person behind the door, squatting with his back to me, drying seven or eight pairs of Ren Yingying's embroidered shoes in the sun.

"Are you Uncle Xu's daughter?"

The girl turned around, her pretty face was still a little bruised, and her eyes were red, as if she had just cried.She looked at me a little timidly, because Dongfang said a few days ago, "Don't lose my face", and threw me some decent new clothes, so I have been dressed in a very doggy manner these days. I couldn't tell that I was a handyman, so she was a little uncertain about my identity, and asked in a low voice: "My son?"

I knelt down beside her and said gently: "I'm from the inner courtyard, working with your father, he asked me to deliver some medicine to you."

"So it's Young Master Yang..." She blushed suddenly, and lowered her head shyly.

I was taken aback: "You know me?"

She became even more ashamed, lowered her head and twisted the corner of her clothes: "Daddy mentioned to me..."

I cursed secretly in my heart, looking at her attitude, the old man wouldn't just say that Yang Lianting is the husband your father gave you, right?

On the surface, I still had to maintain a smile, and I handed over the ointment in the wooden box: "Your father asked me to give it to you."

The little girl's face was red, she didn't dare to look at me, she reached out to take it, and whispered like a mosquito: "Thank you, Mr. Yang..."

She made me feel a little embarrassed by her behavior, so I had no choice but to talk to her and wait for the opportunity to inquire about the things in the yard, while looking away, the sun was shining brightly on the ground, and my eyes stopped on a few pairs of shoes drying on the small wooden rack, My heart couldn't help but move.

"Is that a saint's shoe?" I asked.

She hummed lightly: "The holy lady will change soon."

"The embroidery is really exquisite." I squinted my eyes.

After a while, someone outside suddenly called her angrily. She was startled, and stood up with her half-wet shoes in her arms, "Yang, Mr. Yang, I have to go..."

I hurriedly stopped her: "Haven't finished drying it yet, have you? I'll help you look after it, you go, I'll wait for you here."

She hesitated.

"I still want to talk to you more." I smiled and approached her, reached out to remove a little catkin from her hair, and said softly, "Go, I'll wait for you here."

She blushed again, put the shoes back, saluted me, and left in a hurry.

I didn't move, I crushed the dead branches of the pomegranate tree on the ground bit by bit with my feet, broke off the thorns on them, and walked around the wooden frame twice pretending to be curious about the shoes, but secretly started practicing Several months of internal strength drove thorns into Ren Yingying's shoes.After I finished, I took a deep breath and was about to take out the blue bottle...

There was a sudden chill on his back, and his hairs stood on end.

I turned my head suddenly, only a few fallen leaves were blown by the wind behind me, but there was no one.

... Am I overthinking it?

Half an hour later, I hurried back to the inner courtyard to prepare dinner. The old chef kept looking at me with a smile, my heart was still beating wildly because of what I had just done, and I had no time to pay attention to him.

In the evening, I took the tray and went to Dongfang's room again. I was about to reach the end of the corridor, but I found Dongfang was standing at the door waiting for me. I stopped slowly because his face was extremely ugly.

"Yang Lianting, you've been very busy all day." He looked at me with a mocking smile, but his eyes were extremely cold.

I didn't know what he was talking about, but suddenly a red shadow flashed in front of my eyes, and my body was hit by a strong force and slammed into the pillar behind me. Dongfang grabbed my neck and said cruelly: "Yang Lianting, tease me Is it fun?"

My face was flushed red, I couldn't speak at all, my heart was turbulent, he was so angry that he forcibly opened the sealed meridians...

"Love me?" His eyes were burning with anger, and his hands became more and more forceful, "Climb onto my bed while flirting with women, Yang Lianting, you are so brave!"

The author has something to say:

Leader: Aunt Yang Ba, how dare you climb the wall with me on your back!

Xiao Yang: I didn't, I was wronged!Hey, don't believe me, I took off my pants and asked my wife to review!