From the end of September to the beginning of October, it is the end of autumn and the beginning of winter.
It's just that Jinan is already in the Huaihe River after all, and the weather is almost as cold as the winter in the south.
Jiang Xuening has spent most of the past two years in the south, and has not experienced such dry and cold weather for a long time. During the time that Xie Wei lingered in Jinan Mansion, he didn't even have the heart to go out to watch the lively scene, so he stayed in the house.
She recovered quickly.
After all, although the time in the mountains was too tense, Xie Wei slept well all the way back on his back. After waking up, although his body felt weak, the doctor took good care of him, and within two days he was jumping up and down like an ordinary person.
Xie Wei was really struggling.
Doctor Zhou said that he had been walking in the snow for a long time, and his legs and feet had frostbite. I also saw the fried medicine being brought into the house from time to time.
It was not until the sixth day that Jiang Xuening accidentally opened the window and saw him standing under the corridor.
Xie Wei was, after all, a close minister of the emperor and an important minister in the court.
After he came to Jinan, many officials from Shandong Province came to pay homage, and he was completely open to anyone just like when he was in Tongzhou. Encountered an ambulance by an unknown person, and ordered Jinan Prefecture and the provinces along the road to strictly investigate and interrogate.
Who would doubt this
Naturally, the provinces went back to investigate the matter thoroughly, only suspecting that the celestial religion was in trouble, and immediately reported the matter to the court truthfully.
Jiang Xuening sometimes doesn't dare to think: he really deserves to be a chaotic minister who can bloodbath the palace in the future, he dares to do such a high-sounding and daring thing, and because of the good excuses in the early stage, no one will doubt him at all.
Pity these officials are submissive and trembling...
How do you know that this sage-like Master Xie is simply a rebel with evil intentions
Xie Wei, who was able to go out again, seemed much better than the day she went to see it. The black hair was only tied with an ebony hairpin, and most of it was loosely draped. The body was also lightly robes, but the snow-like robe was simple to return to the real state, which contrasted with a kind of unstained and flashy purity.
It's a quiet breeze.
When she saw him, he looked this way too.
Jiang Xuening blinked, and now she still remembers the "routine" she encountered when she woke up to see him. No matter what, I didn't dare to visit.
But the eyes are facing each other right now, so you can't pretend you didn't see it, right
She bit her head, raised her paws, gestured from a distance, and said hello.
Xie Wei looked at her for a long time, as if he was looking at something, and only smiled at the end. He didn't say a word, and he didn't mean to walk past. Instead, he continued to walk along the corridor, and after going out, he went south.
That is not the direction of the gate.
Although Jiang Xuening hadn't been out of the house these days, the courtyard was so big that he could feel it clearly when he walked on weekdays, and at a glance, he could see that the south side was clearly the kitchen.
For a moment, she was dumbfounded.
But the words of Xie Wei that day came to mind, "I will make it for you later, so that you can be convinced."
Could this man be serious
Jiang Xuening drummed in his heart, seeing Xie Wei disappear into the corridor, out of some kind of panic when things came true, he closed the window sash without saying a word, for fear that he should look at something he shouldn't look at.
But a moment passed, two moments passed...
Sitting in the house, she always felt restless, and from time to time, she couldn't hold back, and she opened the window and quietly looked outside.
I don't know if there was more than half an hour in the past, Jiang Xuening was thinking that Xie Wei was just joking, after all, a gentleman is far away from a kitchen, how can a person be half a saint, so he shouldn't be so serious with her, right
But as soon as the thought passed, the window sash vibrated gently.
Someone stood outside and tapped lightly with their knuckles: "Open the window."
It's Xie Wei's voice!
Jiang Xuening's hair stood on end, and the body sitting under the window sash immediately stiffened. When he raised his head, he saw a long shadow cast across the snow-white window paper.
She thought about it, but she didn't make a sound, trying to pretend she wasn't there.
After all, the face-to-face meeting was just a matter of time ago. Don't you want her to go out for a walk and not be in the house
It's a pity that Xie Wei is not so easy to fool. The voice came in through the window paper again, and he had a little smile instead of a smile: "When did it change to a turtle?"
Obviously, people see through.
Jiang Xuening couldn't keep it any longer, he pushed open the window sash in frustration, and sure enough, he saw Xie Wei standing outside, but with one sleeve rolled up, he was holding a candy-colored peanut cake in one hand.
The slightly sweet taste and the unique fragrance of the roasted peanuts mixed together and blew in along the breeze.
Jiang Xuening was in the window, glanced at the peanut cake quickly, then quickly turned back to Xie Wei, put on a smile, and firstly called out, "Mr. Xie."
Xie Wei put the plate of peanut cakes on the window sill for her.
Jiang Xuening had already learned this person's profound routines a while ago, and he secretly warned himself to be vigilant, but at the moment he said: "Sir is very kind, and students are ignorant and incompetent, how can they be? Take it back."
Xie Wei's Shen Yuan-like eyes were fixed on her, but he didn't mean much teasing, and said lightly: "You have to be patient with your appetite, and be cautious in every possible way. How much happier you are than me when you live like this?"
Jiang Xuening was stunned.
Xie Wei finished speaking, but without seeing her demeanor or reaction, he turned around and walked down the corridor.
Jiang Xuening took a long time to react and looked down again.
The plate of peanut cakes just sat quietly on the window sill.
She intuitively said that Xie Wei's words were just a kind of "routine", but her mind was surging for a while, but she felt that what he said was very right, as if it was deafening, and there was an inexplicable inspiring force.
She couldn't judge for a while, whether it was because she agreed with Xie Wei's words too much, or the fragrance of the peanut cake in front of her was too tempting, so that after she endured and endured, she finally couldn't control her sins. 's little hands…
In one bite, the candy skin was just right, wrapped on the peanut kernels, as if drenched in a layer of oil, and the browned glass solidified on top, but it was burnt but not sticky. The peanuts are crisp and crunchy. After being crushed, they are mixed with sugar. The taste is completely beyond sugar or peanuts.
Jiang Xuening almost swallowed her tongue.
too delicious!
In her last life, she was fortunate enough to taste the roasted wild rabbit surnamed Xie and the peach slice cake, but after all, the wild rabbit is in the wild mountains and there are only a few slices of peach slice cake. gone.
In this life, this is the first time I have eaten something else made by Xie Wei.
I can't believe that someone in the world can make something so delicious!
Is there any reason
After all, it is said that Zaohui, surnamed Xie, has been intelligent since childhood;
But this person is still a good cook
Jiang Xuening suddenly had the illusion of being slapped on the face and humiliated from top to bottom.
But he couldn't control it.
Eat a piece and take another piece.
Needless to say, she failed to prevent Xie Wei's "routine".
Just like men in the world looking for an outside room and raising a concubine, Jiang Xuening couldn't control himself, crossed the line, and there was only a difference between zero and countless times.
How about eating everything
Can't spit it out
What's more, Xie Wei's words are really not wrong. She has already lived a new life, even if there is no real freedom in this world, but the little wish of appetite cannot be fulfilled, so what is the point of living? What's more, she still swore to Xie Wei that she was reluctant to die because she couldn't part with all the worries and desires in this world.
Eat and eat.
Where can people not bow their heads when they are under the eaves
She thought that she had to go to the border to find Yan Lin and save the princess. There were many places to ask for Xie Wei. There were always soft words and people were willing to cook for her, so she would accept it. If the relationship is broken, isn't that shooting yourself in the foot
So I broke the pot and fell, and I just had to eat and drink with Xie Wei at ease.
Within two days, she couldn't eat the dishes cooked by the cooks in the other courtyard.
But Xie Wei was not really a cook who could do it all at once, so Jiang Xuening had no choice but to see him walking from the corridor to the south kitchen, so he followed in the name of "Mr. Filial Piety", guarding the food that was just out of the pot.
Xie Wei was originally a hermit literati.
But once the robe is taken off and the sleeves are rolled up, the cooking is actually quite decent.
Occasionally, she lifted her eyes from the chopping board or the ingredients in the pot, and when she looked at it, she felt that Xie Wei, who was so smoky with smoke, was much more pleasing to the eye than the half saint who lived high in the temple and strategized.
Xie Wei doesn't seem to be in a hurry to set off these days. The officials of Shandong Province have also finished meeting, and when the courtyard is clean, he occasionally plays the piano, reads books, and cooks.
Very patient.
Although the trip was delayed, there was no panic at all; he clearly had a plan in his mind, but there was no extra action other than making some food for Jiang Xuening.
Jiang Xuening was boiled in warm water by him, almost forgetting his initial vigilance.
She doesn't know anything, she can only watch the fire in the kitchen.
In this way, Xie Wei occasionally dislikes her for not being able to control the heat, which will ruin the taste of the ingredients.
It is already October today, and the coldness of winter is beginning to take shape. In the kitchen, there is a stove with hot water on one side, and a stove on the other side, but it is warm.
The news that the princess was trapped in the Tartars had spread all over the country.
There were endless discussions in the streets.
Jiang Xuening added a piece of firewood to the stove, remembering that he hadn't seen Daoqin in these days, staring at the flame for a long time, he couldn't help but raised his head to look at Xie Wei.
Xie Ju'an's slender fingers pressed the fresh and soft fish maw on the chopping board, cut down the knife slowly, and pulled it into thin slices little by little.
There is a small pot of water that has been boiled to crab eyes in the pot in front of it.
He lifted his eyelids and glanced at the water, and he didn't need to look at Jiang Xuening again, he knew that she did not know what to do: "I don't have enough firewood to add. It's also distracting to burn a fire. If you have any questions, just ask."
Jiang Xuening felt sullen when he heard it, but now that he was counting on him to cook, he honestly added two more sticks of wood to the stove, and said, "I've been in Jinan for so long, didn't I mean I'll go to the border before Xuezhi arrives? ?"
Xie Wei didn't stop his knife: "I'm not afraid of what are you afraid of?"
Jiang Xuening rolled his eyes: "Didn't you say that Yan Lin has already gone to the border first? You have to make a correction, but—"
Xie Wei interrupted her and said, "The imperial decree is already on its way to the border."
Jiang Xuening was horrified, and thought of Daoqin who had disappeared these days: "I said why Daoqin disappeared!"
only…
She couldn't help frowning again: "We're not here, can something happen over Yanlin's side?"
Xie Wei lowered his head, paused his hand, and there was an unreasonable indifference in his voice: "If it can't be done without me, then his suffering in exile these years will be in vain."
Jiang Xuening felt inexplicable in her heart.
After a long while, she asked hesitantly, "Then when will we leave?"
Xie Wei finally finished the fish fillet, glanced at her, then took a few gingers on the side to cut, his voice was steady and calm: "Don't worry."
The setting sun is like blood.
The border town is deserted.
The north wind was blowing from the northwest, and the old flags were covered with dust and only fluttered at the top of the city. Outside is the barracks where the frontier troops are stationed. On the high point on the stage, the fallen leaves are falling, and the copper-cast unicorn minions have not been polished and rusted.
The outline of the youth is deeper and clearer than when he was a teenager, and his eyes are more calm and restrained than before.
Only lifted by chance, still like a sword without a sheath—
As bright as the scorching sun, the sharp edge is revealed!
A dark blue suit with tight cuffs, strong arms with smooth lines, a straight back, and a more powerful beauty. His palms, which had grown some calluses from the sharpening of the sword, slowly touched the rusted unicorn carvings.
Something crawled up along the old lines.
It was clearly so cold, but Yan Lin felt a long-lost scalding heat.
The point will stand three feet off the ground and a hundred feet wide.
50,000 frontier troops are in formation!
But he is the only one on the high platform. Looking up at the eyes, only the wilderness is vast, the flags are in the wind, the ground is rolling with clouds, and the sword is like snow!