"Brother Xiaotian, I'll bring you chicken stewed mushrooms!"
Xia Yingying held the earthen pot and boasted smugly: "I made it with my own hands... I added firewood to stew it, and I also picked the mushrooms with my own hands."
Xiaolu secretly wiped his cold sweat from the side, and thought: "If I hadn't secretly replaced the mushrooms you picked, your little brother Tian would have gone to the underworld to take the Juren examination. How strange, I taught you to recognize mushrooms, Why do you choose brightly colored ones, do you think this is picking flowers?"
Ye Xiaotian worked hard day and night, and finally mastered the technique of casting Gu worms before the Huaxi meeting. When he was in a good mood, he took the pot of stewed chicken and said happily: "Okay, come, let's eat together."
"Um!"
Xia Yingying nodded happily, and Ye Xiaotian called Xiaolu and Xiaowei to sit down together. Through these days of contact, he already knew that these two girls were Yingying's elder sisters, because Yingying's parents were away from home, and they were here to accompany Yingying. Ying, naturally she should be more polite to them.
The two girls and Yingying usually do not distinguish each other and are not polite. A group of people sat around the table. Ye Xiaotian brought Yaoyao over and sat beside him. The family was having a good meal. Mao Wenzhi walked in from the outside. When I entered the door, I sniffed and sniffed: "Oh my god, why is it so fragrant! You are not right, are you eating alone while I am not around?"
As Mao Wenzhi said, he walked over carelessly, and was about to grab the chicken with his hand, but Ye Xiaotian knocked on his hand with chopsticks: "Go, take the chopsticks."
Mao Wen hurriedly went to fetch a pair of chopsticks and came back, sat down beside Ye Xiaotian, and picked up the jar: "Where is the chicken butt, where is the chicken butt, can you keep it for me?"
Hua Yunfei's eyes were sharp, and he saw the chicken butt that he had just turned over at a glance, and put it into the bowl for him. Mao Wenzhi was overjoyed, picked it up with his chopsticks, and threw it into his mouth, chewing it deliciously. Ye Xiaotian said: "How about it, did you ask clearly, when will you have a trial?"
Mao Wenzhi stretched his neck, swallowed the chicken butt, and said, "I'm just asking, the tribute test will be held the day after tomorrow, and the government office will accept applications tomorrow."
Ye Xiaotian was stunned, and said: "Tomorrow? Isn't tomorrow the Huaxi meeting? Oh, I think the tribute exam is more important, Yingying, look..."
Xia Yingying has been looking forward to seeing her sweetheart fight for her these days, and sometimes she can wake up laughing in her dreams, and immediately answers: "What are you afraid of, isn't it just to sign up tomorrow? Ask someone to go for you, not to take the exam for you, I Just ask Xiao Fei to go."
Although Xia Yingying was naive, she also knew that Mao Wenzhi was unreliable, and she had to find a safer place to sign up. Hua Yunfei said worriedly: "I'm going to sign up? Then big brother..."
Ye Xiaotian had already mastered the technique of releasing Gu, and with confidence, he said: "It's okay, you go and sign up, and there will be no problems on my side."
Mao Wenzhi was afraid that he would not be able to see the duel by arranging him to sign up, so he hurriedly said, "Yes! Xiaofei, this matter is up to you. It's okay for me to inquire about the news, but I can't handle such an important event. Okay, if you miss my brother's future, you can't afford to sell me. Is there any chicken butt?"
Hua Yunfei said angrily: "Your chicken has two butts? Here! Chicken wings!"
After Hua Yunfei finished dealing with Mao Wenzhi, he turned to Ye Xiaotian and said, "Then... tomorrow I will sign up for elder brother, the Huaxi meeting, elder brother must be careful."
Before Ye Xiaotian could speak, Xia Yingying said confidently: "Don't worry, I'll watch over you, whoever dares to bully my Brother Xiaotian, first ask me if Xia Yingying will agree or not!"
After lunch, Ye Xiaotian went back to his room to read, sharpened his gun in front of the battle, and was not happy, although he had no hope for Gongshi at all, but he had to put on a show, but the problem was that Miss Xia also followed in, he How to read the book
Adding fragrance to the red sleeves is undoubtedly a very romantic and warm reading scene. Miss Yingying probably also wanted to create such an atmosphere, so she asked Xiaowei to buy incense pills and came back. There was no incense burner, so she asked Mr. Dong to borrow a small jar instead.
The burning of incense in the Ming Dynasty did not involve inserting a stick of incense into the incense burner. People used incense balls or incense cakes, and the procedures for burning incense were also very complicated. They have to light the charcoal first, put the charcoal in the furnace, and spread a layer of incense ash on it, and poke some holes in the incense ash to prevent the charcoal from being extinguished due to lack of oxygen.
Then put a ceramic piece on the incense ashes, and the incense pills are placed on the porcelain pieces, and baked with the help of the heat of the charcoal under the incense ashes to bring out the fragrance of the incense pills. In this process, the charcoal fire is too hot, and the charcoal fire is too small. You have to test the temperature with your hand against the incense burner from time to time, and adjust the charcoal fire at any time.
Miss Xia used to burn incense, but it was always Xiaolu and Xiaofang who did it. She just watched it and didn't know the specific procedure, so she put the red charcoal fire into the jar, and the layer of incense ash was saved. There was supposed to be one scented pill, but she threw all the twelve scented pills she bought into it in one go.
After a while, thick smoke billowed in the jar, and the aroma was choking. Ye Xiaotian, who was shaking his head and tail as if reading, dropped the scroll, coughed and opened the window, and fled to the bamboo forest behind the house with Xia Yingying.
Ye Xiaotian couldn't read the book, so Ye Xiaotian started to learn from Wang Yangming's bamboo grid. After Wang Yangming read Zhu Xi's works, he gridded bamboo for three days and three nights, but he didn't get a single fart, which made his personality fall ill. Ye Xiaotian naturally wouldn't wait that long, there was a sweet and pretty little beauty sitting beside him. So, after a while, Ye Xiaotian's eyes shifted from the bamboo in front of him to the buds on Miss Yingying's chest.
Xia Yingying noticed his gaze, her tender face blushed, and she bit her chest shyly, and suddenly thought that her breasts were not majestic enough, wouldn't such a bit make them look smaller? Then quietly straightened her waist again, lowered her head, and said shyly: "I... I am relatively thin, so I am a little small."
"Ah! After all, it's a girl from the Yi family in the southwestern border. If I were a girl from the capital city, I would have slapped me with a slap in the face if I peeked like this. How could I discuss such an in-depth issue with me." Ye Xiaotian felt emotional in his heart, and comforted: "No, it's very beautiful! Besides, you are only sixteen years old, and you will only be seventeen after the new year. It will still grow."
"Um!"
Yingying bit her lower lip lightly, and smiled shyly, "As long as you don't dislike it."
Ye Xiaotian really wanted to stretch out his hand and touch her drop-shaped charming breasts, but unfortunately he had enough lust but not enough guts. The last time Zhan Ninger was in a coma, he struggled for a long time. Some words are cheap.
Ye Xiaotian pressed Xia Yingying's ear, and chuckled softly: "Don't worry, you don't know how handsome you are, enough to fascinate men. Besides, I like this kind of... childhood sweetheart feeling, hey, hey-hey… "
Childhood sweetheart? You and I haven't known each other since childhood, Yingying doesn't quite understand Ye Xiaotian's words, but Ye Xiaotian's mouth is sticking to her ear, itching, she wants to avoid it but is reluctant, when she is distracted, she just I didn't care to study it carefully.
When it was getting late, Miss Xia Yiyi bid farewell, and when she turned back to her residence, she suddenly thought of this question again: "By the way, Xiao Wei, what do you mean... childhood sweetheart?"
Xiaowei was stunned, wondering what the eldest lady was thinking about, why she suddenly asked this question, and she replied casually: "My childhood sweetheart, of course it means a man and a woman who have been together since childhood and grew up together."
Yingying shook her head and said, "There's no reason, it doesn't make sense to say that."
Xiaowei said unconvinced: "Why can't you explain it? Lang rode a bamboo horse and went around the bed to grow green plums. They live together in Changgan, and the two have no doubts. It's written in ancient poems."
Yingying faltered and said: "It just doesn't make sense. Xiaolu, do you know?"
Xiaolu rolled his eyes and said, "How else can I explain it? It's because I have been playing since I was a child!"
Yingying thought: "But didn't we know each other since we were young? Could it be that he was talking about the previous life? Bah, bah, that's the story he lied to me. Why do I take it seriously? I've been playing since I was a kid... ah!"
Miss Xia suddenly understood, and couldn't help but blushed: "I've been playing since I was a child! This bad guy, I knew he was teasing me." She secretly said words of reproach, but in her heart... there was actually some expectation...
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The next day is the day when candidates from all over the country gather in Guiyang Mansion and report to the government office. For many candidates who are concerned about this tribute test, the real day of decisive battle is tomorrow, and for many candidates who want to succeed in this tribute test For the chieftains who won a seat, the real decisive battle is after the tribute test, so of course the most eye-catching thing on this day is the battle of Huaxi.
Not to mention that this battle involved the Xia family of Hongfeng Lake and the Guoji family of Liangyue Valley, there is also a mysterious man whose identity is unknown so far, waiting for everyone to expose his identity, besides, the beautiful scenery there is also worth it. For a stroll, it's time to relax.
So the brigade rushed to Huaxi, but there was another lively scene in front of the government office.
Early in the morning, before the door of the government office was opened, a long queue stood in front of the door. Candidates who had been in the cold window for ten years, old and young, looked at the door of the government office with excitement. Once he entered there, he would be able to dive into the dragon's gate and be completely reborn.
Xu Boyi didn't come until Shi Shiran came when the government office was about to open, and replaced the boy who had taken his place in advance. Looking at the long line, Xu Boyi twitched the corners of his mouth and sneered secretly: "But it's just some Do you really think that you guys have a chance to get ahead? Hmph! Thirty quotas have already been divided up by the rich and powerful!"
Li Qiuchi also came quite early, he asked someone to drive a light car, and it was parked on the side of the mansion, besides him, there was also Xue's mother in the car, Li Qiuchi was playing with a folding fan, while Xue's mother was glued to the window and stared intently. Looking outside, discerning Ye Xiaotian's appearance.
Zhan Ning'er also arrived earlier, changed into men's clothing, and walked back and forth slowly along the long line, hoping to find Ye Xiaotian, while the steward of the Yang family had already sneaked into the government office through the corner gate, and handed over a piece of silver When they went out, the little official who was in charge of recording the name promised that as long as he saw the name Ye Xiaotian, he would immediately hint to him.
At this time, Ye Xiaotian had already taken Dong Dong, Mao Wenzhi, Yaoyao, Yi Yuan Yi Xiong, and the three beauties Ying Ying, Xiao Lu, and Xiao Wei to Huaxi.