The chrysanthemum cake can be eaten cold, but the chrysanthemum is cold, and the agar is also cold. Ji Hong's body is cold, so he needs some hot wine. Yu Jinnian thought so, took it to warm up the food and wine, and then put them back in the courtyard, and told Ji Hong one by one the dishes of the day.
Although the porridge has been reheated twice, it is no longer as bright and attractive as when it was just out of the pot, but it can still be seen that the cooks have put a lot of thought into it. This vegetarian braised pork is ingenious and the chrysanthemum cake is exquisite , even the most impoverished sour porridge is treated rough but not ugly, and the mouth is soft and soft.
The young man's Adam's apple twitched slightly as he spoke, his lips were ruddy and shiny, and Ji Hong stretched out his hand as soon as he thought about it.
Yu Jinnian was thinking wildly, when his wrist was suddenly grabbed, he panicked for a moment, the bamboo chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground, and was about to pick it up, when the man behind him said: "Don't pick it up, use this pair."
Ji Hong handed the bamboo chopsticks in his hand to Yu Jinnian, pulled him to him with all his strength, and grabbed him in his arms: "Eat it."
With a chest slightly smelled of wine on his back, Yu Jinnian was seated in front of Ji Hong, with a hand on his waist. He was a little cautious at first, but then he felt a slight heaviness on his shoulders, and heard a low voice. exhale. For a long while, no one spoke, and Yu Jinnian couldn't help but feel depressed. He only ate a bowl of sour rice porridge and put down his chopsticks.
"Why, don't you want to eat?" Ji Hong leaned on his shoulder, and after a long while he couldn't hear the swallowing sound of food slipping down his throat, he raised his head to look, and touched Yu Jinnian's belly with his hand Go, "It's still flat here."
Yu Jinnian shook his head: "I'm full."
Ji Hong didn't know what the young man was thinking, so he smiled lightly and said, "Since you're full, why don't you listen to me tell you a story?"
"Whose story?" Yu Jinnian turned to look at him, with a simple question in his eyes.
"My second brother." Ji Hong squeezed his fingertips, "Do you want to hear it or not?"
Hearing this, Yu Jinnian couldn't help turning his body sideways, sat up straight, and looked at him intently, looking very expectant. Facing him like this, Ji Hong didn't have the courage to speak anymore, so he pulled the young man back with his own hands, still hugging him from the back, took a sip of the wine with the young man's hand, and then slowly said: "There is a kind of wine in the capital called Ming Ding Chun. The wine is so strong that you can get drunk with just one gourd. It is said that if you drink ten thousand wines, those who flock to it will flock to it."
Hearing him talk about wine, Yu Jinnian asked curiously, "Is it true that one can get drunk?"
"I don't know." Ji Hong seemed to be recalling something interesting, and couldn't help but bend his lips, "Second brother once secretly poured a spoonful into my pastry, when I was only four years old, I was drunk for a day I was unconscious all night, and when I woke up, I had a headache and felt dizzy, but I saw my second brother sitting on the bed and laughing at me. After that, I was angry with my second brother, and I didn’t want to drink anymore. The taste has long been forgotten... "
Yu Jin smiled young.
Ji Hong touched his chin and asked, "What are you laughing at?"
Yu Jinnian lowered his head slightly, rubbed against Ji Hong's hand, pondered and said, "I thought the second elder brother was the kind of person who is high-spirited, bright, and heroic, or that he is a frosty high-mountain flower like you, but he didn't Thinking, Second Brother is actually..." He thought for a while, didn't know how to describe it, and finally gave up: "In short, it's completely different from you. No wonder you can drink so badly, it was because Second Brother scared you."
"Why is it different?" Ji Hong said.
Yu Jinnian was determined: "Your words are absolutely impossible to pour wine into the bowl of a four-year-old doll, and laugh at him after he is drunk."
This is indeed the case, but the second brother is like this, in short, he is unwilling to follow the common sense, and speaking of this matter, it is Ji Hong’s embarrassment when he was young, and he will inevitably be made fun of by the teenagers if he talks too much, Ji Hong will no longer discuss this issue. After a lot of entanglement, he hurriedly took the conversation away: "However, the second brother can drink very well. He can drink for several altars in a row when he is drunk. After drinking, he dances the sword on the moon and recites poems according to the water. The second brother is a knight-errant, and he is a perfect father. Yes. He often said that he would use swords in the rivers and lakes to quell injustices in all directions and chaos in the world—but that’s just talking.”
Even though it was just scribbled words, Yu Jinnian seemed to have seen such a chic and comfortable scene. He was extremely comfortable being embraced by Ji Hong, so he obediently leaned back, adjusted his sitting posture and leaned on Ji Hong, listening to him continue.
"Because my father has made a lot of enemies, my second brother also has a bodyguard of twelve people, half of which are allocated to him by his father, and the other half are selected by him personally, and the average age is almost the same as that of the second brother. The youngest That one is also the strongest, it is said that he used to be a little gardener in the chrysanthemum garden, the second brother saw that he was agile and interesting, so he promoted him and gave him a newly acquired sword."
Yu Jinnian caught his breath and realized that he was talking about Jing Zhong when he went around. Ji Hong felt the body in his arms tense up slightly, so he nodded, "Well, that's Jing Zhong."
"Actually, Second Brother and Jing Zhong get along the best. They are about the same age, have similar temperaments, and both love chrysanthemums. When Second Brother goes out, he won't bring all twelve guards with him, sometimes two or three. Take seven or eight if you are farther away, and there will always be Jing Zhong among them."
Yu Jinnian felt that the arms around his waist tightened slightly.
"It was the same on the day when the accident happened," Ji Hong closed his eyes, and said, "The other party came prepared, but we just went out of the city to find flowers. The result of the battle can be imagined-all the seven guards brought out that day died, and only Jing Zhong was left. one… "
Thinking of Ji Hong's long sword scolding Jing Zhong for being "unfaithful and unrighteous" during the day, Yu Jinnian had already guessed the ending, and he gently grabbed Ji Hong's arm, not daring to ask what happened next.
Ji Hong smiled and said: "Actually, it's nothing to think about it now. Later, the second brother in the escape room once said that it is natural to shrink back in the face of life and death. He told me not to complain or hate anyone. Tell me that life is better than anything else, even in the last few days, the second brother still hugged me with a smile, kept me warm, hummed, and told me about the ends of the world that I have never been to."
"But the second brother is gone, and I who killed him are still alive, and Jing Zhong who abandoned him is also alive. If it wasn't for us..."
He is immersed in the past that no one else can reach, as if it is very far away and hard to touch. Yu Jinnian turned around, knelt on the bench with one knee, cupped his face and called out in a low voice: "Ah Hong, Ah Hong."
"Huh?" Ji Hong raised his eyelids, his eyes were as dark as night, his eyes gradually narrowed, and when they gathered on the face of the anxious young man in front of him, he finally showed a rare tenderness, "What's wrong?"
Seeing him come back to his senses, Yu Jinnian felt relieved, lowered his eyebrows and said, "It's nothing... After talking for so long, do you want some tea? I'll make it."
Ji Hong didn't stop him, and watched him run into the kitchen with his own eyes, and then the light in the kitchen was turned on, it was orange and yellow, very warm and heart-pounding.
Yu Jinnian didn't know where all the tea sets in this house were kept, so he searched in the open, and found a piece of good Pu-tea ball. It is cooked tea.
He knocked off a piece, put it in a pot and cooked it for a while, then threw in a few red dates and cooked it slowly. Cooked puerh tea is warm and mild in nature, sobering up and refreshing, adding red dates can invigorate the stomach and refresh the spleen. If it weren't for the fact that this place doesn't have a noodle shop with its own ingredients, Yu Jinnian could still make some light and refreshing refreshments by hand.
After boiling red jujube pucha, Yu Jinnian hurriedly poured a cup while it was hot, and asked Ji Hong to hold it in his hands to warm it up, and said, "I've been sitting for a long time, go get rid of the cold. Be careful, it's a little hot."
Ji Hong did as he said, and when his cup of tea was exhausted, he let out a long sigh of satisfaction, resting his head on the porch pillar, looking at the starry night sky, and said, "Today I want to understand one thing."
"What is it?" Yu Jinnian frowned.
Ji Hong put down the teacup, fished the thin young man in front of him, and said slowly: "Second brother told me not to hate Jing Zhong, because I don't want me to be unhappy because of it... Jinnian, I also only May you be in peace for a long time. Jing Zhong is just an insignificant person, whether he lives or dies has nothing to do with me, but I don't want you and me to be separated because of him."
Feeling the tenderness in the man's words, Yu Jinnian was at a loss for a moment: "I..."
Ji Hong got up, lifted the boy's chin, and lightly pressed a seal on his lips, and there was a hint of danger in his doting eyes: "Go and save yourself, only this person, don't let me see him again in the future. "
Yu Jinnian asked bewilderedly: "What if I see you..."
Ji Hong lowered his head, pressed against the tip of the young man's nose, and exhaled lightly, which was ambiguous and somewhat sinister: "I see you once, hit me once. Is it possible?"
Yu Jinnian nodded seriously and clenched his fists: "I'll help you."