Liu Qinghuan's confinement lasted less than a day before being lifted by General Xue.
But Peng Peng is still counting lotus flowers.
"Ma'am, you didn't see that General Pengpeng was almost soaked into a steamed bun. It's so pitiful."
"Pfft, cough cough!" After hearing Qing Zhi's words, Liu Qinghuan laughed so hard that he almost spit out the cheese from his mouth. She thought for a while, no matter what Peng Peng said, she was also responsible. If he really soaked into a steamed bun...then she must taste it hahaha.
When Liu Qing laughed enough, she finally stood up from her seat with conscience: "Chitaoqingzhi, let's go to the lotus pond to have a look."
The midday sun was a bit harsh, but there was a cool breeze by the lotus pond. Liu Qinghuan suddenly felt that Xue Mu had been living by the lotus all this time, just because it was cooler here, right
"Thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six..."
Liu Qinghuan glanced at Pengpeng in the water, and the side face with concentration was really touching: "Pengpeng, you really didn't soak here for two days, did you?"
As she spoke, she threw a small stone into the pool, and when it fell into the water with a "plop", Peng Peng suddenly became irritable: "Ah! How many times have I counted!"
"Twenty-one." Liu Qinghuan replied.
"Ooooh, twenty-two, twenty-three..."
Chitao Qingzhi: "..."
They thought General Peng Peng would go crazy.
Liu Qinghuan blinked, and threw another pebble over, but this time it hit Peng Peng directly: "Silly boy, if Lord Hou intends to punish you, it won't matter how clearly you count."
Pengpeng looked over with tears streaming down his face when he heard the words: "Wuuuuuu Lala, I have counted six times, and Master Hou's answer has always been 'the number is wrong, double count'."
Liu Qinghuan gave him a sympathetic look: "You've been soaking in the water?"
"No, I came out quietly when Lord Hou was not around, even at night." After he finished speaking, he glanced at the lotus side with a guilty conscience, "Don't let Lord Hou know."
Liu Qinghuan thought for a while and asked, "How many flowers have you counted?"
Pengpeng said, "Fifty-one red lotuses, twenty-seven blue lotuses, thirty-three white lotuses, and eighteen yellow lotuses."
Liu Qinghuan nodded: "I see, I'll help you tell Lord Hou."
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Liu Qinghuan smiled at him, then walked across the floating bridge to the bank of the lotus.
Xue Mu was taking a nap in the room, when he heard the knock on the door, he replied in a low voice: "Come in."
Liu Qinghuan gently pushed open the door, Xue Mu glanced in her direction, with a hint of sleepiness in his eyes. Carrying a soup cup in his hand, Liu Qinghuan walked up to Xue Mu and sat down: "Did you bother Master Hou to rest?"
"It's okay." Xue Mu sat up straight and smiled at her, "Why is Qingqing looking for me?"
Liu Qinghuan opened the soup cup on the desk, and handed it to Xue Mu: "This is mung bean soup specially made in the small kitchen. I asked Qing Zhi to chill it in ice, and then specially sent some to Lord Hou."
Xue Mu looked at the cool mung bean soup in the soup gu, scooped up a spoonful of it with a spoon: "Thank you."
"Master Hou, why should you be so polite to me?" Liu Qinghuan smiled at him, saw him take a sip, and asked, "Is it sweet?"
"Very sweet." Xue Mu pursed her lips, and the corners of her mouth slightly curved.
"As long as Master Hou likes it." Liu Qing laughed twice, and said again, "By the way, I just passed the lotus pond and saw Pengpeng counting flowers in it, so he asked me to tell Master Hou that there are fifty-one red lotus flowers in total. , there are twenty-seven blue lotus flowers, thirty-three white lotus flowers, and eighteen yellow lotus flowers."
"Really?" Xue Mu lowered his head and smiled, and said to Liu Qinghuan, "When you go back later, let him come out."
"Understood." Liu Qinghuan felt relieved, it seemed that Lord Hou wanted to play him to death. After chatting with Xue Mu for a while, Liu Qinghuan got up to say goodbye. Seeing her coming out of the lotus, Pengpeng waved to her vigorously, "Ulala, how are you doing!"
Liu Qinghuan said: "Master Hou let you out."
The joy was only fleeting, and Peng Peng climbed up from the lotus pond sadly. Seeing that he was still looking listless, Liu Qinghuan asked curiously, "Why do you still look like this when you come up?"
Peng Peng sniffed, and looked at her sadly: "I remember the first time I told Lord Hou, it was this amount."
Liu Qinghuan: "..."
"You must have misremembered." She could only comfort him in this way.
After Pengpeng came out of the lotus pond, Xue Mu threw him into the barracks to train recruits. Nuo Yan glanced at Peng Peng who was haggard, and said to Xue Mu who was standing beside him, "Zhou Jinjin couldn't find Du Juan, so he insisted that Zoroastrian fanatics stole his paintings, and went to the Ao Temple almost every day to make trouble."
Xue Mu looked at the well-trained recruits in front of him, pursed his lips and chuckled, "Aes's move is good, it's enough to annoy Tang Zibo for a while."
Nuo Yan thought for a while and asked, "Master Hou, are you sure you told the emperor where the real painting is?"
"En." This time Xue Mu simply replied with one word, and Nuo Yan saw that he didn't want to talk about it, so he retreated behind him and didn't make a sound.
In the mansion of Ayers, Yijin flicked the pendant around his waist and glanced at the person sitting beside drinking: "The ghost hand painted three fake paintings, one was sold to us, and the other was sold to Tang Zibo , and a pair sold to an unknown woman."
"An unknown woman?" Aies narrowed his eyes slightly, draining the wine in the altar in one gulp, "Cuckoo?"
Yi Jin thought for a while, and said, "Not necessarily. Don't you think it's strange that Xue Mu's wife appeared at Zhou Jinjin's banquet? And it's still in the identity of Anaye."
Aies pursed his thin lips. At that time, he also thought that "Anaye" was a bit strange, so he took her away together: "I asked someone, and the real Anaye said it was to help her not be bought by Zhou Jinjin." .”
Yi Jin laughed: "I didn't expect Mrs. Hou Ye to be so warm-hearted."
Aies looked at him for a while, and asked, "Are you suspecting that Du Juan is just a cover put out by Xue Mu, and that the real painting is actually in his hands?"
Yi Jin said: "Xue Mu is full of tricks, it's not surprising that he would come up with such a plan."
Aerus lowered his head and pondered for a while, then said: "It seems that we have to find a chance to pay him a visit."
Yi Jin jumped down from the window sill, smiled and said to Aies, "I heard that the first month of next month is Xue Mu's birthday."
The first day of June is Xue Mu's 20th birthday, but Liu Qinghuan only remembered it one day in advance, no, she should have just learned about it.
It's too late to embroider brocade bags, sachets, make shoes, and... she doesn't know how.
She took a bite of the crystal dragon and phoenix cake in her hand, and blinked. How about making some snacks
"Qingzhi."
She called out, and Qing Zhi, who was standing by, hurried up: "Madam, what are your orders?" Liu Qinghuan said: "How do you make this crystal dragon and phoenix cake?"
"Mrs. Hui, this cake is made of glutinous rice, and red dates are made into dragon and phoenix shapes, embedded in the cake surface, and finally steamed in a basket."
After hearing this, Liu Qinghuan frowned subtly: "Make the jujube into the shape of a dragon and a phoenix?"
"Yes."
"Can red dates be made into the shape of a dragon and a phoenix?"
"Go back to Ma'am, yes."
Liu Qinghuan: "..."
She thinks she should order a bowl of noodles. Well, longevity noodles feel pretty good.
So she actually went to the small kitchen to order a bowl of longevity noodles the next day. Although it was just a bowl of noodles, it took a lot of thought. The soup below is bone soup that has been boiled all night, and there are eggs, vegetables and mushrooms in the noodles. Liu Qinghuan smelled it and almost couldn't help but eat the noodles by herself.
Because she was afraid of the batter, Liu Qinghuan almost flew to the side of the lotus with light work, she was almost moved to tears by herself.
"Master Hou?" Liu Qinghuan poked his head into the lotus bank. Xue Mu had just returned from the army, and he still hadn't taken off his armor. Seeing Liu Qinghuan come in, he felt a little surprised: "Qingqing?"
It was the first time Liu Qinghuan saw Xue Mu in military uniform, she was stunned for a moment and said, "Today is Lord Hou's birthday, I specially ordered a bowl of longevity noodles, Lord Hou, do you want to try it?"
Xue Mu glanced at the food box in her hand, and a smile gradually overflowed in her eyes: "Okay."
Liu Qinghuan opened the food box. The noodle soup in the bowl was thick and the side dishes were even more delicious. She couldn't help but pursed her lips. Well, it's a good thing the noodles are not sticky. She glanced at Xue Mu, and frowned slightly: "It's inconvenient for Master Hou to eat, why don't you change your clothes first?"
"It doesn't matter, it's like this in the army, and the noodles will become mushy after a long time." Xue Mu picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of noodles and put them into his mouth. Liu Qinghuan stared at him intently, seeing that he had swallowed all the long noodles, and asked, "How does it taste?"
Xue Mu said: "Very good, I like it very much."
Liu Qinghuan breathed a sigh of relief, smiled at him and said, "If Master Hou likes it, I will make it for you every year from now on."
Xue Mu's hand holding the chopsticks paused slightly. He looked at Liu Qinghuan for a long time before putting down the chopsticks and saying, "Liu Qinghuan, you promise me, you have to do it."
Liu Qinghuan suddenly felt uncomfortable, her eyes flickered, she lowered her head and said, "Yes."
Unfortunately, she is just a liar.
Xue Mu didn't say anything after that, but just concentrated on eating the noodles. After the bowl of noodles was bottomed out, he even drank the soup. He put down his chopsticks, and deliberately said to Liu Qinghuan: "If you waste food, you will go to hell."
Liu Qinghuan was stunned. He remembered everything she said
She stood up to clean up the dishes, pretending to be relaxed and asked: "What is the wish of Lord Hou?"
"Wish?" Xue Mu lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly took her hand and said, "Compared with the long life of the world, life is but a moment. Birth, old age, sickness and death are normal, but I often think that I can be with you for a long time. Together, isn't it too greedy?"
Liu Qinghuan looked at him, unable to speak a word.
Lying is as natural to her as breathing, but Master has also warned her not to lie to people, because sooner or later she will have to pay back.
"Lord Hou."
Nuo Yan's voice suddenly sounded outside the door, Xue Mu let go of Liu Qinghuan's hand and asked, "What's the matter?"
Nuo Yan said, "Aies asks to see you."