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Chapter 108 No.30 Four Bayberry
Qin Lie didn't chew much, he swallowed the cake twice, and said with a smile: "When I was outside, the dry food was so hard, it didn't seem to choke me."

"How hard is it?"

Qin Lie said with a smile: "Once when I met a horse bandit, someone who didn't have a hand for a while smashed it with a bag of dry food, and smashed a horse bandit until he foamed at the mouth."

Xiaodong said, "Really?"

"Of course it's true. The cakes are made in that way so they are firm and hungry, and they can be kept for a long time."

"It's so hard, how do you eat it?"

"When there is hot soup, soak it in the soup. When there is no soup, take a bite of the cake and a mouthful of water, and swallow it when it is softer in your mouth."

The hardships were described plainly by him.After a while, Xiaodong asked: "Do you still have to run around like this now?"

Hearing the pity in her words, Qin Lie felt his face heat up for some reason: "It's always like this when you go out. You can't take a shower for ten days and a half months, and you may not be able to find an inn every day. Sometimes you just In the barren mountains and wild mountains, after walking for several days, we have to deal with food and housing indiscriminately."

He regretted it as soon as he finished speaking, Xiaodong has always loved cleaning, so it is wrong to say that he does not take a bath for ten and a half months.But Xiaodong didn't pay attention to bathing or not, he rested his chin in a daze: "No wonder you were so skillful at grilling fish when we went to Donghua Villa."

She gestured to Qin Lie with her left and right hands: "Is it here? I always felt that something was wrong with my practice last time."

"Let's get closer." Qin Lie tapped her wrist with his fingertips.

"here?"

"Correct."

Xiaodong pinched it, and sure enough half of his forearm was so numb that he couldn't lift it up.

"Ah, I found the right one."

Qin Lie smiled, rolled up his sleeves, and put his arms across the table: "Come on, look for it on my hand."

Xiaodong glanced at him: "Is that okay?"

"Why not."

Xiaodong tentatively stretched out his hand and nodded: "Is it here?"

Qin Lie shook his head.

Xiaodong looked at it, then moved up half an inch: "Is that here?"

She didn't dare to use any force, Qin Lie pursed his lips, telling himself not to be too tight.

Although... Xiaodong scratched his fingertips across the skin, itching, and said in a low voice, "It's here."

Xiaodong withdrew his hand, Qin Lie was taken aback for a moment, and then put down his sleeves as if nothing had happened: "I'm going out next month, do you have anything for me to take with you?"

"Where are you going?"

"Going west, pass through Ganzhou, Pingliang, cross Yishan, stop in Changde, and maybe go west again."

Xiaodong opened his eyes wide: "Further to the west, where is that place?"

"It has already left our Great Xia Kingdom."

"How long will it take?"

"One back and one back, at least it will take three months."

"So far away..." Xiaodong only circled around the capital, and the closest one was to Xianyunzhuang.She can imagine how vast the world outside is, but maybe she won't be able to see it with her own eyes in this lifetime.

"It's a good thing you're not going to the palace now, otherwise I won't feel at ease when I go. Think about it, what do you want?"

"Yes," Xiaodong nodded, and said seriously, "You must promise me."

"Go ahead."

"You...you must come back safely."

Qin Lie didn't expect her to say such a sentence, and Xiaodong repeated it solemnly: "You have to take care of yourself, go early and return early, it doesn't matter if you run out of money, the most important thing is people's safety."

Qin Lie whispered: "I know."

"Just knowing is not enough, you have to agree."

"Okay, I promise."

Xiaodong smiled, and pushed the plate containing the cherry cake a little closer to him: "Eat some more."

Qin Lie said: "You eat too."

"it is good."

The two each took a piece of cherry cake, Xiaodong's fingers were still gesturing on the other wrist.

"You have to take care of yourself too."

"I know." Xiaodong took a bite of the cake: "I heard that there are many Hu merchants in Changde. Those people are very aggressive. As long as someone pays, they will sell anything."

"Yes, some are merchants in name, but they also work as robbers part-time. They sell the stolen goods. There are many such shops in Changde, and the prices are [-]-[-]% lower than others, but you can't ask where the goods come from. Qin Lie said: "Changde has the most gold ornaments, jade, spices, and other things brought by the Hu merchants. I brought tea, silk, and porcelain on this trip, and they are also in high demand there." "

It was getting late, Qin Lie should go back.Xiaodong stood up and went to the window to see him off, and whispered again: "Go early and come back early, take care of yourself."

"understood."

Qin Lie jumped out of the window like a big cat, and his figure disappeared in the night.Xiaodong closes the window, remembering their conversation just now, especially the last sentence he said, how does it sound... Cough, like a young couple who are about to break up?The husband is about to travel far away, and the wife earnestly advises him?
An illusion, it must be an illusion.

Xiaodong kicked off his shoes and climbed onto the bed, turned over and lay down.Maybe it was too quiet in the room, she listened to her heart pounding.

Qin Lie should not be the kind she likes.In her previous life, Xiaodong had never been in love, but her ideal partner should be gentle, gentle and reliable.Well, probably like a man like Wang An.Qin Lie is different, if he wears a long gown and tie a scholar's scarf, he can pretend to be gentle, but would a gentleman jump out of the window every day?
After Qin Lie left, Xiaodong couldn't get used to it for a few days.

She is always used to leaving a window unlocked, but no one will jump in from there again.Habit is really a wonderful thing. When he came, maybe he didn't feel how important he was, but once he didn't come, it made people feel empty and uncomfortable.Tomorrow is still going smoothly, but I always feel that something is missing.

As the weather got hotter day by day, Xiaodong's time to take the needle was also shortened, because when the weather was hot, the needle always slipped in his hands.The red bayberry is just ripe, and it looks like a deep red jewel on the plate.In the kitchen, Xiaodong learned how to make candied bayberry, bayberry juice, and how to brew bayberry wine.

I don't know where Qin Lie went, if he arrived in Changde.The capital is already hot enough. I heard that places like Changde will only be drier and hotter than the Central Plains.

"Princess, what do you think?"

Xiaodong came back to his senses, and put the bayberry pinched back into the basket: "I'm thinking of making a dish with bayberry for my father and brother to try."

The person in charge of the kitchen said with a smile: "Exactly, it's getting hot now, and red bayberry is appetizing, so it's the most suitable for cooking. Red bayberry tofu and shrimp in plum juice are both good, light and light."

"Then let's make tofu first, and then make shrimp tomorrow."

In Xiaodong's Yufang Pavilion, there is a lady Zhu who is skilled in the kitchen. She cuts a piece of tofu into many sheets, and each sheet is thin and even, as white and translucent as rice paper.Xiaodong praised, and couldn't help but think, [-]% of this skill would not be good for him in this life, but Qin Lie might be able to do it - when he should be careful, he was not ambiguous at all.

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Chapter titles are really hard to come by. .

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