red and white

Chapter 13

December [-]th, the winter solstice.

Mu Gesheng carried the food box, did not go through the gate of Chai Mansion as usual, jumped up the Nuan Pavilion all the way, knocked on the window, "Sanjiutian, are you there?"

The window opened, and Chai Shuxin frowned at him, "Why are you here?"

As the snow fell, Mu Gesheng held up a red umbrella and raised the food box in his hand with a smile, "Today's winter solstice, the second child took the fifth child to play in Guanshanyue, the study doesn't care about food, I'll have a meal of dumplings. "

"Go down."

"Don't, I don't want to eat you for nothing. I brought some dishes. The second brother just developed a new trick, and I took a lot of effort to snatch it from the fifth mouth. It seems that I miss you so much." For the sake of it, let me have a meal."

"Go down and go to the main entrance." Chai Shuxin turned and went back to the room, "Before you come in, wipe off the snow on your shoulders."

Although Chai Shuxin lives in Nuan Pavilion, there is not much warmth in the room, the walls are plain and clean, and there is a small case in front of the white paper screen, on which there is a basin of clear water and a bottle of half-trimmed plum blossoms.

"It's not that I said you, three or nine days, your house is colder than the monk's house in Baishui Temple." Mu Gesheng looked around, "Look at the layout here, it should be installed with floor heating, why not burn it?"

"The plum blossoms are just right at this time." Chai Shuxin held the flower scissors in his hand, "No matter how high the temperature is, the flowers fall quickly."

"Is this the eightfold cold red of your family?" Mu Gesheng's eyes lit up, "I heard from my master that the Chai family is a good plum blossom, and the Chai family's plum blossoms can be proud of the snow and frost in the cold winter. No wonder your house is full of fragrance today. It's time for flowers."

Red plums are not as cold-resistant as winter plums. Chaifu Yaehanhong is a top-grade flower species that has been carefully cultivated for generations and can bloom in snow.The Chai family has always loved plum blossoms, and it is said that the plum trees in Chaifu are fertilized with precious materials, which have medicinal properties. After being pounded, they are rare medicines with unique effects.

"It's rare to see something you like." Mu Ge said happily, "No wonder I received several pots of plum blossoms in the study a few days ago, and you gave them to me?"

"Those are the best growing plants this year." Sitting in front of the table, Chai Shuxin trimmed off a branch, "Baehonghanhong is a treasure and is priceless. Those pots are for Mr. Take it and sell it for money."

"It's too late for you to say so. The second child made plum blossom cakes." Sitting opposite Mu Gesheng, he opened the food box he brought, "Here, your money."

When Chai Shuxin was cut crookedly with the scissors, the originally slim plum blossom suddenly became a hanging tree.

"Don't stare at me, I didn't do anything this time!" Mu Gesheng quickly clarified, "The fifth son recently ground his teeth and almost gnawed those plum blossoms. Now the whole study is full of saliva marks. The third son There are his halazi in the account book."

Chai Shuxin spit out a sentence after a while, "The cow chews peonies."

"Then what can I do, I can't argue with children."

"It takes 50 years for a cub of Suzaku to transform into form. In terms of age, maybe the master is not as good as him."

"It's rare to see you being so serious." Mu Gesheng said curiously: "Why, can't you beat him up?"

"I wouldn't do this kind of thing, but you can do it."

"...All right, I beat him up, and then the second child won't give me food. Now he looks like the fifth mother, I just picked him up on the street." Mu Gesheng showed helplessness : "Lao Wu is a picky eater recently. He is picky about everything he does. I eat his leftovers every day."

Chai Shuxin didn't seem to believe it, "You will eat other people's leftovers?"

"It can't be down, it's the second child's handicraft anyway, it won't be unpalatable." Mugesheng sighed, "Recently the second child and the fifth child are on the same line, no matter what he does, he doesn't eat it, and I set up a big table every day. I will take care of it." After cleaning up the mess, I even gained a lot of weight...Let’s not talk about it, you can try the plum cake I brought, it’s still warm after my second child steamed it this afternoon.”

There is a cage of white pastries in the food box, carved in the shape of plum blossoms, the skin is extremely thin, and the filling is slightly crimson, it is indeed fresh and attractive.Chai Shuxin looked at it, put down the flower scissors, "wait a moment."

"Aren't you going to eat?"

"Make tea first."

A small red clay stove, boiled tea in snow water.

"It's finally getting warmer." Mu Gesheng picked up the teapot and poured boiling water, "Your room is only a little popular now, and finally it doesn't look like a Xiuxian Zhaitang."

Chai Shuxin sat across from him pounding the medicine, and there was a white stone mortar on the table. He picked the cut plum blossoms, added medicinal materials and mixed them into a mash.Mu Gesheng watched him busy, "What are you doing?"

"Later, it will be three quarters of the next hour, according to the pharmacist's routine, at this time you must soak your hands and concentrate." There was a basin of clear water on the table, and Chai Shuxin poured the pounded medicinal materials into the water, and the color of the water gradually became darker.

This Mu Gesheng has heard that the Chai family of the Yao family is very precious to his hands, not only wearing gloves every day, but also soaking his hands every day, he has seen it today. "You just soak it in cold water? It's the cold winter months, so it hurts your hands even more?"

"The medicine family's prescription, the medicine and water are different in four seasons." After Chai Shuxin pounded the medicine, he glanced at Mu Gesheng, who seemed to be hesitant, "If you finish eating, go out first."

"Get out? Where?"

"Sister will make Yipin Guo today, you can go and have a look."

"It's strange, you will drive me to your homeland to play wild in three or nine days?" Mu Gesheng raised his eyebrows, "I'll just sit here and not go anywhere."

"You just ate too many plum cakes, you need to walk slowly to digest..."

"Don't you eat too? Go and go together."

When it comes to verbal disputes, Chai Shuxin is obviously not Mugesheng's opponent. The two chatted around, but Chai Shuxin had to give up, raised his hand and opened the window, "It's up to you."

Before Mu Gesheng could open his mouth, his head and face were blurred by the oncoming snowflakes.

"Three or nine days, I found that you are quite wicked sometimes." Mugesheng closed the window in embarrassment, "Like a child, you trip people up suddenly... Poof."

There was a burst of shocking laughter in the warm pavilion.

"I was wrong, I was wrong, don't be angry, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha—" Mu Gesheng smiled and confessed, ran across the room with a long memory, thumped the wall and said with a smile: "Three or nine days, this is also your Yao family. Is it a custom?—everyone has to paint their nails?"

Just now when Chai Shuxin took off his gloves, Mu Gesheng almost spit out a mouthful of tea. The previous few times when they fought, it was late at night and they couldn't see the color clearly.Now he can be regarded as seeing it clearly, the opponent's hands are well-articulated, and ten fingers are Danko.

No wonder Chai Shuxin wanted to dismiss him!

"Actually, it's nothing." Mu Gesheng took a breath and said with a smile: "The second brother is also quite proficient in such things as Xiang and Faner. You should have a common language."

Chai Shuxin kept silent with a cold face, watching Mu Gesheng almost twitched with a smile, as if he raised his knife and chopped him off after soaking.

Cold anger floated in the young man's eyes, his hands were soaked in the porcelain basin, his knuckles were red, like an open flame licking his fingertips, plum blossoms were floating in the water, reflecting his white clothes that were more beautiful than snow, almost forcing out a little color.

"Young Master Mu doesn't know that the medicine used for the beam is an ancient prescription from the Yao family, not an ordinary Danko. The people of the Chai family always cherish their hands, and so do the armor, as do all the medical practitioners in the family." A soft voice came, and a slender Qianying went upstairs, "I asked why the Nuan Pavilion is so warm today, so it was Young Master Mu who came."

Mu Gesheng stopped laughing immediately, and stood upright, "Sister Chai."

Chai Shuxin was soaking his hands, and it was inconvenient to get up, so he bowed his head and greeted: "Sister."

"Talk slowly, there are few people in the mansion today, so don't hold back." Chai Liandong pursed his lips and smiled, "I just came to ask, what do you want for dinner?"

Mu Gesheng immediately said: "Yipin Guo."

"It's easy to say, dumplings and Yipinguo are indispensable." Chai Liandong smiled and said, "Where is the salary?"

"Sister's cooking is very good." Chai Shuxin said: "Standing in the kitchen for a long time will hurt your health, sister, don't be too tired."

"How is sister Chai?" Mu Gesheng heard the words, "How about I help you?"

"I just do it once in a while, it's okay." Chai Liandong waved his hands lightly, and said narrowly: "As for cooking—I've also heard of Young Master Mu's red date and onion koi soup."

Chai Shuxin: "Oh."

"Where is it?" Mu Gesheng said in a rather shameless tone, "Then there will be Sister Laochai."

The Chai Mansion occupies a very large area, and a quiet area is surrounded by a ten-fold corridor in the center of the garden. Although the Yao family has a large number of people, only the direct line of the Chai family lives in the corridor, that is, the two siblings today.

The warm pavilion where Chai Shuxin and Chai Rendong live is not far away. After nightfall, lights are lit on the corridor, and the snow outside the corridor is rustling.

Mugesheng and Chai Shuxin walked in tandem, Mugesheng turned against the guest, and walked in front carelessly, the corridors twisted and turned, but this man walked with ease.Chai Shuxin said, "Do you know the way?"

"I don't know." Mu Gesheng took off a lantern and held it in his hand, "But the aroma of the food came from a long way away. In the study, I used the smell to identify where the second child put the food today. Follow the smell, there will be no one. wrong."

Sure enough, the two quickly left the corridor and came to the Nuan Pavilion where Chai Liandong lived.Although the layouts of the two attics are similar, Chai Lonicera's room is full of warmth. There are meals on the round table around the waist, and there is an exquisite brass stove in the middle, and the Yipin pot that Mu Gesheng has been thinking about is simmering on it.

Chai Liandong was preparing vegetables. Seeing two people entering the door, each of them stuffed an orange. "The dumplings will be out of the pot soon. You should eat some snacks first. There are still tomatoes in the bamboo basket. The chestnuts are covered in the stove. Slow down when you come out to eat, and be careful of the heat." Speaking of worrying about the fire, he hurriedly turned and went back to the kitchen.

Chai Shuxin handed his oranges to Mu Gesheng, "There are pine nuts in the candy box, if you want to eat, take it yourself, don't eat too much, and eat right away." Then he went to the kitchen, "I'll help sister, don't follow me come over."

Mu Gesheng held the orange candy box and a basket of tomatoes, blinked, and felt that it was the first time he experienced Zhu Yinxiao's treatment for eating.

Although young, older children are so fucking cool.

Mu Gesheng never knew what a face was, so he leaned back on the soft couch, drank tea while warming himself by the fire, and peeled the orange peel into a flower.

However, he hadn't had a bite yet when the phone on the coffee table rang, and he couldn't answer it. He was waiting for Chai Liandong to come out of the kitchen and picked up the phone. He was about to get up to avoid it, but was stopped by someone, "It's Master Song." Chai Liandong covered the microphone and said softly: "I'm looking for you."

"Second brother?" It's been half a day since I saw him, Song asked Tong what he needed?Mu Gesheng took the microphone, "Hello? If you have something to play, kneel down if you have nothing to do."

Song Wentong's call should be from Guan Shanyue, the background sound is mixed with the melody of pipa and the sound of shuffling cards, "Fourth, have you seen the fifth?"

"Cook supper? Didn't he follow you to experience the gentle township?"

"When I went to serve a dumpling, this kid disappeared!" Song Wentong said violently, "I caught up with his transformation today. I'm afraid that this unlucky thing will be abducted again. Didn't he go to your place?"

"Chaifu and Guan Shanyue are separated by half a city, if you want to be abducted, you will be abducted." Mu Gesheng didn't think it was a big deal when he watched the excitement, "I said you shouldn't take him there. He can't compare to a chicken coop in his heart."

"I'm telling you something serious!" Song Wentong's voice rose an octave, "Come here quickly and help me find someone!"

"I refuse." Mu Gesheng answered crisply, he stuffed a whole orange into his mouth, his cheeks swelled up, and said vaguely: "Nikuo Yibu gives me a meal, but I don't know how to give you a meal." The next meal in the sac."

"Mu Gesheng! Now the fifth child is lost!"

"Nebu give me a meal."

"The fifth child is Xingxiu!"

"Isn't it better to talk about the work than the nest?"

"Are you fucking finished?!"

"Return to mother's nest."

"..."

There was a loud noise from the other side of the phone, followed by a dead silence. Mu Gesheng guessed that Song Wentong was in a hurry and was throwing things to vent his anger.

He swallowed the orange in a hurry, his accent finally changed back to a normal person, and he said slowly: "The fifth child hasn't learned to walk yet, right? Don't worry, he can't climb far. Look under the bed, Guan Shanyue has so many beds, Take it easy."

Before the words were finished, Chai Shuxin walked into the room with a soup cup in his hand, "I'm going to eat, and we'll talk about it after the sky falls." Mu Gesheng didn't wait for the other party's reply, hung up the phone, and pulled out the plug .

Chai Shuxin put down the soup cup, "What happened?"

"It's okay, my second child wishes me a happy winter solstice."

Chai Shuxin looked at him, his eyes clearly disbelieving the man's nonsense, but he didn't say anything.

Chai Rendong went back to his room and changed into a pine-colored cheongsam, took his seat with a smile, and picked up the wine cup, "Today is the holiday, when you don't have to watch the meal, don't stand still, let's start the meal."

Pour wine into the cup, warming the room.

The meal lasted until late at night, when the snow had just stopped, Chai Shuxin sent Mu Gesheng out of the corridor, and then asked, "What does Mozi want you for?"

Mu Gesheng raised his eyebrows, "I thought this matter was over, why did I ask again?"

"It's rare for me to eat with sister."

"So that's it." Mu Gesheng nodded, but didn't hide it any more, "The second child called from Guan Shanyue more than an hour ago, saying that the fifth child was lost."

Chai Shuxin frowned, "Missing Xingxiu?"

"Why is everyone making such a fuss." Mu Gesheng waved his hand, "Don't worry, we have reported to the husband before we went down the mountain, if it is not the day, the husband will not let us out, and the fifth child will not be caught by anyone. "

"In any case, the disappearance of Xingxiuzi is not a trivial matter." Chai Shuxin was obviously worried, "I will go find it with you."

"Are you going with me?" Mu Gesheng laughed out loud, "Are you sure you want to accompany me to Guan Shanyue? The head of the Yao Family visited the place of Fireworks and Willow Lane late at night. I'm afraid the elders in your family are going to be blown up." ?”

Chai Shuxin paused, with a rare tangled expression on his face.

Mu Gesheng looked at this man's face enough, and then Shi Shiran said: "Okay, I won't tease you, I brought the mountain ghost and spent money to come out, and after a while, I can find out whether the fifth child has escaped or not." How crazy are you?" Then he paused, "But before that, I want to ask you something."

"what's up?"

Before the words were finished, the gate of the Chai Mansion was kicked open, and there was a person standing outside the door with a murderous look, it was Song Wentong.

Mu Gesheng quickly ran behind Chai Shuxin and pushed him out, "Help me win this fight."