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"I said I like you, will you come with me?" Xu Qinghan asked seriously.

Shen Ci avoided talking, stretched out his hand to touch the kang, "It's okay, it's quite warm." He spread three layers of mattresses on the kang, untied Xu Qinghan's fox-fur cloak, and helped him take off one by one The thick brocade robes and jackets are extraordinarily gentle when they fall to the hands and feet, until only the middle clothes are left before stuffing people into the bed.

He said, "Let's have a good sleep this time, and eat after waking up. Didn't you bring a change of clothes? I don't think you and Shen Che are carrying their bags."

Xu Qinghan huddled under the warm and soft blanket, shook his head and said, "I didn't bring it, I came out in such a hurry that I didn't have time to get it."

"Okay, you can just wear mine at home, I'll take your clothes to wash and wear them when you go back, my clothes are not too windy." Shen Ci hugged the pile of clothes that Xu Qinghan had taken off into his arms Li, "Don't drool, don't wet the bed, dirty the quilt and spank your ass."

Xu Qinghan didn't bother to pay attention to him, he pulled the quilt over his head and turned over.

The fox fur cloak could not be washed, so Shen Ci hung it on a hook, dragged out a large tub for bathing from the gap between the water tank and the wall, poured warm water into it and soaked other clothes in it.Tweety found out a new teacup and filled it with boiled water, which was already dry. Shen Ci picked up the cup and turned back to the room, only to find that Xu Qinghan had already fallen asleep during the time he had been in and out of the room. Dreaming of something happy, there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Shen Ci sighed inexplicably, touched his eyelashes with his index finger like a superficial touch, put the teacup aside and left.

Xu Qinghan's clothes were really hard to wash, he had to wash them carefully, not to mention dust and mud after driving for two days, and they were all made of delicate materials.

While washing, Shen Ci remembered the days when he was a child. Before he entered the palace, he did odd jobs to support himself and Shen Che. He washed clothes and cleaned toilets for others, and worked as a waiter in a small inn for more than a year.He washed clothes for others in winter, his hands were red and stiff from the cold, and he accidentally tore a piece of thread from the corner of the robe.It wasn't a big deal at first, but Shen resigned because he didn't want to meet a bitter hostess, who beat him with dead branches and scolded him in a high-pitched voice.

The place where he was beaten was hot and painful, Shen Ci tried all his patience but couldn't bear it anymore, as soon as he raised his head and was about to yell at the woman, he saw Shen Che standing beside him.Shen Che's dirty little face was flushed with cold, he was wearing Shen Ci's old clothes, which fit loosely on his thin body, and his shoes were so worn out that his big toes were exposed.He looked very hungry, sucking his thumb and timidly looking at the woman and brother.So Shen Ci could only continue to bear it, and even lowered his head and confessed his mistake to the woman, and waited until the woman was satisfied before getting three copper coins to buy food for his brother.

Shen Ci was wandering in the sky, when suddenly a gust of cold wind woke him up.

"Brother." Shen Che stood in front of him carrying bags of various sizes. He was almost taller than Shen Ci. He was well-proportioned and refreshed.It is true that the elder brother is like a father, and Shen Ci felt a sense of pride that "the son has grown up".

"Hey, you're back so soon?" Shen Ci happily raised his buttocks and took the things in Shen Che's hand, "It's just right, come on, help me wash the clothes."

"Oh." Shen Che nodded obediently, rolled up his sleeves without complaint, sat on the ponytail and began to scrub and wash the clothes hard.

"Take it easy, it's both Shu brocade and Suzhou embroidery, and you'll ruin it if you wash it."

Shen Che retracted his hands in panic, twisted his fingers a few times before dipping his hands into the water again and slowly kneading his clothes.

Shen Ci didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Are you afraid of scaring it? It's okay to use a little strength, just don't hit you so hard like me."

"..." Shen Che's expression was complicated.

From the pile of things Shen Che bought, Shen Ci picked out some sweets for the children and a few boxes of rouge powder for the children's mother, put them under his arm and opened the cotton curtain of Westinghouse.

Cui'er, mother and son are sitting on the top of the kang, and the two children are teaching her how to read.Tweety smiled lightly, with dimples in her eyes, and the sparkles of stars danced in her eyes. It was obvious that the literacy of the two children made her much happier than her own.

As soon as Shen Ci sprinkled the snacks on the kang, Xiaolong jumped on it with a strange cry, Xiaohu was much more reserved, and said to Shen Ci in a childlike voice: "Thank you, Daddy!" Then he went over to eat happily snack.

Tweety held the boxes of rouge and said at a loss, "This...why did you buy so much? It's too expensive. Let's return it?"

Shen Ci stuffed the rouge box into Tweety'er's palm, pressed her fingers and refused to let her go, "Take it, it wasn't paid by that nobleman, it was bought by my younger brother. Isn't it right for him to respect his sister-in-law for a few boxes of rouge powder?" ?”

Tweety accepted it hesitantly, and asked Shen Ci, "Have you bought all the meat? I'll cook for my uncle and the nobles."

"I'm doing it today. That noble man has a tricky mouth and is very difficult to serve. You don't know his taste."

Shen Ci raised his family since he was a child, so cooking is of course a no-brainer.Poverty made him frugal. When he was young, he had no money to buy vegetables, and he was very busy. Occasionally, he fried shredded potatoes and threw them in the pot with some salt.In fact, he has good cooking skills passed down from his family. Generally, his mother is ingenious in his family. Shen Ci's family is just the opposite. You have to pull Shen Ci to follow suit.

His father Xiao Chenhuan told him with joy at the beginning, "The eldest son listens to his father. You don't need to learn the knives and guns taught by your mother, but you must learn to cook. Back then, I chased your mother so much that I was called a Bitter, all over the world chasing after her ass, she didn't even look at me, and kicked me when she thought I was bored, until my nose was bruised and my face was swollen. Do you know why you later agreed with your father to bow down under her pomegranate skirt?" He bent With a smile on his waist, he shaved Shenci's face, "Because Dad Dongpo's meat is very delicious."

Shen Ci asked half understanding, "So mother is with father because of this?"

Xiao Chenhuan coughed dryly, "No, she tied me up to be her cook, and then I worked hard to serve her for two years before we could have a long-term relationship!"

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Remove the hair from the pork belly, put it in a pot of cold water and add firewood to heat it and blanch it again. Shen Ci fishes out the meat and puts it on the cutting board and cuts it into small cubes skillfully with a kitchen knife.

Shen Ci majored in the way of knife. Although the kitchen knife is completely different from his horizontal knife, it is used for chopping meat, whether it is human flesh or pork, it looks the same, which makes him more comfortable with the kitchen knife than others.

The last time he was taken captive back to the palace, he passed by that inn. Reasonably speaking, the food in that inn was really delicious, but the problem was Xu Qinghan.He thinks the soup is salty because his taste is too bland; he thinks fishy because he doesn't like fish at all, so the fishy smell usually made by the palace is completely removed, and it doesn't look like a fish at all. How can there be such a fish outside? Do fish?He thinks the rice is hard because he likes to eat soft rice (?), and he complains about the hard rice when other people's rice is moderately soft and hard.As for the prawns...it was true that the prawns were not fresh enough that day, but this place is quite far from the sea, so it is impossible to be particularly fresh.

Now cooking at home, other people don't pay so much attention, just try to accommodate Xu Qinghan as much as possible.

When the Dongpo meat came out of the pot, Xu Qinghan also fell asleep. Shen Ci filled half a bowl of soft and glutinous rice in a blue and white porcelain bowl, poured a spoonful of rich and fragrant soup, and sandwiched a few pieces of translucent red Dongpo on the rice. Meat, Shen Che, who was sitting on the side washing clothes carefully, couldn't help rolling his throat when he smelled the fragrance.

Shen Ci passed by Shen Che with a rice bowl, and in a good mood, he tapped the top of his head with the end of his chopsticks, "Eat first, don't rush to wash, go and ask your sister-in-law and nephew to come out to eat too."

Xu Qinghan was wearing a dark blue cotton robe that had been washed white by Shen Ci, and sat leaning against the wall with loose black hair hugging the quilt, with a lazy look that had just woken up, and his usual superior demeanor was melted away a lot.Shen Ci sat on the edge of the Kang and patted beside him, "Ancestor, come and eat."

Xu Qinghan's eyes lit up, his lazy breath disappeared, and he crawled to Shen Ci's side and knelt obediently, begging to be fed. Shen Ci picked up the fragrant Dongpo meat, and he opened his mouth and raised his chin to wait. The meat is delivered to the mouth.

The Dongpo meat cooked by Shen Ci is soft but not rotten, fat but not greasy, no worse than any cook. He also deliberately catered to Xu Qinghan's taste by adding less salt and more sugar. The most important thing is that Shen Ci's "personal" divine power , Xu Qinghan suddenly felt that this was the most delicious food he had ever eaten in his life!He stuck out the tip of his tongue and licked his lips, "I still want to eat."

Shen Ci silently picked up a chopstick and put the soup-drenched rice into Xu Qinghan's mouth.Xu Qinghan was eating, but his eyes were fixed on Shen Ci, looking at Shen Ci's face intently.

Shen Ci touched his cheek strangely, "What are you looking at me for? Are there rice grains on my face?"

Xu Qinghan looked at Shen Ci's clean and handsome face, nodded firmly and said, "Yes."

"Huh? Where is it?"

"Let me get rid of it for you." Xu Qinghan stretched out his right hand to approach Shen Ci a little bit, and when he was only about three inches away from him, he suddenly rushed to hug him, closed his eyes and pressed his lips to Shen Ci's lips.

"!" Shen Ci's eyes widened unexpectedly.