Luting Canteen

After the car got on the highway, the rain gradually became lighter.Yan Ting told Li Hui to sleep on it for a while, but Li Hui refused and insisted on saying a few words from time to time.Guessing that he probably wanted to accompany her, Yan Ting let him go.

In fact, apart from Yan Ting who wanted to accompany the driver, Li Hui also couldn't calm down because he was about to see the current Jiangling.Although it is now called Jinzhou, it must have changed a lot, but in his heart Li Hui still believes that it is Jiangling—this place he wanted to go no matter what, and it was also the place he wanted to escape later.

What would it look like there now?What does Hengle Building look like now?Although you can ask Ye Qi to help you find those pictures, but Li Hui still wants to see them with his own eyes.

After passing the last toll booth, Yan Ting told Li Hui that their destination would arrive soon.Li Hui nodded, and began to stare silently ahead.

"Jiangling is now delicious, fun and beautiful, and Hengle Tower is in the city. Farmhouses and some places to live are outside the moat. It is also very lively there now. The vicinity of the city wall and the moat have been changed to normal walking. A place to rest."

Seeing that he became a little silent, Yan Ting spoke while driving, glanced at Li Hui who was listening, and added:

"It's a little late today, I think we'll go to the place where we live first, have a meal, and then go into the city tomorrow morning, what do you think?"

Although he couldn't help but want to go and have a look right away, Li Hui felt that Yan Ting was driving very hard, so he nodded:

"Tonight, son, you should go to bed early."

Thinking that he was thinking of getting up early to see Heng Le Lou, Yan Ting raised his eyebrows and laughed.

"Okay, rest early."

"My lord, where are we going to live?"

Yan Ting likes Li Hui to ask himself questions, he is willing to ask, in Yan Ting's view, it is a kind of intimacy.

"Go live with someone I know."

Li Hui was a little curious and wanted to ask who it was, but he swallowed the words and turned his head to look at the pair of wipers that continued to swing from side to side.The rainy weather that started in the afternoon made it darker even faster. It was almost six o'clock before the car finally drove into a road that was not too wide, and finally stopped at the gate of a courtyard.There was a gate with a wooden fence, and a round lamp stood beside it. Probably because of the rain, the light looked foggy.Yan Ting raised his hand and squeezed Li Hui's ear, said "Don't be scared" and honked the horn.This was the first time Yan Ting honked the horn during the journey, Li Hui really opened his eyes wide when he heard the sound.

"Do you want to try it?"

Seeing no one around, Yan Ting looked at Li Hui with a smile on his face.Seeing him nodding, he took his hand and placed it in the middle of the steering wheel, motioning him to push it down.

Li Hui lightly pressed the button, but there was no response from the car horn. Just as Yan Ting was about to tell him to push harder, the car window was knocked loudly.After pressing the car window, Yan Ting looked up and smiled at the person standing outside the window holding an umbrella:

"Where is the car parked?"

"If you want to go to the corner ahead, mine is also there, just park beside it, there is a seat."

Raising his hand to show that he understood, the man opened the rear door again, put the umbrella he brought on the seat, closed the door and waved his hand.

When Li Hui followed Yan Ting through the small courtyard and entered the house, he saw the appearance of the man just now: a tall man with a big thick sweater on his body, and a somewhat cynical expression under his curly hair, but He smiled softly again.Yan Ting shook the umbrella out, gathered it up and threw it into the iron bucket at the door, pointed to the man and said to Li Hui:

"This is my former colleague, Liang Jiezhou, you can just call him uncle."

"Hey, will you call me uncle when you come up?"

The man named Liang Jiezhou handed over two pairs of slippers with some dissatisfaction, Yan Ting took it and handed Li Hui a pair, and stuffed Li Hui's small suitcase and his own bag into his arms:

"You are five or six years older than this little guy, do you want to call me brother?"

"Then you can call me brother."

Jie Zhou smiled and carried the luggage of the two of them, and led them inside.This place is different from Yan Ting's home, as soon as you enter, you will see a big living room with a big fluffy sofa in the middle, behind the sofa is the kitchen, and you can see clearly inside through a few glass doors.

"This uncle designed the house and usually lives here."

Seeing Li Hui looking up and staring at the large and small round light bulbs around the beam, Yan Ting explained aloud.He also told him that the paintings hanging on the wall were all drawn by this uncle.Jie Zhou brought them two cups of hot milk tea, and threw two more marshmallows into Yan Ting's cup. After holding them, he pointed to a low stool made of gray cement bricks by the wall. Next to it, there is a pot of brown sedge, and a beige plush blanket hangs softly from the stool, on which is a framed painting.

"Do you know who drew this?"

Jie Zhou asked Li Hui with a smile.

"No, I don't know."

Pointing to Yan Ting who was drinking milk tea, Jie Zhou raised his chin again:

"Look, I put your painting in the most conspicuous place."

Li Hui was a little surprised, turned his head to look at Yan Ting, Yan Ting smiled at him, and waited for him to speak as if he was about to speak.

"Young master, then, then your name is Ye Qihua Menu, is, is it because you want to be lazy?"

As soon as these words came out, Yan Ting was stunned, but immediately smiled and said:

"I'm giving him a chance to practice more."

Li Hui said "Oh" and turned his head away.Jie Zhou couldn't hold back his laughter with great difficulty, and leaned close to Yan Ting, patted him on the shoulder and asked in a low voice:

"Did you intend to listen to the praise, but it fell through?"

"Where's the food? I'm hungry."

Without answering or looking at him, Yan Ting went straight into the kitchen with the cup in his hand, and Jie Zhou quickly followed, leaving Li Hui standing alone in front of the painting.Knowing that there was no one behind, Li Hui moved closer.

Li Hui couldn't understand that painting, but he thought the deep and light colors were beautiful.As soon as I thought that it was drawn by the young master, I naturally felt a kind of liking in my heart. I didn't want to explain my liking to anyone, but it just made me feel very happy again.But when I thought about it, I didn't know that the young master can draw. Of course, there are many things that the young master didn't know, which is not surprising.It's just that I haven't seen the painting of the young master in Mr. Tang's house, or in Yougutang, or in Lanze, or even in Luting, but instead it appeared in this man's house.Was it given to him by the young master?

This person is someone the young master knows.Because Ye Qi and the others were all in Luting, he never thought that the young master had other friends.Li Hui knew that the inexplicable emotion in his heart was a little unreasonable - the young master was born and raised here, how could he know all the people he has met and the friends he has made over the years?Besides, why should I know all about it?

Thinking of this, Li Hui felt as if some worms were slowly crawling up in his stomach, and now they were moving up bit by bit, densely stuffed into his body, making him dry and ashamed, so he didn't even want to Let Yan Ting people know.

"Li Hui, come wash your hands and eat."

Yan Ting greeted Li Hui as if he was at home, Li Hui didn't ask about his own business when he saw Jie Zhou, thinking maybe Yan Ting had said it earlier, he nodded and followed Yan Ting to wash his hands.Kua Zhou put the steaming yellow enamel pot in the middle of the table in this spare time, and brought out a plate of fried fish from the kitchen, while humming a song, he arranged the tea and a small bottle of chili juice, seeing two people, one big and one small Come over, beckon them to sit down, go to the cabinet and get a bottle of white wine out.

"Have a drink?"

Yan Ting smiled, stretched out his hand to lift the lid of the pot, and the warm aroma spread out immediately.

"How about it, haven't you eaten the hot rice I cooked for a long time?"

When Li Hui heard the word "hot rice", he thought of the time when Yan Zi came, and Tang Meng seemed to say that everyone hadn't eaten Yan Ting's hot rice for a long time.I couldn't help but look into the pot. In addition to the rice evenly soaked in the thick sauce, there were also pieces of carrots and yams, pieces of dark brown meat and corn kernels in it.

"Hot rice with mutton, this is the best time to eat, come, sit down?"

Jie Zhou smiled at Li Hui and handed him the chopsticks and spoon.After thanking him in a low voice, Li Hui knew that he was really hungry.

"Blow it and eat it."

Yan Ting scooped up half of the bowl and put it in front of him and ordered softly, then put another fish on his plate.Jie Zhou poured wine and looked at Li Hui with a smile on his face.Li Hui didn't notice his expression, he couldn't wait to scoop up a spoon and hot rice with mutton cubes, and blew it into his mouth.This mouthful is hot, and the fragrance also comes in.Li Hui bit the mutton, and found that they were not only soft and rotten, but also covered with fresh and thick gravy, the carrots were also full of flavor, and the glutinous yam had a hint of sweetness.

"How is it? Is it delicious?"

Jie Zhou clinked glasses with Yan Ting, asked Li Hui with a smile, and leaned back in his chair satisfied when he nodded his head.

"I'm only good at cooking hot rice. After I took over this guy and ate it, I started to cook it, even better than me."

"Don't be humble,"

"I'm not pretending, I'm really humble."

Jie Zhou took a sip of wine with a smile, Yan Ting glanced at him and stretched out the glass.

It turns out that the young master learned how to cook hot rice from this man.Li Hui sneaked a glance at Jie Zhou sitting across from him, and found that he looked about the same age as Yang Shubai, his beard must have been well-groomed, it looked very suitable, and he also had a tone similar to that of a young master, but I can't tell where it is.

Watching the two of them drinking and chatting, Li Hui continued to eat silently.

——Young master learned how to cook hot rice from this man.

After thinking about it again in my heart, I couldn't help but imagine how these two people worked together before.

What was the son like back then?

When I stayed in Luting, I never seemed to think about it.But today, at a stranger's house, I saw the young master's other appearance, and heard things that the young master never said.Speaking of this person, do Ye Qi and the others recognize him?

In this way until the end of dinner, Li Hui was still thinking about these things in his mind, and he didn't even hear Yan Ting calling him.