If you don't go to the house, you are not a gentleman

The next day, An Le leaned over the table with a lamp and wrote a few lines. In order to melt the frozen inkstone, An Le put it next to the hand stove to warm it all night.

With a whistle, a bird flew in from beyond the wall.

An Le smiled and tied the note on the bird's leg, "As expected of being trained by a ghost doctor, he is always on call."

Watching the bird fly away, An Le sat on the bed holding the stove.

Two or three months, it's time.

An Le glanced at the four sable furs at the corner of the bed.

……

The man in black climbed in through the window of the county magistrate's study with a pile of sable furs in his arms.

The county magistrate: "..."

The man in black put away the pile of sable furs, raised his head and said, "My lord, Qili Lake is not frozen yet."

The county magistrate frowned slightly, and couldn't bear to ask: "Someone rumored that Qili Lake was frozen?"

The man in black was in a dilemma, "It should be, after all, this year is colder than usual, so it is reasonable to spread these rumors."

The county magistrate frowned, lowered his head and continued to read the book in his hand, "Alright."

The man in black couldn't help saying: "My lord, take a rest."

The county magistrate asked, "Is there any fishing gear?"

"..."

The county magistrate said again: "Although it's winter, there should be fish in Qili Lake, right?"

"..."

The county magistrate got up and glanced at the tea leaves on the shelf, "Should I drink tea or alcohol when fishing?"

"..."

The man in black couldn't help frowning: "Why do you want to go fishing?" He remembered that the county magistrate didn't like these things.

The county magistrate said: "Because it's snowing."

The man in black felt that he might not be able to understand what was going on in the mind of the magistrate for the rest of his life.

The county magistrate chuckled and said, "Someone told me that fishing in Jiangxue is one of the leisure things in life."

The man in black asked curiously, "Does your lord care about this?"

The county magistrate said: "Since you are tired, you should go and relax."

The man in black said: "But my lord, over there in the capital—"

"Of course I will handle it properly."

"……Yes."

The county magistrate took out a sable fur and put it on before stepping out of the threshold.

The east has turned white, the snow has not stopped, and the wind has not stopped.

The county magistrate walked towards the backyard, and the fragrance of plum blossoms lingered in his nostrils, but it would take a few days before the plum blossoms covered the branches.

The county magistrate suddenly saw An Le standing beside the stone table. The county magistrate walked over and found that An Le was playing chess alone.

A game of chess has just begun.

Seeing that An Le was staring at the chessboard in a daze, the county magistrate said softly, "Why don't you sit down?"

An Le raised her eyes in surprise, and then said with a smile: "Didn't your lord warn you not to sit on a cold stone bench when it's freezing?"

The county magistrate suddenly remembered that there seemed to be no cushions in Anle's clutter room.

The county magistrate stood aside to watch Anle Luozi, but Heizi landed on Tianyuan first.

An Le holds black in his right hand and white in his left, but his chess moves are treacherous.

The county magistrate asked: "I have never seen this kind of chess game before."

An Le then laughed loudly and said, "My lord, this is not Go, it's backgammon."

The county magistrate: "..."

An Le laughed, "Did your lord wake up so early?"

The county magistrate replied irrelevantly: "After breakfast, follow me to buy wine later."

An Le was taken aback, "Does your lord want to drink?"

"Could it be that when you're fishing, can you sit without wine?"

An Le: "..."

Breakfast is still a bowl of porridge, a plate of osmanthus cake, a cup of tea in front of the county magistrate, and a glass of water in front of An Le.

An Le was dissatisfied and said, "Sir, do you only eat a bowl of porridge for breakfast?"

The county magistrate calmly replied, "And a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake."

An Le: "..."

After breakfast, the county magistrate saw that An Le was about to leave the mansion, so he said, "Go back and put on the sable fur."

An Le stopped, turned her head and said, "My lord, the number four is unlucky."

The county magistrate knew what An Le was talking about, but he remained silent.

An Le sighed, went back and put on a sable fur before leaving the mansion with the county magistrate.

The street was relatively deserted, and An Le held the plain umbrella in one hand and followed behind the county magistrate. The jujube-colored umbrella in the county magistrate's hand was very eye-catching in the white snow.

They went to the wine shop closest to the magistrate, and the proprietress was still cursing like that.

An Le stood beside the magistrate and asked softly, "My lord, you won't let me pay for my drink?"

The magistrate smiled and said, "What do you think?"

The corner of An Le's mouth twitched, "My lord, I don't have that much money."

The county magistrate still smiled and said, "What does it have to do with me?"

An Le worriedly touched the broken silver in his arms.

The county magistrate said to the proprietress: "Two pots of Dukang."

The proprietress brought it up quickly.

An Le took out the pieces of silver and counted them, the county magistrate threw the silver on the counter, picked up the two jugs of wine and walked out.

An Le was still standing in front of the counter counting the silver, and the county magistrate said, "Still leaving?"

An Le came back to his senses, and was about to say that he hadn't paid, but suddenly the magistrate paid for his share of the wine.

Immediately smiled, "Come here."

An Le walked shoulder to shoulder with the magistrate, "Why don't you bring your own tea to cook?"

The county magistrate said indifferently: "It's too troublesome to make tea on the boat." After all, besides tea, water must be prepared.

An Le thought for a while and said, "Sir, you can use snow to make tea."

The county magistrate gave An Le a sideways glance, "Are you here?"

An Le said with a dry smile, "Just kidding."

The county magistrate said meaningfully: "I am looking forward to it."

An Le really wanted to slap herself.

The county magistrate glanced at the surface of the umbrella in An Le's hand, remembering the four major leisure things that An Le said, and couldn't help asking: "What are the rest of the four major leisure things?"

An Le said: "Are you curious? But I'm afraid I can't answer you, because the master didn't tell me."

"Why?"

An Le thought for a while and said, "The old man has four apprentices in total. He said that everyone needs to make one piece, so he only told each of them the more suitable one."

The county magistrate raised his eyebrows, "Won't you tell each other?"

An Le shrugged and smiled, "Don't you understand what 'best fit' means? It refers to our shortcomings. Although we are both the old man's apprentices, everyone doesn't want others to know their shortcomings, right?"

The county magistrate looked An Le up and down, and said with a sneer, "Your shortcomings? But Jiang Xue can make up for it by fishing alone?"

"Hey," An Le sighed, and said with a wry smile, "My lord still underestimates me."

The magistrate sneered.

After being silent halfway, An Le suddenly said: "But the old man himself may have taken up a leisurely thing."

The county magistrate was absent-minded and said: "What do you think is the old man's shortcomings?"

An Le smiled and said, "Too old."

The county magistrate: "..."

But An Le quickly added: "I mean too old."

The county magistrate: "..." What is the difference between too old and too old?

An Le didn't notice the speechless expression of the county magistrate, and continued: "Is eternal youth also one of them?"

The county magistrate: "..." That shouldn't be a leisurely thing, right?That is to become refined through cultivation.

An Le babbled all the way back to the magistrate, while the county magistrate was silent.

As soon as she stepped into the mansion, An Le suddenly called out: "My lord!"

The county magistrate looked back and said, "What's the matter?"

"Aren't you going to buy meat, my lord?"

"...Why?"

An Le said regretfully, "My lord, you should eat meat when you drink alcohol."

"...Why?"

An Le said firmly: "Drinking wine and eating meat is better than a prince!"

"……turn down."

An Le looked disappointed.

Back in his hut, he lay on the table and muttered, "How can you be unrestrained without wine and meat?" He was playing with a jade cup in his hand. Since the last time the county magistrate paid silver taels for him to buy this jade cup, An Le never thought of using it to hold wine, partly because she thought the cup was beautiful and it would be a waste of money to hold her own cheap and inferior wine, and partly because she thought about when to return it to the county magistrate.

In fact, An Le always remembered that he owed the county magistrate, and he never planned to owe him anything from the very beginning.