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After returning home, Xiao Ran went back to the room first, opened the door and walked in to see that the man was still sleeping soundly facing inside.

Xiao Ran shook his head, and quietly exited the door again.

Everyone envies the people of the Jianghu, and he doesn't think it's good to talk about happy enmity.You said that the person in the room, since the Jianghu ranking is so high, is it always someone?Every time I came to him, I fell asleep in the dark, as if I had never had a good rest, and I didn't know what I was busy with.

If everyone in the Jianghu was like this, Xiao Ran thought, it would be better for him, a useless scholar, to be at ease.

While thinking wildly, while going to the stove to light a fire, he quickly cracked two eggs into the pan, and boiled shallots with the oil left over from the fried eggs.Another stove boiled water, put the dried noodles in after the water boiled, poured half a spoonful of cold water after the first water boiled, scooped up a bowl after the second boiled water, poured two Take a spoonful of scallion oil, pick up the scallions that were not cleaned, pour some soy sauce and balsamic vinegar, mix well, and put a spread egg on top.

This bowl belongs to Bai Ye.This person is picky, he doesn't eat chopped green onion, and he doesn't eat boiled noodles.

After finishing everything that Bai Ye had done, Xiao Ran scooped up the remaining noodles.Xiao Ran's visitors are guests, and guests are respected, so Bai Ye's bowl is full, but his own is only half a bowl.

After everything was done, he wiped his hands and went back to the bedroom.

"Brother Bai, wake up." He pushed the man on the bed, but the man didn't respond.

"Brother Bai, brother Bai..." The man turned over and turned his back to him.

Bai Ye once told him very seriously that if he was woken up, his temper would be very irritable.

When a legendary master says these words to you so seriously, do you have the guts to use your own body to test the authenticity?

Besides, no matter what, to Xiao Ran, Bai Ye is his brother-in-law, and also a guest who condescends to come to his small house.

Xiao Ran called him three times, seeing that Bai Ye didn't respond, he took a book and sat in the outer room.

How can the host eat alone when there are guests?

About the time of cupping tea, there was a voice in the inner room.After a while, Bai Ye opened the door curtain and came out. While running his hands down his black hair, which was a little tangled in sleep, he squinted his eyes and yawned. "What time is it?"

Xiao Ran put down the scroll and stood up, looking outside the room. "It should be almost a quarter of noon."

"Well, why don't you call me." He took a blue hairband and neatly tied up his hair, and walked out.

"Seeing that you were sound asleep, you didn't cry." Xiao Ran followed behind him with a book in his hand, not minding the man in front of him treating his house as his own.

Bai Ye walked into the kitchen, and saw two bowls of cold noodles on the table.He was also polite, and sat down in front of the full bowl with a flick of his robe. "I'm going out in a while, and I have to come back at night."

Xiao Ran sat down opposite him and nodded. "Oh, good. Do you want to leave food for you?"

"No need." Bai Ye thought for a while and added another sentence. "You don't have to wait for the door, I have something to do."

People in the Jianghu have affairs in the Jianghu, Xiao Ran nodded clearly. "It's cold, I'm so sorry."

If Bai Ye hadn't been familiar with this man's temperament, he would probably have laughed.Because he didn't get up, Xiao Ran was embarrassed to eat first, and he would apologize to him in turn.This man is really pedantic.

If it was three years ago, someone told him that you, Bai Ye, would eat and live with a nerd, he would definitely applaud this person's boldness, and then send him back to his grandma's house to practice again.

Who is Bai Ye, and who is this bookworm?Apart from the fact that their wives were from the same old man, there should have been no connection.

Well, but this idiot is a good cook.

The gentleman is far away from the cook, he has always been curious about how Xiao Ran, who has shown his "nerd" to the fullest and even missed tattooing these three characters on his face, is able to cook by himself and develop a good cooking skill?This is obviously not something that can be trained in one or two years.

But thinking is not his forte, he prefers to solve things cleanly - and lives, eh.So his fugue didn't disturb his meal speed, and his bowl was empty after a while.

Xiao Ran ate very slowly.In fact, Xiao Ran doesn't like to eat noodles. To put it simply, he can't eat them. Chopsticks can't pick up more than two noodles.So when he eats noodles, he always stuffs them into his mouth one by one.When he saw that Bai Ye had put down his chopsticks, he also stopped the repetitive action of picking up a noodle and putting it into his mouth. "Uh, if you're not full, I still have some, but the noodles are a bit rotten..."

Another reason why he can't hold the noodles is that he likes to eat rotten noodles, and the rotten noodles will break if he pinches them hard.

Bai Ye shook his head. "You eat, I have enough."

He is now in a happy mood, sleeping and eating well.But watching a man eat is really not aesthetically pleasing, after a while, Bai Ye became bored.He picked up the chopsticks again, picked up a green onion from Xiao Ran's bowl that had been sautéed with oil, put it under his eyelids for a while, and stuffed it into his mouth.

Chew and swallow.

Xiao Ran was dumbfounded, didn't Bai Ye hate green onion the most?

"Next time, it can be more transparent, so that there will be no onion smell at all." Bai Ye put down his chopsticks, summarized and made suggestions.

Xiao Ran nodded foolishly.

So the rest of the meal time was spent while Xiao Ran continued to struggle with noodles one by one, and Bai Ye picked up a green onion and put it in his mouth to play with.

"Since eating noodles is so hard, let's eat noodles next time." When Xiao Ran finished eating, cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, and washed the dishes with the water from the pot, Bai Ye leaned against the wall and said.

"Okay, then I'll spread cakes for you at noon tomorrow."

"...Don't make scallion pancakes." Bai Ye thought for a while and emphasized.

"Then sugar cakes, I remember you ate a lot when you made them last time." Xiao Ran didn't blame Bai Ye for his petty thoughts, and still smiled gently.

Bai Ye nodded.He really likes the taste of sugar cookies, the sweetness seems to be soothing.

After tidying up and coming out of the kitchen, Xiao Ran looked at the sky and said, "The children will be here in a while, I'll go to the school to clean up."

"I'll go."

Xiao Ran's study hall is the wooden house on the far right. Although it is not big, it is more than enough to accommodate the children in the village.

When Xiao Ran was sweeping the floor in the study hall, Bai Ye opened the fence door and left.

To Xiao Ran, Bai Ye is an honored guest; to Bai Ye, Xiao Ran is almost like an innkeeper, who provides food and shelter, and can also sleep and eat well, so he can accept that Xiao Ran sleeps with him as a man. bed.

Xiao Ran naturally wouldn't think so thoroughly, he just thought that he should warmly receive his honorable brother-in-law, and he had no right to interfere with his brother-in-law's other matters such as handling his own private affairs.

So all these years, these two people, who are completely different in every aspect, get along harmoniously.

When Xiao Ran swept half of the house, children came one after another, so class started and ended.Afterwards, Xiao Ran wrote another letter to Mr. Ge in Wuzhou City, briefly explaining the matter about Zhang Ting. At the end of the letter, he specifically complimented Mr. Ge on his knowledge and knowledge, and that he was full of peaches and plums, expressly implying that he was not talented. Well, Zhang Ting, a promising young man, might as well entrust Mr. Ge to teach him.

Although he knew that Zhang Ting was not happy, Xiao Ran felt that it was just a child's awkwardness.Compared with a mediocre teacher like him who can only make do with teaching children, Mr. Ge is different. At least three of his disciples are now officials in the imperial court—although they are not big; the nearest one is under the city of Wuzhou. Fengqi County became a teacher.

After Xiao Ran finished writing the letter, he sealed it carefully, and then got up.

He had long been left alone in the school, empty.The setting sun shone in through the wooden windows, dyeing everything in the house a bit of bright orange red, making the corners of Xiao Ran's eyes a little sore.He remembered the same afternoon when he saw Qionghua for the first time. She was wearing a water-blue skirt, standing by the bridge and smiling shyly at himself.

In the setting sun, Qionghua is as beautiful as a fairy descending from the earth.

When Xiao Ran finished his daze, it was almost dark.He walked out of the school with the last light, closed the door carefully, walked back to the main room in the dark, fumbled behind the porcelain oil lamp on the wooden table and lit it.

The quality of life is determined by the economy, and the area that a large torch can illuminate is really limited, but it is enough for Xiao Ran.

After eating something to satisfy his hunger, Xiao Ran went back to the inner room.

Xiao’s house is small, but compact. Entering through the fence gate is a small yard. The building on the left of the yard is the kitchen, and outside the door are piles of firewood sent by the villagers all the year round; the one on the far right is the study hall; the one in the middle is the main In the room, open the door and enter the hall, where two wooden chairs and a table are placed in a formal manner, and a picture of a crane is hung on the wall behind it.On the right side of the hall is the place he used as a study, and the old desks are piled up in a mess, but according to Xiao Ran's thinking, this may be the most valuable part of his family, and the book has its own golden house.On the left side of the house, a strip of blue floral cloth is used as a door curtain, and behind it is a small inner room.In addition to the bed, there is also a reclining chair made of rattan by the window.

Qionghua liked to sleep there in the past, especially when she became seriously ill.In summer, you can’t directly blow the wind, so you can enjoy the cool here; in winter, you can bask in the sun while lying down.

Now Bai Ye quite likes this position, and of course Xiao Ran also likes it. For example, at a time like this, if you feel sleepy but not sleepy, it's better to take a book and lie down on the recliner.

So when Bai Ye came back, Xiao Ran was already lying on the wicker chair and fell asleep.The book is still held in his hand and resting on his stomach, his head is turned to one side, and there is a silver line at the corner of his mouth.

Bai Ye thought for a while, then decided not to wake up Xiao Ran with the speed of nodding, and fell asleep on the bed by himself.

Facts proved that the reclining chair was not a bed after all, and when Xiao Ran got up the next morning, his back was sore.

He saw someone occupying his entire bed who was sleeping soundly and even snoring slightly, scratched his head, turned around without thinking about anything, and went out to wash his face and mouth.

There was no food at home, he thought about it, went back to the inner room and walked to the bed.

"Bai Ye?"

This time he was very lucky, two consecutive good sleeps allowed Bai Ye to wake up as soon as he called this time. "Um?"

"Uh, I woke you up... There is no food at home, why don't you go to Wuzhou City to eat some with me?"

Bai Ye blinked.In fact, people who practice martial arts don't always sleep deeply, but Xiao Ran is an exception here. Many times, Bai Ye will feel that this bed can make him feel at ease.Maybe it's because Xiao Ran is a person who makes people feel safe, in his place, he can always rest well - it's even sweeter than falling asleep after being satisfied with others.

After sleeping well and eating well for two consecutive days, Bai Ye was really in a good mood, so he turned over and sat up. "Okay, then wait for me for a while."

When Bai Ye finished tidying up and walked to the outer room, Xiao Ran had already prepared clean water for him to wipe his face.

"When I came back last night, I saw that you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't wake you up."

"It's okay, the window is also ventilated. Last night, I always felt that the sky was very stuffy."

Bai Ye was wiping his face with a cloth towel, and hid his smile by the way.Xiao Ran is Xiao Ran, a fool who will think of the other party's good even if he suffers a loss.

Xiao Ran was distracted at the moment.He remembered Qionghua's last early autumn before her death. One night she suddenly said that she was too hot to sleep, and then she lay down on that recliner all night.

He sat with her all night, and the oil lamp, which was only as big as a bean, was also lit for a whole night.

He remembered that they talked a lot, but they didn't seem to have said anything. He only remembered that at the end, he seemed to fall asleep, and someone kept saying sorry in his ear.

Qionghua, I have always been the one who is sorry for letting you suffer with me.