Tenderness like water

Yang Lan sent his younger brother away, sent Anping and the others away, and then walked slowly to the stairs.

Dongfang Xu's two servants also went to their room. They saw the people from the caravan coming and thought that Yang Lan would leave right away, so they didn't stay and look at him.

Stepping on the wooden stairs, Yang Lan collected herself and had an idea in her mind.

Dongfang Xu's room is No. [-], which happens to be the one closest to the corner, because it is the farthest from the corridor, and no one will walk around except the waiter.

Yang Lan walked to the innermost room lightly, but the door was closed tightly, and there was no movement at all, not even the sound of breathing.If Yang Lan hadn't seen Dongfang Xu enter the room with his own eyes, he probably wouldn't have thought there was someone inside.

"buckle"

Yang Lan reached out and knocked on the door, "Dongfang, can I go in?"

After Dongfang Xu entered the room, he lay on the bed directly. Because his mind was too messed up, he couldn't fall asleep, so he could only rely on the pillow and close his eyes to rest.He noticed it when Yang Lan just arrived at the door——Yang Lan's footsteps were a little special, and he could always distinguish them.

It was like this when they came from Qijia Village, but at that time they were in the most remote place in the back of the village, and no one else came except Qi Feng's family.

But this morning, Dongfang Xu only heard Yang Lan's footsteps in the car, and knew who it was before he heard his voice.

Before Dongfang Xu got up from the bed, the people outside couldn't wait to knock on the door, "Come in."

Hearing Dongfang Xu's words, Yang Lan stretched out his hand and pushed open the door in front of him - Dongfang Xu never put a gate on the gate after he entered, he was not afraid of anyone the gate could stop, and he was not afraid of anyone who the gate could not stop.

"Dongfang, the sun is about to set, what do you want to eat tonight?" Yang Lan didn't get straight to the point, but asked Dongfang Xu what happened at night, following the topic of eating, and it didn't take long for him to go to sleep.

What's for dinner?

Did this person come here on purpose to ask this kind of question?

When Dongfang Xu heard Yang Lan's question, he didn't know how to answer for a moment. He had eaten a lot of food, but he didn't like anything in particular. The daily dishes in the teaching were delivered to him, so he didn't need to bother at all.

Anyway, it's the cook's fault if it doesn't taste right.

"I remember that you once baked sweet potatoes for me, and they tasted good." Dongfang Xu suddenly thought of the food that he ate in Qijia Village back then, which was red and tender food that was fragrant and tender in the snow.

Dongfang Xu actually always remembered that sweet taste.

And Yang Lan really didn't expect Dongfang Xu to want to eat something like roasted sweet potatoes. He never thought of this answer before.

But since it is an oriental snack, he will find it no matter how unreasonable it is.

"Okay, I'll ask the store later if they have sweet potatoes, but sweet potatoes shouldn't be eaten too much, would it be good to add something else?" Yang Lan discovered at noon today that Dongfang Xu ate very little. He only ate half of the roasted rabbit meat, and the rest went into his stomach.

"You can arrange it." Dongfang Xu didn't want to waste his brains on these trivial matters, and now his mind was on another matter, "You still remember Qijia Village..."

As soon as he started talking, Dongfang Xu didn't know how to continue.

If it's someone else, why ask, as long as he finds a little sign, he will reward you with a silver needle, then you will bother to test it so much?

Only Yang Lan, he is different.

"Qijia Village——Why did Dongfang think of where it came from? If Dongfang wants to go, I can go back with you anytime." Yang Lan wondered why Dongfang suddenly mentioned Qijia Village, but this did not prevent him from agreeing.

It wasn't a big deal in the first place, so it should have been agreed.

"Speaking of which, in Qijia Village—the cave we lived in before we went to Qijia Village, I had someone bury it." Dongfang Xu kept observing Yang Lan's face when he was speaking, and saw him mentioning the cave to himself. At that time, he didn't show a strange expression from the beginning to the end, and the guess in his heart gradually favored that he didn't discover his secret.

The cave was at least the place where the two met for the first time, but in Yang Lan's opinion, the cave exploded as soon as it exploded, and there was nothing to be concerned about. The most valuable thing in the cave was the cold pond. Without the cold lotus, the pond The water also lacks aura, and it can't be used for much.

"If Dongfang doesn't like the cave, it's okay to destroy it." Yang Lan still has an impression of the things in the cave, "It's not secret enough, as long as you have the heart, it's easy to be discovered."

Yang Lan came as soon as she opened her mouth, apparently forgetting that she had spent a lot of time finding the entrance.He only thought that Dongfang Xu wanted to destroy the cave because he was discovered by his enemies in the cave, and he could no longer use it in the future. In addition, he was seriously injured there, and it was not a good memory.

However, although Yang Lan guessed most of it right, she missed the most critical part - when Dongfang Xu saw that part of the red silk in the cave, the internal force was berserk, and it directly destroyed more than half of the cave, and he didn't bother to restore it. Simply destroyed directly.

"Yeah, when I went back to look for things, I found that the things inside were messy. I'm afraid someone went in and rummaged through them. Fortunately, the dark room is relatively secret, and no one has touched it." Dongfang Xu's eyes fell on Yang Lan's face, his face was dark and unclear .

"Has anyone been there?" Yang Lan naturally didn't know about Dongfang Xu's temptation, so he replied directly: "I went back once after I sent you to Qijia Village. It was very messy, so I tidied it up."

It's a cleansing thing.

"Then did you see anything?" Dongfang Xu heard Yang Lan say that he really went back, and the strings in his heart tightened all of a sudden, he was afraid that he would hear something he didn't want to hear from Yang Lan's mouth in the next second.

However, Dongfang Xu didn't know what he wanted to hear.

"I didn't see anything, I just cleaned up and went back to Qijia Village. It happened that Qi Feng delivered food to us that day. I remember you said that the cold dish he brought was very good." Yang Lan didn't know anything about the cave. I don't care, but I think that Dongfang seems to have a great preference for a certain dish when eating that day.

It was actually a wild vegetable, boiled in plain water and brought over. Yang Lan didn’t use the seasoning Qi Feng sent over—Qi Feng’s family was not rich, and his seasoning was just a little salt and miso. After tasting it, Yang Lan thought The taste was not good, so I re-deployed it with the ingredients at home.

That night, Dongfang Xu made this dish almost by himself, and ate a whole bowl of rice with it.

Thinking of this, Yang Lan decided to ask later if there were any wild vegetables in the inn. If there were no wild vegetables, other green leafy vegetables should be able to replace them.

Yang Lan was thinking about the dishes, and after a while, he made a list of dinner in his mind, but Dongfang Xu, who was beside him, heaved a sigh of relief after hearing his answer.

However, while relaxing, Dongfang Xu also felt a little lost.

Sure enough, this person treats him so well because he doesn't know that he has already...If I knew, I'm afraid I would avoid him like everyone else.Even never appear in front of him again.

"If there's nothing else, you can go out." Dongfang Xu withdrew his gaze, he didn't want to see Yang Lan now.

All Yang Lan thought about were the evening dishes. Hearing what Dongfang Xu said, he suddenly thought he was in Qijia Village, got up and walked out. When he closed the door and saw the long corridor, he suddenly thought of himself. It seems to be going to the east to rub the room.

How could he be dismissed so easily?

At this time, the sun was about to set, and lanterns were hung outside the inn, and lights were lit inside, and many people in the lobby began to eat.

Yang Lan went downstairs and found the shopkeeper behind the counter who was writing and drawing with a pen, "Shopkeeper, can I borrow the kitchen?"

"The kitchen is busy now. If customers want to use it, I'm afraid they will have to wait." It's not the first time that the shopkeeper has encountered such a person. Some wealthy families are not used to eating outside food, so they bring it by themselves. They followed the cook, but Yang Lan and the others didn't say hello in advance, so they didn't prepare.

However, "There is a small courtyard with a kitchen behind the inn. The courtyard was reserved by someone, but the guest sent someone to say that he would not be able to come until a later date, so the kitchen could be freed up for use."

"The shopkeeper, what is the price for borrowing the small kitchen?" Yang Lan naturally understood the meaning of the shopkeeper, didn't he just want to rent it, and he was willing to part with the little money, "I would like to trouble the shopkeeper to send some kitchen utensils. "

"Naturally, the small kitchen is equipped with all kinds of utensils, rice, noodles and vegetables. It's a total of money." The money is one tael of silver, which is the price for a big family——a family who can go out and bring a cook, who cares about this? What about two denarii?

"Okay." As the shopkeeper expected, Yang Lan agreed to the price without any hesitation, touched a piece of silver from his sleeve, about one or two yuan, "Please trouble the store, I'm going out to buy some wild vegetables now, I hope the store will hurry up Get the kitchen ready."

"This guest, do you want to buy wild vegetables?" The shopkeeper didn't expect that Yang Lan, who looked like a wealthy family, would buy wild vegetables, "We also have wild vegetables in this store, which were just delivered this afternoon. If you need them, I can send it to you together.”

Yang Lan didn't expect that there happened to be wild vegetables in the store, but there were many types of wild vegetables. He nodded and asked the shopkeeper to send some over, but he still left the inn.

When Yang Lan went out, the store recruited a waiter and asked him to go to the back kitchen to distribute some things to the small kitchen at the back, and specifically asked him to choose some wild vegetables.

"Shopkeeper, those wild vegetables are seldom eaten. We don't need them at all. Why do we need to buy them?" He felt heartbroken seeing those wild vegetables that were no longer fresh being thrown away.

"Okay, the wild vegetables are two copper coins a catty, so it's not a waste, and some wealthy people want to eat them. Just now, I came here to ask for wild vegetables? That's a tael of silver. What do you know, a waiter, hurry up and do something. .” The shopkeeper slapped the little boy lightly on the back of the head, sending him off to work.

After Xiao Er ran away, the shopkeeper licked the tip of his pen and continued to write something in the account book.

It is not easy for people who have to go out of the city to dig wild vegetables in this winter. Those who are willing to go out to suffer from the cold for two copper coins are those who are really poor. Those who harvest those wild vegetables, whether they are pickled or boiled, are given to the next house. It is not easy for those people to add a green vegetable in the morning.