The second day of October is the birthday of Si Xingyu.
Every year on his birthday, when the old lady asked him to go back to dinner, he would refuse, and even feel very bad.
"That day my mother suffered and gave birth to me..." He always says that.
He can't recall.
He couldn't accept anything about his mother.
The world didn't know the truth about his mother's death, and Si Xingyu disdained to pour out his bitterness. He carried all his own affairs.
This is what sister-in-law Zhu wants to tell Gu Qingzhou.
It's sister-in-law Zhu's belief to eat longevity noodles for her birthday.
Sister-in-law Zhu wants to trouble Gu Qingzhou to cook noodles for Si Xingyu.
"The Young Marshal always fights outside. How can he do without some luck? I cook longevity noodles and he won't eat them. He listens to you most. You can cook him a bowl of longevity noodles." Sister-in-law Zhu begged Gu Qingzhou road.
Gu Qingzhou was embarrassed: "but I won't."
She didn't expect that today was Si Xingyu's birthday.
"Let me teach you something." Sister-in-law Zhu said.
Sister Zhu reconciled the noodles and told Gu Qingzhou how to knead them.
Gu Qingzhou's injury has healed, but she doesn't have enough strength. Sister-in-law Zhu rubs it hard and asks Gu Qingzhou to rub it symbolically.
When she woke up, sister-in-law Zhu chatted with Gu Qingzhou and talked about Si Xingyu's mother.
"My wife was hanged, not dead. Outsiders don't know about it. The young commander doesn't allow me to talk nonsense. I only told you." Sister Zhu whispered and told Gu Qingzhou the secret.
She probably felt that Gu Qingzhou would not leave the company. It was her own.
Sister Zhu paused and continued, "when my wife left, the young commander was only three years old. Just a year later, the governor married a new wife."
Gu Qingzhou was silent.
Speaking of this, Gu Qingzhou felt a little guilty. She knows one thing, but she can't say it for the time being.
"... his wife threw herself into the house. There was no one in the house. Only the young marshal was at home. He held his wife's leg and cried for most of the day." Sister-in-law Zhu said.
A chill spread from the back of Gu's boat.
She bit her lip gently.
"What a pity!" Sister-in-law Zhu began to wipe her tears. Some things, no matter how long they have been in the past, are still heartbreaking to mention.
Then sister-in-law Zhu said, "I worked at my wife's house when I was eight years old and grew up with her. Later, my wife married and took me to the Secretary's house. On the day my wife died, she deliberately supported me.
When I got back to the Secretary's house, my wife was put on the board. I don't know why the seven orifices began to bleed. I'm afraid I'm reluctant to give up the young commander. When we said that his wife had left, the Young Marshal said no, 'mummy is still bleeding, and the dead don't bleed.' the young marshal was three years old at that time! "
Gu Qingzhou was still silent, but his heart was sore.
Did Si Xingpei feel that bleeding was the sign of life from that day on?
Did his bloodthirsty madness fall from that time?
Maybe that was just the beginning, let him understand: bleeding is good, bleeding means he didn't lose his mother.
"... alas, poor." Sister-in-law Zhu sighed deeply and couldn't help crying.
She didn't want to cry today, so she tried to hold back and interrupted to teach Gu to knead noodles in the canoe.
Gu Qingzhou was also slightly touched and said, "I... I'll do it myself!"
She rubbed a ball of dough into the hard way and exerted a little force, resulting in fine sweat on her forehead.
Si Xingyao seldom came back early in the afternoon. He didn't think that today was his birthday, but the weather turned cold. He bought Gu Qingzhou a shawl.
This is a pure white snow silk shawl, decorated with a long white thick tassel. Wearing it on her, it looks like a blooming white rose, swinging open one after another.
He thought it was very nice. Just after the military affairs were handled, he came back early.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw Gu Qingzhou busy in the kitchen.
Gu Qingzhou was wearing a homely lotus colored slanted jacket with half rolled sleeves, thick green hair in a low bun and a drooping pink neck. He looked like a wife.
The heart of the company moves slightly.
Putting down the gift, he went to the kitchen and saw Gu Qingzhou kneading his noodles. Si Xinghui frowned: "you haven't recovered from your injury. What are you doing with so much effort?"
Gu Qingzhou lifts Yi's smile and reveals his small waxy white teeth.
Sister-in-law Zhu explained: "today is the Young Marshal's birthday. Miss Gu wants to make longevity noodles for the Young Marshal."
The secretary was stunned.
He wanted to get angry. His face sank slightly. At the same time, he saw Gu Qingzhou struggling to knead the noodles. His heart softened again, and the fire went down.
"I'm just a birthday." Si Xingpei said, and then came forward to take care of the boat's hand, "wash your hands, let's go out to dinner!"
Mrs. Zhu stood nearby and didn't dare to persuade deeply.
Because sister-in-law Zhu grew up next to Si Xingpei's mother, she looks like Si Xingpei's aunt and more like an elder. Si Xingpei respects her very much and doesn't use her as a servant.
Si Xingyu will listen to everything sister-in-law Zhu says. Dudu's birthday violates his taboo.
When it comes to birthday, you think of his mother
He can't think!
"I rubbed it for a long time." Gu Qingzhou hesitated, "sister-in-law Zhu and I have prepared all morning and are about to get better. Longevity noodles are blessed. You often have things all year round. What if your luck runs out?"
Her worried eyes fell softly on Si Xingyu's face.
The company was a little shaken.
Gu Qingzhou struck while the iron was hot: "I cook for the first time..."
This sentence finally moved Si Xingyu.
"OK, try your craft." He said.
Gu Qingzhou's face was almost kneaded, and sister-in-law Zhu helped to knead it a few more times, and then it was completely kneaded.
Roll the noodles thin, and then cut them into thin strips. Gu Qingzhou is not slow. The workmanship is rough but the attitude is serious. Half a wisp of green silk hangs low, and the face of yingbai Shengyu is a bit red, especially charming.
She is so beautiful, like Si Xingyu's wife!
Sitting on the sofa in the living room, Si Xingpei held a message in one hand and a cigar in the other. His eyes chased the beautiful shadow in the kitchen from time to time, and there was a warm current in his heart.
Gu Qingzhou cooked the noodles, and sister-in-law Zhu boiled the water.
When the noodles were put into the pot, Gu Qingzhou began to make a capping.
Fry the eggs and set them aside. Gu Qingzhou cuts the radish, beans, fungus, dried sauce and diced meat. According to sister-in-law Zhu's instructions, prepare all kinds of ingredients, put hot oil into the pot, and then put in sweet flour sauce.
After the noodles are cooked, pour half a bowl of chicken soup, pour the cap on it, and Gu Qingzhou carefully brings it to Si Xingpei.
"It's a little hot. It may not taste as good as sister-in-law Zhu's." Gu Qingzhou said, "if you taste it, you'll eat it."
She handed the chopsticks to him and said, "I wish you a long life."
The Secretary laughs.
He took the chopsticks and tasted them.
The taste is very delicious. It is neither salty nor light. The chicken soup is rich, and the cap is sweet and salty. The noodles are a little thick. At least they are cooked, and they are very powerful. It can be seen that Gu Qingzhou worked hard when kneading the noodles.
He didn't speak. He buried himself in eating a whole bowl of longevity noodles.
Putting down his chopsticks, he was still full of meaning and handed the bowl to Gu Qingzhou: "another bowl."
Then she looked at sister-in-law Zhu crying with joy, standing beside her and said, "you also eat. You are all blessed."
"Ah!" Sister-in-law Zhu said happily.
Sister-in-law Zhu will boast about people than the secretary. While eating, she boasted about the good cooking of the boat's noodles.
Gu Qingzhou was a little embarrassed. She buried herself in half a bowl.
After eating three bowls of rice, the secretary finally filled his appetite.
After dinner, the two of them took a walk in the courtyard, and then when they sat in the pavilion, Si Xingpeng held Gu's boat to his legs.
"You will live here and cook for me every day." Si Xingyu gently stroked her cheek, calm and warm in her heart.
This is his best birthday in more than 20 years.
"I don't want it. Cooking is so cumbersome!" Gu Qingzhou said, "besides, I'm not as good as sister-in-law Zhu. I don't want to rob sister-in-law Zhu's work."
Si Xingyu raised her face and kissed her.
"Just cook it for me. I like to eat rice made in a canoe." He said.
The eyes of the boat were thick and light.
He hugged her tightly and put his head on her shoulder, but he no longer forced her to promise anything.
This birthday is already the best.
He gave the shawl he brought back to Gu Qingzhou and put it on for her himself.
The night wind is beautiful, and two people walk alone. There is an illusion that they are old together.
"I'm almost fine. It's time to go to school." Gu Qingzhou road.
The secretary was reluctant to let her go to school.
After she left, if she wanted to see her again, she had to go to her house to fish.
Last time, she was almost caught by her stepmother. She was scared to death, and Si Xingyu was also distressed.
Si Xingpei never thought of sneaking with her, but she didn't want to sink the boat.
"In a few days." Si Xingdao.
"In a few days, the school will have an annual leave." Gu Qingzhou said, "I'm going to graduate next year. My homework can't be too bad."
Gu Qingzhou is very progressive, and the secretary is slightly gratified.
"That's right. I'll go again on the fifth day of that day. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are weekends. You can accompany me for two more days." Si Xingdao.
He has few free days. The so-called company is nothing more than having a cat when he comes back at night and can sleep with someone.
Gu Qingzhou didn't refute him, but meekly agreed.
When he went to bed at night, he leaned over Gu Qingzhou and kissed her. Later, he couldn't control it.
When finished, Gu Qingzhou's hands were swollen. He gently rubbed them for her.
Gu Qingzhou ignored him.
No matter how long it took, she still found it disgusting for him to ask her to do such a thing.
Gu Qingzhou fell asleep in a daze.
At 4:30 in the morning, Gu Qingzhou woke up. It was cloudy and Si Xingpeng was changing clothes.
He put on his uniform neatly.
"I'm a little thirsty." Go downstairs in slippers and drink.
When the secretary went downstairs, the adjutant came in and said, "Young Marshal, a pot of soup was put at the door in the morning. It said it was a birthday gift for Young Marshal."
When the adjutant brought it in, the soup had been checked again and again. There were no bombs or concealed weapons.
"Soup?" The Secretary frowned.
Gu Qingzhou is also a little confused.
The Deputy official is.
After opening the pot, Gu Qingzhou smelled the strong meat fragrance, which smelled good.
She stretched out her head and looked. The soup was milky white, quite delicious and steaming.
It's delivered from outside. Only fools can drink it. Gu Qingzhou watched. When he was ready to throw it away later, Si Xingyu went to the kitchen and took a big scoop.
He fished the bones out of the soup.
"Ah!" Gu Qingzhou took a look and couldn't help but be stunned and exclaimed. His stomach rolled involuntarily and vomited out.