Hearing the sound of carriages and horses, Tang Zhou's hands on his sleeves tightened slightly, clenched his fists slightly and then quietly released them.
When Shen Zhixi came back, they had already changed into coarse linen clothes.
Pushing open the gate of the courtyard, he saw Tang Zhou standing by the window at a glance. Shen Zhixi paused for a moment and squinted his eyes. He felt that Tang Zhou under the moonlight was particularly cold and out of dust, as if he was a banished person descended from the sky. Fairy.
She held the food box and slowly approached.
"Mr. Tang, why are you standing at the window? It's cold at night."
She quickened her pace and ran up the steps, pushed the door open and went in. She put the food box on the table and lit a candle. She turned around and saw Tang Zhou moving towards this side little by little. She hurriedly turned around and held his arm.
After sitting down, Tang Zhou looked up slightly in her direction and asked, "Miss Linglan, is it too early for you to come back at this hour?"
Shen Zhixi, who was opening the food box, had a meal in his hand.
She curled her lips, knowing in her heart what Tang Zhou was going to say, but pretending not to understand.
"Why is it early? It's already dark. I brought you dinner. I don't know if it's still hot. It's okay if it's cold. I'll go to the kitchen to help you heat it up..."
"Miss Lily of the Valley."
Tang Zhou interrupted her with a serious expression.
"You set off just before noon. According to the distance you mentioned before, it will be very late in the afternoon when you arrive in Yanzhou City. I'm afraid it will only be an hour before dark. And although the sky outside is already dark It's late at night, but it's not late at night. After all, how much time do you have to set up the stall? Yes..."
He paused and slowed down his speech.
"Is it because of me that you came back early?"
His slightly anxious expression amused Shen Zhixi. I was afraid that as long as he nodded and answered "yes", he would die of guilt because of his own drag.
"Sure enough, I can't hide it from Mr. Tang."
As she expected, Tang Zhou immediately frowned after hearing what she said.
"However, it's not because of you that we closed the stall early, but..."
"What is it?" He was nervous and wanted to ask clearly.
However, Shen Zhixi hesitated and stopped replying. After a while, he replied vaguely, "Master Tang, don't dwell on this matter. It's really nothing. Don't take it to heart. Let's not talk anymore. Let's eat first."
I opened the food box and touched the bowl, only a little warmth was left.
She pretended to go to heat food for him, but was stopped.
Her self-evident words became more and more suspicious, and Tang Zhou, who already felt that he was dragging others down, felt even more embarrassed. He couldn't help but bother her to heat up the food. She was also very tired after riding the carriage for so long.
"It doesn't matter, you can eat it even if it's cold."
"Master Tang..."
"It's okay, thank you Miss Suzuran."
Shen Zhixi couldn't resist him, he had already snatched the food box and dragged it in front of him.
"Then...then I'll get the dishes and chopsticks, and then boil the medicine."
After leaving the door and arriving in the kitchen, she saw Yuanyang saying to her in surprise and surprise: "Miss, Mr. Tang Zhou went out of the house today. We gave him the porridge bowl in the house in the morning, and after he finished eating, he took it back to the kitchen by himself. "
She pointed to the porridge bowl on the stove.
Shen Zhixi looked over and stared at it for a long time.
"I don't know how Mr. Tang Zhou managed to get here. Did he trip and fall on the way? He can't see. It must have been a rough journey. The main thing is that he has to go back to the house..."
The mandarin ducks were chattering endlessly, but Shen Zhixi had a hidden smile and a calculating look in his eyes.
After returning from delivering bowls and chopsticks to Tang Zhou, Shen Zhixi held Yuanyang close to her ear and whispered for a long time. Yuanyang's eyes lit up for a while, and his brows furrowed in shock.
After saying this quietly, Shen Zhixi began to cook the medicine as if nothing had happened.
Yuanyang looked left and right, still in shock and unable to pull away, secretly thinking that her young lady was really smart.
Soon, the medicine jar on the stove made a gurgling sound as it burned.
Shen Zhixi and Yuanyang gathered in front of the fire, each holding a cattail leaf fan. Looking carefully, Yuanyang's face seemed a little absent-minded, and he looked in the direction of Tang Zhou from time to time, looking a little nervous.
Suddenly.
She opened her eyes suddenly, her pupils rounded, and she was so shocked that she almost dropped the cattail leaf fan in her hand.
"Little... miss, Mr. Tang Zhou has indeed come out."
Shen Zhixi looked over and saw that the window on the left side of the kitchen was facing Tang Zhou's door. He could clearly see him groping out bit by bit with a food box in his hand. Since he had already visited the kitchen during the day, he must be more familiar with it now.
"Miss, you said that Mr. Tang Zhou is really so polite, so afraid of bothering us, yet he is so weak and can't see, yet he insists on picking up the dishes and bringing them over by himself."
Shen Zhixi didn't reply, just stared at the figure outside the window.
But that's right, Tang Zhou couldn't see and had no direction when he left the door. He must have been looking for the kitchen for a long time, right? When she thought of him groping alone in the yard, she couldn't help but curl her lips secretly.
"That's too polite."
After saying this, she retracted her eyes, and the smile on her lips became deeper and deeper.
"Why not, let him be more polite."
The two looked at each other and decided to start acting.
Yuanyang glanced at Tang Zhou one last time, and when he turned back, he said to Shen Zhixi with a bitter look on his plain face: "Sister, if this continues, our family will soon be unable to open the fire."
"Keep your voice down, don't let Young Master Tang hear you."
Shen Zhixi hid a smile in his eyes and took the role naturally.
"Sister, you are still afraid that he will hear it, but that's right. All the money we spent on purchasing the goods has gone into it. We don't know when the batch of rouge will be sold out. Even if we sell it all, we won't make much money at all. Could it be that we Are you going to go back to growing vegetables again?”
"Vanilla, I understand what you mean, but saving people is more important, let's..."
"This is not how to save people."
The yard was not big, and the distance from Tang Zhou's house to the kitchen was not far, and Yuanyang's tone of voice was complaining and he deliberately raised the volume, so Tang Zhou outside could hear it.
"It's only been a few days, sister, and we've already put in all the savings we've accumulated over so long."
Tang Zhou paused, but immediately instinctively quickened his pace.
"vanilla……"
"Sister!" Yuanyang glanced at Tang Zhou outside the window, and saw that he was getting closer and closer, and his words became more and more energetic, "Just buying medicinal materials has almost cost us everything, including tonics and jade ginseng. "
"Xianghua, I understand your concerns, but after all the money is gone, you can make it again, but if Mr. Tang's illness is not treated well, the root of the disease will be left for life. It's fine that we haven't met him, but after all, everyone has already brought him up. If you come back, you have to be responsible, otherwise you might as well have died without saving anything."
"Of course I understand what my sister means. But just treat the disease. Why should I spend extra money to buy such good clothes? I have never worn such materials since I was a child."
"...Vanilla, Mr. Tang is different from us."
