"Girl, we have a guest!" Tao Dongping exclaimed with joy, quickly put away the rag, and went out with a smile.
The few people outside got off their horses, handed their horses to Tao Dongcheng, and went straight to the inn.
"How many guests should I invite here? Should I stay at the hotel or stay at the hotel?"
But it was Li Mi who was in this business.
Li Mi walked boldly in front, and Wan Shan, who was following behind, answered, "We will stay in the hotel and eat as well. It won't be too late to arrange a table of meals for us first to fill our stomachs!"
After traveling all morning, I was already very hungry.
Li Yang was walking on the other side. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Song Qiu sitting on the other side. He hadn't seen him for a long time and immediately felt filled with excitement.
"Aqiu!" he called.
Song Qiu was looking at the people coming in. He saw Li Mi first and thought he looked familiar. Just as he was wondering who was coming, he suddenly heard someone calling her.
Looking over, she saw a man striding towards her, "Brother Li Yang?"
After not seeing him for more than two months, she almost couldn't recognize him. It was because Li Yang had changed so much.
He seemed to have grown taller and darker. I wonder if it was because he was on the road. His face was also a little rough, and he looked no different from the man behind him who looked like a young man.
Song Qiu touched his nose silently, and of course he would not say that he had not seen him for a long time. Li Yang looked a little rough and old.
Li Yang didn't know what Song Qiu was thinking, so he walked up happily and said, "I'm back! How are you all these days?"
"Everything is fine! How are you too?" Song Qiu glanced at Li Mi slightly, and now he remembered who this person was. Isn't he the guest who came to the tea shed in the past, with two people?
The one with the monkey.
It turns out that this person is the Crown Prince of Changshan.
Hey, I can't see those two human-looking monkeys. I don't know where they went.
Li Yang still wanted to talk to Song Qiu a lot, but Li Mi was still there, so he could only endure it and felt relieved when he saw that Song Qiu was fine.
Just as Li Mi walked up, he retreated.
"Is this your neighbor's little sister?" Li Mi laughed.
He looked at Song Qiu and said: "Last year, when the girl was still running a tea shed, I came to visit. I wonder if the girl still remembers it?"
"Remember, remember." As for the two monkeys, it's hard to forget.
Li Mi smiled and said, "I heard that the girl's craftsmanship is pretty good. I wonder if I can try it today?"
Since more and more people were working in the inn, and Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Li had mastered her skills, she almost stopped cooking in the kitchen.
When she heard what Li Mi said, she glanced at Li Yang behind her and nodded in agreement.
He asked a few people to sit down for a while, asked Tao Zheng to greet them, and then went to the kitchen.
Song Qiu didn't know how many days it would take to get here from the capital, and he didn't know if Li Yang and the others were traveling in a hurry. He only counted today and guessed that they were on their way to celebrate the New Year.
The journey during this first month was hard, and I couldn’t eat or rest well.
Thinking of Li Yang, Song Qiu decided to cook a few dishes and supplement them for him.
The return gift from my elder brother who went to town to pay New Year's greetings happened to be a leg of venison. Song Qiu didn't like to eat this, and she didn't eat milk either, so she put it in the inn to cook and sell it. There were few customers in the past two days, so no one ordered venison.
few.
It was frozen in the water tank and still fresh. Song Qiu looked at it and planned to make braised venison slices.
Then, using the ingredients currently in the kitchen, I made fish fillets in sour soup, stir-fried bacon with garlic sprouts, fried kidneys, shredded pork with chives, mushrooms and cabbage, and pea tip meatball soup.
Six dishes and one soup are enough for five people.
People in Xiangzhou also like spicy food, but this was the first time Li Mi had eaten this kind of spicy food. It was so full of flavor that he even ate two more bowls of rice.
After eating and drinking, Li Mi and his party asked for a few guest rooms to stay in, and then let Li Yang go home. He could do whatever he wanted, and he would stay here. He wouldn't go anywhere for the time being, and there was no need for Li Yang.
Keep following.
Li Yang happily agreed and sent Li Mi into the room to rest before exiting.
He was eager to return home and planned to go back to the village to tell Mr. Tang about something, but when he saw Song Qiu when he came out, he held back for a while.
"How is everything going at the inn these days? How are you too?"
Perhaps it had been a long time since they had seen each other. Song Qiu felt that Li Yang's eyes were particularly bright when he looked at her. She was not used to it, so she looked down two inches and said, "Everything is fine. How about you go to the capital? How can you get back in time?"
In such a hurry?"
Li Yang had many things he wanted to say to Song Qiu. From the corner of his eye, he saw the guest room behind Xian. He couldn't help but said, "It's this hour and the inn is not busy anymore. Do you want to go back to the village? Together?"
Song Qiu listened and saw that Li Yang had something to say. It just so happened that she was also curious about something.
Then he nodded and said: "I saw Aunt Donggua this morning and she was still talking about you to me. But you are back today. She misses you very much. Okay, let's go back to the village now."
It's only a little over a mile back to the village from the inn. It's a quick walk and it's actually a short distance.
Li Yang thought of many things to say, and deliberately took a small step, suppressing the pace of his long legs and walking slowly.
Song Qiu was not a tall man, so he couldn't take much with one step. Seeing that Li Yang walked slowly, it was just right. He didn't need to take long and tiring steps, so he just took it as a walk.
"Is Beijing fun? Is it lively?" she asked curiously.
"It's lively! It's the New Year when we come to Beijing. The city is crowded with people, and it's lively from morning to night! There's everything, it's so eye-catching!" Li Yang said with excitement, although he didn't have time to go shopping properly.
But as soon as he went out and passed the bustle, it was enough for him to talk about.
Song Qiu's eyes lit up when she heard this. She had never been to the busiest capital city in her previous life, so she was quite curious about this ancient imperial city.
It was too far to go back and forth. Even if she wanted to see the excitement, she was a little worried about traveling the long distance. Besides, she couldn't leave her milk behind after being away for so long.
It's better to listen to the excitement and enjoy yourself.
Li Yang saw that she was curious and wanted to hear, so he thought that he would take her to Beijing to see with her own eyes if he had the opportunity in the future. He was not in a hurry now, so he picked up some interesting things to tell her to satisfy her.
Speaking of getting excited, he paused, glanced at Song Qiu quickly, thought of something, smiled, and put his hand into his arms.
Then he took out a small, square box.
Song Qiu was listening very excitedly. Why didn't he say anything when he saw someone? He was about to turn his head and look over to ask, when a small box came into his eyes.
She was stunned, then looked over at the hand, looking at Li Yang's dark face, "What is this?"
Li Yang touched the back of his head with his other hand, hiding his nervousness, and said with a carefree face: "Well, I just happened to see it. I thought this thing suits you well, Aqiu, so I bought it. Take a look, do you like it?"
Song Qiu was silent, looking at Li Yang's indifferent expression but with a look of expectation in his eyes, and wanted to ask if she only has this gift or does Lihua also have it?
Seriously speaking, in the two lifetimes combined, Li Yang was the first member of the opposite sex to give her a gift besides her relatives.
And she knew very well that this gift was not a simple gift from a friend to a friend, so she hesitated a little.
After this meal, Li Yang sent more boxes forward, "It's not a good thing, Aqiu can just take it back and look at it again!"
As he spoke, he was afraid that Song Qiu wouldn't pick it up, so he simply stuffed it into her hand and quickly took two steps forward, as if he was afraid that Song Qiu would take it back.
Song Qiu was unprepared and the box was stuffed in his hand. Seeing Li Yang like this, he felt helpless.
He didn't open it immediately, but put it away. As he continued to move forward, he asked him as if changing the subject, "How have you been with Prince Changshan these days?"