Chapter 576 The eyes of the embroidererPlease vote for me!
Ouyang Ronghuo is so old that he has eaten sweet and salty dumplings, such as black sesame, red bean paste, peanuts, and others dipped in sugar.
Only I have never eaten anything spicy.
We really are not a family, we don’t enter the same family.
He nodded.
She is undoubtedly the real child bride who got lost.
The food taste in my hometown in Nanlong, Luling, is very spicy.
However, you don’t have to add dogwood to make Yuanxiao dumplings...
The slender girl suddenly smiled and seemed to notice the problem immediately. She saw a look of concern and worry on her delicate face in front of her.
Ouyang Rong probably understood that she had cooked in Meiluyuan before and knew his taste.
It was a misunderstanding that Ouyang Rong would not refuse anyone who came, so he made dried dumplings tonight to give him a surprise.
But I didn't expect that I was not surprised, but rather frightened.
"Yeah."
Hearing the sound, Zhao Qingxiu stopped her initial smile and stood up hastily, placing her hands nervously on her navy blue floral apron.
"It's okay. It's delicious. It's... delicious."
Ouyang Rong couldn't help but comfort him.
After a while, he covered his mouth with both hands, bent down, and tried his best to swallow the dried balls that pricked his taste buds.
Then he took a breath.
Ouyang Rong waved his hand casually:
"It's okay. You sit down first and wait for me to finish eating..."
"Well, it's not unpalatable. Don't be nervous. What, you mean, this is the first time you do this, making spicy dried balls? This... is very creative. I think it's very good. Try it more."
He was relieved in every possible way.
At the same time, scoop up a dry round with a spoon, hold your nose, and swallow it directly.
There is no need to chew the fillings or taste them, so the efficiency is really high.
After swallowing the dates in one gulp, I finished less than half the bowl.
The only thing that limits him is his chubby belly after eating tonight.
"ah."
The expression on Zhao Qingxiu's face seemed to be relieved.
However, Ouyang Rong pulled off the azure ribbon that blindfolded her.
As if he realized that Tanlang in front of him was not eating the dumplings honestly, he kept looking at him intently the whole time.
Zhao Qingxiu stood up quickly and turned her face to avoid his gaze.
She gestured with her fingers in the air and looked in the direction, seeming to indicate the well and spring water not far away.
"Well, thank you."
Zhao Qingxiu went over and gave Ouyang Rong a bowl of clear spring well water.
After Ouyang Rong took it, he thanked him.
Zhao Qingxiu sat down on the stone bench opposite him again.
She held her chin in both hands and tilted her head slightly, as if she was listening to the sound of him "enthusiastically" eating the dumplings.
For a moment, Ouyang Rong even forgot to ask for the azure ribbon that he had pulled away from his hand.
Ouyang Rong also quietly looked at Zhao Qingxiu while eating dried rice balls.
The embroiderer is very thin.
Not the thin kind with a small frame.
But the ones with thin arms and legs.
Because the embroiderer is not too short.
Take the similar example of Rong Nu Shi, who is also slim.
Rong Nu Shi, who was promoted to the beauty girl of the Yin Yang family, is the kind of "slender" who prefers the body of a loli girl.
It's just that the overall body is smaller, and there is still meat where there should be meat.
For example, there is flesh on the cheeks and wrists if you pinch them.
But Xiu Niang is different.
The smooth arms and thighs are like the thin white bamboo poles.
In the fair skin on the slender neck, you can even faintly see the blue blood vessels inside.
Yes, Xiu Niang's skin is still very white. She is a typical dewy girl raised in the mountains and rivers of Wuyue in the south of the Yangtze River. This also highlights the cyan blood vessels under the skin on her neck, wrists and other places.
Although this kind of fair skin makes her body shape very good-looking, it can be expected that it is the most suitable clothes rack. The thighs under the Wufu skirt and the shape of the legs faintly outlined by the fabric are also very iconic and very beautiful and eye-catching.
However, this is unhealthy thinness.
To put it harshly, it means skin and bones, weak Qi and blood.
When Ouyang Rong held her wrist through the fabric before, he was worried that he would break her arm if he used a little force...
Although he vaguely knew that she had Qi refining skills, if he really tried to compete with each other, there was a high probability that Xiu Niang would break his arm.
But it still made him frown.
"Miss Xiu Niang, what did you have for dinner?"
"Ah...ah." Zhao Qingxiu shook her head, pointed at her stomach, and waved her palms.
"Aren't you hungry at night? But what if you don't eat dinner?"
Ouyang Rong couldn't help but scoop up a dried round and handed it to her mouth.
After reacting, he added:
"It might be a bit spicy. If you can't stand it, let's go eat something else later."
Zhao Qingxiu waved his hands and shook his head subconsciously.
"It's okay, I'll change the spoon."
Ouyang Rong immediately stood up and ran to the kitchen without waiting for Xiu Niang's reaction.
But when he went to the kitchen, he had a spoon in his hand, and when he came out, he still had a spoon in his hand.
"Well, it's okay this time, you can take a bite too."
He said it seriously.
Feeling the hot balls in the spoon in front of her, Zhao Qingxiu hesitated for a moment, closed her eyes, and opened her pink lips a little shyly.
Ouyang Rong smiled and put the dried round balls into her mouth.
Then after taking the spoon back from it, he scooped up another dry round with the spoon with a calm expression, then put it into his mouth and chewed it.
He looked calm throughout the whole process.
With her eyes closed, Zhao Qingxiu didn't realize that someone was acting unsanitarily.
I probably thought there were two spoons.
Zhao Qingxiu's cheeks bulged as she chewed glutinous rice balls. Her mouth was full of spicy taste, but her expression remained unchanged on her small face.
She has discovered since she was a child that she can tolerate pain very well, and she can endure it quietly. The only thing that can make her teeth make a sound is extreme pain.
This spiciness was nothing compared to the pain she had experienced before.
"Tomorrow, I will go to Dongshi to buy a pound of pork. The price should be reduced now... I recently learned a meat dish called Dongpo Pork. You should try it too. I guarantee you will like it."
Ouyang Rong slurred his words while swallowing the dried balls.
Zhao Qingxiu lowered her head and said nothing.
In fact, I want to say that as long as it is cooked by him and put to her mouth, she will eat it, even if it is raw.
Ouyang Rong finally finished the bowl of dried balls, put down the bowl, touched his belly under the scholar's shirt, and let out a long breath.
I was really stuffed tonight.
He was half-lying on the table, not wanting to move, and turned to look at Xiu Niang.
I saw that she was lowering her head, and her hands were awkwardly smoothing the wrinkles on her waist and abdomen in the navy blue floral apron. Her small face was serious, as if she was doing something very important.
Ouyang Rong immediately raised his hand and flicked the pendant on the ice-white jade hairpin on his head with two fingers.
"Long Ling——"
A crisp sound sounded in front of the table.
The embroiderer suddenly raised her head.
Ouyang Rong blinked, but did not mention the ice-white jade hairpin. He waved the azure ribbon in his hand, and his face gradually became serious:
"Tell me what's wrong with your eyes. It's hard to ask during the day when there are so many people."
Zhao Qingxiu lowered her head again.
Ouyang Rong waited for a long time, but she didn't speak.
"Isn't it convenient to say it?"
Zhao Qingxiu took the lamp, brought it close to her hand, dipped her fingers in water, and wrote on the table.
Ouyang Rong lowered his eyes and looked.
Zhao Qingxiu: Can I not say it?
Ouyang Rong was silent for a while and nodded:
"OK."
As he said that, he took the opportunity to feed her the balls, leaned forward, and looked at her neck. There was a faint wound in the shape of a tooth mark.
Ouyang Rong took a deep breath and spoke in as calm and meaningless a tone as possible:
"But you have to tell me something. Was it someone else who caused you harm?"
Zhao Qingxiu immediately shook her head.
Ouyang Rong was silent for a moment, "Do you naturally suffer from eye disease?"
Zhao Qingxiu hesitated and shook her head.
"It wasn't someone else who did it, and it wasn't an eye disease, so what else could it be?"
He couldn't help but speak louder, which made Zhao Qingxiu tremble. Sitting on the stone bench, she suddenly turned her back to him, hugging her knees and burying her face.
Ouyang Rong slowly calmed down his expression. After a while, his tone was very calm and gentle: "Okay, let's not talk about it for now. You... just turn around."
Zhao Qingxiu raised her face slightly, as if she didn't hear anything, and looked towards the distant night with a pair of bright eyes on her face.
That day, Old Monster Sun took action again, and the condition for rescuing Tan Lang was to take one of her eyes.
She agreed without hesitation.
Later, she separated from the awakened Tanlang in the underground palace and returned to Yunmeng Jianze. She went to find Old Monster Sun and fulfilled her promise before the old Taoist priest sent him back to the water prison.
Old Monster Sun was very impatient and asked her repeatedly if she wanted to go back on her word. He said that it was still too late to go back on her word and that she could just go and get the dog eyes from that heartless brat. He also said that she had saved his life, so she could take him out. One pair of eyes is not too much.
Zhao Qingxiu firmly refused. Regarding the matter of missing an eye, she took out her dagger and prepared to do it herself, but was stopped by the sudden appearance of the senior sister.
The senior sister strongly opposed it, but Old Monster Sun, who had always been cowardly of the senior sister, turned out to be unexpectedly resolute.
Moreover, when miracle doctors save people, one thing for another has been a rule on the mountain for thousands of years, and Yunmeng Jianze is no exception.
Later, the two of them entered a room and didn't know what they were talking about.
After coming out, the old geek Sun asked her to eat something with a cold face. At the same time, he still did not forget to persuade her: whenever she regrets it, she can still get the dog eyes from that brat in exchange.
Zhao Qingxiu ignored it and only remembered that after swallowing the thing, the sky was dark and the earth was dark, and she was wandering in the sky. She woke up again, opened her eyes, and before her eyes... it was already "dark".
He reached out and touched it, but although his eyes were still there, he was completely blind.
After that day, Old Monster Sun was thrown into the water prison again, but the aftermath of this incident had just begun. On the second day, it aroused strong dissatisfaction among the other senior sisters. Even the fifth senior sister directly questioned the senior sister and said something in public...
Shocking and even heartbreaking words.
The fifth senior sister asked if the senior sister allowed the younger junior sister to sacrifice her eyes to save the dog man for the sake of Yunmeng Yuanjun's position.
This sentence is vaguely related to the rules of the Nujun Palace. The first successor to Yuanjun, the master of Yunmeng Jianze, is Yue Zizi, followed by the chief eldest queen of the Nujun Palace.
In those days, Zhao Qingxiu felt very guilty. Her personal affairs caused her senior sisters, who had always been harmonious and consistent with others, to quarrel.
However, later, it seemed that the second senior sister came forward and went to talk to several other senior sisters who were angry and dissatisfied. I don't know what they said. Among them, the fifth senior sister, without saying anything, went to the water prison that day. I heard that she was looking for
I didn’t know what they talked about, and left in silence in the evening...Anyway, the quarrels in the store calmed down after that day.
Moreover, Zhao Qingxiu remembered that on the day she lost her sight, the senior sister told her that it was actually good to be blind, at least she would not look for him again.
Who would have thought...to meet now.
After rescuing Tanlang at Longcheng Donglin Temple, Zhao Qingxiu fulfilled her promise and followed her senior sisters back to Jianze, and never paid attention to Tanlang's news again.
She and her senior sisters only knew that his name was Ouyang Rong, and he was the official of Longcheng County.
The main reason is that in the eyes of the senior sister and the others, these are ordinary people and not worth mentioning. All the efforts of the Queen's Palace are focused on the missing [Craftsman], as well as the mysterious sword holder who cut off the beard...
Zhao Qingxiu took a deep breath.
After regaining consciousness, he dipped his index finger in water and continued writing on the table.
However, as soon as the first word was written, the girl with her eyes closed immediately brushed it away with her palm. It was the word "tan" written by Tan Lang, and she rewrote it...
Ouyang Rong pretended not to see it.
His eyes fell on her right hand, which was missing her little finger.
I heard from my aunt that this was an accidental injury that Xiu Niang suffered when she was a child. She already had it when she came to his house to be a child bride.
Ouyang Rong smiled: "I was promoted to an official position at the end of last year. I have been ups and downs in the past year. I am now the Sima of Jiangzhou."
Zhao Qingxiu tilted her head. During the day, she did hear those people calling him Sima, Bachelor and so on.
She counted again: Well, someone is bullying you.
Bullying? Does Wang Lengran and Lin Cheng’s workplace violence count? If it does, then it does exist, but everyone has gone, so that’s fine, we won’t pursue it.
Ouyang Rong narrowed his eyes and spoke warmly:
"No, my colleagues in Jiangzhou are very kind and approachable, and Sima is a sinecure. Look, I'm quite free...except tonight."
Zhao Qingxiu nodded confusedly and said "Ah" lightly. She didn't know who Jiangzhou Sima was.
"As for you, you haven't said yet why your family doesn't want you anymore. They send you here and there and leave you in Chengtian Temple."
Zhao Qingxiu lowered her head and wrote: I don't blame them, it was me who came.
Ouyang Rong raised his hand and touched the ice-white jade hairpin on his head. His tone seemed to be indifferent:
"I understand, don't you want to cause trouble to the family? That's it. Indeed, you are mute, invisible, and a girl. Ordinary families really don't want to raise you."
Zhao Qingxiu couldn't help but pause after hearing what he seemed to be saying.
She also wrote: Why is that young master so nice to me?
As soon as Zhao Qingxiu wrote these words, she regretted it and stretched out her little hand to wipe the table.
But it was too late. She found that Tanlang across the table seemed to be smiling at her and said: "Because you look like an old friend of mine."
"Ah?" Zhao Qingxiu opened her mouth with a puzzled face.
Ouyang Rong kept his smile and said:
"I'm not talking about the old friends I met at Beitian Sanatorium of Donglin Temple. Well, this can indeed be regarded as a fate, half an old friend. But the old friends I'm talking about refer to people from my former hometown.
"I don't know how to explain it to you. Well, my aunt mentioned to me that the old friend was my childhood playmate. It seems that she is missing the little finger on her right hand and is still mute. And she is also called Xiu Niang. Well, this nickname, in
Girls from poor rural families always have a lot of them...
"But, girl, you do look a lot like her. Are you... from Luling Nanlong?"
Zhao Qingxiu's body trembled slightly.
She didn't answer, lowered her head, and crossed a thin finger across the table: So, Master, do you still remember the appearance of this old friend?
Ouyang Rong lowered his eyes: "I was sick a lot when I was young, so I don't have much memory...and there seems to be some taboos, and my aunt didn't say much."
Zhao Qingxiu listened carefully and breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, Ouyang Rong, who seemed to be resting, suddenly stood up and covered her dim eyes with azure ribbon again.
He grabbed Zhao Qingxiu's slender wrist and said in his own way:
"Let's take you somewhere."
"Ah?" The slender mute girl with dusty eyes followed stupidly.