The sunset is in the sky, and the red clouds are like water and ink.

The master and servant were scrubbing ivory chess pieces in the yard. It was already dusk, and it was time to prepare supper again.

Qiu Niang asked Yun Yi: "What do you want to eat tonight?"

Yun Yi placed the chess pieces neatly on the chessboard and thought for a while: "Eat some light food. The Dongpo pork I ate for lunch is so greasy. I still feel a little disgusting."

Qiuniang nodded and said, "Then let's cook some noodles soup. I'll buy two pancakes for my husband and eat them with those kimchi?"

Yun Yi nodded and saw Qiu Niang going to boil water, and said, "When I went to buy cooked cakes, I would buy some osmanthus cakes for me. The one I just ate, I think it's delicious and can be used as a midnight snack at night."

"Is the osmanthus cake?" Qiu Niang turned around, looked at Yun Yi, and said shyly: "My husband likes to eat it. I'll make more tomorrow morning, so I don't need to buy it."

Yun Yi was surprised: "Did you make those pastries yourself?"

Qiu Niang nodded in a daze: "Yeah, my mother taught me."

"I didn't expect you to have some skills!"

Qiu Niang laughed and ran into the kitchen happily, taking small steps quickly.

Yun Yi looked back at the sky, then at the peach blossom trees that covered the sunset, thinking if he had built a solar panel. The only bad thing in ancient times was that it was dark at night.

When he was thinking about another big purchase in time and space, the gate of the courtyard was knocked on.

"Who?"

“…”

Qiu Niang trotted out of the kitchen and looked at Yun Yi in confusion. Yun Yi shook her head. She pursed her mouth and ran behind the door, looking out through the crack of the door.

"Qiu Niang, it's me, you Grandma Hua."

"Oh, mother-in-law."

Qiu Niang looked at Yun Yi, who nodded before she pulled the door open.

At the gate of the courtyard, Grandma Hua, who was over fifty years old, walked in with a food box.

"Mother-in-law, this is this?" Yun Yi quickly stood up to greet him.

Grandma Hua smiled and came to him and said, "I'm here in time. You haven't opened the stove yet. I've made the best Dongpo elbow, so I specially sent one to the husband!"

"Eelbow, elbow..." Yun Yi couldn't help but burp. The Dongpo pork I ate for lunch had not yet dissipated.

Grandma Hua said happily: "After my big bull returned, she said good things about Brother Yi. Those two shorts are of good cotton and linen texture. This kid didn't know how to make Brother Yi spend money... I didn't know how to give me a gift, so I made some elbows."

"You, you are too polite, me, I..." Yun Yi didn't know how to refuse. The old saying goes that the elder dared not refuse. Now he was stunned and just said that he would have something light to eat tonight.

Grandma Hua was not so thoughtful. She opened the food box directly and took out a pottery pot from inside. There were a whole big pig's trotters, and there were a few chestnuts underneath, which were shiny.

"It's not that my mother-in-law is bragging to you. My elbow was learned from Mr. Dongpo, and it's in your yard..."

The sun sets in the west and the bright moon hangs high.

In the small study in the backyard of Li Mansion, Li Qingzhao leaned alone on the railing and looked at the moonlight from afar.

The maid cleaned up the dishes behind her, ate two bowls of porridge, and almost didn't move the two plates of pickles, and there was a small tooth mark on the half pancake.

"Miss, why are you eating so little tonight?"

Li Qingzhao sighed without looking back. Seeing this, the little maid shook her head, knowing that her lady was starting to feel sad about spring and autumn again.

In the yard, a figure hurriedly walked in from the screen wall.

"Miss, it's the master who is back."

Li Qingzhao looked over a cherry tree outside the window, and just saw her father's tired expression.

When Li Gefei saw his daughter, he immediately changed into a calm expression and said with a smile: "Have Nannan eaten?"

Li Qingzhao nodded, "I ate some."

She thought about the signature on the plaque in her heart, and wanted to ask her father clearly, but just now, her father looked very tired. She thought she was plagued by official business, so she wouldn't bother him.

Li Gefei nodded with a smile, and then walked into the large study room beside him. The father and daughter each had a study room, one big and one small, with a month-old hole door separated in the middle, and deliberately blocked their view with bead curtains.

Li Qingzhao looked through the bead curtain and saw her father rummaging on the bookshelf, and she said with a rumor: "I remember here... no", "Strange, I saw it a few days ago, why can't I find it?"

After listening for a while, Li Qingzhao said, "Dad, the book you are looking for is on the bookshelf on the south side. From top to bottom, from left to right, the seventh book is."

Li Gefei, who was next door, was stunned. Following his daughter's instructions, he found the classics he wanted to read.

Li Qingzhao walked over with broken steps and said curiously: "Dad, are you in trouble at Honglu Temple?"

While looking through the classics, Li Gefei smiled bitterly: "Yes, the Xixia Princess is going back soon. Your Majesty wants to return a big gift to show the style of a great country. I asked me to start drafting a gift list. My father had previously worked in the Criminal Prison Department and had just been promoted to the Ministry of Rites. He didn't understand many things."

Li Qingzhao nodded and asked about the peach blossom house, but seeing that his father was so busy that he couldn't speak.

At this time, Li Gefei said again: "There is still a big trouble this time. When Princess Xixia entered the palace, Concubine Yang and Concubine Pan each took treasures to show off with her, saying it was a mirror. Princess Xixia liked it very much, alas..."

"Mirror?"

Li Qingzhao was stunned for a moment. What is the rare thing about mirrors? Are the people of Xixia so poor that they can't even afford a mirror?

Li Gefei was stunned when he saw her and explained: "It's not an ordinary mirror. It is said that it can make people look very vivid, and it's many times better than a bronze mirror... I heard that Pan received it from a high price among the people, and I don't know if he can find someone selling mirrors."

"Oh." Li Qingzhao was not interested in this.

Li Gefei looked at her, and when she saw that she seemed to have something to worry about, she couldn't help but frown slightly.

"Nannan."

"Um."

"Help Dad cook a pot of spring water, Daddy invites you to have good tea."

When Li Qingzhao heard this, she looked at the ancient shelf next to her and put a new tea bag on the top. When Li Gefei came back a few days ago, she said that it was given by a destined person and the baby was so tight that she joked that she would take it out and eat it with mooncakes when the Mid-Autumn Festival night.

Li Gefei carefully took the tea bag and said to Li Qingzhao with a smile: "The person who gave tea to his father is very extraordinary. You know his father's chess skills. Even if you play chess with him, you can't get any good. However, a few days ago, his father lost his face and almost lost all the time... Fortunately, his father ran fast, haha... he will definitely avenge his previous shame tomorrow."

"The chess skills are so great, which senior Gao Xian must be?" Li Qingzhao asked curiously.

When Li Gefei heard this, he remembered Yun Yi's tender appearance and said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid I'm not two years older than you... Oh, by the way, do you still remember the old house of your master? You went there twice when you were a child. You were too young at that time, probably forgot. At the second intersection of Tianshui Lane, your master treated the yard as a means of making money when he was demoted. A few days ago, the boy bought it and changed it to a new plaque. I also left him an official seal, which is a little thought of your master."

When Li Qingzhao heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up.
Chapter completed!