The wind is gentle and the fun is endless

When Xu Qu, Huanhuan, Xiaoyu, and Youcheng returned to Yonghe Manor, Uncle Ye was arranging what they had to do one by one in front of the farmhands standing in a row in the courtyard. Youcheng was originally following Xu Qu and Huanhuan, but when they were about to enter the courtyard, he rushed into the courtyard first, and then he danced and told Uncle Ye how he and Xiaoyu found Xu Qu and Huanhuan, and described Huanhuan's foot injury in a slightly exaggerated way.

After learning from Youcheng that Huanhuan had sprained her ankle, Uncle Ye immediately stopped what he was doing and asked everyone to go back to their own business as he had instructed. He then asked someone to call Aunt Ye, and he took another person and quickly rushed to the gate of the courtyard.

When they arrived at the door, they just saw Xu Qu carrying Huanhuan off the horse. He turned around and told the people he brought to lead the horse back to the stable. He walked beside Xu Qu and asked about Huanhuan's injuries with concern. The group walked quickly into the yard.

Xu Qu carried Huanxu into the main room, and when he put Huanxu on the bench, Aunt Ye also hurried over. Aunt Ye came with a medicine box in her hand. After finding out that Huanxu had sprained her ankle, she took out a small bottle of medicine from the medicine box and wanted to apply medicine to Huanxu. At this time, Xiaoyu took the medicine from Aunt Ye and said, "Aunt Ye, let me apply the medicine."

Aunt Ye thought for a moment and nodded in agreement. She handed the medicine bottle to Xiaoyu and patiently demonstrated to her how to apply the medicine. Xiaoyu watched Aunt Ye's demonstration carefully and said, "Okay, I got it." She took the medicine bottle and returned to Huanhuan.

Xiaoyu, with a serious expression on her face, first sat down next to Huanhuan. Then, as Aunt Ye said, she poured the medicine into her palms, rubbed her hands together a few times, and after rubbing them warm, she covered Huanhuan's ankles with her hands and slowly began to make circles.

Seeing Xiaoyu applying medicine to Huanhuan attentively, Aunt Ye kept praising her, saying that she was not only conscientious but also learned quickly and did things right. At the same time, Aunt Ye stood in front of Huanhuan to block her exposed white ankles.

Aunt Ye watched Xiaoyu apply medicine to Huanhuan while chatting with her, asking how Huanhuan got injured. After hearing that Huanhuan fell off a horse while learning to ride a horse, Aunt Ye said, "The horses on this farm were recently bought and rarely ridden, so they are not very tame. Fortunately, the young lady's injury is not serious, and she will be fine after a few days of rest."

Huanhuan took it for granted that this was Aunt Ye's excuse to avoid embarrassment, and said with an embarrassed smile: "It's mainly because I'm clumsy. I see that my husband can control the same horse very well."

Aunt Ye looked at Huan Huan with a smile on her face and said, "Young Master has outstanding talent and has the guidance of an expert. He is truly a man of both civil and military talents!"

Huanhuan heard this and asked curiously, "Oh? I wonder which master taught me about my husband?"

Seeing the beautiful eyes slowly opening up due to curiosity, with a hint of innocence in them, Aunt Ye smiled kindly and replied, "They are your maternal grandfather and maternal uncle!"

Huanhuan was stunned for a moment. She had never heard Xu Qu talk about his biological mother and his maternal grandparents' family. For fear of mentioning his sad memories, Huanhuan had never asked Xu Qu about his biological mother. Now that Aunt Ye mentioned it, she realized that Xu Qu still had contacts with his biological grandparents' family.

"Then, I wonder what my husband's maternal grandfather and maternal uncle do?" Huan Huan felt that since Aunt Ye brought it up first, there should be nothing wrong with her asking further. Besides, Aunt Ye was standing in front of her and Xu Qu couldn't see her. She didn't have to worry about touching on Xu Qu's sad memories, so she naturally had no concerns about asking this question.

"Young Madam, don't you know what your grandfather and uncle do?" This time it was Aunt Ye's turn to open her eyes wide, her surprise was beyond words.

Seeing Aunt Ye's surprised expression, she smiled embarrassedly, lowered her head slightly with her eyelids drooping, and her long eyelashes cast a shadow under her eyes.

At this time, Xiaoyu quickly took over the conversation and said, "We didn't know your wife was a stepmother at first, and we didn't know your son had an ear disease."

When Aunt Ye heard Xiaoyu say this, she froze in place. She stared at her deeply for a long time, her eyes changing from surprise to calmness, and then to a hint of tenderness.

Xu Qu's ear disease was a secret of the Xu Mansion, so she was not surprised that the young lady and her family did not know about Xu Qu's ear disease. However, she was quite surprised that they did not even know that Mrs. Xie, the current head of the Xu Mansion, was Xu Qu's stepmother, and did not know the background of Xu Qu's mother's family.

Shouldn't these be found out before the marriage? Although Xu Qu's hearing problem was not spread among the people in the Xu Mansion, there is no wall that is impenetrable. She has always guessed that those young ladies from the noble families who had discussed marriage with Xu Qu before must have found out some clues that led to the failure of the marriage. She thought that although the young lady's family was a small family, she should be able to find out if she was careful.

As for the elegant and pretty young lady in front of her, she had heard something: she was born in a common family and did not have any dowry. She originally thought that the young lady and her family were attracted by the wealth of the Xu family, but now the young lady did not even know that her son's grandfather was the great general Dingbei with outstanding military achievements, which made her waver in her initial guess.

Thinking of this, Aunt Ye smiled, and there was some care and concern from an elder for a younger generation in her eyes. She said, "Madam, your maternal grandfather and..."

Before he could finish his words, someone came in and reported that everything had been prepared as ordered, so Uncle Ye called Aunt Ye to go out together, leaving Huanhuan and Xiaoyu looking at each other, and their curiosity had to be put down.

Xiaoyu applied the medicine to Huanhuan and helped him sit down. At this time, Aunt Ye came back and asked Xu Qu, Huanhuan, Xiaoyu and Youcheng to go out of the yard.

Xiaoyu was supported and slowly walked out of the yard. She saw a small round table placed next to the stream outside the yard. There were several chairs and small stools placed around the round table. Not far away there was a pile of firewood. It seemed that they were going to light a bonfire. There was a stand on the firewood pile, as if it was going to be used for roasting food. There was a wooden barrel next to the firewood pile, and fish would jump out of the barrel from time to time.

"Are you going to grill fish?" Xiaoyu immediately reacted when she saw all this, blurting out her guess. Slowly retracting her gaze, she saw Xiaoyu beside her pursed her lips and her eyes began to light up.

Xiaoyu, who was most interested in eating, shook her head slowly and helplessly.

At this time, Uncle Ye came over to greet Xu Qu and Huan Huan, and asked them to sit around the small round table first. Then Uncle Ye smiled and said, "Sir, Madam, we caught some fish from the pond this afternoon. You can take a rest and we will have grilled fish later."

Huanhuan and Xu Qu sat at the round table. It was already dusk. The sun was setting, swallows were returning to their nests, the sky was full of red clouds, and a hazy orange color enveloped the mountains in the distance, the streams nearby, and the weeping willows blown by the breeze. Looking at all this, Huanhuan felt very comfortable.

Suddenly, a noise came from afar and got closer. I looked slowly in the direction of the sound and found that it was an old man driving a group of waddling geese back to Yonghe Village. The geese were calling "geese, geese" one after another, which seemed very loud in the silence around them.

At this time, Xu Qu was quite interested and said to Huan Huan: "Madam, do you know how to distinguish between male geese and female geese?"

She slowly looked at the geese, shook her head and replied, "I don't know, husband, do you know how to tell them apart?"

Xu Qu raised his eyebrows, pointed at the largest goose in the flock, and said, "Madam, look at the largest goose on the left. It has a high crown on its forehead. It is a gander. Look at the goose next to it. It has a flat forehead. It is a female goose."

"Oh, so that's how it is." He responded with a nod slowly.

"Ma'am, don't be fooled by the geese that look cute when they walk from side to side. They are actually very ferocious and can bite people. Some farmers use geese to guard their homes instead of dogs." Xu Qu changed his usual silence and became more talkative.

"Really?!" It was the first time Huanhuan heard of this and she was a little surprised.

At this time, Youcheng got a basket of vegetables from somewhere, grabbed a handful and threw it to the geese. The geese immediately got in a mess and started to grab the food. After a while, the food was finished. The geese looked up and looked at Youcheng. At this time, Youcheng grabbed another handful of vegetables and pretended to throw the vegetables. The heads of the geese swayed up and down with Youcheng's arms. The movements were very uniform. Seeing this, Youcheng laughed.

Seeing this, Xiaoyu said, "Youcheng, aren't you afraid of angering the goose by teasing it like this? Be careful that the goose may chase you and bite you."

Hearing this, Youcheng laughed even more happily and said, "Don't worry, we have the 'Goose Herding General'."

He asked slowly, "What is the story behind 'The Goose Driving General'?"

Youcheng glanced at Xu Qu and said with a smile, "When you were a child, you often chased geese around the yard when you came to Yonghe Manor. That's why you got the nickname 'Goose-Chasing General'."

Xu Qu? This cold-hearted person in front of me? When he was a kid, he chased geese around the yard?

A picture immediately emerged in my mind: a naughty child waving his arms and chasing the geese around the yard, shouting words like "brave" and "stop" in a confident manner.

Thinking of this, he bent down unconsciously and laughed out loud: "Haha, this is so funny." No wonder Xu Qu knew that geese would bite people. I'm afraid Xu Qu himself had been bitten by a goose!

As everyone was laughing, Aunt Ye came over with a tray on which were placed bowls, chopsticks, a few small dishes, and a small jar of wine. As soon as Aunt Ye came, she said, "I heard you say something about 'goose-chasing general' from a distance. You are exposing the young master's past in front of the young lady. Be careful that the young master will ask you to chase geese."

After saying this, Aunt Ye sighed again, and as if she was talking to herself, she added, "Alas, such a naughty and happy young man can only be found before he is eleven years old."

Aunt Ye placed the tray on the small round table and said to Huanhuan and Xu Qu, "Master, Madam, I have prepared some side dishes and a jar of wine. Please enjoy them first. The grilled fish will take a while to be ready." After that, she poured a glass of wine for each of Xu Qu and Huanhuan and handed it to them respectively.

Slowly picking up the wine glass and taking a sip, Aunt Ye smiled lovingly and asked her, "Young Madam, how is this wine?"

He replied slowly, "Yes, this wine tastes refreshing and sweet after a while."

Aunt Ye smiled even more deeply when she heard this, and said, "This is the wine that Uncle and Aunt Ye brewed themselves. It has been stored in the cellar for three years. Please drink more. You're welcome."

He slowly raised his head and smiled at Aunt Ye.

Aunt Ye lowered her head, looked left and right slowly, and said with a smile: "Why do I like the young lady more and more the more I look at her?"

Huanhuan smiled shyly and said, "Huanhuan also likes Uncle Ye and Aunt Ye very much."

Aunt Ye asked, "Young Madam's maiden name is Huanhuan?"

Huanhuan replied seriously: "Yes, my name is Feng Huanhuan."

Aunt Ye repeated Huanhuan's name and said, "This name is unique and nice. Feng Huanhuan, you can tell she is a gentle person just by hearing the name."

At this time, Uncle Ye and his friends lit a bonfire. Uncle Ye stood there and called Aunt Ye to come over for help. Aunt Ye then called Youcheng to come over together.

Youcheng was about to leave when he suddenly wanted to take Xiaoyu with him. Xiaoyu said she wanted to accompany him and refused to go. Youcheng tilted his head and smiled slyly, saying, "Uncle Ye's grilled fish is the best. First come, first served."

Hearing the word "eat", Xiaoyu hesitated. She looked to the right at Huanhuan, then to the left at Youcheng. After doing this several times, as if she had made up her mind, she turned to Youcheng and walked towards Youcheng. As she walked, she turned back and said to Huanhuan, "Miss, I'm leaving for a while. I'll bring you some food later."