Yan Fei

Actually Wu Zhu got up early this day.

Chechen was often the first one in the palace to wake up to practice swords, but he didn't expect Wu Zhu to wake up so early, and the cooks in the palace hadn't even woken up yet, let alone the fire in the stove.

"What are you doing down here? Both of them haven't gotten up yet." Chechen said.

"I... I'm hungry and want to go to the city to find something to eat."

"That's right, the fire in the palace won't start up so early."

"Have you always gotten up so early to practice swords?"

Chechen thought about what to take him to eat, and said, "Is there any way... If there is a fight, Dad is getting old, so it's time for me to take the lead."

Wu Zhu buried him in his neck again.Although there was a thin layer of sweat on his body, he didn't have the smell of sweat like an ordinary man after a workout. On the contrary, there was a scent similar to the soft fingers he played with yesterday.

The fragrance of Ruozhirou is not offensive, but rather mild, neither seductive nor weak.

Chechen shook him and held him tighter: "Let me take you to eat something."

After stepping out of the palace gate, you are on the street of the ancient city of Moduo.The streets are also paved with stone slabs, but instead of the similar white stones used in the palace, they are polished black stones that can almost reflect the shadows of people.The streets of Modo are cleaned by people every day. Although there are many roads, it is not too troublesome to have aqueducts.

Most of the dwellings in Moduo are stone houses. The floor of the house is raised high, leaving a gap with the ground to facilitate drainage. Even in winter, the water after the snow melts will not seep into the house.

At this time, some people who got up early had already left the morning market.The morning market is on a square on the main road in the city, where there are often various snacks.But Che Chen didn't take Wu Zhu there, but turned into an alley.

Water also flowed through the cracks in the stone slabs in the alley, and Chechen stepped on the snow-soaked slate patter, the sound of the water was like silver bells in the wind.

At the end of the alley, there is a courtyard surrounded by flowers and vines, and large and small circular iron plates are hung on the door frame, jingling in the wind.

Chechen put him down, seeing that he seemed to be a little sleepy, he lifted the hair on his forehead and blew gently at his eyelids, and grinned after getting him a supercilious look.

The two of them walked to the courtyard, where besides the folk houses, there was an earthen house built of mud.After Chechen approached, he yelled, and a little girl rushed out of the room, shouting "Shizi", while jumping into his arms.

Chechen hurriedly caught her, put her a few steps away, and whispered embarrassedly: "Don't make trouble, someone is watching, don't embarrass me."

The little girl tilted her head, looked at Wu Zhu who was walking behind him, then looked at his red ears, nodded understandingly, and went back to the house.

Wu Zhu followed Chechen into the earthen house. The four walls of the earthen house were divided into many grids, and four iron sticks were hung under the grids. Cakes were hung on the sticks, and four long strips were dug out underneath. square pit.The little girl was filling the pit with charcoal for a fire, and a thick golden liquid dripped from the grid, poured it on the cake, and put the excess in the half-bamboo tube.

The little girl collected a round of cakes in a bamboo basket, took off the bamboo tube, turned it upside down on the topmost grid, and replaced the empty bamboo tube on top.

Chechen threw two copper coins to the little girl, wrapped two cakes in oiled paper, handed them to Wu Zhu, and took him out.The little girl didn't seem to have any interest in talking to Che Chen except for the first thing.

Just as the two of them were about to turn around and leave, the little girl suddenly said: "My lord, you have to take good care of our eldest son. He is careless and takes care of his own affairs like a fool. If there is something that offends you Just talk to him well."

Wu Zhu didn't react when he heard it, and looked at Che Chen: "What...take care of?"

He blinked, and suddenly his face turned red all the way to his collar: "Wait?! Did she misunderstand something?!"

Chechen hurriedly made a haha, winked at the little girl who looked over suspiciously for a while, and took Wu Zhu out.

After walking some distance, Chechen's tense body relaxed.He said: "Her father is away and is a businessman. Her mother's hamstring was broken by a giant eagle and she can only lie on the bed. Only their family can make this cake. After she closes the stall in the morning, she will also come to the palace to take care of the palace." There are some birds and animals raised in the house, so I am familiar with her, so you don't have to be too restrained, she was just...just joking."

His expression seemed to be a little dim.

Wu Zhu turned his head away uncomfortably, and took a bite of the cake. The sweet taste melted on the tip of his tongue, filling his entire mouth in an instant. He, who had never eaten such sweet food, almost died from coughing. can not stop.

"You, you?" Che Chen hurriedly took the cake from his hand and patted his back, "It's just a cake, why did you become like this?"

Wu Zhu shook his head: "I... nothing. This cake tastes good, you should eat it too."

Chechen looked at him, then at the cake, and according to the words, took a piece from the place where Wu Zhu gnawed, rolled it into his mouth, chewed it slowly for a while before swallowing it all.

Wu Zhu stared at his face for a long while, then took the cake from his hand and took a bite.

Once autumn comes, things will increase in various places in Chilupan. Chechen's table is piled up with several mountains at once, making him so busy that he even mutters words while eating, which makes the wolf king a little scared by him. .

Wu Zhu hadn't been around him these days, he didn't know what he was tinkering with all day long, and he couldn't be seen for most of the day.

When Chechen finally finished his work, it was already the afternoon about five days later, and he was a little irritable when he didn't see Wu Zhu.

"Ya Ma," Chechen called Ya Ma, who came to deliver fresh fruits, and scratched his head, "Do you know where Wu Zhu is?"

Yama is more stable than Yana, so Chechen, who has a lot of things, is handed over to Yama to take care of, while Yana goes to follow Wu Zhu.

Ya Ma thought for a while, then put down the fruit plate: "I don't know, but I just saw Ya Na in the back kitchen."

Chechen stood up without saying a word, yelled for Yama to finish the fruit plate by himself, and ran all the way to the back kitchen.In the afternoon, the kitchen filled the stove, and it was a bit cold at this time.Ya Na squatted next to the cook in the back kitchen, and the two of them gathered around a basin full of honey, rolling honey with a few fresh fruit skewers.

"... what are you doing?"

Ya Na was taken aback by him, and the cook said: "Young Master Wu Zhu came to me with a honey cake a few days ago and asked my old lady what was in that cake, and why it was so ugly. It's really strange, why did Young Master Wu Zhu even I don’t even know the honey, and how much honey is there?”

"Then I said, why don't you give me a fresh fruit skewer wrapped in honey and eat it. These days, you come to ask for it, and you eat a lot of it every day." Yana puffed her cheeks, a little sad, "My lord, please persuade me Young master, right? If you eat too much honey, you will get a toothache. The Central Plains is a place with vast land and rich resources, how can Mr. Wu Zhu not even know about honey?"

Chechen remained silent and didn't speak. He watched the honey on the fresh fruit bunches dripping into the basin, and said, "Go get the honey that the Southwest paid tribute to and wrap him in a bunch. I'll take it to him after it dries. Where is he?" ?”

"He's at the White Garden these days. Isn't the wild geese about to fly, he wants to see it."

...The wild geese are flying south, which means that winter is not far away, and spring will come after that. If he doesn't marry Princess Qingyuan at that time, then the wolf king probably won't let him be reckless anymore.

Chechen wrapped the fresh fruit skewers wrapped in tribute nectar with glutinous rice paper, and walked absently towards the White Garden.The White Garden is his mother's garden. In addition to the place with the most species of flowers in the whole Red Deer Pan, there is also a rare white flower tree, which blooms the first batch of flowers at the turn of spring and summer, and then blooms and falls at the same time. In the spring of the second year, the first batch of flower buds bloomed.In the white garden, there are petals falling from the white flower tree all year round, nourishing the whole garden, so the flowers in the white garden are used to competing for splendor.

The white garden is full of thick layers of white petals and various plants.Chechen walked inside for a long time, but he didn't see anyone.

"Are you done?"

Che Chen took half a step back, and looked up at Wu Zhu who was sitting on the trunk of the white flower tree.In Wu Zhu's hand was a stick that had already been eaten, and in his arms was a limp, sleeping goose cub, with one leg dangling and some petals falling from his shoulders.

For some reason, Che Chen stretched out his hand in a bewildered manner, and handed him the fresh fruit string in his hand, saying: "Wu Zhu, if you let me hug you, I will give this to you."