Chapter 66
Lu Xiaobai looked at He Yu kneeling at the kitchen door and suddenly slapped him in the face. He was so surprised that his eyes almost popped out.
He grabbed He Qin's clothes, pointed at the handsome man and said, "He Qin, is there something wrong with your brother? Why did he suddenly hit himself?"
He Qin nodded: "It's a bit stupid, but he came to admit his mistake, let him kneel."
Lu Xiaobai nodded. No wonder Feng An said that they were deceived by bad people. This sudden attack on his own problem made him seem not very smart. No wonder he was deceived.
Lu Xiaobai looked at He Yu with some sympathy, and then said to He Qin: "Forget it, it's too cold. He's not smart anymore. Don't kneel down again, otherwise you will be troubled. Let him get up."
He Yu, who is not very smart: ...
He Qin smiled with the corners of his mouth curved, without even turning his head, and said directly: "Get up and rest."
"Yes, thank you very much, Your Majesty... Thank you very much, second brother and second sister-in-law."
Thanks to Lu Xiaobai's "plea", He Yu was able to get up. However, he had been in the imperial city for a long time, and he was a little uncomfortable with being called a different name.
Lu Xiaobai watched He Yu take a small stool and sit opposite them, warming himself by the fire with them. After thinking for a while, he couldn't help but ask He Qin, "He Qin, how many brothers and sisters do you have in your family?"
He Qin looked down at Lu Xiaobai, thought for a moment and said, "Nineteen."
Although the He family is an imperial family, the family rules from ancient times to the present have been that brothers should be friendly and respectful to each other and not kill each other.
Therefore, most of the children born to his father's concubines survived.
“Nineteen!!!”
Lu Xiaobai jumped out of He Qin's arms in surprise. He looked at He Qin in disbelief and asked, "Are you sure? Nineteen? Then, how fertile must your mother be?"
He Qin: ...
He Yu: ...
No wonder Feng An said that the emperor's sister-in-law was an uneducated country boy. To be able to say such a thing, even if she is not uneducated, she is at least ignorant.
That’s right, after all, rural men don’t have the money to marry a second wife, so it’s normal that they don’t know.
He Qin was helpless: "My father has a concubine!"
"Concubine, concubine...oh oh oh..."
Lu Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief and patted his chest. It turned out that he had a concubine, no wonder he had nineteen children.
"Well, is it warm yet? If it is, come with me to write the couplets and put them up before lunch."
It’s the New Year, how can we not make our home festive?
Moreover, this was the first year he and Lu Xiaobai had spent together. Although they were in the countryside, they still had to be cautious.
Lu Xiaobai rubbed his hands, sniffed and nodded: "It's warm."
He had never seen couplets written. In modern families, couplets for the New Year are all bought. Besides, he had probably never looked at them carefully. To be honest, he was still a little curious.
He stood up and patted his knees. Fortunately, the humidity here was not high and the snow was not melting quickly. His clothes and pants did not get wet after falling into the field. He warmed up immediately after being heated.
He took He Qin's hand and asked, "Where are we going to write?"
Wouldn't it be too dark in their bedroom?
Can I write couplets on the dining table in the kitchen?
He Qin seemed to know what he was thinking. He stroked his hair and said, "The kitchen table is clean."
Then he took Lu Xiaobai to the kitchen, took out a bag of snacks from the cabinet and stuffed it into Lu Xiaobai's arms, then took out the materials needed to write couplets, spread them on the table, added water and ground ink.
Lu Xiaobai looked at the tightly wrapped oil paper package, pouted his lips and couldn't open it for a long time. He was about to complain, but he found out that it was actually walnut cakes!
Lu Xiaobai liked walnut crisps the most. He took it out and looked at it in disbelief. He took a bite carefully and immediately smiled: "It really is walnut crisps. It's delicious. You should have one too."
After Lu Xiaobai finished speaking, he handed the walnut cake that he had bitten into to He Qin's mouth. He Qin took a look at it, lowered his head and took a bite at the place where Lu Xiaobai had bitten it, then smiled and said it was really delicious.
Lu Xiaobai was so happy that he sat down with the food in his arms and said, "Then you write, I'll finish them."
He Qin: ...
If it’s delicious, just give him a bite?
He looked at Lu Xiaobai who was eating while watching him grind ink, and finally picked up the pen helplessly.
He Yu stood beside the bed, secretly watching everything in the room. After seeing it, he was completely stunned. When had his second brother been so gentle?
Eat something that others have eaten, and then say it’s delicious with a smile?
He has lived for twenty years and has never seen such a gentle second brother. Even He Zhou has never enjoyed such an honor. Lu Xiaobai is so lucky!
He Yu was a little afraid to go in. Although they were brothers, He Qin was not only serious in character, but they also had the relationship of king and subject. So, he could only lie on the window and look inside.
Lu Xiaobai didn't really stop giving He Qin the peach cakes, because He Qin said there were a lot of delicious food for lunch, not ordinary dishes that people could barely eat, but palace dishes.
Lu Xiaobai had never eaten palace food before, so he immediately took most of the peach cakes and put them back in the cabinet, leaving only two in his hand. He then sat next to He Qin, and the two of them ate one bite each.
He Yu stared at Lu Xiaobai through the window. He was very handsome and had fair skin. When he smiled, people couldn't help but want to hold him in their hands and cherish him.
Such a handsome guy, smiling and feeding the men, one bite at a time, this feeling, this feeling, he also wants it...
He Yu: ...
What should I do if I feel a little uncomfortable?
But except for Lu Xiaobai, everyone in the room is a grown man. He can't just go and snatch his second brother's son away. I guess he will be beaten to death.
He Yu had a cold face and turned around to go to the shed to warm himself by the fire. He didn't want to see his second brother exude tenderness at all.
The couplet was written quickly. Lu Xiaobai didn't recognize the characters, couldn't understand it, and didn't want to comment. As soon as He Qin finished writing, he casually pretended to be thirsty and went to drink water.
He Qin even waited for him to come back, and then asked him: "Is it good looking?"
Lu Xiaobai nodded nervously: "It looks good."
But he didn't know him.
He Qin smiled and asked, "Do you know him?"
Although he didn't know who Lu Xiaobai was, since she looked so delicate, he should be able to read.
But unexpectedly, Lu Xiaobai shook his head unhappily: "I don't know, my handwriting doesn't look like this!"
He Qin: ???
Lu Xiaobai turned around, ran behind the stove, squatted beside Ling San and picked up a piece of charcoal, then ran to He Qin and wrote the two words "He Qin" in modern simplified Chinese on the table.
Then he said happily: "This is how my hometown characters are written, simplified. This is your name. Do you think it looks good?"
Lu Xiaobai was very excited, as if to say: Look, it’s not that I’m uneducated, I just learned something different from you.
"My name?"
He Qin looked at the two characters. They were indeed simple and beautiful, but also very unfamiliar. They were not the fonts of any country he knew.
This kind of word has never appeared in this world, so where does Lu Xiaobai come from?
"nice."
After reading it, He Qin wiped off Lu Xiaobai's writing and said with a smile, "If you want to live safely here, pretend you can't read. Do you understand? However, you can write these words for me alone to see."
Lu Xiaobai knew that the words he wrote must be strange to people of this era, but what was the meaning of the sentence at the end that was written only for him?
He doesn't have the leisure to practice calligraphy like the ancients.
Lu Xiaobai rolled his eyes in disdain and was about to go to the cupboard to find something to eat when he heard He Qin say, "It's time to eat soon, don't eat snacks. If you're bored, come with me to post couplets."
Lu Xiaobai, who had just opened the cabinet door, nodded quickly: "Oh, okay..."
In fact, there were not many couplets posted. There were only three doors including the kitchen door, and they were all posted by He Qin. He stood aside and watched carefully, holding the things in his hands.
After putting up the couplets, Lingsi's lunch was ready and Lingyi also came back. The family sat at the table together to eat.
Although He Yu was a little surprised that everyone came to the table to eat, he did not show it. After all, his brother was the one in charge here.
It was the first time that Lu Xiaobai had seen such a sumptuous meal in a blockbuster movie after traveling through time. There were chicken, duck, fish, soup, cold dishes, and more than ten dishes.
But Lu Xiaobai loves to eat vegetables, so there is also a plate of cabbage from the field.
Lu Xiaobai happily picked up a piece of cabbage with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. The cabbage here had a light sweet taste and tasted better than the vegetables he had eaten in modern times, so he liked it very much and ate half of it in a short while.
There was a large table of dishes, but Lu Xiaobai only ate the vegetables, occasionally had a bite or two of other meats, and drank some soup.
He Qin coughed, turned his head and leaned close to Lu Xiaobai's ear and said, "Do you remember that you watered this vegetable at night?"
Lu Xiaobai paused as he was picking up the vegetables. He was stunned for several seconds before coming back to his senses. He turned around and said unhappily, "Don't try to trick me. I...I secretly plucked away the vegetables I had watered and fed them to the chickens."
Then she proudly put the cabbage into her mouth and snorted at him.
He Qin chuckled softly, this silly guy has learned his lesson.
However, if he were to say that these vegetables had been watered by someone else, would he spit them out?
Today is Chinese New Year, and He Qin rarely bullies Lu Xiaobai. Seeing that he is not fooled, he tries to give him fish meat, hoping that he will eat more.
He Yu held the bowl and looked at Lu Xiaobai's disgusted expression with some fear, fearing that his second brother would be unhappy and overturn the whole table. Fortunately, this did not happen until he finished his meal.
After eating, everyone sat by the brazier and made lanterns. Lu Xiaobai happily followed suit and learned. By the time they finished learning, it was already dark.
He Qin painted patterns on the lantern and then hung it in front of the house.
Lu Xiaobai stood at the door, laughing at the tall figure of He Qin lying on the wall hanging lanterns, but a long line suddenly formed in front of him, and several people gave him a small purse one by one, saying it was New Year's money.
Lu Xiaobai was stunned at the doorway: "This, this generation is reversed, right?"
He Qin is the elder brother, shouldn’t he be the one distributing the money? Why are the people like Ling Yi and others here?
Lingyi glanced at He Qin, coughed, and said, "No, the people here are older than you, so it's only natural to give you New Year's money. Besides, my eldest brother said he would be leaving for the Imperial City on the third day of the New Year, and my sister-in-law will need money in the future, so these are just right for you."
Lingyi said a lot, but Lu Xiaobai only heard three words: Go back to the imperial city!
He turned around in disbelief. The last time He Qin said he was going to the Imperial City, he thought He Qin was joking. He didn't expect that he was really leaving now, and on the third day of junior high school. Is it so soon?
Lu Xiaobai had taken He Qin's words to heart, especially the part about the Dog Emperor imprisoning people, which had caused him to have nightmares. So, Lu Xiaobai was still a little scared.
He pinched his purse nervously and asked in a low voice: "He Qin, is this true? Are we really going to the Imperial City?"
He Qin nodded: "Yes."
Lu Xiaobai was frightened and quickly put the entire purse into Lingyi's hand. He ran to He Qin, hugged his arms and cried, "You were the one who told me that the dog emperor in the imperial city would imprison people. Now you are taking me there. Are you planning to sell me and exchange the money for marrying Feng An?"
Sell him to the dog emperor, and let him keep producing seeds to please the dog emperor. Then He Qin will have a lot of money and run away? Or even marry Feng An?
He Qin: ???
He Yu: ??? How dare he curse my brother like that? Why hasn't my brother slapped him yet?
A few people held their foreheads and turned around: they heard nothing.
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