The next afternoon, Liu Ya looked at Liu Xin who was sitting opposite her with a wooden face, and couldn't help but smiled.
Liu Xin: “…”
The sound of abacus beads could be heard in the west courtyard for a few days. During this time, Wen Ye selected a few complicated questions to ask Lu, and specifically chose to ask them when the other party was the busiest.
After several attempts, Lu finally spoke up and told her that if she really didn't understand something, she could hand the accounts over to Liu Ya and Liu Xin to take care of them, but she just had to remember to leave someone to supervise her.
Liu Ya and Liu Xin, who had been planning for five or six days, said:......
In order not to let down the Lu family, Wen Ye put himself in the position of supervisor.
After seven or eight days, Wen Ye looked at the two people with lifeless eyes and frosty expressions, and decided to treat them to grilled lamb chops and grilled pig's trotters with a wave of his hand.
The roasted pig's trotters that I wanted to eat last time were not roasted in the end because Xu Yuejia was there that day, and I never thought about it again after that.
Today is a good time to make up for it.
Wen Ye gave them a half-day holiday. The lamb chops were marinated for several hours in advance and were ready to be grilled.
The pig's trotters were also scorched, smeared with honey, and roasted in circles.
After the snow stopped, gusts of cold wind blew.
We just grilled in the yard using a charcoal brazier, so it wasn't that cold.
In the east courtyard, Xu Jingrong, who was studying hard, suddenly felt his nose move. He sniffed something and smelled delicious.
He put down the book and walked out of the room. Xu Jinglin, who lived next door, also poked his head out and whispered, "Brother, did you smell it too?"
Although it sometimes appears and sometimes disappears, he was definitely not wrong.
Xu Jinglin is a foodie, and any aroma cannot escape his nose. At this moment, he is already drooling, "It seems to be roasted pig's trotters or something."
The two brothers looked at each other, quickly got together, and thought they had avoided the maids and servants in the East Courtyard, so they sneaked out.
Following the scent all the way to the west courtyard.
The two brothers moved very sneakily and got lost several times. They finally arrived under the corridor bridge a few steps away from the west courtyard, but were discovered by the old woman guarding the moon-shaped archway not far away.
At first the gatekeeper thought that it was a servant from some courtyard running around, but when she looked closely, she found that it was actually the young master and the second son!
The gatekeeper hurried forward and saluted.
Seeing this person, Xu Jingrong immediately straightened up, imitating his father, Duke Xu, who usually did things like putting his hands behind his waist and straightening his chest and back.
Xu Jinglin tried to learn it in the same way, but his arms were not long enough and he still had some baby fat on his body, so his hands could not reach behind the fat waist.
Xu Jingrong deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Get up."
The old woman stood up nervously.
Xu Jingrong pretended to cough again and said, "I've brought Jinglin here to pay my respects to Second Auntie. Go and let her know."
How could the gatekeeper dare not refuse the young master's request? After saying "yes", she immediately turned around and hurried away.
Xu Jingrong and his younger brother stood outside the moon-shaped archway, and they both took a deep breath in silence at the same time. The fragrance was indeed drifting from the west courtyard to the east courtyard. In addition to the roasted pig's trotters that his second brother smelled, there seemed to be roasted lamb chops as well?
Since Xu Jingrong grew up, he has gone to the main courtyard to have meals with his mother twenty days a month. His mother likes light meals and believes that children should eat less spicy and salty foods.
Therefore, even if lamb chops and pork trotters appear on the table, they are mostly used to make soup.
Xu Jingrong had long been fed up with eating these, but even if he didn't go to the main courtyard, in his own east courtyard, the small kitchen didn't dare to secretly make these for him without his mother's permission.
He and his brother were lucky if they could eat food like grilled lamb chops and pork trotters two or three times a year.
No more than two pieces at a time.
The gatekeeper walked quickly, so the two brothers didn't have to wait too long, but there was one more person walking in front of her.
Xu Jingrong recognized her. It was the maidservant beside the second aunt, and her name seemed to be Yunzhi.
After Yunzhi approached, she first bowed to the two of them, and then said, "My Lord, Second Young Master, please follow me."
The grilling of lamb chops and pork trotters in the yard was halfway through. The sizzling fat fell into the charcoal sparks, and the flames suddenly jumped high, scaring Taozhi so much that she looked back.
The look of fear and desire to stir the charcoal fire made Wen Ye laugh non-stop.
Liu Ya and Liu Xin, who were habitually tense, inexplicably relaxed their minds under the constant interaction between Wen Ye and Tao Zhi, the master and servant.
Wen Ye caught a glimpse of a group of two, one large and two small, getting up from the stools.
When the maids in the yard saw Xu Jingrong and Xu Jinglin, they all stood up and saluted them.
Wen Ye patted the charcoal dust on his palms, and said with a smile: "Have you finished reading the books I gave to the young master?"
Xu Jingrong: "......"
Second aunt is really always talking about something.
He sighed and said, "Second Aunt, just call me Jingrong from now on."
The term "young prince" sounded unkind enough to him, so how could he mention wanting to eat grilled lamb chops?
Wen Ye responded: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Then he changed the subject, glanced at the two brothers, and asked, "You two are not coming here to study, are you?"
She really doesn't have any study atmosphere at all.
Xu Jingrong was still thinking about how to start the conversation when Xu Jinglin betrayed him.
"Roasted lamb chops!" Xu Jinglin said urgently, "And roasted pig's trotters!"
Children aged five or six could already speak clearly, but when Xu Jinglin opened his mouth, he accidentally dropped a drop of saliva, and he became nervous, and his voice became distorted.
Xu Jingrong really wanted to cover his second brother's mouth, but it was too late.
It’s over. His steady and heroic image in front of his second aunt is gone.
Wen Ye was indeed not polite and laughed particularly loudly.
Xu Jingrong tried hard to keep a straight face.
Wen Ye rubbed the smaller one's head and said, "You can smell it from so far away? Do you have a puppy nose?"
The reason why he asked this was because when the two of them came to the West Courtyard, there was no nanny or maid with them, so Wen Ye knew that they came here secretly.
But I guess that's just what they think.
Fortunately, she roasted a lot. In order to keep warm in the yard, she roasted two lamb chops and not counted the pig's trotters. She planned to share the leftovers with other servants in the west yard.
But even if we add the pair of brothers in front of us, it is still more than enough.
But the two of them were in such a hurry to go out that they even forgot to put on their cloaks. Wen Ye asked Yunzhi to go into the house and get two of her cloaks to temporarily tie on the brothers to block the wind.
Xu Jingrong was wearing a pink cape and felt a little awkward, but Xu Jinglin felt much more upset, with only grilled lamb chops and pork trotters in his eyes.
Wen Ye also prepared a few vegetarian dishes, which he had skewered for people to eat. There weren't many of them, so that people could have a bite to eat when they got tired of eating pig's trotters and lamb chops.
Seeing that Xu Jinglin was already very hungry, she asked Taozhi to grill a bunch of cabbage for him, and then spread some non-spicy sauce on it and handed it to him.
Let him eat his fill first.
Seeing that his second brother had something to eat, Xu Jingrong quickly grabbed two skewers of vegetables and grilled them in the same way as Taozhi.
Wen Ye didn't let Taozhi help him, and let him do it himself. After all, he would have to eat it alone if it got burnt.
Xu Jingrong and Xu Jinglin are quite similar in some aspects, such as not liking to eat vegetables.
But the roasted vegetables they ate today seemed delicious, and completely different from the unpalatable vegetables they remembered.
After eating one or two skewers, I want more.
Soon, the grilled lamb chops and grilled pig's trotters were ready. With the two boys around, Liu Ya and Liu Xin didn't dare to stay and eat with them.
It was impossible for Wen Ye to forcefully change the ideas that had been formed in their minds for more than ten years, so she only let Yunzhi pack a quarter of the lamb chops and pig's trotters and let them take them back to eat. If they couldn't finish them, they could share them with other sisters.
There were fewer people in the yard. Xu Jingrong touched his already half-full stomach and said, "When I become a general in the future, I will let my soldiers eat this too!"
Wen Ye chewed on the pig's trotters that Yunzhi handed over, and said without raising his head: "Then why don't you study hard."
Xu Jingrong waved her hand and said with great momentum: "Studying is something that people who want to be the top scholar do. What I want to do is to be a general!"
Wen Ye nodded and said, "Yes, a general who doesn't even know the words on the city gate plaque will lead a group of illiterate soldiers and no one will know if he attacks the wrong city."
Xu Jingrong's face flushed red, and he whispered, "Then why don't you just recognize all the characters?"
He absolutely does not want to be a general who attacks the wrong city. It is too shameful!
Wen Ye glanced at him and said, "Yes, a great general can only read and cannot understand a page of a military manual. The enemy can easily trap you all with just one formation."
Xu Jingrong's face turned even redder, and he said anxiously, "I'm not that stupid!"
Wen Ye finished chewing a pig's trotter, drank a sip of scented tea, took a break and said, "Really? Then why did I hear that you rarely got an excellent grade in the classroom test?"
After his past was exposed, Xu Jingrong was filled with shame and anger. He turned his grief and anger into appetite and ripped the meat off the lamb ribs in one bite.
It’s so hard to be a general, eh...the grilled lamb chops are so delicious!
In the main courtyard, Mrs. Lu, who had been busy all day, finally had a moment of rest before dinner.
It turned out that the two sons who were supposed to come to the main courtyard for dinner were nowhere to be seen.
Only Xu Yuxuan was circling around her.
Lu hugged him lovingly and asked Nanny Xian, "Where are Jingrong and Jinglin?"
Normally at this time, the two brothers would have already arrived at the main courtyard.
Nanny Xian replied, "I have already asked Qingxue to go to the East Courtyard."
As she was speaking, Qingxue came back.
Behind her followed Nanny Dong, who served Xu Jingrong.
Seeing that only Nanny Dong was behind Qingxue, Lu asked her, "Where are the Crown Prince and the Second Young Master?"
Nanny Dong turned around and replied, "Madam, the young master and the second son Shen Shizhong quietly left the East Courtyard. I sent someone to follow them carefully. When I saw that the young master and the second son finally entered the West Courtyard, I did not go in to disturb them."
Lu was surprised: "Did you go to the West Courtyard?"
Then he asked, "Have they finished their homework?"
It had been snowing heavily for several days, and Lu, considering that the great scholar who came to teach at the Duke's Mansion was already old, specially asked him to wait until the snow stopped before coming to teach at the mansion.
Therefore, these days, Xu Jingrong and Xu Jinglin have been working on the homework left by their teacher.
The two brothers were not very talented in studying, and except for coming to the main courtyard to accompany Lu for dinner, they had not left their rooms in the past few days.
Nanny Dong said respectfully, "I saw that the Crown Prince and the Second Young Master left the East Courtyard after finishing their homework."
Otherwise, they would not dare to let the two rich men run away like that.
By then, even if nothing happened to the Crown Prince and the Second Young Master, they would still be punished.
As long as it was not dangerous, Mrs. Lu would generally not stop the two brothers from going anywhere after completing their homework.
It was just that she went to the West Courtyard for no reason, and Lu always felt something was wrong.
Nanny Xian knew her master best. Seeing that Madam Lu frowned slightly, she thought for a while and then expressed her guess: "I heard that the Second Madam loves reading very much. I think the atmosphere in the West Courtyard must be good. The young master and the second son may be thinking that by staying with people who love reading for a while, they will also become more fond of reading?"
As a servant, you naturally say what your master wants to hear.
"Is that so?"
Seeing that it was getting late, Lu was confused and stopped talking. She said, "I'm afraid these two boys will have to stay in the west courtyard for dinner. We won't wait for them. Madam Xian, tell them to serve dinner."
Before she finished speaking, a little person came into her arms and called her sweetly, "Auntie~"
Lu smiled and asked, "What does Xuan'er want to say?"
Xu Yuxuan said shyly: "Mother, I want mother~"
Mrs. Lu then remembered that in order not to disturb Wen Ye from studying the account books, the mother and son had not seen each other for five or six days.
It was rare that Xuan'er could hold back until today to tell her.
In just a moment, Lu made a decision. She called Nanny Xian and said, "Don't serve the dishes. Pick a few good ones and come with me to the west courtyard."
It's a good time to go and see what the two boys are doing in the west yard.
Nanny Xian replied, "Yes."
Lu walked in the front, Nanny Ji walked half a step behind holding Xu Yuxuan, and behind them were two maids who were serving Xu Yuxuan.
On the right are Nanny Xian, Qingxue and Baimei.
The group of people walked towards the west courtyard in a mighty manner.
The West Courtyard is still unaware of this.
Xu Jingrong ate a few lamb chops and two pig's trotters, and a bowl of egg fried rice that his second aunt had ordered. He was now extremely full, so he sat on a small stool, propped up on the ground with his hands behind his back, and lay on his back, wishing he could roll around in the snow for a few laps.
There is no image at all.
Xu Jinglin was still sitting on the small stool obediently, but he ate slowly and no one was serving him, so he was still gnawing on his first pig's trotter.
At this moment, the maid guarding the second gate came hurriedly to report: "Second Madam, the Duke's wife is bringing the young master to our courtyard!"
Before Wen Ye had time to digest the maid's words, Xu Jingrong stood up with a somersault: "What?! My mother is here?!"
"It's over, it's over! Mother will definitely be furious when she sees us like this!" Xu Jingrong was so anxious that he was spinning on the spot. At this moment, he wished he could grow a pair of wings and fly away.
Then he looked down at Xu Jinglin, who was eating a greasy meal with his mouth full and was unaware of the danger that was about to come.
Xu Jingrong's heart suddenly turned cold.
I'm afraid he's going to lose his ass again.
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