"Second brother, where have you been? Have you heard that Dad passed the imperial examination?"
Hua Li rushed out to the eaves, looked at his second brother with bright eyes, and spoke with some suppressed excitement in his voice.
Hua Yu lowered his eyes and walked into the empty courtyard.
Hearing his brother's excited words, he ignored him and walked around him, limping into the main hall.
Although it hadn't snowed the entire day, Hua Yu's messy hair and thin shoulders were stained with a lot of snow.
Hua Shi saw him walking towards her with his head lowered, so she moved aside and her eyes fell on his slightly exposed profile. Because of his hair and the dim light, she could not see the expression on Hua Yu's face clearly.
But seeing him with his head down, eyes cast down, and silent, he seemed to be in a bad mood...
The flowers are slightly silent.
However, Hua Yu seems to have always been like this. For so long, I haven't seen him get too excited...
Hua Li's excitement suddenly stopped. Although he was slow, he was not stupid.
Second brother is obviously not happy...
Hua Li turned around in confusion and looked over, calling out softly, "Second brother..."
He turned his gaze to Hua Xiao standing beside him, with a puzzled and questioning expression.
Hua Xiao met his gaze and slowly shook her head.
"Bang!,"
The open door was closed by Hua Yu who walked into the room.
Hua Xiao glanced at the tightly closed wooden door with some uneasiness, then turned to look at Hua Shi and asked softly, "What's wrong with Second Brother?"
The little girl paused, then continued, "Second brother wasn't like this before... leaving early and coming back late, and then not saying anything."
Hua Yu's mood changes made Hua Xiao feel very uneasy.
Hua Shi patted her little shoulder and whispered, "Don't think too much, it'll be fine."
Seeing the little girl's uneasiness, Hua Shi didn't know what to say and just gave a dry word of comfort.
In fact, she herself doesn't quite understand...
When Hua Yu passed by her just now, she seemed to vaguely see his hands hanging by his side, tightly clasped in his tucked...
…
Although Hua Ciyuan passed the imperial examination, there will be a lot more uncertainties in his future stay in the Hua family.
Everything has to wait until Li and Hua Ciyuan return before we can make the next plan. There's no point in overthinking it now...
Hua Shi is not optimistic about this, but life still has to go on.
So, while Li was away, Hua Shi ran back to the house, kneaded a large ball of dough, and started making vegetarian noodle soup without distraction.
Food has been tight these days, and the dried meat I had in stock was finished in the past two days.
At this moment, there was nothing else in her room except flour and rice.
For more than a month, the meat or dried meat they had eaten all came from the wild rabbits and pheasants that Eleven and Xiaohei brought back when they went into the mountains to look for food. This allowed them to have a snack every few days.
In the past ten days or so, Eleven and Xiao Hei always brought back meat every day. They cooked the meat in a short time and fed the three cats in the house. Then, when they saw that they couldn't finish the rest of the meat in one go, they would use coarse salt to salt the fresh meat into jerky.
The salt-cured meat tastes salty and crispy. When you put it in your mouth, it is chewy and full of salty and fragrant meat flavor.
The three of us loved this preserved meat, and Little Flower Shadow was especially fond of it. The meat wouldn't keep for more than a few days; it would be devoured in a flash by a few mouthfuls.
At this moment, Eleven and Xiao Hei ran back to the mountains to look for food. When she was kneading dough and cooking noodle soup, Xiao Bai kept circling around her knees, barking and wagging his tail vigorously, without stopping for a whole time.
“Woof woof…”
Hua Shi skillfully cooked the noodles, and in less than an hour, a big pot of steaming hot vegetarian noodle soup was freshly served.
Seeing that Xiaobai was chirping happily, she served it a bowl first.
Xiaobai smelled the steaming noodle soup and first tried it with his tongue. He was so burned that he stuck out his tongue and panted repeatedly.
Hua Shi looked at its silly appearance and said with a smile: "I told you to be careful about getting burned, but you didn't listen."
“Woo…”
Sticking out his big red tongue, Xiaobai looked up at Hua Shi with grievance.
Hua Shi ignored it, took the pot off the stove, pushed open the door and walked out.
Xiaobai wagged his tail and turned his head to look over.
Because Hua Shi had not allowed the three of them to leave the house, although Xiaobai wanted to follow them, he just watched them and sat on the ground without moving.
Hua Shi brought the big pot of vegetarian noodle soup directly to the next room. Hua Xiao, who had been informed in advance, had already opened the door for her to come in.
This is the tacit understanding they have developed over the past month.
Hua Shi would always cook the food in her own house and then bring it to the next house along with the pot.
Most of the time, the five siblings would sit together, holding their bowls, and eat in silence.
Since Hua Yu came back, she has been lying on the kang bed, wrapping herself tightly in the quilt, burying herself in it.
Behavior seems a bit strange...
Hua Shi called him several times, but he didn't respond, as if he was asleep.
Hua Shi didn't dare to pull his quilt easily. She originally wanted to ask him to get up and eat noodles, but seeing his silent resistance, she called him twice and gave up.
Hua Xiao and Hua Li, who were standing by, held the edge of the warm wooden bowl, huddled on a small wooden chair, silently.
There was something wrong with the second brother, and they saw it and felt uneasy...
They ate a bowl of noodle soup in silence. The three of them divided the work and cleaned up the mess. Before Hua Shi could return to the house, the courtyard door, which had just been closed, was suddenly knocked loudly by someone.
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