Chapter 103 Can Yu Zhi Be Alone

Lin Rong was waiting for the two of them outside the teahouse.

The tall man was standing on the side of the road in dark clothes. Not to mention his handsome appearance, his temperament was not ordinary, and he attracted the attention of many passers-by.

It was noon.

When Yao Shu walked out of the teahouse with Yu Zhi, he saw Lin Rong, who was very imposing among the crowd, and stepped forward with a smile, "Are you hungry? Let's eat first?"

The man nodded and looked at Yu Zhi.

Although he didn't speak, Yu Zhi understood Lin Rong's meaning, he quickly waved his hands and said, "I'm free, you two will arrange it."

Listening to Yu Zhi's accent, Yao Shu seemed to have a Suzhou accent, and said, "Let's go to Baiweilou, where the cuisine is very good."

Lin Zhi nodded, and the young scholar didn't have any comments.

As the three walked, Yao Shu asked Yu Zhi, "Yu Zhi, where are you from?"

The latter replied honestly, "I am from Suzhou."

Yao Shu smiled and said: "That would be the best. I heard that the Suzhou cuisine in Baiweilou is the most authentic. This time I took a Suzhou native to taste their dishes. Is it as good as the rumors?" it is good."

These days, Yu Zhi spends most of his time eating with the waiter and waiter in the teahouse, and every day there are pancakes, steamed buns and pickles.

He had never experienced such suffering since he was a child. He thought that he would starve to death in this strange town, but he never thought that after half a month, he would get used to it.

Yu Zhi knew in his heart that Yao Shu was taking care of his own taste and wanted to improve his food, but he was taking care of his self-esteem.

For a moment, I was moved by her thoughtfulness and consideration.

"Miss Yao, you are really a good person."

Yao Shu smiled and didn't say anything, but Lin Rong took an extra look at Yu Zhi.

Although the young scholar was not good at communication, he thought it over and quickly added: "Mr. Lin and Miss Yao are both talented and beautiful. They are really a rare couple."

Yao Shu had seen the eyebrow-eye lawsuit between the two of them a long time ago, so he couldn't help being very funny.

When the three of them arrived at the restaurant, Yao Shu specially ordered a dish of squirrel mandarin fish for Yu Zhi.

When the dishes came, the fish was covered with tomato juice, the color was bright and rich, which made people's index fingers move.

Yu Zhi took a sip, the taste was salty and savory, and then it turned sweet and sour, just like the taste of his hometown.

Yao Shu saw that his eyes were red all of a sudden, so he knew that he had suffered a lot outside these days.

Thinking about it, at a young age, when he first left home, he was entrapped by his two closest cousins. He traveled all the way west and north to Qingtong Town, and he had to support himself.

It's hard for him too.

She asked Yu Zhi in a warm voice: "How is it? Is this dish considered authentic?"

The little scholar sniffed hard, turned his head and wiped his eyes quietly, nodded and said: "Well, my mother at home knows that I like to eat fish, and occasionally cooks, and this dish of mandarin fish is the best."

Yao Shu didn't want to make Yu Zhi feel bad, so he smiled and said, "I also like fish, but I can only fry it in oil. It's not as delicious as your brother Lin's steamed sea bass."

The young man's attention was indeed attracted: "Oh? Mr. Lin can also cook?"

A gentleman stays away from the kitchen.

In this era, not only are scholars not allowed to enter the kitchen, but the whole society agrees that cooking is something women should do.

Yao Shu nodded and said, "Ah Radi not only knows how to cook, but also does housework very well. Ah Radi, tell me, don't you?"

Lin Rong has almost done all the housework at home these days, and now Yao Shu's affirmation in front of outsiders is very rewarding, so he nodded with a bit of complacency.

Well, it feels great to be praised by my wife!
But Yu Zhi exclaimed: "Brother Lin is at home, still doing housework?"

Lin Zhi nodded, and didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it, but said: "There are no servants in the family, if I don't do it, Ashu will do it. If that's the case, what's the difference between what I do and what she does?" ?”

Yu Zhi froze for a moment, the chopsticks for holding the vegetables did not move.

His parents can also be regarded as a couple who respect each other as guests and are envied by everyone.

Although there are servants in the family, the mother occasionally complains about the complicated housework, but the father never cares about it, and at most nods his head to let her take care of it.

Yu Zhi is not a pedantic person, after thinking about it, he understood: "I've never heard of someone thinking like this. But Brother Lin's doing so is very commendable."

He remembered that the two of them called each other "Azhi" and "Ashu" just now, so he couldn't help asking: "I don't know the names of Brother Lin and Miss Yao, but they are taken from the sentence 'Lan Rong has not returned'? If so, it is true." It's a great match."

Yao Shu and Lin Rong looked at each other, and at the same time thought of the hairpin on which this poem was engraved.

And Yao Shu happened to be wearing that silver hairpin today.

She smiled and said, "The characters are indeed those two characters, but our two families didn't know each other before, so we didn't have the idea of ​​naming our children after poems."

When the dishes were all served, the three of them chatted for a while while eating, and Lin Rong mentioned Yu Zhi's residence again.

On the way to the teahouse, Lin Zhi had already explained to Yao Shu that Yao Chao naturally had no objection to his sister's arrangement.

She then said to Yu Zhi: "My second brother is not much older than you, he is a casual person, he doesn't have so many rules, so you don't have to be restrained. Apart from the main house, you can use the guest room and study as you like."

The young scholar showed gratitude, put down his chopsticks, and was about to be polite to Yao Shu, when she stopped him: "Hey, let's say it first, don't say thank you to me anymore."

The meaning is: know that you are a good boy, don't follow the rigid dogma of scholars.

Yu Zhi blushed slowly, and said awkwardly, "I, I'm not young anymore..."

Yu Zhi is not very old, although out of face, he told Boss Zhang of the teahouse that he was about to be crowned, but Yao Shu saw that his facial features had not yet fully developed, and he looked like seventeen or eighteen years old at most.

She feels more and more that Yu Zhi's appearance is very similar to her younger brother who has no blood relationship in modern times.

Yao Shu smiled, and urged him: "Pick up your chopsticks, eat more, at your age, you can still grow."

Yu Zhi blushed, and sure enough, he took another bite of mandarin fish with his chopsticks, and ate it with the soft white rice.

It was only at this time that Lin Rong confirmed that Yao Shu really had no other thoughts for Yu Zhi, and only regarded him as his younger brother.

He said to the little scholar: "If you have any troubles in the residence, you can come to us. Ashu and I will move to another courtyard soon, and the two places are not far apart."

Yao Shu also responded: "Yes. There are a lot of books in the study of my second brother's house. Although he has no intention of taking the exam, there are some classics and history collections. You can read them at home these days without worrying about them. The east is more peaceful, and it won’t be too late to go to Beijing.”

The arrangement of the two is appropriate and careful, even if it is an old friend who has known each other for many years, it is nothing more than that.

Yu Zhi was so touched that he didn't know how to express his gratitude, so he just ate a few mouthfuls of food to suppress the soreness and astringency in his heart.

After the three of them had dinner, Yu Zhi went to the inn to pick up his luggage, but it was just a small package, which looked pitiful.

Yao Shu sighed inwardly, but he didn't say anything, he and Lin Rong settled Yu Zhi in the house in Er Ge's town.

She knew that Yu Zhi had money, and because of the young man's excessive self-esteem, she didn't make up her mind to buy anything for him.

But on the way back to Yaojia Village, Yao Shu was still a little worried, so he said to Lin Zhi, "Do you think Yu Zhi can be alone? Look at him, he hasn't cooked yet, so what will he have for dinner?"

(End of this chapter)

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