With the help of Lu Cheng, a diligent and capable man, the Xu family's work was completed half an hour earlier than yesterday. Even so, it was still half a day when Ningxiang and the others returned home.

The corn has arrived home, and Li asked the whole family to take a break and start peeling the corn tomorrow.

Amu went to find Dazhuang to play, Ningxiang and Guan Ping returned to the west courtyard.

Guan Ping went directly to the backyard to carry firewood and prepare to boil water for bathing.

Ningxiang advised her not to work. She happened to have something to do, so she didn't compete with Guan Ping anymore. She entered the house and looked around, but she felt worried.

Today is Lu Cheng’s birthday, but what can she give him?

He told her earlier that she might be able to embroider him a veil and purse, but now there is no time to prepare. The days are starting to shorten and I have to take a shower and have a meal later...

While worried, her eyes fell on the red dates that Li bought for her a while ago. She didn't eat much, but now she still has half a pound left.

Ningxiang suddenly thought of an idea and walked out to the east courtyard and asked, "Auntie, do we still have glutinous rice flour?"

Li's voice came from the kitchen, "A little bit, does Xiang'er want to eat glutinous rice?"

Last time I went to my nephew's house to have a full moon wine, she gave me something, and my nephew brought her some gifts, including two kilograms of glutinous rice flour. Li has never been willing to eat it and wants to save it until the end of the year to buy Lantern Festival.

Ningxiang walked over with a smile and discussed with her elders with a pleasing look: "Auntie, I suddenly want to eat red date cake. In this way, you cook here, I will go to our stove to steam a few pieces of red date cakes to eat. Is it okay?"

Li said in surprise: "How can you make that thing?"

Some people sell in the town, and occasionally some people push carts out to shout, but most farmers don’t know how to do it. If you don’t say anything, who will spend money to buy glutinous rice flour? Generally, they spend money at the end of the year or when there are any happy events, and at most they can make Lantern Festival.

Ningxiang smiled and said, "It's actually quite simple. I'll see the nanny do it in the kitchen."

Li nodded, "Okay, I'm in the west room, Qiu'er, find out the glutinous rice flour, your sister wants to make delicious food for you!"

If her daughter asked her for red date cake, she would never give it to her, and her niece would be different again. The little girl had been away from home for four years, and Li couldn't bear to refuse her.

Ningxiang knew that the eldest aunt loved her, and when she watched her cousin take out the glutinous rice flour, Ningxiang felt a little disgusted and thought about buying more things for her aunt next time she went to the market.

Xu Qiuer wanted to watch the fun, so she followed her cousin back to the West Courtyard.

It's really simple. Use the tube to boil water in the western pot, and the fragrance will occupy the east pot. Brush the pot and add water, put it on the steamer, wash the red dates and put them on, cover the lid, steam it after a few heat. Use chopsticks to pick up the steamed red dates in a small pot, mash them continuously, and then add them with glutinous rice flour, add some brown sugar, stir into dough, spread it flat, and put it on the steamer again. After the water boils, steam it for a quarter of an hour and then cooks.

"It'll be fine so soon?"

Xu Qiuer was a little unbelievable, and after saying that, she smiled, "My mother hasn't prepared dinner yet."

Ningxiang lifted the lid of the pot, smelled the sweet fragrance that came out, and said softly: "I'm just greedy, just make it casually. Look, the steamed ones are not good at all. The rich people pay attention to both color, fragrance and taste, so it will take a long time."

"Just delicious." Xu Qiuer swallowed and urged her cousin to pick it up as soon as possible.

"Let's freeze it for a while, it's still hot." Ningxiang said with a smile.

After a large piece of red date cake was cooled, Ningxiang picked it out and put it on the cutting board, cut it into small pieces half a finger long, and put it on a plate full of them, with a few pieces left. Ningxiang joked to her cousin: "Save this for Amu as a snack."

Xu Qiuer naturally didn't care about this, so she happily took the plate to the East Courtyard.

Ningxiang handed it to Guan Ping, "You can try it too."

Guan Ping looked at the little girl's gentle face like a peach blossom, paused, reached out to take it, and then went to wash the bathtub after eating, without saying whether it was delicious or not.

I tasted Ningxiang by myself, and it tasted pretty good.

There was still a while before supper, and the two girls took a shower, Ningxiang called her younger brother over again. When Amu learned that her sister had made delicious food, her eyes were shiny excitedly. She took off her clothes and stood in the bathtub without complaining that her sister was itchy when she rubbed her nest. She remained motionless, just thinking that she could eat red date cake after washing soon.

Ningxiang kept her word, helped her brother change her clothes and took out the red date cake, but he was allowed to eat one piece, for fear that others would be too lazy to digest. After a while, there would definitely be another piece on the table at dinner.

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"Sister, I have another piece tomorrow." Amu couldn't sleep inside the quilt and said to his sister who had just climbed onto the kang.

The little guy was thinking about eating. Ningxiang touched his brother's head and said softly.

Amu was satisfied, closed his eyes with a smile, and fell asleep quickly.

Ningxiang blew the candle and waited quietly.

There was no update in the village, and Ningxiang didn't know how long it took. When she was a little sleepy and thought that Guan Ping, who had been tired for a day, would have fallen asleep. Then she quietly got up. Just like last time, she stepped into the kitchen like a thief, wrapped two pieces of red date cakes in a clean veil, and then went to the backyard quietly.

"Brother Lu?" When he arrived in front of the back door, Ningxiang still called him softly. There was no moon at all tonight, it was pitch black and a little cunning.

"Here you come." Lu Cheng's voice came in low, and he also complained to her in a low voice, "Why did you come out so late?"

Ningxiang ignored his complaints, opened the door with a light movement, and slowly moved out.

I was used to the darkness and saw a shadow standing by the wall. In fact, I didn’t have to look at it. Because she had just come out, the man grabbed her arm. I was afraid that he would touch her when he came up, Ningxiang said anxiously: “You, you just told me that you celebrate your birthday today. I don’t have time to prepare. I made a few red date cakes tonight. Do you want to try it?”

"You did it specifically for me?" Lu Cheng was surprised to forget to bully her.

Ningxiang laughed silently, broke away from his hand, opened the veil, raised it in front of him, and said softly: "Eat slowly, it's a little sticky."

Lu Cheng nodded, and finished the small piece in two or three bites. He took a piece of peach blossom eyes and stared at her dark face blurred by the darkness and said, "It's delicious, Xiang'er looks good and knows how to make pastries. I've really picked up the treasure."

I couldn't see anyone, Ningxiang was less shy and sweeter. I put away the veil and discussed softly: "You go after eating, now there is one more person here..."

"If we don't go in, she will definitely not hear it." Lu Cheng swallowed it quickly and rushed to say.

Ningxiang lowered her head.

Lu Cheng could see her movements and knew that she had agreed. He reached out and pulled the person under the wall and pressed her between him and the wall. He did not rush to speak. Lu Cheng held her waist with one hand and held her with the other hand and put her on his chest with the other. She turned her head shyly, and Lu Cheng followed the trend to her ear, "Xiang'er's hands are so small, they are smoother than tofu."

The warm breath made her feel flustered.

Ningxiang hid to the side, and Lu Cheng chased her and said, "Xiang'er, when you marry into our family, I don't need you to go to the field. You can keep it at home. Don't make your hands thicker. I like you like this now."

As he said that, he lowered his head to kiss her boneless little hand.

His lips were very hot, but just moving on the back of her hand made her breathing messily, reminding her of the helplessness she was bullied by him that night. Ningxiang was afraid that she would become uncontrollable if she continued, so she resisted the urge to withdraw her hand and persuaded him, "Brother Lu, it's not too early, you..."

As if she had guessed what she would say, Lu Cheng suddenly raised his head and accurately sealed her mouth.

Ningxiang tasted the sweetness of the red date cake, and she made it for him to eat. Now he tasted it with her in this way.

She couldn't help but close her eyes, and her long eyelashes brushed across the bridge of his handsome nose.

Knowing that she liked it too, Lu Cheng had a bad intention again, and slowly moved his hand on her waist up. Then, before she could not refuse, she covered most of her clothes without any hesitation.

A wall separated by.

Guan Ping's whole body was stiff.

If she was just an ordinary sixteen-year-old farm girl, she would definitely rushed out to save her because of Ningxiang's crying sound. She would definitely not understand where the slight sound of water came from. But she was a secret guard, and she had to go anywhere to inquire about information as long as the master had life. So she had lying on the roof and heard the corner of the wall, and could guess what Lu Cheng did to Ningxiang based on these movements.

How dare he?

The man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried. Why should he bully Ningxiang like this?

Ningxiang is too stupid and kind, weak-hearted, and not as strong as him, so he would give him a half-hearted advantage. If it weren't for Lu Cheng's rogue, Ningxiang wouldn't have given him any more.

Just when Guan Ping thought Lu Cheng would bully him directly to the end, and when she was hesitating whether she should not worry about Ningxiang going out to stop her face, Ningxiang suddenly cried out from outside, and the words "Brother Lu" were called out, and there was no sound. I don't know if it was blocked by someone or if she bit her own.

Guan Ping raised his foot and took a step. The breathing of the two people outside suddenly became heavier, but there was no other movement.

Guan Ping hesitantly withdrew his foot.

"Xiang'er, when you marry me, I want you to get off the kang for three days and three nights..."

Lu Cheng leaned against the wall, closed his eyes and gritted his teeth. He remembered that she was so painful that she could hold him back in the future and would return it overnight.

Ningxiang was so embarrassed that she didn't care what he said, she tied up her skirt that was loosened by him and flashed in as if she ran away.

Lu Cheng did not stop him. As soon as the person left, he was busy serving him.

After serving, he leaned against the wall and savored it for a while. Lu Cheng walked north lightly. There were many people in the village who had dogs, so he walked back to Donglin Village from the Beihe River to go home.

As he walked, Lu Cheng felt something was wrong. He stopped and looked back, but only saw a piece of darkness.

Lu Cheng didn't believe in ghosts and gods, so he shouted tentatively, "Who?"

My heart sank. If someone really follows me, it means he knows about him and Ningxiang.

No one answered him.

Lu Cheng frowned and continued to walk forward. This time, there was no such feeling.

Lu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, maybe he heard it wrong.

But when I arrived at the Beihe River, although the sound of water was roaring, the feeling of someone following me was even more obvious.

Lu Cheng turned around suddenly and saw a black shadow opposite him.

Lu Cheng clenched his fists secretly, "Who are you?"

"Guan Ping, one of the secret guards under the prince of Zhenyuan Marquis's prince." Guan Ping did not move, and said to the man ten steps away. His voice was colder than the cold winter moon. "Ningxiang refused to be a concubine. He redeemed himself when the prince was traveling far away. When the prince learned about it, he sent me to stare at her and did not allow her to interact with any man. You should have concealed it. If Ningxiang had not had a private meeting with you tonight, I would not have seen that you two had already been secretly secreted. "

Lu Cheng's clenched fist loosened uncontrollably, staring at the shadow opposite him stiffly, like five thunder thunder.

"you……"

"Ningxiang didn't tell you?" Guan Ping sarcastically interrupted his unspoken words, "It's still Ningxiang told you that you only care about enjoying her body, not whether she is dead or alive? Didn't you just ask her why there was a scar on her neck? Ningxiang said she accidentally hit her..."

Speaking of this, Guan Ping sneered and looked at the endless flowing Beihedao: "It was she who used a hairpin herself. On the second day after she returned from the orchard, the prince came to find her and wanted to take her back. Ningxiang would rather die than follow her. She threatened her with her life. The prince would let her go for the time being. If the prince had ignored the cruelty that day, Ningxiang would have died long ago."

Lu Cheng's breathing was getting heavier and heavier, and his chest was undulating high.

I see.

I see.
To be continued...