Li Ruoxue bought fresh ingredients in the small village next to the Bachelor's Mansion, and then he was busy in the kitchen with bare hands to sing soup. Before long, the aroma in the courtyard was already full of fragrance and floated to the study, causing Zhao Xingde's index finger to move, and he swallowed it. At lunch, roasted lamb tails, crab orange stuffed with orange ginger, shepherd's purse, vinegar and fern, and Yunying noodles were served one by one on the dining table.

Li Ruoxue himself had a very small appetite. After eating a small bowl of rice, he smiled and watched Zhao Xingde eat voraciously. Zhao Xingde was already hungry, and his index finger was moving. Not long after, he swept away all the dishes on the table. Finally, he stroked his stomach and looked at Ruoxue's inquiring gaze, exaggeratedly: "It's been three years, I haven't eaten that much." After that, he rolled up his sleeves and asked him to wash dishes. However, Li Ruoxue drove him out on the grounds that "a gentleman stayed away from the kitchen", and asked him to take advantage of the warm afternoon sunshine and burn a bucket of hot water to wash away the dust.

"I just washed at the inn the day before yesterday." Zhao Xingde smiled and held Li Ruoxue in his chest, "If you don't believe me, you can smell it."

When he smelled the macho breath of his body, Li Ruoxue's pretty face turned slightly red. He pushed his chest and said coquettishly: "Go quickly, go quickly." Zhao Xingde took the order and left. He lifted the well water into the large pottery jar in the bathroom, ignited charcoal, and after the water was heated, he put the hot water into the wooden barrel, took off his clothes, and jumped in. During the march, the soldiers found it troublesome. Even when the water turned into ice, they would bathe in cold water, and even scrub it in a hurry with ice and snow. This kind of bathing in hot water was a special treatment that was only available at home.

Zhao Xingde soaked in steaming hot water, and the sunlight shone down from the bathroom skylight, just shining on him. Although it was winter, it was not so cold, but felt very comfortable. He couldn't help but think of an allusion he saw when he was reed eyebrows. A thousand four hundred years ago, the great King Alexander went to see a person sitting in a bathtub basking in the sun, and proudly declared to him that if he had any requests, the king could do what he wanted. Unexpectedly, this person replied: Your Majesty, I just want you to move your steps and not block the sun. "There are also the wisdom of wild old people in our country, which shows that basking in the sun is a great enjoyment in life." Zhao Xingde's pores were all uncomfortable, humming a little tune, rubbing his body with soap soap while enjoying the scenery in the courtyard.

This house was built according to the construction French style promulgated by the Bachelor's House of Xiaguo. In order to prevent water leakage, the kitchen is separated from other houses, and there is no combustible objects such as grass and trees around. The bathroom is also built in a separate wooden house. The bathtub is placed high on a wooden rack, and the pottery tank for boiling water is higher than the bathtub. Both water and bathing have to be raised up the stairs. A bamboo tube is connected to the bottom of the bathtub. After bathing, unplug the plug and the water can be used to flush the toilet. The bottom of the ceramic toilet leads to the golden juice pool. The chamber of construction regularly takes out the golden juice and sells it to farmers to irrigate the fields.

Through the bathroom window, Zhao Xingde saw Li Ruoxue walking out of the kitchen, carrying a wooden box, and walking towards the bathroom. He couldn't help but feel warm. He deliberately took off the hot towel on his shoulder, revealing his strong muscles. Soon, he heard the sound of stairs. Seeing him sitting naked in the bathtub, feeling fearless, he looked at him with a smile, and his pretty face turned slightly red, and spat: "No one is right."

Zhao Xingde pretended to be surprised and said, "Didn't you come to see me specifically?" He pretended to stand up.

Li Ruoxue was so ashamed that he quickly put down the wooden box, waved his hands, and said repeatedly, "Sit down." She was afraid that Zhao Xingde would cause trouble again, so she squatted down, opened the wooden box, and took out a shave knife, and said softly, "Don't move." She applied a cool oil on Zhao Xingde's face, and then shaved the stubble on his face. Because the long beards hindered the neatness, in order to be neat, the general's mansion limited the sergeant's beards to not exceed half an inch. The upward and downward effect were rare in the entire Xia Kingdom. At this time, the mirrors used by the household rarely shone the figure clearly. When going out, the soldiers shave themselves, and inevitably left messy stubble on their faces. At home, shave their beards for their husbands and being upright became the responsibility of their wife.

Zhao Xingde felt the gentle touch on his face, and the sun shone in through the bathroom window. Her fingers seemed to be transparent white jade with mutton fat, and she couldn't help but feel warm. She smiled and said, "Madam, come too." He raised his hand from the wooden barrel and was about to hug her shoulders.

Li Ruoxue's pretty face turned red, his eyebrows were slightly raised, he raised his razor in front of him, and said softly: "Don't move around." She shaved off Zhao Xingde's thick and hard stubble carefully, then looked carefully, and smiled: "Have the beard on his lips, it looks more heroic." Zhao Xingde touched the short beard on his lips and smiled: "Is that right?"

"Yeah." Li Ruoxue nodded seriously. At this time, the atmosphere between the couple was no longer as awkward as before. Her eyes fell on Zhao Xingde, and there were only dozens of scars of all sizes. The scars on his arms were the most hideous and terrifying, and they couldn't help but show love and compassion. Zhao Xingde sat upright in the bathtub and was calm. Seeing Li Ruoxue looking there, he couldn't help laughing: "This was injured by poisonous arrows when Kangguo wiped out bandits. In fact, the wound was very small at that time, but it was very poisonous. He had to cut off the festering flesh, but he finally saved his life." He told Li Ruoxue the origin of those big scars in turn. These were interesting stories in Zhao Xingde's opinion, but he never mentioned them in his letters.

Li Ruoxue stroked the scar on his arm that was winding like a centipede, and was about to cry, whispering: "Will you still go to war?" When Zhao Xingde was out, he kept writing letters with Li Ruoxue. He tried to use the most interesting language to describe his personal experience. However, Li Ruoxue keenly discovered that war seemed to have an attraction under Zhao Xingde's description.

Zhao Xingde grabbed her tenderness in his hand and said in a deep voice: "From now on, I will stay by your side." He paused and smiled, "There are three unfilial things, and no descendants are the most important thing. The most important thing is to have a baby." Before leaving Lu Mei, he raised this matter to the captain Duan Huaixian. Duan Huaixian said he would help, saying that Zhao De had no descendants and had been on the battlefield for three years. According to the imperial order, the military government would not let him separate from his family for a long time. If he did not help, he could retire with his title after his service period.

Li Ruoxue's pretty face turned red and pulled Rou Ni from his big hand. He was about to be angry when he heard a woman outside the courtyard gate saying, "Is Mrs. Zhao at home?"

Zhao Xingde's face showed a strange look, and Li Ruoxue explained in a low voice: "It's Lingwu." He turned around quickly and went down the stairs like he ran away. Zhao Xingde saw that even her neck was red with shame, and he smiled unconsciously. When a guest came to visit, he naturally could not take a shower. He immediately crawled out of the bathtub, wiped his hair dry, tied his hair bun, and changed into the clean robe prepared by Li Ruoxue for him.

When they arrived at the main hall, they saw three women sitting together affectionately. Zhu Lingwu and Sun Xiaolian both stood up to check the clothes. Zhu Lingwu looked reserved, while Sun Xiaolian looked at him curiously. Although Zhao Xingde and these two women had met several times, he had not returned home for three years, and Li Ruoxue still introduced him. The three women were talking about the girlfriends in the boudoir. Zhao Xingde sat with the prime minister, and was very bored in his heart. He still nodded frequently with a smile on his face. In the end, Li Ruoxue couldn't bear to watch it and asked him to visit his friend Li Rui and go home for dinner at dusk. Zhao Xingde stood up apologetically and said goodbye. He walked out of the door before patting his chest and let out a long sigh.

Watching Zhao Xingde leave, Zhu Lingwu chuckled softly: "Mr. Zhao is really a good temper. He has been laughing just now. I wonder if his chin is stiff?" Over the past three years, she has walked out of the grief of gradually losing her death. Although she is still as cold as ice in front of the people, she already has a smile when Li Ruxue and others are alone.

Sun Xiaolian also smiled and said, "Madam is so lucky. The Zhao army envoy has been on the verge of three years, so he no longer needs to go out for garrison." Sun Xiaolian's mother is Gu, the owner of Sun Jixiang Medicine Store. Under the arrangement of her mother, Sun Xiaolian has been learning some lyrics and philosophies from Li Ruoxue. Therefore, she and Zhu Lingwu did not call Li Ruoxue "sister", but only called Mrs. Zhao. Most women in Xia State hope to marry young soldiers. The order of soldiers in Xia State who had a family to arrange for their reunion with their families for three years was also well known. In the eyes of the Sun family, Li Ruoxue's marriage to centurion Zhao De was the real talent and beautiful woman, which was just right.

The two praises their husbands, and the hostess is more pleasant than they praise themselves, with happy smiles on her face. Li Ruoxue was stewing a scented scent in the kitchen. When she got up to look at the heat, Zhu Lingwu joked to Sun Xiaolian: "Your master usually seems to be in the world, but now he has lost his heart for Tao and fallen into the mortal world." Sun Xiaolian nodded and laughed in a low voice: "Yes, this way, not to mention Zhao Jun's envoy, if I were a man, I would be moved." Zhu Lingwu took the handle of her words and smiled and said, "Okay, you don't respect your teacher and respect your Tao." Sun Xiaolian was coquettish.

While the two were laughing, Li Ruoxue came back and saw this, "What's the funny thing?" Sun Xiaolian was her disciple and did not dare to speak casually, but Zhu Lingwu smiled and said with a smile: "We are talking about the new flowers in this yard, which is very beautiful." Li Ruoxue smiled and said, "These plum blossoms bloomed more when you came the day before yesterday." Zhu Lingwu shook his head slightly and smiled hurriedly, "It's not the plum blossoms." Li Ruoxue just woke up, shook his head and said, "I think it was the appearance of the heart. The flowers bloom in my heart, and the flowers bloom in my eyes." Before Zhu Lingwu could come back to his senses, he asked Sun Xiaolian again, "Will Mr. Chen visit the mansion recently?" Sun Xiaolian looked at Li Ruoxue, looked at Zhu Lingwu again, opened his eyes wide, shook his head and sighed, "It's been a long time since I came."

"Oh?" Li Ruoxue's eyes flashed slightly, and she said suspiciously: "No way?"

Sun Xiaolian smiled, ignored Zhu Lingwu's move to stop him, and continued, "But I asked me to pass on a ticket to Sister Lingwu." She paused, sighed seriously, and frowned, "But I see Sister Lingwu's seem to be empty all the time." Zhu Lingwu was very embarrassed and said, "I've been chewing all over the place at a young age. I'll see if my uncle will marry you soon." He reached out and tried to tear her mouth. Sun Xiaolian hid and smiled, "As a sister, you should marry first if you want to marry." For a moment, in the Zhao family's courtyard, the sound of orioles and swallows were very lively.
Chapter completed!