Boiling water, boiling water, boiling water, and boiling water three times in a row, Li Xiu then gathered up a bucket of bath water. This made him suddenly remember that he was not short of money now. He accounted for half of the income from bean sprouts, and there were also greenhouse vegetables in the future. These were huge profits, so should he buy a few maids and corrupt them? There is no need to warm the bed, at least someone boiled water when taking a bath!

"Well~, comfortable!" Li Xiu jumped into the bathtub and felt the feeling of being surrounded by hot water. He couldn't help but moan, "What else is more comfortable than taking a hot bath in this cold weather?"

"Woooooooooo~" At this time, the mistress jumped and wanted to jump into the bucket, but even if its four short legs stood up, they were much shorter than the bath bucket. They were so anxious that they kept screaming. However, Li Xiu did not plan to wash with it. The little guy was at home for a moment. Even though he had just washed it today and was very dirty now, I would just wash it alone later.

After taking a bath, Li Xiu took out the borrowed pancreas and applied it everywhere on his body. However, he found that the effect of this thing was not very good. It would not cause foam when applied on his body, and its stain removal ability was also very average. I don’t know if there are better pancreas in Chang'an City?

After taking a shower, Li Xiu washed the mistress again with pancreas, especially the dirt under his neck. After he washed it three times, he finally washed it clean and used half of the pancreas. However, this pancreas was originally only the size of a baby's fist, and the stain removal effect was not good, so he used it a little too much, probably enough for it once.

The next day, Li Xiu changed into new clothes and went out and celebrated Ma's birthday as agreed yesterday. If someone said he would not allow him to bring gifts, it might be polite. If you really don't bring it, it would be a bit rude. However, Ma said he would not allow him to bring gifts, so don't bring it. Li Xiu had already figured out Ma's temper.

Now that Li Xiu walked out of the house, he wanted to let the mistress stay at home because it was a birthday celebration, but he didn't expect that this little guy got used to following him out during this period. No matter where he went, the mistress would follow him, so he couldn't drive him away no matter how hard he rushed him. Finally, he coaxed it into the door. When Li Xiu closed the door, the little guy actually came out of the crack of the wall. By the way, Li Xiu's house was indeed broken, and it was time to build a new house.

Li Xiu was also helpless when he couldn't drive away the mistress. At this time, the mistress squatted on the ground, staring at him with two big black eyes, and his little tail was still shaking, which made Li Xiu a little unable to resist, so he had to take it with him in the end.

One person and one dog came to the Princess Villa with a familiarity. Lao Qi was already waiting for him at the gate of the villa. However, as soon as we met, Lao Qi, who had always been as precious as gold, suddenly said an inexplicable saying: "Drink more water!"

"What...what is drinking water?" Li Xiu was stunned for a moment before reacting. He had known Lao Qi for a long time, but this was the first time the other party took the initiative to talk to him.

However, after Lao Qi finished speaking the above, he immediately returned to his cool manly nature. He did not answer Li Xiu's words, so he turned around and took him to Ma Ye. When Li Xiu entered the living room, he found that Ma Ye was sitting there making tea. It was a very luxurious thing to drink tea in this era. Not only is the price of tea cakes very expensive, but the process of making tea is also very complicated. Therefore, the host will personally cook tea only when both the host and the guest have time and mood.

"Sit!" Ma Ye nodded to Li Xiu to show him to sit down, and then continued to cook tea with a serious face. Now the tea cake has been ground and he put it in boiling water, but then it made Li Xiu stunned because Ma Ye threw all the onions, ginger, garlic, orange peel, mint, dates and so on into the tea soup. Finally, he even added a small spoon of salt and a piece of lamb oil, which made Li Xiu's scalp numb. No wonder there was a saying in ancient times that tea soup was really the method of cooking tea.

As the water boils, the onion, ginger and other things in the soup keep rolling inside, and emit a strange smell. This smell cannot be described as a scent, just like a Chinese medicine, which smells very uncomfortable. As for the taste, although it has not been tasted, Li Xiu would not believe that how good can this thing taste?

The tea soup was cooked, and the thing that worried Li Xiu the most finally happened. Master Ma took out two tea bowls, put the tea soup in front of Li Xiu and said, "Boy, you are so lucky. This is the first time I have made tea for others to drink. How about it taste?"

The elder dared not refuse. In the attentive eyes of Mr. Ma, Li Xiu had to pick up the tea bowl, but before he could even reach his mouth, the smell alone made him feel a little thrust. He really didn't dare to put his mouth down. He had an idea and suddenly raised the tea bowl and said to Mr. Ma: "Uncle Ma, today is your birthday. I'm here to replace wine with tea. I'll toast you!"

You have to learn to share good things, and you have to take a cushion when you are unlucky, not to mention that this thing is done by Master Ma, so naturally you can't just let Li Xiu drink it himself.

Ma Ye did not see Li Xiu's sinister intentions. After all, it was not the first time he had drunk tea soup. He always thought that tea soup was the taste, and he knew that Li Xiu would not drink, so he didn't think much about it when he heard that he wanted to use tea instead of wine. He picked up the tea bowl and drank it all in one go. This made Li Xiu stunned. Did he have no sense of taste?

After drinking, Li Xiu could no longer find an excuse. He had no choice but to pick up the tea bowl and put it beside his mouth, hold his breath and drink a small sip. As a result, Li Xiu was stunned. Although this thing smelled strange, it tasted even more strange! Anyway, after this sip, Li Xiu began to doubt whether it was a mistake to travel to the Tang Dynasty? What is the meaning of his life in these two lives?

"My nephew, how does it taste?" Mr. Ma asked without knowing himself.

"This tea should only be found in heaven, how many times can I taste it on earth?" Li Xiu praised against his conscience. He felt that his tongue was no longer conscious and his eyes were a little sore.

"Hey, why are you crying?"

"Thank you!"

From now on, the tea soup, like wine, was labeled as fasted by Li Xiu, unless he made the fried tea from later generations in the future. Fortunately, after tasting the tea, Ma Ye began to serve the dishes, and was rinsed by the taste of various dishes. The strange smell of the tea soup finally faded a lot, which made Li Xiu finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Because Li Xiu was only one customer, there were not many dishes. Ma Ye has always been a practical person, but the last dish made Li Xiu a little stunned, because the one that came was boiled eggs, and there were more than twenty of the two large plates, and there were forty or fifty of them together. How could I eat this?

"Decades have passed in a flash. I was also from a poor family back then. However, every year on my birthday, my mother always finds ways to cook eggs for me, and eat a few eggs at a age. Unfortunately, my mother died early, and I can hardly remember her appearance. She left no relics. Only this habit allowed me to keep it!" At this time, Mr. Ma picked up a boiled egg from the plate and said with emotion.

The mother's kindness is more important than the mountain. It is normal for Mr. Ma to think of his mother on his birthday, but then he turned his longing into food, peeled the eggs and ate them all, and signaled Li Xiu to help him eat them. After all, he would definitely not finish forty or fifty eggs alone. Today, he asked Li Xiu to come and let him eat them together.

Looking at the eggs piled up in front of him, Li Xiu felt like crying and no tears again. He found that he promised to come to Ma Ye’s birthday party yesterday was a mistake. First, there was tea soup in front and eggs in back. This birthday party felt that it was not much worse than the Hongmen banquet.

It was hard to refuse the kindness, not to mention that this was the only thought left by Ma's mother for him. Li Xiu had no choice but to peel the eggs and start eating. However, he choked after eating three of them. At this time, he finally understood what Lao Qi had meant to remind him to drink more water before.

He finally swallowed the egg yolk that was blocked in his throat, but at this moment he suddenly thought of something and looked up to Master Ma and said, "Uncle Ma, what should you do on your birthday before? Do you have to eat so many eggs alone?"

"Of course not. In the past, the princess and a bunch of old brothers were there. When I was having a birthday party, everyone was very lively together. Sometimes the eggs were not enough to eat." Mr. Ma swallowed seven or eight eggs without changing his face.

"Huh? The princess is not here, so why don't you invite those old brothers?" Li Xiu asked strangely at this time.

"Don't mention it, Li Zhongwen is dead. Xiang Shanzhi, Qiu Shili, He Panren and others all followed the princess to fight. I am the only one left in Chang'an. Otherwise, how could I be so bored that I fish every day." Ma Ye said a little discouraged at this time. All the people he said were the generals of the Women's Army, and they all had a life-long friendship with him.

"Then why don't you go?" Li Xiu finally asked this question that he had wanted to ask long ago. Mr. Ma is the person that Princess Pingyang trusts the most. In theory, he should follow the princess to quell the rebellion.

"You see, if I hadn't been injured, I would have followed the princess to kill the enemy!" Ma Ye pulled his arms and saw that there was a scar on his right chest that had not healed yet. It was obvious that he had been seriously injured before.

"Why is it so serious?" Li Xiu was shocked when he saw the scar on Ma Ye's chest. It was considered that Ma Ye's life would be a big deal if he survived such a serious injury.

"Last year, the Turkic people attacked and were caught by a Turkic barbarian, but the other party's head was cut off by me." Ma Ye said lightly, as if he was talking about a very ordinary thing, perhaps this is what others said about the general's true nature.

"By the way, I heard that you took a piece of pancreas from me yesterday. How about it? Is it easy to use?" Ma Ye didn't seem to want to talk about military affairs with Li Xiu. After all, Li Xiu is not a soldier, and he has no common language to talk to him, so he changed the topic.

"It's okay!" Li Xiu said, pointing at the mistress who was licking the eggshell around his feet, "Uncle Ma, look, the mistress is washed clean, does it look much cute?"

"Puff~" Hearing Li Xiu's words, the egg in Ma Ye's mouth suddenly spurted out, then pointed at him with a trembling and angry look on his face, "You... you actually bathed the dog with pancreas?"
Chapter completed!