Li Xiuling and Gao Gaoyu were chatting hotly, and suddenly a gust of wind blew, and when they raised their heads, the table that was originally only the two of them was already crowded.

A group of children, from three or four years old to eleven or twelve, flew here from all over the yard like a gust of wind. Before Gao Gao Yu could understand it, a dozen or so little guys asked politely:

"Sister Xiuling (aunt), can we eat?"

Li Xiuling obviously likes children very much, and the children obviously like her. After seeing Li Xiuling nodding, a group of children invariably set their eyes on the unfamiliar Gao Yu.

"That, let's eat it quickly, it won't taste good if it's cold for a while!"

"Thank you, uncle (brother)!"

As soon as Gao Gaoyu's voice fell, a group of children replied neatly, and then there was no need to say hello, even the youngest little girl could use chopsticks skillfully.

"Little pheasant stewed with mushrooms!"

Li Zhengjun's loud voice came again, and a pot of steaming small pheasant stewed mushrooms with a rich aroma was served on the table.

Obviously, this pot dish is clearly different. As soon as the basin was placed on the table, the bear children got up one after another, trying to reach and pull it into their bowls.

A few of them, the younger ones, slipped off the stool, and then ran over here, anxiously asking their brothers and sisters to pull a little for themselves.

"Okay, okay, I said you can! There are still guests at the table today! Pay attention to politeness!"

Li Xiuling's words obviously worked very well, and the originally noisy dinner table was immediately cleaned up. After Li Xiuling helped the youngest children to fill the bowl with some small pheasants and stewed mushrooms, there was only the sound of children eating meat and sucking bones on the dinner table.

"Sister, sister, Kiki still wants to eat fish!"

Sitting next to Li Xiuling, a cute little girl with a pigtail and a small puffy skirt held her bowl and looked at Li Xiuling.

"Okay, okay, sister, I'll help you clip!"

Seeing that Li Xiuling was very serious and talked to the little girl very gently, helped her pick up vegetables, and carefully helped her pick out the fish bones, Gao Gao Yu looked at it, and involuntarily showed a smile with longing on his face.

After Li Xiuling finished serving the children around her, she looked up and found Gao Gaoyu looking at herself and Qiqi with a smirk. Secretly pondering, I probably guessed what he was thinking.

"You see that there are so many people in Zhuangzi now, it's quite lively, right?"

"Well, I roughly estimated that there should be two or three hundred houses on the mountain, right?"

Regarding Gao Gaoyu's question, Li Xiuling did not answer it positively, but answered what she asked and said something that shocked Gao Gaoyu.

"Actually, there are only two descendants of the real ancestors of these people in the village!"

"I also know that most of the village should be the guards, servants and their families who followed the old prince into the mountains to live in seclusion. ”

There was no response to Gao Gaoyu's statement, neither agreeing nor refuting. The delicate little face turned pale and looked at the people in the yard seriously.

"The ancestor left three descendants, two sons and one daughter. When he first entered the mountain, his two sons followed him, but when the third lady came over because of her marriage, she was delayed by heavy rain. ”

Gao Gao Yu realizes that this may be some little-known insider information about the side by side Wang lineage. At the moment, I held my breath and listened carefully to my sweetheart's explanation.

"The daughters who married far away were delayed because of an accident, and when they felt the agreed place, their ancestors had already entered the mountain. In desperation, he stayed outside the mountain. led those who had delayed the time like her, and came one after another to build a village. ”

"Is it a backer?"

Gao Gaoyu rushed to ask excitedly, and when he saw Li Xiuling nodding, he was suddenly excited.

When he was a director, the elders of the family told him that they were all side by side, and the old man let some people stay outside to build a village, while communicating with the outside world, and at the same time protecting the Zhuangzi in the mountains from being disturbed by outsiders.

When they went to school, the teachers at the school told them the same thing. As for how many children the old prince had back then, there was even a son who was left outside in such a secret, until Gao Gaoyu graduated from university, no one told him.

"The backer was established by the third lady and her husband, and it is said that when the village was built, the ancestor appeared, went to that village, and seemed to explain some things, and then did not return to the secluded mountain village, but suddenly disappeared and never appeared again. ”

Gao Gao Yu had a hunch that the next topic might involve some secrets, and he didn't know if he should continue to listen to it.

Before he could think of a countermeasure, Li Wei's voice magically appeared in his ears.

"No need to ask! Listen to you, it's not a big deal. ”

Gao Gaoyu's face was happy, and he just wanted to reflexively stand up and answer, over there Li Xiuling had already opened his mouth and said something that he didn't expect.

"In our village, there are actually two families who really belong to the descendants of our ancestors. One family is Li Wei's family, which originates from the lineage of the eldest son of the ancestor. Grandpa Guangming, Uncle Mingda, they are all a family. No matter who the village chief chooses, the patriarch will always be elected from this family. ”

When Gao Gao Yu heard this, his eyes involuntarily looked at the main house. There, there are two of the most powerful people in the village, and in some ways, they may also be the most powerful people on the planet.

"In fact, most of the time the village chief is from this family, but occasionally people from other families are elected. After all, after so many years, the bloodlines in the village have long been fused together because of mutual marriage. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiuling suddenly fell silent, with a slender jade hand on the table, holding her cheeks, looking at the sweet little girl Qiqi faintly, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

Gao Gaoyu was able to enter the First Guard Brigade and become the chief of guard of Li Wei, the new prince, not just by luck.

He had already thought of why Li Xiuling was silent, because she herself might be the second son of the old prince. Is it just that her silence has anything to do with her identity?

"Steamed red jade!"

With Li Zhengjun's shout again, the two people who fell into silence were awakened at once. Especially Li Xiuling, her face was flushed and she glanced at Gao Gaoyu shyly, and lowered her head again.

"You can try that little pheasant stewed mushroom, even if it is in the village, this dish is not often eaten. Because the concentrated mushrooms used in it are very scarce, the people of Zhuangli also rely on luck to eat them. ”

Seeing that the beauty lowered her head shyly, Gao Gaoyu stretched out his chopsticks in a daze, and pinched it above the pot of small pheasant stewed mushrooms without feeling at all, and then slowly retracted it and put it in his mouth.

A teenage boy beside him stared at him with wide eyes, looked at him in surprise, and then looked at Li Xiuling, the little guy shook his head as if he didn't understand, and as soon as he stretched out his chopsticks, a piece of chicken and a few pieces of mushrooms were clamped.

"Hurry up and eat, we'll be robbed in a while!"

This child's words not only woke Gao Gao Yu up from his trance, but also took Li Xiuling to raise his head, looked at Gao Gao Yu, and then looked at the child next to him, and a smile like a flower blooming appeared on his delicate face.

"This time, this dish took almost half of the village's inventory to make up this pot. Look at ......" said, Li Xiuling picked up the chopsticks and pointed to introduce Gao Gaoyu.

"This is a tea tree mushroom, and there are not many tea trees in the village, so this thing is very rare in the village. However, stewed meat, stewed elbows, and stewed pheasants are indeed a perfect match.

"This is pine mushroom, that is hazel mushroom, I heard that you also make chicken stewed mushrooms in the northeast outside the Guanwai, this is what you use, right?"

"And this, chicken fir tastes the best, and I like to eat it the most!" Speaking of this, Li Xiuling moved her hand, picked up the chicken fir stick, put it to her mouth, blew lightly, and then swallowed it in her mouth and chewed it.

"By the way, you taste the ruby. That's what we're called here, I don't know what you're called outside? Listen to my Grandpa Guangming, it seems to be called rainbow trout, right?"

"Rainbow trout?"

Gao Gao Yu screamed! No way, this kind of fish is in the front row of the international list of endangered species outside, let alone eat, ordinary people may not even have a place to take a look.

It just so happens that Gao Gaoyu's father is engaged in species protection, and there is a rainbow trout in their research institute, which can be said to be the treasure of their town!

Don't talk about idlers, it's the staff in the institute, and many of them don't know that there is such a big treasure in the institute. Gao Gao Yu is also thanks to his Lao Tzu's blessing, so that he can see this kind of beautiful body and beautiful appearance of rare fish.

However, so cherished and precious, his father didn't even dare to tell his colleagues, the fish that were secretly raised were now made into a dish and brought to the table, how could Gao Gao Yu not be surprised!

"Why is it out there? Or are they rare anymore?"

Li Xiuling seems to have a seven-trick heart, Gao Gaoyu's mind, and she guessed eight or nine without leaving ten.

"It's not rare, it's rare!" Gao Gao Yu looked at the bright red fish on the table with some disbelief, and said in a trembling voice: "My dad is in the field of species conservation, and there is a rainbow trout in their research institute. Do you know that for the sake of this fish, the director personally served as the leader of the group, and specially selected five people to form a breeding group and raise them secretly. Some of you who have worked in the institute for half your life don't know that there is a rainbow trout in the institute!"

"Why?"

This time, it was Li Xiuling's turn to be puzzled, is it just a rainbow trout? Is it worth it? In her impression, there are many streams in the mountains, not to mention everywhere.

Now people in the village eat fish, and many times they eat red jade. Because its flesh is delicate, although it is not as tender as swordfish, it is also much more tender than ordinary fish.

In addition, the fishy smell of this fish is very small, and the fiber is also less, like the big brother of the Zhengjun who has been outside, and he uses the meat of this fish to make sashimi and eat.

"Why?" Gao Gao Yu smiled bitterly, "because this kind of fish is rare to see outside now, except for some big research institutes or large zoos, they can't be seen anywhere else!