After listening to the story of Hu Biaozi's night coffin banquet, the three of them were almost near the mountainside. Although I saw the droppings and wreckage of some wild beasts on the way, they were all in danger, and I did not encounter any big beasts, and as we went deeper, the weeds and thorns became denser and denser, and the types of trees and vegetation became more and more diverse. Although Luo Sanpao and the three of them often deal with mountain goods, they have no experience in the classification and value judgment of medicinal materials. Along the way, although I saw a lot of herbs, but most of them were cheap and ordinary herbs like Du'er Monster, even if they met precious and rare medicinal materials, the three of them did not know each other, along the way, stop and go, with the usual experience of trading with the mountain medicine pickers and hunters, the medicinal materials they knew, picked and chosen, and put them in the basket on their backs. At this time, the east wind is already late, the sun is setting in the west, and the temperature has plummeted. The three of them decided to spend the night while the sky was still light and find a place with cover leeward before going deep into the mountainside.

There was no shortage of firewood in the mountains, so the three of them made a fire in a rock with a natural groove, took turns to guard it, and sprinkled a shallow circle of lime powder around the station to prevent the infestation of poisonous snakes and insects. The three of them ate the sticks and steamed buns and the fruits, and began to eat. The three of them were tired after a day's work, and their bodies were already exhausted, but it was not normal to spend the night in the mountains. People will inevitably get nervous subconsciously, and always feel that some beast is staring at them at the moment. Luo Sanpao saw that the two of them were restless, so he simply told another story to relieve the tension of the two brothers.

It is said that once, Luo Sanpao and the rivers and lakes passed through Xiangxi, and happened to meet a county town once in March, so he brought his guys to the market to sell his art and try his luck. As soon as the sky was bright, there were few pedestrians on the road, so the two hurriedly ran into the county seat, picked a street corner with many shops, and set up their stalls. The two of them had not eaten in the morning, and they came across a roadside vendor who had just come out of the stall, pushing a small wooden cart with a rusty stove that resembled an asphalt barrel, in which firewood was burned, and from time to time the smell of charcoal was emitted; The one who ran the rivers and lakes took out the two eldest sons from his arms, lit them up to the one who made the egg cakes, and then held the two eldest sons in his fists and erected two fingers, which meant to give him two big coins and ask for two egg cakes. The quiche made a gesture when he saw this gesture, waved his hand, and made a one-one gesture with his right hand. Walking the rivers and lakes, frowned; it stands to reason that this egg cake is not a rare thing, some batter paste with a little egg liquid and salt, as soon as it is hot, it is usually sold on the market with a big son, these two big sons are too expensive, but he is a foreigner and does not want to contradict the locals, he wants to give up. But he looked down at his thin belly and short Luo Sanpao, was ruthless, gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, tilted his head, slapped the two big coins on the iron plate, raised his voice and said: "One by one, put more chopped green onions and hot sauce, the eggs should be big, and the paste paste should be high." "This pancake seller has a small body, short duck legs, and a full face** Son, there is a nickname, called snobbery, all day long dealing with people of three religions and nine streams, but he is not authentic, he likes to play slippery, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, this is not, yesterday he just went to the gambling house and lost money, he was holding a breath in his stomach, he didn't sleep well all night last night, at this time he just came out of the stall, the stove is not hot, and he doesn't think about running the rivers and lakes in the early morning. I wanted to find this entertainer, so I asked: "I said this master, looking at your outfit and fellowship, you must have come here from a foreign country to catch the market, don't say that our locals bully outsiders; It is said that the egg cakes in our county usually have one big son, even if they catch up with the market, they will have at most one and a half big sons, but only my egg cakes will sell two big children, and only sell pie crusts, not eggs, and you have to add three big sons to eat eggs. With that, the pancake seller stretched out his right hand and made a three-gram oil gesture. tilted his head, and glanced at the rivers and lakes and Luo Sanpao with slanted eyes.

As the saying goes: "The merchants of the world are one family, and they are in harmony with the wealthy." "This force that sells egg cakes has gone the opposite way, using egg cakes to deliberately make things difficult for Luo Sanpao, who ran the rivers and lakes, and deliberately looking for them to be happy. If you want to change someone else and meet the person who sells the egg cake, you must count a few words, and then leave stupidly. But it just so happens that this running rivers and lakes is indeed a master who eats soft and does not eat hard, he has traveled south and north for many years, all kinds of characters have been seen, large and small battles have been encountered, and he hates snobbery like this the most in his life. In addition, he rushed here from other counties early in the morning, his stomach was empty, and he was kind enough to pick up the business of this stall, but he was made difficult by someone with an egg cake, and a nameless fire couldn't help but arise spontaneously. Immediately put his fists into his waist, and with a blushing face, he immediately confronted the egg cake seller on the price of eggs.

This egg cake seller originally wanted to find the two men and son who ran the rivers and lakes to have fun, but he didn't want to meet a thorn, so he was also interested. Standing up, he proudly picked up an egg and said: "This man, don't be so rushed, you don't know the origin of this egg, if you listen to the story of my egg, keep it and think it's worth it, today is also a blessing for your three lives, and the opportunity in exchange for five lifetimes, I was fortunate to be able to use three eldest sons to buy my egg, I want to 。。。。。 ”

It is said that when the Old Summer Palace was burned, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered the city of Beijing, the Empress Dowager Cixi and a group of military ministers, and the prince Baylor fled all the way to Xi'an, busy without even panting, let alone preparing clothes and food, and when a group of people rushed to Xi'an, they were already so hungry that their chests were close to their backs, and the county prince who came to answer trembled and led a group of servants to kneel and worship accordingly, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was so hungry at this time that her eyes were already full of stars, and she hurriedly called Li Lianying to pass the meal. Li Lianying herself was so hungry that she panicked, but she still had to hold the shelf, walked to the county master unhurriedly, whispered a few words to the county master, and then put forward the instructions that Lafayette wanted to pass the meal, the county master looked embarrassed and stammered: " Xiaguan has already received the order from above, opened the granary of the county, and cooked 800 bowls of big white rice porridge here, 800 big white steamed buns, and prepared roast chicken and pork, but I don't know why, this grain was targeted by a group of horse bandits, just before the arrival of Lafayette, it was just cut off, and even the granary was intercepted. As he spoke, he wiped the beads of sweat from the corners of his brow with his sleeve. Li Lianying usually relies on the favor of Lafayette to get the wind and rain in the court, it can be said that his hands and eyes are up to the sky, and the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition; he knows that this little county official will never deceive him, let alone dare to expire Lafayette, at this moment it is not more than usual, the accountability is small, the meal is big, and it is okay if he is hungry, but he must not starve Cixi Lafayette, she has always had a stomach and absolutely cannot withstand evil. So he hurriedly stretched out his hands, helped the county official up from the ground, looked sad, and said to the county official in a euphemistic voice: "Lord Xu, I must have been frightened in the morning, I didn't expect this horse bandit near Xi'an to be so arrogant and domineering, and he dared to intercept the official grain, and he will definitely send a large army to clean it up in the future, but at this moment, Lafayette is starving, can Lord Xu think of a way to get the Buddha to stutter first?" It's just to take a steamed bun pad and make a mat, Lafayette she is hungry, if you serve the Buddha well, you will definitely be promoted and make a fortune in the future. "This Xu County official has been a nine-grade sesame official in the small county town of Xi'an, and he never dreamed that the Queen Mother Lafayette and Li Lianying would one day come to him to flee. In the morning, the reception banquet that he had worked so hard to prepare was amputated by his beard, and he thought that he would lose his head, but he didn't expect Li Lianying not only not to blame him, but also pointed him to a way to get promoted and make a fortune. said goodbye to Li Lianying immediately, asked him to wait for a while, and hurried to the back kitchen to find food himself.

Putting aside everyone and not mentioning it, just talking about this Xu County order who went to the back kitchen to find food, he ran to his back kitchen in a hurry, and met the chef Laifu who was boiling underwater rice there. He hurriedly grabbed Laifu's arm with his hand and said breathlessly: "Laifu, do we have anything to eat, hurry, hurry, hurry, take it quickly, we will send it." "Rifle is worried about how much water to put in. was confused by the voice of the county order, and seeing the anxious posture of the county order, he didn't have time to ask him about the cause and effect, so he hurriedly replied: "Eat?" Where is there anything to eat, the food in the house has been robbed by that beard, and now the rice in the pot is still all leaked by them in the morning, I am worried, you said that there are so many officers, how thin do I have to cook this porridge to make it? Add some water, this porridge is about to become rice soup. ”

When the county magistrate saw the empty kitchen, his brain was a lot colder and he came to his senses. As the saying goes, "it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice", the grain in the house and the granary has long been intercepted by the horse bandits, and even his own food is in that pot at the moment, where is there any extra food for Lafayette now? The county order was immediately like a deflated ball, losing its previous brilliance. Laifu saw the county order's disgraced face, so he offered a plan: "Although our family doesn't have it, we can borrow it from the local people." When the county order heard it, it was like an initiation, and he patted his head. Hurriedly dropped a sentence asking Laifu to hurry up and make porridge for Lafayette to deliver, and ran towards the door alone

Xu County ordered people to go door-to-door to beg for food, but what do you think, they ran to more than a dozen households, the doors of every house were wide open, and there was nothing inside, so they must have fled to other places a long time ago. The county order was at a loss for a while, but at this moment, a rooster crow came from a thatched hut not far away. The county magistrate was overjoyed, and hurried away, only to see a hen from nowhere nesting in a corner of the house in a dilapidated hut. I saw this chicken, with golden claws and red beaks, and a chicken feather white Shengxue, sitting steadily in the corner of the house, shrinking his neck and closing his eyes, and he didn't notice Xu Xianling standing at the door. Xu County Ling hurriedly ran to the hen in three steps and two steps, and hurriedly reached out with both hands to catch the chicken, the hen was not a vegetarian, as soon as he saw someone coming to take him, he suddenly rushed to the county order face door, the county order might as well for a while, the nose was pecked fiercely, and the chicken feathers on his head were faced. pecked his nose, the hen still did not give up, and continued to pounce on the county order, the county order wanted to catch the chicken and go back to ask for credit, but he didn't think that the hen was so powerful, and he was busy clapping and waving his hand to defend, and in a panic, the county order saw that in the place where the hen was just nesting, there were two eggs lying quietly! Xu Xian Ling protected his face door with one hand, and quickly hid the two eggs in his arms with one hand, and rushed out of the door under the fierce attack of the hen. Xu Xianling handed over the eggs to Chef Laifu and instructed him to beat two eggs with eggs, and he hurried to wash his face and change his clothes, so that he could send it to Lafayette to receive the reward. The chef Rifle took the two eggs, which were still warm, and quickly beat the first egg, and guess what? The egg actually had two yolks, yellow-orange-orange, and shiny. When Rifle saw it, he opened a double egg yolk, and suddenly had a plan to hide the other egg. When Xu Xianling came back from washing his face, he saw a water egg with two egg yolks, which smelled fragrant and sweet. Hurry up and send it to Lafayette while it's hot. At this time, Lafayette had been hungry for a long time, his blood sugar was so low that he couldn't do it, he had no strength to speak, his eyes were blank, his breath was weak, and Li Lianying, who was so anxious, jumped to his feet again and again, and kept urging the accompanying doctor. At this moment, the water eggs of Xu County's order arrived, Li Lianying hurriedly fed the two egg yolks to Lafayette one spoonful at a time, and after a while, Lafayette's breath was slowly adjusted, and his eyes slowly became bright. Later, Cixi returned to Beijing, recited the Xu County Order to sacrifice eggs, and made him an official and knighted. And the big chef Laifu later secretly hid the egg, and wanted to open a small stove by himself, but he didn't think that the egg broke that night, and a chick broke out of the egg. The chef saw that the egg could not be eaten, so he simply raised the chicken, and later because of various chances, the offspring of the old hen in the thatched hut were able to continue to the present day, that is, the eggs in the hands of the egg cake seller.

"In other words, if it weren't for the ancestor who didn't have the egg in my hand, Cixi would probably not be there that day, and the trajectory of the entire history would have changed because of this, so the egg in my hand. It can be said that it was once a crowbar of history, and it is a national treasure of China, and three big coins for one egg is not expensive, right, this man?" The snob-eyed man who sells egg cakes asked with a wicked smile on his face.

He Luo Sanpao, who ran the rivers and lakes, was also surprised when he heard the story of selling egg cakes, but he didn't expect that the eloquence of a egg cake seller was so good, and he was blinded by him. The people who ran the rivers and lakes voluntarily confessed, gave up their hands and hugged their fists, and left the beachhead selling egg cakes with Luo Sanpao. Later, the story of the water egg saving Cixi slowly spread and became a strange story.