The two continued on their way, both speechless.

Besides, I was very excited, and I kept guessing the origin of the girl.

Although he offended her that night, there is a theory that if you want to win the favor of a girl, it is best to offend her first, and then you will not be able to get close. This has been verified by him in Pomegranate, and because he offended her when he met her for the first time, he can hardly get rid of it now.

And I love the feeling of being glued.

Zhou Dingcheng often fell into contemplation, while peeking at the situation. He began to re-examine the situation, it was just a few words, he hadn't seen her at all, and besides, why did he take it as a bet to see her? Did he really feel something, or guess something?

This stinky boy doesn't really have any skills, can he tell if he is a beauty by listening to the voice, and he is also a beautiful woman with a noble and mysterious family background?

He never underestimated the situation, but later it proved that he didn't pay enough attention to it. It's a long and long road, so be careful along the way, don't let this kid really play tricks on himself.

If he was just tricked, it wouldn't be the most terrible thing, the most terrible thing was that if he lifted the lid and found the inside story that had been buried for nearly a hundred years, it would be really a big trouble.

Zhou Dingcheng decided, try to talk as little as possible, the gambling game or something will be waived, and don't give this kid any promises.

After giving himself three chapters of the law in his heart, he had a sense of stability in his heart: No matter how the situation changes, I can control it freely.

For many years, he has never lost this feeling of roaming the rivers and lakes and wandering the court, but he has lost it again and again in the near future. Especially when he first proposed to let him accompany him to Jiangxi to collect medicine, he was so shocked that he almost shouted, but fortunately he controlled it......

Otherwise, everything might have been exposed.

"Besides, do you calculate what medicinal herbs are in that forest?" He suddenly saw a large forest, and it was misty and misty.

Besides, after taking a look, he snorted: "There are no medicinal herbs, they are all mushrooms, if you like to eat mushrooms, you will find the right place." ”

"Really?"

Zhou Dingcheng got into the forest, and it took a long time to come out, and he came out with a bag of mushrooms on his back, and said with a smile: "Boy, this is a good thing, you like medicinal herbs, but I love to eat mushrooms and mountain mushrooms." ”

Besides, he had been riding on a horse and had not come down, so this place was not attractive to him at all.

"How can you know that this is a mushroom and not a medicinal herb?" Zhou Dingcheng believed a little bit in the doctor's ancestry, but he still couldn't understand what the truth was.

"I only learned the first level, but I didn't know why. If you want to know the principle, you have to study it for ten or eight years. ”

"It's good to know it, boy, I'll make you my best roasted mushrooms in a while, it's more fragrant than barbecue, but it's a pity that there are no mushrooms, otherwise you can boil a pot of fresh soup." ”

When it comes to fresh soup, I suddenly remembered that the bowl of mushroom soup I drank at Chen Musa's house that day was indeed a rare delicacy in the world, much fresher than chicken soup and duck soup.

"Maybe you can find it, can you make soup?" he suddenly moved his index finger and his eyes looked around.

"What do you mean by being able to cook?!!Tell you, the soup I cook is several times better than that cooked by Ouchi Imperial Chef, and of course it has to be mushrooms. Ouchi's idiots actually cook mushrooms in chicken broth, which is simply a tyrannical thing. However, if you want to say that this mushroom soup, it is still the best mushroom from Wutai Mountain. Wutai Mountain's vegetarian seat is the first in the world, relying on this mushroom soup seasoning. ”

Besides, I haven't been to Wutai Mountain, and I haven't eaten the vegetarian banquet there, but I have only drunk the mushroom soup once, and the taste is in my heart, and I can't forget it, which really makes people not think about the taste of meat in March.

"There!"

Besides, he saw a place and rushed over first, not because he was afraid that Zhou Dingcheng would take the lead, but because he was afraid that if he miscalculated, he would be laughed at. He calculated that this mushroom had never been calculated, and he had no bottom in his heart.

Fortunately, what he learned lived up to him, and he really found a few rare mushrooms, although they were not as good as the grade in Chen's mansion, they were also first-class.

"Boy, you can really figure it out. I won't bet with you anymore. Zhou Dingcheng was completely convinced.

Since you admit defeat, find a way to let me see that girl again. "And of course I won't give up.

"This doesn't count, we're betting on medicinal herbs, not mushrooms. ”

Besides, he smiled: "That's good, this time it doesn't count, let's find Lin Zi in a while and bet on medicinal materials." ”

The two began to look for mushrooms in this mountain forest, picking mushrooms by the way. It had rained a few days ago, and mushrooms were growing in piles, but mushrooms were rare, just scattered in the forest.

This is also reasonable, if there are more mushrooms like mushrooms, they are not rare.

"Senior Zhou, why aren't there mushrooms in the delicious eight treasures?" and suddenly thought of this question.

"There are no puffer fish either. Zhou Dingcheng only replied.

"Why?"

"You still don't understand this? The amount of mushrooms is too small, and the annual harvest is not fixed, if it is added to the eight treasures, a certain amount of tribute will be paid every year, and if the tribute is not completed, the magistrate will lose his office, and the people will go bankrupt or even die. The puffer fish is highly poisonous, and no matter how clever the chef is, he can't guarantee that it will be non-poisonous every time, so he doesn't dare to use it for the emperor. Those who can't pay tribute to the emperor can't enter the list of eight treasures. ”

Besides, he was confused and asked, "What does Bazhen have to do with the emperor?"

"What else does it matter? Listen, the food list is the royal tailor in the palace, if the emperor has not eaten it, or the emperor doesn't like it, you can't put it on the food list, let alone Bazhen's list. However, Bazhen has a relatively long history, not only in this dynasty, there are already a few in the Tang and Song dynasties. ”

"Yes, Mencius said: I can do whatever I want with the bear's paw, and I can do what I want with the fish. You can't have both, take it and take the bear's paw. It can be seen that bear paw was already the first delicacy in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Besides, he suddenly thought of Mencius's words, and hurriedly said them to prove it.

"There are a few things that are paid tribute by foreign countries, such as hump and scarlet lip, which are not available in our Central Plains, and there are tributes every year, and the number is uncertain, but it is said that the practice has been lost, and these two things are now the palace kitchen does not know how to burn, just quote the practice of bird's nest and shark fin, and cook it with hanging broth. Needless to say, bird's nest shark fin, not to mention that there is no shortage in the palace, even the average rich and noble family can afford to eat it, but it is impossible to say whether the method is right or not. ”

?scarlet lips??

Besides, shaking his head, it's hard to think that these two can still make the list of eight treasures, and I can't think of what kind of delicious food they can make, and to be honest, I definitely have no appetite when I think about it.

Besides, he grinned and said, "I can't imagine that my predecessor is still a gourmet?"

"Why, boy, don't I like to eat? Lao Tzu has money, he can afford to eat. Zhou Dingcheng rolled his eyes.

"Okay, okay. Isn't there one in this mushroom palace? How could the emperor not like this delicacy?" Zhou Dingcheng seemed to have a fire in his heart, and he didn't want to touch the mold.

"There are ones in the palace, but I don't dare to give it to the emperor, the first thing is too small, and the second is that I can't guarantee which mushroom is poisonous. Not to mention making a pot of soup every day, whether this mushroom is enough, in case any poisonous mushroom is mixed in, the emperor eats poisoning, not to mention the imperial kitchen, the person in charge of purchasing, paying tribute, and even the magistrate and so on will lose their heads. ”

"Why do you want to make a pot every day, the emperor doesn't want to drink soup every day. Besides, he asked.

"This is the rule of the palace, everything that the emperor has eaten and thinks is good, he must prepare every day, whether the emperor eats or not, he must come up together. The emperor didn't eat it, so he withdrew it, or gave it to those eunuchs to eat, or simply took it out and sold it. This is also a way for the eunuchs in the palace to make a fortune, so both the palace and the ministers of the outer court know that this matter is unreasonable, but no one dares to talk about it. ”

Moreover, I thought of the story of Emperor Xianzong eating donkey meat and burning, and the baked cake for five cents a piece outside would cost a thousand taels of silver when it entered the palace, and Xianzong really didn't feel sorry for this thousand taels of silver, but felt that in order to make this fire, he had to kill a donkey every day to serve, which was a waste, so he simply didn't eat it.

This is life, even if you become the emperor, everything can't go smoothly, there are always things that are not suitable.

And that's not what I'm thinking about, it's something else. He deliberately dragged Zhou Dingcheng into the depths of the dense forest to find mushrooms, but Zhou Dingcheng seemed to have a fire in his heart, and he never had a good face, and he couldn't speak.

"This ...... Senior ...... "He plucked up the courage to speak.

"You don't want this and that. If I can't see what's hidden in your heart, I'll live in vain. I know that you have a question to ask me, so I will tell you two, first, there are too many things I don't know, and second, I can't tell you what I know. I'm just in charge of protecting you to get the medicine and get you back safely. Zhou Ding immediately issued a gag order.

"This ...... There's no need to discuss?", and still didn't give up, and asked curtly.

"Not negotiable!"

Besides, looking at Zhou Dingcheng's categorical attitude, he had no choice but to excuse himself.

"Boy, you have to know a little ......" After a while, Zhou Dingcheng's attitude seemed to ease up a little.

"I know, I should let me know, I will let me know, and if I don't let me, that's for my good, right?"

Zhou Dingcheng was finally happy: "Yes, you are really sensible!"

"It's not okay to be ignorant, anyway, I can't talk about you, and it's not interesting to ask. ”

Zhou Dingcheng sighed and wanted to say something, but he still swallowed it back. You sighed again: "Let's go, it's not early, if we don't leave, we will have to spend the night here." ”

The two walked out of the woods, came to the mountain road, and rode on.

Although picking mushrooms is an unintentional trip, the results are not small, there is a big cloth bag, although there are not many mushrooms, only two small handfuls, unintentionally get this kind of treasure, it is already surprising. All the collected items were placed in Zhou Dingcheng's saddle bag.

When they crossed a mountain range, the two horses suddenly quickened their pace and ran at a rapid pace, and they did not need to be shown the way, but as if they were old horses.

"Hey, hey, don't run around. "Besides, in a hurry, he tightened the reins, and his legs were between the belly of the horse, and he was really in a hurry.

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