XXXV. The story of revenge
The worst thing about listening to a story is when you're halfway through it, and when you get to the point, the storyteller stops talking. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Xiao Baoer couldn't sleep for a long time after tossing and turning, thinking of Yao Xitong's mysterious behavior of scratching the paper bag, she always felt that things were not simple. "Leather jacket, you say, you say, you say!"
Yao Xitong threw out two words, "secret," and turned sideways and continued to pretend to be asleep.
Xiao Bao'er suddenly said, "Why don't I exchange a secret for your secret?"
This deal sounded quite a good deal, Yao Xitong didn't pretend to be asleep, and asked, "What's the secret?"
"I know a lot of people's secrets, you name them, I tell them about that person's secrets, only I know. ”
"Deal!"
Xiao Bao'er is a member of the Northern Liao royal family, and she must know the secrets of many Northern Liao people. She lived in the Great Xia Palace for another five years, and she must have known a lot of secrets of the Great Xia Imperial Family. Yao Xitong thought about it for a while, but he didn't know who to choose.
Earlier, I wanted to know the secret of the Empress Dowager the most, but unfortunately this person died, and no matter how many secrets I had, it was useless.
Xiao Bao'er, the king of Northern Liao, may not necessarily reveal key news.
Xiao Bao'er should know what kind of person he is, and he won't be so obsessed. Who else?
Without allowing him to think about it, Xiao Bao'er had already moved to his side, staring at him with black and white eyes without blinking, and his eyes were full of impatient urging.
He couldn't help but say, "When Su Su summoned the gluttony, I told them that I was going to hypnotize the tomb and let it crawl out of its shell!"
Xiao Bao'er's face was full of disbelief, this worm is stupid, won't he die if he crawls out?
"Their expressions are similar to yours, but not as exaggerated as you. I tapped the wooden box in front of them, filled the bugs in a paper bag, then scratched the paper bag, and pulled the flesh out of the paper bag in front of them, leaving a complete shell. What you don't know is that this shell will crumble into dregs in half an hour, and it won't be complete at all. ”
"I don't understand. ”
"I know you don't understand, and you haven't gotten to the point yet. As soon as the words fell, Xiao Baoer reached out and slapped him, "I'm not as stupid as you think, but I'm just slower to react to things." ”
"You don't believe that I can hypnotize a worm, and gluttony naturally doesn't believe it either. So how do I take out the worm meat without damaging the worm shell? After we leave, the gluttony will definitely observe the worm shell, and when they see the whole worm shell shattered into dregs, they 'smartly' guess that I know martial arts, and hypnosis is just a lie to cover up martial arts. Those actions this morning were all performances, and I just relied on internal force to shatter the shells of the insects, and only took out the flesh when the insects died. ”
Xiao Bao'er understood, and the cultivation of internal kung fu to a certain extent has penetrating strength and tense strength. Tension is a punch on the body, and its strength is limited to the contact surface between the fist and the body, and there is no harm to the internal organs; It's like putting tofu on a wooden board, the tension is to break the tofu, and the strength is to break the tofu, and the tofu is fine, and the wooden board where the tofu is set aside is broken.
In order to completely take the insect meat out of the insect shell, the internal force must not only be retracted and released freely, but also the combination of tension and penetration. A master of this level is on par with a magpie.
"Do you know martial arts?"
"You are stupid, if I know martial arts, I was still so embarrassed on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival hunt?"
Yao Xitong was afraid that Xiao Bao'er would be entangled in the question of whether he would be martial or not, so he hurriedly explained how everything was done in the morning. He had killed the worm yesterday, and in order not to be stung by the poisonous glands on the feet of the grave, he drunk the worm with the carrion that had been soaked in wine, and then carefully cut open the shell and removed the flesh.
The scene in the morning was indeed a performance, the purpose was to create the illusion that the insects were still alive, and the repeated scratching of the paper bag was to make the gluttony impatient, once their eyes left the paper bag, Yao Xitong used a very fast technique to remove the insect flesh and leave the insect shell in the paper bag.
"Why is it that the shell of the worm is intact before it crumbles into dregs, and why does the worm meat dip into that saucer?"
"I brushed a layer of potion like rice milk on the surface of the insect shell, once the temperature rises, the potion will volatilize, and the insect shell will be scraped for a long time, how can it not break? The purpose of this is to cover up the knife marks on the insect shell, creating the illusion that the insect shell is indeed broken due to internal force. The dipping water in the dish is made of a variety of medicinal herbs, which seems to be an antidote to the virus, but in fact, it is to eliminate the dead breath of the insects, so that the gluttony will not taste that the insects have already died. ”
From last night to this morning, Yao Xitong's seemingly simple behavior was full of deep meaning, and the purpose was to solve the problem given by gluttony. Hearing this, Xiao Baoer boasted: "Wow, you are so good that you took the Tanhua exam, is the champion even more powerful?"
Yao Xitong turned sideways and didn't bother to talk to her, can this person speak, what is the champion?
"I'm not asleep yet, you can't sleep, tell stories to coax me. ”
"Don't forget that you owe me a secret. ”
"Whose do you want to know?"
Yao Xitong thought for a while, "Tell me about Wu Zu, what secrets do you know about him." ”
"He is from the Central Plains. ”
Xiao Bao'er's words were like thunder, the national teacher above 10,000 people under one person in the entire Northern Liao was actually from the Central Plains, and a Central Plains person went to the Northern Liao to help people divinate the national fortune, which was also too ......
"How do you know?"
Xiao Bao'er learned from Yao Xitong and said, "Secret." ”
Yao Xi Tongwaner, "Sleep, tomorrow I have to figure out how to eat those two rabbits." ”
"I'm going to eat a rabbit's head. ”
Rabbit heads can also be eaten, and it sounds very fresh, "Wu Zu also eats rabbit heads?"
"Well, we caught a rabbit on the grassland, I ate rabbit meat, he ate rabbit head, he said rabbit face and rabbit brain are particularly delicious. ”
"How do you make a rabbit head?"
"Wash in boiling water, throw it into a pot with spices, add water until submerged, bring to a boil, and then cook over medium heat until crispy. Wu Zu likes to boil the rabbit head and soak it in the soup for two or three hours to remove the smell and enhance the taste. ”
Listening to Xiao Bao'er talk about Wu Zu all day long, Yao Xitong actually had an inexplicable sense of intimacy with this Central Plains person who was far away in Northern Liao, and felt that person seemed to be himself in a foreign country.
"Can you tell me a story?"
"What story do you want to hear?"
"A story of revenge. ”
Yao Xitong has lived in the shadow of revenge all his life, and when he heard Xiao Baoer talk about this, he couldn't help asking: "What's so good about the story of revenge?"
She has asked herself countless times, why did she not choose revenge but cowardly suicide in her dreams?
Without an answer, she couldn't find one, so she wanted to hear a story of revenge and see how the characters in the story would choose.
"Leather jacket, you can tell me a story of revenge, people want to hear it. ”
Yao Xitong glanced at Xiao Bao'er's delicate appearance with her hands on her cheeks, and suddenly felt that the room was a little hot, so she hurriedly opened her eyes, trying to think of the story of revenge. After a while, he calmed down a lot, and those long-suppressed emotions seemed to want to vent through the opportunity of storytelling.
"There was once a very prominent family, how prominent was it? It is said that even the emperor had to give three points to this family. Thinking that the story would involve a lot of secrets, Yao Xitong turned to Xiao Bao'er and asked, "Do you know the Sima family of the previous dynasty?"
Xiao Bao'er shook her head. Seeing that his eyes were clear and not fake, he asked in surprise: "You have lived in the palace for five years and you don't know anything about the Sima family?"
"What should I know?
Yao Xitong breathed a sigh of relief, there was really no need for taboos to talk to Xiao Bao'er, this person didn't know anything about the history of Great Xia. I really envy her for having a father like the King of Northern Liao, and let her grow like a wild horse......
"It's not important, I just want to express that the illustrious family is similar to the Sima family of the previous dynasty. The men of that family, Wen Neng Anbang, Wu Neng Dingguo, are all the pillars of the imperial court. The daughters are all as beautiful as flowers, and they are the objects that all dignitaries want to marry. Do you know what happened when the family was at the height of its power, it's really ......"
Xiao Bao'er yawned, feeling that the revenge that Yao Xitong was going to talk about was completely different from what she wanted to hear. Prominent families, in the end, not all become relatives or ministers, there are not too many such things in the past dynasties, there are some in Great Xia, and there are also in Northern Liao. She is not at all interested in this kind of struggle between the imperial power and her relatives, she wants to listen to love stories.
Yao Xitong didn't think about how to tell such an intricate story, and couldn't help but say, "I'm sleepy like this, sleep, there will be time in the future." ”
In the middle of the night, Xiao Baoer slept not well at all, lifting the quilt for a while was too hot, and then wrapped tightly in the quilt and shivering.
Yao Xitong looked at her pitiful, and quietly helped her to call her pulse, the pulse was as complex as the day, and she couldn't figure out the reason at all, it felt like she had gone crazy. But she was only a third-rate martial artist, and she didn't practice advanced martial arts, how could she go mad? Ruling out this possibility, Yao Xitong really couldn't think of what was wrong with her, so she could only stay by the side for a while to help her wipe her sweat, and then help her cover the quilt after a while.
The sky was white, Yao Xitong was a little sleepy, Xiao Bao'er woke up, and rushed to the yard to punch refreshed. Seeing her vigorous appearance, Yao Xitong slandered: This good person deserves it, people don't even say thank you, and they lose money.
Su Su hadn't slept all night, heard movement in the yard, and hurriedly ran to the kitchen to fetch water to serve. While she was boiling water, Xiao Bao'er ran over and asked, "Su Su, what's going on with the Sima family?" Unsuspectingly asked this question, Su Su said without raising his head, "Nearly 10,000 people were killed because of this incident." How did the master come up with the idea of asking this question?"
"So many people died!" In amazement, Xiao Baoer said to herself: Why haven't I heard anything?
Su Su sneered, "The Empress Dowager was surnamed Sima before she was given the surname Xiao, as long as she is alive, who dares to mention the case of the Sima family in the palace." Hearing this, Xiao Bao'er began to be curious about Yao Xitong's story, and I don't know if that person will finish telling the story that only started last night.