"Refuse?" Li Baotang read these two words softly, and the smile on his face did not decrease, "There are some things in this world that there is no way to refuse. ”

After he said this, he raised his voice outside the door: "Come on, serve the food." ”

Only then did Xi Deng know that Li Baotang actually invited him to dinner, is this a Hongmen banquet? And it seems that it is still a Hongmen banquet set up by Li Baotang alone.

Xi Deng looked at the dishes on the table, probably because Li Baotang took care of the peacock's injury, they were all some vegetarian dishes and some tonic soup, which were extremely light.

When Li Baotang waited until the dishes were ready, he filled a bowl of soup for the peacock, and then asked a maid to stand beside the peacock and serve the peacock to eat. He himself sat next to him and drank.

The peacock didn't seem to like the maid, and he didn't touch anything she put in his bowl. When the maid saw that the peacock didn't eat, worry immediately appeared on her face, but she looked at Li Baotang with a worried look, and there seemed to be fear and fear in her eyes.

"City Lord, you can eat a little." The maid coaxed the peacock.

The peacock stretched out his hand to push away the bowl handed over by the maid, but the wide sleeves knocked over the soup bowl that Li Baotang had filled before.

When the maid saw this, she immediately went to wipe it.

Li Baotang suddenly reached out and pressed the maid's hand, the corners of his eyebrows were slightly raised, and his tone was kind, "The city lord doesn't like to eat, so take down these dishes in front of the city lord." ”

The maid hurriedly responded.

After a while, all the dishes that the peacock could reach were removed.

The atmosphere on the table became even more stiff, and Po Yue also stopped chopsticks, but only Xi Deng was still eating. He was imprisoned for three days, and he could only drink some porridge every day. He wanted the wound to heal as quickly as possible.

Li Baotang seemed to think that Xi Deng was interesting, and he didn't drink anymore, but looked at Xi Deng with burning eyes. Seeing that the other party drank a few bowls of soup and added two bowls of rice, he finally couldn't help but say, "Delicious?" ”

Xi Deng shook his head.

Li Baotang smiled, "I thought you were the only one who thought it was delicious, otherwise why wouldn't they eat it, but it turns out that you don't think it's delicious." So why do you still eat so much? ”

Xi Deng put down the bowl and wiped his mouth directly with the back of his hand, "I'm just hungry." ”

Li Baotang laughed out loud and called it funny.

Xi Deng didn't expect that because he ate a lot, every meal he had next would be with Li Baotang, to be exact, Li Baotang watched him eat while drinking.

Since that day's slightly weird Hongmen banquet, Xi Deng has been locked in a room, and even Bo Yue can't see it, as for the peacock, he hasn't seen it at all, but he just heard the guards mention that recently, the city lord's mansion has recruited famous doctors to treat peacocks.

In other words, the entire city now knows that their lord is stupid.

***

Li Baotang held his cheek in one hand, held a wine glass in the other, and stared at the lamp with straight eyes. Xi Dengmian did not change his color, and slowly drank the soup under the gaze of the person opposite.

He didn't know what Li Baotang wanted to do, maybe he wanted to learn the whereabouts of the city lord's ring from him. At the beginning, Xi Deng took the ring to change his promise, such as letting him and Po Yue live carefree in Yuyu City or other towns, but now seeing Li Baotang's attitude, this ring seems to have become a life talisman for him and Bo Yue.

But this life-saving talisman is also a life-saving talisman.

Li Baotang, who couldn't get the ring, was in a tug-of-war with Xi Deng, but Xi Deng didn't know when Li Baotang would be impatient.

"Every time I see you eating, I seem to think it's delicious, but when I taste it, I feel tasteless." Li Baotang drank all the wine in the wine glass in one gulp, "For more than 20 years, it's been like this, it's really boring." If a chef's cooking skills are not growing, or even getting worse and worse, should he be replaced with a new chef? ”

Xi Deng drank the soup and raised his eyes to look at Li Baotang.

"Maybe for me, an outsider, this cook's cooking skills are good enough."

Li Baotang looked slightly surprised, "Really?" Maybe many people think like you, but with a new chef, they should all change their minds, although they will be a little resistant at first, but they will soon accept it, and even forget the original cook. ”

As he spoke, he stood up, slowly walked behind Xi Deng, put his hands on Xi Deng's shoulders, bent his waist, and put his head next to Xi Deng's head, "What do you think?" ”

Xi Deng's head was tilted, avoiding Li Baotang's excessive closeness.

Li Baotang straightened up, "The weather is good today, you can travel with me." ”

Xi Deng's refusal to resist turned into nothingness when Li Baotang came, but what Xi Deng didn't expect was that Li Baotang would let him dress up as a woman.

***

Miwa Castle is the largest town in the desert, so it is very prosperous.

Shops are lined up one after another, tea shops and wine shops, water-red flags are drumming in the wind, the streets are bustling, pedestrians are rubbing shoulders one after another, people are boiling, and there are shouts and shouts everywhere.

Suddenly, there was a bell in the distance, a bell that should be inconspicuous, because the people who heard it quieted down one by one, and it was spread out at once. The people who heard the sound of the bell immediately stopped what they were doing and retreated to both sides of the street.

The sound of the bell represents the travel of the people in the City Lord's Mansion, and is generally only used by the City Lord and the Deputy City Lord.

Sure enough, a group of guards in armor with black spears and grim faces approached, and in the middle of them was a camel. The people immediately recognized who the man on the camel was, but they wondered why there was a young girl sitting in front of the deputy city lord.

There are rumors that the deputy city lord is clean and self-conscious, not good for women, and never lies to women, but today he shares a horse with women?

But that girl does have a beauty that can move people's hearts, even when her face is expressionless.

A head of green silk is woven into several small braids, on which are strung with hollow jade. On the snow-white face, there was a grain of cinnabar in each corner of the eye. "She" was dressed in a red riding suit, and sat with a black deputy city lord, which was extremely touching, but it also gave people a perfect fit.

The people of Yuyu City often worry about the marriage of their lord and vice-lord because they are so perfect. Now, it seems that the deputy city lord doesn't need them to worry anymore.

Li Baotang lowered his head and said softly: "Can't you laugh?" Your sister seems to have a pretty good smile. ”

Xi Deng squinted slightly, his lips moved slightly, "I don't mind tearing the clothes on my chest now." ”

Li Baotang laughed, "You can try, then I have to change your sister to be the shield." ”