Chapter 140: Another Way
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Following.
Li Longji invited Cui Lu and Jing Ci to visit Luzhou City.
The leaves on the side of the road are scattered, and there are many dead branches. Inside, the hard-working traders set up their stalls early, and near the end of the year, even though the weather is quite cold, there are still many people who go out to buy.
The three of them did not talk, but looked at the street scene and pedestrians in unison. Walking to a crowded place, Jing Ci proposed to rest and drink saliva at a street stall.
Cui Qi ordered a few cakes and rice porridge, and he knew too well that her so-called "drinking saliva" was by no means as simple as just drinking water. Jing Ci looked at him and smiled, "The one who knows me is Mo Ruo Cui Lang." β
"If you were born in an ordinary family, it would be strange if you weren't poor."
"It's not that exaggerated."
A little later, hot food was served.
Jing Ci couldn't help but smile when he looked at the big bowl of food, "It's really worth spending money in Luzhou." β
"Although Luzhou is a small place, the people are very simple, which is different from the capital." Li Longji said while pouring water.
"Okay, okay......"
A filthy Hanako limped slowly towards the next table, and kept muttering.
The vendor glanced at him, and instead of rushing forward, he continued to keep his head down and busy. The man at the next table threw a loaf of bread at Hanako, and then continued to eat his own food.
"Thank you, thank you......" Hanako turned around with the cake and moved away step by step, and did not walk towards Jing Ci and the others.
"I guess it will snow a year ago."
A few old women carrying vegetable baskets and oiled paper wraps were tired of walking, sat down to rest, and chattered.
"No, although it was cold late this year, I'm afraid the snow was decided a year ago."
"It's good to snow, as the saying goes, the snow is a good year."
"I hope there will be a bumper harvest next year, and Agui should also marry a daughter-in-law."
The companion patted the old woman's wrinkled hand, "Don't worry, now that we have the king of Linzi in Luzhou, life is better than that of Gyeonggi." β
"That's right, Ah Gui damn it, we're lucky."
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The three of them "have a full view" of everything.
"Li Sanlang shouldn't have brought us to listen to the people's praise for you, right?" Cui Qi quipped.
Li Longji raised his eyebrows and laughed, "Why do you need to be deliberate? Where is not a compliment to me? β
"Li Sanlang is amazing, if you are afraid today, only the people of Luzhou will say that the world is good." Jing Ci looked at him.
"It's a pity that Li's ability is limited, and he is an official for one party and one for the people."
In the past few days, Li Longji has opened his mouth widely, and Luzhou is politically and harmonious, and he is a rare talent in governance in today's imperial court.
"Li Sanlang is open to his words, and Cui Lang is helping him, are you afraid that you won't be able to do big things?"
"This is a bad statement, I, Li San, am the oldest, and there is no one behind me, even if I have talent, I am just a micro-minister in the DPRK." He lowered his eyes and smiled, and his joy and anger were hidden under his face.
Extraneous in words.
Jing Ci understood his intentions, so he said: "To say something disrespectful, I think that a good person is a diligent servant, a good citizen, a loyal minister, and a benevolent monarch. Although there are hierarchies, life is equal, all are human beings, all are alive, and they will eventually die, to put it bluntly, they are all the same. Since it is a destiny given by God, it is enough to do one's duty. β
Li Longji smiled and said nothing, she was thinking about it, right?
"Haha, it's Wang Shilang's temperament," Cui Lu said loudly: "It's exactly the same as Lord Lingzun, and it is worthy of being taught by Wang Lang." β
"It's a pity, if everything goes according to nature and is left unchecked, I'm afraid that the world will be disturbed by the dirty people in the court, and now it has become the norm to sell officials and lords, and to demolish houses and occupy land. Li Longji said. Only the remote Luzhou can avoid disaster a little.
Jing Ci's brows couldn't help frowning slightly.
She knew very well that what he said was that Princess Taiping was involved. If she contributes to the Yang Mansion and Princess Taiping, it will be against her conscience, and Li Longji has given her another way.
These days, Jing Ci has become more and more aware in her heart that she does not want to serve Princess Taiping. At the beginning, I promised to help the eldest sister, and I set a deadline, but if I turn to Li Longji now, everything will become troublesome, and the so-called freedom will probably become far away.
For a moment, she really didn't know what to do.
"Let's go around again."
Luzhou City is really not big, you can finish it after a few laps, and the rest of the civilian squares are nothing to see.
So the people went back after a few turns.
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It's early afternoon.
Jing Ci woke up from a nap, vaguely smelled a fragrance, the delicacy, getting stronger and stronger, she followed the fragrance to find the direction, it should be from the next door or opposite, mutton, Bolene cabbage, goose and duck roasting...... She walked out unconsciously while following the scent......
The door next door was hidden, and the smell was strong.
Jing Ci pushed the door open......
"Okay, you actually secretly ate goo dong soup behind my back."
In the house, there is a small stove on the table, fresh raw mutton, cabbage, goose and duck roasting...... Exactly like the food she smelled, the lamb was boiling in the stove, and the smell was strong.
Cui Qi used chopsticks to tease the food in the stove while saying, "I'm not thinking about cooking it and then calling you." β
"Call me when it's cooked, what should you eat!" She unceremoniously picked up the dishes and chopsticks on the table and reached out to pick up the mutton in the stove, "It's so fresh, it's too late to cook old." β
Cui Qi also picked up the bowl and started eating.
Eat until there is still some mutton left, put the Boleng cabbage down, meat and vegetable combined, fat but not greasy, delicious and sweet. The dishes cooked in the hot stove are just right, not rotten or raw, smooth and delicious. Especially in the afternoons of these seasons, the whole body is very warm when eating.
"You are opening a small stove in someone else's house like this, does the master know?" Jing Ci said in his throat while soaking the meat, dressed as a man, and eating was even more unambiguous.
"After he finished what he had to say, he couldn't wait to accompany the new concubine, isn't this waiting for you to make a decision, and I don't have anything to do." Cui Lu gulped.
"I can understand it, what to say to take me back to Luoyang, the ultimate goal is to take me to see Li Longji."
"Hehβit's embarrassing for me to say it so clearly and do it." Cui Lu's smile was very hearty, and there was no embarrassment.
"It seems that Li Longji is also very powerful, and even I am about to be shaken."
Cui Qi stopped moving, and there was a bit of seriousness in his eyes, "Then what is your choice?" β
She held the chopsticks in her hand and didn't stop, "Let's talk about it." β
After about an hour, the two of them swept away the ingredients on the table.
I haven't eaten this kind of food for a long time, in Luoyang before, she and Xiao Ping and Xiao An most often eat Gu Dong soup in the winter night, the chopsticks in the stove are stirred, the hot breath, with a little wine, rush to eat each other, the whole body is warm, whenever the house is full of noise on winter nights, they must be eating Gu Dong soup.
The charcoal was burned in the stove, and the smell of the ingredients in the stove was very strong, and the soup came down, and the hair and clothes were stained.
Jing Cixi was clean, and when he returned to the house, he began to wash and tidy up, and changed a set of clothes by the way. She retraced her eyebrows in the mirror, pasted her beard, and put her hair in a bun before walking out the door.
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The sun will set, and when you are full, you will be able to do the activity.
Back garden.
There are faint sounds of silk and bamboo music, as well as singing like heavenly sounds, which are very smart and beautiful.
Jing Ci looked left and right, and found that in the water pavilion not far away, a woman in a gorgeous light skirt was singing, waving her sleeves, her eyebrows were bright and affectionate.
After the song, the woman smiled and blessed, and her graceful body exposed in the cold couldn't help but tremble. The man in the seat hurriedly got up, hugged her into his arms, wrapped the woman's body tightly with a wide cloak and thin jacket, and slowly stroked the woman's gorgeous face, his eyes were like water, and his belly was full of tenderness.
Jing Ci recognized the person, the man was Li Longji, and the woman was the lady she accidentally bumped into yesterday.
A senseless smile surfaced on a beautiful face, and it was none of his business. Who said it's only women who are fickle? What about men sometimes?
The so-called man with a big heart is too big.