As soon as Xue Niang's words fell, a few people immediately ran out of the kitchen, each twisting their eyebrows, and looking at her with complaining eyes.

"If you like one, you won't charge for food, and no matter how thick your family background is, you will be ruined." One of them.

"We haven't been paid for months, today's meal, Lao Hu, how much is it?" The other asked again.

The account room in front of the counter stroked his beard, and his hand crackled on the abacus, "Four meats, two vegetables, one soup and three snacks, a total of forty-three taels and two yuan." ”

The weaving fan choked on a mouthful of water, and said loudly: "More than forty taels? Lang Tingxuan only eats a good meal of more than 20 taels, are you robbing it? ”

Xue Niang smiled embarrassedly, turned around and discussed with the account room: "It's Changyan, it's better to ......"

"Childe's friend, naturally he will not ignore his feelings, this meal will be counted as a seventy percent ......" The abacus of the account room crackled again, and finally said: "A total of thirty taels and two dollars and four cents." ”

The weaving fan swallowed and stopped talking.

Xue Niang smiled, as if she felt embarrassed, and muttered: "Stingy ghost, isn't it just a few dozen taels of silver, as for the guests." ”

Ling Yi felt more and more that Xue Niang was very cute, and smiled to enlighten her, "This is how to do business, it is natural to give money for eating, if everyone deducts something, what money do you still make." ”

Xue Niang's eyes lit up, and she took Ling Yi's hand: "That's a good wow, those young ladies and young masters in Beijing use money lavishly on weekdays, but they have to pretend to treat money like dung in front of them, and there are very few people who can admit it as generously as you, Miss." ”

Ling Yi teased her: "If you say that you regard money as dung, I'm afraid Xue Niang is." ”

The words made Xue Niang laugh, and several people talked about the interesting things that happened recently, especially Gong Xiru's return from Yanbian.

Xue Niang was very interested in the things on the battlefield, pestered and asked a lot of words, and finally the little two who delivered the dishes said "The food is here", and Xue Niang left.

The first thing to be sent was soup, Xiao Er explained: "A few people came up from the mountain, they must have been hungry, I am afraid that a few of them will not be able to eat the taste of our small shop, so I will prepare some soup to cushion my stomach, so that I will not be too hungry for a while, and everything I eat is fragrant." ”

Because there were no outsiders, Ling Yi allowed Weaving Fan and Weaving Feather to sit down and eat, and the two sisters naturally excused themselves and said that they didn't dare, and in the end it was Gong Xiru who persuaded them, so the two didn't say much and sat down directly.

After drinking the soup, I lost my initial hunger.

When the first dish was served, the weaving fan was secretly speechless, and touched the weaving feather under the table with his hand, and the two sisters made eye contact.

Ling Yi praised directly: "The color and fragrance are complete, it seems that this trip is really worthwhile." ”

Xue Niang proudly pointed to the dishes on the table: "This dish is called Drum Plate Dragon Crab, it is delicious, our crab is hidden in the ice and snow, and it is definitely different from the taste under the mountain." ”

Gong Xiru motioned to Ling Yi to move the chopsticks first, Ling Yi bowed his head, and gently clamped it with the chopsticks, the crab meat automatically fell off, and a strong fragrance came to the nose, after the entrance, it was soft and refreshing, and the taste was really delicious. “

She praised from the bottom of her heart: "It's really delicious, and it's worth the price." ”

Xue Niangle laughed, "You eat first, I'll go and bring a jar of wine, there will be more delicious later, no wine, wouldn't it be a pity." ”

Ling Yi didn't stop him and thanked him.

The next dishes, such as spicy quail, mountain bracken, guinea fowl, etc., are all delicious foods that are difficult to eat at the bottom of the mountain.

Thinking of her previous complaints, she couldn't help but blush with embarrassment, plus the taste was so good, she had never eaten such a delicious thing in her life, so her usual chattering mouth was quiet at this time.

Ling Yi and Gong Xiru chatted while eating, but they were all gossiping, I thought that Gong Xiru was not good at talking, and I didn't want the two to chat, but it was also quite happy and interesting.

"Last time by the river, thank you for your help." Gong Xiru said softly.

Ling Yi knew that he was talking about the time when several people were going to Yanbian, and she was not surprised that Gong Xiru would recognize her, both of them seemed to know it.

Xiao shook his head: "With a little effort, I just happened to know that you were in a hurry to cross the river, so I helped the handle." ”

"We were lucky to know that we didn't have a boat to cross the river." Gong Xiru knew that Ling Yi was by no means a coincidence, but since the latter didn't want to say it, he didn't ask more.

Zhi Yu thought that Ling Yi would ask during the meal, but the two of them ate and ate, and what they said was not painful, so Zhi Yu wondered if he and the weaving fan were there, so that the eldest lady was not easy to ask.

Just as he was about to find an excuse to sneak out with a weaving fan, Xue Niang came over with a jar of wine and a smile, and shouted "bring five wine bowls" proudly.

Xiao Er hurriedly took four empty bowls and placed them in front of the four people in turn, but not in front of Xue Niang.

Xue Niang patted the table: "Didn't you let you take five bowls?" What does one less mean? ”

Xiao Er smiled bitterly: "Shopkeeper, you can't drink this wine, you don't have a head when you drink it, you ---- every time you get drunk" He seemed to be carefully thinking about what wording to use, and finally said: "It's very difficult for us, it's better not to drink, let the kitchen make rice wine for you to eat." ”

"Rice wine is nothing, it doesn't taste like alcohol at all, but it's not enjoyable." Xue Niang stared at the jar of wine greedily, and muttered: "The guests are here, I can't help but accompany the guests to drink two glasses, otherwise what kind of shopkeeper is it." ”

As he spoke, he was about to snatch the wine bowl in front of Ling Yi.

Ling Yi heard Xiao Er's persuasion, and knew that Xue Niang was going to be drunk when she drank wine, and that scene must be funny, but she didn't want to make trouble at this time, so she took the wine bowl and persuaded her: "We gave money for this wine, Xue Niang took a sip, and we took one sip less, unless you don't charge us for this wine." ”

The snow lady was full of joy and was about to agree.

When the account office heard this, he immediately refused to allow it, "No, this wine is a good daughter red, and you have to pay ten taels of silver for a jar, Xue Niang, you are not allowed to drink it." After speaking, he didn't forget to smile at Ling Yi, he also knew that Ling Yi wanted to persuade Xue Niang.

Xue Niang looked at this, then at that, and finally fell on Gong Xiru.

Gong Xiru didn't wait for her to speak, she took the lead in picking up the wine jar and filling the four bowls with wine.

Weaving Fan Weaving Feather got up in fear and didn't dare, in the end, Weaving Feather took the wine jar and put it next to her seat, she and Weaving Fan didn't have the courage to let the young master pour wine.

Xue Niang knew that she wouldn't be able to drink no matter how much she was entangled, so she glared at a few people hatefully, out of sight, and got up and walked to the second floor.

The bookkeeper apologized: "Don't blame you, our shopkeeper has this temper, she has no malice." ”

Ling Yi smiled and nodded to show that she didn't mind, and the four of them began to eat seriously again.

At the next dinner table, Ling Yi still didn't ask about the purpose of this hunt, after eating, it was still early in the sky, she didn't mean to go to Bailan Temple, just to find an excuse to come out, and now she was not in a hurry to go back, so she simply said: "There are piles of snow outside, it's better to go out and take a look." ”

The weaving fan couldn't bear it for a long time, and immediately nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "The maid agreed, and when I first came in, I saw that there was a steaming spring outside, but it was really strange, it was cold here, but it was still steaming there."

"That's a hot spring." Ling Yi had only seen the word hot springs in the book, but had not seen it with his own eyes.

In fact, she didn't go out very well in her previous life, so even if the snow-capped mountains were not too far from Beijing, she had never been there, and as for the hot springs, she had never seen them.

Gong Xiru was not surprised, and explained: "This mountain is very high, and there are several mountains around here, but this one has a hot spring. ”

Weaving Yu pulled the weaving fan and said with a little pleading: "Miss, can the maids go out to play?" ”

Ling Yi knew that she wanted to give herself and Gong Xiru time to be alone, so she smiled and agreed.

The weaving fan is still unknown, so it was pulled out by the weaving feather.

Now, there are really only two left, Ling Yi and Gong Xiru.

Gong Xiru was the first to walk out, while Ling Yi followed behind, and the two kept a certain distance from each other, and they could hear each other's voices.

"You were invited, you should have something to ask." Gong Xiru said in one word.

Ling Yi was not embarrassed, and generously admitted: "The eldest young master is as careful as a hair, and he doesn't dare to hide it, and he does have something to ask." ”

Gong Xiru deliberately slowed down his steps, and said, "You want to ask the emperor about the sudden holding of a hunt, what is the meaning of it?" "Not a question, but an affirmation.

Ling Yi knew that he was smart, but she still couldn't help but be a little surprised, but after thinking about it, the most important thing happened, and only this matter was worth asking about, so she also understood.

"Exactly." Although Gong Xiru couldn't see it when he walked in front, he still nodded unconsciously: "It is impossible for the emperor to hold a hunt casually without any reason, and he has repeatedly emphasized that all adult men in Beijing should participate, there seems to be some secret." ”

In fact, the emperor held a hunt to let Princess Haining choose a son-in-law because there was no suitable candidate among the princes, and he was unwilling to give up the opportunity to get Princess Haining, so he held this hunt, the purpose of which was to let the minister's son be favored by Princess Haining.

Of course, this kind of thing can only be known by the emperor and his trusted ministers, and ordinary people do not know about this relationship.

Gong Xiru also knew about it when Gong Chengyan specially told him.

Ling Yi suddenly wondered if his father Ling Shandao also knew about this, if he knew, there should be nothing else, but if he didn't know, then the emperor's meaning was worth pondering.

Although Ling Shandao has no son, but this kind of big thing, a big family like the Ling family, there is no reason not to know, if it really doesn't know, then the emperor deliberately concealed it and didn't say it, why would he rather tell Gong Chengyan than tell Ling Shandao?

Ling Yi smiled suddenly, although he had guessed that the destruction of the Ling family in his previous life was not so simple, he did not expect that this water would be so deep.

Yes, the Ling family is a hundred-year-old clan, how can it be easily destroyed by the joint efforts of several families, even so, the Ling family and several other families have no hatred, why can they attract everyone to eradicate it together.

The reason is actually very simple, because the most powerful person in this country nodded his head.

Thinking of this, Ling Yi couldn't help but sigh, how could she have such a powerful force to resist the most noble and powerful person in this country.