"Is someone fighting you for food or something?" Seeing that I didn't care about the image of gobbling up, Li Hanyan glanced at me with some disgust.

"Haha, little girl eat slowly, don't rush, be careful to choke." The old man also reminded with a peaceful face.

"Old man, you have nothing to say about your cooking skills, the things you cook are so delicious, you really deserve to be a time-honored brand!" I took a sip of rice noodles and complimented me inarticulately.

Li Hanyan sat at the table and was silent, and the bowl of rice noodles in front of him had never touched the chopsticks, probably because he was hungry for a bowl, and after adding my praise, he couldn't help but start to shake a little in his heart, hesitated for a moment, and finally grabbed the chopsticks and ate them.

After a while, a large bowl of rice noodles and soup were all swept away by me, I burped contentedly, grabbed a vegetable bun and took a bite, and looked at Li Hanyan with a smile: "How about it, I'll just say it's delicious, you still don't believe it, do you believe it?" ”

Li Hanyan took a sip of rice noodles and said slowly, "It's good." ”

Taking advantage of this free time, I began to look at this old noodle restaurant, the store is not large, after seven or eight tables are placed horizontally and vertically, there is only an extremely narrow passage in the middle for walking, and if you are not careful, you may be coughed and bumped, which is very inconvenient.

The walls are full of traces left by the long years, pitted and cracked one after another, and the cold wind is still resisted......

"Old man...... Your noodle shop looks like it's been around for a while, don't you plan to change it again? I asked the old man with some curiosity.

The old man rolled up the patched cuffs, picked up a rag and wiped the already shiny tables and chairs on the side, and shook his head with a smile: "I have been running this noodle restaurant for half my life, and I already have feelings, how can I abandon it because it is dilapidated?" ”

"Grandpa, Ming'er is hungry......"

At this moment, a little girl of five or six years old came out of the back room, dressed plainly and simply, with patches on her clothes, and two long ponytails, and a cute and pitiful look, with a red face like a red apple.

"Ming'er, grandpa will go and make it for you, you go back first and sleep for a while."

The little girl's big eyes looked directly at Li Hanyan's bowl of rice noodles, she couldn't take her eyes off it, secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, nodded subconsciously, and responded obediently.

After a while, I had eaten all the steamed buns on the table, and Li Hanyan also ate the bowl of rice noodles.

I stood up, reached out and pulled out the cuffs and wanted to check out and leave, but the cuffs were empty, not even a penny, I smiled awkwardly, and had to look at Li Hanyan for help.

"Presumably the girl was in too much of a hurry to go out and forgot to bring silver taels with her, right?" The shopkeeper is experienced and said with a kind smile.

"This ...... I really don't have any money, but he has ......" I pointed at Li Hanyan, but before I finished speaking, the little girl next to me screamed.

"It's a bad guy who doesn't pay for his meal!" The little girl bit her lip, wanted to cry, and pointed at me and Li Hanyan evilly: "My grandfather and I are lonely, just because of you people who eat white food on our bills, we ourselves are almost unable to eat!" ”

Speaking of this, she looked at the clean and thorough dishes on the table, and Shui Lingling's big eyes suddenly turned red: "What you just ate was originally intended by Grandpa to be left for us to eat, but it was ...... by you My grandfather and I are going hungry again today......"

As she spoke, the little girl pursed her mouth, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and the tears of bean size suddenly rolled down her eyes, and her delicate and smooth face was covered with tears for a while, and the little girl wiped her tears with her patched sleeves from time to time.

From this, it can be seen that the living conditions of this old and young are not very good, and they are often bullied on weekdays.

"Little sister, don't cry......" I was at a loss for a while, I didn't know what to do, and at this moment, with a "bang", Li Hanyan put a piece of silver ingot on the table.

I hurriedly took it, put it in front of the little girl, shook it, and said in a gentle tone: "Little sister, look, my sister is rich, not those bad people who eat white food and pay their bills, don't cry, okay?" ”

"This is a full fifty taels ......" The old man's face was a little surprised, and he hurriedly shook his head: "Girl, two bowls of rice noodles plus a few buns are only a few copper plates no matter how expensive they are, you give too much." ”

"Old man, you can take it, this money is nothing to us."

The old man insisted on not accepting it, but said: "This is too much, I really can't accept it, I can see that you and this little brother are both children of wealthy families, different from those inhumane gangsters." ”

The fact that the life of the elderly is so embarrassing but they can still have such a character and character makes me feel a trace of admiration in my heart.

The old man pulled the little girl aside, touched her head dotingly, and said, "Don't cry, grandpa left you a few buns, and you won't be hungry." ”

"Grandpa......" The little girl suddenly cried aggrievedly, "Grandpa, Ming'er is not for herself, but those bad people come to bully us every day, and the savings are almost gone, if it goes on like this, what will we do......"

Looking at the old and young people with patches on their clothes, and hearing these touching words, I couldn't help but feel very uncomfortable in my heart, and felt that my nose was sour.

After going down, he basically stayed in the prince's mansion, but he didn't expect the lives of these people outside to be so bitter and helpless.

"Old man, you can accept this silver, I will come often in the future, and it will be my future food money." I forcibly stuffed the ingot of silver into the palm of the old man's hand, spoke again, and said, "If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about the child, you can take the silver so that you can buy her a few new clothes and delicious food, and her life can be improved, so don't shirk it." ”

The old man sighed for a while, but finally took the money, and kept telling us when we left that we would not have to pay for the meal the next time we came.

"Isn't this Chang'an City the imperial capital of your Tang Dynasty? Why is life so embarrassing for the elderly? "On the way, I kept thinking about this question, why did the people in the seemingly prosperous imperial capital still live so bitterly that they couldn't even eat?

Li Hanyan glanced up at the cloudless sky, and only after a while did he hold back a few words: "The two saints divide the government." ”

"Two saints? Your father and your grandmother? What does it have to do with them? Hearing him say that, I was even more confused.

"If you look at the annals and ancient books, you will know that in any dynasty, there can only be one supreme ruler. The struggle for power between the two saints has lasted for decades, how can there be time to pay attention to the suffering of these people? Li Hanyan said in a deep voice.

"In the final analysis, it's because of that broken position, the two saints are fighting, you and your brothers are also fighting, I really don't know what to fight for, if you can't bring a better life to the people as an emperor, what's the use?" I muttered in a disgruntled voice.

Li Hanyan didn't speak, as if thinking about something, I limped behind, and asked tentatively: "If, I mean if, if you become the emperor in the future, will you be a Ming monarch or a faint monarch?" What kind of life can you bring to your people? ”

"You're talking a little too much." Li Hanyan didn't even look back, and responded emotionlessly. "If you don't say it, don't say it, what's the big deal." I rolled his eyes wide.

Soon, the tall mahogany door of the Prince's Mansion came into view, and the guards outside the door also noticed the two of us, and immediately rushed over, "Meet His Royal Highness the Prince, Princess!" ”

"Don't say goodbye, hurry up and get me a chair, my feet are almost useless." I was crying out half-dead, and the guards hurriedly carried two sedan chairs over and helped the two of us up.

After returning to the prince's mansion, I went straight to my dormitory to take a comfortable hot bath, and then slept on it for a long time, I slept in the temple last night, I was uncomfortable, and when I woke up, the swelling on my ankles not only did not subside, but also became more serious, if I don't deal with it well, I may really have to use a cane when I go out in the future.

When I returned to the dormitory, I soaked in the hot springs for a few hours, changed into light clothes, and asked Su Mu to apply herbs to reduce swelling and fire blood to me, and before I knew it, it was almost dusk, and I was tossing and turning in bed, and I couldn't sleep.

He simply got up and carried a jar of old wine to the roof of the dormitory, and lay down here looking at the stars that gradually emerged in the sky.

At this moment, the bright moon hangs in the sky, sprinkling the moonlight like thin smoke, and a large number of stars accompany the left and right, like diamonds shining on the black curtain.

It was a palace in the fairy world, and the affection between the old man and the little girl in the morning inadvertently touched the deepest thing in my heart, and my father's face appeared in my heart from time to time.

"Daddy, how are you doing? My daughter misses you......"

I muttered to myself, looking up at the starry sky, and I wanted to transcend all constraints and return to the fairy world to chat with my father, even if it was good to be scolded by him angrily.

However, this is unrealistic, I insisted on going down to the mortal world to experience at the beginning, but now the process has not progressed halfway, and the mana has not recovered, even this mortal imperial capital I can't escape, and it is even more impossible to return to the immortal world with the laws of heaven.

"How to cross this catastrophe? No one told me about it, alas, if I knew it, I wouldn't have come down, but I had to make trouble for myself. ”

It's been nearly half a year since I went down, and I don't know what I'm supposed to do, all day long is to eat and sleep, day after day, just give me a goal, tell me how to go next, I won't be so confused......