Xu Xiang didn't stay here in the end, and he didn't know what Qin Zhiwei meant by "advance", before leaving, he glanced back at the Commander Palace. The father's picture was found by Luo Min from inside, and he was eager to go inside to see if he could find anything else about his parents

When it was almost dawn, it was Ningzhou who sent him back, but this time he didn't go back by the Vermilion Bird like when he came, but made a detour to Lingwu County from another mountain.

Lingwu County is in the northeast of Ningdu, separated by Lingwu Mountain, is a small county town at the confluence of the Yellow River and Ningjiang River, from the East China Sea and Beimeng to Ningdu, if you take the land route, it is from Linhe City, all the way to the west. If you take the waterway, it is relatively fast, sail northwest along the Yellow River, and after reaching Lingwu County, you can enter Ningdu by water and land.

Ningzhou came over this time, by waterway, and after arriving in Lingwu County, Xu Yi and Lu Tianyao and others were settled, and then entered Longque Valley from Lingwu Mountain.

Lingwu Mountain is a north-south direction, belonging to one of the Heluo Mountain Range, a small mountain peak, with a height of more than 1,000 meters. Because it is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, and the mountain road is rugged and steep, few people can climb to the top of the mountain, and it is called Xianshan by the locals.

Walking through a secret road to the north from Longque Valley, Ningzhou drove a carriage to send him out of the valley, Xu Xiang's sleepiness hit, and he fell asleep leaning on the wooden beam of the carriage.

When Ning Zhou woke him up, it was already dawn, and they had already come to the foot of Lingwu Mountain.

"Your Highness, I'll send you here. Your subordinates are at the Tianbao Inn in the county seat, and Your Highness can go and find them on your own. Ning Zhou didn't seem to have any intention of entering the city, and after waking him up, he said.

"Good! Thank you, Lord Nin. ”

After saying that, he got out of the carriage and walked to the county seat.

"Your Highness!" Ning Zhou suddenly stopped him, "If one day, Your Highness becomes the commander of the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow, what will you do?" Will you use the power of the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow to help you restore the country, or will you replace the Xuanyuan clan? ”

Xu Xiang turned around, walked back, looked at him, and asked, "What do you want me to do?" ”

"Ning doesn't know."

Xu Xiang smiled lightly, shook his head, turned to leave, and left Ningzhou, who was full of confusion, looking at his back as he walked towards Lingwu City, he muttered to himself: "Hope...... You don't do stupid things. ”

What Xu Xiang wants to do is just to make sure that these displaced people can eat, and in the cold or hot season, there is a house that can shelter from the wind and rain, and enjoy the shade.

As for whether he could restore the country, or replace the Xuanyuan clan, he didn't think too much about it.

Mencius Youyun: "The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light." ”

Although Mencius did not appear in this world, the class antagonism between the aristocracy and the commoners has lasted for thousands of years. But in his heart, a monarch who can't think about ordinary people all the time, an official who can't serve the people, and a general who can't protect the peace of the people are all unqualified.

From the moment Linzi left, he was determined to take this difficult road.

Although the road is full of thorns and dangers, since you can live such a life again, you have to be worthy of this rebirth.

"Even if I really die in this land, I am worthy of my conscience." Xu Xiang read silently in his heart.

Lingwu County is not as heavily guarded as Ningdu, and as long as you don't carry weapons, you can come and go freely.

Xu Xiang smoothly entered the city through the city gate, and after asking about the Tianbao Inn, he went directly.

The Tempo Inn is the largest inn in the city, and in modern terms, a five-star hotel. Different from the dirty mess of ordinary small inns, the entire gate and lobby of Tianbao Inn are cleaned, and even the air in the room is filled with a sweet smell.

It's just that there is a hint of flavor in this smell that Xu Xiang is too familiar with, that is, the aroma of barbecue and fried chicken.

Lingwu County is not far from Ningdu, since the food of the gnawed chickens spread in Ningdu City, those businessmen in the small counties around Ningdu discovered the business opportunities and moved them to these small counties.

Tianbao Inn was the first to introduce fried chicken and barbecue to Lingwu County, and it did the best, and the taste was the most authentic.

"Yo! Guest, are you here to eat fried chicken, barbecue, or stay in a hotel? Dressed neatly and cleanly, the shopkeeper greeted him with a smile.

He saw that Xu Xiang was wearing a blue brocade robe, this material was still relatively precious in Lingwu City, and it was a standard aristocratic dress, so he naturally showed a very enthusiastic attitude.

"I'm here to find someone." Xu Xiang replied.

Hearing that he was looking for someone, the shopkeeper asked, "Childe, who are you looking for?" ”

"Was there a middle-aged man surnamed Xu staying in the hotel yesterday, and there was a family of three with him." Xu Xiang described Xu Yi's characteristics and asked.

"Oh! Are you talking about the guest officers who Ning Gongzi arranged to live in our Tianbao Inn? After listening to his description of Xu Yi, the shopkeeper showed a sudden expression and said.

"Yes!"

"Yo, that's not a coincidence!" The shopkeeper said with some pity, "After breakfast today, they took the little girl to the market in the city. ”

"Did they say when they would be back?" Xu Xiang asked.

"When will the guest officer come back, he will tell us guys!" The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Childe, why don't you sit down in our shop and try the new fried chicken and barbecue that our inn chef learned from Ningdu, I guarantee that you will not regret it after eating it." Maybe they'll be back soon! ”

"It's fine." Xu Xiang nodded, anyway, he was waiting for Xu Xiang and them, and by the way, he also tried the fried chicken and barbecue made by others.

"That son, please come here!" The shopkeeper hunched over and ushered him into a shiny and clean table.

"Childe, take a look, what do you want to eat?" The shopkeeper took out a brocade-white silk cloth with the prices of fried chicken and barbecue written on it.

This brocade-white silk cloth is worth a lot of money, and this is probably the "menu" that they learned from the gnawing chickens, but they have no paper, so they can only replace it with expensive silk cloth.

This silk cloth exudes a faint fragrance, and the words on it are very beautiful, small and exquisite, which makes people feel like they can't put it down when they see this silk cloth.

"That's a good handwriting!" Xu Xiang appreciated, thinking in his heart that the words on the menu of his "gnawing chicken" were written by Mr. Yun, who did the carving, and there was a feeling of dragon flying and phoenix dancing.

"Childe, you really have a vision. This word is written by our Miss Cousin, who is a talented girl in our Lingwu City. Even Lord Fu Yin praised Miss Biao's talent! The shopkeeper said proudly.

"Oh? I wonder if I have a chance to meet your cousin? Xu Xiang asked.

The shopkeeper showed an expression of "I know what you want to do", and said: "Childe, I'm really sorry, there are countless young talents in Lingwu City who admire my Miss Cousin, but Miss Cousin has never seen them, I'm afraid you will be disappointed." ”

"Oh, that's fine." Xu Xiang knows that this kind of famous lady attaches great importance to her reputation, so naturally it is not easy to see, not to mention that this young lady is famous.

"Son, what do you want to eat?"

Xu Xiang returned the silk cloth to him and said casually: "Let's fry a copy." ”

"Huh?" The shopkeeper was puzzled and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

Xu Xiang reacted at this time, and accidentally said a modern word, so he explained: "What I mean is that everything on this is a copy." ”

"Both...... All on the other? The shopkeeper was stunned, he had never seen such an arrogant guest.

"Are you afraid I won't pay?" Xu Xiang took out a silver ingot of ten taels from his arms and gently placed it on the table.

"No, no!" The shopkeeper hurriedly said, "Then I'll let the kitchen make it for you." ”

In addition to fried chicken, barbecue has been enriched a lot, as long as it is something that can be eaten, it can be grilled on the barbecue grill, so it didn't take long for there to be no less than fifty kinds of barbecue ingredients on the table in front of Xu Xiang.

Although these things smell very fragrant, they contain a faint fishy smell.

He started with the fish, but as soon as he grabbed a piece of the fish's back and ate it in his mouth, he spit it out.

"Childe doesn't like it?" The shopkeeper asked cautiously on the side.

"Except for the fried chicken, let's get rid of it all." Xu Xiang waved his hand, these barbecues were very unsuccessful.

If you take the taste of people in this era, it is naturally impeccable, but for Xu Xiang, you can taste the good and bad at once.

"Childe, are these barbecues not to your taste?" The shopkeeper looked puzzled, he had tasted it before, and naturally felt that the taste was impeccable, but this guest officer only tasted a mouthful of fish, and then denied everything else?

"yes, it's not baked!" Xu Xiang shook his head and said with some disappointment.

The shopkeeper said, "Childe, wait a minute, I'll go talk to the chefs." ”

This fried chicken is not bad, as long as it is fried without vegetable oil and tea oil, the taste is not much worse.

After a while, the shopkeeper came over with two middle-aged men, one of whom was dressed in high-quality brocade and had a slightly fat figure, which should be the shopkeeper of this Tianbao Inn. The other was a little older, with a white samboo bib tied around his waist, and looked like a chef.

"Childe, Xie Tianbao, the shopkeeper of the Xia Tianbao Inn, I heard that this barbecue is not to the appetite of Childe?" The middle-aged man asked.

"Hmm. Shopkeeper Xie, your barbecue was not grilled well, so I asked Xiao Er to take it down. Of course, don't worry, I'll give you the silver. Xu Xiang wiped the greasy corners of his mouth and said.

"Where's the roast? So many people come to us for barbecue, and they are full of praise! I think Childe came here on purpose to find fault! The cook was a little upset and seemed a little grumpy.

"Huh!" Xie Tianbao raised his hand to stop the chef from continuing, he knew that the chef was very old, and his usual temper was very hot, and he didn't like others to criticize him for not making things that were delicious. If he continues to let him speak, he may offend the guests, judging from Xu Xiang's dress alone, they can't afford to offend businessmen like them.

But the chef didn't have the eyesight to see it, and he couldn't do anything about it, so he could only say with a smiling face: "Childe, please forgive me!" It's not because of the money, but because even the people in Ningdu City are full of praise for this barbecue, but Childe thinks that the barbecue in the small shop is not good. So I came to ask Childe for advice, so I can make improvements! ”

Xu Xiang glanced at him and said, "Let's put it this way, in order to be fast, your restaurant has put all the ingredients together to roast them, so as to skewer the flavor." ”

"Skewers?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Ningdu is also roasted like this! The chef was very unhappy, saying that his way of grilling was wrong, and naturally he couldn't bear it.

"Fish has a strong fishy smell, so I guess you didn't marinate it with salt and ginger, right? After washing, smear a layer of oil and bake it directly, right? Xu Xiang glanced at the chef and said.

“？” The chef looked confused, "What salt and ginger pickled?" ”

"It is to rub salt on the surface of the cleaned fish, and then marinate it with ginger and garlic! Your fish only smells salty on the surface, and it tastes tasteless at all, and it has a strong fishy smell! During the barbecue process, it is grilled with other ingredients, and the fishy smell spreads to other ingredients, which also affects the taste of other ingredients! Xu Xiang pointed out unceremoniously.

"Joke! Do you know how precious salt is? For such a big fish, you have to use up two or three taels of salt to smear salt on the surface, right? This fish is only thirty dollars, according to what you do, thirty dollars, even salt money is not enough! The cook said with a sneer.

Only then did Xu Xiang remember that the yield of salt in this world was very low, and the quality was also very poor, and it was mined and refined from the salt mine. Ordinary people can't afford to eat salt, and only this kind of restaurant and the mansions of dignitaries and nobles will have salt as a seasoning.

When Xu Xiang was making barbecue before, he didn't cook grilled fish because of the high price of salt.

There is no grilled fish in the barbecue of the gnawing chicken, so the merchants in Ningdu also default that the fish cannot be grilled, but the people of this Lingwu City don't know, they think that anything can be grilled, so there is this scene.

"Childe, you think this fish needs to be marinated before it can be grilled, which is really a bit embarrassing!" Xie Tianbao also said with an embarrassed face.

"So this failure is in this fish." Xu Xiang said.

"Childe, you haven't been a chef, so naturally you don't know the reason, in this case, we won't grill the fish, how about the other barbecue help you get a new one?" Xie Tianbao said with a smile on his face.

"Yes! I, Jiang Junsheng, have been working as a chef for decades, and no one has ever felt that anything is inappropriate! You ask the guests in the lobby to judge, who thinks the food I cook is not delicious? You're just a diner, so what qualifications do you have! The cook's stubbornness rose again, and he said with a hint of unhappiness, so loudly that the other diners in the inn could hear it.

Immediately, a guest heard it and responded loudly: "I don't have to say what Chef Jiang's food tastes!" ”

"This fried chicken and barbecue, by the hands of Chef Jiang, is really amazing!"

"This son, you can't just say that the things made by Chef Jiang are not delicious just because you think they are not delicious, right?"

Hearing the words of the diners around him, Xie Tianbao secretly complained, didn't he offend people?

Xu Xiang smiled slightly, but didn't care, "Shopkeeper, settle the account, how much silver!" ”

"Childe, forget it......" Xie Tianbao said with some embarrassment, he really didn't want to offend people.

"How can you forget it! Shopkeeper, he ordered all these things, he didn't eat them himself, so he naturally had to pay! A total of six taels of silver and thirty-four dollars! Give the money! Chef Jiang interjected and said, these things are all made by him, and he can give him a part of the money, if he doesn't collect the money, he has nothing, so he is naturally unhappy.

At this time, Xu Xiang stood up, looked at the chef with a smile, and said lightly to Xie Tianbao: "Shopkeeper Xie, I think you should change the chef." ”

"It's over! This noble son is angry! Xie Tianbao was very embarrassed in his heart, this chef was recruited by him with great difficulty, and it has also become the signature of their Tianbao Inn, if he changes it because of this, he will definitely damage a lot.

But he is uncertain about Xu Xiang's identity, if he is really a nobleman with real power, it is too cost-effective to offend a nobleman.

"Chef Jiang, you pack up your things, go to the accounting room to calculate, and leave!" He reluctantly compromised.

Chef Jiang showed an unbelievable look in his eyes, pointed at Xu Xiang, and said, "Shopkeeper, are you driving me away because of him?" Is it because he seems to be a nobleman that you are so daring? What if he was a nobleman? Of the nobles in Lingwu County who have tasted my Jiang Junsheng's dishes, which one thinks it is not delicious? Who is he to say that I don't make it delicious? ”

"He's definitely qualified!" At this moment, a man dressed in blue satin walked in at the gate.