Volume 3 Pen Knife Spring and Autumn Chapter 374 Why is cucumber called cucumber if it is not yellow?

Today is just a very ordinary day in spring, and it is not a festival and solar term, but there are still a lot of cars, horses and pedestrians going to Daming Temple.

Cao Yi and other talents set off from the Zhizhou Mansion, still in Yangzhou City, they saw the streets and alleys, everywhere pedestrians are weaving, even out of the city gate, on the road to Daming Temple, it is also a car like a dragon, worthy of the ten miles of spring breeze Yangzhou Road, prosperous as Si.

The carriage carrying Cao Yi, Tan Yun and Liu Baiqing drove out of the city gate and headed all the way to the northwest suburbs.

Today's weather is very good, the wind is beautiful, the air is wafting with the unique fragrance of spring herbs and light flowers, the road is also covered with willows and flowers and shrubs, the warm wind blows, the weeping willows and leaves drive, there will be a sound of rustling, but also send the fragrance of spring.

In addition to the carriage, there are many pedestrians on both sides of the road, all of whom are the kind of ordinary people who can't afford to buy a carriage at home, but it can't prevent them from going to Daming Temple today to step on the spring or burn incense and pray for blessings.

Along the official road, you can occasionally see a few farmers working on the fields next to them, and some farmers even sell fresh fruits grown in their fields on both sides of the road. Whenever someone in a well-dressed or horse-drawn carriage passed by, they would shout loudly.

Tan Yun just heard the clamor outside, so he opened the curtain and poked his head out to look out, seeing that the fruit that the man was selling happened to be what he liked to eat, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva unconsciously.

Because there was silence in the carriage before, Cao Yi had been closing his eyes and pretending to sleep since he got into the carriage at the gate of the Zhizhou Mansion, so Liu Baiqing and Tan Yun in the carriage had also been quiet, causing Tan Yun's swallowing sound just now to become very obvious, and Cao Yi, who had been closing his eyes, was shocked to open his eyes.

Tan Yun seemed to know his own embarrassment just now, blushing shyly, lowering his head and not daring to look at Cao Yi, twisting his hands and playing with the corners of his clothes, Cao Yi smiled lightly, although his eyes have been closed, but it does not mean that he can't pay attention to the situation around him, just now he heard the sound of selling outside, and then he heard the sound of squirting when the curtains were lifted, and finally the swallowing sound of Tan Yun next to him, without looking at it, he knew that it must be the little gluttonous cat Tan Yun saw the delicious fruit, and then the gluttonous worm in his stomach committed it again.

Thinking of this, Cao Yi shook his head slightly, stopped the coachman, and said to Liu Baiqing: "Bai Qing, you take Tan Yun down to buy some fruits, Tan Yun, you pick a few fruits you like to eat, it doesn't matter if you buy more, you can eat them on the road, and if you can't finish eating, you can take more back, so that Red Sleeves and Qi Hail can also taste the fresh fruits that have just been picked in the field." ”

Tan Yun hurriedly exclaimed: "Thank you, Childe!" Then he was the first to get out of the carriage.

Liu Baiqing knew that Cao Yi was very fond of Tan Yun, and his first reaction at the moment was that the son was just to satisfy Tan Yun's desire for tongue, so he smiled and agreed, but when he opened the curtain of the carriage door and was about to go down, Cao Yi suddenly spoke.

"Bai Qing, when you go down, take a look around by the way, pay attention, is there anything unusual and worth noting."

Liu Baiqing was holding the door curtain with his hand at this time, and his entire upper body had already bent over and was ready to go out, and he paused there after hearing Cao Yi's words, he was a little unclear whether Gongzi pitied Tan Yun, so he let him go down with Tan Yun, or because he wanted to observe the surrounding situation by himself, and by the way, let Tan Yun go down to buy fruits, there was also a legitimate reason.

If it's the former, but it stands to reason that it's just a matter of buying a few fruits, and the carriage is parked next to it, and after paying the money, turn around and bring it in.

If Gongzi didn't have the second half of the sentence, then Liu Baiqing would have thought it so simply, but with the latter sentence, then Liu Baiqing had to guess that Cao Yi was not only simply satisfied with Tan Yun's greed, but also let himself go down to observe whether there were any attackers who were suspected of attacking him and others, so that he could prepare as soon as possible.

Liu Baiqing paused for a moment, and then immediately went down, and sighed in his heart, at such a young age, Gongzi has been doing things so well, and he is so cautious, which really has to be admired.

Then when Tan Yun came down to pick fruits, he pretended to circle around Tan Yun inadvertently, turned around and looked around, and then quietly looked at the guards who were hiding in the dark.

"How?" Cao Yi asked Liu Baiqing, who had just returned.

Tan Yun also stopped the action of about to reach out and hand the fruit to Cao Yi, and when he heard this, he silently withdrew the fruit in his hand, took out the handkerchief he carried with him, and wiped it carefully.

"There are two stalkers, it seems that they don't plan to do anything on the road, the people behind us are not anyone other than him, and there is nothing to find in front, I just made eye contact with the person who is hiding in our own disguise, and the road is theoretically safe." Liu Baiqing said slowly.

Cao Yi nodded: "It's similar to what I guessed, after all, there are so many pedestrians on the road now, if you do it here, then there will be a lot of witnesses, and they are still unwilling to take this risk on the road in broad daylight...... Tan Yun, hmm, bring me the pears to eat, they look delicious. ”

Cao Yi said the second half of the sentence to Tan Yun, and Tan Yun quickly handed the Sydney pear in his hand to Cao Yi when he heard this, and then handed another one to Liu Baiqing, and then he began to take a bite with satisfaction.

"Wow, that's so sweet!" Tan Yun sighed, "It's much sweeter than buying it in the city!" ”

Then he smiled sweetly at Cao Yi: "Childe, fortunately, you let me buy a little more, the fruits here are not only sweet and delicious, but also much cheaper, I bought a lot of fruits, apples, pears, grapes, pomegranates, and cucumbers......"

Cao Yi also took a bite of the pear in his hand, it was indeed crisp and sweet, when the pear itself was bought, it had been cleaned by the farmers, and there was dew on it, and there was no chemical fertilizer and pesticide in this era, it was pure natural green and healthy food, Cao Yi was also very relieved to eat, and now listening to Tan Yun say this, it seems that it is indeed better than the fruit bought in the city before.

Cao Yi couldn't help but feel that Tan Yun's heart was strong when he was eating the fruit, and he had clearly told her that this was a risky thing, and that he and others would be attacked at any time, and they might be injured or their lives would be in danger, but looking at Tan Yun's current performance, it was as if nothing would happen.

I don't know if Tan Yun is really fearless or if her mind is too simple, and she can only store a little thing, which has been completely stuffed with food at the moment, so she can't tolerate other things, and when the danger really comes, he may only take the danger to heart in his heart.

Although Cao Yi and Liu Baiqing did not show any worry or anxiety on their faces before, the two of them still kept this matter in their hearts, after all, no one knew what extent Chu Mingxuan arranged this matter, how many people would be attacked by others behind him, how many people there would be, and what strength of the attack force, just beating Cao Yi to vent his evil anger, or just destroying it like this, this is something that no one can know in advance.

Only when Chu Mingxuan's back hand is really used can he know what kind of means the other party is and what kind of ending he wants. But Tan Yun doesn't seem to be worried at all, it's still what to do, and it's still greedy when it's time to be greedy, which is also something that Cao Yi admires, Tan Yun's performance like this also calmed Cao Yi's slightly irritable mind a lot before, anyway, everything has been arranged on his side, he has predicted various situations, and made corresponding arrangements, in fact, there is nothing to worry about.

Cao Yi laughed at himself in his heart, the person who crossed over by himself was not as strong as a little girl, shook his head slightly, and asked Tan Yun: "Tan Yun, you know that cucumbers are not yellow at all, they are green, but why are they called cucumbers by others?" ”

Originally, Tan Yun had already finished eating an apple, and at this time he reached out to hold a cucumber, and was about to stuff it into his mouth, when he heard Cao Yi's question, he stopped, and looked at the green cucumber in his hand, it seemed that it really had nothing to do with yellow, how could it be called a cucumber, she wrinkled her beautiful eyebrows, her facial features were almost tightly shrunk, and she didn't think of a reason.

"Uh...... Childe, is it that the cucumber was very pink when he was a child, and then it grew relatively light in color, and it looked like it was pale yellow, and when he got older, his skin became darker, so it changed from a cucumber to a green melon? In the end, Tan Yun still didn't find a reason why the cucumber was called a cucumber in her head, so she arranged a reason for it according to her own understanding.

"......" Cao Yi looked at Tan Yun speechlessly, and asked tentatively: "Tan Yun, have you ever seen cucumbers when you were a child?" No, you've seen cucumbers when you were a kid? ”

Tan Yun shook her head, but it didn't prevent her from taking a bite of the cucumber in her hand, and said vaguely: "When I was a child, Tan Yun's family planted crops, and never planted cucumbers, and at that time, the family was poor, and they wouldn't buy cucumbers that couldn't be eaten. ”

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