Chapter Ninety-Six: Xiangzhuang

After receiving Guangshan, Yan Kui regained his desire to practice martial arts.

After lunch at noon, Yan Kui pulled Guangshan in the backyard of the post house, holding the book "Seventy-two Styles of King Kong Demon Suppression" left by Master Guangshan and pondering together how to change the moves corresponding to the King Kong Demon Suppression Pestle into moves suitable for maces.

The two of them pondered while studying, and at the same time practiced in the backyard for most of the afternoon, and threw all the recruitment of recruits to Gong Fa.

It's not that Yan Kui wants to be lazy, he does have a little bit of the meaning of cultivating Gong Fa, not to mention, he has arranged it before, most of the people who came to join the army this time are system soldiers, and there are few real recruits.

In the evening, Gong Fa came back from the place where the recruits were recruited, and as Yan Kui expected, the recruitment process went smoothly, if there were no accidents, five days later, the recruitment of new troops in Teng County would be completed.

Pulling Gong Fa and a few low-level petty officials of the militia group, Yan Kui was going to find a good restaurant in the county seat of Tengxian County, and the big guys would get together together.

First, it can be regarded as a reward for Gong Fa and others, and secondly, it is also for the newcomer Guangshan to pick up the wind and wash the dust, and by the way, let everyone recognize their faces and get closer to the relationship.

As the chief general of the first army, although Yan Kui doesn't want his subordinates to hug each other, which is not conducive to his command, he also doesn't want everyone to go toe-to-toe, like passers-by, at least there is still a team atmosphere.

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Yan Kui had been to Tengxian County before, but he didn't stay for long, he just stayed for two or three days and left, food and accommodation were all arranged, and he didn't go around the county much, so he didn't know about the major good places in Tengxian County.

Fortunately, the people in the post house knew that Yan Kui was going to go out to play, so they specially arranged a guide, so Yan Kui asked everyone to take off their armor, only carry a short blade, and come to the streets of Tengxian County lightly.

Yan Kui's reputation in Qingyuan is too great, when he didn't practice as a militia group before, there were people on the street who knew him, the first good man in Qingyuan, and after the eradication of Heifengling, he went to the street several times to praise his achievements, and the entire county from the eighty-year-old man to the three-year-old child, no one did not know Yan Kui's face.

Even if you don't know his face, Yan Kui's highly recognizable figure can clearly set off bursts of chanting in the county.

Therefore, in the past half a year, Yan Kui has hardly wandered on the street, and now when he comes to Teng County, although many people have seen Yan Kui at the gate of the city before, but at night, no one has come forward to recognize each other carefully.

So, today Yan Kui walked around the streets of Tengxian County, and it was rare for someone to come forward to disturb him, which really made Yan Kui feel good.

The only pity is that there are few poor people in Tengxian County, and the liveliness on the street is much worse than that of Qingyuan.

As a result, Yan Kui asked the guide to know that although Teng County is not as rich as Qingyuan, it is not much worse, and the reason why there are so few people on the street now is really because the Guo family and Jin San had too much trouble some time ago, and the people did not hide from the disaster, unless necessary, they hid at home and did not come out when it was dark.

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After listening to the guide's words, Yan Kui frowned slightly, he had only a general understanding of the battle between the Guo family and Jin San after listening to the report of the guards before.

Now seeing this sparsely populated Tengxian Street, Yan Kui knew that the two families were fighting so fiercely that the people of the entire county avoided it.

What does the county government of Tengxian County do to eat!

As an official of the Northern Jin Dynasty, although Yan Kui had a lot of careful thoughts in private, he still admired the government and the yamen to govern the place according to the law, and now he saw that the Guo family and Jin San ignored the laws of the imperial court and were bold enough to do so, and he suddenly had a lot of bad feelings towards both sides in his heart.

Yan Kui frowned and didn't speak, and the guide didn't say anything about the Guo and Jin families, he listened to a post house, but he didn't dare to offend such two local bosses.

Just now, I also looked at the street that was too different from the previous popularity, and I was angry for a while, so I had a few more words in front of Yan Kui, but now that I have calmed down, I don't want to say more about it.

The guide didn't say, Yan Kui didn't ask, the group walked around the street for a while, Yan Kui felt a little hungry in his belly, and the guide led everyone to the most famous restaurant in Teng County - Xiangzhuang.

As mentioned earlier, people in Teng County love to eat mutton, so the best restaurant in Teng County is naturally a mutton restaurant.

Xiang, in the meaning of the word through the sheep, Xiangzhuang is naturally a sheep village, but the name Xiang, but it is both auspicious and elegant, Yan Kui glanced at the sign hanging at the door of the restaurant, and felt that the restaurant owner is also a wonderful person.

After asking the guide, I learned that this restaurant had something to do with Jin San, Yin Xiao, the owner of Xiangzhuang, was the only son-in-law in this life.

"Interesting."

Yan Kui showed a smile on his face, since he came to Teng County, he could meet acquaintances everywhere, the people of Teng County were entangled, and everyone had contact with everyone, which was really interesting.

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Xiangzhuang's business is good, Yan Kui and his party did not alarm anyone when they came in, the guide asked for a private room with a familiar way, and everyone came to the private room to order and wait.

After a while, a guy from a restaurant came to arrange the dishes and chopsticks, felt that the temperature in the box was not high, asked Yan Kui, and then moved a charcoal box over and placed it in a corner of the private room.

Gong Fa and the others didn't feel anything when they heard this, they just felt that this restaurant was thoughtful, but Yan Kui glanced at the ventilation device that the guy said in a little surprise.

What smoke smells, which is definitely to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning for private room guests.

Indoor charcoal fire heating, if not ventilated, it is easy to lead to an increase in carbon monoxide, and then poison the human body.

Yan Kui was tempted, so he told everyone the inside story, of course, he didn't say anything about carbon monoxide, and casually found the word carbon poison instead.

Sure enough, the guy in the restaurant was very surprised by Yan Kui's words, and made a big gift, saying that there were indeed guests in the restaurant before because the box burned charcoal and did not ventilate, but fortunately, there were guys at the door of the private room at that time who watched and rescued him in time.

This incident happened three years ago, and now it is estimated that most people in Teng County don't remember, but I didn't expect that Yan Kui just glanced at it today, and said the key, and suddenly, the restaurant guy looked at Yan Kui with eyes like looking at a fairy.

Coincidentally, after listening to the guy's story, Gong Fa and the others were also quite surprised, Gong Fa and Yan Kui were close, and they didn't avoid as many subordinates as Guangshan, so they were curious and asked directly.

"Second brother, how do you know about carbon poisoning?"

Yan Kui casually used his encounter to prevaricate Gong Fa, and then asked the guy about the "master" who designed the ventilation device.

Frankly speaking, Yan Kui is very interested in this master, and he can see that carbon monoxide poisoning is nothing, and some knowledgeable doctors in Langzhong know this, but it is definitely not simple to solve this problem perfectly.

Yan Kui saw the ventilation device in the private room, it was not very clever, but it was definitely not something that could be made casually, and even Yan Kui saw a few traces of the design of the range hood in his previous life.

This discovery made Yan Kui feel that this master was either a time-traveler or a gifted craftsman, and according to the design of some parts of the ventilation device that was still limited to the times, Yan Kui felt that it was very likely to be the latter.

Obediently, if there is such a talent under his subordinates, with his craftsmanship and his own knowledge, he will definitely be able to create some good things that are ahead of the times.

As a military general, Yan Kui doesn't ask for any planes and tanks, as long as he can make him a musket artillery, he will be satisfied............

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Suddenly, a raging fire of love surged in Yan Kui's chest, but unfortunately, this fire was doused by the guy with a basin of ice water in a blink of an eye.

"That master is an old Taoist priest with a crane hair and a childish face, and he also traveled here unexpectedly, so that our owner met, and after helping our owner make this thing, he left in a few days, and we have never heard of this old Taoist priest's letter again."

Yan Kui: "........."

Not in the mood to fight with the guy anymore, he waved his hand to let him go down, and Yan Kui began to deal with the mutton banquet in front of him with a frown.

Grilled lamb chops, mutton in sauce, roasted mutton trotters, fried mutton liver, fried lamb tripe, stewed mutton, mutton soup, stewed mutton offal......

I have to say that Xiangzhuang can be called the first restaurant in Tengxian County, and the chef in it has two brushes, which is no worse than Fumanlou in Qingyuan, anyway, Yan Kui is comfortable, and even the frowning brows that were wrinkled because of the loss of talent have gradually eased a lot.

Yan Kui and they ate happily in the private room, and the guy who was questioned by them just now also found another guy to help watch outside the private room, and he ran to the tea room on the second floor where the owner usually stays to report the news.

Yin Xiao, the owner of Xiangzhuang, is just in his early thirties this year, he used to be a poor scholar, and later because of his outstanding appearance was favored by Jin San's daughter, Yin Xiao took advantage of the power of the Yue family to slowly rise to power, and later, in one fell swoop, he created Xiangzhuang, the No. 1 restaurant in Teng County.

not only preliminarily took off the name of eating soft rice, but also set a counterattack standard for countless phoenix men in Teng County.

However, Yin Xiao also knows that everything he has now is given by Jin San, his father-in-law, if there is no Jin San behind his back, his auspicious village will never be so stable, so Yin Xiao has always hoped that his father-in-law Jin San can always give him protection until he can be truly independent.

Recently, Yin Xiao has been worried because of the fight between Jin San and the Guo family, lest his father-in-law be defeated and then implicate himself, so as soon as he is idle, he hides in the tea room in the store, drinking tea and thinking about countermeasures, in order to help Jin San something.

Therefore, when the guy reported Yan Kui's ventilator at a glance to Yin Xiao, Yin Xiao didn't take it seriously.

If it was before, Yin Xiao might have made friends, but now he is full of thoughts about Jin San and the Guo family, how can he have the heart to make friends with guests.

Just about to send the guy out, Yin Xiao suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, thought of the news he heard yesterday, called the guy to his side, and asked Yan Kui and the others about their appearance and clothing.

The guy told the truth, a job like him that ushered in the delivery, one must have sharp eyes, two must have a sweet mouth, and three must have a strong memory, so describing Yan Kui's appearance characteristics is a piece of cake.

"There were eight guests at that table, and the leader was a big man, tall and strong, not angry and arrogant, but looking like a big man; In addition, there is a young man, a monk, who seems to be a subordinate of the big man, but his status is not low, and he talks and laughs with the big man.

As for the remaining five, one of them should be a guide, and the younger one had seen him bring guests to the store, as if he was a person from the inn; And the other four, sitting at the table and not speaking, should be guards.

By the way, the owner, this group of people still has a guy on them, and the little one feels that this group of people has a military smell, and they are not ordinary soldiers, they should be the kind of elite soldiers who are powerful in war. ”

I have to say that this guy's eyesight is really powerful, just waiting in front of Yan Kui and the others for a while, and then guessing their identities, of course, this is also the reason why Yan Kui and they deliberately did not hide.

The head of the man's analysis was Dao, and Yin Xiao became more and more excited the more he listened, and after the guy finished speaking, he stood up and clapped his hands fiercely.

"It's definitely him, lead the way, I'm going to meet your guests........."