Chapter 44: See His Royal Highness
In a blink of an eye, it was the seventh day of the first month.
This day is also called "Renri Festival", it is an important day in the first month, according to the northern custom to eat noodles on the day, there are also places to take seven different vegetables to boil Qibao soup on this day, the Central Plains is full of people, each is different.
But Chen Ti doesn't care who he is every day, he hunts all year round for a living, and every meal must have meat.
Fortunately, although Qingxiang Buzhuang is not doing well, it is a spy stronghold under the jurisdiction of the Yan Mansion after all, and there is still no shortage of money.
So Shopkeeper Liang and his two men went to Zuixiaoju, the most famous restaurant in the city, and asked for eight plates of special dishes, filled three food boxes, and then took them back.
Chen Ti is good at meat, but he doesn't drink, Lu Rong is not very good, and the responsibilities of the shopkeeper and the guys are even more drunk, and only Wu Bei is a little Yaxing, but there is no one to accompany him, so he will give up.
Everyone sat around a table, eating and chatting, which was very enjoyable.
Zuixiaoju is worthy of the most famous restaurant in Chang'an City, and the eight dishes are full of colors and flavors, especially the store's signature stewed pork three fresh, which is steamed and then stewed with three kinds of meat, pork, mutton and chicken, and then boiled with a rich broth.
The shopkeeper Liang has lived in Chang'an City for a long time, so he naturally wants to do his best to be a landlord, and he introduced while eating: "In fact, the most famous thing in Zuixiaoju is a drunken sheep, but I am afraid that you will have taboos, so I didn't order it." ”
Lu Rong asked curiously, "What is a ground sheep?" ”
Shopkeeper Liang smiled: "The ground sheep is dog meat." ”
Huzi was wagging his tail and begging for food on the side, and Chen Ti ripped off a piece of tender chicken and handed it to its mouth.
Lu Rong touched the head of the tiger affectionately, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, you didn't order it, otherwise your store would have suffered." ”
After almost a month of getting along, Lu Rong also fell in love with this handsome and intelligent lynx dog.
Whenever Lu Rong practiced the sword, the tiger turned around with the blade of the sword, as if supervising Lu Rong, and the angry Lu Rong drank every time, for fear that a sword would hurt it.
Shopkeeper Liang also smiled: "Lynx dogs have long been rare in Qindi, I have seen one a long time ago, and it is also its size, but that dog is black and red, not as divine as it." ”
As if he understood the compliment, Huzi walked around the table and sat down next to the shopkeeper Liang.
Chen Ti snorted when he heard this: "What do you know, the reason why the raccoon is rare is because it is similar to the wolf species, it must eat meat for every meal, and it is extremely protective and aggressive, ordinary people can't afford to raise it, and big families don't dare to raise it, so it's getting less and less." My tiger is even more incredible, the lynx often gives birth to six sons at a time, and only when the essence of the mountains and wilderness is fed will there be seven, and this seventh is either pitch black or snow-white, all of which are extraordinary. Huzi was still exchanged for two adult black bear skins with an old mountaineer on Dilung Mountain, if it weren't for the old mountaineer's age, he knew that his life was coming to an end, he must have been reluctant. ”
Everyone was curious when they heard this, and they all stretched out their heads to look at the tiger, but they saw that it was still sticking out its tongue, looking greedy.
Shopkeeper Liang stammered: "Really...... Well...... Do not look like you. ”
Lu Rong picked up a piece of mutton and called, "Huzi is coming." ”
Wu Bei asked, "Uncle Chen, who are the people living in seclusion on the Lung Mountain in that place?" ”
Chen Ti was not idle, and said lightly: "It's nothing more than some old people who have escaped from the world, and most of them are mediocre people, and occasionally there are a few good people, all of whom are hard to find." ”
Lu Rong remembered that Du Yu, the swordsman he met at that time, happened to have a master here, so he asked: "There are many swordsmen in the world who understand swords by the mountain springs, what do they understand?" ”
Chen Ladder let out a long breath and said impatiently: "What do you understand? Look at what he lacks, you don't understand what you are doing now, and you don't understand it. ”
Lu Rongzao's face became thicker and thicker when he was stimulated by Chen Ti, and he was not discouraged, and asked, "Old man Chen can just say it." ”
Seeing that Chen Ti looked unteachable, Shopkeeper Liang interjected with a smile: "In fact, it is nothing more than sharpening the sword heart and sword intent, these things are indeed inexhaustible, little brother, you are new to swordsmanship, and you can't get involved in these." For example, when you practice swords in the world, you can practice to the extreme without a sword in your hand and a sword in your heart. The sword is just a blade, no different from a sword and a gun, but the deeper the swordsmanship of people in the world, the easier it is to be swayed by the sword in his hand, that is to put the cart before the horse,"
Tianjing and Qindi are far apart, and the imperial edict is not known to ordinary people, so the shopkeeper Liang still doesn't know the identity of Lu Rong and Chen Ti, so he has to call the two like this.
Chen Ti snorted coldly when he heard this: "Who said that the ultimate is like this? ”
Shopkeeper Liang only knew that Chen Ti's strength was extraordinary, but he didn't know what it was, so he naturally didn't go to the bottom of it, but only said that it was.
Lu Rong just wanted to ask again, but he heard an extremely small night owl chirping at the gate of Buzhuang, and the shopkeeper Liang also heard it, and hurriedly raised his hand to stop Lu Rong from talking, and listened carefully.
Huzi's ears were extremely smart, and he sensed the strangeness of everyone, and barked, Lu Rong hurriedly stroked his neck, and then quieted down.
One after another, one after another, followed by a clear knock on the door, two long and one short and one long.
Shopkeeper Liang glanced at the guy, the guy stood up, walked to the door, slowly opened the door, and checked left and right, but there was no one.
Lu Rong looked at the shopkeeper Liang, saw that he nodded slightly, and then looked at the guy who came in from outside the door, and after latching it, he walked to the side of the shopkeeper Liang, holding a rag in his hand, with two words "five feet" on it.
Shopkeeper Liang instructed the man to go to the counter and take out the account book of the previous year, and carefully tore the rags in his hand along the corners. It turned out that this cloth had two layers, and there were many numbers densely written on the inside.
Shopkeeper Liang took the account book in the man's hand, flipped to August, and compared them one by one.
Lu Rong was full of emotion in his heart, Gou Chenzi's entire spy process was so fine!
Think about the five feet on the rag, which corresponds to the month of the account book, and there is December in the year, not counting the leap month, how does the five feet correspond to July? And what year will it correspond to? It seems that there is still an agreement in it.
Chen Ti looked uninterested, lowered his head and couldn't stop eating. The rest of them were silent, waiting for the details of the espionage.
After a while, Shopkeeper Liang translated the spy report, his face was still as usual, but he was vaguely excited and suspicious, and asked slowly: "Mr. Wu?" ”
Wu Bei knew what he meant, and said, "It's okay, you say it." ”
Shopkeeper Liang nodded slightly, gasped twice, word by word, and said slowly: "The Son of Heaven issued an edict, and Lu Rong sealed the world." Immediately go to Tongguan and return to the secluded. ”
As soon as the words landed, everyone was silent for a while.
I only heard Chen Ti and Huzi munching.
A string of firecrackers exploded suddenly, and I don't know who had anything to celebrate.
After listening to the spy report, Lu Rong's heart suddenly had mixed feelings, as if he was in another world. Although he had vowed to inherit the throne before, when it was time to close the coffin, Lu Rong suddenly felt extremely confused and at a loss.
Wu Bei's face gradually became full of relief, put down the chopsticks in his hand, and slowly stood up.
Shopkeeper Liang held the rag in his arms and stood up together.
Wu Bei, Liang Shopkeeper, and the three of them turned to Lu Rong, tidied up their clothes, slowly knelt down, bowed deeply, and said softly together:
"See His Royal Highness!"