Sending Xiao Li Bai back to Funing Palace, Xiaoguo took a comfortable petal bath, and she threw herself into the soft and warm brocade quilt, and continued to have a chaotic dream.

The next day, as soon as Xiaoguo woke up, the Empress Dowager sent a eunuch to inquire about the planning process of the Hundred Flowers Society.

The palace people of Fushou Palace left with their front feet, and Li Bai entered Cining Palace with their back feet.

He gave Xiaoguo a greeting salute, and after getting up, he asked straight to the point:

"The Queen Mother! What are you going to eat today? ”

Xiaoguo pinched his little face and smiled bitterly: "Xiaobai, you came here to eat just to eat?" ”

Xiao Li Bai scratched his head embarrassedly, and said with a smile: "It's not all." ”

Xiaoguo gave him a "I understand" look.

After a simple wash, Xiaoguo took the assistant chef Angelica and Bi Tao into the kitchen.

Xiao Li Bai also stopped the attendants around him and secretly followed in.

The imperial dining room sent someone early and sent some freshly ground soy milk and pickled side dishes.

Xiaoguo put the soy milk in the pot and told Angelica to boil it.

After that, she mixed the dough with warm water, kneaded it evenly, and set it aside. I took another piece of cooked beef, cut it into thin slices, cut some ham, brushed it with a layer of oil on the pan, and let the peaches fry over low heat.

She sprinkled a layer of flour on the dough table, kneaded the dough evenly, divided it into several agents, rolled them into thin round cakes one by one, brushed a layer of vegetable oil on the cake surface, evenly sprinkled with chopped green onions and refined salt, rolled up the dough from the outside to the inside, brushed a layer of vegetable oil at both ends, stood up, pressed flat with her hands, and rolled into a cake blank; Put the cake blank in the pot, when it is cooked to seven or eight minutes, make a hole on the side of the cake, insert it into the cake with bamboo chopsticks and stir it, so that the upper and lower skin of the cake are separated, take an egg and break it in the bowl, pour it into the cake, and finally pinch the cake mouth together, touch the oil in the pot, and cook it.

Xiaoguo's movements were clean and neat, shaped like flowing clouds, Li Bai swallowed saliva on the side, and he also watched it with relish!

Since then, Xiaoguo has added a small figure in the kitchen, and there is a fixed snack companion on the dining table!

A few days later.

Dingwang's Mansion, in the study.

The eleventh emperor uncle that Li Bai hadn't seen for a long time was dressed in a black power suit, with slight sword eyebrows, he seemed to be a little thinner, but he was more graceful and clear.

Standing next to him, a man in red who looked unusually charming and handsome, this person was holding a feather fan, slowly shaking, only to see him slanting a pair of good-looking phoenix eyes, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked, as if he was sneering, and seemed to be thoughtful.

The eyes of the two converged in one place-

On the other side of the desk, Su Lao sniffed the brown powder in the handkerchief in his hand, twisted it a little with his fingers, put it on the tip of his tongue and tasted it.

Frowning and thinking for a moment, he poured some powder into the clean teacup, took out a porcelain bottle from the medicine box, poured some liquid from the bottle into the teacup, shook the teacup a few times, his face showed a look of horror, and said:

"It really is!"

Li Yi and the two glanced at each other and asked at the same time.

"Uncle Su, do you know this thing?"

"Old Su, do you know what this is?"

Su Lao glanced at the two of them, and said in a deep voice: "This is forgetting worries!" ”

"Forget your worries?!"

Li Yi and the two said in unison.

Forget worries - it is a secret Gu medicine made by the Wu clan in the southern Xinjiang of Shali Country, and it is rumored that if you continue to take this medicine for half a year, it will make people gradually forget and erase the memories in their minds!

At the beginning, the original intention of the Wu Yao Lao to develop this medicine was to help people forget the painful things and regain the joy of life.

It's just that later, it was used as a poison by ill-intentioned witches to harm people and make money! At the same time as the amnestics in the brain of the drug user, the false memories compiled by the poisoner are re-injected, making it seem like a different person, and his temperament has changed drastically. Especially the royal family, which is full of conflicting interests, regards this medicine as a snake and scorpion beast, and the color of the talk changes!

As early as a few decades ago, with the rebellion of the high priest of Shali, who was born in the Wu clan in southern Xinjiang, his people were also implicated and slaughtered, and the Wu clan disappeared from this world, and the medicine also disappeared, but the murderous name it left behind is still spread to this day.

Su Lao nodded: "That year, I was not yet an apprentice, the master was entrusted by a friend to relieve a Sali nobleman of forgetting the poison, I was fortunate to go with the master, therefore, I have been exposed to this poison, it smells tasteless, tastes slightly sweet, and the fragrant herb liquefies into a colorful dragon, it will not be wrong, it is it!" ”

Su Lao handed the teacup to the two of them, only to see a colorful ribbon of shadow foam in the teacup, walking back and forth in the cup, really like a dragon.

Su Lao sighed: "I never thought that after so many years, I would see it again!" ”

Li Yi's eyes became solemn, and he muttered: "In this way, this matter has nothing to do with the Wu Clan!" ”

Su Lao came back to his senses from the excitement of seeing the miracle medicine for the first time, and nodded heavily.

Li Yi's gaze turned to the man in red: "Ah Han, you tell me the detailed situation again." ”

This man in red is the son of the late Empress Liu's sister, that is, Li Yi's aunt and cousin!

His name is Liu Han, the sister-in-law of former Prime Minister Liu Chaosheng, who is one year older than Li Yi, and the two grew up fighting together since childhood.

If Li Yi and his brother Li Shen are respectful and close by blood, then he and Liu Han are like confidants - heart-to-heart intimacy.

Once in the early dynasty, Li Yi saw that there was a twist and turn from Yuncheng, saying that there was a group of robbers who occupied the mountain as the king recently, robbed the people's daughters, grabbed strong men indiscriminately, and did all kinds of evil, and the government repeatedly sent troops to return defeated, and asked the court for support.

Yoo Han was the first to stand up and strongly asked to go to suppress the bandits.

Many ministers in the DPRK and China immediately raised objections, and the suppression of bandits was a trivial matter, but no matter what, there was no need for General Liu, who was a first-class general and the commander of the imperial guards, to go out in person! This is definitely a cannon hitting a sparrow - overkill, and the general should take on greater responsibilities, such as defending the enemy in times of national crisis, such as guarding the imperial city, such as protecting the royal family, and so on.

Liu Han glanced at these old antiques with contempt, raised his hand and handsomely threw his bangs to the side, before he retorted casually: "Yuncheng is the location of the current Queen Mother's mother's house and the emperor's maternal grandfather's house, and Han Lao is the official of the Eight Classics, the emperor's relatives and relatives, isn't this worth the general to take a trip in person?!" ”

It was originally an insignificant thing, but now that the world is peaceful, the civil and military officials take the Fengzhao, and feel ashamed not to do something, so they often raise the bar to each other for trivial matters to prove that they are useful!

But as soon as Liu Han's words came out, things became delicate, and the ministers who put forward reactionary opinions kept their mouths shut, in order to show that they had offended the queen mother, and the gains outweighed the losses!

Liu Han squinted his eyes triumphantly, and the corners of his mouth hooked up the arc of victory.

It turned out that he heard that the beauty of Yuncheng was like a cloud, and the style was very different, but he had no choice but to be entangled in trivial business, and now he heard that there was something in Yuncheng, and his first thought was that the beauty was like a flower.

Li Yi saw through his careful thinking, did not debunk it on the spot, and cooperated with it, but secretly instructed him not to play too much:

"The yards in Liufu are full, bring a few more aunts back, be careful that aunts skin you!"

"Ah Yi, I have to ask you to say a few more kind words when the time comes! By the way, aren't your yards all empty, why don't you lend me? ”

"Don't even think about !!"

"Ah Yi, you are a person, everything is good, but you don't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade!"

“…”

Liu Han shook his head and sighed a few times, thinking of the beauty of Yuncheng, who was full of spring, looking forward to him, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and looked up to the sky and laughed a few times: "Beauty, I'm coming!" ”

Li Yi looked at his cousin helplessly, but there was a smile in his eyes, he knew that Liu Han was the most unbearable like himself, and he had worked hard in the court all these years, mostly to help himself, this friendship was worth cherishing!

Liu Han is uninhibited on the outside, loves beauty like life, but in fact, he is the same as Li Yi in his heart, he is the most affectionate and righteous, and he has a gap in his chest and a sense of responsibility.

Moreover, before the Liu Han people arrived, they had already sent people to find out the geographical location of the bandit camp - Dongshan Ridge, which was five miles away from Yuncheng.

On the one hand, he ordered several guards with superb martial arts to disguise themselves as passing merchants and deliberately be caught by thieves into the cottage, and at the same time secretly ordered people to block all the ways out of Dongshanling.

Everything is ready, Liu Han with the remaining troops, rest in the city for half a day, after raising the spirit, the group rode to Dongshanling overnight, the guards in the cottage have already been mixed into the fire lit a fire, the bandits are still busy fighting the fire, the officers and soldiers have fallen from the sky, the gate of the village has been opened at some point, the bandits have not had time to react has been taken down, a few small leaders see that things are not good, plan to take advantage of the chaos to escape, was caught by the soldiers in ambush in the mountains, and carried back!

In this way, without much effort, the rampant bandits were wiped out.