After seeing the best stallion in the Ming Dynasty now, and setting Cao Xing's errand, Yun Xi and his party left the ranch and returned to the city.

After entering the city and detouring to the south of the city, Yun Xi was about to see the bustling commercial street, when he heard Cao Xing and Yang Feng say: "Your Majesty, it is getting late now, and the ministers are leaving." "They can't go back to the palace with them, and now that Yunxi wants to inspect the people, they can't follow them, so they ask to retire now.

"Yang Feng, Cao Xing, since it's not early, you two go home. Cao Xing, remember to enter the palace to see me in two days, and I personally arranged for you to lead the troops. Yun Xi said.

Cao Xing agreed and stepped back with Yang Feng.

Yun Xi turned around, got off the horse, and walked with Yun Zhi, looking at the bustling street scene.

This is now the most prosperous place in the capital, and even in the entire Ming Dynasty. Now it is approaching the unitary time, and it is the time of excitement, only to see the road shoulder to shoulder, one by one with a vicissitudes, or elegant, or childish, or sophisticated face walking.

Not far away, there is the penetrating shouting of traditional Chinese musical instruments, and occasionally the neighing of horses, different sounds are intertwined, like a symphony, so that people can't help but immerse themselves in it.

Yun Xi couldn't help but show joy when he saw this situation. Now that the country is his own, seeing the people under his rule live in prosperity and well-being is the best compliment to him.

Yun Zhi had also recovered from the fact that she almost fell off her horse in the afternoon, and stopped from time to time to pull Yun Xi into a shop to buy something.

As they walked, they passed by an inn, and Yun Zhi took Yun Xi's hand and said, "Brother, my sister hasn't been to the inn yet, let's go in and have a look." ”

"There's nothing to see at the inn."

"My sister also knows that there is nothing to see, but after all, she has never seen it, and she wants to go in and have a look. Take a look at my sister, brother. Yun Zhi said coquettishly.

Yun Xi has no resistance to his sister or daughter's coquettishness, and when he heard her say this, he agreed: "Then go in and have a look." ”

The group then walked into the inn and found a place to sit on the side, Yun Xi sat at a table with Yun Zhi and one of her maids, as well as Chen Lijie and Song Qingshu, and four other guards sat at a table next to them.

The guys in the inn have all developed a pair of fiery eyes, and at a glance they can see that they must be from a rich and noble family, and they noticed that Yun Zhi turned her big eyes and looked around very curiously, it was expected that this was the son of a big family in the capital who accompanied his sister out to go shopping, and when they chose a table to sit down, they immediately leaned over and said respectfully: "I've seen the son, miss, a few guest officers." I don't know what Childe wants to eat? The chef of our restaurant is from Sichuan, and he is good at cooking Sichuan cuisine. Several guest officials are from the capital, although our Sichuan is not as prosperous as the capital, but the dishes are also unique. ”

"In the Song Dynasty, the great poet Lu You was an official in Sichuan, and he was full of praise for our Sichuan dishes, and he also wrote several poems to commemorate it. One of the poems "Rice Strikes" wrote: "The east gate buys bones, and the sauce orders orange shallots." Steamed chicken is the most well-known, and there are many beautiful fish and turtles. "It can be seen that our Sichuan dishes are definitely not bad."

"You're a good guy, and you can still write down Lu Fangweng's poems." Yun Xi smiled: "Look at what you said is so lively, my son is also hungry, tell me what dishes your chef is good at." ”

"Childe, the signature dishes in our store include inserted meat noodles, big boiled noodles, large and small wiping meat tao, fried pork, mixed fried incidents, raw and cooked cooked rice, Sichuan rice and tea, etc., all of which were written by the great poet Lu You in his poems." The guy said.

"One of the dozen or so signature dishes you mentioned." Yun Xi heard that these dishes were different from what he had heard before, and they were not the same as those made by the chefs in the palace, so he couldn't help but be curious, and he had to taste everything.

The guy immediately said with a smile on his face: "Okay, wait a minute, guest officer." He then walked to the counter, said a few words to the shopkeeper, and came over with a bowl of soup, saying, "This is the special appetizer soup of our store, please try it with a few guest officers." ”

Song Qingshu picked up the bowl and poured half a bowl of soup and drank it in one gulp, and after a while, there was nothing to do, Yun Xi and Yun Zhi also drank half a bowl.

Yun Xi drank the soup while listening to the people around him. Now that the palace examination has just ended, the ranking of the jinshi was posted this morning, plus the location of this inn is good, there are many people to stay, and at this time, eight out of ten people around are talking about the palace examination.

I only heard someone say: "This year's palace exam topic, I thought about it again when I looked back, and I also discussed it with a few people from the same province, but I still couldn't figure out another meaning of His Majesty, I don't know how many people can see it?" ”

"We didn't figure it out either. But after a while, the champion of this department, who is also another Zhou Shu Zhou brother of my Ming Dynasty, will come, and he will definitely know another meaning of the question if he asks. Another said.

"Brother Chongshu is also coming? That's great. The topics of this year's examination and the palace examination are all personally proposed by His Majesty, and if you talk to him, you will be able to know what Your Majesty means, and it will be much more convenient to be an official in the future. With that, they began to talk about Yoon-hee's thoughts.

Hearing this, Yun Zhi quietly touched Yun Xi's arm and laughed in a low voice: "Brother, the people over there are talking about how to figure out what my brother means." ”

"It's unavoidable. Since ancient times, how can an official not think about his intentions, that is, a clean official like Bao Zheng, in order to punish the traitor and eliminate the evil, don't you have to ......" Yun Xi was halfway through speaking, and suddenly lost his voice.

"What's not it?" Yun Zhi asked, but didn't hear an answer, so she couldn't help but raise her head, and saw Yun Xi looking at the three men who had just walked in from the door, and also followed his gaze.

"These three people are so strange." Yun Zhi immediately saw the problem: "Two of them are polite, most of them are scholars, maybe one of them is the Zhou Shu they just mentioned." These two people also look alike, most of them are brothers, but that's all. ”

"But the other man was very strange. Looking at his appearance, he walks firmly, his steps are steady, and his shoulders are broad, he must be a person who practices martial arts; With a bearing like an official, he should be a military general, why is he with the two Jinke Jinshi? ”

As Yun Zhi spoke, the three of them had already come to the table just now, only to hear that the few people who were originally sitting at the table stood up, and one of them said enthusiastically: "Brother Chongshu and Brother Meng Jian are here, sit." After a few words of greeting, he looked at the rest of the person and said to Zhou Shu: "I don't know what to call this benevolent brother?" Which province is it from? ”

The man bowed down and said, "In Xia Cao Zheng, I have seen you." ”