Chapter Ninety-Two: Competing for Favor
Late autumn, early morning. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the entire Yanjing City is full of a solemn atmosphere, but the streets in the early morning are not lonely. Vendors gather in the streets of this ancient city to make noodle soups, dumplings, pancakes, meat buns, and rice porridge. The smell of rice wafted across the main street.
Liu Ping was dressed in civilian clothes and a brocade robe, quite like a well-mannered scholar, followed by Fang Jinzhi and Xiaodouzi, and came to the main street. Yang Sanduo took seven or eight sturdy guards in civilian clothes and followed closely behind to prevent accidents. Liu Ping took Fang Jinzhi with one hand and Xiaodouzi with the other and said as he walked: "In the past, I didn't have time to leave you." Today is a good day. Let's go, I'm tired of eating the food in the house, I'll take you to change the taste today. ”
"Brother Ping, what are you eating?" Xiaodouzi is now dressed as a girl, and her daily nutrition keeps up, and she is no longer the thin and weak look that Liu Pinggang saw, with black hair and a cyan skirt, which sets off her already slightly tall figure, although she is only twelve years old, but her height has been running for half a year, and she has to be more than one meter and a half. Even in modern times, this girl's height is not low among her peers, let alone in ancient times when food was monotonous and poor. With a delicate little face and a sweet smile, she is definitely a little Lori who kills people and doesn't pay for her life, and Liu Ping is a little daze when she sees it.
"Let's see, you can eat whatever you like. Anyway, there aren't many things going on in the barracks today, so I can accompany you more. Liu Ping said with a smile.
In other words, it's really a woman's eighteenth change, this is not yet eighteen, but she is only twelve years old, and this little girl actually shows the appearance of a beauty, and she can pay it back when she grows up. Tsk, or in a few years, I'll take it too!! Liu Ping had an evil thought in his heart, but then he beat this unscrupulous thought. It seems that two villains are fighting in their hearts, and the evil self said, take it, take it, anyway, this little girl is quite interesting to you, and you can't let the fat water flow into the outsider's field. And the other kind self warned himself indignantly, Xiaodouzi is just a child, you can't really be undisciplined, there is no lower limit!! Liu Ping's face was a little ashamed for a while, and it was a lewd look for a while, just when the heavens and men were fighting, a low snort came from the other side, and Liu Ping felt that the soft plain hand held in the hand on that side suddenly became like a vice, and he squeezed it hard in his palm. Liu Ping, who was in pain, hurriedly turned his head sideways, only to see Fang Jinzhi glaring at himself. Dissatisfied: "What do you think? ”
"No, didn't think about anything?" Liu Ping said hehehe.
"Sister Jin Zhi, what are you humming?" Xiaodouzi asked innocently.
"Ahem, my throat is uncomfortable~!" Fang Jinzhi said. A wry smile appeared on her beautiful ruddy face.
"If you don't feel well, go back, Sister Fang, I'll accompany Brother Ping to have some breakfast, and whatever you want to eat at that time, we'll bring it back for you." Little Lori said slyly. Since Liu Ping and Fang Jinzhi were together, Xiaodouzi and Fang Jinzhi have become more and more separated, these two good sisters who originally lived and died together in Cangzhou Mansion have become estranged because of the guy in front of them. Liu Ping is nothing, but Fang Jinzhi is a little displeased, she knows that Xiaodouzi actually likes Liu Ping, but she thinks that Xiaodouzi is still young, even if Liu Ping wants to take Xiaodouzi into the house in the future, it will have to be four or five years later, and what she doesn't see is to eat her own jealousy. But things are not what she thinks, several times Liu Ping came back from the barracks, and when he wanted to have a warm time with himself, Xiaodouzi appeared out of place, the most annoying one, the two of them were about to loosen their clothes, Xiaodouzi rushed in and said that there were mice in her room. I have to ask Liu Ping to catch it. Liu Ping had to go bare-chested to catch mice in Xiaodouzi's room, and he caught them for half a night, and finally had to coax Xiaodouzi to sleep. When Liu Ping came back, it was dawn. Both of them understood in their hearts, but they smiled bitterly. After Fang Cai Xiaodouzi finished speaking, Fang Jinzhi was slightly annoyed, and said in his heart, I just came out, you just bombarded me and left, anyway, I am also Liu Ping's de facto wife.
"Don't worry, sister, I'm fine." Fang Jinzhi said with a smile. "Let's go to that dumpling shop, I heard that his dumplings are good and taste very good."
Xiaodouzi pouted and looked at Liu Ping, Liu Ping smiled dryly and said, "Okay, then go to that steamed bun shop and try it." Liu Ping is not a fool, he naturally saw that the second daughter was a little rusty recently, so he pulled the second daughter into the dumpling shop on the side of the road.
Entering this steamed bread shop, more than a dozen seats are occupied, only a few empty tables are left in the northwest corner, which can be seen that this shop is prosperous, it seems that Fang Jinzhi said that the steamed dumplings in this shop taste good or have a basis. The three of them sat on the empty table, and Yang Sanduo and a few guards sat at a table next to Liu Ping not far from them, which was not far from it, and if something happened to him, he could protect Liu Ping at any time. As soon as she sat down, a woman of about forty wrapped in a headscarf, dressed in a short dress, with a capable face, walked up to the front and said, "Three, what do you want?" Soup? Dumplings? Or pasta? ”
"Boss, I heard that your dumplings are good, let's have three bowls." Liu Ping said lightly.
"Wait a minute, it'll be right away." The woman answered, turned to the inner kitchen and shouted, "Master, three bowls of dumplings!" ”
"Okay! ~! There was a hearty sound in the kitchen of the inner hall.
"It's a mom-and-pop shop, tsk, that's good." Liu Ping said with a smile, the woman in front of her looked happy, and it seemed that she was living a good life.
After a short effort, I saw the woman holding a pair of porcelain plates in her hands, and inside were three bowls of fragrant dumplings. Sent to Liu Ping and the others.
"Three contempts!" The woman put down her cake and smiled.
Liu Ping picked up the fragrant steamed dumplings in the bowl, ate one, and praised loudly: "Not bad, it tastes really good~!" ”
During the Liao and Song dynasties, this kind of convenience food in the north was called "馉饳", and the pronunciation was similar to "Guduo". This is a kind of stuffed food, the method is more complicated than dumplings and wontons: cut out the boxy dough, hold it in your hand, put it in the meat filling, fold it diagonally, pinch the edge tightly, and come out with an isosceles right-angled triangle, and then close the two acute angles of the triangle together, stack it, pinch it tightly, and the finished product is like a flower bone budding to be released; Then put it into the oil pan and fry it yellow, and skewer it with a bamboo skewer, and that's it. The taste is crispy and delicious, Liu Ping doesn't have to worry about whether the food in front of him is poisonous, at least in this era, there should be no gutter oil, so he feasted on it, and with little effort, he eliminated a bowl.
"Eat slowly, don't choke." Fang Jinzhi ate a few in small bites, and when he saw that Liu Ping had no food, he took out a few of the dumplings in his bowl and gave them to Liu Ping's bowl.
"Brother Ping, eat me, I still have it!" Xiaodouzi added the contents of his bowl to Liu Ping's bowl like a favor, Liu Ping smiled bitterly: "I eat them all, I can't eat them all!" ”
At this time, Fang Jinzhi and Xiaodouzi were like two little hens, not letting each other go, like fighting cocks, competing to put Liu Ping's bowl in it, and Liu Ping had to eat his own. Liu Ping had no choice but to eat everything in the bowls of the two to show fairness. Liu Ping hiccuped and said secretly: "Women are really strange animals!" ”
Liu Ping said to him: "Two women, okay, I really can't eat it!" ”
"No!!" The two girls said in unison, looking at Liu Ping with anger on their faces. It seems that Liu Ping is a heinous crime if he doesn't finish eating.
Not far away, Yang Sanduo shook his head at a table of guards.
"Dutou, our general seems to be very afraid of the two housewives! If it were in my family, my mother-in-law would dare to talk like this! I've already called out the big-eared melon seeds. How can he be such a general as a general. A guard beside Yang Sanduo whispered to Yang Sanduo.
"Put your mother's fart, when did our army have a nest, my mother begged, you dare to be nonsense about the general's family affairs, the big housewife and the small, the forehead, the little housewife cares about the general, and then dare to say nonsense Believe it or not, my big-eared melon seeds will kill you!!" Yang Sanduo reprimanded in a low voice.
"If a subordinate loses his word, he will forgive his sins." The guard said hurriedly.
"Go back and go to the Judge Advocate General's Office to get ten military sticks by yourself!" Yang Sanduo ordered.
"No!" The guard said with a pale face, but he knew that the things in the Judge Advocate General's Office were very dark and dark, ten military sticks, I was afraid that he would not be able to walk with his waist straight for seven or eight days. It's really a lot to scold yourself in your heart.
Yang Sanduo looked at a few guards beside him and said coldly. "Mother begged, you, it is your honor to let you protect the general, in the future, your mouth will be strict, what should you see, what you should not see, what you should do, what you should not do, what you should say, what you should not say, you have a spectrum in your heart, if anyone dares to be nonsense, next time I will tear his mouth directly!!"
"Understood!" Several guards whispered.
At this time, suddenly there was a heart-rending shout from the street: "Murder!" Killed!! "People on the streets who were already noisy fled in all directions.
Yang Sanduo stood up abruptly and came to Liu Ping with several guards. Liu Ping also stood up and said to the people around him: "Don't panic! Don't move, I'll go see what's going on?!! ”
"The general is dangerous, it's better not to go out! I sent some of my brothers to see it. Yang Sanduo hurriedly dissuaded Liu Ping.
"Don't worry, the person who can hurt me Liu Ping hasn't been born yet!" Liu Ping said with a smile. Brushed Yang Sanduo's arm away and walked out the door.
"Liu Lang, be careful."
"Brother Ping, be careful."
The second daughter hurriedly said.
"It's fine." Liu Pingdao. Turning to Yang Sanduo, he said, "Send someone to let the ladies go back first." Let's go, Sanduo, go out with me to see, what's going on? ”
"No!!" Yang Sanduo replied. Turning to the guards beside him, he ordered: "Good life to protect the two mistresses back!" If there is even the slightest problem. I've skinned you! ”
"Yes!!" Several guards hurriedly escorted Fang Jinzhi and Xiaodouzi away and went straight back to the mansion.