Guo Hua woke up early in the morning and practiced his fists and kicks in the garden. Because he had to go out to run errands, he asked Qibao to go to the kitchen and bring breakfast to his room.

Breakfast was a pot of goat's milk, ten boiled eggs, a pound of smoked ham, a pound of roast beef, a plate of boiled cabbage, six steamed buns, a glass of wine, and a plate of cherries. It's very satisfying.

The master and servant were at a table, and they quickly finished eating. I changed into civilian clothes and went out, and I didn't ride a horse, but walked straight in the direction of Zuo Jinwuwei Yamen.

The person they were going to find was the Zuo Street Envoy of Zuo Jinwuwei Yamen.

Chang'an City, from the Imperial City Suzaku Gate to the south to the Mingde Gate of Chang'an City, is for the Vermilion Bird Street, with the Vermilion Bird Street as the boundary, the east of the Vermilion Bird Street is the left block, the west of the Vermilion Bird Street is the right block, divided into the jurisdiction of the left and right Jinwuwei.

Zuojin Wuwei Mansion, in the southwest corner of the imperial city East Yongxing Fang, in the old days in Chongrenfang, moved here during the Shenlong period of Zhongzong.

Right Jinwuwei Mansion, in the northeast corner of the imperial city Xibu Zhengfang.

The ancients used the Son of Heaven to face the south and turn the back to the north, the left east and the right west.

The Zuo Street Envoy is the person in charge of the specific affairs of Chang'an Zuo Street, such as public security, patrols, drums, fire fighting, and population inspection. Although the official rank is only six grades, the things involved are extremely important.

The Zuo Street envoy they are looking for is named Xian Yuyan, who can be regarded as Guo Yu's friend of wine and meat.

Fresh in the swallow is good at cooking. He can make more than 30 different dishes from an egg and more than 40 ways to eat a fish.

He is good at cooking cold hu tu, liyu and steamed roe piso cakes.

Lenghu Tu Fish is a kind of fish soup with smooth and tender fish meat and sweet and fresh soup.

Liyu is made from the breast of the Yellow River carp and the wine of the Western Regions, which is fresh and intoxicating.

The roe piso cake is a Hu cake stuffed with golden roe leg meat, baked in the clay oven, the dough is golden, the roe meat is crispy and tender, a bite of the oil juice overflows, and the meat fragrance is far away.

He also made a dish called Cherry Biluo, which he learned from a singer from the Western Regions, and after several improvements, he turned out to be blue. The cherry Biluo he made, after the dough cake was baked and cooked, the cherry was fragrant and color-changing, red and clear like agate glass, sweet and soft when chewed.

To say that this Xian Yuyan, with small eyes, can't see eyebrows, beard, short and fat body, is a very simple person, but with this cherry Biluo, he has won the hearts of those girls in Zuiyuelou, you can imagine how his cherry Biluo tastes.

After a drink, Xian Yuyan touched her belly and said that her position as a left-sided envoy was still roasted with a roasted rabbit.

It was still the time when Tianbao was not in turmoil, Emperor Xuanzong went out of the city to hunt, and as usual, there were soldiers and generals selected by Jin Wuwei to escort him, and Xian Yuyan was the colonel guarding Yanping Gate at that time, and he was also among the guards.

The emperor set up a banquet after the safari, and he also took advantage of the rest to roast a hare he had caught.

He always carried with him a bamboo tube about half a foot long and the thickness of a goose egg, which he had specially cut himself, and the bamboo tube was divided into several small lattices, filled with various cooking spices.

Although he only had a bonfire and a few wooden sticks to drive the skinned and dirty rabbit, he grasped the heat with skillful craftsmanship and the secret spices, which made the rabbit charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the meat was fragrant.

Unexpectedly, a gust of wind blew, and the aroma of meat actually floated to Emperor Xuanzong's banquet, covering all kinds of delicacies cooked by the imperial kitchen, and everyone couldn't stop raising their noses and smelling it.

On a whim, Emperor Xuanzong ordered to find Xian Yuyan and hand over the rabbits, roe deer, and pig badgers he had brought to him for a barbecue to feast on the ministers.

Afterwards, the old emperor saw that he was honest and straightforward, so he gave him to be the Jinwuwei Left Street Envoy, from the sixth grade. Although he is an official with his cooking skills, he is a diligent person, and he has become more and more capable and sensitive over the years. During the war, he fled from the old emperor, returned after recovering Chang'an, and was promoted to the sixth grade.

The two had only known each other for half a year, and Chang'an had just recovered at that time. Guo Hua is eating wine in Xiaoxian Residence. Xian Yuyan was busy nearby for a long time, and also stopped by to have lunch there.

The chef of this little immortal residence turned out to be a Hu man from the Tocharian country, specializing in dishes in the Western Regions, and when Tongguan fell, he took his family back to the Western Regions.

Xiaoxianju is temporarily in charge of the chef under the original chef. After eating a few bites of roast beef, he snorted and scolded the cooks for roasting not beef but cowhide, which was hard to bite and chew. The proprietress of Dang was a Sogdian, and she was generous and spicy, so she quarreled with the left street envoy.

Guo Yu often comes to Xiaoxian Ju to eat and drink, and he is very familiar with the proprietress very well. He saw that Xian Yuyan's official uniform was a sample of the Zuo Street Envoy, so he half-jokingly and half-hugged the uneven peace, and teased that Xian Yuyan to bet on a piece of fifty taels of silver, if he was confident that the beef he roasted was delicious in Xiaoxianju, he would roast it for everyone to eat, and if everyone said it was delicious, the fifty taels of silver would be his.

Xian Yuyan saw that someone was coming out for the store, and he was angry for a while. Regardless of the official uniform, he went into the kitchen and pulled his apron and tied it, beating and kneading it.

Everyone stopped eating and gathered outside the kitchen door. After half a cup of tea, hey, I smelled the wisps of meat fragrance, and everyone couldn't help but raise their noses and sniff.

After another half of the tea, the aroma of the meat became more and more intense into the bones, and before Xian Yuyan brought out the meat, everyone was already drunk, squinting their eyes and praising it.

When Xian Yuyan put the roast beef directly on the big wooden plate for serving, raised his shoulders, and came out of the kitchen door, these dignitaries and wealthy people who are accustomed to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas on weekdays are like hungry ghosts in hell, rolling up their arms and sleeves, and reaching out to grab around Xian Yuyan.

I saw that the roast beef, fat and thin, tender and not greasy, a bite of the fat overflowed, refreshing into the throat.

In such a scene, Guo Hua naturally lost.

Xian Yuyan saw that everyone was almost tearing and looting, so he protected a few pieces of barbecue, brought them to Guo Hua's table, and called Xiao Er to move the wine and food on his table. Without wiping his hands, he picked up the silver ingot that Guo Hua had put on the table, weighed it, and put it in his cowhide purse. The two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

Xian Yuyan is not an arrogant and unreasonable person, but he has been working too hard recently, and he is hungry at noon, which caused his temper to come up. Now that I have a meal in the kitchen, the anger has long since dissipated.

Two people can do it, the other can eat, and they are all *, three or two glasses of wine down, then call brother and brother to get up, the proprietress also came up to compensate for it, and sent a pot of wine that has been collected for many years. A farce ended happily.

Guo Hua is a happy person, and most of his friends are also joyful.

When the master and servant came to the door of the office hall of Xian Yuyan in the Jinwuwei Yamen, they heard the muttering and cursing inside, and as soon as they opened the bamboo curtain and entered the door, they smelled a smell of overnight sweat.

Some people lie on the couch, some people sleep according to the case, and some people simply sleep on the ground. Everyone's faces were the color of fireworks, and their clothes were muddy. Xian Yu Yanzheng was talking to a few sleepy-eyed Jinwu guards who were still awake, and they probably still had to cheer them up and encourage them.

Xian Yuyan saw that Guo Yu and the others were coming, so she found a punching bag, scolded, and said: "Last night, the Du family in Shengpingfang was on fire, and everyone was busy all night, and I wanted to squint for a while in the morning, but no, there was another homicide in the morning." I still have to bring a few brothers with me. ”

"The Du family is on fire, which Du family? Which one reported the homicide?" Guo Hua couldn't help asking, and naturally took the tea handed by a junior school in one hand.

"It's a younger brother of Du You, who is in the Ministry of Labor, and his family has a lot of land. His son-in-law Du Huan was mad, not to mention that he was possessed by a fox spirit, and he had been making trouble for several days. Originally, the crazy boy made trouble at night, but last night somehow, his old lady invited a Turkic god to exorcise ghosts, which resulted in a fire, but fortunately, the fire was not big, and it was finally extinguished after a night. Xian Yuyan said with some babbling.

"Oh, this Du Huan was caught by a fox spirit, but I have heard a few words in the market!" Guo Yu followed.

"It's not, I used to just hear about foxes and ghosts, but this time I really saw it, hey, that boy is like that, it's too weird and terrifying!"

"However, the trick of burning the fox spirit is too damaging, not to mention the exorcism of ghosts, it will cause the brothers to choke enough, and I should not have waited for duty last night. As soon as the bamboo whistle blew, I had to work all night, and I had to continue to work today. The soldiers who hadn't slept suddenly opened their eyes wide and agreed.

"Ahem, don't talk nonsense. "Xian Yuyan doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, and when she is in the public gate, she is not good at talking about strange forces and confusion among her subordinates. "Brother Guo, what are you looking for me so early in the morning. It's not the time to eat meat and drink wine. Recently, my brother has been too busy, and he hasn't had a drink with him for more than a month. ”

Xian Yuyan has fifty in his thirties, which is much older than Guo Yu.

"I'll ask you something. If it's inconvenient for the eldest brother, I'll come back another day!" Guo Yu saw that they were too tired and didn't want to bother anymore, so he replied with a smile.

"Hahahaha. Where, it just so happens that today's case, you can help me take a closer look. "Xian Yuyan does not regard Guo Yu as an outsider.

In Chang'an City today, who doesn't know that Guo Ziyi, the envoy of Shuofang Jie Du and the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, has the merit of saving the country, and almost all the children in the family are officials of the imperial court, although Guo Yu has no official position at the moment. But in the Hualou restaurants in the east and west cities, he met the characters in the officialdom, and they all gave him some face and treated each other politely.

Besides, Guo Hua has learned a lot of things, and he knows a lot of various characters in Chang'an City, and he has a lot of ghost ideas. Although he is wandering on the surface, he can know that he is a smart person after a long time. Therefore, there were a few files earlier, which Guo Hua helped to detect. Because of today's matter, I also want to ask Guo Hua for help.

Guo Yu heard him say this, but he didn't shirk it. First, he knew that Xian Yuyan was in trouble, and second, he felt that this bloody case might be related to the two people he wanted to investigate. And he made up his mind to go with them to investigate.

Everyone said, Xian Yuyan and a few subordinates had already washed up, changed into the clothes they had in stock, and beckoned Guo Yu and the others to go out.

As soon as she went out, Xian Yuyan asked Guo Yu what he was inquiring about.

Guo Yu just said casually, "I want you to help find out some things about the Yongfu Ward of Guiyi Fang." I know it's under the jurisdiction of Brother Han Dang Han, so I want you to go with me. ”

Han Dang is the right street envoy, he has been the right street envoy for more than ten years, and he has been the right street envoy for most of his life. There was nothing he didn't know.

Xian Yuyan shouted: "This is easy to do, this is easy to do." I made an appointment to meet Lao Han at noon, and you can go with me then. ”

"Oh. That's good. However, what did the eldest brother ask him to do? Could it be that your left street envoy wants him to help you investigate this case?" Guo Hua was overjoyed, but he was puzzled.

"It can be said to be, it is not counted, it's a long story!" Xian Yuyan, frowning, explained the reason for this from beginning to end.

It turned out that within half a month, two murders occurred one after another in this right street of Chang'an.

Although the left and right Jin Wuwei have their own direct jurisdiction, but after all, in the city of Chang'an, many things will inevitably be involved, so in case of related affairs, the left and right street envoys will come forward to exchange news and assist each other. On the fifth day of every month, the two sides also have a government meeting to communicate with each other.

Xian Yuyan already knew about the two bloody cases that happened on the right street of Chang'an and related situations, so after the guards patrolling the street probably explained the circumstances of last night's case, he guessed that this case might be involved in the murder that occurred on the right street, so he ordered his subordinates to make an appointment with Han Dang, the envoy of the right street, and he took someone to the crime scene to investigate first.