Chapter 204: Gift-giving
"Your face, officer."
"Guest officer, this is your five bowls of noodles, and the five bowls of noodles will be sent to you when they come out of the pot."
Jian Wan and Fan Li sat face to face at the table in the noodle shop.
The noodles are green onion noodles, no toppings, but the gluten is good, the soup is delicious, and it is very enjoyable to eat.
And because the big pot of noodles in the noodle restaurant is also blunt, a few pieces of blunt wonton can be found in the noodle bowl from time to time, and if you are lucky, you can also have a complete small wonton, which can be regarded as a kind of abundance.
Fan Li eats noodles very quickly, because he has a big mouth, and when he inserts chopsticks, picks them, and turns them, basically all the seven or seven or eight in the bowl are skewered, and then they are sent to his mouth together.
Chew and swallow, then pick up the bowl and drink the soup with the rest of the noodles.
"Wow!"
The empty bowl side moves on to the next bowl.
The sword maid tastes much more elegant, eats a small bite of noodles, and then drinks a mouthful of soup, which is quite a kind of lady's beauty.
From time to time,
The sword maid also looked up at the street outside, and outside was the mule and horse market, which was crowded with people.
Along the way, since the snow customs, it is lonely;
However, the farther west, the closer to Yandi, the atmosphere of fireworks began to slowly recover, until it reached the outskirts of Yanjing, which can indeed give people a feeling that the capital is in sight.
In her opinion, the Beijing of Qianguo must be more refined than Yanjing, whether it is the song and dance of the warbler on the painting boat or the poetry and song by the willow forest, it gives people a freehand romantic feeling.
And here in Yanjing, there is a heroic atmosphere, which is not only reflected in the people here, but even the cattle here seem to have a kind of arrogance and indescribability when they beat their noses.
His first master once said to himself with a smile,
He said that the people of Shangjing in Qianguo like to be humble and self-reliant on the surface, and while smiling at you, they joke in their hearts that you are a rural people, just like the sister in the Qinglou, holding a red silk to cover her mouth and laughing, in fact, she is scolding you for being vulgar.
And the Yan people in the Yanjing realm, they will not look down on you and think that you are Diao Min, because they themselves are proud to be Diao Min.
Fan Li has already eaten the fifth bowl of noodles,
In the gap waiting for Xiao Er to send the remaining five bowls, he looked up at the sword maid and said:
"It's going to be cold."
The sword maid lowered her head and continued to eat noodles.
Ate the noodles,
Fan Li pulled the sword maid out of the noodle shop.
Fan Li tied a small cushion to his right shoulder,
The sword maid sat down.
This way, they didn't ride horses, the sword maid was sitting there, and Fan Li ran over.
In Fan Li's words,
horseback riding,
Trouble.
Continue west,
Before sunset, they entered the capital.
found an inn, and after staying down, Fan Li took the initiative to squat outside the door, inside, the sword maid was taking a bath.
Waited for a while,
The sword maid pushed the door open, her hair a little wet and scattered over her shoulders.
In the past two years, the sword maid has also grown a lot, before, not only was the natural sword embryo, but also a beauty embryo, now, it can't be called a beauty embryo, because it is already a little beauty.
Age, there is still some embarrassment, but it is already within the acceptable range of some animals.
"Shopping?" Fan Li asked.
When you come to the capital, you have to go shopping.
The sword maid nodded,
Then he said:
"I'm going to eat roast duck."
……
Quande Building, private room.
Jian Wan ate a few bites of roast duck and put it down, too lazy to make noodles and cakes.
Seeing this, Fan Li asked:
"Doesn't it taste good?"
The sword maid nodded and said, "The meat is old." ”
The sword maid can endure hardships, since he can remember, he has followed the second sword of the Qianguo to go south and north, and often lived a life without a meal, and then followed Zheng Fan, life has been a lot better, not to mention brocade clothes and jade food, but if you want to eat chicken, you can eat chicken, you can eat fish, you can eat fish.
The roast duck was not delicious, and I was disappointed because I came to eat it, so I didn't want to eat it.
Fan Li nodded, grabbed a large handful of roast duck with his left hand, and a large handful of dough cakes with his right hand, and stuffed them into his mouth in turn.
subsequently
The two went downstairs.
The sword maid is still sitting on Fan Li's shoulder,
The little girl likes the feeling of sitting here, because Fan Li is very tall, and she is the tallest person on the street who sits on Fan Li's shoulder.
Fan Li asked her if she wanted to eat rock sugar gourd,
The sword maid said disdainfully:
"It's something that only kids eat."
And then
Let Fan Li even buy the straw stick with the rock sugar gourd.
Fan Li was holding a straw stick in his right hand, and the sword maid was within reach, eating happily.
The two of them just kept wandering,
Except for the rock sugar gourd, I didn't buy anything else, just to see.
And Fan Li is a man who can rely on his legs to run from Xuehaiguan to Yanjing, so he will not feel his legs soreness and numbness at this time.
Baixiang Street in Yanjing City is sweeping the water, and red lanterns symbolizing festivity are also hung on the eaves of merchants on both sides.
It is said that the wedding of the six princes of Dayan will be passed from here in three days.
I didn't take the official road, nor did I take the main street, but chose this very narrow and small road.
Compared with the interrupted wedding of the crown prince at the beginning, in terms of style and scale, it can be described as a heaven and an underground.
It is rumored in Beijing that the six princes of Dayan have always been disliked by His Majesty, so they have this treatment, and there are even rumors that the six princes are married to a private daughter.
Look, look, if it's really cute, how can you marry an ordinary woman from a private family?
Most of the common people in Beijing will not feel that the prince marrying a private daughter makes them proud, but will pity the prince.
Fan Li and the sword maid also came to this street.
The sword maid has already eaten the rock sugar gourd,
Take out a slippery thing like a fish bubble from the bag that Fan Li is carrying behind his back and take it out,
To the mouth,
Start blowing.
The fish bubble was blown up and became a ball.
The sword maid pinched the position of the bayonet with her fingers, and asked while playing with the ball:
"What the hell is this for? It's funny. ”
Fan Li replied:
"Tadpole catchers."
"Tadpole catcher? How to catch? Then will you come with me to catch it? ”
Fan Li shook his head and said:
"I can't catch it."
"It's okay, I'll help you."
Fan Li frowned slightly,
Then he shook his head firmly,
Road:
"No, you don't."
and a little girl, explaining the use of the ancient version of Biyuntao, and the physiological knowledge of popular science, is really a huge project for Fan Li.
Since it is troublesome, Fan Li is not going to explain.
"What are you doing with this?"
The sword maid knew that in Fan Li's bag, one bag was carrying some gadgets, and the other bag was full of silver.
"For the Six Princes." Fan Li replied.
"From the Lord?"
"Yes."
Followed by
Fan Li replied again:
"Now, you don't have to send it."
Because of the distance between Yanjing and Xuehai, there is a great time difference between correspondence.
When Zheng Fan received a letter from Xiao Liuzi saying that he was going to get married, he sent Fan Li to go to Yanjing to attend the ceremony instead of himself.
Because the infrastructure construction work of the Snow Customs has come to an end, Ah Ming is busy with the workshop, and the other demon kings also have their own jobs, so only Fan Li is now empty and has been dispatched.
The sword maid clamored to come together,
Finally followed,
It is said that the Sword Saint was very angry when he found out that his apprentice had been abducted.
It's just that what Zheng Fan didn't expect was that the He family's daughter was already pregnant, so in that case, this special fish bubble would be useless.
"By the way, isn't it too casual for the Lord to give you money to buy gifts in the capital?"
Fan Li nodded and said:
"The Lord said that they have a good relationship, so how convenient is how to come."
Snow Customs could have sent a team of gift-givers, beating gongs and drums, but there was no need for that.
First, it will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble, and secondly, it is a long distance and it is not cost-effective.
Fan Li came over by himself, brought the money, and bought it in Yanjing City, which can be described as really convenient and fast.
"So what do we buy? You're going to give a gift tomorrow, right? ”
"Hmm."
"Buying antiques? Buying calligraphy and paintings? Buying jade? ”
Fan Li shook his head and said:
"The Lord said to buy something down-to-earth."
"Down-to-earth?"
"Yes, the Lord also said that if you want to see sincerity at a glance, you must be eye-catching and stand out from the crowd."
"Hmm, what are you going to buy?"
……
A new pork shop was opened on Baixiang Street, and the owner of the shop was a foreigner, in fact, it was really not a foreigner, because Nan'an County was also in Tiancheng County, but in the eyes of the locals in the capital, out of this east, west, north and south gates, even if they lived in the grange outside the city, they were all outsiders.
The stall owner's surname is He, and his son works as a helper.
The small business has just opened, and it is not prosperous, but the stall owner is kind and can do business.
"Hey, hey, Chu, that lantern is a little further to the right, yes, yes, yes, it's right, it's right."
Lao He is directing his son to hang red lanterns.
In a shop selling dry goods next to it, the spicy widow proprietress leaned against the door panel and laughed while eating melon seeds:
"Ouch, I said Lao He, look at your heart, I don't know, I thought that His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince was married to your daughter."
He Chu, who was hanging the lantern, heard this and smiled stupidly.
Lao He Tou said:
"When outsiders enter Beijing, the first time they see this kind of royal liveliness, they have to have fun, they used to be in their hometown, but they couldn't encounter such a big event."
"Yes, but, slowly, I'm getting used to it, and the days will be long in the future."
"That's, that's."
Lao He turned around and was about to sharpen his knife again, but saw an iron tower-like figure appear in front of his stall.
Old He raised his head,
Some pain in the neck,
Because the person in front of him is too tall.
The widow boss next to him immediately widened his eyes, and at the same time subconsciously licked his lips with his tongue.
This tall man just stood in front of the stall,
On his shoulder, there was also a young girl.
"This, guest officer, do you want to buy pork?"
Lao He asked a little dazed.
Fan Li nodded, turning his head to look at the sword maid sitting on his shoulder.
The sword maid threw out a small bag of silver, and with a "clatter", it landed on Lao Hetou's board.
"Buy three big fat pigs, tie them with red ropes, and wear saffron, which we will use as gifts."
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Good night.