Chang Ning held the branch with barbecue in his hand, looked back at the sleeve that was sitting cross-legged with his back to him, laughed twice, walked over, and shook a few pieces of meat in front of his sleeve's nose.

The smell of oily peppers was wanton, almost teasing all the senses of the hungry sleeve, and the sleeve had to close his eyes fiercely, but Chang Ning was holding the barbecue meat under the nose of the sleeve, chewing at the same time, and making a clattering sound from time to time.

Huai Sleeve quietly swallowed and foamed, always closed his eyes tightly, and looked righteous and awe-inspiring. Chang Ning looked at it and laughed unconsciously and said, "Taste a piece, it's really delicious!" ”

Huai Sleeve opened his eyes and looked at the roasted weasel in front of him, the golden tender lean meat was worn on the branches, sprinkled with pepper and salt and chili powder, and the head and tail looked more like roasted quail. Seeing Chang Ning's mouth full of oil, he couldn't help asking, "Don't you feel dirty?" ”

Chang Ning swallowed a piece of meat in his mouth and said with a smile: "It's not dirty, you can see where they live, this vast grassland, in addition to wild grass and wild vegetables, mushrooms and other plants and trees, these yellow rats all grow up by eating this kind of food, and the rats in the streets and alleys in the city eat all the dirty and smelly things, do you say clean?" ”

After that, Chang Ning tore off another piece of meat and chewed it in his mouth.

He looked at the white and tender flesh hanging on the branch, and it was indeed clean. Chang Ning continued: "Besides, I just boiled the salt with boiling water, and then put it on the fire to roast it for half an hour, how can it still be dirty?" You taste it first, the stunt is delicious. With that, he tore off a small piece of meat and handed it to Huai Sleeve.

Huai sleeve took it, seeing that Chang Ning had eaten for half a day, but he was a little hungry, so he carefully tore off a small piece and put it in his mouth, only tasted it, and felt that the rat meat was tender and smooth, and the muscles were fine, and it was a little like a civet.

Huai Sleeve unconsciously moved his index finger, and filled the remaining piece of meat into his mouth, and suddenly his mouth was full of fragrance, Chang Ning smiled and shared the meat skewer in his hand with her.

"Oops, that's bad." Chang Ning ate half of the rat meat, stuffed all the meat skewers in his hand into Huai Sleeve, and ran to the fire. Huai Sleeve also followed, and saw Chang Ning take down the branch that was being barbecued from the fire rack, looked at it first, and then put it under his nose and smelled it, and smiled reassuringly: "It's okay, it's okay!" ”

Seeing that the shape of the meat was different from that in his hand, he expected that it was snake meat. Seeing that Chang Ning was no longer rare at this moment, staring at the meat skewers in his hands, it seemed to be several times sweeter than just now, and couldn't help asking: "Is this snake meat really that delicious?" ”

Chang Ning carefully put a piece of snake meat in his mouth, only listening to the crisp sound of his teeth chewing, and his expression was even more comfortable. After tasting a bite of snake meat, he was amazed: "This taste should only be in the sky, and it is rare to taste it a few times in the world!" ”

Huai Sleeve smiled and squinted at Chang Ning, and couldn't help but say: "Now it's just you and me, not me, you are not promising, but you are also a dignified prince, and you have never seen the world to this point." ”

"If you don't believe you taste it, if you say it's not delicious, I'll lose your head to you." Chang Ning heard Huai Sleeve's words and made a serious bet.

Huai Sleeve just heard Chang Ning say that the flesh of this grassland weasel is clean, but there is some truth, in her heart, this vast grassland is a holy place. Besides, he had already eaten rat meat just now, so he was no longer taboo about it at this time, so he reached out and tore off a piece of snake meat and put it in his mouth and chewed it.

The snake meat was all thin slices, charred and crispy after being roasted by the fire, and the taste was a bit similar to the fried yellow croaker skin that she loved to eat before.

Chang Ning was in a hurry, he reached out to grab it, his sleeve was agile, and he jumped out a few steps away, Chang Ning pounced, glared at his sleeve, turned around and took down the remaining strings from the fire.

After a few bites, he finished eating the snake meat in his hand, threw the branch, and turned it back to Qiang Changning.

Chang Ning was robbed of a few by his sleeve, and in a hurry, he stuffed the remaining snake meat into his mouth, and the two of them competed like this, and in a blink of an eye, more than a dozen yellow squirrels and three snakes were all in their stomachs.

After eating, the two of them put out the fire and rested under the tree.

Chang Ning raised his face, looked at the clouds floating by the treetops, and chanted leisurely: "The knot is in the human realm, and there is no noise of cars and horses." How can you ask you? The heart is far away from itself. Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely see the South Mountain. The mountain weather is good, and the birds are returning. There is a true meaning in this, and I have forgotten to distinguish it. ”

Listening to him recite Tao Yuanming's "Drinking", there seemed to be a bit of envy in the context, and he couldn't help but look sideways, seeing that although Chang Ning was used to laughing and laughing on weekdays, but if he looked closely, his eyes were clear and clean, peaceful and tranquil. Compared with those princes in the court who are as noble as him, it does have a little more dusty taste.

"As a prince, you were born in the emperor's family, how could you give birth to such a hermit complex?" He asked as he toyed with a piece of dogtail grass in his hand.

Chang Ning smiled lightly: "How to be born naturally can't be chosen, how long can you still grasp a few points." ”

Huai Sleeve shook his head when he heard this: "Not necessarily." Looking at the vast green meadow, the sentence unconsciously revealed a bit of helplessness.

Chang Ning pondered for a moment, his eyes were always fixed on the white clouds in the sky, and he said in a deep voice: "In the past, I did want to find a quiet place to escape and live in seclusion, to be a prisoner at the end of the world, but to be free, but as the years get older, reading people and reading books is gradually increasing, whenever I sit alone in the study, burn a stove of incense, and look at the wisps that curl straight to the beam, I think, the smoke is very light and easy to dissipate, but as long as there is no wind for a moment, it will show its original form, although there is always wind in the world, but it still does not prevent it from appearing calmly for a short time. This wisp of smoke is actually just like the human heart. ”

Listening to Chang Ning's words, he was quite profound, implying a bit of Zen and a little philosophical thought, but he didn't expect that this usually laughing and impermanent prince had such a deep spirit, and he didn't realize that his heart had changed his views on Chang Ning.

Chang Ning paused for a while and continued to say gently: "Actually, seeking inner peace does not necessarily mean hiding in the deep mountains and rivers, as long as the heart is pure, where is not practice?" You are practicing right now, so am I, and even my imperial brother is also practicing, and your heart is peaceful and pure, and you can feel ethereal and leisurely everywhere. As the saying goes, 'the heart is far away from itself'......"

Chang Ning's words, Huai Sleeve listened to it unconsciously, and pondered that no matter which school of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, the highest cultivation of which school is pure in mind, in this way, as long as you do this, where do you not practice? I didn't realize the epiphany in my arms, and my thoughts were like an enlightenment.

Chang Ning calmly asked, "The person I told you about that day ......"

Huai Sleeve nodded slightly and said, "I, I have a ...... in my heart"

Chang Ning smiled faintly and said no more.