Chapter 37: The Great Meal
The group continued to ride north on fast horses, Cao Ran and Zhu Xuan rode a horse together, and this time he asked her to sit in front of him, and he said, "This way we can ride faster." ”
After walking day and night for three whole days, Cao Ran's bones were tossed and sore. She was the only woman along the way, and except for Zhu Xuan, although everyone else was rude, they all stayed away from her.
The capital of Beiyan --- Dragon City, after entering the city, everyone else was dismissed by Zhu Xuan, Cao Ran followed Zhu Xuan to an inn that was considered atmospheric, and after cleaning, she slept comfortably and had a good night's sleep, and when she woke up, it was close to noon.
When I got up, I had a big appetite, and I called a table full of food to the room, and while stuffing it into my mouth with taste, I muttered to myself in the interval between chewing, "I really don't know why I came here with him." As she spoke, she rubbed her swollen and sore buttocks with her hands, which seemed to be a few laps bigger, and she couldn't help but "snort" twice when she rubbed the pain hard. "Bang" The door was kicked open, and Zhu Xuan's hand in front of the door had not been put down, and he was stunned to freeze there, Cao Ran swallowed the residue in his mouth hard, and withdrew the hand that was still on the slightly upturned buttocks.
Zhu Xuan's thick eyebrows frowned slightly, and he asked in surprise, "What are you doing?" ”
Cao Ran's face was a little hot, and she used her signature smile to relieve the embarrassment, "I'm still thinking that you may not have eaten and are going to leave some for you, you see how blessed you are!" As soon as the dish comes up, you come in. She motioned to him if he wanted to be together, and Zhu Xuan sat opposite without excuse.
He looked at the scattered scraps on Cao Ran's half of the table, and asked with a discriminatory gaze, "What are your habits?" Why do you make such a strange noise when eating, I thought you were being ...... outside the door," he said.
Cao Ran rolled his eyes at him, let the fat on Yun's hand with a small mouth, pushed the sauce elbow in front of him with half of it intact, and said with a sincere smile: "Your Highness Yue, this sauce elbow tastes really super, I have tried it and it is not poisonous, and the other half is very clean, it's all yours." ”
His eyebrows tightened even tighter, and he pushed back in disgust and said, "I don't grab food with foodies, didn't you just eat a whole fish and a big pot of chicken soup last night, and you ate so greasy today, aren't you afraid of becoming a fat man?" ”
"How much have I eaten? I was really hungry when I arrived last night, and the chef's skill in making fish is really not comparable to the skill of making sauce elbows. After a few seconds, he continued: "The chicken soup is not bad, but the chicken in it is too light. ”
Speaking of chicken, she sniffed lightly, as if she smelled the smell of roast chicken, and looked at the table that she didn't order roast chicken, she wanted to order roast chicken but it wasn't on the menu of the store. Looking for the taste, it was emitted by Zhu Xuan, and she asked, "You went out to eat roast chicken with me behind your back, right?" ”
"No," he said indifferently.
"And say no, I smell roast chicken on you!" Cao Ran said angrily.
He was speechless: "What a dog's nose." Taking out the paper bag from behind him, the smell of fragrant roast chicken was even stronger, and Cao Ran took it and handed him a chicken leg.
When she drank chicken soup last night, she said, "This chicken soup is good, but the meat is too tasteless, far less than the one you cooked." She just wanted to compliment him, but she didn't expect him to bring one back today.
Zhu Xuan explained abruptly: "I'm the most unprovoked, I just want you to know that even if it's all roast chicken, it won't be as delicious as my roast." As he spoke, he took a bite of the chicken leg and said, "Well, it's really a lot worse." ”
Cao Ran secretly "hehe", did she provoke him? She obviously only complimented her, but this person was really bitter. She pursed her lips, turned her smart deep eyes, and instantly greeted her with a smile: "Your Highness Yue, you haven't eaten lunch, have you?" She picked up a bowl, walked around the table and put it in front of him, and continued attentively: "This bowl of bird's nest is the top signature of this shop, Your Highness try it?" ”
Zhu Xuan supported his chin with one hand and looked at her suspiciously: "So attentive, there won't be anything, right?" He looked into the bird's nest and saw nothing.
Without hesitation, she picked up the spoon and tasted a little, shrugging her shoulders calmly.
Zhu Xuan took a deep breath and nodded, picked up the bowl and ate deliciously, it seemed that he really hadn't eaten lunch. Cao Ran put a few plates of relatively complete dishes in front of him, he didn't think much about tasting each dish one by one, Cao Ran asked lightly on the side: "How is it, it's not bad, right?" He chewed his chin.
"Since I've eaten them all and the taste is quite satisfying, what about the rest...... I'll leave the bill payment to you, I'm also quite full, so I'll go around and eliminate food first. With a smile in the corner of her eye, she lifted her leg and left. When she ordered, she patronized the name of the dish, and asked for a lot of delicious food that she had never eaten, but she didn't expect that the price was more expensive than buying a girl, but she ordered it and returned it, which one was a little faceless and a little reluctant, and the owner of the shop was also very shrewd, and she refused to calculate anything with the house money, so she had to pay for Zhu Xuan's head. If you don't slip away at this time, wouldn't it be embarrassing to wait for the shopkeeper to come up and ask for the account.
Cao Ran had just left, and the shopkeeper came to the room with a pot of wine. Seeing Zhu Xuan politely pouring full of wine, his mouth was smiling to the cheeks, and it was rare for someone to order all the most expensive dishes in the store, and this table of dishes was enough for him to earn ten days and a half on weekdays.
Zhu Xuan put down his chopsticks and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"Are you satisfied with the dishes in our shop?"
Although Zhu Xuan, the prince, is not expensive, but after all, he grew up in the royal family, although this table of meals is not as good as the palace feast, but it is not bad in this place, Fang said: "Well, it is okay." ”
The shopkeeper laughed a few times, "It's good to be satisfied, it's good to be satisfied, don't you settle our wine bill first?" ”
Zhu Xuan took out a silver ingot on his body and put it on the table, "That's enough, don't look for the rest." ”
"Uh...... Uh......" The shopkeeper didn't answer, pondered for a few seconds, and said euphemistically: "Childe's silver ingot is not enough for this half of the table, aren't you?" He handed over the price slip and kneaded it with three fingers to add money.
Zhu Xuan took it and glanced at it twice, and then took out a big gold stator, "That's enough." The shopkeeper's eyes narrowed, and he happily accepted the gold dingzi, and said some polite words and retreated with interest.
Zhu Xuan looked at the mess on the table, but only the bowl of bird's nest in front of him was eaten by himself, and the other dishes in the bowl were all put into his bowl by Cao Ran. Thinking that she was so diligent in allocating good food to herself, and then running out under the pretext of eating, if she left a moment late to catch up with the shopkeeper to come up to settle the bill, he would definitely pretend not to know her, so what would she come up with? Thinking about it like this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile.