After the main hall, in the garden, there are pavilions and terraces.

A group of people sat around the stone table, full of delicacies in front of them, but they did not move their chopsticks.

Until passing through the stone wall, passing through half of the city, and the front hall of this palace, sitting in the courtyard of this palace, the six people except Yue Qingshan still did not react, and their eyes were dull.

"Why don't you pick up your chopsticks?

Gongsun Yumo looked around at the six disciples of the Huashan Sword Sect at the table, and asked them with a smile, while picking up the chopsticks and sandwiching the delicious food on the plate into Gongsun Tianshou's bowl.

"No, Your Majesty, the banquet you have arranged is very good—it's just that we really don't know what to do. ”

Hearing Gongsun Yumo's words, Yue Qingshan, who was the leader, said no, then hurriedly stood up and bowed to him.

"We've had so much care from you along the way—and later—so we don't know how to thank our seniors, so we can only thank you here. Another day, if necessary, I will do my best!"

Following Yue Qingshan, Li Yunfeng and the five of them also bent down and saluted respectfully.

In these words, there is no superfluous rhetorical embellishment, just words from the bottom of his heart - Gongsun Yumo can hear it. Looking at the young men, he smiled with satisfaction.

"Well, you little ones don't have to think about it that much. I am an old acquaintance with your master, and it is only natural for me to take care of you. Sit down, if you don't eat, you're going to get cold. ”

"yes, hurry up and move the chopsticks, or I won't wait. ”

Gongsun Tianshou stared at the roasted mutton in his bowl and swallowed. Even if he understood what Yue Qingshan and the others were thinking at this time, he just wanted to say now, could he wait until after eating to say the polite words.

Feeling the slight resentment in Gongsun Tianshou's words, Yue Qingshan suddenly felt that he was not only doing more, but even backfired. He sat down stupidly, no longer restrained, and motioned for his younger brothers and sisters to sit down together.

"Ahem, ahem, Yunfeng... ”

Yue Qingshan cleaned up the corners of his clothes a little, but when he raised his head, he saw that Li Yunfeng was still stunned, and his spirit was a little trance.

"Uh... Well, sorry. ”

Li Yunfeng, who received the signal, reacted at this time and sat down again, but his sloppy eyes were still looking away, and he didn't pick up the pair of bamboo chopsticks in front of him.

Seeing Li Yunfeng like this, Yue Qingshan frowned slightly, and there was a slight friction sound between the bamboo chopsticks in his hand, but this subtle sound was swallowed up in the sound of conversation and laughter.

However, there was still one person who noticed it - Gongsun Yumo's eyes narrowed slightly, and he took a few sips of the steaming tea, and brought the tea to his mouth, but the slightly heavy blowing sound sounded like a sigh of emotion.

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"Ahhh ”

Yan Yongning stared straight at the dishes in front of him, the bamboo chopsticks in his hand quickly swept over each plate, sandwiched the delicacies into his bowl, and then buried his head and devoured it.

At this time, every time he swallowed, he was moved to tears, until Lu Yaqi whispered beside him.

"Xiao Yan, pay attention to the image, we are in the royal family now... You can't embarrass the sect... And, the elder brother took a look at you - open your eyes, well, open your eyes. ”

"Ahem, ahem... ”

Yan Yongning, who heard these words, choked suddenly, and his eyes secretly glanced at Yue Qingshan beside him—he saw the "gentle" gaze in his narrowed eyes, and he felt shudder for a while.

"Little junior brother, you can ask for more blessings. ”

Bai Luohai patted Yan Yongning's shoulder and said softly, and Yan Luoyan on the side also nodded.

"You can't learn from us, you have to be elegant when you eat. ”

After that, Bai Luohai gently picked up the delicate bamboo chopsticks, crossed a trajectory in the air, picked up a piece of stewed meat and sent it to his mouth, and tasted it carefully.

"Have you learned it? Slow movements, graceful movements, and even more so, chewing and swallowing slowly. ”

Yan Luoyan nodded, picked up the soup from the tea cup, brought it to his lips and sucked a small sip, then put it down again and closed the lid.

However, Yan Yongning, who included the serious behavior of the two of them in his eyes, was almost about to laugh.

"Hmm, little brother, what are you laughing at, is there anything funny?"

When the two saw Yan Yongning's smiling expression, they instantly raised their eyebrows and glared at him.

"No, it's not!

Yan Yongning was about to cry at this time, he really had no human rights, and the five senior brothers and sisters could teach him a lesson.

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"Tian'er, why didn't Miss Yu come to the banquet? Last time you told me that she wanted to eat some dishes that the imperial chef didn't know, so I specially arranged for the imperial chef to study and make this plate of plum juice short ribs, but she didn't come over—it's a pity. ”

Gongsun Yumo put down the teacup and asked Gongsun Tianshou. For the little maid with Gongsun Tianshou, he has regarded her as his daughter in a sense, and he has been taking care of her all these years, if it weren't for Yu Qinglian's constant saying that she can't eat idle meals and refuses to be his daughter-in-law, he would have given her the position of princess a long time ago.

"Sister Yu, she said that she was going to settle the two guests she had brought from Huashan and give them some positions to do, so she didn't come to dinner. ”

Thinking of Yu Qinglian, Gongsun Tianshou suddenly had a headache - no matter how you say this kind of thing, you also need to consult the head of internal affairs or Gongsun Yumo, who is the head of a country, but Yu Qinglian told him that he didn't have to take care of himself.

"Father, you won't blame her, will you?"

"Huh, what's wrong?"

Looking at Gongsun Tianshou's pleading, Gongsun Yumo was puzzled for a while.

"That, Sister Yu acted so arrogantly and unreasonably, and asked my father not to blame her. ”

Gongsun Tianshou stubbornly said the words of pleading, and his eyes were a little afraid to look at Gongsun Yumo. In his heart, even though Gongsun Yumo is a very kind father and king, he is extremely strict with the affairs of governing the country, and if Yu Qinglian is so temperamental that he breaks the rules, he is afraid that he will not escape the crime.

However, Gongsun Yumo burst out laughing after hearing these words.

"Well—then you're worrying about it in vain. ”

Gongsun Yumo picked up the teacup, took a sip, and a waist card appeared in his hand and handed it to Gongsun Tianshou, saying.

"I gave this to her two years ago—speaking of which, this one has been sent out for decades—so now she can intervene in the internal affairs of the palace and even the entire Youxiong City—speaking of which, she was responsible for the renovation of the defensive array in the palace a year ago, and even the important organs of some countries are now managed and integrated by her. ”

Taking the jade waist card, Gongsun Tianshou was stunned, and then, Gongsun Yumo's words exploded in his mind. He had never heard Yu Qinglian mention that she was now a special manager of state affairs, and for so long she had always thought that Yu Qinglian was just a maid in the palace.

"No wonder she always smiled when I told Sister Yu not to act arrogantly-this, really, it's so embarrassing-so, why didn't you and Uncle Tuo tell me!!"

Thinking of what he had said, the flush on Gongsun Tianshou's face spread to the roots of his ears, and he couldn't believe that he had actually said those words to the only special manager in the entire country.

"That's... Miss Yu told us not to take the initiative to tell you what she is doing now... She said that it was fun to play your little maid all the time and only keep you in the dark. ”

I don't know why, speaking of this, Gongsun Yumo turned his head and sighed, with a hint of sadness in his expression, and said to himself in his heart.

"Alas, it seems that it's time to think about Madame's proposal, so I'm afraid it will become more and more stupid to bury my head in cultivation. ”

Fortunately, Gongsun Tianshou in the mess didn't see his father's movements, and only complained in a low voice that Yu Qinglian didn't even tell him such an important thing, otherwise, his young heart would be traumatized again.

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The chopsticks mechanically went up and down, bringing dishes that he didn't know what they were to his mouth—at least, Li Yunfeng, who ate them, didn't know what he was eating.

The salty, umami, spicy, and sweet flavors on the mouth and tongue are intertwined to create an incomparable deliciousness. It's a pity that these wonderful feelings also stayed in his mouth and did not touch Li Yunfeng's brain. Only the feeling of fullness brought by the food sliding down the esophagus and into the abdomen tells him that he is full.

"Dingding. ”

The chopsticks landed on the porcelain plate with a slight crunching sound. From picking up the chopsticks to putting them down, Li Yunfeng didn't glance at the dining table, his eyes were on the vermilion railing of the pavilion from beginning to end, because only those red railings were exceptionally clear in his blurred vision, as red as blood.

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It was past noon, and most of the people had finished their lunch and devoted themselves to the afternoon's work, and the noodle restaurant not far from the city gate had only the last table of customers.

"Boss, check out!"

The middle-aged man with a big waist next to the wooden table picked up the bowl and drank the last mouthful of broth inside, wiped the corners of his mouth stained with the soup with his hand, and shouted to the boss and Xiaoer, who were still busy in the back kitchen.

With that, the man put down the face-sized clay bowl, placed the wooden chopsticks on the empty bowl, and hiccuped in satisfaction.

"Okay, here we are - a big bowl of beef noodle soup, plus five taels of braised beef, a total of forty yuan - or it will be auspicious, thirty-nine dollars." ”

A tall and lanky man stepped out of the back kitchen with a wooden plank and smiled as he removed his apron and folded it neatly.

"Well, thank you boss—so be it, I'll make up for that copper coin next time, or I'll be sorry." ”

The thick-shouldered man took out the money bag he was carrying around his waist, took out a small string of copper coins from it, and placed it on the slightly worn table.

"Speaking of which, your noodles are pretty good, I thought the taste would change after changing bosses, but I didn't expect it to taste even better than before. Moreover, you are also better than the old man before, if you change to him, let alone give me a discount, you can't wait to ask me for an extra copper coin. ”

With that, the man got up from his bench and prepared to leave.

"Alas, thank you for the compliment, then welcome next time... ”

Hearing the customer's words of praise, the tall and thin noodle shop owner nodded with a smile and thanked him repeatedly. Suddenly, the words in his mouth suddenly froze - as he turned to see off the customer, he saw a mysterious man in a black cloak appear in the store like a ghost, looking at the wooden board with the menu written on the wall next to the door.

"Excuse me, is there any beef noodle soup left?"

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