Eating such an unpalatable meal, I poured a lot of water to quench my thirst. It was windy on the outskirts of the city, and Lei Nian coughed a few times and went back to lie down in the carriage.

Twilight Changyan brought a few people back and introduced them to me one by one, and I only remembered Yu Xianting, who was in charge of the carriage and horses, and Qiao Yun, who was in charge of the armor soldiers. These two people are probably the two biggest officials among the people who came to pick me up at night with the twilight smoke. However, their specific official positions, Twilight Changyan told me, I didn't understand what the words were, and secondly, they sounded unfamiliar, and I forgot about them.

After the first round of introductions, Twilight Changyan said that he would call someone with a slightly lower official rank again, and I quickly stopped him.

Twilight Changyan was puzzled, I said: "I know that Brother Changyan wants to make me familiar with these officials as soon as possible, but my memory is not so good, I only remember two of those people just now, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to remember more later." It's better to do this, if you have free time these days, first draw me a map of the structure of the Xuancang official system, I will first look at these official systems, and then look at each person specifically, and I will be able to remember eight or nine without leaving ten. ”

"Your Majesty said yes." Twilight Changyan saluted me, "Then I will present the official structure map to Your Majesty tomorrow." ”

I nodded, "Okay, also, how do we go back to Lingmu Valley?" ”

"I have a topographical map here, Your Majesty, please take a look."

Taking the leather map from Twilight's hand, he showed me where we are, and traced my route with his finger on the topographic map.

But how does this route twist and turn?

"Brother Changyan, is this going around in circles to pick the official road?"

Twilight Changyan said: "Yes, the official road is wide, and there are defenses in the night, so it is safer to take the official road." ”

"So at our current pace, how long will it take to take this route to get back to Lingmu Valley?"

"Five months, to say the least."

It takes five months to get home, isn't it like a daughter-in-law is going to become a mother-in-law?!

"No, it's been too long." I continued to look at the map carefully to see if there was any other way to go.

However, this kind of map is not the same thing as the map in my concept, which basically only lists topographical features, large towns and villages, and official roads and avenues. Not a single path has been drawn.

Twilight Changyan thought for a moment and said to me, "We came here on the Approach, and it took three months. ”

It was still too long, and I looked up at him, "Is there anything closer?" ”

"No, unless we go over this Shangping Mountain, but this mountain is like a screen, steep and abnormal, and it is impossible to climb over, so we can only go around along the foot of the mountain."

I asked him to draw a three-month route on the map, and it was fairly flat along the way, except for a high mountain at the junction of Yeyun and Xuancang.

Twilight Changyan added: "There are often bandits in Shangping Mountain, and when we came, there were not many of us, but we could travel flexibly, but now the convoy is huge, and it is too risky to enter the mountain." ”

I swept through the people who were sitting around resting, "It's just that with the addition of me and King Xian, it doesn't add many people, right?" ”

Twilight Changyan saluted again, "Your Majesty doesn't know, since Emperor Heng issued an edict to the world, there are many Xuancang people inside and outside the Yeyou Imperial City to join us, presumably there will be people on the way back to join, the number of people and carriages will only increase, they are all looking forward to following His Majesty back to their homeland and rebuilding their homes." ”

I see, no wonder I looked at the crowd and there were many people who didn't look like soldiers. Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered something, "Brother Changyan, where did the envoy of Emperor Heng go?" Why don't you see anyone from our journey? ”

"The one is already one step ahead of us."

"Oh......" turned out to be gone.

"Your Majesty, there is still something about Changyan that has not been reported." Twilight smoke is really a lot of etiquette, and it is always used to bow before speaking.

I nodded again, "Say it." ”

"That messenger is actually Prince Chen's disguise, because I have an agreement with him, so I can only inform Your Majesty of his identity after he leaves, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive you."

I tried to think about the appearance of the messenger, and I couldn't remember the details except for the arrogance on his face. If he is Lord Chen, isn't he Xuanhu's godbrother? It is really unbelievable that a regent dressed up as a messenger and came around in the night.

After leaving the Night Palace, Twilight Changyan seemed to have become more restrained in talking to me, and I wanted to ask, but then I figured it out. In private, he can listen to me and relax a little, but in front of everyone, he is a national teacher and has to set an example, so when talking to me, he must pay more attention to etiquette.

I saw that everyone had also finished eating and resting for a long time, and then took the path after explaining to Twilight Changyan, who still passed on my order despite his hesitation.

The carriage was not too spacious, but it was still possible to lie down, and I was dizzy from lying down for a while, and I sat up and leaned against the carriage, which was more stable.

In the afternoon, Xuanhu appeared once and told me that she was accompanying Xianwang in King Xian's carriage, and that this infatuated Nizi must be because she was about to be separated from this world and wanted to see her sweetheart more.

It wasn't until the sun went down and the carriage turned from swaying to jolting, that I knew that it was even more suburban than the suburbs. Lifting the curtain of the carriage window, there was only a small village and a few fields that were about to be deserted.

I ordered to stop, and saw the two people I remembered, Yu Xianting and Qiao Yun, who commanded everyone to separate the carriages and horses in an orderly manner, and the people who fed the horses, rectified the materials and set up camp were also busy.

Lei Nian's guard, Cao Zhi's younger brother, came to me and said that King Xian asked him to help me make a stove, and I guess Lei Nian was hungry again.

I asked what the name of the guard was, and he replied, Cao Kan. It turns out that the guards not only have to be strong in martial arts, but also this life ability should not be underestimated, Cao Kan quickly built me a stove with stones and soil, and asked me what ingredients I want to use, I said two things that are in the Lei Du list, Cao Kan asked: "Just make two dishes?" ”

That's right, Lei Nian is a virtuous king, and he can't eat too badly, so I asked him to take some more beans and winter melon, and want to make more soup.

Cao Kan took people to the river not far away to clean the ingredients, I asked Du Changyan to find me a cutting board kitchen knife, Qiao Yun saw that I was holding a knife and told me to be careful, he said that he would arrange for soldiers to come over and cut vegetables for me. I rolled my eyes at him and said, "At noon, I have seen the level of the soldiers cutting vegetables, you might as well find two people in charge of cooking to come and see my knife skills in cutting vegetables, and learn from me." ”

Qiao Yun looked stunned, and then seemed to be a little flustered, and hurriedly found a few people to come over and surround me.

Just as Cao Kan also brought back the ingredients, I said to the people around me by the light of the torch next to me: "You are all optimistic, the cutting method is different according to the type of dish, the cooking time is different." For example, this kind of green vegetables, the smaller ones do not need to be cut, and the larger ones can be cut into two sections. Besides, this radish, if you cook soup can be sliced or diced, I'm going to stir-fry it now, so cut it into strips. ”

A group of people all responded with "uh-huh", all of them were afraid of me, and I asked them, "Do you know when the radish is shredded?" ”

They all shook their heads again.

"Of course, it's shredded when it's cold! Because it's so delicious! Don't shred when stir-frying, because shredding is easy to soften when fried with hot oil, and the radish is not crispy and not delicious, right? ”

The group nodded again, "Uh-huh." ”

I explained while operating, Cao Kan lit a fire for me, I waited until the oil in the pot was hot, stir-fried, and added seasoning, this smell smelled my own greed.

When my two dishes and one soup came out of the pot, this group of people sent me to applaud, I asked them to hurry back to cook, and asked Cao Kan to invite Lei Nian to eat together.