Updated: 2012-04-25

When camping in the evening, Li Xiaoqi and Lu Feng caught four or five hares, and happened to hunt a deer, Li Xiaoqi and Lu Feng chattered and discussed, to set up a fire to barbecue meat to eat, Li Zonggui leaned over to come up with an idea, and called Li Erhuai over, set up a bonfire rack behind the tent, Li Xiaoqi searched everywhere for a long time, but did not find an iron skewer or something next to the barbecue, twisted his brows and thought for a moment, quietly turned to Su Zicheng's tent, looked for Nanning, and quietly asked him where to find the iron skewer for barbecue, Nanning secretly swallowed saliva, The aunt and grandmother who he asked him to take care of have too many new ideas.

"Fifth master, wait a minute, I'll go find Lao Jia and ask." Nanning replied with a smile. Not long after, Nanning wrapped a silver skewer in a white cotton handkerchief, took a box in the other hand, and asked with a smile: "Fifth master, I found it, Lao Jia said that it has been useless for many years, and now I have washed it a few times, and this, Lao Jia said that the fifth master wants to barbecue, and these blessings are indispensable." ”

Li Xiaoqi was pleasantly surprised, stretched out his hand to take it, Nanning said with a smile: "Where is the fifth master going to bake?" I'll send it over to the fifth master. Li Xiaoqi pointed to the bonfire in front of his tent: "That's it, if you don't have a duty, come over later!" ”

"Fifth Master Xie, it is me and Beiqing who are on duty tonight, so I don't have this blessing." Nanning replied with a hint of regret in her smile, and while speaking, when she arrived at the bonfire, Nanning put the silver skewer and the gift box on the side table, and said goodbye with a smile.

Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng stood next to them with their fists folded, smiling and watching Lu Feng, Li Xiaoqi, Li Erhuai and Li Zonggui barbecue, Lu Feng carried a silver skewer, took a step to take a look at Li Xiaoqi, clumsily followed the skewers of meat, shabu-shabu, barbecue, Li Xiaoqi's meat skewers were grilled with a sound and fragrant, but his meat skewers were charred into a ball, Li Zonggui's hands and feet were the most neat, only sprinkled some salt on the meat, and two skewers had been baked, and turned his head and handed it to Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng. Li Erhuai simply didn't put anything, picked the meat with a skewer, roasted it black and red, sprinkled it with salt, and threw it directly into his mouth to chew sweetly.

Lu Feng was sweating, and he didn't grill the meat that could be eaten on skewers, so he simply threw a silver skewer, came to Li Xiaoyi, and said with a smile: "Xiao Wu, you are so good, even the barbecue is extraordinary!" Shall I taste it for you? Li Xiaoqi slapped Lu Feng's hand away, put a few skewers of meat on the prepared clean plate, and gave it to Lu Feng and instructed: "Go, send it to your little uncle." Lu Feng was just about to stare at him, Li Xiaoqi kicked him, and said in a low voice: "It won't be wrong to listen to me, hurry up and send it while it's hot, and let's eat meat and talk about it when we come back." ”

Lu Feng was pushed up by Li Xiaoqi, and reluctantly took the plate to the big tent in the middle, Beiqing led Lu Feng in, Su Zicheng was sitting at the table looking at the paperwork, seeing Lu Feng coming in, holding the pen, staring at him with a cold face, Lu Feng was uncomfortable holding those strings of venison, and he didn't dare to look up at Su Zicheng, this little uncle, is yin and cold, the eldest brother is a stone in the pit, smelly and hard, he is a frozen stone in the pit, smelly, hard and cold! Slander is slander, Lu Feng didn't dare to look at Su Zicheng, hung his head, looked respectful, raised the plate, and said in a muffled voice: "Uncle Shi, this is roast venison, please try it." ”

Nanning hurriedly stepped forward to take the plate, and with Su Zicheng's expression, he put the plate in the corner of the table, Lu Feng didn't wait for Su Zicheng to answer, he took two steps back, and said while retreating: "Uncle use it slowly, and the disciple retires." ”

Su Zicheng stared at him out of the tent, turned his head to look at the browned skewers of venison on the plate, and flicked the silver skewers with his fingers, Nanning hurriedly explained in a low voice: "Hui Ye, just now the fifth master said that he wanted to barbecue, and the small one looked for a few barbecue skewers, and the small one asked Lao Jia for this skewer." Su Zicheng said 'um' as if he didn't have any, stood up and walked out of the tent, followed the smell of barbecue around a few tents, stopped at a tent corner, watched from a distance around the bonfire roasting and eating, squeezed into one place while talking and laughing Li Xiaoqi and Lu Feng, the firelight reflected on Li Xiaoyi's side face, and the clear smile jumped non-stop, warm and cheerful like a sunset full of sky.

Su Zicheng watched for most of the day, the chill of early autumn hit, Su Zicheng shuddered lightly, Nanning hurriedly put the cloak in his hand on Su Zicheng, and reminded in a low voice: "Master, it's windy here." Su Zicheng woke up as if frightened, reached out and grabbed the strap of the cloak, turned around and went back to the tent.

Early the next morning, Lu Feng was sent by Su Zicheng to send a letter to Kaiping Mansion, took the reply letter and rushed back. This trip didn't come back for ten days and half a month, and Li Xiaoyi's days were even more boring, riding a half-day horse every day, riding a half-day car, reading those papers, and sleeping.

Along the way, there are more and more cultivated fields on both sides, villages are visible from time to time, and towns are becoming more and more dense, but the team has been marching along the suburbs, and does not enter the city to rest and station, and it is not very convenient to enter the city. The march of the team gradually slowed down, and at night they also chose a place not far from the city to rest, just stationed in the camp here, the local officials over there went to the gate to ask to see Su Zicheng, Li Xiaoqi looked at it from afar, does he also care about this local government affairs?

Every once in a while, Su Zicheng asked Nanning to take Li Xiaoqi over, just like watching Yao Mingguang in Rucheng, only introducing those officials to her, but never introducing her to those officials. Li Xiaoqi carefully observed the officials he introduced to her, went back to Nanning and looked for the resumes, articles, and even letters of these people, and slowly looked at them carefully, no matter what they did, knowing people was the first step.

When passing by Shanxian County, there was a little accident, Qian Qizhong, the magistrate of Shanxian County and the new science and technology jinshi, suddenly knelt on the ground and opened his mouth with his neck bent when he was looked up and down by Li Xiaoyi: "Lord Wang, the lower official risked death to speak!" Since ancient times, the difference between the scholars, the distinction between men and women, since the funeral of the car clothes, each has an equal difference, this is the etiquette system, the etiquette is the foundation of the country, the king and even the people, when the same Shi is used, the people around the prince, women wear men's clothes, nondescript, shameless, is a chaotic etiquette and chaos of the country! Xia Guan read the book of sages, forgot his country, and did not dare to say anything even though he died! As he spoke, he kowtowed heavily.

After Li Xiaoqi was surprised for a moment, he secretly exhaled, stood with his hands down, and quietly listened to Qian Qizhong's 'risking death to enter the speech', Su Zicheng glanced at Li Xiaoqi who seemed to be an outsider, raised his hand to signal Dongping to help Qian Qizhong up, and said calmly: "The emperor is a Ming monarch, and this king is not a rebel, so you don't have to risk death." ”

Qian Qizhong threw himself forward and knelt on the ground, kowtowing and was about to ask for guilt, Su Zicheng raised his finger, Dongping hurriedly stepped forward and dragged Qian Qizhong, Su Zicheng looked at him, sighed a little tiredly, and then said: "The car clothes are different, the funeral is poor, it is the road of etiquette, what you said is good, but the things of the world cannot be generalized, don't do things differently, but also know how to workaround, okay, I know about this, what to say in the future is, to admonish and speak is to risk death, that is the faint monarch and the minister, I Beiping Jun Ming Zhengqing, not this!" Qian Qizhong still wanted to speak, but Su Zicheng raised his hand to stop him: "You read too much, go back and think about it, if you want to be a capable minister, go back." Dongping gently pushed Qian Qizhong out of the tent.

Su Zicheng turned around, looked Li Xiaoqi up and down, and said slowly: "There are many such nerds in Kaiping Mansion. ”

"Hmm." Li Xiaoqi looked up at Su Zicheng, looking at it this way, he is really good-looking, his facial features are exquisite, he is clean and does not see the dust, and his eyes are as bright as a morning star in a cold night, what does he mean by this? No matter how good he is, she can't enter his backyard, and if he does, there will be nothing, no identity, no freedom, and even he will be gone, Li Xiaoyi's shoulders gradually drooped down, and he whispered sadly: "Although there are tens of millions of people, I will go." Su Zicheng looked down at Li Xiaoyi, and suddenly laughed, shaking his head while laughing.

After walking for another two days, the three thousand guards returned to the military camp outside Kaiping Mansion in a large radius, and only two or three hundred people were left to escort them, and continued to march slowly towards Kaiping Mansion.

After the beginning of August, everyone entered the Jingnan Mansion adjacent to Kaiping Mansion, just entered the Jingnan Mansion Territory, Jingnan Prefecture Zhao County Governor Shui Qingqian went directly to the edge of the county, Su Zicheng's mother, Empress Xiaoci's surname Shui, Shui Jia, is Su Zicheng's foreign family, and it is also one of the oldest and most honorable surnames in Beiping Kingdom. Li Xiaoqi rode on the horse and looked forward slightly, wanting to see what this Shui Qingqian looked like, but the people in front of her were all taller than her, and she didn't see anything when the cracks were shaking.

The group was still stationed outside the city, Li Xiaoqi settled down, Nanning came over, and said with a smile: "Fifth master, the master left Shuizhi County for dinner, please come over with the fifth master, and in three quarters of an hour, I will come over again to invite the fifth master." Li Xiaoqi smiled and nodded, Su Zicheng loves cleanliness too much, every time he is stationed, the first thing is to take a bath and change clothes, Li Xiaoqi smiled while thinking, calculated the hour, three quarters of an hour, and he could take a bath.

Nanning came over and called Li Xiaoyi, Shui Qingqian was already sitting in the tent, seeing Li Xiaoqi come in, he turned his head, smiled and bowed slightly, Li Xiaoqi paused, bowed slightly respectfully, followed Nanning's guidance, and sat down on a small table on the left of Su Zicheng, Su Zicheng pointed to Shui Qingqian and introduced: "This is Shuizhi County, Shui Qingqian." As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Shui Qingqian, and introduced in a casual tone: "This is my new friend, surnamed Li, and she calls herself the fifth master." ”

Li Xiaoqi looked at Shui Qingqian silently, and said with a smile: "Lord Shui, call me Xiao Wu." Shui Qingqian is about fifty, not tall, slightly thin, his face is wrinkled but white, his eyes are warm and humble, and the whole person looks very easy-going, after listening to Li Xiaoyi's words, his eyes swept to Su Zicheng, and when he saw him drooping his eyelids, he responded with a smile: "Then I will hold it up, the little five are handsome, and it is pleasing to see." Li Xiaoqi smiled and didn't answer much, this is not the time for her to greet him.

Nanning took the little servant and sent the food up, Li Xiaoqi lowered his head and ate slowly, Su Zicheng was about to pay attention to food and was silent, and the meal was silent.