Chapter 75: Sword Fish Soup in the East China Sea
The next day, Yu Chengyun received an invitation from the Emperor of Tianyuan Kingdom to visit the palace.
Yu Chengyun did not avoid suspicion this time, and directly took Mu Xiyun and Wuwei to the palace, and in the carriage, he still took the carriage separately from them as usual, and talked and behaved appropriately as if yesterday's events had not happened.
When they arrived at the gate of the palace, there were already leading eunuchs waiting, and after a while, they were led to the imperial garden, where the emperor was already waiting in the pavilion.
"The virtuous nephew is here, please come in!" The emperor of the Tianyuan Kingdom did not reduce his enthusiasm for Yu Chengyun in the slightest, and he was as generous as ever, simple and direct.
"Meet Your Majesty." Yu Chengyun is still humble and polite, and his demeanor is generous, so that people can't find fault with it.
"Come and sit down, come and taste the most famous specialty of our Tianyuan Kingdom, the East China Sea Sword and Dolphin Soup."
"The foreign minister greets Your Majesty." Wuwei stood behind Yu Chengyun and hurriedly saluted the emperor.
"Who is this?"
"Your Majesty, this is my retainer, who helps me take care of all the affairs of the Prince's Mansion, and is my confidant, I brought him here to meet Your Majesty today, I hope Your Majesty will not be surprised." Yu Chengyun hurriedly introduced Wuwei to the emperor, of course, it was all nonsense on the spot.
"In the lower Qin Shiyue, I saw Your Majesty last time in the Tachun Palace, and I learned that Your Majesty has extensive knowledge, so I came to ask for advice or two, and I hope Your Majesty will not hesitate to give advice." Wuwei saluted the emperor again and said.
"It's okay, since you are the henchmen of the virtuous nephew, you don't need to be too strict with etiquette, and you can taste the deliciousness of this sword dolphin together." The Emperor of Tianyuan Kingdom didn't care about the details, of course, Wuwei had been observing him carefully.
His Majesty the Emperor seems to be approachable, but in fact he is meticulous, and his liking for Yu Chengyun seems to be too superficial, but he has to think about it carefully.
"Your Majesty, this sword dolphin has heard that its whole body is poisonous, why can the Tianyuan Kingdom treat it as a delicacy?" Wuwei said with a smile after tasting a bite of sword and pork soup.
"Mr. Qin doesn't know, originally this sword dolphin didn't dare to be eaten by our countrymen, but it had no natural enemies, and its wanton breeding caused a lot of seafood to be preyed on by it, and the people couldn't take her for a while, you should all know that our Tianyuan Kingdom relies on the favorable time and place of this seaside to exist, but at that time, the sword dolphin almost became a national disaster for our Tianyuan Kingdom." The emperor said with a smile on his beard.
"Your Majesty, in this way, the emperor of the Tianyuan Kingdom at that time must have found some way to restrain the infinite reproduction of the sword dolphin, and also used it to become a delicious delicacy now." Yu Chengyun also followed their words and said meaningfully.
The emperor of Tianyuan Kingdom did not speak, but just waved his hand, and the people below immediately brought up a porcelain basin, inside which was a fresh sword dolphin, about a foot long, slender and long, and the fins on his back were like a sword, which must be the origin of the name.
"This sword dolphin is fierce by nature, not to mention breeding, even if the fishermen accidentally catch it, it will continue to hunt other fish in the basket, which is really a headache."
The emperor pointed to the sword dolphin in the porcelain basin and said to them with a smile, and seeing that they were still unsatisfied, he continued:
"At that time, there was a national teacher, very fond of food, once passing by the fish stall when I saw the appearance of the sword dolphin is very strange, but the fisherman did not sell it to him, said that he would be poisoned to death if he ate it, at that time he insisted on buying it back, returned home and raised it for a period of time, and found that the sword dolphin fish body has always been black, and dare not eat it can only be kept all the time, and then his little grandson once greedy to throw the perilla leaves into the fish tank, I didn't think that in just a few days, the black of the sword dolphin disappeared, turned into white gray, the national teacher saw it is really strange, I used a large number of perilla leaves to cook fish soup, first for my dog to eat fine, a chef smelled the soup very delicious and secretly tasted a bite is fine, and then everyone found that the toxicity of this sword dolphin can be completely resolved as long as it meets perilla leaves, and finally this East China Sea sword dolphin has become the most famous specialty of our Tianyuan Kingdom. ”
Mu Xiyun, who was standing next to him, heard the emperor say this, and the fragrance of the sword and pork soup kept drilling into his nose, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"That's the case, so there are too many things in the world that restrain each other, and no one would have thought that the weak perilla leaf could restrain this fierce-looking sword dolphin of the East China Sea." After listening to the emperor's words, Yu Chengyun couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"Nephew, I guess you have something to ask me?" The emperor gently put down the spoon and looked at Yu Chengyun with burning eyes.
"Since Your Majesty has spoken, then the foreign minister will not hide it, and our country also has a sword guinea fish that is a disaster, but we can't find a restrained perilla leaf." Yu Chengyun heard the emperor's words and could see the emperor's sincere explanation, so he didn't hide it too much.
"Since it is a sword dolphin, isn't the virtuous nephew a perilla leaf? Of course, if you want to make a good sword and pork soup, there is still an ingredient, and my Tianyuan Kingdom is willing to provide it to help you make that detoxifying perilla leaf. With a wave of his hand, the person below handed over a brocade box again.
Yu Chengyun smiled and gently opened the brocade box, there were many letters inside, the handwriting on it was very familiar, his Sixth Emperor Uncle Yu Minghong wrote a good hand, how could he not recognize it?
"Even so, Your Majesty is afraid that it will not be so easy to give me this list of ingredients." Yu Chengyun smiled lightly and took a sip of sword and dolphin soup.
"The virtuous nephew is really smart, originally this sword dolphin came to me for help, but I never promised him any promises, and now it is my only daughter who has to marry you, if it really becomes my fast son-in-law, then I naturally know who I am helping." The emperor also laughed, lowered his head and continued to take a sip of the sword and pork soup.
His words were too obvious, it was nothing more than telling Yu Chengyun that if you marry my daughter, we will naturally be a close family, and it is clear who I should help and who I should not help at a glance.
For such a naked semi-threatening conversation, Yu Chengyun and Wuwei glanced at each other, and then Yu Chengyun continued:
"Since you want to be a family, the foreign minister still has something to ask for, if Your Majesty gives it, then I can really see your sincerity."
"What's it, just say it directly." The Emperor put down the spoon again, and looked earnestly at the man in front of him who had given him a weight.
"Xuantian Dzi."
When the Emperor heard this, he laughed out loud and said again:
"I can't imagine that the weight of the virtuous nephew is indeed not light, although this Xuantian bead is a national treasure of my country, it is not that it cannot be used for you, but I also want to add weight."
"Your Majesty, please speak." Yu Chengyun knew that it would not be so easy to ask for this Xuantian bead, and he had already been mentally prepared, but fortunately, the emperor did not refuse directly, leaving room for it, and Wuwei next to him also smiled lightly, and the big stone in his heart was instantly put down.
"When she was young, a heavenly master told her her fortune, and she will be the only country in the world."
"Your Majesty, that Heavenly Master is indeed powerful, Princess Shulan will be the queen of our country, and no one can compare with her mother in the world."
"Hahaha, talking with the virtuous nephew, I am very happy in my heart, but there is one more thing, although the Xuantian bead is the treasure of our country, but the past thousand years have been covered with dust, if you want to change its brilliance again, you must have the tears of the East China Sea mermaid to scrub it, I don't know if the virtuous nephew can do it." The emperor said to Yu Chengyun with a smile again.
Yu Chengyun fell into a difficult situation, this emperor is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, he used the position of queen in exchange for Xuantian Dzi, I didn't expect to really get it would be so time-consuming and laborious, and it was even more difficult.
"Yes." Wu Wei saluted beside him and said lightly.
"That's great!" The Emperor burst out laughing again.
Yu Chengyun looked at Wu Wei in surprise, and he just gave him an affirmative smile.
He definitely couldn't do it on his own, but was there still this nine-tailed fox demon's apprentice standing behind?
He turned to look at Mu Xiyun, who was full of anger, and laughed softly, originally planned to come to Tianyuan Kingdom this time without using her divine power, but he didn't expect that the final level still needed to rely on her to break through. I'm sorry, my boy.