The next morning, after breakfast, they rode straight to the capital.

Lin Qingran changed into the clothes of a waiter, and Li Mingyuan was not so confused, compared to yesterday, he was more able to suppress his restless mood. After a morning of traveling, they finally came to the outskirts of the capital.

When they were still some distance from the capital, the three of them dismounted and prepared to walk over.

"Lin Qingran, what should you call me when you enter the city in a while?" Li Mingyuan looked at her and asked.

I call you uncle! "Childe." She said reluctantly.

"Good, don't shout wrong." He had a smug smile on his face.

"Little Marquis...... Childe, are we going straight into the city like this? Chen Chong asked.

"When they were in Huizhou City yesterday, they didn't get a road guide, they would go in like this for a while, and if someone checked it, they would lead the way to him." Li Mingyuan also asked those officials of the old ministry when he was staying in Huizhou, and the officials said that because he was going to enter Beijing recently, he was under strict investigation and needed a road guide to enter the city.

"What way? Take it for me to see. Lin Qingran hadn't heard of any road guides.

Chen Chong looked at the little marquis.

"Give it to her." Li Mingyuan said.

Immediately, Chen Chong led the way over, "That's it." ”

She took a closer look, and the road guide wrote that he was the son of a wealthy local businessman in Beijing, and he was going to return to Beijing after visiting Huizhou this time.

"The son of a wealthy local merchant?" She looked Li Mingyuan up and down, "This outfit is still like that, but do you know how to speak the Beijing dialect?" As soon as you open your mouth, you have a thick Yunzhou accent, and you are ...... local! Lin Qingran saw the problem of this path.

"Just say...... We originally moved from Yunzhou. Li Mingyuan actually knows this problem.

"Then if you ask when you moved and what it was for, you can't answer, and you won't be able to show your feet."

"You're talking about ......"

"Forget it, I'll take care of it." Lin Qingran was born in the capital, and although he went to Yunzhou for a few years, he never forgot the words of the capital.

led the horse and walked for a while, and saw the huge gate of the capital from afar. It is worthy of being the capital, and it is indeed different from other cities, and even the city gate is particularly tall and majestic. When I walked to the city gate, I saw some soldiers, checking the people entering and leaving the city, because the flow of people was relatively large, so there would be, but there were no checks. The three of them were ready to keep a low profile and follow the flow of people into the capital.

"Stop!" Because they were more conspicuous, a soldier at the door saw them and stopped them.

The soldier walked up to them and asked, "Where did you come from?" What to do in town? ”

Li Mingyuan has always interrogated others, and he has never been interrogated like this, so he is very uncomfortable. Seeing this, Lin Qingran immediately said, "We are from Huizhou, and today we are going back to the capital." Because she spoke fluent Beijing dialect, the soldiers did not suspect too much.

"Is there a wayside?" Seeing that the other two did not react, the soldier continued to ask.

"This is our guide." Lin Qingran immediately handed over the road guide, and then said: "This is our son-in-law, and I ask the official to bear with me." ”

The soldier looked at the guide, "All right, you guys go in." "I also know that some rich sons in the capital have a bad temper, and I don't want to ask too much.

Li Mingyuan and Chen Chong had a bit of a false alarm.

After entering the city, Chen Chong said, "Thank you Miss Lin just now." ”

"It's okay, I run into it all the time." Yes, she is also often checked.

"Why are you always being investigated?" Li Mingyuan asked.

She gave him a blank look, "It's not like you wanted me in Yunzhou before." ”

"I want you?" He asked, confused.

"I arranged that incident, Miss Lin, if you want to blame me, blame me." Chen Chong immediately explained.

"That's it, you didn't catch me anyway." Hehe, how smart am I, can I still be caught by you?

Li Mingyuan glanced at her helplessly, what is there to be proud of in this matter.

The capital, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, outside the imperial city. The wide street, lined with shops, full of people, a lively scene, Lin Qingran looked at this familiar street, walked the road when she walked here, and the scenes of the past were engraved in her heart. But now things are people, and the capital is still this capital, but this hustle and bustle has nothing to do with her.

Passing by a familiar pastry shop, she immediately ran over excitedly, "This is delicious!" ”

Seeing that she was so excited, Li Mingyuan handed the horse rope to Chen Chong and walked over, "If you like to eat, buy it." He said dotingly.

"I want this, this, and this." Lin Qingran ordered a lot in one breath.

The shop owner packed the pastries one by one and handed them to her, "A total of ten cents." ”

Li Mingyuan felt out the money bag on his body and took out an ingot of ten taels of silver.

"Childe, ten cents, not ten taels." The shop owner cautiously explained.

Lin Qingran looked at the silver taels in his hand, sighed, and gave ten cents to the boss himself, "You take such a big ingot of silver taels, do you want to buy someone's shop?" ”

"When I left, I grabbed some in the box, and it's all in this money bag." He said.

It's really the marquis of the palace! She took the pastry, and before she walked out of the shop, she saw a messenger galloping past on horseback, could it be from Yangzhou City?

Li Mingyuan also became nervous, "We still have to hurry up to the inn." ”

"Yes!"

The three of them quickened their pace and inquired about the specific location of the inn, and soon they came to the Tianxiang Inn.

Walking into this inn, there is nothing unusual on the surface, just an ordinary inn. Chen Chong also came in after handing over the horses to the shopkeeper at the door, and they came to the shopkeeper and said the room number.

The shopkeeper looked up at the three of them a few times, and asked cautiously, "Are the three of them from Huizhou?" ”

"Exactly!" Chen Chong said.

The shopkeeper immediately called the shopkeeper and said, "Take these three to the guest room in the backyard." ”

The shopkeeper immediately understood what it meant, and greeted him, "Three of you, please come with me." ”

In this way, they were taken to a room in the backyard of the inn, and when they opened the door, there were several people who had been waiting for a long time.

"See the little marquis!" The crowd saluted.

"Did my second sister call you over?" Li Mingyuan asked.

"Yes, little marquis, it was the second county lord who asked us to come over." One of them said.

"And when can we meet?" He asked.

"The second county lord asked you to rest here for a while, and she will come over later."

In that case, we can only wait for the time being, "Okay then." ”

After the three of them came out of the backyard room, they were taken to their respective rooms by the shopkeeper.

Lin Qingran rested in the room for a while, then got up and opened the pastry he had just bought, and was about to eat some when a guy from the hall knocked on the door. Tell her that the meal has been prepared and invite her to come to the lobby for dinner. She remembered the scene when she had dinner with Li Mingyuan yesterday, and she didn't want to be with him, so she asked Runtang to bring the food to the room.

After Li Mingyuan and Chen Chong came to the lobby, the shop guy informed him that he wanted to eat in the room. Li Mingyuan thought to himself, is she uncomfortable? So let Chen Chong eat first, and he went over to take a look.

There was another knock on the door, Lin Qingran thought that he was running to deliver food, put down the pastry, and walked over to open the door.

Seeing Li Mingyuan outside the door, he was slightly dissatisfied, why was he, "What are you doing?" ”

"Why don't you go to the lobby for dinner?" He asked.

"I ...... I didn't just buy sweets, so I wanted to eat them in my room. She pointed to the pastry she had just opened.

Li Mingyuan glanced at the pastries on the table, "Is this delicious?" ”

"Of course, I used to like this one the most." She said excitedly.

Hearing her say this, Li Mingyuan suddenly became interested, "Okay, I'll eat some in your room too." So saying, he walked in on his own.

"You ......"

Before Lin Qingran could stop it, he walked to the table with the pastries and sat down.

"These pastries look exquisite," he said, picking up a freshly opened pastry and putting it in his mouth.

"Wait, that's not how this pastry is made." said that it was too late and that it was fast, Lin Qingran didn't want the pastries to be eaten by him like this.

"Run!" She leaned out the door, "Prepare some tea!" ”

"Okay, guest officer, I'll be right here."

Li Mingyuan put down the pastry in his hand, "But eat something, you are still so particular." "On weekdays, he doesn't really look deep into what he eats.

Lin Qingran also came over and sat down.

"Of course! Do you know what these pastries taste like? She said.

"Isn't it sweet?" He said it lightly.

"Well...... I'll tell you first." She pointed to a piece of pastry and said: "This is called a little hemp and pockmarked cake, this cake is made from a plant in the water, which can only be raised by the water and soil in the south of the Yangtze River, which is fragrant and soft and glutinous, and sweet but not greasy." Lin Qingran is very precious about these Jiangnan pastries.

"It's delicious to watch." He looked at the cake.

"This is osmanthus cake, which is made of osmanthus and glutinous rice, you see that this is not only beautiful in style, soft in taste, but also has a special fragrance, even after eating, the aroma will not disperse for a long time."

"There is also this plum blossom cake, which is also my favorite to eat, this is a specialty of the capital, the appearance is similar to plum blossoms, and there are some small dates on it, soft and glutinous."

"There are also walnut cakes and cloud cakes, which are also delicious. And...... Not all pastries are sweet, such as this shortbread is filled with meat, and the salty taste with some egg yolk is particularly delicious. ”

Li Mingyuan looked at the way she said these pastries, she was really cute, and he kept staring at her.

Lin Qingran found that he had been looking at him, and he was a little embarrassed, "Why are you always looking at me?" Look at the pastries. ”

"I think this seemingly ordinary pastry becomes extraordinarily delicious when you say that." With a smile on his lips, he said with a look of admiration.

"What a mere ordinary, these pastries are amazing in themselves."

Maybe no matter how amazing things are, in his eyes, they are not as amazing as Lin Qingran gave him.

"Here comes tea." Ran Tang brought over the tea, which also interrupted his thoughts.

"Come on, come on, try it." As he spoke, Lin Qingran poured the tea.

Li Mingyuan picked up the teacup and remembered his father. Although his mother is from Yunzhou, his father was originally born in Jiangnan, and he will ask someone to buy some Jiangnan pastries on weekdays, and pour a cup of tea for the three of them to taste. Thinking of this, he sighed deeply.

Seeing him like this, she asked, "Don't you eat?" ”

"I'm not a big fan of sweets, so you can eat them." He looked a little sad.

What is the situation with him, it is not that he himself ran in and said that he wanted to eat, and he did not eat.

"Forget it, you don't eat it, I'll eat it, but ah...... There are some here, but there are them at this time, and after this season, you can't eat them. Lin Qingran picked up a piece and prepared to put it in his mouth.

"Then I'm going to taste it." As he spoke, he snatched the piece in her hand and put it in his mouth and ate it, "It's delicious!" He said as he ate.

"You...... Won't take it yourself! She had to pick up another piece, and sure enough, eating a delicious pastry would make her mood better.

Li Mingyuan has always felt that eating, as long as he can fill his stomach, after all, it is just a thing to satisfy his stomach. But now, I realized that the food can be so delicious.