There are always things in the world that people can't afford.

For example, the power is monstrous, even if the emperor wants to buy health with money when his health is no longer good, it is difficult to buy it.

When the elders complain that the youth is no longer there, they want to be green, and no matter how great the power is, they can't get it.

The poor are even more miserable, they want to fulfill all their wishes, but they lack money.

Children's wishes are very real, they are all immediate wishes, which are easy to achieve, but adults tend to ignore them; As they get older, most people will have more and more desires, become more and more greedy, and become more and more unhappy. There are only a few people who enjoy the little surprises in life again and again, and they are happy like flowers and butterflies.

Because they know how to control their ** to the lowest point, as long as they do it, outside of survival, there are surprises, and no one will be unhappy.

But to do this, it is very difficult, at least not a few people can do it.

Fan Chunren is undoubtedly a very strange person in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, his happiness comes from family tradition, as long as a meal of food and an afternoon of rest can make him feel more comfortable.

But even people like Fan Chunren have a good heart.

Eat.

Eat expensive and tasty.

In the Great Song Dynasty, there were only two classes that echoed this requirement, sheep and chicken.

Not to mention sheep, the most popular class of the Great Song Dynasty people is moderately priced, more expensive than cooking, and it is not expensive. Not to mention cattle with outrageous prices.

As for chickens, for the Chinese people, there are special objections.

This starts with the five elements.

Do you think it's a bit ridiculous, but the ancients were like that. It is very important to set the five elements at every turn, and it is related to fate and fortune.

The chicken in the five elements is golden, and the golden rooster reports the dawn, and it is a grace thing under the first ray of sunshine. Chickens naturally have miraculous tonic properties, because chickens are all full of yang energy. Yang energy is the most important life characteristic of human beings. This is also the reason why among the classes, only chickens and eggs will become the exclusive provision of women's confinement.

Secondly, chickens have five virtues.

The one who wears the crown on his head, Wen also; Foot Bo refusal, Wu also; Those who see food and call each other are righteous; Those who dare to fight in front of them are brave; Si Chen does not lose time, and he believes in it.

These five virtues contain almost all the advantages of a benevolent gentleman and are the highest pursuit of a gentleman. Echo all the good visions of the readers.

There is also the taste of chicken, which is delicious and can be made with only salt. In particular, chickens are different from other animals and do not have any peculiar smell.

It has the top performance of the ingredients, the supreme virtue of the cāo) symbol, and the miraculous effect of nourishment. Let's ask, what animal in the world can compare to the nobility of chickens?

When it was almost dark, Li Yun hurried over, carrying a long wooden stick on his shoulder, and a row of little roosters with his feet tied on his head, and he was jolted to the point of rolling his eyes.

Then Li Yun carried more than a dozen chickens to Li Kui and flattered: "Second brother, let's eat chickens." ”

"It's changed, it's troublesome to do." Li Kui didn't want to do it at all, killing chickens was very tiring, mainly to remove hair, pickle, and finally do a good job, which required good patience. But only patience, Li Kui and Li Yun don't have much.

Li Yun gritted his teeth and said, "I'll kill it, and the second brother just needs to help do it." ”

"Okay." Li Kui touched his chin, his eyes looking back and forth over a dozen half-dead chickens. The heart said, "What shall you eat?" ”

Chicken broth is nourishing, mainly delicious. But it is obviously not suitable to eat in the examination room, and it is really necessary to simmer chicken soup on a charcoal stove in the examination room, which is too unserious about the imperial examination. Besides, the students who participated in the imperial examination all ate dry food and rolled their eyes in chok. Readers don't have big eyes, and when they meet two shameless people drinking chicken soup, wouldn't they have red eyes?

Li Kui and Li Yun have already offended all the readers in Yishui County, and if they offend all the readers in Yizhou, it will be a lot of fun. You can't continue to offend all the people who read in the world, right?

Grilled chicken, which is easy to get cold after cooking. When it's cold, the taste is greatly reduced, and such a good ingredient is blinded.

Just make 'mud baking***, I always want to eat it recently, this is too lazy to move. After making up his mind, Li Kui said to Li Yun: "Eat mud baked**? Recently, I want to eat, but I'm too lazy to do it. And the mud-baked chicken has the advantage of being wrapped in a thick jacket, so even in the middle of the day, it can be steaming stewed chicken. ”

Li Yun blinked his eyes, secretly swallowed his saliva, and asked carefully: "Is it better than salt-baked chicken?" ”

"You haven't eaten it?" Li Kui remembered that he had done it for Su Shi in Yangzhou, but the main price was too expensive, and Su Shi, who suddenly had a convulsion and wanted to be diligent and thrifty, vetoed the treatment of becoming the Su family's home-cooked food. He patted his head and said with a smile: "I forgot, it's called a chicken." However, the mud-baked chicken is similar, but the eight treasures in the chicken are missing. But the taste is more pure, guaranteed to eat it once, and you will never forget it. ”

Li Yun's eyes lit up, and he said loudly: "Just make mud-baked chicken, wait for Ming to eat in front of Lao Fan, and starve him to death!" ”

Su Shi is delicious, as long as it is food, he can't help but want to get tired of it. Why do you put a head on the chicken? The main reason is that Su Shi has no money in his hands again.

It is said that the cost of reading is very large, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are the big expenses of the pen; Visiting relatives and friends is a big expense; There may also be expenses such as buying a family business. But Su Shi basically didn't have any expenses in Yangzhou. Pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are sent, and relatives and friends send a car to pick them up, even if they buy a family business, Yangzhou is a place to live, and the Su family's houses are rented official property.

The main reason is that Su Shi's brain was pumped and he found that he had written a lot of poetry articles in recent years, but they had not been published, and he was very dissatisfied with his slackness. printed an anthology at his own expense, friends and relatives gave it away, and even students had the opportunity to get a freshly baked anthology from Lao Su, and this expense almost bankrupted his old man.

Fan Chunren is also delicious, out of the tradition of the family's door-picking, he is often reluctant to eat and wear, and he is famous for being stingy in the government and the opposition, but no one laughs at him. Lao Fan, who is not even willing to eat sheep in Pingli, has two major preferences in his life, fried small miscellaneous fish and eating chicken.

Li Yun didn't dare to let Li Kui make this dish of fried small fish, he would be beaten, it was too troublesome, not to mention, it didn't taste good yet.

It does not meet Li Kui's qualifications.

The second is to eat chicken. Why is it that in Fan Chunren's place, the status of chickens is lower than that of small miscellaneous fish, mainly because chickens are too expensive, and they are heartbroken after eating them.

For Fan Chunren, chicken is definitely a luxury among luxuries, and he may not be willing to eat it when he is sick.

The next morning.

Xie Qian and Xie Wan actually appeared at the door of Liu's house, and it seemed that they were waiting for Li Kui and Li Yun to go to the exam together, which was a strange feeling. What's even more strange is that these two people didn't bring their blades to the examination room except yesterday, and they carried their blades on them today. It's hard to imagine that they are actually candidates who take the exam.

The moment they saw Li Yun coming out of the door, the two brothers were a little excited, and there were signs of scumbags piling up and willing to degenerate.

Li Kui raised his eyes to look at Xie Qian and Xie Wan, for a long time, neither of them opened their mouths to say a word, but they were seen by Li Kui's eyes and felt uncomfortable.

"Why didn't you say it today?" Li Kui couldn't help but be a little curious, he looked at his spirit yesterday, why did he look like a lost dog today? A few days ago, he said to Li Kui arrogantly: "Li Kui, your examination room is not here!" ”

The two brothers looked at each other, and finally the eldest Xie Qian sighed and said, "We were kicked out of the inn." ”

"Why?"

"There's no money." Xie Qian looked up sadly at the cobwebs in the corner of the house, like a dilapidated winter wilderness, and could not see a trace of life.

Li Yun blinked, looked at Li Kui, and didn't know what to say. He thought that the grace of yesterday's meal would make the two brothers lose their way, and he was determined to change his past mistakes and repay each other. Unexpectedly, these two guys were kicked out, had nowhere to live, and wanted to rely on themselves, which made him quite speechless.

Xie Wan explained: "Brother Li, in fact, we brought enough money, mainly to build the blade, and then we spent all the money. In Linyi City, we have no relatives or friends. Among the students who rushed to take the exam, there were no heart-to-heart friends, and they asked Brother Li to help and lend us some money. Go home, go home, and be sure to pay back twice. ”

"What kind of weapon did you hit?"

Li Kui said curiously.

He thought these two people were interesting, and in terms of character, they were more interesting than all the scholars he had seen rushing to take the exam. The mind is also simple, not as good at franchise or pedantic as the reader.

Xie Qian lifted the big iron spear in his hand and said: "Just this iron spear, it cost all the coils of the two of us, three hundred times." ”

Good guys, it's a local tyrant.

There is no doubt that people who can spend three hundred times to build a weapon in hand are really rare in the Great Song Dynasty. Many generals' weapons are not as good as their two brothers.

"When you came out of the inn, didn't the shopkeeper and the man stop you, and let you take all the luggage out?" Li Kui said curiously.

Xie Wan stiffened his neck, carried the purple gold hammer, and shouted: "They dare? ”

Well, when you encounter such a stunned young man when you open a store and do business, you can only admit that you are unlucky. Indeed, no one dared to stop their brother, and if they hurt someone, wouldn't it be very bad?

"Why don't you pawn the iron gun in the blacksmith shop, if you can't pawn it for a hundred times, you can always do it for fifty times, right? Even if fifty is not successful, what about twenty, thirty? In this way, since you have the money to eat and stay in the inn, you can also have the money to go back. When I get home, wouldn't it be better to have my family send money and redeem the iron spear? ”

The method Li Kui said is undoubtedly the most suitable way to reconcile thousands of people, of course, he can also see that the two brothers really don't seem to be short of money.

The main reason is to spend money lavishly, without calculating expenses such as tolls, so I fell into an embarrassment.

Unexpectedly, after Li Kui's words were finished, Xie Qianxiang was greatly insulted, and shouted: "People are in the gun, how can they pawn the weapons in their hands?" My generation of warriors can't even keep the weapons in their hands, how dare they say that they will defend their families and the country? ”

"That's it!" Xie Wan also agreed.

A man of God who can say 'people are in guns', Li Kui feels that he shouldn't be a bad person.

Li Kui let go and shouted into the courtyard: "Uncle Liu, there are two friends who are rushing to take the exam who need to be in the house, it doesn't matter, right?" ”

Early in the morning, the housekeeper Uncle Liu heard the servant say that there were two reckless men standing at the door, as the housekeeper of the Liu family, he was naturally worried about it, and when he heard Li Kui's shout, he immediately ran out. smiled and said to Li Kui: "Master Li, it doesn't matter. Since he is a guest of Li Gongzi and a guest of my Liu family, I don't want to invite him soon. ”

Although Xie Wan didn't hear that Li Kui wanted to lend them money, if he could live in Liu's mansion, he would definitely not care about a little money, and ran excitedly to the horse tether stake on the side, shouting as he ran: "I'll go and bring the horse." ”

Come on, it's really a fallen son, and he even has a horse.

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