Chapter Thirty-Eight: Silent Tenderness
Faced with Zhang Ji's request for more money, Flame Lingji snorted lightly and was noncommittal.
However, Flame Spirit Ji is calm on the surface, but in fact, she is already turning over the river and the sea in her heart.
Ever since she left the tank, she has been by Zhang Ji's side.
originally thought that Zhang Ji was just relying on the net to support him behind his back, but in fact he didn't have any commendable skills.
But Zhang Ji actually said that he could not only find Tianze's whereabouts, but also rescue Tianze by the way?
She watched a group of net killers leave South Korea with her own eyes, and now the power of these net killers is not to mention finding out Tianze's whereabouts, even if it is difficult to protect Zhang Ji, does he have any hole cards that he doesn't let him know?
But no matter how powerful that hole card is, the opponent is a country!
Although Korea is the weakest of the Seven Kingdoms, since it can stand out from the 800 princes of the Zhou Dynasty and survive to this day, it is enough to afford one of the "Xiong" characters in the "Seven Heroes of the Warring States".
It's just that this country is really a little inadequate in the eyes of those more powerful countries led by Qin and Chu, but it is not comparable to small countries such as Weiguo and Baiyue.
Whether it is to investigate Tianze's whereabouts or rescue Tianze, such an act is tantamount to a slap in the face of the king, Xiangguo, generals and many civil and military generals of South Korea.
Once Jang Ji's behavior is exposed, then he will become the enemy of the whole of South Korea.
In this world, there is only one organization that can have the strength to fight against a country, so Flame Spirit Ji really doesn't understand, what hole cards does Zhang Ji have, which gives him the confidence to challenge a country?
Flame Lingji held her chin, and the face that charmed all beings was in front of Zhang Ji's eyes, and the light in her beautiful eyes turned, looking at the man in front of her who she couldn't see through.
"What kind of secret are you hiding?"
Flame Spirit Ji stretched out her other hand, pinched Zhang Ji's chin, and leaned forward to lean forward towards Zhang Ji, her pale blue eyes staring at Zhang Ji's dark eyes, as if she wanted to see something from them.
"I've never hidden anything from you and Sister Salamander. It's just that some methods don't have the opportunity to be used, so they don't show up in front of you. ”
Zhang Ji felt the heat close at hand, accompanied by a faint fragrance, from the tip of Flame Lingji's nose to his face, and took the wine jar and wine bottle on the table and poured himself a glass of wine.
This jar of wine was taken from the ice cellar.
Ice cellars did not appear in later generations, but have existed since ancient times.
The earliest record is the Xia Dynasty, "Xia Xiaozheng" contains: "In March, the ice was awarded, and the ice was divided into doctors." That is, the Xia King will distribute ice cubes to officials above the doctor in March every year.
"Zhou Li": "Ling people are in charge of ice, they are old, they are two months out of ten, they are chopping ice, and they are three Ling"
The "Zhou Li" also records the official who was responsible for taking and making ice, named "Ling Ren". Among them, the "Ling people" were officials in the Zhou Dynasty who were specifically responsible for taking and making ice.
Later, those princes, scholars, and even some wealthy merchants would also learn from Zhou Tianzi to spend a lot of money to build ice cellars, building them in a closed underground space that could not be directly reached by sunlight, so as to reduce the loss of temperature to a certain extent. Then the cellar door will be covered with layers of cloth or straw to isolate the temperature.
Then, every year in the cold winter of the lunar month, when the rivers, lakes and seas freeze, these powerful families will send their servants to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to find nearby ice with better water quality, chisel it and drag it back to the ice cellar, and wait for the summer heat to take it out and use it.
However, even if it is carefully preserved, only one-third of the ice is often left in the ice cellar when it is hot, so ice is very precious in this era, and it is either rich or expensive to enjoy ice cubes in the hot summer.
Zhang Ji gently opened the wine seal, and a white cold air immediately emerged from the mouth of the wine jar, which can be called a summer wine in this hot time. But as soon as he lifted the wine bottle, he snatched the cold wine bottle with one bare hand.
Zhang Ji stared blankly at the Flame Spirit Ji who snatched his wine bottle, with a puzzled look on his face.
Wow!
A flame ignited in the palm of Flame Lingji's hand, concentrated at the bottom of the wine bottle.
"Cold wine in the intestines, but it will hurt the body~"
With her light blue eyes blinking, Flame Spirit Ji lengthened her voice and continued to heat up the glass of wine that had been frozen in the ice cellar. Little by little, the cold disappeared and turned into heat, and the cold wine in the wine bottle made a billowing sound, hitting the walls of the glass and snorting bubbles.
Zhang Ji showed a resentful look in his eyes, like a child who had been robbed of candy, and said aggrievedly: "I'm also a first-class master, can this cold still hurt me?" ”
"Oh?"
Flame Spirit Ji frowned slightly.
"How do I remember that someone was born with a weak stomach and had abdominal pain when they drank cold wine?" Seeing that the wine had become hot, Flame Spirit Ji dispersed the flames in her palm, and handed the wine bottle back to Zhang Ji, "Huh." ”
When Zhang Ji heard this, he took the wine bottle and couldn't help but be a little stunned.
When he was young, he was treated by Master Nian Duan, a famous doctor of the famous doctor, saying that he had a weak stomach and intestines, and should not taste too cold food and drink, otherwise he would have mild abdominal pain, and if he tasted too much, it would become more serious, and if he did not listen to it and did not control it, it might even endanger his life.
In his previous life, when he had a refrigerator and an ice machine, Zhang Ji especially liked to have a cup of ice drink in the hot summer. Although the Anyi Zhang clan is not a top family, it also has a lot of wealth, and it is definitely more than enough to build a few ice cellars to store some ice cubes. Therefore, in this era of having an ice cellar, Zhang Ji, who is much pampered at home, inevitably continues this hobby.
Besides, even if he doesn't have this hobby, who can withstand the temptation of this fine wine refrigerated in the ice cellar on this hot day?
Therefore, after leaving Niushou Village and coming to this prosperous Xinzheng City, Zhang Ji would secretly go to the underground ice cellar almost every day to drink a bottle or two, and then endure a slight abdominal pain while appearing in front of the second daughter as if nothing happened.
"How do you know?"
Zhang Ji blinked, with his perception, even if it was a startled salamander, it was impossible for him to quietly follow behind him and find out that he had secretly entered the ice cellar under his own deliberate precautions, and it was impossible for those attendants who were in charge of guarding the ice cellar to betray him, how did Flame Spirit Ji know about him stealing drink?
"Have you forgotten that I can manipulate fire, and in the same way, I am far more sensitive to temperature than ordinary people."
"I can feel the chill when I open and close the ice cellar, even from half of the house. And the hot and cold changes on your body are also clear at a glance, do you really think I can't see the cold in your belly and the stubborn look of laughing with abdominal pain? ”
Flame Lingji ruthlessly exposed Zhang Ji's stealing behavior that he thought he had hidden well, Zhang Ji looked at the ice wine on the table in a daze, he seemed to understand why Flame Lingji always used flames to fight with him when he had abdominal pain after drinking ice wine, and always burned his clothes during the discussion, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but become soft.
And Flame Lingji didn't notice this, but found that Zhang Ji's afterglow was still secretly looking at the cold wine in the jar, snorting coldly, and there was a lot of dissatisfaction in his words, and a blazing flame wrapped the entire jar of wine in the flames.
"Don't!"
Zhang Ji's eyes widened, and he stretched out his hand to stop it, but he could only watch Flame Lingji turn the jar of ice wine into piping hot wine, and couldn't help but hang his head.
Flame Lingji looked at Zhang Ji's childlike temper, and couldn't help but chuckle, and immediately looked at him playfully: "If you don't honestly explain what means you are still hiding, sister, I will burn everything you want to ashes in a fire." ”
Zhang Ji sighed, lay on the table, drank the bottle of hot wine in his hand that had cooled down slightly, and pouted.
"Then I want you, and you're going to burn yourself to ashes too?"
Flame Lingji also lowered her head, pressed her chin against the table, her delicate and pretty face slowly approached Zhang Ji's handsome face, and her eyes that implied a vein of autumn water revealed a seductive and criminal charm: "Then it depends on whether you are willing to fall into the boundless sea of fire and sink with me." ”
Zhang Ji glanced at her, ignoring the hint coming from those soft and watery eyes.
After getting along with Flame Spirit Ji for a long time, he gradually began to get used to Flame Spirit Ji's way of speaking. Every time this woman has a good conversation, she suddenly goes crazy and says something tempting to sin, but if you take it seriously, then you are wrong.
Under the layers of ripples in the depths of those soft watery eyes, there are often dangerous whirlpools that will mercilessly devour those who have the intention of prying eyes.
Seeing that Zhang Ji was unmoved, Flame Spirit Ji snorted and secretly scolded "the little guy with a colored heart and no lustful guts".
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