"Daoist, when will spring begin?"

The cat's voice interrupted the Taoist's musings, and as soon as the Taoist lowered his head, he met her amber eyes, which were shining.

"There's still more than a month."

"More than a month!"

"What's wrong?"

"Are we leaving Changjing again?"

"Yes."

"You won't see her again, will you?" Sanhua Mao turned her head to look out when she spoke, obviously talking about the Wu Nuxia who had just left, "It's like Shu." ”

"It may take many years to see it."

"yes......"

"Sanhua Niangniang can't bear her?"

"Hmm......"

The cat looked up and stared at her, those eyes were really beautiful, there were doubts and thoughts in them, but they still seemed pure, and after a while, she said: "Sanhua Niangniang just thinks that the woman is stupid, maybe without Sanhua Niangniang, it will take a long time to learn good words, and Sanhua Niangniang thinks she is a little powerful, and she may learn quickly......"

"I'm afraid that she will unknowingly surpass Sanhua Niangniang?"

“……”

The cat stared at him stunned, wanting to refute it, but couldn't say it, so she stared at him stunned.

"This is called reluctance." The Taoist said to her.

"Is this reluctance?"

"It's a form of reluctance, called worry."

"Huh?"

"Sanhua Niangniang doesn't know something, and the forms of reluctance are ever-changing, some are easy for us to find and know on the spot, and some are hidden very deeply, and it won't be discovered until a long time later." The Taoist said to the cat in front of him very calmly, and when he saw her thoughtful expression, he immediately said, "But if Sanhua Niangniang doesn't want to be surpassed by the students of the year when they meet again many years later, you still have to put more thought into learning." ”

"You're ...... right"

The cat nodded thoughtfully, but quickly asked suspiciously:

"Is the prince the son of the emperor?"

"Yes."

"Why did he hack to death the people who helped us?"

"Personnel are complex, and it's hard to explain." Song You was silent again before saying, "There are rules in the world, and now the rules in the world are like this." ”

"Unreasonable!"

"Sanhua Niangniang is reasonable." Song You echoed her, "This is the disease of the times, the small pipe is useless, the big pipe is troublesome, and it will take a long time." Let's take a look at the world first. ”

"Then where are we going in the spring?"

"Go south."

"Southside."

"To the south is Fengzhou, Fengzhou has a mountain of industry, I don't know what the emperor and the national teacher are doing there." Song You said to her calmly, "It's another world, and it's outside the world." ”

"...... Beyond the World"

The cat repeated his words, lay down motionless, and stared straight at him.

The Taoist also sat still, as if in meditation.

There are more and more ghosts in the world.

It seems to be a sign that the underworld is about to be completed.

The ghost city of Yeshan is definitely not only a national teacher, the emperor's plot is the lord of the underworld, the underground ghost emperor. However, God is different from man, this emperor may be a great emperor, he can be an emperor, but it is not good to be a lord of the underworld who is far away from the world and will not abdicate. More important to the gods than power is virtue. What's more, Song You is still not sure whether the war in the north that began more than 20 years ago and has not subsided until two years ago is related to this, if the human emperor buries tens of millions of living beings in the north in order to become a ghost emperor and accelerate the completion of the underworld, how can he be a ghost emperor.

Song You has more doubts.

In short, you have to go to Yeshan to see before you know.

But there is no need to be in a hurry, this kind of thing, it can be used as a span of decades is already the result of the national teacher and the emperor's artificial promotion, normally, it may take hundreds of years to evolve.

……

A few days passed.

In the past few days, Wu Nuxia has not returned, and I don't know if I have found Dr. Cai. However, the government came to invite Sanhua Niangniang again, and invited Sanhua Niangniang to go outside the city to catch ghosts, and earned another reward.

It's the winter solstice.

The winter solstice is the longest night and the shortest day of the year, the yin is strong and the yang is weak, and for the people of Changjing, it is also a little different from most other solar terms -

Winter solstice officials are going to be on holiday.

Officials take a three-day holiday, and under its influence, many workers in Changjing will also take a day off, even those who do hard work and have no holidays, often they will also eat something good to treat themselves and drive away the cold.

The streets are also very lively on this day.

Song You's hometown has a tradition of drinking mutton soup on the winter solstice, so he took the money that Sanhua Niangniang had just earned, took her to the West Market for a walk, and said that he wanted to cook a pot of mutton soup for her.

Sanhua Niangniang is reasonable, and knows that it is better to use money to buy meat to eat, than to use it to buy other useless things. Going out to hunt rats for people to drive away evil spirits and then use it to buy meat is not much different from going out to catch rabbits and fish and come back to eat, and it is more convenient, but why she has to eat mutton, she is a little puzzled.

Lamb is the most expensive.

"Mutton is a winter tonic, which can resist wind and cold, replenish qi and blood, and is very suitable for eating mutton in winter."

The Taoist said to her as he walked.

The cat has always had a lot of questions, and she was puzzled, and she wanted to ask a bunch of why, but she was a cat, and there were so many people here, she couldn't open her mouth, so she had to hold back, silently following behind the Taoist, and watching him spend money.

I saw that the Taoist first bought a few catties of mutton, bought two crucian carp, cut a small square of tofu, searched most of the West Market, bought a handful of pea tips, and bought a lot of spices by the way, in preparation for the next time I left Beijing.

The spices are all bought, and I smell the taste, and I don't buy a pound of beef and half a chicken, which really feels a little meaningless.

The Taoist turned back to discuss with the cat.

The cat didn't express an opinion, and he thought he was willing.

The Taoist spent a lot of money, so he carried his things, took the cat, walked slowly through Changjing, and began to get busy when he returned home.

Sanhua Niangniang turned into a human form, sat in front of the stove and burned the fire honestly, staring up at his movements while burning the fire, I don't know if it was pure doubt, or a vague expression that he had spent more money:

"Why did you buy two fish when you cooked mutton soup?"

"Sanhua Niangniang doesn't know, in my hometown, you have to add crucian carp to cook mutton soup." Song You smiled, and while he was busy, he still spoke to her, "Sanhua Niangniang knows how to write fresh characters?" ”

"Yes."

"How do you write it?"

"That's it!"

The little girl took out the wood she had chosen from the stove to help her burn other firewood and made a few gestures in the air.

"Fish and sheep are fresh, so in my hometown, the mutton soup must be added to the crucian carp, the crucian carp is fried, boiled white, and the mutton is boiled together, and the soup is as white as milk, which is very delicious." Song You is very patient.

"Then it's not called mutton soup, it's called fish and mutton soup."

"Sanhua Niangniang is smart."

"It can also be called fresh broth!"

"Sanhua Niangniang draws inferences."

"Is it okay to add rats?"

“……”

"The fish is delicious, the rats are delicious, and they must be even better."

“……”

"Why don't you speak?"

"Sanhua Niangniang has an innovative spirit."

"Innovative?"

"Compliment."

"That's right!"

The little girl nodded solemnly and continued to put firewood.

Blowing a breath, the fire in the stove exploded and quickly grew larger.

After the fire was burning, she looked up and saw the Taoist busy.

The outside is cold and there is a fire in the stove, which makes this small space in front of the stove extraordinarily warm, and this small space is too small, so it seems even warmer. Sanhua Niangniang loves this environment. In addition, the Taoist priest before was busy coming and going, making all kinds of noises, talking to her at the same time, and when the fireworks were rising, it was easy to give her a sense of relief.

If only I could keep the fire burning.

Sanhua Niangniang couldn't help but think.

However, the Daoist in front of him quickly marinated the beef and chicken, and the mutton soup began to simmer.

The Taoist wiped his hands and was a little free.

As soon as she looked down again, the little girl looked up at him as if she could speak, but she didn't know what she was talking about.

"What does Sanhua Niangniang think?"

"I want the Taoist priest to cook slowly."

"Yes."

"Why don't you ask why?"

"Because I was the same age as the Three Flower Niang, and I also liked to burn fires when I was a child." The Taoist smiled at her, "When I was a child, I asked my master every day if she would take a bath, because if she wanted to take a bath, she needed a big pot of hot water, which could be burned for a long time, but unfortunately she was a lazy person." ”

Sanhua Niangniang listened, but she only felt that she couldn't hide anything from him.

"You seem to be very smart!"

"It's only slightly inferior to the three flower girls."

"But ......"

Sanhua Niangniang blinked her eyes a few times, and a new doubt came: "We have enough to eat fish and mutton soup, why do we still have to buy a chicken?" ”

"It's not bad in winter, so you can eat a few more good meals."

"But if you have to visit the fox in a few days, and ask her what is going on, and you want to buy a chicken, then we will have to buy two chickens in a few days."

In just a few days, buying two chickens in a row, Sanhua Niangniang felt that life was not like this.

"You have a point......

The Taoist lowered his head and stared at the little girl.

The little girl stared straight at him.

The two seemed to exchange views.

It didn't take long for the mutton soup to be cooked, the Taoist put the salt and tasted it, then put it in a casserole, and then fished out the braised chicken and braised beef from another pot, and found the basket that was given when he packed the meals from Yunchun Building on the first day of returning to Beijing, and put it in.

Today is cold, and even the sky is faintly snowing, but there are still many pedestrians on the street, Taoists and girls walking by, and many people are attracted by the fragrance wafting by.

The Taoist walked fast, and the little girl also turned her legs upside down and flew fast.

There are more people in the crane immortal tower.

Because of the winter solstice Dayan official Xiumu, the most powerful and elegant group of people in the city are free today, and naturally want to come to visit the Wanjiang girl who is seriously ill.

When Song You arrived outside the door, he saw that there were many dignitaries and nobles gathered inside, and at this time they all changed their official uniforms, just freshened themselves up, and changed into the clothes often worn by literati, so as not to look tacky, and each of them also carried gifts, either rare medicinal herbs, precious pills, or rare fruits and vegetables transported from far away, and hollowed out their minds.

There was no lack of worry and anxiety on everyone's faces.

"I heard that Miss Wanjiang's health is worse again......"

"It's not, the last time I heard the late Jiang girl caress the qin, or when I was just in winter, I was fortunate enough to listen to half of the song downstairs, and the aftermath is lingering, I don't know the taste of meat in January, but I feel that Xianle is nothing more than that, and I am still boasting to a few colleagues when I go back, alas, I just hope that the song will not become a perfect tune."

"I haven't heard the sound of the piano of Miss Wanjiang for a long time, I really miss the days when I used to drink and listen to the piano, I just felt normal at the time, but now I think about it, it is clearly the heavenly palace on earth."

"Isn't Miss Wanjiang still not hospitable?"

"I met a few days ago, my face was pale, I had a terrible cough, and I had to be helped by a maid when I walked."

"God is jealous of talents......"

"I asked my classmates from the army to send some good white mushrooms from the north, and I only hope that the servants of Hexian Tower can accept them on behalf of Miss Wanjiang."

"I also bought some pomegranates from Toyosu and spent a lot of effort. I heard that the girl in Wanjiang is not fishy, and she only has fruits and vegetables in her life, alas, I only hope that she can recover as soon as possible, if there is no sound of her piano, the sky in Changjing will be a little darker. ”

As soon as the Taoist and the girl reached the door, they couldn't help but stop and listen to these voices.

The girl tilted her head, her face full of confusion.

If it weren't for the fact that she was holding the casserole and couldn't tell her hand, most of them would have started to scratch her head at this time.

(End of chapter)