"Fifty taels?"

Mu Shaoyou secretly calculated in his heart, and then smiled and said: "If the adults want it, just take it directly, and talk about money or not." ”

"Then how can you do it, this official is not a bully, and your grasshopper eating method is already a great achievement."

Chen Cheng waved his hand, "Then it's decided, Mu Tongsheng, you stay at home for the past two days, and there may be other things to find you in the future." ”

After speaking, Chen Cheng asked his subordinates to leave fifty taels of silver, and then got into the carriage and left.

"Husband, this silver ......"

Li Shishi stepped forward and looked at the five silver ingots in her husband's hand, feeling as if she was in a dream.

In the two years since they got married, this is the first time that the husband has made money, and he ...... It's not too easy.

"This is what we earn with our ability, you see, isn't this one hundred taels of debt enough to make up half of it."

Mu Shaoyou smiled lightly, and then said: "This is still the blessing you bringed, Shishi, by the way, I forgot to ask you, how did you meet Master Chen, didn't you go to celebrate grandma's birthday?" How did Lord Chen find the grasshopper skewers? ”

Hearing Mu Shaoyou's words, Li Shishi's eyes turned red, she told everything that happened in the Li family just now, Mu Shaoyou clenched his fists hard after listening, hugged Li Shishi, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, Shishi, it won't take long, at most a year, I must regret what the Li family did today!" ”

……

Lan Cheng. Ying Tianlou.

Li Mubai, the crown prince of Daqian, sat upstairs in the private room, next to his imperial sister Li Nianci.

"Brother Huang, my father just asked you princes to seek good ways to govern the country, why don't you go to the study, you have to go to the near and far to find a capable person."

Li Nianci said dissatisfiedly: "What kind of Lan City is this, I heard that it is the most serious place where the insect plague is serious, and the food is much worse than other places, let's go back tomorrow, Brother Huang." ”

"Ninth sister, you don't know the current court, now Uncle Eight Wangs is powerful, our royal family is in decline, I don't know how many Eight Uncle's eyeliner in the study, if you want to save the country, you can't talk about it on paper, my father once said, the most unbelievable thing in the world is the fold, the things on the fold are what the courtiers below want us to see, if you really want to understand the country's diseases, you have to come down and see it with your own eyes."

"What the prince said is very true."

The old gentleman on the side stroked his beard and admired, but the prince stood up and saluted respectfully, saying, "Thanks to the teacher's teaching on weekdays." ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, the old man does not want to discuss current affairs, but the master is deep in the people, if His Royal Highness can get a talent, it is the blessing of the great cadres and the blessing of the court."

"Your Highness, the governor Chen Cheng asked to see him downstairs, saying that he has a good plan for disaster relief."

The guards outside the door knelt at the door to pray, and the prince nodded and said, "Let him in." ”

Chen Cheng walked into the door with a beautiful food box, and as soon as he entered the door, he knelt on the ground and said: "Weichen knocks on His Royal Highness the Prince, knocks on His Royal Highness the Princess, and meets Lord Gongsun." ”

"Get up, Master Chen, I heard that you have a good plan for disaster relief, I don't know what it is?"

The prince smiled gently, waved his hand to let Chen Cheng stand up, the latter took the food box, put it on the table, and explained in a deep voice: "Your Highness, this is the secret recipe that Weichen got from the people, there are capable people in the folk Mujia Village, and the grasshoppers and other pests are removed from their dross and made into barbecue food. ”

"Is that true?!"

The prince suddenly looked shocked, and stood up to look at the fried golden and crispy grasshopper in the food box, and there were snow-white fine salt, red dogwood powder, and an unknown brown-green powder next to it.

"Your Highness, let the old man taste it for His Highness."

Mr. Gongsun walked over from the side, first took out a silver needle, pricked up a grasshopper, and then dipped it in three kinds of powder according to Chen Cheng's words, and put it in his mouth to chew carefully.

"Wonderful, wonderful! It's wonderful! ”

Mr. Gongsun opened his eyes and turned his head to look at the prince, "Your Highness, this thing has a special smell of meat, if it can be promoted, not only can the insect plague be solved, but if this thing can be used as meat, it should be more nutritious than ordinary food." ”

"Really?"

When the prince saw that Mr. Gongsun was fine after eating, he picked one up and put it in his mouth, and immediately felt that the taste was wonderful.

"Eighth sister, you try this."

"I don't want it, it's a bug, I won't eat it if I kill it."

Li Nianci scoffed at this, she naturally didn't look down on this kind of thing since she was a child.

"Chen Cheng, you said that this thing was invented by a folk strange person, can you bring this person?"

"Of course you can, Wechen already knew that His Highness might summon this person, so he specially arranged for him to wait for news in Mujia Village, and Wechen went to find him."

"Mujia Village?"

After thinking about it, Mr. Gongsun said: "I heard that there seems to be a child in Mujia Village, I don't know what it is called, but I heard that this person is not learned and has no skills, but he is pretentious, and his poetry is useless, Lord Chen, I don't know if you are talking about this person?" ”

Chen Cheng was stunned and said embarrassedly: "Mr. Gongsun Mingjian, this person is Mu Shaoyou." ”

The prince was puzzled and said, "Mr. knows this person? ”

"In the last poetry meeting, this person's poems and couplets were handed to my desk, and the poems he made were useless, and I heard that it cost twenty taels of silver to be mixed with Xiucai's poems and handed them over."

"It's okay, since this person has such a crooked talent, he can meet him, Master Chen, forget it, I'll go and take a look with you."

……

Mu Shaoyou was barbecuing in the yard, because he got fifty taels of silver, so he deliberately went to the town to cut three taels of pork belly and half a catty of mutton, and prepared to make a barbecue to eat.

In this era, beef can only be eaten by dignitaries, because cattle are cultivated and cannot be slaughtered at will, Li Shishi didn't want Mu Shaoyou to break the bank so much, after all, there are still one hundred taels of foreign debts that have not been repaid, but the husband has bought it back, not to mention that he has not eaten meat for too long, the five flowers and mutton are roasted on the stone slab, and Li Shishi swallowed her saliva angrily.

"Mu Tongsheng."

At this time, Chen Cheng walked in from outside with two well-dressed men and a woman, Mu Shaoyou stood up and said with a smile: "Lord Chen, you said that this is not a coincidence, it just so happens that I am making barbecue, I bought a lot, let's sit down and taste it together." ”

"Then, the official is welcome, by the way, this is Li Gongzi and Miss Li from the city, Li Gongzi tasted your grasshopper and thought it tasted very good, so he specially wanted to visit."

"I see, in Xia Mu Shaoyou, I have seen Li Gongzi."

Mu Shaoyou didn't think much about it, he just thought that it was a rich family in the city, and he wanted snowflake salt or a recipe for seasonings, Li Mubai and Li Nianci said hello to him, but Mr. Gongsun didn't speak, and sat on the side with Chen Cheng.

"Mu Gongzi, I have long heard that you are talented in Mujia Village, you were admitted to Tongsheng at the age of twelve, you know everything about poetry and songs, and you have tasted grasshopper barbecue in Lord Chen's mansion, so I specially came to take a look."

"The poems are all small words, they are usually written and played casually, since Li Gongzi is here, let's try my barbecue skills."

Mu Shaoyou smiled and handed over a bunch of pork belly, but Li Nianci on the side pursed his lips and said, "Mu Gongzi, it's rare that you can still send love to the mountains and rivers in this countryside, let's choose a day instead of hitting the sun, why don't you write a poem now?" ”

"Now? Let's eat first, this barbecue won't taste good if it's cold. ”

Mu Shaoyou thought it was just an ordinary chat, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

But Mr. Gongsun on the side said: "Mu Gongzi's words are bad, the text is to prosper the country, the military is to settle the country, the poetry is the foundation of culture, not a small Tao, I have long heard that Mu Gongzi is good at drilling camps to make friends with famous people in the world, is it possible that Mu Gongzi is just not worthy of his name?" ”

Li Nianci followed the trend and said: "That is, I heard before that you once spent money to send your poems to the current Taifu case, but they were criticized for being useless, or you should write one now." ”

Yes, it's the thunder buried in the original body again.

Mu Shaoyou put down the skewers with a smile and said, "Many things in this world are false, Miss Li, I don't know if we can make a poem on the spot, how about we bet on the lottery?" ”

"It's just that it's not enough to become a poem, if it's good, how about betting with you."

Li Nianci looked at Mr. Gongsun and said, "This is our husband, whether it is good or not, let my husband judge." ”

"Mu Gongzi, since this is the case, then I will add the first ten taels of color to help Yaxing."

Li Mubai took out ten taels of silver and put it on the table beside him.

Mu Shaoyou shook his head slightly, "The poems I make are all amazing works, ten taels of silver is too little, sixty taels, I will write poems on the spot." ”

"Sixty taels? You ......"

"Okay, then sixty taels."

Li Nianci was about to speak, but was interrupted by Li Mubai, took out another fifty taels and put it on the case, and said with a smile: "Mu Gongzi, please." ”

"Foreign debt is settled."

Mu Shaoyou blossomed happily in his heart, I have 5,000 years of Chinese culture, and any of the 300 Tang poems is a masterpiece, and I won't scare you to death.

"Ahem, since that's the case, then it's ugly."

Mu Shaoyou coughed lightly twice and said, "You don't see the water of the Yellow River coming up from the sky, rushing to the sea and not returning." You don't see the sad white hair of Gao Tang Mingjing, and the morning is like green silk turning into snow at dusk...... When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the sky, I don't know what year it is in the heavenly palace...... Drunk to pick up the lamp and look at the sword, dream back to blow the horn company camp, 800 miles under the command, fifty strings turn over the outside sound, the battlefield autumn soldiers ......"

Six Tang poems were recited in a row, and the courtyard was so quiet that it was audible to drop a needle, and Mr. Gongsun's hands were constantly trembling, but he couldn't say a word.

"Good poetry! Sure enough, the market is just a false rumor, such a heart-wrenching poem, Mu Gongzi is really talented! ”

Li Mubai stood up, his eyes were full of shock and admiration, but Li Nianci on the side said unrelentingly: "Impossible, how can you write such a good poem, you can say quickly, where did you copy this poem?" ”

"Ninth sister, don't be unreasonable! If it is plagiarism, how can it not be circulated in the world? How could the teacher not know. ”

"That'...... That's not counting! ”

Since he first saw the grasshopper skewer, Li Nianci didn't have a good impression of Mu Shaoyou, and now that he won the bet, Li Nianci felt panicked, and immediately said: "Even if these poems are really made by him, they are not considered talents, test Xiucai and lift people, as well as counting and abacus, I will give you a question, if you can calculate it, you will really win!" ”

"Oh? Miss Li, please speak. ”

Mu Shaoyou still doesn't believe it, even if Lao Tzu is a fish who has slipped through the net for nine years, he can completely explode all the knowledge in this world with the things he learned in junior high school, and he still can't convince you today.

"Then you listen, there are young rabbits in the same cage today, with thirty-five heads on the top and ninety-four feet on the bottom, ask the young rabbits how much they are?"

Mu Shaoyou was stunned, and Li Nianci smiled proudly: "How about it, I only used three days to figure out this question, and now I give you three hours, if you can calculate it, even if you win." ”

Li Mubai frowned and said, "Ninth sister, aren't you embarrassed?" Mu Gongzi, you don't need to ......"

"It's okay, Li Gongzi, this question is very simple."

Mu Shaoyou said with a smile: "Twelve rabbits, twenty-three chickens." ”

Li Nianci's smile suddenly stuck on his face, and Mr. Gongsun on the side also pulled off a strand of his beard because of excitement.

Li Mubai looked at Mr. Gongsun and said, "Teacher, is he right?" ”

Mr. Gongsun nodded woodenly.

Li Mubai turned his head to look at Chen Cheng and asked with his eyes: This is the well-known waste in ten miles and eight towns? Do you still rely on nepotism for such talents?

Chen Cheng said that he didn't know what was going on.

Mu Shaoyou smiled and put away the sixty taels of silver, "Miss Li, Li Gongzi, these sixty taels will be accepted with a smile." ”