noon

Inside the Castle Lord's Mansion

In a sunny wing.

Xi Yingzhuo sat at a huge round table, staring at the four dishes and one soup in front of him, and swallowed his saliva reservedly. Then, like an arrogant rooster, he raised his head and said disdainfully: "This king is the prince of the Cloud Country, Shen Feng actually only prepared this little food for me? It is obvious that he deliberately neglects this king! If you feel embarrassed, this king doesn't mind staying in the inn restaurant outside!"

"Hahahaha......"

Zhuang Boyu, who came over to be in charge of the reception, laughed twice and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince misunderstood, don't look at the only four dishes, but to be honest, the old man is willing to exchange for a thousand tables of feasts." It is precisely because of His Royal Highness the Prince's noble status that the City Lord Shen has gone to great lengths to specially create four delicacies for His Royal Highness. There is no way to talk about slackness, Your Highness may not know that our Shen City Lord is enough to be called a saint in the production of dishes. ”

"Hehe, this king is not a three-year-old Mengtong!"

Xi Yingzhuo obviously did not believe Zhuang Boyu's explanation.

"Your Highness, don't be angry yet! Good or bad, eat a few bites and taste, won't you know?"

Seeing Zhuang Boyu stretching out his hand to make an invitation, he snorted coldly, "Just follow Lord Zhuang!"

After finishing speaking, he picked up the chopsticks in front of him, took a piece of tomato, and gently put it in his mouth. He secretly sneered in his heart, "I want to fool you with food, my surname is Shen! It seems that your IQ is limited to this!"

Just as Xi Yingzhuo was thinking about how to mock these dishes, he suddenly felt a slightly sour taste, mixed with sweet and indescribable aromas, which instantly filled his mouth. The sweet and sour taste full of aroma has never been tasted before. Yes, never, not even before!

For a while, the whole person sat there in a daze, savoring silently, and even had the illusion of being reluctant to swallow.

Zhuang Boyu smiled slightly, what the city lord Shen made out, dare to look down on it? Hmph! This young man, that is, he doesn't know how powerful the city lord is! Didn't he rush just now? Hehe, young man!

"This is a peerless dish specially prepared by the lord of the city for His Royal Highness, called scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Speaking of this, Zhuang Boyu lowered his voice and said softly: "It is said that this red vermilion fruit is a rare spiritual fruit in the world, and with the third-order demon bird, the golden chicken has been conceived for nine hundred and eighty-one days, and the treasure eggs laid are accompanied by spiritual grass cooking, and finally harvest this sweet and sour delicious and smooth delicacies." Up to now, there are only three people in the entire world who can taste this delicacy, including His Royal Highness. ”

Zhuang Boyu was shaking his head and teasing, but Xi Yingzhuo didn't listen at all, and after tasting it, he hurriedly took a big chopstick and stuffed it into his mouth.

In fact, Xi Yingzhuo has not eaten since the morning, and now it is noon, and he is already hungry. Now when I encounter such delicious food, I can't care about anything else.

In less than two minutes, a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes was swallowed by him.

It wasn't until he noticed that the plate was empty that he had a little bit of a reaction. glanced at Zhuang Boyu with a little embarrassment, and waved his hand, "Hmm! The taste is okay, it is estimated that it is stained with the light of spirit fruit and demon birds." That Master Zhuang, if there is nothing to do, you should be busy first. ”

After Xi Yingzhuo finished speaking, he turned his gaze to the servants on both sides again, "By the way, you all go down too!"

Since people didn't want to be watched and eaten, Zhuang Boyu had no choice but to retreat with his servants.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they walked out of the door, Xi Yingzhuo glanced back, and when he found that there was no one in the room, he suddenly moved a plate of braised fish, roasted vegetables and a plate of demon meat in the pot to him. There is no such thing as the Sven and elegance of the past, like a naughty child, and he keeps stuffing it into his mouth one bite at a time.

The wolf-swallowing posture, with the beat of the cheeks drumming one by one, can completely bring people to that kind of famine scene.

In less than ten minutes, the entire round table was empty, and the four dishes, one soup and a bowl of rice were even as clean as new.

And Xi Yingzhuo, at this time, has long lost his handsome and elegant image. I saw him leaning back in his chair like a Beijing paralyzed, and his eyes kept turning white in the hiccups. He muttered in his mouth, "Kill me, ouch, kill me......"

It took a long time to get over.

When he came to the courtyard for a walk and ate his food.

Not far from him, in the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Shen Feng, Xi Chuyue and others sat together, listening to Zhuang Boyu's narration.

"Judging from the current situation, the other party's attitude is not too good!" Zhuang Boyu frowned, looking incomprehensible.

"It's okay! In that case, then we'll do the worst reward, and the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and since they want to fight, then let's continue!"

Shen Feng was also a little annoyed in his heart, no matter what, his plan could be said to have taken care of their situation, but since the other party didn't know how to lift, he didn't say anything, just did it.

"That's it, so I don't need to discuss anything at all, we have survived such a big beast tide, how can we be afraid that he will not be able to come from afar?"

"Yes, whoever dares to see Long Cheng's idea will be better with him!"

"Hmph! Do you really think we're scared? City Lord, don't worry, I'm going to prepare the army, let's destroy him in a wave!"

Seeing the anger of the crowd, Xi Chuyue, who was a little embarrassed, hurriedly stood up and comforted: "Generals, don't be in a hurry to draw conclusions, my brother hasn't spoken yet, why don't you wait and see what he says, and then we will try to deal with it!"

"General Qiu and General Zhang, starting tomorrow, we will equip an elite unit to be responsible for patrolling the security of the towns in Longcheng. I don't think it's a good thing for us to keep a low profile, when it's time to show our fangs, we have to show our fangs, so that some people can understand that when we meet people in Dragon City, we can not only make everyone make money, but also eat people!"

Shen Feng turned his heart sideways and spoke.

"Order!"

......

In the afternoon, at about three o'clock, Xi Yingzhuo sent someone to ask for a meeting. However, the reply he got was that the city lord Shen Feng went out to inspect, and he would not have time until tomorrow morning.

This made Xi Yingzhuo feel angry again.

Just when he thought that Shen Feng was deliberately making things difficult for him, Shen Feng and Guan Xinghe and others were inspecting a newly built large-scale agricultural product market outside the city.

"Safety and prevention, we provide you with this trading platform, in order to make the flow of goods faster, saving you time and money. But on the safety front, you must follow our rules and move anyone out of the market as soon as they find a fire hazard. On the water dragon team's side, we must also take strict precautions......"

As Shen Feng walked, he explained various precautions and business concepts to the accompanying people.

Many of these views have made a group of businessman representatives admire, and some even suspect that Shen Feng was a businessman before, otherwise it would be impossible to know more than himself in some things. His own colleague became the lord of the city, this misunderstanding immediately aroused the favor of many businessmen, and many people felt that they had finally found the organization, after all, only their own people would give everyone such good treatment and conditions. As for the other superiors, hehe, if he can look at you squarely, his purpose is all for the silver.

Since he couldn't see Shen Feng, all afternoon, Xi Yingzhuo took his entourage and wandered around the Dragon City, observing some differences from the Cloudless Country.

Among them, the biggest difference is in the mental outlook of pedestrians. After experiencing this war, although the Cloud Country took Changding City, it saw that Dragon City fell into the hands of Shen Feng. However, except for the less than 1,000 people in Changding City who were responsible for defending the city, the rest of the troops who were dispatched this time were even overstretched to defend the imperial city. In Cloudless City, due to the large number of soldiers who died, almost every family was immersed in the pain of losing their husband and child.

On the other hand, when you see Dragon City, not only is the city clean and tidy, but even the pedestrians on the street are smiling. Out of curiosity, he once spied on a vendor who had entered the city to set up a stall. Unexpectedly, the hawker's answer surprised him even more.

"Hahahaha, as soon as I hear your question, I know that you are from outside, grieving? Who is grieving? What are you kidding? A soldier who died in battle, how much silver does Lord Shen give to his family? More than a hundred taels! To put it mildly, as long as you don't squander it at will, it is enough for two generations of a family to make do with it for a lifetime. Besides, they can also use the money to buy a small shop or a farm, collect the rent themselves, and do something else, and immediately step into the ranks of the rich. I have never seen so much silver after a soldier dies in battle. I was not born in a place, and I am older, otherwise, I would like to take my whole family to join the army! As for the people in the city, the damaged houses, Lord Shen repaired them for free, and the number of people who died in the war was also given half of the soldiers' pensions. Lord Shen has done enough to be benevolent and righteous, right? To put it mildly, if you go to inquire all day long, who else can do better than us Lord Shen? I have thought about it, take my two sons, work hard for two years, and then settle down in Jianlong City, and when the time comes, our family will be happy!"

The hawker's answer made Xi Yingzhuo secretly sigh, a soldier is more than a hundred taels of silver, although I don't know how many soldiers there are in Longcheng in total, but if you add a random number together, it is an astronomical amount.

This is simply a difference between the soldiers who died in the Wuyun State after the soldiers who had made war exploits in the country, and the empire paid ten taels and got them into the hands of the other party, at most, three or five taels. Also, what distressed Xi Yingzhuo the most was that even the death of ordinary people had to be given so many bereavements, which in his own opinion, was simply heartbreaking.

However, from these things, Xi Yingzhuo also had a hint of enlightenment, "According to the surname Shen, I don't know if the Wuyun Kingdom has been dragged to death, but the current Jianlong City is difficult to attribute to the name of the Wuyun Kingdom." ”