Chapter 3 Eating Crabs
"Palm, the shopkeeper's ........."
Xiao Er looked at the back of the guest officer in Tsing Yi, and his face turned pale.
Even if he saw a ghost, he wouldn't show such a frightened expression, because the ghost had never seen it, and today, he saw a madman who had a mouthful of half a pound of arsenic.
"Quick, go and ask the doctor of the Golden Needle Pavilion to ........."
The shopkeeper screamed, and he was immediately dumbfounded, and said, "No, catch him and vomit!"
The two of them rushed out of the shop, looked left and right, and found that the Tsing Yi guest had disappeared into the long flow of people.
............
Not drunk, one of the best restaurants in Yongzhou City.
For dine-in, the per capita consumption is half a penny. In private rooms, the per capita consumption is two cents of silver. If you live in a hotel, you can get a good side room, three dollars a night.
Mu Nanyu and Xu Qi'an walked slowly for a long time, and asked someone for directions a few times along the way, and finally arrived outside the restaurant.
The shopkeeper who was sent to the door ushered in, and when he saw the two of them approaching the restaurant, he immediately stepped forward and nodded:
"The two of them are objective, and they still live in the hotel. ”
"Stay!"
Xu Qi'an handed the reins to the shopkeeper, took off the water bladder, poured out the white turbid water mixed with arsenic, and gently wiped it on the saddle.
In the process, his palm turned blue-black, and after wiping it, he raised his hand, and the flesh and blood in his palm returned to its original state.
The ability of the poisonous Gu to combine with the surrounding environment and materials to create a special toxin.
Xu Qi'an used arsenic to create a chronic poison to apply to the saddle, as long as someone dares to ride a little mare, the toxin solidified in the saddle will slowly evaporate with the body temperature, penetrate the pants and penetrate the skin? The blood vessels then penetrate from the skin.
At most, he will die in a quarter of an hour, and the gods will not be able to save him.
The shopkeeper has limited knowledge and can't see through the mystery? Just at a loss? Then I saw the guest officer in Tsing Yi throwing a grain of broken silver? Road:
"I'm going to feed my horse. Beans, wheat, corn, salt, eggs, bee pulp, all these things are indispensable? I'll check it out later? If you dare to cut corners, Lao Tzu will skin you. ”
Xu Bai's murderous aura and anger are not lacking at all, when she raises her eyebrows? Extremely oppressive.
The shopkeeper pinched a lot of broken silver? Surprised and scared? Said: "Don't worry? Feel relieved? The little one must take good care of your horse. ”
Immediately led the horse to the backyard.
"Going to the rivers and lakes? You have to have the spirit of the rivers and lakes, and pretend to be gentle and frugal outside, which will only make people think that you are a fat sheep, and anyone will slaughter you. ”
Xu Qi'an smiled and explained to the first beauty of Dafeng.
Rivers and lakes and temples are different worlds, in the capital? Should you keep a low profile? High-profile things? Pay attention to affection and qualifications everywhere.
But the rivers and lakes are different? The rivers and lakes are mixed, the youth is spirited, and sometimes the sword and sword shadow? You have to show a fierce temperament, so that you can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Entering the lobby of the restaurant, Xu Qi'an took Mu Nanyu to the counter, and along the way, he heard diners not far away talking:
"I heard that someone found a large tomb in a barren mountain thirty miles south of the city. More than a dozen people went in and never came out. ”
"I heard that the people of the Gongsun family also sent people to the tomb, and they were all lost inside. Now it's rumored outside, there are rare big treasures inside, otherwise, how could it be so dangerous. ”
"It's a rumor deliberately released by the Gongsun family, wanting to let the Jianghu scattered people to be pawns. ”
"No, the more dangerous the tomb, the more treasures, if there are only a few crooked melons and cracked dates, who will spend a lot of effort to set up a mechanism?"
"Makes sense. ”
"The Gongsun family has recently recruited heroes in Yongzhou City, and it is best to be a capable person who is proficient in feng shui organs, but unfortunately I am only a martial artist and my strength is limited, otherwise I will also mix and mix. ”
Mu Nanyu's face changed slightly when he heard this.
Xu Qi'an frowned.
The underground palace outside Yongzhou City was discovered?Well, there was a lot of trouble between Shenshu and the ancient corpse at the beginning, and that mountain range collapsed to a certain extent, and it was normal to attract good deeds to explore afterwards........
With the personality of the gods, in just half a year, the ancient corpse should not have been out of trouble, I hope it is not out of trouble, otherwise my trip to Yongzhou will be wasted..........
While thinking, he walked to the counter and said, "Open two good wings, next to each other." ”
Mu Nanyu next to him hurriedly said: "No, don't open two, one is enough........."
Her voice grew quieter and quieter, and she lowered her head in embarrassment.
She coaxed........ Xu Qi'an glanced at the princess, and he was not happy about the fact that he was in the same room with the first beauty of Dafeng, but frowned.
First of all, the side effects of the love Gu will make the host have the urge to reproduce at all times, and Xu Qi'an is afraid that he will not be able to control himself.
Secondly, the side effect of the Dark Gu is that the host likes to burrow into dark and damp places, and must have a private space for two hours a day without being discovered.
The princess's spiritual essence can only be "picked" until the peak of the third grade, and the side effects of the Gu worm cannot be satisfied, which will affect the development of the Seven Absolute Gu, thus affecting my cultivation.........
Xu Qi'an sighed in his heart: Sure enough, women will only affect my sword drawing speed!
So he asked the shopkeeper for a good wing room that cost as much as one tael of silver.
The shopkeeper took the cashier, and his enthusiastic and courteous attitude increased exponentially, and he personally led the two distinguished guests upstairs.
The room is at the end of the corridor, and you can see the lively scene of the main road by pushing the window, Mu Nanyu likes it very much, but Xu Qi'an only thinks it is noisy.
It is worthy of being one of the most expensive restaurants in Yongzhou City, and it is worthy of being the wing room of the restaurant to support the face, the bookcase is made of Huanghuali wood, and there are four treasures of the study room on the table.
Mu Nanyu entered the room, looked around, examined, and said:
"All the paintings are famous, but they are all fakes, and none of them are genuine. ”
Among them, there is a genuine piece of "Burning Incense in the Wine House", which is in the Zhenbei Wangfu and hangs in her study.
"This piece of inkstone is good. ”
She walked to the bookcase again, playing with a blue and white inkstone, the blue and white patterns of the inkstone were like ink smudging, Mu Nanyu regretted:
"The texture is fine, but not moist enough, high-quality, but not superb. ”
It's moisturized, are you moisturizing........ Xu Qi'an complained in his heart.
She commented on the furnishings in the room, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, antique calligraphy and paintings, furniture, etc., one by one.
The shopkeeper was dumbfounded, and called the insider: "The girl is really an expert." ”
immediately put away the slight contempt in his heart, this pair of mediocre-looking men and women should be from a noble family, and if they are not Zhong Mingding's food, they can't raise such taste and vision.
Xu Qi'an, who listened to the book of heaven throughout the whole process, pulled the shopkeeper to the table and said with a smile: "Nagging the shopkeeper for a while." ”
"You're welcome. "The shopkeeper's attitude has changed very well.
Xu Qi'an asked, "I just heard someone in the hall say that a tomb was found in the deep mountains in the south?"
The shopkeeper's chin said: "There is such a thing, and I don't know if it's true or not." Many people are said to have died. That mountain is now occupied by the Gongsun family. ”
Xu Qi'an took a sip of tea and said in a deep voice: "Gongsun family, the shopkeeper, in this Yongzhou City, are there those Jianghu forces that can be on the table?"
Although he came to Yongzhou once, he really didn't know much about the situation of the local gangs.
In the eyes of the watchmen, even a big force like the Jianzhou Martial Arts League can be seen, and the rest are garbage.
Of course, this does not mean that the gangs in the rivers and lakes are not strong, but the people who beat the gangs belong to the imperial court after all and have a natural sense of superiority over the gangs.
The shopkeeper is open, and there is no need to ponder:
"Near Yongzhou City, the most powerful are Gongsun Villa, which is eighteen miles to the north, and Longshen Fort, which is twenty miles to the east, and the gangs that are attached to these two big forces are.........
"As for the counties under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou, I don't know. ”
Yongzhou is one of the thirteen continents of Dafeng, and there are dozens of counties and prefectures under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou City, and how many gangs there are can probably only be known through official statistics.
For big forces like Dragon God Castle and the Gongsun Family, the base camp is usually not in the city, and the government will not allow it.
Mu Nanyu frowned and said, "The Yongzhou government doesn't care about the tomb?"
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Why do you care? This is not a flood and locust plague, so the government is too lazy to take care of it." As for the dead, they are all Jianghu people, not ordinary people. Even if it's an ordinary person, if you don't report to the official, the government won't bother to take care of it, right?
Besides, the Gongsun family has some friendship with the political envoy of Yongzhou, so that the mountain can be "circled". ”
"The shopkeeper has a point. ”
The two men looked at each other and smiled.
Xu Qi'an learned from the shopkeeper that this season, the lake crabs are fat, and Yangbai Lake outside the city is a holy place for eating crabs near Yongzhou City.
Before this time, the rich families, eunuchs, and heroes in the city will rent boats to cruise the lake and enjoy the fat lake crabs.
Mu Nanyu's eyes lit up as he listened.
After a few small talks, the shopkeeper reluctantly said goodbye.
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Xu Qi'an closed the door, reflexively walked behind the screen, moved the bath bucket aside, took out the fragments of the book on the ground, and poured out a jar, the silt in the tank was shallow, the water quality was slightly turbid, and a dark golden lotus root was lying at the bottom of the tank.
Half of the body is exposed to the mud, and half is hidden under the mud.
He traveled through the rivers and lakes with him for two purposes:
First, travel all the way to Jianzhou, hand over the lotus root to the old puppet of the Wulin League, and fulfill the promise.
But the lotus root was not yet ripe, so he simply brought the person and the lotus root with him, thinking that when he traveled to Jianzhou, the nine-colored lotus root should be ripe.
Second, he wanted to try to find some plants with strong poison and give them to the flower god to cultivate in order to strengthen the poisonous Gu.
In this case, Mu Nanyu must be taken with him.
"Hoo ........"
Xu Qi'an exhaled, with the strength of Gu's current strength, it was still a little difficult to lift a large water tank, and he still had to eat.
Fortunately, I left Beijing, otherwise there would be three more foodies in the family, and my aunt would cry out in distress......... He sat beside the Huanghuali bookcase, thinking about what he was going to do next.
"The dragon qi is scattered all over the place, there is no such thing as radar, and if you want to find the host of the dragon qi, you can only find out through two aspects: first, a powerful intelligence network. The dragon qi host will not have abnormalities in the short term, but after a long time, it will immediately become sharp. It won't be anonymous forever.
"Second, relying on the aggregation effect of dragon qi and luck, maybe I don't have to deliberately look for it, and when I travel to a certain place, I can encounter it. And as long as the dragon qi host is no more than a hundred meters away from me, I can sense it through the Book from the Ground, and I myself am equivalent to a small radar with a range of only a hundred meters.
"There is no news about Shenshu's remnant body for the time being, but the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox definitely has a clue, as long as I wait for her to come to me. The most important thing now is to collect the materials for the Spiritist Bell. ”
Among the materials of the Soul Bell, two materials are the nails and venom of a thousand-year-old corpse, and Xu Qi'an happened to know an ancient corpse, so he chose the first stop in Yongzhou City.
"As long as the seal of the gods is not weakened, I am sure that I will not let the ancient corpses discover my true state. Well, you also have to work harder in terms of cultivation, among the seven abilities of the Seven Absolute Gu, the Poison Gu is the easiest to cultivate, as long as there is an endless stream of highly poisonous things, you can grow immediately.
"The second is the force Gu, as long as you keep eating, keep boiling your physique, it can also grow rapidly, and although my cultivation is sealed, my physique is a three-grade physique, and this stage of boiling can be ignored, just eat it directly.
"The Heavenly Gu is the foundation of the Seven Absolute Gu, and it has developed to an extremely high and deep level, so there is no need to care about it for the time being. As long as the Dark Gu maintains its "hiding" for two hours a day, it can grow steadily, and there may be a lack of combat......... I haven't tried this, but I can try it when I have the chance.
"Corpse Gu needs to devour corpse qi, this trip to Yongzhou, cultivating corpse Gu is also one of the purposes. Love Gu and Heart Gu, temporarily suppress it, and do not cultivate.
"I don't want to walk the rivers and lakes, walk and become a flower thief. And there is a Dafeng No. 1 beauty by her side, if she doesn't suppress the love Gu, one day she will go wrong.
"Heart Gu is the same thing, although I ride a little mare, I can't really ride it. ”
It was still early, and there was still some time before lunch, Xu Qi'an sat by the desk, taking small sips of arsenic and water, like sipping wine.
The princess, who loves cleanliness, gave herself a basin of water, freshened up, and then sat in front of the dresser, combed herself with a beautiful woman's hair, and applied lip grease and blush.
From a mediocre posture to a look at it.
"At night I sleep in the bed, and you make the floor. ”
The princess, who was sitting in front of the dresser, saw that he just glanced at herself lightly, so she looked away without hesitation, and her willow eyebrows suddenly rose.
"You can sleep in the bed and I can sleep on you. ”
Xu Qi'an didn't have a good airway.
The princess "snorted", as if she had long been accustomed to his mouth and didn't take it seriously.
She got up and walked behind the screen, put her hand in the water tank, and made a bored splash.
The water is filled with aura.
Near noon, Xu Qi'an took back the water tank to the fragments of the book on the ground, and through the relationship of not being drunk, he set a seat in the building boat, this point, if it is a loose person, let alone a place in the building boat, the boat and boat are gone.
Fortunately, as a large restaurant, it has channels and relationships to meet the needs of guests to eat crabs.
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Yangbai Lake, the water is shining, and there are patches of willow trees planted by the lake, and the branches are bare and there is no greenery.
In the late autumn season, the lake breeze blows, mixed with the chill.
A building boat with "Wang Ji Fish Fang" floating in the lake, Mu Nanyu wearing a fox fur, sitting at the table near the window, with a small mud stove on the table, warm rice wine, both warm wine and warm people.
A few side dishes, twenty plump river crabs.
"The vinegar tastes good, but unfortunately the sauce is too little, um, but it highlights the fatness of the river crab. ”
Xu Qi'an bit the crab paste in his mouth and shook his head with satisfaction.
In his recipe, lake crabs can be ranked in the top ten, of course, crabs are also divided into types, female crabs are not ranked in the top ten, only male crabs can.
"Crab roe and crab paste are two completely different things, compared to the elastic crab paste, the crab paste is more mellow and delicious, and the crab roe is worse after all, so I don't like to eat female crabs very much, but I have no resistance to male crabs.........."
Xu Qi'an lifted the wine jug on the small clay stove and poured a glass of warm wine for the princess.
"Eating a crab can also eat dignity?"
Mu Nanyu gave him a big roll of the eyes, took a sip of wine, her face was flushed, her body was warm, she looked out of the lake, and suddenly whispered:
"Look, that's the ship of the Gongsun family?"
Xu Qi'an turned his head and looked out the window, and saw a two-story boat coming through the waves, flying the flag of "Gongsun".