In the middle of summer, the sun is blazing and the trees are all over the road. All things are born with vigorous vitality in the rising yang energy.

You Li opened the road with a firewood knife in his hand, and it took a full hour to walk to the foot of Xiaogu Mountain.

I was about to go to the Qingyuan Teahouse in Anhua Town to rest and sharpen my feet, but I saw five and six shouts in front of me, and it was a mess, as if someone was arguing. Look at the tense posture, I'm afraid that there will be a life-and-death battle.

After a moment's hesitation, he decided not to join in the excitement and walked north along the foot of the mountain instead.

I heard that the valley north of Xiaogu Mountain is the main traffic route from south to north, and thirty or fifty families have settled down one after another, forming a small village called Xingwang Village.

There is a small inn in Xingwang Village, which sells tea and wine, although it is small, it is already a well-known restaurant in Anhua Town. There is no other reason, just because the owner was once a chef of a restaurant in Beijing, and he returned to his hometown on the border last year to live in his old age, bringing back not only Wanguan family wealth, but also good cooking skills.

Youli had already heard Zhai Biqing, a foodie, talk about this shop, and then suddenly remembered that he was a little aroused and planned to try it.

Although the name of Xiaogu Mountain has a "small", in fact, it is not small at all, the whole mountain is more than 20 miles long from north to south, about 12 miles wide from east to west, and more than 200 zhang high. To say small, it is only relative to the east of the Yuyu Mountain, and the north of Luanming Mountain, Qingyun Mountain and other large mountains.

With the power of free feet, the pace along a narrow mountain road in the north of the mountain is slightly accelerated, and it is also necessary to walk for nearly an hour.

When I arrived at Xingwang Village, the sun had already passed midday, and this Wangjing restaurant in the center of the village was still doing thriving business.

As soon as he walked to the door of the restaurant, he heard bursts of cheers coming from inside, and listened attentively, it turned out that there was a storyteller commenting on the story.

With a little curiosity, he walked in. The hall was full of people, and cheers came and went.

The storyteller, dressed in a white Confucian shirt, was about 50 years old, sitting on a high platform in the center of the hall, surrounded by a crowd of diners, quite like the stars holding the moon.

"'If you have to become a star, why die, I am willing to be a mandarin duck and not envy the immortals. "All the officials, I just finished talking about the talented and beautiful woman who is more in love than Jin Jian last time, and I only talk about Fengyue today. ”

The storyteller cleared his throat and shook out a subdued transition:

"There is a saying that 'the dream of wealth and nobility is five, and the fame is a floating cloud', there are many such words of persuasion in ancient and modern times, but in the red dust, how many people can understand it? It is said that in the early years of my emperor's martial arts, the world was decided. ......”

You Li has been reading and hyphenating with his master for many years, and he still has a general understanding of the history and customs of the Danze Empire. For example, the country name of the Danze Empire is "Sui", so the storyteller has the name of "Huang Sui", and as for "Wusheng", it is the name of the era when Emperor Taizu of Dasui was in power.

Just as he was listening attentively, a young cousin walked up and asked, "This little official, is it a tip or a stay?"

You came back to his senses and replied, "Hit the point." ”

Then, under the arrangement of the parishioner, he sat down in a corner where the high platform could not be seen at all.

You Li didn't care, put down the heavy blanket, and ordered four taels of beef, a plate of signature five-flavor apricot cheese goose, and a bowl of mixed noodles.

Seeing that he was only dressed in a gray coarse cloth shirt, and although he was clean, he did not look like a rich man, so he couldn't help but look at him twice, and then smiled:

"This little guest officer has good eyesight! The five-flavor apricot cheese goose in our store is full of color, flavor and flavor, and it is a famous dish in the capital. However, according to the rules, you have to pay before serving. ”

You Li raised her eyes to look at him, took out the money bag from her coat, and gently flipped it.

The cousin immediately smiled and said, "It's okay to eat first and then pay, you can wait a while, and serve the food immediately." ”

You put away the money bag and continued to listen to the legendary commentary of the public case.

During this period, the cousin first brought beef and mixed noodles, and listened to it while eating, which was delicious.

When the steaming five-flavor apricot cheese goose was served, all the ticket holders who were listening to the commentary around them came over one after another.

You Li also saw the index finger move and tasted it with relish.

At this moment, a man came across the table.

The man was five big and three thick, with bronze skin and a beard, and when he saw that he was eating deliciously, he said:

"Little brother, can I sit here?"

Although he asked symbolically, his ass sat down on his own.

You Li looked up and smiled, and continued to bow his head to eat the goose.

The man took the cool hat on his head in his hand, and sighed while fanning the wind: "The heat is dead, this weather." But there's a big voice that is babbling over there, annoying. ”

Seeing that Youli was just eating, the man continued to say to himself: "The storytelling is good, don't look at the people in the room who are listening carefully, in fact, everyone is looking forward to the final link in their hearts." ”

After eating the goose meat, Youli began to concentrate on the bowl of noodles.

The man looked at Youli, and then said: "I can tell you that the hearts of these storytellers are very bad, for fear that others will not listen to them spitting stars, and deliberately put the broadcast of the Yuedan Review at the end." ”

Hearing this, Youli lifted his head from the bowl for the first time.

"Yuedan Review?"

When the man saw this, he immediately became energetic: "Yes!

You shook her head and continued to eat noodles.

The man took the opportunity to introduce him.

The Danze Empire was founded on Dandao, and after more than 100 years of development, it gradually cultivated two major national characters: good talk, and Mu Changsheng.

The prosperity of its Qing talk is known only by looking at the Yuedan comment - this is said to have started at the Goolan banquet, and the custom of Zang who complains about the world's characters after drinking, I don't know when, through the high wind of Qing Tan, it blew from the market and Lu Lane into the elegant hall, and entered the blue eyes of a big man in the current dynasty.

Therefore, on the first day of each month, a special column was set up in the official residence newspaper that was routinely published to the outside world to evaluate the world's figures, called "Yuedan Commentary".

Although there is an "official body", the official residence newspaper is not distributed to the people after all, and the reason why the Yuedan Review is as popular as it is now and has become an important topic of conversation among the people after tea and dinner is the intervention of storytellers.

These storytellers, who eat by mouth, are very keen to seize business opportunities and act as a medium for disseminating official information to the people.

In fact, this move is simply to retain the audience, but it turns out that the retention effect is not generally good, so after the book is finished, the latest news of the Yuedan Review will be broadcast, which has gradually become a practice in the storytelling industry.

Sure enough, the introduction has just been completed here, and the latest news of the Yuedan review has just begun to be introduced.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Yuedan Review has selected this year's top ten Oiran in the world, and one of them is from our Anxi Prefecture, I think you have all guessed it, that's right, it is Liu Qiaoqiao, ranked eighth. As for the remaining nine, listen to me one by one......"

After listening to it, I was amused in my heart, sure enough, only these gossip news can arouse the curiosity of most people the most.

At this time, the man on the other side had already eaten cold noodles.

Seeing that Youli was smiling suspiciously, the man was quite surprised, and kindly reminded: "I said little brother, you are young, it's too early to think about this." ”

You Li restrained his smile and said, "This uncle, I'm not even ten years old." ”

The man smiled: "It can be seen that you are still a little ghost." ”

You Li rolled his eyes, picked up the coat, left sixty cents on the table, greeted the cousin, put the coat on his back, and went out.

The man looked at the back of the wandering and departed, thoughtful. Then three or two bites finished eating noodles and went directly to the kitchen in the backyard.

A few little guys were busy inside and out, and they didn't care about him. The man sat down on the back porch and ate his food. Half an hour later, a sweaty man walked out of the kitchen.

The man looked about sixty years old, with a red face and a thick neck, a big belly, and full of wealth, who was the owner of this restaurant. After seeing the man napping under the verandah, he smiled:

"Coming?"

The man woke up, immediately stood up, and said respectfully: "It's here." ”

The owner of the restaurant took the man to a mourning room on the second floor, closed the door, and set up a soundproof ban in the room.

"It's only been six days since I sent the news, and you can come from Guazhou, and you've worked hard all the way. ”

The man touched his head and said with a smile: "As soon as I received the news from Deputy Envoy Fang, I immediately left." I hope I didn't get down to business. ”

The man surnamed Fang said: "Not only did I not delay, but I arrived two days early." Xiaohong, you can have a good rest in the past two days, and by the way, familiarize yourself with the surrounding environment. ”

Hong Fan nodded and asked, "What is the situation in Anhua Town now?"

Fang Lide sighed: "The situation is not optimistic, and there are not a few people who fish in troubled waters. Your mission this time is clear, to blend in with the miners and beware of the Huns infiltrating the monks. ”