The sun was blazing overhead, and Xu Changan was enjoying unprecedented coolness under the river.

This contrast sensibility makes people feel beautiful just thinking about it.

On the gravel on the shore lay his clothes and some of his carry-on luggage, as well as one of his black swords, and then a few fish that were still alive a moment ago.

After breaking away from the river, he finally couldn't resist the baking of the sun, and he rolled his eyes and lips with a weak face.

Those fish are not fat, only the size of Xu Chang'an's palm, and their appearance is ugly, if other smaller children see it, they will be scared and cry directly, let alone go into the water to touch it.

But in Xu Changan's opinion, this osmanthus fish ugliness is indeed really ugly, but it is also really delicious.

I often joke with Yu Ming about the appearance of this fish, I really want to...

It's not to mock the casualness of its length, but it doesn't matter what it looks like at the bottom of the river and day and night, no one can see it anyway, no matter how beautiful it looks.

But when this osmanthus fish first evolved, I was afraid that it would not have imagined that it would be hidden at the bottom of the river and be caught by some other different species who care about their appearance, not only that, but also ridiculed for a while.

It's noon, but Xu Changan is still full of strength and tireless, often every time he shows his head to breathe, he doesn't want to come out of the river anymore when he looks at the still hot weather around him.

That small city that looked like an ant, Xu Changan had never thought that it would be so far away from him under the reflection of the scorching sun overhead.

Throw a slightly larger osmanthus fish on the shore at random, carefully count the number of those fish, and calculate how many more you need to catch before you can eat them.

In fact, Xu Changan, who was relatively younger, directly gave up and did not arrest him underwater.

It's not that he has really learned to be merciful as Yang Hejiu hoped, and naturally he won't worry about cutting the grass now and not eradicating the roots, and these fish at the bottom of the river will find revenge on him or something in the future. It's not enough to plug the gap between the teeth, and it's still a waste of effort.

He took out some dry food from his bag on the shore and chewed it casually, in fact, even if he took those osmanthus fish back to the city now, the inhabitants of the city should have already eaten lunch.

So he was not in a hurry at all, and the idea of being able to eat a bowl of dumplings at noon turned into eating at night.

His clothes have been splashed with a lot of muddy water by the fish he just threw ashore, looking at a fish that jumped on his clothes, Xu Changan said angrily: "I'll eat you first when I go back!"

Yu Ming's kid doesn't look as tall as himself, but the amount of food is already very large, thinking like this, Xu Changan feels that he needs to catch some more.

It's not that I'm playful and don't want to hurry, but I think about you kid, Xu Changan pondered in his heart, turned around and went to the bottom of the river.

After touching this section of the river, Xu Changan dived up and down everywhere to touch, so tirelessly.

This is inseparable from the relationship between him becoming a cultivator, no matter how strong an ordinary child is, he should be exhausted by now, but Xu Changan is indeed like a fish in water.

He can't march and fight, but he is a good hand at fishing in troubled waters.

Just when Xu Changan sank to the bottom of the river many times, he didn't notice that there was a white-clothed man walking steadily in the southern part of the country swept by the yellow sand.

As the figure got closer, he realized that it was a young girl, with a grim face and a straight ahead.

It makes people feel that her eyes only have the world she is in, but she does not include everything in this world at all. Even the sand and dust that seemed charming to others could not squeeze into her field of vision in the slightest.

is not the same as Bi Siqian that Xu Changan met before, Bi Siqian does not have Xu Changan in his eyes, but he is still not so arrogant that everything can't enter my eyes.

And this girl is really true, but it is not arrogant, but there are no such things in her world, and these things naturally cannot enter her world.

The girl's name is Yun Wangshu, and in fact, there have been many things in her eyes along the way, such as the bowl of braised pork in Yingfu Town, and the river in front of her.

Yun Wangshu walked along the river, looked down for a long time, and said softly to himself: "This is the river." ”

She knew that this was the river when Lord Luna's outing last year.

All she brought back was a handful of crumbs, revealing black and white, and what puzzled her was that Lord Luna's statement was that it was one chess piece, not two as she thought.

She didn't understand what kind of person could do it with one hand.

Standing by the river, she could faintly feel that there was a big game.

The various weapons and swords broken in the river have been washed away by the river, and some of the remaining ones on the bank have also been cleaned up by the corpse collection team sent by the imperial court.

There was only one left, and it was a black sword without blades and sheaths, which the dean of the Spirit Academy named Tangqian Yan.

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Next to the black sword, there were more than a dozen fish that were completely breathless, their skin had been dried and wrinkled, their eyes were completely white, and some of them were still breathing, jumping on the clothes that were thrown at random next to them, trying to get rid of the hot rubble under them.

But the heat doesn't come from the ground, it's from the overhead.

The black sword didn't come from the bottom of the river.

Yun Wangshu also turned a blind eye to the black sword and other things, and her eyes stayed on the osmanthus fish.

Although like Lin Ying, she also has no concept of beauty and ugliness, but she still thinks that these fish are really ugly in her heart, and having such an idea means that these fish have entered her eyes, and only the things in her eyes will have further comments.

Bi Siqian only praised Xu Chang'an when he was delusional in Sifang City to fool Yang Hejiu, and was shocked by the words of the dean when he was in the Spirit Academy. But after those two times, he thought that He had fallen in three years, and he would never think of the young child who was tortured by himself and suffered his life.

I don't even think about whether the other party wants to seek revenge on me.

It's never in my eyes, it's not my business whether it's beautiful or ugly, so naturally I don't think so.

Before this, she also went through the Jing Dynasty, and unlike Lin Ying, those fat powder dealers in Jincheng felt that Lin Ying would look very good if she dressed up carefully, after all, the picturesque woman's face was slightly yellow, and it looked really a little pulled.

As for Yun Wangshu, he thought more in his heart, why do such a beautiful woman need these vulgar fans to set off? When the girl walked by, she even felt that her own things were a little out of her hands.

A beautiful woman walked through a city, which made the rouge seller who seemed to be full of brocade city embarrassed, and the usual clever tongue was knotted that day.

But such a person has no concept of beauty and ugliness at all.

Well... That is, if it looks good, you dare to think so, if it is a little stumbling in the eyes of others, it is completely self-deception, and you dare not admit it, you dare not admit it, but you don't think there is no concept?

Yun Wangshu had naturally already noticed the underwater movement, but he didn't care.

But just because she doesn't care doesn't mean someone doesn't care as much as she does.

Xu Changan slammed out of the river, holding an osmanthus fish about a foot long with both hands, and the smile on his face revealed the satisfaction in his heart.

You must know that he gave up a lot of prey in order to catch this fish, thinking that this one would probably be enough to eat, so he thought about packing up his things and going back to the city.

Suddenly, the smile on his face froze, his hands could no longer hold the fish, and the ruler-long osmanthus fish jumped happily and was about to fall back into the river.

Yun Wangshu's face was still calm, and there was never the slightest expression on his face.

Raise her foot and kick a stone, and directly hit the fish that was about to escape, which seemed ugly to her.

The pebble hits the uglyfish in the head and passes through. I didn't stop, I don't know where I'm going.

Although the head had been pierced, the osmanthus fish did not die immediately, but struggled violently in the river. Xu Chang'an's exposed upper body was quickly stained red with blood, feeling the stones passing by his side, he looked down at the fish beside him blankly, and glanced at himself by the way.

One hit! It's so strong! It's good... Shy.

Then he immediately went to the bottom of the water, not daring to show his head again.

Yun Wangshu looked at the fish that was still struggling in the water, his brows furrowed slightly, and he was a little puzzled why it was not dead like this, and then stared at the fish and said very seriously: "I want to eat it." ”

Xu Changan blurted out when he heard the other party's words under the water, and hurriedly replied: "You grunt first... Phew, cough, cough, cough..."Before he finished speaking, he poked his head out of his neck and spit out a few mouthfuls of river water with the blood of the osmanthus fish, and then couldn't stop coughing for a while.

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Yun Wangshu didn't reply, still looking at the ugly fish that was still struggling with a calm face.

The osmanthus fish was not far from him, and Xu Changan, who was already embarrassed, naturally became even more embarrassed when he was looked at like this.

After a moment of relaxation, he looked at his clothes on the shore and said with some twists: "You turn around first, I have to put on my clothes." ”

Yun Wangshu still ignored him, she was still looking at the fish and thinking about something.

What she didn't understand on the Wangshu Tower was what she was looking for along the way, what was more important than birth, old age, sickness and death?

It is to live, and only by living first can we talk about life, and only then can we be qualified to be old, sick, and die.

This was Yun Wangshu's first answer, but it was not the same as what she had been looking for all the way.

On that floor, she couldn't understand why anyone could go to such great lengths to leave a formation for the young man who was bathing in the river.

This led to a question from Lord Luna, and she went downstairs to answer it.

The fish wants to live, but it's none of her business. She became interested in the ugly fish, and she wanted to eat it.

Xu Changan wanted to drill down again, but when he raised his head and looked at the other party, he didn't seem to pay attention to himself, slowly crawled to the shore, stretched out his hands to reach his clothes, how could he not reach them with short hands.

Grandma's, why didn't you get closer at that time? Xu Changan couldn't help but scold in his heart.

He bowed his head and muttered: "I heard from the people in the city that men are shameless when they see women taking baths as stinky hooligans." But if a woman looks at a man in turn, she has to be... It's going to be impossible to get married, so you go farther away, and I'll put on my clothes first. ”

Yun Wangshu tilted his head and thought about the words in the other party's mouth, but he didn't take it to heart, and his eyes still didn't move from the ugly fish that was about to be exhausted.

Xu Changan was really on the verge of breaking out at this time, looking at the other party who always ignored his appearance.

Obviously, it's not the first time the two have met, why are they even more cold than the last time?

He doesn't know what's so nice about a fish, because in his opinion, fish are for eating, not seeing.

Although I heard that some rich and noble people do raise fish for ornamentation, but what is there to watch a osmanthus fish whose head has been broken? Could it be that this person is also a pervert? Ahem.

The field was in a stalemate, until the fish struggled and was about to be washed away by the flowing water, Yun Wangshu then repeated: "I want to eat it." ”

Xu Changan nodded dejectedly, suddenly reacted to the meaning of the other party's words, and then hurriedly grabbed it with both hands to prevent it from being washed away by the river, and then he was afraid that he would be eaten.

His feet were soaked and white, and he grasped the fish with both hands that was missing a large hole in his head, and spoke again, "You stay away first, and I will go up and get dressed." ”

Yun Wangshu still looked straight ahead, and replied calmly: "Why should I listen to you." ”

Xu Changan was slightly stunned, is this a human being? Why do you want to listen to me? Why do you want to listen to me?

Why don't you tell me why I'm listening to you to catch that fish?

Yes!

Xu Changan squeezed out a sneer at the corner of his mouth, put the fish in his hand on the shore at will, came out of the river tremblingly, walked directly to his clothes, and put them on unscrupulously.

picked up the black sword and came to Yun Wangshu's side, looking at the good-looking woman who was still looking straight ahead, and her gaze had never shifted once it changed, Xu Changan gritted his teeth and said, "Yun Wangshu." ”

Yun Wangshu didn't feel the slightest dissatisfaction, but replied calmly: "How." ”

Xu Changan smiled and said, "How do you want to eat this fish?"

"Make it into braised pork. Yun Wangshu thought about the bowl of braised pork he had eaten in Yingfu Town, and said seriously.

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“？？？”

Xu Changan was a little speechless, and became more and more depressed, always feeling that this good-looking woman was too strange.

If you are dissatisfied with the title of your sister on that building, you think that you are just doing it, why don't you even care about the difference between men and women?

In fact, what Xu Changan didn't know was that to be precise, the other party didn't care about the difference between men and women, but that he had never been in her eyes.

No matter how filthy Xu Chang'an is, no matter how unbearable she looks, it has nothing to do with her.

She has seen many street hooligans along the way, knowing that the other party is as cold as ice, but still wants to come forward to tease, she has never frowned at those foul words, and some people who want to do things can never get close to her.

If I can't get into my eyes, it doesn't mean that if you hit me, I won't fight back, just as Xu Changan asked her how to eat this fish, she would think and answer seriously.

At this time, when he heard the other party say that he would make a osmanthus fish into braised pork, Xu Changan couldn't help but wipe his saliva at first, it was indeed a delicacy in the world. Then I felt that this girl was not only strange, it was almost like her IQ had just stopped at three and a half years old.

suddenly remembered a story I had read in the book before, and no longer found this sentence funny, but seriously explained to the other party: "This fish can't be made into braised pork." ”

Yun Wangshu frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly, "Why?"

Xu Changan licked his lips, still not getting out of the aftertaste of braised pork. But he still had to think carefully about how to explain to the other party, and after a while, he said: "Actually, I don't know much either, but I can eat braised pork made of pork, not fish." ”

Yun Wangshu no longer struggled with why pork can be made into braised pork, but fish can't be made in the eyes of others, which is quite strange in others, but changed his words: "Then braised fish." ”

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This is the consequence of making trouble for yourself, whether it is braised pork or braised fish, Xu Changan naturally will not do it, he should confess to the other party at the beginning, and then explain that the problem of whether fish can be made into braised pork is much better.

But now if you confess directly, you won't be able to make braised pork, and you won't be able to braised fish, and the other party can't guarantee that you won't get angry.

Xu Changan looked at the poor fish in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and then muttered, "I'll try, but you have to go home with me first." ”

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Although Xu Changan often eats fish, if it comes to making fish, what he is best at is nothing more than disemboweling first, then steaming, boiling, and roasting.

However, being good at it is only relative to other ways of eating, such as braised dishes, which need to test cooking skills.

Xu Chang'an, who pursues being able to eat enough, also has the same requirement for the things he makes to be able to eat.

In the past, the practice was nothing more than sprinkling a little salt, and after cooking, ask Yu Ming's mother for some pickled sauce and spread it evenly.

It is more convenient and trouble-free when stewed in one pot, just add a little salt when cooking.

What green onions, ginger and garlic are stir-fried?

After leaving the Xu Mansion, although he lived hard, like most people in Xicheng, he was no longer qualified to pursue refinement.

Half a bundle of shallots requires a copper plate, and when all of them are cooked, it is not enough to eat for a day.

A palm-sized piece of pork skin needs six, and the oil and water rubbed out of the bottom of the pot are just not at the bottom of the bowl.

A packet of kosher salt costs two, but it lasts for months.

A bundle of garlic only needs three pieces, and it can also be eaten for a long time when hung in the yard, but it is very spicy, and Xu Changan never eats this thing.

And his income is only occasionally caught when he catches a fish of this size in his hand, so he can exchange about five copper plates with others to save them, and the rest of the small fish is steamed cakes and steamed buns to fill his stomach.

Although he has lived a hard life, it is not worthy of sympathy, and if he can be more diligent after three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, his life may be improved.

Maybe at least you can figure out how to use things like green onion and ginger when you have a surplus at hand.

Instead of buying half a bundle of shallots and a piece of ginger like now, I still stared at the strange-looking things and scratched my cheeks after asking the vegetable seller how to make braised fish.

Yun Wangshu looked at the pool that was about to overflow outside the courtyard, and ignored Xu Chang'an, who was pouring the fish in the house.

The courtyard is still the same courtyard, Xu Changan found two sets of keys from a familiar place a moment ago, and took out one to open the two doors of his house.

This place where the key is hidden, Xu Chang'an and Yu Ming are clearly aware.

I remember that when Zhang's son went out to work, he didn't know where he was running wildly, and he was often worried that he would come back or be thirsty and hungry and couldn't open the door, so he hid the key in the hole in the wall outside the courtyard, and over time Xu Chang'an also knew.

Now, even if her son will not come back in a short time, her habit has not changed.

The peach talisman posted outside Xu Chang'an's courtyard was already mutilated, not because the other children were naughty and torn off, but when he stood outside the courtyard, he looked up at the four red and black words above and felt a little dazzling, and he would always think of someone he didn't want to think of for some reason.

Although he knew that it was written by Liu Chunsheng, after some entanglement, he still jumped on the courtyard wall and picked out the word 'Bi' with the black sword in his hand, and now there are only three words on the banner: 'Sui Chang'an'.

Although it was not symmetrical and looked much more ugly, Xu Changan still stood at the gate of the courtyard and watched it carefully, and then nodded with some satisfaction.

Xu Changan ran out of the yard several times, wanting to see where his Aunt Zhang next door had gone after eating and why she hadn't come back yet.

With Aunt Zhang's joining, plus these things she bought, isn't the little braised fish still handy?

It's a pity, it's a pity.

His Aunt Zhang couldn't come back for the past two days, and his eldest brother Liu was not there, and the three-story building began to become a little rusty because of the absence of his eldest brother.

Although the little lady was very kind, Xu Changan was not embarrassed to go to her for help, you must know that every time she saw the other party Xu Changan before, she would blush so much that she couldn't speak.

Although Jiang Ming, Hua Rong, Lin Ying, and Yun Wangshu, who is now standing outside his courtyard, are all beautiful people along the way, there are still some things missing compared to the little lady, and there are some things that make people blush.

And Yu Ming's mother Zhang did not go to the city to work in the city to make money to supplement the family as before, she had already locked the two courtyards a few days ago and hid the key in the small hole in the wall.

Zhengyang Festival is the first festival for his son to leave him, a few days ago, the thoughtful Zhang took some food and use out of the city, thinking about sending it to his son before the Zhengyang Festival, and then see if he adapted.

Still thinking that I can call him back, and I won't beat you or scold you in the future, isn't it?

If Xu Changan went to Wanqiu City with Lin Ying yesterday, he might be able to meet the two of them who were reunited with mother and son there, but the tall and strong man made Xu Changan resist, so he didn't dare to go with the other party.

Besides, Xu Changan didn't know about those things, and now he can't wait.

I had no choice but to do it myself, because the poor osmanthus fish was pierced by the strange girl with a stone on its head, so Xu Changan directly chopped off his head when he disemboweled.

Grab two handfuls of dry wood and start a fire to boil the pot.

To Xu Chang'an's surprise, the pot stove that I thought was choking was unusually easy to use. Xu Changan suddenly thought of something, looked at the black sword placed next to him and smiled slightly.

When the braised osmanthus fish was ready, Xu Changan carefully put two bowls of fish meat into the house, and then went to the courtyard to call the girl timidly.

That's right, it was filled with two bowls, which shows that Xu Changan made a stewed fish soup after a while.

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Who's going to make braised fish for you? Just make do with it.

However, Xu Changan didn't dare to say this, he just hoped that the woman in white, who couldn't even tell whether the braised pork was pork or fish, would not know the difference between braised fish and stewed fish soup.

Although Xu Changan faintly felt that even if he complained directly and said those words, the other party would not be angry or have the slightest idea in his heart.

Two bowls of fish soup, Xu Changan sat on the inside, cautiously looking at the girl in white opposite him.

Yun Wangshu looked very seriously, Xu Changan thought that the other party had seen something, and couldn't help but wipe the sweat on his forehead.

However, when Xu Changan took a closer look, he found that the other party was not looking at the fish soup in the bowl, but at his own table.

There were two small holes on the table in front of Yun Wangshu, and her eyes were on them at this time.

Xu Changan remembered that there was another girl sitting in that position last year, and couldn't help but sigh why is there such a big difference between this woman and a woman?

One is quite lazy, making people feel like they can fall asleep while eating, but it's not a cold picture, on the contrary, it's more gentle, happy and angry, and it's quite nice to laugh.

And now, when Xu Changan led her into the city just now, he even felt that it was cool to escape the heat in this big summer, and it seemed that even the sun above his head was no longer so hot on him.

Yun Wangshu frowned slightly, changed the position of the soup bowl, and said, "I don't sit here." ”

Xu Changan didn't dare to relax, because the practice of pretending to be braised fish in fish stew had not been fooled, and he replied a little nervously: "Feel free, feel free, sit anywhere." The table was broken and forgot to fix it. ”

Yun Wangshu still ignored Xu Chang'an, looked at the fish soup in the bowl, frowned slightly again and said, "It's not red." ”

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Does braised fish have to be red?

Xu Changan thought about the wording in his heart, and said while thinking: "This, I think braised should just be a way to cook, not necessarily red." The point of the braised may not be in the red, but in the burning, which I just cooked. ”

When he said these words, even Xu Changan himself was a little embarrassed to open his eyes and say it.

Let's not talk about whether the braised fish is red or not, even if the roasted fish is not close to the pot of stewed fish soup I made.