Chapter Twenty-Three: A Chicken Leg
It's time to eat.
One by one, the little eunuchs carried silver trays, and one by one they came out of the door and placed them neatly on the dining table.
The old eunuch admonished on the side:
"Your hands and feet are sharp, there is an immortal master visiting today, if you dare to slack off, see if the miscellaneous family does not break your legs." ”
One by one, the silver covers that snapped to the plate were opened.
Seeing the food inside, all the little eunuchs were stunned and too frightened to move.
"It's all demons, it's not a little sharp. The old eunuch urged sharply.
"Big ...... Big...... Take a look, this and this, this and this, ......," said a bold man.
"What a fuss, look like you haven't seen the world before, oh my God......"
The old eunuch walked in and took a look, and he also made a big jump, the food on the plate was missing a piece, and the originally boxy pork belly was now three pieces.
The steamed chicken is missing two legs.
The neck of the goose is gone.
"What about desserts? What about the emperor's favorite caramel milk, Ice and Fire Nine Heavens? Why isn't there such a dish?"
The emperor's imperial food has been passed, how can this be good?
There's such a big problem, but I'm going to lose my head.
The big eunuch hurriedly wanted to let the eunuchs go, but while he was talking, the emperor and a Taoist priest walked in with a smile.
"Come on, Dao Chief, try the craftsmanship of my imperial dining room. ”
The emperor pulled the Taoist priest to sit down, turned his head and glanced at the food on the table, and his face changed instantly.
"Little table, what's going on. ”
Seeing that the emperor's face changed, the face of the chief manager of Ouchi changed suddenly, and he knelt down with a plop.
Seeing the big eunuch kneeling, the little eunuchs also hurriedly knelt down, their heads kept hitting the ground, not daring to look up.
"The emperor is angry, angry, I don't know why today, the dishes in this imperial dining room are all served after they are ready, and I don't know .......," the big eunuch hurriedly explained.
"Can there still be a monster? I see that your head wants to move, come on, drag it out and behead me. ”
Talking is like raising your hand to kill the small table.
The big eunuch kowtowed like pounding garlic and shouted for mercy.
As he was talking, a eunuch broke in from outside the door, and the moment he saw the emperor, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and cried out:
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, your treasured wine is somehow empty. ”
"What?" the emperor jumped up from his chair angrily, and many of his treasured wines, which were a hundred years old, were empty.
When the eunuch of the Internal Affairs Office heard this, he only felt that his eyes were black, and he had committed a big sin, and he was afraid that he was really going to move his head.
"Your Majesty is angry. The Taoist priest on the side saw that it was time for him to speak, and hurriedly pulled the emperor's sleeve.
"I believe that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will not harbor evil intentions, so I will do the math and see who did it. ”
The Taoist priest pinched his fingers, and after a while, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Your Majesty, this is a happy event, there are nobles passing by the palace, and my Majesty's loss will be compensated twice as much as my Daomen. ”
"Oh?" The emperor glanced at the Taoist priest playfully, he could make the Daomen bleed profusely, this person was not simple.
"Don't speculate, Your Majesty, after all, this is a matter in the Daomen, and it has nothing to do with the mortal world. ”
The Taoist priest took a sip of tea and looked at it lightly.
The emperor thought about it, nodded lightly, and agreed.
With a wave of his hand, he asked the eunuch to remove the table full of food.
This Taoist priest is the great disciple of the Daomen of the Baosui Country, and he is also the master of the Baosui Country, and his name is Haitong Zhenren.
"I don't know what Haitong Zhenren has to say about the baby stone tire in China. ”
The emperor always seemed to want to hear a sentence or two about the secret of the immortal world from the real person, and he didn't know what he thought in his heart.
"Your Majesty, the poor road has long said that the baby can be obtained if there is a fate, it is the foundation of the country to protect the year, if there is a fate to break the stone fetus, continue to stay in the country of the year, can ensure the prosperity of the country, if this person leaves, the country will be overthrown. It's a pity that this thing has nothing to do with Your Majesty, you are already the Ninety-Five, so why should you be greedy for things outside the party?"
Haitong Zhenren originally had a square face, but he was quite serious when he was serious.
"Immortal Master, didn't you say before that changing the name of the country can bless me and keep the country prosperous? Why do you ...... it now?" When the emperor heard that the country was about to fall, he was inevitably a little unhappy in his heart.
"Your Majesty, according to the stone fetus is the foundation of the country, the original stone fetus grew from the ground, can bless the longevity of the centenarian country, the natural prosperity of the country, but the old king has to dig out the stone fetus, the foundation is broken, the domestic population is withered, the life expectancy is greatly reduced, and the name of the hundred-year-old country can not afford to bear the name of the hundred-year-old country, so he has to change the name. ”
Haitong Zhenren took a sip of water and continued:
"But now Your Majesty is going to break the stone fetus again, and the poor road is worried about the ...... of the country's fortunes."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the emperor,
"Yes, yes, I was abrupt. Come to real people, drink and drink. ”
The emperor took out a pot of good wine, and the big eunuch on the side poured it for Haitong Zhenren with great eyes.
"Your Majesty, please also ask for forgiveness, poor monks who have attained the Tao are not allowed to drink alcohol, and there are still mundane things to deal with in the poor monks' Taoist temples, so they will retire. ”
As he spoke, Haitong Zhenren drank all the tea in the cup, smiled at the emperor, got up and walked out of the main hall, waved his hand, and flew away into a puff of green smoke.
"Your Majesty. The big eunuch looked at the emperor with an iron face and asked cautiously.
The emperor pushed all the flasks and glasses on the table to the ground.
"Immortals, immortals, what the immortals say, I don't believe it, what country is prosperous, the country will be overthrown, I am the king here, and I have the final say in my country. ”
With bloodshot eyes in him, he roared gloomily, his nails constantly buckled against the sandalwood table, marking one after another.
"Get down, I'm alone. With a wave of his hand, the great eunuch also stepped back.
The emperor was the only one left in the living room, and his eyes were gloomy and he didn't know what to think.
......
Sun Ye walked out of the imperial city incognito, and it was already afternoon.
"Why haven't you seen the baby, and I don't know where it is?"
Sun Ye thought in his heart that if this baby couldn't help him open the seventh orifice, it would be better to leave earlier.
"Let's find a place to stay. ”
Looking at the busy crowd of pedestrians coming and going, I was in a trance for a while.
"Big brother, big brother, are you a foreigner?"
A little girl with two tugging grabbed Sun Ye's sleeve.
"Hey, big brother, why do you still have golden hair. ”
The little girl asked innocently.
Sun Ye looked down, and the child's big eyes were full of young hope.
Reaching out and picking it up, he asked:
"How do you know that the big brother is from out of town. ”
"Big brother, the locals don't stop on the street for so long, and besides, you're wearing different clothes than ours. ”
It is true that Sun Ye is wearing the clothes of a scholar, and none of the scholars who came to Baosui Country have anything serious to do.
"Big brother, don't you know where to stay, as long as you give me five cents, I will take you to the cheapest inn. ”
The little girl stretched out five fingers, put them in front of her eyes, and looked at Sun Ye seriously.
The five fingers were dirty, small, thin, and looked malnourished.
"This ......." Sun Ye couldn't bear to deceive the little girl with the fake money he conjured.
"Big brother gave you this, can you take big brother there?"
Sun Ye took out an oiled paper bag from his arms, and when he opened it, a chicken leg was lying in the center.
Originally, Sun Ye's unfinished chicken thighs were thought of wrapping up and eating them another day.
The little girl lowered her head, bit her fingers, her eyes were full of desire to eat, swallowed her saliva, and said:
"Big brother, I can't do it, I can buy three buns for five yuan, my brother hasn't eaten yet, otherwise, I only need four yuan. ”
The little girl seemed to have made up her mind that if she could get four pennies, she would have to give them to those gangsters, and the remaining two cents would be enough to sell three buns, and my brother would have two and I would have one.
Suddenly, a little boy ran from nowhere, and pulled the little girl out of Sun Ye's arms.
"Sir, my sister is not sensible, let's do this. . He snatched the oiled paper bag, folded it neatly, and carefully put it inside his sister's clothes.
Whispered to the little girl:
"A chicken leg costs thirty yuan. Don't talk, listen to my brother. ”
The little girl's eyes widened, and her hands tightly covered the oiled paper bag on her chest.
"Sir, I'll take you there. ”
The little boy smiled and took his sister ahead to lead the way.
How could Sun Ye be deceived by all this? He just smiled slightly, he didn't expect that there were also poor people in the human world.
The monsters eat the weak, but there are very few things that go hungry.