Chapter 42: Insecurity
It's a good sign to see you early in the morning.
Zhang Yi didn't know at this time that before the big test began, he was already destined to be the personal disciple of the sect master of the Immortal Fu Sect.
Any trade-offs, based on present and future considerations, will not stop the true love.
Love and hatred are originally the most fiery emotions in the world.
"She's really more vicious and difficult to deal with than we thought. ”
Jing Liulile stopped the carriage and said slowly to Ding Ning, a chill flashed in his originally serious eyes.
She heard the cat's scream, she didn't need to see it, she knew what was going on in the courtyard by perception alone.
"It's a bad thing for the cat. ”
Ding Ning shook his head helplessly, "Originally, I wanted to take it to the ink garden to keep it well." ”
Jing Liuli turned her head and looked at him with a slight frown, not knowing if he was telling the truth or saying it casually.
"Since she was so difficult and someone helped us, the plan was to change. Ding Ning ignored her gaze, lowered his head and muttered, "Let's go to the south of the city." ”
Jing Liuli nodded, glanced at the direction, and began to catch the car, while asking softly, "What are you doing in the south of the city?"
Ding Ning said: "Go find her old lover." ”
Jing Liuli raised her eyebrows and said, "Didn't you say you wouldn't touch him first?"
Ding Ning was silent for a moment and said: "Zheng Sleeve is ruthless, but in fact, she is very tolerant, and the only thing she can't tolerate is that someone has taken possession of her private property." ”
Jing Liuli turned her head to look at Ding Ning and said, "Why do you know the queen so well?"
Ding Ning said: "Don't be too biased, as for why I know her, you will know in the future." ”
Jing Liuli frowned and thought for a while, and said, "You said that what she can't tolerate the most is to take possession of her private property, what does this have to do with our going to see this palace maid's old lover in advance?"
Ding Ning looked at her back and said calmly: "Overstepping her authority also means using her private property, and calling a cultivator without her permission is also taking possession of her private property, and even if the cultivator who is called dies because it is not her will, it is something she cannot tolerate." The palace maid surnamed Rong can follow Zheng Sleeve for so many years, it is impossible to secretly swallow some cultivation treasures that are useful to Zheng Sleeve or conceal some information, and she will definitely not dare. But she is a talkative person next to Zheng Sleeve, and everyone in Changling knows that her status is actually above most court officials, and sometimes she only needs to express a little attitude when she wants to do something. So after so many years, she will definitely make some mistakes inadvertently because of her power. Intentionally, maybe not... But unintentionality is inevitable. Her old lover and her for so many years, must know a lot of things about her. ”
Jing Liuli thought carefully with a slightly gloomy face, and said, "What you said is very reasonable, but even if her old lover knows, why would she tell you? ”
"You're thinking in the wrong direction, and the sword is often the last resort. Ding Ning said softly: "Since even the rest of the queen's side knows that this palace maid is actually just as ruthless, then her old lover won't know it." Human feelings, a momentary love may blind the eyes, but after a long time, it will naturally become rational, and it will naturally be easy to see the nature. Even if her old lover really liked her at the beginning, when she really saw her clearly, I am afraid that they used and relied on each other mostly. ”
"Insecurity. ”
After a pause, Ding Ning looked at her back and said seriously: "He will have insecurity, and what we want to take advantage of is his insecurity." ”
"The sword is often the last resort... In his own sect, he can't use his sword casually at any time. Jing Liuli lowered her eyelids, thinking about the sword that her master in the Minshan Sword Club almost killed under the nose of Emperor Yuanwu, and said slowly: "Follow you, there are indeed gains from time to time." ”
Ding Ning looked at her and said softly, "I just hope I won't lead you astray." ”
Jing Liuli said coldly: "The route is born, the wrong way is not the wrong way, even if you leave, you can't complain about others." ”
Ding Ning didn't say anything more, just nodded to the front: "Turn right on the avenue ahead." ”
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Changling is very large, and the carriage passes through the streets and alleys, and it is impossible to be very fast.
So even if Ding Ning was referring to the nearest road, it wasn't until noon that the carriage driven by Jing Liuli arrived at a tea plantation in the southern suburbs of the city.
The tea plantations are not on the hillside, but are planted next to mulberry fields next to a river port.
Those tea leaves seem to be fat, but in the eyes of many wealthy tea-loving people, they may not be worth mentioning.
Therefore, these tea leaves are often picked at random, and they are fried casually and sold to some roadside tea shops regardless of the season.
Especially the big bowl of tea shops on both sides of the official road, the more coarse the taste, the more it can appear to have a tea taste, and a bowl of herbal tea also makes those who settle down quench their thirst.
The people in the tea garden are also good at making the most of their own production, so when Ding Ning and Jing Liuli arrived at this tea garden, a refreshing tea fragrance mixed with the aroma of oil wafted from a bamboo house inside.
Ding Ning snorted, smiled slightly, and said, "Old tea simmers old goose." ”
Jing Ruri glanced at him and didn't say anything.
"Eat first. ”
Ding Ning smiled, and then didn't let her walk in front, and walked straight to the bamboo house.
A simple stove is piled up in a stone pit outside the bamboo house.
On the stove was a swarthy iron pot with a chopped old goose boiling in it. The old goose has been boiled for a long time, mixed with some coarse tea leaves, the soup is like sauce, shiny with oil, but the oil and water seem to have been absorbed by the tea leaves, and it doesn't look greasy.
A middle-aged man in plain clothes with a long figure is sprinkling garlic onions in turn, making the final seasoning.
Looking at Ding Ning and Jing Liuli who walked straight away, feeling the breath of these two people, he couldn't help but look pale and stagnate slightly.
"Eat. ”
Ding Ning didn't say any nonsense, and just said these two words, so he took two wooden stools from one side, took two pairs of chopsticks from the table on one side, took some water and flushed them, and then sat down in front of the middle-aged man, put out rice in a crockpot next to him, and after serving a bowl for himself and Jing Liuli, he picked up the bowl that the middle-aged man had already put aside, and also helped him fill a bowl.
Looking at all these actions of Ding Ning, the middle-aged man only frowned slightly, but did not stop him.
It wasn't until Ding Ning took a piece of goose meat and ate it that the middle-aged man asked politely, "How does it taste?"
"It's not as seasoning as the chefs outside, but it's a different flavor. Ding Ning smiled and said, "The most important thing is that this goose is a real old goose." ”
The middle-aged man's face softened, and he no longer spoke, but just ate with vegetables.
After a bowl, I looked at the crockpot that had bottomed out and asked, "Do you want to cook some more rice?"
"It's fine. Talk about something while cooking. ”
Ding Ning nodded, looked at the middle-aged man who had always been gentle and polite, and said, "No wonder the palace maid Rong has been like to come to you for so many years, you are indeed a little unusual." Regardless of what she means to come and go, she is casual and peaceful, which will indeed make people like her who have too many things on her heart feel comfortable. ”
The middle-aged man had already begun to wash rice with clean water, and listening to Ding Ning's words, some shocked emotions began to appear in his eyes, "Are you Ding Ning?"
Ding Ning bowed slightly and said, "It's Ding Ning of the Aries Cave." ”
The middle-aged man took a deep breath and continued to wash rice, while putting a handful of washed wild vegetables into the pot of stewed old goose, and said with some hesitation: "Actually, why do you have to do it so badly?"
"She did it so first. Ding Ning looked at the middle-aged man, regained his usual calm, and said, "Even if she just let Old Man Xue see the final result, I wouldn't be so desperate now." ”
The middle-aged man skillfully put down the iron pot, let the temperature of the iron pot cook the wild vegetables that had just been put in, put the clay pot containing rice on the stone stove, and said sincerely: "But it is useless for you to find me, even if you kill me, it will be of no use." ”
"You should be more important to her than her cat. ”
Ding Ning shook his head, added a piece of firewood to the stove hole, and looked at the new fire, he continued: "I just showed some thoughts about dealing with her cat, so she ordered to kill the cat directly. ”
The middle-aged man sat down and fell silent.
"Now the question is, do you think she will do whatever it takes to ensure that you are not harmed by me?" Ding Ning looked at the silent middle-aged man and said calmly: "If you think you will, then you can stand firmly on her side." ”
Looking at the middle-aged man who was still silent, Ding Ning paused for a few breaths, and then asked seriously: "If I don't do anything today, just eat two more bowls of rice from you, and then leave here, do you think she will feel that nothing has happened between you and me?"