Chapter 53: Lamenting in vain
[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, March 14, noon, Tsing Yi Weibei Anping Division]
At this time, it was noon, and it was time for lunch under the public gate. In the Tsing Yi Guard, almost everyone walked out of their place of duty and walked outside the gate to find a comfortable restaurant to solve the needs of their spleen and stomach. The warm sun of early spring shone on people's hearts and was very comfortable, and the guards yawned a few times from time to time, and stretched their waists, and most of them looked very pleasant.
The grass in several courtyards in Tsing Yi Wei is growing densely, and a few plum and peach trees have bloomed buds, and the fragrance of flowers and plants is wafting in the wind. The guards walked by the flowers and plants, but they had no intention of smelling the flowers and enjoying the scenery. I saw a figure as strong as a mountain, walking towards them.
The guards who went out on duty, when they saw the woman walking like a mountain, hurriedly avoided to the side. If it was a guard in the Bei'an Ping Division, he couldn't help but bow down and salute, and said respectfully: "Miss Nangong is here!"
The person who came was Nangong Buyu's sister Nangong Wuhua. She was in a good mood today, so she specially made more than a dozen side dishes for her brother that he loved to eat, and brought Tsing Yi Wei from home while it was hot.
Nangong Wuhua jumped all the way, humming a brisk little song in her mouth, as long as she thought of it, after a while, she could see the "Brother Xu Ke" that she had always thought about, and her heart was like eating honey, extremely sweet......
It's just that when Nangong Wuhua jumped, the surrounding flowers and trees all trembled and moved, and even the guards who walked past her heard the sound of the earth moving, and their hearts trembled.
Seeing that the door of her brother's thousand-household office was open, Nangong Wuhua stepped in, but when she saw the scene in front of her, she couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.
At this moment, I saw a gorgeously dressed young woman, holding her sweetheart's arm, and calling "Brother Xu Ke" one by one......
What's even more infuriating is her brother Xu Ke, who just let the gorgeous girl drag his arm, instead of pushing the gorgeous girl away, he "half pushes and half pushes", looking very enjoyable!
The bright girl with bright eyes and bright teeth and red lips actually dragged a man's arm so "shamelessly", and called herself "Xiaoqi" ...... delicately!
Seeing this, Nangong Wuhua was angry and jealous in her heart, she immediately walked to Xu Ke's side, pushed Li Qi's hand away, and scolded angrily:
"You thin woman, let him go!"
This time, everyone in the hall had different expressions.
When Li Qi saw such a mountain-like woman standing in front of her, she was three points surprised and seven points curious, and she couldn't help but be surprised.
Xu Ke secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he said in his heart, Wuhua, no matter what, I want to thank you today without illness! If I am dragged to see Murong Huan like this, I really don't know how to face him!
Nangong hurriedly stood up without saying a word, and said to his sister:
This is the seventeenth princess of the current emperor, Princess Lingyu, don't come forward to pay respects!"
"She's ...... Princess?" Nangong Wuhua couldn't help but widen her eyes, and she was inexplicably surprised. It's just that although her eyes have widened at this time, there is too much fat on her face, and she immediately squeezes her eyes back, so no one can see the surprised look on her face.
Nangong Buyu had already walked quickly to his sister's side, he pulled Nangong Wuhua aside, whispered a few words, and hurriedly turned to Li Qi to apologize:
"Her Royal Highness the Princess, this is the sister Wuhua, she has been spoiled by me since she was a child, she has always been ignorant of etiquette, today the princess is sudden, and I hope that Her Royal Highness the princess is not strange!"
"It's nothing!" Li Qi waved his hand and said with a smile: "Isn't it strange for those who don't know!"
Li Qi looked at Nangong Wuhua and then at Nangong silent, and couldn't help but smile and asked, "Are you two really brothers and sisters?" Why does one look so thin and the other look so strong?"
"This ...... Xu is my sister usually eats more......" Nangong was silent, looking a little embarrassed, and said nemesly.
"Hmph!" I didn't want to, Nangong Wuhua behind me actually stepped forward and retorted loudly: "I've just grown fatter, so what's wrong? Fat people, aren't they good-looking? Isn't it just like you are as thin as a bamboo pole, so you can call it good-looking? Brother, you say...... Am I good-looking?"
"Good-looking...... Nangong replied habitually without saying a word. Just because of his sister's question, he has been asked countless times, but no matter which time, Nangong's silent answer is always the word "good-looking". Even if he tried his best to offend Princess Lingyu at this time, he was still reluctant to change his words, but the look on his face at the moment was naturally even more embarrassed and embarrassed.
"And ......" Nangong Wuhua took the food box in her hand and put it on the table, and took out more than a dozen delicate side dishes from the food box...... There is also this plate of lotus leaf steamed pork, which has to be the lotus leaf in the south of the Yangtze River, and it needs to be the green lotus in early spring......"
Nangong was silent and anxious and embarrassed, he waved his hand to his sister again and again, telling her not to say it again, but Nangong Wuhua was chattering, where would he stop? !
At this moment, in Nangong Wuhua's eyes, fiddling with these dishes that she is good at is more important than taking care of the princess's face.
It's just that when she cooks every dish, she has to think of that handsome figure in her mind. He seemed to come from the sun, his curved eyebrows, bright eyes, and straight nose seemed to merge with the golden sunlight, which shone on her and on her soft heart. All she had to think of was this handsome figure, with its curved eyebrows, bright eyes, and straight nose...... The heart is warm and crispy, and it is extremely comfortable. She carefully laid out the dishes on the table one by one. She wanted to look at that handsome figure and eat the delicacies she cooked for him, and then smiled at her and said softly: "Sister Wuhua, the dishes you cook are really delicious......
At this time, Li Qi just smiled indifferently, she saw that although Nangong Wuhua was rude, she saw that her behavior was also quite cute, and she didn't think it was a pestle. She saw that Nangong Wuhua kept talking, so she didn't want to hear more, and at that moment, she grabbed Xu Ke's arm again, and said softly:
"Brother Xu Ke, good brother, you can come with me!"
Xu Ke sighed, and had to follow Li Qi slowly to the door.
At this time, everyone in the room suddenly heard a few "Kuang Tangtang" sounds, and Nangong Wuhua had already knocked all those delicate dishes to the ground.
"Uh......h Woo ...... "Somehow, Nangong Wuhua not only knocked down all the dishes she had carefully cooked, but also cried loudly in this official room. Moreover, the more she cried, the more fiercely she cried, as if she was going to collapse the whole office......
"Sister, what's the matter with you? What's the matter...... Let's go home and talk, okay?" Nangong walked behind Nangong Wuhua without saying a word, patted her back gently, and comforted her softly.
In his memory, every time his sister cried sadly, he would walk up like this, gently pat her back, gently comfort her softly, and every time, after he comforted her, her sister could always stop crying, slowly stop grief, and sometimes, even burst into laughter......
But this time, Nangong Wuhua suddenly shook off her brother's gentle arm, strode up to Xu Ke in front of her, separated Li Qi again and dragged Xu Ke's arm, and yelled at Xu Ke:
"I know why you don't like me anymore!"
"......" Xu Ke and Li Qi couldn't help but look at each other in amazement.
"You...... You're in love with this princess, aren't you? You don't want me to be a colt, do you Chinese?"
"I've liked you for so long, and I brought you so many good dishes to eat today, ...... You're ...... for her I won't even taste a bite of food!...... Woo......"
Nangong Wuhua roared loudly, and at the same time cried loudly, her voice rushed straight up, as if even the roof tiles on the roof had been overturned by this sound.
"Uh......h Woo ......" crying to the extreme, Nangong Wuhua couldn't help but cover her face, snatched the door away, and far away, the three of them could still hear her crying and went straight to the gate of Tsing Yiwei.
Leaving Li Qi and Xu Ke standing still, they didn't know what to do for a while.
Xu Ke scratched his forehead, and there was a sigh in his heart!
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Almost at the same time, in the Deyue Building in the main square of the northeast road of Chang'an City, in the lobby on the first floor, there were two people sitting opposite each other on a small square table in the corner of the window.
One of these two people was carrying a slender sword five feet long, he looked about forty years old, with three locks of slender beards on his face, and his long hair was silver-white. Sitting opposite him was a slender young girl, naturally his ninth sister, Mao Jiaojiao, known as "He Alloy Fairy".
Lu Huoli took a bite of fresh and crispy vegetables, put them in his mouth and chewed them slowly, he said to Mao Jiaojiao while eating the vegetables:
"Ninth sister, the second brother has a sentence, I don't know if I should say it or not?"
"Second brother, if you have anything to say, just say it!" Mao Jiaojiao doesn't like to be a vegetarian, she specializes in fish and shrimp, she took a plate of Deyuelou's famous dish "Steamed Weishui Big Carp", and was eating it well, seeing that Lu Huoli suddenly had this question, she immediately replied.
Lu Huoli said: "Ninth sister, can't you stop your cultivation of the 'Law of Harmony'?"
Mao Jiaojiao sneered and said, "What...... The second brother is angry! The ninth sister's 'art of harmony' has been cultivated since she was a child, and the essence in those men's bodies belongs to Yuanyang, which is a great supplement that I have made a lot of. The second brother knows, the ninth sister has been weak since she was a child, and the master said that the yin qi in my body is too heavy, and I have to import the essence of those men!"
Lu Huoli said unhappily: "You can't use other methods to absorb their essence, you have to use your 'harmony technique'?"
Mao Jiaojiao said with a bitter face: "Second brother, you know, if the men are not in Xing, where does the essence in their bodies come from? If it is not for the 'Harmony Technique', how do you tell the little sister to absorb their essence?"
Lu Huoli took a sip of the five-year-old "Fenyang Drunk", and said disapprerovingly: "Your third sister never uses any 'harmony technique', she doesn't still ingest the Yuanyang essence in these people?!"
"Oops!" Mao Jiaojiao said with a smile: "The third sister is the third sister, the little sister is the little sister, how can the little sister learn the means of the third sister?"
Lu Huoli said: "I think, you don't want to learn the third sister's kung fu, right?"
Mao Jiaojiao couldn't help but look at the four sides of the restaurant in a panic, and after making sure that there was no suspicious person beside her, she said: "Second brother, can you stop talking about the third sister......!
Lu Huoli took a few mouthfuls of green vegetables and bean sprouts in a row, put them in his mouth and chewed them slowly, he shook his head and said:
"What is there to be afraid of the third sister, look at the scare you like this!"
"Oh, second brother, you still say, if you mention the third sister again, I won't eat with you!" Mao Jiaojiao said.
"Okay, okay! Second brother don't say it, don't say it's okay! Ninth sister, eat vegetables, eat vegetables, don't just eat this plate of carp, there is a dish of shrimp here, you can try it too!" Seeing that Mao Jiaojiao was a little angry, Lu Huoli hurriedly changed his words and persuaded the dishes one by one.
"Well, it's better for the second brother to treat me!" Mao Jiaojiao grinned again, and immediately snatched the plate of "chicken juice anchovy shrimp", stretched out her hand and grabbed a large handful of small red shrimp on the plate, grabbed them all in her mouth, and swallowed them one by one without spitting out the shrimp skin.
"You eat slowly, the second brother doesn't like these fish and shrimp, it's all yours!"
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On this day, there are not many diners in the Deyue Building, except for the private room on the second floor, the business is still good, and in the lobby on the first floor, there are only dozens of tables of guests. The shopkeeper of the Deyue Building has not slept well in the past few days, and seeing that the business in the restaurant is not getting worse day by day, he can't help but feel a little sad.
At this time, Lu Huoli and Mao Jiaojiao sat in front of the window, drinking and chatting at will, Lu Huoli even brought some fish and shrimp in front of him from time to time in front of Mao Jiaojiao, outsiders said that this is a father and daughter, seeing Lu Huoli's expression full of kindness and care, some diners can't help but envy Mao Jiaojiao, and say that she has such a father who loves her. There are also some diners who see that Mao Jiaojiao is extremely beautiful, and they can't help but envy Lu Huojiao, and say in their hearts that this old man has such a charming daughter, why worry about food and clothing in the future?
No one could have guessed that these two people who looked like a father and daughter, one was actually the "Flowing Frost Sword Immortal" who was famous throughout the rivers and lakes, and the other "He Alloy Immortal" was not under the fame of the elder brother. Now that all industries in Chang'an City are in a depression, the people are too scared to go out, most of which is due to these two people.
"It's coming!" At this moment, the shopkeeper personally carried a plate of "fried venison with shrimp" that had just come out of the pot and came to Lu Huoli's table.
Today, there are not many diners in the restaurant, and the shopkeeper has nothing to do, so he sees that Lu Huoli often comes to take care of the restaurant's business, so that he can serve the food himself, as a sign of special care for this regular customer.
"Guest officer, this is the famous dish of the shop, 'fried venison with shrimp', please use it slowly!" the shopkeeper greeted him politely.
When Lu Huoli saw the steaming venison, he immediately changed color and said, "Whoever asked you to serve this dish, take it!"
"This ...... This is a free gift from the shop, and the guest officer often comes to take care of the business of the shop, so today the shop specially sent a famous dish to the guest officer......"
"I don't want to eat it, take it quickly!" Lu Huoli looked at the plate of "Fried Venison with Shrimp" and was steaming hot, and he felt sick to his stomach for a while, waved his hand again and again, and said sharply.
"Yes, yes!" The shopkeeper hurriedly took away the plate of "fried venison with shrimp" that had just been put down, and he also said that Lu Huoli was not used to eating wild meat, so he hurriedly apologized:
"The shop doesn't know the taste of the guest officer, and offended the guest officer, and I hope that the guest officer Haihan! The store will immediately make another 'green silk tofu brain' for the guest officer, and the guest officer will be treated less, and the guest officer will be treated less!"
The shopkeeper walked away with the plate, Mao Jiaojiao couldn't help laughing and said:
"Second brother, what are you doing? It's just a plate of venison, if you don't eat it, give it to me!"