Night, deep.

North of the Tang Dynasty, the northernmost territory.

There is an important town of garrison, named "Beimangguan". This name can also be pronounced backwards as "Guanbei Mang".

As the name suggests, it is the 80 million miles of territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the first checkpoint to reject the north is those who are in the north.

Over the years, the number of garrisons here has never been less than one million, and the annual military salary is said to be enough to feed the people of a region. However, it has been twenty years since the city was founded, but it has never been unsheathed once, and it has never been glued to a drop of enemy blood. Even, the shadow of the enemy, which no one has ever seen...

tonight

The snow here is heavy and the city for thousands of miles is full of recklessness. Except for the torches lit on the city walls, there is no other color to be seen here. Snow flakes the size of goose feathers connect the world here, endlessly. This endless interlacing of black and white can easily make people feel an inexplicable loneliness from the bottom of their hearts.

In the sky, the snow clouds are even higher.

Silently, a blue light streaked by.

It was a small blue bird, with a transparent and crystalline plumage, only the size of four fingers. The speed is so fast that when the blue light can be seen, it is thousands of miles away, leaving only a scratched cloud mark...

And at this time,

The bird is as high as the ground. Coupled with the terrifying speed, it shouldn't have been noticed.

However, this does not seem to be the case.

At the moment when the blue light flashed. In the North Mangguan, the highest palace...

The lights are on.

......

Datang is 70 million miles north outside the country...

North Boundless, Far North.

Henggu glacier does not melt for 10,000 years. The hard ice stones, like countless blades of cold light, stand on this desolate and boundless land.

There is no sun or moon, no stars, only eternal daylight and a blue sky that is never cloudless. And a corner is always full of spring green mountains and green waters.

It was a small valley.

A radius of more than ten miles, surrounded by green mountains on all sides, crisp and green, all of them are hundred-year-old locust trees. A clear spring stream flows down from the mountains to the east, all the way through the small villages below.

The hamlet is really a hamlet. The village is small, hundreds of feet up and down, and there are more than 100 households. All of them are yellowstone mud walls, blue brick tile roofs, along seven two-zhang wide blue brick paths, relatively located. Seven trails stretch out again, converging at the entrance of the village, forming a blue brick avenue, leading directly to the green hills...

Outside the green mountain, on the side of the road crossing, a statue of seven feet and seven feet high, the whole body is dark outside the strange stone, the water chestnut angle is distinct, and it stands detached. On the huge stone body, the word "wild grass" is written...

It looks like blood and red, like a flood of ancient times, and is shaped like a crouching tiger, hidden dragon.

"Summer Village"

......

"Bang Bang..."

The blue light from the south slowed down, and the phantom turned into a blue bird again, flapping its little wings, and flew into the village along the blue brick road...

The smoke is misty, the wind is clear and cold.

Still quiet.

It seems that this extraterrestrial "guest" is just a normal homecoming, and it has not caused much reaction.

The mountain stream is quiet, the locust leaves are waving lightly, and the cloudless blue clear sky is like a paradise with no contention. It feels like all mundane things, as long as they come here, they will become a thing of the past...

For a long time, for a long time.

It's about a quarter long...

The quiet village finally has some movement.

But it's a small, small movement...

It was just a village house, and behold, a door opened, and a figure stepped out...

It's a towering figure.

Seven feet high and two feet wide, like an iron tower. Behind him, he carried a large blue cloth wrap on his back. The package is so big, even as tall as his whole person. It's bulging, and I don't know what it's holding.

dyspepsia

This figure can only be described in this one word.

A maroon cotton coat, sloppy, was worn on his body. The two exposed arms, the muscles are knotted, and the green tendons are like python plates. The face is thick and eyebrows, unkempt, a withered grass in his mouth, two walnut eyes, full of the ruffian spirit of the market scoundrel...

This demeanor is almost like a person...

Xiahou!

Even, the figure-eight steps he is walking casually now are almost exactly the same as Xiahou's charm...

However, there are some differences.

That is, hurry!

He walks faster!

10000 times faster! 10,000 times faster!

I saw that careless step out, and this majestic figure had gone straight for more than a thousand feet. In just a few steps, he had already walked out of the green mountains and disappeared into the vast glacier...

There was no trace of it again.

"Bang Bang..."

people, it didn't take long,

The blue bird that had just flown into the village also followed closely and flew out of the village...

As it had come, it flapped its wings and soared into the sky, then dissolved into a blue light and disappeared into the sky.

Quietly...

From beginning to end, whether it comes or goes, the appearance of this person and a bird has never disturbed the slightest trace here.

The quiet village is still peaceful.

The days of the wind and the sun seem to continue...

But is that really the case?

"Crack... Crack..."

Yueyang City, ask Tianshan, the bright moon is in the sky, and the night is quiet.

Inside the building, the open-air kitchen is in full swing and noisy.

Two figures...

"Crack... Crack..."

"Wow... Twss..."

"Well, you can't fry, do you?"

"No, that's it..."

"But it's easy to burn. ”

"Isn't that not scorched yet?"

"Oh... But if it's burned, it's wasted. ”

"With me, I'm not afraid ......"

"But ......"

Four stoves, blazing fires. Four cauldrons, stuffy, fried, stir-fried, stewed, are even more different. Xia Xun held a three-foot spoon in his hand, running from place to place, back and forth between the four fierce fires. Sometimes I grab the pot and stir-fry, sometimes I season the spoon, and the one who is so busy is sweating profusely, but I enjoy it.

Peony was not idle, with a small apron around her neck, holding a small kitchen knife, and following Xia Xun. According to the instructions he gave from time to time, add firewood to the fire, chop vegetables and cut meat. Just as sweaty, just as happy.

As for the other one, the Cao Pavilion Master who was supposed to be standing aside, was missing at this time.

Without him...

Just because, these two little vixens are too annoying. The excuses are even more annoying.

Didn't eat!

The one who comes is a guest, and no matter how evil the guest is, it is also a guest. Besides, it's still a lovesick?

Since the visitor has been tossing for a day, he has not yet eaten. Of course, the peony should be invited, eat a meal, and then leave. Such a number of courtesies seems so natural. Who would dare to say that this is vexatious?

It's just that now that the night has entered the third watch, the restaurants and canteens have long been closed. If you want to eat, where will you get the food, can you eat?

Heh, is that the problem?

Necessarily not.

For two extremely smart young men and women, the first question and the first moment of spiritual contact. This, the road behind, has already been paved logically.

Since there is no food to eat, then let's cook and eat by ourselves, this is always okay, right? Anyway, I still have a good cookbook in my hand today, what kind of dishes to cook, just flip through it...

But, but, again. However, is this cooking really just cooking?

I don't know if I don't do this, and I have to be shocked when I do it.

This meal is a hundred and ten times more cumbersome than the imperial kitchen in the palace. The ingredients should be carefully selected, the size is not enough, and the fat and thin are not allowed. The ingredients should have good color and fragrance, no more than one or two, and no shade. As for the workmanship, it is even more speechless, you cook the food, these two people have to carve the dish, the carved one is called beautiful and exquisite, and it is beautiful to say "This is beautiful and beautiful".

As a result, after a round of tossing and turning, the two of them went from the third watch to the fourth watch. In the end, even the fire didn't burn yet...

Is this cooking? Or is it a play of tenderness? Who can't see it at this moment?

It's because I can see it, so I can't stand it.

In a fit of anger, the Cao Dage Master, who was sitting on the side to prevent the two from doing wrong, was so angry that he threw his hands away...

Had to go...

If he didn't leave, he really didn't know if he couldn't help but slaughter this terrible kid.

It is called, out of sight, but pure.

"You can rest assured, this pine nut fish has to be fried with fierce fire, and the fish bones are fried dry, so that it can be crispy..."

"Tsk..."

Xia Xun scooped up some pine nuts and put them in the fried oil pot. A burst of crispy fragrance, three points of fresh fish, seven points of meat.

"Add a fire to the stove where the pig's trotters are steamed, and stir with some ginger and shallots..."

"How much ginger and shallots should I put down?"

"It's good to be a little two, don't put too much..."

"En...," Peony replied as she lifted the lid of the pot, picked up some chopped green onions, and gently put them in.

"The hooves are almost medium-rare, so you can get oyster sauce..."

With his back to the peony, Xia Xun waved his hand: "Don't be in a hurry, wait until it's cooked, and then it's better." ”

Peony turned her little head sideways, as if puzzled: "But when I used to watch the knife master make hooves, he always said that you have to boil slowly to get the flavor..."

Xia Xun smiled proudly: "Hehe... That's not right... His old cooking is a small family meal, and although it tastes tender, it lacks that chewiness. How can it compare to the smoldering crispness of my fierce fire?"

"Oh......"

Peony nodded her head as if she didn't understand: "It turns out that there is still such a statement..."

Then, she closed the lid, picked up some dry wood from the ground, threw it into the stove, and said with a chuckle: "Then, according to what you say, the braised pig's trotters we are making now will be better than the knife master?"

Even more proud: "Of course..."

"Hehe...", laughing, and covered his mouth with his slender hands: "You haven't eaten the hooves made by the knife master, how do you know that it will be better..."

"Whoa, whoop..."

Xia Xun walked to another stove, stir-fried the fairy shells in the iron pot a few times, and sprinkled some peppercorns and star anise: "Don't think I'm bragging... What we do now is an old craft that has been lost for many years, and that's not something that ordinary chefs can make..."

"Uh..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Xun was suddenly stunned, and the hand in charge of stir-frying also stopped.

There is resentment!

Xia Xun's divine sense could clearly feel that there was an aura, and he was walking towards this side in the scripture building four hundred zhang away!

"The knife master you just mentioned is the person from the day before yesterday, right?" Xia Xun slowly turned his face sideways and looked at Peony in surprise.

Stunned...

“......”

Peony was a little confused by Xia Xun's abrupt words. Immediately afterward, the confusion quickly turned into embarrassment. Needless to say, the answer is already obvious...

It didn't take long for Peony to nod in embarrassment.

"Well, what's wrong?"

Didn't answer the question. Xia Xun turned his eyes to look at the silent and dark scripture building. There, it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen. However, his eyes at this time showed a look of surprise.

"It seems that he doesn't just like to peep, he likes to eavesdrop..."

“......”

If you have a heart, you can understand it at one point.

Xia Xun's words, Peony didn't need to think much to know the meaning of the words.

Following his gaze, he looked at the dark lobby of the scripture building...

"He's around?"

"It's already here..."

“......”