Three Kingdoms: From Yinlin to Great Wei Xiongzhu

Chapter 323 Xiao Qiao: Sister, I seem to be in trouble

Xu Capital City, a bustling bazaar.

Today's Xu Capital City has quite the style of the former Luoyang Imperial Capital.

There are traffickers yelling at Dongshi to sell slaves;
There are all kinds of rare things that have never been seen in West Market;
Some Tianzhu entertainers appeared in Nanshi to entertain, including rare camels and rare melons and fruits transported through the Silk Road;
The old street in Beishi is a paradise for foodies, with countless restaurants that are extremely popular.

Among them, the Weijia mutton soup dumpling restaurant, which Lu Yu cooperated with the Weijia, has a good business...

And the spirits sold by Cao Hong and Taixue are opened here, and there are long queues in front of the stalls every day, and the supply exceeds the demand!
All kinds of private schools see each other...

Xuducheng is full!
The alleys are also bustling with excitement, the brats beckoning dogs and cats to dig out bird eggs... A street fight broke out when there was a disagreement.

Those who win "haha" laugh, and those who lose often shout loudly: My father is xx!
There are even bear children who can't fight their father, and will falsely report: - "My father is Lu Yu!"

As soon as Father Lu came out, all the fathers... were overshadowed!

now…

Xiao Qiao was shopping in the West Market with her maid.

——"This fan is not bad, my husband will be very handsome after wearing it, buy it!"

—— "This jade pendant is also pretty good, it matches your husband's temperament very well, buy it!"

——"By the way, my husband doesn't seem to like to bring sachets, but... almost all court ministers wear them. Let's buy these sachets with a lighter smell and let my husband choose by himself,"

Xiao Qiao's shopping is simply three words - buy!purchase!purchase!

The servant girl followed her, holding a lot of things in her arms, and said with a wry smile: "Miss, I have already bought a lot of things, all of which belong to Mr. Lu, and you didn't buy any of Miss's?"

This maid is Xiao Qiao's personal maid

...incorporated into Si Nong Mansion along with Xiao Qiao.

In ancient times, maidservants and young ladies often grew up together, and their relationship was like sisters. It can be said that in this capital city, among women...except for sister Da Qiao, maidservant and Xiao Qiao are the closest.

Can…

This is the first time that the lady has bought so many things for a man. The point is... She seems to have forgotten even herself, and didn't buy half of the things for herself.

This…

"Ah... is that so?" Xiao Qiao turned her head, looked at the stuff that the maid was carrying, and pouted slightly. "You're right, I also have to buy beautiful clothes. Tomorrow... my husband will be back, so I have to impress him."

what…

The servant girl was taken aback for a moment, she felt... the weight in her hand might be getting heavier.

"Miss...the last time you were in Lujiang, you were in the boudoir...I clearly heard Mr. Lu say...that he likes to see you the most..."

Before the maid could blurt out, Xiao Qiao quickly took a stride and covered her mouth.

you know too much!
It's no wonder that in ancient times, the personal servant girl had a connected bedroom with the aunt and lady, so that she could serve at any time at night, so... it was not surprising that she heard some words between the beds.

"Don't say any more..."

Xiao Qiao blushed, and hurriedly ordered...

The servant girl was speechless, but she pouted. "Obviously...Miss Mingming's waist is what Mr. Lu likes the most, but how can he see it when he's wearing clothes? How can he touch it!"

"To shut up…"

Xiao Qiao covered her mouth again.

what the hell…

How can these words be said to the outside world? Besides, day and night are different!

Xiao Qiao's side was pretty and blushing, but at this moment.

- "boom"

A gong sounded, and then from the entrance of the market, a group of people escorted a sedan chair. The number of people was more than [-] people.
"Stop..."

A high-pitched female voice came out, the sedan chair fell, and a slim and beautiful woman stepped out of the sedan chair.

Xiao Qiao noticed that some of the guards on the side of the sedan chair were dressed as Imperial Forest Army soldiers, and they followed on foot, which showed how luxurious this woman was.

see this scene...

Xiao Qiao whispered curiously: "Such a big shelf? And escorted by the Royal Forest Army, who is it?"

And this time...

The servant girl looked aggressively at the woman getting off the sedan chair. "No wonder it's such a big show, so it's her?"

"Her?" Xiao Qiao asked quickly, "You know her? Who is she?"

Xiao Qiao let out a long sigh. "This is the younger sister of my uncle Dong Cheng, the current Concubine Dong Gui. I heard that...His Majesty has favored her very much recently. Even the driving and etiquette...All allow her to be the same as the queen. Looking at it this way...such a pomp is not bad. exception."

heard...

Xiao Qiao nodded, it turned out to be Concubine Dong Gui...

It's no wonder, recently...no one in the entire Xu capital city knows, no one knows!
His Majesty conferred the title of General Dong Cheng, the uncle of the state, and favored Concubine Dong Gui very much.

It seems that all of a sudden... even the status of Queen Fushou and General Fuwan... were suppressed by the Dong family.

This matter is now spread all over the city, and the more it is spread, the more mysterious it becomes. In the end...it is almost said that His Majesty is going to abolish the empress.

At this time, Concubine Dong Gui got out of the sedan chair gracefully, with her head held high, her proud figure upright, her eyes squinted and she was about to step into a cloth shop in front of her, it seemed that she was custom-made luxurious clothes!

And when she stepped forward, all the women in the cloth workshop were kicked out, some of them were still trying on clothes, half of their bodies were still naked, they were in a terrible state of embarrassment!
Immediately afterwards, a group of Royal Forest Army directly blocked the entire road, and Xiao Qiao was not allowed to buy again...

And Xiao Qiao originally wanted to buy clothes for herself, so that her husband's eyes would shine.

But...this...

Xiao Qiao, who has always been straightforward, was dissatisfied.

"Cut... Isn't it because of His Majesty's favor?"

She immediately groaned...

Xiao Qiao looked down on this kind of woman the most.

Sister Zhaoji is known as the leader of the scholars in the world, and she is in charge of Taixue. Her reputation is much higher than that of Mrs. Dong... and she has never been so ostentatious. You are a concubine, why are you so arrogant?
Thinking of this, Xiao Qiao muttered: "It's just His Majesty's favorite concubine, not the queen? As for..."

Yes…

No matter how expensive a concubine is, she is still a concubine. How can a concubine be so domineering and domineering in this world?
Xiao Qiao, who is also a concubine, was the first to find it difficult!

Just so, her words reached the ears of Concubine Dong Gui.

tread…

With a pause in her footsteps, Concubine Dong Gui turned her head to face Xiao Qiao, her mouth opened, and a mocking tone came out one after another. "There are really unsightly people out there."

Thinking of this, her eyes froze...

"Grab it!"

He blurted out that the Imperial Forest Army was going to arrest Xiao Qiao, but the servant girl was eager to protect her master, and stopped in front of Xiao Qiao, but was pushed away all of a sudden.

Xiao Qiao's face turned pale...

She wanted to run, but... how could she outrun these guards?
In the nick of time.

"stop…"

"At the foot of the imperial city? Which daring lunatic dares to make a mistake!"

A cold voice burst out...

The voice wasn't too loud, but each word was powerful and sound, which made people's hair stand on end. The guards froze for no reason, and didn't dare to arrest them again.

Xiao Qiao turned her head subconsciously...

The man who appeared in her eyes, she knew, was Xu Du Ling Man Chong, who was in charge of the security of Xu Capital City. He heard that he never showed mercy.

Once he goes out, it is often a burst of howling ghosts and howling wolves.

The appearance of Man Chong made Concubine Dong Gui pause for a moment. It was obvious that Concubine Dong Gui, who was favored now, was quite afraid of the title of Man Chong.

"It turned out to be Lord Manfu."

Dui Xiao, Concubine Dong Gui, who was so disdainful of everything, actually said to Man Chong Dui with a smile.

She doesn't seem to want to offend this "death judge"!
"At the feet of the Son of Heaven, the heavens and the earth are bright and clear. Is Concubine Dong Gui going to use punishment for private purposes and arrest her without authorization?"

Man Chong's tone was extremely cold.

"No..." Concubine Dong Gui smiled slightly, and when her eyes looked at Xiao Qiao again, her smile became like a flower. "I'm just playing with this younger sister. I don't want to. Such a trivial matter has alarmed Manfu Lord. Okay, now...I don't want to play anymore. I have to choose clothes. Manfu Lord, do you want to come together?"

As soon as this remark came out, Man Chong's eyes froze.

"Concubine Dong, please..."

As he spoke, he pulled up the maidservant who had fallen to the ground, and immediately sent someone to protect Xiao Qiao and slowly exited the West Market.

This seems to be an episode...by chance.

But in fact, it is inevitable!

Because of his gratitude to Lu Yu for his support, Man Chong paid special attention to the people in Si Nong Mansion.

Not only Xiao Qiao, but also Da Qiao and Cai Yan, when they go out, he will specially arrange people in the government office to protect them secretly. It's not too late!
here...

Man Chong escorted Xiao Qiao just to leave.

"Humph…"

A cold hum.

Concubine Dong Gui stared at the direction in which they were leaving, and she coldly ordered: "Follow me, I would like to see, which lady is it? You dare to challenge me openly!"

Speaking of this, Concubine Dong Gui twitched the corner of her mouth, and murmured two words - "Looking for death!"

While speaking, several imperial guards hurriedly chased after him.

Seeing the guards walking away, Concubine Dong Gui touched her stomach, then looked at the place where Xiao Qiao left, a cold and fierce light appeared in her eyes.

Few people know that the reason why Concubine Dong Gui is arrogant and arrogant at this moment is because she is pregnant with a dragon seed, and her mother is poor and her son is expensive... With this child, she doesn't believe it, and she can't kill a "girl" who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth!
Of course, apart from the "Dragon Seed", the Dong family...is now about to be entrusted with important tasks by His Majesty!

...

the other side…

Send Xiao Qiao safely to Si Nong Mansion.

Xiao Qiao bowed and saluted.

"Thank you Manfu Lord for saving the little girl."

Full pet waved his hand. "It's okay, but Concubine Dong Gui has always been domineering and narrow-minded. During this time, the Dong family is in the limelight again. I'm afraid she will not be kind to Concubine Dong Gui. Fortunately, Lu Si Nong will return tomorrow. The girl might as well discuss this matter." Tell him to make Lu Si Nong prepare too!"

"Thank you, Lord Manfu, for reminding me."

Xiao Qiao bowed respectfully again and saluted.

Immediately...

The money was returned to Si Nong's mansion.

After watching Xiao Qiao enter the mansion, Man Chong's eyes froze, and he ordered: "Send more people here, and make sure that the Si Nong Mansion is safe before Lu Si Nong comes back!"

"Here!"

Agreeing in unison, countless yamen servants started to move.

...

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Xu Capital City, inside Sinong Mansion, Nanyuan.

Da Qiao is holding a book "Lu Shi Chunqiu·Benwei Pian".

This is the No.14 volume of "Lushi Chunqiu", which records in detail the methods of "cooking", and records the delicacies of the world in the Tang Dynasty.

Since Da Qiao was brought into the Si Nong Mansion, he would always take it out when he had nothing to do, and learn some cooking skills.

Speaking of which, she is much more transparent than Xiao Qiao. Her mother always taught her that to lock a man's heart, he must first lock his stomach... Big Qiao will firmly remember these words.

Therefore…

Da Qiao attaches great importance to her own cooking skills. From these recipes, every time she learns a new dish, she will practice it repeatedly to ensure that the techniques are mellow and mature, and the dishes she makes are complete in color, fragrance and taste before giving up!

Not for anything else, but for her husband to be satisfied with the dishes cooked by her own hands when he returns;
It is also for sister Zhaoji to teach in Taixue for a day, and after returning home, she can eat delicious dishes to relieve the exhaustion all over her body.

She is a very sensible woman.

certainly…

It's not easy to make a table of delicious food!
in particular…

Nowadays, Dahan's cooking has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Husband has developed a large iron pot, and... the pot of oil brewed by the oil workshop almost subverts the existence of cooking!

You know, the original diet of a big man is divided into three types: cake, rice, and porridge!

Being able to eat cakes is the privilege of the upper class in this era.

It is no exaggeration to say...

If you meet a beggar in the city and ask him what he would like to do most if he accidentally becomes the emperor, the beggar's answer must be to eat sesame seeds every day!
Indeed... fine grains such as flour are exclusively for the upper classes, while the lower classes are only fit to eat porridge and coarse grains such as brown rice and wheat rice.

But... because of such a big iron pot, because of the appearance of oil, it completely overturned it.

It can be said that Xu Ducheng's cooking now emphasizes that everything can be deep-fried. After all, locusts ate it with gusto, so what can't be deep-fried?
And corresponding to the five grains are the "six livestock", six kinds of horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, dogs, and pigs, plus poultry!

In the Han Dynasty, fish, sheep, dog and chicken were the most commonly eaten...

People in the Han Dynasty were particularly obsessed with dog meat...

In addition, seasonings that have appeared at this time coarse salt, vinegar, sauce, sugar (maltose, not sucrose), cinnamon, onion, ginger, pepper, dogwood, cinnamon, lemongrass, etc...

Under this series of major premise, it seems much easier to stir-fry delicious and hearty dishes, but it seems much more difficult.

"Lu's Spring and Autumn: Original Taste", there are too few places that can help Da Qiao, and many dishes need to be created.

Fortunately... Da Qiao has enough quality of Hui Xinlan to cook many delicious dishes.

"My husband will be back tomorrow... what kind of food should I cook?"

"Drunk duck? Meatloaf? Fried fish? Or..."

Da Qiao is thinking, how to make her husband's eyes shine tomorrow?
At this time.

Xiao Qiao walked in, and she came to Da Qiao with a serious expression, and said in a low voice.

"Sister, I seem to...seem to have gotten into trouble"

Get into trouble?

Hearing this... Da Qiao was slightly taken aback. She and her younger sister received a summons early in the morning, saying that the army will triumph tomorrow, and her husband will be back at noon tomorrow, and her younger sister is going out happily... going to West Market to buy some things for her husband?
How... did you get into trouble?

"What happened? Slow down!"

"I, I offended the imperial concubine Dong Gui...it was the Manfu Lord who saved me, and the Manfu Lord told me...that...Dong Guifei would not let it go."

This…

Da Qiao's face changed, and there was a little worry in his eyes, and he asked repeatedly: "Are you okay?"

"My servant girl suffered some skin trauma, but I'm fine!"

"Then how did you offend him?" After hearing that Xiao Qiao was fine, Da Qiao's mood calmed down.

"I…"

Xiao Qiao narrated what happened today, and Da Qiao listened... couldn't help but shook his head. "You, you just can't hold your breath. Husband returns tomorrow. Isn't this... adding trouble to Husband!"

"Then... what to do?"

Da Qiao put down the book in his hand and stood up, "Don't go out yet, tomorrow... I will accompany you to plead guilty to my husband."

...

...

On the outskirts of Xudu, on the banks of the Ying River!
This land of Yongqiu surrounded by water...

Chic houses and well-proportioned buildings emerge in front of everyone.

This is Taixue... the place that scholars all over the world are looking forward to!

From one room to the next, the sound of Lang Lang's reading and debating can be heard constantly...

There is also the voice of making a fuss, the voice of making a fu.

In Cai Zhaoji's class, she is teaching Tai students how to compose "fu" concisely and concisely!
You know...because the bamboo slips were the main writing carrier in the Han Dynasty, they were time-consuming and heavy, making transportation and preservation extremely inconvenient.

This requires people not to talk nonsense, not to write long articles, and not to waste resources.

"Fu" is generally composed of four characters, which is highly concise. While improving students' artistic accomplishment, it also improves their professional training.

For example, official documents, memorials, letters, sacrificial texts, etc. all take the form of Fu.

In almost every class, the teaching teacher requires students to make a Fu, which is called "Daily Fu".

Today Cai Zhaoji is talking about the "fu" in the memorial table, how to write it!

To put it bluntly, just don’t be like some online writers, where thousands of words in a chapter are full of water, a vast ocean, water overflowing Jinshan, vast ocean, unfathomable…

It's been the same since ancient times, isn't this forcing readers to draw their swords!
Therefore, the "fu" in the Han Dynasty needs to be extremely concise, one word!No water allowed!

Of course, what Cai Zhaoji said is not just "condensed", but also includes the beginning and the end.

To put it simply, it's just one thing, and it should be written as concisely as possible in a melody, and don't always tantalize people!

Deliberately broken chapters... very dangerous!

If you dare to break the emperor, the emperor will cut off your head.

Of course, Master Reader is almost equivalent to the Emperor...

As the saying goes, "One day with a knife in hand, I will slaughter all the dogs in the world", probably this is what it means!
After a lesson...

Cai Zhaoji played her jiaoweiqin as usual, amidst the melodious ringing, get out of class was over...

Wait until the sound of the piano falls...

A teaching assistant put away Jiao Weiqin, while Cai Zhaoji smiled and said: "In a moment, tell all the teachers and students that Taixue will have a three-day holiday from tomorrow!"

ah... ah...

This blurted out the words, and the teaching assistant was stunned!
He pondered, it seems...tomorrow is not a holiday!

"President Cai, is tomorrow a special day?" Immediately... the assistant asked.

Hearing this, Cai Zhaoji smiled.

"Of course it's a special day. Your boss Lu has returned in triumph!"

This…

The teaching assistant rolled his eyes, and suddenly he understood.

Mr. Lu is Mr. Cai’s younger brother. When the younger brother returns, the older sister will spare time. The family is so close. It’s understandable.
only…

How do you tell the students this?Your Chief Lu is back... you can take a vacation!

Uh…

Something seems to be wrong!
The teaching assistant was about to ask again...

Unexpectedly, a voice came out.

——"Mr. Cai, it is because Mr. Lu is back...tomorrow Taixue cannot have a holiday!"

heard...

Cai Yan and the teaching assistant turned their heads, and a general appeared in front of them...

Of course, to Cai Yan, this is an old acquaintance, right?
...

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(End of this chapter)