Han Changmu raised his eyebrows and teased in a low voice: "Oh, so Your Highness, you don't need to eat, just looking at the beauties is enough."
Xie Mengxia was afraid that the girl would hear the word "Your Highness" and hurriedly "hiss" twice, then smiled proudly: "That's natural, it's beautiful and delicious."
While she was talking, the girl had already cooked a bowl of five-color buns and placed it on the food table.
The pale heat filled the air. The girl looked at the suddenly extra person and said with a clear smile: "What does this gentleman want to eat?"
Han Changmu smelled the very strong fragrance. He lowered his head and saw that the buns in the bowl were also very tempting. He smiled and said, "I want a bowl of this too."
The girl turned around and went back to her work.
Her hands were very neat, but she couldn't help but feel doubts in her heart.
Not to mention the man who appeared later, let’s talk about the man before. Ever since she set up a morning food stall here, this man would come here every day, and he would definitely eat from the time she opened the stall to the time she closed the stall. He was obviously full of food. He was livid and refused to leave.
It was obviously the first time she had come to Chang'an, and it was also the first time she had seen this person, but she looked inexplicably familiar and could not remember where she had seen him before.
While she was cooking buns, she noticed a pair of eyes staring at her from behind. A chill ran down her spine and she quickly turned around to look over.
But she saw the two men with their heads lowered, talking lively to each other, and no one looked at her.
She thought that she was afraid that her brother had frightened her.
To be courteous for nothing is to commit adultery or theft. She is obviously good at her craftsmanship, and the food she cooks is unforgettable.
This person will come again and again.
Just as the girl was melting in the heat, cooking buns hurriedly and handing out the spread vegetable pancakes to the diners, Han Changmu and Xie Mengxia both looked away.
Xie Mengxia complained in a low voice: "Don't look at her all the time. Look, she is getting suspicious."
Han Changmu laughed dumbly: "It's obviously because you come every day that she becomes suspicious."
Xie Mengxia snorted: "Even though her stall is small, there are quite a few people coming here every day." He pointed to the diners lining up in the distance: "Look, there's already a queue there."
Han Changmu looked at the girl's busy figure and suddenly smiled: "Her name is Zhang Di."
Xie Mengxia's eyes suddenly widened and he opened his mouth in great surprise: "Jiu Chao, how do you know her name? I've eaten her so many times, but I still haven't found out her name. No," he was a little annoyed. He slapped Han Changmu on the shoulder: "Do you also have a crush on her, so you went to check her out in private? Jiuzhao, friends' wives should not be bullied. How could you not uphold the moral principles of the world like this?"
"..." Han Changmu was speechless and sighed quietly: "I also know that her brother's name is Zhang Yan, who was elected in the 14th year of Yong'an. The two brothers and sisters are from Dunhuang. They came to Beijing this time to attend the Spring Festival. , originally set up a morning food stall in Zhaoguofang."
Xie Mengxia felt as if he had been struck by thunder, his face was extremely ugly, and he threw away Han Changmu's hand angrily: "I, I, I," he said "I" for a long time, and finally realized what Han Changmu was doing, and When he realized that Han Changmu was teasing him on purpose, he snorted coldly: "How come you, a young envoy of the Internal Security Department, are still involved in such a trivial matter?"
Han Changmu smelled a sour taste in these words and couldn't help but smile. He slowly told the story of the last time the steward of Wanfu framed Zhang Yan for killing someone in the street.
Tell the whole story.
"What a fucking bastard." Xie Mengxia was immediately annoyed and hit the food table hard. Fortunately, he was not very strong and the food table was strong enough and was not broken apart by his punch. The "dong" sound still startled Zhang Di, causing her to look back.
Xie Mengxia hurriedly smiled and said: "I missed it, it's okay, it's okay."
Zhang Di did not save Xie Mengxia's face at all, wrinkled the tip of her nose and said: "If you smash it, you will have to pay for it."
Xie Mengxia touched the tip of his nose angrily and asked Han Changmu in a low voice: "Why didn't you tell me about this? If you told me, I would definitely beat that bastard again."
Han Changmu raised his eyebrows: "I didn't know you knew her."
Xie Mengxia said: "That's right."
Han Changmu suddenly became curious: "For no reason, how did you meet this little girl?"
Xie Mengxia was immediately happy. He happily recounted his visit to the lantern market in Dunhuang and said proudly, "Look, even if fate comes, you can't stop it."
Han Changmu nodded and praised sincerely: "For no reason, you have good vision, but..." His eyes were a little dim, looking at the girl's tall body through the pale mist, and sighed with all kinds of pity: "It's just that this girl, It’s a pity to be a concubine.”
Xie Mengxia raised her eyebrows: "Who said you want her to be your concubine?"
Han Changmu said "Oh" softly and asked doubtfully: "You come to eat the morning meal every day, don't you have ulterior motives for her?"
Xie Mengxia snorted: "Why do you have ulterior motives? Why don't you say it so straightforwardly?"
Han Changmu laughed dumbly: "Okay, okay, are you still planning to welcome her as your princess?" His face darkened: "A saint would never agree."
"No, no, no, you are overthinking." Xie Mengxia rarely smiled and shook her head seriously: "I just fell in love with her, I just wanted to see her, but I never thought about what to do with her." He He fixedly looked at Han Changmu with clear eyes: "Jiuzhao, not all girls are suitable to be locked up in a small square yard. For example, she should be able to laugh freely, run unrestrainedly, and do anything in the vast world. She wants to do what she wants to do and like whoever she wants to like, but if she is tied up in the back house, she will only slowly wither and fade away, disappearing from everyone."
Han Changmu had never heard such words before. In his inherent impression, as a woman, as long as she doesn't marry, that's it. If she does, she should settle down in the back house and follow the rules.
Xie Mengxia's words overturned these. He suddenly felt that he had been a bit narrow-minded. He smiled and said, "It's unreasonable. You seem to have other intentions when you say this."
Xie Mengxia shook his head with an innocent look on his face: "No, this is what I think. You are overthinking."
While talking, another bowl of five-color buns was brought over. Han Changmu thanked him lightly, thoughtfully recalled what Xie Mengxia had just said, and finished the bowl of hot buns.
He wiped his mouth very gracefully and asked Xie Mengxia: "I'm going to the Department of Internal Health, will you go?"
Xie Mengxia asked with a smile: "Is there anything fun?"
Han Changmu raised his eyebrows: "Autopsy, the burnt kind, does it count?"
Xie Mengxia vomited: "You want me to vomit because I'm full?" He pushed Han Changmu away in disgust: "Go away quickly, don't delay me from seeing the beauty."
Han Changmu smiled faintly and whispered in his ear: "Too far is not enough.
Be careful to lose your eyeballs. "
Xie Mengxia snorted and sent Han Changmu away.
The sun was getting higher and the morning meal time had long passed. There were no longer any people queuing up at the stalls. Even the seated diners were only Xie Mengxia.
Zhang Di wiped the food table with a white sweat towel, and when she wiped it in front of Xie Mengxia, she raised her head and glanced at him, pursed her lips, and boldly asked: "Isn't Mr. Lang here just for breakfast?"
After saying that, before Xie Mengxia could speak, she quickly turned around and wiped other food tables.
In fact, after asking this question, she regretted it. She remembered that her brother had said that the city of Chang'an was full of nobles who could not be offended by ordinary people like them, so they had to be careful in their words and deeds and speak as little as possible. .
She knew very well that she was just a country girl who had never seen much of the world. It was the first time she walked into such a large city of Chang'an, and everything she saw felt strange.
The husband in Chang'an City also looked different from the one in Dunhuang. His face was not as dark and shiny as that of a white-faced steamed bun, which she found strange.
Although she had never read any books, she knew very well that her curiosity was different from that of the man in front of her.
When Xie Mengxia heard Zhang Di's words and saw her embarrassment, she couldn't help but smile: "The food in my house is not delicious, and the cook is not good at it."
Zhang Di's face suddenly turned red. She threw the sweat towel heavily into the basin and put her hands on her hips ready to curse. As soon as she opened her mouth and uttered a word, she remembered that this was not the Dunhuang where she grew up. It was Chang'an, which was completely unfamiliar to her.
In Dunhuang, when a man says something like this, he is teasing a girl. The girl can open her mouth to scold her and hit her with her hands. If she can't be scolded and beaten, she can still find a helper. Anyway, it's all about how to relieve her anger.
But in Chang'an, she didn't dare.
She endured it again and again, enduring the bad breath, and twisted the sweat towel fiercely, almost breaking the white sweat towel.
After venting her anger, she turned around and saw that the man was no longer there. There was today's meal money on the dining table, no more, no less.
He neither gave her less money to make her angry nor gave her more money to humiliate her.
She looked at the man's retreating back, the sunlight falling on him, and she felt inexplicably magnanimous, and suddenly felt that she had misunderstood him.
While Zhang Di was stunned, Zhang Yan rushed over to help her close the stall, followed her gaze and asked doubtfully: "Why are you stunned?"
Zhang Di was startled and quickly covered it up: "Looking at the sun."
Zhang Yan glanced at Zhang Di inexplicably and said, "Hurry up and clean up. You got up too early. Go back and catch up on your sleep."
Zhang Di hummed absentmindedly.
Xie Mengxia couldn't guess what Zhang Di was thinking. In fact, he regretted what he said. He felt that he had offended her and how could he come to eat court food and see her openly in the future.
He regretfully put down the money and walked away, thinking about what he would do in the future to pick up the face that fell on the ground.
He wandered aimlessly along the streets, as if he was the most idle person in the world. Many people hoped that he would remain idle and degenerate forever. The so-called improvement was the last thing they wanted to see.
Unknowingly, he walked to the road leading to the Internal Security Department, and he raised his eyebrows.
The autopsy showed it was still burnt, which sounds interesting.
