Chapter 22: Spicy Soup

Style: Historical Author: Kiko ReikoWords: 2607Update Time: 24/01/12 19:27:00
Wan Yanliang could only hear her sighing beside the curtain, and saw her weeping shadow outlined in the bright window. He felt a little love and pity in his heart, but it stopped at rationality. He understood more clearly that the important thing in this was to serve the world. host.

While the two were sitting next to each other, they suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside the house. They woke up and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Your Highness's secret message!"

"Whose letter is this?"

"Xu belongs to the secret minister!"

He opened the door and looked around before taking the letter from Qi Shili's hand and asked in a low voice: "Whose secret letter was sent here?"

"After Miss Cuihe was sent to the government, the housekeeper secretly sent her here!"

He was stunned: "Has the imperial concubine seen it?"

"The imperial concubine may have already seen it!"

"That's all, it's okay if she saw it!" After saying that, Wan Yanliang sternly closed the door and entered the inner room. He couldn't wait to open the letter and saw that it was signed Qingya. The letter said: "I disturb you as a director. If you can come back to me in the future, In my spare time, I invite you to meet me tomorrow morning - Qingya."

As he read, the corners of his lips raised, and he put the small letter into his wide sleeve and hid it. He turned around, closed the door and entered, meeting the Queen's doubtful eyes.

"Is it a secret letter from the Li family?"

"No, the secret minister's."

The queen guessed what he was looking at, and secretly leaned on the armchair nearby, staring at the precious jade dragon head ring between her fingers.

She raised her eyes and saw the smile on Yan Liang's face, then sneered coldly, and suddenly mocked him: "Hey, I will see that the little one gave it to you when I saw it."

"When it comes to her, I am absolutely puzzled. You, a powerful prime minister, have fallen in love with this ignorant child. Is it to consolidate your power? Or are you just looking for a moment of novelty?"

"The lonely king..."

"It doesn't matter, I think you are both."

He suddenly lowered his head and smiled evilly: "You know? Why do you still ask?"

"That girl is really obedient and obedient to your words. You snatched love from King Yong like this, and you are not afraid of his cares?"

Hearing this, he suddenly burst into laughter and beat his chest: "The lonely king doesn't understand Wulu yet. He has been used to being submissive since he was a child, so how could he care."

She held up the thin clothes hanging on the jade and tapped the table with her fingertips: "King Yong is an honest man. Don't bully him. Enough is enough."

"The lonely king knows what he knows!"

The queen nodded and said, "Yeah, it's good if you understand. I just look at the king of the world, who is mediocre and ignorant, leaning on the red and the green, indulging in wine and sex. You have to accumulate power and plan." How to become independent."

"The lonely king will make a good plan. That will be the case today. The emperor's sister-in-law will return to the palace early to avoid the emperor becoming suspicious."

The queen took a closer look at the expression on his face. Although his face was cold and stern, there was a hint of joy and a hint of calmness in his eyes.

She replied: "Okay! Let's go back today! As long as you can display six feathers in one day, don't forget about me."

"How dare I forget you? I will take care of the emperor's sister-in-law's affairs for you."

He waved his sleeves and walked away from the bright window, casting his figure slantingly on the smooth floor of the cold hall. Thinking about it carefully, such a man is tall and straight, and graceful. If others don't know the ridiculous things he does, they will think that he is He is a stunningly handsome man, but it is a pity that he only wears a beautiful skin.

But the mother-in-law just watched him go away, sitting alone in front of the desk, hugging her arms tightly, folding her sleeves, secretly shedding red tears.

The heavy snow that fell all day yesterday stopped for a while. In the early morning, the Li family's maid came out to clear the snow early in the morning.

Qingya wore a pink-blue narrow-sleeved dress, with a pink outer garment and a blue skirt. The lapel was edged with various patterns. The footwear was made of silver-threaded shoes. She had several exquisite crystal hairpins on her head. There are several pearl tassels on the cascades behind her ears, and there are pearl pendants hanging between her ears. She is dressed so beautifully just to have a look at Wan Yanliang.

She reached out and took the curtain hat, and together with Cui He, they carefully approached the back door along the wall, then opened the simple wooden door and lowered her voice and said to Cui He: "Cui He, if my sister is looking for me, tell her. I’m just practicing calligraphy!”

"Then girl, you should come back early. It will be bad if the master comes back from the next court!"

She couldn't wait for a moment, and by the time Cui He finished speaking, she was already far away. Cui He looked around and carefully adjusted her underskirt and hurriedly walked away, for fear of being seen by others.

After going out through the back door, Wan Yanliang was waiting for her quietly under a dead tree. She was greeted by affectionate and gentle eyes. He pulled her over, and she retreated and said quickly: "Your Majesty, hurry up and leave! It's not easy to stay here for a long time."

The two of them walked together in the market. Qingya looked at the bustling Huining neighborhood through Weiwei's hat. She saw the eight streets and nine roads, the bustling people in the neighborhood, and she shuttled among the pedestrians. I just felt it was so lively.

She raised her eyes and looked around and sighed: "A woman has been in the boudoir for a long time, but she has rarely seen the bustling scene of the market. When she rarely goes out for a walk, she feels like a frog in the well! I just looked at these four streets and eight streets, which I have never seen before." Lively."

Wan Yanliang swayed and shook his head and said, "It's just that your Li family has too many rules. Gu Wang's sisters are quite free. I remember when I was young, I would take my two younger sisters with me whenever I went out on the street. When the fifth younger sister got married, After that, only Ying'er was left with me, she is not like you who stays in the boudoir all day embroidering and writing."

"When you say that, I'm actually a little envious. I've been staying in my boudoir since I was born. Except for sometimes going to the south of the city with my brother to practice swordsmanship, I don't dare to show my face on weekdays, let alone wandering on the streets!"

"Your Li family is famous for its upright family tradition in Huining City. However, the more girls educated by such a family are educated and educated, they will be just like you."

She pursed her lips and smiled slightly: "You have never seen me being aggressive. If you really make me angry, I will not be shy and care about etiquette. I am not a well-behaved and weak woman. "

"Hahaha, I have never seen it before, but I can see it again in the future!"

The two of them turned around a small bridge and came to the most prosperous area of ​​Huining. They saw a sea of ​​people on the street, and a dazzling array of shops on the left and right. There were vendors carrying burdens selling biscuits and shouting along the street, and some standing in front of restaurants to invite guests. Man, from time to time you can still hear the whispers of the girls in Qunfang Pavilion, a romantic place in the distance.

Qingya followed the voice and looked forward, seeing the girl in red and green waving to Wan Yanliang in the pavilion. She couldn't help but blush, and immediately lowered her head.

When he saw her look, he wanted to tease her, and pointed at her casually: "The girl in the pink dress is not bad, she looks like an oiran."

This was an outrageous thing to say, and she immediately walked away with a long face: "If you want to go, just go. What do you want from me?"

With his interesting style, he chased after her, pulled the braid on the back of her head and said, "Who on earth wants to see Gu? It's obviously you who wrote the letter and wanted to see her."

"Then go back. I won't see you again, Your Majesty!" After she said that, she turned around and walked away, but he immediately grabbed her by the lapel of her clothes.

"Hey, King Gu is wrong, wrong! There are not many people in this world who are as good as you."

Qingya straightened her hat and white gauze and said, "Seriously?"

"Of course it's true!" He put his hand on her slender waist. She felt very uncomfortable so she broke away and walked forward. Suddenly she saw a restaurant full of customers, and two waiters were greeting them in front of the building. Even the first floor is full.

"Mr. Lang, please, please."

Wan Yanliang pointed and said, "Qingya, have you ever eaten Hu spicy soup?"

"What is spicy soup?"

"This is a delicacy introduced to Bianjing City. When Gu Wang was in Kaifeng Mansion, he liked this soup very much, so this shop sells it. How about going to try it?"

He didn't ask for her permission. Before she could reply, he pulled her into the restaurant. The restaurant waiter greeted them to a place with a view on the second floor and served them a pot of wine and various foods. , and two large bowls of hot spicy soup.

The spicy spicy soup has a rich aroma, a beautiful color, and a faint medicinal smell accompanied by the fragrance of some ingredients. It makes you want it at the first sight.

He sat across from Qingya and personally gave her a small bowl of soup and gently handed it to her: "Here, let's try something new! While it's hot."

She took a few mouthfuls with a porcelain spoon and immediately felt sour and spicy. The aroma of the medicine lingered in her mouth for a long time after she took it. Then a warmth spread through her body. Her eyes flashed and she said with a smile. :

"It tastes really delicious! Bianjing City is such a fairyland, and it has produced so many good things. The last time I went to the palace to visit my cousin, I was lucky enough to eat pot stickers, dumplings and noodles with pork. I thought they were the best in the world. , but never thought there was something better.”