Among the twelve people at the table, Mei Siyuan and his eight followers set out from Yinyang County, Fuzhou in the dark. They had been riding for a long time and were already hungry. At the banquet, Mei Siyuan toasted everyone with a toast, and everyone picked up their chopsticks and started eating hard. When Zhu Youzhuan and the old steward were dining together, they naturally moved their chopsticks frequently to introduce the dishes. There is only one youngest here, sitting on his seat looking at everyone, looking at the cups and plates, stretching his head and eyes, as if he were sitting on pins and needles. Mei Siyuan saw it and seemed to have a suspicion in his mind. He smiled and said, "Brother, youngest brother, why don't you move the dishes and chopsticks?"
While the youngest was swallowing his saliva, he suddenly heard a senior official asking and hurriedly wanted to answer. Unexpectedly, his throat tightened, but he poured saliva into his nose, choking him and making him sneeze. After he regained his breath, he smiled and said, "I'm not hungry! I'm not hungry!" As he said this, his eyes couldn't help but glance at the various meaty delicacies on the dinner plate, thinking to himself, " Ouch, my mother-in-law! How can there be so much good meat and vegetables in this world!" The youngest seemed to notice that Mei Siyuan saw her embarrassment, and said again, "Hey, I'm not hungry!"
Mei Siyuan is such an intelligent character, so he naturally thought that the youngest might be feeling humble and sitting at the same table with everyone, how could he dare to eat and drink wantonly and restrain himself. Nai smiled and scolded the bodyguards on the side, "Renmo, just take care of yourself! Let's get some food for the youngest brother!" Xue Renmo is the youngest of the four guards transferred from Qingxi by Mei Siyuan. The youngest one is currently dealing with the big pig knuckle on the plate. Suddenly, when he heard his name being called, his chopsticks trembled and he almost knocked a big elbow off the plate. At this time, he stood up awkwardly, pulled off a chicken leg from the crispy chicken on the left front plate, held the big chicken leg between two chopsticks, and put it into the youngest's bowl. The youngest stared at the drumstick closely, fearing that it would fall off halfway. Fortunately, the journey was uneventful and the chicken drumstick landed firmly in his bowl. The moment the drumstick fell down, the youngest's body trembled and he reached for it. His hand reached the edge of the bowl, suddenly stopped, shrank under the table, and smiled awkwardly at everyone.
"Brother, you can do whatever you want. There are not many rules when it comes to eating and drinking in private here." Seeing this, Mei Siyuan didn't mind at all and spoke to him in a gentle voice.
The youngest realized that all these officials seemed to be very nice, and he felt much more relaxed at the moment. Looking at the chicken legs in the bowl, he felt that it was really hard to withstand the temptation. He laughed and said, "I, hehe, then I will eat some, eat some Come on!" After saying that, he grabbed the chopsticks from the side of the bowl and started eating. In just a few breaths, the huge chicken leg was almost finished, and Mei Siyuan gestured to Xue Renmo. Xue Renmo got the secret order and put several large pieces of stewed beef tendon into the youngest's bowl. "Hmm! Hmm!" The youngest was speechless and could only make a "hmm" sound.
"Uh~uh!" The youngest's stomach couldn't hold it anymore and he burped several times. Although his belly was full, his heart was dissatisfied with desire, and he still stared at the leftovers reluctantly, "Hey, there are so many meats and vegetables left! There is still more than half of the garlic duck, and there are no bones in the stewed beef bowl. Why has it been touched? The roasted suckling pig in the middle probably has more than ten kilograms of cooked meat hanging on it. Tsk, tsk, ugh! It’s a pity that the mother-in-law and the two babies are not here!"
Mei Siyuan watched all this carefully. The youngest was dressed in rags, had a haggard face, and his big hands were covered with cracks and calluses. He was really a poor man in the truest sense of the word. Although he had experienced family decline and a difficult career, he had never had to worry about food and clothing. Although he holds a second-grade title, he holds a first-grade position and a first-grade salary. He earns 6,500 taels of silver per year and has rich clothing and food. The daily lives of these lower-class people were so different from mine that I felt pity for them for a moment.
"Mr. Zhu, can you give me these leftovers?" At this time, everyone had finished eating and was sitting at the tea table in the dining room to take a rest. Mei Siyuan asked Zhu Youzhuan who was sitting opposite him.
"Ouch, I didn't entertain you well. This, this, I will send someone to prepare another banquet!" Zhu Youzhuan hurriedly stood up from his seat and said with a panicked look, saying that this adult was not full. , or maybe he didn’t like the meal.
When Mei Siyuan saw this, he knew that Zhu Youzhuan had misunderstood him. He immediately stood up and said with a smile, "Sir, you misunderstood. I think this youngest brother is here with the young and old at home. I want to do a favor, so why not give all the leftover dishes to this guy?" Send it to the youngest’s house.”
Only then did Zhu Youzhuan wake up and said with a smile, "Oh! Oh, so that's it! Of course it's good! Of course it's good! Xiaomin will ask people to send all the food to the youngest's house while it's still warm. !" After saying that, he resigned and went to make arrangements. The youngest was thinking in his mind, but when he heard the exchange between the official and his boss, he actually expressed his true feelings. He was so excited for a moment that his eyes were filled with tears and he was about to shed tears, "Mother, baby, you can do it today too." It’s time to have a delicious meal!”
"Brother, the youngest, can you lend me a moment to speak?" Mei Siyuan looked at the youngest and called.
The youngest didn't understand what was going on, so he stood there stupidly, scratching his head, and replied with a silly smile, "Hehe."
Mei Siyuan shook his head helplessly and said with a smile, "Brother, youngest brother, come here and talk."
The youngest understood this and readily agreed, "Hey!" He quickly walked to the tea table.
"Do you know what I do?" Mei Siyuan asked the youngest.
"I don't know, I just know that you are a great official!" the youngest replied with a silly smile.
Mei Siyuan felt very satisfied after receiving such a funny answer from the youngest, and said, "I am the official in charge of salt in the Great China Dynasty. You have really helped me a lot by finding this salt mine in Blind Mountain." , I will definitely thank you very much!"
"Sir, what are you talking about? Even if I help you with this little favor, you have to eat so much food in the dining room today, and you still have to deliver food to my mother-in-law and baby. I feel so sorry!" How can the youngest have such a vision? , I just felt that what I had done was really insignificant, and this gentleman was too polite to me. I felt that it must be the great virtue accumulated by my ancestors that I received such a generous reward.
"Brother, the youngest, what do you think is the most important thing in living here?" Mei Si was grateful from the bottom of his heart that the youngest had found the salt mine, which may solve the problem of salt shortage for millions of people in the future, so he wanted to reward him.
The youngest was stunned for a moment, and then replied in disappointment, "If the most important thing is to say, of course it is the fields."
