Ye Wumian said: "But it doesn't have to be like this. It's a good thing to have common aspirations, and it's even better to maintain your own characteristics. You can just have your own surname."
While talking, a whole sheep came up.
The boss boasted: "This sheep is a wild goat from Wugong Mountain. Its temperament is not like that of ordinary soft lambs. It is brave and fierce, and its taste is fishy."
Xiao Qianyun laughed loudly and said: "The smell is good, the smell is better. I, old Xiao, like to eat this smell!"
He rubbed his hands and looked at the mutton that was spread out in all directions, and his mouth watered.
The boss avoided his saliva in disgust and said with a smile: "How can we let the guests eat the smell? Every spring, a group of old hunters go into the mountains. This spring, they go into the mountains not to hunt sheep, but just to go there. The sheep should be chopped and then released. Once the sheep have been slaughtered, they will not be so smelly, so in winter, that is, at this time, you can catch them. Of course, catching depends on luck, not everyone caught The sheep are all slaughtered in advance - we can't slaughter all the goats in the mountain, otherwise who will mate the ewes, right - it often takes three to catch one goat, which is very laborious. .So Sir, your five taels of silver are not enough. You will have to add more money later, which will be regarded as our labor expenses."
After the boss said this long series of words, he turned around and went in to arrange the side dishes.
Ye Wumian laughed dumbly and said: "You are so petty and talk so much, it turns out you are trying to raise the price."
Look at the mutton, which has been roasted until it is golden in color, charred on the outside and tender on the inside. In this hazy winter day, the oil is sizzling and steaming, and the fragrance is bursting into your nose.
As the saying goes, the nose, eyes, and mouth are connected. Before you even eat, your taste buds have been stimulated by sight and smell. Your mouth, which has been awake all night after having lunch, actually begins to secrete saliva again.
This mutton is very delicious just by looking at it. The boss is smart and raises the price by two or three taels of silver, but it doesn't matter.
When Ye Wumian waited for the boss to come out, he threw him a few more silver particles. The boss smiled broadly and served the people even more attentively.
Several people started to start eating mutton.
Xiao Qianyun's appearance was very rude. If I were to pick him up and talk about it in detail, I might hurt the eyes of the judge, so let's not mention it for now.
Jiang Pan was supposed to be a gentle man, but after a day's journey, he was very hungry and thirsty. After gulping down a bowl of haggis soup, he tore off a piece of meat from the lamb leg with his bare hands and put it in his mouth regardless of his image.
"The Master said: If you want to live longer, eat mutton; if you want to be healthy, drink mutton soup!"
Unlike the two of them, Chu Yan looked very elegant when eating. He only used chopsticks and never touched the food with his hands.
She is very good at chopsticks, and wherever she goes with her chopsticks, everything becomes meat in her bowl.
She looked at Jiang Pan and smiled: "When did Confucius say such nonsense? I clearly remember that what he said was: 'When friends come from afar, are you hungry?' My friend said: Isn't that nonsense? Of course I'm hungry, so hurry up. After hearing this, Confucius hurriedly ordered a pot of food. Unfortunately, he didn't control the heat properly. It tasted terrible. The guests didn't like it. "The food never gets tired of fine food, and the food never gets tired of fine meat." Confucius didn't like eating even more, so he sighed again: 'If you don't eat and don't feel sad, you are not a gentleman!'"
This joke about "tampering with" "The Analects of Confucius·Xueer" is not necessarily funny, but when Chu Yan told it, Ye Wumian couldn't help but laugh at it.
Xiao Qianyun almost fell down with laughter.
Chu Yan pointed at Xiao Qianyun and said with disdain: "Sir, who is this dark, thick, stupid-looking man next to you? Why can he eat at the same table with us? And why do you rather let him follow you? If he refused to let me follow him, could he be the friend you saved when you went to break into the Jinyi Guards?"
Under this series of questions, Ye Wumian remembered that until now, he had not introduced Xiao Qianyun to Chu Yan and Jiang Pan.
After feeding Yunsheng a mouthful of porridge, he briefly introduced Xiao Qianyun: "Yes, he is indeed..."
Xiao Qianyun didn't seem to have a hobby of putting on airs in front of women, and he didn't care about Chu Yan's distasteful words. He ate mutton and said, "If anyone dares to bully you along the way to Wugong Mountain, just tell me! I will beat him up Yes, he doesn’t even know his father!”
Chu Yan smiled "haha" and ignored him at all. He just looked at Ye Wumian and said: "Young master, it's just a matter of saving your friend. But you shouldn't abandon me! You went to save people at that time, but if you didn't come back for a long time, it would be a big mistake." I thought you might have encountered a problem. I was worried about you and worried about you..."
Her words were soft and her expression made me feel pity for her.
Ye Wumian was afraid that the resentment would make her heart pound. She quickly changed the subject and asked why she didn't go to Luxi County, but came to this Jiafang Market.
Chu Yan didn't dwell on what he just said, his eyes turned into crescent moons, and he said quite proudly: "Before we parted ways with the young master, I saw that the young master had a guilty conscience, hesitating and speaking vaguely, so I knew that the young master would not agree. Go in the direction I told you. To get to Wugong Mountain, you can either go east or south. There are only two ways. Since you didn’t go east to Luxi, you naturally went south, so I came here here."
Ye Wumian couldn't help but sigh that Chu Yan was much better than him in terms of observation ability and intelligence level.
"In this case, I'm afraid I won't be able to get rid of her in a short period of time. It's better to go to this trip to Wugong Mountain first and worry about it later." Ye Wumian thought to himself.
He made up his mind and would not make any other ideas for the time being.
After finishing the meal, the sky became dark and a northwest wind blew.
This wind is not a blowing wind, it is just a horizontal current, so it is not very noticeable, but the desolate chill is becoming more and more unbearable.
Ye Wumian and other people with internal strength are not afraid of this wind. Jiang Pan did not have smooth meridians and had no internal strength. Fortunately, he wore thick enough clothes and wrapped his turban tightly, which also withstood the wind and cold.
After leaving the shop, Chu Yan took the white horse from a stall.
This horse was the horse of the Wugong Mountain disciples that Ye Wumian plundered outside the Guanwang Temple. When he was in Pingxiang, it was kept in an inn for many days. Ye Wumian had forgotten about it, but Chu Yan still remembered it and did not leave it behind. This horse was brought over together.
Jiang Pan got on the horse. He didn't need anyone to hold him, and his skill in controlling the horse was pretty good.
Ye Wumian looked up at the sky, looking like he was thinking hard, and said: "The weather is not good today. It was just past noon and the sky became gloomy. Now the wind is howling and the clouds are dense. In this late winter month, there will inevitably be a snowfall in the mountains. …”
Before he finished speaking, Chu Yan had already pulled the corner of his sleeve and said with a smile: "Master, you don't have to say the rest. Let me be your mouthpiece and say it for you. You will definitely know. Said: The conditions in the mountains are harsh, with jackals, tigers and leopards lurking. If it snows, it will be even harder to move. You and Xiao Qianyun are men, but it’s better to say that my sister Pan’er and I are women. Why not just rest in this house and wait for the weather to be good? Let’s go into the mountains again... Young Master, is that what you want to say?”
"..."
Ye Wumian coughed awkwardly, because he really wanted to say that.
Although the words he organized were slightly different from what Chu Yan just said due to different language styles, the meaning was the same, and he still wanted to dissuade Chu Yan from following.
Although he had just made up his mind not long ago not to get rid of Chu Yan for the time being. But for some reason, he almost subconsciously wanted Chu Yan to stay away from him.
Seeing that he was coughing so much that he couldn't speak, Chu Yan sighed, took off a jade tube from his waist, gave him a drink of the water in the tube.
Feeling the temperature of the water, I was in a trance all night long: Is this because the jade tube has good thermal insulation properties and the water is warm, or is it due to Chu Yan's body temperature?
In the cold twelfth lunar month, a mouthful of warm and refreshing water is so precious, as if it has the slightest sweetness, soaking into the throat.
Ye Wumian was a little moved.
Chu Yan blinked, and his eyelashes were as vivid and clear as the strokes of a paintbrush.
"Sir, don't talk nonsense. Not to mention it's snowing, even if a knife falls on Wugong Mountain, I will go with you."
She just finished speaking. Jiang Pan stood on the horse and solemnly clasped his fists and said, "Me too!"
