After Zhu Gaoxu left, Hua Yuxi still lowered her head and said nothing. Lan Qiao stopped and looked at her. Then she bit her lip, twirled her clothes and said, "Will the young master go to the dinner that His Highness just mentioned?"

Lan Qiao thought for a moment and said, "Let's go. After all, I owe him a favor this time and he invited me personally. I can't refuse."

"Oh." Hua Yuxi lowered her head again.

Lan Qiao said in surprise: "You don't want me to go?"

"How can the Nu family be dissatisfied?" Hua Yuxi said quietly, "The four most famous generals of the Peking Army are here, and there are wines to drink and some stunning dancers and beauties. What is the status of the Nu family, how can they dare to refuse?

Young Master, go."

Lan Qiao stared into Hua Yuxi's eyes and suddenly realized something. He chuckled and said, "Are you jealous?"

Hua Yuxi turned away and said, "No."

"You are obviously jealous."

"Xiaoye is the young master's wife, what kind of jealousy does the slave family have? Wherever the master wants to go, it has nothing to do with the slave family."

"So what if it has something to do with you?" Lan Qiao smiled playfully, stared at Hua Yuxi and said, "Today's dinner at Wangbei Tower, you can come too."

"Young master, are you serious?" Hua Yuxi's eyes lit up at first, and then she curled her lips and said, "Usually this kind of gathering between men is just a show, the master is not afraid that the slave family will ruin the master's happiness?"

Lan Qiao chuckled: "Anyway, as I said, you can come if you want to come. If you don't want to come, don't force me."

The two of them walked forward again, but Hua Yuxi's mood obviously changed from gloomy to sunny, with a smile on her lips. She looked at the sun and said, "Seeing that it's the end of noon, you must be hungry, right?"

Lan Qiao looked her over and said with a smile: "Yes, I'm hungry. Let's find something to eat. Hmm... how about we go to this place?"

It happened that there was a small shop not far from the road, with a sign written in five large thin gold characters, Hu Ji Casserole Restaurant.

When you walk into the store, the aroma fills your nostrils. The small store is filled with steam. Every two people share a casserole, and everyone is sweating profusely.

Because the store is cramped and small, there is only a circle of desks placed against the wall along the base of the wall. Next to the desks are a dozen small round stools. Customers have to sit on the small round stools, facing the greasy wall.

Chewing at the desk.

"What kind of Huji casserole is this? I think it's more like the wall-facing casserole." The two men who had just finished eating said as they walked out.

Another person said: "The stuff is pretty good, but this place is a bit boring."

When Lan Qiao saw the two people coming out, he pulled Hua Yuxi to one side and let them pass first.

The two people seemed to have drunk some wine and smelled of alcohol. After one went out, the other was wiping the soy sauce from the corner of his mouth with his hand, but suddenly saw Hua Yuxi and muttered: "The little lady is so beautiful..."

"After saying that, he took advantage of the opportunity of the two of them to meet each other and touched Hua Yuxi's delicate white porcelain hand, leaving a dark oil mark.

Hua Yuxi didn't say anything and hid her hands behind her back. As soon as the man went out, he suddenly felt a pain in his knees and stumbled to the ground, falling like a dog.

His companion laughed and said, "Why, after drinking so much wine, you can't even stand still?"

The man endured the pain and got up, looking around on the ground, but he only saw a copper coin.

"Did I drop it? Damn it." He picked up the copper coins and pulled his companion away quickly.

Hua Yuxi laughed quietly and said: "I didn't expect that the young master's hidden weapon is so accurate. A copper coin dart will make him eat a mouthful of mud."

Lan Qiao snorted and said, "Whoever made him misbehave and touch you must be taught a lesson."

"Hey, the slave family is untouchable?" Hua Yuxi smiled slyly, and suddenly came closer and said, "Or do you mean that the young master can only behave himself?"

Lan Qiao knew that he and Hua Yuxi had had physical contact more than once before. When she said this, he couldn't help but feel ashamed. He hesitated and said: "Go in, the store is full, and they just left.

Next two seats."

Huji Casserole is very unique. There is a shelf next to the counter, displaying different types of meat and vegetable ingredients, as well as various sauces. Guests can choose from them, and they will be charged according to the price of the ingredients. The cheaper ones

A few pennies, or dozens of pennies for expensive ones, there is no shortage of buyers.

After selecting the ingredients, the waiter will help put the ingredients into the casserole, add the store's special stock to stew, and finally bring the casserole to a rolling boil and serve it to the guest's table.

On the table between every two guests, there is a small copper frame, the edge of which has long been blackened by the fire. When the casserole is served, the waiter will light a few candles and heat the casserole under the copper frame to prevent the ingredients from getting cold.

Too fast.

Lan Qiao chose seven or eight ingredients in a row, including beef and mutton, sesame and mushrooms, but Hua Yuxi only picked three vegetarian items, looking like she had a poor appetite.

While waiting to add soup to the pot, Lan Qiao saw that the black oil marks on Hua Yuxi's hands disappeared, and teased her with a smile: "What? Just now, when I wasn't paying attention, did you wipe your hands clean? Did you wipe your sleeves or your skirt?"

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"No, I hate it, young master!" Hua Yuxi said angrily, "How could she do such a disgraceful thing when she dresses up so carefully?"

Lan Qiao muttered: "Then how did you wipe it clean?"

"The slave family is..." Hua Yuxi looked a little shy and hesitated for a long time before saying, "The slave family has its own way."

"What method?" Lan Qiao was just out of curiosity. When he saw Hua Yuxi, he just lowered his head and said nothing. Suddenly he had an idea and said, "Is it related to the fact that you walked barefoot before but your feet never got dirty?"

Hua Yuxi still didn't answer him, but she lowered her head and said "hmm" for a while.

Lan Qiao has been getting along with Hua Yuxi for a long time, but he feels that sometimes she is bold and aggressive, sometimes calm and decisive, and she always has the upper hand in her contacts with him. She has never shown so much shyness like today, and he can't help but be very interested: "

How on earth did you do that?”

Hua Yuxi smiled awkwardly and hesitated to reveal it.

Lan Qiao added: "Back then, Xueyin once tried to imitate it. He put dirty cloth into water and performed the exercises according to a certain method, and the dirt on the cloth was quickly removed."

Hua Yuxi was reserved at first, but when Lan Qiao mentioned Bai Xueyin, she was aroused to be competitive, and said softly: "Sister Xueyin is indeed very imaginative to think of using this idea to imitate, but the method used by the Henu family,

There is still a fundamental difference. The slave family can clean itself without the help of external objects."

As she spoke, she dipped a little bit of the sauce on her finger, and with just a flick of the hand, the sauce miraculously disappeared from her hand.

Lan Qiao was astonished and couldn't help but ask again and again. Hua Yuxi finally told the truth with some pride: "This is a martial art created by the slave family, called 'Bingqing Yujie', and it was inspired by Uncle Xu's Qi Healing Technique."

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Hua Yuxi paused and then continued: "When the slave family was in Jiangpu, Uncle Xu once told the slave family about how he used zhenqi and silver needles to remove lesions for patients. At that time, the slave family had not practiced martial arts and had no zhenqi, so

I only remembered what he said, but failed to truly understand it. When I arrived at Chushui City, the hall master taught the slave family the internal skills and mental methods. The slave family also looked at the handwriting left by Uncle Xu, and finally realized his method of using Qi to drive away poison."

Lan Qiao became more and more interested as he listened: "What method? Can you tell me about it?"

Hua Yuxi glanced sideways at Lan Qiao and said, "It's okay, but the slave family has a condition."

Lan Qiao said without hesitation: "You say."

Hua Yuxi said cautiously: "After the slave family tells the young master, the master is not allowed to tell other girls about this method without the slave family's permission, no matter Xiaoye, Xueyin, or the little princess, and of course other maids. If so.

If the slave family knows that the master secretly leaked the slave family's little secret, then the slave family will... hmph, the slave family will run away from home and stop serving the master."

Lan Qiao said happily: "Okay, you tell me, I won't tell you."

Hua Yuxi said calmly: "The Nu family had just glimpsed the secrets of martial arts at that time, and their true energy was far from meeting the requirements of Uncle Xu's Qi therapy, but girls all have a love for beauty and purity, so they suddenly had a whim, and thought of this

Qi therapy can remove toxins from the patient's body, but can it also be used on the surface of the skin? After several months of experiments, the Nujia finally found a way to apply qi therapy to the surface of the skin.

A small part of the true air flows to any part of the skin surface where you want it, and uses the true energy to stir up dirt and break it into small particles and droplets that are invisible to the naked eye, and then disperse with the wind."

"I see." Lan Qiao suddenly said, "No wonder you just shook your fingers and your hands became clean again."

"The hands and feet are all the same." Hua Yuxi said with a smile, "Living in Chushui City is inconvenient. Every time I pass through Bailihuang, I am covered in mud, so I have to come up with this method."

Lan Qiao rolled his eyes and said, "Then you never have to take a shower?"

"You don't want to take a shower. You really want to force people to reveal their secrets and then laugh at them." Hua Yuxi was squealing, and the waiter came over with a hot casserole and said, "The casserole is here, two guests.
Chapter completed!