The sky is white, the morning light is dim, a red sun is rising slowly, and the cool breeze is blowing everything. Vendors carry their burdens and enter the city one after another, walking along the long street paved with bluestones, chatting and laughing with each other.
Soon all kinds of shouts sounded, and Su Zhen shuttled among the crowd, feeling a lot more at ease. She walked to a freshly set up outdoor stall, skillfully opened the wooden stool and sat down, putting her saber on it. On the Eight Immortals table.
She and Yu Ziye often came here in the past. The owners were an old couple who were in their sixties. They mainly made a living by selling the secret sauce-flavored pancakes passed down from their ancestors.
"Boss! As usual, have a bowl of wontons and a secret sauce pancake!"
"Okay! Mr. Su, you came early today. We have just left the stall. Please wait a moment and we will be here soon!"
The boss has frost-white hair on his temples and is full of wrinkles, but he always has a cheerful face and looks very kind and friendly.
"It's okay, old man, I'm not in a hurry."
Su Zhen held her chin with her right hand and tapped the table with her left index finger. She watched the old couple busy at work and recalled what she learned about Li Jieyu from Mo Sheng after returning home.
His investigation was very thorough, and he almost found out the eighteenth generation of Li Jieyu's ancestors, but... nothing was found.
But just because it was so clean, it seemed unusual.
Who can live a lifetime without missing a few things, but this Li Jieyu is as clean as a piece of white paper, without any stains.
If she believed it...unless there was grass growing in her head!
Li Jieyu's name was Li Yu. In her early years, there was a famine in her hometown, and her family left their hometown. Unexpectedly, almost everyone in the family except her died of starvation on the way. Later, by chance, she entered the palace and climbed up the ranks step by step. However, within a few years, she was successful. She took the position of a female official and was later assigned to serve in Concubine Yu's palace.
I heard from the palace maids that Li Jieyu was kind, humble and polite, and even the Queen and Concubine Yu could not find fault with her.
Su Zhen really couldn't figure out why such a smooth sailing person suddenly died, and even his body disappeared! In fact, it must be said that he was jealous, although it was a bit far-fetched, but it was not impossible.
But in the final analysis, she still felt that the reason lay with the porcelain doll!
So annoying, so annoying, so annoying!
Su Zhen buried her head in her arms angrily and sighed several times.
"Master Su, here comes the sauce-flavored pancake you wanted!"
"Well, thank you boss."
Su Zhen raised her head. On the table was a plate of thin pancakes fried until golden brown and smeared with secret sauce. The rich aroma hit her face and aroused people's appetite. The boss had already cut it into pieces and picked up the chopsticks. Pick up a piece and put it in your mouth. It's spicy but not pungent, sweet but not greasy, salty and crunchy, plus chopped green onion and sesame, giving you an endless aftertaste.
"Boss, a bowl of Yangchun noodles."
"Okay! Come right away!"
Su Zhen raised her head in surprise and saw that Xiao Chuhong had arrived at some point and was sitting opposite her, looking at her with a smile. Her clothes seemed to have been changed, but they looked no different from the ones she wore at the palace banquet last night. He He seems to be fond of cool-colored robes, and they look very appropriate on him.
A gentleman has no reason, and the jade will never leave his body.
Xiao Chuhong put away the jade pendant that he kept with him all year round. There were two strings of dark translucent jade pendants hanging on the left and right sides of the belt. The jade beads were connected and connected by a dark green rope. Ice silk tassels hung from the bottom.
Behind him was a guard who did not appear at the palace banquet last night.
The man was dressed in a black suit with narrow sleeves, holding a long silver-black sword, and a belt around his waist. In addition to a dagger hanging on his waist, he also had a black leather bag the size of a palm. His hair was green and gray, tied up with a silver crown.
.The facial features are correct, with sharp edges and corners, and the slender auspicious eyes give people a sharp feeling.
"General Xiao? Why are you here?"
Su Zhen looked at the simple-looking carriage behind them. If she read correctly, this carriage should also be made of iron wood, which was the same material as the prince's painting boat. The two horses pulling the carriage were brown-red.
, tall and strong.
The breeze blew up the bamboo curtains, and Su Zhen noticed that there was only a set of purple sand tea sets placed in the carriage, and a palm-sized black jade Buddha statue was placed on the left side of the table.
Strange! Xiao Chuhong doesn’t look like a Buddhist, so why is there a Buddha statue in his carriage?
She put down her chopsticks, blinking her slender eyelashes as long as butterfly wings, and her black eyes were as bright as two glowing obsidian stones.
"At the palace banquet last night, Yunshu and I made an appointment to accompany him to the poetry meeting. I just saw Mr. Su's sad face in the carriage, so I came to see if there was anything I could do to help."
Su Zhen held the bowl with both hands and took a sip of wonton soup, "No need, just stay away from me."
King Qin had already regarded her as a thorn in his side because of the incident between Xu Jing and Lu Zun, and he was eager to find an opportunity to execute her immediately. Xiao Chuhong also rushed towards her.
Either he wanted to tell others that they were friends, or he just didn't want to die quickly enough.
Xiao Chuhong leaned forward, and the two of them were so close that he could even feel the other's warm breath. He lowered his voice and said, "It was obviously Zhen Zhen who came to provoke me first. How come you did it to me again in broad daylight?"
Why can't I avoid it?"
He is naturally handsome, and after years of battlefield killings, his soul-stirring black eyes make people fall into the abyss, and they are unable to extricate themselves. His rich and low-mellow voice is even more magnetic. If it is an ordinary person, he will definitely not be able to resist it.
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"Don't make trouble." Su Zhen rolled her eyes at him, then looked at the spies who were following Xiao Chuhong, swallowed the wontons and asked, "General, are you very free?"
"Then Zhen Zhen thinks, who is more annoying between me and the Crown Prince?"
At this moment, she felt that the elegant and handsome General Jinghong seemed to have been replaced by someone.
"General, please stop making trouble, please? I will go into the palace later to do some business!"
Xiao Chuhong sat up straight, raised an interesting smile, raised his eyebrows and said, "If I can help you find Li Jieyu, how can you thank me?"
Sure enough, she came prepared! It turned out that she was waiting for her here...
"General, if you have any clues, tell me earlier! Come on, tell me?"
"If I tell you, what good will it do to me?"
Xiao Chuhongyan smiled at Yan Yan and looked at the Yangchun noodles brought by the boss without moving his chopsticks.
Su Zhen raised her eyebrows and suddenly smiled mischievously, "How about waiting for me to save enough salary and invite you, General, to go to Jiyuefang to listen to music?"
Xiao Chuhong claimed to be a gentleman and would not like the Land of Wind and Moon. She said casually, guessing that he would forget it in a short time.
It's a pity...
"It's better to choose a different day than to hit the sun. Let's go tonight."
"Ah? General, are you so impatient? But I'm a little tight lately..."
When Xiao Chuhong came just now, he saw that she was eating with gusto. He picked up a piece of sauce-flavored pancake on her plate and took a bite. The skin was thin and crispy, and it was salty and delicious, with a sweet and spicy taste. No wonder they came to eat it often.
"I have long heard that Mr. Su is stingy, and it seems that he is indeed so."
She was criticized for being stingy every day, but now she really wanted to defend herself.
"No...General Xiao...my father cut off my moon silver two days ago. If I don't know how to restrain myself, why don't I tell him clearly that I have a small treasury?"
Small treasury? Gold sales cave is more or less the same!
Xiao Chuhong looked around and raised his voice, "In that case, take my leave. Mr. Su can come to see me at any time if he has made up his mind."
Su Zhen was confused, why didn't this person follow the routine? Shouldn't they be bargaining, and then after a verbal dispute, one party would compromise, and finally reach an agreement reluctantly? This chapter has been completed!