"The more people you have, the easier it will be to make decisions. Suppose there are five people now who are Xiangyin believers. How can we prevent them from feeling like they have killed someone without killing someone? This is easy to do. Five people
Without knowing it, five orders were received - all are opaque and unknown to each other, but they can also be verified afterwards. A learned that he wanted to find a knife, and B learned that he wanted to polish a knife.
Bing, Ding and Mao were told separately that they were going to put the knife on
Somewhere, contact someone, ask someone to stand somewhere. This sounds very piecemeal, doesn’t it? These five people also have other tasks, which are to entrust people who are not believers among them to ask them to do unrelated things.
Things... these unrelated things accumulate layer by layer, and there is a relationship. When they are connected together, it is a murder, but no one feels that they are the murderer. They all feel that they are just obeying orders or helping someone.
Busy in exchange for reward."
A few people were extremely quiet.
"Damn it." Bai Ya cursed, "You're so fucking shameless."
"But you can't say who is at fault. They were just doing their own thing... Of course, we have no way of knowing whether they killed someone or not. It's not the Xiangyin Sect's style to blatantly take someone's life. I just
Just give me an example."
"You can give such an example, I'm afraid I'm still biased against them, right?"
Qi Huan asked tentatively, but Liu Shenghan neither answered nor nodded. However, she did not shake her head in denial.
Back to the subject. Bai Ya was always sober as to what issue they were discussing in the first place.
"So, the monarch was involved? Based on this, you doubt his loyalty?"
She said this: "This matter is based on my long-term observation. It cannot be explained to you overnight. Just believe me and I will tell you why - if he is really a devout believer, he will not be able to explain it to you when he discovers that the painting is not the God of Fragrance."
The first glance will expose us and demand a true portrait righteously."
Jun Aoyan was thoughtful: "But he didn't..."
"Not only did it not happen, it didn't even say what the painting was..."
Qi Huan started thinking again and kept tapping his nails on the table, making a clicking sound.
"If he bluntly said that it was him in the painting, everyone in the court would doubt our identity. But he did not say: he was protecting us, so he did not expose our 'unfair' intentions. But this will not prevent us from stepping down. We
Can’t we just say that we got the wrong painting?”
"Then why didn't you say there were two when you paid tribute?"
"Are you stupid?" Bai Ya directly contradicted Ao Yan, "I'm afraid Gandharva's arrogance is very big. If he and the king are really treated as equals, I'm afraid he will have a lot of objections. The king of this country doesn't want to get into trouble.
.”
"Then he also made it clear that it was not this thing?"
"At best, people around him think that we just want to bribe him to increase the possibility of asking to see the God of Fragrance, and they don't think too much about it."
"I see……"
"Shenghan is so awesome!"
After this check, Jun Aoyan's impression of Miss Liu has improved by more than one level. The other two people naturally admit her intelligence, but if they stay here long enough, the more people they meet, the more things they know.
The more information there is, the more similar conclusions can be drawn. It’s hard work for her to spend such a long time here alone.
They wanted to review some other things, but at this moment, Ajaan suddenly knocked on the door. So they had to give up the short conversation and called her in. Two maids came in with her, both holding dinner plates.
, about all the dishes for this meal have been put on the table. This is different from their hometown, just ordinary people. I heard that when nobles eat or entertain guests, different dishes have different orders, and everything is very particular.
A few people didn't say anything. It was good to have food, and there were many tricks. The other two people bowed and left. Ajaan stood at the table holding a tray with several wet handkerchiefs in it.
On standby.
The food in Xiangjiguo looked too normal. They were all starving after not eating for so long. But is there something missing on the table? Bai Ya held it in for a long time and said slowly:
"Is this preparation...to catch it with your hands?"
"Where are the chopsticks?" Jun Aoyan also asked.
"Chopsticks?" Ajaan looked confused, "What chopsticks? Ah, ah, you mean the kind with long, thin bamboo strips?"
"Uh, yes! Where?"
"We don't use that kind of thing here," Ajaan explained. "Just grab what you want to eat with your hands. You see, these handkerchiefs soaked in flower juice are used to wipe your hands before meals."
Jun Aoyan didn't mind, after all, their military life was so simple and rough. If they were a little more particular, they could break off two straighter branches on the spot. Liu Shenghan knew about it, so he had no objection. Bai Ya and Qi
Although it was not that Huan had never lived such a careless life, it was just the norm throughout the country and it was still difficult to get used to it in such a short period of time.
"……OK."
Bai Ya raised his hand and grabbed a handkerchief and rubbed it casually. Those handkerchiefs were extremely soft, like juicy petals, showing a light pink color. The pink handkerchief was immediately wiped gray by him. Ajaan handed the tray over.
, everyone took it and wiped their hands. Jun Aoyan lowered his head and smelled it twice more.
"Smells really good."
"It doesn't matter if you wiped it clean or not, as long as it smells good, it'll be fine." Bai Ya sneered.
They just put some dry food in the morning, but by now the sky was dimming and they were all starving. Qi Huan just stretched out his paw and landed on a fruit, grabbed it and was about to put it into his mouth. A Jiang suddenly took a step forward.
, He wanted to speak but stopped.
"What are you doing?" Qi Huan's hand froze in front of his mouth, "Can't you eat this?"
"That one has to... be peeled off." A Jiang carefully gestured.
"Peel it off?"
"That's right. Look, there's an eye at the back. Open it from there and eat what's inside."
Bai Ya tried to do it, and the white stuffing was exposed in the cool fruit, which was steaming. The stuffing looked like rice, but not like rice. It was just particles made of yellow-white fine sand, mixed with chopped...
Pulp. It smells sweet and tastes sweet.
"That's right." Ajaan was as happy as teaching a child who had just learned to eat. "Don't eat that black and purple shell. It will be poisonous if you eat it."
Their hands were frozen in the air again, and they really didn't know whether they should speak or not. Ajaan continued to explain, saying that it would not be a big deal if you got some on it, but your lips would be numb, and it would only be fine if you eat it. And the fillings inside,
It is the staple food of Xiangji Kingdom. It was originally a crop widely planted in a certain town in the past. It comes from a hollow tree, and starch will be produced inside before blooming. However, once it blooms, the contents of dozens or hundreds of kilograms will be lost.
would disappear overnight. Later people discovered
, this tree is easy to grow, has low cost and high yield, so farmers have widely planted it. As for the method, it is mixed with water, placed in bamboo joints or fruits and steamed in a pot. Usually some chopped vegetables or fruits are added to it.
The black-purple fruit is also very interesting. It is said that the entire fruit is poisonous, but after heating it in boiling water, the pulp will spread outward and form a thick and crisp skin with the outer skin, which weakens the toxicity. Then pour rice inside.
, just put it into the pot and steam it for the second time.
This was the staple food. Next, Ajaan really explained to them the order of what to eat one by one, just like teaching children. It turned out that the temperature of every food on the table was just right, and it changed with the time of eating.
, the hot ones gradually cool down, and the hard ones slowly soften. Each dish is taken into the mouth at the most suitable time. This makes several people feel fresh.
The most unbearable thing is probably a rabbit wrapped in animal offal. It's like one wrapped in another. They have only eaten beggar's chicken, belly chicken, and this is the first time for rabbit meat - or
A whole rabbit with its hair plucked.
Although they had heard similar dishes in their hometown, they didn't know it was so fishy. Qi Huan whispered, saying that this thing was well cooked and there shouldn't be any peculiar smell. But Ajiang said that this was the specialty dish of the imperial kitchen.
It's the original flavor.
"Then why don't I chase the rabbit and chew it."
This is Bai Ya's evaluation.
The pottery pot with the lid always covered was a soup. Liu Shenghan said that she had been looking forward to this dish for a long time. She had never forgotten it since she tasted it at the banquet last time. This made other people eager to eat it. She waited until it was time to open the lid.
When the soup was served, the soup was just right. Unfortunately, there was only one big spoon for dividing the soup, and there were no chopsticks or small spoons. After Ajaan was served to them, they could only take one mouthful.
That's a mushroom stew.
It sounds very ordinary, but it still makes several people unable to eat it. Only Liu Shenghan picked up the bowl naturally. The reason is probably that its color is too strange. As we all know, bright mushrooms are their warning.
If you ignore the advice and eat it, it can be fatal in severe cases. The mushrooms were not chopped into pieces, but put into the pot as they were until cooked.
Jun Aoyan's expression was hard to describe. She looked at Liu Shenghan, who was blowing the soup noodles gracefully, and felt a little embarrassed. Holding the bowl, she turned it around slightly and observed the contents. There were blue mesh-shaped bacteria.
, like a net bag; the green umbrella cover is also decorated with
The golden "drops" were not even broken; the rod-shaped pink mushrooms were like deformed sarcomas. Although they were not too big, looking up at other people's bowls, there were more exaggerated things, but she
I really don’t have the courage to chew and swallow.
"You are in for a treat!" Ajaan said seriously, "In order to maintain the shape and color of the fungus, it needs to be simmered for several hours. If the monarch hadn't been greedy today, he wouldn't have had time to prepare it for you. But this thing is a
It’s just a big pot, and those of us who have a good relationship with the Imperial Kitchen can also get a share of the pie.”
"Ah...Old Bai, look -"
"Don't look."
"Is this really possible..." Jun Aoyan frowned and looked at Liu Shenghan, "Will nothing happen?"
"I suggest you see if Madam Liu is poisoned and die within a quarter of an hour before making a decision."
