After breakfast, Mr. Ji went to the Imperial College to teach.
Ji Ling was also studying in the Imperial College, but he had been away from home for several months and had many things to attend to, so he did not go on leave.
Mrs. Ji greeted her younger son: "My cousin has just come to the capital. You can take her out for a walk."
Ji Xiaowu pointed at his nose: "Me? I want to go to school!"
Mrs. Ji looked at him with disdain: "When did you go to school seriously? Either skipped school or fell asleep in class. You don't have to go to school today, just take your cousin out for a walk!"
"..." Ji Xiaowu took a sip of blood and looked at Mingwei depressedly. He found that she looked calm and even smiled at him, and said softly: "Thank you, my fifth cousin."
Not only did she lie, she also acted!
How terrible!
Didn't you say that this cousin was born stupid? Why did he look like this after he recovered?
"Why are you still standing there?" Mrs. Ji threw a money bag and said, "Go to the carriage and horse dealership to rent a car. Don't make your cousin tired, or you'll be careful about your skin!"
Before Ji Xiaowu could speak, Mingwei said, "Auntie, there's no need to rent a car. I brought the driver here."
"Oh!" Madam Ji finally remembered, "Well, your own coachman is more at ease. Xiao Wu, what are you doing standing around? Go and get ready!"
Ji Xiaowu looked aggrieved, turned around and walked out.
He has finally seen through it. Everyone in this family has a higher status than him! It used to be his father, mother, brother, sister-in-law, and little Pearl, but now he has a cousin!
I also heard Mingwei talking to Mrs. Ji: "The case is still under trial. I'm afraid the Yamen will send someone to summon you. I'll just hang out for a while and then come back."
His mother became more and more kind: "Don't worry, you just arrived in Beijing yesterday. It will take a few days before you start asking questions. Just relax and have fun."
Ji Xiaowu's teeth were sore that he hurried to the outer courtyard to find the driver.
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Half an hour later, Mingwei sat in the carriage and wandered to the market.
"It smells so good!" Duofu took a deep breath.
Mingwei looked at the scene outside through the car window.
Freshly baked Hu Pancakes, with the aroma of burnt sesame seeds, are stacked on the table. The aroma of baked wheat is particularly strong and can be smelled from afar.
Ji Xiaowu sat next to the coachman, swinging a riding whip in his hand, and lazily introduced to her: "Yujia Hu Cake is the most delicious in the whole Yunjing. The late emperor ate it once and often sent people to buy it.
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After Mingwei finished listening, she asked him: "That's it?"
Ji Xiaowu was puzzled: "Otherwise? What else do you want to hear? Can you become an immortal after eating it?"
Mingwei said: "Since it is the most delicious, cousin didn't say anything?"
Ji Xiaowu's face darkened for a while, then he jumped out of the car: "Wait!"
Not long after, he came back with a stack of biscuits, gnawed one himself, threw another to the coachman, and handed the rest into the carriage.
After passing the Hu Cake Shop, I saw a big oil pan standing in front of the shop.
The snow-white tofu is piled up neatly, picked up with long chopsticks, slid into the oil pan, and quickly fried until golden in color. It is served in a fine white porcelain bowl, sprinkled with chives, and drizzled with spicy sauce.
"The Shen family's fried tofu. They have been making this for hundreds of years. They sold fried tofu in Yunjing in the previous dynasty, and they are still selling it now."
Mingwei had finished eating the Hu cake and continued to look at him.
Ji Xiaowu was stared at by her for a while, then he cursed lowly, wiped the crumbs off his hands, and went to buy fried tofu.
So Mingwei and Duofu each got a bowl.
After walking two steps, I saw a long queue again.
"Fifth cousin, what is that?"
"That's Wuji Black Plum Soup, as clear as amber, sweet and sour in the mouth..."
Halfway through, seeing her expression, Ji Xiaowu continued to resign himself to queuing up to buy plum soup.
After a while, he came back with two bowls of plum soup. Mingwei took one bowl and stretched out his hand.
Ji Xiaowu had just raised it halfway and stared at her hand: "What for? I want to drink!"
"Don't drink it yet!"
Ji Xiaowu glared angrily: "She is just a maid, why should she rob me?"
Even if everyone in the family ranks ahead of him, now even the status of the maid is above him?
Mingwei looked at him and smiled.
Ji Xiaowu laughed so hard at her. Thinking that he and a maid were competing for plum soup at a reduced price, he resignedly handed over the bowl and went to line up again.
After drinking the black plum soup, he saw the next mutton shop. Before Mingwei could say anything, Ji Xiaowu said first, "You don't want to eat again, do you? You just had breakfast. You can't even eat it all the way."
Don’t you want to go down?”
Mingwei still looked at him and smiled.
Ji Xiaowu persisted for a while, then turned to go to the mutton shop.
They walked and ate all the way, and eventually Ji Xiaowu even burped after eating, but the two of them were still fine.
He was puzzled: "Can't you two eat enough?"
Duofu answered honestly: "How can you hold on? If you eat it, the magic power will be gone and it will be gone."
Ji Xiaowu's eyes widened: "What? What did you just say? Say it again!"
Duofu repeated: "How can you hold on?"
"No, another sentence."
"As soon as the magic power circulates, it is gone?"
"Yes, yes!" Ji Xiaowu was excited, "You ugly girl, you actually have magic power?"
Just as Duofu was about to answer, Mingwei spoke first: "Duofu."
"Miss?"
"What should you do if someone doesn't talk to you politely?"
Duofu thought for a while: "Ignore him?"
Mingwei nodded: "Yes."
So Duofu shut up.
Ji Xiaowu was angry: "Why am I not polite? I've been shopping with you for so long and I didn't answer even a single question!"
Mingwei asked him: "Ugly girl, are you very polite?"
"Uh..." he whispered, "just a maid, that's all!"
Mingwei turned to talk to the driver: "Go to that street."
"Hey!" Ji Xiaowu said hurriedly, "Okay, okay, can I be wrong?" He bowed to Duofu and said, "I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing."
Duofu went to see his young lady and saw her nodding her head and replied: "Yes, I have magic power."
Ji Xiaowu hurriedly asked: "Is it the kind of magic that allows you to fly into the sky and escape from the earth? Can you travel thousands of miles in a day?"
Ming smiled: "The kind of magic power you mentioned does not exist. Duofu's magic power is just to drive away ghosts and suppress evil spirits or something like that!"
"Exorcise ghosts and suppress evil spirits!" Ji Xiaowu's eyes lit up, "Is it mystic arts? I heard that there are very few people who know mystical arts, but I heard that people in Xuandu Temple do, but their eyes are all on the top of their heads.
, and ignored people at all. I used to kneel in Xuandu Temple for several days and nights, but the result..."
Realizing that he had spilled the beans, Ji Xiaowu hurriedly shut up.
Ming looked at him with a squinting smile: "You actually went to Xuandu Temple to kneel there? What happened next?"
Seeing that she didn't mean to laugh at him, Ji Xiaowu continued: "Forget it, they ignored me. Later, my brother went to drag me back. Isn't it written like this in the book? I knelt for days and nights.
It would be best if it rained heavily, and the master would be moved by his sincerity."
Ming Wei said to herself, only fools believe this. People who want to learn mystic arts and have the highest talent, but are not attractive to them, will kneel to death and they will not pay attention to them.