Chapter three hundred and forty-eight with ulterior motives
The woman stopped in front of Tang Ning. Tang Ning looked at her and asked, "Girl, what's wrong?"
She looked at Tang Ning, pointed in the direction she came from, and asked, "Did you buy the secret recipe of tofu pudding?"
Tangning nodded and asked, "Do you want to buy it too?"
The woman said: "It's delicious, I'll buy it too."
Tangning looked at her and asked, "Why don't you go to that girl to buy it?"
After all, this was someone else's secret recipe. Although he bought it, he couldn't give it to others without the woman's consent.
The woman in front of me said: "She said she sold it to you, and it belongs to you. She asked me to buy it from you."
She took out a few copper coins from her arms, stretched out her hand, and said, "Is it enough?"
Since the landlady had already agreed, Tang Ning naturally didn't care. He didn't lack these few coins. He handed her the secret recipe and said, "You can take a copy."
Tang Ning found a teahouse, gave the waiter two pennies, and borrowed paper and pen from him.
Watching the woman make a fist with one hand, holding the brush in her hand, and writing the secret recipe one stroke at a time. Although she seemed to be very attentive, the words she wrote were crooked, even those written by the three-year-old daughter of the old Zheng family.
Not as good as.
Even though it was ugly, it was still extremely slow. Tangning couldn't help it anymore, grabbed the pen from her hand, and quickly helped her copy out the secret recipe.
The woman took the piece of paper, looked at him, and said, "Your handwriting is beautiful."
Tangning put away her secret recipe, stood up, and said, "I'm leaving. See you again when we have a chance."
"Wait a minute." The woman stopped him, pointed at the paper, and asked, "What is this?"
Tangning looked at it and said, "Soy beans."
"Soy beans?" The woman looked at her and asked doubtfully, "What is it?"
"You don't know what soybeans are?"
The woman shook her head.
Tang Ning was a little suspicious, which ravine did this girl come from? She didn't even know what soybeans were, so what's the use of the secret recipe of tofu curd...
Moreover, how remote is it to be in a place that doesn’t even have soybeans?
Tangning looked at her and asked, "What do people eat in your hometown?"
The woman thought for a while and said: "Meat, beef, mutton, and looted grain."
"Robbing food?" Tangning was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did you rob it?"
"If you don't rob others, others will rob you." The woman's eyes were still fixed on the secret recipe and she said, "If others rob the food, they will starve to death."
Regardless of what kind of uncivilized nation this girl belongs to, her Chinese sentences and expressions really gave Tangning a headache. He looked at her and asked, "Who did this girl learn Chinese from?"
"Master, I am Han." The woman pointed to another word on the paper and asked, "What is this?"
"star anise."
"What's the octagonal one?"
Tang Ning rubbed her eyebrows. She was such a good girl, but her words sounded like Japanese devils.
He took a deep breath and asked, "Did your master teach you not to talk like this?"
The woman opposite looked at him and asked, "Then, what should I say?"
"If you want to speak Chinese well, you must first understand the structure of a sentence. The simplest one is subject, predicate, object..."
"Take the sentence "You like tofu pudding" as an example. The subject is you, the predicate is like, and the object is tofu pudding. There is no need to pause in the middle..."
"In addition to subject, predicate and object, there are also definite adjectives and complements. If you remember this song, you will never go wrong..."
…
An hour later, at the door of the teahouse, the woman waved to Tang Ning and said, "Next time you come to my hometown, I'll treat you to kumis!"
Watching her leave with her pigtails swaying, Tang Ning stood at the door of the teahouse, feeling her mouth go dry for a while.
He felt that he was really free and spent an hour teaching her grammar just because he couldn't get used to her Japanese-style Chinese.
Sure enough, he is still an angry young man at heart.
However, in this hour, her progress was also very obvious. At least she didn't jump out word by word like before. She even learned to omit sentences, which made Tangning feel a little comforted.
He looked up at the sky. The sun was almost setting, and it was time to go back to the inn.
In another dilapidated inn, a woman paced in the room and murmured in a low voice: "The subject predicates the guest, the predicate is the predicate, the predicate is the predicate, and the main branch and leaves are clearly separated. The attributive must be in front of the subject and the guest, and the predicate is the predicate and the predicate is the predicate... "
The door to the room was pushed open and a middle-aged woman walked in.
She walked forward quickly and asked: "Master is back, how is it? Have you found out any news?"
The middle-aged woman shook her head and said: "The inn is surrounded by guards, and no one can get close within a hundred feet. It seems that we can only wait until later to take action."
The woman clenched her fists and said: "No matter what, we can't let them succeed. We must destroy the marriage between Chen and Chu. We can't let them go to the grassland to snatch our things!"
The middle-aged woman nodded, then seemed to remember something, turned to look at her, and said in surprise: "Yan'er, what are you talking about..."
"My Chinese is much better than before. I can also speak tongue twisters!" the woman said happily: "Phoenix is painted on the pink wall, phoenix is painted on the pink wall. Red phoenix, pink phoenix, red phoenix flower phoenix... "
The middle-aged woman looked at her and asked, "Who taught you this?"
"I met a good man today, and he taught me." The young woman said, "It turns out that Han people also have good people. He also taught me how to speak Chinese. I learned a lot today."
The middle-aged woman frowned and said, "Tell me honestly what's going on."
The young woman recounted what happened today and then said: "He also gave me the secret recipe. I don't think he is a bad person."
The middle-aged woman looked at her and said seriously: "People are unpredictable. Even if we get along day and night, we can't see through people's hearts. He is so enthusiastic when we first meet you. Maybe he has ulterior motives. You should pay more attention when getting along with others in the future." With one mind..."
The woman didn't take it seriously and murmured: "What other motives could he have? He saved us today..."
"Save you?" The middle-aged woman frowned and asked, "What trouble did you get into?"
The young woman rolled her eyes and said: "Master, I also learned a tongue twister today, why don't you listen... Shishi, a poet in the stone chamber, loves lions and swears to eat ten lions. His name is always ten or ten..."
…
It was said that they were staying in Yunzhou for three days, but in fact they were only staying for two days. On the morning of the third day, Lu Teng and He Rui came over to discuss the departure.
This is because although the two sick envoys have improved, they are still very weak and cannot go on the road without ten and a half days of rest. The entire team cannot wait for them for ten and a half days, so they can only leave them here first.
In addition to He Rui, there were six people in the accompanying envoy who were King Duan's chess pieces. So far, Tang Ning's notebook had been marked with four "x"s. Counting He Rui, there were three other people from King Duan, but the distance Not even half of the time, nearly half of the envoys had been lost. If another one was lost, as the chief officer, it would be difficult for him to explain to Emperor Chen when he returned.
The other two were fine, but He Rui was really an eyesore along the way. They would definitely find ways to cause trouble for him when they got to Chu State. When they got to Chu State, it would be better to find an opportunity to arrange for him.
Four of the six envoys had left. He Rui was feeling extremely depressed when he suddenly felt a line of sight. He looked up and saw Tang Ning looking at him with a thoughtful look on his face. This look made him feel cold in his heart.
I couldn't help but shuddered.
Lu Teng spread out a huge map, pointed to a route on it, and said: "There is more than one road from here to Chu State, but in the end they all pass through Fengzhou, which is the northernmost state capital of Chen State.
, after passing Fengzhou, and walking for another day, we only need to cross two mountains, and we will reach the border of Chu State."
He pointed to one of the routes and said: "This route is the safest. You can reach Fengzhou in about half a month by taking this route. What do you two adults think?"
Tangning looked away from He Rui, nodded and said, "Commander Lu thinks it's okay, let's choose that one."
He Rui had no objection. After nodding, he saw Tang Ning looking over again and couldn't help but ask, "Master Tang, why do you keep looking at me?"
Tangning glanced at him and said, "You won't lose a piece of meat just by looking at him. You're stingy..."
