"Xiaoyi has grown up, and I don't even know how to help you in the future..."
Lou Xiaoyi held her hand, "You have always helped me, and you will continue to do so in the future. The only difference is that please allow me to help you in the future...
Aunt Cai, is it better not to tell mother about this? If she knows that both of us are thinking about how to cheat, she won’t be able to spare us!"
Aunt Caihuan smiled bitterly, "I am so old that I have reached a unified alliance with a little hozen like you. Do you think I am going back as I live longer? But this is just this time. If you are not honest in the future, I will not be blamed for having a relationship with you. Such a common secret will accommodate you!"
Walking to the door, Aunt Caihuan looked back at him, "Xiao Yi, I really didn't find a wife for you this time, because I firmly believe that you can get the certificate! But this is not a reason for you to indulge! Go to the Li Mansion Courtyard, Can't you just avoid certain people?"
Lou Xiaoyi was ashamed and bowed repeatedly. The news of his friendly tryst with Sister Li had reached Aunt Caihuan. In fact, this was not careless on his part, but rather deliberate.
Personality needs to be managed. If you want to hide one aspect, you have to expose another aspect. What else can conceal his true nature as a practitioner than a reputation that is more romantic and dissolute?
...That night, a banquet from Yafeng House was delivered to the Lou Mansion. Someone specially ordered it for Mr. Lou’s family.
Lou Xiaoyi closed the door and enjoyed it alone, like her mother and Aunt Caihuan, who basically didn't eat the food from restaurants outside because they thought it was too greasy.
There are eight dishes in total, but I don’t know where the answer is hidden, and there is no hint. Each porcelain plate has the name of the dish, otherwise Lou Xiaoyi, who has never been to Yafeng Restaurant, might not recognize half of it. Spring and Autumn duck, jade tripe, Wen Dao fish, bamboo tube meat, eight-color platter, fried flowers, hometown tofu, Weishi cake, four meat and four vegetables, it is a very affordable table, and it does not look luxurious.
Yafeng Restaurant is a very special restaurant. To be honest, it belongs to the mid-range level in Pucheng. Its characteristic is that each dish is named after a sentence or an allusion from the classics, so this place is suitable for scholars. My favorite, it's more elegant, although even if it's called a literary word, it's still a duck's ass!
The dishes are all served on porcelain, and this kind of information cannot be cast on the porcelain to leave evidence of crime, so it can only be in the eight dishes.
If you want to play this trick with me, can't you be more upright?
If you eat all eight dishes, you will definitely gain something, but this does not show his Lou Xiaoyi’s mind!
I went through the names of the eight dishes in my mind, and I had some idea. I took the plate of Wen Dao fish, put my chopsticks into the fish's mouth, pinched it, and took out a tightly sealed oil paper bag. I spat in my heart: Wen Dao, Wen Tao. ?Is this Li San scolding me?
Opening the oil-paper bag, well, there is still a layer of oil-paper bag inside. It seems that Li San is not stupid. He knows that this thing has been left in the fish's belly for a long time and is easily soaked. When he opens it again, there is still a layer of oil-paper bag...
Lou Xiaoyi was a little angry. Is Li San deliberately teasing him?
Open the last layer of the oil paper bag... it's empty, gone!
Realizing that he had been teased, Lou Xiaoyi became interested instead. This was obviously Li San testing his intelligence. He never thought about what would happen if he really couldn't guess? But for him, if he came to ask tomorrow, then But it's a bit embarrassing.
After carefully looking at the table, I soon discovered that each plate was of different specifications, and each one was different, oddly shaped, and all had defects. Some had gaps and some had a protrusion. , it was not thrown, but it was sintered in this way on purpose.
It is impossible for Yafeng Restaurant to arrange such a plate for food delivery. It must be in a unified format so that it is easy to carry. So it goes without saying that the dishes may be from Yafeng Restaurant, but someone changed the plate. Who did this? Except Li
The third one is boring. It seems that no one would do such a meaningless thing.
Lou Xiaoyi made a guess and started assembling the dinner plates. Sure enough, every two dinner plates could always be found to fit perfectly. For example, the spring and autumn duck and the eight-color platter were paired together.
The oval-shaped food plate, and so on, bamboo tube meat and fried flowers can be combined, jade belly and hometown tofu can be combined, Wen Dao fish and teacher cake can be combined...
There are four questions in Zhaoye Kingdom’s Xia Wei Examination!
Two essays on the scriptures, one on the meaning of the scriptures, one on policy questions, and finally the overall score is the basis for whether a scholar can pass the exam.
The combination of Spring and Autumn Duck and Eight-Colored Platter actually means, Chapter 7 of the Classic of Spring and Autumn Period, why not Chapter 8? Because one color of the eight-colored platter was eaten by Li San! There is no doubt that this is the topic of this exam.
One of the scripture questions is like a fill-in-the-blank question in the previous life, covering the two sentences before and after, leaving only the middle one for the candidates to answer.
Similarly, the combination of jade belly and laojiazhuang tofu means the jade chapter of the classic book [Laojiazhuang Note], which is another sutra topic.
Bamboo tube meat and fried flowers are placed together, which is the title of the classic article "Bamboo tube flowers". This is a very famous allusion in Confucianism.
The fish and the teacher's cake are placed together, and the meaning is clear: there is a sequence for hearing the Tao, and the one who masters it is the teacher! This is a policy topic!
It couldn't be wrong, it must be like this. After Lou Xiaoyi solved the mystery, he didn't feel excited, but felt deeply the awe-inspiring intelligence of the people in this world!
A businessman can carry out such a fraud that may lead to the destruction of his family so seamlessly that even if people know that the Li family is leaking the truth, they can't find definite evidence!
The dishes are all from Yafeng Restaurant. They come naturally. Can you care about what I order?
Ordinary mortals are like this, so what will happen to practitioners? It’s a bit shuddering!
Lou Xiaoyi regretted his actions in the afternoon. It was not whether he should do it or not, but he should be more prepared. At the very least, he should wear more gowns and change them more times. Because he was afraid of the heat, he only wore three.
pieces!
There are many others…
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Pucheng, the most central place, is a tall and majestic official area. In a remote and hidden place at the back, a middle-aged man in casual clothes is closing his eyes and concentrating. It seems peaceful, but his fingers are constantly tapping on the armrest of the Taishi chair.
But it revealed the anxiety in his heart.
Something happened today that made him very uneasy. He needed an answer, an answer whether to continue or to stop here!
Although his words are almost the only voice in this city, there are still some mysterious existences in this world. You can dismiss them as worthless in a big sense, but the real high-ranking people know very well what those mysteries represent.
That's not something you can easily offend, not just him, but also many big shots in Zhaoye Kingdom who are above him!
Now, he has to rely on the help of that power. Otherwise, with the abilities of the wastes under his hands, it will take an unknown amount of time to figure out this matter? The most important thing is that even if there are some secrets, it will not be possible.
Let these big-mouthed house arresters know that it is better not to investigate than to do this.
Only those with mysterious abilities have the ability to obtain the truth in a short period of time. The most reassuring thing is that they are not interested in the intrigues in the world. They only do things without asking the reason. This is what he seeks from them.
