Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

"Eat quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold." Li Xu was really hungry. After eating two bowls of rice, he didn't eat much food on the table. There was no way, boiled fish every day, no matter how delicious it was, he was tired of eating it.

The people in the family didn't touch chili at first, but when he got tired of eating it, they liked it. Although they couldn't eat too spicy, they felt that they couldn't eat without adding some chili to the dishes, so Aunt Xu also got used to cooking. Chili, it's just that the stock of chili at home is in a hurry, and it probably won't last long.

Kou Xiao took a mouthful of the fish, but he didn't feel anything unusual when he ate it. After he swallowed it, he realized that his lips were hot and his tongue was numb and hot. I don't dare to show it because I see more strange things.

But he gave up the big plate of fish after this one bite, and picked up a piece of tofu instead. He still likes tofu, and he missed it after going out for a month. His throat rushed into his stomach, and his eyes widened in horror.

He hurriedly took a big mouthful of rice, chewed it slowly, let the sweetness of the rice grains remove the spicy taste in his mouth, and felt better after several mouthfuls. Now he was in trouble, he couldn't just eat nothing.

But apart from these two dishes on the table, there was also a vegetable he didn't like, and the chicken soup in front of Ye Changqing.

After Ye Changqing listened to the persuasion, he obediently drank the soup obediently. In just a short while, half of the pot of chicken soup went down, and even the chicken was eaten by him. Seeing his posture, Kou Xiao felt embarrassed to talk to a patient. Grab food.

Li Xu watched his embarrassment while eating, but he didn't point it out, he was happy after eating a meal, he thought to himself that you deserve it, and let you suffer.

When he was full, he put down his chopsticks and watched Kou Xiao eat his rice curiously, "Why doesn't General Kou eat more food, there are still so many left." After speaking, he enthusiastically brought food for him.

Kou Xiao didn't want to eat or not, he stared at the food in the bowl and then at Li Xu's smiling face, mixed the food with chopsticks, and swallowed it into his mouth.

Huh?It seems to be quite delicious.

Kou Xiao took another bite in disbelief. Sure enough, the taste was very good. Although it was a little spicy, it was neutralized by the rice, and the spiciness was moderate. Especially tofu, it was especially good to eat with rice. I finished my mouth.

Kou Xiao seemed to have opened the door to a new world. He ate several bowls of rice in a row. He ate a plate of mapo tofu until there was no soup left. He picked out the bones of the fish and ate it with rice. The side dishes were beyond his ability to accept. I didn't touch it, but I had a good meal anyway.

Li Xu saw that his lips were red after eating, and his eye sockets were also red. He is actually not very old. He cleaned up his beard and dressed younger. He looked like an ordinary boy, but his temperament was too calm. It's the appearance of being dragged to the sky that makes people ignore his age.

Li Xu felt that he was being suspected of bullying the younger, so he let Wu Jin bring in some tea to rinse his mouth after a few muffled laughs, and put out fruit for him to eat to relieve the spicy food.

After Kou Xiao ate a few peaches, he pointed to the red oil on the plate and asked, "What kind of seasoning is this? Why does it taste so strange?"

"This thing is called chili, and this taste is called spicy. People who can't eat it find it too stimulating and can't stand it. People who love it can't live without it. This king loves this taste."

"How did the prince come up with the idea of ​​using this chili pepper for cooking?" He felt that most people would never think of putting this kind of flavor with food. Isn't this asking for guilt?

"This king didn't come up with it either. This pepper was introduced from the Western Regions. When Lei Yang came back, he brought a bag of it. This king just tried it. I didn't expect it to be delicious, and the pepper can remove moisture. Eating some is also good for the body."

Kou Xiao really has no research on eating, so he especially admires Li Xu's spirit of daring to innovate, "The prince really dares to try everything, and he is not afraid of eating problems."

How could there be no problem with eating, Li Xu went in and out of the toilet more than a dozen times after eating spicy dishes on the first day, since that day, he has not dared to cook too spicy dishes, today's boiled fish and chili only put three Just like that, Kou Xiao was still sweating profusely.

Ye Changqing was full and sleepy, and went back to sleep in a daze. Yan Chen came after he fell asleep, took his pulse, and looked at his whole body. Except for some scars, Ye Changqing's trauma had healed completely, but The physique is indeed a lot weaker.

Yan Chen's medical skills are still immature, but he knows that many prescriptions for body conditioning are passed down to him by Yan Yizheng. The experience accumulated in the court through the ages is definitely a first-class prescription. It was very useful to test it on Ji Hanyu before. Let's try Ye Changqing this time.

Over there, Kou Xiao didn't want to leave after eating, but Li Xu was so sleepy that he couldn't keep his eyes open, and he kept yawning when he talked to him, and kept talking about Liu Shu. When he got angry, he took the initiative to say goodbye.

Wu Jin sent him out, and Kou Xiao sized up the new recruit, and took out a purse from his pocket to give him, "Although Mr. Wu is young, he treats people in an orderly manner. Please take care of the prince during this time. It's hard work, Liu The steward will certainly be very pleased when he returns."

Wu Jin didn't understand what the point of his words was, so he took a step back, lowered his head and said: "The villain is not a manager, but just running errands by the prince's side for a while, General Kou praised him so much, it's not worth mentioning to take care of the prince." Work hard, go slowly."

"It's in this purse. It's not something valuable. It's just a trinket picked up from the seaside. This general uses it to coax the children."

Wu Jin was even more upset when he heard that, General Kou was coaxing him like a child, but since he said so, it would be a bit petty to refuse, so he accepted it generously, thanked him politely, and then treated him respectfully. Respectfully sent out the door.

Kou Xiao caressed his numb lips, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. This Wu Jin is much easier to deal with than Liu Shu, unlike that sycophant who clings to Li Xu every day and acts coquettish and cute. It would be a good thing if he could replace Liu Shu.

But thinking of Liu Shu's black face exposed to the wind and sun, he felt that Wu Jin was more threatening. Why is the prince surrounded by all the white faces? It will distort the prince's aesthetics if he sees too much. A man is naturally sunny and capable. What is called beauty.

Turning a corner and entering Kou's mansion, Kou Xiao went to greet the elder and Mrs. Kou. The Kou family was used to him not coming back for three days. They didn't even know that he was going to train the navy this time, and they only thought he was out. Suppress bandits.

Back in his own courtyard, Kou Xiao grabbed the old manager of the mansion and asked, "Has anything major happened in Xiyuan recently?"

The old manager has been paying close attention to the next door, and immediately reported: "The general is not here for a while, I don't know that there are several major events in Minzhou City, almost all of which are related to King Shun, and the old slave follows every day with his heart." If you are up and down, you are afraid that King Shun will make his idea on the Kou Mansion one day."

Kou Xiao scolded with a smile: "What nonsense, why would King Shun make plans for the Kou Mansion?"

The old housekeeper looked disapproving. He had heard from the old lady that King Shun's wings were getting stronger and stronger, and he had more capable people under him. Civil officials want to toss the generals, and his generals are the first to bear the brunt.

The old butler told Kou Xiao all the news he had collected during this period. In addition to the two straight and spacious roads in the city, there are also new-style residences. Heroic deeds.

"It's said outside that the prince wants to build a harem. He doesn't even have a personal maid by his side. He didn't take care of the previous affairs. This time, he even saved the etiquette of getting married. He went directly to the brothel to find the beauty. There are all of them."

Kou Xiao was jealous when he heard the news before, but after hearing the news from Lei Zhan, he realized that these people are useful, so he naturally didn't take it to heart, and this also made him more certain that Li Xu never hired people. Judging by his identity, he only looked at whether he was suitable or not, and he didn't know where this group of flower girls caught his eye, and what kind of tea art master he could be elected.

Moreover, Kou Xiao has no idea what a new thing a tea art master is. This prince always surprises people whenever he thinks about it.

"Don't worry about this, there is no conflict between our manor and the prince, if he needs Kou manor's help with something, you just do it."

"Don't worry, the old master also ordered us to do the same. It is not appropriate for us to start a conflict with the prince now. If the people outside think that the prince is a god, then, general, you have earned the title of God of War after several life and death battles. The prince has only been here for a few days. It is not someone we can afford to make the people bow down one after another."

Kou Xiao saw that his words became more and more exaggerated, and he knew in his heart that this was the idea instilled in him by his grandfather, and he didn't want to argue. Anyway, with him watching in this mansion, there will be no big disturbances.

"Okay, go get some new tea from the prince, and the general will have a taste."

"This..." The old housekeeper was troubled, "The old man took away the tea, he likes it, why don't you go to the old man's house to get it." Anyway, he didn't dare to go.

Kou Xiao glared at him, and the old housekeeper hurriedly rounded up the words, "It's the old slave who has lost his memory, and there are still a few bags left in the warehouse. The old slave will go get them now." After speaking, he left in a hurry.

As for where he got the tea, Kou Xiao couldn't control it. When he went back to the house to take a shower and change clothes, the old butler came with tea and tea sets, followed by a young and beautiful maid, dressed in The gorgeous begonia-colored bijia, with a snow-white skirt hanging down her head, Kou Xiao almost thought it was another girl who was given to him by his elders.

"General, this is a tea artist trained in our mansion, let her serve you tea."

"Heh, I learned it so quickly, okay, keep it, the general wants to see what the tea masters do."

The little servant girl is one of the five tea masters selected by the mansion. Recently, the tide has risen, and she is a little flustered. When she heard that she was coming to serve Kou Xiao, she was very happy. She felt that with her beauty and ability, she would definitely be able to enter General's eye.

So, she didn't put much effort into making the tea, and she just ostentatiously swayed and winked at Kou Xiao from the beginning to the end. Isn’t the tea artist here just another type of prostitute? No wonder we have to pick someone from Xifenglou.”

He doesn't think such an idea is useful. Most of the people who really love tea are literati and refined scholars. Which one of them is not a romantic libertine?How can you be fascinated by one or two beautiful flower girls, and if someone takes a fancy to the tea master and buys it forcibly, how can this business be done?

If Kou Xiao can't figure it out, he doesn't want to think about it. Anyway, he doesn't understand the tricks here. If the prince likes to mess around, let him mess around. Just like what he said at the beginning, the worst thing is to waste a year's tea leaves.

After brewing tea for an hour, Kou Xiao didn't drink a cup of tea, and finally threw the tea master who was about to undress out of the yard, and told the old housekeeper: "Our Kou family is a clean family, and we don't raise such shameless things. get out."

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Ye Changqing slept until dawn the next day, and was dazed when he woke up.It took a while to remember that he was in King Shun's mansion. Speaking of which, he saw that the courtyard was not that big yesterday, but he did not expect that the mansion in Minzhou was so simple.

Yan Chen came to him early in the morning with medicine, and after he finished drinking the medicine, he brought him tea and water, Ye Changqing teased him: "Why haven't you seen me for a while, Yan Xiaolang changed his career and became a servant now?"

Yan Chen rolled his eyes, "The lord said that the mansion is not enough, let me take care of you more, if you dislike my clumsiness, you can do it yourself."

"Okay, I'll do it myself, I'm not willing to use you as a child." After Ye Changqing wiped his face, he washed the handkerchief by himself, and poured out the water, without letting Yan Chen do anything.

Yan Chen is only 14 years old, he is the youngest in this mansion apart from the little princess, Li Xu once asked him to study together, but Yan Chen refused, he had studied when he was a child, it was enough for him, At that time, it would be better to study the letters left by my great-grandfather.

Li Xu thinks about it, too. There is a specialization in surgery. At this time, there is no medical university. If Yan Chen wants to become a qualified doctor, he must have to study for a long time, so he will not be restrained. Going to give free consultations to the common people, after a few months, he is still well-known in the local area.

But he himself said that he was still a novice, and he couldn't understand major illnesses. They are all gynecological diseases such as dysmenorrhea, which embarrass the child to death.

"My lord has been in Minzhou for a while, why didn't you see a few more servants in the mansion? I see it is still deserted."

"The prince said that enough people are enough. If there are too many people, there is no place to live. Besides, except for the little princess who needs someone to take care of him, everyone else takes care of himself. Even the prince has only one Wu Jin by his side, and all he does is outside errands."

Ye Changqing was still curious when he mentioned this matter, "I was shocked when I saw Director Liu in Zhangyi, and the prince was willing to let him go out."

Yan Chen didn't know much about these things at home. To him, he only knew where Liu Shu had gone, but he didn't know what he was going to do, and he had no interest in knowing, "It seems that the prince has no one to use."

There are only a few confidantes of the prince, and they can be counted on one hand. Naturally, Liu Shu will be entrusted with a heavy responsibility.

Ye Changqing sighed and said: "Under such circumstances, it is really not easy for the lord to remain single-minded. This palace is really not like a palace, it is too shabby."

"Who said this is the prince's mansion? This is the West Garden of Kou's mansion, which was lent to the prince to live temporarily."

Ye Changqing was stunned, "Ah! It's so, what about the palace?"

"The old palace was very dilapidated, and it cost a lot of money to rebuild it. The prince converted the old palace into a workshop. Now there is a grocery store and staff dormitories there." Yan Chen didn't quite talk about the staff dormitories. , These words are only recently contacted, and they are a bit of a mouthful.

Ye Changqing was even more confused. He grabbed Yan Chen's arm and looked at him, "Take me to have a look. I heard a lot of news about the prince along the way, but it all sounded like lies."

"Didn't you come back with General Kou, didn't you ask him?"

"Why didn't you ask? General Kou is very arrogant, and occasionally reveals a few words, which sounds more false than false. I don't know if he is trying to fool me."

Yan Chen didn't think so, because people who didn't see what the prince did would think it was a rumor. He took Ye Changqing to the old palace. It happened that the two of them didn't have breakfast, so they ate in the cafeteria there.

The cafeteria here can be eaten by anyone from the palace. Yan Chen also comes here for lunch when he goes out for free clinics. Everyone knows this little doctor. If someone comes to ask a doctor, he will patiently diagnose him. If you know, just say you don't know, and never fool people, so everyone likes him very much.

Seeing him bring a black and thin young man in today, everyone didn't pay attention, they all thought it was his patient.

They eat porridge with preserved egg tofu for breakfast, and each person gets three brown sugar steamed buns. The steamed buns are only made once a month, so they just happened to meet.

Yan Chen loves to eat pasta, and Ye Changqing naturally does the same. After all, he grew up as a snack. His eyes lit up when he saw the steamed buns. After taking a bite, he found that the taste was not what he had eaten before. "Why is it so sweet and soft? You won't be half full after three stomachs."

The brown sugar steamed buns are fermented, the size of the palm of an adult man, and they will form into a small ball when squeezed hard, and it really doesn't take up the stomach if you eat it.

"As long as it's delicious, you can eat rice cakes if you really want to be full."

Ye Changqing naturally prefers to eat steamed buns, he couldn't finish his own, so he snatched one from Yan Chen, and then cheated another from an old man at the next table, Yan Chen almost wanted to pretend that he didn't know him, it was so embarrassing.

But Ye Changqing said cheekily: "Everyone is the prince's people, that is a family, it doesn't matter if you are shameless occasionally, besides, I saw that you two couldn't eat, so I helped eat."

"Okay, you're right, but do you know who he is? You just go and lie to him for food."

"What is cheating? I obviously took it with his consent."

Yan Chen didn't want to discuss this issue with him, so he told him in a low voice: "The old man's name is Cen Jin, he is a great talent, and now he is in charge of dozens of craftsmen under the prince. Commander, it's a pity that the Sheriff's Mansion did not pass."

Ye Changqing didn't care much about an old man. He frowned and asked, "Why doesn't the governor's office agree? Nanyue is the prince's fiefdom. Naturally, he has the final say. Those people are bullying the prince."

"That's not necessarily the case. Who dares to underestimate our lord now, maybe it's a conflict of interest. In short, when you come back, you have to be cautious about these people and things, and don't cause trouble for the lord."

Ye Changqing naturally understands this truth, and he is not a troublemaker. Compared with people, he is more curious about food, especially tofu. The first time he ate it, it was very fresh, and he exclaimed loudly: "This tofu is made of beans, right?" , South Vietnam has such delicious food.”

Yan Chen looked around and saw that people around who heard this had cast inquiring gazes, and quickly explained: "This is invented by the prince, and so is this preserved egg. When you peel off the shell, you can see the beautiful pine pattern. Although it's strange, it tastes delicious with porridge, and the brown sugar is boiled with sugar cane juice, which is also made by the prince, why don't you understand anything?"

Ye Changqing expected that King Shun probably got the true biography of the God of Cookery and could always come up with weird delicacies. He glanced at Yan Chen and joked: "Don't worry, no one knows what I look like now, if you feel ashamed , just say that I am your patient."

"You..." Yan Chen had this thought, but it was still embarrassing to be said so.

"Haha! Doctor Xiao Yan is really not funny, I'm just kidding, don't be angry."

Yan Chen often went to the palace with his great-grandfather, and he had known Ye Changqing for a long time. Knowing his nature, he said weakly: "I saw that when you went out to sea, not only your face turned black, but also your heart, hmph!"

Ye Changqing stared at the plate of white and tender tofu with complicated eyes, not knowing how to answer this sentence.

Walking around the Old Palace, Ye Changqing was also shocked when he saw the neat dormitory buildings. Although the Southeast Navy Base is also a brick building, they only have one floor, and the two-story buildings look extraordinarily powerful.

Seeing the people coming and going, Ye Changqing was a little disappointed. He thought that he could be the right-hand man of King Shun by staying, but after going out to sea, he found that he was useless when he came back. There are many available people around the prince.

"Go back." Ye Changqing turned back to the palace and went straight to Li Xu's study, where the latter was waiting for him while reading the documents.

Li Xu watched him come in, put down the gear in his hand, and sized him up several times, "This will make Commander Lin feel so distressed when he sees it, a good child is like a refugee."

Ye Changqing saluted and sat opposite him, lowered his head and began to talk about the things after he went to sea. He had told Jia Ping about these things, but it was strange that he and Jia Ping could talk about it calmly in front of Li Xu. I feel very ashamed.

Feeling that he was useless, he killed two companions and fled back with injuries.

Li Xu knew that he had been through ups and downs in the past few months, but he didn't know that it turned out to be so twists and turns. He really narrowly escaped death. He walked over and hugged Ye Changqing, comforting him and said, "It's lucky to be able to come back alive, don't think about other things."

Ye Changqing wanted to cry, but he held it back. After being tortured this time, his heart became weak, and he wanted to cry at every turn. This is not the style of a man. But it can support an entire island for 20 years, it is not a small mine.”