Qingjiang Yin

After fresh snow on the empty mountain, the valley was exceptionally quiet.Suddenly, the clacking horseshoes from far to near broke the sediment in the valley.

In the empty valley appeared two gray-clothed men riding horses. The older man seemed to be wearing a mask, while the younger one was only sixteen or seventeen years old, with delicate features.The two drove away and stopped in front of Suzhou City.

"Father," the younger one asked aloud, "Are we going to stop in the city for a while?" The young man looked up at the city wall of Suzhou City, which was built of stones and was tens of feet high.

The older one nodded, got off the horse, took off the mask, hid it in his arms, revealing a very handsome face that could not tell the age, led the horse, and walked towards the wide open city gate in the distance.

The young man behind him quickly followed him off the horse, blinked, and looked at his adoptive father in a daze.

It was the Xiongnu Guoshi and Xiao Xun who escaped from the Huns camp earlier.

The Xiongnu national teacher whispered: "From now on, I am Su Yannian, and you are my apprentice, do you understand?"

Xiao Xun immediately nodded knowingly, expressing that he remembered, and followed Su Yannian closely.

In the past ten years, wandering around and wandering around, Xiao Xun has long been used to changing identities with his adoptive father. They used the documents Su Yannian prepared early in the morning to successfully pass through the city gate and enter the city of Suzhou.

Xiao Xun couldn't help being a little excited when he saw the crowd coming and going, the familiar Middle-earth scenery, and the friendly Dasheng accent.Although the Xiongnu side is also very interesting, but he is already tired of facing the desert or the grassland every day, and Dasheng is different.

The vast Dasheng Dynasty is full of mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, with beautiful scenery and charming scenery, not to mention all kinds of delicacies that make your index finger drool. You must know that he ate roast leg of lamb every day in the Xiongnu Fire.

Thinking of this, Xiao Xun immediately happily walked towards Wangxianlou, the largest restaurant in the city. He had been to Suzhou City before and was very familiar with it, but he was pulled back by Su Yannian before he walked a few steps. Whispered: "Now is not the time."

His voice was so hoarse that even he was taken aback for a moment. He glanced around and saw that no one was paying attention. He waved his hand in front of his neck, took off the silver needle, coughed lightly, and said, "Follow me to the West Market first. Once." The voice was very clear.

It turned out that Su Yannian had been pricking the acupuncture points with silver needles to hide his original voice.Seeing his serious face, Xiao Xun nodded obediently.Following Su Yannian for many years, he has learned to restrain his curiosity, because although his adoptive father is wanton, he always has his reasons.

The two led the horse to the West Market and walked up to the horse dealer.When the simple-faced middle-aged man saw the two handsome horses, his eyes lit up immediately, and without hesitation, he immediately stretched out his hand to negotiate with Su Yannian.

The two pinched their sleeves for a long time, flirting with each other, and finally the horse dealer gave a high price with a bitter face.Su Yannian took the money with a smile and put it in his pocket.

Xiao Xun looked at the sly look on his adoptive father's face, and felt that he was even more profiteer than a profiteer.

They sold the two horses they had ridden and exchanged them for two mules that could carry the load for long distances.Years of fighting in the frontier, the folks seldom saw good horses, so they went to buy some clothes and eat, and left Suzhou City while the sky was still dark.

Xiao Xun looked at the direction of Wangxian Tower with a sense of loss, and silently bid farewell to the delicacy in the building that had nothing to do with him.

"Goodbye, golden milk su, crystal dragon and phoenix cake, gold and silver sandwiched flower cut, longevity porridge, Jianfengxiao, expensive pink..." Before he finished reading the names of the dishes, there was an extra mustache in front of him.He glanced at Su Yannian resentfully.

"Eat enough to be satisfied." Su Yannian said to him, wearing a coarse khaki cotton robe, eating mustache, without the slightest demeanor of a Xiongnu national teacher.

Xiao Xun had no choice but to accept the pancakes silently, took a bite, and the warm mutton juice poured out, mixed with pepper and fermented soybeans and the crispy skin, it turned out to be very delicious.

Xiao Xun savored happily, and couldn't help feeling that Dasheng's food was better.

The valley was extremely cold at night, and the two lit up a bonfire to keep warm.Su Yannian took out the teapot from his luggage and said to Xiao Xun, "Get me some snow."

Xiao Xun knew that his adoptive father was addicted to tea, so he nodded obediently, climbed up the hillside, and swept the fresh white snow into the pot, filling a pot with soft snow.The water for making tea is also very particular, it must be fresh, light in weight and sweet in taste to make good tea.

Brewing tea with ice-melt water or snow water will have a refreshing air.

Xiao Xun carried a pot of snow back to the bonfire and put it in the support set up by Su Yannian, waiting for the ice and snow to melt and the tea to boil.

During the first boiling, the bubbles were like fish eyes, and there was a slight sound. Su Yannian tasted the water for a while, and felt that it was cool and fragrant, soft and clean.It is very good for making tea, and I am quite satisfied. I squeezed a pinch of salt flowers and put them into the water.

When it boils for the second time, take out a scoop, put in the powdered tea, stir slowly, wait for a while, and see the snowy water surging, then pour the scoop out of the water into the kettle, and boil it again. After waiting for a while, he took it off the campfire.

He poured the tea soup into the tea set and gave Xiao Xun a cup, and drank it slowly himself.Xiao Xun only felt that the tea in the cup was clean and refreshing, floating and light. After drinking this cup, his whole body was really comfortable, and the chill on his body disappeared.

"Master?"

"Huh?" Su Yannian looked up at him.

"Are we going to the imperial capital?"

"No." Su Yannian said, "Our trip is going to Lingnan."

"Lingnan?" Xiao Xun recalled the food in Lingnan, and all the toads and poisonous insects appeared in his mind. They were all hideous faces, and his face turned pale. He didn't want to eat those things anymore, so he begged: "We Can you not go to Lingnan?"

"You don't want to go?"

"No." He replied honestly, "The food there is terrible."

Su Yannian sneered: "Looking at your future, your mind is full of food, and you can't hold other things. No wonder martial arts articles can't get into your mind."

Xiao Xun flattered him and said, "There's nothing I can do about it. Who told me that I didn't have enough to eat when I was a child? At that time, I thought every day that if I had money, I would definitely eat all the delicacies in the world."

He was born an orphan. Before he met his adoptive father, he was just a little beggar on the street begging for a living, suffering from hunger and cold every day.

"I really lost to you as a teacher. It's fine to go to the imperial capital, but..." He paused suddenly, frowning.

"But what's wrong?" Xiao Xun asked, he had the delicacies of the imperial capital in his heart, and he really wanted to fly to the capital with his wings.

"According to our pace," Su Yannian pointed to the two mules not far away, "I'm afraid it will take a lot of time to go to the capital."

Xiao Xun also glanced sadly, and said plaintively, "If you hadn't sold the horse..."

Before he finished speaking, Su Yannian knocked on the forehead: "Dead wood cannot be carved. It is a waste of my usual teaching. Do you know that we have already attracted attention as soon as we entered the city? If we brought the horses of the Huns, the journey would probably take a long time." Trouble continues."

Only then did Xiao Xun look at the two ugly and quiet mules with lingering fear, secretly startled, he didn't realize it at all.

"Master, what are we going to Lingnan this time?"

"Go to see Lingnan King."

"King of Lingnan? Hey, master, are you still old with Prince Xi?" Xiao Xun exclaimed.

"I owed him favors in the early years, but now I have to pay it back." Su Yannian said indifferently, remembering that he had not seen Prince Xi for 14 years.

"But because of the imperial capital..."

Su Yannian nodded.Great changes are going to take place in the imperial capital, presumably soon, a turmoil will also sweep across the land of Dasheng, that person is in Lingnan, he must not be very aware of the situation, if he is confused by a traitor and gets into this pool In the muddy water, it is also very detrimental to oneself.

Su Yannian withdrew his mind, and said to Xiao Xun, "Go to sleep. Rest early, and you will be guarding in the middle of the night."

Xiao Xun nodded obediently.He will never be able to guess the foster father's mind.In the past ten years, he has followed his adoptive father by his side, seeing that his adoptive father can switch between various identities with ease, and he has never shown such a disappointed expression.It seems that even a person like foster father has a past that cannot be touched?

The author has something to say: I was in a bad mood yesterday, so I couldn't come back to update in time, sorry.

The meat is stuck very badly, and I can’t post it. I feel that the posting bar is also very awkward recently. I always delete my posts. It seems that I have to find a new way