Seeing that the pattering rain was still falling, Ling Xiao shot again to disperse the dark clouds above his head.

"Senior, are you grilling sea crabs? Why are they so fragrant?" Yun Jinghu ran over empty-handed, staring at the red crabs on the fire without blinking.

Shen Lingjun, who was following behind, also stepped forward, symbolically holding a finger-long small sea crab in his hand.

"Because there is a sauce made exclusively by me." Ling Xiao proudly shook the white jade bottle in his hand.

In that bottle was the secret barbecue sauce he prepared in his spare time, an exclusive recipe developed by Tan Yuan, but it also added a lot of pepper.

Tan Yuan doesn't like to eat too spicy seasonings, when the merchants from Fanbang offered peppers, Tan Yuan didn't have any interest at all.

On the other hand, Ling Xiao fell in love with this seasoning immediately after trying the food with pepper powder added by Fanbang merchants.

Under his guidance, Yunjing Lake has also become a hot and happy master.

"It's been almost a year, and I haven't eaten such a big sea crab." Yunjinghu squatted down beside the fire, sucking his saliva and looking at the sea crab, while smiling flatteringly at Ling Xiao laugh.

It seems that Yunjing Lake really wants to eat this grilled sea crab.

Shen Lingjun, who was standing beside him, covered his face and took two steps back to the side.

He really didn't have the courage to admit that the person next to him who was salivating looking at the sea crab was the new emperor of their Dayong Dynasty.

"You are the emperor of the world, my aunt said. The emperor of the world is the most powerful person in the world. There are so many delicacies in the world that you can't eat. How could you not have eaten this kind of sea crab?"

Hu Wei, a little fox, is incapable of other things, but her senses of smell and hearing are extremely sensitive, and she heard Yunjinghu's words from a long distance away.

However, the main reason she gave up on treasure hunting was her sense of smell.

A strange fragrance that she had never smelled before floated from not far away, making her unable to bear to close her mouth tightly, for fear that if she accidentally opened her mouth, the saliva would flow out.

"The emperor doesn't just do whatever he wants," Yun Jinghu's handsome face collapsed slightly when he heard Hu Wei's words, "When your father was in power, in order to prevent his successors from wasting people and money to satisfy their selfish desires, there were rules Therefore, the emperor's three meals a day have fixed and quantitative portions, and they can only be served with four-season vegetables, fish and meat from the ten states near the capital."

"No way?" Qing Lian looked at Yunjing Lake half-believingly after hearing this, "Even though I am far away in the Western Regions, I have often heard that when your father, Emperor Shengwu, was in power, he doted on that man very much." Queen, your father loves seafood, so he raised a team of shadow guards and built post stations along the road to transport fresh seafood from thousands of miles away to Beijing."

Speaking of this, Yunjinghu's tears almost didn't fall on the spot.

He wiped his face: "It's true, but it's just that the money for raising shadow guards, building post stations, and sending people around to collect rare and rare smells came from my father-in-law's private treasury."

What kind of person is Tan Yuan?

That is the only one emperor in thousands of years, and the only emperor in all dynasties who truly completed the great unification of the nine states and the four seas. He also continued the life of the aging Dayong Dynasty with his own strength. super strong.

Of course, his private treasury is also exceptionally spectacular.Someone once said that the national treasury's ten-year tax revenue is not worth [-]% of the private treasury of His Majesty the Emperor.

To put it simply, Emperor Shengwu was neither short of money nor lack of people, and when he was in power, the centralization of imperial power had reached its peak.

For such a strong man, isn't it just a game to give his daughter-in-law all the seafood she wants?

But Yunjing Lake...

He used to have a small private treasury, and he also held a lot of Zhuangzi shopfronts in his hand.At least when his father and queen were around, he never worried about money.

However, before Emperor Shengwu died, he had already transferred his private treasury to the state treasury.For him, giving the private treasury to his son after death, and putting the contents of the private treasury in the state treasury before giving it to his son before death, are just such a simple operation.

It's just that Tan Yuan didn't expect that even though he had already ordered everything to be kept simple after his death, and he and Yun Xi could only be buried together, but the son raised by his family was too honest, so he dedicated all his private treasury to be buried with him.

At the same time, Yunjinghu is still a relatively thin-skinned person, and he doesn't have the face to put his hand into the national treasury.

So... Yunjinghu's father was the richest emperor in the Yong Dynasty, but Yunjinghu himself is now the poorest emperor in the Yong Dynasty.

"Don't you have a private treasury?" Qing Lian asked curiously again.

Yun Jinghu's expression became even more sad: "It has happened before... You may not believe it, even the cloak I wear is bought for me by my guards."

The others looked at Yunjinghu's shoulders. Although the cloak he was wearing was still gorgeous, it didn't seem as glamorous as before.

Ling Xiao has already shaved a bowl full of crab meat, crab paste and crab roe, and at the same time stuffed his own secret sauce to Yunjing Lake: "It's not easy for you, just eat two more bites."

Yunjinghu nodded gratefully to Lingxiao: "This sea crab reminds me of my father. Since my father left, I have never tasted such a big sea crab again."

Ling Xiao sniffed, looked down at Tan Yuan who was wrapped around his neck because he disliked the smoke from the barbecue, and silently communicated with his thoughts: "Our son is also suffering too much."

"He is already a mature adult." Tan Yuan snorted, then opened his mouth, and caught the crab meat that Ling Xiao deliberately tore into small strips, "The heat is over."

Ling Xiao rolled his eyes: "If you don't like it, don't eat it."

Having said that, when the next sea crab was grilled, he took it off ahead of time.

Hu Wei was also lucky enough to get a crab leg, and the little fox hugged and gnawed happily, until he licked the snow-white crab meat in the crab leg, then he raised his head and looked around as if realizing something A circle, and then issued his own doubts.

"Hey, where's my senior brother?"

other people:"......"

After eating, I can still remember that I have a senior brother. The friendship of this fellowship is really touching.

"He's kneeling in the Temple of Marshal Yuqing right now." Ling Xiao easily opened the claws of the crab, and glanced at Hu Wei lightly.

Hu Wei wiped her mouth full of sauce, her face full of worry: "Did the master punish the senior brother to kneel down? The senior brother made the master angry again?"

Ling Xiao raised her eyebrows slightly. When Hu Wei heard Xu Qingyang kneeling, she subconsciously thought that Shangguan Muyun was punishing his disciples. It seemed that Shangguan Muyun treated Xu Qingyang very ordinary.

"Kneel in front of the temple with greed in your heart," Ling Xiao put the peeled shrimp meat into the bowl of Yunjing Lake, "He has something to ask, so naturally he wants to kneel down and worship ghosts and gods."

Hu Wei breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words: "It would be nice if I was punished by the master. It just so happens that he is not here, so I can eat one more bite. Hey, senior, give me another big lobster~ won't you peel it off for me? Uh, I peel it myself, peel it myself."

Shen Lingjun noticed that Ling Xiao seemed to take special care of Yunjing Lake, and that kind of care that came out naturally was definitely not deliberate.

He stared at Ling Xiao suspiciously, then picked up a prawn and started to chew on it.

These days, he and the cook in the house eat rough bread and dried salted fish every day, and drink the well water with an earthy smell. Now there is an opportunity to improve the food, so naturally he will not miss it.

"Senior brother Lingjun, don't move, I'll peel it off for you." Seeing this, Qing Lian immediately leaned over to offer her courtesy.

It's just that she is a desert woman, and she has never eaten this kind of seafood, so she didn't know what to do with the prawns for a while.

Shen Lingjun stared at her, the little girl's pretty face flushed slightly, she lowered her head and continued to study the fully armed prawn in her hand.

Just when she was at a loss, a hand suddenly stuffed the shelled white and tender shrimp into her hand, and at the same time took away the prawn from her hand.

As soon as Qing Lian raised her head, she saw Shen Lingjun beside her started peeling shrimps.

"Brother, it's better for you to treat me." Qing Lian smiled very happily, and then gave Shen Lingjun a piece of blood-red coral in her hand, "This is the most beautiful one I found just now. I give it to you. You must cherish it~"

Shen Lingjun watched Qinglian leaning towards him, stepped back slightly, but quickly stood still in place.

Qing Lian's eyes wandered around Shen Lingjun's body, and finally landed on his waist, where a necklace bag was hanging.

The smile on her face froze for a moment, and she stretched out a finger to gently pick up the wreath bag embroidered with exquisite patterns: "Senior brother, this is given to you by a girl's family, right?"

Shen Lingjun looked down, and nodded slightly after a while.

Qing Lian's gaze instantly darkened a little.

She knows Shen Lingjun best. Although he looks gentle and elegant, he is actually a cold and distant person in his bones. If he is not a very familiar person, he will never accept gifts from others, let alone wear them close to his body at any time.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you are not married, I can compete fairly." Qing Lian smiled again, and then generously stuffed the coral she picked up into the necklace bag, and tied the live rope tightly some.

Ling Xiao looked away thoughtfully, and at the same time habitually pieced together the shrimp shells and crab shells in front of him into a complete crab shell and shrimp shell.

The hustle and bustle of the beach is in stark contrast to the coldness of the Marshal Temple.

In the marshal's temple, Chu Hanyi pressed a milky white water-proof drop the size of a little finger under his tongue, and walked out of the room with a long sword in his hand.

"Master Chu, are you going?" In the yard, the female cultivator in blue saw Chu Hanyi go out, and immediately got up to greet him.

Not only her, other monks were also waiting in the yard early.

Chu Hanyi nodded slightly, and from the corner of his eyes, he inadvertently saw a young man kneeling on the ground in the main hall ahead.

Noticing Chu Hanyi's gaze, the female cultivator explained: "The young man didn't know what kind of demon he was, he just walked in without saying a word, and just knelt there. Counting, he has been kneeling for more than an hour .”

Chu Hanyi looked up at the statue in the hall, turned around and washed his hands in the lotus pond in the yard, picked a bunch of hibiscus in full bloom from the flower tree next to him, walked into the main hall step by step, respectful He offered the hibiscus to the feet of the statue.

"As powerful as the head of Chu, do you actually believe in Marshal Yuqing?"

"Although the origin of Marshal Yuqing is unknown, it is indeed quite miraculous to worship before the war."

"..."

Standing in front of the god statue, Chu Hanyi retorted coldly in his heart, he didn't believe in any gods and Buddhas, he believed in only one person.

However, the statue in this temple is exactly the same as the person in his memory.

Therefore, he hid in his heart and never revealed half of his emotions, and only when facing the portrait of Marshal Yuqing, he would uncontrollably overflow a little bit.

At the same time, Ling Xiao, who was happily eating seafood on the beach, was startled suddenly, and the big crab in his hand fell to the ground with a thud.

It’s fine for Chu Hanyi to make a wish in front of his god statue, but why the wish he made was the hope that he could see Ling Xiao again before he died, and then tell him the love he had buried for hundreds of years?

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