step on mountains and rivers

After Tang Qingfeng and Li Zhenwu left Changmen Town, they traveled east all the way to Jingzhou Jinghu Town.

Jinghu Town is a small town located next to Jinghu Lake, surrounded by water on both sides, a trail runs through the town from east to west, and disappears into the lake in the distance.On the surface of the lake, a group of wild ducks were frolicking and diving into the water from time to time to pick up a herring.

The two walked from the path, entered the town, and walked slowly on the street.

Perhaps because Jingzhou has many lakes and sparsely populated areas, there are not many people on the streets.When the vendors on both sides of the street saw the two, they could tell at a glance that they were from other places, so they warmly welcomed them and introduced their products.It's just that the two of them didn't intend to buy anything, so they refused one by one.Seeing that they refused, the hawker didn't pester them, and went on to introduce his products to the next customer.

After the crowd dispersed, Tang Qingfeng saw a small shop not far away selling glutinous rice dumplings that he had never seen before. Green smoke rose from the steamer, and the fragrance of glutinous rice wafted from the air.

Tang Qingfeng glanced at the small shop, and said to Li Zhenwu beside him:

"Zhenwu, are you hungry? Would you like something to eat?"

Li Zhenwu listened to Tang Qingfeng's question, and replied:

"It's not long since I had lunch. Fortunately, I'm not very hungry."

After hearing Li Zhenwu's answer, Tang Qingfeng smiled slightly and said:

"Only Zhenwu calls cold steamed buns lunch." Then he looked at Li Zhenwu and said softly:

"Zhenwu, wait for me, I'll go buy something to eat."

"Yeah." Li Zhenwu nodded in response, followed Tang Qingfeng towards the small shop not far away, and saw that Tang Qingfeng chatted with the boss for some reason, and walked back quickly holding a small oil paper bag .

Tang Qingfeng walked closer, looked at Li Zhenwu with a smile and said:

"Zhenwu, I bought something good, let's go over there to drink tea and wait for Jiangling while eating."

"En." Li Zhenwu replied, glanced curiously at the oiled paper package in Tang Qingfeng's hand, and followed him to the nearby tea shop.

After the two sat down, Tang Qingfeng put the oil paper in his hand on the table and opened it gently, and a strong smell of glutinous rice came.

Li Zhenwu looked at the dumpling on the table and said, "Glutinous rice dumpling?"

Seeing Li Zhenwu's doubts, Tang Qingfeng explained:

"Zhenwu, don't underestimate it, it is not an ordinary glutinous rice dumpling. This dumpling is made of fish meat and glutinous rice mixed in a ratio of one to one, with some chopped green vegetables added. It is nutritious and delicious. It can be called top grade .”

Listening to Tang Qingfeng's introduction, Li Zhenwu was slightly surprised at his understanding of the glutinous rice dumpling.

"I see. Brother Tang has eaten a lot of delicacies. To have such an evaluation, the dumplings should be pretty good."

As Li Zhenwu spoke, he stretched out his hand, wanting to pick up the glutinous rice dumpling on the table, and was about to eat it, but when Tang Qingfeng saw it, he stretched out his hand to stop him and said:

"Zhenwu, wait a minute, I'll try first."

"Huh?" Li Zhenwu looked at Tang Qingfeng suspiciously, but Tang Qingfeng replied with a smile on his face:

"Zhenwu has a pure nature, and I dare to believe anything I say. I have never eaten this dumpling, and I don't know if it is delicious. I heard the words just now from the boss who sells the dumpling. Let me try it first. If it’s delicious, Zhenwu will eat it again, if it’s not tasty, I’ll buy you something else.”

As Tang Qingfeng said, he picked up a dumpling from the table, and took a light bite.Li Zhenwu saw that Tang Qingfeng frowned slightly after eating the dumpling, and his face was a little serious, so he asked:

"Brother Tang, what's the matter? Isn't it delicious?"

After hearing his words, Tang Qingfeng laughed and said:

"Zhenwu was deceived again, the dumpling is very delicious."

After Li Zhenwu heard Tang Qingfeng's words, he was slightly taken aback. He looked at Tang Qingfeng blankly, but he was a little unclear whether what he said was true or false.

Seeing him like this, Tang Qingfeng smiled lightly.Then he quickly ate the dumpling in his hand, picked up the oiled paper package on the table, handed it to Li Zhenwu and said seriously:

"It's really delicious, try Zhenwu."

Li Zhenwu looked at Tang Qingfeng, reached out to take a dumpling, and took a bite. The dumpling was soft, glutinous and salty, and really delicious.

After eating the dumpling, he said to Tang Qingfeng, "It's really delicious."

Tang Qingfeng smiled, poured a cup of tea and handed it to him, poured a cup for himself and drank it slowly, and said, "Well, I never lie to Zhenwu."

"Yeah." Li Zhenwu looked at him and nodded slightly.

The two drank tea and admired the scenery of Jinghu Lake.At this moment, Jiang Ling led Lu Qing into the town along the path.

As soon as the two entered the town, Jiang Ling saw Tang Qingfeng and Li Zhenwu sitting in a teahouse drinking tea, so he dragged Lu Qing over quickly.

"Old Tang." Jiang Ling called out and caught Tang Qingfeng's attention.Li Zhenwu also turned his head when he heard the voice. They saw Jiang Ling and Lu Qing walking towards them, so they got up to meet them.

The four of them sat down in the tea house, and Jiang Ling saw the glutinous rice balls on the table, so he said pleasantly:

"Glutinous rice dumpling! Good stuff." Jiang Ling was about to reach out to take it, but Tang Qingfeng raised his hand to block it.

Jiang Ling looked at Tang Qingfeng displeasedly and said, "Old Tang, what are you stopping me for?"

"This is the last one. This is from Zhenwu. If you want to eat it, go buy it yourself." Tang Qingfeng glanced at him and said.

After Jiang Ling heard Tang Qingfeng's words, he said dissatisfiedly:

"Isn't it just dumpling? Forget it, I'll go buy it myself. Lu Qing and I didn't have lunch either."

As he said that, he walked towards the place where the dumplings were sold.

Li Zhenwu just wanted to stop Jiang Ling, but Tang Qingfeng picked up the remaining dumpling and put it in his hand, saying:

"Zhenwu, eat well."

He looked at Tang Qingfeng, then at Jiang Ling who was leaving, then looked at Lu Qing and said, "Brother Lu, do you want to eat?"

Lu Qing glanced at Tang Qingfeng, then shook his head and said:

"No, I'm not hungry yet."

"Oh." Li Zhenwu slowly withdrew his hand, and under Tang Qingfeng's serious eyes, he ate the dumpling silently.

Just when the atmosphere among the three was a little awkward, Jiang Ling came back with glutinous rice dumplings, sat next to Lu Qing, opened the oil paper in his hand, stretched it out in front of Lu Qing and said:

"Eat?"

Lu Qing looked at him and shook his head, "No, I'm not hungry."

Seeing that Lu Qing refused, Jiang Ling glanced at him and said, "Lu Qing, what are you talking about? You didn't eat breakfast, and you didn't have time to eat lunch. Do you think you are a god and don't need to eat? I think you are making weapons recently. Be stupid." Then he took a dumpling from his hand and stuffed the rest to Lu Qing.

Lu Qing looked at the dumpling in his hand, then at Jiangling, then picked up one and ate it.

Tang Qingfeng looked at the two, listened to Jiang Ling's words, and asked a little puzzled:

"Make a weapon, what weapon?"

Jiang Ling told Tang Qingfeng about the shooting of the sun, and Tang Qingfeng nodded clearly and said:

"Shooting the sun is indeed a good thing."

After listening to Tang Qingfeng's words, Lu Qing quickly finished eating the dumpling and said:

"I haven't fully researched the creations of heaven. There are various weapons made on it. After the data of the sun shooting is complete, I will study it for you and see how to transform your weapons."

"Huh? Can you modify weapons? How?" Tang Qingfeng asked in question.

"I haven't figured it out yet. Brother Li and Jiangling's weapons should be reforged with materials to make them stronger. As for yours, Brother Tang, I'm not very familiar with puppets, but there are similar things in Tiangong Creation, except for the skeleton. In addition to enhancement, more hidden weapon designs should be added. As for how to modify it, I haven't figured it out yet, and we will study and discuss it together when the time comes." Lu Qing replied.

"Well, it is indeed feasible." Tang Qingfeng agreed after hearing Lu Qing's words.

After hearing Lu Qing's words, Jiang Ling asked him in surprise:

"Lu Qing, when did you think about this? I thought you were just making a sun shooter, but I didn't expect you to think about modifying weapons."

Seeing Jiang Ling was surprised, Lu Qing glanced at Jiang Ling, picked up another dumpling and took a bite, saying:

"I was too busy before, so I didn't have time to tell you. Today, everyone is here, so we talked together."

"Oh." Jiang Ling nodded.

Lu Qing ignored him, looked at Tang Qingfeng and asked:

"You said that the people who captured the Four Sacred Palaces and asked them about the big move they will make in Jingzhou, what exactly is it?"

Tang Qingfeng listened to Lu Qing's question, took a sip of tea and said:

"I don't know, he ran away and didn't ask anything."

"It's a pity, in this case, we still need to spend a lot of time checking their whereabouts." Lu Qing said.

After hearing Lu Qing's words, everyone fell silent.

At this moment, a pleasant female voice came from behind the few people:

"Brother Jiang Ling, why are you here?"

Everyone looked back and saw a girl in a green dress walking towards Jiangling with a smile on her face, followed by a boy in the same color dress behind her.

After seeing the girl, Jiang Ling stood up with a smile on his face and greeted her:

"Junior Sister, why are you and Junior Brother Zhang here?"

The girl approached Jiangling and replied back and forth:

"Brother, there are some things happening in Jinghu Lake recently. Master asked me and Brother Zhang to go and have a look."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Jiang Ling asked.

"It's about Shenlong Village." The girl said. "The specifics are not clear at the moment, let's go back and talk about it first."

The girl said and looked at the remaining few people. She had met Lu Qing before, so she smiled and saluted:

"Brother Lu."

"Miss Zhao." Lu Qing stood up and returned the salute.

The girl looked at Tang Qingfeng and Li Zhenwu again, and said with a slightly red face:

"Hello, young heroes. My name is Zhao Shanshan. I don't know how to call you two?"

"Tang Qingfeng of the Tang family, Miss Zhao is polite." Tang Qingfeng said.

"Tang Shaoxia is polite." Zhao Shanshan saluted, and then looked at Li Zhenwu.

"The impoverished Wu is Li Zhenwu, Miss Zhao is polite." Li Zhenwu said.

"The priest is polite." Zhao Shanshan replied.

After Zhao Shanshan finished speaking, Jiang Ling brought the young man beside him and introduced him to Tang Qingfeng and Li Zhenwu:

"This is my junior brother Zhang Xiaoshan."

Then he looked at Zhang Xiaoshan and pointed at everyone one by one:

"Xiao Shan, this is your brother Tang, this is your brother Li, this is your brother Lu, call me."

After hearing Jiang Ling's words, Zhang Xiaoshan said in a low voice:

"Tang Shaoxia, Li Daochang, Brother Lu, hello."

The three looked at him and nodded slightly.

Jiang Ling looked at the sky, and it was almost sunset, so he said:

"Old Tang, it's too late today, let's go back to the Beggars' Gang first."

"Okay." Tang Qingfeng nodded.

After the two finished speaking, everyone followed Jiang Ling and left Jinghu Town, returning to the Beggars' Clan.