Feast of Rebirth

"..." Yun Congfeng took a deep breath, "But most of the people here have no servants, and they cook their own meals. They don't have money, so naturally they have to plan carefully."

"But my question has nothing to do with whether other people have servants to go shopping." The other party continued to smile provocatively, "You said so much, don't you just want to sell things?"

Yun Congfeng stared at him for a long time: "Are you Bai Jiu?"

He said, "Why do you think I'm Bai Jiu?"

"Because you deserve a beating." As soon as Yun Congfeng finished speaking, he swung his fist in front of Bai Jiu, knocking him back a few steps, and Yun Congfeng yelled, "Hu Yan, someone is causing trouble, pull him out!" !"

Hu Yan was so frightened that he almost fell off the tree, stabilized his body, and looked at Yun Congfeng with question marks all over his face.

It was the first time for Bai Jiu to encounter such a situation, and she was stunned: "You hit me?"

"Hu Yan!" Yun Congfeng shouted again.

Hu Yan finally made a move. He grabbed Bai Jiu in the air, lifted Bai Jiu up, and threw her neatly to another street.

Bai Jiu was punched by Yun Congfeng, but he was still dazed, and then lifted up by Hu Yan's method, his body flew into the air and then fell to the ground with a snap, an unprecedented experience.

He sat for a long time, touching his right cheek, where the bone was still aching: I was beaten?

"I was beaten today!" Bai Jiu returned to the academy with half of his cheeks swollen, and cried to his brother Xuan Xiuzhu as soon as he entered the door. Xuan Xiuzhu looked at it carefully for a while: "Well beaten, he is a practicing family. You What did you run out for?"

"I didn't do anything, I just went out for a walk!"

Xuan Xiuzhu picked up the book again: "There are medicines in the cupboard, and you talk about it all day long. This time you will be punished, please restrain yourself from now on."

Aggrieved, Bai Jiu went to the cabinet to look for medicine: "I really didn't say anything... What kind of medicine do you apply, and what does it look like?"

"The middle grid on the third floor, the flat jar."

Bai Jiu found it, took a finger and slowly applied the ointment on his face, and asked, "Brother, when will the Jingzhe Wenhui be held this year?"

"There are still two or three months." Xuan Xiuzhu turned a page, perfunctory.

"The topic of the debate has been decided? Who to send?"

"I didn't send you anyway." Xuan Xiuzhu snorted.

"Hey, brother, do you have to belittle me like this?"

Xuan Xiuzhu ignored him and concentrated on reading his book.Bai Jiu finished applying the medicine.Next to the senior brother again: "Brother, brother, just tell me, did you come up with this year's debate topic? What is it?"

"Read your own books carefully. You haven't passed the piano class this year."

"Cut." Bai Jiu shrank back.

When he thought about it again and again, he always felt a little uncomfortable: since he was a child, he had offended many people, but the one who beat him was still the first one.

It's pretty awesome.

No, I have to look it up, and Hu Yan, who threw him at him, also needs to look it up.He hasn't lost in the debate yet, and he doesn't feel comfortable coming back without winning a round.

"Ah Choo!" Yun Congfeng sneezed as he was counting the money.

"Someone is scolding you behind your back." Hu Yan smiled.

Yun Congfeng put away the money, and said calmly: "Which one will not be mentioned later, let him go."

Wei Ze made a lot of money this time, and became an instant hit.At the same time, the news that Bai Jiu was beaten spread like wildfire.

As the quasi-closed disciple of the master of the academy, Bai Jiu is also a scholar in Beijing.The style of this public defense is weird, tricky and weird, and the students who have seen the Awakening of Insects Literature Club he participated in were deeply impressed by him.He is very famous, but he is not good at riding and shooting, and he is still blind to the piano. He can't pass half of the six arts for a gentleman required by the academy.

The disciple of the academy was beaten. This was an unprecedented anecdote, and it was widely spread as a joke in Beijing, which made Bai Jiu's teeth itch with anger.After beating around the bush, the old fox, who was the mastermind behind the scenes, went to the suburbs a few days ago and participated in the opening ceremony of an inn. The owner of the inn is Hu Yan.

After inquiring clearly, Bai Jiu went aggressively. The location of Rujia Inn was remote. He searched for a long time before finding it, and he was even more angry.

The door was cold, he opened the door and entered, but there was no one inside, and it was silent.

"Is anyone there?!" he growled viciously.

Before the words fell, a bench fell down for no reason, and there was a loud "bang".Startled him.

Shutong Qingyin came in with her head poking around: "Master, are we going the right way?"

"It's not wrong." Bai Jiu looked around and saw a sign hanging by the door frame, which read "Home Inn", and the words were well written.

The table was clear and clean, but empty.

"Where's the shopkeeper? Where's Xiao Er?" His tone softened, and for some reason, he always felt that his heart was creepy.

"Yeah, there's a guest here."

Bai Jiu looked up and saw a fairy-like beauty slowly coming down from the second floor, with a beautiful face, a long dress of ten kinds of brocade, and a golden pheasant and fringed fan in her hand.

Bai Jiu's heart skipped a beat.The wilderness, the unmanned inn, the fairy beauty, why is this so wrong?

Qing Yin was also a little apprehensive, pulled Bai Jiu's sleeves, and said in a low voice: "Master, why don't we go back?"

After Qingyin said this, Bai Jiu calmed down instead: "Why panic, didn't you see that the opposite is the Earth Temple. In front of the gods, no demon or ghost can do anything wrong."

While speaking, the beauty banquet girl was already standing at the top of the stairs, and asked with a smile, "Does the guest want a tip or a house?"

Bai Jiu asked directly: "Is there a guy named Yun Congfeng in your shop?"

"Yun Congfeng? I've never heard of this person! Did the guest officer go the wrong way?" Miss Yan looked innocent.

Bai Jiu originally wanted to expose the lie of the girl Yan, but then she thought about it, wouldn't it be boring to just say it, let's sit here for a while and see what tricks they can play.

He sat down resolutely: "Tip! If you have any good wine and food, feel free to serve them up. I'm not short of money."

"Okay!" The Yan girl greeted the back kitchen, and a small wooden figure came out in response, with a large wine jar on his head, walking slowly. The wooden figure looked nothing from a distance, but looked scary up close, with the corners of his mouth curled up like a smile Fei smiled, with a look of resentment on his face, and then blinked, and seemed to be smiling like a spring breeze, it was creepy to watch for a long time.

The wine jar was put down, and the girl Yan introduced: "This wine is called Tiegeng Shenghe, and it is made from a special variety of lotus flower. The lotus stem of that kind of lotus is as hard as iron in summer, and it softens in autumn. To make this wine, one must wait for the lotus stalks to soften to a certain extent before picking them..."

The girl Yan was eloquent, and Bai Jiu just wanted to know whether the wine was made of horse urine, bath water, or something else.Uncovering the jar seal, the wine smells surprisingly clear, with a faint scent of lotus and a bitter scent of dried lotus stalks, similar to the smell in a pharmacy, the aroma is complex, not like an illusion.

He cautiously tasted a few drops with chopsticks, and almost spit it out: the taste was pungent and pungent, and a strange herbal smell filled his mouth, making him dizzy.

"This, this... what kind of wine is this! It's worse than medicine!" Bai Jiu was furious,

Yan girl calmly said: "This is the best wine in my shop, but it is a prescription handed down from Baopu Xianmen. It calms the mind and clears the heart, can help people to clear their minds, and those who can drink a glass can even sleep for three days. A can is worth 1000 taels."

"1000 taels?" Bai Jiu shook and put down his chopsticks: "Where's the food?"

"The dishes will be served in a while, please wait a moment."

Bai Jiu sat for a while, lost her composure, and winked at Qing Yin, Qing Yin understood, and said loudly: "Why is the food not served yet?"

Yan girl waved her fan calmly: "The dishes are big dishes, the raw materials are rare, and you are ordering now, of course you have to wait for a while. If you are tired of waiting, how about I ask someone to come out and sing a song to relieve the boredom? "

"Qingyin, go and have a look."

Qing Yin took the order to go, and Miss Yan didn't stop him.After clapping their hands, a group of paper figurines descended from upstairs, using the tables and chairs in the hall to form a stage, and then the paper figurines dressed up as actors stepped onto the stage and played the erhu and yueqin lively , babbling and began to sing, the timbre was melodious and melodious, no different from a living person.

Bai Jiu listened attentively and realized that the paper figurine was singing an old play "A Dream in the Wasteland".It tells the story of a poor scholar who rented a haunted house and saw all kinds of visions in the long-abandoned back garden. He almost lost his soul and died. The kind-hearted monster rescued him and paid him to complete his studies. Get the first place in the Beijing examination.Everyone is happy in the ending, the man is talented and the woman is beautiful, a match made in heaven.

A clichéd story that is eerily appropriate here.

Bai Jiu listened, feeling a little dazed, shaking her head to recover, Qing Yin hadn't come back yet.

I just went into the kitchen to take a look, why did it take me so long?

He was about to get up and go to the kitchen to have a look, when the Yan girl sang this, which made him tremble in fright: "The dishes are here!"

The first dish is chicken feet with pickled peppers, the second is pearl balls, followed by pork ribs in honey sauce, nine-turn large intestine, braised pork, sweet corn soup with candied dates.The dishes are rich and the ingredients are sincere enough.But no matter how you look at it, it’s not right. Dishes like Jiuzhuan Dachang should not be on the table. No restaurant will serve Jiuzhuan Dachang as a big dish to customers.

And this braised pork... He poked it, it doesn't look like pork belly?

"Is there any tea?" He put down his chopsticks.

"Yes, wait a moment, guest officer." The girl Yan turned and left, went to the counter to fetch tea, Bai Jiu moved her chair, and went straight to the back kitchen with all her strength, the girl Yan said "Hey", he had already rushed to the door of the kitchen Open the curtain.

In the kitchen, several big men were busy chopping and frying vegetables, and Qingyin's head was placed on a square stool at one side, with bulging eyes, and a river of blood flowed on the ground.

As soon as he barged in, the cook turned his head, all of them had a green face, ferocious fangs, and eyeballs as big as copper bells.

Bai Jiu didn't panic, her anger sank to her dantian, and she shouted angrily, "Qing Yin! Wake up quickly!"

"Guest officer, what are you making such a fuss about?"

When Bai Jiu turned around, what caught his eyes was Qing Yin's face. He had a strange expression and a strangely feminine voice, and his voice was also delicate: "Don't you want to drink tea? Come and drink."

Bai Jiu didn't care whether Qingyin in front of him was real or not, so he kicked him first. This kick was so powerful that an ordinary person would have broken his ribs.Qing Yin avoided it strangely.Like lightning, he reached out his hand and grabbed Bai Jiu's chin, lifted the teapot, and with a weird smile on his face, he stuffed the spout of the teapot into his mouth.

The cold liquid rushes into the throat, and the tip of the tongue is full of the bitter taste of dried lotus stalks—it is the iron stalks!

A whole pot of iron-stem Sage Lotus was poured into the stomach, and when the teapot spouted, Bai Jiu immediately knelt down on one knee in pain and pinched her throat, trying to force herself to spit it out.

Just as he was vomiting, he heard Hu Yan's hateful laugh: "Hahahahaha, I laughed so hard!"