[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

The chaotic struggle between the courts in Beijing is unknown to ordinary people, and they don't want to know. Even though the court has entered a white-hot stage at this time, among the people, what they hear is only a few sentences. It's just hot news to file a lawsuit in Kaifeng Mansion.

The information he got was limited, even though he had listened to it, Xia Anran was unable to analyze the situation.

Of course he is too lazy to bother, he has already known the outcome of this case from many novels, film and television dramas, justice finally defeated evil, Anlehou Pangyu, used his life to open the dragon head, and forged Bao Qingtian's reputation , it can be said that everyone is happy.

It may be that he has been living too leisurely recently, so trouble has come to him.

It was a sunny day, and it rained a few days ago, and the city of Bianjing became bustling immediately after it finally cleared up.

As usual, Xia Anran took the Bianjing city travel guide and went out for a walk. After lunch, he wandered back to the hotel to take a nap. Tonight there will be a big market above the Zhouqiao Night Market, so he has to recharge his energy for this.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped into the hotel, he saw an acquaintance waiting for him in the hall.

Seeing his return, the handsome man put down his teacup and slowly stood up, moved a few steps, and stood in front of Xia Anran.

Two men with different styles but equally handsome looked at each other.

Xia Anran was a little surprised and exchanged pleasantries with him, and after leading Bai Jintang into her room, he listened to his explanation of the purpose of coming.

"Someone wants to see me?" Xia Anran placed the folding fan on the table, and he was serving the cakes he bought today, when he heard about Bai Jintang's intentions, his face showed a bit of surprise.

He put the plate in front of Bai Jintang, and frowned slightly, "I was introduced by Brother Bai...the one I want to meet is the author of "Martial Arts"?"

"Brother Xia is smart." Bai Jintang affirmed his doubt, seeing Xia Anran was arranging the cakes, he gave his hand.

What Xia Anran took out was a special product of a pastry shop in Bianjing called Hefangzhai - parfait.

With glutinous rice as the surface, it is filled with various seasonal fillings, and then stuffed into various molds. It is very popular because of its sweet taste and cute appearance.

Especially popular with children.

The one that Xia Anran bought was animal cakes with comprehensive flavors. The small animals wrapped in light yellow fillings were either cute, mighty, or delicate, and all of them were vivid.

Bai Jintang hesitated for a while, but still twisted a piece of pastry made in the shape of a puppy and stuffed it into the mouth for a small bite. The mouth was soft and soft, and the fresh pastry had a hint of rice fragrance. More than enough, the taste is still very light, but the mouth full of lingering fragrance lingers on the tip of the tongue, and it lingers for a long time after chewing.

He first praised Xia Anran for his good eyesight, which made Xia Anran so proud that he ordered the pastry shop's business card, and then introduced another butterfly-shaped one to Bai Jintang, which used chrysanthemum petals and filled with whole chrysanthemums. Therefore, only the butterflies laid out on a flat surface can fully display the faint chrysanthemum pattern in the stuffing.

Bai Jintang took a sip of tea, and picked up the butterfly under Xia Anran's kind recommendation. It tasted a bit bitter, so he poured syrup on it to neutralize the bitterness.

He praised Xia Anran's talent for finding delicious food, and then explained his reason for coming. "Brother Yu knows that Brother Xia doesn't want to reveal his true identity, but this person is really rare. If it is convenient for Brother Xia, I still hope that Brother Xia can take the time to meet."

It's so highly rated...

Xia Anran glanced at the cakes on the plate and hesitated a little, but he only thought for a while, and accepted the invitation after a while.

Afterwards, he saw that Bai Jintang had twisted another cake in the shape of a jade cicada, and he seemed to like this cake very much, so he enthusiastically packed the rest and sent them over to others, but after seeing off the guests, he closed the door and leaned on the cake. On the door panel, one thing was finally confirmed.

This person is not his relative.

It was less than two months since the last farewell, but after meeting this time, there was no throbbing in his heart.

Although there is a sense of intimacy, it is definitely not the reaction that he should have when seeing a lover. Before, he always thought that he had betrayed his heart, but according to what he saw today, it should...not.

Moreover, Shen Qi doesn't eat worms, even if they look similar, he absolutely doesn't eat them. Xia Anran has tried countless times on this point in the Three Kingdoms world.

Once he had nothing to do, he tried to arrange the dishes, and made the dishes into exquisite butterfly shapes. This unique arrangement won the praise of several teenagers in the family, except Cao Chun.

Cao Chun knows the raw materials he makes, but he never eats them.

The only time he ever ate it was fed by him himself.

But today Bai Jintang had no other reaction to the butterfly pastry he recommended, and later ate the cicada stuffed ones himself.

Although Xia Anran didn't know where Cao Chun's aversion to insect cooking came from, he was confident that human beings' aversion to certain creatures would definitely not change.

So...he had the wrong person?

Xia Anran sat on the couch, he casually reached out and picked up Duoduo Parrot, which had been silent since just now, and put it in the palm of his hand to smooth its feathers.

Duoduo is small in size, and when stuffed in the palm of his hand, he can feel the warmth of his little belly rising and falling with his breathing.

The thin fluff scratched his palm, Xia Anran took a deep breath to stabilize his mood.

This conclusion made him a little disappointed. The intimacy when meeting for the first time cannot be faked, and he does not recognize people by face or smell, but by feeling.

I feel that this thing is not a smell, and it can dissipate because it has been away for a long time...etc.

Xia Anran rubbed her chin, and suddenly had another guess.

The next day, Xia Anran took the parrot to the appointed place in the morning light, which was the famous Fanlou.

During Renzong’s reign, the Fanlou was not as luxurious as the first floor in Tokyo in the future, but there are signs of it. The dishes here are extremely delicious, and the chef is even skilled at cooking puffer fish. It is already autumn and winter is coming. Pufferfish is about to swim back to the ocean for the winter, and this year's fishing season is coming to an end. This may be the last chance to eat pufferfish this year. Therefore, Bai Jintang can book a seat here, which shows that he attaches great importance to this meeting.

Under the leadership of the waiter, Xia Anran entered the private room. He had already arrived early, but unexpectedly, the people in the room came earlier than him. The waiter withdrew from the box with a dazed expression on his face. Seeing this, another young waiter who passed by quickly pushed him away. He said, "What are you doing, don't neglect the guests."

The little waiter leading the way waved his hands, coughed dryly, and whispered a few words in his partner's ear,

"But really?"

He nodded seriously. Since then, every time this private room opens, there are more than two waiters who come in. The service attitude is so good that Xia Anran, who came here for the first time to have a banquet, can't help but look sideways.

There is such a good attitude, in fact, it is precisely because there are three handsome men sitting in this hall, with different styles in addition to appearance and demeanor.

The waiter pushed the door open with a teacup in his hand, and saw a man with clear features and a folding fan smiling at him and nodding at him. He took the tea tray and ordered tea for the other two himself.

The person on his right is very handsome, but at the first glance, what you notice must not be his appearance, but his beard.This person has thick eyebrows and long eyelashes, but his beard is as thick and long as his eyebrows. At first glance, it looks like he has four eyebrows.

The person on the left is dressed a bit ordinary, but he has an excellent temperament. When he saw the opening of the door, he looked up slightly. His eyes were clear, as bright as the clear autumn sky. He had a gray-haired red parrot on his shoulder. Although the shape is a bit strange, but the breath is warm, it should be an adult, but there is an inexplicable soft feeling.

...It really is three handsome people with different styles.

The little waiter who came to visit the beauty did not change his face, but his heart was already full of joy. After introducing his refreshments to the three guests, he backed away Shi Shiran, with an extremely comfortable posture.

The high service fee of this private room is not in vain, the service attitude is really good, Xia Anran thought so.

Seeing that the door was closed after the people had withdrawn, Bai Jintang shared tea for the two, and introduced each other to the two, "Brother Xia, this is a friend from the Jianghu, known as "The One Finger of Consonance" Lu Xiaofeng,"

"Brother Lu, this is the author of the book "Martial Arts" you wanted to meet last time. His pen name is Mr. Shen Qi."

Shen Qi is exactly Xia Anran's pen name. In fact, at that time he was writing about Qi Ran's love, but when he reported this pen name, it was recorded as the number seven for some reason. He didn't know about it until later. It’s just that at the time I didn’t think it was necessary to modify it, and with Qi Zong I felt inexplicably a sense of superiority and confidence, so I acquiesced.

The two saluted together, Lu Xiaofeng's face was sincere, Xia Anran's was a little stiff, but if it wasn't for those who were familiar with him, they would definitely not be able to see that the smile on his face was just right and polite.

It has been said before that when Xia Anran was studying, it was the period when martial arts novels were at their peak, and martial arts novels accompanied his growth.

Naturally, there are many books in "Lu Xiaofeng". At this moment, all the slightly wrong things in his mind before were all strung together.

He clinked glasses with Lu Xiaofeng and exchanged greetings with tea instead of wine.

Although the book "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness" is designated as a martial arts novel, the martial arts element is slightly weaker, and the supernatural and strange elements and martial arts elements account for half. Of the martial arts factor, a part is allocated to officialdom struggles, and in this book In the book, subject to the limitations of the times, the original author's brain hole is not as big as that of modern people, and naturally there is no such thing as disguise.

He should have noticed when Sikong Jieyue, who can be called the pinnacle master of disguise technique, appeared.

However, he was a fan of the authorities, and he only thought it was the self-supplement of this world. Now that he thought about it, the Sikong Zhaiyue who knew how to disguise himself was probably Sikong Zhaixing.

Xia Anran looked at Lu Xiaofeng's face carefully, there was no malice or disrespect in his gaze, so although Lu Xiaofeng knew that he was looking at her, he didn't feel disgusted in his heart, and suddenly saw the young man opposite him smiling comfortably " I knew that Lingxi was referring to Lu Xiaofeng's reputation, but after seeing her today, I realized why messages with four eyebrows spread more widely in the world."

Lu Xiaofeng raised his eyebrows, and his smile suddenly became a little helpless, "Even Mr. has heard of this reputation?"

Xia Anran nodded, he took off the Duoduo parrot on his shoulder and put it on the back of the chair. The gray-haired parrot was so obedient that he grabbed it with two paws, then moved to the side close to Xia Anran, and patted him with its small wings Let him peel kumquats for himself to eat.

That's right, Duoduo Parrot is a parrot that only eats kumquats and only eats the skin. It has a special pursuit and a talent for food. Xia Anran picked up a kumquat, handed it over to let it play with it, and then explained to the two of them. "I listened to some storytelling before writing the storybook."

"I see." Lu Xiaofeng rubbed his nose in embarrassment, "Looks like I should go to the teahouse on weekdays and listen to the stories they made up."

After the three of them talked and joked, they ate together the most famous puffer fish banquet in this building. Xia Anran had never eaten puffer fish in modern times, and now this banquet made him look forward to it very much.

The main material pufferfish is adult pufferfish. Before the banquet, the chef brought it up to the guests for a look. It looks similar to pufferfish seen in modern times, but it may be a little wilted due to preservation reasons.When Xia Anran was playing, he didn't get angry either.

But this puffer fish did not belong to their table, but to tomorrow's guest.

This behavior is precisely because after countless gourmets tried their lives, everyone finally found that the toxicity of pufferfish will be greatly weakened after a long time of stewing, so the guests who order here will eat the food from the day before. We started to process the puffer fish, but in order to ensure the satisfaction of customers, the guests here will still inspect the dishes and sign to confirm that the puffer fish is alive.

Because no one knows who the next guest will be, some guests who are about to eat delicious pufferfish will write small essays in this book. If it matches, it can also cause a good talk.

If you are lucky enough, you can even get an autograph from someone.

But Xia Anran's table before the Pufferfish was not so poetic, he just left a pen to write about the Pufferfish's state. Xia Anran's table was composed of three big men, two of whom were martial arts students, and only Xia Anran An Ran was the one who wrote the pen, so I left it to him to describe puffer fish.

Xia Anran didn't refuse either. With a shake of his pen, he wrote in an extremely playful way:

Three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo, the spring river plumbing duck prophet.

Artemisia betel is all over the ground and the reed buds are short, which is the time when the pufferfish is about to come up.

This is the only ancient poem he remembers. After writing it, he still left a note at the bottom to explain that this poem was not written by himself, but he heard it by accident.

Cough, as for where I heard about it... Forgive him for being an old man, I really don't remember.

It has been decades since he graduated, but he can still remember this poem because the four lines in it describe four kinds of food.

Bai Jintang and Lu Xiaofeng came over to watch, they both laughed that this year's puffer fish hadn't finished yet, and he was already thinking about next year's slander.

Xia Anran stopped writing, ignored them, her round eyes stared at the door expectantly after the waiter left, and the word "expectation" was written on her face.

He didn't know it, seeing him like this, the other two men exchanged a look, and they both felt that this meal had invited Xia Anran's heart.

The same is true.

The toxin in pufferfish is a kind of neurotoxin. Wild pufferfish can easily kill people. Unlike the low-toxic pufferfish that are farmed for food in modern times, pufferfish in Da Song are purely wild.

Whether people die or not depends entirely on the chef's handling methods. However, in the Northern Song Dynasty, eating pufferfish has actually become a common thing.

As the saying goes, if you don't eat puffer fish, you don't know the taste of fish.

The ancients discovered that using golden juice can detoxify pufferfish, and prompting vomiting after poisoning can also save lives.

But this is not [-]% able to save people, but even so, there are many people who are desperate for a bite of fresh fish, so eating pufferfish itself, the tongue is hovering on the verge of death.

The first dish is boiled puffer fish soup, which is stewed with fish bones and has a light taste. A few pieces of tofu are put in it.

If you say that this dish is for you to eat the original puffer fish, the next dish is puffer fish sashimi.

The sashimi is cut into two types of thick and thin, not many, each person only has one piece, the dipping material is extremely light radish puree and plum puree with sauce, wrapped with rose pink puffer fish meat and stuffed into the mouth , The entrance is chewy.

Then, as you chew, the flavors of mashed radish and plums wrapped in it reach the taste buds.

After the radish is grated, the cell walls are destroyed, and the ester components that make up its spicy taste are separated out in large quantities. The esters of radish are the same as those in mustard, so when it is grated, the effect is amazing. Three southerners who don’t often eat spicy I was choked almost immediately.

Xia Anran never imagined that the chef would be able to achieve such a feat by relying on radishes in the era without chili peppers.

But after the spicy taste passed, the sweet and sour taste of the plum quickly came to appease it. It was like a little fairy and gently soothed between the lips and teeth. It is unavoidable that the taste is not good, but if pufferfish is used as an ingredient, customers' tongues will instinctively avoid the spicy taste, and the sour taste promotes the secretion of saliva, thereby increasing the frequency of chewing.

In this way, unknowingly, diners will taste the most harmonious taste of this dish when the puffer fish fillets are at their softest.

The spicy taste in the mouth is still faint, and the third dish is served.

It's a saucepan.

The fugu pot that has been stewing slowly since yesterday, the ham and chicken soup is slow-fired to collect the juice, and the fugu has been processed in a special way to ensure that the taste will not disperse even if it is stewed for a day.

After the meat is finished, the store puts on a charcoal stove and adds autumn vegetables. This is a hot pot with puffer fish as the soup base.

While waiting for the pot to boil again, the shop served wine pairings.

The wine is ordinary sake, but not ordinary wine.

Pufferfish fins were added to the wine.

Sliced ​​puffer fish fins are grilled until they are burnt and then put into warm rice wine. The burnt aroma and wine aroma coexist. It is said that its food tonic effect is no less than that of tiger bone wine, but the taste is more mellow.

The aroma of the grilled puffer fish fins is slowly released in the warm wine. According to the store, even the most ordinary wine can become extremely delicious after being put in the fish fins, not to mention the wine they use is top-notch. Waiting for wine.The taste is naturally wonderful.

Finally, the store sent new rice just harvested this year.

This is a special product only available in the puffer fish banquet in autumn.

The newly harvested rice of the year is shelled in the morning and cooked by steaming to ensure that each grain of rice can absorb moisture in the steam.

This is so that they don't suck up the pufferfish soup when they are poured into the pot.

At the entrance, the puffer fish soup wraps the rice, but the aroma of the rice itself carries the highest happiness of autumn.

The freshly harvested rice in autumn and the river fresh food that is about to leave form a superb autumn delicacy.

During the banquet, cups were exchanged, cups were exchanged, and the atmosphere was very warm. The three of them were very satisfied with this pufferfish banquet.

After drinking and eating, Bai Jintang, as an introducer, explained the purpose of coming. They came for the method of curing eye diseases in Xia Anran's novel.

For this point, Xia Anran was extremely surprised.

"To tell you the truth," Lu Xiaofeng said to him, "I have an old friend who has been blind due to illness since he was a child. He sought numerous miraculous doctors, but he was not cured. According to the above prescription, we searched for the medicine, only missing the last Tianshan snow lotus..."

While talking about Lu Xiaofeng while observing Xia Anran's expression, he saw inconceivable, and a little hesitant to speak, Lu Xiaofeng was thoughtful, and he knew the answer to this question right away, but he was still somewhat unwilling, after pondering for a while , and finally asked, "Although I saw at the beginning of the chapter that Mr. said that this book is a fiction, it's just... I have delusions in my mind. Dare I ask Mr. if the prescriptions in this book really have curative effects?"

About the answer to this question, Xia Anran pondered for a moment, he got up and walked aside, spread the inkstone on the table, the style of writing in the Song Dynasty was at its peak, and there was even more poetry and wine, so all large restaurants and restaurants would prepare paper and ink for future use. Banners leave ink treasures when they are interested.

He took a pen and wrote down a bunch of prescriptions and handed them to Lu Xiaofeng. The latter was overjoyed, but after seeing the words in the prescriptions, his expression slowly became serious.

Lu Xiaofeng didn't know medical skills, but Huamanlou was somewhat proficient. He followed Huamanlou, so naturally he also knew the curative effects when he was dispensing the medicine.

There are not many medicines written by Xia Anran, and most of them are common medicines. The content above is slightly different from the novel, but the main topic is not much different, but there is no Tianshan Snow Lotus in it.

His expression suddenly felt a little lost. Although he was still smiling, he was obviously very disappointed.

Seeing him like this, Xia Anran couldn't bear it. He felt that Lu Xiaofeng was really a dear friend to Huamanlou. Although he couldn't bear to let her down, the treatment of diseases was really not his specialty. .

The prescription written by Xia Anran was actually written by Zhang Zhongjing.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, several courtiers suffered from nearsightedness and presbyopia after they got old. Although Xia Anran knew that glasses could be equipped, but he couldn't make glass, and couldn't find crystal mines, so he could only worry with him.

This prescription was written by Zhang Zhongjing for them to maintain their eyes.

Although it was written by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing, the development of medicine has always been dynamic rather than static. It does not mean that ancient prescriptions are necessarily better than modern prescriptions. After all, many of their herbs were not discovered in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Even though Zhang Zhongjing was later ordered to go south to search for medicinal herbs, the number of medicinal herbs he found was far less than that of later generations. First, the areas that the Eastern Han Dynasty could enter were not comparable to later generations, and second, it was also restricted by the time Zhang Zhongjing stayed in each place.

Therefore, Xia Anran knew that this prescription of hers would definitely disappoint them. Although this prescription is generally considered to be an exquisite ingredient, and it is good for warming and nourishing the bodies of a few elderly people, it is not used after all. What cures the disease is nothing more than supplementary nutrition.

He felt a little guilty. When Xia Anran was writing, he was afraid that someone would take the novel as reality. Although he thought that no one would be so stupid, he could still add some snow lotus into it, and set the location at Kunlun Mountain. Wanting to prevent someone from taking these medicines seriously, they were still found.

He knew that the Hua family could find good cures from novels, and they really went to the doctor in a hurry, and the person they wanted to treat was still Huamanlou.

Xia Anran has a good impression of Huamanlou, this is one of the few men in martial arts novels who has the appearance of the moon and is consistent.

But he really can't help with this. There are many diseases that lead to blindness due to illness. In later generations, the most common one is the complications of diabetes. Under the advanced medical conditions of later generations, this problem still cannot be solved, let alone today. up.

It was obvious that Lu Xiaofeng was already prepared for his answer, or in other words, he had already made up his mind about this answer. Seeing the guilty expression on the young gentleman's face, he quickly comforted him, "Sir, you don't need to be like this. It was because I broke the rules and came here to disturb the quietness of the husband, and the husband took the time to meet and wrote a prescription to point out the direction, which is a great kindness to us."

"Lu Xiaofeng should thank you sir." After finishing speaking, he stood up and bowed to Xia Anran.

He moved too fast, Xia Anran only had time to dodge the half-respect, and when he sat down, he sighed softly, Lu Xiaofeng has many friends in the Jianghu, from the head of the sect, down to the traffickers and pawns , all of them may be his friends, and there are even some distinguished people among his friends. One of the most important factors for being able to become friends with so many people is that he is very sincere to people.

And it is the kind of sincerity that treats everyone equally.

As long as you are his friend, he can give everything for you.

For example, this time, he can come to Bianjing to confirm an extremely small possibility. Facing such a person, you always don't want to disappoint him.

Because although this friendship does not belong to you, it is human instinct to maintain beautiful things, and so does Xia Anran.

Seeing Lu Xiaofeng bowing to him, he wanted to say goodbye, so he called out to him, because in a flash, he suddenly thought of someone——

In Lu Xiaofeng's world, there is no such thing as a miracle doctor, but in the world of "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness", there is.

Not only that, that person is still here.

The person he was thinking about was the future master of Kaifeng Mansion——Gongsun Ce.

Regarding Mr. Gongsun's medical skills, it seems like a paradox. In the original novel of Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness, Mr. Gongsun is indeed good at medicine, but he mainly established himself in Kaifeng Mansion by making suggestions and making instruments of torture. After Si voted for Kaifeng Mansion, the image of Mr. Gongsun was even more marginalized. After all, Jiang Si was better at strategy than Gongsun.

But in film and television works, Gongsun Ce is usually portrayed as a genius doctor.

This is also out of the screenwriter's need to promote the plot. After all, there is a Mr. Gongsun who is good at autopsy, which is more helpful to solve the case. Considering that there are more martial arts people in film and television dramas, Mr. Gongsun has been portrayed as a man with excellent medical skills. miracle doctor.

Although in fact the profession of autopsy originated in the Great Qin Dynasty, the real establishment of learning began in the Southern Song Dynasty. Song Ci's "Winning Injustice Collection" is the first forensic work in the history of the world.

Mr. Gongsun, who lived in the Northern Song Dynasty, was born as a decent scholar. He may have a little knowledge or even proficiency in medical skills, but he really should not be able to perform autopsies, nor should he have the authority to examine corpses.

But all of this is based on theory. Xia Anran has discovered that this world is not within the scope of theory. After all, in an era of science, there will be no such thing as light work that goes against gravity and the interaction of forces. of.

So he recommended Gongsun Ce to Lu Xiaofeng.

He drew a line between the knight with four eyebrows and Kaifeng Mansion. Although he didn't know the result, he always felt that sparks could collide between the two.

Lu Xiaofeng was a little surprised by Xia Anran's recommendation, he had never heard of this Mr. Gongsun before, but Xia Anran also recommended to him Master Qingran from Daxiangguo Temple.

Master Liaoran is an eminent monk who attained the Tao. His lay name is Zhuge Sui. He is an extremely important thread in "Seventh Five-Year" although he rarely appears. Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce took in Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce who had nowhere to go, and for this reason the two got on the line.

Lu Xiaofeng had heard of the name of Master Jieran, before the Hua family also wanted to ask Master Jieran, but at that time Master Jieran was wandering around in order to inherit the position of abbot of Daxiangguo Temple, although he had no martial arts, his actions were erratic , and extremely low-key, the Hua family couldn't find anyone for a while, so they had to give up.

Lu Xiaofeng acted resolutely, he only thought for a while, and seeing that it was late today, he decided to visit Mr. Gongsun who was closer to here.

And Xia Anran, out of curiosity and because she finally had a reason to go to the second sightseeing spot in Bianjing, followed him to Kaifeng mansion on foot.

But they were kept out.

They arrived one step too late, Mr. Gongsun followed Bao Zheng to Xuzhou to investigate the case early this morning, thanked the little official at the gate, and the three stood at the gate of the Kaifeng government office to say goodbye to each other.

Lu Xiaofeng clasped his fists at the two of them. He planned to go to Daxiangguo Temple tomorrow. This trip was to visit Master Zhiran. The Bian River was not yet frozen, so he went south to bring Huamanlou over for treatment.

Xia Anran didn't go with him, he and Lu Xiaofeng were just nodding acquaintances, acting too enthusiastic would be suspicious, but he was somewhat curious in his heart.

Fortunately, Lu Xiaofeng was so forthright that he promised Xia Anran that if his best friend's eyes could be cured, he would definitely invite him to drink with him when he went to Bianjing for the second time, and recommend Huamanlou to him.

Lu Xiaofeng looked at the young man's smile and crooked eyes, and secretly felt in his heart that if these two could meet each other, they would be very agreeable.

His intuition has always been very sensitive, Lu Xiaofeng stroked his mustache, and thought with some pride.

Don't leave Lu Xiaofeng alone, Xia Anran took advantage of Bai Jintang's presence and handed him the manuscript directly, which means he completed this month's task ahead of schedule.

But what he didn't expect was that he received Bai Jintang's invitation to go to Jinhua together, and felt that the two were reluctant to refuse for a moment.

The reason is simple, Bai Jintang invited him because this year's ham is ripe.

When Baijintang went north, the ham hadn't reached the most suitable season, so naturally it couldn't be out of the kiln, but after November, this waterway running through the north and south was about to stop transportation because it entered the dry season of the Yellow River. Only land remains.

However, land travel is much slower than water travel.

So if there were no accidents, if Bai Jintang returned and sent the things, Xia Anran might have passed the Chinese New Year when he received them.

This reason is too powerful, Xia Anran can't resist it at all.

Of course, there was another reason that prompted him to leave here, that is, he discovered that Zhan Zhao had not yet joined the Kaifeng Mansion.

According to the timeline of the original book, the time when Zhan Zhao entered Kaifeng Mansion should be after Mr. Bao's trip to Chenzhou. It is precisely because of what he did in Chenzhou that moved Nan Xia Zhan Zhao. The repeated assassinations that he encountered made Zhan Zhao, who had helped him many times, want to protect this clean and honest official.

It was only then that he gave up the high and wide rivers and lakes and devoted himself to officialdom.

This time point may be next year or the year after, that is to say, although Kaifeng is indeed Bao Zheng's territory now, but without Zhan Zhao's military guarantee, Xia Anran's previous wishful thinking was completely in vain.

Just when he was somewhat dazed and hesitant, shopkeeper Bai Da happened to propose an invitation. He seemed to be very sincere, and he even did not hesitate to seduce him with delicious food.

Although Xia Anran didn't know where his courteous attitude came from, he felt that there was no malice in it, and he was indeed somewhat curious about Bai Jintang's hometown.

Especially - the existence of Bai Jintang's younger brother.

If his guess is correct, the man in his family should have a blood relationship with Bai Jintang, or someone who gets along closely. After getting along with people for a long time, they will naturally acquire the smell of others. It is not a smell, but a more mysterious existence. .

For example, similar aesthetics, preferences, and concepts, so it is often said that things of a kind flock together, and people are divided into groups.

That's why Xia Anran fell in love with Bai Jintang the first time she saw him, because his behavior, speech, and expression all resembled Cao Chun.

That is to say, if he followed Bai Jintang, it was very likely that he would meet his family.

Seeing that Xia Anran was moved, Big Brother Bai waved his folding fan and gave another reason Xia Anran could not refuse, which involved the question of whether parrot Duoduo, a tropical animal, could survive the cold winter in the north.

This is exactly what Xia Anran was troubled by before.

Since the beginning of autumn, the temperature in Bianjing City has dropped sharply.Xia Anran, who is basically a northerner, should adapt well to this temperature theory, but his body is obviously a southerner.

For some reason, this body obviously looks strong, but every day when Xia Anran wakes up, she feels her feet are cold, and at night, she curls up into a ball when she falls asleep.

What about the good firepower of the martial arts practitioners?Why is this body so poor?

I'm ashamed to say that Xia Anran has been consciously looking for Mrs. Xi when she is shopping these few days.

On the contrary, Xia Duoduo is obviously a tropical bird, but it seems to be well adapted to the winter in Bianjing. He is alive and kicking every day, and even sleeps, he doesn't deliberately sleep in a sheltered place.

This makes Xia Anran often doubt his species. Although he has no research on birds, judging from the structure of the parrot's beak, he should indeed be a parrot.

But are there any parrots that are not afraid of the cold?

Xia Anran thought to herself, for the sake of his love, Xia Anran felt that she should sacrifice a bit, give up the beautiful world of Bianjing, and go to the south first, so that she could be a cat for a winter.

There is not much time left for him to think, because the Yellow River may stop flowing at any time, and before the government has issued an order to suspend sailings, many caravans in Kaifeng Mansion are carrying and buying, and they are extremely busy.

The caravan of the Bai family was no exception. Ever since Xia Anran moved to the inn opened by the Bai family in Kaifeng, there were a lot of businessmen coming and going to report every day.

Among them, the most popular among southerners is undoubtedly the northern mountain treasures, as well as animal skins and the like.

Seeing Bai Jintang with his own eyes, Xia Anran held a piece of white tiger skin with some joy and said that he would give it to his younger brother.

Hmm... According to Big Brother Bai's usual description of his younger brother's personality, he intuitively felt that younger brother Bai would not like this gift.

When he said this, Xia Anran was picking out rabbit skins to make a small nest for Duoduoying. He bought a few pieces of rabbit skins and wanted to sew them together, prop them up with wooden strips, and make a nest that Duoduoying could huddle in to keep warm. Bird's Nest, it's just that Duoduo doesn't seem to be interested in rabbit fur, and keeps an indifferent attitude.

Xia Anran didn't take it seriously, he realized that in winter, this tropical bird living in the south, between being frozen into a dog by the southern humidity or shrinking into the ugly little nest he made, would definitely choose the latter.

Or can he make a small cape for Dodo?But Duoduo's body is a bit small, will he be unable to fly after making a shawl?Hmm... "Dare to ask the store, is there any warm and light animal fur?"

The shopkeeper who came to sell animal skins looked at the rabbit skin in Xia Anran's hand, then at the parrot standing on his hair crown, and thought for a while, "Mr., are you going to use it for this parrot?"

Pets were popular in the Song Dynasty. Basically, all kinds of pets were raised by people, especially in Bianjing. There was basically nothing that these pet owners could not do for their beloved pets. Bite the bullet and go buy a humerus.

Therefore, the businessman was not surprised to see Xia Anran clearly wanting to keep the parrot warm.He thought about it for a while, and finally gave a suggestion, "Mr. Lord, if you make it for parrots... duck feathers are the best. Duck feathers are better for keeping warm, and they are more comfortable for poultry. You can buy nitrated ones. The skins are wrapped outside."

Ah!

Xia Anran suddenly realized, he said he forgot something!

Isn't this, the way to keep warm, the duvet?He, he has been forgetting to make a duvet!

Xia Anran quickly thanked the merchant, and bought several pieces of rabbit skins with money. He also bought some cashmere from this merchant, and planned to spin him into cotton yarn during the boring time on the boat, and wait a month for the arrival , these cotton threads should be able to be made into sweaters.

Pure wool for extra warmth.

Although I only know how to knit a sweater with flat stitches, and I don’t know how to knit a sweater with one stitch, but I can sew all parts after knitting. Anyway, if I wear it in the innermost part, no outsiders will see it.

Compared with linen and silk, the warmth retention property of wool is much higher.

Since he didn't find Mrs. Xi, Xia Anran will rely on these two things to survive this winter.

When boarding the boat, Xia Anran had very little luggage, but he brought two bags of wool, some ordinary wood, and most of the parrots to eat, which caused the servant who carried the equipment for him to look at him several times.

Xia Anran silently looked away, and at this moment, his eyes moved suddenly, and he felt a white light flashing across his field of vision, and he took advantage of the situation to look, but saw nothing.

Is it an illusion?

It is the end of autumn, and the Yellow River will enter the dry season. In winter, the water in Kaifeng will freeze, and the water birds will lose their food. Therefore, except for a small number of water birds raised by fishermen, the birds have already flown south by this time.

The waterfowl that Xia Anran saw when he arrived in Kaifeng were all gone, if not, he really would have thought that it was a waterfowl that flew slightly faster and slid past in front of him.

only……

His eyes narrowed slightly.

That should not be a waterfowl, what was that just now?

Just when he was hesitating, he saw Bai Jintang in white clothes and a white cloak coming out from the back of the boat.

"Brother Xia." Seeing the nervous expression on Xia Anran's face, Bai Jintang was taken aback for a moment, then the corners of his lips raised slightly, and he walked closer, "But did Brother Yu scare you just now?"

"No..." Xia Anran paused, then wrinkled his nose suddenly, he smelled a strange smell from Bai Jintang.

Like pine leaves in the autumn dew, it has a strong woody fragrance.

"Ha chirp."

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