Alternative Jianghu Adventures

As soon as Long Zhengwu's words fell, Xia Yunqiao Anyue and everyone in the bodyguard bureau quickly stood up and returned their salutes, said a few polite words, and immediately got to the point.

"Hero Xia came to look for General Lan's whereabouts on the orders of the man from the north, saying that he had something important to discuss." Long Zhengwen came forward to explain.

"Brother Long said you don't have to be so polite, just call me Xiao Xia just like Uncle Ding." Xia Yun coughed dryly and said with a smile.

Out of prudence, she did not expose the military talisman in front of Sha Xianren, Long Zhengwen and others.Although there shouldn't be any big troubles at this point, it's always right to be cautious.In case of civil strife in Sha Lan, or conflicts between soldiers and seedlings, this can be regarded as a precautionary measure.

Xia Yun has taken on tasks in Shenyuan Pavilion for so many years, and he has seen this kind of situation where everyone is still talking amicably with guests and friends at the next moment, and then they are fighting each other at the next moment.She would not take such a fearless risk with the soldier talisman that Shen Feiwei took back with his life.

The soldier talisman must be handed over to General Lantian in its entirety—and it must be presented by her, Xia Yun, before it can be considered a rest.

"Sure enough, it's a hero born into a boy." As soon as Long Zhengwu returned to the village, he was told that his younger brother Long Zhengwen had brought a group of guests back. The little girl who seemed to be over [-] years old, he said haha: "You two young women dare to look at the Valley of the Dead as if you have entered a no-man's land. You really don't let me wait for a man to survive."

——And judging from this sitting time, the brawny man in the uniform of the Escort is actually headed by this little girl!It seems that he is not a person of high status, but he has true love.

"Brother, this Miss Xia is the top tree in the Shenyuan Pavilion that was uploaded five years ago." Long Zhengwen bit his ear to his brother.

"This is really..." Long Zhengwu also looked surprised, but he quickly adjusted his emotions and didn't know what to say for a while.

"It's just a false name," Xia Yun waved his hand, completely giving up his plan to correct Long Zhengwen's title, and went straight to the point: "I came here this time to ask for General Lan. I heard that General Lan lived in Feilongzhai. So we came here together, can Chieftain Long make it easier for you to recommend him?"

Sha Xianren's departure from the team to rob the darts was originally a private act to hide from Lan Tian.He claimed to General Lan that he was taking a group of people to the Linyun Mountains to "exterminate the remnants of bandits" to see if there were any missing bandits from the previous bandits, so he left Lantian's large army long ago.

And General Lan wandered around the mountains. Although he kept in touch with Chieftain Long of Feilongzhai every now and then, he didn't dare to contact him too often for fear that Lu Kun in the north might catch something.The two forces were inseparable, and it took another ten days and a half for Lantian to change his hiding place. Even Sha Xianren needed to rely on the fixed-point contact of Feilongzhai to determine the latest location of Lantian.

"It's easy to say—" Long Zhengwu naturally had no doubts about the person brought back by his younger brother after confirmation, and immediately took over the topic, "A few days ago, General Tianlan sent a pigeon to say that the army had run out of medicinal herbs. In two days, I will personally bring people back to pick up a new batch of herbs."

Qiao Anyue immediately remembered what Sha Xianren had done.I couldn't help but look at Deputy General Sha more - this is probably the reason why he and Long Zhengwen went to the organ city to get the herbs earlier.

Sha Xianren has been amassing money everywhere without telling Lantian, and colluded with the two leaders of Feilongzhai, which not only greatly reduced Lantian's financial burden.And in order to make him not suspicious, even let Feilongzhai bear the reputation of "helping regardless of the consequences" for no reason--I'm afraid that Lantian still thinks that the reason why his army has enough food and grass to support it until now is that All are Feilongzhai's actions regardless of gains or losses.

What a fool.

Xia Yun sneered, and did not comment on Sha Xianren's efforts to hide the truth.

"I reckon that General Lan will arrive at the village tonight or tomorrow morning. If you don't mind, you might as well rest in Hanzhai tonight, so that the people in my village can show their friendship as landlords." Long Zheng Wu's arrangement is watertight, and there is a degree of advance and retreat.

Anyway, after waiting for such a long time, Xia Yun did not have the idea of ​​riding a horse to join Lan Tian now. He deliberately glanced at Qiao Anyue, who was looking normal, and finally nodded slightly, saying "Thank you." .

"These people are..." Long Zhengwu turned his attention to the rest of Ding Fan and the others—he had already developed the ability to observe words and expressions after years of scheming and plotting.

It is impossible for the assassin Mu Zhi, who has always been a lone ranger, to go out and bring such a large group of people.Long Zhengwen didn't know the grievances between Xia Yun Dingfan and Sha Xianren on the way of escorting before, but after a few observations, he could also see the complex hostility towards Sha Xianren from the members of SF Escort headed by Ding Fan.

"Friend." Xia Yun stepped forward to make a rescue, "The friend that Vice General Sha met on the road—isn't that right?"

"Friend." Sha Xianren nodded, not exposing Xia Yun's lie.

Although this statement was false, everyone present understood that it directly implied the personal grievances between Ding Fan and Sha Xianren, and had nothing to do with the overall situation this time.Since both parties in the matter are unwilling to allow others to intervene too much in the grievances between the two, they will not be boring themselves and waste more mouthpieces here.

"Since we are all friends, please do your own thing," Long Zhengwu greeted his subordinates, "You go down and make arrangements for the room, and instruct the kitchen to prepare well. Tonight, we will have a banquet in Feilongzhai, and we will not return home until we are drunk! "

So that night, Feilongzhai lit up a jubilant pine fire in the middle of the huge open space.

Before you time, as guests, Xia Yun and the others had already sat in the elevated guest seats. On the high platform, Long Zhengwu sat in the main seat, Long Zhengwen took the second place, and the rest were Xia Yun, Qiao Anyue and Sha Xianren and others are lined up on the right, and Escort Bureau and others are on the left looking at each other from a distance.

Although spring and summer are intersecting now, the further south you go, the more you know only the boundaries of winter and summer but not spring and autumn. The moso bamboos around Feilongzhai have already grown wildly. Very high temperament.

The tender bamboo that was just born this year was cut with a knife, and it was cut neatly, even Qiao Anyue couldn't jump half a point.A thumb-like hole was dug out at the place of a knot, the debris was poured out, converted into glutinous rice or fragrant stalk rice, put it into a bamboo tube, poured into the sweet Lanwei stream, sealed the hole with a wooden plug, and put it on fire Bake for a long time, until the skin of the bamboo tube is burnt black, and the small hole no longer emits heat before giving up.

So the finished product presented in front of Qiao Anyue only needs to gently peel off the blackened bamboo tube. The special products in the territory, not to mention that there are few bamboos in other areas, but without this special Lanweijian, the taste is more than a little bit worse.

Qiao Anyue ate a few more mouthfuls, which was rare. She just tasted the small bamboo tube rice in her hand, and moved the rest of the food up one after another. Xia Yun opened his eyes wide.

The chili bone is spicy but not strong. The pork bones or chicken, beef, and sheep bones after the meat are removed are regarded as pieces, smashed, mixed with chili powder, salt, pepper, ginger, and rice wine, and then put into the jar. The taste is fresh The ghee is smooth.

Looking to the side, it is the small intestines of lambs poured with juice and dripped with a bamboo filter for several rounds, adding a small amount of sheep bile and an appropriate amount of salt to boil for later use.Take the intestine powder and lungs, wash them slightly, cut them into pieces, mix well with salt, wine and spices, add perilla, pepper, ginger garlic wine and other condiments, stir fry until half cooked, then pour the bitter juice into the pot with it Mix them together, then cover them tightly and simmer for a while, and when they come out of the pot, there will be Miaojiang’s characteristic sheep deflated soup.

Qiao Anyue took out a spoon and carefully scooped it up. The delicious juice went down her throat and warmed her internal organs. She looked slightly surprised—these cattle and sheep eat more grass and leaves, and there are many wild Chinese herbs in the forest, like Such a practice actually added a bit of medicinal flavor to the mutton deflated soup, which was actually a rare delicacy.

Xia Yun simply drank the whole bowl of deflated soup in one gulp, and just as he comfortably put the bowl on the bamboo table, the roasted field carp was served.It stands to reason that this roasted field carp should have been a wild game for families to wear glutinous rice and go to the fields to catch carp during the harvest season in August and September, but now it is used for entertaining guests, although there are fewer picnics Interesting, but still without losing its aroma.

When the grilled field carp is served, it still maintains the flavor of the picnic.One end of the small bamboo or twig is split, and a few live carp are sandwiched in a row, put on the lotus leaf tenderly on the outside and brought to the stage.There are seasonings on a small plate next to it, wild ant vegetables are accompanied by spices such as basil, mint, ginger, garlic, and pepper, and the fish is dipped in pepper.Xia Yun also craned his neck and saw a Miao man walking forward with a pot in his arms.

Just curious, I watched the cook take out the fish gall, put it into a pot containing several kinds of spices, fill it with clean water, choose pebbles with hard enzyme texture, put them in the fire and burn them red, and put the "red stone" into the pot , the cold water boiled quickly, and the fish was cooked in a short time-it was a way to cook two fish with one fish!

"Come back to your senses." Seeing Xia Yun's appearance of Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, Qiao Anyue couldn't help but grab Xia Yun's clothes from the audience and pull her back, "This fish is nothing special, I can cook it too .”

I don't know what to fight for—maybe it's the self-consciousness of the cook, Qiao Anyue nodded again affirmatively: "And it's better than this."

Xia Yun rubbed his nose and muttered, "How do I know if it's good if I haven't eaten it?"

"What did you say?" Miss Qiao raised her eyebrows, indicating that she didn't hear Xia Yun's thoughts clearly.

Fortunately, Xia Yun was relieved by the next dish served at this time, and she regained her spirits immediately, and changed the subject: "Drink, I haven't smelled this wine before... Little brother, come here, hurry up and tell sister What kind of wine am I?"

The food was delivered by a young Miao guy who looked to be in his teens.However, the Miao people are no better than the Han people, and they didn't feel that Xia Yun's words were a bit joking, and they were not shy. liquor."

Just as he was talking, Xia Yun couldn't wait to lift the lid of the wine, and immediately poured himself a bowl. When he smelled it, he sighed comfortably: "Good wine!"

"What about this?" The little drunkard naturally didn't let go of the other pot on the tray, and Xia Yun stretched out his claws in the next moment: "How do you do this? It smells good!"

"This is pumpkin wine. Every year, the people in the village will choose a well-ripe old pumpkin, cut a round hole on the top of the pumpkin, clean out the melon seeds, and then meet the pumpkin and 'Hongyang Rannuo' in proportion. , boil the glutinous rice and let it cool, mix it with distiller’s koji and stuff it into the pumpkin, seal the mouth, then wrap it with old cotton tires and put it in a bamboo basket. The next day, open the lid and add the distiller’s koji, and use a bamboo branch to insert it into the melon and mix well. Wait for five or six days, then remove the cover, take out the sweet wine from the pumpkin and put it into a wine jar, mix it with appropriate rice wine or spring water from the Lanwei Stream, seal it for at least a month, and then drink it!"

"Can you do it?" Xia Yun squinted at Miss Qiao, "If you can do it, I will admit that your craftsmanship is better than others!"

Seeing Xia Yun's obvious behavior of finding fault, Miss Qiao folded her arms and snorted coldly, Xia Yun "cut" and poured herself a drink like a villain.

Chongyang wine and pumpkin wine were drank alternately until the moon was high, and everyone was a little drunk.

When it was late at night, the noisy Feilong Village finally became much quieter.People scattered from the gathering square back to the houses in twos and threes. Before Xia Yun left, he didn't forget to take a pot of wine, humming a little tune, walking wobbly and out of shape.

It looked like he was slightly drunk.

Back in the house, Xia Yun and Qiao Anyue's rooms were next to each other. Xia Yun muttered and complained that the summer in the south was very hot and humid. After a while, his whole body was sticky and greasy, which made people burn a long time ago. Water ready for a good rinse.Seeing Qiao Anyue into the room with his own eyes, Xia Yun finally heaved a sigh of relief. His belongings were placed on the edge of the screen, but they were within sight from the corner of his eyes.

Not long after, Xia Yun was half paralyzed in the barrel.Still holding the pot of pumpkin wine in his hand, his arms were half hanging outside the barrel, looking drunk and unconscious.

"Dong dong dong."

There were three knocks on the door.

No one answered.

The bamboo door was creaked and pushed open a crack, revealing Qiao Anyue's figure outside the door.

Qiao Anyue had already shed all her pretense at this moment.The furnishings and structure of the two rooms are all the same, and the bedroom itself is not too big, so she can easily see the thing next to Xia Yun's screen.

Next to the inseparable Miao Dao is a small green cloth bag, even with her eyes closed, Qiao Anyue can recognize that this is the target she has been lurking for so long.

Soldiers.

With the things placed so close, Qiao Anyue didn't doubt the authenticity of the soldier talisman at all.She remembered how she handled the wine at the banquet before, and she also avoided worrying about the possibility of Xia Yun waking up at any time.

... That black pill, the left half is drug, and the right half is poison.

Taking advantage of Xia Yun's unpreparedness, she put it in the wine, just in case, and even secretly mixed some perilla, which is a common ingredient for dinner, in advance. Special drug pills.

In the end, Qiao Anyue failed to put poison and medicine on her and kill her.

After all, my heart softened.

She thought so, but her footsteps had already moved in the direction of the soldier talisman.

One step, two steps, three steps.

The candlelight in the house swayed from time to time with the night wind that broke in through the door, and Qiao Anyue put her hand on the soldier talisman as if she had entered no man's land.

Got it!

Sudden--

A cold touch pressed against Qiao Anyue's neck.

The candle flame was instantly extinguished by the sharp blade, and the bright room suddenly fell into darkness.

"Do you really think I'm stupid?" The voice of the person behind him was clear, and he didn't look half drunk?Sneered, "Sixteen."

It's Xia Yun.

The author has something to say: Emma, ​​I'm so excited...

Well, the cooking method comes from "Miao Nationality Customs" in "Guangxi Ethnic Customs Collection Series"... I am hungry to write myself...