Qi Kuo

After several tosses, Jiang Buqing wanted to keep someone for dinner, but Chen Ke smiled and said after hearing this: "The prime minister's kindness is appreciated, but Zhao Jun has been greedy for a famous dish called Mapo Tofu in Sichuan, but he has never tasted it for a long time. So we won't stay."

Jiang Buqing was taken aback when he heard the words, and smiled: "Oh, that's wrong, I just ask the back kitchen to make a copy, it's so troublesome."

Chen Ke continued to say with a smile in his eyes: "I think the same way, but he is picky eater and is not easy to raise. He specified that Banyanju should make it. This..."

Jiang Buqing looked at Zhao Jun with a smile.

Zhao Jun stood there with his head down, neither talking nor not speaking.

When he finally walked out of the mansion, Zhao Jun glanced at Chen Ke, turned his eyes away when Chen Ke looked over, and sighed loudly: "Oh!"

Chen Ke put his hands on his shoulders, wrapped his arms around his neck, and gritted his teeth: "What are you doing?! Didn't you say you want to eat?!"

Zhao Jun was silent, and said: "That may be because I am too picky about food."

Chen Ke smiled, wrapped Zhao Jun's hand and pinched Zhao Jun's face naturally, with a smile in his voice: "Why do you hold grudges so much! Isn't it okay if I take you to eat? I'm so poor, so I invite you Going to eat at the most expensive restaurant in Sichuan, you still hate it!"

Zhao Jun glanced at Chen Ke, and the more he got along with him, the more he felt that this person was mentally ill, and he was completely different from the former and the latter.

He took away Chen Ke's hand pinching his face, and said, "Then I might be a refugee."

Chen Ke smiled and started to work again.

The sound of cicadas sounded everywhere, and the scorching heat passed across the face, bringing endless heat and heartbeat.

Two noisy and chaotic figures walked slowly into the distance.

Let's talk about Lin Zheng's side.Not long after he returned to the yard, he heard someone knock on the door.

He went to open the door, and when he saw the person outside, he was taken aback, then let the door open and said, "Miss Li."

Li Lan looked at him, saluted him, and said, "Master Lao Lin, can you help me call Zhao Jun out?"

Something flashed in Lin Zheng's eyes, he couldn't catch it quickly, he just said: "Sorry, Miss Li, Zhao Jun went out with Shen Ke, and he hasn't come back yet."

Li Lan nodded after hearing this, and said: "That's bothering Mr. Lin, since that's the case, it's inconvenient for me to stay longer, so I'll take my leave first."

Lin Zheng thought for a while, then suddenly stopped Li Lan from leaving, and hurriedly said: "Miss Li, why don't you wait here for Xiao Zhaojun, they should be back soon... Besides, the scorching sun and the sky are not suitable for young ladies to travel. Come in and rest."

Li Lan thought about it, and felt that it was all right, so she agreed, walked past Lin Zheng, and walked into the courtyard.

Behind him, Lin Zheng exhaled and followed.

Zhao Jun followed Chen Ke into the Banyan House. As soon as the waiter in the store saw Chen Ke, he immediately greeted him with a smiling face, and said, "The guest officer is here!"

Chen Ke nodded slightly, and said: "Take him to the place I ordered, and I will go to your backyard to select materials."

Xiaoer responded loudly: "Okay!"

Zhao Jun followed Xiaoer up to a separate compartment on the second floor. There was a pot of small orchids by the window, and a huge old tree outside the window stretched out several branches, and the sun was bustling down from the cracks in the tree.

Under the tree is a group of people enjoying the shade, someone set up a small stall selling cold cakes next to it, someone came over, took it for a night, and paid when they left.

Zhao Jun leaned on the window coffin, listening to the people below, a topic that started suddenly attracted his attention by coincidence.

The middle-aged man put down the bowl in his hand, and continued the topic just now: "That's right, I clearly saw a large group of people entering the mountain. I was chopping firewood in the mountain, and I happened to run into it!"

A well-dressed businessman was among them, and upon hearing this, he asked, "Then your county magistrate doesn't care? You don't report this kind of thing to the court?"

A man squatting on the side of the road heard this and sneered: "Our county magistrate, it is true that having him is much more useful than not having him."

The businessman then asked, "How do you say that?"

The man smiled: "With him we die faster, without him we live better. Where the wind blows, he falls there, the whole wall is a piece of grass."

Businessman: "Isn't Your Majesty gaining momentum?"

The man: "The emperor is as high as the sky, and the emperor is far away. How can he know the situation here, unless he has left behind. But think about it, now that Jiang Buqing's wind has blown over, what's the use of it?"

Someone interjected: "It's not right to say that, isn't there still the National Defense Army?"

The man laughed: "Since Shu is easy to defend and difficult to attack, when the National Defense Army comes, there is no guarantee that the war can be finished quickly. After a long time, food and grass will be in short supply. It will be us little people who will suffer. Furthermore, taking a step back, the terrain in Central Sichuan is complicated, and ordinary people cannot adapt to the climate here, which is a big taboo."

The businessman smiled: "Then we should prepare some decoctions in case of emergencies."

Everyone also laughed, for things like this, they can't do anything except discuss it, even if they want to, they are powerless.

After listening to their discussion, the stall owner suddenly said: "There is still King Xunnan, haven't they been stationed here all the time?"

Someone said: "Then it depends on whether they can cooperate. After all, there is no room for two tigers, and people's hearts are separated by belly. The world is unpredictable."

Some people were silent, and the whole atmosphere became warmer.

When Chen Ke came in, he saw Zhao Jun leaning against the window, the scattered sunlight fell on him, his eyelashes drooped, and he looked down intently.

Zhao Jun noticed the movement of Chen Ke closing the door, retracted his gaze from looking down, and looked at him in a blink of an eye.

Chen Ke opened the wooden stool by the table and asked him to sit down, while he was facing him.

Zhao Jun looked at him, remembered what he had just heard, and asked aloud, "Have we contacted King Xunnan?"

Chen Ke frowned: "No, and I don't want to."

Zhao Jun: "Huh?"

Chen Ke coughed slightly: "It's nothing, I don't like each other, I have nothing to say, more than half a sentence."

Zhao Jundao: "But I think if we can join forces with him, the help will be much greater."

Chen Ke folded his hands on the table and looked at him: "Then you go to negotiate."

Zhao Jun was taken aback: "Ah?!"

Chen Ke said solemnly: "I will accompany you... If I go, we may be kicked out before we get there."

It took Zhao Jun a while before he said, "That's not good."

Chen Ke snorted: "Anything is good. Anyway, I won't be able to see him when I go. Anyone of you may be treated politely. If I go, let's not talk about cooperation."

Zhao Jun: "..." You all hold grudges like this?

When the dishes were served, Zhao Jun suddenly remembered Lin Zheng who might still be at home, and said, "Don't we need to call Brother Lin?"

Chen Ke shook his head: "Don't worry about him, he knows how to find food for himself, so he doesn't care."

Zhao Jun nodded: "Okay." Then he began to eat with Chen Ke in peace of mind.

Lin Zheng, who happened to pass by under Banyanju, sneezed inexplicably.

He carried a bag of exquisite pastries, and walked briskly back to the courtyard.

There is someone to return to.

When Zhao Jun went back, he saw that the scene of Li Lan and Lin Zheng sitting and drinking tea together was very strange, so he didn't make a sound, but Li Lan immediately called out when he saw him.

Zhao Jun agreed and walked over with Chen Ke.

Li Lan handed the cakes on the table to Zhao Jun and asked him to have a taste.

Zhao Jun took a piece of flower cake and put it down after eating two mouthfuls. He asked Li Lan, "Sister Li Lan, did you come to see me? Brother Lin."

Li Lan was startled: "Of course I came to look for you."

Lin Zheng, who was sitting on the side, pursed the corners of his mouth, and Chen Ke slightly nodded his chin with his left hand, watching the slight expression on Lin's front, and then the light in his eyes brightened.

Li Lan originally wanted to invite Zhao Jun to see a special animal in Shu, which seems to be called an iron-eating beast.

Zhao Jun thought for a while, then shook his head and refused: "No, I'm going to another place."

Li Lan didn't force him, just said: "Okay."

At this moment, Lin Zheng suddenly interjected, "I'll accompany you."

Li Lan raised his eyes and looked at him, out of a cannibalistic mouth and shorthanded mentality: "Okay then, thank you Mr. Lin."

After Zhao Jun heard this, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Chen Ke. Chen Ke happened to look back at him. Seeing this, he winked at him.

In the evening, after seeing off Li Lan, Chen Ke and Zhao Jun sat opposite Lin Zheng, looking at Lin Zheng with a half-smile.

Lin Zheng looked back without fear.

The room was silent.

Chen Ke poured a glass of water, just put it to his mouth, as if remembering something, he handed it to Zhao Jun directly, Zhao Jun took it, took a sip, and put it down.

After Chen Ke drank the water, he could clear his throat before speaking: "Speak up! Tell me the truth!"

Lin Zhengbai glanced at him, and said, "Go away."

Chen Ke smiled: "Don't be like this, we have to move forward firmly towards the goal of being an individual."

Lin Zheng felt that he had nothing to say to him, but he couldn't escape, couldn't beat him, and the degree of shamelessness wasn't that deep.So he asked, "What?"

Chen Ke raised his chin and said, "I said, don't, you don't know yet."

Lin Zheng resisted the urge to hit him, and said, "I seem to be older than you, so I should understand better than you."

Chen Ke shook his head: "That's not it, think about it, think about our status of being involuntary, living among thousands of flowers, not daring to touch anything, wandering around every day, if it really happens, what should we do?"

Lin Zhengxiao: "It's because I don't touch anything that I'm qualified."

Chen Ke was silent, and said a little speechlessly: "I mean you don't touch it?! My focus is on the four directions!"

Lin Zheng was unmoved: "Oh."

Chen Ke: "..."

The next day when he set off to visit the Southern Palace, Chen Ke deliberately changed his usual attire, put on an inconspicuous dress, and followed Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun doubted: "Is there really no problem with us?"

Chen Ke pushed him forward: "It's okay, just run away if you can't beat him, I'm afraid he won't succeed."

Zhao Jun was silent.

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