Tang's dining table

Late at night, Li Hong was lying on his bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Every time he turned around, he could see the two masters playing chess.

The two of them played chess very slowly, and it took them a long time to make a single move.

Yunchu knew a little about Go. His previous teacher was an amateur Go player.

Go in the Tang Dynasty was still in an era of fierce killings. At this time, chess players liked the dragon strangle the most.

For the overall layout, he is not as skilled as the chess players of later generations.

Xu Jingzong is one of the masters. From the very beginning, he followed Yun Chu closely and strangled him, leaving Yun Chu no chance to position himself in the corner.

Just when the two big dragons on the chessboard entered the hands of life and death, a poisonous snake slowly swam up from under Li Hong's bed.

This is a black snake, and just by looking at its triangular head, you can tell that it is not a kind person.

After the snake swam onto the bed, it straightened its head and stared at Li Hong, who was also staring at it.

Yun Chu placed his pieces in the corner, and the four chess pieces had already formed a position. However, because of the formation in the corner, his big dragon lacked momentum and fell into a downturn.

Xu Jingzong snorted coldly when he saw Yunchu Luozi in the corner, and Luozi killed the dragon.

The black poisonous snake popped out like lightning and bit the pillow in Li Hong's hand. Li Hong immediately caught seven inches of the poisonous snake.

Guiltily, he looked up at the two masters who were still playing chess, grabbed the snake, pinched its mouth open, and pressed the two white fangs against the wood at the head of the bed.

As soon as the fangs landed on the wood, two crystal drops of snake venom appeared on the wood. Li Hong continued to press down, pressed the fangs into the wood, and pulled hard, and the two sharp fangs were left with the poison sacs. on wood.

Snakes can't scream, but the pain still caused the three-foot-long snake to wrap tightly around Li Hong's arm.

Li Hong looked at the fangs and venom sacs left on the bedside, and then opened the snake's mouth to check. He didn't see the third fang, so he felt relieved and let the snake continue to wrap around his arm.

His eyes were looking everywhere... Neither master allowed him to leave their sight, so he could only hope to encounter more poisonous snakes...

Li Hong is not afraid of snakes. Not only is he not afraid, he also likes these cold-blooded animals, especially because the cold body of this thing is very comfortable to hold.

The ability to catch snakes was taught to him by Naha. Naha not only knew how to catch snakes, but also skinned them and made snake soup. Of course, the taste wouldn't be that good when grilled.

The snake meat is very thin. There is a big bone in the middle that runs from head to tail. The bones are cut into pieces. After stir-frying with chili peppers, use two toothpicks to pierce the holes in the snake bones and bite them bit by bit with your teeth. Meat goes well with rice and wine.

Snake soup is delicious and basically has no shortcomings. The whole skinned snake is thrown in and steamed over a strong fire. When all the snake meat is deboned, the bones are fished out with a pick and thrown away.

Then add a little pepper and salt to it, and add a little water starch. Wait until the snake meat floats in the soup, then break two eggs into the bowl. You don’t need the yolks, just the whites. Use chopsticks to push hard in one direction. Beat evenly and pour it against the edge of the pan.

Then, pink and white snake meat silk will appear in the pot, and white egg white flocculation will float in it. Stir the soup pot vigorously, and a pot of fragrant and translucent snake soup is ready.

When eating snake soup like this, it is best not to use a spoon. Pick up the bowl and pour it into your stomach. Do not stop in one go... You will feel the delicious snake soup entering the throat from your mouth and finally falling into your stomach. My whole body feels so comfortable...especially in the cold morning, what a joy it is to have a bowl of soup like this.

When Li Hong thought of this, he squeezed the black poisonous snake wrapped around his arm. He felt that the snake was not fat enough and the soup it made would not be enough for three people. He opened his eyes wide and looked at the top of the tent, hoping that there was a snake there too. Climb in, preferably a highly venomous snake. When making soup, the more poisonous it is, the better it tastes.

In this case, there will be extra snake soup for Naha to drink.

Suddenly there was a sad sound of a flute outside the window. This thing couldn't play any happy and festive tunes. The sound of the whine sounded like a woman's cry.

Li Hong also doesn't like the sound of the flute. Like Naha, he has a special hobby for trumpets.

As long as the trumpet sounds, it feels like the sun has penetrated the dark clouds and the earth is bright... However, the sound of Naha's trumpet is like the crowing of a rooster, and the sound of Li Hong's trumpet is not much better, like the cry of a chicken before its death.

However, this does not prevent the two of them from playing the trumpet together and having fun.

The sound of the flute came from the side halls of the East Palace, where dozens of beautiful women lived. They had been in the East Palace for three days.

They range in age from thirteen to sixteen, and all of them look like ladies. Yesterday, Li Hong took a sneak peek with Naha, who was disguised as a man. Some were fat and some were thin. Naha Ha thinks it's great.

Li Hong kept staring at the top of the tent, but unfortunately, no snake climbed down since the sound of the cave flute.

There was a "boom", and then a ray of light illuminated Li Hong's palace, even for a moment, it overshadowed the candlelight.

Li Hong jumped up from the bed like a carp and came to the two masters barefoot. He wanted to talk, but found that the two masters were still playing chess and paying no attention to what was going on outside.

It wasn't until Xu Jingzong saw a poisonous snake wrapped around Li Hong's wrist that he grabbed three chess pieces and placed them on the chessboard to admit defeat.

"My chess style is too aggressive, unlike Marquis Yun who lays out the entire game and wins by force in the end. It seems that my chess style is not suitable for His Royal Highness."

Yun Chu shook his head and pointed at the blank space in the middle and said: "The Central Plains, the Central Plains, a prosperous land cannot be compared to the bitter and cold places on the edge."

When Li Hong saw the two masters talking, he quickly pointed out the window and said, "There's a fight outside."

Yun Chu looked at the poisonous snake on Li Hong's wrist and said, "Xiao Siye should be able to eliminate the assassins."

Xu Jingzong said: "Since the poisonous snake has entered the prince's palace, then there is still internal trouble."

Yun Chu looked at Li Hong in confusion and said: "How do you manage the East Palace and how do you make loopholes everywhere?"

Li Hong grabbed the snake's head and tore the poisonous snake from his arm and said with a smile: "Everything was fine at first. Since forty-seven palace ladies and servants came in three days ago, the East Palace has become what it is now."

Yun Chu looked at Xu Jingzong and said, "They are all palace ladies with surnames. How dare they do this?"

Xu Jingzong said: "The people are chosen by His Majesty, not sent by others on their own initiative. As long as they can enter the East Palace, whether they are good or bad, they belong to the Crown Prince. It is also the Crown Prince's business to kill or behead them."

Yun Chu smiled and said to Li Hong: "It seems that the royal family is really not that important in people's eyes."

Li Hong grabbed the snake in his hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry, don't worry, they will know what it means to order the world in the future, and no one dares to disobey."

Yun Chu listened carefully and asked Li Hong.

"How long will it take for the Sixth Prince to rush from various defense positions to the battlefield?"

Li Hong said: "One stick of incense."

Yun Chu said to Li Hong and Xu Jingzong: "That means the people who come here are all dead soldiers. Once they come in, they have no intention of going back."

Xu Jingzong said with some worry: "Marquis Yun, there are only three of us in this courtyard. You shouldn't drive all the guards out of the courtyard."

Yun Chu spread his hands and said, "The only thing I can be sure of is that Mr. Xu and I will not harm the prince. I can't trust the rest of them."

"Boom, boom, boom," three consecutive explosions made the window lattice rattle. The explosion was very close to Li Hong's bedroom.

Xu Jingzong said again: "It is the army that should protect the prince so that he can be safe. With Marquis Yun's arrangements like this, aren't you afraid that something will happen to the prince?"

Yun Chu smiled and said: "No one dares to plot an assassination in the East Palace under the protection of the army. You will make other people's plans come to an end and come to an end. Your Majesty will not be able to see the situation clearly and will make random suspicions.

Now, we have laid out everything for His Majesty to see, which will reduce a lot of unnecessary internal friction. "

After explaining to Xu Jingzong, Yun Chu said to Li Hong again: "Have you forgotten what I taught you?"

Hearing this, Li Hong excitedly picked up a horizontal knife and said, "I haven't forgotten it."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "If you haven't forgotten, just take Mr. Xu and hide."

Li Hong said disappointedly: "Master is talking about the secret room."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "We even have gunpowder now. Why don't you hide and go into battle yourself?"

Before Li Hong could continue to speak, Xu Jingzong took his hand and asked, "Where is the secret room?"

Li Hong sighed and pushed open a tall and heavy bookshelf, revealing a secret door. Xu Jingzong hurriedly pulled Li Hong into the secret room, and then the bookshelf returned to its original position. There was only a click, and the mechanism inside should have been locked.

Yun Chu opened the window and looked at the approaching war indifferently. The people participating in the war were obviously three parties, one group was in black, one group was in white, and the other group was Li Hong's East Palace guards.

It was not because the East Palace Guards were not brave in fighting that the enemy rushed here. The main reason was that a group of men in black would ignite the gunpowder on their bodies whenever they had the chance, and then die together with the East Palace Guards.

Yun Chu took one look at the battlefield and then turned his attention to the side halls of the East Palace filled with women.

A raging fire was already burning there, and women's cries and screams could still be faintly heard.

Yun Chu was very sure that the fire there was not caused by the assassins, and of course it was not caused by Li Hong. After all, the person who manages the East Palace is still the empress of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Hong didn't like those palace ladies, Wu Mei knew this, and she also felt that it was a very humiliating thing for her eldest son to accept those women.

The most important thing is that Wu Mei doesn't like that there are too many uncontrollable factors in the palace ban.

She came to the position of queen from nothing, so she did not want another person like her to appear in the Tang Palace.

Among the people fighting on three sides, the most powerful ones are the men in black, but the most flexible ones are the people in white clothes and holding double swords.

When they fight, it's like dancing, with an indescribable sense of rhythm. If someone is singing or reciting poetry at this time, their performance will be even better.

Seeing three men in black rushing into the group of soldiers desperately, they had obviously been pierced by the soldiers' spears, but their bodies exploded on the spears.

Yunchu closed the window. After several violent explosions, Yunchu saw a few blood flowers appearing on the window.

Opening the broken window again, Yun Chu saw two men in white crossing the flowers and trees, waving their swords and striking towards Yun Chu's direction.

They wore black gauze hats on their heads and were tied to their chins by a black ribbon. When they jumped, their white clothes fluttered like a huge white butterfly.

Yunchu couldn't help but laugh, and said to himself: "What a damn sense of nobility, even risking death to pursue a good-looking Hwarang disciple."

Chapter One