Subversion of the plot [Comprehensive]

In order to learn how to make soup, Ye Qi went to discuss with the stall owners in the alley. After all, the duck blood vermicelli soup at first glance looks the same, but the taste is different. Home.Although Ye Qi was able to sneak in quietly and spy on the secrets of the stall owner's family's soup making, but for some reason, he was unwilling to do so in such trivial matters.

The stall owner was very surprised by Ye Qi's visit, and asked repeatedly: "You want to learn how to make soup? It's that Mr. Tao who loves to eat and is impatient to sit on my stall, so we will deliver it to your door. If not, your It's good for the cook to learn, why do you need the uncle to come in person?"

Ye Qi directly took out an ingot of gold and put it in front of the stall owner. This gold was obtained by him from the government arrest warrant. After all, he couldn't just let Tao Shuo keep it for nothing.Because of his actions, the city and the nearby hundreds of miles were healed very well, even the monsters in the mountains did not dare to come out.

"This is the fee. I hope that I can learn all the steps and make the soup that tastes the same as yours." Ye Qi still had a cold face, and his tone didn't fluctuate, but it somehow made people feel the sincerity in his eyes.

The stall owner was a little embarrassed, and said honestly: "The main secret of my family's duck blood vermicelli soup is in the soup. If you want to come to the uncle, you will not do small business, and it will not ruin my business. If you learn it, it is just when you are tired of eating delicacies. For a change of appetite, it’s okay to tell the uncle.”

After all, the stall owner is out for a living, dealing with people from all walks of life, such a person who is not easy to mess with at first glance, how dare he offend.Besides, some analysis is also reasonable, and there is a lot of money to take, so it is not a loss after all.

Thus, Ye Qi followed the stall owner step by step to learn.

After only three days, the stall owner said: "Master is really talented, now I have nothing to teach, as long as I make it a few more times, the taste will not be bad."

Tao Shuobai watched from outside the kitchen, but saw that Ye Qi's hands were supposed to hold a sword, and he picked up a kitchen knife to cut vegetables neatly. Although he didn't like it, he looked very good-looking when he was silent and earnest.Ye Qi has already learned all the steps, including the time and heat to boil the duck skeleton soup, and when the soup is ready, he makes a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup without duck intestines, Tao Shuobai doesn't like this.

"Taste." Even if he saw it with his own eyes, he would never be able to understand how much Ye Qi made for this bowl of soup.He had never had such thoughts before, but now he felt satisfied after a hard work in exchange for a bowl of ordinary duck blood soup, because the person who ate this bowl of soup was Tao Shuobai.

"Thank you for your hard work." Tao Shuobai looked at the soup in front of him, savored it carefully, and even drank it clean.

"How?" Seeing that he had finished eating, Ye Qi was half relieved, but the other half wanted to listen to his evaluation.

"The soup is very good, the duck blood is too old, and the salt is a little too much." Tao Shuobai commented very seriously, and a smile appeared on his face after speaking: "Ye Qi, when you learned from others, you only I’ve made it three times, and this is the first bowl of soup after graduation, and it’s very good.”

The cold light in Ye Qi's eyes became brighter, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

After staying for two more days and eating two more bowls of duck blood soup, they retired from the house and left Jinling.

The two didn't have a definite purpose, but just walked along the way casually.

The two passed through a small village this day, and saw a familiar figure at the street corner, and took a closer look, it turned out to be Ning Caichen who hadn't seen him for a long time!Originally Ning Caichen was going to Beijing, but at this time there was a broken wooden table in this small village, and a large piece of paper hung on the top of the table, with four large characters written on the paper: Write a letter for you.Probably because there was no business, Ning Caichen read a volume of books engrossed.

Tao Shuobai and Ye Qi walked to the booth, the sun was just right, casting a shadow over Ning Caichen's head.

Ning Caichen thought it was a tourist, but when he looked up, he was surprised and delighted: "Master Tao! Young Master Ye Qi! It's you!"

"Why are you here?" Tao Shuobai asked.

Ning Caichen was a little embarrassed when he heard the words, he hesitated and didn't know how to answer.

"He, he was fascinated by a woman, and that woman cheated him out of all his money!" Suddenly, a voice came from you, and Zhi Qiu Yiye fell from the roof, looking at the woman who seemed to have run a long way away. Lu, panting, with a layer of dirt on his body, but he didn't care, took out a steamed bun from his bosom and threw it into Ning Caichen's bosom.

Ning Caichen's eyes lit up, and he quickly stuffed it into his mouth, obviously starving.

It can be seen that something must have happened to the two of them.

Tao Shuobai was not in a hurry to ask questions, and only after they had finished eating the steamed buns did he learn the whole story.

Since the four parted, Ning Caichen went to Beijing and knew that Qiu Yiye was heading south, so logically the two should not have met.Zhiqiu Yiye didn't go very far when he bumped into a monster and chased him all the way, but he went north and reunited with Ning Caichen.

At that time, Ning Caichen reluctantly settled down in this small village, because he was cheated out of all his money and had no money to travel.

It turned out that Ning Caichen met a delicate woman.The woman said she escaped from her home. Her parents sold her to a rude widower in his 40s and [-]s in exchange for money to marry her brother. , Later she couldn't bear it anymore, so she escaped.

Ning Caichen, a scholar, felt compassion for the woman crying pitifully.Just because he was rushing to the capital and it was not convenient for him to bring a woman with him, he planned to find a decent and kind family in this small village and town, pay some money, and settle the woman here.Later, I found an old couple surnamed Zhang. Seeing that they were doing their best, they treated people warmly and were very willing to take in the woman. They even said they wanted to take the woman as a goddaughter. Because they had no children, they wanted to find someone to take care of them.

Seeing this, Ning Caichen felt that both parties were beneficial, and asked the woman what she wanted, so he left ten taels of silver.

The old couple and the woman all praised him as a great kind person and begged him to stay for two days.

Ning Caichen stayed for one night, but the next day suddenly a group of vicious people broke in, claiming that Ning Caichen had abducted his wife.It turned out that the leading man was the woman's husband, and he brought someone to find her.Ning Caichen had never encountered such a thing, and at first he was quite frightened, but when he remembered what had happened to the woman, he couldn't help but speak a few words of justice to her, and repeatedly stated that it was not a kidnapping.

The husband said: "Your book grows beautifully. This bitch must be fascinated by you, a young gentleman, and doesn't want to suffer with me. If so, you bring 50 taels of silver, and this bitch will be yours. If Otherwise, I will sue the government and accuse you of abducting women!"

Ning Caichen has experienced the hardships of prison, and he knows the darkness of the officialdom, so he is most afraid of seeing officials.

"No 50 taels, I only have 30 taels, I can give you the money, but you can't pester this girl any more in the future, you have to write it down! Aunt Zhang and Uncle Zhang are the witnesses!" Ning Caichen finally decided to settle the matter once, It's really unreliable, not only afraid of going to court to be punished, but also afraid that these people will fight if they disagree.After all, money can be exchanged for a woman's freedom and safety, which is not a waste of money.

So just like buying something, the money and the goods are settled, and those people left.

Ning Caichen stayed at Zhang's house for another day. The woman was so grateful to him that she offered to offer her a pillow mat at night, but Ning Caichen refused.It was fine at first, but when I woke up the next morning, the house was empty. Not only the old couple and woman surnamed Zhang disappeared, but also everything in the house disappeared.Ning Caichen was horrified, and hurriedly went to the neighbors to ask.

"Didn't you young man leave yesterday? Why are you still here?" But the neighbor next door was surprised when he saw him, and when he asked the old couple of the Zhang family, they said, "The old couple are foreigners and they rented a house to live here. I left early this morning. The little lady you mentioned also left together. "

"But, but..." Ning Caichen was a little confused.

An old man saw him, called him to a secluded place, and whispered to him: "You young man has been deceived, the old couple, the young lady, and those who came yesterday are all in the same group! There are so many things like this, we all call them Nianyanger, and they are eyeing them, and there are almost no failures."

Another came up and said: "It's because you are soft-hearted and easy to deceive. The woman's story is not very good. It happened so coincidentally, but you didn't suspect it and put all the money in it. If you meet the real Nian Yang Son, then you will know how powerful it is.”

After all, Ning Caichen became penniless, sighed, and was thinking about how to make some troubles on his way, when he met Zhiqiu Yiye.When Zhiqiu Yiye heard what happened to him, he was very annoyed, and immediately went to chase those people to get the money back!

But now Zhiqiu Yiye only took out steamed buns but not money, so it can be seen that no one chased him.

This small town was not rich at all, and Ning Caichen didn't write two letters after several days of setting up his stall. Now that he learned that they were all going north, he had the audacity to go with them.Ning Caichen was alone, and now he is penniless. Everyone knows the purpose of going to the capital, and they don't know what the future holds.

Zhiqiu Yiye asked him: "Scholar, what do you plan to do if Fu Qingfeng gets married? The capital city is at the foot of the emperor, and you may not be able to live if you have money, let alone you have no money."

Ning Caichen also had a bitter face, and sighed, "I really have no choice but to go to my cousin."

"Do you have relatives?"

"That cousin is my mother's cousin. Although they had a good relationship when they were not married, my mother died of illness a few years ago, and the last communication was three years ago." alms.

"It's better to have someone to take refuge with than not to have." Zhi Qiu Yiye is an orphan who was thrown outside since he was a child. The master saw that he was in good health, so he took him back to Kunlun Mountain, otherwise he would have died.

Tao Shuobai and Ye Qi have horses to ride, and Zhiqiu Yiye is used to traveling in the earth, but Ning Caichen, a scholar, has to walk with two feet, and it is a bit troublesome for the four of them to travel together.Even if Tao Shuobai was willing to spend money to buy horses for them, he couldn't find a seller.

Zhiqiu Yiye said: "I'll take the scholar with me. If we can reach the hotel before dark, we will meet at the hotel."

"Alright." Tao Shuobai nodded.

Zhiqiu Yiye didn't discuss with Ning Caichen at all, grabbed the other party's shoulder, jumped to the ground and fled away. As the dirt bag moved quickly, Ning Caichen's scream could still be heard.

Only the two of them, Ye Qi asked, "Why do you want to go with them?"

Although they have known each other for a while, there is really no deep friendship. Besides, they have different journeys and goals, so they don't need to be together at all.

Tao Shuobai explained: "Ning Caichen is very special in this world. I didn't expect to meet him for the second time. If you follow him, you should encounter interesting things."

"Interesting thing? Nian Yang?" Ye Qi didn't think much of Ning Caichen's being deceived, because Ning Caichen was too easy to deceive, but if he were to be more cautious, those people would not be able to succeed.After all, these days, who would easily hand over all the money on their body because of soft-heartedness?I didn't get half of the benefit.

"Perhaps." Tao Shuobai was also not sure, because there was no reminder in the bronze mirror.

The two rode their horses for a while, and walked slowly because they slowed down, and also took a look at the scenery on both sides of the road.At this time, a man riding a donkey followed and walked with them.At the beginning, the man didn't strike up a conversation, Tao Shuobai and the two went fast for a while, then slowed down for a while, even if the man fell behind one step, he would always catch up in the next step and still walk with them.

Finally, the man said to them: "I am a yamen servant in Qixia County. I was sent to the capital by the county magistrate. My surname is Zhang. Seeing that the two young masters are very handsome, I am not in a hurry all the way. I don't know where I came from." Come on, what should we call you, where do you want to go? If you can walk with the two of you, it will be a blessing."

Tao Shuobai just glanced at him, but didn't reply, and Ye Qi couldn't speak anymore.

Zhang was embarrassing, as if he felt embarrassed, and dared not continue talking.

Waiting for Tao Shuobai and Ye Qi to speed up and rush out again, Zhang did not catch up again.

Ye Qi said: "That person is a bit weird."

It was weird, he deliberately wanted to get close to the two of them, but seeing that they ignored them, he simply backed away.

As the sun was getting higher and higher, the two saw a tea shop on the side of the road ahead, and steamed buns were also served in the shop, and business travelers often stopped here.The two of them also stopped here, tied up their horses, sat down at an empty table, and ordered a pot of tea.There is not much to choose from in this kind of country shop, there is only a kind of rough tea, and the people who come and go just drink it to quench their thirst and send steamed buns.

Ye Qi didn't ask for steamed buns, and took out a carefully wrapped cloth from the bamboo basket on the horse's back, which contained some good pastries from Jinling City.

A well-dressed man was sitting on a table next to him. Since Tao Shuobai and Ye Qi arrived here, this man has been watching them.Seeing the two sitting down at this time, I even smiled and talked to them: "I am from Shandong, my surname is Huang, and I am in the office of the Ministry of Household Affairs. I went to other places for business and am about to return to Beijing. The two of you are going to the capital." , if we go on the same road, we won’t be lonely anymore.”

This scene seems familiar.

Tao Shuobai and Ye Qi exchanged looks, and nodded to Huang: "It's going to the capital."

When Huang heard this, he smiled even wider: "It's okay to go together."

After drinking tea, the three of them left the shop and continued on their way. Huang was also riding a horse.

In the evening, when I arrived at the hotel, I saw Zhiqiu Yiye and Ning Caichen outside the hotel, but the two saw that they didn't come forward, as if they didn't know each other.This is also Tao Shuobai sent a message to Zhiqiu Yiye in advance, he always felt that the Zhang and Huang he met were weird, and planned to find out the truth, so he did not meet Ning Caichen for the time being.

As soon as he was in the lobby, Huang walked towards a handsome young man, and asked with a smile, "Why did you get here? Are you going back to Beijing?"

"Exactly." The boy nodded with a smile, and looked at Tao Shuo and Bai Yeqi, his eyes full of doubts.

Huang took the boy and introduced to Tao Shuobai: "This is Shiro, my middle cousin, who is a literati. If the two young masters like to talk about poetry, poetry and Fu, they can't go wrong with Shiro." The food and wine were served on the table, and he paid for the banquet himself first, and said: "Let's get to know each other for a while, and I admire the demeanor of the two young masters. Let me be the host today, and we will have a drink in this small shop."

If an ordinary person encounters this kind of thing, they will feel that something is wrong, but they will also be hard-pressed. No matter how much they suspect that the other party has nothing to do, whether it is adultery or robbery, they are not willing to tear their face with thorns .

Although Tao Shuobai and Ye Qi are unlikely to be like this, they have decided to find out, so why expose it.

"Thank you." Tao Shuobai did not refuse, and joined Ye Qiyi in the table.

Zhiqiu Yiye and Ning Caichen landed in the corner of the lobby, in front of them were some steamed buns and a plate of vegetables.Ning Caichen has no money, Zhiqiu Yiye is rich, but he is not rich, and he has to count every penny, but now he has to support Ning Caichen for nothing, and ordering a plate of vegetables is not bad.

"Big fish and big meat, good wine and good food." Zhi Qiu Yiye saw a table of wine and food over Tao Shuobai, sour in his greedy heart.

Ning Caichen was surprised a long time ago, and took the opportunity to ask: "Tao..."

"Hush!" Zhi Qiu Yiye immediately interrupted him, and said in a low voice: "Senior, don't say it."

At the table at this time, Huang poured wine attentively and persuaded the dishes enthusiastically, while young Shi Lang talked about poetry.This Shi Lang has a good appearance, his speech is rare and elegant, and he has a lot of words in his chest. Tao Shuo occasionally entertains a few words.

Ye Qi saw Shi Lang walking until he caught sight of him, his eyes turned cold, and his aura suddenly became overwhelming.

Tao Shuobai hurriedly held his hand from under the table, glanced at him again, picked up the wine glass and touched him lightly: "Aye, have a drink with me."

Ye Qi slowly restrained his breath, and silently drank a glass of wine with him.

Huang and Shi Lang looked at each other secretly, busy and enthusiastic to persuade them to drink, but they already believed in their hearts that Tao Shuobai liked men's sex, and the relationship between the two was impure.In today's world, masculinity is prevalent, and it is not uncommon for two men to be fond of each other, or it is not uncommon for high-ranking officials to raise male pets and moleste children.

Shi Lang suddenly suggested: "It's no fun to drink like this. It's better to enforce the drinking order. Anyone who makes a mistake will be punished with alcohol. How about it?"

Huang waved his hands again and again: "Cousin, you are clearly trying to trick me. How can I say your elegant poems."

Shi Lang Buyi: "Zuo is just a glass of wine, what are you afraid of, cousin?"

The two exchanged a few words, and then they made up their minds.

Shi Lang recommended himself to be the command master. When he clicked on Tao Shuobai, the order was very simple, but when he clicked on Ye Qi and Huang, it was deliberately difficult.Huang got drunk, Ye Qi felt very impatient, but Tao Shuobai held his hand, gently moving a finger on his palm, as if touching Ye Qi's heart, so that he I don't have any thought to deal with the drinking order. After a few bowls of wine, I really complied with the phrase "everyone gets drunk if wine doesn't get drunk".

After the banquet was over, Shi Lang and Huang discussed gambling for fun and asked the shop owner to open a guest room.

Shi Lang invited Tao Shuobai: "Master Tao, the night is long, how about playing together?"

"Aye, do you want to play?" Tao Shuobai deliberately asked Ye Qi.

Ye Qi hadn't spoken a word all this time, and after drinking so much wine, his hair covered most of his face, so others couldn't see his expression.Shi Lang said: "This young man must be drunk, right? Let him go to the next room to sleep first, we will play very noisy, don't disturb him."

Ye Qi glanced at Shi Lang, Shi Lang felt as if he had been bitten by a poisonous snake, and his body was stiff.All along Shi Lang deliberately ignored the sword in Ye Qi's hand, but now he felt a sense of crisis, so that his face turned pale, and he was speechless for a while.

"Cousin?" Huang looked quite drunk, but he actually had a lot of alcohol, not to mention that the jar of wine he drank was mixed with a lot of water, and now this drunken posture was just made to confuse people.

Tao Shuobai said with a bit of regret: "I'm sorry, Aye is drunk, I'm afraid he won't feel well, I have to take care of him, I can't accompany him."

Huang hurriedly said: "Why do you need to take care of it yourself, just go to the store."

Tao Shuobai could feel that Ye Qi was holding his hand tightly, and he didn't want to annoy Ye Qisheng because of a trivial matter, so he refused again: "No need, you two invite someone else to have fun."

After speaking, he asked the store owner to open another room, and closed the door under the watchful eyes of Huang and Shi Lang.

Blocking the sight of outsiders, Ye Qi stopped acting, and let go of Tao Shuobai, his whole body filled with murderous intent: "Those two people have ulterior motives, they should be killed!"

"I know they have bad intentions, but I just want to know if what they did is consistent with my guess. Aye, you don't want to know?" Tao Shuo asked with a smile.

Ye Qi heard that he still called himself "Aye", his brows moved slightly, and he opened his mouth and said frankly: "My real name is Qiye."

In fact, comparing the two names, Ye Qi is more like a name.

Tao Shuobai did not ask about the origin of Qiye, the current environment is not suitable.

In the silence, I suddenly heard the sound of playing from the room next door. Several voices shouted "big" and "little" in high and low voices, and the voices were extremely excited. Among them were Huang and Shi Lang.

Tao Shuobai held Qiye's hand again, beckoning him to keep quiet, and stuck a barrier breath talisman on his body, then disappeared again, and sneaked into the next room without a sound.

I saw several people around the square table in the room, besides Huang and Shi Lang, there were three other people, one of whom was Zhiqiu Yiye.Zhiqiu Yiye played a few games and lost every time, so he was immediately annoyed and refused to play.Shiro Huang did not try to persuade him to stay, and let Zhiqiu Yiye leave.

The remaining two were lucky. Although they won and lost, they won more than they lost. In the end, each won more than 100 taels of silver, while Huang and Shi Lang lost all their silver.The four of them still refused to give up, and discussed to bet on Huang's horse.

At this moment, the door of the room was suddenly slammed, and upon hearing the sound, a group of people came.

Several people in the room didn't move, and their faces changed. After all, it is illegal to gather crowds to gamble.

"This, this must be someone who catches gambling!" Shi Lang said with a trembling voice of fear.

The people in the house wanted to escape, but there was no way to escape. The door was smashed open, and several people came in aggressively. Sure enough, they said they were here to catch gambling, and immediately locked up the four of them, and all the gambling equipment and money on the table were swept away.

Half an hour later, only Shi Lang returned to the hotel in the group, looking panic-stricken, he went straight to knock on the door of Tao Shuobai's room: "Master Tao, please open the door, Mr. Tao, please save my life."

Tao Shuobai has returned to the room with Qiye.

Although Qiye was impatient, he could only continue pretending to be drunk, lying on the bed and falling asleep.

Tao Shuobai went to open the door, outside the door Shi Lang's clothes were messy, his face was terrified, and there were still tears.Shi Lang is only a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, and he was born well. Anyone who sees this situation now will feel pity.

"Master Peach, save me!" Shi Lang threw himself forward.