Kaifeng Bistro

Chapter 95

"What a coincidence..." Xu Gan said in a low voice, "Just now that person also mentioned that a Xixia person came to look for them once."

Tan Zhifeng and Xu Gan met each other's eyes, they seemed to have thought of something, but they didn't speak.

The whole room was silent, Zhuo Zhuo finally resisted the discomfort, walked over to the bed and glanced at it, then quickly looked away: "A Yuan, is he... really going to die?"

"It should be said that he is already dead." Yi Yi stretched out his hand, and the light green light swept across A Yuan's body: "When he came last night, I felt that his body was lifeless, and his soul was very weak. Frail, trapped in a body, the best thing we can do right now...maybe give him his final freedom."

Tan Zhifeng looked at Xu Gan, while the other two looked at each other anxiously.Xu Gan shook his head: "For the time being, I can't do it yet." He said: "My power is exhausted now, and it will take some time to recover."

Tan Zhifeng sighed softly when he heard the words: "Okay, then let him stay here first. I think for a while...his condition won't get worse. Besides, Big Brother Bai won't be coming back for a while, this time The house is empty and empty."

Xu Gan said "Yes", and said to everyone: "Go, go to the tavern, and I will tell you what the Khitan man said just now."

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"I'm back." Just half an hour later in the afternoon, the temporarily closed sign in front of Zhifeng Tavern has been moved aside, Yi Yi walked in from the outside, turned around and closed the door while complaining: "Why are you in such a hurry to open the door? Isn’t it because a few people came to ask at noon? There are 72 official stores in Kaifeng, and there are even more foot stores than can be counted. Will someone be hungry if you don’t open the door?”

"I don't have anything to do if I don't open the door. You see, my injury has completely healed." Tan Zhifeng raised his arm guiltily and gestured twice, in exchange for Yi Yi's eyes.He went on to explain: "I'm afraid that the door has been closed for a long time, and I don't know what happened outside..."

He still wanted to continue talking, but Yi Yi threw the two big bamboo baskets in his hand in front of him: "If you want to work, no one will stop you. Look, I bought these things and came back. You can see what you want to do." Let's do it."

Before Tan Zhifeng took a closer look, he smelled a faint fragrance.Zhuo Zhuo also ran out and fiddled with it curiously, but after looking at it, he curled his lips and said, "Hey, Yi Yi, why did you buy a bunch of roots and weeds back!"

"Zhao Zhuo, these are all good things." Tan Zhifeng flipped through them for a while, then excitedly picked up the basket and walked to the back kitchen: "It can be said to be the best thing in season!"

Yi Yi smiled proudly at Zhuo Zhuo, while Zhuo Zhuo looked puzzled, and the two followed in together.Tan Zhifeng said to them: "Oh, you don't need to surround me, I don't need help here for the time being, Zhuo Zhuo, why don't you go and see Xu Gan, and ask him if the externally applied medicine needs to be replaced."

"I... I don't want to go." Zhuo Zhuo showed reluctance on his face: "Zhifeng, I've been trembling since I first saw him. Tell me, what should I call him? He...he's Ying Long. His name doesn't seem very good, should I call him Xu...Master? Big brother?... Great God?"

Tan Zhifeng was seriously studying the vegetables Yi Yi bought back, and he didn't hear what Zhuo Zhuo said just now. He raised his head full of puzzlement: "What? Great God?"

"Well, no matter what, I won't go, and I don't think he needs anything. Besides, there is Changshang in that room." In order to change the subject, Zhuozhuo pushed Yiyi away and squeezed to Tan Zhifeng's side: "Is this so?" Not a tree root? Zhifeng, what the hell is this?"

"This is actually a blind medicine." Tan Zhifeng took out the "tree root" that Zhuo Zhuo had mentioned.I saw that it was thick at one end and thin at the other, without the dryness of wood, but it smelled sweet when brought close to it.Tan Zhifeng handed it to Zhuo Zhuo, and told her: "This is sealwort, it is a good tonic."

"Huang... what?" Zhuo Zhuo Liu raised his eyebrows: "Yiyi, I've never heard of Hei Jing or Huang Jing, how do you know that these things can be eaten?"

"Hmph," Yi Yi looked at her disdainfully: "Isn't this normal? Could it be that there are things in this world that you know but I don't?"

"You know? I don't know?" Zhuo Zhuo was surrounded by him again, muttering by the stove, after a while he slapped Yi Yi angrily, turned around and ran outside.

"This crazy girl." Yi Yi complained while rubbing his arms.Tan Zhifeng was still quietly packing up the ingredients Yiyi brought back, and Yiyi helped him move the second basket to him, looking at him hesitantly.

"What do you want to say? Say it." Tan Zhifeng didn't look up, but he, Yiyi Zhuozhuo and Shangshang had been with each other for so long, and he could completely feel the emotional changes of each of them.

"They came to look for Xu...Xu Yan." Yi Yi said indifferently: "Do you think they believe Xu Yan?"

Tan Zhifeng carefully cleaned the few pieces of Polygonatum, picked out some of them, cut them into thin slices, and put them in a silk bag to squeeze out bowls of clear juice. Yi couldn't help leaning over to smell it.

"It smells good." Tan Zhifeng said: "Some people say that sealwort is slightly bitter and should be boiled until it 'removes its bitterness', but people in later generations often think that fresh and high-quality sealwort should be sweet. If it is astringent, it means that Huang Jing has been broken."

Yi Yi washed his hands, rolled up his sleeves, and helped Tan Zhifeng squeeze the juice.He squeezed the silk bag for a long time, then suddenly asked: "Tan Zhifeng, what do you want to say?"

"I... I actually didn't want to say anything." Tan Zhifeng put the clear and transparent juice that was finally squeezed out aside, and said to Yi Yi: "I think the same as you, if they believe in Xu Yan, how could it be like this? Test him again and again, but how could you even kill A Yuan to arouse his anger?"

"I don't care about that." Yi Yi slipped his hand holding the silk bag, almost knocking over the bowl of Huang Jing juice: "Tan Zhifeng, with Ying Long here, I thought I could feel more at ease, but I always feel that you are still there." I haven't learned a lesson, I just hope that you don't think about finding trouble everywhere by yourself."

Tan Zhifeng raised his face and looked at Yi Yi innocently: "Why am I looking for trouble everywhere? I just want to cook well now."

"That's right." Yi Yi said it again, as if still not relieved, he repeated: "That's right! Don't forget the last two times you went out and wandered around without authorization, and almost took your own life!"

"I won't." Tan Zhifeng's smile was extraordinarily sincere: "Now I need black beans and yellow rice, can you help me find them?"

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"Lonely and lonely. Unrestrained and unrestrained. I don't care about life, I just want to be carefree... Broad linen robes... I stick a stick, and the vine shoots... Huangjing cooks it myself, Cangzhu cooks myself... There are pots of pottery, sand pots and stoves..."

As soon as Zhuozhuo stepped into the back kitchen, what she heard was Yiyi's out-of-tune singing, she covered her ears angrily and complained: "Oh my God, Zhifeng, you don't care about Guan Yiyi, you have been on stage with me anyway. , how could you allow such a tone-deaf guy to pollute my ears with such ugly songs all day long?!"

"This..." Tan Zhifeng didn't seem to be disgusted with Yi Yi's ditty at all: "...Singing with eternal ambition,...the most important thing is sincerity, we all have to respect..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhuo Zhuo grabbed the pancake he had put aside to dry and took a bite: "This looks good, it smells so good! What's it made of?!"

"Thank you for the compliment." Tan Zhifeng smiled lightly: "This is called Huangjing Guobingru. It is made of Huangjing that looks like the root of the tree you saw, as well as black beans and yellow rice. Now that the winter cold is not over, Huangjing not only can It strengthens the muscles and bones, nourishes the essence, nourishes the spleen, moisturizes the lungs and promotes fluid production. Both of these are yours, but I will use the rest to entertain guests."

"Leave two more for me to eat tomorrow?" Zhuo Zhuo began to bargain.

"Don't push yourself any further, where did you go when you were working in the afternoon?" Yi Yi snatched the leftover cake from the plate in Zhuo Zhuo's hand, "Hurry up! Didn't you see that there are already guests coming?" ?!"

Zhuo Zhuo gave Yi Yi a hard look, straightened his clothes and went out.I don't know why, but the scholars in Maistraw Lane seem to have rushed into Tan Zhifeng's shop at the same time today.And as soon as they entered the store, they all shouted: "Miss Zhuozhuo, hurry up and serve the food, it's better to have another pot of wine, I'm really exhausted today, I have to come to Zhifeng to eat some delicious food!"

Zhuozhuo hurriedly returned to the back kitchen and delivered the Huangjinguo cakes prepared by Tan Zhifeng and several other snacks and dried fruits to the table. After tasting the Huangjingguo cakes, the complaints outside were much quieter for a while, but after eating the snacks , They started chatting with each other again. Tan Zhifeng was preparing all kinds of meat, vegetables, and soup cakes in the back kitchen, but the conversations of those people outside had clearly entered his ears.

"In a few days, each university hall will hold a hall examination. Only the children of the government can enter the Imperial College, but if we are lucky enough to be admitted to the Taixue...with the guidance of an expert, there will be great hope for Qiuwei High School this year. Just because of this, the masters of our school have tried their best to make us make a fuss these two days, and my hands are so sore that I can’t lift them!"

"Isn't that right, especially when I heard that today's sages are recruiting Mr. Taishan and Mr. Culai, who are highly respected Confucians, to speak directly, just to promote Taixue, so that we poor people can also understand the way of sages. Serve the imperial court! Sore hands are nothing, I read it by candlelight last night, and I’m still dizzy now!”

Another person said: "That's right, there are already two to three thousand Kaifeng scholars following the two gentlemen. Many of these scholars are well-educated. If we can be admitted to Taixue, we will often meet with Taixue It should be of great benefit to discuss with those classmates here!..."

Hearing and listening, Tan Zhifeng finally understood that the scale of the examinations in these academies this year was unmatched in previous years. The Imperial College only recruits the children of officials above the middle level, and there may not be too many people who take the examination, but it is too much. Learning is different. He heard from Chen Qing and the others that the number of people who went to Taixue to attend lectures in previous years was limited. , there must be no less, and they are all the best among scholars...