Chapter 15
Chapter 15
It's no surprise that Luo Yi said that he was going to the banquet, it was Wu Lan's treat.Young Master Wu cooked a table of dishes with his own hands, and specially invited Lord Luo and the thirteenth prince to congratulate the thirteenth prince's dream come true, and he adopted him to be the son of the Prince Luo's mansion.
Congratulations ass.
But in exchange for such a delicious meal, it is worthwhile to make a small temporary sacrifice.
"Thirteen, try it quickly. This is a hairy crab that was just caught from the lake. The meat is tender and delicious. It's from the only family in Daliang! Eat it while it's hot." Wu Lan placed one in the bowl in front of the two of them.
"I don't want to eat." Zhao Ling pushed the bowl away and stretched out his chopsticks to reach for other dishes.
"Then give it to me." Wu Lan took back the one in front of Zhao Ling without hesitation.
It's not him that Wu Lan cares about, whether Luo Yi eats or not is the key point.As a clean freak, it was impossible for Luo Yi to get started.In her previous life, there were maids and servants serving her, but today, there are only three of them in Wu Lan's private room.
Seeing that Young Master Wu carefully pulled off the eight legs of the crab one by one, leaving only a round shell, he skillfully cut open the hard shells on both sides with a knife, and with two or three strokes, the snow-white pork belly came out. It was picked out whole.
Just as martial arts masters are familiar with the acupuncture points of the human body, professional chefs are also well versed in the meridians and bones of each ingredient.Zhao Ling imitated and made a few gestures. Are the crab's meat and shell separated so easily?Why does he use up all his strength every time, and still breaks into half pieces?
Wu Lan picked all the peeled crab meat into Luo Yi's bowl, with a flattering expression begging for praise.
Zhao Ling pretended not to see it, the child was just honoring his elder brother, and there was nothing to envy or envy.If he, Zhao Jingming, survived, Wu Lan would have to honor him as well.
Suddenly, a pair of chopsticks passed by, and a whole piece of white crab meat fell into the bowl.
"give me?"
Luo Yi continued, leisurely picked up a vegetable leaf, and ignored him.
Zhao Ling was flattered.
It was the piece that Wu Lan peeled off just now.Luo Yi changed hands and gave it to him.
It's not that he doesn't like to eat crabs, but he's too lazy to peel them off. Crab roe shells are especially hard, and there's not much meat. It's like this in his previous life. He only eats what others peeled to him, and he never does it himself.
During those years of marching and traveling long distances, food and drink were often obtained locally. Once passing by the coast, the army ate hard-shelled species like crab roe and shrimp. He and Luo Yi made self-made and watched others eat them all the time.
Luo Yi dislikes dirty hands, he dislikes the trouble of shelling.In the barracks, Zu had always looked down on the bad habits of the rich kids in the capital. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the two declared to the outside world with a unified caliber - they didn't like food.
Looking up, Wu Lan was not unhappy, and peeled off a crab claw to eat for herself.The third part of the Wu family's family tradition of business - don't worry.It has nothing to do with the things they give away or sell, no matter whether they become expensive or cheap in the future, what they will do with them.
"Give it to me?" Zhao Ling wanted to confirm, don't take it for nothing, "Then I ate it!"
Luo Yi stopped his chopsticks, "Long."
Cough, cough, Zhao Ling was almost choked to death by the crab meat.
When he was reborn, he found that Luo Yi was not so bored anymore, and he had inherited many of his good qualities, such as his poisonous mouth, and sharp irony to his weakest wounds.
Speaking with facts, he couldn't refute.
Against Zhao Lian's short stature, he was ashamed to say that he was from the Zhao family when he walked out the door.
Not to mention Liang Emperor Zhao Qi is wise and martial, the rebellious minister Zhao Xiaoqi is handsome and romantic, and the other unknown bloodlines of the royal family, three generations up and down, are all born tall and outstanding, but he is the only one out there.He is not even taller than the fourteenth and fifteenth princes who are three or four years younger than him.
After hearing Luo Yi's words, Wu Lan covered her mouth and smiled, raised her thumb to agree with Luo Yi's words, which made sense, and even picked out all the crab meat she had just peeled to the thirteenth prince, "Eat more, eat more Eat some, grow up!"
Long your sister!
Silently eating the crab meat, Zhao Ling secretly showed her neat little white teeth, okay, Luo Fuxun, you messed with me first.
Zhao Ling looked at the dish in front of him, stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a pepper, and sent it to Luo Yi's bowl.
As the saying goes, there is a coming and going.
You give me crabmeat, and I give you back chili.
Luo Yi is a serious picky eater, and what he hates the most is chili. He hates it so much that he would feel a strong discomfort even just looking at it, but he, Zhao Ling, does not like spicy food. Every meal without chili is tasteless and tasteless.
Wu Lan had already tried his best not to let chili peppers appear in his dishes, and this fish that slipped through the net was probably used as a second-hand side dish for a platter.
According to Zhao Ling's experience, Luo Yi's most violent reaction was to overturn the dining table when encountering peppers in front of him, and the least violent reaction was to smash the bowl of peppers in front of him.
I'm extremely sorry for the leisure and elegance of Master Wu Lan's treat, but who made him and Luo Yi just laugh at him for being short?If you come out to hang out, you always have to pay it back.
Zhao Ling sat and waited for the imminent disaster, and prepared to make pitiful questions about what he didn't know.The thirteenth prince is not familiar with Luo Yi, and it is understandable that he didn't know this deeply hidden living habit.It can only be said that the blind cat bumped into a dead mouse, accidentally touched Luo Yi's bad luck, and violated Luo Yi's taboo.
Luo Yi picked up the bowl, put the rice on it, and put the chili into his mouth.
What is the situation!
He has always thought that children like him and Mian Hulu, who have been used as role models by their elders since childhood, will always insist that they are right, and change is nothing but fantasy for these people.He never expected Luo Yi to change, just like he never thought of changing himself.
"What are you looking at me for?" Luo Yi asked Zhao Ling.
Zhao Ling bowed his head quickly. You have changed too much, I can't accept it.
After Luo Yi finished eating the chili, he casually picked up the wine glass on the right.
Zhao Ling put on makeup and savored the food as if nothing had happened.Just now, while the two of them were not paying attention, he swapped Lord Luo's wine glass with his own.There were two jars on the table, Wu Lan poured wine for Zhao Ling, and water for Luo Yi.
The matter of the chili peppers came on a whim, but the matter of changing the quilt was Zhao Ling's long-planned plan.On the carriage, he was thinking about how to hysterically challenge Luo Yi's bottom line.Luo Yi has tolerated him again and again, so that now he doesn't know where Luo Yi's bottom line is, so he can only keep testing downwards.
You can eat chili, but can you drink wine?You swore an oath with Princess Luo!After all, in Luo Yi's heart, no one is as important as his dead mother.
Luo Yi held his wine glass and took a sip.
The storm of anger that Zhao Ling was expecting did not happen. Next to him, Wu Lan talked about the anecdotes and strange things he encountered when doing business from time to time, which was terribly annoying, while Luo Yi ate a meal quite calmly, attacking with a diet of chili and wine. It doesn't work for him.
No way, did Luo Yi change it back while he was not paying attention?
Zhao Ling secretly reached out his hand, pretending to have enough food from far away, but actually wanted to exchange two glasses of wine when he was not prepared.He wants to taste Luo Yi's wine. If it's water, it's fine. If it's wine, he has to make a careful calculation. Who made Luo Yi break the oath he kept for more than ten years.
Zhao Ling was doing the wrong thing meticulously, when someone knocked on the door, he was so frightened that he quickly withdrew his hand.
It is Ningzhuang.Ning Zhuang has been guarding the door, and at this time he came to report, "My lord, the emperor left the palace in micro-clothes, and together with Prime Minister Xiao, is waiting for you at the mansion."
"Good hospitality, I'll go back right away."
Luo Yi got up, but Zhao Ling didn't move.He didn't plan to go back with Luo Yi, let alone a table of good food, the emperor came to the Luo Palace at night, and brought the prime minister with him all the way, there must be nothing good, he might call him over on a whim and ask "Did you offend Lord Luo?" Angry?" "Be filial to your adoptive father" "Don't disappoint Lord Luo" nonsense.
The most important thing, he didn't want to call him big brother and father.
"I'm not full." Zhao Ling expressed his reluctance to part with the delicious food, "I'll stay and eat for a while, and when I'm full, I'll let Young Master Wu take me back."
Luo Yi didn't say anything, and ordered Ning Zhuang to let his bodyguard stay.Wu Lan followed, repeatedly promising that she would send Zhao Ling back safely.
After Luo Yi left, Zhao Ling waved, "Xiaozhuang, let's eat together."
A bright white light flashed in front of his eyes, Jianfeng cut off half of his hair, the wine glass he just picked up was split vertically, and his hands were full of wine.
If you don't eat, you don't eat. What are you doing so fiercely?Is this showing off his sword skills in front of him?Luo Yi treats him as his son, Ning Zhuang only scares him, but dare not really do anything to him.
Zhao Ling licked his finger, it was wine.
What Luo Yi just drank was wine.
"Why are you in a daze?" Wu Lan blocked Zhao Ling's eyes with her hand, and when he sent Luo Yi back, he found that the thirteenth prince was still holding his hand, staring at the big braised yellow croaker with only one thorn left on the table.Is it because of a quarrel with Ning guard just now?Wu Lan continued to eat her own food, however, after half a stick of incense, the thirteenth prince was still in this position.
Like a clay sculpture that blinks.
"Wu Lan, what you poured for Lord Luo is wine." Zhao Ling's pulse had returned from the overwhelming state just now to the usual tranquility, "It's still strong wine."
Wu Lan didn't react, "Wine?"
Zhao Ling pointed to the cup that had been cut into two pieces, "I remember, Lord Luo doesn't drink at all."
"How long ago was that?" Wu Lan counted with her fingers, "I remember that when I was young, the third brother did not drink alcohol, but after some things happened, the third brother ignored his oath. He drinks, he doesn't drink in front of others, but with me, he will secretly drink a little."
Wu Lan said a lot more, but Zhao Ling didn't listen to a single word.He thought he knew Luo Yi very well, but after 20 years, everything he knew seemed to be inconsistent.
After being reborn, since he met Luo Yi, Luo Yi has never paid attention to his deliberate troubles. Perhaps because of his age, Lord Luo no longer has the energy to care about a child under 20 years old.
The wheel of time is rolling forward, the troubled times are over, the world is peaceful, the place of bloody slaughter has become a relic, on the relic, villages and towns stand in forests, and the common people and subjects live and work in peace and contentment.The lofty aspirations of the seven of them in Xuanwu Pavilion are being realized one after another.
In the past 20 years, things have changed and people have changed.Poor Gourd has changed his temperament, Eldest Brother has changed his heart, Miss Wu has changed her appearance, Maid Lin has changed her mind, and Xiao Nose has changed her talent. The head of the family business.
Only he has not changed, he has jumped from a traitor under the three thousand swords to a broken sleeve waiting to die.His time is stagnant.He is still stuck in the past, still stuck in 20 years ago.
He is still at an age where his ambitions are not fulfilled, and the people he has met with are no longer young. They have gone through 20 years of polishing, and they have survived the complicated and helpless trivial matters until they are middle-aged in their forties.Time has smoothed the edges and corners and dried up the blood, leaving only adaptation, as well as tolerance and tolerance for unreasonable things.
Thinking about what he did these past few days, Zhao Ling felt it was funny, and it was hard for Luo Yi. He was watching the play, but he still resisted telling the truth.Luo Yi could see his desire to cause trouble on purpose, and of course he didn't care, because he believed that Zhao Lian was the most suitable son of the Luo Palace and the heir of his Luo Palace.
Without his mother's relatives, except for Emperor Liang and the Luo Palace, the thirteen princes have no reliance in the world. Only in this way can they be absolutely loyal to the Zhao family's royal family, and the Luo Palace, which he will inherit in the future, can be absolutely loyal to the Daliang royal family loyalty.
It's suitable enough that Luo Yi can ignore past suspicions, endure nausea, and tolerate broken sleeves.
Zhao Lian was really lucky.
Luo Yi went back on horseback and left the carriage to Zhao Ling.Zhao Ling declined Wu Lan's personal delivery, he wanted to be quiet and quiet in the carriage.
As Luo Yi thought, the position of the eldest son of Luo Wangfu.Zhao Lian is suitable, but he, Zhao Ling, is not suitable.
Luo Yi went to the border here, and he would be temporarily sent to the palace in all likelihood, and he was most likely to be in Fengqi Palace.He really didn't want to face Shang Lin's cold face.
He doesn't expect Luo Yi to take him with him. In case of a fight, people who don't even have the ability to protect themselves will only be delayed, and Luo Yi is distracted to take care of him.
Autumn hunting is the best time for him to leave.
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