Jinan is a bit depressed in winter, and the edge of Daming Lake is even more deserted. The cold wind blows against the lake surface, and Li Xiao does not show much emotion, but he sheds a lot of snot.

"Is this what happened to Daming Lake?" Li Xiao passed by the Tiegong Temple and offered a stick of incense.

Looking at the frozen Daming Lake, this is really not a good time to travel. I didn’t see a single weeping willow or rippling blue wave. All I could see was white ice and snow, and bare tree trunks.

Tokugawa Chihime was having a great time, and she and her maid kept playing and playing around. Her silver bell-like laughter echoed over the empty Daming Lake.

Although spring has begun, it still gets dark very early. When we came out, the sun was already setting in the west. After walking around Daming Lake for half a circle, the sky turned dark.

When he turned on the lamp, Li Xiao finally saw the difference in Daming Lake.

There are many luxurious restaurants and tea shops along Daming Lake. The pure wooden structures can cover three or four floors, and the cost is definitely not cheap.

Every building was lit up with lights, and gradually the lights connected into a patchwork. It was as beautiful as the neon lights of later generations. You could faintly hear the voices of the turtle maids welcoming guests. There seemed to be the sound of silk and bamboo in the distance.

I don’t know what it’s playing but it sounds great.

Through the lights, you can see the crowds of carriages and horses in front of the restaurant. Guys in furs got out of the carriages and walked into the bright buildings with the help of the girls.

"Commander! There are many sensual places on the shore of Daming Lake. Look over there is the official Jiaofang Division." Chen Dewang was very eye-catching and pointed to the bright building in the distance to give Li Xiao directions. He also specifically pointed out the Jiaofang.

Li Xiao will definitely receive the most honorable treatment once he reaches the position of the company.

Seeing that Li Xiao was noncommittal, Chen Dewang pointed to another building: "That place is opened by all the well-connected gentlemen. I heard that there is a Yangzhou thin horse with a first-class figure and a first-class face. The poems, lyrics and songs are also excellent, and students who are rushing to take exams are here."

When the members get there, they will feel that their talents and learning are not enough. There are several legends that they have recently added people with lustful eyes...!"

Li Xiao rolled his eyes at Chen Dewang, put his hands inside his sleeves and turned around to leave. With my fucking level of education, I am comparing poems and songs with a guy who has read the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood. Isn't this just looking for fun? Dayangma wants to see it, but

Damn, he has Tokugawa Chihime with him now. Could it be that he wants to take an Asian girl to whoring a Western girl?

Looking at Tokugawa Chiki who was following Li Xiao closely, Chen Dewang wanted to give him a mouthful. He had his wife with him, and he wanted to have some entertainment, so he had to send her away anyway. He really deserved this mouth!

Li Xiao walked along Daming Lake Xiejie, and Chen Dewang said that in front of him was the famous Baotu Spring.

As we were walking, suddenly a familiar fragrance drifted over with the cold wind. Li Xiao's eyes lit up and I wiped it. I hadn't smelled this smell for a long time.

Night market! This thing should have appeared in summer, but it actually appeared in the cold weather of early spring. At the door of a merchant's house on the street, a burly man was holding meat skewers in his hand and was turning over it.

Along this street, there are actually a series of snacks.

There were noodles sellers and chaos sellers. There was someone over there who was calling Chaotian Hotpot. Li Xiao didn’t know what Chaotian Hotpot was. He walked over and took a look, and it turned out to be his mother’s burrito.

There are twenty or thirty snack shops in this area. Many off-duty officials, bachelors working as coolies, and some guys who look like young rich people who have entered the city are all crowded here to eat and drink.

Eating is simple these days, just a bowl of rice and a plate of pickles. Add a pot of old wine to it, and you have a sumptuous dinner. If you have a plate of iron broad beans and chew it with wine, it will be a fairy-like day.

Li Xiao still walked to the brother who was making kebabs. His curly beard, gray-brown eyes, and the little hat on his head meant that this guy came from the Western Regions. He smelled the smell of mutton kebabs that kept coming out of his nose.

The smell is so delicious that Li Xiao’s mouth is almost watering. It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten mutton skewers sprinkled with cumin!

The mutton skewers wrapped in willow branches, each piece is about the size of a pigeon egg, are constantly roasted under the red charcoal fire. Large drops of fat drip into the charcoal fire, igniting a charcoal fire from time to time. Whenever the charcoal fire is in full swing

When the time comes, the profuse sweat will be poured over with seasoning water. A smoke full of seasoning smell will rise up, making the man from the Western Regions look like a fairy.

This is the smell! It tastes like cumin, but it also has chili powder. I don’t know where it comes from. I’ll have to ask later.

"Boss, here are thirty...fifty skewers!" Li Xiao was so proud that he didn't even ask about the price. It's just mutton skewers. How much money can you make by eating yourself to death? I am now a third-rank official in the Ming Dynasty and a rich man.

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"Okay! There's a guy over there who can sit by himself!"

Pee...! Li Xiao remembered that he didn't have a pebble on his face. When he turned around, he saw a few benches and a clean table.

A stool is just a stool, not a stool. I was so worried that I thought I had pimples on my face.

Without asking why the big man from the Western Regions spoke Shandong dialect, Li Xiao pulled Tokugawa Chiki and sat on a stool. It was also the first time for Tokugawa Chiki to come to such a place, and she looked at everything with curiosity. A pair of eyes could not help but

It wasn't enough to watch, and I didn't even notice that Li Xiao was recalling the past of drinking draft beer and having skewers.

Tokugawa Chiki was wandering around, and Li Xiao was in a daze. Chen Dewang had already ordered a table of side dishes, and his entourage occupied another table, all ordering wontons and other things. It was a cold day, and there was no bowl of hot food.

The steaming wontons were even more warming. The diners nearby all consciously moved their tables and chairs to the side. When Chen Dewang was serving the dishes, he accidentally revealed his waist badge of the Governor's Yamen.

Tokugawa Chihime, whose face was bright red, was as happy as a child. She picked up the iron broad beans with her green green hands and chewed them until they crunched loudly.

"Husband! Are those mutton skewers really delicious?" There was a table of side dishes, and Li Xiao didn't move his chopsticks. He just ate the iron broad beans and took a sip of Wuliangye poured from the military kettle, which made his whole body feel warm. Old Jiu Li

Owls don’t know how to drink!

The wine these days is generally brewed wine, not only with a low alcohol content, but also with a large amount of lees. So before the wine is served, the lees must be sifted through a sieve before you can drink it.

"It's so delicious that it can be swallowed by the tongue." Li Xiao firmly believed that cumin should not have existed in the Japanese country at this time.

After slapping the waiter's hand away, Chen Dewang personally carried the mutton skewers and placed them on Li Xiao's table. Li Xiao picked up one and handed it to Tokugawa Chiki, then picked up a skewer and started skewering it.

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This is the taste! When the mutton arrived in Li Xiao's mouth, happiness immediately crawled onto Li Xiao's face. The taste was so familiar, naturally mixed with spices, and the softness of the mutton, it was indeed the ultimate enjoyment for the teeth and tongue.

Tokugawa Chihime had been eating like a large squirrel for a long time. Her small mouth kept opening and closing, and pieces of mutton kept disappearing inside.

Li Xiao has never seen Tokugawa Chiki eating like this. Tokugawa Chiki, who has learned etiquette since she was a child, usually eats in small bites. When did she eat like this?

"Hey! Have you heard? Today a group of adults are looking for bad luck on the governor. The news came out that Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and the others are going to be in trouble." The table next to Li Xiao seemed to be a small wealthy man who had come to the city.

He was wearing an otter fur hat and a fox fur scarf around his neck. The scarf looked like a real fox lying around his neck.

"Hmph! Which bandit house has no one to protect it? If it wasn't for the government to protect it, it would have been wiped out eight hundred times long ago. Suppressing bandits doesn't mean it wipes out the pockets of the officials? As the saying goes, destroying people's wealth is like destroying people's wealth.

If you don't punish your parents for killing them, who will you punish? Besides, the new governor is just using them as his spearmen to force officials at all levels to obey him. This is how officials protect each other these days!"

"Hey! You two are full. You'd rather talk nonsense than gossip. You two are chewing your tongue like this, and you're not afraid of having your tongue cut off and feeding it to dogs." A table of drinkers licked their lips at Li Xiao's table.

, the two guys seemed to understand something, and immediately shut up and said nothing.

Although subjectively I don’t want to say it, objectively after drinking, my salivary system is particularly developed, and I am willing to chew my tongue and gossip. I was so suffocated that I could only ask the waiter to pay and leave. I also packed away the side dishes, I guess.

Just go elsewhere and continue drinking.

Li Xiao looked at his own outfit, and then at the entourage eating at the table next to him. He had no choice but to move the table to a dimly lit area. He still had no experience in private visits incognito. With such ostentation, who would dare to speak in front of him.

"Waiter, bring me a pot of wine, half a catty of beef slices, and two bowls of Chaos. I'll also bring you ten skewers of your roasted mutton." Fortunately, the business of this small shop was good, and this group of people just left for a while before they came again.

A group of people, who looked like official servants, sat down at the table and ordered dishes with a lot of shouts.

"Okay! Please wait a moment, sir!" the waiter said in a long voice before serving the food.

"Have you heard that Mrs. Cao Wang was arrested by the Zhensi Yamen? Now she is thrown into a prison, and she doesn't even know that she was treated like a bastard."

"The child is already five or six years old. No matter how good-looking he is, he is still not a piece of junk!"

"My Lord Liu! You from Texas don't know that this Cao Wang family is famous for her good looks. Back then, Cao Xiucai relied on his fame and being a young talent to win favor and propose marriage successfully. Who would have thought that he would have a future?

That's what happened!" The person who spoke sounded like a local servant, with a strong Shandong accent, and Li Xiao could only get a rough idea of ​​it.

"What's going on?" Mr. Liu was a little curious.

"It's not the case of the Calabash Monk at Calabash Temple!"

"What?"

"You don't know?"

"I just came to Texas last month, how could I possibly know."

"Master Liu, if you want to hear it, tell me!"

"explain!"

"Okay, then I'll be a storyteller.

When Wang was a girl, her family lived by the Baotu Spring. She was a famously pretty girl, and when she got older, Cao Xiucai came to ask for her hand in marriage. Cao Xiucai was born with a very talented appearance, and he won the lottery at the age of only eighteen.

Scholar. After taking the exam for a few more years, it would be a safe thing to become a Jinshi. The Wang family married Miss Wang to Cao Xiucai, and then the Cao Wang family came into being.

In the winter of the year before last, Cao Xiucai went out to the city to drink with friends. After drinking too much, he returned home. When he walked to the entrance of Miaoxiang Temple, he was so drunk that he fell asleep leaning against the mountain gate.

This kind of thing on a cold day can freeze people to death, but by chance a nun came out that night and saved Cao Xiucai!"

"This is a good thing!"

"What a good thing, please listen to what I'm going on. The nuns in Miaoxiang Temple did not abide by the precepts, and they have long been in ruins. Now that such a scholar with red lips and white teeth has fallen into his hands, there is no reason to let him go. Just quietly take this

Cao Xiucai was locked up, and more than a dozen nuns took turns to go in. After two months of hard work, they turned a young guy into a skeleton.

These nuns were afraid that people would know about this, so they colluded with the monks from Hulu Temple to kill Cao Xiucai. The body was thrown into a dry well next to the temple!

It's strange to say that this Cao Wang family was asked by Cao Xiucai in a dream in the middle of the night. It was said that he was in a dry well, but she couldn't find the man. Cao Wang actually took her family to look for it. This is the case.

Sent!

The incident started when the county magistrate of Jinan was on trial. Several nuns were arrested and threatened before they were even tortured. Eventually, they went to Hulu Temple and arrested the monk. The monk's confession shocked the county magistrate.

Feeling: This is a group of black monks who robbed homes and kidnapped people. Five more headless corpses were found in the treasury in the backyard of Hulu Temple. Now the matter became a big deal, and people spread the word.

The Jinan County Magistrate did not dare to neglect, so he reported the matter to the top. It was reported to the Zhensi Yamen, and this was the end of the report. In the case that Mr. Chen of the Zhensi Yamen personally tried, there was a stone girl among the nuns. This woman must have

It had nothing to do with the case, so Mr. Chen was soft-hearted and let him go.

When the nun came out, she immediately ran around. She was quite capable. After a few days of activity, all the nuns were released. What was even more remarkable was that a group of nuns were busy working inside and outside.

After a few days, even the monks from Hulushi Temple were released. The Cao Wang family had dissipated all their wealth and had nowhere to turn."

"Oh no! Are a group of nuns so powerful?" Mr. Liu's eyes widened. He didn't expect that monks and nuns are so powerful in Jinan.

"My Lord Liu! You who are from out of town don't know that these nuns are monks on the surface, but in fact they are very good at it!

On weekdays, I go in and out of the back houses of officials, and the ladies of all the ladies are worshiping as sisters. Some of them, in the name of worshiping Buddha, live in the officials' houses to give birth to children for infertile women. Anyway, there are many people here.

It’s a filthy thing!”

"Oh! This happens to us too, it's nothing new."

"But Cao Wang didn't do it, so he complained everywhere. In the past, when Chen Hailong was in charge of Shandong, officials and officials protected each other and it was impossible to win. Now that Governor Li of Liaodong has come, Cao Wang's thoughts have come to life again.
Chapter completed!