Chapter 290 You continue to chat about yours
Zuo Chen hummed a little tune, put his hands behind his back, shook his head, and walked on the street with a swagger.
Caiyi followed Zuo Chen, shopping around at the street shops, and soon he had a handful of delicious food in his arms.
There are only two of them traveling today. Zuo Chen has left the two little ones with classes. Mr. Lu is holding back his breath and planning to transform again. Li Ji is going to court today and is probably in the process of going to court. Confronted with the group of civil and military officials in the imperial court.
In the morning, Zuo Chen also asked Li Ji if he wanted to accompany him. Li Ji laughed and waved his hand to refuse:
"Taoist priest, you knocked out those moths in the library yesterday, and now you are scaring all the civil and military officials out of their wits. Today I went to court to see their ugly appearance. Even if I lend them my courage, they will You don’t dare to talk nonsense to me.”
Li Ji obviously doesn’t care at all. None of the so-called civil and military officials in the court are his opponents. The long years of comfortable life have already weakened the blood of these courtiers. Omitting all of them, their taste is not as spicy as Nuerhong to Li Ji, and can only be regarded as a pot of muddy wine.
At this point, Zuo Chen began to study the "map" Yan Wangsheng gave him, and planned to have a good trip around Kyoto today.
On this map are written many places where the nobles might hold meetings. All of them are high-class secluded houses hidden in the middle of alleys. There are many names of these places that Yan Wangsheng has only heard of. , I can only vaguely draw a large area of the specific location, and I am not sure.
But Zuo Chen didn’t care about it.
After killing so many insects yesterday, Zuo Chen was in a good mood and had no intention of killing anyone today.
Really just walking around.
Spring has been around for a while, and the weather is getting warmer. New fruits can be seen on the stalls. No sugar has yet accumulated in the fruits. It is slightly sour in the mouth, but Caiyi is enjoying eating it. Huh.
I bought a few more skewers of roasted chicken and gave them to Zuo Chen. The two of them ate while walking.
The roasted chicken skewers in Kyoto taste delicious. After the flour is thickened, add some salt and some steamed bun koji. Seal it in a jar and let it sit for three months. Then filter it twice. You can get a red and black sauce that is sweet and has a natural taste when applied to meat skewers.
Even someone like Zuo Chen, who likes a salty taste when eating barbecue, does not find it unpleasant when chewing the roasted meat.
Cai Yi ate the meat skewers in just two bites, and twirled the bamboo stick with unsatisfied interest, then threw it into the grass on the roadside, letting the wooden stick return to the embrace of nature, and asked some puzzled questions. Zuo Chen said:
“Taoist Priest, I still don’t quite understand how your wandering around in the capital will affect the nobles?”
As far as Caiyi is concerned, Zuo Chen is It was clearly just an old man taking a walk, and there was no threat at all. How could he force the nobles to do stupid things?
Zuo Chen thought for two seconds about how to explain to Caiyi:
"Caiyi, if there was a kind of firecracker in this world that could blow up an entire city after being lit, what would you think of this thing?"
"What do you think? Of course, the farther away, the better. , lest the firecrackers suddenly explode and lift me into the sky..."
Caiyi muttered, but suddenly a clever idea came to his mind, and he realized Zuo Chen's words. What does it mean.
If there are no firecrackers in this world, aren’t they far away in the horizon and right in front of us?
Seeing Caiyi react, Zuo Chen also showed a smile on his face:
"These families in Kyoto naturally want to avoid me, but their foundation is here. If they really run away, the property in their family will become the property of others.
"In order to protect myself Given their status, it is naturally impossible for this group of people to be idle. When I walk to the east, they see the east, and when I walk to the west, they see the west. I had no time to catch fish at the lake all day, so they had to send someone who was good at fishing to follow me at the lake and fish with me.
“They even had to put a lot of effort into guessing whether the fish I caught was a precious fish from the Xian family, or whether there was some secret hidden in the belly of the fish.”
Caiyi said “oh” , new knowledge entered into the little head.
While chatting and buying some street food, Zuo Chen suddenly seemed to notice something and turned his head slightly.
He half-squinted his eyes, as if he had seen something interesting.
"Taoist Master?"
Caiyi followed Zuo Chen's eyes in confusion and looked in the direction behind him, but only saw a complicated crowd.
"Taoist Master?"
"Someone is watching us."
Zuo Chen took out the hidden house technique in his hand, and the two people's figures immediately became hidden.
Then Zuo Chen directly pulled Cai Yi into the crowd.
After walking among the crowd for a while, Caiyi noticed a sneaky man not far away with his neck shrunken.
He was wearing a round hat and a black mandarin jacket. He had no hair, a huge black mole on his temple, and a few black hairs growing out.
His left shoulder is slightly slumped down, and his clothes are also shiny there, as if he has been carrying something all year round, which has smoothed the fabric of his clothes.
"Is this a turtle man?" Caiyi just took one look and judged the man's occupation from his figure and aura, "Why is this man staring at us?"
"It should be Who is the spy of the noble family? Follow him and see. "
Zuo Chen was like a shadow and followed the man in the blink of an eye.
Under the blessing of the hidden house technique, the turtle man only felt a warm breeze blowing from behind. He subconsciously looked back and glanced at Zuo Chen, but there was no reaction at all. He just hurriedly walked among the crowd. After taking a few detours, we arrived at the entrance of the flower building. Zuo Chen took a second look at the flower building.
There is a magical power in the building, which is the art of folding the house, and adding a hidden house to create a secret conference room on the first floor.
This design is interesting. You can learn it and make a portable Taoist house. You won’t have to sleep in the open in the future.
After entering the flower house with Caiyi, Zuo Chen saw Turtle Gong calling the old bustard and whispered in a low voice:
"When I went out to buy food for those big gentlemen just now, , saw a Taoist priest on the street, and thought he might be the person the old man was talking about, so he came back early."
"Taoist priest? Hey, Taoist priests are really scary at this time." He also took a breath of cold air and said in front of Zuo Chen: "I'm going to inform the adults in the hermitage. You should guard the store first."
After saying that, he hurriedly walked towards the adults. Walk behind the courtyard.
Zuo Chen followed directly and soon arrived at the room with the secret technique.
As the Madam entered the room, Zuo Chen kept feeling the changing spells in the house while waiting, and recorded them in his heart, which was also called wonderful.
This technique is very similar to the object-collecting technique that Zuo Chen learned before. It does not require deep training, but it is extremely sophisticated.
Just after taking a few glances, Zuo Chen suddenly felt that he had a deeper understanding of the art of Qiankun in his sleeves.
Caiyi was originally curious about where this room was going to take them, but suddenly she had some strange feelings in her heart. She turned her head to look at Zuo Chen in confusion, and found that there was something familiar on his face. smile.
This smile...
Caiyi is very familiar.
Zuo Chen would smile like this every time he researched some wonderful spells. He also smiled like this after getting the white jade seal.
It’s like a child during the New Year who gets a brand new rattle and wants to shake it immediately to hear the crisp sound the drum head will make.
What has Taoist Master discovered again?
Cai Yi was curious.
Soon the two of them followed the madam into the hidden house, and they happened to catch up with the end of the quarrel between Mr. Zhou and the eldest young master of the Lu family.
Hearing the fierce commotion inside, the madam did not dare to go in rashly. When the argument was over, she entered the courtyard:
"My dear gentlemen, it seems that a Taoist priest is wandering outside! ”
After hearing this, the young masters who had just finished their quarrel were so frightened that their faces changed. Several rich young men stood up immediately, lifted up their sleeves and wanted to run out, and a few others. They held their heads in place and looked toward the door in horror, fearing that a Taoist priest would pop out from there and kill them all with a bolt of lightning.
Zuo Chen stood behind this group of gentlemen with a smile, watching their performance.
In the end, it was Young Master Zhou who slammed the table to stop the increasingly chaotic venue:
"Calm down! Look at you guys like this! How unbecoming are you? It's just a Taoist priest. Wandering around on the street outside, I'll scare you out of your soul!"
After listening to his shouting, these young men finally calmed down.
Mr. Zhou glanced coldly at the young masters and Zuo Chen Caiyi who was behind the young masters, and hummed:
"There are so many Taoist priests in the world. The person walking on the street outside may not be the Taoist priest of the library. Even if it is really the Taoist priest, how could he know that we are gathered in the Changxian Tower? This is the top hermitage in Kyoto. Zha, it belongs to the top magical powers in the Ten Thousand Magic List! Even that Taoist may not be able to see through it easily."
The old bustard also stood next to Zuo Chen and Caiyi and gave advice to Mr. Zhou:
"Yes, I am here just to remind the young masters to be more careful when leaving our hermitage, so as not to run into the Taoist priest. As for the Taoist priest, please rest assured, this house was the residence of the capital in those days. There are a lot of wonderful secrets among them that cannot be discerned."
"Huh? Is this left by the capital master?" Zuo Chen suddenly asked.
"Yes." The old bustard was not surprised by Zuo Chen who suddenly appeared next to him, as if he had been standing here all the time: "There were no businesses in this street, but later the capital bought a building here. The house was engraved with various spells inside, and relatives and friends were invited to drink here and talk about world affairs, and gradually it became this immortal secluded house. Later, after the death of the capital, we took over it and bloomed outside. Building, isn’t it just to make the best use of everything?”
"That's it." Zuo Chen looked around with emotion. The appearance here was indeed consistent with the courtyard he saw in his memory.
At this moment, everyone in the whole yard finally realized that there were two people standing next to them.
Almost everyone turned their attention to Zuo Chen and Cai Yi.
Zuo Chen turned around and smiled lightly:
“Don’t pay attention to me. You continue to talk about yourselves.”
(End of this chapter)