As the remnants of the sun’s blood faded and twilight gradually drenched the heavens and earth, Zhu Pingan slowly walked in the direction of the inn.
There are still a lot of snacks along the street, the shopkeeper takes advantage of the last period of time before the night ban to do more business. The Ming Dynasty’s night ban regulations are clear, at three o’clock on the first shift, the evening drum is sounded, travelling is prohibited; at three o’clock on the fifth shift, the morning bell is sounded before the ban is lifted. In the second, third and fourth night walking in the street, flogging forty; in the first night after the ban, five night shortly before the opening of the ban on night offences, flogging thirty. Sickness, childbirth, death and mourning were permitted. Of course, there is a policy from above, there are countermeasures from below, you curfew blockade of the road, right, then I go out in the evening and do not come back, play all night and then come back in the morning, such as the last time, such as the eldest uncle and so on is; or sneak out of the gutter, the bushes, and you play guerrilla. In addition, the night ban is only for the inner city, but the outer city is much more relaxed.
As he passed by a snack, Zhu Pingan was attracted by the tantalising aroma emanating from it.
“Deep fried silver fish now, delicious and inexpensive, would you like some, sir.” The shopkeeper was a young couple, the man greeted in front of the stall.
In front of their stall was a bucket of live silverfish with translucent bodies, the tiny silverfish had a soft shape, nearly cylindrical in the front and laterally flattened in the back. The head was long and flat; the bones at the top of the head were thin and translucent, and the shape of the brain could be seen from outside the body. When Zhu Pingan came to Anqing Province, he also heard of the silverfish many times, it is said that this fish can only live for one year, the silverfish is also known as the “broken mother”, the reason is that this fish in the spawning time will swim to the shallows covered with cobblestones, and desperately use their stomachs to grind the stones. In order to grind their stomachs to spawn, the mothers will die because their stomachs are broken when they give birth to their babies. That’s why this fish is also known as the “broken mother”.
Silverfish is coated with flour fried, of course, there are other ingredients, just can not see, fried silverfish, golden body, exuding a tempting aroma.
“Can I taste the flavour?” Zhu Pingan stopped his steps and asked.
The shopkeeper used actions instead of words, serving a plate of freshly fried silverfish and a pair of chopsticks, handing it to Zhu Pingan with a confident smile on his face.
Using the chopsticks, he added one, blew on it slightly and put it in his mouth, his taste buds were full of tenderness, crisp, refreshing, refreshing, soft and boneless, one could not help but have a big appetite.
“Mmm, tastes great, give me one, er, two please, please trouble the shopkeeper to wrap it up for me.” Zhu Pingan put down his chopsticks and returned the plate to the shopkeeper, nodding in satisfaction. Originally, he was prepared to ask for one portion, but remembering the meat-craving vixen at home, he changed his mind and asked for two portions.
“Alright, sir wait a moment.” The shopkeeper warmly greets Zhu Pingan and sits down for a moment.
Soon, the two fried silver fish were wrapped in a rough paper, knotted with a rope, and handed over to Zhu Pingan.
Zhu Pingan took the two portions of deep-fried silver fish, asked the owner for the price, and then counted twenty cents from his pocket and handed it to the owner.
The owner took the money and said, “If you like it, you may want to come back next time. In addition, this shop also has its own brewed ‘Taihu Lake Sealed Jar Wine’, and the silverfish is the best to accompany the wine.”
Zhu Pingan slightly pondered one or two, remembered that the vixen at home has been several days wailing no wine, no meat and rice is not happy, this examination is also smooth, not if simply once to satisfy her, so Zhu Pingan paid to carry a small altar of shop with glutinous rice home-brewed “Taihu Seal Jar Wine”, and in the lobby of the inn bought five meat buns, two bowls of congee, a dish of crispy vegetables, and a small plate of food. He also bought five meat buns, two bowls of rice congee, and a dish of crunchy vegetables in a food box and brought them back to his room.
Just opened the door of the inn, will see that the demon girl like a wolf like a tiger pounced over a hand will be Zhu Pingan hands of the lunch box snatched over, just like the starving people.
Zhu Pingan froze for half a second before reacting, opposite the table, the demon girl has sat on the table in a small mouth but fast eat up, a mouthful of deep-fried silverfish, a small mouth of meat buns, but also take the time to pour a mouthful of Taihu Lake sealing cylinder wine, can be described as the same as the wind and the clouds!
“As for it, before every day is not also a meat dish well.” Zhu Pingan closed the door, said lightly.
“Spell? You caught it lightly.” The demoness had food in her mouth, her speech was a bit unclear, poured a mouthful of wine to swallow the food, and repeated what she just said, “As for that, you said lightly, I haven’t eaten anything all day, your damn uncle has been eating and drinking with a few sourpusses at the lobby entrance since early morning, it’s daytime again, and I can’t jump out of the window and walk on the roof! You try not eating or drinking for a day!”
Eh.
Fine.
Zhu Pingan then relented.
The young girl ate a fried silverfish two meat buns more than half a jar of wine, on the small dishes only half a bowl of porridge began to burp, the frame is very full, the amount of food is not very large.
Zhu Pingan will not be in a hurry to the rest of the meal all swept into the stomach, in addition to the rest of the altar of Taihu sealed jar wine, at this time Zhu Pingan than the demoness better than where to go, the examination room meal is difficult to swallow, the dinner was not eaten, so the three two meat buns and these meals is only to make Zhu Pingan feel ninety percent full only.
“See you bought these delicious, I think the exam must be good.”
After she was full, the demoness smiled and looked at Zhu Pingan with her chin in her hand as she cleaned up the dishes and asked with a delicate smile.
“Not to the point of failing the exams is all.” Zhu Pingan did not look up and said after packing all the dishes into the food box.
“You readers are just not happy, good is good, but also have to say a not to fall into the list, suffocating not suffocating.” The young girl kindly laughed.
Zhu Pingan sniffed and looked up at the young girl, smiled faintly, “You just have preconceived notions about us, if I had been confident just now, you would have said that we readers are the most arrogant.”
“Is it wrong?” The young girl held her fragrant cheeks and asked back with a smile.
This was the ancient version of a cynic, Zhu Pingan did not continue to debate with her, and after packing up his things, he returned the food box to the inn.
After returning to the inn, Zhu Pingan lit an oil lamp, picked the wick, and read the yellowed handwritten book again. Today, although the four books and five sutras questions, but also see that the four books out of the question more and more tricky. After all, the Four Books and Five Classics on this thing, every year to test, generally can not be repeated, if placed in the education institutions developed now, it is estimated that early by Longmen, Huanggang, New Oriental analysis of the body and skin. The proposition is repeated, the examiner is also to make every effort, out of some novel topics, and even the complete sentence cut off the head to the end, or the content of several sentences are not related to each other words together, will be improper to even the place connected, like the light of the moon in front of the bed, the villain long Qiqi like. This topic is called cut and paste the question, the type of long with, short with, sentient with, no sentient with, every chapter with, every page with, this kind of questions can ensure that will not be repeated, but will also greatly increase the difficulty of the original is not together, far-fetched will be hard to get them together, the individual questions can be difficult to candidates out of the Shang to.
“You can not stop for one night, but also do not care about people eat or not eat!”
The girl leaning on the bed originally thought that Zhu Pingan would at least rest for a night after the examination, and he could also sleep well for a night, but did not expect to go to bed, this person will pick the lamp again to read at night, and could not help pouting his mouth and scolding.
Just this word from the mouth of a demon girl, hear people’s ears so strange, stop for a night, also do not care about people eat or not to eat!
However, Zhu Pingan has long been accustomed to it, used to the occasional words or two of the demoness that tickle people’s hearts.
“Speaking of which, you’re almost done with your injuries, look at you, you’re almost fattening up.” Zhu Pingan cleaned up the desk while faintly opening his mouth, the implication was, the injury is well-fed and the fat has been raised, should your old man move out of the nest.
“Aigoo, pain, people’s internal injuries seem to have flared up again, I need to hurry up and sleep to recuperate.” Demon girl on the bed chirped, then pulled on the quilt “recuperate”.
Late at night, the only thing left in the room is the occasional sound of books, the girl on the bed has long been asleep, the hand under the quilt has long been gone from the original dagger!
