The old beggar looked at him and smiled: "Hehe, anyway, the whole Qingzhou City is so big, you can look for it slowly from restaurant to restaurant, old man, I will wait for you in the bamboo forest twenty miles west of the city, just wait for three days, after three days, the old man can travel all over the world......"

I saw him talking while humming a little song and walking out of the pavilion, and his figure slowly disappeared into the night.

Xiao Chen couldn't figure out this person's intentions for a while, but he just wanted to do it, and see which restaurant chef would cook these four dishes in Qingzhou City.

Early in the morning of the second day, he went to the restaurant and asked the shopkeeper about these four dishes, the steamed sea bass and braised carp in front were fine, but the Linyuan envy fish and the water in the back were clear and fishless, and the shopkeeper really didn't know what to do after listening to it, and asked the young cook, and the cook shook his head, saying that he had never heard of these two dishes.

On this day, Xiao Chen went to many restaurants, but without exception, no one knew what the hell this Linyuan Xianyu and Shui Qingwu Fish were.

On the third day, Xiao Chen searched almost all the restaurants, large and small, and came to a restaurant called "Drunken Immortal Building" this morning.

The shopkeeper saw that he was holding two ingots of glittering gold in his hand, and his eyes also lit up, but when he heard the name of the strange dish, he also felt a little confused, but he faintly felt that the four words Linyuan Xianyu were a little familiar, as if he had heard of it in any year, but he couldn't remember what year it was.

"This ...... Guest officer, wait a minute, I'll go to the back and ask Lao Xu if he can cook these two dishes. ”

As the shopkeeper spoke, he was about to walk to the back kitchen, Xiao Chen said: "I'll go with the shopkeeper, before this evening, if you can make these four dishes, I will give you ten ingots of gold." ”

"Okay, don't worry, guest officer, Lao Xu is our old chef here, I think I've heard of these two dishes. ”

The shopkeeper was surprised and delighted, and led him to the kitchen very enthusiastically, these ten ingots of gold, that is not a joke, equivalent to the income of the entire restaurant for several years.

When I got to the back kitchen, I saw that the chef was an old man who was close to the sixtieth year, and I heard the shopkeeper say that when he was young, Lao Xu was a cook in this restaurant, and every Chinese New Year, he never left his relatives, and lived alone in the store, and after most of his life, he did not marry a wife and have children, and he rarely talked to people on weekdays, so it has been almost 30 years.

"Lao Xu, come here, come here!"

The shopkeeper was very excited, and kept beckoning, Master Xu was chopping vegetables, turned around, he was a little greasy, looking at the clean white man in front of him, he subconsciously stepped back, for fear of getting the oil on the other party's clothes.

The shopkeeper smiled: "This guest officer wants four dishes, you listen, they are steamed sea bass and braised carp...... These two things are your forte

Isn't that difficult?"

Master Xu nodded, and there was no change in his cloudy eyes, and the whole person seemed very silent and even a little clumsy.

The shopkeeper smiled again: "Then you can listen to the next two things, they are 'Linyuan Envy Fish', and 'Water is Clear and Fishless'......"

To be honest, even when the shopkeeper himself said the names of these two dishes, he felt a little ridiculous, how could there be such a dish name in the world? I just hope that Lao Xu can be clever, and it would be good if he didn't just make two dishes.

Unexpectedly, after Master Xu listened, his cloudy eyes seemed to suddenly glow, and even his two hands trembled involuntarily, and when he looked at Xiao Chen again, his whole expression was different.

The shopkeeper saw him spitting out, but he was in a hurry, and he gave him a look: "Old Xu, let me tell you, don't be stupid at this time, this guest officer has given ten ingots of gold, will you say something?"

"Yes...... Yes, I will...... I would ......."

Master Xu kept nodding his head, saying intermittently like a dream, and even his body couldn't help but tremble, and the shopkeeper finally breathed a sigh of relief, ten ingots of gold, that was ten ingots of gold!

"But ......"

Just when the shopkeeper was beautiful, Master Xu raised his head again, glanced at Xiao Chen tremblingly, and whispered: "To do this'Linyuan Envy Fish', no other fish can be, it must be mandarin fish, and this mandarin fish is only available in Suzhou Taihu Lake, we all buy from Suzhou after the late spring in March every year, but now it is only the beginning ......of spring."

Listening to what he said, the more confused he became, the shopkeeper hurriedly interrupted: "Ah! I remember, a few days ago, I just had someone bring back dozens of catties of mandarin fish from Suzhou, and it was in the pond in the backyard, I, I'm going to get ......."

"Shopkeeper slow down......"

Master Xu stretched out his hand to stop him, shook his head and said, "This Linyuan envy fish must be the mandarin fish in Suzhou, whether there are mandarin fish in the backyard, don't I know?"

After that, he looked at Xiao Chen again, and then said: "Suzhou is about two thousand miles away from Qingzhou, and half a month is enough to go back and forth. ”

The shopkeeper was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and said in his heart: "Lao Xu, Lao Xu, you are usually stunned, how can you be so honest at this time? There is no mandarin fish, there is no mandarin fish, with your craftsmanship, take other fish, can't you make a delicious dish? This time it's good, watching ten ingots of gold fly away.

"It's okay, I'll fetch the mandarin fish before evening. ”

Xiao Chen said slowly, the distance of two thousand miles is or

It's a long way away, but for him, it's just a moment or two.

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment and looked at him blankly: "This ...... This, more than 2,000 miles, in the evening, you ...... You're not joking......"

"I'll take it. ”

Xiao Chen said as he walked out, the shopkeeper was stunned, he wanted to say something, but he wanted to say something, Xiao Chen said: "Don't worry, as long as the four dishes are ready, ten ingots of gold, one ingot is a lot." With that, he went outside.

After leaving the restaurant, Xiao Chen immediately went outside the city, he had to hurry, there was only this last day left, and when it was dark, the old beggar left.

Thinking of this, he sacrificed his flying sword, and instantly turned into a sword light and went to the southern sky, he had never been to Suzhou in this mortal world, but with the map, it was not difficult to find.

It was about noon when he had come to Suzhou City, but he saw that the sky was drizzling, the smoke on the lake was vast, the young willows on the shore were spitting out new leaves, and the pedestrians were hurrying away.

It's a rainy Jiangnan.

Unexpectedly, in this mortal world, there is also a picturesque scene, Xiao Chen walked in the rain, but he couldn't figure out the old beggar's intentions, knowing that there were no mandarin fish in Qingzhou, he wanted to come to Suzhou by himself.

He suddenly thought that it was already spring, and when Weiyang woke up, he took her to the city of Suzhou for a walk, got rid of those distracting thoughts in his heart, and no longer thought about any righteous and demonic paths.

If there is an afterlife, I will no longer be a disciple of the Xuanmen, and you will no longer be a demon witch.

......

At noon, Xiao Chen came to Taihu Lake on the edge of the city, only to see a drizzle of rain falling on the lake, quite quiet.

At this time, there was a fishing song by the lake: "The egret flies in front of the Xisai Mountain, the peach blossom flowing water is fat, the green hat is green, and the green coat is ...... The slanting wind and drizzle do not have to return. ”

The man who sang the lyrics was a white-bearded man with a hat on his head and a robe, who was leisurely fishing, and beside him placed an urn of water, in which several mandarin fish were already swimming.

Xiao Chen walked over and asked with a smile, "Old man, how do you sell this mandarin fish?"

"I'm a mandarin fish...... Not sold. ”

Bai Xu Weng smiled, and after finishing speaking, he sang a fishing song again, Xiao Chen said with a smile: "In this season, in the entire Suzhou City, I am afraid that only the old gentleman is fishing here, so Mr. will make a price." ”

"If you say you don't sell it, you don't sell it. ”

With a smile on his face, Bai Xu Weng was alone and leisurely, without even looking at the person next to him, only to see him slowly put down the fishing rod in his hand, pick up the water urn beside him, and pour all the fish inside back into the lake.

......

Mandarin (gui) fish: "The egret flies in front of the Xisai Mountain, and the peach blossom flowing water mandarin fish is fat." —Tang, Zhang Zhihe.

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