Of course, there was no sign of breakfast. Li Xunhuan, Li Yue, and Tie Chuanjia, under the gazes of the old and young in the Taoist temple, calmly mingled among the Taoists and prepared to have lunch.
Daoists had always lived a simple life. Even though Indisputable Manor had just donated a huge sum of money to the Daoist temple, the Daoist priest of Huoju still served vegetables, porridge, and steamed buns as usual.
The dishes were wild vegetables, and they tasted slightly bitter. The porridge was indeed very thin, and two-thirds of it was water. The steamed buns were coarse steamed buns. Worried that the guests might find it difficult to swallow, the Fire House Taoist thoughtfully brought the three of them some salted vegetables.
Tie Chuanjia was born in a poor family. When he was down and out, he had even eaten grass roots and Guanyin clay. Therefore, in his eyes, the porridge and steamed buns with wild vegetables were quite sumptuous. However, in the eyes of Li Xunhuan, who had lived a luxurious life since childhood, and Li Yue, who had eaten all kinds of modern Chinese delicacies, this lunch could be said to be difficult to swallow.
Li Yue wants to act cute in front of the Taoist priest of Huoju, hoping that he will give her a special stove and add a meat dish for the sake of her cute face. However, when she rushes into the kitchen, Li Yue is shocked to find that there is no meat in the kitchen, not even a bit of rapeseed oil.
The little girl bounced back to the dining table and sat down. Her beautiful little face was extremely depressed. Li Xunhuan tentatively took a bite of the steamed bun and immediately put down his trembling hand.
An adult and a child sat across from each other. They looked at each other, then at Tie Chuanjia.
Tie Chuanjia found it hard to swallow his food under the sorrowful gazes of the two Li ancestors. He looked around, picked up the hoe at the corner of the wall, and walked out of the back door of the Taoist temple.
There weren't many Taoist priests in the Taoist temple, but they weren't few either. All of them were secretly watching the delicate Big Li And Little Li.
Li Yue was a child, so she could be picky about her food. However, Li Xunhuan was an adult, so he couldn't be thick-skinned and could only eat his porridge.
When Li Xunhuan reluctantly drank half a bowl of porridge, Tie Chuanjia's figure also appeared at the back door of the Taoist temple.
Taoism was usually divided into the Quanzhen Sect and the Zhengyi Sect. The Zhengyi Sect could occasionally eat meat, but the Quanzhen Sect could never eat meat.
Most of the Taoist priests in the northern Taoist temple belonged to the Quanzhen Sect, and so did this Taoist temple.
In order not to disturb the Taoist masters' practice, Tie Chuanjia did not enter. He carried three pheasants in his hands and stood outside the door, waving at Li Xunhuan and Li Yue. The two of them sneaked out with their lunch on the table.
The three of them did not directly start a fire at the back door of the Taoist temple. Instead, they found a secluded place downwind and let Tie Chuanjia take care of the relevant matters.
Tie Chuanjia was obviously an eight-foot tall strong man with a curly beard and a pair of palm-leaf fan hands. He rolled up his sleeves and started cooking, but he was more dexterous than ordinary girls. He skillfully cut open the pheasants' stomachs, disposed of the dirty internal organs, and put a lot of wild fruits into the pheasants' abdominal cavity. Then he pasted yellow mud mixed with withered grass on the outside of the three pheasants and made them into chicken mud buns. He placed them flat on the ground and finally started a fire on the chicken mud buns.
Li Yue had heard of the cooking of Beggar's Chicken before, but she had never eaten the traditional Beggar's Chicken. Now that she smelled the fragrance coming from the pile of firewood, she almost drooled.
Li Xunhuan also looked forward to eating the Beggar's Chicken. However, he was more reserved than Li Yue and sat steadily on the stone.
About an hour later, the Taoists in the Taoist temple all finished their lunch and went to find a place to practice Taoism. Tie Chuanjia's Beggar's Chicken was also freshly cooked.
After peeling off the mud shell on the surface, a tempting fragrance came out. Li Yue did not care about the hygiene and directly tore the chicken with her hands.
The chicken was bright in color, crisp and tender in the mouth. One could also vaguely taste the sour and sweet taste of wild fruits, which made people not feel tired of eating it. Li Yue lowered her head and swept the Beggar's Chicken clean like a whirlwind sweeping away clouds. When she raised her head again, the remaining two Beggar's Chickens were also gone. The man who came in third politely wiped his fingers with a handkerchief and then burped quite inelegantly.
"Wait, Tanhua Lang, where is your image?"
After eating the Beggar's Chicken, Tie Chuanjia carried a bucket of hot water out of the kitchen of the Taoist temple. He arranged a towel and wiped the faces and hands of the two Li ancestors with oily faces. He continued to deal with the aftermath.
Li Yue patted her round belly and looked at Uncle Tie cleaning. She inadvertently glanced at Tie Chuanjia wiping the knife used to cut the chicken. There was a character "Li" engraved on the knife, which made her feel very familiar. She thought about it and walked to Li Xunhuan.
"Uncle Li, what kind of knife does Uncle Tie use? Why do I feel that it is quite similar to the Li Fei Dao that you use?"
"It is not similar. It is my flying knife."
"But … according to the legend in Jianghu, your flying knives are specially made and each of them is very precious."
"Oh, I did ask the blacksmith in the city to make them for six hours. They are made of ordinary iron. They are more or less … specially made."
"… Uncle Li, don't tell me that you also use flying knives to trim your beard, hair, and nails!"
Li Xunhuan shook his head. Li Yue, who thought she got the answer, breathed a sigh of relief. However, Li Xunhuan said coldly,
"I don't know how to do that. Chuanjia does it."
Li Yue: "I will cross you off the list of my childhood Prince Charming. See you in the future!"
The people sent by Uncle Fu came a little late. When Tie Chuanjia almost went to cook dinner for Little and Little Li Shenghuo, the carriage just arrived at the Taoist temple.
Because the three of them were full of energy, they chose to rush back to Shuozhou. Tie Chuanjia naturally took over the carriage.
The destination of the three of them was not Shuozhou City. After all, the city gate was not open yet. They went directly to the suburban villa.
When Uncle Fu heard the news, he stayed up all night and waited in the villa. When the carriage drove into the villa, the three of them got off the carriage one after another.
Uncle Fu looked at the three of them, who were in good condition, and happily said "good" a few times.
Li Yue did not go to class after dawn. She had such a big accident. Although she came back safely, the old teacher felt that he had neglected his duty. He specially gave Li Yue a few days off and suggested that Li Xunhuan take her out to play, so that her bad memory would not affect her mind.
Since the old teacher had spoken, Li Xunhuan naturally had to seriously consider it. However, Li Yue did not seem to be affected at all. She was now pestering Tie Chuanjia every day, asking Tie Chuanjia to make her a Manchu Han Imperial Feast that she had never heard of before.
When Li Xunhuan went out to drink, Tie Chuanjia naturally had to go out with him. In order to prevent Tie Chuanjia from going out, Li Yue took advantage of Li Xunhuan's sleeping one day and gave him a perm.
Li Xunhuan did not know whether to laugh or cry as he looked at himself in the mirror. In the end, he did not scold Li Yue.
After staying at home for a few days without homework, Li Yue began to do things with all her might. It just so happened that Li Xunhuan could not go out with his curly hair, so Li Yue simply used Li Xunhuan's hair to practice tying her hair into a bun.
Perhaps it was fate, even though the woman in the courtyard tried to hold back her laughter and demonstrated to Li Yue several times, she was still the same as in her previous life. She could not learn how to tie her hair into a bun. Li Yue simply imitated the previous magically modified TV series and tied Li Xunhuan's hair into a princess hairstyle. She had just finished when the servant at the door came to inform them that someone had come to visit Tanhua Lang.
In the past, Li Yue would go to the backyard to play by herself and not disturb Li Xunhuan. However, this time, Li Xunhuan took the initiative to ask her to go with him.
Li Yue originally thought that the visitor was someone from Wu Zong Villa. However, when she reached the living room, she saw an unexpected person. It was the leader of the "School Tyrant" quartet, Little Wimp.
Little Wimp seemed to have come with his father. His father seemed to be a Military Attaché. He was originally sitting in the living room drinking tea. When he saw that someone had come, he was about to exchange a few pleasantries. However, when he looked up and saw Li Xunhuan's curly hair and princess hairstyle, the Military Attaché's expression immediately changed.
When Li Xunhuan met the Military Attaché's gaze, his body stiffened. He concisely explained that his child had been mischievous. Following which, he pulled out Li Yue, who was giggling behind him.
When he saw the little girl, the Military Attaché finally remembered what he had come here for. He carried his little brat in front of Li Yue and solemnly apologized to Li Xunhuan. Little Wimp also covered his butt and mumbled to Li Yue as he apologized.
The parents of the two sides then started to talk. From their conversation, Li Yue also found out the truth of how she had been abducted by human traffickers.
Little Wimp's father was the Deputy Jiedushi of Shuo Province. He had a wife and a concubine. The wife was his first wife and had two sons and one daughter with him. The concubine was a gift from the local tyrant after she came to Shuo Province. She had no children.
Little Wimp was the youngest son of the Military Attaché. He had been doted on since he was young. It was inevitable that his personality would be somewhat overbearing and unreasonable. He had a servant by his side who was a distant relative of his concubine. Usually, he loved to gamble. Because his concubine had been with him for a few years, he did not ask his wife to chase the servant away.
That day, after being taught a lesson by the old teacher at school, Little Wimp inevitably complained a few words when he returned home. The servant happened to hear all of it. Coincidentally, he had a huge debt, so he tricked Little Wimp into sending a letter of challenge to Li Yue. He, on the other hand, went to the human traffickers to deliver the message.
On the day of rest, the servant found an excuse to trip Little Wimp at home.
The human traffickers thought that Li Yue was an ordinary foreign merchant's son. After calculating the time and location, they directly sent a large carriage driver to kidnap her. Fortunately, there were two school students nearby that day. When they saw that the situation was not right, they directly went to find the old teacher. The old teacher also brought Li Xunhuan to the Military Attaché.
The Military Attaché was an old acquaintance of Li Xunhuan. When he saw that the school students were also present, he immediately pulled down Little Wimp's pants and gave him a good beating. Then, he seized the opportunity to catch the servant who was chatting with the human traffickers. Following this road, he finally found the manor where Li Yue was staying.
Li Yue did not expect that there would be so many twists and turns. Right now, almost all of the Blue Dragon Society had collapsed. The servant and the human traffickers had all been sent to prison. Little Wimp had also been dealt with very badly. She really did not have the heart to seek revenge from Little Wimp. Before the Military Attaché brought Little Wimp home, she tactfully suggested that he should teach more things to his child.
Li Yue was very happy that she had successfully added more homework for the child. However, who knew that when she turned her head, she saw Li Xunhuan who had a thoughtful expression on his face.
"Since you are so eager to learn, then from tomorrow onwards, you can continue with your homework. I will teach you martial arts during the rest of the time."