Chapter 503 – Eating Crab

“Pal, Pal ………”

Xiao Er looked at the green-clothed guest officer’s back and his face went white and white.

Even if he had seen a ghost, he would not have shown such a horrified expression, for ghosts had never been seen, and today he saw a madman who had smothered a small half-pound of arsenic in one mouthful.

“Quickly, quickly go and ask the doctor from the Golden Needle Pavilion ………”

The shopkeeper screamed as he whirled around dumbfounded, saying, “No, grab him and hyperventilate!”

The two of them ran out of the store, looked left and right, and realized that the green-clothed guest had already disappeared into the roaming crowd.

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The Undrunken Residence, one of the best restaurants in Yongzhou City.

For dine-in, the per capita consumption is half a cent of silver. For a private room, the per capita consumption is two coins. If you are staying in a hotel, a good room will cost you three coins a night.

Mu Nanjian and Xu Qi’an walked slowly for a long time, and along the way, they looked for someone to ask for the way a few times, finally arriving outside the Residence Restaurant.

The store assistant ushering in the doorway, seeing the two of them approaching the restaurant, immediately went forward knowingly and nodded his head:

“Two objective, to beat the rush or to stay in the hotel.”

“Stay!”

Xu Qi’an handed the reins of his horse to the shopkeeper, took off his water pouch, poured out the white cloudy water mixed with arsenic, and gently smeared it on the saddle.

During the process, his palm turned greenish-black, and when he finished wiping it, he lifted his hand, and the blood and flesh in his palm returned as before.

The ability of the poisonous parasites to create special toxins in combination with their surroundings and materials.

Using arsenic, Xu Qi’an created a chronic poison to be applied to the saddle of a horse, and as long as someone dared to ride the filly, the toxin solidified on the saddle would slowly evaporate with the body temperature, penetrate through the pants to permeate the skin, and then permeate the blood vessels from the skin.

At most a quarter of an hour will be death, and the gods will not be able to save you.

The store assistant has limited knowledge and cannot see through the mystery, and is only bewildered for a moment, and then he sees the green-clothed guest officer throwing a grain of broken silver, saying:

“This horse of mine, I’m going to be fed a fine feed. Beans, wheat, corn, salt, eggs, bee balm, you can’t have one of these without the other; I’ll come and check it out later, and if you dare to cut corners, I’ll skin you.”

Xu Baijuan’s body was not lacking in the slightest bit of murderous and hostile aura, and when he crossed his eyes, he was extremely oppressive.

The store assistant pinched the weighty broken silver, surprised and scared, and said, “Don’t worry, customer, don’t worry, I will definitely take good care of your beloved horse.”

Immediately, he led his horse to the backyard.

“To walk the rivers and lakes, you have to have a rivers and lakes atmosphere, to put on a gentle face on the outside will only make people think that you are a fat goat, and anyone will come to slaughter you.”

Xu Qi’an smiled as he explained to the First Beauty of Dafeng.

The jianghu and the temple are different worlds, in the capital, one should keep a low profile and do things in a high profile, and pay attention to sentimentality and seniority everywhere.

But the jianghu is different, the jianghu fish and dragons mixed, the youth intention, and from time to time, but also the sword, you have to show fierce and hostile, so that you can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Going inside the lobby of the restaurant, Xu Qi’an led Mu Nanjian towards the counter, and along the way, heard the diners not far away talking:

“I heard that someone found a large tomb in the barren mountains thirty miles south of the city. A dozen people went in and never came out.”

“I heard that the Gongsun family also sent people down to the tomb, and they were all lost inside. Now it’s rumored outside that there’s a rare and great treasure inside, otherwise, how could it be so treacherous.”

“It’s a rumor that the Gongsun Family deliberately put out, isn’t it, trying to get the jianghu dispersers to act as pawns.”

“Not really, the more dangerous the tomb, the more treasures there are, if there were only a few crooked burial objects, who would go to the trouble of setting up a trap?”

“Makes sense.”

“The Gongsun family has recently recruited a wide range of heroes in the city of Yongzhou, preferably capable and righteous people who are well versed in feng shui organs, but it’s a pity that I’m just a martial artist and my strength is limited, or else I’d go to get involved as well.”

Mu Nanjian’s face changed slightly as she listened.

Xu Qi’an frowned.

The underground palace outside Yongzhou City has been discovered? Well, when Shenshu and the ancient corpses fought and made a big noise, that mountain range appeared to collapse to a certain extent, and it’s normal to attract good people to explore afterward ……..

With the bit of God’s Shu, just half a year only, the ancient corpse should not have gotten out of the trap, I hope not out of the trap, otherwise my trip to Yongzhou will be in vain ……….

As he thought about it, he walked towards the counter and said, “Open two good rooms, right next to each other.”

Next to the Mu Nan gardenia hastily said, “No, not open two rooms, one is enough ………”

Her voice grew fainter and she bowed her head in some embarrassment.

She egged …….. Xu Qi’an glanced at the crown princess, and instead of rejoicing at the matter of being in the same room with the number one beauty of the Dafeng, he frowned.

First of all, the side effects of the love compulsion would cause the host to have the urge to reproduce offspring at all times, and Xu Qi’an was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to control herself.

Secondly, a side effect of the dark compulsion is that the host likes to burrow into dark and damp places and must have two hours of undetected privacy every day.

Your Highness’s Spiritual Embodiment can only be “harvested” when it reaches the peak of the third grade, and the side effects of the compulsion cannot be met, which will affect the development of the Seven Extinction Compulsion, thus affecting my cultivation. ………

Xu Qi’an sighed in his heart: sure enough, women will only affect my sword drawing speed!

So he asked the shopkeeper for a good room that cost as much as one or two silver pieces.

The shopkeeper collected the silver, his warm and attentive demeanor increased exponentially, and personally led the two honored guests upstairs.

The room is at the end of the corridor, push the window can see the main road lively scene, Mu Nanjian very like, Xu Qi’an but only feel noisy.

Worthy of being one of the most expensive restaurants in Yongzhou City, worthy of being a restaurant to support the face of the compartment, the bookcase is made of yellow pear wood, and the table is set with the four treasures of literature.

When Mu Nanjian entered the room, he looked around, scrutinized, and tsked:

“All the paintings hanging are famous, but they’re all forgeries, none of them are real.”

One of them, an authentic copy of the Wine Lodge Burning Incense, is in the Zhenbei King’s residence, hanging in her study.

“This is a nice piece of inkstone.”

She walked to the side of the bookcase again, playing with a side of blue and white inkstone, the inkstone’s blue and white pattern is like an ink halo, Mu Nanjian regretted:

“Fine texture, but not moist enough, top quality, but can’t be called superb.”

It is again moist, have you moist …….. Xu Qi’an mentally spat.

She went through the room’s furnishings, pen, ink, paper, antique paintings, furniture, etc., critiquing them one by one.

The shopkeeper was dumbfounded and called out to the insiders, “The girl is really an expert.”

At once, he put away the slight contempt in his heart, this pair of mediocre looking men and women should have come from a noble family, non-belligerent, not able to raise this kind of taste and eyesight.

Xu Qi’an, who was listening to heavenly books in general throughout, pulled the shopkeeper to the edge of the table and smiled, “Chattering the shopkeeper for a moment.”

“You’re welcome.” The shopkeeper’s attitude turned extremely good.

Xu Qi’an asked, “Just now I heard someone in the hall say that a large tomb had been discovered deep in the mountains to the south?”

The shopkeeper nodded and said, “There is such a thing, and I don’t know if it’s true or not. It is said that many people died. That mountain is now occupied by the Gongsun Family.”

Xu Qi’an took a sip of tea and mused, “The Gongsun Family? Boss, in this Yongzhou City, there are those up-and-coming jianghu forces?”

Although he had come to Yongzhou once, he really didn’t know much about the situation of the local gangs.

In the eyes of the night watchman, it was only the big powers like the Sword State Martial Arts Alliance that could be in the eye of the beholder, and the rest, all of them, were garbage.

Of course, this does not mean that the jianghu gangs are not powerful, it is just that the night watchman is, after all, subordinate to the imperial court and has an inherent sense of superiority over the jianghu gangs.

The palmer opens up without contemplation:

“In the vicinity of Yongzhou City, the most powerful are the Gongsun Villa eighteen miles to the north, and the Dragon God Castle twenty miles to the east on the Bending Dragon River, and the gangs that depend on these two great powers are ………

“As for the counties under Yongzhou, I do not know.”

Yongzhou was one of the thirteen continents of the Great Feng, and there were dozens of counties and prefectures under the city of Yongzhou, and the number of gangs among them could probably only be known through official statistics.

Big powers like the Dragon God Castle and the Gongsun Family usually don’t have their main camps in the city, the officials won’t allow it.

Mu Nanjian frowned, “The Yongzhou government doesn’t care about the big tomb?”

The shopkeeper laughed: “Why should I care? It’s not like it’s a flood or locust plague, the government doesn’t care. As for the dead, the dead are jianghu people, not civilians. Even if they are civilians, if you don’t report them to the authorities, the authorities won’t bother, right?

“Besides, the Gongsun family has some friendship with the Minister of Public Administration of Yongzhou, and that’s how they were able to “encircle” that mountain.”

“The shopkeeper has a point.”

The two men smiled at each other.

Xu Qi’an learned from the shopkeeper that this season, the lake crabs are fattening, and Yangbai Lake outside the city is the holy place to eat crabs near Yongzhou City.

At this time of the year, the city’s wealthy families, eunuchs, and the great heroes of the rivers and lakes rent boats to swim in the lake and enjoy the fat lake crabs.

Listening to the Mu Nan gardenia’s eyes light up.

After a few moments of small talk, the shopkeeper reluctantly took his leave.

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Xu Qi’an closed the door, turned back and walked behind the screen, moving the tub aside, pulling out the pieces of the earth book and dumping out a tank, the silt in the tank was shallow, the water slightly murky, and a dark golden lotus root lay at the bottom of the tank.

Half of the body is exposed to the silt and half is hidden under it.

He had two purposes in mind when he traveled the jungle this trip and brought the princess with him:

One, traveling all the way to Jianzhou, handing over the lotus root to the old piker of the Wulin League to fulfill his promise.

However, the lotus root had not matured yet, so he simply took the person and the lotus root along with him, thinking that by the time he traveled to Jianzhou, the nine-colored lotus root should have matured.

Two, he wanted to try to find some plants with fierce toxicity and give them to the Flower God to cultivate in order to grow the poisonous parasites.

In that case, Mu Nanjian must bring it with him.

“Phew ……..”

Xu Qi’an exhaled a breath, with Force Compass’s current qi, it was still a bit of a struggle to lift a large water tank, he still had to eat more.

Fortunately, I left the capital, or else there are three more foodies in the house, and the aunt is going to cry out in heartache ……… He bellyached in his heart and sat down at the side of the yellow flower pear book case, thinking about what he was going to do next.

“Dragon qi is scattered all over the place, there is no such thing as radar, the only way to find out the dragon qi host is through two aspects: one, a strong intelligence network. Dragon Qi hosts won’t be abnormal in the short term, but after a long time, they are immediately sharp. They won’t remain nameless.

“Second, by the aggregation effect of dragon qi and qi, maybe I don’t have to deliberately search for it, and I can come across it when I travel to a certain place. And as long as the dragon qi host is no more than a hundred meters away from me, I can sense it through the earth book, and I myself am equivalent to a small radar with a range of only a hundred meters.

“There’s no news about Shenshu’s remnant body for the time being, but the Nine-tailed Skyfox surely has a clue, so I just need to wait for her to come to me. The most important thing now is to collect the materials for the Soul Invoking Bell.”

Among the materials for the Soul Recruitment Bell, two of the materials were the nails and venom of a thousand year old corpse, and Xu Qi’an happened to know an ancient corpse, so he chose Yongzhou City as his first stop.

“As long as Shenshu’s seal hasn’t weakened, I’m confident that I won’t let the ancient corpse discover my true state. Well, I need to work harder on my cultivation as well, of the seven abilities of the Seven Extinction Compasses, the Poison Compass is the easiest to cultivate, as long as there is an unending supply of highly poisonous things, it can grow instantly.

“Next is the force compulsion, as long as it keeps eating and beating up the physique, it can also grow rapidly, and although my cultivation is sealed, my physique is a third-grade physique, so this stage of beating up can be ignored, and I can just start eating directly.

“The Heavenly Compulsion is the foundation of the Seven Extremities Compulsion, itself developed to a very high and deep level, for the time being do not need to care. As long as the dark compulsion maintains two hours of “hiding” every day, it can grow steadily, perhaps still lack of combat ……… This point has not been tried, there is an opportunity to try.

“Corpse Compulsion needs to devour Corpse Qi, this trip to Yongzhou, cultivating Corpse Compulsion is also one of the purposes. The love compulsion and heart compulsion, for the time being, will be suppressed and not cultivated.

“I don’t want to walk the rivers and turn into a flower picker. And with a Da Feng No. 1 beauty by my side, if I don’t suppress the love compulsion, I’ll be rubbing my nose in it one day.

“Heart compulsion is the same thing, and while I ride the filly, I can’t really ride her.”

Time is still early, there is still some time before lunch, Xu Qi’an sat on the edge of the case, taking small sips of arsenic to water, like sipping wine.

The clean-loving princess gave herself a basin of water, freshened up, and then sat in front of the dressing table, combed herself into a beautiful gynecological bun, smeared her lips with lipstick and blush, not to mention, with her temperament, she hardened her face value by a few points.

It went from mediocre posture to still being able to look at it.

“I’ll take the bed at night and you hit the floor.”

The princess, who was sitting in front of the dresser, saw that he just took a light look at himself and moved his gaze away without a second thought, so she suddenly raised her willow eyebrows.

“Or you can take the bed and I’ll sleep on you.”

Xu Qi’an didn’t have the good sense to say.

The princess “spat”, as if she had long been accustomed to his flowery mouth, and did not take it seriously.

She got up and walked behind the screen, sticking her hand in the water tank and fiddling with the splash of water in boredom.

The water is dense with aura.

Near noon, Xu Qi’an took the water tank back to the earth book fragment, through the relationship of not drunken residence, booked the dining space of the building boat, this point, if it is a loose person, not to mention booking the dining space in the building boat, small boat small boat are gone.

It’s a good thing that No Drunkard’s House, being a big restaurant, has the channels and connections to satisfy the needs of its guests for crab.

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Yangbai Lake, with its glistening water, is planted with patches of willow trees, their branches bare and not green.

In the late fall season, the wind from the lake blew with a chill.

A hanging “Wang Ji fish shop” building boat floating in the lake, Mu Nanjian cloaked in fox fur cloak, sitting at the table near the window, the table is set with a small mud stove, warm yellow wine, both warm wine and warm people.

A few small plates of food and twenty fat beaten river crabs.

“The vinegar was good, but unfortunately the sauce was too little, hmmm, but it emphasized the fatness of the river crabs.”

Xu Qi’an nodded contentedly as she bit into the popping crab paste in her mouth.

In his recipe, lake crabs can be ranked in the top ten, of course, crabs are also divided into types, female crabs can not be ranked in the top ten, the only male crabs.

“Crab yolk and crab paste are two very different things, compared to the popping teeth of the crab paste is more flavorful and more delicious, the crab yolk is ultimately worse, so I don’t really love female crabs, but I have no resistance to male crabs ……….”

Xu Qi’an lifted the wine pot on the small clay stove and poured a cup of warm wine for the princess.

“Can you eat a crab and be honored?”

Mu Nanjian gave him a big blank stare, sipped a mouthful of small wine, her face was flushed and her body was warm, she looked her gaze out of the lake and suddenly whispered:

“Look, is that the Gongsun family’s boat?”

Xu Qi’an turned his head and looked out of the window, and saw a large two-story ship breaking the waves, flying the flag of “Gongsun”.