Chapter 149 Help

Zhu Huaizhen returned to his guest room and planned to continue sleeping.

Tea is everywhere.

Lou Li sat at the crescent table, holding his chin and looking at Zhu Huaizhen.

"Zhen'er, how did you help Princess Rongyang?" Lou Li joked.

"Ali, you are very gossipy." Zhu Huaizhen said coquettishly.

At this time, Tu Mi came in.

Afterwards, a bronze tripod with melon-shaped and animal-shaped ears was carried up by the proprietress.

"Your Highness, the proprietress is from Bashu and she knows how to make hot pot." Tu Mi whispered.

There are nine kinds of base ingredients, namely, mellow butter, spicy duck feet, spicy beef bones, three fresh soup, tomato spare ribs, hot and sour golden soup, pork tripe and chicken soup, sesame oil porridge, and wolfberry mushroom soup.

The ten hot pot dishes include large slices of tripe, crispy tribute vegetables, tender shrimp balls, large slices of kidney, icy goose intestines, crispy tofu, boneless chicken feet, kelp seedlings, yellow cattle throat, and spicy beef.

When Zhu Huaizhen saw this, his eyes lit up.

"Ali, I'm in the mood for gossip now." Zhu Huaizhen smiled like a flower, his eyes moving.

So, the three of them gathered around a bronze tripod with melon slices and animal ears and ate with great pleasure.

"Ali, actually I didn't help big sister much. At most I just added fuel to the fire." Zhu Huaizhen ate a large piece of tripe. The crispy taste made Zhu Huaizhen squint his eyes with happiness.

After hearing this, Lou Li did not urge Zhu Huaizhen to speak quickly, but ate a large piece of tripe slowly.

Eating with Zhu Huaizhen is very appetizing and makes people feel happy.

Zhu Huaizhen didn't know that for a period of time, Lou Li hated any meat and almost starved himself to death.

"I remember that ten years ago, my elder sister admired a great scholar and wanted to become his disciple to learn Confucian culture. However, the great scholar had a strange temperament and refused to accept my elder sister as his disciple no matter how much she humbled herself and begged. I was so angry when I heard that. What a shameless old man! I think he needs to learn a lesson. So, I burned down the great scholar's thatched cottage and forced him to escape from the mountains." Zhu Huaizhen tried hard to recall, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

It turns out that reminiscing about the past is so beautiful.

Unfortunately, Nanwu is no longer here.

"That great scholar must be holding a grudge against you and Princess Rongyang as well." Tu Mi also became interested.

"That's what I said. But my elder sister is a good person. She apologized to the great scholar on my behalf, rebuilt the cottage, and bought clothes and food. But the great scholar scolded my elder sister for seeking fame, and I got so angry that I cursed him." Zhu Huaizhen paused as he spoke, and then he ate a large piece of pork loin.

Ahem, I was young and frivolous at that time, and my scolding was a bit childish.

She criticized the great scholar for her own fame. If she truly possessed the talent to govern the country, why didn't she apply it to Southern Wu? Was she disgusted with the Southern Wu monarch's incompetence? Or was she simply lacking in talent and was forcing it?

The great scholar was so angry that he was fuming and decided to pass on all his life's knowledge to his elder sister.

However, the great scholar had one condition, which was that Zhu Huaizhen also had to be his apprentice.

Poor Zhu Huaizhen, who only wanted to eat, drink and have fun and be a fool beauty, could not resist Zhu Huaishu's pleading and had to compromise with the great scholar.

However, Zhu Huaizhen was not a good student, so he took the great scholar with him to pick wild fruits in the mountains.

The wild fruits included raspberries, goat milk fruits, wax gourds, golden cherries, grapes, nightshade fruits, cat shit melons, lantern fruits, sea buckthorns, mulberries, etc. They were strange and delicious, sour and sweet, which made the great scholar very happy. He did not care about Zhu Huaizhen.

Alas, Zhu Huaizhen has this ability and can win over the talents in this world.