146, Disguise
146, Disguise
By the time they finished dinner, the sun had already set in the west.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Xu Yueniang and Lu Qingfeng went home after dinner.
As they were about to leave, Xu Yueniang held Liu Sanniang's hand and said, "Although we are not blood sisters, after so many years of getting along, our relationship is better than that of blood sisters. Over the years, you have treated me as your sister, and I have treated you as my elder sister. There is no need for us sisters to calculate everything so clearly. There is no need for us two families to be too calculating."
"Yes, I was wrong." Liu Sanniang looked at Xu Yueniang with some emotion and tears in her eyes.
When Xu Yueniang and Lu Qingfeng left, they were unable to take their son with them because the boy insisted on staying in the Lu family's courtyard with his playmates and refused to go home with them.
In the end, there was no other choice but for the couple to go back.
After watching the donkey cart leave, Liu Sanniang and Lu Youtian took the children home.
Seeing Lu Mingcong standing at the door and not going in, Lu Mingfei asked him, "Do you want to go home with your father and mother? If you regret it now, it's not too late. I'll take you home."
"No, I want to sleep with my brother." Lu Mingcong turned around and ran away to find his brother.
Lu Mingfei watched the two boys chasing each other in the yard, and remembered the fight between the two boys in the afternoon. He couldn't help but find it funny again. The fight was real, and the good thing was really good.
In summer, the days are longer and the nights are shorter, so it gets dark a little later.
However, when the last bit of afterglow in the sky disappeared, the sky gradually darkened and darkness enveloped the entire Kyoto Prefecture.
The sounds outside the yard gradually died down, and the adults in the house went back to sleep.
That night, Lu Mingfei put the fried snails he had specially reserved into a small basket and took the carriage that came to pick him up to Prince Ding's Mansion.
Now the place where he and the young master meet at night has been changed to Prince Ding's Mansion. The place here is more spacious, and they can ride horses and shoot arrows here without making too much noise and letting the neighbors hear anything.
The two of them first practiced a round of archery, and he even rode his horse twice before coming to the pavilion to have a midnight snack... and rest.
"Do you know what this is?" Lu Mingfei took out the bowl of fried snails from the basket. He had fried them this afternoon, adding lots of spices and seasonings, so there was no need to worry about them going bad after being left out for so long.
Zhao Lang looked at the contents of the bowl and shook his head.
"This is a small mountain snail. I fried it. Try it. It's delicious." Lu Mingfei said as he pinched a snail with his hand and ate it for the young master to see, and also taught the young master how to eat it.
But Zhao Lang just looked at the bowl of food in front of him and didn't do anything.
"Why aren't you eating? It's really delicious, I'm not kidding." Lu Mingfei was eating happily by himself. Seeing Zhao Lang frowning at him while sucking on the snails, he immediately understood why the young master was frowning. "You think eating this is... not elegant, right?"
"How can elegance be more important than delicious food? Just try one. It's just the two of us here, and I won't go out and tell anyone about you. What are you afraid of?"
However, Zhao Lang still refused to eat it.
"If you don't want to eat it, forget it. I'll eat it myself. I even saved some for you." Lu Mingfei simply stopped trying to persuade Zhao Lang to eat, and ate it on his own. While eating, he glanced at the indifferent person out of the corner of his eye. Could it be that this thing really couldn't attract the young master's interest at all?
When Zhao Lang heard Lu Mingfei's next words, his heart moved. He looked at the boy who was happily eating the little snail, with a little struggle in his eyes. Finally, he compromised and asked tentatively, "Is it really that delicious?"
"It's really delicious, you should try it." Seeing Zhao Lang's expression, Lu Mingfei knew that he was willing to give it a try, so he pushed the bowl of fried snails in front of Zhao Lang.
Zhao Lang hesitated for a moment, picked up the chopsticks, picked up a snail and put it into his mouth.
"Don't put the whole thing in your mouth. You won't be able to taste it like this." Seeing that Zhao Lang couldn't even eat snails, Lu Mingfei started teaching Zhao Lang how to eat snails. "First suck the tail, then the front opening."
"Look, the snail meat is easily sucked out, isn't it? It's very easy."
"..." Zhao Lang looked at the young man pouting his lips as he taught him how to suck a snail. He struggled for a moment, but still followed Lu Mingfei's method. He sucked the snail's tail, then the opening at the front, and really sucked out the meat inside.
Seeing Zhao Lang eating snails with him, Lu Mingfei couldn't help laughing. He felt that he had made the noble young master more down-to-earth.
Looking at Zhao Lang trying to maintain his image while eating snails carefully, he couldn't help but find it a little funny.
When Zhao Lang saw the smile on Lu Mingfei's face, he immediately stopped sucking the snails, looked at Lu Mingfei with a stern face, and said, "Are you laughing at me!"
"No, I didn't." Lu Mingfei refused to admit that he was laughing at the funny way Zhao Lang ate snails, and even found a perfect excuse for himself: "I was just laughing happily."
Zhao Lang looked at Lu Mingfei steadily and finally accepted Lu Mingfei's reason.
That night, the two of them finished the whole bowl of fried snails, and Lu Mingfei ate most of it himself.
Zhao Lang also ate things he had never eaten in the past ten years of his life, and did things he had never done in the past ten years. However, he felt that this experience was not bad?
***
Lu Mingfei stayed at Prince Ding's Mansion until very late at night before taking a carriage back to his home.
Lying on the bed, he touched the soft flesh on his stomach and was really worried that if he continued eating like this with Zhao Lang, he would turn into a little fat man.
That night he had a dream. He dreamed that he was answering questions in the examination room. The time for the exam was almost over, but he still had most of the paper to finish. He was so anxious that he woke up in fright!
What a horrible dream!
When Lu Mingfei woke up from his dream and opened his eyes, he found that there was someone sitting in his room, with his back to him, sitting in front of his desk.
He knew who this person was without having to guess.
"Good morning..." But when the person sitting in his room turned around and saw a completely unfamiliar face, Lu Mingfei was startled.
Seeing Lu Mingfei frightened, Zhao Lang, who had changed his appearance, reminded him, "It's me."
"Oh, I was so scared. I thought someone ran into my room." Lu Mingfei touched his frightened heart. It was so early in the morning, he thought that some bad guy had entered his house and wanted to do something bad to him.
It turns out that this person is Zhao Lang!
"Your face..." He looked at this completely unfamiliar face. Could this be the legendary disguise technique? Lu Mingfei looked at Zhao Lang's face, which showed no trace of any trace, with curiosity in his eyes.
"I had someone change my appearance. You can change your appearance later." Zhao Lang stood up from the chair he was sitting on, holding a strange-looking little wooden object in his hand. He walked towards the person who had sat up in the bed and asked Lu Mingfei, "What is this?"
"Ah, this is a bicycle. It doesn't need to be pulled by animals, but can be moved by people pedaling. But this thing requires a relatively high level of craftsmanship. I wonder if the craftsmen can make it." Lu Mingfei lifted the quilt and got out of bed. He moved closer to look at Zhao Lang's face with some curiosity, and couldn't help but reach out to touch Zhao Lang's face again.
Seeing Lu Mingfei's hand reaching towards his face, Zhao Lang subconsciously dodged backwards, "Don't you need a cart pulled by livestock?"
"Don't hide, let me touch your face." Lu Mingfei pulled Zhao Lang back. He was quite curious about the ancients' disguise techniques. When his hand touched Zhao Lang's face, he couldn't feel anything stuck on it.
But the face in front of him had indeed changed into another person's face.
However, when he met Zhao Lang's eyes, he knew it was Zhao Lang. No matter how a person's appearance changes, the expression in their eyes is hard to change. Also, a person's body shape and posture are important. Because just now, when he saw him from behind, he recognized the person as Zhao Lang.
So he told Zhao Lang about his little discoveries, "If you want to become another person, your body shape and temperament, as well as the way you look at people and your expression, all need to change. Otherwise, people who are familiar with you might recognize you at a glance."
"...Hmm." Zhao Lang thought about it and felt that what Lu Mingfei said made sense.
"What identity are you using now?"
"Son of a merchant."
"Why don't you try to imitate the expression of a dandy?"
"A dandy boy?" Zhao Lang tried to imitate it, trying hard to lift up the corners of his mouth.
"Forget it, you'd better not try this. You are not suitable to be a dude. Why don't you try a sick and sinister young man? The kind who looks at people with squinted eyes, with an arrogant face and looks down on people." Lu Mingfei imitated the way that guy...Cai Renjun looked at people and imitated it for Zhao Lang to see.
This time Zhao Lang learned it in one go.
"This character setting is good. You can try looking at people with this kind of eyes when you use this identity in the future. Also, don't straighten your back so much, hunch it a little. And your walking posture, try walking with your feet turned outward." Lu Mingfei said to Zhao Lang while asking Zhao Lang to change his walking and standing posture.
After the final transformation, Zhao Lang really seemed like a completely different person.
"Even people who are familiar with you may not be able to recognize you when they see you now." Lu Mingfei looked at the man whose temperament had changed and nodded his chin approvingly.
But the next second, Zhao Lang's eyes returned to their original expression. He looked at Lu Mingfei and said, "I'll have someone pack up for you, and then we'll go out."
"Do I need to change my appearance too?" Lu Mingfei widened his eyes.
"Yeah." Zhao Lang nodded, and took out a small jade flute from his pocket and blew it.
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