"If they are not deaf, they should be able to hear us talking." Song Wan said truthfully. She estimated the distance and it was not so far that they could not hear anything at all.
Song Qin couldn't help but hold his forehead with his hand, then lowered his voice, "Why didn't you say so earlier!"
Song Wan: "You didn't ask!"
Song Qin gave up arguing with her, quickly got up from the stone bench and went to open the door for them.
Before Song Qin came over to open the door, Li Songzhi had countless urges to leave. He felt that the weather today was not suitable for coming to the palace.
Song Qin calmly opened the door, as if the previous awkwardness had disappeared, and said to the two men, "Lord Li, General Peng, please come in."
"Song Qin? Aren't you dead?!" Li Songzhizhi was so surprised that he didn't care about being speechless.
"Because I saved him!" Song Wan interrupted while eating meat.
Li Songzhi followed the sound and looked into the courtyard. His eyes widened. Why was Gu Yanji there too?!
Peng Jing was also surprised. Shouldn't these people be living in exile in Guizhou?
Li Songzhi was pushed into the yard by Song Qin. Peng Jing came in by himself. He wanted to see whether this Gu Yanji was real or just a fake wearing a mask.
"Who are you! How dare you impersonate General Gu!" Before Peng Jing got close, he saw 'Gu Yanji' feeding a woman food. He determined that this person was fake and shouted angrily.
This person suddenly appeared, startling Song Wan so much that she shook the skewers in her hand. She glanced at the burnt vegetables in the charcoal fire. Fortunately, it was not the roasted pork belly she had just eaten.
Gu Yan was anxious: "...I am the General Gu you mentioned."
Peng Jing...
The voice is exactly the same, so who is the woman next to him? The previous General Gu would never do such a thing.
"But I am just an ordinary person now. General Peng, just call me by my name." After saying that, Gu Yan hurriedly helped Song Wan pick up a skewer of cooked chicken.
Song Wan took a bite of the chicken skewer and said familiarly, "Come and eat with us. You must have never had barbecue before."
Li Songzhi didn't know what words to use to describe his mood at the moment. He always felt like he had inexplicably entered a den of thieves, but these so-called thieves didn't seem to be any danger.
Moreover, he was already attracted by the barbecue Song Wan mentioned. "Is the aroma coming from this so-called barbecue?"
Li Songzhi was not hard of hearing and remembered the word "barbecue" after hearing it once.
He thought that there was not much difference between barbecue and BBQ, except that it looked more delicate and had a stronger aroma.
"Twelve, please grill a skewer for this Mr. Song—no, Mr. Li!" Song Wan always believed that no matter how much he said, it would not be clearer than tasting a skewer himself.
Song Twelve happened to have a skewer of grilled pork belly in his hand. Perhaps because he had been with Song Wan for a long time, he had become more casual.
He stuffed the skewer of meat directly into Li Songzhi's mouth, who was about to say thank you, and said considerately, "Don't worry, it's not hot and it's not poisoned."
When Li Songzhi heard the last sentence, his expression changed. He was choked by Song Twelve's words. Should he eat this piece of meat or not?
Li Songzhi didn't have much time to think. The pork belly was roasted until slightly charred, and the aroma of the oil rushed into his mouth.
He imitated Song Wan and pulled out the bamboo sticks, leaving only the meat in his mouth. He chewed it gently, and the unique aroma of charcoal barbecue wrapped in spices spread between his lips and teeth.
To be fair, this is the most delicious barbecue Li Songzhi has eaten in more than 40 years. It is a thin slice, with the edges and corners roasted until crispy while retaining the most tender part in the middle.
It was much more delicious than what he and Peng Jing had grilled while camping in the mountains on the way to Yuzhou.
Song Wan greeted Li Songzhi, so Gu Yan hurriedly handed a string of marinated raw mutton to Peng Jing. The other party, a man in his forties, took it subconsciously.
Gu Yan smiled anxiously, "Gu Wu, teach General Peng how to grill mutton skewers."
Gu Wu was still chewing on the grilled wings he had gotten from Song Twelve. He shouted back, "Okay, Master!"
Peng Jing held the lamb skewers and looked at the huge Prince Yu's Mansion, his eyes moving back and forth between several people. He really wanted to say that he was not here to eat barbecue.
After eating a skewer of pork belly, Li Songzhi looked at the strangely shaped barbecue grill he had never seen before and asked, "How did you come up with something so ingenious?"
Song Wan replied, "I figured it out with my brain."
Li Songzhi...
Why does this little girl keep interrupting him?
No, he didn't come here to ask how they made barbecue. He was almost fooled by a few slices of meat.
Li Songzhi suddenly became serious. "You left Guizhou without permission, which is a violation of the emperor's order. If I report this to the emperor, you will be punished even more severely."
Song Wan: "This isn't the first time you've disobeyed an imperial order. Go ahead and add more."
Li Songzhi...
Can you wait for me to finish?
Gu Yan laughed anxiously and said slowly, "Don't worry, Lord Li. A friend really wants to see you. He will be here the day after tomorrow. After meeting this friend, it won't be too late for you to consider reporting to the court."
Li Songzhi: "Gu Yan is anxious, are you trying to delay time?"
Song Wan: "If we wanted to delay time, why would we still be waiting for you here with a barbecue? We would have ridden away long ago!"
Li Songzhi was furious. Whose daughter was this? He quickly retorted, "Do you think General Peng and I need a piece of your flesh?!"
Song Wan took a look and said, "It seems like there's a big shortage."
Peng Jing, who had just eaten three skewers of lamb under Gu Wu's guidance, looked at the fourth skewer of lamb in his hand under the gaze of everyone, wondering silently whether he should eat it or not.
If I just ate it without caring about anything, I would feel a little sorry for Lord Li, but if I didn't eat it, I would feel sorry for myself who had worked so hard to roast it for half a day.
After being slapped in the face, Li Songzhi really didn't know what to say to Peng Jing. You are all fourth-rank generals in the court, do you think you would be short of meat to eat?
After struggling for a long time, Peng Jing finally reluctantly put down the mutton skewers, stood beside Li Songzhi and said, "Master Li, the emperor is far away anyway, so it won't hurt to wait for two more days."
Li Songzhi exposed him, "Don't think that just because I'm not much older than you, I don't know that you used to be in the Southwest Army."
Very few people knew about this matter. Apart from the Prime Minister, Li Songzhi himself only found out about it by chance, and even the Emperor did not know about it.
Peng Jingyu choked, "That was many years ago, and it wasn't called the Southwest Army back then."
To be more precise, he had fought in wars with the previous emperor. At that time, the previous emperor was still the invincible King of the South, and he was just an unknown soldier.
Song Wan just watched them bickering quietly. She now doubted whether the emperor wanted to give up his throne voluntarily, otherwise why would the people he sent be so different from others, and they were exactly in line with the temperament of her team.
Song Wan was full, but the two of them were still arguing.
There were still quite a few skewers left, and even if they were added, they probably wouldn't be able to finish them. Song Qi was working hard to protect those girls in the inn, so Song Wan asked Song Twelve to continue roasting them and send them to the inn when the time came, so that Song Qi and the girls could satisfy their cravings.
Finally, Gu Yan hurriedly stopped the group and said, "You two have worked hard on the journey, please sit down and have something to eat."
Li Songzhi: "Peng Jing! I'm not going to argue with you because we're here with outsiders!"
After arguing for a long time, they started calling each other by their names.
Peng Jing: "Li Songzhi, do you know that mutton skewers are not tasty when they are cold?"
Li Songzhi straightened his back and said with a stern face, "How can I know if I haven't tried it? Don't blame everything on others. For everything, you should learn to look for the reasons in yourself first!"
Peng Jing was too lazy to argue with him. Not only would it waste his energy, but it would also delay the barbecue.
Seeing that Peng Jing ignored him, Li Songzhi sat down next to him as if he was angry, took a skewer of grilled meat from the plate and started to eat it.
Song Twelve: "...Master Li, you are holding the meat I roasted for Song Qi!"
Li Songzhi was halfway through his meal and couldn't swallow it or spit it out, which was very embarrassing.
He changed the subject and asked, "Who is Song Qi?"
Song Twelve: "My idiot cousin."
Li Songzhi found the chicken in his mouth quite delicious, so he said, "Since you are an idiot, it doesn't matter if one skewer is missing."
"Besides, there are still a lot." He pointed to the basket beside him.
Arguing with others was too tiring and he was already hungry. Li Songzhi talked a lot and completely forgot the virtues that a scholar should maintain.
Song Wan looked at the two of them, stunned. "If I had known that a basket of skewers could bribe them, your eldest brother wouldn't have had to rush here with A Yu."
Gu Yan smiled anxiously but didn't say anything. That was because Li Songzhi and Peng Jing were smart and knew that it would be meaningless for them to say anything more here.
When the two of them stepped into Prince Yu's Mansion and saw Gu Yan's anxious face, Li Songzhi and Peng Jing knew that the moment they entered Yuzhou City, or in other words, the moment they were recommended to come to Yuzhou, they were doomed to be unable to escape.
However, they both understood that since the Prime Minister had pushed them over, it couldn't be just to take their lives; there must be other reasons.
So instead of thinking too much and worrying about everything, it is better to eat and sleep peacefully and wait for the friend that Gu Yan mentioned anxiously.
However, Li Songzhi did not forget the main reason for coming here. After filling his stomach and satisfying his craving, he asked Gu Yanji, "You left King Yu in the dungeon for so long, aren't you afraid that other officials will notice something unusual?"
In fact, what he wanted to ask was which side the Xiangzhou prefect belonged to.
Gu Yanji naturally understood what Li Songzhi meant. He smiled and said, "Master Mei is a man of tact."
It was as good as saying nothing. Li Songzhi was speechless. "Gu Yan is anxious. When did you learn to speak in official language?"
Song Wan interrupted, "Who is Master Mei?"
After dealing with Prince Yu's Mansion, Song Wan kept counting the silver moved out of the Mansion. By the way, he also went to Tahui Pass, arrested Xu Lie and brought him back to lock him up with his nephew.
The subsequent matters were handled by Gu Yanji and the others. She had never seen the two brothers of the Mei family who came and went in a hurry.
"He is the current prefect of Xiangzhou, Mei Wenhua, Lord Mei." Gu Yan hurriedly explained to Song Wan in a gentle voice.
Song Wan couldn't help but burst out laughing, "Hahaha, then his brother's name is Mei Wude?"
Gu Yan was surprised and asked, "How did Ah Wan know?"
Song Wan laughed even louder this time, "Because Mei Wude simply has no martial virtue."
Gu Yanji seemed to understand something, so he read it again, "Mei Wude, no Wude, no Wude."
He then smiled, "It seems so."
The author has something to say:
My gay friend suggested (unreliable jpg.) that we should just call them Mei Wenwen and Mei Wuwu.
I replied that Gu Wen and Gu Wu were already there.
So the question is, what about Gu Wenwen and Gu Wuwu?
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