Chapter 177 Are you shooting an advertisement for a certain East?
Lu Zhi and Su Su grabbed Zhou Ji's clothes and looked at Gao Yao, Gao Yao said seriously, "Can you call me brother?"
"Brother?" Xiaoyue was stunned for a moment. After being moved, she couldn't help but feel a little hesitant in her heart. Looking at Gao Yao's tear-filled eyes, Xiaoyue lifted the corner of her skirt, stepped back half a step, knelt down and said, Since the palace, Xiaoyue has always been a lonely person. No one has ever treated Xiaoyue so well. Boss Gao treats Xiaoyue like a family member. Xiaoyue is grateful, but Xiaoyue is Xiaoyue, not Miss Gao Lan. Boss Gao."
Gao Yao couldn't listen to the rest of the words at all, when he heard the phrase 'brother', he couldn't hold back his tear glands anymore, he stepped forward to support Xiaoyue's arms to support her, "No, you It's Gao Lan, the sister I'm looking for."
"Brother finally found you." Gao Yao laughed while crying, hugged Xiaoyue, and said excitedly: "Gao Lan, I miss you, I miss you"
Xiaoyue's body was tense, and she let Gao Yao hug her at a loss, until Gao Yao's laughter faded away and turned into a whimpering cry, then she relaxed, took out a hand and gently patted Gao Yao's back, Soothe the broken adult.
Seeing this scene, Lu Zhi and Su Su couldn't help crying on Zhou Ji's shoulder, because they didn't want to disturb the two people in front of them, they bit Zhou Ji's shoulder and tried their best to suppress their crying.
They recognize each other, why am I the one who got hurt?
Zhou Ji grinned at the scene in front of him, looked left and right at the few people who didn't know how long they would have to cry, gently embraced Lu Zhi and Su Su's waist, and quietly exited the room.
The next day at noon, Zhou Ji came to the restaurant again. As soon as he walked into the backyard, he saw Xiaoyue sitting in the yard, holding up her chopsticks, not knowing where to start.
Looking again, I saw that the stone table was filled with all kinds of exquisite dishes, and there was an exaggerated emerald phoenix in the middle. Its long tail and wings fluttered with the wind, and it was exquisitely carved in the sun.
It's no wonder Xiaoyue didn't dare to move her chopsticks. Even Zhou Ji herself couldn't help but want to take pictures after seeing this scene.
"The dish is here~ Xiaoyue, come and try this boiled cabbage dish, don't underestimate its clear soup and little water, it was served at a state banquet~~"
Before the high-ranking person arrived, the voice had already come from the kitchen. Even if he didn't see anyone else, just the lightness of his footsteps and voice was enough to feel that he was in a happy mood at this time.
"Why don't you move your chopsticks? Is it because you don't like your appetite?" Gao Yao carefully made a corner of the table full of dishes, put down the boiled cabbage, and rubbed the apron around his waist.
"Brother, it's not like this." Xiaoyue hurriedly explained, "There are so many delicious foods, Xiaoyue doesn't know which one to eat first."
Gao Yao's heart melted when he heard the sound of 'brother', and he said with a doting face: "Is it because there are too many dishes and I don't know how to eat them all at once? It's okay, you can try the same thing Look, if there is anything you like, I will make it for you every day from now on."
"I smelled a scent from a long distance. It turned out to be a small stove for Miss Xiaoyue." Zhou Ji shook his head and chuckled. Advertisement for New Oriental? It’s too exaggerated.”
"Young Master Zhou." Xiao Yue heard Zhou Ji's voice, and hurriedly stood up and bowed to him.
"Miss Xiaoyue don't need to be too polite." Zhou Ji nodded in return, and said with a smile: "I happened to be hungry after walking all the way, Miss Xiaoyue, would you like to add a pair of chopsticks?"
"It's natural, Xiaoyue will go and prepare for the young master."
As soon as Xiaoyue finished speaking, she was stopped by Gao Yao, "Xiaoyue, these are all prepared for you. You sit here and eat first. I'll make him whatever Old Zhou wants to eat."
Zhou Ji curled his lips, stretched out his hand and brought a pair of bamboo chopsticks from the kitchen, lifted one of the jade phoenix's wings, and chewed them in his mouth under Xiaoyue's distressed eyes.
"The knife is good, crisp and delicious, I give you a thumbs up."
Gao Yao grabbed Zhou Ji's wrist with black lines all over his head and walked towards the back kitchen. Zhou Ji staggered a little as he was being dragged, and he didn't forget to wave goodbye to Miss Xiaoyue at the end.
Perfect things often bring invisible pressure to others. Looking at the ruined phoenix and the dishes on the table, he carefully picked up a chopstick and put it in his mouth. His eyes widened suddenly, and the speed of dropping the chopsticks gradually increased. .
Seeing Xiaoyue squinting her eyes and enjoying herself, and sometimes feasting, Zhou Ji patted Gao Yao on the shoulder, and said softly: "Miss Xiaoyue was originally just a little girl at the bottom of the palace. It’s okay to have good intentions, but you have to control your proportions and don’t let good intentions turn into pressure.”
Gao Yao let go of the branches in front of him, and nodded thoughtfully.
Walking into the small kitchen, Zhou Ji pulled the earthen pot on the stove, his eyes lit up when he saw half of the pot of boiled cabbage left, he filled a bowl with ease, blew hot air and said, "You recognize her as your younger sister!" ?”
Gao Yao showed a smile, nodded and said, "That's right."
"You have to be clear about one thing, even if they look exactly the same, she is still Xiaoyue, not Gao Lan." Zhou Ji raised his head to look at Gao Yao, and said with a gloomy expression: "One person cannot be another person's substitute after all. "
"I know she is not Gao Lan, but from yesterday, she can become Gao Yue, the irreplaceable Gao Yue."
If Gao Gao didn’t understand Zhou Ji’s appearance as someone who had come here, if he was in the dark and the little moon in front of him was his only hope, he might really regard her as Gao Lan’s substitute.
Can't help but say, can't refuse.
But now the situation is the exact opposite of the assumption.
Gao Yao has not been blackened, but has become more confident because of the recognition of the restaurant's business and cooking skills. This is a force full of vitality, which can warm oneself and influence others.
Yesterday after Zhou Ji left, the two lonely people depended on each other. Xiaoyue offered to recognize Gao Yao as her elder brother.
After listening to Gao Yao's narration, Zhou Ji showed an expression of astonishment. He froze for a moment, and lightly patted Gao Yao's shoulder. Zhou Ji put down his bowl and chopsticks, and left lightly.
On the other hand, seeing that the plague caused by accidents became more and more serious, Yi Xiaochuan felt more and more guilty. Every day when he passed the side hall, he would see guards carrying corpses out of it. Earth's SOS.
How long ten days is.
Even if he served in front of the temple, he would often think of the purgatory he glimpsed when the gate was closed.
In the past few days, the sound of crying and rushing to the ground has disappeared, and the sound of beating the door has also disappeared. Instead, there is a dead silence.
Dead silence.
Plague in the palace is not a trivial matter. Once it spreads from the Jade Beauty Hall, it will not only endanger the harem, but even His Majesty may be infected.
For this reason, not only Yi Xiaochuan himself, but also the group of imperial doctors kneeling under the stage were anxious.
The imperial doctors wanted to bury their heads in the ground at this time, for fear of being picked up and chopped off in public.
"Speak? Why don't you speak!" Ying Zheng looked at the trembling crowd, and became even more angry, roaring throughout the hall, "If you don't give me a solution to the plague today, I will punish you all!"
As soon as this remark came out, the imperial doctors in the audience shrank into a ball, and one of them knelt down and squirmed forward a few steps, saying in panic, "Your Majesty, although I cannot cure this disease, there is a way to eradicate the plague."
Ying Zheng took a deep look at the other party, walked back to his seat, sat down, "Speak!"
"Your Majesty, this plague started from the side hall where Yumei lived, and the cause of the disease is also here. You only need to burn the side hall and purify the palace to completely eliminate the plague."
The imperial doctors next to him seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and rushed to cater to them, advocating this ancient method of eradicating the plague. The quarrel made Yi Xiaochuan pale, like falling into an ice cave.
Ying Zheng doesn't know what these people are thinking.
Princess Yushu's Pian Ran dance just entered the palace flashed in my mind, and I couldn't help but feel a little regretful. I knew this would happen, and I should have called her to sleep on the night she entered the palace.
Now that the flowers were about to die in the fire before they were picked, Ying Zheng sighed and confirmed, "That's the only way?"
"That's the only way."
Seeing that His Majesty's attitude was shaken, the imperial doctors looked at each other and said in unison.
"In that case, then..." Ying Zheng waved his hand, and was about to order the Jade Beauty Hall to be burned, when a servant from the audience suddenly walked to the front of the hall and shouted, "No, you can't do this!"
"Bold!" Ying Zheng's personal servant's face changed drastically, and he glanced at the ashen-faced Ying Zheng, and said anxiously and angrily, "How can your Majesty allow you to be so presumptuous?"
"Wait a minute." Ying Zheng looked at Yi Xiaochuan, frowned slightly and said, "If I remember correctly, your name is Yi Xiaochuan?"
"Yi Xiaochuan met His Majesty, long live His Majesty, long live, long live, long live~"
Yi Xiaochuan walked out of the stage involuntarily. He felt a little regretful, his brain was running wildly, and knelt down to Ying Zheng with the braid scene he had seen before.
"Long live?"
How can there be such straightforward flattery in this era? Everyone looked at Yi Xiaochuan in amazement. Only Yingzheng himself thought of the restaurant when he heard the phrase "Long live, long live, long live". Zhou Shenxian.
Looking down at Yi Xiaochuan, an inexplicable light flashed in Yingzheng's eyes, and he stabbed at Yi Xiaochuan with murderous intent, "Rushing against the imperial court is a capital crime, if you can't tell me a reason that convinces me, I will never forgive you you."
Yi Xiaochuan broke into a cold sweat, suddenly remembered a person, and said quickly: "God has the virtue of loving life. Burning the palace is too cruel to the living people in the palace. I know a person who may be able to cure the plague and get rid of this epidemic."
When Ying Zheng heard this, a figure of Zhou Ji striding through the air flashed across his mind. Although he still maintained a majestic look on the surface, most of the murderous look in his eyes had dissipated.
"Okay, I will allow you to go out to seek a doctor. If this person can really cure the plague, I will reward you a lot. If he can't cure the plague, I will also take your heads. Do you remember?"
"Xiao Chuan understands."
Watching Yi Xiaochuan withdraw from the main hall, Ying Zheng looked tentative.
‘Zhou Ji, Zhou Ji, are you a **** or not? '
"Miraculous Doctor Cui, Miraculous Doctor Cui, where are you?"
Yi Xiaochuan was panicked in his heart, but he didn't dare to show the slightest timidity on his face. It was not until he left the palace that his straight back slumped, and he ran towards the wine shop where he and Gao Yao found Dr. Cui last time.
Since Doctor Cui left the wound medicine and left, he has never seen this person again, and because of the plague in the Palace of Jade Beauty, the access to the palace is much stricter than before, which made Yi Xiaochuan unable to go out of the palace frequently , came to the restaurant to find him.
"My dear brother?"
Lifting the straw curtain, while Yi Xiaochuan looked inside, he heard a rather familiar voice coming from the corner, and when he looked around, his complexion suddenly became complicated.
"Big brother."
Meeting Yi Xiaochuan in this kind of place, Liu Bang was also quite surprised. Ever since he followed General Mengtian's convoy and returned to Qin with Princess Yushu, he has been hanging around in Xianyang.
Relying on his eloquence, he successfully got into the Juxian Hall of the eldest son Fusu, and while enjoying the treatment as a guest, he won the hearts of the people in the Juxian Hall.
Through intentional or unintentional dissemination, everyone in the hall knew that he used to be the head of the pavilion. In order to protect the name of others, he was willing to lead the "righteousness" of the corvee. Loyalty', for a time, everyone in the Juxian Hall admired him.
Seeing Yi Xiaochuan appearing, Liu Bang panicked, and then got up voluntarily, embraced Yi Xiaochuan with tears in his eyes, choked up and said: "My dear brother, it's really great to see you alive."
Everything originated from the man in front of him. If the other party hadn't tampered with the corvee list, how could he have fallen into this situation today?
Yi Xiaochuan tried his best to persuade himself to be magnanimous, but his physical disability and the suffering he had suffered in the past two years made it difficult for him to swallow this grievance.
But resentment is resentment. Liu Bang is the future Han Gaozu. He wanted to hug and licked his big thick legs all the time. Yi Xiaochuan suppressed the haze in his heart, his eyes changed several times, all kinds of emotions were entangled together, and finally turned into the color of pain , forced a smile, "Brother, why are you here?"
Liu Bang said with emotion: "I was sent to northern Xinjiang to build the Great Wall that day. On the way, I was attacked by the Tu'an tribe. It can be said that I narrowly escaped death."
Liu Bang exaggeratedly told Yi Xiaochuan his experience in the past two years, looked at Yi Xiaochuan, patted his arm and said: "After the elder brother returned to Xianyang, he started to make friends everywhere, and wanted to find a chance to get you from the official slave I was rescued from the camp, and seeing that you are safe now, I can finally let go of my heart that has been hanging for two years."
After finishing speaking, Liu Bang looked at Yi Xiaochuan, looked at his clothes, and said doubtfully: "Your brother's outfit doesn't look like an official slave camp. Could it be that you are out of trouble?"
"Yeah, I'm out of trouble, out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's den." Yi Xiaochuan said with a bit of resentment in his tone, and changed the subject: "Brother is drinking here, have you ever met an old man with a gourd on his waist and gray beard?"
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