The vegetarian banquet at Zhangtai Temple lives up to its reputation. After Yan Hae tasted it, he felt that the 1,000 taels of golden flowers were quite worth it. The taste was really delicious. If it weren't for the vegetarian food before, she would have thought it was made of real ingredients.

It’s just that vegetarian food is vegetarian food, which makes the taste of meat dishes. What does this mean?

Yan Huo curled his lips and muttered in a low voice: "On the surface, he said he was vegetarian, but in fact he was not a heavy desire to speak. No wonder he couldn't really become a Buddha, a group of lay monks."

Fu Zhixing laughed, but Zhiyan Huo still couldn't bear the 1,000 taels of gold.

After the banquet, Tang Zhi smacked his lips, "If you want to eat it again, you have to wait a year later." He still doesn't know if he can leave Beijing again a year later. Alas, after thinking about it, he feels sad.

It's useless to be sad. Fu Zhixing couldn't give him Lu Yin and Prince Gong's golden seal to him, so he could only follow Fu Zhixing and Yan Huo obediently. Of course, Tang Zhi would not be a follower honestly. When Fu Zhixing talked to others about political affairs, he instigated Yan Huo to go shopping. There were quite a lot of snacks in Jingzhou.

That afternoon, Tang Zhi dragged Yan Huo, who had fallen asleep, out of the inn, "Xiaoxiao, believe me, that sour plum soup is so delicious."

"No matter how delicious it is, it is not just a bowl of sour plum soup. The weather is so hot and the sun is so strong that it makes people dizzy. I don't want to go." Yan Huo raised his hand and put it between Mei.

"I'll help you hold an umbrella." Tang Zhi said attentively.

Yan Huo had no choice but to accompany him to drink the bowl of sour plum soup that was more delicious than nectar and jade liquid in his mouth.

The stall selling sour plum soup is placed next to a pavilion. There are wooden tables and chairs in the pavilion for pedestrians to rest and sit down. In addition to selling sour plum soup, there are also fish cakes, buns, noodles, steamed cakes, and gadgets beside the pavilion... This is a market.

Tang Zhi and Yan Huo entered the pavilion and sat down. Tang Zhi ordered his followers, "Go and buy eight bowls of plum soup and ask for four more tea fruits."

Yan Hu asked in confusion: "What are you doing for so many bowls of sour plum soup? There are only five of us in total."

"It's so delicious, a bowl is not enough." Tang Zhi smiled flatteringly.

"You have drunk so many bowls of sour plum soup and have your teeth sore. You won't eat at night, right?" Yan Huo glared at him, "Just buy five bowls of sour plum soup, and tea fruits are just two."

"Xiaoxiao, let me drink one more bowl." Tang Zhi stretched out a finger.

"Hare, don't drink a bowl." Yan Huo was straightforward and neat.

Tang Zhi became honest. His followers followed Yan Hu's words and went to the stall selling sour plum soup. "Old man, come five bowls of sour plum soup, a plate of candied dates, and a plate of pumpkin seeds."

"Okay." The stall owner looked at the pavilion, took off the thin-handled bamboo ladle, scooped a spoonful of osmanthus nectar from the celadon and poured it into the bowl. Then he changed to another thin-handled bamboo ladle, scooped sour plum soup from the large jar, poured it into the bowl, then put it in the water, put it on the tray, took a small plate, filled it with candied dates and pumpkin seeds, and brought it into the pavilion.

"This bowl is from the young master, this bowl is from the wife, this bowl is from the young lady, these two bowls are from the two guys." The stall owner put the sour plum soup in front of everyone one by one.

"Old man, is there any difference in this sour plum soup?" Yan Huo asked curiously.

The stall owner smiled and said, "There is no difference between sour plum soup, but these three bowls are filled with cool well water, and these two bowls are filled with cool boiled water. The young master and servant are young and have a strong temper. Drinking sour plum soup is suitable for drinking sour plum soup. However, for women and children, on hot days, a bowl of cool sour plum soup will hurt the spleen and stomach."

"The stall owner was really considerate, no wonder the business was so prosperous." Yan Huo praised with a smile.

"It's all the neighbors who support me." The stall owner smiled modestly, "Madam, use it slowly." He left the pavilion.

Tang Zhi and Yan Hu were in the pavilion, while leisurely savoring sour plum soup, eating tea fruits, and looking at the fishing boats coming and going on the river. A breeze blew by, bringing a hint of coolness. Just when I was in a state of comfort, a few more scholarly guests came to the stall of sour plum soup.

Seeing that there were female relatives in the pavilion, they did not enter the pavilion, so they sat down at the small table beside the stall, ordered sour plum soup and tea fruit, and started chatting while drinking, "Are you planning to go to the lake tourism poetry party tomorrow, can you do this?"

"I'm going to go, I've received a post from the poetry meeting."

"I am not as good as you in poetry, so I won't go."

"Brother Li Xian is too humble. Let's go together, and there are so many people." said the scholar who spoke first.

"I don't go either. I don't want to see Cao Wentao's face that is crazy when he is successful."

"Brother Wu, if you don't go, then Cao Wentao would think you are afraid of him, wouldn't it make him even more rampant?"

"I heard that the Superintendent will also attend. This is the opportunity for us to show our performance. We must go there and we must not let anyone with the surname Cao show off."

"I wonder if the imperial envoy will spend time to attend?" Li Shusheng took a sip of sour plum soup.

"The imperial envoy is also in our Jingzhou?" several other scholars asked in unison.

"I just live at the inn, and I listened to what my brother-in-law said." Li Shusheng smiled.

Li Shusheng's brother-in-law is a psychic in Jingzhou City, so the news is naturally credible.

"It doesn't matter whether the imperial envoy attends or not. What's important is that the supervisor will attend. It's better for us to attend the poetry meeting. If a villain surnamed Cao sows discord in front of the adults, wouldn't we suffer a secret loss?"

After discussing, the scholars decided to go to a poetry meeting tomorrow and prevent the scholar named Cao Wentao from being beautiful. After eating sour plum soup, they felt a little sweat on their bodies, so they stood up and left.

"Xiaoxiao, can we also attend the poetry meeting tomorrow?" Tang Zhi became interested.

"Can you write poetry?" Yan Huo glanced at him sideways.

"No, I'll join in the fun." Tang Zhi said with confidence.

"I can't go without an invitation. This is not Zhangtai Temple. I can donate money for incense and oil." Yan Huo stood up, "I've finished drinking the sour plum soup. Don't take up the seat. Let's go back to the inn."

"We can ask Cousin Fu to take us there, he is the imperial envoy." Tang Zhi laughed.

"Husband is very busy." Yan Huo said with a round fan.

"You can take a break from your busy schedule." Tang Zhi said in anticipation.

"What's fun about poetry? Let's go eat eight big bowls tomorrow." Yan Huo was really not very interested in that poetry.

Tang Zhi's eyes lit up, "Okay, okay." It is more important to eat poetry or something.

While the two were eating and drinking leisurely, Fu Zhixing changed his leisure and idleness a few days ago, and ordered people to check all the accounts and dig out the 50,000 taels of silver in the private house of the Tongzhi.

Fu Zhi acted very quickly and was unable to cover up his ears. Then he began to make drastic moves to rectify all the officials in Jingzhou City and wipe out the surrounding water bandits. Those officials who did not act should be fined, those who should be demoted, and those who should be promoted should be promoted.

The straightforward and unrestrained magistrate was promoted to Tongzhi, but with his personality, this official ended up being Tongzhi.

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Chapter completed!