A large family gathered around a small Eight Immortals table, each holding a small ceramic bowl in one hand and holding chopsticks in the other, bustling with excitement.

Not far away, the apricot trees were covered with red cloth strips. Peace, joy, health, and longevity were gently swaying in the breeze.

"Is this the Eight Immortals crossing the sea?"

"right!"

"I have never seen the ingredients here before," She Dengke looked at Chen Ji: "Chen Ji, why don't you eat it? Don't let Liu Quxing finish it by himself."

Liu Quxing rolled his eyes: "Didn't you eat? Why do you say I ate it alone?"

Chen Ji smiled and explained: "I can't get used to the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, so I'd better eat something else."

Liu Quxing curled his lips and said, "I'm not lucky. The ingredients for the Eight Immortals crossing the sea are brought back from the sea by Caobang. Yingxian Tower may not be able to buy new ingredients every day. If you want to eat it, it depends on your luck."

Chen Ji smiled and did not refute.

The so-called Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea is a dish made of shark's fin, sea cucumber, abalone, fish bones, fish maw, shrimp, asparagus and ham.

For people in Los Angeles in this era, these ingredients may not be seen once in a lifetime, but Chen Ji has already eaten a lot, so he only put a small bowl on the table and let others try the rest.

Liu Quxing suddenly asked: "Hey, what do you think the sea looks like?"

Bai Li raised his hand: "I know, my dad said that the sea is boundless, the water in the sea is all blue, and there will be particularly beautiful shells and starfish on the shore that are pushed to the beach by the waves. The big boatmen along the coast will also go out to hunt whales.

, it is said that the big fish called whale can be as big as a building."

Liu Quxing's eyes widened: "You're bragging, can a fish grow that big?"

Bai Li was unhappy: "Who is bragging? That's what my father said!"

Liang Gouer held the Shaoxing Huadiao wine jar and asked, "Has the prince been to the seaside?"

Bai Li hesitated: "...No, but I have a fleet going to sea in Ningchao. They have seen it."

The prince suggested excitedly: "How about we make an agreement to go to the beach together in the future? I heard that it only takes three months to reach the coast by car. Then we will find a boatman to buy a boat and we will go to sea.

When fishing, you can cook the Eight Immortals and eat them across the sea directly on the boat!”

Everyone looked at each other, their eyes getting brighter and brighter

She Dengke couldn't help but ask: "Can we really go to the beach?"

Old Man Yao put down his chopsticks and said slowly: "What's so difficult about seeing the sea? You went and smashed the plaque on the Luocheng government office today. After you are sent to Lingnan next month, you can see the sea every day."

Prince: "..."

Bai Li: "..."

Chen Ji sighed: "Master, you know how to destroy the atmosphere."

The prince changed the topic and looked at Chen Ji curiously: "By the way, Chen Ji, where did you go yesterday when you stayed up all night? If you have any difficulties, you must tell us. Friends will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

The traces of silence.

Everyone knew that he did not want to return to the Chen Mansion. He was an apprentice in a small medical clinic and had nowhere to go. He really could not explain his whereabouts.

He couldn't tell the prince that he was actually the most hated eunuch of the other party; he couldn't tell everyone that he actually went to clear the prince and the princess of suspicion last night.

There is no real secret in this world. The secrets you tell others will always be leaked out unknowingly.

In silence.

Liu Quxing muttered in a low voice: "Don't go gambling again. I see that his eyes are all red. He must have not slept all night."

She Dengke stepped on his instep under the table, and Liu Quxing raised his voice: "Why are you stepping on me? I just said it casually. I believe Chen Ji is not that kind of person!"

At this time, Bai Li remembered the mystery of Chen Ji and immediately said: "Okay, don't ask. Everyone has their own secrets. If he needs help, he will definitely tell us. Maybe Chen Ji has a girl he likes.

I just got the promise of dividends yesterday, why should I tell the other party the good news? Chen Ji, right?"

When Liu Quxing heard the gossip, he immediately became energetic: "Is it true?"

Chen Ji smiled and explained: "I face patients every day in the medical clinic, so there is no girl I like."

Liu Quxing asked: "Has your family arranged a marriage for you?"

Chen Ji also shook his head: "I've never heard of it."

Liu Quxing said happily: "I have."

She Dengke was helpless: "Who asked you?!"

Liu Quxing thought to himself and said: "My mother has arranged a marriage for me. The other party's father is a scholar and is now in charge of litigation in the government office. The two parties are well matched. The two families have agreed that when I become an imperial physician and enter the rank,

We need to go to the church and get married... from the ninth rank."

While talking, his eyes kept drifting towards Old Man Yao.

Old Man Yao glanced at him: "How about me?"

Liu Quxing hurriedly said: "No, no."

At this time, a meow was heard and a cat meowed from the eaves.

Chen Ji looked up and saw the dark cloud jumping off the eaves of course and jumping into... Old Man Yao's arms.

Old Man Yao picked up the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea in his bowl and brought it to Wu Yun's mouth: "Eat it."

Liu Quxing was startled: "Master, would you feed such an expensive dish to a cat?"

Old Yao glanced at him sideways: "He is much more valuable than you."

After saying that, Old Man Yao turned to look at Liang Gouer again: "We made an agreement at the beginning. You can stay at my place, but the condition is that you have to teach my apprentice the sword skills. Let's get started. Don't be lazy."

Liang Gou'er put down the wine jar without being satisfied: "It's done! The prince, Liu Quxing, and She Dengke will all come over to practice swordsmanship!"

Chen Ji watched the prince and others getting up in the courtyard, but Liang Gou'er pulled Liang Mao'er to one side and whispered, "The dark clouds didn't even eat the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, so they squatted on Liang Mao'er's shoulders obediently, standing upright.

ear.

He looked at Wu Yun and then at Old Man Yao, and suddenly he had a very absurd guess: The master was helping Wu Yun secretly learn the Liang family's sword skills?!

"Master, this is..."

Old Man Yao looked at him: "Go to sleep. You don't have to worry about Wuyun. You can come back alive every day."

"oh."

Old Man Yao sneered: "You hide your head in your waistband every day, and I don't know what you are trying to do."

"Master, you said that life can be changed."

"Um?"

"I want to try."

…

…

It's quiet at night.

Chen Ji broke away from his dream and panted slightly.

Liang Gou'er's snoring could be heard in his ears, and the room was filled with the smell of alcohol breathed out by the other party. It was so strong that you would get drunk just by smelling it. If possible, just like Liang Gou'er, act carefree and careless.

Lung's wandering is also very good.

Chen Ji looked at the room full of sleeping people, smiled silently, climbed up from the bed lightly, went to the apricot tree and looked at the red cloth strips all over the tree, and suddenly fell into a trance.

Dong-dong-dong, there was a gentle knock on the door, but Chen Yi ignored it.

It wasn't until the knocking on the door became more urgent that he glanced at the two red cloths at the top of the apricot tree again, turned around and walked to the main hall: "Who?"

The golden pig said: "It's me, open the door."

Chen Ji unlatched the door latch, opened the two wooden doors, and allowed Jinzhu to get in sideways: "Is there anything to gain, Mr. Jinzhu?"

I saw the golden pig wearing a bamboo hat and straw sandals, pretending to be a tenant, and said solemnly: "I got nothing."

"Oh?" Chen Ji asked curiously: "Is there no movement in the Liu family?"

Jin Zhu frowned: "Today, the old secret agents transferred from the capital have also arrived. I ordered them to take care of the craftsman's supervision warehouse and the document warehouse respectively."

"Then what?"

In the main hall of the hospital, there was only a kerosene lamp swaying on the counter.

In the weak firelight, Jinzhu looked straight at Chen Ji: "I can guarantee that no one broke into the craftsman's prison today, and no one took anything related to firearms from the craftsman's prison. There was someone buying it in Dongshi.

Saltpeter and sulfur, but after careful inspection, there is nothing wrong with them... You don't seem to find it strange?"

Chen Ji calmly replied: "Sir, I don't have to write all my emotions on my face."

The golden pig circled around the traces twice: "Are you pretending to cooperate with me in acting, but in fact, you are secretly informing the Liu family?"

Chen Ji said doubtfully: "Sir, overthrowing the Liu family is the most important thing now. Seeing that we are almost successful, why should we be suspicious of each other? After you overthrow the Liu family, it won't be too late to be suspicious of me again, and I can't run away."

The look on the Golden Pig's face as he looked at Chen Ji didn't seem to be fake.

Today he waited from morning until dusk, and then from dusk until late at night, watching his hopes fail little by little, and finally turned into anger.

Last night, he almost thought that he was only one step away from overthrowing the Liu family, but today he felt that that step away had turned into a chasm again.
To be continued...