Chapter 101 Congeniality
After all, it was the first time they met, and it was a taboo in making friends to talk briefly and deeply. With the current relationship between the two, chatting about forbidden books was a bit too deep. Lu Kun avoided the topic and decided to talk about it next time.
"Brother Huang came to Zhaoyang to visit relatives or find friends. Don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to pry, I just wanted to see if there was anyone I could help."
Lu Kun said it politely, Huang Feng smiled and said, "I'm just looking for friends, and I came here for the delicious food."
"Brother Huang, please stay a little longer. In half a year, Zhaoyang will hold a cooking competition. Now that the world's famous chefs are gathering in the capital, you may have the opportunity to feast your eyes on it!"
"Half a year..." Huang Feng calculated, "I should be able to catch up."
"That's great." Lu Kun said bluntly, "I think Huang Feng can handle that scoundrel with ease. He should be a monk. I wonder which sect he comes from?"
"The unknown little sect is not worth mentioning!" Huang Feng said and specifically added, "I'm really not being modest."
Lu Kun was stunned for a moment: "Brother Huang seems to have some resentment."
"Don't mention it!" Huang Feng shook his head. His master and his sect left him and ran away. How could he not complain?
Huang Feng didn't say anything, and Lu Kun didn't ask much. He just thought about it for a while and suddenly slapped his hand on the table: "I remembered!"
"Um?"
Lu Kun was a little excited: "I told you why I always feel that Brother Huang's name sounds familiar. Brother Huang came to Zhaoyang to look for a friend. Could it be that he found Princess Changning?"
"Have you heard of me?"
Lu Kun explained: "I am disrespectful. Princess Changning was attacked after defeating the talented monks of her generation at Cangyun Mountain. This incident was widely circulated in Zhaoyang a while ago. I am not a monk, but I have heard many comments, including Speaking of Brother Huang, I just didn’t think of it.”
"well……"
Seeing that Huang Feng was depressed, Lu Kun was puzzled: "Why did Brother Huang sigh?"
"You don't understand. I like to keep a low profile. Being famous bothers me."
"..." Lu Kun thought of Huang Feng's past actions of picking off rogues in the outer city, and really didn't think he liked to keep a low profile.
Knowing that Huang Feng and Li Motang were familiar with each other, Lu Kun no longer limited his conversation to the customs and customs of Zhaoyang, and returned to the matter of millet seeds.
"If I remember correctly, Brother Huang also solved a strange case in a restaurant in Cangzhou?"
Huang Feng was surprised: "You even know this?"
Lu Kun nodded: "The attack on Princess Changning is no small matter. What she did in Cangzhou during that time and who she met, naturally many people want to know.
I didn't remember Brother Huang's name before, so I didn't contact him.
I think Brother Huang is very thoughtful. Can you help me analyze and analyze who did what happened today? "
Huang Feng shook his head: "I don't know anything about the princes and nobles of the capital, and I don't know how to help you analyze it."
"I can elaborate with you."
Huang Feng declined politely: "No, I have saved Brother Lu a big trouble. How about Brother Lu saving it for me too?"
Lu Kun heard that he didn't want to cause trouble and nodded: "I'm just being rude. Brother Huang, don't mind."
Huang Feng discovered that after Lu Kun learned that he and Li Motang knew each other, he subconsciously broke the communication boundaries between the two of them. This made him curious: "What is your relationship with Li Motang?"
Hearing Huang Feng call Li Motang by his first name, Lu Kun was still a little uncomfortable and explained: "My mother and Princess Changning's mother, Concubine Concubine, have been acquaintances since they were children."
"Then you and Li Motang are childhood sweethearts?" Huang Feng was surprised. His first reaction was that although this woman has not yet entered his bowl, she cannot enter other people's pot!
"No, no!" Lu Kun quickly explained, "I only met the princess once when I was a child, but I often saw the princess."
Seeing that Huang Feng was even more surprised, Lu Kun didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Brother Huang, don't get me wrong. It seems that Princess Changning has never told you that Concubine Concubine is the only concubine who can freely enter and leave the palace. She comes to my house every year to catch up with my mother. I My mother would occasionally visit the palace.
So knowing that you and Princess Changning know each other gives me a sense of closeness and trust. "
"You didn't lie to me?"
"How could that happen? Brother Huang can ask the princess for confirmation."
Huang Feng nodded: "In that case, I can help you analyze it."
"Seriously?" Lu Kun was very happy.
Huang Feng nodded: "Well, first let's talk about that bag of millet seeds. How much can it sell for?"
Lu Kun calculated in his mind for a while and said, "That bag alone is worth more than three thousand taels of silver. Ah, I understand what Brother Huang means."
Huang Feng: "I haven't said anything yet."
Lu Kun said with a smile: "Once I am investigated in the inner city, the ground rice seeds found will be turned over as evidence.
Millet seeds are scarce and are now banned. Not many people are willing to throw away such a large sum of money if they can get so many millet seeds at once.
To frame me even at the expense of such a large sum of money, he either has a long-standing grudge against me or my father and is using it as an excuse, or he is deeply involved in the interests of Mihuazi.
Although it is a forbidden item, if my father is removed because of this matter, and these people continue to sell it secretly, others will have to think carefully if they want to take care of it.
Brother Huang wants to remind me of this, right? "
"It's such a pleasure to talk to you." Huang Feng sighed, "It's a sharp contrast to Xiao Nuan."
"Xiao Nuan?" Lu Kun was stunned, "You mean... the maid next to Princess Changning?"
"Yes!"
"..." Lu Kun was speechless, "Brother Huang, I was nominated for the gold medal at the age of eighteen, and I was ranked second in high school, okay!"
Huang Feng was a little curious: "I see that you don't have any official position."
Lu Kun explained: "This is not a secret in Zhaoyang. I took the imperial examination not to become an official, but to prove to my family that I am not a waste.
But I don’t have great ambitions, nor do I have the ambition to rise to the top, nor do I have the concern for the country and the people.
People like me who have no spiritual roots will turn into a handful of loess in a few decades. Even if I am lucky enough to get a monk's elixir or other heavenly and earthly treasures to extend my life, it will only extend my life by a hundred years.
Life is so short, it is better to live carefree and happily.
Anyway, my eldest brother and my third brother are both as talented as me, and they are enough to shine on our family, just like me. "
Huang Feng said solemnly: "I finally discovered why I fell in love with you."
"Why?"
Brother Huang raised his glass: "Because I am such a person too!"
Lu Kun's eyes lit up, and he quickly raised his glass and touched it with him. The crisp sound of the small wine cups touching each other was so refreshing.
A close friend!
Soon the atmosphere of chatting became more lively.
"You never thought that your eldest brother and third brother were thinking the same way, but you got the better of them. They are scolding you every day in their hearts."
"I really thought about it, but my eldest brother is really not that kind of person. He has been very serious since he was a child, and his personality is nothing like mine. Sometimes I wonder if we are born from the same mother. I used to I asked my parents.”
Huang Feng lowered his head and looked under the table.
Lu Kun was curious: "Brother Huang, what are you looking at?"
"I'm very curious. If you ask this question, why are your legs and feet still so nimble? Your father didn't break your legs?"
"Almost, almost."
"What about your third brother?"
"My third brother is born with spiritual roots and is very talented. He is better than me...better than me." Lu Kun unknowingly drank a little too much and his mouth started to wander.