jdhmnovel Chapter 139 News
Chapter 139 News
After Li Lanzhen and Xuebao sat down, they drank two bowls of tea brought by the waiter.
After a while, two bowls of noodles were served.
"The noodles are here. Enjoy."
The waiter called out and brought two bowls of noodles and a small plate of pickles.
The pickled vegetables should be made from snow vegetables, they are green in color, and contain fried peanuts, they should look very refreshing.
Li Lanzhen picked up the two pieces of fat meat covering the noodles in her bowl and gave them to Xue Bao.
"Eat more, it's a normal body. One bowl is not enough. Let's eat another bowl."
Xue Bao originally wanted to stop her, but he remembered that when they were in Wangyou Valley, Li Lanzhen also did not eat this kind of white fat meat. If it was lean meat or braised pork, she would eat a little, but she would not eat fat meat at all.
Every time I cook fat, I would pick up the fat from the bowl and give it to the children.
He himself had eaten a piece of fat meat given to him by Li Lanzhen.
I felt very happy at that time, thinking that Li Lanzhen must have treated her as her own child.
So there was no stopping at this time.
He nodded and said, "Aunt Lanzhen, you should eat more too."
Li Lanzhen looked at the table next to her where two people were eating noodles with a side dish. Next to them was a plate with two meat pies that were bigger than a bowl. They were golden brown and exuded a fragrant aroma.
So he said to the waiter, "Waiter, give us two pies."
The child agreed and added more water to their teacups.
Li Lanzhen and Xue Bao ate slowly and listened to the people around them talking.
The two reasons why Li Lanzhen came here to eat were to fill her stomach and to get some information.
One person said, "Prince Rong of Youzhou has ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. I heard that Prince Jin wanted to take Youzhou as his fiefdom, but the emperor refused."
Another person said, "It's a good thing we didn't agree. If we were under King Jin's control, we would have no good life."
Another person said, "Keep your voice down. If there are any spies from King Jin, your head should be moved."
The man said stubbornly, "What are you afraid of? We have a relative in King Jin's fiefdom. He said that within three years of natural disasters and man-made disasters, nine out of ten villages would be deserted.
The people are living in poverty and have left their homes, and almost all of them have fled.”
The first person answered, "I know this. Almost all of them have fled to the fiefdom of King Rong of Youzhou."
The three of them stopped talking about this topic and lowered their heads to eat noodles.
The two people near the door ordered a pot of wine and drank while eating noodles.
They were also talking in a low voice at this time, but Li Lanzhen's ears were very sensitive. Although they were far away from her, she could hear their conversation.
"My dear brother, you have to think carefully. Leaving here and going to the capital city may not bring you any benefits. It is better for you to stay in Youzhou City, where the emperor is far away and continue to do your business."
The person opposite took a sip of wine and ate a bite of side dish.
Then she answered him, "Alas, there is no other way. My parents have already gone to the capital, and I am left alone here. It is very difficult.
Besides, you don’t know that the emperor’s brother-in-law is a ruthless person. I dare not do this business under his nose. "
He spoke in a very low voice, but Li Lanzhen heard it clearly. She thought to herself, how come he is the emperor's brother-in-law again? It seems like this guy is not a good person.
Suddenly, she thought of the two children, Su Chen and Linglong.
If these two children are related to the emperor, she had planned to go back to Wangyou Valley and tell the two children the truth to see what choice they would make.
If they were willing to come to Youzhou City to look for their relatives, she would be ready to send them both to Youzhou City.
It seems that we should not act rashly now and wait and see.
While she was pondering to herself, the two men started talking again.
"Now the emperor's brother-in-law has transformed himself into the uncle of the Su Kingdom, and has intensified his exploitation.
And I heard that he has asked the emperor to give him the management of Youzhou City, and he wants to be the city lord! He doesn't want the emperor to send a governor."
Another person slammed the table and said, "How can this be possible? Youzhou City has always had a prefect. Even when the emperor was here, it was still the prefect who managed it."
"Yes, after the emperor ascended the throne, Uncle Su drove the prefect back to the court. Don't you know about this?"
Li Lanzhen was nervous. "Uncle Su, Su Chen, both have the surname Su. Could it be that Su Chen is the Queen's family's child? Then what about Linglong? Linglong, could it be that? She's a princess?!"
"You don't know yet, Uncle Su is now arrogant and domineering, and he treats Youzhou City as his own territory."
Li Lanzhen looked up and saw another person pouting.
"Humph! Strictly speaking, what kind of uncle is he? The queen also had a miserable life. Her biological mother died early, and the day after her mother's death, her stepmother came into the family. The queen and her brother suffered a lot at the hands of her stepmother.
Fortunately, she met the emperor and married into the Rongwang Mansion, and she lived a good life. "
"That's right, I heard that Uncle Su married into the Queen's family along with his mother.
She usually bullies the Queen and her siblings together with her mother.
Later, by some strange coincidence, the queen married Prince Rong, the current emperor. When life got better, he started wagging his tail like a dog to please the queen.
Another person said, "I think the emperor has a clear mind. Otherwise, why didn't he agree to let him be the lord of Youzhou City?"
Another person said, "I hope the emperor will not listen to his slander and must not hand over Youzhou City to him to manage, otherwise we will live in dire straits."
The conversation between the two people contained so much information that Li Lanzhen felt nervous.
After she traveled here, she fled famine all the way to Forget-Your-Sorrow Valley, where she settled down. Her life gradually became better. Moreover, Forget-Your-Sorrow Valley is very suitable for survival and even more suitable for her retirement.
She didn't want to meet such a bastard.
The two groups of people were eating and chatting, and at this moment they both got up and left.
Li Lanzhen listened to their conversation and when she saw the pies coming up, she picked up another piece and put it in Xue Bao's bowl, motioning him to eat quickly.
Xue Bao was not pretentious, because he knew that Li Lanzhen was not stingy at all when it came to food, especially to the children. She was always afraid that they would not have enough to eat, so she encouraged them to eat more, grow taller, and grow up quickly.
So you can eat it with a crunchy sound and your mouth will be filled with oil.
Li Lanzhen broke off half a piece of the pie and took a bite. The outside was brown and crispy, and the inside was minced pork mixed with green onions. The meat and green onion flavors were very rich. It was so delicious that she felt like she was full.
The remaining half was put into Xue Bao's bowl.
"We've eaten, let's go home after we finish eating."
Xue Bao looked up at the people in the noodle shop, nodded, said nothing, and ate half a pie in a few gulps.
The two men wiped their mouths, drank half a bowl of tea, then picked up their backpacks and prepared to go out.
After leaving the noodle shop, Li Lanzhen looked along the street and found the mark she had left in the corner of a pub.
The number is still there, with nothing next to it, except for some footprints and water drop marks.
Li Lanzhen was a little disappointed. Up to now, there was no news about Mingxiang or the other person.