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18. Eat bamboo raccoon by the stream

Another new year is coming, and the season for spring is here.

Although Gao Yue had lost the houses of seventy-three situations before, the people were always forgetful. Now the tax filing of land and commerce is clear, everyone knows their burdens, and soon everyone feels it is convenient. Public opinion believes that it is natural for Da Yin to do this.

Xingyuan Mansion is now more prosperous, and tours are even more common around Qingming Festival. Hanyin Street and Caoshi in the north and west of the city are crowded with tourists and umbrellas are covered with clouds. Many big families have also begun to prepare for dragon boat racing competitions for the Dragon Boat Festival: all Kufang Guilds sponsor dragon boat teams, and the font size of their own products is inserted at the head of the boat, and they are still eager to win!

At the ferry near the Dazhu River, the weeping willows are green and bright, which is a good time and place to play. Yun Shao smiled and tied a swing on the willow trees, pushing Jing'er, Da'er and Wei Ru's three children, playing. Acuo was drawing water by the stream, preparing to cook a picnic. Because the cold food had just passed, he had to prepare some hot ones.

Wu Cailuan, who lives in Xingyuan Mansion, sat on the grass, playing backgammon face to face with Gao Yue, and said "Lu Lu Lu Lu" endlessly.

In the past few months, although he left the center of the government again, Gao Yue rarely spent Duan Shu's leisure time. He had a cuju with his wives, concubines and children, played with kites, flew leaves, made grain boards and potted plants, and sometimes he sang and sang with his colleagues from the military prefectures and prefectures to show the peaceful years: the law of the classics was in Xingyuan, and Fengxiang was also the result of the completion of the work. The anvil base book had been painted, and in the prefectures, the county government and households prepared a copy in each county's office, but Gao Yue slightly violated his previous promise: because he and Dou Shen were incompatible, he did not send the book to the Ministry of Revenue.

Dou Shen sent someone to ask for it before, but Gao Yue just refused, and the relationship between the two became more rigid.

At this time, a car decorated with colorful silk slowly came along the road full of willows. Then the curtain was opened, Yunhe walked down with a smile, carrying a small bamboo cage in his hand, and the cage was covered with a red cloth towel.

As soon as I saw my aunt, I was particularly happy and stopped swinging. I clapped my hands to greet me and asked me what new things I brought to me this time.

Gao Yue seemed to have had a tacit understanding with Yunhe for a long time, so he pointed to the bamboo cage and said to his wife and Jing'er, this is the interesting thing I said to A Ni before.

Yun Shao smiled and said, "Don't rush to peel off the cloth scarf and let me guess what's inside."

There was only a creaking sound in the bamboo cage, "It seemed like the cry of a child..." Yun Shao frowned his black eyebrows and said curiously.

"Is there a child inside?" Jing'er shouted in surprise.

After hearing what his son said, Yun Shao's body suddenly shook and a cloud of mist floated on his head:

In the Lujiaozhuang Zhai Hall, Gao Yue stood behind the curtain with a nervous expression, held his sister Yunhe's shoulders with both hands, and whispered, "You must not talk to A Ni about this."

Yunhe asked nervously, what was his brother-in-law doing?

At this time, Gao Yue lowered his head, feeling very distressed and said that the post station brought me this from Chang'an City. After saying that, he picked up a bamboo cage covered with red cloth towels.

"Brother-in-law, what is this?"

Gao Yue said to Yunhe, don’t be surprised when you see anything, and immediately show A Ni directly during the Qingming Festival, and she had to accept it.

After saying that, Gao Yue brushed it and pulled off the cloth scarf from the bamboo cage. Yun He yelled, and saw a pink baby in the bamboo cage, smiling quackly, crawling around.

"That's right, Yunhe, this was born from my affair with Princess Lingxu."

"Sister, what are you thinking about again?" Yun He stretched out the fan and patted Yun Shao's fantasy.

"Not Qingqing...isn't it a child inside?" Yun Shao came to his senses.

Gao Yue was so amused that he really opened the cloth scarf.

"Wow, what is this? Is it a mouse?" Jing'er exclaimed.

"It looks like a raccoon cat, but it's smaller than a raccoon cat." At this time, Yun Shao also looked at the guy who was spinning around in the bamboo cage.

"Look at its teeth, they are so long." Acuo also came over, and this animal was something she had never seen.

"Can you eat it?" Wu Cailuan scratched the bun and looked at the fat little guy in the bamboo cage.

Qi Bao even grinned, especially when he realized that this guy was even more cute and even more cute than him, he suddenly felt jealous and ran around Cailuan's feet and barked endlessly.

Gao Yue said nothing and gave Yunhe a wink. Yunhe said proudly that this was offered by a merchant from Nanzhao when his father stepped down from Tanzhou. He was right, it was called Zhuma; but his sister was right, it was also called Zhumacai.

After saying that, Yunhe boldly opened the bamboo cage in the exclamation of others, grabbed the tail of the guy who was bigger than a mouse but smaller than a cat, and lifted it up heavily. The guy's eyes were like black beans, his belly was round, his limbs and claws were short, and when he struggled, he looked short and shiny and smooth.

"It also has an other name, called 'I have oil'." Gao Yue introduced instead of Yunhe.

As soon as the words were finished, the bamboo rat started to scream, revealing its bright yellow teeth. It was not homophonic with "I have oil" or "I have oil", which made everyone laugh.

"As long as you press it with a wooden board and take out the oil on it, it will never dare to scream again." Yunhe also smiled.

Gao Yue looked at it and thought to himself that bamboo rats, bamboo rats, you can't be too arrogant even when you are a rat. He shouted that I had oil all day long, but someone took oil. For example, the pair of Dou's uncle and nephew in the court...

"Can you eat it?" Wu Cailuan looked at the chubby bamboo rat with greed and asked a second calm question.

"Master, this bamboo raccoon is so cute, how can you bear to eat it?" Yun Shao regretted it very much and disagreed.

In the soil stove dug by the stream, the barbed wire for grilling fish was lying across it. Below was a rising fire, mixed with stones and charcoal. The limbs of the stripped bamboo rats were stretched out and skewed with bamboo sticks, making them look like they were eager to fly. They were roasted into crispy yellow and dripped downwards. Acuo sprinkled pepper, cinnamon, orange peel, ginger, and garlic paste on the net, and soon the strange fragrance overflowed.

"The meat tastes very tender." After baking and splitting, Yun Shao ate two bites and praised it.

Wu Cailuan whined and expressed her agreement.

Several children also enjoyed eating.

Yunhe said that there were several other ones sent to Yangzhou farms and they like to eat mirin grass and bamboo. There are so many in Yangzhou.

At this moment, several servants surrounded Kunlun slaves with disheveled hair and black all over their bodies, and ran over.

"It was Wei Tuotian who returned from Fujian!" In the past few months, Wei Tuotian finally completed the mission of meeting the emperor's uncle, Wu Cou, the Fujian Observer, and returned to Xingyuan Mansion.

"Have the letter been sent?"

Wei Tuotian knelt in front of his master, took the bamboo rat meat sent by his master, and nodded.

"What's the news in the capital?"

"I heard that when the Holy Lord was in the suburbs, he had already said that Dangxiang of the six palaces had destroyed and plundered the mountain tombs (the Dingling Mausoleum of Emperor Zhongzong). Every time I think of it, I feel great shame, so I have to dispatch the army to suppress the army to avenge my grudges."

"The edict of the Holy Lord to ask Qingqing to send his army is coming." Yun Shao was extremely concerned.
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