This seafood noodle dish was a type of cold noodles. The chewy noodles were soaked in a sauce made from seafood broth, and the surface was covered with cooked and sliced shrimp meat. A layer of sesame oil was drizzled over it, and it looked, smelled, and tasted great. Originally, the cold noodles would taste even better with ice chips, but considering that it was already autumn, Su Yu was afraid that the emperor would get a stomachache, so he soaked the noodles in the hot spring. The temperature was just right.
His Majesty expressionlessly took the jade bowl and squatted down beside Su Yu. However, he refused the hot spring egg because it was "boiled in the bath water."
Su Yu cracked open the half-cooked egg and mixed it into the noodles. If it was in his previous life, he wouldn't dare to eat it like this. Half-cooked eggs still had a strong fishy smell, but this was ancient times without pollution. The taste of the eggs here was very pure, and it wouldn't be a problem even if he ate it raw.
An Hong-chul looked at Su Yu's noodles with egg in disgust. He quickly finished the noodles in his bowl, for fear that Su Yu would mix the egg into his noodles.
Su Yu blinked. Was it that scary?
His Majesty ignored him, took off his shoes and socks, and dipped his feet into the hot spring. As soon as the hot water touched the soles of his feet, he immediately retracted his feet, shook them quickly, and then tentatively dipped his feet into the hot spring again.
Su Yu looked at his feet that were soaked in the hot spring, and then looked at the eggs that didn't look very good after being mixed. He silently put the bowl in his hand to the side and scooped up another bowl.
"This bowl is really interesting. Does Prince Jing like to eat in the hot spring?" Su Yu ate the noodles while studying the bowl in his hand. He found these in the tea room. Each bowl was very small and could probably hold a chopstick of noodles. It was carved from a kind of light and thin white jade and had two bowls. The middle of the bowls was empty, and they could float in the water.
Su Yu expected Prince Jing to be a person who knew how to enjoy life. Soaking in the hot spring and letting the maids put delicious food in the bowls and let it slowly float to his hand, it was truly a celestial life.
An Hong-chul looked at the seven or eight white jade cups floating in the hot spring. He raised his hand and picked one up, "This is a teacup."
"Cough, cough, cough …" Su Yu choked.
"However, this is a good idea." His Majesty turned the small bowl in his hand. "Take this with you when you leave tomorrow." In the future, when he bathed in the North Pole Palace, he could lie on the white jade bed and wait for the stupid slave to put the crab stick and small fish cake in the bowl and float over.
Su Yu was speechless. Wouldn't plundering the prince's property so casually incite a rebellion?
"From today onwards, you are not allowed to leave zhen's side for even half a step." After the emperor finished five bowls of noodles, he washed his hands in the hot spring and suddenly opened his mouth.
Those assassins had not received the order to kill Su Yu, but to capture him alive. From the very beginning, when Mr. Yuan bought the farm, these people had been lying in ambush there, waiting for the day when Su Yu went there, they would immediately capture him and send him to the prepared hiding place.
The matter of the alien planet had probably already been known by some people, but he didn't know what that person wanted to do by capturing Su Yu.
"Then, when Your Majesty goes to the toilet, do I have to go with you?" Su Yu was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up. In the past, when Sauce went to the toilet, she didn't allow him to follow her, so he never had to use the cat litter made of high-quality pearl powder.
An Hong-chul slowly turned his head and silently looked at him.
"Haha, haha, I'm just kidding." Su Yu laughed dryly and stood up, "It's getting late, let's go inside and sleep."
This stupid slave, he's crazy about zhen … Wait, the stupid slave wants to go to the toilet with zhen. Could it be that he wants to see zhen … Oh, so that's what the stupid slave wants. As a good master, zhen will definitely satisfy him … Damn it, I didn't bring any cosmetics when I went out today …
The emperor's ears were red, and the expression on his face changed several times. In the end, it settled on annoyance. He coldly snorted, raised his head to glare at Su Yu, and extended his hands towards him.
The loyal cat slave immediately knelt down and let the emperor wrap his arms around his neck. A white light flashed, and the golden cat hooked onto the emperor's clothes. It shook its wet hind paws, jumped onto the emperor's shoulder, and left a trail of paw prints.
Su Yu didn't mind at all. He pulled up his sleeve to wipe the cat's hind paws, and happily carried Furball back to the room to sleep. When he left, he didn't forget to take the set of white jade cups with him.
Early the next morning, His Majesty got up with an unhappy face and decided to exile the capital's magistrate three thousand li.
Su Yu saw that the cat was unhappy, so he suggested going to the morning market.
The eastern suburbs were very close to the sea, and there was a fish market in the morning. It was the place where Su Yu used to buy his fish every day. Yesterday, he had brought the donkey back. Thinking of the days when he and the cat relied on each other to sell skewers, he couldn't help but miss it. Since he couldn't make it in time for the morning court, he might as well go to the morning market and see if there were any fresh ingredients.
After all, some seafood that wasn't expensive was actually very delicious, and the palace basically wouldn't buy these unfashionable things.
Hearing this, His Majesty's expression eased a lot. He immediately had someone send the assassin to the Valiant Cavalry Battalion and hand him over to Prince Su to continue investigating the person behind the scenes. He and Su Yu went to the morning market in high spirits.
Although the capital was said to be near the sea, it was actually located in the central plains. It was just a very long and narrow bay split by the East Sea that went straight inland. At the end of the bay was the capital. Therefore, the sea outside the capital looked more like a big river. The surface of the sea wasn't as wide as the real East Sea, and there weren't as many types of fish as there were in the East Sea, but it was better than nothing.
In fact, whether it was the art of war or fengshui, the capital shouldn't be located in such a place. The capital of the previous dynasty wasn't here, but in the central plains to the north. After the An family gained the world, they originally wanted to set the capital on the East Sea. After being strongly opposed by the ministers, they settled for the second best and set the capital in the current capital.
As for the reason, Su Yu didn't understand before, but now he completely understood.
The morning market was on the rocky beach near the docks. Fresh fish, shrimp, and sea crabs were placed casually. Fishermen and hawkers were loudly bargaining. People came and went. It was very lively.
For the first time, His Majesty the Emperor turned into a human and followed Su Yu to the fish market. It was very different from when he was nestled in Su Yu's lapel. It made him feel very novel, and he wanted to see what was going on. Su Yu could only hold his hand tightly to prevent this curious cat from getting lost.
"Jumping fish, jumping fish!" Next to the shrimp stall, there was a large basin. There was a layer of fine net on top, and something was constantly rushing up.
Su Yu heard the hawking and pulled the Emperor over. Chubby fish, also known as jumping fish, were very difficult to catch. They needed to be thrown out with a line that was several zhang long. In the era that Su Yu lived in, this ancient skill was almost lost, so delicious wild jumping fish were very rare. However, in the Da An dynasty, fishermen who could catch jumping fish could be found everywhere, so this thing wasn't worth much.
Whether it was fried with salt and pepper or stewed with tofu, the taste of chubby fish was very good. This kind of fish that didn't look very good was not bought in the palace. Thinking that the Emperor probably hadn't eaten it before, Su Yu prepared to buy some.
Su Yu lowered his head to pick the chubby fish. His Majesty the Emperor stared at the lively shrimp next to him. His hands hidden in his sleeves clenched into fists, and he resisted the urge to slap the shrimp back.
"Gongzi, why did you personally come to buy shrimp?" The shrimp hawker saw An Hong-chul's luxurious clothes and knew that he was either rich or noble. He looked at him eagerly like he was looking at a fool, "Do you want to buy for madam or for an elder?"
His Majesty the Emperor looked at Su Yu who was squatting on the ground, "Madam." Buy for madam, let madam make delicious food.
"Aiya, your madam is really lucky." The hawker smiled brightly.
When Su Yu heard the hawker's words, he raised his head to look at His Majesty the Emperor who had a look of approval. He couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth. He picked up the jumping fish he bought and pulled His Majesty away, ignoring the hawker who was still strongly recommending "shrimp suitable for madam."
His Majesty the Emperor was very proud. The stupid slave was shy, right? Even the shrimp hawker could see how good he was to the stupid slave. Oh, if he used some cream tonight, the stupid slave would definitely be moved to tears.
The dead squid were arranged in a row on the rocks, and the squid peddler was haggling loudly with the fisherman.
"No one bought this before. Why did you ask for such a high price?" The hawker was selling grilled squid skewers. A few months ago, it was like he had picked it up for free. Ever since Su Yu's squid skewers became popular in Jing, the price of squid had also risen, but it had never been this expensive.
"Ten wen for one. Do you want to buy or not?" The fisherman was very rude and unreasonable. He snatched the squid from the hawker's hand, "It's not easy to get things from the deep sea. It might rise to twelve wen tomorrow."
"This is too expensive!" It wasn't just the squid hawker that complained. The fish hawker was also complaining.
"There are strange fish in the sea. There are only so many in a day. If the price doesn't rise, we'll all go hungry."
"The court has put a bounty on fish monsters. Didn't the black-haired fish from before get a lot of money?"
"It would be good if it was still those black-haired fish …" Before the fisherman finished speaking, there was a sudden clamor on the beach.
"Come and look, that's the sea monster!" Someone shouted loudly. Hearing this, everyone rushed over.
The rocky beach was uneven. The crowd pushed Su Yu so hard that he stumbled and almost dropped the fish in his hand. An Hong-chul pulled Su Yu into his arms, "Stupid. You can't even walk properly."
Su Yu looked at the Emperor, who was impatiently holding him firmly in his arms. He blinked and said, "Let's go and take a look."
The Emperor looked at the black mass of heads and decisively rejected Su Yu's suggestion. He pulled him away from the rocky beach and made a hand signal to the imperial bodyguards hidden in the crowd. When the two returned to the courtyard, the strange fish that everyone was looking at was already placed in the courtyard.
Su Yu curiously went over, "Be careful!" A black shadow suddenly jumped out of the water basin. The Emperor quickly made a move and slapped the thing to the ground. Two imperial bodyguards quickly rushed over, picked up the fainted fish, and put it back into the basin. They covered it with an iron net.
"Ying Yu!" Sure enough, Su Yu didn't memorize the 《Mountain River Illustrated Handbook》 for nothing. He immediately recognized the fish's true appearance.
This fish had a long body that was no different from ordinary sea fish. However, its two fins were replaced by wings that were almost as long as its body. There were silver feathers that were as hard as scales on the wings.
"The body of a fish with bird wings, the voice of a mandarin duck …" Su Yu looked through the iron net at the Ying Yu, who was gradually waking up. He raised his head and looked at the Emperor, "How do you call a mandarin duck?"
Two plays of Sha Ting, long doubts can't be drawn. Embroidered machines strive to weave patterns, songs love to call names. The sound of a mandarin duck must be …
"Ga ga ga ga!" The Ying Yu, who didn't want to be left out, immediately answered Su Yu's question.
Su Yu: "… …" This sound, it's not romantic at all!
When the Ying Yu was brought back to the palace, he naturally had to show it to the National Tutor first.
The National Tutor quietly looked at the noisy Ying Yu for a moment. He slowly raised his cold eyes and looked at Su Yu, "Do you remember how to kill the Ying Yu?"
"The Ying Yu can attract water disaster. Water is Yin. When the Yang energy is the strongest at noon, use your inner strength to break its wings … …" Su Yu skillfully recited the method to kill the Ying Yu in 《Fish Killing Cultivation Method》.
Looking at the sky, it was already past noon. He couldn't kill the Ying Yu today.
"Ga ga!" The Ying Yu, who had escaped death, mercilessly mocked the superstitious chef.
Su Yu scratched his head, "Then this official will come back tomorrow."
"Wait," the National Tutor raised his hand and stuffed the cage with the Ying Yu to Su Yu, "Anguo Tower is the holy land of the country. It's not good to make noise."
Su Yu, who originally thought that he had completed his task, could only take the Ying Yu and leave Anguo Tower.
"Ga ga ga ga ga ga … …"
The Ying Yu was really too noisy. Su Yu didn't understand. As a fish, how could it have so many words to say? After thinking for a while, he could only throw the fish and the cage into the small lake in Ye Xiao Palace. In any case, he was staying in Ye Xiao Palace at night, so the noise wouldn't disturb him.
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