The eldest grandson Wuji took a breath, and before he could finish sighing, he heard the hurried footsteps outside for a while. Li Zhi sat on the jade chariot, watched the attendants led by Ming An hurry in, and asked:

"What can you find?"

Ming An glanced at the eldest grandson Wuji as if he was careless, and then said:

"The Lord is wise. When Fang Ming'an and the servants entered Yang Jieyu's palace to question, they saw that a maid seemed to be hiding, so they stepped forward to ask. Who would have thought that the maid was actually the first to enter the palace, and she acted with a weak heart, so that she could see that Ming'an was waiting to borrow the power of the Son of Heaven, and she was afraid in her heart, and she vomited it cleanly. ”

As he spoke, he gestured to the left and right. Immediately, a teenage maid who was already blue and white-lipped, and was so paralyzed that she couldn't even walk, was dragged up by the two little fathers-in-law. Li Zhi looked at her, and then at Di Renjie. Di Renjie understood, so he took a step forward and said in a harmonious voice:

"This little palace lady, Di has a question for you, but I don't know if it can be or not?" (Gong Niang, is a kind of honorific title for palace maids that began to rise during the Tang Li Zhi period.) It is said that the reason is related to Wu Zetian, who was only a maid at the time, but was favored by Li Zhi for two years, and later directly sealed Zhaoyi. Because Wu Zetian's identity at that time was a talented person of the former emperor, he was accepted by the later emperor. So in the middle of this, she didn't have any official title in the palace. But because her favored Cheng Dù is bigger than the fourth concubine with a title, or even the queen, and according to the court documents at the time, it is said that Wu Meiniang is a person who is quite loved and respected by the concubines and concubines of lower rank in the harem. That's why everyone calls her a martial artist. So since then, Gong Niang has become the honorific title of all the palace maids in the harem of the Tang Dynasty. I once heard a more interesting saying that the word palace lady is the original form of the word girl in later generations. There is also a saying that in some places in Shaanxi, the women of their father's generation are still called girls, and the reason is because of Wu Zetian back then. There are many theories. It's for everyone's fun. "The little palace maid was originally young, and she was weak in her heart, but now because of a toss, she was already scared out of the world, and she thought that she would never have life again. Now I saw that this person spoke in a good voice, and he was gentle and gentle, so he couldn't help but be stunned, blinked, and his heart was half fixed, and he said timidly:

"Big ...... Adults have questions...... Little maid...... The little maid did not dare to hide. ”

Di Renjie smiled, squatted down, took a picture with the little palace maid face to face, and took the porcelain box of the phoenix peony from the hand of a small guard who followed him on the side, and asked:

"Are you on duty in Yang Jieyu's palace?

The little palace maid is young in the end, and she is new to the palace, she is innocent and childlike.

In addition, seeing that Di Renjie was so gentle, he slowly lowered his vigilance in his heart, took a closer look at the thing, and then shook his head and said:

"I didn't ...... Haven't seen it. ”

Di Renjie nodded, opened the lid of the box again, told her to look at the contents of the box, and asked:

"And you've seen this?"

When the little palace maid saw the lid of the box opened, she was shocked, and her face was immediately snow-white, trembling all over, and she didn't dare to say anything more. The people standing at the moment, as soon as they saw this situation, immediately understood what was going on, so Wang De wanted to step forward and ask, but was blocked by Di Renjie waving his hand. Di Renjie only said softly:

"Look at how scared you are...... Have you ever seen this thing?"

The little palace maid was naturally frightened, just blindly trembling, looking at Di Renjie in horror. Di Renjie looked at her like this, but he also felt some pity in his heart, so he said softly:

"Di Mou looks at you, you are also young after all, and you don't seem to be the one who did bad things...... And seeing that you are scared like this, I am afraid that you know what it is? Even, I have seen people use it? If so, as long as you don't use it to harm others, then Di thinks that it is better for you to tell everything you know. The Lord is wise, and Lord Taiwei is also a good man who is kind and wise. will definitely give you a clean and fair life. Otherwise, it will be painful for you to carry such secrets for the rest of your life!"

These words were reasonable, and they were both graceful and powerful, and they actually made the little palace maid feel sour, recalled the reason for the day, and cried: It turned out that she was a new tea maid who only entered the palace half a month ago. Because she is well-behaved and intelligent, and she is a top tea artist. Therefore, according to the rules and regulations, they all go to the queen's Wanchun Hall to serve tea first. But who would have thought that as soon as she arrived in the Wanchun Palace, she was sent back to the Inner Servant Province with two other little tea maids, saying that they didn't need to serve.

When the three of them heard this, they thought that they were going to be kicked out of the palace, and when they didn't know what the future would be, they didn't expect that in the Wanchun Palace, a slightly older father-in-law came from a short time ago, and comforted them with a smile and said that because the queen mother in the Wanchun Palace has been unwell recently, Li Chunfeng Li of the Taishi Bureau said that he would not call new people to come in the past half a month. So in desperation, the three of them, who had been famous in the palace for a long time, were sent back to the province of the inner servants. And in order to appease them, they were specially arranged to work at the crazy Yang Jieyu in the back garden. According to the father-in-law's words, they are going to be left in the Inner Servant Province right now, and instead of running errands and doing some chores with the people in the Inner Servant Province every day, it is better to look at this crazy Yang Jieyu first, and it is better to be idle - in the final analysis, they are tea maids, but a madman will never drink tea again. So in this way, they are equivalent to a good period of rest. Although the three of them felt that this was not very appropriate, they thought about it, and it was better than going to the Inner Servant Province, so they thanked the father-in-law and were arranged to Yang Jieyu. When they got into Yang Jieyu's place, the three little waiters found that this father-in-law was really not wrong at all. Although Yang Jieyu's madness is not very bad, she just blindly holds a doll on weekdays, sits on the front steps of the hall and sings nursery rhymes, but she is also delirious. On weekdays, the duty of the three tea waiters is to serve three teas a day, and there is no need to worry about other things. (Here is an explanation of the next three teas of the next day.) Everyone must have known about English afternoon tea, as well as the morning tea in Guangdong. But what you may not know is that this afternoon tea or morning tea is actually popular in Chinese mainland as early as the early Tang Dynasty or even earlier. Every morning before getting up and eating, drink a cup of weak tea to clear the stomach and abdomen to achieve the effect of health preservation, which is morning tea. As for why it is called weak tea, students who have read the history of the early Tang Dynasty should understand that in the early Tang Dynasty, people drank tea not like modern people, or they brewed tea leaves in water, or paid attention to a kung fu tea art performance, or even put some flowers and fruits, rock sugar honey and the like. At that time, people in the early Tang Dynasty drank tea, but they had to add a little salt, spices, etc., and then add water, which seems to be similar to the seasoning when cooking and adding tea water to boil into tea soup to drink. Among this kind of tea, morning tea is required to be the lightest to achieve the effect of purifying the abdomen, so it is basically just a small amount of tea leaves and a small amount of salt and the lightest spices after boiling, so it is called weak tea. On the contrary, the amount of tea, salt and spices is just right, which is a strong tea soup. This strong tea soup is drunk after lunch to achieve the effect of clearing the oil and relieving greasyness. There is also a kind of evening tea, which is a cup of relatively light tea soup drunk during the period from dinner to bedtime at night, and few people add salt, which is evening tea. At that time, three teas a day could only be enjoyed by people with conditions. Otherwise, just the spices that need to be added to drink tea every day are enough for ordinary people to eat rice for seven or eight days.

However, this situation began to change in the later period of Li Zhi. Because Li Zhi was frugal by nature, but he was a very tea-loving person, so at that time, he was also influenced by him and highly respected tea. The spices and salt industries related to tea are also relatively well developed, so slowly, three teas a day became a folk custom in the later period of Li Zhi, and basically every family would drink it. After Wu Zetian abdicated, the entire Tang Dynasty developed this atmosphere of three teas a day to the extreme, and further influenced other surrounding countries, such as today's Japan, the Korean Peninsula and so on. The most commendable thing is that after the opening of the Silk Road, the spread of Chinese tea through the Silk Road directly had a huge impact on the European continent bordering Asia. Just take an example! Students who have read European history should know that in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Europe was called the Great Qin State at that time -- please ...... for the specific name Well, in fact, it was Rome - it had close contacts with the Tang Dynasty, so it gave priority to getting a part of the tea that was of medium and upper quality in the Tang Dynasty at that time. After all, the top-quality tea cannot be exported -- the emperor Lao'er is better than the other, how can they give it up? And these teas were regarded as magic leaves from the East in Europe at that time. There is a legend that is still widely circulated among the people of Italy and Greece that is related to the name of this magic leaf. It is said that at that time, there was a king of the great food country who shocked the whole of Europe, and even the world history of future generations - the name of this king I can't say ......anymore - in a certain battle, besieged by the enemy, and cut off food and grass, the people were tired, and the weather was very bad, and he was about to be defeated by the enemy because of the lack of combat strength. So he taught the soldiers, who had never seen such a thing at that time, to set up a big stove, and according to the method learned by the Tang Dynasty, boiled tea and water, and added salt - because after all, in the war, there was a lack of rice and grain, but there was still some salt left. After drinking these tea soups, a miracle appeared, and the soldiers, who had felt sleepy and weak, were refreshed one by one, and their fighting spirit was extremely high. As a result, the king and his soldiers relied on this force to achieve the final victory before the rescue force arrived. Since then, the king has called this tea from the East a leaf of divinity. It was only later that because of the Reformation, the West demanded monotheism, so it was changed to magical leaves. ）

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