With several goose-feather-like snowfalls, the twelfth year of Zhenguan came to the last day.

"Aya, the snowman, and the little corn are going to play with the snowman too."

In the annex of the Chu Palace, Li Kuan and Cheng Jingwen and his party enjoyed the plum blossoms in the Baicao Garden.

The plum blossoms in winter are a scene in the Hundred Herb Garden.

Especially after the heavy snowfall, there is thick snow everywhere, and the plum blossoms are even more unique in this cold winter.

However, for the little corn that can already walk, how can plum blossoms have snowmen fun.

"Lord, I'll take the little corn to play with the snowman."

Qing'er still looks like she loves to play, and when she saw Wu Guo building a snowman in the Baicao Garden, and then heard Xiaocorn say that she wanted to play with a snowman, she immediately leaned over and hugged the little girl.

"Aye, I want Aye!"

The little guy has already recognized people, and Li Kuan even dislikes Qing'er when he is there.

"Okay, Aya hug."

Li Kuan is really responsive to this daughter, and sometimes even Cheng Jingwen, a mother, can't look at it, and thinks that Li Kuan is too doting on little corn.

After saying it a few times, it didn't work at all.

"A-Niang is together, A-Niang also wants it."

The little girl has to make inches, lying on Li Kuan's shoulder, and her little hand still wants to pull Cheng Jingwen.

In the end, appreciating plum blossoms became Li Kuan and Xiaomai building snowmen there, and Cheng Jingwen helped from time to time.

Qing'er and Luzhu also built a snowman by themselves next to them, but Wu Meiniang and Wu Guo, who were originally building snowmen in the clearing, stood there and watched.

Wu Meiniang was originally a little depressed, and she made such a childish move as building a snowman, but she was met by Li Kuan.

Unexpectedly, after a while, Li Kuan was actually building a snowman there.

Wu Meiniang's face immediately had a smile.

It seems that His Royal Highness the King of Chu doesn't mind what he saw just now.

Where the plum blossoms were in full bloom, Li Kuan and Xiaocorn were happily building snowmen there, and Wu Meiniang suddenly made a move, and walked briskly to the yard where she was.

Because the distance was not too far, but a quarter of an hour later, Wu Meiniang returned to Baicao Garden with a few subordinates.

"Oops, little corn seems to be starting to sweat, why don't you take off that little vest inside her?"

Every time he played with Xiao Mao, Li Kuan had become accustomed to feeling the back of her neck with his hands every once in a while.

I don't know if it's because the child is hot, or if he wears too much, every time he exercises a little more intensely, the back of the little corn will start to sweat.

"The snow is still so thick, will it be too cold to take it off?"

Cheng Jingwen didn't move much, and she didn't feel the heat.

On the contrary, standing in the open snow, a gust of wind blows, but it is a little chilly.

Sure enough, there is a kind of cold that makes Mom think you are cold.

"It's better to take it off first, and then wear it back after not playing for a while, now there is the sun, don't be afraid."

Li Kuan, who has always done things neatly, will become entangled every time he encounters the question of whether the little corn is worn too much or too little.

Wear less, afraid of catching a cold.

If you wear too much, you are afraid of sweating and are also prone to cold.

How much to wear is really a difficult question for parents.

Before he had a daughter, Li Kuan felt that he couldn't imagine this kind of scene.

"Wow! It's beautiful! ”

It didn't take long for Qing'er to build the snowman, and she stood there and looked around, but she found that Wu Meiniang was drawing something on the side, and couldn't help but walk over and take a look.

What catches your eye is a beautiful picture.

A couple and a little girl are building a snowman under the plum tree, and the scenery is very chic against the backdrop of a few plum blossoms.

So Qing'er couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

Fortunately, Wu Meiniang has finished painting, otherwise Qing'er would have screamed like this, if Wu Meiniang's hand shook, the painting might have been scrapped.

"What's so pretty?"

Li Kuan heard the voice and asked curiously.

However, when she saw Qing'er standing behind Wu Meiniang, she was concentrating on admiring something, so she also walked over.

"Huh?"

In the Tang Dynasty, which pays attention to artistic conception, Li Kuan actually saw a rare realistic painting.

The three people in the painting are actually seven or eight points similar to themselves, Cheng Jingwen and Xiao Mao, which is really rare.

Li Kuan only knew that Wu Meiniang's calligraphy was very good, and the Feibai book was praised even by Shangguanyi, Wang Xuance and others.

However, Wu Meiniang can paint, and she still prefers a realistic painting style, which is beyond Li Kuan's expectations.

"Lord Wang, Mei Niang is ugly."

Seeing that everyone was gathered around her, Wu Meiniang got up and smiled and said a word to Li Kuan.

"Good painting accompanies good poetry, do you want you to sing a poem and let Mei Niang add it to this painting?"

Cheng Jingwen was also very happy to see that it was her family of three in the words.

Wu Meiniang is now Li Kuan's right-hand man in business, although she has some threats to herself, but Li Kuan's performance in the past year or so has made Cheng Jingwen very satisfied, and she has gradually accepted Wu Meiniang's existence.

Of course, she took the initiative to persuade Li Kuan to take Wu Meiniang into the room, but she was still not so generous.

"Mei Xue did not refuse to descend in the spring, and the saugers put aside the pen fee to comment on the chapter.

The plum and snow are three points white, but the snow loses the plum and a piece of fragrance. ”

Li Kuan thought about it for a while, and then answered Cheng Jingwen's proposal with practical actions.

"The plum and snow are three points white, but the snow loses the fragrance of the plum. There are a lot of poems in this Yongmei, but there has never been such a novel and unique way of writing as the prince. ”

Cheng Jingwen is also a knowledgeable person, and immediately realized the extraordinaryness of this poem.

Such a good poem, coupled with Wu Meiniang's painting, Cheng Jingwen feels that maybe after many years, the value of this painting will be extraordinary.

After Wu Meiniang listened to Li Kuan's poems, she immediately put down the pen one after another with beautiful eyes, transcribed it on the upper right side of the painting, and then took out a seal from her arms and stamped it aside.

"Qing'er, you arrange for someone to frame this painting well and hang it in my study."

Li Kuan felt that such a warm painting could be used as a background painting in the study.

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As night fell, all kinds of lanterns were hung in the palace of the king of Chu, and there were brilliant lights everywhere.

All the people gathered together to eat and drink.

"Lord, this cotton is used to fill clothes, and it is also very warm to wear."

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and after bathing, everyone is wearing new clothes.

Cheng Jingwen was wearing a slightly bulky padded jacket.

After the cotton seeds are extracted and planted in the greenhouse, the rest of the cotton wool is used to make cotton clothes.

The left and right are only a small cotton field, and if they are woven into cotton cloth, it is not enough material for a piece of cloth.

"That's natural, and it's no surprise that this cotton will be the main warm clothing in the future."

Although in Li Kuan's view, cotton clothes are not as light and warm as eiderdown jackets, but when the nobles of Chang'an City have a duck down jacket, cotton clothes become more valuable.

This is probably the reason why things are vaguely expensive.

It is said that when aluminum was first extracted, it was more expensive than silver.

There was floor heating in the house, and Li Kuan took off his cotton clothes before sitting on a chair and preparing to eat.

Tonight's main dish is beef, the fat beef transported from Liangzhou Express, because the temperature is low enough, there is almost no need to add ice cubes, and it can be well preserved.

After adding various marinades such as cinnamon and star anise, the freshly baked braised beef tendon meat has aroused many people's salivas as soon as it is served on the table.

Even Li Kuan couldn't help but taste it first.

Sprinkled with some chopped coriander and sprinkled with some sauce, this braised beef is really fragrant.

"Lord Wang, I didn't expect the beef to be so delicious, no one has ever done it like this before."

Even Cheng Jingwen, who has always been gentle, couldn't help but praise after tasting a bite of braised beef.

"In my opinion, in addition to being the first genius in Chang'an City and the first God of Wealth in Chang'an City, His Royal Highness the King of Chu has to add another No. 1 gourmand in Chang'an City."

On Chinese New Year's Eve this year, Wu Meiniang was also invited over for dinner together.

There are no elders in the Chu Palace, and Li Kuan has no brothers and sisters, and the real owner is a family of three.

In order not to make this year so deserted, Wu Meiniang's family of three, Sun Simiao and Lin Ran's master and apprentice, as well as Xi Junmai, Wang Xuance, Wang Xuanwu and others were all left in the lobby to eat.

As for Xue Li, he got married this year, so naturally he will no longer stay in the Chu Palace's New Year.

And Qing'er, Luzhu and several other personal maids also placed a separate table in the lobby near the door, which can be regarded as the characteristic of the Chu Palace.

"People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry. Of course, you have to pay attention to what you have to eat every day, and the better it is, the better. ”

Li Kuan does not shy away from his foodie attributes at all, anyway, the noble people of Chang'an City know that Li Kuan is very particular about eating, and the chef level of the Chu Wangfu is the highest in the Tang Dynasty, even if it is the imperial dining room in the Daming Palace, he also sends cooks to study from time to time.

"Meat, I want meat too."

Seeing that everyone was eating so deliciously, Little Corn actually muttered that she wanted to eat meat.

The teeth have not yet grown, and Li Kuan doesn't dare to give her such chewy braised beef.

The main reason is that there are too many spices added to it, which is not suitable for children.

"Here, Aya gives you a big chicken leg, your favorite."

The little girl is also very well-behaved, just eat it, hold a chicken leg by herself, sit on a special baby chair, and eat deliciously.

Speaking of which, because of Li Kuan, there are really a lot of baby products in Chang'an City.

Needless to say, this kind of baby chair, as well as the pocket casino specially built for her, was copied by Cheng Chumo, and then it became the standard configuration of many noble families with children.

There is also a change, that is, Liangzhou's milk powder has begun to be more widely recognized.

Li Kuan even let his daughter drink it, and other families didn't have any doubts.

Anyway, this milk powder is not particularly expensive, compared with glass mirrors and spices, it is much cheaper.

Of course, this also has something to do with Li Kuan's plan to vigorously promote the sales of milk powder.

These things are not easy to keep, if they are sold expensively, they can easily become inventory, and it is a pity to waste them, which is not conducive to attracting more grassland herders to raise sheep.

"Lord Wang, I toast you, thank you for taking in our mother and daughter."

After eating, Wu Meiniang began to toast.

No matter what era it is, as long as a woman dares to take the initiative to drink, the amount of alcohol will not be bad.

Besides, Wu Meiniang is holding wine, so she can drink it even more.

Many people think that wine is such a foreign thing, it should have been transmitted from the West in modern times.

Actually, it's really not, it already existed in the Tang Dynasty.

Although it was not very popular during the Zhenguan period, many noble families have really begun to drink this wine.

Li Kuan tried it a few times, but I don't know if the brewing technology of this era is not up to par, and I still feel that I am not used to drinking it.

In fact, Li Kuan's favorite thing is to drink beer, but not yet.

It seems that you might want to try brewing at some time.

"Mei Niang is polite, speaking of which, the business development of the palace this year is so fast, you are the biggest hero."

Wu Meiniang is now in charge of half of the commercial affairs of the Chu Palace, whether it is a carriage workshop or a wool workshop, she is in charge.

I have to say that her level is much higher than Wang Fugui.

Even Wang Xuance and others are not as good as her in business.

As for Li Kuan himself, he is even more self-aware.

So Wu Meiniang toasted, and Li Kuan definitely wanted to drink.

This Wu Meiniang started, and the others were not far behind, and soon you came and went, and drank a lot of wine.

"Aye, I'm going to drink too."

Xiao Corn sat on the side, and found that everyone's attention was not on her, and immediately began to brush up on her sense of existence.

It seems that a lot of the time, little ones are like that.

When they do something, they don't necessarily like it, but they do it to get the attention of others.

"That's for adults, not corn."

Cheng Jingwen wiped her mouth for the little girl on the side and talked to her.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, there was nothing big about it, everyone ate and drank, and the hot dishes alone in the middle were hot for two rounds.

There is no Spring Festival Gala to pass the time, and after the banquet is dispersed, he doesn't want to sleep immediately, Li Kuan feels a little bored.

It seems that you have to add some entertainment to Datang.

"Mei Niang, you said that this king built an opera house next to Guanshishan Academy, found someone to rehearse some plays and dance music, and then charged tickets to those who went in to watch, will anyone go to see it?"

After the wine and food were full, only the maid brought the tea.

Li Kuan lazily leaned on the special Taishi chair, picking his teeth while talking to everyone.

"The opera house? Look: Someone should be watching, but there's a catch. Many wealthy businessmen have singers in their own houses, and ordinary people are often not willing to spend money to go in and see, so it is estimated that there will not be many people who can see it. ”

"Just make the fare more affordable."

Li Kuan also did not plan to make money through the opera house.

Anyway, in this era, the fate of many women is actually quite tragic, and if the opera house can help some women solve their livelihood problems, it can be regarded as a merit to a certain extent.

Of course, the point is that Li Kuan wants to give life a little more entertainment.

Sleeping until you wake up naturally, counting the money and counting the days when your hands cramp are not necessarily the most comfortable.

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