"Your Excellency?" Cicada Yi opened her teary eyes, looked up at Li Xie, and called softly. He snorted: "Am I useless, my lord?" ”

"Well, sort of." What's the situation? Am I still a psychiatrist? Why have you been comforting lately? I'm still annoyed, who will comfort me!

“……”

Li Xie's words can be regarded as talking to the sky to death. Seeing the cicada's increasingly red eyes, Li Xie still relented in the end and answered:

"But it doesn't matter how beautiful you look." Li Xie's life experience, which is close to 40 years old, summed up a law that is even greater than Newton's law: all women, should not say that all female animals like others to praise her beautiful.

And Li Xie didn't go against his heart when he said this, and among the group of people he was brought, all of them were the best-looking in the Sin Slave Workshop. And Cicada Yi was able to stand out from this group of best-looking people, and was designated by Wang Jiao to become Li Xie's personal maid, which shows how good is Cicada Yi's appearance?

Cicada Yi's face immediately turned red, in this feudal era where men and women were not allowed to meet until they got married, when had Cicada Yi heard such a blatant praise? And the person who praised this is not an ordinary person, he is a person who has become a seventh-rank official at the age of less than 17 years old, and his martial arts cultivation has reached the master level.

"Okay, now you can talk about it, who bullied you?" Li Xie looked at the cicada clothes that were red even at the root of her ears, and reached out to jerk her bangs wildly. directly made the meticulous sideburns of the cicada's clothes into a bird's nest.

Looking at his masterpiece, Li Xie nodded with satisfaction, which was a slight expression of his inner depression.

At the same time, Cicada Yi buried her head between her hands again. But his shoulders were no longer shaking, and no more whimpering sounds were heard.

"Hey, okay, don't say it if you don't want to." After waiting for four or five breaths, Cicada Yi still didn't make any sound. Li Xie knew that this little girl didn't want to say it, but people didn't want to say it, and he didn't want to hear it, so he patted his ass and stood up, and gently kicked Cicada Yi's foot with his toes:

"It's a hot day, but it's not good for you to sit on the ground as a girl. If it's okay, just go back. ”

After finishing speaking, he no longer paid attention to the cicada clothes pretending to be ostriches, and went to finish what he hadn't finished yet.

Cicada Yi waited for Li Xie to walk away for a long time before raising his head again. But at this time, my heart is not so sad. Turning his head to look at the pharmacy, he finally couldn't muster up the courage to step into the ...... again

Li Xie is just a small Xicheng government order, and as a seven-rank official, he is a little bit stronger than the local county order. For the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, he was tantamount to a small role. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for such a small character to participate in such a thing as receiving a mission.

All Li Xie needed to do was to keep the arresters in the yamen on a daily patrol and improve the law and order on the streets. She doesn't have to worry about other things, and he doesn't need to worry about it.

Therefore, although there was an embassy coming, the relevant personnel in the court were busy. Li Xie still lives a good life every day, except for the envoys and Li Baichuan who pay attention to the tribute, there is almost nothing to pay special attention to him.

Li Xie has lived a leisurely and leisurely life, but Li Zhanji's life has not been so smooth these days. The mission's visit was nominally a tribute, but in fact it was a test of the imperial court.

This year, there was a major flood, and the area in the lower reaches of the Long River was almost non-harvested. Another mutiny led to a mutiny, and the entire southern region is still in fear. Although the Five Tigers are located in the west of the Jin Dynasty, the trouble in the south does not have much to do with him.

But the trouble in the south also means that Na Chi has a chance. If Na Chi really seized this opportunity to move troops, the Jin Dynasty would inevitably have a troop transfer. At that time, maybe the five tigers will also have the opportunity to share a bowl of soup in the cauldron of the Jin Dynasty.

Of course, such an idea must not be made public. But even if you don't say it, inside and outside the court, you can see from such a coincidental tribute time this time what kind of thoughts the Five Tigers have.

It is precisely because of the clarity that I feel annoyed, the Five Tigers Mission's mission this time really cost a lot of money, not to mention that the gold alone is enough for 30,000 taels, which is equivalent to half a year's tax revenue of the state.

Although the area where the ants live is famous for its large number of gold mines, and although the terrain is uneven, it is considered the richest group among the five tigers. But even so, taking out so much gold at once, I'm afraid it hurts a lot.

And people gave so many things, and they spoke very politely: "I am old and weak, and I have retired from my son last year, my son is young, and the new patriarch is not yet able to serve the public." The king of the kingdom of heaven can remember the friendship of master and servant for many years, and give my son the throne to ensure the stability of my people. ”

This is the so-called short mouth of eating people, and short hands of taking people. took 30,000 taels of gold from others at once, even Li Zhanji was not embarrassed to refuse someone's request in person. Besides, what people want is just a name, it's easier to say, it's a matter of holy decree to stand up to the sky, and there is no need to spend anything else. From this point of view alone, it is still worth it to buy 30,000 taels of gold for this holy decree.

But the affairs of the state are not so simple to see, you should pay tribute, after all, he is a slave country. It's a little bit more than that, but if you give a reward for it, it means you're appeasing people.

Why use appeasement? It's just for two reasons, one is that you don't want to have a dispute with him now, and the other is because you're afraid of others. Either of these two reasons will be the reason for the Five Tigers to rebel.

So naturally, there are people inside and outside the court who oppose this reward, thinking that giving a reward is a sign of weakness, and if it is not guaranteed, people will raise troops.

On the other hand, some people think that the imperial court is indeed in trouble this year. It's not impossible to give them a little sweetness to appease them for a while, as long as they get through this year. In the future, even if they rebel, what does it matter, until they are defeated, it will be over.

In this way, the officials in the court were divided into two factions at once, and the court has been arguing about this matter for the past few days, which made Li Zhanji very annoyed. And on the other hand, the Luotianfu made by Li Xie's sugar water shop is boiling.

Can it not boil? Even judging from the storage capacity of the Royal Freezer, the sales volume in the past few days should be successful, but people are good, and they sell normally every day, and they sell more and more every day.

Originally, when the sugar water shop opened, those families thought that it was a wealthy family that was short of money, so they exchanged the ice stored at home for a little money to live. But I don't want people to sell it, and the amount of ice sold can scare people to death.

So in addition to the tributary matter these days, what people are most concerned about is how many days can this sugar water shop last? This matter has made such a big fuss, and Li Zhanji has already known about it.

And he knows a lot more things than ordinary people, such as Li Xie, who doesn't have a so-called ice bank at all. Another example is the life that Li Xie has lived in the past few days, which is called a moisturizing, and the ice cubes with a large face are at night, and each slave has a basin in his hand, which is just placed in the room to cool off.

Such a level of luxury, not to mention that he Li Xie is a small seven-rank official, even he, the emperor, has never done it. On the other hand, looking at the ice cubes in his room, they are decreasing every day, and according to An Xiao's statistics, the ice in the royal ice vault may not last for three days.

So under the comprehensive situation of all aspects, Li Zhanji finally couldn't help but come to the door. Of course, because it was just a private matter, just a distraction, Li Zhanji came after he consciously read the excerpt.

So when Li Zhanji came to Li Xie's house, it was already time for Li Xie's house to have lunch. Li Xie's family is also very bold now, and the weather is hot and can't eat, right?

Good!

I boil porridge with white fungus lotus seeds every day, and then put it on ice to make ice porridge, and I eat this ice porridge as the staple food every day.