Chapter 502: The Secret of the Court
No matter how much you break the tradition, drinking tea cannot avoid being mixed with culture.
As long as everything is next to the word "culture", simple things become complicated, and the matter of holding a cup and tilting the neck has to come up with a lot of dazzling tricks to prove the existence of culture.
As a result, Li Su's simplified roasted tea has no market, because he has no culture, even if he is a genius of the Tang Dynasty, he can't sell it.
"Don't drink, don't drink, don't spoil the good stuff." Li Su snatched Dongyang's large porcelain cup, raised his head and poured a big mouthful, and a thick bitter taste suddenly spread in his mouth, so bitter that he was excited.
Dongyang looked at him with a heart full of distress, as if he had seen him pour a mouthful of urine, and the most helpless thing was the feeling that he wanted to stop but couldn't stop it......
"Actually, it's very delicious, although the taste is a little weird, I'm afraid I'll get used to it after drinking it for a long time, you leave some tea for me, and I'll taste it slowly at home." Dongyang people are beautiful or good, they don't want Li Su to be unable to come to the stage, and they take great care of his self-esteem.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Li Su is also too lazy to change the masochistic psychology of the Tang Dynasty celebrities and elites, obviously cooking tea is so unpalatable, and he is embarrassed to say that the taste of fried tea is strange......
"Don't talk about drinking tea...... Li Su quietly pushed the big porcelain cup farther away, the tea brewed today, it seems that the tea leaves are indeed a little more, so bitter that even he can't open his mouth.
Tapping his fingers rhythmically and gently on the stone table, Li Su pondered for a long time and said, "Let's get down to business, you listen carefully, you can think about it first." ”
"What's the matter?" Dongyang blinked curiously.
"Now with your identity, can you still enter the Taiji Palace?"
Dongyang said angrily: "When I was with me, I touched my hands and hugged my waist, and I desecrated the monks enough, Daojun saw that the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder had fallen to kill you, and now he remembered my identity." ”
"Grandpa Daojun is old, and his eyes are not very good. I used to hack the wrong people ......," Li Su said with a smile.
"Don't make up Daojun, beware of retribution!" Dongyang glared at him, and then said: "Although I am now a monk, I am still the daughter of the Li family after all, and I am said to be a monk, whether it is the common people or the eunuchs and palace maids of Taiji Palace. Or take me as a princess, even my father seems to have forgotten my identity as a monk, and every month the palace province distributes monthly rules to the prince and princess, and I don't forget my this, and I seem to have more than other princes and princesses...... It's simpler. It's just that I don't want to go. ”
Li Su sighed, he roughly understood Li Shimin's mood, because of his affair with Dongyang, the relationship between father and daughter once fell to the freezing point, and his biological daughter was disheartened and became a monk, even if the emperor was ruthless, it was his own blood after all. In the following years, Li Shimin gradually repented. The fact that he turned a blind eye to the broken lotus between Li Su and Dongyang is proof that he is still reluctant to let his daughter live alone for the rest of his life, and try his best to make up for his original mistakes.
"Good and dignified, why did you ask me if I could enter the Taiji Palace?" Dongyang stared at him suspiciously: "What do you want to make bad?" ”
"How dare I make a mistake in the Taiji Palace, I can't ......cut off a few heads," Li Su smiled and blinked: "Since I can enter the Taiji Palace, it's no problem to enter the Imperial Court, right?" ”
"Tucked court?" Dongyang sneered: "It's all nonsense." Who wants to go to the court? That's where the concubines and eunuchs who have committed crimes or been degraded go to do hard work such as pulp washing and cleaning, although I am a monk, I am also a princess, where can I go to that kind of place......"
There was a pause. Dongyang showed a hint of fear, and said in a low voice: "The palace is a real cold palace, the water inside is very deep, the palace where my mother lived was only one wall away from the palace, I heard that there are always people who die inexplicably, and there is no official palace in the palace, report to the palace province, the eunuch in charge of the palace province hummed a few words, and did not come down to check, wrapped people in straw mats and threw things outside the palace......"
"People living in the court, say they are alive, but in fact, life is better than death, it is a chaotic and cruel place, no one knows whether they will offend people inexplicably, let alone whether they will be poisoned by a glass of water in the middle of the night, or stabbed in the middle of the night."
Dongyang sighed faintly, didn't know what painful past he remembered, lowered his head silently sad, and after a long time he calmed down, looked up at him and said, "Why did you suddenly ask about the court?" ”
Li Su smiled bitterly: "I originally wanted to ask you to help me go to the court for a few trips, but it seems that you don't like that place very much, I can't beg you......"
"What does the court have to do with you? What do you want me to do for you? ”
Li Su was silent for a moment and said in a low voice: "I want to find someone in the court, this person...... Very important. ”
"Who?"
"Remember last time you said about a woman surnamed Wu? You told me about her as an anecdote at the time, but I paid attention, this woman...... I want to befriend her. ”
"Friendship...... Dongyang looked at him with a strange expression: "You said 'friendship' to a woman?" There has never been such a thing in the past. ”
"That's right, it's to make friends, last time I heard you say how this woman surnamed Wu tamed a horse, one is called an iron whip, two is an iron tree, and three is a dagger, and if the whip is not satisfied, it will be hit, and if it is not tamed, it will be killed, this woman ...... It's a character. Li Su said leisurely, half-truths and half-truths in his words, in short, why did he suddenly pay attention to Sister Wu, he couldn't justify himself, so he had to explain a few far-fetched words. After all, except for him, no one knows what kind of unspeakable future this woman who is suffering in the court and has fallen into a trough in her life will have in the future.
Dongyang sneered: "A woman who has been beaten into the court is afraid that it will be difficult to get ahead in the palace for a lifetime, do you think she will have a day when she will soar into the sky?" ”
Li Su blinked: "Maybe she will really be so excited that she will fly in the future...... It's always a good idea to get to know more people. ”
Dongyang sighed: "I heard that the woman surnamed Wu has been beaten into the court for more than half a year, it's been so long, it's impossible to say whether she is alive or not, the court is a place to eat people." ”
"I believe she's still alive, there are so many monsters in the world waiting for her to brush it, it's a pity to die......"
Dongyang thought for a while and said: "I can go to the court, but it's not convenient to go, after all, too many people know my identity, if I go to the court to find a palace maid who has been degraded, the movement is too big, and it is easy to kill her, but I can let the personal palace maid Lu Liu go, she has been in the palace to serve me since she was a child, she is familiar with the people in the palace, you want to talk or bring something, let Lu Liu go is the most suitable." ”
Li Su smiled: "That's great, go back and let Luliu come to my house to find me, and I'll ask her to bring something into the palace." ”
Dongyang sighed: "I always feel that you are making bad ...... again Or, do you have a crush on that little palace maid surnamed Wu? ”
Li Su hurriedly shook his head: "I don't have a blessing for that woman surnamed Wu, and if something happens to her, it will cost me my life." ”
Dongyang slapped him and said angrily: "Nonsense again, what happens to the monks will lose their life, these days you always tease me, how many years do you say you have lost your life?" ”
Li Su held her hand with his backhand, leaned into her chest dishonestly, and said with a smile: "I don't want to live anymore, come, let me rob a lustful ......"
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Three days later, a guest came to the Li family.
An unexpected and expected guest.
The guest's surname is Yin, and his name is Hongzhi. The surname is a bit strange, but he was born in a famous family, his grandfather was the former Sui famous general Yin Shousheng, and his father was the former Sui famous minister Yin Shishishi, of course, these former dynasties were all floating clouds, and I didn't see any lack of heart and eyes to roam the world with the illustrious background of the previous dynasty, but he also has two identities that cannot be ignored, he is Li Shimin's brother-in-law, the current servant of the ministry, and the uncle of Li You, the king of Qi.
The last identity made Li Su's heart sink.
It should always come, except for parents, there is no love and hate for no reason in the world, a few days ago, the king of Qi was a knotted friend, and he gave heavy gifts, at that time Li Su thought that the king of Qi was bent like the prince, and he was so good to himself because he coveted his beauty, and now it seems that Li Su is too confident in his charm......
Yin Hongzhi's etiquette is impeccable, first hand over the name card, then give the gift list, when the housekeeper enters the inner courtyard, he waits quietly under the porch of the door, always with a gentle and polite smile on his face.
Li Su sighed after receiving the name post, and then dressed up to greet him personally.
It is said that a servant of the Ministry of Officials will not let Li Su greet him so solemnly, but there is King Qi standing behind this guy, what does King Qi say, sometimes he is a person, sometimes he is not a person, his personality is full of fantasy, the so-called wearing new shoes does not step on the smelly ****, it is better to be polite to Yin Hongzhi.
The two met and saluted each other, and Li Su enthusiastically introduced Yin Hongzhi into the front hall and sat down separately.
Li Su ordered a banquet, in fact, it was only morning at this time, and it was not the time when the sky was up or the ground, but the customs of the Tang Dynasty were like this, maybe the host was always worried that the guests who came to the door were only one breath away from starvation, so no matter what time of day, as long as the guests came to the door, they usually set up a banquet to entertain.
Taking advantage of the time when the people in the house were preparing for the banquet, the guests and hosts sat down separately and began to talk nonsense about wasting time and wasting time without nutrition and meaning.
While talking nonsense about today's weather hahaha, Li Su took the time to look at Yin Hongzhi casually.
Yin Hongzhi is about forty years old, his complexion is a little dark, his face is a little similar to Niu Jinda, he has a square brick face, and if he doesn't light up the lights at night, he thinks he was attacked head-on.
looks very decent, compared to Niu Jinda's unsmiling expression, Yin Hongzhi always has a smile, a smile and gentleness, and his eyes always look directly at each other without humility or arrogance when he speaks, it is easy for people to find the sincerity in his eyes, maybe this is also the reason why he can be an official and a servant of the ministry, a guy who is born with a righteous and awe-inspiring attribute will never mix too badly, such as Xu Jingzong......
has been in the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and Li Su also knows the truth of not being able to look good, so although Yin Hongzhi's appearance is very decent, Li Su still maintains a high degree of vigilance.
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PS: There is one more ...... I finally finished my studies, and I felt very tired when I came home yesterday, flying more than 1,400 kilometers, and my wings were very tired...... (To be continued.) )