Chapter Eighty-Three: Ordinary Days

After more than ten days of dull days, the small braised meat shop also opened, and the owner was the original little woman, named Zheng, and a pair of children also lived well in the braised meat shop.

The business of the distillery is also getting better and better, and the wealthy and expensive families are also keen to snap up the "Jiuxian Liquor", and Xu Qing has also launched bottled wine in a timely manner, with a higher degree and better taste. Not to mention the daily income, there are more than a dozen taels of a day's running account, and there are seventy or eighty thousand a day when converted into soft sister coins in later generations. As for the braised meat shop, Xu Qing didn't think about making money, but with the boom in the hotel business, the braised vegetable business is getting better and better, and the supply exceeds demand.

When Zheng's two hands were too busy, it happened that a group of people came to Xuzhuang and sent a maid to help. As early as moving into the new home, Xun Xueer wrote to Luonan and asked Steward Yang to send some people over. Xu Qing inserted the subordinates sent over into the various production lines of the distillery, which can be regarded as a little supervision.

On the side of the Imperial Doctor's Department, after Xu Qing taught the two treatment methods, he did not get Li Yuan's promise to "fish" him out, as if he had forgotten about this matter. Xu Qing arrived a few times and found that no one paid attention to him, so he simply didn't go, but fortunately he was happy to eat empty salary.

In the blink of an eye, October passed, and November was again a heavy snow in the middle of winter. Xu Qing received a letter from Luonan, which was a monthly report:

"My lord, Luonan's finances for October are as follows: he collected rent of 700 stones, which is 1,200 stones, and collected cashiers in the bazaar, sold furniture, and sold all kinds of grain, and obtained 58 taels and 4 cents of silver. Expenditure ......"

A letter can be as thick as "one lesson and one practice" in later generations, and it seems to be killing people, but when the snow closes the streets, it is also quite flavorful to count the money at home, not to mention that there are beauties like Xun Xueer to accompany them.

Another thing worth Xu Qing's congratulations is that the three-point vegetable patch he opened on the side of the east wall has already come out with green vegetable sprouts. A pot of fire is sent in every day, and some snow is melted and watered, and the winter grows slowly, but it can be eaten in only ten days. Xu Qing doesn't want to take it out to show off as a gift, such a good thing should be enjoyed by himself behind closed doors, others are foaming in their mouths, who cares about that? Besides, from the perspective of Taoguang's obscurity, it shouldn't be a new gadget that shocks the world from time to time.

The three little ones were with Shangguan Yi, and they also learned a lot of things, and even Xun Yeyu could look at the snow and chant a bad sentence of "The cold wind is really cold, and the snow is really white". Although the sentence is bad, but this appreciation of nature is not bad, this is at least worth affirming, isn't it?

Speaking of poetry, "Xu Chuliu" was named the first talent by the literati in Chang'an, and the red light district talked about Xu Chuliu for a while. The scandals and speculations continued, and even gave birth to many stories of "Xu Chuliu" that even Xu Qing didn't know, such as the story of Xu Chuliu and the eight talented women of Chang'an.

As for the poems written by Xu Qing, they have long become beautiful works that literati should appreciate when they get up early and go to bed late.

From the beautiful scenery of the "Four Hundred and Eighty Temples of the Southern Dynasty" in spring, to the Lingyunzhi in the summer, "it will be the top of the mountain, and the mountains are small" in the summer, and then to the autumn to climb high and look into the distance, and the festival is full of relatives, the literati of Chang'an have changed their ways to appreciate these poems every day, and the poems written by others are all overshadowed. Even the almost waves, the joke "Ten One", have been copied everywhere.

But no matter how good this poem is, it will only be a few sentences when it is turned around, and it is inevitably a little boring. After this heavy snowfall, the beautiful scenery is natural, and the throats of the literati began to itch, and they couldn't sing good poems, so they only talked about what happened to this first talent? Don't you want to sing snow? There are even some little fans of Xu Qing in the boudoir, who began to worry about whether Xu Chuliu was sick.

The result of Xu Qing's lack of Yongxue was that the literati of Chang'an found Shangguanyi, because all the poems of the first genius came from him. Countless people begged him to invite the first genius out to hold a poetry meeting. And the result of begging Shangguanyi was that Shangguanyi found Xu Qing.

"Sixth brother, you can make a poem about Yongxue! If you don't write poetry, those 'hungry people' will skin me alive!" ”

"Uh-uh, yesterday's song 'Snow by Snow, Falling on the Ground' Doesn't work?" Xu Qing was eating fried broad beans, and there was a clattering sound. Shangguan Yi knew that Xu Qing was perfunctory, and asked:

"Sixth brother, there will be a poetry tasting meeting on November 11, will you go?"

"Poof...... That? Xu Qing almost swallowed the big broad bean directly when he heard it, is this especially Singles' Day? .

"You promised?! Great, November 11th! Qujiangchi Hibiscus Garden! Shangguan Yi heard Xu Qing's question, played a careful role, and walked out without waiting for Xu Qing to finish speaking. Xu Qing shook his head, and said in his heart that I am not an old bachelor now, hehe. But Shangguan's kid is like this, this poetry club can't help but go now, how can he have an intuition and make trouble again? It's only been a few days......

What kind of poetry meeting, Xu Qing doesn't pay attention to it, ordinary days are what he wants.

"Young master, someone is here in the palace...... Wang Shan hurriedly ran in.

"In the palace?" Xu Qing peeled a broad bean and threw it into his mouth.

"Yes, talk to Liu San in the same tone~"

Xu Qing was drumming in his heart, could it be that he didn't go to work and was discovered? hurriedly rushed out to ask, and the eunuch told Xu Qing that it was just Li Yuan who announced that he had entered the palace, and looking at the eunuch's expression, it should not be a bad thing, and he was a little relieved. Packed up and drove to Taiji Palace. Now Xu Qing's house is very close to the Taiji Palace, and it takes dozens of minutes to drive to the Hajj.

"Minister Xu Qing greets His Majesty the Emperor." Xu Qing knelt in the middle of the hall, saying that it was easier to kneel in the Tang Dynasty, and it was easier to accept psychologically, because the seats were full of ministers, big officials and small officials, and even the emperor was kneeling, but he was kneeling, but there was not much difference between the two. Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, "kneeling" was just a ritual, like clinking glasses, showing respect from top to bottom, rather than "master and slave".

Li Yuan straightened up, nodded his head, and then said:

"Xu Qing, I know that you have a lot of wonderful ideas, you must be a rich man, just now the court has a question, I don't know if you can answer it?"

"The minister tried his best to ......" Xu Qing smashed his mouth, I am not Du Niang.

"You say, everything in the world is hot and cold and contracting, but when this water is cold and freezes, why does it become bigger?" Li Yuan asked Xu Qing very suspiciously.

"Eh, what's this......" Xu Qing secretly complained in his heart when he heard it, this has to talk about hydrogen bonds, water molecules or something, how can this be said clearly!

His mind was spinning, and suddenly he had an idea, how could Li Yuan suddenly have a scientific spirit, no, this question has a deep meaning. Xu Qing looked at the full audience again, all of them looked puzzled, didn't they say the answer Li Yuan wanted? This is more meaningful, so Xu Qing thought, this abnormal phenomenon of water is special, unique, is it ...... After thinking about it, Xu Qing replied:

Lao Tzu said that goodness is like water, and you can know where you are, but you can know that this water is the way, and nature is different from ordinary things. All things are stupid, human beings are only wise, and they are also enlightened; Trillion people are all people, the emperor is the only king, and he has the mandate of heaven, which is also the truth. ”

When Li Yuan heard this, he was really happy, stroked his beard and nodded, and said, "Xu Qing is really talented, this theory is true...... Such a great talent, I have to use it. Xu Qingsheng was promoted to the middle doctor, and entered the inner hall to discuss the ......"

"Inner Sanctum!" The audience was full of ministers, gasping for air.