Chapter Seventy-Six: Cui Niangzi's Troubles
I heard that Cui Jue came to Jingxiang, but in fact, Lao Zhang never saw her once. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis is the first time that we have met in the Taoist temple in Linzhang Mountain.
This cave is called "Huang Tingguan", Li Chunfeng is also a person with ideas, this situation, Lao Zhang Xin said that he should set foot in Liangzhou and find Li Daliang.
The plaque is mentioned by Chu Suiliang, imitating Wang Xizhi, because Li Dong likes Wang Xizhi, so there is no way, as a "servant", patting sycophants is a basic skill. What's more, after he came over from Xue Ju back then, Li Dong also praised Chu Suiliang to his eldest brother, saying that he was ...... The birds are human.
Well, no problem.
Chu Suiliang, who is a little bird, mentioned the word to the "Yellow Crown" Taoist, and Lao Zhang pushed the door in, and saw that although the three birds were not dependent on people, they were eating cherries very hard.
In recent years, the watermelon has not sold well, not to mention the thick skin, the melon flesh inside is still a little cotton, and the taste has a very heavy graininess, but it is not the refreshing taste of the sand pulp. In short, those who like to eat like to eat, and those who don't like it must not like it. On the contrary, there are five or six varieties of muskmelons, one of which is related to a slave trade.
When Shahin, a native of Ximuyar, was sold to the Tang Dynasty by his fellow villagers, he also brought a handful of melon seeds, and these seeds were later cultivated by the Jia family in Chang'an to produce a kind of melon with yellow and green skin and golden flesh. The sweetness is quite high, which is very suitable for planting in the central area of Bashu Guan.
The only fly in the ointment of this kind of melon is that the yield is slightly lower, Jia Fei took the white melon imported during the Northern Wei Dynasty and the local black melon of the Central Plains to cross, and obtained a dark green melon with green in the black, with a yield of more than 3,000 catties per mu. The native species of Ximuyer is only about 800 catties, and it can barely reach 1,000 catties when it is served.
But it's less, but it's really quite delicious, and sure enough, it has a faint mint flavor, slightly chilled, and it's simply a holy product to cool off.
Li Simo once asked Sha Xin if there were many such melons in his hometown, and Sha Xin, as a small nobleman in the past, recalled and said that he had never seen such a melon.
According to Lao Zhang's judgment, this kind of melon should be produced in Egypt without accident, and it may be found upstream along the Nile River as farthest.
In the entire Chang'an City, the only business name that can provide this kind of melon is Amway. A pound of fruit, when the price is the highest, you need half a piece of silk to exchange.
Liangjing is a metropolis with a population of one million, and I don't know how much money can be paid, so that it is difficult to find a fruit, but it has attracted a lot of measures to criticize the powerful and write a lot of poems about "eight-petal gold".
This "eight-petal gold" is the melon.
"Why don't I see you eating 'eight-petal gold'?"
Seeing Zhang De coming in, the three little ladies who ate cherries all covered up their eating appearance slightly. Xiao Shu grinned, her eyes fluttered, and she said crisply: "Half a foot of red silk for golden melon, I'm afraid that you, a layman who sells poetry, will find Lao Futu to compose poems." ”
Regarding the matter of the "mentally handicapped master", the broad masses of the people have said that such an old monk will give me a dozen. As for Li Dong's appointment of a "demon monk", he didn't make an order anyway? Count a fart.
opened the ice book, took melons and fruits, as well as finger grapes, mountain plums, raspberries, and some unnamed ones, Lao Zhang could only guess that they might be myrtleaceae, because those things that looked like tomatoes were the tribute that the six edicts entered the palace to Emperor Li.
There are countless such things in the southwest, and they are only rare and exotic fruits.
There are also buckets on the side, and in the buckets are thick and long sugarcane, all of which are large green-skinned sugarcane, and some small ones are bamboo cane and thatched cane from Lingnan. The latter is also found in Jiangxia, but there are not many people who eat it, and most of them are children looking for some tricks.
"If the second lady goes to Chang'an to say, I'm afraid that I will be questioned by the emperor again."
After that, after taking a bite of melon, I only felt that the heat was shaken away, and it was transparent from the inside out. "Huang Tingguan" was originally the structure of a summer resort, a secluded and shady place, and a mezzanine can be added to stuff ice cubes into it. But basically there is no need, the mountain wind turns, just to bring the river breeze and cold air on the Han River, basically Guanli and Hanyang City, there are two worlds at all.
"I haven't congratulated my brother yet, but now I have become a 'Baili Hou', which is even more stylish."
Cui Jue's face was slightly red, and she looked at Zhang De a little shyly, she was a decent woman, and it was very rare to be able to praise a man in person.
Zhang De was very casual, invited them to eat melons, and then said, "How long will it take for Cui Niangzi to come to Jiangxia?" ”
After asking, Zhang De asked very strangely: "Speaking of which, I'm also curious, how did Cui Niangzi think of the southwest trip?" How could Cui Changshi agree? ”
Cui Jue thought about it, took a bite of the chilled "eight-petal gold", his eyes lit up, and he thought that he had never eaten it. This made Zhang De a little surprised, after all, with Cui Hongdao's strength, it is impossible not to even get a melon, right? You must know that Amway has a lot of sales to Wucheng on this special variety of melon.
Qinghe Cui's family eats eight thousand melons in one season, which is higher than the consumption of the palace.
"Since the queen stopped choosing a woman to enter the palace, the adults have also been quite responsible in Xuzhou." Cui Jue's words are not small in information, first of all, Zhang De affirmed that Cui Hongdao's daughter was indeed sent to the palace at the beginning, and it was operated by Cui's family; Secondly, after the queen stopped looking for a mistress for her husband, Cui Hongdao was under a lot of pressure, but he was still Li Yuanli's staff, so it can be seen that there are no big problems, and small problems are continuous.
No one in the world will know that the root cause of the queen stopping to find a little wife for her husband is actually here in Lao Zhang. Of course, Lao Zhang will not tell the world that Lao Tzu just got a lot of money for the queen, one! Big! Pen! Money!
"Even if you can't enter the palace, you won't be blamed, right?"
Zhang De took another bite of the melon and asked tentatively.
Cui Jue's face was cold, and he sighed with some distress: "Xuzhou Liufang is not from Wucheng after all. Dealing with this matter earlier was pre-arranged by Qinghe. When I came to Jiangxia, I heard that the people of Wucheng invested a lot of money......"
Ha, interesting.
Lao Zhang heard the taste, and felt that this was Qinghe's family looking for Xuzhou Liufang to settle accounts? What bullshit. However, Zhang De also believes that Cui's can't be so low-grade, only God knows whether the draft investment will succeed or not. What are you kidding, is it not possible to give a gift to Jae-suke and run for office, and you still have to ask for money from Moon Jae-suke?
"Shimei, let me ask one more question, since you and I separated, has the Qinghe Cui clan sent someone to Xuzhou?"
"Yes."
Cui Jue hesitated for a moment, nodded and said.
After getting an affirmative answer, Zhang De hummed, and said secretly in his heart: It seems that this is the way that Qinghe Cui's family is eyeing Cui Hongdao and wants to benefit from Denglai.
"If what I expected is good, Qinghe Dafang has introduced you to another talent?" Zhang De finished the last bite of melon, picked up a cotton towel and wiped his hands, and looked at Cui Jue.
Hearing Zhang De's question, not only Cui Jue, but even the Xiao sisters were very strange. Xiao Shu was a little surprised, and pouted and stared at the melon that was missing a hole: "Could it be that you are the young talent?" ”
As soon as she spoke, she regretted it a little, and glanced at Zhang De carefully, but Lao Zhang didn't hear it at all. Cui Jue's face became redder, and he glared at Xiao Shu, who was open-mouthed, and then nodded at Zhang De and said, "Brother Shi is wise, but there is such a thing." The people of Wucheng still want the adults to marry me to the royal family......"
"Ha, it's a dream. Okay, don't worry, this matter is Qinghe Dafang persecuting Cui Changshi, hoping that Cui Changshi will give up the benefits in his hands. ”
"Really?"
Cui Jue's eyes lit up, and then darkened again, "It's just that adults can't, it's better to be free and easy than Xiao Gong." ”
Where is Xiao Ergongzi's free and easy, there is nothing left to take off. Anyway, Xiao Keng doesn't need to be an official, and waiting for death is his highest state. Cui Hongdao is different, he still has to find a way out for Xuzhou Liufang.
"People are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves."
Lao Zhang smiled and pointed to Bingjian, "It's better to be a melon-eating crowd." ”