Chapter 143: Colorful Glass Mirror
When the two came to the palace wall, Li Shimin raised the telescope and slowly observed, looking east and west, and let out a sigh of admiration from time to time.
"Yes, with this thing, Chang'an City is in full view, it is indeed a good thing, I let people see if there is a transparent crystal in the warehouse, and if there is, I will send it to you, the more this thing, the better." Let's go back and look at it once in a while. Li Shimin controlled his desire to continue to play and greeted.
After coming down, Li Shimin asked Feng Daiwen to go home, after all, he had not returned home after leaving Chang'an for a few months......
In the Lizheng Palace, Li Shimin, who was in a happy mood, went to visit the eldest grandson who had just given birth, and when he entered the house, he found that several sons and daughters were there, and he couldn't help but express his condolences: "Why did you make an appointment to visit your mother and younger brother together today?" ”
When everyone saluted, Li Shimin hurriedly walked to the side of the bed and pressed the eldest grandson who wanted to get up, and the eldest grandson of the two husbands and wives for many years could naturally understand the mood of his husband, and asked Li Shimin with a smile: "The second brother is in a good mood today, but what is the happy event?" ”
"Haha, of course it's a happy event, your son-in-law is back, Guang'an's marriage will not be delayed, why isn't it a happy event." Li Shimin laughed.
The eldest grandson glanced at Guang'an, who was blushing, and said, "Didn't the second brother just ask why they came here together today?" ”
"yes? Why. ”
"It's not for the sake of sharing gifts, second brother, look, these are all given by your good son-in-law, it's rare that the children have a heart, and they are sent to the concubine first." The eldest grandson pointed to several large boxes beside the bed.
Only then did Li Shimin discover that the few boxes on the ground were all filled with all kinds of gold, silver, jewelry, and ornaments. couldn't help but smile and said: "Haha, it turns out that you all know, it's not bad, you know how to offer treasures to Guanyin." ”
"Yes, father, brother-in-law also gave a big rhinoceros to the emperor's grandfather, and he knows how to perform elephants!" Changle immediately took Li Shimin's hand and said.
"Oh, didn't you give Changle an interesting one?" Li Shimin asked dotingly at Changle's head.
"Yes! Yes! Father, you see, this is my sister and me. Changle immediately ran over excitedly carrying a birdcage as if offering a treasure.
According to the teasing taught by the animal trainer, "The princess is auspicious!" Princess, auspicious! The two emerald parrots immediately cried loudly, giggling Changle.
Li Shimin looked at Changle with a red smile on his face, and said to himself with joy and a little envy: "Stinky boy, I didn't give me any good things." ”
The eldest grandson glanced at him and said: "Why not, there were not enough high-grade agarwood palaces before, and your good son-in-law said that in order to let you have a good rest, just ambergris was given hundreds of catties, and agarwood is even more numerous!" Enough for you to use non-stop, reward. ”
The ancients attached great importance to incense and jade for a long time, and almost everyone who was rich would wear jade and incense sachets. Many literati and scholars like to concoct their own hobby sachets, one is to repel insects and mosquitoes. In the past, there were not so many public toilets, there were many plants and trees, and mosquitoes were everywhere in summer, and almost ordinary people would plant some mosquito-repellent plants in front of and behind the house, such as wormwood.
The second is to cover up the body odor, many people do not take a bath often, especially in winter, which is extremely cold, but there are not many places that are impermeable, and there are hot baths. Therefore, they generally don't like to take a bath in winter, and the noble family likes to eat mutton, and the body odor is naturally heavier, so incense is needed at this time.
Ambergris and agarwood have the effect of calming the nerves, and they are very rare, and they are deeply loved by the royal family and nobles. In the past, it was tribute from other countries, and the Hu merchants sold it very rarely, and the top grade was almost a special term for the royal family, and the occasional outflow was also a reward from the emperor.
"Haha! Yes, this ambergris is very valuable for medicinal purposes, so let's leave some for Sun Daochang, maybe I can use it one day. Li Shimin laughed happily, and secretly said that Lao Tzu was finally able to be generous once, thinking about it, rewarding the minister with dozens of catties of agarwood at a time, making the minister stunned and feeling dark, but there was another thing in his mouth.
Looking back, Li Shimin asked curiously: "Guang'an, what did that kid bring you?" "After all, it is so good to give yourself and others, so many items, according to Feng Daiwen's personality, there should be good things for Guang'an.
"Humph!" Changle was not satisfied this time, and snorted coldly and twisted his head away.
The eldest grandson smiled and did not speak, Guang'an timidly took out a mirror, yes, it is a mirror, not a traditional copper mirror, but a luxurious mirror with crystal polishing and smoothing, with a layer of silver plated on the back, inlaid in a copper frame, and inlaid with various colored gems around it. Feng Daiwen himself just asked the craftsman to inlay it on the copper frame, but there are many gems on the ship, and such a beautiful mirror, the craftsman has regarded it as a treasure in the world, how can it be tolerated, just the selection of gems was discussed for a long time, and finally made two luxurious mirrors.
Feng Daiwen didn't feel at all about naming the mirror, so he let the craftsman take it himself, one large and one small, were taken as colorful glass mirrors, just because when they were taken out to enjoy on the boat, the sunlight reflected colorful light, and the mirror surface was as smooth and delicate as glass.
Li Shimin took the mirror and looked inside in surprise, the mirror clearly reflected his surprised appearance, even the beard on his face could be counted, touched the slightly haggard face, and reluctantly handed it to Guang'an, there were a lot of surprises for himself today. Looking back at the sullen Changle and said: "Such a treasure is naturally scarce, it should be a treasure of that small country, wait for me to ask them to offer a few more faces." ”
"It's going to have two sides, the big one is for the queen mother, and the small one is for the eldest sister, this is what the brother-in-law asked me to do, and there is no material to do it redundantly." Changle still said unhappily.
"My brother-in-law said that it was made on a ship, and the crystals have other uses, and the two largest ones are made into two mirrors." Li Tai immediately rushed to explain.
"Humph! This stinky boy told me that there was no big crystal to watch the moon, and it turned out to be used to please women. Li Shimin was stunned for a moment and said angrily.
"Your Majesty! Concubines also have a side. The eldest grandson was coquettish, and Guang'an's face turned red instantly.
"Ahem, ahem, I'll see your gifts." Li Shimin knew that he was speechless, faked coughing twice, turned his head to Li Taihu and asked.
The three brothers of Li Chengqian had to take out their sunglasses, and Li Ke kept pretending to be cool on his face and took them off obediently. Only then did Li Shimin realize that he took Li Chengqian's self and put it on and said: "You are the prince, how can you lose your mind by playing with things." ”
Li Chengqian had no choice but to bow his head and respond: "Erchen understands. After that, he took out the Nanmu box containing his sunglasses.
"My brother-in-law said that as long as you burn out new glass, mirrors, and sunglasses, you will have as many as you want." Li Tai was afraid that Li Shimin would confiscate him together, so he hurriedly said on the side.
Li Shimin......
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