Chapter 344: Wu Mei? Wu Zetian?

Gongsun Helan was disappointed.

Because when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came down, the woman who followed him was not Yuzhang.

The lively princess who used to love to be lively and like to run around seems to have disappeared suddenly, and she has not heard of her coming out again for nearly three months.

Therefore, when the prince arrived, when the banquet began, Gongsun Helan put on a listless appearance that no one should approach, and a person drank sullen wine next to Liu Yiyi, and the merchants next to him seemed to have heard of his murderous name, and no one dared to come over and take the initiative to provoke.

Liu Yiyi was very interested in the woman beside Li Chengqian, because from the moment he entered the scene, Liu Yiyi noticed that the woman had been staring at him, with appreciation, curiosity in her eyes, well, and some disbelief.

Is it a princess? Is it a maid? Is it the crown princess?

Liu Yiyi drank the wine and looked at the woman again, guessing the woman's identity with some boredom in his heart.

Looking at her appearance, she should not be more than sixteen years old, and she looks, well, belongs to the very charming kind, looks very innocent, like an ignorant girl who has no experience in the world, but from her smart eyes that turn from time to time, Liu Yiyi can see that this is a woman with a lot of ideas.

I don't know if it was deliberate, or ignored, when Li Chengqian arrived, the people next to him did not introduce the identity of this woman to more than a dozen businessmen on the fifth floor, perhaps they disdained to tell them about it, Liu Yiyi saw a trace of disdain in their eyes from the moment Li Chengqian and the woman came in.

Merchants are in a humble position, and even if there are Ming monarchs like Li Shimin who vigorously advocate doing business in the market, they still can't change the status of merchants in the eyes of these nobles and even commoners.

If it weren't for Li Shimin's order, I think this Li Chengqian would not be here tonight, right?

Liu Yiyi drank another glass of wine, and looked at the woman next to Li Chengqian, she was now very well-behaved, sitting next to Li Chengqian, looking like a bird, but her eyes were inadvertently kept on all the businessmen upstairs.

"Does Mrs. Ren know who the woman next to the prince is?" Liu Yiyi raised his glass and gestured to Aunt Ren, who was sitting next to him, and asked her softly.

"What? Mr. Liu is moved? Aunt Ren also raised her glass and touched Liu Yiyi, glanced at Liu Yiyi playfully, and said: "But Mr. Liu came to ask me, but he asked the wrong person, the little woman just came from Jiangnan, where can I recognize so many people, especially if this is still from the palace?" ”

"If Mr. Liu really wants to know, he might as well go and ask President Sang or Sister Sang Yue about it, there are few things they don't know about Chang'an City." Although she didn't know the answer, Ren Gu still pointed out a clear way to Liu Yiyi.

"Big brother, don't bother, I know." While Liu Yiyi was thinking about whether to satisfy his curiosity, Gongsun Helan, who had been drinking alcohol on the side, interjected: "That little girl is the quasi-crown princess selected by Empress Changsun for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the daughter of the former Governor of Yuzhou, Wu Shitong, who was given the name by Empress Changsun, called Wu Mei, and now she is very favored by His Royal Highness the Prince." If the eldest brother takes a fancy to her, it is better to die as soon as possible. ”

"Huh? Wu, Wu Mei?! Ahem, ahem.."

Liu Yiyi was choked, there was wine, and there were also the words of Gongsun Helan.

Samurai Tong, Wu Meiniang, Wu ... What is the day?

Wu Zetian will appear, Liu Yiyi is not surprised, after coming to the Tang Dynasty, he has seen more celebrities, and she is not worse than Wu Zetian.

However, what made Liu Yiyi extremely surprised was why the 'Zetian Great Sage Emperor', who first became Li Shimin's daughter-in-law, then Li Zhi's daughter-in-law, and then many people's daughters-in-law, is now mixed up with Li Chengqian, who can't fight with eight poles? Also, the quasi-crown princess? Could it be that Wu Zetian's first green hat was not given to Li Shimin, but to Li Shimin's eldest son, Li Chengqian?

What's going on? Is history wrong, or has it deviated from its original trajectory because of his arrival?

Yanagichi struggled to cough out the wine that had choked on his trachea, his face flushed with choking.

"Is Mr. Liu okay?" Noticing Liu Yiyi's situation here, Li Chengqian, who was sitting at the head of the hospital, kindly asked Liu Yiyi here, among the people sitting there tonight, the one who can make Li Chengqian look pleasing to the eye is Liu Yiyi.

"It's okay, cough! It's Xiaomin's rudeness, please don't blame His Royal Highness the Prince," resisting the urge to cough again, Liu Yiyi held his breath and nodded slightly to Li Chengqian, and at the same time thought in his heart, with Wu Zetian's ability and ambition, can Li Chengqian, this kid, be able to control her?

It's a bit of a hang.

Liu Yiyi raised his eyes and looked at the delicate and well-behaved little girl beside Li Chengqian, feeling that for himself, for the second child of the Liu family, and for the children and grandchildren of the Liu family, should he have a little relationship with her in advance?

"Big brother, a little girl with a little background, do you need to be so surprised?" After Li Chengqian and everyone's eyes dispersed, Gongsun Helan leaned in front of Liu Yiyi and whispered: "Wu Shitong died two years ago, the heirs of the martial arts family are mediocre, they are all useless, and there are no relatives to rely on outside. ”

There are not a few people who are staring at the position of the crown princess, and they can't say that Wu Mei is a woman, by the prince's side, when and how she died, she won't even know. The crooks of those women in the palace, although Gongsun Helan does not know everything, but he also knows a thing or two, and the palace is not much brighter than the outside world.

"She? Can't stay long? Liu Yiyi glanced at Gongsun Helan with some amusement, if even a woman like Wu Zetian couldn't stay in the palace for a long time, then there would be no more women in the palace.

For Wu Zetian, the only empress in Chinese history, Liu Yiyi still has some admiration in his heart.

"Brother Xian, there is a saying called 'people can't look good, and the sea can't fight', this Wu Mei is far from being as simple as what you said and saw, if you have the opportunity, Gongsun Mansion might as well make friends with her." After all, it is his own brother, Liu Yiyi kindly reminded him, hoping that Gongsun Mansion and Wu Zetian could form a good fate, but looking at Gongsun Helan's appearance, it seems that he is a little sneering.

"It's just a woman, and the eldest brother thinks too highly of her." gave Liu Yiyi such a response, and Gongsun Helan drank again alone.

"Oh, hopefully." With a chuckle, Liu Yiyi glanced at Wu Mei again, took a sip of wine, and said a nonsensical word to himself.

The banquet went on very well, and the dozen or so businessmen sitting there were all good people, and there was no cold time.

However, Liu Yiyi was not very interested in what they were talking about, and it was mostly polite and false, so it was okay not to listen.

Originally, he came to Chang'an just to have a good time, and he thought that the 'Qiubo Chamber of Commerce' was something similar to a market, and he came to catch the market.

Yes, he came to catch the market, but he didn't want to, this market is a little bigger, and it has been open for a little longer, which is very different from his original idea of staying for a day and leaving.

Fortunately, although the banquet was boring, the wine and dishes on the banquet were good, very much the taste made by the palace chefs in the past, and it was very suitable for the taste of Liu Yi, so when the prince and those local merchants were talking about this and that, Liu Yiyi was all carefully tasting all kinds of dishes on his seat.

Elbows, tongues, tenderloins, duck skins, eels, pork ribs, all the color and flavor are rare.

On the issue of eating, Liu Yiyi has never known what politeness is, and his consistent principle is to eat his own and let others see it. In the palace before, in front of the eldest grandson empress, he was never polite.

Therefore, his belly is very open, and he naturally enjoys eating.

is as enjoyable as Liu Yiyi, and Ren You, although this little guy eats not as exaggerated as Liu Yiyi, and even looks a little elegant, but he also belongs to the ranks of those who work hard.

Ren You usually has three hobbies: horses, food, and beautiful women.

The god horse is in the front, the food is in the back, and the beauty is second, so when the food is current, even he has always been obsessed, and Sang Yue, who is regarded as a fairy, has been forgotten by him, and both eyes are staring at the food in front of his seat, working hard to comfort his spleen and stomach.

Therefore, in the whole banquet, Liu Yiyi and Ren You, these two people, are very eye-catching and special, they give people the impression that they are rude, plus they have no interest, as if they have not eaten in eight lifetimes, well, although the wine and food on the table are indeed good.

However, out of politeness, no one stood up to say anything about them, at most they just looked at them twice and despised them a few times in their hearts, after all, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was present, and even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not say anything, let alone show a trace of dissatisfaction, where did they dare to say more. And seeing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seemed to have some respect for the surnamed Liu just now, they didn't dare to be rude.

"I didn't expect Mr. Liu to eat, and he was like that, well, bold," Seeing Liu Yi cleaning up the things on the small table in front of him like a storm, Ren Gu couldn't help but glance at her baby son, compared to Liu Yiyi, her son should be considered very polite, right?

"Food, sex, sex," Liu Yi unhurriedly picked up a white cloth similar to a napkin next to the table and wiped the oil stains on his mouth, and said to Ren Gu with a smile: "What the sages said, Liu has always thought so. ”

"What Brother Liu said is very true!" Listening to Liu Yiyi's words, Ren Youda had a feeling of encountering a confidant, raised his glass from afar, and respected Liu Yiyi, which attracted a burst of eyes from Ren Gu.

After eating and drinking, Liu Yiyi escaped with urine, confessed to Li Chengqian and the businessman who was sitting down, and slipped out alone.

"Mr. Liu!" Before Liu Yiyi got down to the fourth floor, he heard someone shouting behind him, Ren You, the naughty boy who looked a little like himself.

"Ren You, why did you come out too?" Ryuichi stopped and waited for him to come down the stairs.

"What are you doing when you're full and you're full?" Ren You said very bluntly, and then laughed with Liu Yiyi, to a certain extent, he and Liu Yiyi are the same kind of people.

"The things here are good," Liu Yiyi patted Ren You's shoulder, took him to a side window on the fourth floor and sat down, looked at the brightly lit scenery downstairs, and said: "It should all be made by the imperial chef in the palace, rare food, those people don't eat it, it's their loss." ”

"Mm-hmm," Ren Youlian nodded his little head and said, "At the moment of food, how can there be a reason to just look at it and not eat it?" What's more, the dishes here are more delicious than those of our family's 'Yiheju', and the daughters are rare, and they can be eaten for nothing, and fools don't eat them. ”

Ren You licked his lips, the wine and food made by the imperial chef were not easy to eat.

"I heard that your Ren family is in this hotel business, why didn't you invite one or two imperial chefs back?" Liu Yiyi turned over the tea bowl on the table, poured a cup for Ren You and himself, and then took it up and tasted it carefully, and drank a little bit of Maojian tea.

"Brother Liu said it lightly, that is, there is an imperial chef coming out of the palace, just these big families in Chang'an City, the prince and the prince, are not enough to compete for, where is it our turn to invite?" Ren You said a little depressedly: "In other words, there is, let's go and invite, people may not be too rare to come, the eyes of those imperial chefs are very high." Our 'Yiheju' has been in business for hundreds of years, and there are less than five imperial chefs who can be invited before and after, and the most recent one is also decades ago, and now people have died early. If it weren't for the fact that our 'Yiheju' wine was not bad, 'Yiheju' would have closed its doors long ago. ”

"Oh? That's it," Liu Yiyi chuckled and shook his head, he didn't fully believe Ren You's words, a restaurant that has been in business for hundreds of years without failing, where can Ren You say so badly.

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