Xue Mansion back kitchen.

Li Xiao stood by the stove and pointed to Lao Wang's daughter-in-law to salad cucumbers.

"The essence of this dish is to shoot, you have to shoot it, you can't cut it. Only those who shoot by hand have a taste, but if they are cut, they have no soul. ”

Wu Shi looked at the cucumber in his hand, fresh and watery, it is rare to have such a vegetable in this season, but how can a cucumber have a soul?

"Well, everything has a spirit, and if you cut it, there will be no spirit." Li Xiaoqiang explained.

Wu smiled slightly, this smile was very charming and charming. Li Xiao was a little surprised, although the Wu family looked several years older than him, but his body exuded a charming mature taste, especially at this time, the small belly was slightly bulging, which added a bit of mature charm.

Lao Wang is so blessed, Li Xiao sighed secretly. Seeing that this young woman is a good wife and mother, her husband is a guest at the banquet, and people still think that her husband likes to eat this hand-papped cucumber on the table, so he specially came to the back kitchen to learn.

"I'm a little curious, San Lang, you are a son, why do you have such good cooking skills?"

"Without it, it's delicious. Foodies will practice good cooking skills. ”

"Foodie? It's interesting what you say about yourself. Wu smiled.

There was no one else in the back kitchen, and Wu Shi took a cloth bag with a cucumber under Li Xiao's instructions, and then smashed the cucumber with a knife.

I have to say that some people can shoot so good even if they take a cucumber.

"Have you been in contact with Tamase lately?" Wu asked while patting.

"Well, yes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, now that she has lived in Lanxi for a long time, we don't look down and don't look up. Besides, I promised the princess to manage his fiefdom for her and collect rent on her behalf. Li Xiao generously admitted that he and Princess Tamase had no other personal relationship anyway, only friendship.

"How is she lately?"

"It's not good, but it's not bad. After all, the princess is now forced to become a monk, and her mood is definitely not much better. But on the other hand, leaving Chang'an City, it is far away from those rights and wrongs, it is rare to be quiet, and if you are lonely for a while, you can also Phoenix Nirvana and be reborn from the fire, which is a good life. ”

Wu nodded, she also admired Tamase very much, a woman who dared to love and hate. Although she is the eldest princess of the royal family, she can also be so free and easy. said that he was a monk, he used to be so flying, and now he is so free and easy.

"She's a good friend of mine, but she doesn't want to see our old friends now. You're her neighbor, and you're the one who is rare to talk to her these days, so take good care of her for us. ”

"It's nature."

Wu Shi looked at Li Xiao, who had a natural demeanor, and sighed, "Tamase used to have countless friends, but there are few real confidants, many people used to be just climbing dragons and phoenixes, or wanting to borrow her power, or coveting her beauty, there are few people who can really know his heart, you are one, it is rare." ”

"When you make friends, you can't think about being useful. Make friends with useless friends, don't have too much interest, bland, make friends or not, it all depends on feelings. Don't speculate for more than half a sentence, and have a chance to meet thousands of miles away. If you have no desires, you can naturally last for a long time. ”

"Tamase really didn't make a mistake with your friend. I heard that Tamase's disaster this time is also thanks to your advice from behind? ”

"Where, I'm just a country farmer, how can I understand that." Li Xiao smiled and waved his hand.

Wu Shi did not relent, "I'm not an outsider, why should I see outsiders like this." I've met you a few times and talked to you a few times, and I can see that you are a hidden master. Even the British Duke and Lu Guogong kept praising you for being a talent, do you know how many famous ministers and generals in the DPRK and China were shocked by your Pingliao policy? ”

"Just gibberish?"

"Maybe people are jealous of your talent and think you're talking nonsense, but I don't believe it. You came up with a peaceful strategy for the imperial court, and you also made a strange plan for Tamase to survive the catastrophe, which fully shows that you are wise and close to the demon. ”

Li Xiao was secretly frightened, this woman is really not simple.

Although women in these years are not the kind of people who did not go out of the door in the Ming and Qing dynasties, women are women after all, whether it is the education they receive or the current affairs they understand, they are definitely inferior to men. But this woman is so shrewd.

"Don't say that, I'm an ordinary small landowner in the countryside, and I'm still a guest cook today, if I really have the ability to stabilize the country, how can I be here?"

"What about the country landlords? Back then, Ma Zhou was just a scholar who traveled the world poorly, and Wei Zheng even became a Taoist monk for a time, but when they met the Ming Lord, didn't they also become the prime minister of the empire? ”

"How dare I compare with Ma Zhou and Wei Zheng, I can't compare, I can't compare."

Wu put down the knife in his hand and looked at Li Xiao.

"There is no one else here, I have a question I want to ask you, for the sake of me being a friend of Tamase, help me come up with ideas."

"You say!"

Wu Shi stroked his hair, half-turned around, and said eloquently, "Here's the thing, you also know that my husband is a child of a family, and his family has a big business. My husband took over as head of the family a few years ago, but he is young after all. When the old family owner was dying, he was afraid that my husband would be too young to control the family business, so he ordered a few old people to help my husband. ”

Li Xiao nodded while listening, it seems to be a very common story, a wealthy family, then a young family head, and then power.

He listened with a little interest, anyway, it's okay to sit here, it's still eating over there, and no one has called him a cook to serve the table, he still has to wait for the dinner there to sit down, sitting is boring, it's better to listen to the family affairs of the old Wang family.

"And then?"

"The old people picked by the old family are all elders of the family, especially one of them is also my husband's maternal uncle, although my husband was a son-in-law, but he was not the eldest son-in-law, and he was not qualified to inherit the family business. Later, the family changed, and he was selected as the heir with the support of this uncle. ”

The more Li Xiao listened, the more energetic he became, this is really a grudge between a wealthy family and a power struggle.

"And then?"

"Originally, my husband was able to inherit the position of the head of the family thanks to this uncle, but in the past few years, my husband has gradually become familiar with the affairs of the family, but my uncle and several old people chosen by the head of the family have always controlled the affairs of the family and refused to give up power."

"Oh, I see." Li Xiao nodded.

He asked Wu, "Madame wants to ask me how to take back power?" ”

"Saburo is so smart."

"I think things should be quite simple, although those are old people, or the old family master chooses, especially one of the uncles who is still a respected husband, but no matter what, they are all outsiders. Zunfu is still the head of the Wang family, and he has taken over the family business for several years, so the power of the family should naturally be returned to him. ”

"But those few people rely on the old and sell the old, and they just refuse to hand over power. The whole Wang family, whether it is the children of the family or the servants below, also obey them more. ”

"Your husband has been hollowed out."

Wu nodded, Li Xiao helped Yuse deal with the last time, which made her appreciate Li Xiao's quick wit, and today she said that the power struggle in the top court of the Tang Dynasty was a wealthy infighting, but in fact, she really meant to ask Li Xiao.

"There are two ways to do it, would you like to hear it?"

"Say it quickly!" The Wu family showed a look of surprise, the struggle between the emperor and the eldest grandson Wuji has become more and more obvious, Li Zhi can no longer tolerate the eldest grandson Wuji's overhead, he wants to be pro-government, but in the face of the huge strength of the eldest grandson Wuji, he throws a mouse taboo, and even the Wu family is a little helpless.