Chapter 10 Night Market
Among the Li family gates, Li Hun, the general of the right Xiaowei, is the most powerful and most admired. After listening to Yang Guang's question, Pei Yun pondered for a while before saying: "It seems that no one has any abnormal behavior, the general still takes ordinary children and friends out to hunt as usual, Lu Guogong has been lingering among the various green buildings, and Tang Guogong ......"
"What did my cousin do again?" Yang Guang asked curiously.
Yang Guang's mother and Li Yuan's mother were both daughters of Dugu Xin, a famous minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so Yang Guang and Li Yuan were cousins. (Dugu Xin's eldest daughter is the queen of Emperor Yu Wenyu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Li Yuan called the emperor and posthumously named his mother Empress Yuanzhen, so Dugu Xin's three daughters are all queens, and there is only one person in ancient and modern times.) )
Pei Yun replied: "Tang Guogong actually has a son who is outcast, and he was welcomed back to his house today. ”
Yang Guang shook his head: "My cousin, there is a little bit of ability, but he is too addicted to wine to be up to the task!" After he said this, he didn't seem to want to continue to discuss this matter, and motioned for Pei Yun to retreat.
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In the evening, Li Jiancheng invites Li Yin to have dinner with the others, but Li Yin refuses, and the courtyard where he lives has a kitchen, and after Fluttershy is busy for a while, the two of them have a hot meal.
Li Yin came to the Tang Mansion and only brought Fluttershy with him, Zhou An originally wanted to come, but Li Yin asked him to take care of the village, so he didn't follow.
While eating, Fluttershy asks Li Yin, "Master, will we go back to the village courtyard?" ”
Li Yin smiled: "Why, you just came here and want to go back?" ”
Fluttershy bows her head, looking embarrassed, "It's too big for Fluttershy to live in. ”
Li Yin sighed and looked out the door: "I don't like it here either, but for my mother's last wish...... Alas, don't say it. ”
Fluttershy was stunned for a moment, because when Li Yin set off for Cuiyun Peak that day, she asked her to take care of Xie, and Fluttershy agreed, but Xie died in the end, and Fluttershy felt very guilty and blamed herself for this.
Now that she heard Li Yin say that this Tang State Mansion was actually the Xie family's last wish, she couldn't help but secretly make up her mind: "No matter what, I must take good care of the young master here and fulfill the last wish of the master mother!" ”
Li Yin naturally didn't know that Fluttershy had thought so much because of his words, and his ears moved when he heard someone walk into the courtyard.
The person who came in was Li Yuan, and at this time, he finally saw his son Li Yin, whom he hadn't seen for more than ten years, and saw that he was sturdy and strong, tall and handsome, and nodded with satisfaction: "This appearance is really my Li Yuan's species!" ”
Li Yuan walked into the room, sat down with a big grin, and said to Fluttershy, "Girl, add me two dishes and chopsticks." ”
Fluttershy looks at Li Yin with a puzzled look on her face, asking him what to do.
Li Yin said: "Give it to him!" After eating a few bites of food, Li Yuan praised, "This dish is cooking quite well, it's almost catching up with the level of Luoyang Restaurant, little girl, you made it?" ”
Fluttershy proudly, "My young master taught me to do it!" ”
Li Yuan looked at Li Yin in surprise: "Your young master, can you still cook?" ”
Fluttershy's face was adoring: "Our young master can do anything, what is it that he can cook?" ”
Li Yuan bowed his head lightly, and after eating for a while, he said to Li Yin: "I heard that Jiancheng said that you want to join the military?" Li Yin said yes, and Li Yuan said again: "Goryeo will be conquered after the New Year, and the battlefield is extremely dangerous, do you want to take care of logistics and escort grain and grass?" ”
Li Yin shook his head: "It's best to go to the water division, followed by the army that can go to the battlefield, and forget the rest." ”
Fluttershy's eyes widened, and she looked at Li Yuan curiously, then turned to look at Li Yin and felt very strange, "These two are obviously meeting for the first time, how do they seem to know each other?" ”
Li Yin naturally had already guessed Li Yuan's identity, this was not a difficult thing, in this Tang State Mansion, there was no one else who matched Li Yuan's age, dress, conversation, and momentum.
After listening to Li Yin's words, Li Yuan's face was shocked, but finally sighed and stood up: "Since this is the case, then I will try my best to do what you want." He walked out.
"Young master, who is this strange man!" After Li Yuan leaves, Fluttershy asks Li Yin curiously.
Li Yin burped, put down the dishes and chopsticks and said, "He is the owner of this mansion, Li Yuan." ”
"Huh?!" Fluttershy lets out a cry of surprise.
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At noon the next day, under the witness of many people of the Li family, Li Yin was led by Li Yuan to worship the ancestors of the Li ancestral hall, entered the family tree, and officially became a member of the Li family.
After that, Li Yuan told Li Yin about the glory of their Li family in the past dynasties, and encouraged Li Yin to work hard.
Although their current power is incomparable with that of the great general Li Hun, they have always been a famous family.
Li Yuan's grandfather is called Li Hu, is the fifth grandson of Li Wei, the founding monarch of Xiliang during the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period, Li Hu himself is even more remarkable, is one of the eight Zhu generals who held military power in the Western Wei Dynasty, and the other seven Zhu generals are: Yu Wentai (Northern Zhou Taizu), Yuan Xin, Li Bi (Li Mi's great-grandfather), Zhao Gui, Yu Jin, Dugu Xin, Hou Mo Chen Chong.
After Li Hu's death, he was posthumously named the Duke of Tang State, and the title was inherited by Li Yuan's father, who died of illness when Li Yuan was seven years old, and Li Yuan inherited the title.
Although the title of the Duke of Tang was sealed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, because Yang Jian usurped the throne and became the emperor, in order to consolidate his rule, he specially issued an edict announcing that "the previous generation of Pinjue is still the same", so Li Yuan can still retain the title of Duke of Tang State.
Li Yin was not interested in any of this, and as he listened, he thought: When Fluttershy first entered Luoyang City that day, she seemed to have said that she wanted to see what the night market was like, so take her to see it tonight!
Although this ceremony is relatively short, but the significance is still quite large, before this ceremony, Li Yin decided to be an illegitimate son of the Li family, and after this ceremony, Li Yin has officially become the concubine of the Li family, and his status is not the same.
In this era, illegitimate children have little say for a family, while concubines are different, in addition to not being able to inherit the title, they can also inherit a certain amount of property, and others will also regard them as a part of that family.
Of course, no matter how the concubine is, after all, he is only a concubine, and he still can't be compared with the concubine.
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In the evening, as Fluttershy inadvertently says that she wants to see Luoyang City at night, Li Yin dresses up and pulls her out of the Guogong Mansion through the side door.
As the imperial capital, Luoyang has a curfew much later than other cities, and at this time, it is the most lively time of the day in Luoyang City.
The two of them walk to a neighborhood selling knick-knacks and sweets, and Fluttershy looks at this one and then at that one in high spirits, like a butterfly looking for nectar.
Li Yin also found that among the shops in Fang City, there were many people from the Central Plains, and after a little inquiry, they were actually Hu merchants from the subject countries of the Four Directions.
It turned out that in the third year of Daye, the chiefs of various Tibetan tribes asked to trade in the Luoyang market, and Yang Guang allowed it.
Yang Guangxian ordered the renovation and decoration of the shop, the eaves should be uniform, the store should be hung with curtains, rare goods were placed in the store, the merchants were gorgeously dressed, and even the vegetable sellers had to use dragon beard mats to pave the floor.
Yang Guang also ordered Hu Ke to invite all the shopkeepers to sit down when they passed by the wine and food shop, and after they were full of wine and food, they would not be compensated, and deceived them by saying: "China is rich, and there is no money for wine and food as usual." The Hu people were amazed.
But some of the wise among them noticed that silk was wrapped around the tree, and asked, "There are poor people in China, who are not clothed, so why don't you give them these silks to make clothes, but use them to wrap around the trees?" The person being questioned was speechless with shame.
Li Yin shook his head when he heard this, it was really undeserved to make such a national policy for the sake of face.
Suddenly, Li Yin sees Fluttershy stop at a jewelry shop for a long time, and repeatedly pick up and put down a hairpin inlaid with silver butterflies.
Li Yin shook his head and smiled, picked up the hairpin, and asked the owner of the shop, "How much is this thing?" ”
Fluttershy said sheepishly, "Master, I'm ...... I don't need ......"
The boss smiled at Li Yin and replied, "It only takes two dollars." ”
Fluttershy exclaimed, "Two? Why don't you grab it? That's enough for us to spend a month......"
The main currency of the Sui Dynasty was copper money, and the large transactions were how much money, consistent money, about 1,000 to 1,200 or so, depending on the quality of the copper money, two money for small households, is a huge amount of money.
Fluttershy wants to continue arguing with the boss, but Li Yin has already paid, and Fluttershy complains, "Master, how can you spend money so indiscriminately? If only ......"
As Fluttershy speaks, Li Yin puts on her newly purchased hairpin, "It's so beautiful!" Li Yin praised.
"Really?" Fluttershy's face is flushed, her eyes wide open, and she asks Li Yin with a look of anticipation, she is very happy after listening to Li Yin's praise just now, but she is afraid that it is just Li Yin's casual words.
"Of course it's true!" Li Yin said, picking up a bronze mirror from the small shop and placing it in front of Fluttershy, I don't know if it was a mental effect or what, Fluttershy saw herself in the bronze mirror at this time, and under the background of the butterfly hairpin, it looked a little more beautiful.
"Yo, what a pretty little maid!" Just when Li Yin and Fluttershy were both full of sweetness and joy in their hearts, a group of gentlemen suddenly came to the two of them, these people were not very old, the younger one was eight or nine years old, and the eldest was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and the eldest of them was the one who had just said the flirtatious words.