Chapter 11 Spring Festival couplets
Remembering that today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and she will have to meet with the concubine and some official wives later, the eldest grandson queen hurriedly got up**, and then freshened up under the waiter of the maid. After everything was cleaned up, Empress Changsun said to the fifteen or sixteen-year-old personal maid beside her: "Xiao Qi, you go to Lizhi to see if the little prince is gone, if he leaves, forget it, if he doesn't leave, invite him here."
After the maid Xiaoqi left, she came back soon and said, "Niangniang, the little prince has been gone for a while."
Empress Changsun nodded and then ordered: "Then you guys clean up, and the palace will meet with the concubine and the official wife later."
But at this time, Li Lizhi walked in and said to the eldest grandson queen: "Queen Mother, Lizhi wants to go to the fairy brother"
The eldest grandson queen smiled lovingly: "Since you want to go, let's go"
Li Li thanked sweetly: "Thank you, Queen Mother"
Watching Li Lizhi leave, Empress Eldest Sun was full of smiles, but there was a different kind of thought hidden in her smile.
An hour later, Li Lizhen came to Xiaoyao Wangfu in a carriage, and the people in Xiaoyao Wangfu are basically from the palace, so they all know Li Shimin's favorite daughter, not to mention that Li Lizhen is the future princess of Xiaoyao Wangfu, who would dare to stop her, so Li Lizhen easily entered Xiaoyao Wangfu.
Li Ran, who got the report, quickly came to the hall and saw Li Lizhen, so he hurriedly stepped forward and gave a hug and laughed: "Lizhen, I just left for a while and missed me, and they all chased me to my house."
Li Lizhen's face turned red instantly, and after breaking free from Li Ran's embrace, he looked around like a thief, and only after finding that there was no one did he breathe a sigh of relief and said: "Brother Immortal, Lizhi originally had something to tell you, but you left too early in the morning, so I came to look for you."
What can happen to such a little girl, Li Ran asked curiously, "What is the reason why you want my beauty to come out?"
Li Lizhi said with some trepidation: "I ate the meal of the fairy brother on Chinese New Year's Eve, I like to eat it very much, and the father and queen mother and the eldest brother and the third brother all like to eat, so they want to send a few cooks to learn and learn"
Li Ran, who had long expected this to happen, was not much surprised, but readily agreed: "Yes, but those cooks who have learned can only cook for themselves, and cannot make profits in other ways."
Li Ran readily agreed to her request, Li Lizhi was very happy, and even took the initiative to kiss Li Ran, so beautiful that Li Ran couldn't find the edge.
Li Ranle pulled Li Li and asked, "Lizhi, you haven't eaten breakfast yet?"
In ancient times, there were generally two meals a day, and wealthy families generally had a third meal, but the third meal was in the form of a supper, mostly some pastries, rice porridge supplements, or something.
Without waiting for Li Lizhi to react, Li Ran shouted outside: "Housekeeper, prepare breakfast"
After Li Ran finished speaking, he pulled Li Lizhi towards his small courtyard, and said as he walked: "You can't skip this breakfast, eat less in the morning, but you must eat well, otherwise you will have stomach trouble, you have to eat enough at noon, and you have to eat less at night, and you will have to eat three meals a day in the palace in the future, once at seven or eight o'clock in the morning, once at eleven o'clock at noon, and once at five or six o'clock in the evening."
Li Lizhi asked with a puzzled expression: "Brother Immortal, what time is seven or eight o'clock?"
Well, Li Ran is a classical illiterate, and he has no clear concept of ancient time. The helpless and shameless Li Ran had no choice but to decide to give Li Lizhen a literacy campaign, no, he should give the entire Tang Dynasty a literacy campaign, and he decided to make a big bell tower for Chang'an. He wants people to know that he Li Ran is not a classical illiterate, and there are a few bits and pieces in ancient times.
Before completing this task that he considered great, he still gave Li Lizhi this little ** literacy, so Li Ran exchanged a watch, adjusted the time and put it on Li Lizhen, and finally taught Li Lizhen about the relevant knowledge of watches.
Li Lizhi listened carefully to Li Ran's teachings, and asked a few questions from time to time, but Li Ran, who was almost asked, was speechless. This made Li Ran have to sigh again that the ancient women were not only precocious, but also extremely intelligent! If it weren't for the ancient advocacy that women are virtuous if they are not talented, I don't know how many talented women who have been famous for thousands of generations will appear!
When the two of them came to Li Ran's courtyard, Xiao Wanrong greeted her: "Lord, princess, the meal is ready."
Li Ran nodded and introduced to Li Lizhen: "She is my personal maid, her name is Xiao Wanrong, just call her Wanrong."
Although it was very strange that Li Ran would have a maid who looked to be about twenty years old, Li Lizhi didn't ask much and just smiled: "Brother Immortal's food, clothing, housing and transportation will be waiting for you, take care of Brother Immortal for me first."
Xiao Wanrong felt a little funny about Li Lizhen's words, such a young person would say such a thing, Xiao Wanrong looked at Li Lizhen with a soft face, but she didn't show the smile in her heart, and it was definitely stupid to show it now, although Li Ran loves her now, but the slave is always a slave, the master is the master after all, and she is just killing herself without considerable consciousness.
Li Ran pulled Li Lizhi to sit at the table and then introduced Li Lizhen: "You know the soy milk fritters, the soft one is bread, the cup is hot milk, and the meat-colored flakes are ham, try it."
Xiao Wanrong on the side also said: "Princess, these are nutritious things, eating them often will make people more beautiful, and the little prince will like them more."
Li Lizhi replied with a slightly red face, and then ate it elegantly, and the princess's quality and temperament were vividly revealed. Despite this, Li Lizhi still ate a lot, firstly, the food itself tasted good, and secondly, today's mood was gratifying, and it was common sense to have a great appetite.
After the meal, Li Ran sat in a small pavilion with Li Lizhen, and Li Ran asked boredly: "Lizhen, why didn't your queen mother come with you?" Why are you the only one? Not even a maid."
Li Lizhi explained: "Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the queen mother wants to receive the concubines and official wives, as for the maid, my queen mother said that she would rearrange for me to be a future wedding maid of the same age, and the current maid was left behind in the queen mother."
Historically, because the Weishui Alliance emptied the treasury, the royal family in the early Tang Dynasty was very poor, and even the clothes on their bodies were old clothes from a year ago. Although she has not gone through the Weishui Alliance, the virtuous eldest grandson queen is still thrifty, and there is only one maid by her side, so Li Lizhi and other princesses have only one maid by their side. Now that the eldest grandson queen wants to entertain the concubines and officials, there is naturally not enough manpower, so Li Lizhen's maid stayed in the Lizheng Palace to help.
"Oh, there's something else."
The faint voice was mixed with a hint of disappointment, but the bridal maid seems to be the same as the personal maid, what can be done, a happy life in the future!
After a few minutes, Li Ran then put those thoughts behind him, and then pulled away the topic and said: "The place in the northwest corner of the mansion, I have already asked someone to start demolishing it, I plan to build a small playground there, after finishing it, you will bring those little princesses and little princes to come over to play, and they are bored and aggrieved to stay in the palace, and they are suffocated."
Although Li Lizhen doesn't know what the situation of the amusement park is, it is still a joy to be able to go out of the palace often, especially to be able to take her sisters out to play together, not to mention that it is also a pleasure to be able to meet her immortal brother often.
Li Lizhi looked around and then asked suspiciously, "Brother Immortal, why didn't you see the house you conjured?"
"I was tired of living in that house before, but the house I live in now feels pretty good, and I will change it to another house when I get tired of living in it one day."
It's not that Li Ran doesn't want to get a house to live in, it's really that he doesn't want to see things and people anymore when he comes to a new world, this is Li Ran's idea. In fact, Li Ran wanted to adapt to the world as soon as possible, so he insisted on living in the small courtyard. To the unknown environment, no matter how strong a person is, he also needs to adapt slowly, which is a person's instinctive reaction, and nothing else. Even if a saint arrives in an unfamiliar environment, he will first scan his surroundings.
Li Lizhi thought about it, and the toys she used to like stopped playing after she got tired of playing with them.
A gust of spring breeze blew, warm like a moan before falling asleep, feeling the temperature of the wind, inexplicably reminded Li Ran of a poem: The spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu. Li Ran suddenly interrupted Li Lizhen's thoughts as if he suddenly remembered something and said: "Lizhen, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, I forgot, it just so happens that you are here today, go, Brother Xianzhi will take you to paste Spring Festival couplets"
Li Lizhi asked as she walked to the front hall with Li Ran, "Brother Immortal, what are Spring Festival couplets?"
Li Ran explained it very knowledgeably: "The Spring Festival couplets are another form of peach charms, long, red, and you will know when you see them."
Couplet: Originated from the peach symbol, the peach charm is six inches long and three inches wide, and the name of the great god "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" is written on the peach wood board to dispel ghosts and avoid harm and keep peace; In the Song Dynasty, the peach charm was changed from peach wood to paper, called "spring sticker", also called "spring sticker", "door pair", it depicts the beautiful form with neat, concise and exquisite words.
After coming to the front hall, Li Ran found the housekeeper Li Fu and asked, "Housekeeper, have those Spring Festival couplets been pasted?"
Li Fu said: "Lord Wang, we are preparing to paste Spring Festival couplets"
Li Ran nodded and ordered: "Well, you send someone to call Wanrong and ask her to come and paste the Spring Festival couplets with us, and also bring me the blessing word, and send them to the gate, today I will personally paste the Spring Festival couplets."
Originally, Li Ran only wanted to paste Spring Festival couplets with Li Lizhen, but because she was too small and too short now, she couldn't reach the good places, so she still called Xiao Wanrong over.
Soon, all the things got to the gate, and the people gathered a lot, sticking Spring Festival couplets, how fresh! Although I can't participate, I can see it with my own eyes, this is a big capital to brag about! Don't miss out!
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