Li Xi never remembered that he had any dealings with Song Jing, who was the founding prince of Guangping County, so naturally he couldn't talk about any friendship, so he was both surprised and puzzled by Song Jing's sudden sending someone to invite him to come over to the mansion.

At present, the government and the opposition are discussing the choice of the new prime minister, although many people are very loud, but since Xiao Song and Han Xiu Zhishi, in the whirlpool of this matter, they have chosen to close the door and quietly wait for Emperor Xuanzong's decision.

But at the same time, there are still many people who think that they have certain qualifications to worship the prime minister, but they are not very confident, so they can't help but start running around vaguely, as if they want to get more support from the government and the opposition to influence Emperor Xuanzong's decision-making.

In today's Chang'an, there are only a handful of people who are qualified to influence Emperor Xuanzong's decision-making, especially those who influence the choice of prime minister, among whom Song Jing is the first.

As early as the first year of Ruizong Jingyun, Song Jing has been from the history of the governor of Luo into the Ministry of Shangshu, with the book of the three products, the palm of the selection, is the first time to worship the prime minister, and later because of offended Princess Taiping, he was released, but in the fourth year of Kaiyuan, he was called into the criminal department of Shangshu, soon after the replacement of Yao Chong as the prime minister, the second time in his life to worship the prime minister, and finally left the name of Yao Song, and Zhenguan Dynasty before and after the fang Mou Du before and after, the people respect.

It can be said that a group of famous ministers in the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, he is already the only one who has been fruitful, so among the ministers in Chang'an today, he has the oldest, the highest prestige, the greatest reputation, and the most trusted by Emperor Xuanzong.

This spring's Han Xiu paid homage to the prime minister, that is, Emperor Xuanzong asked Xiao Song, who was the prime minister at the time, to recommend a candidate, Xiao Song wanted to recommend the right scattered cavalry to serve Wang Qiu, but Wang Qiu resigned, and recommended Han Xiu to Xiao Song, so he was recommended by Xiao Song, Han Xiu became the prime minister, this way of mutual recommendation is also a political tradition that has continued since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. It can not only ensure the continuation of the government decree, but also enable the prime ministers to introduce each other, so as to minimize the possibility of infighting in the court and improve the efficiency of the political axe.

But now, first, there was an accident, Han Xiu got Xiao Song's recommendation but fought with him after coming to power, which made Emperor Xuanzong very annoyed, and second, they were deposed at the same time, so the position of prime minister has been completely vacant. Therefore, if Emperor Xuanzong wants to appoint a new prime minister, it is even more likely that he will focus on asking Song Jing, an old minister, about his opinion.

Therefore, although Li Xi almost doesn't go out much, he also knows that in these days, the door of Song Jing's mansion in Guangping County is like a dragon every day, and every day there are many people, either themselves, or send their own doormen or representatives, to ask for a meeting, hoping to get a little favor from Song Jing.

The old prime minister has completely retired, originally prepared to go to Luoyang for the elderly after the year before the New Year, who knew that before he left, he was blocked in Chang'an by this matter, and now it is cold outside, and it is about to celebrate the New Year, he is old, his body is not as good as before, and it is naturally inconvenient to travel before the year, so even if he deliberately wants to avoid this matter, but there is also a feeling of avoidance, but he is still in the name of physical discomfort, closed doors.

After thinking about it, Li Xi really couldn't understand how he could think of inviting a stranger like himself to "go over the house" at such a sensitive moment.

However, since they have been invited, Li Xi naturally has no choice to refuse.

First, Li Xi has admired Song Jing, a famous minister of the generation, for a long time, and secondly, the identity and status of other people are there, and it is really impossible to refuse.

Therefore, when he got up early the next morning, Li Xi took Geng Xin and Gao Sheng out together and went to the East Market to hang out, one was to inspect his shop, and the other was to prepare to buy some gifts to take.

People say that they invite themselves to come over the house, but after all, they are juniors, and in addition to this visit, they always have to bring some gifts to be polite.

Coming to the Jiannan Burning Spring Chang'an store, Li Xi went in to take a look, and chatted with Luo Kedi casually about the recent business situation, and learned that the business has stabilized, although there is no benefit, but the shipments radiating to other places are increasing every month, which also means that by opening the Chang'an market, Jiannan Burning Spring has begun to officially go to the whole country.

With this result, of course Li Xi is very satisfied, he has always been suspicious of employing people, so although Luo Kedi took the account book out, he didn't look at it, just sat in the store for a while and got up to leave.

Before leaving, I remembered that when it came to buying things in the East Market, Luo Kedi was naturally more expert than himself, and besides, he knew everything about the government and the opposition, and maybe he could give himself some good advice on this kind of thing.

As soon as he asked, Luo Kedi really knew everything.

After thinking about it, he twisted a handful of rat whiskers and said: "As far as the villain knows, Song Lao Xianggong is a native of Xingzhou, Hedong Province, and he likes to eat two local snacks very much, one is called 'rolling skin jujube', which is said to be dried from the crisp jujubes produced locally, cooked in hot water, dried again, and then fried in honey...... The other one is called 'Donkey Strip', and the villain has only heard of this, and he doesn't know if it's made of donkey meat or something else......"

Li Xi looked at him fixedly for a while, and then withdrew his gaze.

If you don't ask, you really can't imagine that Luo Kedi, a businessman who works in the East Market, even knows the snacks that an old prime minister likes for many years, and he can remember it so accurately.

I haven't seen it, I haven't eaten it, it's okay.

Li Xi stretched out his hand and waved, "You lead the way, let's look for it together, and we will buy these two small things." ”

Since it is the elders who take the initiative to invite, this reveals a sense of closeness, and the younger generations bring some gifts when they come to the door, which is a number of gifts, which is very normal, but the choice of this gift is very popular.

Between the elders and the younger generations, there is no stake in the exchange, it is always not so tacky that it is a good choice to send gold and silver directly, and it is a good choice to send paper, ink, pen and inkstone, but even if you want to choose the best to buy a gift, but will there be a shortage of Song Jing's family? This also does not reflect the mind of a junior of yours.

It's better to buy two of his favorite hometown snacks and bring them over, which is not only thorough, but also looks chic.

So next, Luo Kedi took Li Xi around the East Market, and asked more than a dozen places that might sell such small things, but there was no such thing, and he tossed for more than an hour, and finally found it at a food stall.

After asking, I knew that the rolling skin jujube is called rolling skin jujube, but the donkey strip is not called the donkey strip, but called the fried donkey strip, both are the special snacks of Xingzhou, Hedong Province, although the east market is large, this thing is not popular, so there is no store to sell it, only in a snack stall opened by Xingzhou people, there is this thing sold.

Asked the store to take a look at these two things, Li Xi couldn't help but laugh.

What kind of rolling jujubes, it's weird to say, it's actually honey dates, as for what fried donkey strips, it's even more simply something similar to bacon and the like, but it's made after oil and then dried, it looks a little golden in color, although I haven't eaten these things in my previous life, but I've seen it in the end.

Geng Xin tasted one, saying that this rolled jujube was not bad, as for this fried donkey strip...... It was too hard to bite, he took a piece in his hand, bit it for a long time, raised his head and muttered, "This is bacon, right?" ”

Li Xi smiled when he saw this, ignored him, waved his hand and ordered the shopkeeper to take five catties back with him.

At this moment, someone in the booth next to him suddenly spoke, and the accent seemed to have some Shanxi flavor: "Housheng, you are not from Xingzhou, right?" You can't eat this thing, No, you see, you have to boil the leaves of the meatballs. ”

Li Xi turned his head to look and saw that it was an old man in his fifties who spoke, wearing a wide gray Taoist robe, with a Taoist hairpin on his head.

As he spoke, he was sitting at a small table near the door of the store and looking at Li Xi with a smile, there was a steaming bowl of food on the table in front of him, and at the same table as him was facing away from Li Xi's direction, and there was a girl with a double duck bun, who was eating with her head down.

Li Xi smiled, and really walked over to the old Taoist priest's bowl to take a look, sure enough, what he ate was this fried donkey strip, but this fried donkey strip must have been processed as he said, at this time there are seven or eight floating in the bowl, it looks much softer, with green vegetable leaves, golden balls, it looks a little greedy.

Seeing that Li Xi's attention was aroused, the old Taoist priest touched his beard with a smile and beckoned: "Young man, since you are here, you must eat a bowl and taste it, this is a famous food in Xingzhou, delicious!" If you don't taste it, you'll regret it! ”

Li Xi thought about it and threw his hand at him, "What the old man said also makes sense, okay, since you're here, let's try it!" As he spoke, he was about to find a table to sit down, but the old man beckoned when he heard this, "Yes, young man, you come, come, little old man looks at you in the right eye, you come, sit here, let's pull la." ”

The old Taoist priest's words seem to have a strong Shanxi accent, but it is not quite similar to the Shanxi dialect of later generations, fortunately, Li Xi has not dealt with Shanxi people in his later years, so he is not a stranger, and when he heard the words, he went over and sat down on the old man's table, and said: "So, thank you uncle." ”

After sitting down, he realized that the girl sitting across from him was looking at him intently, and a smile flashed in her eyes from time to time.

"Uh, girl, what's wrong?"

(To be continued)