Chapter Eighty-Three: When we meet again, we are already handsome men and beautiful women
When the Tai students and Guozi students led by Wei Yuanzhong scolded the street, the queen of heaven announced the prince's marriage and granted amnesty to the world. Wu Qing was also pardoned. The hundred officials and the people who paid attention to this matter were amazed, one was amazed by Wu Qing's luck, and the other was amazed by the means of the people behind it.
Emperor Gaozong didn't say anything, after all, the words of the Queen of Heaven also made him feel that he had indeed mistreated Wuqing over the years. As for Shangguan Wan'er, Gaozong wanted to be lucky, but unfortunately he had frequent head attacks, and his body was also weak and sickly, and it was already very difficult to serve the Empress Wu, not to mention sharing some rain and dew to other concubines.
Wei Yuanzhong was also received by the queen of heaven, and then there was no voice, and the students were no longer bewitched by Wei Yuanzhong, so they no longer scolded the students of Guozi. After this incident, Wuqing was re-recognized by hundreds of officials and literati, and some officials built a yì to reset the Qingxin Pavilion, but Gaozong ignored it.
Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi didn't see Wu Qing beheaded, nor did they hear that he was cut off, so they were naturally very angry in their hearts, but they were afraid of the authority of the queen of heaven and didn't dare to make a mistake, so they could only happily congratulate Wu Qing on being safe and sound.
It was also at this time that a pair of twin sisters came to Luoyang, they were bright and bright, graceful, and one was dressed in a moon-white Luo skirt. One was wearing a bright red shirt with a short sword pinned to his waist. The second daughter got off the bus at Jishanfang, which attracted the hearts of countless young people.
"Dare to ask the girl's name?"
"Dare to ask the girl how old she is, have you ever been married?"
The woman in the red shirt glared at her apricot eyes, "Get away, don't blame your aunt for being ruthless under the sword!" β
"Ah, what a spicy woman, my son likes it!" The young man stalked and beat himself to the death.
The girl in white frowned slightly, and said, "Sister, why are you still disobedient, this is the Eastern Capital." Then he smiled charmingly and asked, "This son, the slave family wants to ask where is the Gongwu Mansion of Zhou Guo?" β
When the boy heard this, he instantly changed color, and quickly became humble and polite, and arched his hand and said: "Xiaosheng Shicai collided with the girl in his words, and asked the girl to forgive the sin, and the Wufu walked along this main street all the way in, and you can see it." β
"Thank you, son, the slave family is leaving."
After Wu Qing was pardoned, he never left the palace, he was not happy because he was amnesty, he felt an unprecedented sadness. As a relative of the emperor, he can't even protect a person he likes, and the reason is, in the final analysis, the supreme imperial power. Empress Wu could use means to save herself from the death penalty, and she was completely abandoned by Gaozong and the scholars. This may be the ending that Empress Wu wants to see the most.
In the study, Wu Qing pondered for a long time, staring at a stack of rice paper on the bookcase, which is a process flow drawing compiled after memories and repeated trials in recent years, and it can be regarded as a few very practical things made by Wu Qing in combination with the actual economic situation of Datang and its own feasibility. There are processes for distilling spirits, rock sugar and sugar, and papermaking.
At this time, Qiu Ju entered the study.
"What?" Wu Qing asked.
Looking at the son who didn't have a smile on his face, Qiu Ju's heart couldn't help but darken, since the prison came out, the son has never smiled again, she packed up her mind, "There is a pair of sisters from outside the house, saying that it is the old man of the son in Taiyuan." β
"The deceased? Sisters? Wu Qing fell into deep thought, and suddenly he remembered that one summer night, a pair of sisters had met him.
Wu Qing got up and went out of the house, and when he saw a pair of beautiful people looking at him and smiling like a flower, a warm current instantly flowed through Wu Qing's heart.
"Two sisters, I haven't seen you for many years, are you okay?"
Ying Ying, the woman in white, bowed and said softly: "Pei Ying has seen Gongzi. β
"Sister, Brother Qing is taller than us, he is really a pretty man." The woman in red walked up to Wu Qing and stared at Wu Qing's face, as if she wanted to find some familiar feeling from above.
"Sister, the son is now a prince, you must not be rude." Pei Ying was a little annoyed.
Wu Qing hurriedly said: "Two sisters, hurry up and enter the house, Sister Ying has a straightforward personality, like a man, and the younger brother is really happy." β
Wu Qing really didn't expect that the Pei sisters would come to Luoyang to visit him, to be honest, although men and women in this era are open, they are far from reaching the Cheng dΓΉ of free association and free love. But the encounter a few years ago gave Wu Qing infinite longing, which still makes him unforgettable.
After entering the mansion, Wu Qing ordered a dinner party and invited the Pei sisters into the study to serve tea. Nowadays, it is quite popular to drink tea in the Tang Dynasty, adding spices to the tea, etc., while Wuqing has removed these things, drinking the original tea leaves, and no longer making tea cakes, but picking new tea after killing, rolling, drying, and bulk packaging. For this reason, Wuqing asked Old Man Li to buy a lot of tea mountains in various tea-producing areas in the Tang Dynasty, and the tea drinking method of Qingxin Tea Workshop was gradually promoted, and more literati and scholars began to get used to this way of drinking tea.
As far as tea is concerned, Wuqing has made a profit of 100,000 yuan in a year, not to mention porridge, steamed buns, pickles, and fried dough soy milk omelette, which have semicolons in several big cities in Datang, such as Hangzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Taiyuan, etc. Although these shops are not in Wu Qing's name on the surface, they are actually in Wu Qing's hands.
Wu Qing personally cooked tea for the Pei sisters. Looking at the meticulous Wu Qing, the Pei sisters felt a little more emotion in their hearts, that night, they were just curious about this prodigy, but they didn't expect that now they would grow into adults, even taller than many adults.
Suddenly, the pale green tea flowed into the white porcelain cup, and then Wu Qing pushed the tea to the Pei sisters' eyes.
"This is a monta-topped stone flower from the famous mountain of Jianlan Daoyazhou, please taste it with the two sisters."
The two sisters, Pei Ying grabbed the teacup and drank it, Pei Rou gently stretched out her arm, pinched the teacup elegantly, and then covered her sleeves widely, tasted it lightly, and then put it down, closed her eyes slightly, and said: "It's really extraordinary, it's beautiful, it's also very bitter, the slave family has also drunk it in the tea shop in Taiyuan, but it doesn't seem to be so bitter." And this seat, it's really weird. β
"Sister, what's so strange about this, I feel quite comfortable sitting down."
Wu Qing said with a smile: "Actually, it's because my little brother is uncomfortable to sit on, I saw the low stool in the orchid restaurant, so I designed such a seat." I'm afraid Datang is only here with me. β
"Brother Qing, you're so smart."
Pei Ying was not pretentious at all, her personality was straightforward, and Wu Qing felt a long-lost lightness.
Wu Qing also chatted with guΓ² and learned that the father of the Pei sisters came to Luoyang to be officials, and although they were sixteen years old, they were not married, so they followed them to Luoyang. Unexpectedly, I heard the news that Wu Qing was sent to prison, the two sisters are both lovers, and they have begged their uncles Pei Yan and Pei Xingjian. Within a few days, the prince was ready to get married and amnesty the world, and Wu Qing was actually fine. Only then did they go to Wufu to visit Wuqing.
Just when Wuqing and the Pei sisters were together, the crown prince Li Hong and the crown princess Pei were also getting married. Wu Qing was not allowed to attend the prince's wedding, but Wu went instead.
After the crown prince Li Hong and Pei Shi, who were dressed in big red wedding clothes, worshiped heaven and earth, they were sent to the Qiyun Hall of the Hebi Palace. And Wu Qing and Pei's sisters' banquet also reached **, because it was past the time to go out of the workshop, so Wu Qing arranged a yard for the two of them in the morning, and the sisters were also relieved and drank to their heart's content.
At the banquet, Pei Rou stroked the piano and Pei Ying danced. At this moment, the second girl's face was slightly red, her expression was slightly drunk, and unconsciously, there was a feeling of confusion.
And Pei Ying even pulled out a short sword, Pei Rou held the pipa in her arms, the notes beating, accompanied by the sound of Jin Ge Iron Horse, as if in ambush on all sides. Pei Ying's figure is displayed, the golden rooster is independent, and in a moment, with a slow and rapid rhythm, he performs swordsmanship, no, it should be a sword dance.
Wu Qing had never seen a sword dance, and now he couldn't help but squint his eyes when he saw Pei Ying's sword dance, the servants had already retreated, and there were only three of them in the hall.
With Pei Ying's sword dance, Wu Qing was fierce, took the brush, dipped it in ink, and then found a blank wall, and waved his pen down.
"You don't see the water of the Yellow River coming up from the sky, rushing to the sea and never returning. You don't see the mountains and the sea, and the two are happy, and they are separated from each other. Life must be happy, don't make the gold bottle empty to the moon. I was born to be useful, but I hate the king and don't care for it. Ambush pipa music on all sides, and the sword dance is known all over the world. You love me with a strong smile, and he gets together every day. Don't care if the cup is worth 10,000 dollars, you will have to drink 300 cups."