Chapter XVII: Congratulatory Gifts

"Grandmother......" Li Qi shook the Empress Dowager Li, "Why don't you ask the third brother how long he has buried his grandson, this time the third brother buried his grandson for three days!" ”

Empress Dowager Li tilted her head and smiled. "Cheng'er, let's talk about it."

In the past, Li Cheng was also like Li Qi who loved to laugh, make trouble, and love to be coquettish, and liked to nest next to his grandmother, but when he took over Li Qi's small body, everything changed.

Although Emperor Yongde died after his mother gave birth to a child, the ministers did not establish the queen for a long time, and the huge harem was handed over to Concubine De to take care of, and no new people were admitted to the palace in the past ten years.

All this seems to be in love and affection, and I can't forget the first queen with such a longing, but it is clear in Li Cheng's heart.

The first queen left two sons-in-law who became foreign surnames, and the ministers of the Son of Heaven didn't care about the family affairs, could Emperor Yongde stand it?

How could Emperor Yongde not know that the treasure in the open is really dangerous to the two of them? The emperor, who has been restraining courtiers in the court for more than ten years, can he not understand the tricks?

Before Emperor Yongde didn't tear off the veil, he wouldn't understand!

"Li Qi burned his father's letter and cooked the gold and silver scale koi that he wanted to bring back." Li Cheng was blunt.

Empress Dowager Li got up and looked at the carp in front of her and asked. "And what is this?"

How difficult it is for this koi to ask She knows that the usual red-crowned koi officials and nobles have been vying to buy it, not to mention that there are no more than ten pairs of gold and silver scale varieties a year.

"The grandson thought about it, and did not bring back the congratulatory gift of his grandmother's sixtieth birthday, and the year was not good, so he took Li Qi to the Ye family on Chinese New Year's Eve to kneel and beg Master Ye."

"Qi'er took two feet for her grandmother's carp!" Li Qi hurriedly accosted him and rubbed his chest, which was already painless.

"Why do you get two kicks?" Empress Dowager Li also asked interestingly.

"My grandson's head is not good, he climbed the wall crookedly, kicked crookedly, and almost fell into the Yuehua Pond where the carp is raised, and Master Ye made up for it in order to save the carp."

"Grandchild feels that the third brother is deliberate! How could the third brother lose his head, grandmother, look at me. After speaking, Li Qi said this and opened his clothes.

"I didn't even see the injury, but I was embarrassed to show it to my grandmother!" Li Cheng rewarded Li Qi with a burst of chestnuts again.

"Why is Cheng'er getting more and more unruly?" Emperor Yongde's voice came from outside the hall, and the two brothers hurriedly bowed to the ground.

"See the Emperor."

It was this tepid title again, and Emperor Yongde's heart was stuffed.

After all, Li Cheng also called his father for a few years, why did he change his words so thoroughly?

"I haven't been back for years, but I still have me in my heart?" Emperor Yongde's tone was full of sourness.

"The emperor's order was not completed, and Li Cheng did not dare to return to the palace." There was no warmth in Li Cheng's tone, like the politeness of a stranger.

"Didn't I send you a letter asking you to come back early to accompany your grandmother for the New Year?" Emperor Yongde thought that he could have a reunion dinner with the two brothers, but it turned out that they were all Lantern Festival!

"Li Cheng only knows the content of the letter until now, and Li Qi ruined the letter."

"......" Emperor Yongde was speechless for a while, he knew Li Qi's temperament very well.

Who made him agree to the two brothers leaving the palace to raise him? Li Qi has countless stars in the sky, and he is also glad to be able to keep it outside the palace, although it is rare, it can keep it safe.

Li Qi knew that the late return to the palace was caused by himself, so he laughed twice. "The emperor is not angry, come and try something new."

Li Qi took out two bamboo-shaped white pottery bottles from his arms, opened the clay lids and handed them to the Empress Dowager Li and Emperor Yongde respectively.

The fragrance of the drunken fragrance slowly overflows, as if the green bamboo forest with the fragrance of bamboo leaves is on his side.

After checking and tasting the silver needle of the father-in-law beside him, he handed the wine to the Empress Dowager Li and Emperor Yongde.

Emperor Yongde found that his father-in-law Qin's expression was surprised after tasting the wine, and he couldn't help but ask curiously. "After following me for decades, can there still be wine that will make you raise your eyebrows?"

"Your Majesty, the old slave has never tasted such a fresh bamboo dew, the bamboo fragrance is better than the rhyme of wine, it is very spicy in the throat, but it has a feeling of warming up after drinking when it comes to the stomach bag." Father-in-law Qin picked up the white pottery bottle again and again. "If you can prepare a few cups for the Queen Mother and the Emperor, this winter will be better."

Before Li Qi finished his father-in-law's words, he took more than a dozen bottles from Li Cheng and the secret guard and put them on the table, his eyes full of conceit.

"It's delicious! This is a two-pronged exchange! Li Qi's little face was embarrassed, if there was a diligent father-in-law, they would be fine if they came back late.

"You drank?" Emperor Yongde is still tasting the aroma, which makes people miss the fascinating fragrance of bamboo dew!

"Of course! The third brother buried me in the mountains for a few days, and he was so depressed and drunk that he rescued me back to reality. Li Qi exaggerated the demonstration.

"What's the matter? Can you become an immortal after drinking? "The deep love of licking calves is what Emperor Yongde has been thinking about in his dreams for decades, but he can't realize it.

"I've really become an immortal!" Li Qi crouched on the lap of the Empress Dowager Li, and her eyes were shining with stars. "The third brother buried me in Guiwu Mountain for three days, and when I was pulled up like a radish and saw the light again, I drank half a cylinder of wine before my feet touched the ground, and my grandson felt that he had really become an immortal."

"Do you need to make you an immortal again now?" Li Cheng smiled with an unclear meaning, he didn't mind burying it again.

"Grandmother! Look at the third brother! Li Qi came to the feet of the Empress Dowager Li again.

"It's less poor! Could it be true that the emperor should come to punish him? Empress Dowager Li scolded on her lips, but she didn't put down her hand on Li Qi's head.

I haven't heard the two brothers chatter for a long time, there will be grandchildren to tease, there are congratulatory gifts to see, and there are congratulatory gifts to drink, which is comfortable.

Emperor Yongde asked with a smile. "But there is anything I can punish?"

Li Qi hurriedly shook his head. "It's gone! Gone! What the third brother said! No double punishment for one crime. ”

"Didn't you just make a strong complaint? What's wrong? Li Cheng bumped Li Qi with his shoulder.

"The third brother is good to me! I'm just talking about this trip, but it's rich! Li Qi didn't forget to burn the letter from the emperor.

Although he sent it to Li Cheng in a private message, it was also a holy decree, but it became leftover paper in his hands.

"Your Majesty! Why don't you have a drink? Li Qi saw Emperor Yongde raise his glass for a long time and didn't drink it, so he went to his side to persuade him to drink.

"......" The people in the hall can be persuaded to be stupid by this sentence.

"Where else have you been?" Empress Dowager Li couldn't laugh when she heard it.

What about the two children who don't have a weak crown yet?

"The third brother didn't come to Master Ye, and I listened to the song with the third brother for a few days, and every girl was like this." Li Qi still had an unreasonable face.

Li Cheng supported the amount.

Yes! After three days of chartering a box, he still didn't see anyone, and it was because of this that he took Li Qi to visit unruly.

"My grandson handed over the post and waited for two days without coming, so I stayed in the restaurant for a while longer." Li Cheng really felt that Li Qi should not be dug out, and he could go back to Beijing by himself.

"Yes! As soon as we received the carp and Yu Li, we were drunk and returned to Beijing slowly, and we didn't dare to delay for a moment, and the third brother locked me in the carriage for seven days! He also said that he would bury me again after spilling a bottle of wine, but it was hard! ”

"What slow horse whipping?" Emperor Yongde also had a headache for this crooked son.

"Your Majesty! Those two carps are more delicate than me! However, after eating two bites of his meat, the third brother punished me for seven days and one meal every other day, and I was starved. Li Qi wrote on the paper again.

"You didn't just cook fish, you also ate koi?" Empress Dowager Li clenched the golden branch soft pillow in her hand, and her heart was churning.

"Ate a pair." Li Cheng looked distressed, his flesh hurt, and his liver hurt. "That's why I waited for Master Ye again, and I couldn't wait for the next year, so I had to climb the high wall of others."

"My grandfather's cook is amazing! Everyone says it's fresh and delicious! Li Qi said excitedly, not aware of Empress Dowager Li's anxiety.

The four countries all want to hire the Ye family as a guest, so they can know how difficult it is to get koi, not to mention the very small number of gold and silver scales.

The Ye family found the most suitable place to raise koi fish outside Xieyang City, and the Yong Dynasty took advantage of the geographical advantage to successfully ask for fish.

For the Ye family's pond carp is not coerced by the imperial power, the four countries have been living in harmony and mutually beneficial trade for a long time, koi is one of the only rare commodities that have been put on the table for preservation, gold and silver scales and red-crowned carp are what all countries want, that family child doesn't look forward to his own pool can also earn face?

Empress Dowager Li held her heart and couldn't digest the koi fish for a while.

Emperor Yongde smiled bitterly. "What else did you lose?"

"Lost a knee." Li Cheng also smiled bitterly.

This time, in exchange for Emperor Yongde's forehead, the dignified son knelt down with gold before he begged for carp, which really hurts his liver!

There was only a room full of monthly cases, and Li Qi, who didn't know that he was fined until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse, laughed.

As a fictitious county king, he relies on his family to eat and wear, but he is always free and easy when his daughter is gone.

Emperor Yongde drank all the wine in the cup, and he couldn't taste it.

Two sons who seem to have nothing!

......

Yan Ji was lying on the edge of the crescent moon in her house, watching the black people digging deeper, Bai Lu was afraid that she would be planted in the pit and didn't dare to leave half a step.

"Girl! This pool is so high that I panic, does it have to be so deep? Bai Lu grabbed Yan Ji's collar tightly, it was almost deeper than the survey!

"It's so deep and you can't see the water source, so you know why I'm digging such a deep pool, right?"

Yan Liang guessed that there should be a rock wall underneath, if this piece was indeed granite, and the rock wall extended to the bottom of her house, she would have nothing to worry about.

Suddenly, Mo Shao leaned on the plank road to lift his breath and climbed up, and taught Yan Jian a palm-sized granite piece.

"Girl, it's a rock." Mo Shao admired Yan Jian more and more, and suspected that she was actually the long-lost daughter of the old lady.

"Uncle Mo, this crescent spring can regulate the water source for the sluice gate, and you can really make water in your own home in the future."

Mo Shao smiled awkwardly. "There may not be enough for this crescent spring at the moment."

"It's okay! Don't be in a hurry to find a water source, it's important to lay the bottom of the pool first, when the snow melts in spring, there will be more water. Before that, she thought about cutting a water source directly from the waterway to make a living spring!

In the future, she will ensure that the crescent moon spring and mountain col will not be exhausted, and she will not need to worry about drought or flooding.

She wants a house that can store and transfer water, so that the living water can really operate the small mechanisms in the entire house.

"Uncle Mo, let's draw a detailed picture again, so that the house will be alive and well, and we will walk under the corridor and then return to the waterway."