Chapter 31: The Queen's Birthday Is Approaching
"Liu Gongzi, do you think this thing looks good?" Princess Taiping asked Liu Yi with a very exquisite and meticulous glass artifact.
"Beautiful!" Liu Yi replied mechanically as he replied to Princess Taiping earlier.
"Really good-looking?" Princess Taiping asked again.
"Really!" Liu Yi looked at the glass objects made like a pair of birthday stars and nodded. This thing is really good, and the characters are naïve.
Seeing that Liu Yi agreed, Princess Taiping immediately asked the shopkeeper who was laughing with her: "Shopkeeper, I want this!"
"This aunt... Childe, this thing is very expensive!" The shopkeeper accompanied him carefully, knowing that the few people in front of him were not ordinary people, but he still said cautiously, "Thirty times!" The shopkeeper said with three fingers.
"You're still afraid of Hongu... Childe can't afford to pay? Princess Taiping raised her eyebrows and scolded.
Ping'er, the maid behind her, had already stepped forward and handed a few pieces of silver cakes to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper, who was taken aback, didn't dare to squeak, and after collecting the money, he wrapped the thing and handed it to a guard next to Liu Yi.
Liu Yi laughed secretly on the side, this demon girl doesn't know the price of buying things, so she bought such a glass plaything for thirty times, and she should be the head of the wrong.
"Liu Yi, I'm tired, let's find a place to eat!" After shopping for most of the day, Princess Taiping's legs were a little sore, and she bought enough things, and her interest was somewhat reduced, and she wanted to find someone to rest.
"There's a big restaurant in front, let's go there!" Liu Yi pointed ahead.
The group walked into the restaurant called "Tianxiang Building", the time was almost noon, there were more diners in the restaurant, and nearly half of the seats in the lobby on the first floor were sitting.
Seeing Liu Yi and his party coming in, the shopkeeper hurriedly greeted him.
"Guest officer, how many?" The shopkeeper smiled professionally, and came up to nod to Liu Yi and the others.
"The two of us, we want a private room, and the others are arranged in the lobby!" Princess Taiping grabbed in front of Liu Yi, pointed at Liu Yi and instructed the shopkeeper.
"Great! A private room on the second floor," the shopkeeper turned his head and shouted, then nodded and led Liu Yi and Princess Taiping upstairs.
Liu Yi ordered the four guards to also go upstairs and stand guard outside the box, while the others and Princess Taiping's two maidservants sat in the lobby on the first floor.
went upstairs, Princess Taiping sat down with a golden knife, ordered a few dishes very familiarly, and asked for wine.
The shopkeeper poured tea for the two of them, and went down to prepare it with a drink.
"I said Li Gongzi, you still want to drink at noon?" It's a little strange that a little girl wants to drink.
"I said Liu Yi, why are you such a mother-in-law?" Princess Taiping rolled her eyes and said with some anger, "It's hard to get out... What's wrong with a little drink? Hmph!" He wrinkled his nose as he spoke, and hummed to express his dissatisfaction!
"If you want to drink, then drink it!" Liu Yi was afraid that this demon girl would be angry, so he had to care, as long as he didn't get drunk and go crazy, how could love go.
"Liu Yi, where are we going to play in a while?" Princess Taiping played with the teacup in front of her, asked casually, and said very regretfully, "It's a pity that on the third day of March, we are still on the road, otherwise it would be very lively by the Luoshui River!"
March 3 is the Shangsi Festival, young men and women in Chang'an and Luoyang will go to the nearby river on this side, frolic and have fun, both men and women can express their love to their favorite people, miss such a day, really make Princess Taiping very regretful.
"It's time to go back, we've been out for a long time, let's play elsewhere next time," Playing with this woman is not generally tired, Liu Yi has no interest in playing at all, and I don't know what is going on on March 3rd.
"Liu Yi, why do you want to go back so early? Are you not happy to play with me? Princess Taiping had an unhappy look on her face, and put down the teacup heavily, and the tea in the cup spilled out, but fortunately it did not splash on her clothes.
"You've been shopping for so long today, aren't your feet sore? Go to other places to play, I can't go back when I'm tired, I can't get up tomorrow, that's not good, anyway, the time in Luoyang will not be short, and I can come out to play in the future!" Liu Yi coaxed like a child.
"It's pretty much the same, if I can't walk for a while, you carry me back!" Princess Taiping said slyly.
Hearing these angry words, Liu Yi also rolled his eyes, "My back is full of bones, aren't you afraid of knocking?" ”
Princess Taiping also seemed to feel that she had said it, and she didn't know how to say it, so she had to play with the teacup in front of her.
After a while, the wine and food came up, and Liu Yi poured a full cup of wine for Princess Taiping, and also poured himself full.
"Liu Yi, I salute you, thank you for saving me last time!" Princess Taiping picked up the cup very boldly, and did everything she could, which made Liu Yi a little dumbfounded, this woman had a good amount of alcohol, so she had to drink it clean.
Princess Taiping drank very boldly, but when she ate the food, she was quite Sven, cocking her orchid fingers, pinching her chopsticks, and chewing a little food in her mouth and swallowing it slowly, she didn't look like a very hungry person.
Although Liu Yi was a little hungry, but after drinking the first glass of wine, he didn't move his chopsticks, and eating with the first princess of the dynasty was unreasonable, he better be careful, and the province was sued.
"Why don't you eat it!" When Princess Taiping saw Liu Yi like this, she said a little unhappily, "It's hard to come out today, so you can't be casual!"
"I said, what did you just buy so many things?" Liu Yi asked, and then took a mouthful of food and put it in his mouth.
"After a while, my mother... It's my birthday, and I want to prepare some unusual gifts for her," Princess Taiping said in a low voice, "Did you say that the glass birthday star you just bought is good?" ”
"I think as long as it's something you give, your mother will like it!" Liu Yi smiled and said, it turned out that Wu Zetian's birthday was coming, and this Princess Taiping came out to prepare gifts for her mother, no wonder Wu Zetian would let Princess Taiping out of the palace.
It's just that there are so many things in the palace, and you still need to go to the outside market to buy them? The quality of the things outside is too bad!
"In previous years, I didn't have anything to give her for my mother's birthday, but this year I want to go out and buy something for her!" Princess Taiping grinned and said, "Mother still likes what I bought for her indiscriminately!"
"This is your filial piety, of course your mother likes it!" This girl quite understands Wu Zetian's thoughts, there are a lot of valuable things in the palace, but some gadgets are not necessarily there, Princess Taiping came out to buy something for Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian will like it or not, not to mention that Princess Taiping picked it up by herself, and a heart is not ordinary.
"On my mother's birthday, I will organize a celebration of hundreds of officials, and this year there will be a poetry meeting, a martial arts competition for the palace guards, and a polo match!" Princess Taiping leaned her head to Liu Yi's side and said in a very low voice, "This was the case in previous years, but there are no particularly outstanding poems, many of them are some flattering works..."
Princess Taiping didn't wait for Liu Yi to reply, and continued: "Liu Yi, I hope that on the birthday of the queen mother this year, you can make a few poems to participate in the evaluation, but you must not have the intention of flattery, and you must show some ambition." If a good poem is made, you can participate in the martial arts competition held in the palace, you can win, and lead the polo team of Qianniuwei to win the championship, so that the queen mother will definitely be very happy, and she will definitely appreciate you more, and maybe she will give you a promotion, you are only a small six-grade Qianniu ready, how can you do it...";