Chapter 70: The Invitation
Finally ended his personal speech, Zhou Yu came to the position next to Chen Jin and sat down, which had been arranged a long time ago.
"Eat and eat, why are you bothering so much?" Chen Jin picked up a piece of sauce elbow and put it in his mouth, and said vaguely. Only here is Zhou Yu that he can talk while eating so presumptuously, if he was in the palace, his father would have to punish him for standing for two hours.
"Why can't you stop your mouth with so much good wine and food?" Zhou Yu didn't want to deal with him at all, and tasted the cucumber scrambled eggs by himself. I have to say that the things fried in this iron pot and the taste of cooking in the clay pot are really one heaven and one underground.
A lively banquet went on in a pleasant atmosphere, and there was a banquet in the evening, this time Zhou Yu no longer cooked in person, and threw it directly to the people in Juxian Building.
Today is the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and the company held a year-end banquet, but the Chinese New Year's Eve is to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with his family, and Zhou Yu also has to arrange tomorrow's schedule.
Originally, he also specially invited his father-in-law and mother-in-law, that is, He Shuiling's parents, but his family came to celebrate the New Year together, but the second elder said that it was too troublesome to walk around, so he simply stayed at home and spent it with the people of Xiaolong Village. Since the elders have their own arrangements, Zhou Yu is also good at respecting their decisions.
At night, Feng Yue saw Zhou Yu sitting in the study, lighting the lamp in a daze, so she entered the door and asked: "You were in this posture a quarter of an hour ago, and it hasn't changed until now, which girl makes you think so much?" ”
"We're not the kind of people who eat pots and pans, I'm writing invitations, but there doesn't seem to be anyone to invite. I finally remembered one, but I thought it was a little weird to ask him, didn't I think about it for a long time? How can there be any little girl......" Zhou Yu put down the pen in his hand, and the invitation was not written after all.
"Isn't the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner just for our family? Uncle He, it's okay if they don't come, who else are you going to invite? Feng Yue really didn't know who Zhou Yu was talking about.
"Who else? The one in the palace. This afternoon he told me that it was not interesting for him to spend the New Year alone in the house, so I thought that I had been to our house, and I was worried about this now! Zhou Yu sighed and said.
"There are more people in the palace than in our family, how can His Royal Highness King Yu stay in the palace alone?" Feng Yue obviously didn't grasp that meaning.
"You think, Chinese New Year's Eve meals are eaten with the family, and Nahan's parents are not around, nor have he married a wife and had children, and the people in his house are all his subordinates or maids and servants, and he has no family relationship, so he will be more or less humane, so he found me, hoping that I can take him in,......" Zhou Yu explained.
Every time Chen Jin is mentioned, Zhou Yu's words will be very witty, but fortunately, Feng Yue is no longer surprised.
"It's King Yu anyway, which round will you take it in?" Feng Yue glanced at Zhou Yu and said.
"Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and King Yu belongs to King Yu, but he is indeed alone. But I was still a little hesitant to let him come. Zhou Yu put his hands on the table, his eyes fluttering, thinking.
"Why is that?" Feng Yue came behind Zhou Yu and massaged his shoulders.
"If you want to say that you don't invite him to come, it seems a little too unkind, after all, Yang Chuan has a life-saving grace for me, and Chen Jin is also my friend, people just want to come for a meal, we should agree; But let's say please, this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is eaten with my family, and we are not relatives of the imperial family, so I am afraid that there will be some arrogance and disrespect for inviting each other. Zhou Yu said what he thought.
"It's just a meal, and it's not a Hongmen banquet, as long as you want to invite, then please, let's not miss these two pairs of dishes and chopsticks, why do you have to think so complicated?"
"That's right, but I'm a little bit 'just in the mountains.'" Zhou Yu smiled, prepared the invitation, and went back to the house with Feng Yue.
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On the thirtieth day of the first year of Yongsheng, Luozhou City is a snow-white scene again. As the saying goes, the snow is a good year, but I don't know if the wheat in the coming year will get a good harvest as promised.
On this day, there were not many pedestrians on the streets, except for the sergeants and soldiers who defended the city, that is, some wanderers who had just returned. The shops that do business are also basically closed, except for a few shops that will open until about the time of Shen, the rest of the doors are closed. After all, this important time of the year, the happiness of being reunited with your family is far higher than earning a few small dollars.
Today, the Zhou Mansion is wearing red clothes that symbolize joy, which Zhou Yu specially made for everyone, which is not only to add joy to everyone, but also to give everyone a New Year's gift. Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve, it is not only necessary to get rid of the "eve", but also to get rid of the old and welcome the new, the new year and the new atmosphere!
Chen Jin came to Zhou Yu's house before noon, it was really boring to stay in the palace, it was not as interesting as being with Zhou Yu. This is also one of the few trips that Chen Jin did not take Yang Chuan on.
"What a horse! How did it come to you? Chen Jin looked at Chasing the Wind and couldn't help but sigh.
"Okay, okay, don't look at it, beware that you can't pull it out in your eyes!" Zhou Yu couldn't help but pull him away, lest he have a bad thought in his heart after watching it for a long time.
"Stingy......" Chen Jin couldn't help but look at it twice, and then said: "My father gave me ten jars of imperial wine, and I have already sent someone to send a few jars over, let's taste them together later!" ”
"Imperial wine? Anyway, I sent this tribute wine to his old man, I don't know how this imperial wine compares with my Juxian Lou's fine wine? Zhou Yu knew that the level of winemaking in this world was not very high, so he didn't have any expectations for this so-called "imperial wine".
"I heard that this is a new sake from Liangzai, and the flavor is excellent, so it should be worth trying." Juxianlou's spirits still represent the highest liquor brewing technology in the world, and it is difficult to match it in the world, so the market price is very expensive, and it is also listed as the royal tribute of the two countries.
That's right, even the Qianguo Kingdom included the wine of Juxianlou in the tribute ranks, and its quality can be seen.
It is said that after Emperor Wen drank this wine, he stayed in the palace of the Jade Concubine for three consecutive days, which made the other concubines red-eyed.
And this wine is even more valuable in the Qianguo country, except for the royal family, it is bought by various large families at a high price. It is rumored that in the black market, the wine of a jar of Juxian Lou is fried up to two hundred taels of silver, and there are still many people who can't buy it.
For those who like to drink, the wine in Juxian Lou is a bit like the "three bowls of not working" that Wu Song drank on Jingyang Gang in "Water Margin", these three bowls were measured, and even the regulars at the wine table had to blush, and soon began to get slightly drunk and slurred, and then lost consciousness and fell on the wine table. But these people prefer this feeling, being drunk once is not enough, and they keep wanting a second time. Moreover, after drinking the wine of Juxian Building, and then drinking those "defective products" on weekdays, it can be said that it is as light as water, and it is not interesting at all.
In other words, this group of people is addicted to alcohol!
It is precisely because of this that the wine in Juxian Building will be sold out as soon as it is available. If it weren't for the fact that the relationship between the two countries was not very good, it would not be easy to go back and forth, so Zhou Yu would have sent someone there to do market research and prepare to open a branch.
Zhou Yu thought about Chen Jin's words, and felt that the imperial wine should be lower than his own alcohol content, and he was not good at drinking, so he naturally took advantage of the steps to accept Chen Jin's suggestion.
"I said, yesterday you said a lot of words in the crowd, yes, I admit it, you are a major shareholder, but I am also a shareholder after all, why don't you let me say a few words?" Zhou Yu explained to him many times, and finally Chen Jin roughly understood the basic structure of a simple joint-stock enterprise, and Chen Jin also learned to use the word "shareholder".
"You have to pay attention to your own identity, you are not only a shareholder of Juxian Building, but also the king of Yu and a prince, if you speak in a small restaurant, is it a little inappropriate? If someone else writes it down, releases some gossip to the outside world, and reaches the ears of your father, you won't be able to eat and walk away! ”
Chen Jin felt that what Zhou Yu said made some sense, so he didn't continue to ask.
Before lunch was ready, the two went to the house to play a game. If you want to say this Go, Chen Jin, who grew up in the palace, started to learn it when he was a child, and as a prince, which of the imperial books of Lile is not allowed to delve into it? In addition, there are "elegant" activities such as qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the princes and princesses can focus on learning one or two according to their preferences, and Chen Jin is majoring in Go.
But what he didn't know was that Zhou Yu's brain was different from him, he relied on chess skills to play chess, and Zhou Yu relied on cheats to play chess, and he could deduce all kinds of moves by looking at the chessboard, as if he was an artificial intelligence himself. Although Chen Jin has been studying for a long time, he is not a full-time chess player after all, and he is not very diligent in practice. Even if Chen Jin was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, he couldn't turn the situation around.
He was surprised, why did the person on the other side know everything and be proficient in everything?
Zhou Yu looked at the chessboard, shook his head and said: "Your chess game is too bad, there are many vulgar moves, and there are many evil moves, don't talk about me in this way, I'm afraid you can't even play your brothers and sisters, right?" ”
"Who said that? Chen Fang and Chen Yue are not my opponents, in fact, among the many princes and princesses, Ruolan is a little more powerful, and she can win me once in a while, but more often than not, I win! Chen Jin said unconvinced.
"Who is Ruolan?" Zhou Yu asked casually.
"Concubine Shu's daughter, my imperial sister, she used to play chess with me, Chen Fang and Chen Yue's two stinky chess baskets and I lose next time, and they won't dare to play with me later!" Speaking of his "courage of the year", Chen Jin was very proud.
"You are qualified to say that other people's chess games stink?" Zhou Yu glanced at him with disdain.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, at first glance, Chen Jin's desire to win or lose is hooked, and he asked for another 300 rounds with Zhou Yu on the spot. Zhou Yu was also idle, so he simply agreed to him.
After 200 rounds, Chen Jin, who had lost three games in a row, finally realized the huge gap in strength between the two sides and decided not to play chess with Zhou Yu anymore.
Zhou Yu smiled and did not speak.
"Your Highness, Xiao Yu, come and eat!" It was Feng Yue who came in.
"Let's go, eat, eat, you wait for me to go back to the capital, find the Qi scholar from the Hanlin Academy to come with you, and see how long you can wait!" Chen Jin ran out and went straight to the dining room. Every time he goes to Zhou Yu's place, he is always very positive about eating.
Zhou Yu didn't know who Scholar Qi was, and when he heard Chen Jin's meaning, he seemed to be quite good at chess, but whether he could see him or not, Zhou Yu didn't take this matter to heart.
By the time Zhou Yu and Feng Yue entered the table, Chen Jin was already gobbling it up. Zhou Yu's dining habits at home are very special, there is no need to wait for people to move chopsticks, but the minority obeys the majority, as long as the majority of people arrive, they can eat, and a few people come late to sit at the table by themselves. Of course, this is also Zhou Yu's family habit in his previous life, and the saying "there are three does not wait for two" has been deeply rooted in his mind. Now that he is in charge of the family, he has kept this habit.
But the maids of the Zhou Mansion don't often see His Royal Highness the King of Yu, and they originally thought that as a prince, he should be very gentle, but this appearance may not have anything to do with the word Sven......