Chapter 4: Your Majesty's Elegance
Li Shimin raised his eyes and looked, "How is Yue'er?" ”
Li Chengqian bowed down and said, "Yue'er's complexion has improved a lot, but Yue'er hasn't taken medicine for more than half a year." ”
When the words fell, Li Shimin raised his eyes and said, "She hasn't taken medicine for more than half a year, and her complexion is much better?" ”
Li Chengqian replied: "Yes, it is Yue'er's husband who has his own conditioning methods, and the child is thinking that Yue'er grew up drinking decoction when she was a child, is there something wrong with the medicine, causing Yue'er's body to become weaker and weaker." ”
Li Shimin frowned and thought.
Li Chengqian took another small bag of tea and said, "This is what Yue'er asked her son to hand over to her father." ”
Li Shimin took the cloth bag and said curiously: "What is this?"
Li Chengqian explained: "This is the roasted tea made by Yue'er's husband, Yue'er said that as long as it is brewed and drunk with boiling water, there is no need to add other things, which is different from boiling tea." ”
I sniffed the dried leaves in the bag carefully, and sure enough, it was tea leaves.
Boiling tea is something that only literati do.
Li Shimin, who has fought for so many years, has long been a rough man.
Of course, I also want to be more elegant, well, try to be elegant.
In the past two years, Li Shimin often wrote poems and practiced calligraphy.
Doing these things will make you appear elegant in the eyes of others.
But boiling tea, although it is also elegant, Li Shimin doesn't like the strange taste of boiling tea.
Li Chengqian said again: "Yue'er also instructed that if my father is tired from reviewing the recitals every day, you can soak a bowl to refresh your mind." ”
This is the filial piety of the daughter.
Thinking of Yue'er, he felt a little guilty in his heart, Li Shimin sighed, he hadn't seen Yue'er for a long time.
Li Shimin nodded slightly and said, "I know." ”
Li Chengqian said in a low voice: "Erchen retired first. ”
Sitting down again, Li Shimin continued to review the recital.
This small bag of tea is on the edge of the table.
Marking the cantata is one that sees it with every eye movement.
Two hours passed, and I was indeed a little tired.
Li Shimin picked up the bag of tea leaves and asked the palace people to boil the water.
Put four or five pieces of roasted tea into a bowl, pour the boiling water into the bowl, and the tea leaves will also be tumbling.
The chamberlain put the brewed tea aside and said, "Your Majesty, it's ready." ”
Li Shimin put down his pen and nodded, picked up the tea bowl and smelled it.
The fragrance of tea that dips into the heart and spleen makes people feel refreshed.
Take a sip and savor it.
There is some astringency in the mouth, but the taste is mild and fragrant.
The tiredness of the day has also disappeared a lot.
And after brewing, there is still some elegant tea fragrance in the hall.
This style, this feeling, isn't this the elegance that I have always been pursuing?
After drinking, Li Shimin had the spirit to continue to review the recital.
For several days in a row, the people in the palace found that His Majesty had to take a sip of tea from time to time.
The people from the Imperial Medical Department consulted the classics, and tea is indeed not harmful to the human body, and it is not harmful to drink some on weekdays, it is much better than drinking all day long.
Li Shimin even found that drinking a sip of tea after a meal is even more wonderful, and the greasy feeling of meat is also swept away.
After the next dynasty, Li Shimin hosted a banquet for Fang Xuanling, the eldest grandson Wuji and others.
The wine and meat were in the stomach, and the brewed tea was divided into bowls for everyone, Li Shimin said: "Everyone, this is fried tea and drunk together,"
Everyone stood up, "Your Majesty." ”
The tea was at the entrance, and everyone was savoring it.
Li Shimin took a small sip and took a sip of tea after the meal, sweeping away the greasy and refreshing.
Listening to the ministers of civil and military affairs, they were full of praise for the fried tea.
Li Shimin's heart became more and more satisfied, hmm! Elegant.
After the banquet, Li Shimin found that there was not much tea left from Yue'er, and unconsciously found that he could not do without tea.
Thinking of Yue'er's condition, Cheng Qian also wondered if there was something wrong with the medicine.
Li Shimin said to Li Junxian: "Go to the Imperial Doctor's Office to inquire about the decoction for Princess Runan." ”
Li Junxian bowed and saluted: "Oh! ”
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These days, Zhang Yang has been working as a student worker in a blacksmith shop.
Help the blacksmith master to make ironware.
In addition to cutting corners, Zhang Yang himself will take advantage of others' inattention to take some iron materials.
There is not much iron material to go by, and with the illiterate posture of the main family who can only collect money and ignore the output, he will not know that there is a shortage of iron at all.
The master's surname is Jiang, and he is also a well-known blacksmith master on this street.
When Master Jiang of the blacksmith shop was resting, Zhang Yang was still busy striking iron.
Privately, Zhang Yang used the stove of the blacksmith shop to hit two small iron pots and a kitchen knife.
Zhang Yang came to work here for half a month, and Master Jiang was very satisfied with this student.
Today, Zhang Yang said to the master: "Master, I'm quitting." ”
The old master was puzzled: "You are very talented, and you are also diligent in your work, and you are also a master if you do it for a few more years, so you have no problem making a living." ”
Zhang Yang grinned and said, "The daughter-in-law at home can't get used to seeing me come out to endure hardships. ”
The old master nodded in disbelief, took out a bunch of money and handed it to him and said, "That's not reluctant, you are a diligent child, and you will come to the west of the city if you want to be a blacksmith in the future." ”
Zhang Yang took the money with a smile and nodded in agreement.
Wrap the kitchen knife and iron pot in the middle, and look at the salt and iron in the middle so that you don't dare to be seen.
After Zhang Yang left the blacksmith shop, a man who looked like a general came here to get a knife.
"What about that kid who worked last time? The old man's knife has been beaten? ”
While hurrying to work, the old master pointed to the shelf on the side and said, "The general's knife has been ready, and it is on the shelf." ”
The general picked up the horizontal knife from the shelf, held it in his hand and tried it and exclaimed: "Good craftsmanship, good knife!" ”
The lines on the knife are also good-looking, Master Jiang looked at the knife surface, and the forging method of this knife can be seen from the lines, he has cast iron for most of his life, and the wrought iron craft is also perfect, and the wrought iron technique of that kid is not the kind he taught.
With a flick of the finger, the blade of the knife rattled.
The general paid the money and left satisfied.
Master Jiang sat alone for a long time, looked at the back of the general leaving, and whispered, "It's broken!" ”
If these generals see a good sword and want to forge it, what should they do?
On the way home, Zhang Yang saw a group of scholars standing on the side of the road, and everyone standing at the front was reading articles aloud, reading what seemed to be some insights on Confucian classics.
The onlookers applauded along with the article he read.
In less than half an hour, he was invited away by a well-dressed man.
The onlookers who had just watched all cast envious glances, this person would definitely enter the powerful family in the future, maybe he could still be an official, and he was envious and jealous for a while.
Zhang Yang, who was watching this scene, sighed, it seems that this person who reads the article will not have a good time in the future, and has become a tool for the powerful to grasp the authority.
Squeeze out the use value and become a ladder for others to go up.
The dream of the salted fish turning over is beautiful.
But a group of ordinary people don't know the darkness of people's hearts.
You can't be too nervous, there is Yang Xiu in the front, and Shen Wansan in the back, and the end is not too good.
When she returned home, Li Yue was sewing and mending her clothes.
It seemed that Zhang Yang came back with a burden, and Li Yue asked curiously, "What did you buy?" ”
Zhang Yang opened the baggage is two iron pots and a kitchen knife, "Our family finally has decent cooking tools, this is a very important step to improve our quality of life, and it is worth celebrating." ”
Li Yue frowned and asked, "Where did you get the money to buy ironware?" ”
Zhang Yang put the iron pot on the stove and tried it, and the size was not bad.
saw that Zhang Yang was still tinkering with the iron pot.
Li Yue walked up behind him and said, "Iron is very expensive." ”
Zhang Yang told her about his work in the blacksmith shop.
Li Yue scolded with a smile: "You cut corners and take other people's wages, and you also use other people's stoves to make things for yourself." ”
Zhang Yang dodged Li Yue's small grasp of the flesh and said, "That is also the crystallization of my labor." ”