Tong Song introduced his office area on the fifth floor, the entire fifth floor is divided into three rooms, and the smaller one on the right is the pantry. In addition to the pantry, the remaining space is directly divided into two rooms of the same size, and in the middle is the living room, in addition to the circle chairs and coffee table, there is also a dining table. From the middle room, the one on the left is the one on the left, which is arranged as a study.

Everyone sat down, Lian Gui served tea to everyone, and then retreated.

"Why did the Emperor Taishang and Niangniang suddenly return to Lingnan this time? If you want to do something, you must not be polite if you can use it in the next place. Tong Song was the first to speak.

Xia Jing chuckled and said: "If Chengping is today, we just walk around at will, and we came to Lingnan to inspect our own industry." ”

Tong Song smiled, just listen to this, as for people of their level, no matter where they go, they all have a purpose, but his identity is not enough for the emperor and the queen mother to tell each other sincerely.

"That's just right, it's better to hurry up early, today is the auspicious day for the opening of the Zhen Cuisine Building, just as the Tong family has accumulated eight lifetimes of blessings to invite the Emperor Taishang and Niangniang to come to the restaurant for dinner, if there is anything that needs to be improved today, you two must put it forward."

"Oh, when I first went upstairs, I noticed that there were quite a few menus hanging on the wall of your lobby on the first floor, which seemed to be seafood-oriented?"

"Exactly, there are not many others in Lingnan, but there must be a lot of seafood." At this time, Tong Song directly asked Lian Gui to go to the kitchen to order a table of seafood.

At this time, it was the meal, so Tong Song stopped the carriage and invited them into the restaurant to eat, Xia Jing did not object, they ran outside for a day today, they were really hungry.

The seafood feast was very fast, looking at the dishes on the table, Xia Jing and Li Jingfu glanced at each other, and the meaning in their eyes was only known to the two of them.

Looking at the steamed lobster arranged like flower petals in front of her, Xia Jing tasted the taste, which was not much different from the taste made by her cook, and the presentation was so similar.

Li Jingfu tasted the crab meat, pointed to a plate of fried Dungeness crab with ginger and shallots, and said, "Xia, you quickly taste this crab, this taste. It's the work of one person! ”

Xia Jing tasted it and glanced meaningfully at Tong Song, who was already sweating from his forehead.

Then taste again, in this hot summer, geoduck sashimi is very palatable, and there is no need to worry about ice in the summer in Lingnan, and it is precisely because Xia Jing taught the people below how to make ice that Lingnan seafood can be sold to Jingzhou and other regions, and the income of coastal fishermen has increased, and the poor life has also been improved.

And some clams, oil clams, clams, etc., are very familiar with the method, and even the abalone is braised that Xia Jing likes.

Tong Song watched Xia Jing and Li Jingfu comment on the dishes every time they ate, and the more they ate, the faster the beads of sweat on Tong Song's forehead appeared.

"That, that. Emperor Taishang, Niangniang, these dishes and recipes"

Xia Jing drank a bowl of seafood porridge, put down the dishes and chopsticks, and after rinsing her mouth, she had time to ask him: "Say, how did you fool these dishes?" ”

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"I don't like people who cheat and cheat, especially in front of me, how things are, you better tell the truth." Before he could finish speaking, Xia Jing interrupted him and made him think about it in his heart.

Tong Song wiped the sweat from his forehead and said truthfully: "These dishes are all given by Miss Li." ”

Xia Jing replied to him, both expected and unexpected, she frowned slightly and looked at the man who made the woman see a pleasing eye, "If you want to open a store, Yingzi will easily give you these dishes?" ”

In this way, either the girl does not know the importance of these dishes, or she is deeply rooted.

Of the two possibilities, Xia Jing believes that it is the latter.

"It seems that you have put a lot of effort into Yingzi!"

Tong Song wiped the sweat from his forehead and came out again, thinking about defending himself: "Niangniang, in fact, I wanted to give her a sum of money at that time, but she refused to accept it."

"Phew! You kid really lost the man's face, she didn't ask for silver, so you didn't give up a share of your restaurant shares to the Li family? She is a little girl who is not easy to accept your foreign man's money, but the man of the Li family can trade with you! Li Jingfu looked at him with disdain: "Don't tell me, you didn't think of this stubble!" ”

"What the Emperor said is reasonable, how can a girl in a deep boudoir often have contact with you, a foreign man, have you been paying attention to her?" Xia Jing's eyes when she looked at Tong Song instantly became unkind.

Tong Song raised his hand again and wiped the sweat that came out again, "This"

Can he say that he often meets the girl of the Li family on the street when he goes out?

No one believes this, and some people still believe that the two met once or twice, and it was a bit too coincidental for a while.

In fact, everyone knows what is going on. It's just that this matter can't come out of his mouth, otherwise, the two bigwigs in front of him may still think that they are deliberately slandering the reputation of other girls in order to escape responsibility.

Or what if the two of them are angry and take him to the pig cage?

Ye Fei, who was standing next to him, showed a slightly sympathetic look at Tong Song, and then he said next to him: "Young Master Tong may not know that most of the dishes in the Mingyue Marquis Mansion and the Li family's kitchen are from the Niangniang's church, and you didn't even know that you took the initiative to send them to the door today. ”

Tong Song squeezed out a wry smile on his face, he forgot about this for a while, he just wanted to be able to contact Niangniang again, how could he know what was involved.

Seeing that this kid couldn't explain clearly, Li Jingfu was so angry that he turned his head and asked Xia Jing: "This kid is very slippery, dare to deceive the girl of the Li family, do you need me to copy his Tong family?" ”

Copying the Tong family is just enough to raise some military expenses, you must know that today's army may have spread the war to Dongwu.

Xia Jing listened to Li Jingfu's words, and the corners of her mouth twitched: "."

When Tong Song heard this, he was almost scared to death, and looked at Xia Jing with a pale face, with a begging in his eyes.

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On the carriage back to the palace, Li Jingfu asked the words that were held in his heart, "Did you let that kid go like this today?" ”

Xia Jing glanced at him: "I think that kid deliberately showed his stuff in front of us today, the purpose is to let us know the relationship between him and Xiang Yingzi, want us to pierce this layer of window paper for him, or want us to make a decision about the marriage between the two of them." ”

You must know that although the Tong family has a good influence in Lingnan, it is just a merchant after all, and the Tong family's biggest official position in the officialdom, if she remembers correctly, is probably Tong Xiancai, who served as the superintendent of the Lingnan Mansion.

"He even dares to calculate us, so he is not afraid that I will really copy their Tong family?" When Li Jingfu heard that he was being calculated, he was instantly furious.

"Isn't he gambling?" Xia Jing looked at him: "Did you raid his house in the end?" ”

"This kid is so hateful, not a good bird!" Li Jingfu concluded.

Xia Jing thought to herself, there are not a few good birds in the world, of course, it is not absolute, there are still good men, women want to meet a good man, unless they burn a few lifetimes of high incense, otherwise how many good lives do they have?

Li Jingfu was secretly angry, and after a long time, he looked at Xia Jing by the dim candlelight in the car: "What do you think?" Do you really want this kid to succeed in his calculations? ”

Xia Jing sighed in her heart and said lightly: "Among relatives, the stupidest person will think of being a matchmaker for relatives, it's good if this marriage meets a good person, if you meet a bad family, the girl has a bad life in her mother-in-law's house, and then blame you, make you not a person inside and out, so that you can't say it!" ”

This kind of thankless work, she Xia Jing will not do it!

Li Jingfu frowned and asked tentatively, "You mean to think you don't know about this?" ”

"Yes!" Xia Jing's way of dealing with this matter is to treat it coldly, if a big man has the ability, he will find a way to solve it by himself.

The moon rises and the moon sets, and the night passes.

The next day, Li Jingfu and Xia Jing went to the Mingyue Marquis Mansion with a few carriages of gifts.

Mingyue Hou Mansion, the Xia family learned in advance that the Emperor Taishang and the Queen Mother were coming, the door of the Hou Mansion was wide open, and the family waited at the gate early to prepare to welcome the two nobles with the highest status of Dayu.

Seeing the honor guard that appeared at the end of the street, Mingyue Hou and Mrs. Hou almost walked directly to the middle of the road to greet them excitedly.

I haven't seen my daughter for a few years, they don't talk about it, and they are worried about it.

In the end, it was Xia Qingshan, the eldest brother of the Xia family, who stopped his parents, after all, the two of them were elders, so what was the matter with going to meet them halfway? It is all etiquette to greet you at the gate of the Hou Mansion.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of the Hou Mansion, and as soon as Xia Jing got out of the carriage, she saw her parents kneeling down towards her, and walked forward with Li Jingfu to support them.

"Dad, mother, seeing my daughter do such a big gift, my daughter can't stand it, we came back today to see you, just go back to her parents' house as an ordinary girl."

Chen patted her daughter's hand, and her eyes had been silently watching her since she got out of the car.

At this moment, after listening to his daughter's words, he glanced at Li Jingfu, and then glared at his daughter with disgust: "What are you talking about, even the emperor has to meet you when he sees you, how can you not afford our etiquette, living in the royal family, the three outlines and five constants must always be remembered in your heart." ”

"Okay, good, I remember your daughter, and I won't forget it!"

Father Xia, that is, Mingyue Hou and Li Jingfu, walked in front one after the other, and after listening to the words of the mother and daughter, he said apologetically: "Emperor Taishang, forgive me, this girl of Weichen is casual and does not like to be restrained, if there is any offense in ordinary relationships, please bear with me, don't worry about her as a woman!" ”

Li Jingfu just raised his feet and wanted to step into the big threshold, but after hearing his father-in-law's words, he tripped on the threshold and almost didn't fall on his stomach, but fortunately, Anu was good at kung fu and helped him in time by the side.

"Master, be careful!"

The movement in front attracted the attention of the affectionate mother and daughter, Xia Jing saw that he was going to stumble when he entered the door, and she was afraid for a while, if the emperor fell out of the Mingyue Marquis Mansion, the Xia family really couldn't eat and walk.

"Anu, hold on to your master, such a big person, you have to look at the road when you walk, be careful!"

Li Jingfu, who was helped by Anu, glanced at his father-in-law who was walking with wind next to him, secretly shook off Anu's hand, and kept up with his steps behind his back.

Everyone sat down in the flower hall and exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Daddy Xia asked, "I heard that you went on a trip to Nanyang, how is the situation outside?" ”

Li Jingfu glanced at Xia Jing and replied with a smile: "Now is the Age of Discovery, the Xiyi people have occupied a lot of territory overseas, and we went to Nanyang this time to grab a lot of territory from them. ”

The Xia family is very curious about overseas, everyone is listening very seriously, Xia Qingshan was even more surprised when he heard this: "Overseas territory is all about grabbing? The Xiyi people themselves are unreasonable, you snatch it from them, and they are willing? ”

"Haha." When Li Jingfu heard this, he was overjoyed: "Don't they want to be useful?" As long as our fists are hard, they are unwilling and have to give in to our force and obediently hand over the territory! ”

Xia Jing also smiled and said: "This time I went to Nanyang, and I brought a lot of local specialties, and there are a lot of dried fruits unique to Nanyang. ”

Chen wiped the corners of his eyes, "You have a heart, and you are still thinking about your home when you go out." ”

"It's not right for children to think about their parents, mother, and I don't have to be polite." Xia Jing smiled at Chen.

The appearance of this good girl made Li Jingfu, who was sitting at the top, look at her in surprise.

Father Xia smiled and watched the mother and daughter interact, and pulled the topic back, "I heard that the expeditionary force has recovered Annan, and the expeditionary force is still fighting outward, does Dayu want to keep advancing to the southwest?" ”

In the Xia family, Li Jingfu spoke on behalf of Xia Jing, "Of course, in fact, the court of Annam is divided into two factions, and the two factions have been fighting openly and secretly for many years because of political discord. ”

The bandit logic of "this" made the Xia family unable to answer for a while.

Xia Jing pursed her lips and chuckled: "Dad, do you know that rice is harvested three times a year over there in Zhancheng?" In addition, Champong rice is of better quality than our rice, and if we can mix Champong rice with our rice, I believe it will be possible to cultivate better quality rice. ”

"Champa rice?"

Li Jingfu looked at Xia Jing in shock, why hadn't he heard her mention this?

In fact, it wasn't that Xia Jing didn't want to mention it, but she didn't think about it either, and suddenly remembered that it was because she was in a hurry in the Xia family, which made her suddenly remember that Zhancheng rice was considered a good rice in ancient times.

Because of the characteristics of high yield, early maturity, drought tolerance, etc., if it is popularized in Dayu, it can be promoted together with Dayu's late rice, and it can be coordinated with each other to become double cropping rice, so that Dayu's grain output can be greatly improved.

"Hearing you say this, I have to explain this matter to the soldiers in front of me to send back some seeds of Champa rice." Li Jingfu motioned for Anu to write it down.

Xia Jing nodded, and turned her head to look at Father Xia: "Dad, you know that the Lingnan Lan family went to Nanyang with us this time, and they also occupied some territory in Nanyang, and they are going to use it as their Lan family's base in Nanyang, so as to facilitate caravan trade in the future." ”

"I've heard about it."

"In fact, in addition to the Lan family, there are several other non-governmental forces that went to Nanyang this time, and they have more or less benefited in Nanyang." Xia Jing glanced at the men of the Xia family: "If you go to sea next time, do you have any ideas?" (End of chapter)