Yipin Tang

Chapter 48
The weather is getting warmer day by day, and Dengxian Tower has finally opened. Half of the people in Chang'an City have come. On the opening day of Dengxian Tower, all the food and drink are free. The wine is not an ordinary wine, but a popular wine in Chang'an. An ordinary dish, but a self-service hot pot that has never been heard of before. Only then did everyone know that Dengxianlou and Yipin Winery are both properties of the Linchuanhou Mansion.Climbing to the Immortal Tower can't accommodate everyone, but a unique stage performance on the wooden stage outside the restaurant made the trip worthwhile for those who failed to enter the restaurant. Ningxiang, Xiaoyun, Qing'er and Xiao It was the first time that Bei felt the power of fans that Wang Xiang said. At the end of the performance, the crazy fans almost broke through the wooden platform. Fortunately, a group of soldiers called by Cheng Chuliang helped to maintain order and did not lead to chaos. However, the enthusiasm of the fans still made them Can't be calm for a long time.

Perhaps Li Er felt that it was not kind to ask Wang Xiang to be an envoy to Gaochang, so he specially sent someone to send a plaque. The three characters "Dengxianlou" are vigorous and powerful, which was inscribed by Li Eryu himself. The plaque written by calligraphers before is natural After being replaced, no matter how good everyone is, they can't compare with Li Er.Even the emperor sent a plaque to climb the Immortal Tower, and the reputation spread throughout Chang'an, and the restaurants that originally wanted to do small tricks relying on the power behind them also retreated.

At this time, on the third floor of Dengxian Tower, it was Li Er who pretended to be out of the palace who was personally received by Wang Xiang, accompanied by Empress Changsun, Li Zhi and Xiao Sizi.

Xiao Si was obviously out of the palace for the first time, and she was very curious about everything, pestering Li Zhi with excited questions.

"I've heard Zhinu brag about the hot pot in your house for a long time, and I can finally taste it for myself today." Li Er looked very easy-going at this time.

Empress Changsun smiled and said, "I think the layout of Dengxian Tower is unique, and I'm afraid it took a lot of thought."

Seeing Empress Changsun looking at him, Wang Xiang hurriedly said, "I asked others to arrange this for me."

"It must be a woman with an exquisite mind, right?" Empress Changsun smiled slightly.

"It was the girl Ningxiang who sang the white fox in Jinguang Lake last time. Today I invited them to help the restaurant build momentum."

Hearing the noise from downstairs, Li Er said, "You've made a big deal, even the soldiers patrolling the city were brought in by you to maintain order."

Private transfer of soldiers can be big or small, but Li Er obviously didn't mean to blame Wang Xiang said with an embarrassed smile: "I am also in the inspection range of the soldiers who patrol the city. They just came here because they saw the excitement here. The one who helps maintain order is not the minister secretly mobilizing soldiers, and besides, the minister does not have that ability."

"Really? You don't have that ability, don't you, Cheng Chuliang? I heard that Cheng Chuliang promised that the soldiers who came to help would give each of them a jug and a tasting of wine. Now a jug of wine costs five taels of silver and a cup. It's okay to say nothing about a jar of wine." It’s worth hundreds of taels of silver.”

"This..." Wang Xiang argued, "The wine you make yourself is not worth the money."

Li Er laughed: "Since that's the case, I will send ten jars of wine to the palace later."

"Father, Wang Jiancheng's new fruit wine is even better than first-class wine." Li Zhi sold Wang Xiang decisively in order to please Li Er.

"Really, then I will give you another ten altars of fruit bars."

Wang Xiang was speechless for a while, but he recognized the plaque that Li Er sent, not to mention twenty jars of wine, even two hundred jars.

The hot pot in the middle of the table is a mandarin duck pot, one side is clear and transparent and the other side is red and attractive. Li Er found it quite novel and asked, "Why are the colors of the soup on both sides different?"

Wang Xiang explained: "One side tastes light, and the other side tastes spicy."

All the ingredients for the hot pot have been placed on the table, and there are more than a dozen dinner plates around the hot pot, all of which are the freshest ingredients, which makes people's appetite greatly increased. The table is a specially customized turntable round table, Wang Xiang made it again The demonstration said: "Your Majesty just needs to turn the disc to eat whatever you want. It is not easy to cook hot pot for a long time. When the soup is boiling hot, just put the ingredients in the soup and you can eat it. It has the aroma of the soup without losing the taste." The taste of the ingredients themselves."

Hearing what Wang Xiang said, Li Er couldn't help sighing: "If you put your mind on eating and drinking on the people of the Tang Dynasty, I will be very pleased."

Wang Xiang said with a look of injustice: "The potatoes and Quyuanli are also presented by the minister."

"Speaking of which, these two things were presented after you encouraged the young slave to drink."

Wang Xiang was very tactful and stopped talking.

The soup in the hot pot began to roll and the aroma began to diffuse. Li Er picked up a piece of mutton and rinsed it in the red soup according to the method Wang Xiang said, put it in his mouth, felt the special taste and nodded in satisfaction.Seeing that Li Er moved his chopsticks, Li Zhi stopped being polite and enjoyed cooking by himself, but made Xiao Si beside him very anxious.

Sizi is only four years old and is not suitable for eating hot pot, but seeing her pitiful appearance, Wang Xiang hurriedly asked for juice and various delicious snacks, which made Xiaosi happy.

Seeing that Li Er's family was eating happily, Wang Xiang was wondering if he should take this opportunity to discuss with Li Er about the mission to Gaochang, but unexpectedly Li Er spoke first.

"I know you have a lot of complaints about sending you to Gaochang this time."

"Your Majesty is really wise. How could you entrust an ignorant boy like me with such an important task as an envoy to Gaochang?" Wang Xiang quickly flattered him.

However, Li Er was not moved. He drank a glass of wine and said calmly: "This matter has been decided, so there is no need to say more, but before that, I will let Hou Junji bring five thousand cavalry to teach Gao Chang a small lesson. Let your missions go more smoothly."

Wang Xiang almost didn't jump up when he heard it.

"Your Majesty, you are not playing with me, if you teach them a little lesson first, can you come back alive!"

Li Er waved his hand and said: "Before Gaochang went south to rob our Datang border city, if they didn't teach them a lesson first, they would regard this envoy as a compromise of Datang, and they would only understand that it was Datang's compromise only if they were given a head-on blow." Tang's kindness to them will naturally be respectful to the envoys he sent."

Respectfully, do you think I'm stupid!

Li Er ignored Wang Xiang's resentment and continued: "You can choose the accompanying personnel for this mission to Gaochang, and you can make any other requests. As long as it is not too much, I will satisfy you."

"Can't you go?"

"What do you say?"

The little si was drinking the juice beautifully, seeing that Wang Xiang seemed very unwilling to go somewhere to put down the juice, walked to Li Er, pulled his sleeve and whispered: "Father, if Wang Jiancheng doesn't want to go, don't let him go." Let's go."

Wang Xiang was so moved that tears streamed down his face. It's better to be a little si. Li Zhi and Empress Changsun were so comfortable eating hot pot and didn't see him saying a word for him. It's still a caring little si.

Li Er picked up his little son and smiled, "Father let him go to Gaochang to give him a great contribution, it's a good thing."

"Is that so, Wang Jiancheng?"

Feeling Li Er's sharp eyes, Wang Xiang had no choice but to swallow his tears: "Yes, Your Majesty gave me a great credit."

"Then why don't you want to go? Father will let you be a high official when you get great credit, right father?"

"Little Si is really smart."

Looking at Xiao Si's innocent and cute appearance, Wang Xiang despised Li Er from the bottom of his heart.

"In terms of food, it is no problem for me to have potatoes in the Tang Dynasty. I can sell corn to the countries of the Western Regions at a low price. You mentioned selling luxury goods to the nobles of the Western Regions. This method is good, but what good is this luxury product? choose?"

"My Tang's tea, silk, and porcelain are all luxury goods in the Western Regions, but these things are hard to come by, and they are also useful to the people of my Tang Dynasty. I feel that I should sell stones to them."

"Stone? Stone is also a luxury?" Li Er looked puzzled.

"I'm talking about processed stones." Wang Xiang chuckled.

Seeing Wang Xiang's appearance, Li Er knew that he had something new, and asked curiously, "What processed stone?"

Wang Xiang smiled faintly and took out a glass ball and handed it to Li Er: "Your Majesty, do you know what this is?"

Li Er took the glass ball and sighed: "Liu Li, such crystal clear and round glass is very rare."

"Actually, it's a rock."

"Stone!" Li Er was surprised, it was obviously a high-quality glazed bead, how could it be a stone?
Wang Xiang smiled and said: "Your Majesty must have seen the mirror that I gave to the Queen last time, right?" The gift he gave to Queen Changsun last time was exactly a mirror.

Li Er nodded when he heard the words: "The mirror you gave to Guanyin's servant girl looks much clearer than the bronze mirror. It is indeed a strange thing."

"That's actually a rock."

"It's also a stone?" This time, even Empress Changsun couldn't help being surprised. When Wang Xiang gave her the mirror that day, she thought it was very magical, so she kept it as a treasure. Unexpectedly, Wang Xiang said it was a stone.

Wang Xiang took out another glass toy in the shape of a rabbit and said triumphantly, "Look at this again, Your Majesty."

"Little rabbit!" Xiao Sizi cheered happily when he saw the glass rabbit.

Li Er's eyes were full of astonishment, he had never seen such a lifelike glazed rabbit, "Is this also a stone?"

"Your Majesty is indeed wise."

Seeing Wang Xiang reach into his arms again and Li Er pulled him over, he was very curious about how many treasures Wang Xiang had hidden in his arms.

Li Er's bravery is not inferior to that of the famous general of the Tang Dynasty. Wang Xiang was pulled over by Li Er without any resistance. Before he could speak, Li Er reached into his arms and picked it up. There were all kinds of glass toys in the shape of animals, and Xiao Si happily touched this and that, and even Li Zhi couldn't help picking up one to watch.

Seeing that Li Er was about to reach out again, Wang Xiang quickly shouted: "It's gone, it's really gone!" Nima, this is treating me like Tinker Bell.

Li Er ignored Wang Xiang's struggle, and fiddled with Wang Xiang's arms for a while, only to find that he couldn't find anything, so he gave up.

The table was filled with lifelike glazed animals, and Li Er asked in disbelief, "You said these are stones?"

(End of this chapter)