Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 83
After more than ten days of ordinary life, the small stewed meat shop also opened. The owner of the shop is the original little woman, named Zheng, and a pair of children are also living well in the stewed meat shop.

The winery's business is also getting better and better, and the rich and the less expensive are also keen to snap up "Jiu Xian Niang". Xu Qing also launched bottled wine in due course, with higher alcohol content and better taste.Not to mention making money every day, at least a day's running account is more than a dozen taels, which is seventy to eighty thousand a day when converted into soft sister coins for later generations.As for the stewed meat shop, Xu Qing didn't think about making money, but with the booming hotel business, the braised vegetables business is also getting better and better, and the supply exceeds demand.

When Zheng's hands were too busy, a group of people from Xuzhuang happened to come and sent a maid to help.As early as moving into the new home, Xun Xueer wrote to Luonan, asking Steward Yang to send some servants over.Xu Qing placed the sent servants into each production line of the winery, which was a little bit of supervision.

At the Imperial Medical Office, after Xu Qing taught the two methods of treatment, he did not get Li Yuan's promise to "fish" him out, as if he had forgotten about it.Xu Qingque came several times and found that no one was paying attention to him, so he simply didn't go. Fortunately, he was happy and leisurely when he had nothing to pay.

In a blink of an eye, October passed, and November, it was snowing again in the middle of winter.Xu Qing received a letter from Luonan, which was reported once a month:

"My lord, the finances of Luonan in October are as follows: 58 shi for rent, [-] shi for storage, cash collection at the market, sale of furniture, various discounts for color and grain, and [-] taels of silver. Expenditure... "

A letter can be as thick as the "one lesson and one practice" of later generations, and it seems to be killing people, but when the snow blocks the streets, it is quite interesting to count money at home, let alone Xun Xueer. Waiting for the beauty to accompany you?

Another thing worth Xu Qing's snoring and congratulations is that green vegetable sprouts have sprouted in the three-point vegetable field he opened beside the east wall.A pot of fire is sent in every day, and some snow water is poured over it. The winter grows slowly, but it can be eaten in only ten days.Xu Qing didn't want to show off as a gift, such a good thing should be enjoyed behind closed doors, if other people's mouths are foaming, who cares about that?Furthermore, from the perspective of keeping a low profile, new gadgets should not appear from time to time to shock the world.

San Xiaozhi learned a lot from being with Shangguanyi, and even Xun Yeyu could watch Daxue sing a bad sentence "The cold wind is really cold, and the heavy snow is really white".Although the sentence is bad, but the taste of appreciating nature is good, at least it is worth it, isn't it?

Speaking of poetry, "Xu Chuliu" was named the number one talented scholar in Chang'an, and Xu Chuliu was talked about in the red light district for a while.Gossip and conjectures continued, and many stories about "Xu Chuliu" that even Xu Qing didn't know about, such as the story of Xu Chuliu and the eight talented women in Chang'an, etc.

As for the few poems written by Xu Qing, uh, the few poems copied, they have long since become masterpieces that literati have to appreciate when they get up early and go to bed late.

From the beautiful scenery of "480 Temples in the Southern Dynasties" in spring, to Ling Yunzhi in summer "will be the top of the mountain, and see all the small mountains", and then climb high and look far in autumn, and miss relatives during the festive season. The literati in Chang'an appreciate these temples in different ways every day. A few lines of poems, poems written by others, are all overshadowed.Even the near-miss Lang Taosha and the joke "Ten Ones" have been copied everywhere.

But no matter how good the poem is, there are only a few lines that have been changed over and over again, which is inevitably a bit boring.After this heavy snowfall, the beautiful scenery is natural, the throats of the literati start to itch, and they can't sing good poems, what's wrong with only talking about this first talent?Not Yongxue yet?There are even some little fans of Xu Qing in the deep boudoir, and they start to worry whether Xu Chuliu is sick.

The result of Xu Qing not singing the snow was that Chang'an literati found Shangguanyi, because all the poems of the first talented scholar were handed down from him.Countless people begged him to invite the top talent out to hold a poetry meeting.As a result of begging Shangguanyi, Shangguanyi found Xu Qing.

"Brother Chu Liu, just write a poem about snow! If you don't write any more poems, those 'hungry people' will kill me alive!"

"Uh, uh, yesterday's 'heavy snow in pieces, one piece left on the ground' isn't it?" Xu Qing ate fried broad beans with a clacking sound.Shangguanyi knew that Xu Qing was being perfunctory, and asked again:

"Brother Chu Liu, there will be a poetry tasting party on November [-]th, will you go?"

"Pfft... that day?" Xu Qing almost swallowed the big broad beans when he heard it. Is this the Singles' Day? .

"You agreed?! Great, November [-]th! Qujiang Pond Furong Garden!" Shangguanyi heard Xu Qing's question, playing tricks, and left without waiting for Xu Qing to finish speaking go out.Xu Qing shook his head, thinking that I am not an old bachelor now, hehe.But that boy Shangguan is like this, this poetry meeting has to go now, how can he have an intuition that troubles are going to happen again?It's only been a few days for Ansheng...

Xu Qing doesn't pay attention to poetry fairs. An ordinary life is what he wants.

"Master, there are people coming from the palace..." Wang Shan hurried in.

"In the palace?" Xu Qing peeled a broad bean and threw it into the mouth.

"Yes, speak in the same tune as Liu San~"

Xu Qing's heart was pounding, could it be that he was found out when he didn't go to work?Hurrying out to ask, the eunuch told Xu Qing that it was only Li Yuan who announced him to enter the palace, and seeing the eunuch's expression, it should not be a bad thing.After packing up, I drove to Tai Chi Palace.Now Xu Qing's house is very close to the Taiji Palace, and it takes about 10 minutes by car to meet him during the pilgrimage.

"Chen Xu Qing pays homage to His Majesty the Emperor." Xu Qing knelt in the middle of the hall, saying that it was easier to kneel in the Tang Dynasty, and it was easier to accept psychologically, because the audience was full of ministers, high officials and small officials, and even the emperor knelt, but It is sitting on knees, but there is not much difference between the two.So in the Tang Dynasty, "kneeling" was just a courtesy, just like clinking glasses, showing respect from top to bottom, not "master and slave".

Li Yuan straightened up, "nodding his head", and then said:

"Xu Qing, I know you have a lot of fantastic ideas, and you must be well-educated. I just had a question in the court council. I wonder if you can answer it?"

"I try my best..." Xu Qing smacked his mouth, I'm not Du Niang.

"You said, everything in this world expands with heat and contracts with cold, but why does this water grow bigger when it freezes when it's cold?" Li Yuan asked Xu Qing very puzzled.

"Um, what about this..." Xu Qing secretly groaned after hearing this, this also involves hydrogen bonds, water molecules and so on, how to put it clearly!
My mind was spinning wildly, and suddenly I had an idea, why did Li Yuan suddenly have a scientific spirit, no, this question has a deep meaning.Xu Qing looked at the crowd of ministers again, all of them looked puzzled. Could it be that they didn't give the answer Li Yuan wanted?This is more meaningful, so Xu Qing thought that the abnormal phenomenon of this water is special and unique. Could it be... After thinking about it, Xu Qing replied:
"Lao Tzu said that the highest goodness is like water, and you can know where you are. You can know that this water is the way, and it is naturally different from ordinary things. All things are stupid, and human beings only have wisdom, and they have the way; all people are people, the emperor is the only ruler, and he has the destiny. This is also the reason."

After hearing this, Li Yuan really became happy. He stroked his beard and nodded and said, "Xu Qing is indeed a great talent. This argument is true... Such a great talent, I have to use it. Let Xu Qing be promoted to a doctor, and go to the inner hall to discuss matters..."

"Inner hall!" All the ministers gasped.

(End of this chapter)