The first-class concubine of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 272
Beijing.

The recent capital city is very lively. On the afternoon when Liu Family Winery started selling beer, Lu Xue challenged several national players from Hetu Chess Academy and Reversi Chess Academy in succession.

After defeating them, everyone in the capital knew that Lu Xue was from the Liao Kingdom.

And she is a Liao woman.

All the people in the capital were angry, the Liao people were so rampant.

They petitioned one after another, asking the court to select Go masters to fight against the Liao people.

Humiliation, this is simply a humiliation to their Da Song.

Zhao Kuangyin frowned slightly after hearing the news.

In the past few days, he knew that Liu Wei didn't meet the Liao people in order to give them a chance to show off their power, but he didn't expect that the Liao people were not weak, and they defeated all the national players of the three major chess institutes.

If Da Song didn't have a good chess player to defeat that Lu Xue, it would be a shame to Da Song, a great shame.

Zhao Kuangyin found Zhao Pu and Liu Wei, the prime ministers.

"What's your opinion, ladies?"

Zhao Pu showed embarrassment: "Although I like Weiqi, my chess skills are not very good."

Xue Juzheng and Shen Yilun also shook their heads, saying that they are not good at chess.

Liu Wei was calm as usual, but Zhao Kuangyin surprisingly didn't ask him. In his opinion, Liu Wei shouldn't be very good at Go, but what kind of thoughts made him have such an idea?

He didn't understand either.

Zhao Kuangyin didn't ask, but Zhao Pu did.

"Liu Consort Liu is very resourceful, so he should be good at Go, too?"

Liu Wei smiled: "Slightly clear."

Zhao Pu was stunned: "Slightly clear?"

"So-so, I can play a game or two with that Lu Xue."

Everyone was stunned. To be able to play a game or two against the number one chess player of the Liao people is definitely not a little knowledgeable, modest, they think Liu Wei is too modest, but they don't like Liu Wei's modesty very much, if Zhao Pu didn't ask more In a word, Da Song really couldn't find someone to play a game or two with Lu Xue.

Zhao Kuangyin was a little excited, and looked at Liu Weiwei: "If Liu Aiqing really knows how to play chess, it will be very easy to handle. Find a time to ask that Lu Xue to kill their prestige from the Liao people."

Liu Wei nodded: "My Majesty, don't worry, after today, I will go to find that Li Yin, but I will ask my Majesty to give me some convenience when the time comes!"

"convenient?"

"The convenience of being able to make decisions."

"Okay, as long as you can win glory for my Song Dynasty, I will give you any convenience."
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The city of Bianjing is very lively, and Liu Wei's face was full of joy after leaving the palace.

Of course, what Liu Wei is happy about is not the excitement of the capital, but the fact that he is going to have a big banquet at the mansion today.

He invited a lot of people, of course, they all cared about him well, Jin Wang, Su, friends from Kaifeng Mansion, Shen Tan, Cao Jue, Zhao Defang and so on.

Of course, Princess Chaifeng is also invited.

Back at the mansion, the courtyard has been tidied up by the servants. There are barbecue racks under several old willow trees, and the charcoal fire is used to burn them quietly.

The grill is fat, Lvyi, Xiaoyu and a few maids in the mansion are cutting the mutton into slices and skewering them on skewers. There are already a lot of skewers on a big table, and the maids are sweating profusely from exhaustion. Drenched in sweat, you can see the entire hill at a glance.

Princess Ruyi was chatting with Qin Yun, and when she saw Liu Wei came back, she quickly waved her hand: "My son-in-law, I heard that the Liao people sent a Go player to beat my Song Dynasty's national player all over the place. The Holy Majesty announced you to enter the palace for this purpose." ?”

After Princess Ruyi finished speaking, Qin Yun echoed him again and again.

Liu Wei smiled: "It's for this matter, and I have already accepted the emperor's order, and I will soon fight against Liao chess players."

"My son-in-law, you..."

Princess Ruyi and Qin Yun were startled, and even the maids who cut the mutton couldn't help but stop their work.

"Is the son-in-law proficient in Go? Go is different from backgammon..."

"What is backgammon?" Qin Yun was wondering when he suddenly heard Princess Ruyi say a word he didn't understand, and he was immediately surprised.

The green-clothed man here was a little excited, and hurriedly said: "Gobang is a game created by my son-in-law. It's very fun. Miss Qin, do you want to finish it? It's ten cents a game..."

Since Liu Wei taught Green Clothes Backgammon, she has become more and more proficient. No one in the entire princess mansion is her opponent, and she has earned a lot of money from others because of this.

Qin Yun doesn't care about ten pennies. Now that the beauty shop's business has spread all over the Song and Southern Tang countries, she has too much money to spend.

"Okay, you can teach me, but not now." After speaking, Qin Yun turned his gaze to Liu Wei: "Do you have the confidence to defeat them?"

"Without confidence, how dare you accept the emperor's will..."

Just as they were talking, Liu Quan and Liu Yi rushed over with two carriages of beer.

"Master, what you asked for has arrived."

Liu Wei nodded: "It's all in the ice cellar to be chilled, so don't leave tonight, and have dinner here."

Liu Quan knew that his young master was free, so he didn't refuse. After nodding, he ordered his servants to move the wine jars into the ice cellar.

Liu Quan went to work, and Daniel came with two sheep.

"My lord, the sheep you asked for has been bought."

"Okay, I'll kill it, but the two only need to be whole. Tonight, in addition to eating kebabs, we also want to eat roasted whole lamb."

Daniu was born to like to eat meat. At first he saw Liu Wei cutting the mutton into small pieces, and found it very unsatisfactory, but he dared not open his mouth. Now when he heard that Liu Wei wanted to roast the whole lamb, his saliva couldn’t help but flow down.

Whole sheep, it's so cool to eat meat and drink a lot.

"Okay, my lord, look at it, I am the best at slaughtering sheep."

As he said that, Daniel led the sheep and walked towards the backyard.

Qin Yun was learning backgammon from Lvyi, when Princess Ruyi strolled over: "I've never seen such a feast for guests, you are going to have a whole sheep banquet!"

Liu Wei smiled: "No, tell the cooks in the kitchen to make a few cold vegetables to eat. If you eat all mutton, you will get tired."

"Okay, okay, if you do this, my county lord's mansion will almost become a slaughterhouse."

Princess Ruyi took Xiaoyu to the kitchen, it was already before dusk.

Not long after Liu Wei sat down, King Jin and Su saw that they had arrived first.

"Liu Concubine, this move of yours is absolutely brilliant. Ten jars of wine sold for [-] guan. This business... makes anyone think it's too black-hearted." Wei Wei has a good relationship, and occasionally jokes with Liu Wei.

Liu Wei didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "That's good, anyway, it's Liao people's money, in fact, if it wasn't for worrying that the envoys of the Liao Kingdom have too little money, ten thousand guan and one altar would be kind to them."

King Jin clicked his tongue: "I'm afraid they won't buy it if they don't drink it."

"You have to see if the prince's propaganda is effective."

The crowd burst into laughter.

They should really be laughing, thinking that the Liao people spent so much wronged money, they thought it was ridiculous.
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After everyone talked and laughed like this, the guests invited by Liu Wei came one after another.

A few tables were set up in the courtyard, and there were more than a dozen lamps not far from the courtyard, which illuminated the entire courtyard very artistically.

Several servants were roasting the mutton according to Liu Wei's instructions, while Zhuge Pi ground the fennel that Liu Weizao had ordered into powder, and then sprinkled them on the mutton skewers bit by bit, and spread honey and hot oil from time to time .

On the other side, Da Niu is constantly turning and roasting the whole lamb with his own hands, and is also applying seasoning to the whole lamb while roasting.

Not long after, the whole courtyard could smell the smell of meat.

Cold dishes were placed on the table, and a jar of chilled beer was placed next to each person. Willow opened it and said with a smile to everyone: "The summer is so hot that time is hard to spare. Isn't it a joy for everyone to sit together, chat and drink like this?" ?”

After finishing speaking, Liu Wei poured himself a glass of wine and said, "Please, everyone, please don't be polite today. If you have enough lamb and beer, you won't go home if you don't get drunk tonight."

Summer nights are slow, and there are no entertainment programs in this era, so everyone will feel bored every summer. Now Liu Wei brings everyone together, eating skewers and drinking wine, which is really refreshing.

Of course, the most important thing is that everyone is not so bored.

After a glass of wine, the mutton skewers have already been grilled. For Cao Jue and other generals, the meat on each skewer is indeed too little, but the roasted whole lamb is not yet ready, so they can only use mutton skewers to fill the gaps between their teeth .

"I said Concubine Liu, your mutton skewers are grilled like this, is it delicious? Why don't you stew them in a pot, let the mutton be stewed, and everyone eat the bones, how cool it is."

Cao Jue was really as Liu Wei said just now, he was not polite at all, while saying this, he took a bite, and after he took this bite, he suddenly felt a numbness in his mouth, which felt very refreshing, saying no It's cool.

After finishing what he had in his mouth, he quickly brought a few skewers from the table in front of him, then smiled at everyone, and started eating by himself without answering.

Others, like Jin Wang and Su Tong, looked at these more refined people, and they were a little bit afraid of roasting such a mutton skewer, so they didn't rush to eat it, but when they saw Cao Jue gobbling it up, they couldn't help swallowing it. Saliva, and then each took a sip.

Once I tasted it, I couldn't stop immediately.

Delicious, simply delicious, I have never eaten such delicious mutton.

The maids and servants next to them kept roasting and roasting non-stop, but there were also a lot of guests, so as many people came up, they were quickly snatched up, and the beer was drunk without restraint.

"Delicious, Concubine Liu, this king can be regarded as a person who has eaten delicacies from all over the world, but this is the first time this king has eaten delicious lamb skewers. What is the coating on it? It tastes numb, so good It has a taste."

"This is cumin, also called cumin, and it's the most suitable seasoning..."

Before Liu Wei finished speaking, Daniel shouted loudly: "The roasted whole lamb is ready, the delicious roasted whole lamb..."

(End of this chapter)