Chastity Layman

  Chapter 714 The Royal Cabbage Lets the Pig

  Once sitting on that imperial couch, anyone's way of thinking will also change.

  The emperor technique is exactly the balance technique.

Qin Lang took the initiative to recommend his grandson Wuji to the Western Regions, and he knew that he had no chance at all. Even if he tried hard like Li Jing, there would be no results. Li Jing was better. After all, he was old and the emperor's defense against him It is much smaller, but it is definitely different for Qin Lang. The emperor may not think that Qin Lang is unreliable if he has a different heart. What will happen in the future, but as an emperor, the most important thing is to take precautions.

  Since I have no chance, of course I should push my ally Changsun Wuji to go. Changsun Wuji is the in-laws of his sons and daughters, and they are also the core of the East Palace. Although Hou Junji was a bit inferior as an opponent, but since Hou Junji insisted on clinging to him, Qin Lang would certainly not let him go if he had the chance.

Between his brother-in-law Changsun Wuji and his loyal dog Hou Junji, the emperor chose Changsun Wuji without the slightest hesitation, but in the end he also arranged for Hou Junji to be in charge, and he was given the title of chief supervisor, Tuyuhun and Dangxiang. The Ministry assists.

  After the discussion was over, Li Shimin intentionally left his eldest grandson Wuji behind, and finally beckoned to Qin Lang who bowed and retreated, "You come too."

  The emperor simply changed his clothes in the apse, with a black short-legged toe and a pair of light crotch-short pants, and stood on the porch waving to the two of them.

   "The queen sent someone to come just now, saying that today she has picked a new variety of cherries, and it is very extraordinary. I would like to invite you to go over and try something new, and you all come together."

  Qin Lang felt a little helpless, he didn't care much about this cherry. Although in the Tang Dynasty, cherries were simply Hermes among fruits, more precious than lychees, and more sought after by nobles.

   Every year when cherries are first on the market, it is really hard to find a cherry. Sihao is no worse than the foreign cherries that have been hyped up in later generations. The emperor will reward the first batch of cherries brought up as tribute to the nobles and new scholars.

The nobles will also take the opportunity to hold a cherry banquet, and even some aristocratic families with cherry orchards in their homes will take the opportunity to show off. They don't hold cherry banquets, they have food in the garden, they just invite guests to the garden, isn't it? Nongjiale picks cherries, but eats them directly under the tree with their mouths, which is called Hantao.

Later, Bai Juyi, a great poet and a high-ranking official, was lucky enough to participate in such a garden party. When he came back, he wrote a poem, "Hantao is the most famous of Soochow. Plants. Where the bird steals and flies, the fire will be held, and the bead will be broken when people pick it up. It is a pity that the wind blows and the rain hits, and it should be gone in the future of the Ming Dynasty." It is very popular and widely spread.

In the early spring, when the rain is getting warmer, the cherry blossoms bloom sequentially. There are 3,000 cherry blossoms in the Qinglong Temple in the south of Chang’an. Many nobles rushed to buy them, and the three thousand cherry trees alone sold for a sky-high price. At that time, Qin Lang presided over the sale, and Lao Cheng bought a piece of land to build another courtyard. Have a tryst with Lao Cheng there.

   Now when the hundreds of cherry trees in the other courtyard of the old Cheng’s house bloom every year, Qin Lang is invited to enjoy the flowers. When the cherries are ripe in early summer, Qin Lang must be sent a basket first.

   But Qin Lang is not rare.

  Because the Qin family is now an important supplier of Chang'an cherries, he successively bought many mountain slopes and ditches in Sanyuan, Xianyang, Bashang, Zhongnan Mountain and Lishan Mountain, and planted cherry and other fruit trees after repairing them.

For example, on the Bailuyuan in Bashang, there is a wild river ditch between the upper and lower plateaus, flowing through Lantian and Baqiao, like a big crack, and occasionally some water accumulates in low-lying places, forming a small ditch, which is called Jingyugou by the people. Later, due to the disrepair caused by the war, it became clogged with silt and became a place for villagers to bathe, and it was called a bathing ditch.

Qin Lang liked the beautiful scenery of this place, so he bought this bathing ditch with a width of several miles and a bottom of several tens of feet, and dammed it to store water. Seven dams were built along the entire fifty-mile long ditch. Seven reservoirs have been stored, the largest stretching for ten miles.

  Because of the uniqueness of the loess plateau, the bottom and **** of the ditch are all soil. The so-called mountains are actually cracks in the middle of a plateau.

Qin Lang sent people to build dams to store water, and then leveled the land on both sides, piled piles and laid stones to build terraced fields, a row of terraced fields, and then left a place for planting fruit trees. Many terraces.

In the tens of miles of Jingyugou, Qin Lang had people plant a large number of cherry trees. This place is next to the Lantian Qinling Mountains, and because it is in the valley between the two plateaus, the hillside is actually the valley slope. Not cold, not hot here in summer.

  The seven mountain dams blocked at the bottom of the ditch can also be used for flood control and water storage, drought relief and disaster relief after water storage. They can be used as hydraulic processing workshops such as mills and flour, and can also deliver water to the fields and forests on the mountains through water trucks.

   Fish and ducks can also be raised in the reservoir.

In the past, cherries were very precious, so they were loved by the nobles. They were like treasures, but Qin Lang was engaged in ecological planting and breeding in Guanzhong. Several new varieties have been bred, and sooner or later the success of the two new varieties has greatly extended the cherry season.

  The price of cherries has also been lowered by Qin Lang a lot, at least now cherries are no longer just enjoyed by princes and nobles.

  Li Shimin led Qin Lang and his wife all the way to the Queen's Lizheng Hall. Sure enough, they could smell the unique fragrance of cherries from a distance. When they got closer, the plates of cherries were even more attractive.

  Red like agate, shaped like beads, watery and shiny, small and exquisite, bright red.

  Princess Lizhi of Changle is teaching a few younger sisters to sing cherry songs, "Yinghuo Jinghua is red, and the smell is real. It is like a bead that has not been pierced, and it is like fire without burning people. The agar liquid is sour and sweet, and the golden pills are even in size."

  The crisp girl's voice is so nice.

  When Li Zhi saw Qin Lang and his uncle coming, she immediately smiled and brought over a bowl of cherries.

  The crystal clear glass fruit plate was filled with agate-like red cherries. The princess smiled and said, "Eat cherries." As she spoke, a rosy glow appeared on her face.

  The longer the little princess is, the more beautiful she is. She has black hair and slender legs. She must have long legs when she grows up.

   "Sanlang is here too!" The queen smiled, "Don't you know that the sage didn't know that the cherries were also paid by Sanlang's family to enter the palace? If you ask Sanlang to taste the cherries, he must be tired of eating."

  Qin Lang chuckled, although the freedom of cherries has been realized long ago, who can eat cherries all day long? But even if you eat it every day, you won't get tired of eating it.

  The queen’s cherry tasting party is still very old-fashioned, completely aristocratic.

  Put the cherries in a small golden cup, and a golden cup just puts a big cherry, which is a bit like the British aristocrats eating eggs. They specially set up an egg cup and set up tools to open eggs.

  A gold cup, a preferred large cherry, and then a silver spoon.

  Qin Lang always grabs a handful at home, picks up a piece and throws it into his mouth, then eats the meat and then spits it out, which is convenient and fast.

   "Shall I dissect it for Saburo?" Lizhi gently picked up the silver spoon, split the cherry in the gold cup, and then gently and precisely picked out the kernel of the dough, which is a technical job.

  After removing the core, you can't eat it right away.

  Lizhi brought another jade bowl, but inside it was cheese, which was fermented with fresh milk. Put a spoonful of cheese into the golden cup, and mix the white cheese and red cherry meat evenly.

  Red and white, sweet and sour cherry cheese is ready.

   After the beauty was mixed, it was served in front of Qin Lang. Qin Lang looked at the little loli in a daze.

So cute!

  When Lizhi raised her head, she didn't expect Qin Lang to have such an expression, she couldn't help smiling, childlike innocence, she scooped up the cherry cheese mixed in the golden cup with a silver spoon in her hand, and fed it directly into Qin Lang's mouth.

  Li Shimin was working hard to cut and pit the cherries by himself, but when he turned his head, he saw Qin Lang looking obscene, and his beloved daughter Li Lizhi was actually feeding him cherry cheese.

  My heart is so sour.

   Even a little blocked.

  My ten-year-old baby girl, a juicy little cabbage, was suddenly overwhelmed by Qin Lang, a wild boar.

  The emperor's hands trembled, and the cherry was picked out of the cup and fell to the ground.

   "Saint? The concubine should cut the cherries for the saint." The queen said.

  Li Shimin looked at Lizhi jealously, "Changle has never fed me like this before!"

  The queen covered her mouth and smiled lightly, "The courtier thinks it's quite good, I love you."

   "Bah, Lizhi is only ten years old, she's still a child!"

  He didn't remember at all, when he gave Changle to marry Qin Lang, he was only four years old, even a child.

   "Princess, I will do it myself."

   "Brother Sanlang, why are you being so polite? Just call me Changle or Wuniang. You should call the princess more honorable." The princess seemed to be less shy because of Qin Lang's embarrassment, and instead became lively and bold.

   "Lizhi, grandpa wants to eat too!" Li Shimin looked at his daughter eagerly.

Chang Le giggled, turned around and walked in front of Li Shimin, dug out a spoonful of cherry cheese with a silver spoon and brought it to his father, Li Shimin opened his mouth to take it, and chewed the crisp and sweet cheese vigorously, as if he was chewing Qin Lang's flesh. Also with a murderous look.

  Qin Lang felt very innocent, quickly lowered his head, and honestly cut open the cherry.

  Changsun Wuji smiled a bit treacherously, he smirked to divert the atmosphere, "There are not many fruits, the taste is good and the beauty is unique!"

Empress Changsun said to her elder brother, "It is said that cherries are delicious and difficult to grow, and the flowers will not bloom without hard work. Why can Sanlang's family plant cherry trees, but they can harvest so well in a few years? I know it in the palace, Duke Wei There is a fifty-mile ravine in the mansion, pink cherry blossoms bloom all over the sea in late spring, golden wheat waves roll in summer, barren slopes and poor ditches have turned into thousands of hectares of wheat fields and hundreds of thousands of cherry trees, how is this possible?"

"Returning to the queen, it is really difficult to grow cherry trees. It is not easy to survive, it is even more difficult to bloom, and it is even more difficult to grow high-quality cherries. However, the key is nothing more than soil, fertilizer, water, temperature and temperature. These conditions Both are indispensable, and then professional fruit farmers will be entrusted to take care of them meticulously. As long as the weather is good, then there will be no worries about harvesting.”

  Jingyugou in Bailuyuan has many unique and superior conditions, which makes the cherry orchards in so many places in the Qin family grow the best, have the highest yield and the best fruit.

Li Shimin chewed the cherries vigorously, and said a little sourly, "At the beginning, there were three thousand cherry trees in Qinglong Temple, which already envied millions of families in Chang'an. Now your Duke of Wei's mansion exclusively occupies Jingyugou, fifty miles of Bailuyuan. One hundred thousand cherry trees, if you have so many cherries all to yourself, won't you be afraid of choking?"

"My lord, no matter which garden the Qin family's cherries come from, as soon as there are ripe ones, they are the first to carefully select the best ones as tributes, and send them to the palace as soon as possible!" Qin Lang said. He also picked up the cherries on the plate to indicate.

Cannibals have short mouths, and soft hands when grabbing people. The Qin family has an abundance of cherries every year, and even Li Shimin, Qin Lang's prospective father-in-law, has now realized the freedom of cherries. Now even the capital officials of the ninth rank can get a reward, and at least they all start at two catties.

   These are all sent to the palace by the prospective son-in-law for free.

"If the saint and the queen like to watch cherry blossoms and pick cherries, I am willing to build a cherry manor in Jingyugou for the saint and the queen, so that the saint and the queen can enjoy the flowers when the cherries are in full bloom. You can go to the garden to pick cherries by yourself..."

   "Saburo really give up? How many cherry trees?"

When the queen asked this question, Qin Lang certainly couldn't be stingy, and simply said boldly, "I would like to donate three thousand cherry trees, and a hundred acres of terraced fields, and build a cherry blossom manor. You can enjoy cherry blossoms in spring, pick cherries in summer, and go boating on the water." Picking lotus seeds, you can also dig winter bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest in winter, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and enjoy the tranquility of the countryside.”

   Li Shimin was moved by what he said.

  Although there are many emperors’ palaces, there are many palaces around Chang’an, some left by the Sui Dynasty, and some built by the Tang Dynasty. The Jiucheng Palace in Qizhou and the Hot Spring Palace in Lishan are all very good.

  Bailuyuan Jingyugou is only average, but this kind of countryside will have a different taste.

"Then I would like to thank Saburo for his filial piety. I will accept this Zhuangzi as a gift from you to Changle. I will enjoy it with the Holy One for a few years. When Changle gets married, I will bring it back to you Qin as a dowry." Home is all right." The queen smiled very happily.

Changsun Wuji said on the side, "Sanlang, I also heard that the cherry blossoms in Jingyugou are famous, why don't you get me a Zhuangzi, and I'll exchange the Zhuangzi in Lantian with you, and the farm with a thousand acres of land in exchange for you." How about a Zhuangzi with one hundred acres of terraced fields and three thousand cherry trees?"

   "The slaves of my Zhuangzi will also be given to you."

  Qin Lang smiled, "Mr. Zhao is so kind, so I have no choice but to accept it. I will let my family arrange it later."

  Changsun Wuji laughed, very satisfied with the deal, and emphasized that he arranged his Zhuangzi next to the queen, so that it would be convenient for him to be a guest.

   "The queen can eat more cherries. It is recorded in the medical book of the king of medicine, saying that cherries are sweet and flat, and make people look good. They have the effect of beautifying and beautifying the skin!"

   "Oh, is that so?" The eldest grandson replied, even if she is the queen of the world, the queen is still a woman in her thirties, and she still cares about her appearance.

   "My family uses toilet water made of cherry blossoms. There are many mosquitoes in summer. This toilet water has the miraculous effect of adding fragrance, refreshing and repelling mosquitoes. I would like to dedicate it to saints and queens."

  Empress Changsun became more and more satisfied when she heard this. This son-in-law really didn't hurt in vain.

  (end of this chapter)