Brother Donggong

As soon as I opened my eyes this morning, I felt something was wrong. I tossed and turned in the quilt and thought about it for a long time, and then I remembered an important event - I had nothing to eat since I got up early this morning.

Since last night, I have officially stayed in the most coquettish palace compound in Yongjing Beicheng!

Satisfied.

There is no cook.

Now there are only four people living in my new nest—me, Cui Bicheng (I rented Dongkuayuan to him at a price of 500 taels per month, and he borrowed my 3000 taels of silver bills for half a year’s rent. deposit), cucumber, and Xiaolian.

The bank notes in my hand now total 800 taels of silver.

Among them, 6000 taels are reserved for the prince, and the remaining 800 taels are the life-saving silver that I use to survive.

First of all, the house is good, but it is too big and some are in disrepair.Not to mention anything else, just say that the water surface behind and the pavilions on the water surface, the water pavilion Feihong Bridge, and the Qushui Liucup all need to be connected to the waterway. The paintings on the Xiaocanglang side are old and need to be repainted , and there is nearly ten acres of camellia planted in front of the 32 Mandala Flower Pavilion, because no one cares about it, it will grow into crazy flowers.

After these tosses, there is no 1000 taels of silver that cannot be paid.

With the rest of the money, I need to repair some furniture, buy sheets and bedding, pots and pans, buy carriages, raise horses, store rice, vegetables, and fish—there are seven things that open the door. One must not be missing!

In this way, the 1000 taels are gone again.

Only 800 taels left.

what?

Why are there still 800 taels left?

Isn't Xiaolian's redemption price 1000 taels?Cui Bicheng lent me 3000 taels, I kept 2000 taels to repair my palace, and bought Xiaolian for another 1000 taels, then I should have no money.

But, did I say that I spent 1000 taels of silver to buy Xiaolian?

Yesterday at the Guanzhi Building, Liu Yi dreamed that Xiao Lian's arms were all broken, and he was also scared, so he immediately dropped 1000 taels by himself, and he said with a light smile, "Young Master Qi, look, the 1000 taels I saved is also good Make money for Xiaolian. In the future, if you don’t want him, or your palace is handed over to the household department, you will not worry about having no place to live, but Xiaolian can’t do it! With these close friends, he will also not starve to death."

After hearing this, I almost lost my breath.

It seems that my palace has been mortgaged to the Ministry of Households, or directly mortgaged to the prince. It seems that the matter of mortgaging it directly to the prince seems to have been planted with little wings. It has been circled three times in Yongjing Sijiu City, and no one knows about it!Liu Yimeng simply took my scar and blew a cool breeze at me.

I nodded, "Success!"

Liu Yimeng smiled and was about to thank you. I waved my hand and said, "For Boss Liu's kindness, I'll give you a kindness too, 800 taels!"

Liu Yi said, "What? Wang... Young Master Qi, are you kidding me? You just said that you can redeem people for 1000 taels! Why do you drop it to 800 taels right now!"

I sat on the rattan chair with my legs crossed, pinched the lid of the teacup with my fingers to skim off the tea foam, took a sip, and then swallowed it leisurely, and then said, "It was just now, and now is now. Just now Xiaolian is still the same. Full beard and full shadow!"

Liu Yi said, "Seeing that Mr. Qi is hating me like this. You said, we work so hard in this business, and it is not easy to earn money. This is earning money with our own body. Everyone is an uncle, and none of us dare to offend. A distinguished guest arrived just now, and Xiao Lian was specially ordered, so we must let him go."

I don't speak and continue to drink tea.

This Mingqian tea can only be completed by rinsing the taste with water once, and it can be considered complete after two courses of water, and the aftertaste can be replenished after three courses of water, and the pot can be washed by four courses of water.

I finished drinking the third course of water, and when the big teapot was about to be poured again, I blocked it. I put down the teacup, and Liu Yi said, "Why don't you offer another price?"

"600 taels!" I said.

"Hey, don't tell me! You are joking with me. Just for Xiaolian's place in your heart, you make another price!"

I looked at him with a smile, "Liu Yi, I'll pay 400 taels this time!"

Liu Yi also put on a straight face, "Master, I don't want Xiao Lian anymore. You don't have Xiao Lian in your heart at all, and you want to give up! In this way, Xiao Lian might as well die! Save the future sad."

I stood up, "Okay, let Xiao Lian leave it to you and beat him to death, I don't want this person anymore!"

Liu Yi didn't speak either.

I glanced at Cui Bicheng, and he put down the tea cake in his hand—this Cui Bicheng!Wherever you go, you must fill your stomach first, especially when you go to a gold-selling cave like Guanzhilou. The tea and refreshments for guests are all "rich meals", which are almost comparable to the exquisite and terrible dim sum made by Ouchi Yushan. , he will never give up until he vomits!

Cui Bicheng stood up, holding two crispy dumplings in his hand, put them in his mouth, and swallowed them slowly.

Cui Bicheng had to stand up, to show that he and I really wanted to leave, otherwise I would be the only one to go, and when Liu Yi saw Cui Bicheng sitting by the side, he would definitely think that I was just lying to him for fun.

Cui Bicheng and I turned around and walked to the door, but Liu Yi still didn't speak.I raised my hand to lift the hanging bead curtain, and Liu Yi suddenly said, "800 taels! You can take Xiaolian home now."

I smiled secretly.

I am relaxed.

But today he must sell Xiaolian to me!

"Boss Liu, I paid 400 taels!"

"Young Master Qi, we are also old acquaintances. You have high vision, and you don't like Nujia. If you like Nujia, for only 400 taels, Nujia is willing to be with you forever."

"Huh~~~~~~~~~~~" I got goosebumps from what he said.

"Mr. Qi, but this Xiaolian is different! Anyway, he is also my red card for Guanzhi Building. If it costs 400 taels, someone will buy it. Where do you want me to put your face!"

"You can put it wherever you want! Don't be polite."

I walked back to him again, "Isn't it a month ago when you were all over the street saying that my business is easy to do? You said that I can always finish my work in a short breath, and then I climbed into bed and fell asleep. Give money and leave at dawn. Did you say that! If you all visit Xianggongtang like me, your business will be much easier!"

I patted Liu Yi on the shoulder, "I'm just saying this to you, I'll give you 150 taels at most. But I really like Xiao Lian, so let's do it, 200 taels! I don't want to bargain, just suffer, you Don't be too serious, everyone is making do, redeeming Xiao Lian's body, and finally doing a good deed, isn't it?"

Liu Yi stared at me, and suddenly he cried out, "Tell me, aren't you trying to gouge out my heart? My son, poor little Lian! Mr. Qi, you don't even want to give me the money to redeem yourself!" , so mean to him, you, how can you bear it!?"

"Young master!" Liu Yi suddenly pulled Cui Bicheng, "You came with Mr. Qi, you are here to judge. Xiao Lian has no parents, so I treat him like my own son. He eats delicacies from mountains and seas, wears What is silk and satin, and learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which one is not served by me? He is so good now, and he has just gained some fame, but he was forced to buy it. Tell me, this makes you How can my poor son live~~~~~~~~~~~"

Cui Bicheng is obsessed with cleanliness.

When Liu Yi just touched his body, he trembled in fright, and looked at Liu Yimeng howling in disgust.

When Cui Bicheng didn't laugh, cry, talk, look at the ledger, or count the money, he actually looked graceful, wise, and coquettish.

When I looked at him, a wild grass banner was made by Chu Qiangsheng, the current imperial envoy of Zuodu, just behind Cui Bicheng, which perfectly complemented him—Jiangzuo Fenghua!

Cui Bicheng looked at Liu Yimeng, and when he stopped howling, he helped Liu Yi finish the work on the embroidery table next to him, and then took the water-soaked silk handkerchief from the hand of the little servant boy next to him and handed it to Liu Yi.

At this time, Cui Bicheng said in the clear and lingering Yongjia tone he had learned, "My lord, you have found the wrong person. Xiaosheng is just here to make soy sauce."

Hearing this, Liu Yimeng fell to the ground, vomiting blood endlessly.

His mouth, hands and feet twitched, as if he had gone epileptic, and he could no longer refute.

I bought Xiaolian at a price of 200 taels, pledged Liu Yimeng to write a deed of sale, and gave him a bank note from the HSBC bank.

Xiao Lian's arm was newly broken, and there was a secret bone-bonding medicine taught by Asura in the Western Regions in Da Nei, which was specially designed to regenerate broken bones and smooth the tendons, especially the newly broken bones had the best curative effect.If it is an old wound, it is said that it will be interrupted again, and the sore must bleed before the medicine can be used.

Cui Bicheng brought his carriage over, and we went home in the carriage, and then when I arrived at the Qiwang Mansion, I knocked the drooling Cucumber up, and I asked him to go into Da Nei at night to get a piece of bone medicine, by the way Then he went to the Imperial Medical Bureau to bring the doctor Ye Liangzhen over to treat Xiaolian's injuries.

Xiao Lian didn't say a word, except for some dry tears at the corners of his eyes, he never cried again.

He is not that kind of outstanding beauty, if it is not for his piercing eyes, it is easy to ignore him.

But the lines of Xiao Lian's face are soft to the extreme, as if they were carefully selected by someone and put together carefully.

And his eyes...they were a pair of eyes that I only saw once and could never forget—like a black pool with ever-changing light.

I held his hand and said to him, "I'm sorry, I'm the one who caused you trouble. Bear with it, it may hurt, but in order to prevent you from being disabled, the broken bones must be aligned before the medicine can be applied." Physician Ye is very skilled in medicine, he will..."

Xiao Lian's eyes are like cats, he doesn't speak, but his eyes follow me who is talking, making me feel that he has been deeply attracted by me, his eyes have grown from the initial understanding to a kind of understanding mood.

So, he doesn't blame me.

After Ye Liangzhen bound up Xiao Lian's wounds, he left in a hurry. He was on duty at the Imperial Medical Bureau today, so he couldn't leave.I don't want to keep him either, I don't have bedding and supper for five people here.

I fed the dim sum I brought from Guanzhi Tower to Cucumber, and he cried while eating, his nose was red, which made me suspect that the crispy dumplings of 'Fengshan' were actually not white roses, but tigers. Peppers!

Cucumber was crying and ate all the snacks I had planned for the four of us (me, Cui Bicheng, Xiaolian, Cucumber) to make three meals the next day, which caused me to be depressed from the moment I fell asleep until this morning .

I hugged the quilt and thought about it for a long time, then sighed, I couldn't get up, and if I didn't get up, I probably wouldn't have anything to eat.

Cui Bicheng is practicing Taijiquan in the courtyard, he is now the shopkeeper, he can't hold the horizontal grass, and can't hold the oil bottle down.He said he wanted me to pay for his food and lodging every month, and now there is a courtyard house in Yongjing for 500 taels of silver, and he would give me 500 taels of rent every month just to find a place to live, plus meals, I agree!

After Xiao Lian finished her grooming, she was watching from the sidelines. She had been injured for a hundred days. His left arm was fixed with two wooden splints, and was hung on his chest with white silk, while cucumbers were boiling water and soaked. Tea.

I called Cucumber over, gave him twenty copper coins, and asked him to find a casserole in the kitchen, and then go to the street behind to buy a bag of buns and a pot of millet porridge.

"Your Highness, do you want your servants to come to the Yanxun Mountain Hall to order some side dishes at noon?" Cucumber asked.

I looked at him, "No need! We only think about eating out every day, so we can't do it?"

Cucumbers are submissive.

Cui Bicheng was closing in, he snorted from his nose.

Only Xiao Lian is very quiet, he may be very unfamiliar with us... He didn't like to talk much when he was in Guanzhilou, so I didn't ask him what he wanted to eat. Anyway, he seems to be able to eat anything, but he doesn't like it. eat eggplant.

As soon as Cucumber left, someone knocked on the gate of the palace. Cui Bicheng and I opened a small corner door and went out to have a look. It turned out that Xie Meng came with a small unit of his guards.

...a squad

There are more than 100 people here!

Where is a squad.

There is still a bruise on Xie Meng's forehead, only the medicine was applied and no white cloth was wrapped, so it looks okay, unlike my left shoulder, Ye Liangzhen wrapped me up like a melon when he changed the dressing last night.

I spread my hands to him and asked first, "Have you eaten?"

Xie Meng was taken aback, then said neatly, "No."

"Oh, let's go back and have dinner before coming back."

After I finished speaking, I was about to close the door when Xie Meng stepped in with one foot. He pointed behind him and said, "Your Highness, His Royal Highness told us to eat here, so he sent Feng Yuchu here, and Master Feng also brought a own guy."

I pulled Xie Meng away like a potato, and looked behind him. Sure enough, a delicate girl came down gracefully from a small sedan chair. She was like the most beautiful among wild grass among a large group of guards. A dog's tail flower!

My deadly enemy - the number one master of Ouchi Imperial Cuisine: Feng Xiaosheng! !

This woman came from a gluttonous family, and she has been an imperial cook in the palace since her ancestors. The group of people in her family raised those who were noble enough to enjoy her food in the Forbidden Palace, one by one with tricky tastes!It's getting worse and worse.

Feng's family has their own big restaurants in Yongjing, Jinling, Jinguancheng, Chang'an, Penglai, and Lingnan. Cui Bicheng also partnered with them in Yongjia to run a restaurant plus a play garden, making money every day.

A few years ago, I was Feng Xiaosheng's aunt, Feng Lian, who was sitting in the imperial dining room, but I never met her aunt.

At that time, I was still young, and my mother was very useless, so I could only eat the melons, fruits and vegetables my mother got from the imperial dining room, and the farm dishes made by myself from beef, sheep, pigs and fish.

Later, when I got older, my father treated both of us better, so I could go to the imperial dining room for a meal. At this time, Feng Xiaosheng, a woman, was already in charge of the house.

She seems to be the same age as me, but there are many ghosts.

Her obsession with the origin of her food is like her obsession with her slim figure.

Sanbai must come from the old Liu’s family in Taihu Lake, river crabs must come from the old Shen’s family in Yangcheng Lake, rice and soybeans must be from outside Shanhaiguan, buckwheat must be from Temujin’s Ministry of the Huns, sea cucumbers must be from the Chen family in Liaodong, and both water and wine. It belongs to the Yongjia Zhou family.

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I said, you take the crabs from the Haihe River in Zhili and raise them, and they will look like the ones in Yangcheng Lake when they are fattened up. For this reason, I was tricked by her into eating Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs that have deteriorated in Yongjia Taidiao and squatted. After a whole night of Gong barrels, I almost used up all the Gong barrels in Yuxi Palace.

I've seen the belt she wears on her inner coat, it's one inch wide, it's stitched with needles, and it's more tenacious than cowhide, just gritted her teeth and strangled herself!Her waist is very thin, cruelly slender, and she is a living person who strives for her own beauty!

In fact, she is also a stubborn person.

She must get Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs from thousands of mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, and she will not hesitate to do business with enemy countries, but also get buckwheat from the Huns because the prince once said that he wants to taste that taste; 'The state of mind tightened his slender waist, just because the prince once said that he likes people with slender waists.

I am speechless to ask the heaven.

I am estranged from the prince, and even she will be estranged from me.

It’s just that on Qingming Festival, my father took Wen Zhan to the Taimiao Temple to worship the ancestors. I drank too much in Guanzhilou the day before, and I didn’t get up the next day, so I stayed in Dazheng Palace and didn’t leave the nest.

Feng Xiaosheng, a weak woman, ran to my Yuxi Palace with a small jar of Yongjia Taidiao in one hand, pulled me out of the bed, and insisted that I drink with her.So we sat opposite each other in the front garden of Yuxi Palace, she drank and cried at the same time, saying that your men's hearts are made of stone, no matter how soft and hard the bubble is, it can't be melted, and what if a woman meets a man After so many years of hard foaming, I have long been tender and sweet...

Boom!

Before she could finish speaking, she fell to the ground.I could only grab her by the feet and drag him back to the bedroom, throw him on my bed and let her sleep soundly there.

By the way, I forgot to mention.

What I hate most about her is that since he knew that I had broken my sleeve, she no longer regards me as a man.Every time she is depressed, she will come to me. I have said everything I can say about the family law of my ancestors, the rules of the harem, Confucianism and teaching, but she still acts recklessly.

Either you come to me to sleep, or you come to me to get drunk.

I can't hide from it, and I can't shake it off.

I am also very depressed!

I thought that I would never have to see her again after leaving the palace, who would have thought that she would chase here again.