Iron Armored Emperor

The Wushuang horse ran three or four laps, then became ill-intentioned, and rushed towards Ah Fei, frightened Ah Fei so that his four claws slipped, he ran wildly, and finally he was out of breath from exhaustion. Ha couldn't take it back outside, so he just used his fat dog face to make an expression of lovelessness.

Di Qiye took Ah Fei, who had behaved much better, back to the imperial dining room. As soon as Ah Fei saw the imperial cook, he ran over, and collapsed at the feet of his master, weeping.It had just been kicked out by Wushuang and ran several laps, the whole body of the dog was shaking, it was really pitiful to watch.

But Yuchu felt bad.

Di Qiye pretended not to see the aggrieved eyes of the chef who dared not speak out, washed his hands, and began to try to mix wine.

Logically, this should not be difficult, isn't it just pouring wine, orange juice, and pomegranate syrup into a glass filled with ice cubes?But it is not so easy to look good and drink just right.

Di Qiye tried several cups until he was slightly tipsy before he was satisfied with the ratio and asked Yuan Bao to leave with his things.

Before leaving, he pointed and pulled down his left hand finger under his eyes and made a grimace at Ah Fei.

Ah Fei groaned angrily and pointed his butt at him.

Gu Lie waited and waited, Yuan Bao came in with the little eunuch holding two large lacquer trays, but Di Qiye was stunned to see no one.

"What about others?"

Yuan Bao smiled: "Dingguohou just went to the racetrack, Wushuang cried to Dingguohou, rubbed Dingguohou's clothes, Dingguohou went to take a bath and change clothes."

Haojie committed another mistake, but Gu Lie didn't care about it, he only cared to ask: "Why is Wushuang crying?"

"Perhaps I haven't seen you for a few days, and I want to be the Marquis of Dingguo," Yuan Bao answered thoughtfully.

In fact, Wushuang didn't see Di Qiye for more than a few days. At the end of the year, everything was busy, and Di Qiye had no choice but to slack off. He hadn't been to the racetrack for nearly a month.

Gu Lie hummed, and waved Yuan Bao down.

After Di Qiye took a bath, he left the bathing hall wrapped in a big woolen blanket. In fact, the whole Weiyang Palace is heated by earth dragons, but who doesn't like to be warmed up.Therefore, the degree to which Marquis Dingguo is afraid of the cold really cannot be blamed on Gu Lie for ruining his reputation.

Gu Lie wiped his hair with a soft towel, and while Di Qiye complained for countless times that his hair could not be cut, he mixed drinks for Gu Lie with the items brought by the imperial dining room.

Crushed ice was placed in a crystal glass, a small amount of wine was poured, the crystal glass was almost filled with orange juice, and some pomegranate syrup was poured along the side of the glass.

The transparent glass is filled with orange juice, and the bottom of the glass is bright red pomegranate syrup, which looks as beautiful as the sunrise*.

"Does it look good?"

"nice."

Di Qiye stirred the syrup and fruit juice with silver chopsticks and handed it to Gu Lie: "Try it."

Seeing the suspicious expression on Gu Lie's face, he assured: "It's definitely not bad to drink."

When Yuan Bao came in with a lacquer tray, he reported to Gu Lie what each one was. If you mix them up casually, it won't be too bad to drink. Gu Lie was teasing him, took a sip, and After pondering for a while, when Di Qiye was about to doubt his sense of taste, Gu Lie said, "It's delicious."

It is very different from the Central Plains style wine, it is completely strange and exotic, but the taste is really good.

Di Qiye tasted wine in the imperial dining room and got a little drunk, and was steamed by the hot water in the bathing hall, and was even more overwhelmed. At this time, he was dissatisfied with Gu Lie's delay on purpose, and stared at Gu Lie, but there was something in his eyes Bewildered, Gu Lie hugged him into his arms and said with a smile, "Look again, I'm going to be hungry."

Di Qiye clicked his tongue and took a sip of his wine.

"The Yan family brought this back for you? What's it called?" Gu Lie tied Di Qiye's hair into a bundle with a cloth belt, and placed it in front of Di Qiye's neck, before letting the person lean back against him. chest,

"They brought back an oak barrel, and I didn't know what was in it. I looked like a wine barrel, so I brought it back." Di Qiye thought for a while, "I don't know what the wine is called, but this kind of wine A wine made with orange juice and pomegranate syrup, it seems to be called sunrise."

"Sunrise," Gu Lie wrapped Di Qiye's hand holding the cup, raised it to the level of his eyes and looked at it, "is it more like a burning cloud?"

Di Qiye leaned against him lazily: "Maybe the sunrise scenery over there is different from this side."

"there?"

"The other side of the sea. It should be southeast. I don't know the specifics."

Gu Lie wrote down silently, Di Qiye continued to play with the wine, Gu Lie looked at the wooden box on the desk, and asked, "What's in the wooden box?"

Di Qiye leaned forward to take down the wooden box, and said to Gu Lie, "You want to see it yourself, not because I can't hide it. This is a birthday gift for you. Isn't it coming soon? I'll ask the Yan family caravan to give it to me." Find something quirky and cheap."

Di Qiye was the only one in the world who dared to tell Gu Lie that he specially found someone to buy cheap things to celebrate your birthday.

"The widow is flattered."

He said he was flattered, but Gu Lie didn't want to do it himself, hugged Di Qiye and asked, "What are they?"

Normally, Di Qiye would have grabbed Gu Lie's hand to open the wooden box, and he was definitely not used to him, but tonight Di Qiye was a little drunk and didn't bother to care about it, so he opened the three wooden boxes one by one.

Gu Lie's eyes fell on the wooden box in the middle, and he raised his eyebrows: "Is this called cheap stuff?"

Di Qiye pointed at the wooden box and said, "A self-propelled boat, a fake gemstone, and a jade pomegranate. Of course, it's not cheap, but as a birthday gift for you, it's extremely cheap, right?"

He also added: "If it's useless for you to hold this fake gem, you can give it to Gu Zhao as a marble."

Lifting up the ruby, in the bright candlelight, this gem is also flawless, round and translucent, very pure red, with only subtle mineral spots, which cannot be seen without careful inspection.

It does look like a fake bead.

"Who told you that this bead is fake?" Gu Lie played with the bead, and against the backdrop of Di Qiye's white clothes, it became even more beautifully red.

Di Qiye was taken aback: "Isn't this fake?"

"It looks a bit like a red bead my grandfather collected back then, so I'm not sure." Gu Lie put the bead back into the wooden box, "Tomorrow, let's take it to the Ministry of Industry for someone to taste it."

Di Qiye explained: "Yan Liuying said that she bought it from a fisherman's child by the sea, who was playing with the bead as a marble at that time."

Gu Lie was noncommittal: "If the boat with the gemstones sinks in the sea, after a long time, it is not impossible to wash ashore and be played by children."

Di Qiye lowered his eyes and closed his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

Gu Lie picked up the jade pomegranate, peeled off all the bright red jade pomegranate seeds, poured them on Di Qiye's skirt, picked them up one by one and put them back together.

Di Qiye didn't feel much at first, but he leaned on Gu Lie and sat with his knees bent between Gu Lie's legs.The jade pomegranate seeds rolled around and gathered in the lower abdomen. Gu Lie picked out the pomegranate seeds and put them on the jade pomegranate skin. He picked up one and the other with his fingers, making Di Qiye want to run away, and then Being hugged by Gu Lie and unable to move, he raised his head angrily and grabbed Gu Lie's ear.

Gu Lie let him bite, his voice a little hoarse, and he said softly: "I like it very much. When spring comes, we will lead Gu Zhao to find some good water and try the self-propelled boat."

This person is used to talking, Di Qiye snorted softly, slowly let go of Gu Lie's earlobe, and then smiled back: "That's not necessarily true, what if one day I choke my throat after eating grapes?"

Gu Lie was helpless.

He grabbed the jade pomegranate seeds on Di Qiye's skirt and put them back into the wooden box one by one, and hugged Di Qiye, who wanted to run even more, in his arms, and stood up just like that.

Di Qiye was afraid of falling, so he hooked Gu Lie's neck with one hand and pressed Gu Lie's shoulder with the other. He probably lost his vigilance after drinking, and even smiled: "I thought you were diligent in governing, and you didn't exercise for a long time, so you didn't have much strength. I can't see it."

Gu Lie raised his eyebrows, he actually disliked himself for having no strength.

It's worth it.

Gu Lie walked towards the bed with the man in his arms, and pointedly said as he walked, "The grape is too small, isn't it?"

Di Qiye rested his head on his shoulder, didn't realize it for a while, and said "Huh?" in a daze.

Gu Lie laughed lowly, turned around and sat on the side of the bed, fell backwards, and Di Qiye took advantage of the situation to lie on top of him.

With his slender fingers, Gu Lie gently pushed away Di Qiye's lips and teeth, which had the aroma of orange and pomegranate.

The next day, Di Qiye learned from the pain and summed up the disadvantages of bartending. The orange juice and pomegranate syrup completely covered up the taste of the wine, and he didn't even know how much he drank.

Gu Lie, on the contrary, liked this Sunrise so much that he even confiscated the base wine in the remaining two glass bottles, not allowing Di Qiye to pour it out.

On the day of Gu Lie's birthday, he still used the filial piety period to push the big things, but after all, he had observed the filial piety for three years, so he still invited the officials into the palace for a banquet, clearly stated that no gifts were allowed, and simply celebrated his birthday together.

Although it was clearly stated that gifts are not allowed, Yan Fagu, a stingy fake Taoist priest, presented the ruby ​​that Gu Lie had sent for appraisal before. He congratulated His Majesty on the flawless orb, and then said with a smile: "For this The beads are all over the capital looking for everyone to appreciate, and the errand expenses will be converted into congratulatory gifts for His Majesty."

Prime Minister Jiang Yang Nahan: "I thought you were stingy to the end, but I didn't expect you to be as tall as a mountain."

Yan Fagu covered his face and said: "Oh, it's because of the need to make a living. Besides, it's not just the poor who run errands alone, the head of the Yan family also contributed. She said she was wrong and apologized to Marquis Dingguo."

Di Qiye smiled: "She mistakenly sold me the priceless treasure as marbles, why should she pay me back? It's my fault."

Yan Fagu hurriedly said: "The Patriarch of the Yan family asked the poor Taoist to tell me that they bought it as marbles and sold them as marbles. This is a fair trade, and no one can blame me. She really missed it. This point is to be accused to Marquis Dingguo."

"Master Yan is so polite, I don't know what to say," Di Qiye looked at Gu Lie, "Anyway, I gave it to His Majesty, let His Majesty decide."

Gu Lie pondered for a moment, and said to Yan Fagu: "One is selling sincerely, and the other is buying sincerely. No one wants to take advantage. Since the money and the goods are equal, then that's all. Doing business is a long-term business. In this way, Yan Fagu You tell the Patriarch of the Yan family that Marquis Dingguo doesn't know anything about these things. Since he entrusted the Patriarch to be comprador, it is natural to ask her to be patient and help her, so as not to be tricked by others. .”

The words were too polite and too blunt, the meaning of beating was obvious, Yan Fagu hurriedly knelt down to answer.

The Yan family's work is related to Gu Lie's next plan. This time, he didn't deliberately deceive Di Qiye, so Gu Lie would handle it lightly. Otherwise, Gu Lie would rather find a sensible person to do things.

Your Majesty has just turned 33 years old, the government is clear and clear, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the ministers are also honored. Moreover, Gu Zhao is sitting at the banquet, polite and well-behaved, so no one can't think about it. The matter of drafting the harem gave Gu Lie a good meal.

After Gu Lie's birthday, when the accounts are settled at the end of the year, the six departments and nine ministers can't wait to live in the palace. A few helpers went by.

Taking advantage of the complicated affairs, Gu Lie quietly arranged Zhuo Junlang to go to Qingzhou, where he took the official position of Ding You in the most affluent Qiantang Mansion.

Hard work and satisfaction came to the middle of the first month, and Gu Lie was about to make up for Di Qiye's birthday, when the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion came to report that the assassins had gathered in the northern border and seemed to want to cross the Ural River.