"Love, love, the rooster has crowed twice, it's time to get up."
Although it was still dark in the house, Xu Pingjun had already heard the roosters in the entire Shangguan crowing, and couldn't help but push the husband next to him.Xu Pingjun had little strength, and after pushing seven or eight times, Liu Ying opened his eyes with difficulty, glanced at the light outside, and muttered: "It's just Pingdan, I don't believe you push the window and look at the sky, it must be full of stars, sleep again, sleep again." ”He closed his eyes again."
It's winter, and it's naturally late in the morning."
Xu Pingjun couldn't wait for him, he got out of the futon and shivered, it was the beginning of October, the weather was getting colder and colder day by day, and a thin layer of hoarfrost would fall in the yard in the morning.By the time she put on her clothes and went to urge her husband again, Liu Ying was already like a sleepy high school student in later generations, and her words had already brought a little begging for mercy: "Pingjun, I am neither an official, nor do I need to enter the court, so I get up so early to do anything." ”Xu Pingjun was a little angry: "Lover, have you forgotten, today I said that I was going to officially visit Xi'anhou!"
”"Xi'an Hou, by the way, Xi'an Hou!"
Hearing these three words, Liu Yi immediately opened his eyes, turned over and sat up, and said while wearing his trousers: "I forgot about this, damn it!"
”Although he has been back for a few days, Xi'an Hou has been busy with the case, Liu Yi has asked people to ask three times, all of them said that they were not at home, until yesterday they sent Jia Cheng to reply, saying that Xi'an Hou was resting today and invited the emperor's great-grandson to a banquet.In addition to the newlywed husband and wife, Liu Ai's maternal grandfather Shi Jia sent three slaves over, one Fu Mu was busy cooking, his husband did some heavy work of pulling charcoal, and a horse boy helped Liu Ai raise horses and dogs.When Xu Pingjun was busy eating with Fu Mu in the kitchen, it was already dawn, and when she came to the courtyard with hot food, she saw that Liu Ying was already carrying an axe to chop firewood bought from Nanshi.Liu was in very poor health when he was young, and he almost died of illness several times, so under the advice of Zhang He, the court order, he began to study martial arts diligently to be strong from a young age, and practiced swordsmanship for many years."
It's all my fault, I shouldn't have bought firewood cheaply, I should have bought charcoal."
Xu Pingjun was a little embarrassed, probably because every time her mother came to see her, she nagged the young couple to be thrifty, and to know that firewood, rice, oil and salt were expensive, which played a certain role.The day before yesterday, when I took my slaves to Nanshi to buy charcoal for this month, when I saw that the price of charcoal had risen again, I sent the gods to choose heavy and smoke-prone firewood.But it's several times cheaper than the charcoal transported from Zhongnan Mountain!
Liu Ai has wiped his sweat and said with a smile: "I feel tired when I run outside, and when I come back for a few days, my arms are almost rusty, and it's good to have firewood, what to eat this morning?"
”Xu Pingjun smiled: "The beloved's favorite soup cake." ”In the Han Dynasty, all pasta was called cake, there were Hu cakes, steamed cakes, soup cakes, and soup cakes were the dough soup of later generations, which was Liu Ai's favorite food, and he devoured it."
On a winter day when the breath turns into frost, the most satisfying thing to warm the stomach is the soup cake, the taste of Pingjun's cooking is very similar to that made by my great-grandmother when I was young!"
When Liu was only a few months old, he encountered the scourge of witchcraft, his grandfather Prince Wei, his grandmother Shi Liangdi, his father Liu Jin, and his mother Mrs.
Wang were all killed, but he, a baby who was still in swaddling clothes, was taken into prison in the county mansion.I don't know which kind person found him two female prisoners to be nurses, and he stayed in the small and cold county prison until he was five years old, and then he was amnesty and released, and was sent to live with his maternal great-grandmother Shi Zhenjun for a few years.Shi Zhenjun loves his grandson very much, and he cooks the food himself, and the best thing is the soup cake, which warms the whole body from the stomach, so that Liu is ill and unforgettable, every time he eats, he will exaggerate a big burp at his grandmother, which makes the old man laugh, but often laughs and laughs but hugs him into his arms and cries."
It's sick, it's sick, you must live well!"
Later, his maternal great-grandmother also died, and he was also recognized by the imperial court and entered the clan, so he re-entered the court.When he was older, Liu Yi was able to run out of the palace by himself, and he was still hungry for the soup cakes, and every winter, he would go through the streets and alleys to find people who sold cakes, but the taste was always a little worse.It wasn't until his hairy-footed son-in-law had dinner at Xu's house for the first time that Xu Pingjun's craftsmanship gave him the feeling of childhood.After filling his stomach, Xu Pingjun boiled water, washed his hair for Liu Ai, and his long dark hair lay in a wooden basin, wet with a wooden scoop, Xu Pingjun rubbed and washed it very patiently, more serious than taking care of himself, and said in his mouth: "Father is happy, saying that he has to be a guest at the Hou family in Xi'an, and the Hou of Xi'an gave him a junior gift, so that he has a face in the entire Shangguan and the court." ”"Mother came up with an idea, saying that the Marquis of Xi'an made meritorious service at such a young age, so that you can move around more and find an errand to do in the future."
Liu Yi has muttered: "Does she think I don't want to do things, since I came back, I have been idle at home all day, or go to the city to be with those light chivalrous nobles, watching them fight cocks, it is really getting more and more boring."
But the court order said that it was best to be idle after I came out, and I must not have any intention of joining the office. ”Zhang He, the eldest son of Zhang Tang and a close confidant of Prince Wei, was a person who treated Liu Yi like a father, took care of him in the court, taught him to read and write, paid for Confucianism to teach him poetry and etiquette, and was a beautiful woman who made him a childhood sweetheart.Liu Yi was very grateful to Zhang He, but he didn't know how to reciprocate.On the day he got married, he was drunk and grateful to Zhang He, but Zhang He laughed: "Emperor's great-grandson, you live well, it is the best reward for me, Emperor Shi's grandson, and Prince Wei." ”Or after experiencing these since childhood, Liu Yi is quite content, those who are good to him, Shi Jia, Xu Jia, Zhang He, all keep in mind one by one, he is still so young, there will always be a chance to repay in the future.When his hair dried at noon, he asked Xu Pingjun to help him tie his hair in a bun, put on a new dress, and came to the door with a brightly colored wild pheasant.There is no way, although he is the great-grandson of the emperor, Liu Yi is now just a white commoner, and he can only use the priest to worship the doctor's ceremony, and he can't hug the little lamb like Ren Hong visited the Yang family in the past.Ren Hong was also dressed very formally and waited at the door, and when he saw Liu Yi coming from a distance, he bowed his hand to him: "The emperor's great-grandson came to the cold house, let my humble room shine!"
”Needless to say, after Liu Yi had been welcomed into the gate by Ren Hong, he found that this courtyard had nothing to do with the "humble house" and "burrow".In the kitchen, which is already famous throughout Shangguanli, the steaming food is not known for what to eat.I heard that the general Huo Guang's favorite little girl especially likes to eat the meat of the unique spices of the Xi'an Hou family, and other families also heard the news to buy the cumin incense, but Xi'an Hou apologized that this incense came from the Western Regions, which is extremely rare, and the survival of the family has been exhausted, and it can only be found next year.Some nobles did not give up and went to Chang'an West City, where Hu merchants and envoys were mixed, to inquire, but they were told that they had never heard of "cumin", so they could only give up.Walking into the courtyard, he found that it had been built into a school field for martial arts training, paved with fine sand, and on the side there were spears, halberds, bows, swords, and five kinds of weapons, "Lan Qi", dyed with red paint, very conspicuous.Two strong men are practicing martial arts in the school field, one is holding a short halberd, the other is holding a ring knife hook, and the two are very slow, but it is Han Dangdang who is teaching you panda skills."
True Tiger Shiya."
Liu Yi looked itchy and wanted to practice his hands, but out of politeness, he still endured it and walked into the hall with Ren Hong, where the best charcoal was burned.The hall of Ren Hong's house has been filled with large and small silk drawings and wooden tablets, Ren Hong is a little embarrassed: "It's a little messy, don't be surprised by the emperor's great-grandson, the subject country is planning a major event recently, and it has to be completed before the winter solstice court, so it is very busy. ”"Looks like I picked it up when I visited."
Liu Yi had bowed his head and looked down to see a huge silk painting, on which were painted mountains and rivers, county roads, land and sea, and some of them were foreign names in the Western Regions that he had never heard of."
This is the map?"
In the Han Dynasty, it was more difficult to make a large map than Ren Hong imagined, although he stayed up for several nights for this matter, he was still in good spirits: "Yes, a large map that includes all the known lands of the Han family, in addition to the thirteen counties of the Assassin History, there are also the Western Regions, Xiqiang, Southwest Yi, Dongyi, and Xiongnu, which should be dedicated to Your Majesty during the winter solstice day." ”Liu Yi hurriedly let go: "This is a military secret, then I" "It's okay, the emperor's great-grandson just took a look and said his opinion." ”Liu Yi has waved his hand again and again: "Xi'an Hou, this is not appropriate." ”He is free and liberated outside Chang'an City, but once he returns to this big city and returns to the edge of Weiyang Palace, he can't help but think of Zhang He, the guardian of Ye Tingwei, who told him about the tragic death of his grandfather and father, those bloody storms and secret calculations.For Liu Aiji, the name of the emperor's great-grandson is not so much a glory as a curse.As the last bloodline of Prince Wei, I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at him, you need to be cautious in your words and deeds, and ordinary people should be careful to keep their distance when they interact with him.But this Xi'an Hou didn't know how to avoid it at all?
Ren Hong said with a smile: "It's really not a secret, at least I don't want it to be hidden as a secret in the Shiqu Pavilion after it is made, and it will grow moldy and rotten, until many years have passed, and the people of later generations have opened the stone pavilion and found it, only to suddenly realize that the ancestors have explored so many regions." ”"I don't hide it from the emperor's great-grandson, I can't wait to copy hundreds of thousands of copies of this map after it is completed, and hang it on the walls of every county school and county school in the world!
So that every scholar who reads can know as soon as he looks up when he is a teenager" Ren Hong raised his arms: "The world is big!"
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