After sending Su Dingfang away, Li Qinzai returned to the Duke's Mansion.
Entering the backyard, Cui Jie stepped forward to greet him and dusted off the unnecessary dust on his clothes.
"My husband has come back just in time. It's time to have dinner."
Li Qinzai hummed, stepped forward and hugged Cui Jie's slender waist, then slid down...
Cui Jie was so ashamed that she slapped his hand away and said angrily: "What is your husband doing in broad daylight? Do you want me to be a human being anymore?"
Li Qinzai smiled and said: "We are an old married couple, why should we be ashamed? There are women in the backyard, so what if we are seen by others?"
As he spoke, his expression changed, and Li Qinzai leaned into her ear and whispered: "My wife is the main wife. If I can have more children, I can give an explanation to the ancestors of the Li family. Tonight..."
Usually when it comes to the couple's secret room, Cui Jie always acquiesces with shame and joy, but today it was a bit strange. Cui Jie avoided the topic and pushed him.
"Husband, let's talk about it after we have eaten. The food is almost cold."
There is a side room in the backyard, which is specially used by the owner to eat. The rules of the Li family are different from other wealthy families. The wealthy people of this era are accustomed to sharing meals. Each person has a lacquer box, and each person occupies a low table, and then everyone eats his own food. .
Habits are good habits, clean and hygienic, and it is said to be an etiquette passed down from the Zhou Dynasty. Only nobles are qualified to share meals.
But Li Qinzai didn't like it. He was still used to the atmosphere in his previous life where the whole family sat around the table and chatted while eating. This made it feel like home.
Therefore, a large round table was built in the wing room in the backyard of the Li family, and the whole family sat around it every day for meals. Cui Jie and Jin Xiang were not used to it at first, but later they discovered the joy of having a family together, so they liked it more and more. .
The dishes on the round table are still sumptuous, including chicken, duck, and fish, and the plate of stir-fried mustard greens in the middle is like a star over the moon. Vegetarian dishes are rare these days and are more expensive than meat dishes, so they are often eaten by wealthy families.
There is an unexpected person at the dinner table today.
As soon as Li Qinzai entered the room, he saw Jin Dayan also sitting at the table, bowing her head in silence. Seeing Li Qinzai come in, Jin Dayan's face turned red instantly, and her head lowered even lower.
Li Qinzai was stunned for a moment, looking really surprised.
His relationship with Jin Dayan has always been neither awkward nor awkward, and Jin Dayan has been deliberately avoiding him recently. Even if they met in the backyard, she would walk away without saying a word.
Being able to have dinner with him at the same table today, Li Qinzai couldn't help but wonder if this goddess doctor was terminally ill and wanted to live the last period of his life without any regrets...
There were also Cui Jie and Jin Xiang at the table, but for some reason, the two children were not there.
Cui Jie pulled Li Qinzai to sit down at the main seat, and the three women's eyes immediately looked at him.
At this moment, Li Qinzai was very satisfied, and the vanity of the head of the family filled his heart, so he waved his hand: "Let's eat!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Cui Jie and Jin Xiang gave him vegetables, a chicken leg and a piece of ribs in a bowl at the same time.
"Husband, eat more. Seeing how thin you are, you are all working hard for national affairs, and your hard work makes me feel sad..." Cui Jie said softly.
Li Qinzai looked stunned and couldn't help but reflect on himself.
Have I ever bothered with state affairs?
The most stressful thing these days is to stay at home behind closed doors to accept guests, pretending to be a patient with a serious injury that will not heal for several days.
And... the secret affair with Cui Jie Jinxiang, that was really hard work.
Li Qinzai raised the bamboo chopsticks and sighed: "Madam, everyone here is my own family, so there is no need to set up a dedicated person for my husband. Although I am not thin-skinned, I can't fool my own family when I hear this."
Those nonsense words will inevitably make you blush..."
Cui Jie and Jin Xiang laughed, and Jin Dayan also lowered her head and covered her mouth.
Li Qinzai looked at Jin Dayan and said curiously: "Doctor Jin stopped avoiding me today. What happened that made your temperament suddenly change? Did you accidentally take the wrong medicine when you were trying it out..."
Before he finished speaking, Cui Jie pinched him hard and glared at him: "Husband, please be kind to me. Jin Shenhe is a girl's family and is our family's savior. You have made her angry. Do you feel guilty?"
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As Cui Jie clapped her hands, a maid came in with a pot of wine in her hand.
Li Qinzai said in astonishment: "What day is it today and why are you drinking?"
Cui Jie rolled her eyes at him and said, "My family has a few drinks. Doesn't it matter what time it is? Let's have a few drinks together as husband and wife, but my husband doesn't want to?"
Li Qinzai's eyelids twitched, he turned around and looked at Cui Jie carefully for a while, and said slowly: "Madam, if you cause any trouble, just say so. As long as you don't pee everywhere in the Tai Chi Palace, I can help you take care of any other troubles."
, there is no need to engage in drinking, just like discussing business..."
Cui Jie made a sound and said angrily: "Why do people urinate in Tai Chi Palace? Is that what humans do? Only animals urinate everywhere."
Li Qinzai pursed his lips: "..."
We can't have this woman anymore, so we should leave her. The relationship has faded.
A pot of wine and four wine cups were filled, Cui Jie smiled and greeted each other with Li Qinzai.
After the toast, it was Jin Hyang's greeting again, and even Jin Dayan, who had a cold personality, also held a cup to drink with him.
After several glasses of wine, Li Qinzai's expression was still baffling.
I have been to countless drinking parties and attended various banquets in my life, but today my family drank so much that I couldn't figure out why these women were so crazy.
The Tang Dynasty was a relatively open era. Although the general pattern of male superiority and female inferiority remained unchanged, the constraints on women were at least not as severe as in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Women from powerful families in this era were actually very busy. They were not only busy taking care of their own affairs, but also busy gathering with powerful women from other families, having banquets, visiting gardens, etc. In short, the daily life of the so-called upper-class ladies a thousand years later,
The prototype can be seen in the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, Cui Jie and Jin Xiang are not bad at drinking. They are both people who have seen the world and drank a lot.
After the four of them drank a pot of wine, the maid immediately brought a second pot.
The more Li Qinzai watched, the more he muttered. The first thought that came to his mind was... is there something wrong with the couple's relationship? So they planned to have a confession round, and each of them talked about the shameful things they had done?
This makes me feel guilty. Not to mention his previous life, Li Qinzai has done a lot of things in this life alone, such as quietly molesting the No. 8 technician in the house, and also treating other people's kabuki when he went to banquets with dignitaries...
The atmosphere has reached this point. It's unreasonable not to get started. He just made the same mistake that all men in the world make...
The three of them, a husband and wife plus a female doctor, were chatting and toasting each other frequently.
Unknowingly, the family dinner had reached the end of the meal, and four or five empty wine bottles on the table and floor were scattered, all representing the achievements of four people.
Cui Jie and Jin Xiang were a little confused, and Li Qinzai also felt a little dizzy. The wine he drank these days was weak, but it had a lot of stamina. It was pleasant when he drank it, and it was painful and fast when he was drunk.
"Husband, I seem to be drunk. No, no, no, I'm going to sleep..." Cui Jie said with blurred eyes. After drinking, her cheeks were rosy and she was a little more charming than usual.
Li Qinzai also stood up and said with a rippling smile: "My wife and I sleep together..."
Unexpectedly, before she finished speaking, Cui Jie glanced at her and shouted: "Sit down and keep drinking!"