Li Qinzai discovered that the nature of the Li Family Courtyard was a little different.
In the past, it was just one of the many farm properties of the British public. Direct family members occasionally came here to escape the summer heat, take a break from work, hunt, etc.
With Li Qinzai and Qiao'er moving in, the Li family's villa in Ganjingzhuang became busy.
It became the home of the fifth young master and young prince of the Li family, and it became a new school famous only for the emperor and the powerful in Chang'an City. It also became a temporary palace where Li Zhi often came to vacation.
The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had to go to Li Zhi personally for such a big deal as the completion of the new school. Li Qinzai really doubted whether this guy was openly absent from work in the name of inspecting the new school.
Judging from the way he quickly rushed into his usual wing and couldn't wait to let Li Qinzai cook in person... yes, this guy is here for a vacation.
Regrettably, this guy had no intention of paying for food or accommodation when he came to vacation once or twice. Even if Li Qinzai was about to get married, Li Zhi didn't show any explicit hint that he would give heavy gifts. Li Qinzai treated him to a vacation like
Meat buns beat dogs...
Even if it’s a farmhouse, you can’t afford not to pay, right?
All emperors have a problem, that is, they don't show up anywhere.
"There is nothing in the world but the land of the king", he really took this sentence seriously, and he regarded it as his own home wherever he went, without any shyness or politeness.
When Li Zhi entered the house, he took off his clothes and walked around the house barefoot, looking at the familiar furnishings in the house. Several followers came in with various precious porcelain and daily utensils, and changed the furnishings in the house.
It became a luxurious palace item.
Li Qinzai cooked several dishes himself, and the eunuch tasted them and then brought them into the house.
"Jingchu, come and sit down quickly. I have brought some jugs of good wine from the palace. Last year, the Anxi Protectorate sent a few barbarians who were winemakers and kept them in the palace. This year, after the grapes ripened, the wine they brewed for me was quite good.
Taste, you and I should get drunk today." Li Zhi said with a hearty smile.
Li Qinzai wiped his hands and sat across from Li Zhi.
These days, wealthy families are very particular about drinking. They use what kind of cup they want to drink.
For example, ordinary turbid wine and Sanle wine use lacquer cups, while grape wine must use luminous cups.
The luminous cup, like grape wine, was introduced from the Western Regions. It was produced in the Four Towns of Anxi, which was later known as Xinjiang and Gansu.
The so-called "luminous cup" is actually a cup carved from Hetian jade. This green or transparent jade cup is filled with amber grape wine. If it is under the moonlight, it will emit a very beautiful light, which adds to the beauty when drinking with friends.
It is somewhat poetic, so the ancients named it "luminous cup".
Later generations had a poem called "Luminous Cup of Grape Wine", which refers to the sense of ritual that literati had when drinking. If grape wine is not served in a luminous cup, it will be a failure of the wine, just like drinking from disposable plastic cups at supper stalls in later generations.
Just like the Romanee-Conti in 1996, it has no quality.
Li Zhi had a strong sense of ritual, not only bringing grape wine, but also a luminous cup.
The amber wine was poured into the glass. Li Qinzai took a closer look and found that the wine and the glass indeed emitted several beautiful halos, which were colorful and extremely beautiful.
Holding the cup with both hands, he toasted Li Zhi. Li Qinzai drank it all in one gulp. Li Zhi laughed and drank it happily.
The monarch and his ministers smacked their lips, and Li Zhi frowned, looking strange.
"What do you think of this wine, Jingchu?"
Li Qinzai thought for a moment and said, "It's not bad. I don't drink alcohol often, so it's probably good to have some alcoholic taste."
Li Zhi shook his head: "I think the wine is good and the cup is not bad, but... I always feel like something is wrong."
Li Qinzai asked tentatively: "Does Your Majesty feel that there is no kabuki to add to the fun? Please forgive me, I do not support kabuki here..."
Li Zhi nodded subconsciously, then quickly shook his head and said seriously: "What Jingchu said, am I a person who covets beauty?"
Li Qinzai was in awe and said: "Your Majesty is indeed a wise king who has worked hard to rule a generation. I am lucky enough to be born in the prosperous age ruled by your Majesty. This is the blessing I have earned after practicing nine lives."
If I hadn't known that every woman who came close to you was killed by your mother-in-law, I would have almost believed you.
Li Zhi took another sip of wine, smacked his lips, and slapped his thigh: "I understand, there is a lack of ice! A good grape wine must be accompanied by ice cubes before it can be called a good wine."
After speaking, Li Zhi shouted to the eunuch Wang Changfu outside the door and ordered him to get ice cubes.
Wang Changfu was stunned and suddenly knelt down to apologize.
It's easy to bring grape wine and luminous cups from Chang'an City, but I really didn't prepare ice cubes.
Li Zhi didn't blame him, he just sighed with regret.
It's summer now, and it's so refreshing to take a sip of ice-cold grape wine and it will freeze from your throat to your internal organs.
Then Li Zhi glanced at Li Qinzai.
Houses of wealthy and powerful families usually have ice cellars, where they transport the cleanest large ice cubes after snowfall in winter. The ice cellars are dug underground to isolate them from the outside air. The ice cubes dug in winter can often be kept without melting until summer.
Available in summer.
Li Qinzai said helplessly: "Your Majesty, the other courtyard here is too remote and there is no ice cellar."
Li Zhi lamented: "If there is no ice in the fine wine, drinking it is like chewing wax. It is not only a waste of natural resources, but also a great disappointment. That's all."
Drink when you are excited, and disperse when you are frustrated.
Li Qinzai doesn't care. Anyway, he has never been addicted to wine in his life. If he can't drink ice, he won't drink. There is a hypertensive patient in the family. If he drinks too much, his blood pressure suddenly jumps up. If nothing happens, Li Qinzai may
They will be made into terracotta warriors and horses to be buried with them.
After Li Qinzai resigned, he returned to his bedroom to compile teaching materials alone.
This work started when the little bastards came to study last year. However, Li Qinzai was lazy by nature and stopped writing the textbooks. It has been more than half a year and still has not been compiled.
Now students from the Imperial College have also come, and more students will come to study every year in the future. Li Qinzai had to work overtime to compile the teaching materials.
Now Li Qinzai has figured out that students may not be able to pass on his knowledge, but the textbooks can definitely be passed down.
In the future, if he can meet a talented student and understand all his teaching materials, then Li Qinzai will be liberated and the teaching materials will be thrown to him and let him become a rural teacher. From then on, Li Qinzai will be a lively and notorious Chang'an dude.
In the evening, Qiao'er returned to the other courtyard from the school. This was the rule set by Li Qinzai. You could stay in the school with your juniors, but you must come back for dinner.
Neither of us are very busy people, so there is no need to look busy without even touching the ground. It is not too much for father and son to have a meal together every day, right?
Qiao'er's appetite has increased in recent days, and she ate two bowls of rice in a short time, sweating profusely after eating.
Li Qinzai smiled and watched him wolfing down the food. Compared with Qiao'er's calm and perfect manner when he first entered the Duke's Mansion, Li Qinzai preferred the unpretentious son in front of him.
There is plenty of time and occasion to act pretentious as an adult, why not be more free and unrestrained in childhood? Why do you have to pay so much attention to etiquette in front of your biological father?
Seeing Qiao'er sweating profusely, Li Qinzai looked around, took a rag from the table, and wiped Qiao'er's face carelessly.
Qiao'er almost spit out: "Dad, it smells..."
"Oh, then you can wipe the sweat with your sleeves. It's okay. The maid will wash your clothes."
Qiao'er blinked: "Is it that maid from Japan?"
Li Qinzai thought for a while and said uncertainly: "Maybe, um... I remembered to promote her."
"Dad, that maid from Japan is pretty good."
Li Qinzai frowned. The brat is thinking about my teacher Mikami. Isn't it too early?
Qiao'er added: "She is like a scholar, and what she says makes sense. She even read Buddhist scriptures to me in the backyard last time."
"What sutra did she recite?"
Qiao'er shook his head: "I don't remember, Qiao'er doesn't understand,... dad likes her too, right?"
Li Qinzai immediately shook his head: "Don't talk nonsense, how could dad like hozens?"
Qiao'er said in confusion: "But Qiao'er often sees her father staring at her face and butt, and her father often stares at her aunt's face and butt, so Qiao'er thinks that as long as her father stares at the face and butt of a woman, her father should
Do you like them all?"
Li Qinzai's old face turned hot. This is a bit embarrassing. Does he usually behave so obviously?
"Qiao'er, let's talk about this topic after you turn eighteen... If you grow up quickly, you can still talk about it when you are sixteen." Li Qinzai sighed helplessly.
Qiao'er opened her innocent eyes and said, "Dad, will that Japanese maid become my second stepmother in the future?"
Now it was Li Qinzai's turn to sweat profusely.
"The weather is so hot..." Li Qinzai muttered, looking around.
Qiao'er still looked at him with a confused expression, as if waiting for his answer.
Li Qinzai patted him on the shoulder: "Come on, daddy will do a trick for you, let's go and cool off."
Qiao'er was young after all, so her attention was immediately diverted: "What's the trick?"