No matter it is scorching hot or freezing cold, as long as Li Qi is in Qin Mansion, Aunt Chen will always bring hot water to Li Qi as soon as he wakes up every morning.
"Thank you, ma'am."
Li Qi took the handkerchief handed over by Aunt Chen, thanked him, washed his face seriously, and asked casually: "By the way, Auntie, today is New Year's Eve, so don't stay here. Come back."
Let’s celebrate the New Year with Anan and the others.”
In fact, Chen Anan already had his own home, which was near the bar. Li Qi saw that he would stay in the bar until the third and fourth shifts every night. It was troublesome to rush back and forth like this, and it was not safe.
I simply bought him a house nearby.
Aunt Chen said: "How can this be done? The red lady has already gone to the White Mansion. If I leave again, who will take care of you?"
Li Qi said helplessly: "Mom, I am also an adult. I have hands and feet. I don't need anyone to take care of me. Anan is on vacation this morning. You and your son will have a good time together. In the evening, you will go to Zuixianju to meet everyone.
Be happy, eat hard, and don't save money for me."
"But---."
"It's nothing, just do it like this."
"Then will your Excellency go to Zuixianju tonight?"
Li Qi said hey: "I have an appointment tonight and I won't go there. You guys have fun. By the way, after you finish eating tonight, don't come back here so as not to disturb me. Just go and stay at Anan's place for a few days."
Today, let that boy also fulfill his filial piety."
In fact, he had already invited Feng Yinu and Yelu Gu to come here for the New Year's Eve dinner, because the three of them had no relatives here, so they just happened to be together to have company. Of course, if the facts could be revealed, then
It's even more perfect.
"Oh." Aunt Chen nodded.
Li Qi suddenly smiled and said: "By the way, aunt. Are you satisfied with Xiaoyu, your future daughter-in-law?"
When Aunt Chen heard this, she immediately beamed with joy and said cheerfully: "Xiaoyu is a cute, smart, and knowledgeable child. I like her very much. However, Anan's child is not sure yet, and I am afraid that Anan will delay Xiaoyu."
Li Qi chuckled and said, "Mom, don't worry too much about this. Although Anan's heels are a bit off the mark, he values friendship. Xiaoyu will never suffer a loss if he follows him."
Aunt Chen smiled and nodded.
After washing up, Li Qi went to the kitchen to make a bowl of mutton noodles to fill his stomach, and then began to prepare for tonight's New Year's Eve dinner. He pretended to be sick and declined the New Year's Day banquet, but it didn't mean that he was tired of cooking.
It's just that the New Year's Day banquet was too tiring and took almost a whole day, so it didn't matter. The key was that the dishes were basically fixed. He just added a few festive dishes, so there was no challenge.
Sex. Moreover, the focus of the day was on political exchanges rather than tasting delicious food, which was of little significance to the chef. Besides, he had to welcome the upcoming big customers. Of course, he had to recharge his batteries.
Soon, he finished processing some materials, wiped his hands, and was about to go to the back hall to warm himself by the fire. Suddenly, he saw Aunt Chen walking in again, rolling her eyes and saying, "Auntie, why are you still here?"
Aunt Chen looked embarrassed and said, "That's it. I was just about to go out, but suddenly a few guests came outside."
"How many guests? Isn't this Lady Feng?"
Aunt Chen shook her head and said: "It's not Mrs. Feng, it's an envoy from Japan who came to visit you."
"Japan? Little Japan?"
Li Qi exclaimed, and immediately frowned. The Song Dynasty and Japan had never had diplomatic relations, and Japan never sent people to attend the New Year's Day gathering. Why did they suddenly come here this year, and even found the Qin Mansion? He pondered for a long time, but found nothing.
, said: "You ask them to wait for me in the front yard, I will go there later."
"yes."
Although Li Qi was not an angry young man, he always shouted to kill all the Japanese, but he did not have a good impression of the Japanese. Of course, his reason still told him that this was 1123 AD, and his mentality must be calm. After that, he was not an angry young man.
After a while, Li Qi came to the front hall and saw two people sitting in the front yard. One was about forty years old, wearing a black top hat, a light yellow robe, wide sleeves, small eyes, and three long strands of beard.
There is some Confucian style. The other one is about thirty years old, with a Tsukiyo haircut, wearing a blue samurai uniform, and a long sword. At a glance, he can tell that he is a Japanese samurai. There are two samurai standing behind him.
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"This must be the famous Golden Knife Chef King."
When the two saw Li Qi coming in, they stood up quickly. The man in the hat bowed. His bowing skills were no worse than those of the scholar-bureaucrats. Moreover, he spoke fluent Chinese so that no one could tell that he was Japanese.
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No, this Chinese is more fluent than mine! Li Qi was stunned and said, "Exactly. Are you from Japan?"
The man nodded and said: "I'm Tenki Miki." As he said that, he stretched his arms towards the warrior next to him and said: "This is Iga Mokawa, a famous warrior in Japan."
"My Excellency Li Qi, you can call me Economic Envoy or Master Li. Sit down, sit down." Li Qi curtly cupped his hands and motioned for them to sit down.
The three of them sat down, and Li Qi smiled and said, "Mr. Tengji, who did you learn this Chinese from? You speak it so well. If I hadn't known about it in advance, I really wouldn't have known that you were from Japan."
Tengji Miki said respectfully: "I'm sorry for the economic envoy. I learned Chinese from a monk and I can't speak it well. I hope the economic envoy can forgive me. I have admired your country's culture very much since I was a child. In fact, not only do I
, We Japanese people all admire your country’s culture very much, and there is a saying in Japan that saints have come out of China since ancient times.”
"Really?" Li Qi exclaimed, "This is strange. It's really not like you Japanese people's style at all."
Tengji Miki said in surprise: "Why did the economic envoy say this? We have always believed that the relationship between Japan and you, the great country in the Central Plains, can be called both teachers and friends. Your country is our teacher and has taught us a lot.
We are grateful for this and have always respected your country as a teacher."
Teacher? What a ghost! Whoever accepts you as a disciple will be in trouble for eight lifetimes. Li Qi smiled and was too lazy to talk nonsense with them: "Are you two here to attend the New Year's Day meeting?"
"Exactly."
Li Qidao: "But I heard that you and I, the Song Dynasty, have never had diplomatic relations, and you have never attended the New Year's Day meeting."
Tenki Miki said: "We came here independently and have nothing to do with our emperor."
"Oh, it means that your visit this time is completely a private event."
"This---that's what it means in name."
"In name? Haha, then it's still the emperor's order of yours."
"It's His Majesty the Emperor."
Li Qi felt uncomfortable when he heard about the emperor. He said: "Mr. Tengji, don't say I didn't remind you. This is the capital of the Song Dynasty. You have an emperor on the left and an emperor on the right. Do you have any more?"
Don’t you take me, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, seriously? I don’t want to hear these two words again. You can either call me a monarch or a Japanese lord.”
Since this was the first time for Tengji Miki to deal with Li Qi, he couldn't figure out what to do. Seeing his displeasure, he nodded and said, "Thank you, Economic Envoy, for reminding me. I will keep it in mind."
Li Qi hummed and said, "I wonder what you two are doing here?"
Tengji Miki said: "It's like this. At the beginning of this year, some fishermen from our country saw fishermen from other countries eating a kind of food called canned food at sea."
Li Qi raised his hand before he could finish speaking, stopping him from continuing and said: "Stop talking about this nonsense. I'm very busy, you just want to buy cans, right? No problem, as many as you want.
But let’s make an agreement first, if it’s less than 10,000 yuan, you’ll have to pay the freight yourself.”
Tengji Miki was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "The economic envoy is right. We do want to buy canned food, but we mainly want to buy the secret recipe of canned goods."
"What! The secret recipe for buying cans?" Li Qi opened his eyes wide and looked at Tengji Miki blankly. This Japanese really knows how to do business! He laughed and said: "Brother Miki, it's not dark yet today, you
Why are you talking in your sleep?"
Tengji Miki said hurriedly: "Why don't the economic envoy listen to our bid before making a decision?"
Li Qi was very happy, waved his hand and said: "You say it, you say it."
Tenji Miki raised a finger and said: "We are willing to pay ten thousand taels of gold." He also emphasized the pronunciation of the word "gold".
Day. I really thought I had never seen money! Li Qi clicked his tongue: "Wow! Ten thousand taels of gold is really a lot. I wonder if I can fill this room with it."
Tengji Miki groaned, shook his head and said: "This---I'm afraid this can't be done."
"Then there's nothing to talk about." Li Qi shrugged and shouted outside: "Aunt Chen, Aunt Chen."
A moment later, Aunt Chen walked in, nodded and said, "Sir, your name is Lao Shen."
Li Qi said angrily: "I know you haven't left yet, so just in time, please invite these two out, and don't come back. Go and get together with your son."
Tengji Miki never expected that such a huge amount of money would not impress Li Qi in the slightest, but would anger him. He couldn't help but stood up anxiously and said: "Don't blame me, the economics officer. Don't blame me. I was impulsive and said the wrong thing in the next moment. I still have to say something wrong."
Please forgive me, the economic envoy."
Li Qi glanced sideways and waved to Mrs. Chen, gesturing for her to go out first, and then said: "You two came to the door unexpectedly. You must know something about me, Li Qi. I am a businessman. If you two come to me for sex,
Of course I welcome business, but you have to let me see your sincerity first. Don't buy this or that as soon as you walk in. Can you please check how much you have in your wallet first?
Return ten thousand taels of gold. If you want to buy my secret recipe for canned food when I am so poor, fine, there is no business that cannot be negotiated. Ten thousand taels of gold, otherwise there is no need to negotiate."
Ten million taels of gold? Tengji Miki was so shocked that he almost swallowed it with his tongue, and said with sweat on his face: "This---isn't this too much?"
Li Qi sneered: "That's still a lot, and I even gave you a preferential price. If it were anyone else, I would have kicked you out as a lunatic. Since you don't have so much money, you'd better keep your feet on the ground and talk.
To be more realistic, I really don’t have time to fool around with you here, I have to cook later, so tell me how many cans your Japanese country needs every year.”
Cooking? Tengji Miki was pressed hard by Li Qi step by step, and he was a little out of breath. He secretly thought, this man is a gangster, and he doesn't have the style of a big country in the Central Plains at all. He couldn't help but pull his collar and squeeze out a smile.
Said: "Even if the economy is unwilling to bear the pain of parting ways, we can still cooperate." (To be continued...)