"Zhuangzi's leftovers." Song De ran over and yelled.
"Got it." The soldiers who helped responded.
Leftovers were not considered bribes, so they could eat without worry.
One by one, the covered baskets were opened. Steam rose up, revealing the buns inside.
The lid of the pot on the portable stove was opened, and the cooked meat rolled along with the thick soup.
Next to it were chopping boards, knives, and spoons.
"Roujiamo, hot roujiamo." The soldiers shouted.
The soldiers on the city wall and in the armory smiled and swallowed their saliva.
"Everyone, don't rush. Wash your hands. Remember to wash your hands. Leave some soap." Song De yelled. Ten baskets of soap were put down for washing hands.
One basket was 500 yuan. Dongzhu had entered the city once, so he could not be weak.
The soldiers who helped nodded. They understood. With so much soap, it would be gone after washing.
The carriages continued to move forward. The soldiers were beaming with joy. Even the lowest-ranked soldiers could get a piece of soap.
When the carriages entered, everyone waved and shouted to return the pots and stoves when they came back.
"Lower the fire. Eat when the handover is at midnight. Everyone take a piece of soap first and hide the rest. We can't let other people take it," the general shouted.
He was too embarrassed to come out just now.
The last time they ate, they were on the night shift. In the end, less than a quarter of the food from the previous shift was left.
There were no bowls left, so everyone could only eat one bite at a time.
Today, there were no bowls. They took out the meat, cut it into pieces, stuffed it into the buns, poured some soup, and ate it.
"Dongzhu is always so generous." Taohong pouted.
Li Yi shook his head. "You haven't experienced offending a nobody. Many times, bad things are ruined by people who are not angry."
"No way!" Cui Liu said.
"Liu Bang was just a constable. Because of the rain, his journey was delayed. In the end, he conquered the world." Li Yi casually gave an example.
He did not want to talk about the past. People who had fallen in society often learned to compromise and endure.
He gave the soldiers at the gate some benefits. In the future, they would not cause trouble. If the carriages broke down not far away, they would help carry them.
"Can they become Liu Bang?" Taohong added. Then, she smiled and asked, "Dongzhu is so nice to us. Is he afraid that we will ruin it?"
"I'm scared. I'm scared that you guys will cry. It's fine if a girl cries, but if a few guys cry together, it's really worrying."
Everyone laughed, and the four eunuchs looked depressed. Dongzhu also knows how to tease the palace maids.
"Weeping pear blossoms, sounds nice," Bi He interjected.
"Yu Rong's lonely tears dried up, pear blossoms like spring rain. It's from … I'll teach you guys a new toy later. Let me think about it. "
As Li Yi spoke, he realized that there was no such poem.
The four palace maids opened their mouths and then pursed their lips. It was a poem. How could there be only two lines?
The motorcade still passed by Xingqing Palace. This time, the kids didn't come down to flatter them.
Before that, he would go to the East Market to pick up the items and load them into the car.
Moving forward …
"Li Lang's car, Red Cross. The Li family's motorcade is moving out. It's even more ostentatious than the last time. Sisters, come out."
Accompanied by a loud shout, countless women appeared on the upper floors of Pyong Kang Square. The windows were pushed open.
The women waved their handkerchiefs and shouted.
"So this is the House of Red Sleeves. It's so scary." Li Yi expressed his fear.
"Li Lang, you can't leave. You have to write a poem. Otherwise, we'll chase after you." The woman upstairs shouted.
"That's right. You have to stay or you have to write a poem. Choose quickly."
"Sisters, let's rush out and bring Li Lang back ~ ~ ~"
"Dongzhu, quickly write a poem. This is Beiqu, not Nanqu." Taohong was scared. Beiqu was adjacent to the road here.
Li Yi wiped his sweat and said loudly, "A thousand doors are unlocked and ten thousand lanterns are lit. In the middle of the first lunar month, we set off for the Imperial Capital. Three hundred people dance together, the sky is filled with the sound of poems. Let's go. "
The motorcade sped up. The guards were on high alert.
The woman upstairs was excited. "Li Lang wrote a poem for us. Beiqu, he gave us Beiqu."
"Who wrote it down just now? My ears are buzzing. It's on my head."
"I remember. Beiqu finally got a poem written by Li Lang."
The woman upstairs felt as if she had won a battle.
The pedestrians on the road were dumbfounded. Some even drooled.
Pyong Kang Square's Beiqu was not comparable to Zhongqu and Nanqu. However, there were so many brothels in Chang 'an. There were even some that welcomed people secretly. It was impossible to enter Beiqu.
The women of Beiqu valued people with their looks. Each and every one of them was beautiful.
Even so, their literary talent still surpassed many of the scholars who went to Chang 'an for the examination.
In the carriage, Li Yi was about to collapse. It was too scary. There were so many women. If they were to be caught …
The palace maids were satisfied. Look, our Dongzhu can write poems at any time. Which scholar can compare to him?
After leaving Pyong Kang Square, they walked past two more squares, Wuben Square and Xingdao Square. That was their destination, Xinglu Square.
This place faced Vermillion Bird Avenue. Therefore, the side of Xinglu Square facing the street was a wall. There were no doors.
The positions were painted with lime for people to set up stalls.
Lanterns were hung everywhere. Some of the lanterns were covered with cloth. Inside, there were riddles.
If they guessed correctly, they would take a lantern. If they didn't, they would buy a lantern.
If they guessed correctly, they would take it or buy it. The more expensive the lantern, the harder it was to guess.
"Dongzhu, let's guess the riddles?" Cui Liu looked at the lanterns in the south and said.
Their position was at the front of the street. It was a good position.
"Life is difficult." Li Yi shook his head. If he guessed, how could others make money?
Li Yi looked around. Others also looked at them.
The children jumped out of the carriage. They had changed their clothes today. They wore colorful clothes. Each of them held a folded lantern in their hand and had a lighter in their pocket.
They had a mission today. They were performing a dance. They had practiced for several days and did not have stage fright.
They were waiting for the sky to darken and the lanterns in the Imperial City to light up.
Four large carriages were left behind and parked against the wall. The other carriages entered the square to deliver candles and small lanterns to the households.
The guards and 'nannies' led the children to stroll around Vermillion Bird Avenue to watch the fun.
The guards had swords at their waists, bows on their backs, and quivers of arrows on their legs. They looked like they wanted to steal the children.
On a tall building in the Imperial City, Li Longji hid behind a board wall. He looked through the board's hole with binoculars.
From here, he could see Li Yi's stall. It was deliberately arranged.
"I see the children. Where's Uncle?" Empress Wang stood next to him and looked through the small hole.
"Change positions." Li Longji said. He switched positions with Empress Wang and passed the binoculars to her.
Empress Wang peeked. "He's here. He's fiddling with something. The toys he made are too difficult. I can't match them back no matter how hard I try."
"Yes, it's not easy to match one face. The other faces are messy. There are a few clever ones in the Imperial Palace who can match two faces, but they're still not good enough."
Li Longji said. The things that Li Yi ordered had already been sent to the Imperial Palace.
Of course, the most popular games in the Imperial Palace were mahjong, chess, and poker.
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