Naturally, this time, Li Longye was reprimanded by his third brother, who was the emperor. He told him not to snatch other people's things.
He even hinted that others shouldn't go to Li Yi's Zhuangzi so as to not expose their identities.
It wasn't easy to meet a young man that caught his eye, so he had to observe him in secret.
That night, Li Chengqi ordered his men to clear out a space in the King Song Residence for the soybean oil extraction.
At dawn, the soybean oil was produced.
However, the quality wasn't very good. It wasn't as clear as the jar Li Chengqi brought back, and it had a strong fishy smell.
Li Chengqi consoled him and didn't punish him.
However, he had to work hard to reach the same quality as the jar of soybean oil.
Today, he didn't go to Li Yi's Zhuangzi. Instead, he asked his men to help him contact buyers to buy the mulberry trees on Li Yi's Zhuangzi.
At the same time, he asked if anyone had grapevines that didn't bear fruit and didn't taste sweet.
Li Chengqi wanted to see how the grapevines that didn't bear fruit and didn't taste sweet would turn out in Li Yi's hands.
This wasn't just Li Yi's problem.
Many grapevines were faced with the same problem.
Why were there only a few bunches of grapes in his house? They were all ripe. Other people's grapes were sweet, but why were my grapes a little sour?
Li Chengqi knew that Li Yi was after cheap. Sometimes, no one would want such grapevines even if he gave them away.
However, he didn't believe that Li Yi would dig up the mulberry trees and exchange them for grapevines.
Just look at the wheat on Zhuangzi. It was better than others.
Cows, pigs, and chickens were also raised better than others.
At night, others couldn't even bear to light an oil lamp. However, his Zhuangzi provided such a bright lamp for free.
"This won't do. I have to find a Zhuangzi. I can't say that he's from the Imperial Plantation."
Li Chengqi suddenly thought of a huge problem. At the same time, he rejoiced.
Rejoiced that Li Yi wasn't willing to ask about other people's family affairs and business.
He gave off a gentle and refined aura. He would listen to whatever you said.
However, he couldn't keep doing this. He needed a Zhuangzi, a Zhuangzi without royal background.
Therefore, on this day, Li Chengqi was busy asking someone to make arrangements for Zhuangzi.
It was bigger than Li Yi's Zhuangzi, and at the same time, it was guaranteed that the secret would not be revealed.
***
Li Yi was also very busy today. He was busy with tomorrow's poetry recital.
The students had already sent representatives to invite others over to play.
He couldn't directly greet them. If there was barbecued meat to eat, it would be beef.
This way, other people would be willing to come and play.
Li Yi bought wine, but it wasn't good wine. Good wine was too expensive.
He didn't have the time to distill it. He was very busy.
When someone bought a mulberry tree, he would give them lime and tell them to spray the tree with lime water before putting it down.
The grapevines were also here. Manager Song De reported to Li Yi with a confused look on his face. He said that for some reason, many people wanted to sell their grapevines to him at a low price.
To what extent was it cheap?
When other people dug up grapevines and sent them over, their wages were the money they earned from selling the grapevines.
They had to spend the same amount of money as hiring someone to move the grapevines back.
Li Yi said that Manager Song De was very capable. He would give Manager Song a big bonus in the autumn.
Then, he turned around and led the ten tenant families to see the rice seedlings grown on the 20 mu of land.
According to the information, rice was planted in a small area during the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yi also wanted to plant wheat, but he didn't want to plant wheat anymore.
Now, he would use the empty space to grow seedlings. After harvesting the wheat, he would seize the time to plant the rice seedlings.
Xi 'an was in the north. Rice could only grow once a year.
Where was the best rice? Of course, it was the province in the north of Hebei Province.
Unfortunately, people there now grew sorghum and wheat. Moreover, there were very few places that could be cultivated.
There was no Nanniwan with the fragrance of flowers.
Therefore, most of the rice was planted in the south and then transported over by the former dynasty's canal and land route.
Li Yi had eaten that rice before. It was not delicious. Its growth cycle was short and there were no veins.
"After harvesting the wheat, you will be very tired. At the same time, the water will be cold. I will give you wine to drink every meal every day."
Li Yi looked at the cultivated rice seedlings and said to the ten tenant families.
The twenty people looked at him without saying a word, but their eyes were firm.
They knew how cold the water in the field was after harvesting the wheat.
But they didn't care. For the sake of their children, they were willing to freeze to death in the water.
Moreover, Dongzhu also gave them wine to drink. After drinking wine, the water would not be so harmful.
Li Yi looked around. Not bad. All the rice seedlings were growing well.
During lunch, Li Yi asked Steward Song De to sit at the side.
"Steward Song, go buy oilcloth in the afternoon." Li Yi instructed.
Song De nodded and asked, "Why does Dongzhu want to buy oilcloth?"
"After harvesting the wheat, let the water flush the ground and plant rice seedlings. The oilcloth will be used to make boots and pants to prevent blisters." Li Yi said.
"Ah? Boots and pants? Use oilcloth to make boots? "Song De was surprised.
"The spring water is cold to the bone. Without protection, you will suffer when you grow old." Li Yi explained the situation.
"Dongzhu, you can't do that. A bolt of oilcloth is three times the price of silk. It's just water, why …" Song De understood and hurriedly advised.
"Can you still go into the water with scratches and abscesses? Oilcloth is three times the price of silk, but it's not as good as life. Go buy it. "Li Yi interrupted Song De's words and insisted.
"Dongzhu." Steward Song De sat down and bowed to the ground.
"Dongzhu." The tenant farmers who ate with him directly knelt on the ground.
"Everyone, get up." Li Yi cupped his fists and said, "In terms of making money, you are not good. In terms of labor, I am not good. The matters of the farm are mostly labor. From now on, I will leave it to you. "
"Brother Donglai, you are too polite. It is indeed a place with pleasant scenery."
"Brother Shusheng, I trust you have been well since we last met. I didn't expect to meet you today."
"Sixteenth Lang, you are still so outstanding and elegant. Can you write a new poem?"
"One duck is not warm, two ducks together to keep out the cold. On the 15th day of the second month, Genius Feng wrote a poem of sympathy for the two ducks. It is unforgettable. "
The sky brightened again.
Early in the morning, the classmates of the forty-two students came one after another.
They met each other and exchanged greetings.
Li Yi watched from the side. He could accept other things.
But the poem about the ducks …
In fact, he didn't want to show up. But as Dongzhu, he had to greet everyone first before disappearing.
The forty-two students seemed to be quite popular. They actually found more than three hundred people to play with.
Li Yi greeted everyone and took the initiative to leave, returning the space to the students.
The children in Zhuangzi were responsible for walking among the crowd, serving tea and water. Their main purpose was to listen to how the students talked.
In the future, they could also be students and learn first.
The seventeen children changed into new clothes. The silk used to buy soy sauce was not bad.
It was a new type of silk and could be used to make clothes.
It was not like many silk that were just placed there. The insides were ruined and could be used as currency.
There were also some that had an earth weight inside, but it was missing the dimensions.
The hundred bolts used to buy soy sauce were not new silk.
Li Yi saw that it was good and asked about it. A bolt of silk could be used to make clothes for these children. It was just enough to make one set for each person.
He took out a bolt and the children's families made it overnight. Anyway, there was a biogas lamp and it did not hurt the eyes.
Moreover, the needles were good. There was a pure copper thimble to wear.
The main thing was that everyone followed the assembly line. Each person was responsible for one place. The seventeen children's clothes were quickly made.
Among the seventeen children, there were five girls. They looked much cuter than the boys in Confucian clothes.
The four male servants in Zhuangzi were responsible for roasting skewers. They had roasted them once before.
Now, the skewers were cooked. They could be heated and then smeared with sauce and seasoning.
However, there was no seasoning.
Each student had a small plate in front of them with seasoning. They dipped it in and ate.
The seasoning was really too expensive.
Whether it was salt, cumin, or chili oil, who would be willing to throw it into the fire?
Today, in addition to beef skewers, there were also mutton skewers.
One fat and one thin skewered on the bamboo skewers.
However, the meat on the skewers was not big. They had been fed with ingredients in advance.
Of course, the most important thing was not these. It was that each person had an extra plate to hold soy sauce.
To be honest, Li Yi himself could not accept the fact that the skewers were dipped in soy sauce.
However, the students felt that it was strange. This thing was good.
After dipping it in and eating it, someone actually wrote an impromptu poem to praise it.
The poem said: On the spring branches outside Chang 'an City, the students who came and went sighed. They searched the east bank of the Ba River Village and found only soy sauce for roasted cattle and sheep.
Li Yi hurriedly asked the steward to send a skewer of roasted garlic and asked the other party to write it down as payment for the pen.
To be honest, he could write a hundred times better than this.
However, it was useless for him to write. Only when the other scholars wrote it could it be spread.
He was now thinking about writing a preface to this "good" poem.
For example: A certain year, a certain month, a certain person had a small gathering at the Li Family Village by the Ba River in the east of Chang 'an City. He tasted roasted meat and mixed it with soy sauce. He felt that it was delicious and wrote a poem.
When the other scholars saw this, they actually had extra treatment. The key was that garlic could be roasted and eaten?
This would not do. Was this a problem with a skewer of garlic?
Who was worse than who?
Write and praise soy sauce.
Li Yi was very satisfied. He asked the steward to send all kinds of skewers and then he started to roast them himself.
Because the man who could kill cattle and deliver it was here, he could not ask the servant to roast it.
Li Chengqi came, and with him came his third brother Li Longji.
Li Longji was really curious. A magical young man came out of Zhuangzi on the Ba River Village beside Chang 'an.
Well, to be honest, the beef paste was finished.
There was not much in total. Li Chengqi could eat it for a few more days if he ate it himself.
Everyone shared it, especially when eating soup pancakes, and drank water fiercely after eating it.
No amount of sauce was enough to eat it.
Li Longji ate all the sauce that was given to him yesterday, but he could not stop the empress from sharing it with the people in the palace.
Empress Wang managed the harem like a happy family.
When there was nothing to do, she even brought the eunuchs and palace maids to play shuttlecock.
If there was something good, they would share it together.
Therefore, after she was killed in history, the entire harem became cold.
Of course, she was still alive now.
Therefore, Li Longji came with Li Chengqi with several purposes.
The two sides argued for a while and became friendly.
Li Chengqi and Li Longji called Li Yi Brother Yi.
Li Yi called Li Chengqi Big Brother Li, and Li Longji was naturally Third Brother Li.
In Li Yi's opinion, Third Brother Li had the final say in the family.
Third Brother Li sent ten cucumbers, saying that he got them from the hot spring garden through the palace.
There were no cucumbers in this season, only the warm garden next to the hot spring provided them.
Li Yi did not want to eat them. The hot spring water was water with a lot of substances. God knows if there were any elements that exceeded the limit.
But since the cucumbers were sent, he could not refuse.
Therefore, he cut the cucumbers into small strips, made garlic paste, mixed it with chili oil, and served it.
The nineteen children each had a strip, and the rest were on the table for the three of them.
The seventeen children did not eat it directly, but kept it.
The two little guys who could not eat coarse food grabbed a bit and put it in their mouths, kicking their legs to show that they were happy.
Li Longji watched Li Yi give the cucumbers to the children, not missing a single one.
Instantly, he raised Li Yi's position in his heart.
He could see that the young Li Yi did not care about the precious cucumbers in spring.
He could eat them or not.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
