This was the first time that Yu Chaoen had come to Ang Lee's mansion. After all, he lived in the capital. Although Ang Lee also had properties in the capital, the space was too small and the air was not very good. Therefore, Ang Lee preferred the scenery outside the city. Therefore, he had been living outside the city and had not lived in the city for several years.
In addition, because Ang Lee was not short of money, the houses in the city would not be rented out. They were empty, neither for sale nor for rent. It was a waste of resources.
In this era, this was a very common phenomenon. Many rich people would not easily rent out their houses even if they were empty. This was because there would be more or less some trouble to rent out, and rich people were most afraid of all kinds of trouble. It was the same in the later era. There were many people who bought houses, but many people did not rent or sell their houses in order to increase the value of their houses, so that their properties could become more and more.
Of course, the premise was that the houses could become more and more valuable. If the houses could not increase in value and became a burden, then there was no need to store houses. At this time, the prices of houses in Chang 'an City were rising all the way. Moreover, it was foreseeable that the prices of houses would continue to rise in the future. Therefore, it was a good idea to buy more houses and store them.
However, Ang Lee had a business that was more profitable than storing houses. Therefore, there was no need for him to get involved in this muddy water. He would give the opportunity to make money to others appropriately. If he took all the projects that could make money in his hands, it would be too much.
Looking at the beautiful appearance of the house with advanced facilities, Yu Chaoen's face was full of envy. Although his house was relatively good, compared with Ang Lee's house, it was much worse. If Ang Lee's house was a five-star hotel, then Yu Chaoen's house was an ordinary house. The difference was obvious at a glance.
"Assistant Minister Li's house is really beautiful. Even the air has a trace of sweetness. It must be very comfortable to live here. It's really enviable!"
Yu Chaoen praised from the bottom of his heart.
"If you like, you can stay for a few days. There are many houses in the mansion, and all kinds of delicious food and drinks are available."
Ang Lee said very politely.
"No, no, I'd better go back to my own house. Only then will I feel more at ease. I don't want to cause trouble to Assistant Minister Li."
Yu Chaoen said politely.
Since Yu Chaoen didn't want to disturb his house, Ang Lee didn't need to force him to stay. However, since he came, it was necessary to entertain him well. It was just food and drinks. Chatting with different people would yield different results. Ang Lee liked chatting with people in the palace, because he could learn a lot of things that he didn't know, some of which were very important to him.
"One-third of the yard is made up of pear trees. In autumn, they bear a lot of pears. Moreover, they are all crispy and delicious. We ate a small part of them and used the rest to make wine. It should be ready in a few days. Since the Fish Supervision Bureau is here today, we can taste it together and see how the pear wine I made tastes and give some comments."
Ang Lee said with a smile.
This fragrant pear tree was specially transported from Anxi by Ang Lee. It took several months to transport it to the capital. After all, the railway hadn't been built at that time. It was easy to imagine the speed of transportation by carriage. If it weren't for the constant addition of water to the roots along the way, this fragrant pear tree would have withered halfway.
Fragrant pears were called Korla Fragrant Pears in later generations. They were a very delicious pear in Korla region of Anxi. This kind of pear had a very strange phenomenon. It was divided into male pears and female pears. Those with a calyx like a beard were male pears. Those without a calyx were female pears. In terms of taste, female pears were more delicious, while male pears were slightly less delicious.
In Anxi of the Tang dynasty, there was a saying that the grapes of Turpan, the melons of Hami, and the fragrant pears of Korla didn't have dregs. This showed how delicious the fragrant pears of Korla were, and they became a local specialty industry.
The fragrant pear was made of smooth wood with thin skin and crispy meat. It was fragrant, sweet, and nutritious. It was very comfortable to eat in the mouth. It had the medical effects of moisturizing the lungs, cooling the heart, eliminating phlegm, detoxifying alcohol, and so on. After being made into fruit wine, the taste was naturally quite mellow.
Ang Lee mastered the technology of making pear wine. This technology was not complicated. He could make it in his own residence. It was very convenient. Now, it should be finished and could be taken out to taste.
After a while, a servant brought several bottles of pear wine. These pear wine were not placed in traditional jars, but in transparent glass bottles. Only in this way could the quality of the wine be reflected.
This was the complete opposite of the situation in the future. In the future, the lowest grade of wine was all glass bottles, and the wine that used jars might be of a higher grade. This was because glass bottles were very cheap in the future, so the lowest grade of wine would naturally use glass bottles.
However, in the current era of Great Tang, the situation was the opposite. The price of jars was very low, and glass was monopolized by Li An, so the price of glass was extremely high. As such, most of the alcohol was sold in jars, and only the most high-end alcohol and perfume would be sold in glass bottles.
Ang Lee could produce glass bottles himself, so naturally, there was no need to be too fussy about the bottle. Many places in the house used glass bottles, such as the oil and vinegar bottles in the kitchen. The wine containers were also glass bottles. Even the fish tank at home was transparent glass bottles. In the eyes of outsiders, this was simply luxurious. But for Ang Lee, these things were very cheap.
"Only Assistant Minister Li can use glass bottles to store pear wine. The good wine in the palace is still in jars."
Yu Chaoen sighed. Then, he opened the bottle and was immediately stunned with an intoxicated expression.
"Fragrant, it's really fragrant! This smell is really fragrant. How can there be such a fragrant wine? I must try it. "
After that, Yu Chaoen took a sip. His eyes almost popped out of his head due to excitement.
"How is it? The wine I brewed myself is good, right?"
Ang Lee asked proudly.
"Good, it's really delicious. The fragrance is overflowing and leaves a fragrance in my mouth! Assistant Minister Li is really an all-rounder! He knows everything. In this world, is there anything that Assistant Minister Li doesn't know? "
Yu Chaoen sighed.
"Since it's delicious, then drink more. There's still a lot in the cellar. Pear wine is only a small part. Grape wine, apricot wine, apple wine, there are all kinds of wine. As long as your stomach can hold it, you can have as much wine as you want. "
Ang Lee said very politely and ordered the servants to serve the dishes. He wanted to have a good meal with Yu Chaoen to calm him down.
Yu Chaoen was really attracted by the wine. Therefore, when Ang Lee asked for the dishes to be served, he didn't stand on ceremony. He originally came to thank Ang Lee, but at this moment, he felt that he came to freeload. However, the wine and dishes in Ang Lee's residence were very delicious. It would be a waste if he didn't freeload.
Soon, several good dishes in the residence were served. Ang Lee and Yu Chaoen also began to eat. The two drank and ate, and occasionally chatted. However, in order to have a better conversation atmosphere, Ang Lee always led the topic to interesting things. If Yu Chaoen talked about unpleasant things, Ang Lee would change the topic. In this way, everyone could be happy.
"Assistant Minister Li asked a good question. The old palace maids in the palace, especially those with ordinary looks, have no hope of being chosen by His Majesty. In the deep palace, the night is long. They are all normal women. It's inevitable that they will be lonely. If they want to relieve their loneliness, there are only a few ways! Ordinary people certainly don't know, but I know all about it. I've been in the palace since I was five years old. Because I'm too young, many people don't avoid me when doing things. Interesting, very interesting. "
Yu Chaoen suddenly felt that he was very awesome. It seemed that he was superior to others all of a sudden.
Seeing Ang Lee's curious look, Yu Chaoen continued to introduce, "The palace maids are lonely. Naturally, they want to be favored by His Majesty the most. However, His Majesty won't take a fancy to an ordinary palace maid. In addition to His Majesty and the princes, there are many bodyguards in the palace. They can be considered handsome and confident. However, the bodyguards patrol the palace in groups. No one dares to slip away. It's also very difficult to get together with the bodyguards. At least a few bold palace maids can get together with the bodyguards. However, the risk is still very high. If they are discovered, they will die. "
"It seems that it's really not easy! But in the palace, they have no other choice except for the bodyguards! After all, you are all naked, aren't you? "
Ang Lee opened his mouth and asked.
"Assistant Minister Li is right. We have indeed been cleansed. However, we can also be considered half men. At least before we were cleansed, we were men. We should at least look like men. The night is long in the palace, and the palace maids have no better choice. Sometimes, they can only find people like us. They have no other choice."
Yu Chaoen said proudly.
Ang Lee was really curious about the things between the eunuchs and the palace maids, so he asked a few more questions. The answers he got made Ang Lee very satisfied.
In addition to the things that Ang Lee already knew, there were many things that Ang Lee didn't think of. The things that he already knew were nothing more than eating and chatting. It could be regarded as a kind of spiritual love!
The palace maids were all women before, so there was no difference between them. Although Taiji was naked, he was not the same gender as them. When chatting with them, he could find the feeling of being with men.
However, generally, only high-ranking eunuchs with a little status could be favored by the palace maids. If they were low-ranking eunuchs, they would be very disliked.
Because of the physical defects of eunuchs, it was easy for them to urinate uncontrollably. As a result, their bodies often emitted a bad smell. Such a bad smell must be very disgusting.
But the high-ranking eunuchs, because of their high status, could bathe frequently and change their clothes every day. The probability of having a bad smell on their body was not high. After all, if they couldn't control themselves to urinate occasionally, there wouldn't be too much of a smell. The most terrible thing was that they didn't change their clothes for a long time and didn't have the opportunity to bathe for a long time. As long as the cleaning work was done properly, everything would not be a problem.
In addition, the high-ranking eunuchs also had power. If a palace maid could rely on this, no one would dare to bully her in the palace in the future. Her life could also be better. The only pity was that the eunuchs didn't have the ability in that aspect. In addition, the powerful eunuchs completely met the standards of the majority of the leftover women in the future. They were a proper nouveau riche!
And the ability in that aspect could also be found a way to make up for it. That was the equipment. It could be made of wood, copper, or even high-end jade.
These equipment made of various materials naturally couldn't be compared with a real man in terms of function and comfort. After all, these things were too hard and too cold.
But the palace maids who ate with the eunuchs could only use these gadgets to satisfy their cravings. And some eunuchs, although they didn't have the ability, had the idea of conquering women. So, they would personally operate these equipment and watch the palace maids in ecstasy.
In this process, there was also a certain danger. That was, the eunuchs couldn't control the strength and angle, so it would cause a lot of damage to the palace maid's body. It was even quite common to cause massive bleeding.
In short, the reason why the palace maids ate with the eunuchs was more to get rid of the feeling of loneliness. It was the same for the eunuchs. In order to get rid of loneliness, they had to eat with the palace maids. Because both the palace maids and the eunuchs had to serve the master, it was destined that only a few eunuchs with a slightly higher status could eat with the palace maids. The low-ranking eunuchs couldn't even think about it.
These situations were known to Ang Lee and recorded in the books of later generations. But there were also some things that Yu Chaoen saw with his own eyes, but there were no records in general history books.
For example, the specific details of the homosexual acts between the palace maids, how terrible the eunuchs were when they were abnormal, and how the eunuchs longed for themselves to grow back and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy folk remedies everywhere.
In other words, in the deep palace, not only the palace maids had normal desires, but even the eunuchs also had desires. The palace maids themselves were normal women. It was the most normal to have desires. The eunuchs, as a person with a biological defect, actually had desires. This was somewhat incomprehensible, but the fact was so. It was just that the eunuchs' desire was a very abnormal desire that ordinary people couldn't understand.
However, fortunately, Yu Chaoen in front of him looked normal. He didn't seem to be a person who was too abnormal and had never pursued eating with the palace maids. However, Ang Lee wasn't very sure about what Yu Chaoen thought in his heart. For example, whether Yu Chaoen also wanted to marry a woman.
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