female concubine

A carriage traveled from the palace to the gate of Chenhui and was stopped by the prison gate officer. The city gate was closed not long ago, and the eunuch of Neidongmen Division who inspected the entry and exit of forbidden people had not yet left.

The servant lit a torch and approached the carriage, showing his waist amulet, "Neidongmensi ban!"

Beside the carriage were two men in casual clothes on horseback. One of them jumped off the horse and took out the door amulet and the emperor's ink order from his sleeve.

It was only when he got close to the torch that Dongmensi saw his face clearly, and exclaimed, "Qi Abba?"

Qi Liuchao's servant gestured, "Don't say anything." The iron sign holder who followed him stepped forward to invite the key storehouse out of the palace door and handed the key to the officer.

"Yes."

The activity officer walked up to the prison gate general and leaned over to whisper a few words in his ear. The prison gate officer was about to open the door and was held down by him immediately, "No one else knows who is inside, the general should follow the rules."

Then he handed over the door talisman, the prison gate nodded and waved to the guarding soldiers, and the soldiers lit the torches in their hands one after another, took out half of the door talisman left at the gate of the palace and matched it with the other half of the door talisman brought by the person who received the edict. Only after confirmation is correct can the palace gate be opened at night.

The carriage drove out of Chenhui Gate into the bustling city, and turned into the street from the alley. The speed of the carriage became slower and slower until it was finally forced to stop, "Officials, my lady, the downtown is full of tourists and it is impossible to pass the carriage. "

The people in the car bowed their waists and walked out, shouting, leather drums, humming folk tunes and various cheers came from all directions, "It's really lively." Turning around and lifting the car curtain, he stretched out his hand and said softly: " Since I can't pass the car, I have to trouble the lady to get out of the car and walk."

Xiao Youqing put on the veiled hat on the side and walked out bowed, put his hand on her palm and walked slowly down, "There are fish and dragons in the busy market, don't just be happy."

She smiled and helped Xiao Youqing out of the carriage, "Yes, my lady taught you very well."

"Every time you talk to you, you are so casual, don't be so rude."

"Know it."

On the night of the first day of the first lunar month, the female relatives in the backyard of the rich and noble families also went out one after another. Many women went to the dance hall in Wazili to watch or go to the restaurant to have a banquet. Only one night in a year did the female relatives of the noble family go to Goulan Washe. And restaurants will not attract criticism.

"You two should also be alert to your surroundings, don't get too far away."

The two servants in plain clothes are equipped with waist knives, "Yes."

Apart from singing and dancing, Guanpu is the most prosperous in Wazi.

Men of all ages were crowded in the cabinet shop. Apart from gambling, there were also chariots and horses, land houses, and even singers and dancers at home could be used as gambling objects.

The owner of the cabinet shop facing the street held an earthen jar and spread out six copper coins in his palm, "Whether there are more subtitles or less, the guest officials have the final say, and if you win, you can get the equivalent silver taels of the items you bought. "

There are two huge baskets on the cabinet in the hall, and the baskets are full of copper coins that have been used for discounting.

A young man led a woman in a veiled hat to the door of the shop and asked curiously: "How are the rules determined? How do you count if you win? What if you lose?"

"Winners and losers are judged according to the amount of head money subtitles. If you win, you can discount the money to take away the items you pounced on. If you lose, you will naturally have to pay the equivalent money or deliver the pounced items."

"Okay, I'll bet you this time."

"The officials are straightforward, but I don't know what to do?"

"Six sons!"

"Ah Lang." Qi Liu presented the money bag.

"I have a bar of gold here."

The shopkeeper smiled and rolled his eyes when he saw Jin Zi, "The Ya Nei family is an official, right? Gold ingots are rare in the market."

"Ya Nei?"

Xiao Youqing on the side smiled and said: "The member outside guessed wrong, her family is not an official."

"If you are not an official, you must be honorable."

"Don't worry about whether I'm an official or not. I put the gold here. What about the rules of winning or losing?"

The shopkeeper smiled and spread his hands, "See these coins? If there are four characters of Qianyuan Tongbao facing up, it will be a subtitle. You can choose more or less subtitles. If you win, I will add ten copper coins to the gold ingot." and to you."

"Qianyuan Tongbao, the money circulation here is fast enough."

"Businessman, money comes and goes, and soon the market will be full of Qianyuan Tongbao."

The young man turned around and asked the woman beside him, "More or less?"

"The officials decide for themselves."

"I do not want."

Xiao Youqing had no choice but to look at the copper plate on the shopkeeper's palm through the tulle of the veiled hat, "Then... Qianyuan is the year name of the emperor, and today is Yuanchen..." The woman looked at the shopkeeper's expression, "Why? Still not in the tank?"

When the storekeeper heard the woman's voice, he smiled and put the money into the pot, and the woman turned her head to the young man and said, "The officials should deposit less."

The young man didn't ask her why she did the opposite, "OK."

The sound in the jar stopped, and the store opened the jar, and the onlookers cheered.

"That's ten copper coins, and it only took half an hour to get it."

So it attracted people to pay for betting.

Squeezing out from the crowd, Qi Liu had more than ten copper coins in his hand, "It's strange, I took most of your strength for you."

Holding the copper coin thrown by the unreasonable person, "Master obviously asked you to take it."

Wei Huan pulled Xiao Youqing to the front, "Why did Ah Xi ask me to bet against my will?"

"That store is weird."

"Oh?" Wei Huan looked at her with a smile.

"The reason why he used Qianyuan Tongbao was because the official family had just ascended the throne not long ago. The emperor and the courtiers, the most important point of Confucianism that the scholar-officials learned from childhood is loyalty to the emperor. The court prohibits Guanpu, and the scholar-officials dare not They know the law and break the law, so most of the people who come to Guanpu on this kind of festival are scholars, and since the word Qianyuan is engraved, most of them will definitely bet on the multi-subtitle of Qianyuan, so the store has already tampered with the copper coins."

"Hands and feet?"

"Just change the weight of the front and back so that one side of the subtitle is heavier than the other, and shaking the jar or throwing the floor will make the subtitle face down."

Xiao Youqing looked at her suspiciously and said: "The group of scholar-bureaucrats don't know, but you often hang around the market when you were young, don't you know it's a scam?"

Holding a copper coin, Wei Huan immediately spread his palms upwards, and the word Qianyuan on the copper coin was particularly conspicuous, "Gambling, itself is a scam, knowing that it is a scam, but still unable to restrain the greed and desire in my heart, and finally ruined my family. This kind of person deserves to die the most, taking advantage of other people's greed and desire to gain ill-gotten gains, this kind of person..." She clenched her fists, "Damn too!"

Xiao Youqing stretched out the hand in his sleeve to cover her fist, "Enforcement must be moderate, neither slack nor harsh, otherwise it will become a sharp weapon for cruel officials to squeeze the people, and in the end the people only complain about the people in power."

"Sanniang sees more clearly than I do." The cold hands were wrapped in warmth, which also dispelled most of her anger, "In my eyes, even Empress Wende can't compare to Sanniang."

"The officials compared me to Queen Wende of the previous dynasty, don't they also regard themselves as Taizong?"

Wei Huan lowered his hand, "Does it mean...killing father and brother, forcing father to give up power?"

"The concubine made a mistake."

"No," Wei Huan stopped and raised his head, Xiao Youqing's staring face was imprinted in his dark eyes, "I am better than Taizong, no matter how much he loves Empress Wende, he has never pretended to be a sixth palace. The emperor's long love is really ridiculous. Favor and favoritism are not the only ones, as for political achievements..." She turned her head to look at the ten-mile long street in Tokyo, where people were coming and going under the bright lights, and her eyes were full of stars, she said: "The future will be long."

As he walked, he came to the door of a restaurant.

"Several guest officials are looking at Mian Shan, is this the first time you come to Fanlou?" The tea doctor in the building held a clean white cloth and hung it on his arm, speaking articulately in a pure Luoyang accent, "Come on, there is a new person in the building." A cook came, and even the gentleman in Zhaoqingfang said that the dishes made by the cook were delicious."

The Fan Tower on the night of Yuanchen is more lively than any other night. In addition to being full of seats, all high-ranking officials also sent people to Fan Tower to order vegetables, food and fruits. After the cooks were ready, they were packaged and delivered to the mansion by the servants in the restaurant.

Looking up, the Fan Tower occupies a very large area, with three floors facing each other, the fifth floor facing each other, and the sill of the flying bridge connected with light and shade. Gardenia lamps are hung at the entrance of the main store, and the lamps are covered with lampshades, indicating that there are banquets for guests in the store. A woman singing and dancing.

"Fan Lou?" Xiao Youqing looked up at the signboard on the long banner.

"Lady, we are the number one restaurant in Tokyo City. Even if you have never been here, you must have drunk my wine."

"Liang Yuan's singing and dancing are very romantic, and the wine is like a knife to relieve sorrow. I remember how many things happened when I was a teenager. I used to hear about it from my brother, but I never had time to come here. Now even Mr. Han praises it. It must be a well-deserved reputation. "

"Whether the reputation is well-deserved, you will know when you go in and have a look." She took Xiao Youqing's hand and walked into the building. The bead curtains in the building were beautiful, the lights and candles were shining, and the figures were scattered. People from all walks of life were mostly men. There are many young women who accompany her. "Fanlou used to sell Baifan, so it was originally named Baifanlou. It has been in operation for hundreds of years and after major renovations, it has become the first famous building among the 72 main stores in Tokyo. "

Seeing the women coming and going, Xiao Youqing lowered his head and smiled, "It's also a romantic place for literati and wealthy guests to meet prostitutes. It has a better reputation than that brothel, romantic."

"Uh...my lady still remember my past?"

"No."

"Isn't this a helpless thing for me? They are all called prostitutes, not... □□, every time I go in, I just listen to the music and don't touch people..."

"You still want to touch someone?"

"Of course I don't want them..."

"Where are you going to look!" Xiao Youqing put aside her hand and almost grabbed her ear, fearing that the officials would recognize that there were too many people here, so he stopped.

Dr. Cha turned his head back, "Guests, here we are. It just so happened that the distinguished guests in this room just left, and the room is facing the street. Today, you can enjoy the night view of Tokyo city Yuanchen, but the price is a bit more expensive than other rooms." , but Xiaodi looks at the clothes of the official's wife and she goes out with a personal attendant, so she probably won't mind the few copper coins."

"You've been talking about Fanlou's good food for a long time, and we've been hungry for a long time, so why don't you tell my wife the name of the dish?"

"Yes, yes, Xiaodi saw the nobleman, so he forgot about his errands happily. This is the recipe in the store." Dr. Cha took out a roll of bamboo slips.

"There are steamed, boiled, and fried dishes, which are no worse than Lu Xianggong's four divisions and six bureaus. Even Lu Xianggong also orders my family's dishes every now and then."

"The four divisions and six bureaus of Mr. Lu's family?"

"Don't the officials know that the house of Lu's family is bigger than our Fanlou, and there are four divisions and six bureaus specially set up for family banquets?" After finishing speaking, Dr. Cha pointed to the menu, "Look at it, officials. Look at this dish, it is the best sold in the store, and it is never absent from several husbands."

"Boiled goat?"

"Yes, take mutton and put it in a casserole. Instead of green onions and peppers, chop a few almonds and boil them in running water until the bones are rotten. It is most suitable for the elderly and children to eat, but most young people like to eat it. Dr. Cha said again: "The mutton in our store is the best mutton in Tokyo except for the forbidden ones. Do you want to try it?"

"No need."

"Although mutton is expensive, it's not a rare thing. It's interesting if you haven't eaten it."

"Then there are also clear venison, clear quail seeds, red boiled dove seeds, eight rough quail seeds, yellow finch, spicy boiled game, Qinggong game, roe meat, roasted roe meat, roe leech, preserved deer, By the way, there is also a special snake soup in the store."

Wei Huan put the recipe in front of Xiao Youqing, raised his head and said, "Snake soup?"

"The new cook is from Lingnan, Guangdong. At first, many people were afraid to eat this dish. Later, Han Xianggong tasted it and wrote an inscription. After that, this dish became the shop's signature. If the officials are right Those who are not interested, there are chefs from Shaoxing who specialize in Shaoxing dishes."

Xiao Youqing felt nauseous when he heard the word snake soup, so he held Wei Huan's hand, "I don't want to eat meat."

She was frightened and said with the back of her hand to Dr. Cha: "Okay, don't talk about it, just ask for a few seasonal vegetables and crab stuffed with oranges. We didn't come out to eat."

"Okay, do you want wine? The wine includes the signature Meishou and Hezhi in the store, as well as the famous wines from the east of the river, Yuye and Jingzhitang from Taiyuan Prefecture, Ganlutang from Fenzhou, Qiongjiang from Xizhou, and wine from Daizhou. Jin Bo, Qiong Su, if you don’t drink these wines, we still have lychee wine, yellow mandarin wine, and wines that are sweet but not sweet, and cold but not cold. In addition,” Dr. Cha leaned over to Wei Huan’s ear and whispered : "There are dancers who can play and sing in the shop, they can accompany the drinks, and the officials can take them back if they like it. There are four girls in our shop who are famous for their talents and looks, especially the oiran lady, The pipa is unique, even the former Jiaofang Envoy of the Jiaofang Division praised it endlessly after hearing it, saying that it is even better than the girl who played the pipa from the Jiaofang Division.”

The author has something to say: No one can break the forbidden gate rules, but there is a special rule for the emperor, "Open the gate of the palace at night by order."

This family rule also forced the king of Chu to beg the emperor from the very beginning.

Head money: copper coins.

Doctor of Tea is the boy who sells wine (called sales)

The word doctor was used as a craftsman or a skill in the Song Dynasty, and there were doctors in all walks of life.A professor is an official position, and the Imperial College has one, and each royal palace (the residence of the prince is called a palace, also called a mansion.) The princess residence also has a professor.

感谢在2020-05-1408:12:10~2020-05-1419:52:48期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: Once upon a time there was a mountain;

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution: 14 bottles of Caesar; 11 bottles of sone;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!