female concubine

Not long after the tea on the table was served, the owner of the mansion rushed to the central hall, stepped forward, cupped his hands and smiled slightly: "The night is dark and the wind is high, why is it so late for Lord Zhao to come to look for my younger brother, but my younger brother is dealing with the lady." It took a while to get out."

King Zhao raised his eyebrows and got up from the main seat in the middle hall, and when he walked up to King Chu, he immediately turned his smile and said, "I miss you, Brother Six. Brother Six was promoted to Dali within three months. Si Shaoqing, how can I, an older brother, not come to congratulate such a happy event."

"Lord Zhao Zhao's concern is all valued by Dali Temple Minister and His Majesty's favor."

"Although I am idle at home, the sixth brother is now helping His Majesty in Dali Temple to share his worries. It is not easy to see the sixth brother. It has been more than a month since the last time in Daming Palace, right? I haven't seen you for so long, and I miss you a lot. I also have a lot of things in my heart that I want to say to Sixth Brother!"

"Oh?" The King of Chu looked at him suspiciously, and then smiled and said, "The middle hall is very windy, and Wei Qian has never been a person who can relax. It's too boring to just talk. Why don't you come with me to the study to have tea?" ,how?"

The two pretending to be ghosts hit it off immediately, "It just so happened that I brought a box of good tea. This tea is a new tea this year. Your Majesty rewarded me, and I haven't tasted it yet!"

"So good!"

In the study of the palace, the servants filled the tea-baking stove for roasting tea with charcoal, and looked at the King of Chu's envoy's eyes after they were all prepared.

"Third brother has a strong hand, the tea ordered must be better than Wei Qian, so brother, please go first?"

"It takes ingenuity and patience to boil the tea soup. In this regard, how can I compare with you, Sixth Brother?" Zhao Wang smiled meaningfully, and pushed the tea brought in front of Chu King. "It's still Sixth Brother. Please go ahead."

"Oh!" The King of Chu didn't refuse. He took the box and took out a small tea cake. The tribute to the construction of the stream, the dragon cake and the phoenix cake, are famous all over the world."

"good eyesight!"

The king of Chu put the baked Xiaotuanlong tea cake on the tea mortar, then took a wooden mallet and an awl to lightly hammer it open, then swept it into the tea mill and crushed it, took out the tea pieces and poured them into the tea mill, and turned them Use a small stone mill to grind it into tea powder, then pour it into the tea bag and shake it gently.

Take a soup bottle filled with hot water and pour it into the tea cup to warm it up. After pouring it out, put in two spoonfuls of sifted tea powder and start ordering tea.

The king of Chu tossed about in an orderly manner for a long time, and seemed to be deliberately delaying time. King Zhao had something to ask for, so he just sat on his seat without saying a word, with a sullen face.

Seeing that the hot water on the stove had no bubbles, the king of Chu took water to pour the soup, and he didn't care about Zhao Wang's bitter face at all.

The first soup is to measure the tea soup, and use a tea whisk to make a melted glue.

For the second soup, pour hot water into the tea noodles for a week, lift the soup bottle up and pour it in a hurry.The other hand held the whisk vigorously and quickly, and layers of pearl-like bubbles gradually rose on the surface of the tea.

The three soups are filled with a little more water, beat lightly and evenly, and the corn and crab eyes.The speed of the tea whisk controlled by the hand became even, and the soup flower became as delicate as millet grains and crab eyes, and finally showed a tumbling state.

The four soups should be filled with less water, wider and faster, and light clouds will gradually grow.The range of whisking the tea whisk is large but slow, causing the tea surface to generate foam like clouds.

Inject a small amount of water into the five soups, but the water injection speed is slightly faster, but it can be slightly vertical, and the brown color is exhausted.Hold the tea whisk and float gently to make the soup flowers condense.

Six soup points of water are placed in the place where the soup flower is too concentrated, and the milk point is vigorously created by observing it.Brush the surface of the soup flowers with a tea whisk to make the soup flowers even and delicate on the whole tea surface.

For seven soups, the water is poured to three-fifths of the tea cup, and the milk mist is surging, overflowing the cup, and beaten until the tea milk circles back to coagulate and does not move, and it is over.

The last tea presented in the hands of the king of Chu was delicate and pure white in color.

Taking a spoon to share the tea, the king of Chu pushed the cup of freshly baked tea to King Zhao. The cup shook but the milk did not move. She laughed and said, "Wei Qian's technique is clumsy, and he is showing his shame."

"When ordering tea, pure white is the most important thing." King Zhao took a sip, raised his eyes to look at King Chu, and said in disbelief, "Good tea with fine foam, but I underestimated you before!"

When the teacup was put down, King Zhao's complexion also sank, and he raised his eyes and said, "I also watched the tea and ate it. Sixth Brother, don't you really think that this king is here in the middle of the night to fight tea with you?" right?"

King Chu picked up the tea towel and wiped his hands with a slight smile, "Of course not, it's just that the Jian'an Beiyuan tea is so precious, wouldn't it be a pity to waste it?"

"I'm not going around with Sixth Brother either, where is he?" Wang Zhao asked directly.

The King of Chu raised his head, stared blankly and asked, "What are you talking about, brother?"

King Zhao frowned, and shouted in displeasure: "Are you still pretending to be confused with me now? Shentu is dead, and His Majesty gave Xiao Yunze the five thousand cloud cavalry under Ma Junsi." Zhao Wang propped himself up on the edge of the table and leaned down, suddenly became extremely sinister, and said in a calm voice: "Sixth brother, don't you think your third brother is as stupid as big brother?"

The King of Chu immediately laughed, and flattered him: "How could Wei Qian think that his brothers are stupid, not to mention that the third brother is His Majesty's most beloved son."

"I don't need to worry about your previous dishonesty, as long as you hand over the person, this king will only ask His Royal Highness for this account!"

The King of Chu also leaned forward and lowered his body, "Third brother, you see that you have to pay for this shopping..." The King of Chu covered his mouth with his hands again, and said in a low voice: "To tell you the truth, my wife The management is strict, the money in the house is not allowed to be touched, and the salary is paid on time and at the place, my brother is also very distressed!"

King Zhao raised his head after hearing this, twitched his eyebrows, gritted his teeth and said, "Make a count!"

"I heard that Captain Yunqi asked His Majesty for a person during the Cuju Festival of the Great Ming Palace during the Cold Food Festival. That person was redeemed by Zhuangyuanlang from a brothel, and he spent two thousand gold!"

As soon as the lion opened his mouth, King Zhao's eyes widened immediately, "You want two thousand gold?"

The King of Chu quickly spread his hands, "Hey, brother, don't worry, Zhuangyuan Lang's two thousand gold can only redeem one person, me," the King of Chu put two fingers in front of King Zhao's eyes, "Two!"

King Zhao slapped the table and stood up, pointed at King Chu and said angrily, "Four thousand gold, why don't you grab it?"

"For me, the 4000 taels of gold can't be earned even if I'm on the job for ten years, but brother, you are the king of Zhao. Your Majesty's reward is more than four thousand gold at once, right?"

"Of course, if the elder brother is reluctant to part with the younger brother, he won't sell it by force, but the younger brother is short of money now, so he has to sell it to His Royal Highness. His Royal Highness should not be short of money in the East Palace, but even if he is short of money, he must sell it if he sells it. I will collect four thousand gold to buy it!"

"You!" King Zhao pointed at King Chu again, and immediately threw it down heavily, "That's all, I'll give it to you!"

"Third brother is really bold!" The king of Chu picked up the teacup. The tea soup in it was cold but the tea milk was still not dispersed. What's missing!"

Then she smiled and raised her head and vowed: "Don't worry, third brother, as long as Wei Qian sees Jin Zi, I will definitely deliver it to the mansion tomorrow night."

Seeing that Zhao Wang was very resentful, she said again: "Don't worry, third brother, the money is not bad. They are all beauties, no worse than those of the Zhuangyuan Lang's family. Keep them obedient, but don't be seen by my cousin Zhao Wangfei. Otherwise, her temper..."

"Okay, okay, after you got married, you really talked more and more, noisy!"

King Chu lowered his head and smiled without saying a word.

"Don't send it to my house to attract attention, just in Lanyue Tower, I will pick it up in person!"

"I'll give you the money tomorrow morning, and I'll see you at Lanyue Tower tonight."

"Of course, what the third brother says is what he says!"

After Zhao Wang walked a few steps, he turned his head and looked at her carefully for a long time, then squinted his eyes half-closed, "I didn't realize until today, you are really good at it!"

King Chu got up from his seat and coughed lightly, "I don't know what the third brother is referring to? If it's beauties and wine..."

"I'm afraid that the actors in Da Nei's opera are not as realistic as you, Brother Six!" After saying that, Zhao Wang snorted coldly and left with his hands behind his back.

The King of Chu followed him out of the study and reminded with a smile: "Third Brother, walk slowly, and the younger brother will not see you off. However, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the sky is full of murder and arson. Third Brother, be careful!"

King Chu returned to his study, picked up the tea leaves on the square table, shook his head lightly and said, "A box of Beiyuan tea just wants to please me, is it naive or stupid!" house.

"Liu Zi, tidy up the study, don't set fire to my books!"

"Yes."

When we returned to the East Courtyard, the lights in the East Courtyard had already been turned off. The King of Chu was stunned, looking at the ruler with the lotus water leak, and said in a daze, "I have been dealing with that guy for an hour..."

Immediately, he walked into the hospital with hurried steps, and asked the female envoy who was watching the night, "Is the princess asleep?"

"I lit the candle half an hour ago, why did my uncle come back at this hour?"

"The spring mosquito is very annoying, I chased it away for a long time!"

The female envoy of the night watch was amused by her, so she put her hands on her hands and said, "My lord, go in quickly, the girl just fell asleep not long ago."

"it is good."

The door was gently opened, and a beam of flame hit the black boots that entered, and then the flame slowly moved until it became a line and disappeared. Those who dared not hold the lamp looked at the dark surroundings, and suddenly felt fear in their hearts.

Rolling her throat, she took a deep breath and moved forward slowly in the dark. She finally touched the door of the inner room, and she pressed all her body weight on it, but the door was not closed tightly. It opened, causing her to suffer a big somersault!

The person who made the noise didn't care about the pain, instead she hurriedly got up in a panic, and after a while, seeing that there was no sound, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued to move forward in the dark.

Rolling up the curtain, the person on the couch seemed to be sleeping soundly, and she could still hear her faint breathing. The King of Chu touched the rope buckle under his right shoulder and untied the round collar.

The moment he touched the quilt with his hand, "I thought you wouldn't come back from the study!" The person on the couch suddenly spoke.

She withdrew her hand, almost backed away in fright, breathed a sigh of relief, and said softly: "How could that be?"

"Why, is there a mosquito biting you in the study?"

After hearing this, the king of Chu smiled and shook his head, "There are mosquitoes, but the blood-sucking mosquito is me, and I bit him!"

Xiao Youqing was also amused by her, slowly opened her eyes, just smiled, then she turned her head and closed her eyes and said: "Since there are no mosquitoes, you can go back to sleep in the study!"

"Oh, sister, the study room is just for reading and writing, how can I use it for sleeping at night?"

"Didn't you love you in the past?"

"That was in the past." She couldn't see it in the dark, so she had a plan: "Besides, Dali Temple may have to reopen the previous case. If King Zhao doesn't let go, it is very likely that the third envoy will be alarmed. When the three divisions interrogate, I will also be affected, so I may stay in the official residence of Dali Temple for a while."

I saw the slightly glowing eyes move, and immediately the side face was covered by a warm palm.

The King of Chu asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Youqing just stroked it lightly, and asked, "Aren't you coming back at night?"

The King of Chu shook his head, "The entire Dali Temple is restless. How can I rest as a young minister? I will tell you about something when the morning dawns." She moved her head closer and said straightly, "How about it?"

Xiao Youqing sighed softly, and said helplessly: "Okay, fool, come up to sleep!"

The King of Chu smiled and nodded, "Then I'll wash my hands first!"

"I only said to let you go to bed, but I didn't agree..."

"Oh?" King Chu smiled knowingly, squinting his eyes deeply, and approached, "Did my sister misunderstand something? Liu Lang just accidentally fell when he entered the door in the dark."

"you!"