[Red House] No one knows that it is lychee

For a while, Liu Xianglian was silent.

On the contrary, the emperor stood beside him, and he almost laughed out loud.

"Oh, the bird doesn't understand anything. Isn't it normal to learn the tongue?" Li Zhi began to smooth things over after knowing what happened, "At worst, I will give you a key next time, and you can come in by yourself."

Lizhi brought two people into the house and greeted them to sit down.The shop in front has sold out of pastries, and now it is about to close, but there are still many people who are unwilling to leave and want to buy some more.

Liu Xianglian didn't expect that the lychee business could be so good. He already knew that the lychee craftsmanship is good, but he just felt it intuitively today.

"Sit down, I happen to have just baked a cake, and I just missed the last bit of decoration." Lizhi said, "I'll take it out for you to try later."

Today's cake is different from the usual ones, Lizhi specially made some shapes: "It will be announced in a few days, and I will save it for Lin Xiao. I just don't know what kind of cake he likes, so I will make it today Try it."

Saying that, Lizhi went to the back kitchen.She didn't ask Liu Xianglian who that young man was, as if he was a visitor.

The emperor is so novel, he has never seen such a woman: "Isn't she strange? She doesn't ask who I am?"

"She has never been a talkative person," Liu Xianglian smiled, "Your Majesty, she is also very smart."

The emperor raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

The sweet smell in the air is getting stronger and stronger.After a while, Lizhi came back holding an eight-inch cake. The whole cake showed an attractive red color, and there was a beautiful red flower on the top, which immediately attracted everyone's attention .

"This cake is so beautiful," the emperor couldn't help but said, "Girl, your craftsmanship is just right."

Lizhi glanced at the emperor, pursed his lips and smiled: "Thank you for your appreciation, I will eat this food freshly, and don't eat too much, Your Majesty, you will gain weight if you eat too much."

The emperor froze for a moment: "... When did you recognize it?"

Li Zhi put down the cake in his hand, and cut a piece with a knife: "I just heard Liu Xianglian say that your majesty is coming to my small shop, and I'm quite nervous."

The emperor looked at Li Zhi's calm face, and didn't feel any tension from her body.

"She is really smart," the emperor smiled, and he looked at Liu Xianglian meaningfully, "You two are a good match, how did you find such a girl?"

Liu Xianglian and Lizhi looked at each other and said in unison: "Bird!"

The emperor froze for a moment, then smiled again.

In fact, he doesn't smile often, it's just that he is in this small shop today, surrounded by a sweet atmosphere, which makes people feel a little indescribably relaxed.

Lizhi handed the emperor a small spoon, and put the cut cake in front of the emperor: "Your Majesty use this to cut and eat, the cake is very soft, the spoon can cut it."

The emperor nodded, took a spoon, and began to cut the cake in front of him with a serious face.Lychee handed a piece to Liu Xianglian: "Try it too."

So the three of them sat at the table, and Li Zhi watched the two men eating the cake, somehow feeling that the atmosphere was not bad.

The emperor liked the sweet taste of the cake so much that he ate the whole cake in no time.He wanted to have another piece, but Lizhi asked him to drink some tea first: "I'm tired of eating too much cake, Your Majesty should drink some tea."

The emperor looked at the cup in front of him, then at the lychee, and couldn't help laughing: "I believe it, the two of you are really suitable. Only you two dare to speak to me in such a tone."

Lizhi also smiled, and she was a little embarrassed: "Do you want to try other breads? I just checked, and they are still baked."

When the emperor left, he was full after a long absence.He rubbed his belly, and the expression on his face seemed quite satisfied: "If you two weren't getting married, I would have invited Miss Lizhi into the palace to be my royal cook."

Liu Xianglian blinked: "Your Majesty, she won't be happy."

Lizhi rubbed his nose: "Not necessarily..."

Liu Xianglian glared at Li Zhi cryptically, but Li Zhi ignored it, and continued, "But I'm from a humble family background, and I'm a woman, so I wouldn't accept me if I wanted to come to the Imperial Dining Room."

The emperor smiled and said, "You have such a good skill, but you will suffer if you enter the palace. Now you open a shop here, but it is very good."

After speaking, the emperor said to Lizhi again: "A lot of things have happened in this period of time, Miss Lizhi also knows a lot from Liu Xianglian. Miss, I hope you..."

Li Zhi understood it, and immediately said: "Of course I will keep my mouth shut."

The emperor smiled, pointed at the litchi and said to Liu Xianglian: "If you don't guard against such a girl, in the future some people will step through the threshold to propose marriage."

Finally, when the emperor left, Lizhi brought him some bread, and the emperor actually took it too: "Alright, let them taste it when we get back, Xiaoyang should also like it."

Lizhi nodded——Xiaoyang?who?

The emperor saw Lizhi's doubts at a glance, and he shook his head: "It's the little boy you once met, and now he has changed his name to He Qiyang."

Liu Xianglian and Lizhi sent the emperor away together, and Lizhi breathed a sigh of relief: "...Why didn't you tell me in advance, I was caught off guard."

"If I told you, you might be able to use an excuse to close the shop," the emperor didn't know, but Liu Xianglian knew litchi very well, "Fortunately, you just stabilized."

Li Zhi slapped Liu Xianglian on the back: "It's normal even if I didn't stabilize, and I lost a cake because of you!"

Liu Xianglian smiled, and he stretched out his hand to pinch Lizhi's nose: "I can bring you benefits."

Li Zhiqi said: "What's the benefit? Allow me to meet His Majesty?"

At this moment, Liu Xianglian sold the key: "You will know in a few days."

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A lychee cake shop opened in the capital just like that, and a few days after the emperor came, someone suddenly sent a plaque—and an imperial decree at the same time.

When the chief eunuch in the palace came to Lizhi's small shop, Lizhi thought he was dreaming.It was only when someone reminded her that Lizhi realized it, quickly set up an incense table, changed into formal clothes, and then knelt down in front of the eunuch.

The words in the imperial decree are quite obscure, and Li Zhi can only listen to a half-knowledge.It was probably because the lychee cake was delicious, and the emperor liked it very much, so he gave it a plaque.

Li Zhi didn't dare to neglect, and quickly hung up the plaque.Looking at the words "cake shop" written on the plaque, Li Zhi sent the visitor away with a smile on his face.

... The emperor's handwriting is strangely beautiful.

Immediately, Lizhi realized that this should be the "surprise" Liu Xianglian mentioned some time ago.

Indeed, this surprise was just right, it wouldn't make people feel grand, and it also benefited Lizhi - the business of the cake shop has doubled several times because of the plaque bestowed by the emperor himself.

Qingwen was almost overwhelmed, and Lizhi hurriedly hired some more people, many of whom were maids from the Rongguo Mansion, so there was no need to worry about the secret of the formula being leaked for a while.

And in the same way, the results of the township examination were finally released this time.On this day, many people gathered at the announcement place to watch the excitement, even the lively cake shop in Lizhi was quite deserted.

Even though Li Zhi had come out of Lin's mansion, she still paid attention to the news until an unexpected guest came to her door.

"What are you doing here?" Li Zhi looked at Lin Xiao in surprise, "Aren't you going to the nearby teahouse and waiting?"

Lin Xiao was very calm. He found a seat in the shop and sat down, as if returning to his own home: "What's there to wait for? I'm sure I can win, it's just a matter of ranking."

For a moment, Li Zhi didn't know whether to complain about Lin Xiao's self-confidence or to congratulate him on high school.

"I want to eat cake!" Lin Xiao said, "Is there any fruit cake?"

Lizhi rolled her eyes: "Bring me the money! Do you still want to eat for nothing?"

Lin Xiao glanced at her, took out a pouch from his sleeve and gave it to Lizhi: "How about baking one for me?"

Li Zhi took the purse, opened it to take a look, and immediately smiled all over his face: "All right, all right, I'll bake you a high school one!"

Saying that, Lizhi went to the back kitchen. She was still willing to trust Lin Xiao High School, so she might as well bake him a good one.

"...Your business is really good." Lin Xiao didn't sit obediently at the front, he also followed Lizhi into the kitchen, "How do you feel after leaving the Lin Mansion?"

Lizhi shrugged: "It's okay, I'm living a good life, and I can spend a long time just making cakes every day."

Lin Xiao found a small bench by herself and sat down: "Well... do you know that Jia Baoyu is going to marry in the wild north desert?"

Lizhi happened to be putting sugar, and when he heard Lin Xiao's words, he couldn't help shaking his hands, and immediately put too much sugar: "...what?"

Why is Jia Baoyu getting married?

"He gets along very well with the princess from Huo Tu's tribe," Lin Xiao said, "and what the princess from Huo Tu's tribe needs now is the support of the court. If you want to show it clearly, you can only choose Go back alone with the princess."

Lizhi is not stupid: "...similar to a marriage?"

"Yes," Lin Xiao nodded, "The Lin House and the Rong Guo House have already received the news, but we still have to wait for Jia Baoyu to take another exam."

Li Zhi didn't know what to say: "...Then what does Jia Baoyu think?"

Jia Mu in Rongguo Mansion was also asking Jia Baoyu the same question, but the old lady seemed more distressed.

"Baoyu, why on earth is this?" Jia's mother burst into tears, "Is it something bad at home? Or is it just a whim? Baoyu, this barren northern desert is not just for fun. If you go, you will lose your life." It's hard to say whether we can still meet."

Facing Jia's mother, Jia Baoyu seemed very silent.

He had already made up his mind.