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Chapter 167 Teahouse melee

When Li Yan heard Wen Xin’s question so bluntly, he had obviously investigated it. He couldn’t hide it anymore. In desperation, he had to tell him about Cui Mengxue’s affairs. However, compared to other people, Li Yan and Wen Xin’s explanation was much simpler, because he had already described his previous life experience as Nan Ke Yimeng to Wen Xin, but he did not explain it in detail about Xiaoxue, and it happened to be all made up today.

Although Li Yan was a bit informative, Wen Xin was still cleared up the whole thing with Wen Xin's cleverness. Even when he finally heard that Miss Meng Xue was not the person Li Yan wanted to find, he laughed heartlessly. Li Yan was a little confused. As his wife, when she heard that she had an affair, wouldn't Wen Xin get angry? How could she have such a reaction?

However, when Wen Xin heard Lu Hong and Cui Huang later, his face was a little serious. It was not until he heard what Li Yan wanted to grab Cui Mengxue's words that he gave his husband a little jealous. At the same time, he twisted Li Yan's arm with force. He grinned his teeth in pain, but he didn't dare to scream.

But this was just the beginning. When Li Yan talked about the words that Chong Chong later reposted, and then Cheng Huailiang came out and forced him to write the document to marry Meng Xue, Xiao Wenxin, a little jealous jar, was finally completely overturned. However, this time she did not twist Li Yan's arm, but instead twisted the soft flesh on her waist. As a result, Li Yan begged for forgiveness in pain.

After finally waiting for Wen Xin to vent her dissatisfaction, she suddenly sighed and hugged Li Yan's arm and said, "Husband, I know that with your identity, there will naturally be no only sister Xijun and I around me, and I also know that my husband is a person who values ​​love. My mother would take you Luo Ji's concubine a few days ago, but you have all given up all the reasons!"

When Li Yan heard Wen Xin mention the fact that Yang Fei took a concubine for him, he smiled bitterly. He promised Yang Fei to take a concubine for him. The next day, Yang Fei summoned some ladies and princesses to the palace for details. As a result, he found dozens of good-looking girls, and his life experience was very innocent. This scared Li Yan. If so many women all entered his palace, he would not say anything else. He would not bear it.

Therefore, in desperation, Li Yan had to find faults one by one, either because he was not good at his appearance or because he had a problem with his personality, and he retreated. However, he offended the ladies and princesses who were introduced. Leading the fierce Princess Danyang, more than a dozen people blocked Li Yan's mansion and asked him to explain to him. After all, they all promised to the girl's family that they would definitely be elected with their own relationship. As a result, they were all withdrawn by Li Yan, which made them look dull.

For these elders and all women, Li Yan became ignorant even if he was right, and in desperation, he had to apologize one by one and gave a lot of novel gifts, which calmed down the anger of these noble ladies. Thinking about the miserable life that was criticized by a group of women in a short period of time, Li Yan smiled bitterly in addition to laughing bitterly.

Wen Xin saw the bitter smile on Li Yan's face and knew what he was thinking, and he couldn't help but feel a little funny at the moment. Then he said, "Husband, I know you are doing it for my sister Xijun and I. But that Miss Cui has a special status and you have to let her down, so it's better to take her as a slut, which can be regarded as an explanation to her mother, so she won't worry about your uneasy son anymore. Do you think this is good?"

Although Wen Xin's words sounded nice, Li Yan heard a faint resentment from it. Originally, he should have taken up a concubine as Wen Xin, but he was taken away by Concubine Yang, the mother of Concubine Yang, and the person who took over did not agree with her, which made Wen Xin feel that Concubine Yang was dissatisfied with him. Of course, as a daughter-in-law, Wen Xin naturally would not say that her mother-in-law was not, but she was inevitably a little resentful in her heart.

"My Wenxin is the most wise. Let's do whatever you say. As for the mother's wife, you can agree on Wenxin. In addition, the mother's wife is actually thinking about us. She wants to have a child earlier in the Qi Mansion, so she found so many girls at once. However, since Xijun got pregnant, the mother's wife has not been very anxious about this matter, and has never mentioned the matter to me again." Li Yan hurriedly mixed up in the middle. The reason why he asked Wenxin to talk about the naming of Cui Mengxue was that she wanted Concubine Yang to see that. Wenxin was also helping him take a concubine, thereby changing her impression of Wenxin.

Wen Xin also understood what Li Yan meant, and she also knew clearly that the reason why Concubine Yang never mentioned taking a concubine again since then was mainly because she could not be separated when she was about to give birth. After Concubine Yang finished her confinement, she might have arranged to take a concubine. However, with Cui Mengxue's case, even if she arranged it, her husband would be able to stop it. Thinking of the above, Wen Xin nodded obediently.

As the saying goes, life is unsatisfactory, although Li Yan wanted to use Cui Mengxue's affairs to ease the relationship between Wenxin and Yang Fei, he was also planning to force Lu to break the engagement. But unexpectedly, something happened the next day, and it was precisely because of this incident that all his plans were disrupted.

"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! Headlines of the Religious News! A prince of the Tang Dynasty molested a drowning woman and seduced a married daughter who had been married. After being caught by his fiancé, he beat the other party seriously injured him regardless of his identity! Come and buy it!" Before dawn the next day, a large number of newspaper boys were cross-body with newspapers, running in the streets and alleys, while selling this exciting news everywhere.

Everyone has their own gossip. When they hear such attractive news, and it is also related to the royal family, it naturally arouses the interest of most people. Those who are literate and rich take out their pockets to buy a Confucian newspaper, and those who are illiterate or have no money also gather around them, asking those who read the newspaper to tell me which prince is so bold?

Because it was not yet completely dawn, major restaurants generally did not start business. After all, few people would drink early in the morning. However, due to the development of industry and commerce in Chang'an City, more and more people get up early to work, and many people don't have time to make breakfast, so they are used to buying some breakfast outside. Every morning, the most lively shops selling breakfast.

Linxian Teahouse is the largest teahouse in the east city of Chang'an City, and it is also the most lively breakfast place in the east city. Because it not only sells breakfast, but also provides free tea. Of course, free tea is definitely not a good tea. If you want to drink good tea, you have to order it alone, but unfortunately, this tea has to be calculated separately.

Linxian Teahouse is not far from Chang'an's largest tower. Moreover, the owners of the two stores are Wang Zihao. Today, Linxian Teahouse is the same as before. It opened before dawn and was soon filled with diners who eat breakfast. These diners are not all early to work, and there are also many rich idle people who like to get up early and come to the teahouse to order a basket of fried buns. While eating, listen to people around you. When you meet someone you know, it is a good place to relax. However, compared with the past, the atmosphere in Linxian Teahouse is even more popular today because everyone is talking about the same topic.

"If I want to say, the Confucian newspaper is simply talking nonsense. What is His Highness of Qi? How could he be flirting with a drowning woman? As for what seduces the daughter to be married behind, it is even more nonsense!" A man in a short shirt and exposed his thick arms said first. Judging from his appearance, he should be a worker working in the East City.

Teahouses are biological things, and they slowly began to appear after the promotion of tea. Therefore, the business model of teahouses has not been determined yet. In order to attract customers to come, each teahouse has tried every means, and Linxianlou specially invites people to read newspapers. After all, the literacy rate these days is not high, and most people cannot understand the content of newspapers. People’s demand for information is a natural nature, so this trick really attracted a lot of people.

However, today's newspaper reading teacher got an explosive news from the Confucian newspaper. Although the other party did not name it, they directly called the other party the prince who had lost his memory. This title clearly refers to King Li Yan of Qi. As for the content of the news, it made everyone feel unbelievable, so someone came forward to question it.

"This brother said it well, I don't believe that Your Highness King of Qi would do such a thing!" As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, a fat man in silk clothes immediately agreed loudly. Looking at his clothes and the white jade Buddhist beads in his hands, he must be a wealthy businessman with great status. He only heard the wealthy businessman say again, "Think about it, the people of the Confucian newspaper have long seen that our business and businessmen are dissatisfied with us, and they are against His Highness everywhere. They have repeatedly insulted the development of industry and commerce in the Confucian newspaper. Now that they are poor, they actually use such despicable means to slander Your Highness King of Qi and attack His Highness's reputation to achieve their unspeakable goals. Therefore, everyone must not be fooled by the other party!"

However, as soon as the rich businessman finished speaking, a thin man stood up and raised the newspaper in his hand and retorted: "Although what you said makes sense, I don't think so. Although the Confucian newspaper is in an opposition to the King of Qi, the newspaper has always been known for its rigor. If this news has not been confirmed, the Confucian newspaper will definitely not be published. Moreover, the newspaper is clearly written. The whole thing was seen by the gentleman in Confucian newspaper with his own eyes, so naturally he cannot do it!"

"Well said it, I think so too!" Another opponent stood up, but this man was a gray-bearded old man wearing a blue long gown and looked like a scholar. "The news in the Confucian newspapers will definitely not be fake, and the so-called "knowing people but not the heart". Although the King of Qi has a good reputation among the people and the court, don't forget that he used to be a prince with a prominent reputation, and even now, some of his actions seem ridiculous!"

"The old man is such a bad thing!" Before the old man could sit down, another gentle young man stood up and said, "Although the King of Qi had some bad deeds before, the prodigal son turned around. Since the ten years of Zhenguan, the King of Qi has done many major things that benefit the country and the people? If you don't believe it, you can go to Dengzhou to see. The people there live a wealthy life and everyone is grateful for the kindness of Your Highness. If you dare to say the words you just now in Dengzhou, you may be despised by all the people!"

Under the rule of Li Yan, Dengzhou jumped from a small seaside town to a national big city second only to Chang'an and Luoyang, and it can even be compared with Taiyuan, so many people regard it as Li Yan's most persuasive political achievement.

When the old man was dissatisfied, he immediately asked: "Young people, don't follow the crowd. Everyone is saying that Dengzhou is good, but you have never seen it with your own eyes. How can you be sure that Dengzhou must be as good as the legendary one? Maybe the rumors about Dengzhou are just made up by others to deceive people!"

As soon as the old man said the words, he furiously made the gentle young man who spoke. He snorted coldly and said, "Mr. Don't judge a gentleman with the heart of a villain. A young student is not talented. He just returned from a study tour in Dengzhou a few days ago. He saw all the wealth of the people in Dengzhou's lives. And there were several classmates who went with the young student, two of whom were students from the Imperial College. If you don't believe it, I can tell you their names and ask them to verify it!"

The young man's words immediately left the old man speechless and had to sit down awkwardly. However, the old man sat down with a young man with a long face, which seemed to be his nephew. Seeing that his elders were being ridiculed, he could no longer help but say: "Brother, what we are discussing today is the authenticity of the matter in the Confucian newspaper, not the achievements made by the King of Qi. I think you made a deliberate question. Moreover, the King of Qi's actions in industry and commerce also violated the ways of the saints, such as the so-called textile factory, called textiles, but only recruits female workers. I don't know what shameful things are done in it?"

As soon as the words of this young man with long faces were spoken, many people in the teahouse changed their temper. Although there were rich people like the rich businessman just now, most of them were ordinary people who worked and earned money to support their families. In order to make their families better, many of them had female relatives working in textile factories at home, and the words of young man with long faces almost insulted all the female relatives in their family.

The strong man who was the first to speak slammed the table and cursed: "Boy, put it cleanly in my mouth. What does it mean to be shameful? The textile factory is full of serious work on spun cotton and weaving. If you don't understand, don't fart it randomly!"

A strong man is a rough man who does hard work. If he gets angry, he naturally has no good words in his mouth. But this is also worthy, because his wife and two unmarried girls are working in the textile factory in the Qiwang Mansion. The other party scolded him all at once, and even a man could not stand it.

"Bah, you are a stinky person, you don't need to care what you said?" The other party was also a domineering person. When he heard the stubborn man's words, he was naturally not willing to be outdone.

The thick man and the young man with long faces were getting more and more ugly, and the people around him began to speak out. As a result, more and more people joined the ranks of scolding, the atmosphere became more and more intense, and the smell of gunpowder became stronger. In the end, there was no one who took the action first, which led to a melee. However, no one in the melee knew that their melee was recorded in history openly and had a specific title, which was the famous "tea house melee" in later history.
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