Chapter 192 The twelfth lunar month twenty-sixth, birthday
The group returned to Chang'an City and began to get busy again.
Another half month has passed quickly. The New Year is approaching, and business people in Chang'an City are even more active.
I am selling what I have and hope this year will be a good one.
The night before Zhao Mu was to leave for Chang'an City, Li Yue arranged for his men to return to Chang'an City and informed his father in advance.
Li Er issued the order and asked people to prepare in advance and wait for the arrival of the wise brother tomorrow!
In the morning, the carriage moved forward slowly, and the group arrived at Chang'an City and arrived at Li's Mansion.
The entire Li Mansion also started to get busy.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Li Er did not invite Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and others.
Once the good brother gets bored and wants to sit in their homes, won't things get serious by then?
This time, Li Er's cook was specially transferred from the palace.
All the ingredients are of the highest quality. They have never eaten the food in the palace, but they can still entertain them well with these meals!
"Brother Xian, these are some good wines that I sent people to make with a lot of trouble. Please try them and see if they suit your taste?"
He personally tasted the drink that he said he had spent a long time traveling for. Not to mention that the taste was really different from the previous drinks, it still tasted good.
"Brother Xian, in addition to these drinks, I also made some other things.
If you like it, just go back tomorrow and bring the drinks with you."
After lunch, the group of people wandered around Chang'an City for a while. The housekeeper purchased a large amount of red paper and other things for the New Year.
The next day, after breakfast at Li's Mansion, and with a large number of gifts prepared by Li Er, the group left Chang'an City, returned to Zhaojiazhuang, and began to live in poverty again.
The new year is approaching, and in the blink of an eye it’s the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.
On this day, the whole Zhuangzi began to move again, because this day was their Zhao Mu's birthday!
The birthday here is Zhao Mu’s birthday in modern times before he traveled through time.
It’s just that when I celebrated my birthday, it was already the end of the year, and everything for every household had already been bought.
Strictly speaking, I have never had a real birthday, but now that I am here, my birthday must be held grandly every year!
In the kitchen, I have been preparing cakes since morning. All the skills have been passed down from Zhao Mu.
The cake is big and sweet.
At 10 a.m., Li Er arrived at Zhaojiazhuang in a small carriage and gave gifts to Zhao Mu.
"Brother Xian, you are so mean. Today is your birthday and you didn't tell me in advance.
If Yue'er hadn't sent someone back to Chang'an City yesterday to report the news to me, I wouldn't have known about it.
But your birthday is really small, so this is a gift I prepared, please accept it, dear brother!"
"I said, Lao Li, you don't have to be like this."
"I have heard from Yue'er that every year for your birthday, Zhuangzi prepares it with great grandeur.
How can I, Lao Li, have any reason not to participate?"
Near noon, a large cake was prepared. Candles were inserted and lit. Zhao Mu blew out the candles and everyone applauded!
"Master, you have grown one year older. I wish you a happy birthday. I hope that I can celebrate your birthday with you every year."
"Linglong, isn't my birthday your birthday? Happy birthday to you too!"
Lingling's little face smiles like a flower.
When I was very young, I was bought by the old lady to accompany the young master.
There is no such thing as a birthday, and I don’t even know what it means.
It was only later when the young master told himself these things that he finally understood.
It's just that even though I know what it means, I don't know exactly when I was born.
So I just made up one at random and celebrated the birthday with the young master!
"Thank you, Master."
Everyone finished their blessings one after another.
"Hahahaha, dear brother, I, Lao Li, also wish you a happy birthday.
And Miss Linglong, I didn’t expect that you and Brother Xian have the same birthday. I, Lao Li, really didn’t know.
Otherwise, I will prepare a gift for you, Miss Linglong.
But this time I know it, so I can only wish Miss Linglong a happy birthday."
Today is a happy day, Linglong waved her hands again and again.
It doesn't matter what your birthday is, as long as you can spend it with the young master, that's the happiest thing for you.
"I said, dear brother, what is this thing in front of you?
Why have I never seen it before? Is this your new gadget in Zhaojiazhuang?"
"Shopkeeper Li, the name of this thing is birthday cake.
This birthday cake is for our birthday. It’s delicious and very sweet!”
"Master, the noodles are ready, I'll serve them to you!"
A bowl of noodles was brought over, Zhao Mu took out an empty bowl, took out half of it, and placed it in front of Linglong.
She was the only person around him when he first came to this world. Although she was his maid, in Zhao Mu's eyes, she was the person he loved the most.
I also treat her as my sister.
I recall back then, when I celebrated my first birthday in Datang, I made my first bowl of longevity noodles.
There are two people at a table, and each person has half the bowl. That kind of time is quite nostalgic.
Even though there are more and more people nowadays, this habit still remains the same!
"Thank you, Master!"
Linglong's eyes became red, the young master was still the same young master, no matter how strong his strength became, he was still the same.
"You silly girl, eat it quickly."
"It's Master, thank you Master!"
After eating a few mouthfuls of noodles and looking at the cake in front of him, Zhao Mu handed over the knife and asked Linglong to cut it herself.
This is what he does every year, and it will be the same this year.
A small piece of cake was placed on a plate for each of them, and everyone picked up their chopsticks and started eating.
Not to mention, this cake melts in your mouth and is really delicious.
This birthday was also very enjoyable. Half of the cake was eaten and half was left.
Li Er shamelessly took the half piece back, thinking of taking it to Chang'an City and giving it to the Queen to taste.
Zhao Mu asked someone to put the cake away and asked him, Old Li, to take it to Chang'an City to taste it slowly tomorrow.
After eating, the group left the restaurant and went to the study. Zhao Mu also started to get busy!