"The green hairpin is made of gold, and the butterflies dance on it. Who knows what's going on in your heart? The moon is bright and the branches are full of flowers." After the song was sung, the lingering sound lingered.
Xiao Yu's closed eyes gradually opened and he nodded slightly towards the leader of the dance.
The dancer smiled, bowed and left.
The hall was filled with drunken guests and everyone felt sorry.
Generally speaking, after the singers and dancers have finished their performance, they have to toast the guests. If the host is not strange and has a good relationship, there are not many opportunities to touch her. This dancer is not very old. I heard that she is only thirteen
She is four years old, but she has a charming and mature appearance, a graceful figure, and is also youthful and lively. There is an agility in her graceful dancing.
Only an aristocratic family can cultivate such a wonderful thing. It's a pity that Xiao Xiang will not let her come down to toast. Maybe when the saint comes to have a banquet, they can, but they are not qualified.
After the dancer left the main hall, several girls who had been waiting for a long time immediately greeted her.
"Fifteenth sister, when you dance, those people's eyes are straight."
As soon as these words came out, the girls were so happy that their makeup was messed up with laughter.
There was a slight sweat on the fifteenth sister's forehead. She reached out to take the bronze mirror, and the light yellow stamens on her forehead were a little blurry.
Dai Niang has been in the palace for so many years, but she hasn't even given birth to a boy or a girl, and she doesn't know what happened. Is it because the saint is jealous of them, or for some other reason? Xiao Yun's head hurts thinking about it, but
Still have no clue.
First, there were many military men from Hebei in Yin'anzhi, and the saints showed their kindness by giving them many rewards.
Chen Cheng-Xiao Qu's eyes narrowed, he is such an old cunning guy!
He likes to drink tea, but the utensils for making tea are very simple and not that comprehensive. The samurai of Gin Anzhi don't know any tea ceremony. They have all made tea with cow dung, so there is nothing to say.
Everyone in Linshuo Palace knows that the concubines who can spend the night with the saint are the ones who are truly favored. Only three people slept with the saint after nightfall in Jiaotai Palace: Zhang Hui, Chu and Zhong. Zhong.
She is now very favored and spends half of the month staying with the saint.
Several children of the Chen family were relatively active in the business world, but they gradually died down in the past two years. After accumulating a considerable amount of wealth, they changed hands to others and began to purchase land, buy houses, and set up farms in Chang'an, Luoyang, and Peiping.
Low profile.
Xiao Die is the governor of Jizhou. He has just returned to Beijing to report on his duties and attended a court meeting by the way.
Xingzhou and Yuezhou are famous in the world for the tea bowls used for drinking tea, with the latter slightly better. The Xiao family's tea drinking utensils are the Yue kiln's famous "Qianfeng Cuise", which is valuable and was given by Wu Yue Qian Liu.
In the former Tang Dynasty, Yanzhou was established to accommodate the Mohe tribe. The state administration was located in the northwest corner of the city. Liaoxi County was established outside Youzhou City and Mohe City was settled near the Tibetan people. When Zhu Tao was appointed as the Jiedushi, Yanzhou was abolished. During the Jianzhong period, Liaoxi County
The county was merged into Youdu County. However, the Mohe people's settlement in the city still exists, named Liaoxifang.
Each piece is made by a famous master. For example, the tripod used for making tea is most famous in Longzhou and Shuzhou in the world. This tripod was given by Zhao Jian, the former Dragon Sword Festival envoy.
I heard that Chen Cheng also brought some of his family members over. No one from the Chen family has become an official, which is quite strange. However, Chen Cheng’s wealth cannot be underestimated. Even though Xiao Qu was born into a wealthy family, he always felt that he was not as wealthy as the Chen family.
Meaning - The wealth of the entire Xiao family is certainly astonishing, but when it comes to Xiao Yu's family, it's more pitiful, just like that.
Xiao Mansion is located in Liao Xifang.
The water for making tea is snow water, which was the favorite of elegant people in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi once wrote a poem about "melting snow and frying fragrant tea", and Lu Guimeng also wrote about "looking at the snow on the boiled pine". This pot of tea from the Xiao family
, using the fallen snow in the woods in the backyard to cook it.
Yes, Han Yanhui openly defected to the Xiao family, but Xiao Yu didn't trust him and didn't care much. After all, he was just a sesame mung bean official. Maybe one day, Han Yanhui turned around and defected to Zhong Jinxian and his son. Some things were very strange.
Difficult to tell.
"The house that has been under construction for more than half a year finally looks like something." Xiao Yu looked up and sighed.
There are quite a few people living in the house. Except for the wife and the eldest son who are still in Luoyang, everyone else who can come over has come over. The whole family is enjoying themselves. After all, we are old and want to reunite.
Xiao Qun's tea set has a total of twenty-four pieces, including various utensils for making fire, filling water, filling salt, making tea, drinking tea, cleaning, storage, etc.
"Oops, I'm late." The fifteenth girl who had just finished bathing came over quickly holding up her skirt. She smiled coquettishly and drove away the servants, and made tea herself.
The tea has been brewed and is filled with steam.
"Second brother, after the three halls of Baohua, Qinzheng, and Rende currently under construction are completed, there may be more." Xiao Mao said with a very sure tone: "In this area to the west of Fucheng, the saint has asked people to find a site for construction.
Pavilions, towers, bamboo groves, and palaces are most likely indispensable."
He is carefully studying and pondering every move he makes today.
Xiao Qu was still awake, and when he waved, Xiao Die, Xiao Mao and others left the table and followed him silently.
But how can a wealthy family like the Xiao family be so "vulgar"? Any fuel with smoke, odor, or flames cannot be used. Only carefully selected charcoal and slow frying can meet their requirements.
Xiao Mao will be presiding over the construction of Linshuo Palace. According to the saint's wishes, after the construction of the two palaces of diligence and benevolence, it will be released to the outside world. It is very likely that he will be a governor or, at worst, a transit envoy.
The local forces in Hebei were seeing a rise, which made Xiao Yu a little wary.
The Chen family's residence is located in Jibinfang in the southeast of Youzhou. It was named after the Jibin people lived together. During the Zhenguan period, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty conquered Goguryeo and mobilized soldiers and horses from various countries in the Western Regions to accompany the expedition. Among them were people from today's Pakistan and India.
The Yibin people in the river basin, as mentioned in the epitaph of Ashina Zhong, "The horses in the vestibule drove into Yangguan, and the Yibins flew into the sky, and they were imprisoned. Liaodong saw them, and they were rewarded by imperial edicts."
"The saint has not returned to the Eastern Capital for a long time, so we have to make more preparations." Xiao Yu suddenly looked at Xiao Mao and Xiao Die and said, "Some people also need to be vigilant."
Even though Shao Shude was the emperor, there was still a huge gap between Shao Shude and these wealthy families in terms of enjoyment.
"Mingrui, do you know how long the Linshuo Palace will be repaired?" Xiao Qu asked the two nephews to sit down.
His robe was torn, so he mended it and put it on again.
The sage is very satisfied with Xiao Die's work in Jizhou, and the development prospects seem to be good.
But now there has been a change - the change is actually not big, it is just a small hidden worry, far from being a major danger.
After the war, many Jibin people were unwilling to return to their hometown—perhaps it was indeed too far away—so they settled in Youzhou and made a living by smelting iron and forging. Their settlement became Jibinfang.
"Well..." Upon hearing this, Xiao He probably knew what he was talking about.
I saw her operating the entire tea set in an orderly manner, as straight as flowing clouds and flowing water, which was dazzling, but also had a unique rhythmic beauty.
Most of the tea he uses is Lingzhou and Huazhou tea, in order to promote it to the grasslands, open up the market for Kanxi tea, and speak for his base of common people.
The Mohe chieftain was killed for inciting a tribe to rebel, and the rest were demoted as slaves and given to civil and military officials. In Xiao Zang's house, there were several Mohe girls who worked as maids and entertained and escorted distinguished guests when they came.
Given by the saints.
Chen Cheng could coolly prevent his descendants from becoming officials, but he couldn't do it. Not only could he not learn this way, but he had to go one step further: next month's Changchun Festival (today's birthday), the fifteenth mother of the Xiao family will perform for the saint.
Xiao Mao and Xiao Die looked at each other and made some guesses.
Xiao Qun smiled.
At this point, Shaosheng's enjoyment is not as good as that of these wealthy families - when he was on the grassland, the saint even asked people to make tea with cow dung.
The essence of tea ceremony is one tea, two water, three utensils and four fires.
Xiao Qu probably knew what Chen Cheng was thinking, but he couldn't learn from it. What the Xiao family was carrying was too heavy. Hundreds of years of family inheritance had certainly brought great help, but at the same time they had also created many unspeakable burdens.
Xiao Mao belonged to the same room as Xiao Sheng, the consort of Dezong Dynasty, and was a little far away from Xiao Yu and his brothers. But Xiao Yu was now the prime minister, and after deliberately wooing him, Xiao Mao's relationship with him was much closer.
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It is not easy even for a noble family to collect a complete set of twenty-four top-quality tea sets.
A group of little sisters laughed and surrounded the fifteenth sister and left.
Everyone in the main hall drank the last round of wine, and the guests gradually dispersed.
Then Zhong was canonized as Jieyu.
Then there are the officials represented by Zhong Jingxian, Chong Jushuang, Han Yanhui, Liu Cungui, Zhao Siwen, etc. They have been promoted at a rapid rate recently and have been repeatedly honored. A new power group is about to emerge.
"I'm so tired. I don't know what I'm thinking. What's the point of dancing for those people?" The fifteenth sister wiped off the yellow stamens, then took off the emerald hairpin from her bun, and said, "Go and take a bath."
In fact, the Xiao Mansion in Beidu was not entirely newly built. Instead, it was based on Dong Mansion. It swallowed up the houses of several Mohe chiefs next door and rebuilt it - Dong Mansion, which was the military envoy of Lulong Jiedu Yaqian in the former Tang Dynasty.
He also knew the affairs of the Fangfang, Yinqing Guanglu, a doctor, a guest of the prince who inspected the school, and a supervisory censor. He was in Shangzhu State, the residence of Dong Qingchang in Longxi.
When he was in court, he was serious and serious, always making plans and establishing meritorious deeds. In private, he was dissolute and drunken with women. Because of his liking, the saint selected beauties from Yeting several times and rewarded them to the Chen family.
The tea is Huzhou Purple Bamboo Shoot, royal tribute tea, of excellent quality.
Even when it comes to playing with women, he may not be as good as these rich and wealthy families. The Xiao family would never even look at a barbaric girl like Yu Lujiangu, but Shao Sheng was so good at playing with her that after only two months, he
It makes someone's belly bigger...
"Aren't you tired from plotting and plotting all day long?" Sister Fifteen finished making tea and poured it for everyone with a chuckle.
The gap is even greater when it comes to tea sets.
There are actually many fires for making tea. One uses pine wood, that is, "pine fire tea at night"; one with bamboo, that is, "burns bamboo and makes tea at night"; there are also "sweeping leaves and tea leaves picking book" (fallen leaves), "charcoal boiling"
"Cha Chi" (coal), etc.
No matter how much wealth a family has, no matter how refined their life is, they can't compare to a sword-wielding warrior. Furthermore, saints are smart and decisive, and sometimes ruthless, but they are actually not easy to deal with.
Xiao Qu looked at his carefully cultivated daughter and sighed in his heart.
Fifteenth sister grew up in a honeypot, so she didn’t know the dangers of this world. Why do all the generals stubbornly resist and have to surrender only when the situation is at the end? People can see clearly that the emperor can give you a lot of wealth if he is happy.
It was even more money than what he made as a military governor, but once the emperor was angered, it was common for his family to be destroyed overnight.
Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger, it is not just a matter of words.
"Ge Congzhou has already conquered Yizhou, and recently he has taken over the counties of Dingzhou and surrounded the prefecture. Once he conquers Yizhou and Dingzhou, there will be many official posts in the two states. Do you have any capable candidates in your pocket? After you return,
Take inventory carefully." Xiao Yu put down the tea bowl and said: "Yiding is adjacent to Hedong, Chengde, and is highly valued by saints. Don't be careless."
"Yes." The two of them responded one after another.