Chapter 100 Blind date (1)

Cui Qiao, the minister of Dali Temple, is famous for fear of Chang'an City. Cui Qiao's wife's surname is Li, yes! She is the older generation of Princess of Datang, the daughter of King Ning, Li Lin's sister, and Li Jingyan's aunt. When she was young, Chang'an was crazy about Qing, she had enough fun, she had enough crazy, and had enough romantic life. She remembered a lifelong event and had to find a nest. The emperor's daughter did not have to worry about marrying, and the emperor's niece did not have to worry about marrying. Li Xiaogu looked at it with a glance.

Cui Qiao, who was in his prime, had poor Cui Qiao's flower, but before he could find out, he was patted by the Tang emperor with a smile on his shoulder, "I'll be a matchmaker for you." So, after leaving Yanta's name, he married a bride before the wedding candle. All the six rites were simple. Lessons were given birth to Cui Qiao's son in less than half a year. Cui Qiao was so anxious that he explained to people everywhere, "This, this is a fall in viewing flowers, and he was born prematurely! He was born prematurely!"

Mrs. Cui was born in the royal family, so naturally there were more rules than others. The biggest rule was that Cui Qiao only loved her. This was normal today, but in the Tang Dynasty, it was really pitiful to Cui Tanhua. He only had a monogamous wife, which was not consistent with his identity and the Tang system. No ministers in the court were full of wives and concubines, and their descendants were prosperous, and even the emperor could not bear to watch it. He repeatedly hinted that he could take a few concubines and keep a few more fireworks. Don't wait a hundred years later, the grass on the grave would grow taller than others, and no one would repair it.

Cui Qiao also wanted to take a concubine, but he just dared it? People said they didn't explode in silence, so they died in silence. Cui Qiao belonged to the latter category. King Ning apologized for him and repeatedly recommended him to Li Longji. So Cui Qiao's official position became stronger year by year, but his courage was dehydrated day by day.

Cui Qiao has a son and a daughter. Her son is well-behaved and is now the chief clerk of Taicang County. She has married and has children. Her daughter is named Cui Liuliu. She is seventeen years old this year. She is the same age as Li Jingyan. She has been praised by her mother since she was a child. She has a spoiled temper and looks pretty when she grows up. She has gradually become the object of young people chasing Chang'an. She is now at the age of getting married. In order to compensate Cui Qiao's regret of having little son and keep her daughter by her side forever, Mrs. Cui thought of asking for a son-in-law to be half a son. Naturally, there are countless candidates, but none of them can be seen so far.

Yesterday, Cui Qiao accompanied Li Qing to meet the East Palace. When the prince valued him, he had the idea of ​​asking him to come to the house. However, his decision-making power ranks third in the family, and Li Qing must be introduced to the house for an interview. So he invited Li Qing to have a meal tonight.

Mrs. Cui has become older and has become less romantic, but she has developed another hobby to collect rumors, especially the scandals of princes and ministers. If she discovers anything strange or different from ordinary things by her in the palace, she will definitely find a way to find out the truth and will never give up until she finds out the whole story.

Mrs. Cui is half old, but she has good care and her skin is fair and tender, as if she is thirty years old. Her face can still vaguely see the beauty of the past. After all, the years are ruthless and have left unavoidable traces on her face. Her plump lips have become thin two pieces, and there is no longer a sound of praise. Only day after day of sarcasm and sarcasm. Her phoenix eyes shrank into triangular eyes when she was young, and her eyes turned from autumn water and smoke to sharp and mean. Perhaps because her belly needs to be pretended to be too much, her body must cooperate, so she greatly exaggerated the aesthetic standards of the Tang Dynasty.

After hearing her husband say that a young talent was going to interview her tonight, Mrs. Cui asked repeatedly, was it the son of Shangshu or the new Jinshi? How old is it? How is the family background? But when she learned that she was just a small county chief clerk, her heart was a little cold when she interviewed and asked the kitchen to change the feast to a family banquet.

Let’s talk about Li Qing’s second entry into the palace, and this official became the sixth rank, the personal guard of the Crown Prince Li Heng. Li Chanjun suddenly became Li’s lieutenant. Li Qing walked out of the imperial city with light steps, as light as a swallow, and jumped onto a horse, which was something he had never done before. His heart was filled with sunshine, and there was an inexplicable seed of joy trembling in the deepest part of his mind. He savored what happened today from beginning to end. Thinking about his unlimited future, he couldn’t help laughing loudly.

"Person Li, didn't you say at noon that if you were promoted, you would invite us to drink?"

Li Huqin and dozens of brothers surrounded him with salivation. A group of high-ranking officials became his subordinates in a blink of an eye. Li Heng's personal bodyguards were divided into three teams and took turns on duty. Li Qing was the commander of the third team, with more than 30 soldiers under his command.

Li Qing was excited, "Keep your word, I'll invite you to Taibailou for a drink."

But after not taking two steps, he suddenly remembered that his jewelry and cabinet tickets were still in the tent. What can he pay for when he went to Taibai Building to drink? He looked at the guys and laughed: "Let's go, everyone get the money with me first."

Everyone shouted and turned their horses, surrounded Li Qing and went to the Fengyuan. There were still a hundred steps to enter the Fengyuan. Li Qing found that many idle people were wandering around the Fengyuan area, but their eyes were wandering around. Li Qing suddenly became alert and walked to the gate of the Fengyuan. He saw a few shadows dodging behind the tree. It seemed that Li Linfu would not give up if he didn't catch him. Li Qing snorted his nostrils and whispered in Li Hugui's ear: "Take a few more brothers in and get my luggage back. If anyone stops them, they are all those sent by Li Linfu to catch me. You might as well show off the waist sign of the East Palace."

When Li Hugen heard the three words "Li Linfu", his pupils immediately shrank into a line and said coldly: "Don't worry, if they dare to be rude, I will let them all cry and get out."

"Come with me!" Li Huqian left more than a dozen brothers to protect Li Qing, and he led the others into the Fengyuan. The deacon in the Fengyuan saw a group of vicious palace guards breaking in, and was so scared that he hurried out to greet him.

Li Hu's spear shook the East Palace waist card in front of the deacon, shouting loudly into the yard: "After the order of the prince, come and pick up the luggage of Li Qing, the army officer of Jiannan Jiedu, who dares to stop it, kill them no matter what."

His voice was loud and he brought out the prince to threaten him. Although the few people hiding behind the tree were very skilled in martial arts, they all recognized the Tai Sui Master of Chang'an. They were frightened by the power of the prince and did not dare to move. They watched Li Huqiu and others break into Li Qing's room, and walked out of the Fengyuan with Li Qing's luggage.

The deacon suddenly thought of something and chased behind him and shouted, "Please tell Li Zongjun that at noon, Lord Cui, the minister of Dali Temple, sent his family here to him, so that he would not look at the promise tonight."

The sky has turned yellow, and the sun is always short in late winter and early spring. Especially today, when the Lantern Festival is on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the night is even more expected by people. Impotence families lit lanterns without waiting for it to be dark. Cui Qiao's mansion is no exception. Carp jumped over the dragon gate, Bodhisattvas beat lotus, and various lanterns of stylings are dazzling. The front yard and the back garden are arranged into a sea of ​​lanterns. The first thing Li Qing and the others saw were two huge colorful glass palace lanterns, hanging in front of the mansion gate, and they could not move them at all.

Since Li Linfu had not let him go, Li Qing naturally would not let his powerful subordinates go easily, so he took them to Cui's house for a banquet, and naturally he would not catch the strong men in vain. The new Li Xiaowei immediately promised that the new official would take office, and the red envelopes of a group of brothers under him would be worth a hundred coins each. He was so happy that these men who always thought they were not enough to spend money could not even close their mouths, and they would have given their new boss alike a Bodhisattva.

The housekeeper of Cui's mansion was ordered to wait for guests at the door, but he couldn't wait on the left or right. When he was in a hurry, he suddenly saw a large group of palace guards. After closer inspection, he found that it was the famous princeling in Chang'an City. The strongest one was the wife's nephew Li Huqin. These people relied on their family background and positions to be domineering in Chang'an City and spoke with their fists, so no one dared to mess with them.

Isn't the ones surrounded by them the guest the master was going to invite tonight? The housekeeper suddenly felt a little dizzy. Yesterday morning, he saw this person, still haggard and down, like a businessman who had been robbed by a thief, but now he is full of spirits and surrounded by a group of palace guards with eyes growing in the sky. The housekeeper did not dare to neglect and sent someone to report to his wife and the master quickly.

According to the rules of wealthy families, the Shangyuan Festival Hefu had to eat three days of water mat, which was a reward for everyone's hard work. It was just like Li Qing had just arrived at the Zhang Mansion in Yilong, and Cui Mansion was no exception. It was dinner time, but the servants and maids of Cui Mansion were hungry and stared at a group of evil gods who were eating and drinking, drinking and playing tricks on their seats, secretly cursing in their hearts that these barbarians would be best to be killed by being overwhelmed.

This was the moment they had been waiting for for a day, but because the wife was stingy, she only prepared a table of banquets and gave their feast to the extra guests, hoping that these evil gods could eat less and leave some for them. But this seemed impossible. The jar of honey wine had fallen over and the big bowl of meat was left with bones. For the servants of the Cui family, this would be a Shangyuan Festival full of bitter memories.

There was another scene in the main hall. The lights were as bright as daytime. More than a dozen maids served on both sides. A large sandalwood round table had exquisite dishes, but they saw red shrimps, fat crabs, delicious mushrooms, delicious sea dishes, sweet snacks, one or two meals of steamed buns, and even more exquisite tableware, ivory chopsticks, glass cups, golden plates and white jade bowls, and gold inlaid with green jade, which was dazzling.

"Come on! Don't be polite, just treat it as if you go home, eat as you like! Eat as you like!"

Cui Qiao smiled sincerely and kept picking up food and drinking. He just learned that Li Qing had become the prince's personal bodyguard commander. Although this position is not high, anyone with discerning eyes knows that once the prince ascended the throne, the first thing he valued was the people around him. Especially Cui Qiao wanted to take two boats, how could the prince not leave a way out for himself?

"Haha! Uncle Shi is polite, I will do it myself! I will do it myself!"

Li Qing raised his heavy ivory chopsticks and searched for a long time. The table looked beautiful, but except for shrimps and crabs, the rest were all vegetarian foods of fruits and vegetables. There was no meat he liked. He was really depressed and had to pick up a boiled white shrimp and chew it dryly. When he looked at Li Hujian again, he saw that he looked at the brothers shouting in the yard with envy. Li Qing suddenly felt like a confidant.

Cui Qiao saw that Li Qing’s mouth was boring, so he quickly picked up a crab for him and smiled and said, “I was careless. Our family eats vegetarian food all day long, but I didn’t expect that my nephew was not used to it.”

"It's okay! It's okay! I'm tired of eating big fish and meat every day, so it's good to change the taste occasionally."

He was modest, but glanced at Mrs. Cui, who was fat and white, and was secretly wondering in his heart: "I eat vegetarian food all day long, and I really don't know how this body grows."

The fundamental reason why Li Qing came to the banquet today was to know Lian'er's life experience. He found that Cui Qiao smiled very much like Lian'er, and Lian'er's surname was Cui, so he thought about whether Cui Qiao would be Lian'er's biological father. He wanted to ask about this when he was alone with Cui Qiao that day. Unfortunately, Cui Qiao was scared away by Li Linfu, but in front of his wife and daughter, he naturally couldn't ask. He had already seen that Mrs. Cui could not be Lian'er's mother. Not to mention her different appearances, but more importantly, no mother in the world would throw away her own flesh and blood, especially since they had been married for almost thirty years.
Chapter completed!