northernbook Chapter 108 Always Exchange the New Peach for the Old Talisman (Please recommend a ticket)
Chapter 108 Always Exchange the New Peach for the Old Talisman (Please recommend a ticket)
Chapter 108 Always Exchange the New Peach for the Old Talisman (Please recommend a ticket)
Fan Jie almost cried in fright, and quickly said: "Your Majesty, I don't know that the Tang Dynasty is short of food. Food is as cheap as sand in our place. Lin Yiguo only wants to dedicate the best treasures to His Majesty. How dare he offer those treasures?" Give the worthless food to Your Majesty."
Li Shimin said with a cold face: "Food that is worthless in your eyes is worth ten thousand gold in my eyes."
"Yes, yes, next time I go back, I will ask someone to bring food over." Fan Jie said hastily.
"What I want is grain seeds, not grain." Li Shimin said.
Linyi country is only a small country, even if the grain yield is high, how much grain can it produce?
To Datang, that bit of food was a drop in the bucket, meaningless.
If the grain can be spread widely, there will be more than tens of millions of living people.
"Yes, yes, next time I will ask someone to bring the crops." Fan Jie nodded quickly.
"You go back to collect the seeds now, and I will send Geng Guogong to transport them back. If you do this well, I will reward you a lot!" Li Shimin couldn't wait for the next time, he couldn't wait for a moment.
Fan Jie heard Li Shimin's words, and said happily: "Thank you, Your Majesty, Lin Yiguo will do our best to collect seeds for Your Majesty."
He feels that if this matter is done well, no one can shake his position in Lin Yiguo.
Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction and said, "Go."
"Yes!" Fan Jie saluted respectfully and withdrew.
"Li Mu, pass on the decree, let Geng Guogong send people to Linyi to transport the seeds, and they must be transported to Hangzhou by water as soon as possible." Li Shimin ordered.
"Yes!"
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"Congratulations, sister. My sister has also heard of the name of Earl of Jingyang." Princess Yuzhang said with a smile.
Li Lizhi said shyly: "This is all decided by the father, the queen and the queen."
Princess Yuzhang sighed, and said: "Although the father, the queen and the queen are in charge, the uncle of Jingyang County is also a rare good match. What is there to be dissatisfied with my sister? I don't know what my future son-in-law will be like."
Princess Yuzhang was not born to Empress Changsun, her biological mother was just a concubine.
When she was born, her mother died of dystocia, and she was raised by the eldest grandson empress.
Empress Changsun treated her as her own, and she had a very good relationship with Li Lizhi, so she didn't hide her thoughts from Li Lizhi.
"Sister, the empress dotes on you so much, she will definitely find a good son-in-law for you." Li Lizhi comforted.
"I hope." Princess Yuzhang said with a smile.
Although both Li Shimin and Empress Changsun loved her very much, Princess Yuzhang was very mature because of her mother's early death.
She has a clear understanding of some things. The ultimate destiny of the princess is to marry those meritorious children.
Just when Li Lizhi was about to speak to comfort Princess Yuzhang, her personal maid Yue Ying walked in.
"Princess, His Highness the Crown Prince sent someone to bring some things over. Someone said that His Highness the Crown Prince had something to bring to the Princess." Yueying said.
Li Lizhi said to Princess Yuzhang: "Sister, let's go and see together."
"Sure." Princess Yuzhang replied.
When the two came to the main hall, Li Lizhi asked Li Chengqian's confidant eunuch Feng De: "What did the prince brother ask you to bring?"
Feng De bowed and said: "The little one sees the two princesses, and please ask the princess to turn around."
"You all go down." Li Lizhi said.
"Yes!"
The serving maids and eunuchs withdrew.
"Now we can talk about it." Li Lizhi said.
Feng De didn't speak, and looked at Princess Yuzhang in embarrassment.
Princess Yuzhang understood, and said, "Sister, I still have something to do, so I'll go back first."
Li Lizhi grabbed Princess Yuzhang, looked at Feng De and said, "Yuzhang is my sister, there is nothing you can't listen to, just say it."
Feng De took out the perfume and said: "The uncle of Jingyang County sent some things to His Royal Highness, and His Highness asked the little one to hand it over to the princess."
Li Lizhi took the perfume and asked curiously, "What is this?"
"Back to the princess, this is the perfume, and it was also given to His Royal Highness by the uncle of Jingyang County." After Feng De finished speaking, he told Li Lizhi how to use the perfume.
"I know, you can go back." Li Lizhi said.
Feng De bowed, and went back to reply.
"Sister, Jingyang county uncle is so kind to you." Princess Yuzhang said with a teasing smile.
"No way, it was sent by the prince's elder brother." Li Lizhi was a little embarrassed by Princess Yuzhang's words.
Princess Yuzhang smiled and said, "If it wasn't for His Royal Highness Prince Bo Tuo of Jingyang County, why did he let my sister back away just now?"
Of course Li Lizhi knew this, her heart was very sweet, her face was slightly red, and she said: "Don't talk nonsense, there is no such thing at all."
Princess Yuzhang didn't say much on this issue. After all, Li Lizhi and Lin Xuan's marriage has not been announced yet, so it spreads out that Li Lizhi's reputation is not good. She said with a smile, "Sister said there is no, so there is no. This perfume is actually decorated with colored glaze." , must be a rare treasure, give it a try."
Li Lizhi was also a little curious about the perfume. Hearing this, according to what Feng De said, she sprayed a little on her wrist.
As soon as the perfume was sprayed out, Princess Yuzhang smelled a faint fragrance, although it was very faint, it smelled very good.
Princess Yuzhang couldn't help admiring: "The scent is light but not strong, it's very suitable for my sister."
Li Lizhi also liked this fragrance very much, and said with a smile: "Well, I like this perfume very much."
"Sister, can you ask the uncle of Jingyang County if he still has one? My sister also wants a bottle." Princess Yuzhang couldn't resist the temptation of perfume.
Li Lizhi was a little embarrassed, but seeing that Princess Yuzhang liked her so much, she couldn't bear to refuse, so she said, "I'll ask someone to ask the prince's brother later."
"Yeah, thank you, sister. Didn't you say there is still some food to eat? My sister has someone to make some, I want to try it." Princess Yuzhang said happily.
She was embarrassed to ask for only one copy of the perfume, but she was not embarrassed to eat a lot.
Li Lizhi didn't refuse, and ordered the maid to do it.
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Because of the upcoming Chinese New Year, everyone is very busy.
Lin Xuan wanted to be lazy at first, but was assigned by Lin Dongyang to supervise the exchange of peach charms.
Peach talismans are also called Spring Festival couplets in later generations, but the peach talismans at that time were not written on the couplets.
According to the records of "Book of the Later Han Etiquette": the peach charm is six inches long and three inches wide, and the two gods "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" are written on the peach wood board. "On the first day of the first lunar month, a peach talisman is made to cover the household. It is named Immortal Tree, which is feared by all ghosts."
According to legend, in ancient times, Shen Tu and Yu Lei were a pair of brothers. Both brothers were good at catching ghosts. If any evil ghosts came out to harass the people, Shen Tu and Yu Lei would capture them, tie them up and feed them to tigers.Later, in order to drive away evil spirits, people simply drew images of gods Tu, Yu Lei and tigers on the door to achieve the effect of driving away ghosts and avoiding evil spirits.The picture on the left door is Shen Tu, and the picture on the right door is Yu Lei. The folks call them door gods.
But later, Shen Tu and Yu Lei were replaced by Qin Qiong and Yu Chi Gong, becoming the new door gods.
At this time, Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong hadn't become door gods yet, so Shentu and Yulei were still painted on the Taofu.
It was not until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms that there was a habit of writing couplets on peach charms, which are the so-called Spring Festival couplets.
Lin Xuan always felt that it would be nondescript to have no couplets during the Chinese New Year, so he suggested it to Lin Dongyang and was scolded, so he had to give up resentfully.
(End of this chapter)