bookcurios Chapter 107 Full Moon Wine
Chapter 107 Full Moon Wine
Four women took care of two children, Zhao Ningyue and Li Xinyue, who were held one by one by their aunt who came from afar.
Zhao Ying's child is already three years old, and it's a boy. After that, the two of them never got pregnant again.
Now that there are two girls, it is hard to say who she doesn't like. She plans to take one of them home.
Zhao Ying handed the child in her hands to the maid, and took out red and green jade from the maid who came over.
"Come, come, auntie will give you two little girls two locks."
The jade is inlaid on the hollow gold, forming the shape of a longevity lock, which sparkles with colorful light under the light.
"Sister Ying'er, your gift is too expensive. Ningbao and Xinbao can't afford it."
"You little girl, as your aunt, I have to give you some gifts, but you still despise it."
"No, what can I dislike?"
"You think it's too expensive..."
As soon as these three words came out, Li Shuya's heart was warmed. Her princess sister really likes to flirt with people.
After the confinement period, the husband’s family usually holds a full-month banquet, and relatives from both sides will come.
Zhao Sheng was known as his uncle's child, so it was inevitable that he would be exposed at the full-month banquet. However, this matter had been arranged long ago, and the son-in-law was a son-in-law who lived with the wife's family, so the full-month banquet could only be held in the princess's mansion.
Of course, in this era, rich people like to have buffets. They find a medium-sized restaurant in Luancheng and have a buffet for three consecutive days.
At this time, the people who like to come the most are rogue beggars.
Even so, every walk of life has its own rules. Beggars have not yet fully formed in this era, but there are already small gangs, and local street thugs will also go there, but they are just small fry.
The restaurant usually builds two sheds in the backyard of the side door for these special groups of people to eat.
Don't think that anyone can come. Everyone who comes has to explain their reasons. If you are not a relative or an old friend, it would be embarrassing to go into the restaurant to eat.
The Beggars' Gang is too dirty, and the gangsters are too strong.
Most people are not shameless, of course there are some exceptions.
For example, Fan Xitong is an exception. Every day when he goes out to eat, the private rooms upstairs are reserved and not everyone can enter.
As long as you register and say a few nice words for the dine-in in the front hall, you can basically get it.
This has developed the habit of judging people at the front door. If anyone is allowed in to eat and drink for free, the master will scold such a servant or domestic servant.
So don’t say that others are snobbish. If everyone is self-aware, snobbery will be eliminated.
Therefore, some people in later generations believed that most of the books criticizing others for being snobbish were spread by those who wanted to take advantage of others.
"You're the son of a prime minister, and a royal consort who's currently enjoying the emperor's favor. Why do you have to be drinking here every day?"
The wine in the restaurant is blended by Mr. Zhao. It is provided for free anyway. It is said that the taste of the wine upstairs and downstairs is different.
Subsequent investigation revealed that the shop assistants had stolen the wine and, fearing that the quantity would be incorrect the next day, added water to the mix.
You said you wanted to steal the wine and add water to it, but don't steal it from the same jar. In the end, the waiter thought the wine in the jar was all water after drinking it.
When Fan Xitong saw Zhao Sheng mocking him, he did not get angry, but instead said:
"I really envy you and Shuya being together. I heard that you led troops to reinforce and even beat back the Xiongnu. What about me? I'm older than you, but I can't be an official in civil service or lead troops in military service. From the day we get married, I can only eat and wait for death."
When Zhao Sheng heard this, he initially thought that he was drunk, but later he learned that the son-in-law of the Zhou Dynasty could not be an official or engage in business.
To put it bluntly, it means to raise it.
Therefore, Fan Xitong drank outside almost every day afterwards, and there was rarely a time in a month when he did not drink.
Logically speaking, as the eldest daughter, Zhao Ying was also a person of status, so her family was naturally not short of money. In fact, after the prince was framed, their family had almost no extra money.
Especially people like Fan Xitong, who hang out in groups of three or five every day, go to brothels and pleasure boats when they have nothing to do, and pretend to be rich.
"You know what? The wine you brought me last time went to Yanzhou, and in the end it was your wine that gave me face."
Zhao Sheng heard this and said, "Where did you get this from?"
"When I first went to Yanzhou, a few acquaintances invited me. I could tell they were only doing this because of the princess, or because of my father's official position."
"At the banquet, I told them that the wine you gave me was the best in the world, but they didn't believe me. In a fit of anger, I invited them back and brought them your wine. It immediately amazed everyone, and they all said my wine was the best."
"My wine is not as good as you say."
He had two drinking sessions here in one day, and was 80% drunk each time. Listening to Fan Xitong's nagging, Zhao Sheng answered from the side.
Mr. Zhao admitted that there was no strong liquor in that era, but he liked to add some flower petals to the local low-alcohol liquor brewed from grains, and he really liked the taste.
Strong liquor has the strength of strong liquor, and low-alcohol liquor has the mellowness of low-alcohol liquor.
When Fan Xitong heard that it was not necessary, he waved his hand and said.
"People in Yanzhou particularly like the fiery feeling of this wine. After drinking a glass, they feel like their whole body is burning with fire."
"Yeah, even if you're drunk, you'll talk nonsense. Okay, let's go back home and don't sleep here."
Zhao Sheng called the servants from the Princess's Mansion to come over and carry Fan Xitong back.
During these three days, officials and generals from Dingzhou County all arrived at different times to congratulate the prince.
As a result, Li Xin drank for three consecutive days. After Zhao Long, who was far away in Weizhou, learned about this, he came with only the two county magistrates Zhang Chun and Sun Jiping.
Although there is no fighting on the border, they still have to be careful.
Zhao Long and his group did not come until the third day. Because the conversation would involve defense issues, in order to prevent leaks, only the same people were present at the table and military matters were avoided as much as possible.
In the box, there were eight people including Li Xin, Cheng Jushu, Zhao Long, Shan Ning, Ma Biao, etc. in one room.
Li Xin and Cheng Jushu were sitting at the top of the table, and everyone started by toasting them.
After three rounds of drinks.
Everyone at the table rushed towards Zhao Sheng.
"Congratulations, young master, on the new baby boy. I hope you will keep up the good work and have another little master."
Zhao Long always called Zhao Sheng Young Master. We were from the same clan but different branches of the family, so the name didn't matter.
Zhang Chun stood up and toasted Zhao Sheng, saying, "Zhang Chun, the Magistrate of Weizhou, thanks the Prince Consort for his contribution to the development of Weizhou."
Zhao Sheng glanced at Li Xin and said with a smile, "It is thanks to the prince's strong support that we have achieved these results. Weizhou is the fiefdom of the King of Yan, and we all work for the court."
Sun Jiping took advantage of the situation and stood up to toast, saying, "Your Majesty, please don't be partial to one and ignore the other."
Zhao Sheng replied, "Magister Sun, we defended the city together. Every blade of grass and every tree in Guangchang County belongs to the Great Zhou. How can I favor one over the other?"
"That's good, that's good!"
The two county leaders carried the sedan down and got a satisfactory result. Everyone was very happy.
Of course, I drank a lot of wine.
Especially these two county leaders were calling him "Prince Consort" on the left and "Prince Consort" on the right, which made Fan Xitong next to them feel uncomfortable.
Look, I drank too much again...