Traveling across the heavens starting from the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 30 Of the two Cui clans in the Tang Dynasty, who wouldn’t give me thin noodles?
Li Ruoqiu accompanied Mrs. Cui to visit Liuli Pavilion.

The box was left to two men, Li Huaian and Cui Yu, as well as a female waiter who was temporarily arranged by Li Ruoqiu to wait on the side.

The two of them took their seats and prepared to drink tea and chat.

"I didn't expect that this Liuli Pavilion was opened by Brother Li."

Cui Yu picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, frowned, and looked down at the tea soup in the cup in his hand. There was only tea leaves and no other condiments.

"Brother Li, why is this tea so bitter and bland?"

"Judging from Brother Li's family wealth, he shouldn't be so poor that even drinking a cup of tea is so mediocre. This tea doesn't even include anything to go with it."

"Brother Li is still not good at making tea."

heard.

Li Huaian did not explain too much, but asked: "Brother Cui, how do you feel when you think about the tea you just drank?"

"Ok?"

Cui Yu did as he was told and thought about the sip of tea he just drank. His eyes lit up and he said with some surprise: "This tea is so mysterious. It is slightly bitter in the mouth, but has a sweet aftertaste. It is very consistent with the way of a gentleman."

"Brother Li, you still have this kind of tea. You can give me some as a gift later. You can also buy it."

Done.

After drinking all the tea in the cup, he couldn't wait to pick up the kettle and refill his cup without waiting for the female waiter to come forward.

It seems that he has already realized the beauty of this way of drinking tea.

Added some water to the tea cup.

Cui Yu took another sip of tea and couldn't help but say.

"This is the kind of tea that a gentleman of letters should drink. The tea I drank before was simply a blasphemy to tea. It should not be compared with this tea. Those tea soups are more in line with martial arts."

"When I get back, I will definitely let my father have a taste, let the old man see the world, let him show off his tea ceremony skills at home all day long, and lecture me on it all day long, saying that he can't taste tea. Then he won’t be able to read and so on.”

"This time, I will definitely make that old man know what shame is, and he will not dare to show off his tea ceremony skills in front of me again."

The words were full of a son's rebellion against his old father.

In this regard.

Li Huaian did not add a postscript, but felt deeply in his heart that Cui Yu resented his father's tea ceremony skills so deeply that he felt an urgency to love and kill each other.

This made him wonder for a moment whether he should give Cui Yu tea leaves.

delivered.

It feels like adding fuel to the fire and helping the evildoers do evil.

When Cui Yu returns, he will most likely stage a drama of a loving father and a filial son.

Forget it.

It's nothing more than a beating on the child's body and pain on the father's heart.

This is also fatherly love.

Who asked Cui Yu to challenge his father's kindness?

Anyway, when the two met for the first time, they heard Cui Yu arrange his father.

So, Li Huaian nodded and said: "Okay, I still have some tea here. It doesn't hurt to give you some when I leave."

"That's great."

Hearing that there were still tea leaves, Cui Yu quickly thanked him.

Got tea.

The two chatted for a while.

After chatting for a while, the two regretted that they never met again in Pingkangfang since they separated last time.

We can't go shopping together in flower houses.

So Cui Yu once again proposed that after a few days of meeting, the two of them must go to Pingkangfang Flower House to visit, so that he could have the opportunity to treat guests to drink flower wine.

I have repaid the kindness of Li Huaian's treat that time.

Speaking of the agreement to go to Pingkangfang to visit the flower house, Cui Yu became interested and revealed some news about the Pingkangfang flower house. The flower house had new products and was very beautiful.

period.

Cui Yu then talked about the rumors she heard in Pingkangfang about Li Ruoqiu buying a female prostitute.

Until the conversation is almost done.

Cui Yucai looked at the furnishings in the box and sighed: "I didn't expect Brother Li to open such a shop in Dongshi, a shop selling rare treasures made of colored glaze."

"I never expected that Brother Li would ask Miss Su Ruoqiu to change her surname to Li."

"It seems that Brother Li really cares about Miss Ruoqiu."

"Brother Cui is joking."

Li Huaian said: "In my family, not only Ruoqiu took my surname and changed it to Li, the same goes for Taohua. All the maids in my family have changed their surname to Li."

"If you don't believe me, ask this maid."

Done.

Afraid that Cui Yu wouldn't believe it, he pointed at the female waiter serving in the box.

"Really?"

Cui Yu didn't believe it. Giving a surname was an extremely important thing for a family. It was related to the family's reputation. At some point, it was more important than life.

Just as the emperor bestows a royal surname on a minister who has performed meritorious service, it is a great gift to the minister who has performed meritorious service. The minister who has been given the surname will also feel the supreme honor.

This is not only true for the royal family, but also for aristocratic families.

As long as there is a lintel and a family with servants, they will attach great importance to their surname, and will not let a slave easily tarnish their surname and get connected with the master's family.

It is impossible for an aristocratic family to arbitrarily promise the surname of the master to an outsider, let alone the servants of the family.

How could he have the right to have the same last name as his master?

Only those servants who can make significant contributions to the family and are valued by the family may be given a surname in order to show that they treat the slaves equally with the family members.

As far as his surname Cui is concerned, the servants in the family are worthy of the servants who were given the surname Cui. Only a handful of old slaves were allowed to change their surname to Cui and achieve the reputation of the Cui family.

Now I heard Li Huaian say that not only Su Ruoqiu and Taohua were allowed to change their surname to Li, but all the other maids in the house were also changed to Li.

How does that make him believe.

That is to say, Su Ruoqiu and the maid Taohua changed their surname to Li. He could still understand it, thinking that Li Huaian doted on Su Ruoqiu and loved Wujiwu by the way.

Then he looked at the female waiter in the box.

"What's your name?"

"Reporting to Mr. Cui Lang, my name is Li Lianhua. She is a bronze and jade maid in the house. She is currently responsible for assisting Manager Taohua in managing some miscellaneous matters in Liuli Pavilion."

At Li Huaian's signal, the female waiter Wei Wei Wanfu pointed to the copper jade pendant around her waist and told Cui Yu her name and the affairs she was responsible for.

"This."

Hear it is true.

Cui Yu was a little unbelievable and didn't know how to express it. She could only admire Li Huaian: "Brother Li cherishes these maids in the house very much. I admire him."

"Not at all."

Li Huaian replied: "Changing the surnames of these slaves will not only allow them to live in the house with peace of mind, but also allow them to forget the past days."

"You also know that Ruoqiu bought these maids from Pingkangfang."

"Changing their surnames can be considered as a reassurance for them."

Cui Yu agreed: "Yes, women in the mortal world have a bad life. It is a good life for these women to follow Brother Li. It can be regarded as a blessing after all the hardships and they have met a good master."

"As a maid wearing a copper and jade pendant, at this age, unless she encounters a great fate, she can become the madam of a flower house, or be in charge of affairs."

"Otherwise, the only option is to sleep on the streets and beg for food among the homeless people."

He admired Li Huaian's kindness very much.

As for how much recognition there is, it’s hard to say.

Because there are many poor people in this world, and they cannot be saved only by kindness.Finish talking about these maidservants.

Maybe it's almost time.

Li Ruoqiu and Mrs. Cui returned to the box together, followed by a female waiter, holding a wooden box in her hand.

From the smile on Mrs. Cui's face.

Come to think of it, what's in the box should be the jewelry that Mrs. Cui picked when she visited Liuli Pavilion.
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"Brother Li, see you later."

"Brother Cui, walk slowly."

Watching Cui Yu's carriage go away.

Li Huaian also turned around and returned to Liuli Pavilion.

And on Cui Yu's carriage.

Cui Yu carefully put away the bag of tea she got from Li Huaian. When she turned around, she saw that Madam was no longer as reserved as when she was in Liulic Pavilion. Her face was full of joy, and she was no longer as dignified and calm as before, with both hands in her hands. He kept rubbing the wooden box in his arms, feeling like he never wanted to let go of the wooden box.

"Madam, what is in this wooden box that can make you so precious?"

"Could it be that the jewelry sold in Liulice Pavilion is better than the jewelry made by the master craftsman from Sizhenfang of the palace? My wife was not so happy when she saw the jewelry made by Sizhenfang."

My wife's reaction.

It really made him curious about what kind of ingenious work the Liulice jewelry contained in the wooden box would be, so that it would be so precious to a lady who also came from a famous family and had seen many rare and rare treasures.

Some of them have even lost the restraint that girls from aristocratic families have cultivated since childhood.

Just now when I was in Liuli Pavilion.

Because he had to chat and drink tea with Li Huaian, he, a grown man, could not visit Liuli Pavilion with a woman.

Thus.

Leave until now.

He also knew very little about Liuli Pavilion.

In fact, he didn't know as much about the situation in Liuli Pavilion as his wife did.

It can even be said that he doesn't know anything about Liuli Pavilion.

after all.

From the time he entered Li Huaian's box to the time he left, he never came out. On the way into Liuli Pavilion and on his way to the box, he casually looked at the passing environment in Liuli Pavilion.

Curious about Cui Yu.

Mrs. Cui didn't say much, but opened the wooden box in her hand and said, "If you look at it yourself, you will understand why I value this wooden box so much."

The wooden box opened.

Cui Yu finally saw the jewelry inside.

"This?"

"Are these all jewelry sold by Liulice?"

Cui Yu's words were full of shock and disbelief. Every piece of jewelery in the wooden box, placed in the courtyard of the deep house, was a treasure. It was something that should not be shown to others. It was the beloved possession of every lady in the house and the noble daughter.

Unexpectedly, it was sold in Liuli Pavilion in such a grand manner.

"Of course, yes, I have tried all the jewelry in this box myself."

Mrs. Cui took out a tassel-carved glaze hairpin from the box and gently placed it in Cui Yu's hand. Her movements were slow and careful, for fear that the slightest inadvertent movement would cause damage to the glaze hairpin.

Even when she put the glazed hairpin in Cui Yu's hand, her eyes never left the hairpin. Her movements and eyes seemed to warn her husband to be careful and not to break other people's hairpins.

in fact.

There is no need for Mrs. Cui to warn her.

When Cui Yu was picking up the hairpin, her whole body was already tense and her hands felt a little uneasy.

"Mr. Sir, it doesn't have to be like this. Miss Ruoqiu said that the price of this hairpin is not very expensive."

Seeing that Lang Jun was a little nervous, Mrs. Cui quickly comforted her so that Cui Yu could relax and not really injure the hairpin because of her nervousness.

You know, the tassels on the hairpins are all made of colored glaze. She has never seen this kind of tassels made of colored glaze until now.

"Fortunately."

I heard the price is not very expensive.

Cui Yu relaxed a little, held the glazed hairpin steadily, and asked curiously: "Madam, this hairpin is not very expensive, what is its price?"

"20 taels of gold."

Mrs. Cui whispered the price of the glass hairpin.

"what?"

"20 taels of gold?"

Cui Yu was startled and almost dropped the glazed hairpin in her hand to the ground.

Fortunately, Mrs. Cui was always paying attention. Seeing that the situation was not good, she quickly took the colored glaze hairpin and added by the way: "Mr. Lang doesn't know. These jewelry and other items sold in Liulic Pavilion. Miss Ruoqiu said , generally they only accept gold, followed by silver, and rarely accept copper coins, let alone items such as Juan."

"I heard from Miss Ruoqiu that this piece of jewelry I own is not the most expensive in Liuli Pavilion. It is only in the lower mid-range range. The most expensive piece of jewelry costs 100 taels of gold before you can buy it."

"Here, how many of these kinds of jewelry are there in the wooden box? Did you choose them yourself?"

Cui Yu remembered the origin of his wife's wooden box jewelry. These jewelry were not paid for. They were gifts given by Brother Li to his wife in vain.

"Mr. Lang, there are more than twenty pieces of jewelry in this wooden box. Not only hairpins, but also some other jewelry. There are also two or three pairs of bracelets."

After Mrs. Cui reported the number, she also realized something was wrong. A trace of worry flashed in her eyes and she explained to Cui Yu.

"Mr. Lang, these jewelry were not chosen by me. They were all given to me by Miss Ruoqiu. This wooden box is also the jewelry box that Miss Ruoqiu prepared for me."

"After Lang Jun said this, I discovered that the jewelry in this wooden box were all made by me. When I visited Liuli Pavilion and tried on these jewelry in the special jewelry box, I had some hesitation, hesitation, and... There are those jewelry that I see the most.”

"Should I not accept these jewelry and cause trouble to my husband?"

"I thought that Langjun and Li Langjun were close friends and could not refuse Miss Ruoqiu's kindness, so I accepted the jewelry from this wooden box on my own initiative."

"If I cause trouble to Mr. Lang, I will ask the housekeeper to return the wooden box to Liuli Pavilion in person when I return home."

Seeing his wife's worry, Cui Yu quickly took her hand over and comforted her: "It's okay. I'm just worried that the gift from Brother Li is too expensive. How will I repay the gift in the future?"

"Besides, in this Tang Dynasty, even if there are many dignitaries in Chang'an City, if there is any trouble, it is my family, the Cui family of Qinghe, and my wife's family, the Boling Cui family. The two Cui families of the Tang Dynasty cannot solve the problem."

"Even today's saints want to give us two Cuisi some thin noodles."

"What's more, although Brother Li and I have only met a few times, we are also close friends. It's not like my wife will get me into trouble just because she collected some jewelry."

"Madam, you can accept it with peace of mind, and your husband will return the favor in the future."

"At most, when I ask Brother Li out for a drink in the future, it will all be to pay for my husband."

Done.

His eyes looked at Mrs. Cui, revealing the unspoken meaning.

Mrs. Cui said very sensibly: "Then the husband still has some private money. Seeing that the friend of the husband named Li can open such a glass pavilion, he must be a luxurious person on weekdays. If the husband invites him to drink , It’s too shabby, and it will always disgrace our Cui family.”

"The Bolingcui family has lost face, that's all."

"If Lang Jun loses the face of the Cui family of Qinghe, if my father finds out, he will definitely punish Lang Jun."

"Who said no."

"But madam, my husband is a little shy of money. Madam also knows that my father is devoted to farming, studying and running the family, and he never allows his husband to spend extravagantly."

After saying this, Cui Yu silently apologized to Li Huaian in her heart, and vowed that when she gets rich, she will make amends with more beauties in Pingkangfang.

"Mr. Sir, you don't have to worry about some money. I still have some personal money here. I can give it to Sir for use when I return home later."

"Thank you madam for your understanding."

"You and I are one and the same, husband, you don't have to feel so sorry."

a few days later.

Zhang Langjun handed a greeting card to Cui Mansion.

(End of this chapter)