Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 499 Returning to the Temple of Inspiration

There are dignified eunuchs in the palace, as well as palace servants who have served Li Shimin. At this time, they all come to pay Li Shimin New Year's greetings. They are not qualified to have a New Year's Eve dinner with the emperor, but they have something to do with the royal family, so before eating dumplings, , to meet Li Shimin.

According to the rules of previous years, Li Shimin will encourage them and ask them to do their jobs as servants, serve him, Li Zhi, and all the high-ranking concubines well, and reward each of them with two dumplings and a bowl of soup. , counted as a favor, these people can leave after thanking them.

Wang Pingan looked at Wu Meiniang, and thought in his heart: "Even if she is a talented person, she might not be qualified to have a New Year's Eve dinner with the emperor, right? I won't mention her prestige in the future, but now she really has no status!"

Turning his head to look at Li Zhi, he saw that Li Zhi was holding a rolling pin in his hand, and he was also looking at Wu Meiniang with a smile on his lips, but Wu Meiniang didn't look to either side, and was caught in the crowd very attentively, kowtowing to the emperor for the new year .

Wang Pingan thought to himself: "At this time, I'm afraid they just hit it off and talk well. No matter how many things there are, they probably haven't thought about it yet."

Just thinking about it, these people kowtowed to the emperor and wished a good year. When she got up, Wu Meiniang quickly turned her face and looked at Wang Ping'an's table. They were very close, and Wang Ping'an's table was next to the team. Come on, Wu Meiniang saw them as soon as she entered the palace.

Wu Meiniang's winking eyes are like silk, and the silky winking eyes are like a fishhook, thrown towards Wang Ping'an's table, Wang Ping'an blinked, and immediately looked at Li Zhi from the corner of his eye, and found that Li Zhi's smile was even bigger, as if he was very happy. Enjoy this hook.

Wang Ping'an thought to himself: "Good guy, in public, it's like this, but in private, I don't know how it will be!"

Suddenly Li Yiren whispered beside him: "Brother Prince, who is that maid over there, why is she smiling at you?"

Don't think that young people are ignorant, even if Li Yiren doesn't understand the world, she can still see that Wu Meiniang is smiling at Li Zhi, and the smile is "out of the ordinary".

Li Zhi said, Oops, she lost her composure, she just smiled at me, why did I smile back!Before he knew how to answer, Wang Pingan made a rescue for him.

Wang Pingan said: "Princess, you mean the palace lady in the goose yellow dress?"

Li Yiren turned her face away, nodded and said, "Yes, she was the only one who turned her head just now, turned her head quickly, and smiled, no one else!"

Wang Pingan said: "To tell you the truth, the princess, she is Weichen's niece. She is not saying hello to His Royal Highness, but to Weichen. Isn't it Chinese New Year? She can't come to see me, so I just smiled , I am also her elder after all."

He changed his smile into a greeting, took over the matter for Li Zhi, and diverted Li Yiren's attention.

Li Yiren made a sound, and said curiously: "She is your niece, how much older is she than you?"

Wang Ping installed a very proud expression, and said: "Isn't the minister a senior, so even if she is old, she has to show respect to the minister. By the way, after the Chinese New Year, the minister's parents will go to Beijing. Will take her mother."

Li Yiren blinked and looked at Wu Meiniang again. At this time, Wu Meiniang had followed everyone to the side hall. After everyone in the hall started eating dumplings, they would eat the leftovers and leave.Li Yiren only saw her back.

Li Yixin thought: "It turns out that the maid is his relative. I didn't expect him to have relatives in the palace. But this relative might not be very popular with the emperor, right? Well, I will take care of that maid in the future. Yes, let her come to me, so that he can let him know how good I am through her mouth, and let the elders in his family know that I am a very good princess... um , not like Sister Gao Yang!"

The marriage is about to be settled. Li Yiren, like ordinary girls, wants to make a good impression on the man, and Wu Meiniang is a relative of the man, and there is a mother who is with the man's parents. Of course she would not like this opportunity. Will let it go, and naturally want to treat Wu Meiniang better, and then pass a message to the man's parents through Wu Meiniang's mother's mouth, to praise herself.

Li Zhi glanced at Wang Ping'an, and was very grateful in his heart. It's better to be free of illness, and he can settle everything for himself.He whispered to Wang Ping'an: "No disease, when I will eat Jiaoer, if Gu eats that orb, I will secretly give it to you, so that you can get this lottery."

Wang Ping'an was happy, if a person is able to come to things and has a good relationship, then others will think about everything for him. Shi Zhongchen stole the orb to him, and Li Zhi said he would secretly give it to him!He hurriedly said: "Thank you, Your Highness, you think of me in everything, so what can I say!"

Li Zhi patted his hand and signaled: Our buddies, everything is in the air!
After a while, the dumplings were cooked, Shi Zhongchen brought a small plate with only one dumpling in it, and brought it to Li Shimin.

Jiaoer in the Tang Dynasty is eaten in the same way as modern dumplings. They are also put on a plate and eaten one by one, instead of eating the soup with water like eating wontons. But after eating the dumplings, you have to drink the soup. There is a saying It is called original soup and original food.

When the dumplings were brought up, everyone in the hall looked at Li Shimin again. According to the old custom, the first dumpling should be eaten by the younger members of the family instead of the elders. It is called "tasting cooked", to see if the dumplings are cooked. Of course, this kind of work must be done by the juniors.But it gradually developed. In this era, "tasting cooked" has become "tasting raw", which is homonymous with "longevity". So it changed to the elders giving this auspicious dumpling to important family members. For example, whoever has done the most work and worked the hardest in a year will have this honor.

In the palace, this event has a nice name, called "Blessing of Longevity".

Everyone in the hall looked at the emperor, thinking in their hearts whether they would be granted longevity by the emperor for what they had done in this year.But after much deliberation, everyone felt that they were not qualified to be given the gift, and probably should be given to the crown prince. The crown prince has made a lot of contributions this year, and he can be regarded as the number one man in the royal family.

Li Zhi whispered again: "There is no disease, if the father grants Gu longevity, Gu must give it to you."

Wang Ping'an hurriedly whispered: "Then... Your Highness should eat by himself!"

Li Yiren saw that the two of them were so "close", she suddenly became a little jealous, she said: "Brother Prince is afraid that he will eat raw Jiaoer ears and spoil his stomach!"

Li Zhi said with a smile: "How can... How can it be possible to really bring up the still living delicate ears!"

Wang Pingan hurriedly said: "Afraid of eating raw? Then let the minister do it!"

Li Shimin in front said: "It's a lot of work to manage children this year, and I have made a lot of contributions to the country. There is no country without a country. If you make contributions to the country, you will make contributions to your family." He tapped the side of the plate with his chopsticks , said: "Give longevity!"

Shi Zhongchen said: "Observe the decree!" He picked up the plate, came to Li Zhi's table, and said loudly: "His Royal Highness, the emperor has bestowed longevity!"

Li Zhi quickly thanked him, he said: "Father, the reason why my son can do such insignificant things is because of Wang Ping'an's assistance, can my son pass on the longevity bestowed by my father to Wang Pingan?"

All the people in the palace looked at Wang Ping'an together. There was no secret in the palace. They all knew that no matter what merits Wang Ping'an had, they must give it to Li Zhi, not only to Li Zhi, but also to others.Normally, many people say that Wang Ping'an is too stupid, how many people would tear up their faces in order to grab the credit, and even kill people in order to take the credit for themselves, but Wang Ping'an doesn't care about the credit at all, and must give it to others!

Now the benefits are apparent.Don't underestimate a jiaoer on the plate, it's not just something to eat, but an attitude.Above the court, what makes a minister stand firm is not how capable the minister is, but whether the minister is favored by the emperor.There are more capable people, but it is not enough to rely on ability alone. The emperor "thinks you are very capable".

"You are very capable" and "I think you are very capable", the relationship between the two must not be mistaken, if you make a mistake, it will be very difficult to get promoted!
The ministers in the court knew how Li Zhi treated Wang Ping'an for a long time, and now everyone in the palace also knew that Wang Ping'an was a courtier who would definitely treat Wang Ping'an well in the future, there was no doubt about it.

Li Shimin nodded, thinking: "Okay, Zhi'er is very good at doing things, but he has a delicate ear, but when this matter spreads to the court and the people, it will become a good talk in no time. Zhi'er is a benevolent king. Emphasizing love and righteousness, such a monarch will worry about not having a hero to serve him."

Seeing Li Shimin nodding, Li Zhi handed the plate to Wang Ping'an.Wang Pingan quickly took the plate and thanked him loudly, first to Li Shimin, then to Li Zhi.After thanking, he picked up this extremely beautiful dumpling, who made it, and put it in his mouth.

When everyone in the hall saw that he had tasted raw meat, they stopped looking at him. Anyway, it was impossible to bring up the uncooked jiao'er. Wang Pingan just said yes, and the jiao'er would be served on a plate, and everyone could start eating. up.

As soon as they turned their eyes away, they heard Wang Ping'an yell, covered their mouths, and said, "I'm teething!"

Everyone in the hall looked at him again, teeth grinding?There is no bone in the stuffing... Oh, what a button, this button is so obvious!
Everyone immediately thought, this must have bitten the orb, the first jiaoer can bite the orb, this is too unreasonable, there are thousands of jiaoer, the first one can bite the orb... This is not called luck, but to make you lucky, you have to be lucky!
Sure enough, Wang Pingan covered his mouth with his hand, and when he took it off again, there was an extra jewel in his hand. He said, "Ah, this, isn't this the emperor's jewel?"

Li Zhi clapped his hands and laughed loudly, and shouted: "Okay, okay, you are really lucky to be free of illness! Well, this luck was given to you by Gu, how do you thank Gu?"

Wang Ping'an's face was full of surprise and joy, with an expression of being shaken by the great surprise, and he didn't even know how to answer it!
Li Zhi smiled again: "Oh, I just remembered, this charming ear was made by Yi Ren's little sister! You don't have to thank Gu, you can thank my little sister!"

Li Yiren gasped, thinking: "I didn't make it, I didn't make this trick!"

Wang Pingan hurriedly said: "Thank you, thank you first, thank the emperor, then the prince, and thank the princess!"

Li Shimin smiled and said, "No, no need to salute." He handed the string of beads to Shi Zhongchen and Wang Ping'an.

Shi Zhongchen brought the beads over with a smile, and said: "No disease, what our family said just now is not wrong, you can't make tricks with your Baojiao ears, but you can eat tricks, it's not true It was hit by our family!" He winked at Wang Ping'an, and pouted at Li Yiren next to him.

Wang Ping'an took the beads with a smile on his face, and said, "Thank you, Uncle Shi for your auspicious words!" With both hands, he presented the beads, together with the precious bead, to Li Yiren, and said, "If the princess hadn't packaged such a good Jiao Er, how can I have such good luck as a minister, this string of jewels should be given as a thank you gift to the princess!"

Li Yixin thought: "I really didn't make that delicate ear!" She clapped her hands and laughed, "Okay, if you want to give it to me, then I'll take it!" She took the beads, turned around and shouted at Li Shimin: " Royal father, look. You didn't give me this string of jewels last time I asked you to ask for them, so how about this time, it's still yours!"

Li Shimin laughed loudly and said, "I know you like it!"

The little eunuch and the maids worked together, served the dumplings on a plate, and placed them in front of everyone's tables, and there was another crackling sound outside the hall, and the sound of the explosion was deafening.

It's time for a new year to start!

After eating the dumplings, Li Shimin asked everyone to disperse, the woman stayed in the palace, and the princes and sons-in-law went to Li Zhi's East Palace together, they could play and do whatever they wanted.

Accompanied by the crowd, Wang Ping'an went to Li Zhi's Chongxian Hall among the crowd, and they could only stay here tonight, and they had to go to Chengtian Gate with the emperor tomorrow to sue the sky.It's like this every year, every year, but it's nothing special.

Waking up early the next day, Wang Pingan followed Li Zhi to Chengtianmen, accompanied the emperor to pray to heaven, and then returned to Ganlu Hall, where the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty paid New Year greetings to the emperor, and the emperor gave a banquet, and then the ministers paid New Year greetings to each other, which was very lively.

Wang Ping'an was so tired that he almost fell asleep standing up, so he had to force himself to socialize, no matter how tired he was, he had to keep smiling, and he would greet everyone whenever he saw him, not daring to neglect anyone.

Changsun Wuji saw Wang Ping'an, asked about the geese, and said with a smile: "Okay, then quickly bring your parents to Beijing. Also, the old man sees that you are really tired, so don't come to my house tonight." It’s time to go back and rest, there will be more things in the past few days, you just need to recharge your energy.”

Wang Ping'an naturally agreed, he really couldn't bear it anymore, socializing with this kind of thing is more tiring than marching and fighting!When the court affairs came to an end, he bid farewell to Li Zhi and returned to the Inspiration Temple by himself.

Before he reached the gate of Lingling Temple, he was still far away when he heard the sound of commotion. Wang Pingan sat on his horse and watched, and saw countless people at the gate of the temple. Shouting inside!

Ouyang Li stood at the door and shouted: "I said, young and old, although Lingling Temple is big, there are not so many places for you to live in!"

Those people at the door shouted: "It's okay, we have brought our own salutes, let's go see Master Xuanzang!"

Wang Ping'an sighed. It turns out that he came here to pay New Year's greetings to Tang Xuanzang, and he brought his luggage. Could it be possible that he still wants to stay here for a few days, bathing and traveling in Tang Xuanzang's allusions?
(End of this chapter)