Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 692 Li Ke, You Are So Extravagant
Wang Pingan said: "Do we have to wait for His Royal Highness to come back before writing the memorial? Why don't we make a draft first, wait for His Royal Highness to come back, and then copy it up, it can save some time!"

Li Ke glanced at Wang Ping'an and saw the sincerity on his face. He glanced at the merchants again and saw that they had nothing to do and couldn't see any urgency, so he understood that there must be fraud!Wang Pingan insisted that I write the memorial in advance, did he want to clear the relationship for Li Zhi?Even if I finish the draft and copy it when Li Zhi comes back, Li Zhi only needs to say a word at that time, and it will be up to you... Then if something goes wrong in the end, I will have to take care of it!
Never be fooled!Li Ke waved his hand and said: "No, no matter how urgent you are, don't be in a hurry. How much time does it take to draft a memorial? When His Royal Highness comes back, it's too late to write it now. At that time, His Royal Highness will prevail. We just do it." For some auxiliary matters, all rely on His Royal Highness, all rely on His Royal Highness!"

After speaking, Li Ke laughed loudly, looked sideways at Wang Pingan, and thought: "I will never be fooled by you again. You must have no good intentions to give me credit for nothing. Pay the capital and see what kind of monster you can afford!"

Wang Pingan hummed, nodded and said: "It's all according to His Royal Highness? That's fine, just follow His Royal Highness's will!" He looked outside, and said: "It's almost noon, why don't you let me be the master?" , please have a light meal, everyone, can you spare some time?"

The merchants said with a smile: "The prince is too polite. If you treat us to dinner, even if we have something big to do, we have to let it go. How can we have no time!"

Wang Pingan said with a smile: "I don't have anything delicious here, it's just plain food!"

"We like to eat simple and light food, especially the simple and light food from Wang Gong's family. We usually can't eat it if we want to!" The merchants laughed in unison.

Wang Pingan looked at Li Ke and said, "My lord, if it's convenient for you, why don't we go together?"

Li Ke let out a sigh, and thought: "You invited people to dinner, and you didn't ask me first, but first asked these businessmen, what are you doing, and show me face? Ah, I understand, because I don't want to fall into your trap, so You are angry! Very well, the angrier you are, the happier I am, I will piss you off!"

He usually doesn't have such a big temper. Although he is not big-minded, he is not so small. However, during this period of time, he has suffered a lot. Like an ignorant child, get angry with Wang Ping'an!

Li Ke said: "Okay, then you can serve your simple tea and light rice, and let me taste it too!"

Wang Ping'an shouted: "Okay, my lord and all the old and young masters appreciate the face, why don't I entertain with all my heart! Come on, go to the kitchen to prepare, and serve all the simple tea and light meals!"

The servants in the Governor's Mansion agreed in unison and started to get busy.

The businessmen laughed and said that the prince is the best at making jokes. You are a world-renowned rich man. Even if you eat a simple meal, you are still luxurious. You must have good wine and good meat!Li Ke curled his lips. It is very likely that this Wang Ping'an really served me rough tea and light rice to shame me and retaliate against me for not falling into his trap, but I am not angry, even if he brings brown rice, I can still eat it With relish, anyway, I am determined not to fall into his plot, and let him worry, there is nothing I can do!
After Li Ke made up his mind, he chatted and laughed with the merchants, talked about anecdotes from various places, and waited for dinner.Not long after, the banquet was served!
As soon as the food and wine were served, the merchants all laughed, pointing to the rich food and wine, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, let's say you are joking, this meal is called rough tea and light rice, isn't that what it looks like?"

Li Ke shook his head and thought: "I guessed wrong again. Wang Ping'an actually served big fish and meat. The dishes are exactly the same as those in Chang'an. Could it be that he brought all the chefs from Chang'an? I'm not afraid of others saying He is too extravagant and wasteful!"

Wang Ping'an doesn't care what other people say, why not spend the money and keep it for whom?When the wine and dishes were ready, he stood up, filled a glass of wine for Li Ke himself, and said with a smile: "My lord, this wine is for you on behalf of the officials present. Thank you for coming up with an idea to make us all rich. You must give it a try. Drink it, if you don't drink it, you will look down on us all!"

Li Ke thought to himself: "I have an injury on my leg, and the symptoms of diarrhea have not completely healed, this wine..."

The businessmen don't care if he is comfortable or not, they have to boo when they toast!Everyone stood up together, held wine glasses, and toasted Li Ke. The gesture was really: If you don't drink, you will look down on us!

If it was normal, Li Ke would stare and look down on you, what can you do, what kind of onion are you?But I can't do it today, it's not over yet, it's not too late to stare when it's over, I can't stare now!
Li Ke said with a smile: "Okay, since everyone is so enthusiastic, but this king is disrespectful, let's drink this glass to the full!" After speaking, he picked up the wine glass and drank it down.

The merchants shouted: "My lord is a good drinker!" They all drank a glass with Li Ke.

Wang Pingan filled another glass for him, and said, "My lord, good things come in pairs. You have to drink another glass. You can't drink an odd number. That's unlucky!"

The merchants booed again, saying: "Good things come in pairs, my lord, you have two drinks, and we will accompany you with four!" After all, the merchants drank three more glasses in a row!

There is no way, if you don't drink it, it will be unlucky, so Li Ke had to drink the second cup too!
Wang Pingan filled him up with wine again, and said: "My lord, there must be my teacher when three people go together. As the saying goes, the wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have tasted five flavors. This is the third glass of wine. You have to Drink, or else... There is no other saying, you can't be rich for three generations, if you don't drink this glass of wine, wouldn't it mean that we are all busy for nothing, and the money we earn can't even be passed on to our grandchildren, so this wine You must drink!"

The merchants all said, "That's right, don't be richer than three generations, it takes thousands of generations to become rich!"

Li Ke thought to himself: "Is there such a saying? Why does Wang Pingan talk so much nonsense!" There is no way, the hospitality is hard to turn down. If you don't drink it, it is tantamount to cursing someone else's grandson. If you don't drink it, you have to drink it. drank it!
Wang Pingan poured him another glass of wine and said, "Good things come in pairs, and four glasses is the double of pairs... an odd number is unlucky!"

The merchants shouted again: "The twin of the double, you must drink, my lord, or the first three cups will be for nothing!"

Li Ke thought to himself: "It's not right, I can't stop drinking this wine, it's going to pour me down!" He had to drink the fourth glass of wine too!

After drinking this glass of wine, Li Ke finally paid attention to it, looked at Wang Pingan, and found that Wang Pingan poured him another glass of wine, but Wang Pingan never moved the glass in front of him!To put it bluntly, Wang Pingan poured him four glasses of wine, but Wang Pingan didn't drink a drop!

As a prince, Li Ke has never had such a toasting method even if he is going to a banquet or hosting a banquet by himself. Who would dare to force him? Even if he is toasting, he will not say that these good things come in pairs. That's it!He had never met someone who persuaded him to drink like this, but it was the first time he met him, and he was inevitably tricked!

Li Ke pointed to the wine glass in front of Wang Ping'an, and said unhappily: "No disease, you let me drink it all, why don't you drink it yourself?"

Wang Ping'an said, pretending that he just found out that he didn't drink, he said: "Xiaguan was only thinking about serving the prince, but he forgot about himself!"

The merchants laughed out loud. It seems that this King Wu has never been on the wine table before. He just started pouring you, and after a while, you are going to go under the table!
Wang Pingan said: "Change to a big bowl. I will drink with the prince. If the prince is free, I will use a big bowl!" He said so arrogantly, as if Li Ke was so stingy that he refused to drink a few more glasses of wine!

At this time, a person came in outside, sweating profusely, who seemed to be running, looked around the door, then turned and left.Wang Pingan saw that person, he was one of the Ouyang brothers who protected Li Zhi and Wu Meiniang, and it was estimated that Li Zhi and the others had returned.

The servant brought a large bowl and a wine jar, Wang Pingan said: "Water and wine, water and wine, last forever, the lower officials come to this jar, the prince still uses the jug!"

The merchants laughed again, water and wine, Wang Ping'an must have been drinking water, but what King Wu drank was wine, the king of Wu would not be unaware of this trick of instilling people, right?

Li Ke thought to himself: "Wang Ping'an is too cunning. Since he wants to get me drunk, he can't get drunk first. The wine in his jar must be as weak as water, maybe it is water!"

Li Ke said: "What kind of wine is in your jar, let me smell it!" As he said, he snatched the wine jar from Wang Ping'an's hand, opened the stopper, and lowered his head to smell it!
Coincidentally, someone came in from outside the courtyard at this time, it was none other than Prince Li Zhi!
Li Zhi had just sent someone back to find out what was going on in the governor's mansion. He first asked for Wu Meiniang to be sent back, while he strode into the courtyard himself.As soon as he entered the courtyard, Li Zhi shouted: "What are you doing? This is the majestic Gyeongju Governor's Mansion. Why is there a banquet and yelling? How is it proper?"

There are so many businessmen, there are not enough tables in the main hall, so there are quite a few people sitting in the courtyard, giving people a feeling, as if a wedding banquet is being held here, where relatives and friends eat, drink and have fun, what a joy!

The merchants turned their heads to look at Li Zhi, seeing that it was the prince, they quickly got up and left their seats, and fell to their knees.But Li Ke was stunned, didn't it mean that Li Zhi would come back tomorrow, why did he come back now?He was holding the wine jar in his hand, and he hadn't had time to put it down yet!

Li Zhi came striding forward, saw Li Ke holding a wine jar, and said loudly: "Third brother, why are you here? They are here to drink and eat extravagantly, and you not only don't care, but you even mess around with them. Ah, what other people use Wine glass, you actually held up the wine jar, you, you, why are you doing this!"

Li Ke opened his mouth wide, startled and angry, was he fooled again?How am I like this, what's wrong with me?This wine jar is not mine, but Wang Ping'an's!

Li Zhi entered the main hall, and seeing that Li Ke was still in a daze, he said angrily again: "Third brother, I heard that you were assassinated and injured, so I hurried back from the construction site just to visit you, and I was afraid of your death." The injury is serious! But Gu is working so hard and traveling so hard, but you are sitting here drinking, and drinking from a jar, with extravagant wine and meat, completely ignoring the hardships of the people in Qingzhou! Are you as good as you are, are you worthy of the court and your father? , are you worthy of Gu, are you worthy of all the people in Qingzhou? Don’t say that brothers don’t care about brotherhood, Gu must report this matter to the emperor! Third brother, you are too much!”

Li Ke almost dropped his jaw in anger!What do you call me being too much? How can I be too much?Obviously it was you who went to visit the mountains and rivers, but you couldn't come back in time, and you didn't care about the brotherhood, and you didn't see me, but now you are justified, what's the hard work, you've worked so hard!I, I, I... I really want to smash this wine jar on your head!

Li Ke was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke, but he had no choice but to be caught on the spot, so what excuse could he have?Even if it is an excuse, it will be said to be preposterous and slanderous!

He had no choice but to put down the wine jar, and said: "Prince, you have misunderstood, third brother, I don't have the luxury of wine and meat, the thing is like this..." He stood up, and wanted to salute Li Zhi, so he quickly clarified, don't Li Zhi really write memorials, If you report the matter to your father, your impression in your father's heart will be very bad!

As soon as Li Ke stood up, he groaned, put his hand on his thigh, and said, "The arrow wound on my leg..."

Li Zhi said again: "Since you have an arrow wound on your leg, but you are still in the wine pool, you can see how unrestrained you are usually. As a prince, and was sent by the court to Qingzhou to guide the work, you are really sorry for doing this." Father's trust in you! Fortunately, father sent an orphan to supervise you, otherwise I don't know what a big mistake I made!"

Wang Ping'an sounded funny, but this was really unreasonable. Li Zhi probably couldn't say such aggressive words, it should be taught by Wu Meiniang.

He looked at Li Ke, sighed, and said in a low voice: "My lord, I persuaded you when I was dismissed just now. You should write a memorial, at least a draft! You said that we are thinking about a memorial and doing business right now. When His Royal Highness comes back, seeing us doing our best is no better than seeing you holding a wine jar..."

This is not nonsense, he did persuade him just now, but Li Ke resolutely refused, so who can blame him?Li Ke can only blame himself!
Li Ke is so angry that his nose is almost crooked. He has calculated everything, thinking that it is absolutely impossible for him to be fooled by Wang Pingan, but in the end he was fooled!

Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Forget it, we'll talk about it later. Third brother, you're not in Maling County to guide the work, what are you doing in Zhoucheng?"

Wang Ping moved a chair for Li Zhi, let His Royal Highness sit down, and then reprimanded his third brother!
Li Ke also sat down on the chair and glanced at the businessmen inside and outside the hall!It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, it's half dead when you look at it, just now when persuading the drink, these grandchildren made a fuss, but now they all lower their heads and no one makes a sound... Just play with me alone!
Li Ke swallowed the anger in his heart, stabilized his emotions, and said: "Prince, I have an idea about starting a business. This business can benefit all parties in the Tang Dynasty, benefit the country and the people, and It can greatly increase the income of the imperial court!"

Li Zhi sighed, and said, "Let's listen."

Li Ke didn't talk about things, but his name first, so as to seize the credit. As for the specific situation, let Wang Pingan talk about it. Anyway, this time he has decided that silence is golden, so don't talk too much!He said: "I have already thought of the name of this business, it is called Datang Investment Agency. As for the specific details, Wang Ping'an also has some credit. He and this king came up with it together. Let him explain it to the prince!"

(End of this chapter)