Chapter 117：

The Gu family quickly settled down in Chang'an City. Gu Qu went to the Ministry of War to take up the post. Sixteen years ago, he was the Shangshu of the Ministry of War. Although it has been many years, he quickly adapted to it.

When facing Emperor Zhaokang in the court, Emperor Zhaokang did not embarrass him or coldly treat him. It was an ordinary attitude of a king to his courtiers.

When many people see this situation, they can't help but speculate. Is this true of your Majesty and intends to reuse Gu's family again?

Tao Ti didn't understand the treacherous situation and the changing formations in the courtroom, she was busy with the affairs of Taotiege.

After half a year of hard work, milk tea quickly gained a foothold in Chang'an City thanks to its taste suitable for all ages.

There are 108 squares in Chang'an City, and the milk tea shops of the Taotie Pavilion have opened in 50 squares. This momentum is not lost to the modern chain milk tea shops——

Of course, if something is on fire, someone will naturally imitate it.

Someone saw that milk tea was so popular, so they set up a stall and sold it, and the price was even cheaper than that of Gourmet Pavilion.

At first it attracted some people, but after the customers tasted it, they stood up and down. Except for the poor people who buy one or two cups of cheap milk tea to coax their children at home, those rich ladies and ladies from aristocratic families who don't need money still prefer to buy them at Gourmet Pavilion.

You pay for what you pay for. It's more at ease to choose a big store for what you eat in your mouth.

Let’s say that Zhang lived comfortably in Luoyang and bought a new house in Luoyang City. He wrote to Tao Ti and asked if she had plans to open a milk tea branch in Luoyang. If so, she could be the shopkeeper in Luoyang. of.

Tao Ti originally planned to open a branch in another place, and considering Zhang's status at the moment, if she is busy with something, she can also get out of the shadow of the previous failed marriage as soon as possible, so she readily agreed.

After Xu Wenchan found out, he didn't hesitate to send two powerful enthusiasts from Chang'an old store to Luoyang, which counted as technical support.

Zhang is full of enthusiasm, looking for shops, hiring labor, and buying raw materials, busy and fulfilling.

Seeing that the milk tea shop was in full swing, Tao Ti discussed with Xu Wenchan to open a chain of fried chicken shops, tentatively selling fried chicken legs, fried chicken wings, fried chicken chops, and fried sausages.

In order to make the fried chicken taste more suitable for the people of Dayuan Dynasty, Tao Ti also adjusted the fried chicken recipe several times.

Therefore, for a long period of time in September, the Yaoguang Hall will emit a fragrant and crispy meat fragrance.

The palace people working elsewhere were greedy and drooling, and the palace people and cat ingots in the Yaoguang Hall were rounded up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After the final version of fried chicken drumsticks were made, Xu Wenchan was eating the golden and crispy fried chicken drumsticks while crying and touching the fat on his stomach. Why can't I control my broken mouth..."

After crying, he gnawed a large piece of chicken thigh again, and his mouth was greasy.

Seeing her crying for a while, Qinghe laughed, crying and persuading her, "Then you finish eating this, and you won't eat anything later."

Xu Wenchan shook his head immediately, "No, Ati also fried crispy chicken wings, I want to eat too."

Qinghe, "..."

Xu Wenchan swallowed a huge mouthful of chicken thighs in revenge, and muttered vaguely, "When the fried chicken shop opens, I will do a good job of publicity. Well, then the little ladies in Chang'an will come to buy it! Let's get fat together!"

Tao Ti came out carrying the fried chicken wings and couldn't help laughing when Xu Wenchan said "retribution to society".

Xu Wenchan looked at her grievously, "Why, Ati, don't you get fat every time you eat so much? It's too miserable for me, too much."

"Probably because of different personal physiques." Tao Ti said, I am a racial talent. If the gluttonous gluttons are all fattened into balls, what would it be like?

Qinghe looked at the golden and alluring chicken wings, her nose moved slightly, only to feel that the thick and fresh scent pierced into her nose, which made her gluttonous.

She picked up one and put it in her mouth. The bread crumbs and egg liquid on the outside of the chicken wings were deep-fried and crispy, and the dregs fell straight off. When the layer of crispy skin was bitten off, the chicken inside was very tender and fragrant. The juice shuttles between his lips and tongue, and the aftertaste is endless.

"It's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, juicy in the mouth, delicious, especially delicious!" Qinghe praised sincerely.

Xu Wenchan hurriedly finished the chicken legs in her hand, and also sandwiched a chicken wing. Just after taking a bite, she nodded and said, "Ah, the chicken wing meat is really tenderer than the chicken thigh meat, especially the tip of the wing is a little bit old. The part is so fragrant!"

The three of them sat in the courtyard eating and chatting.

Qinghe’s marriage has been set, and although Xu Guangji can’t see each other often, there is Xu Wenchan, an enthusiastic little girl, who is pulling back and forth between the two. Today, you will send me a hairpin, and tomorrow I will get back to you. The one embroidered the purse himself, coming and going twice, the feelings are getting sweeter and sweeter.

Qinghe was grateful for Xu Wenchan's friendship, and thought of his brother's melancholy look trapped by love, and couldn't help but tentatively asked, "A Chan, what kind of man do you want to marry in the future?"

Xu Wenchan gnawed chicken wings for a while. Seeing Qinghe looking at herself with a pair of clear water eyes, she immediately guessed what she meant, and only vaguely said, "What good is there to marry a man? I have money and land. , Are you having a good time?"

Seeing that she was deliberately avoiding it, Qinghe pursed her pink lips, so she couldn't ask any more.

After eating the chicken wings, the three of them saw that the weather was good, so they went to the Royal Garden together.

The scenery in the imperial garden is beautiful, and the sun is just right now, and it is very comfortable to shine on the body warmly.

The three of them walked leisurely along the winding stone road, and the flowers on both sides were mostly precious varieties of chrysanthemums, such as jade ling, black peony, black chrysanthemum, cinnabar red frost, snow sea, rouge dot snow, clay gold fragrance, etc. , Colorful and really beautiful. When the breeze blows, bursts of elegant chrysanthemum fragrance blows across the face, intoxicating.

"This Rouge Dianxue opened really well," Qing He said softly.

Tao Ti's gaze fell on the slightly ordinary white chrysanthemum. He rolled his eyes and got a new idea. He enthusiastically suggested, "You come back to Yaoguang Hall in two days, and I will use this white chrysanthemum to make hot pot for you. "

Xu Wenchan and Qinghe both came to be interested, incarnate as a curious baby, "What is hot pot? How does Baiju eat it?"

"Hot pot is a kind of warm soup pot. Well, the soup base is a thick soup made from old hens, ducks, trotters, pork bones, scallops, etc. After the soup boils, the washed white chrysanthemums are separated and washed. Put it in the pot. The soup base cooked in this way not only tastes delicious, but also exudes the faint fragrance of chrysanthemums, and relieves greasiness and invigorates the spleen."

Tao Ti explained it briefly, and Qinghe smiled crookedly, "Sounds very elegant. Cousin, if you make this chrysanthemum hot pot, I will definitely come."

Xu Wenchan, "Me too!"

When the three of them were chatting happily, suddenly a sharp sneer came over, "Today is really bad luck."

Tao Ti narrowed his black eyes and turned to look at the path around the corner, only to see that the person here was Pei Lingbi who hadn't seen him for a while.

She was dressed in an autumn-scented palace dress, and she was a lot thinner, described as haggard, and her face showed an abnormal paleness that had been kept in the room for a long time.

At this moment, she was staring at Tao Ti and the others with a gloomy look, like a poisonous snake crawling on a tree branch.

Qinghe also had a shadow on Pei Lingbi, and subconsciously squeezed his fingers. Upon seeing this, Xu Wenchan took the initiative to guard the future sister-in-law behind him.

Tao Ti gave them a soothing look, and then, learning Pei Lingbi's accent, sighed, "Well, who said no? Today is really bad luck! I knew I should look through the almanac before going out. I was negligent. ."

Originally, Pei Lingbi was forbidden, but after the Double Ninth Festival, Emperor Zhaokang set Pei Lingbi's wedding date on the ninth day of November.

It is now the end of September, which means that in a month or so, Pei Lingbi will marry Zhou Jia Saburo.

Thinking that the wedding period was about to come, Queen Zhou pleaded with Emperor Zhaokang in every possible way. Emperor Zhaokang was so annoyed that he allowed Pei Lingbi to come out three times to let her breathe.

As a house girl who rarely visited the Royal Garden in a few months, Tao Ti never expected that this kind of incident would have caused them to bump into each other.

Looking at each other is not pleasing to the eye, and the surrounding aura is obviously suppressed.

Tao Ti didn't want to take care of Pei Lingbi, but Pei Lingbi might have been locked up for too long, too lonely, so she had to pick something up.

She walked forward with an attitude arrogantly, took a look at Tao Ti, and said with a grin, "I heard that the genius doctor Xu Wenhe is taking care of the prince in the East Palace. It’s been half a year, and there’s still no movement in my stomach. If you can’t give birth, you might as well be more generous, choose some good ladies for the prince, and sell them in front of the father and the prince."

Tao Ti gave her a cold look, and didn't give her the slightest expression on her face, "I want you to take care of my Donggong's affairs?"

Pei Lingbi was frustrated. Just about to start cursing, Tao Ti turned his wrist and said lightly, "Second princess, you can go shopping in the garden. If you have to rush to find it, then we will not be embarrassed. So... …Are you sure you still want to speak quickly for a while?"

Pei Lingbi's face turned pale when she saw that she was about to do something, and her footsteps also took a step back subconsciously.

She also knew that Tao Ti could not be pleased, so she turned her gaze to Qinghe and Xu Wenchan behind Tao Ti.

She wanted to ridicule Qing He, but when the words came to her lips, she suddenly remembered that Qing He was named the princess by his father last month and gave him a good marriage-Qi Lang of Dingbei Hou's family, Xu Guangji.

Pei Lingbi had met Xu Guangji. The handsome, slender man was no worse than his favorite Xie Xiaogong.

When I thought that Qinghe, a weak egg-laying hen, could marry a good man like Xu Guangji, and that she was a princess, the queen’s daughter could only marry someone like Zhou Shaohui, Pei Lingbi only felt that blood was rising, and his head became angry. gosh.

Thanks to the lady's eyesight and quick hands, she held her in time, and she stabilized her footsteps.

Tao Ti saw Pei Lingbi's suffocated look, and she was secretly refreshed, deliberately "concerning", "Ah, princess, what's wrong with you? His face looked so bad. Could it be that he didn't go out for so many days, and he came out at first glance. Still a little uncomfortable?"

Pei Lingbi was even more angry with her poor acting skills, gritted his teeth and said, "I don't need you to be false."

Tao Ti spread his hands, looking helpless, "Okay."

The palace man next to Pei Lingbi whispered, "Second princess, it's too early, shall we go back first?"

Pei Lingbi bit her lip. She hated the few people in front of her, but she knew that she couldn't do anything to them right now.

Taking a deep breath, she straightened her waist and gave a cold hush.

But when she left, she couldn't help but swear. Since she couldn't win Tao Ti by scolding, and she couldn't laugh at Qinghe, she chose to attack Xu Wenchan——

"Ms. Xu, I haven't seen you in two months. Why are you doing a round again? You don't need to lower your head, your double chin is obvious. Hey, if you have time, you should eat less, or who would dare to marry you? It's embarrassing to take it out."

Xu Wenchan, "???"

Her eyelashes quivered and she squeezed the hem of her dress tightly.

Before she could say anything to fight back, she saw Qinghe stand up angrily, "There is no need to worry about the second princess. My brother wants to marry A Chan and return to the official residence in his dreams! And unlike you..." Speaking of this, Qinghe almost fell silent, and fell silent in time.

Pei Lingbi's expression froze, white and blue.

Grandpa Xie wants to marry the ugly monster Xu Wenchan? !

Is he blind!

What made Pei Lingbi even more angry was Qinghe's half-sent "not like you".

What's not like her? Unlike her stalking and showing up in every possible way, the little father-in-law didn't even want to look at her more.

Pei Lingbi thought more and more angry, and stood there in a daze, as if he had been pumped.

Tao Ti didn't want to entangle with her anymore, winking at Qinghe and Xu Wenchan, knowing each other, turned and left together.

But before they could take a few steps, there was a panic cry from the palace maid behind them——

"Second princess!"

Tao Ti and the others paused and looked back subconsciously.

I saw Pei Lingbi rolled his eyes and pushed back straight.

Tao Ti, "..."

Touch porcelain? ? ?

——

After being diagnosed by the imperial doctor, Pei Lingbi was just anxious and fainted.

This incident reached the ears of Empress Zhou and Emperor Zhaokang, a distressed daughter who was weeping;

One is to directly avoid Pei Lingbi's two remaining opportunities to go out, so as to save her from having some moths before marrying, or to keep her in the palace peacefully, which is more worry-free.

As for the three Tao Ti, Emperor Zhaokang did not rebuke them either, and after confirming that Pei Lingbi was not in serious trouble, he let them go back separately.

That night, Tao Ti turned to and fro in bed, making it difficult to fall asleep.

Pei Yan's warm palm lightly patted her buttocks, pulled her closer to her arms, and said lazily, "What's wrong?"

Tao Ti lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "It's nothing."

When Pei Yan heard what she said, he knew it was a lie, he pondered for a moment, and comforted, "If you worry about today's Pei Lingbi, it is not necessary, she is completely self-conscious."

Tao Ti said nothing.

Pei Yan frowned, "Are you worried about the attitude of the emperor? Don't worry, the emperor is still very fair. He didn't even have a serious remark today, which shows that he has no intention of blaming him."

Tao Ti shook her head, "I'm not thinking about this."

"Um?"

"I……"

Tao Ti raised her head, and through the faint light through the curtain, she saw Pei Yan's deep and clear eyebrows.

After hesitating for a while, she asked softly, "His Royal Highness, since your body is healthy and healthy, will you take a concubine in the future?"

Qiong Qi had also told her about this issue before, after all, it was too rare and incredible to have the ancient emperor die.

At that time Tao Ti vaguely covered the topic with a mentality of avoiding the problem.

After hearing Pei Lingbi mention this again today, Tao Ti also realized that some problems still have to be faced, and that evasion cannot be solved.

In the darkness, Pei Yan half-closed his eyes and remained silent.

He didn't speak, Tao Ti's heart clenched unconsciously, waiting nervously for an answer.

After a while, Pei Yan's thin lips lightly opened, "Will..."

Tao Ti, "?????!"

As soon as she opened her eyes, she was tapped on her forehead, "It will be a ghost."

Pei Yan opened his eyes and suddenly rolled over, covering most of Tao Ti's body, with one strong arm resting on her head, the pillow slightly sunken, and the other hand squeezing her soft as a punishment. Care of cheeks.

Very close to each other, he stared at her condescendingly, the man's strong breath surrounded her tightly, his tone was soft, with a somewhat helpless pampering, "You don't sleep at night, and your little brain thinks about these outrageous things? "

Tao Ti was a little emboldened inexplicably, and squatted, "Then you are the prince, you may still be the emperor in the future, in case one day you are squinted by another woman, then you will be in the Sangong Sixth Courtyard, there will be groups of concubines... …"

Pei Yan is serious and determined, "Nothing in case."

He looked at her deeply, even in the dim light, Tao Ti could still see that his eyes were shining, as if they were full of dazzling galaxies.

"I already have the best girl in the world."

He leaned down, his thin lips kissed her between the eyebrows, and said softly, "Ati, you are enough."

Tao Ti's heart warmed instantly, her cheeks flushed, and she asked softly, "Really?"

"Well, really." The words are too light, he will use his life to prove it.

"Well then, I believe you."

She smiled at the corner of her mouth, lifted her chin, and wanted to kiss his lips.

Never thought that Pei Yan just raised his head, her lips did not kiss his lips, but his obvious Adam's apple was attached.

In the dark, she heard Pei Yan make a soft, satisfying, and extremely seductive nasal sound.

Tao Ti was taken aback, and only after a moment did he realize that the Adam's apple seemed to be Pei Yan's sensitive point?

But when she reacted, the man had already been kissed fiercely.

"Since you are not sleepy yet, it is better to do something pleasant."

He finished speaking with a dumb throat, and his fingers slipped into the thin silky bedding, and he became unscrupulous.