Chu Zhen opened the lids of the two bamboo baskets brought by Lin Daiyu, and saw that there were gold, silver, and various porcelain inside. A small bamboo basket contained red rice, with eight eggs placed on the rice, plus various miscellaneous grains. Three or four pounds.
Then he opened another gift basket, and there were pieces of meat inside, including raw deer legs, freshly slaughtered fish, and high-quality bacon.
Lin Daiyu came back and saw Chu Zhen and Li Qingzhao looking at the gifts prepared by her family, so she smiled shyly:
"These are the New Year's Eve meals at my house, which made Uncle Chu and my sister laugh."
"Where is the joke?"
Li Qingzhao smiled and said: "This is the first time I have seen so many expensive New Year's goods. Sister Lin's family is really a wealthy family."
Lin Daiyu pursed her lips and smiled. The tears in her eyes had long been wiped away. She walked to Chu Zhen and planned to explain to him the origin of these things.
"Is this Oden Rouge rice?"
Chu Zhen pointed to the crimson rice, which was two or three times larger than what he usually eats. He could smell a fragrant aroma coming to his face.
"It's rouge rice." Lin Daiyu said with a smile: "Grandma sent someone from the capital to deliver it. Mother was reluctant to eat it, so she kept it for Uncle Chu."
After reading Li Qingzhao in the first few chapters of Dream of Red Mansions, I now understand immediately that the grandmother Lin Daiyu is talking about is Mrs. Shi of Rongguo Mansion.
But she didn't see the rouge rice part.
"I can't bear to eat it either!"
Chu Zhen smiled and said, "How about you take it back?"
"How can there be any reason to get back the gift you gave out?" Lin Daiyu said.
"What gift?"
As a man's voice sounded, a majestic man wearing a bright yellow narrow-sleeved round-neck suit and a black black gauze folded scarf appeared.
Lin Daiyu only glanced at him, then lowered her head and whispered to Chu Zhen, walked to the left, opened the hanging bead curtain with her little hands, and walked in.
She didn't even salute.
Because the greatest precautions between men and women are more important than etiquette.
On the contrary, Li Qingzhao and Zhu Yuanzhang met each other.
Chu Zhen stood up and introduced Zhu Yuanzhang and Lin Daiyu to each other: "This is the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. Miss Lin, you know...this one is the granddaughter of the Rongguo Mansion of the Dashun Dynasty, and her surname is Lin."
When Lin Daiyu heard this, she didn't bother to correct it. She bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang and introduced herself: "My father's surname is Lin. He was a prostitute in the early years of Yong'an in the Dashun Dynasty. Now he is the censor of Youqiandu."
After finishing speaking, Lin Daiyu looked over from behind the bead curtain, as if to say, this is the right introduction!
Chu Zhen smiled and apologized to her.
Rongguo Mansion was so famous that he didn't remember that Lin Daiyu was Lin Ruhai's daughter.
"The girl who is looking for flowers?"
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at her through the curtain, "I have never heard of the official Yushi of Youqiandu. I think it was after the Ming Dynasty that I came to Shun Dynasty. The last time I said that my queen died of illness, it was you, little girl, right?"
"That's what I said." Lin Daiyu replied.
Chu Zhen was afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would ask about the Dashun Dynasty, so he quickly changed the subject: "Did you bring a gift too?"
Lin Daiyu glanced at him.
"I keep my word!"
Zhu Yuanzhang put the two gift boxes in his hands on his table, with a look of joy on his face, and motioned for him to open them and take a look.
Chu Zhen lifted up the yellow satin covering it, and Li Qingzhao on the side suddenly opened his eyes wide, dazzled by the bright gold.
There are ten large gold ingots placed in the center of the gift box on the right, and there are also various gold accessories, gold hairpins, gold locks, and gold collars, most of which are healthy and auspicious things.
Chu Zhen then opened the gift box on the left. There were various jades inside, as well as pens, inks, papers and inkstones and other study items. If they could be put together with the jades, they would probably be worth a lot.
"so much?!"
Chu Zhen looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in astonishment. The Hongwu Emperor smiled cheerfully and said: "My queen prepared this for Mr. Chu, just accept it!"
Chu Zhen picked up a gold ingot, estimated to weigh more than a kilogram. He turned it over and looked at the back. There were words engraved on it:
Made in the first month of the thirteenth year of Hongwu period, the Ministry of Household Affairs has a gold ingot weighing twenty ounces.
The ten ingots totaled four hundred taels, and the contract was more than ten kilograms, which was about 6,000 grams. In his impression, the price of gold per gram was about three hundred and thirty.
In other words, these ten gold ingots alone are worth 2 million in pure gold!
The value of the cultural relic is estimated to be zero. After all, it is a gold ingot that travels through time and space.
Coupled with the accompanying gold ornaments and another box of jade - Chu Zhen didn't understand jade, but conservatively estimated that the gift from Zhu Yuanzhang was worth at least three million.
With so much money, why live broadcast?
"I." Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him with bright eyes. After a long while, he said again: "I only want Mr. Chu to try his best to save me. Regardless of success or failure, these properties will be used as Mr. Chu's medical treatment fee!"
Chu Zhen was silent for a while.
All three looked at him.
Just at this time, Li Shimin came.
Chu Zhen looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "I will try my best, but if I want to rewrite the fate of a country's queen, prince, and grandson, I don't know if it is possible. It is wise to take precautions before they happen!"
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "I understand this truth. Now I won't let my sister get too tired... Let's not talk about this. King Qin, have you finished beating Xue Ju?"
There was a smile on his face, but his heart was extremely heavy.
It was finally confirmed that in the history books of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, not only his sister, but also the prince Biao'er and the eldest grandson Xiongying left him early, and the throne eventually fell to the fourth child.
Why did God do this to him?
The thief God allowed him to seize the Yuan Dynasty and sit on the throne. Why did he treat his family so cruelly? !
Chu Zhen couldn't tell what Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking. He looked at Li Shimin, couldn't help laughing, and asked:
"Have you finished defeating the Overlord of Western Qin?"
Li Shimin stood in front of several people, wearing a purple round-neck robe and a black turban. He also held two wooden boxes in his hands. At first glance, he did not look like he was going to war.
"Don't mention it."
Li Shimin looked depressed, handed the gift box to Chu Zhen, bowed and thanked him, and said: "I just heard a voice and knew that I was coming to Mr. Chu's place, so I rushed back to the palace from the restaurant and asked the princess to prepare the gift quickly. Now it's true Here we are, Mr. Chu!"
Zhu Yuanzhang also looked over, and he didn't know about it.
Chu Zhen told them.
Li Shimin nodded: "It's fine that it's what you did, sir. I was a little uneasy just now. I thought it was because of the tight war ahead."
"His Royal Highness the King of Qin did not lead the troops to fight against Xue Ju?"
Li Qingzhao asked in surprise.
Li Shimin's expression became even more depressed. When a woman asked him this, he really wanted to ride to Longxi and kill him!
"Where's Xue Ju?" Chu Zhen asked.
"Xue Ju is in Longxi!"
"Where did the two sides fight?" Zhu Yuanzhang also asked.
"In Gao'an."
"Where are you?" Chu Zhen asked again.
"I'm drinking in Chang'an."
"..."
"Hahahahaha!"
Chu Zhen and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help laughing. Li Qingzhao also laughed so hard that his eyebrows were crooked. Lin Daiyu, who was behind the bead curtain, also covered her face with a round fan and laughed.
Chu Zhen smiled and gestured, asking Li Shimin to sit down first, and said: "It seems that the situation has changed. You did not lead the troops to fight Xue Ju... who led the troops?"
"My brother leads the army."
Li Shimin sat on the sofa, raised his hand, picked a lychee from the table and threw it into his mouth, his expression still gloomy.
"Oh, it's Li Jiancheng..."
Chu Zhen nodded.
Zhu Yuanzhang sat opposite Li Shimin. Hearing this, he smiled and said: "What's going on? Last time you said you would lead the troops to fight, why did it become your elder brother to lead the troops again? Change of commander before the war, the morale of the army will be shaken, so don't be careful!"
Li Qingzhao opened the curtain, walked over and sat next to Sister Lin, eating fruit and listening to Chu Langjun and the two emperors talking about military and state affairs.
"..."
Li Shimin was silent for a long time, ate four or five lychees, and drank a cup of tea poured by Chu Zhen before sighing and saying:
"The days are like this, and there's nothing I can do about it."
Zhu Yuanzhang's face became solemn.
Is the number of days immutable?
Li Shimin added: "When we were besieging Chang'an that day, I used the flashlight given by Mr. Chu to intimidate the general guarding the city, Yin Shishi, so that he would not dare to kill my fifth brother easily.
Who knows that after Yin Shishi surrendered, he joined the Prince's Mansion and became my brother's staff. Perhaps before I was about to lead the army, he told my brother about the incident on the city wall that day when I shined a flashlight into his eyes. The palace reported that my father summoned me for questioning, but I concealed what happened that day, and the result was...sigh. "
Before Chu Zhen and others could speak, Li Shimin said again: "Last time I heard Mr. Chu say that the first time I led an army against Xue Ju, I lost due to malaria.
I made preparations after I returned, and ordered the army doctor to prepare medicinal materials to treat malaria. I also got pills and a detailed topographic map of Gaoshan from Mr. Chu. I thought I could defeat Xue Ju in one battle, but who knew that because of what happened before, I would It's not me who leads the army into the battle, but my brother! "
Therefore, he was worried that the Tang army's first battle against Xue Ju would be a battle that must be lost in the next few days. !
The key is that this God's will was not caused by wind and thunder, but because he used the flashlight to scare the Yinshi Master that day, which led to a series of events.
