Back in the room, Yu Zhang and the others inside the room had already started chatting skillfully, and Li Yan and the others had naturally met Empress Changsun and the others.
Li Ke naturally came over first to greet Queen Changsun and the others.
"You have been out for a year and have tanned a lot. You are doing well." Queen Changsun looked at Li Ke and said with emotion.
"Mother and Queen are worried. I'm living a good life. Although I've been to many places, overall I'm safe." Li Ke reassured with a smile.
"Hey, we know it's safe, but we all heard that the wind and waves on the sea are very strong. Natural storms are much more dangerous than human beings, not to mention that you have been away for a year." Queen Changsun said.
"Mother, Aniang, it's okay. It's quite safe. There are storms, but we all have some old fishermen as guides, so we always stop at the port when storms come." Li Ke said with a smile.
"Hey, even though this is the case, we are still worried. Your mother-in-law has cried with me several times." Empress Changsun sighed.
"Sister, why don't you just cry with me? This brat has grown up and he doesn't care about our life or death." Concubine Yang was somewhat agitated. Her son had traveled thousands of miles, and her mother was worried. This brat had been away for a year, but she hadn't written a few letters. When I came back, I didn’t forget the government affairs.
"Auntie, aren't we here to accompany you?" Yu Zhang and others not far away immediately ran over and said coquettishly.
"Yes, without Yuzhang and the others, I don't know how I would survive every day." Concubine Yang held Yuzhang in her arms and said.
"Hey, two sisters, when the children grow up, they always have to go out. Ke'er is a person who does big things. If I always stay with you, sister, you may think that Ke'er is not doing his job properly." Concubine Yin next to her. said with a smile.
"Oh, mother, my aunt is right. What I am doing now is not just to bring peace to the Tang Dynasty. In the future, it will not only be my son who wants to leave. You, mother, and aunts, when the time comes, I will ask my father to I'm taking you on a vacation. We can't stay in Chang'an City all our lives. We all have to go out to see the Tang Dynasty and its vast landscape." Li Ke said with a smile.
"Let's not talk about this. I have prepared everything for my mother-in-law and my aunt." Li Ke said with a smile. As he spoke, he stood up and walked to the room next to him.
In fact, many things are no different from modern times even if they are separated by more than a thousand years, even in this ancient feudal society.
The son traveled thousands of miles and the mother was worried, but when the son came back, he didn’t know what to talk to his mother. Men are different. When they grow up, it’s hard to talk to their wives about the difficulties and things happening outside. I'm afraid that they will be scared and worried, and it will be even harder to talk to their mother. They can only come back to chat about daily life, and there is not much to talk about.
When I was away from home, I thought about my mother and always felt that I had to go back to see her. But when I got home, I suddenly felt that there were only a few words to talk to.
In fact, there are many things that mothers want to ask, but it is not easy to ask them. Even if they ask you, they may not be able to tell you. They can only talk to you about daily life. In fact, as long as they see you and make sure that you are okay, they will also I feel relieved. It's not until you leave home and go to a distant place that they start to worry again.
Li Ke quickly came back with a lot of boxes in his arms. He first took out a box and handed it to Queen Changsun, and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, this is for you."
Queen Changsun opened the box with some curiosity. Inside was a set of pearl jewelry, necklaces, rings, earrings, bracelets, and headdresses. The size of the pearl is also unprecedented. This thing was obtained from Linyi Palace and Zhenwa.
The most important thing is that inside this box, there is a string of golden pearls, which is so rare.
"Ke'er is interested." Empress Changsun smiled with a smile on her face. She was obviously very happy. There is no woman who doesn't like jewelry. Empress Changsun didn't have too many jewelry. After all, she had just become rich so far in the Zhenguan year.
If Li Ke's set of accessories were taken out, they would be worth a lot of money.
"Hey, Queen Mother, you don't need to worry too much. These are actually quite common in Nanyang. Sons and ministers just borrow flowers to offer to Buddha. Queen Mother, you are the most attractive woman now. These things are not even the icing on the cake." Li Ke smiled. He spoke.
"You, that mouth is the best at talking." Empress Changsun said with a smile.
Except for Empress Changsun, who is like his mother-in-law, the other concubines naturally have their own thing. Not only them, but even Yuzhang and the others have their own thing.
But their pearls are not that big.
But in fact, the big pearls in Li Ke's hand are enough for everyone to have a set of jewelry, but these things are actually not necessary. If you give them to them, they may not wear them. After all, they don't want to be like Empress Changsun. This is whether Empress Changsun cares or not. Two different things.
In the evening, the three people from Chengyang who had finished standing for punishment ran in, "Third brother, third brother, what delicious food should we have for dinner?"
"Let's have gout tonight...oh no, a seafood set meal!" Li Ke said with a smile.
"Seafood? Is it the fish in the sea?" Chengyang's eyes widened.
"All! Third brother will let you eat as much as you want today." Li Ke said with a smile.
Li Ke really prepared a table of seafood set meals for dinner. These people in the royal family of the Tang Dynasty have actually eaten seafood. The record of the royal family eating seafood in ancient China goes back to very early, and they have eaten all kinds of seafood. , but I only eat very rarely, after all, it is too far away from the sea.
But Li Ke has modified several large ships here, which are filled with seawater to transport the seafood from the sea to Chang'an.
Including the dried abalone Li Ke brought back this time, Li Ke will not talk about the number of double-headed abalone. The number of single-headed abalone Li Ke brought back is at least several hundred.
All I can say is...the supplies in ancient times were really too abundant.
And many of these single-headed abalones are larger than imagined. For example, the abalone Li Ke ate in Guangzhou before. In future generations, believe it or not, it can be sold for hundreds of millions.
But in this era, it’s just seafood caught by ordinary fishermen. Because of fishing technology, there is no need to worry about overfishing in this era.
When dinner started, it can be said that everyone widened their glasses because they had never eaten or even seen many things before.
After all, in this era, many seafoods are not eaten casually.
What's on the table now are huge Chinese lobsters, bread crabs, prawns, prawns, crawling shrimps, scallops, and abalone in various ways. There are seven or eight ways to eat lobster alone, and there are at least dozens of ways to eat the seafood on this table. From now on, in the catering industry of the Everlasting City of the Tang Dynasty, our Highness the King of Qin will definitely be the strongest.
