Steel Dynasty - Chapter 33

[Chapter 33 Testing]

The cold wind was biting, and the snowflakes were swaying freely with the strong wind, flying in the air like dragons and snakes.

Standing outside the door, Wang Shijie almost froze to death. It wasn’t until Zi Wan said, “Your Highness announces you to come in,” that Wang Shijie felt like he was being pardoned and trotted into Prince Qi’s Mansion with his arms folded and trembling all the way.

Xiao Ming had already arrived at the study from the side hall. The secrets of the side hall could not be seen by him.

“Your Highness, you are going to freeze Yu Di to death.” Wang Shijie sneezed, looking extremely aggrieved, “I don’t know how Yu Di has not treated me well these days and angered His Highness.”

Xiao Ming stretched out his hand to signal. He moved the chair opposite and asked Wang Shijie to sit down, and said with a smile: “Brother Wang is worrying too much. There are some important things that need to be dealt with just now, so I asked Brother Wang to wait for a while. But didn’t Brother Wang come by carriage in such a cold day?” Why is my whole body covered with snow? “

“Your Highness, I was in such a hurry to come to you this morning that I didn’t even have time to prepare the carriage.” Wang Shijie went to the briquette stove and started a fire.

Xiao Ming asked knowingly, “It’s freezing cold today. Brother Wang came to see me in such a hurry. There must be something big going on.”

“This…” Wang Shijie hesitated and asked: “I heard that His Highness gave Qin a few days ago.” I sell a kind of fine wine at home. I wonder if this is the case? “

“It is indeed the case. I also left a jar of this fine wine for Brother Wang and was about to ask a servant to bring it to him to drink to warm himself up. Unexpectedly, Brother Wang came over at this time. “Xiao Ming knew that what Wang Shijie really cared about was how he brewed this kind of wine, but he just didn’t say anything.

Wang Shijie clasped his fists and said, “Your Highness still remembers to give you wine. I’m really touched. Since His Highness brewed it, I don’t think I’ll have to drink a few glasses.” “

What’s the problem? Li San, go get the wine.” Come.” Xiao Ming shouted.

Li San stood guard outside the door, agreed, and soon came over with Zui Qingzhou in his arms and two porcelain bowls.

The manufacturing technology of Da Yu’s ceramics has been very mature, but only the rich can afford exquisite ceramics, and ordinary people still use ordinary pottery products.

The porcelain in Prince Qi’s Mansion was all brought from Chang’an and came from the official kiln celadon of Dayu. He had also studied these porcelains. Compared with previous porcelains, they were of the same level and basically the same as modern porcelain.

Therefore, when looking for a bottle to hold perfume, he chose a porcelain bottle, which was exquisite and realistic.

“Zui Qingzhou, what a good name! I don’t know who can come up with such an elegant name.”

Wang Shijie picked up the wine jar and looked at it carefully. When he saw the red paper on the wine jar that said Zui Qingzhou, he suddenly started to flatter him. I already knew that the name of this wine was obtained by Xiao Ming, so I pretended not to know at this time.

Li San was waiting in the room and said proudly: “Your Highness got this.”

“It turns out to be His Highness. Oh, His Highness is a talented person. In the past, Wang, Qin Mu, Wei Qing, and Sun Dong claimed to be the four great talents in Qingzhou. Now, It seems that he is really just doing something for his own sake, I feel ashamed.” Wang Shijie said in amazement.

Xiao Ming felt a chill in his heart. The level of this flattery was too low and had no style. Although Xiao Ming was uneducated and incompetent in the past, he also knew that this drunk Qingzhou was nothing.

“Brother Wang is so complimentary. Come on, Brother Wang must have been freezing just now, so you should drink a glass of wine to warm yourself up first. Li San, warm up a glass of

wine for Mr. Wang.” Li San took a copper wine-warming vessel and placed it on the stove .

, warmed the wine in the jar for a while and poured a glass for Wang Shijie and Xiao Ming respectively.

In modern times, Xiao Ming didn’t like drinking, but when he came here, he gradually came to accept it, especially in the cold winter months. Drinking a glass of warm wine is more effective than blowing the air conditioner. A few glasses of wine are enough to make you sweat.

As soon as I lay down on the bed after being slightly drunk, a boring night is over.

And now, with the heavy snow and strong wind, it is inconvenient to go out, so you can spend your free time with a glass of wine.

“Your Highness, please!” Wang Shijie picked up the wine glass and licked his lips gently.

Xiao Ming raised his glass and the two of them drank it together. After drinking a glass of hot wine, Xiao Ming suddenly felt a fire slowly burning in his body.

“Ah!” Wang Shijie let out a groan stimulated by the strong wine. He closed his eyes and bared his teeth. After slowly thinking about it for a while, he said: “Your Highness, this wine tastes spicy and soft in the mouth. I have drank your Highness’s wine before. That rice wine is as good as water, but it’s a pity…”

“What a pity? I don’t know what Brother Wang means?” Xiao Ming motioned to Li San to fill it up with Wang Shijie.

The wine glasses in the palace are wide-mouthed glasses, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. A glass of wine only lasts for two taels. Just now, Wang Shijie drank it all in one gulp as usual.

Wang Shijie always kept in mind what his father had told him, so he found a way to talk about it, “It’s a pity that our Wang family can’t sell this wine.”

“Brother Wang, it makes sense to give this wine to the king of the Qin family. Of course, the Wang family There is a cavalry team, but after all, this cavalry team is not as good as water transportation. It is just to make more money for the king of the Qin family.” Xiao Ming said.

He gave the wine to the Qin family partly to support the Qin family, and partly because of what he meant. In such a backward era, road transportation is not as good as water transportation. Although water transportation is not very fast, the volume is large and relatively speaking. Still safe.

“I see.” Wang Shijie felt relieved a little, but he asked tentatively, “When did His Highness learn how to make wine again? Could it be from that book?”

“As long as you know that I know.” Xiao Ming prevaricates with one sentence, Not wanting to mention it any more, he picked up the glass and said, “Come on, let’s drink and enjoy the snow today. Don’t mention these trivial matters again.”

The one bowl he drank just now was a bit strong, and Wang Shijie gradually got a little drunk. His head felt dizzy, and he thought to himself what he should ask. He also asked, why not drink happily? He said: “Yes, drink.”

After that, he drank another bowl.

“Brother Wang, there’s a lot of it.” Xiao Ming only drank a small sip each time. He knew how powerful this wine was, but Wang Shijie was obviously used to drinking like this before.

“Your Highness, my foolish brother is not drunk after a thousand cups. This little wine is nothing.” He remembered that the main hall of Prince Qi’s Mansion has three floors, and said: “Your Highness, drinking here is really boring. Why not go up to the attic and enjoy the snowy scenery of Qingzhou City? “

How about drinking together?”

“Brother Wang is right.” Xiao Ming nodded and asked Li San to move the wine and stove to the attic on the third floor of the main hall, and the two of them followed.

In Qingzhou, the main hall of Xiao Ming’s Prince Qi’s Mansion can be said to stand out among others, because of this three-story main hall, you can have a panoramic view of Qingzhou from the main hall.

The two sat down by the attic fence and drank again. Wang Shijie suddenly drank two more drinks.

“Your Majesty…Your Majesty, this wine is really good. Come…come, fill it up again.” After eight ounces of wine, Wang Shijie felt like a dazed duck, and his words became knotted.

Xiao Ming shook his head. Wang Shijie still drank his wine as ordinary rice wine. He said, “Brother Wang is drunk. Why don’t I ask my servants to send Brother Wang back.”

Wang Shijie slapped his chest and looked very angry, ” Your Highness, do you look down on Wang’s drinking capacity? I can still drink this wine.”

Xiao Ming was not afraid that Wang Shijie would drink himself to death in Prince Qi’s mansion, so Xiao Ming didn’t bother to care about him. He said, “Brother Wang, drink two more bowls?” “

Pour the wine.” Wang Shijie stood up, swayed left and right, and flicked his sleeves, “Your Highness, take advantage of the good wine and the heavy snow. Today, I will compose a poem to relieve your boredom.”

(End of this chapter)