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Life in Chang'an Chapter 56 The prince and princess are also short of money

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    PS: The first day of Sanjiang, two updates today, and one more chapter before nine o'clock in the evening.

    Although it was very cool in the pavilion, several people were still sweating after lunch. Wen'er immediately asked people to serve desserts after the meal, which was also the focus of Li Min's careful preparation.  I saw several maids bringing each of them a small cup with a lid on it, and silk threads of cool air floating on the surface of the small cup.

    Li Zhi and the others opened the lid at Li Min's signal, and saw a very brightly colored snow-like object inside the small cup, with some fruit pulp and cheese dotted in it, which looked very appetizing.  Hua'er presented the prepared small spoon, and everyone immediately eagerly took a bite. They were immediately conquered by the delicate, smooth, and cool taste. The sweetness was accompanied by a strong milky fragrance, which made people taste it.  Once you take one bite, you can't help but want to take a second bite.

    This is Li Min's homemade ice cream. Several main raw materials such as milk, cream, honey, and egg yolk are mixed in a certain proportion, and then placed in an ice cellar to freeze. After hardening, take it out and add the prepared fruit pulp and cheese crumbs. The taste is  It was definitely no worse than any ice cream he had eaten in his previous life.

    "Brother Liu, this thing is so delicious!" Gao Yang praised loudly while eating. Ice cream is already popular among girls, and in such a hot weather, having a bite of ice cream that is cold and sweet is absolutely unparalleled.  enjoy.

    "Of course, this thing is called ice cream. Not only is it extremely delicious, but it can also relieve the heat. It is the best cold drink in summer." Li Min said proudly, but it was a pity that Qinghe and the others were so focused on tasting the delicious food that no one listened to his show off.  .

    At this time, little Sizi looked at his brother and sister's cup, and then looked at his own. Suddenly he pouted and said angrily: "Brother Six, you are biased, why is it that Sizi's ice cream is only half a bowl, but yours is all?"  Is it full?" Sizi's words attracted Li Zhi and the others who were eating fiercely. They looked at the ice cream in Sizi's hand and found that it was indeed only half a bowl.

    "Sizi, although this ice cream can relieve the heat, it is not advisable to eat too much, especially for a child like you. Eating too much will cause stomachache." Li Min replied helplessly. Originally, he didn't want Sizi to eat it.  Eating ice cream, but if everyone has it, Sizi doesn't have it. It seems that he is too cruel as an elder brother, so he asked Wen'er to give Sizi a small portion. Unexpectedly, the sharp-eyed Sizi discovered it all at once.  question.

    Hearing Li Min's words, Sizi immediately pouted his mouth unhappily. After just tasting the deliciousness of the ice cream, the little girl immediately fell in love with this kind of food. But she didn't expect that the sixth brother who always loved her would also be with that person.  Just like Dr. Sun, he stopped himself from eating the things he liked.

    "Si Zi is obedient, and Sixth Brother is also doing it for you!" Li Zhi also knew that Sixth Brother was doing it for Sizi's good, so he tried to persuade him, and his two sisters, Qinghe and Gao Yang, also spoke to make Sizi happy.

    "Don't be angry, Sizi. Otherwise, Sixth Brother will tell you a lot of nice stories later and play with Sizi all afternoon, okay?" Li Min knelt down and said in a soft voice, about coaxing the child.  He was still somewhat aware that if he wanted to divert their attention from one thing, he had to attract them with another thing that made them more interested.

    "Really? That's great. Sizi likes to listen to stories the most!" Sizi clapped his hands and shouted happily when he heard that Sixth Brother was going to tell him a story. Children all like to listen to stories, and Sizi is no exception.  However, although Li Shimin loved Si Zi, he was busy with government affairs and had no time to spend with her. Queen Changsun was in the hospital, so only Concubine Yang took care of Si Zi. Concubine Yang grew up in the palace and knew nothing more than what she read in books.  Some short stories simply couldn't satisfy Si Zi's requirements. Poor little Si Zi usually had no one to tell her a story when she wanted to hear it. Now that Sixth Brother wanted to tell her a story, she was naturally dancing for joy.

    "Sixth brother, what should we do?" Li Zhi asked while eating the ice cream in his hand. They planned to stay at Li Min's place for the whole afternoon. They couldn't do anything interesting to kill the time.

    "This is simple. Wen'er, go to the room and bring us the things we often play with!" Li Xin ordered with a smile. When it comes to eating, drinking and having fun, Li Xin thinks he is no worse than anyone else. He can casually use the same game methods in later generations.  , which is enough for the children to have a good time.

    "Brother Six, is this the fun thing you said?" Li Zhi asked, pointing to the pile of cardboard on the table.  Wen'er quickly took the thing and put it on the table. Just now, Li Min praised this thing very highly, saying that they would be obsessed with it after seeing it, but this is not just an ordinary piece of cardboard.  Well, it doesn¡¯t look interesting no matter how you look at it?  Gao Yang and Qinghe also looked at Li Min with puzzled faces.

    "This thing is called poker, uh~" Li Min was suddenly startled. He remembered that poker was the English transliteration, and the people of the Tang Dynasty couldn't explain it, so he hurriedly changed his words, "Of course it can also be called cards. It is a game.  props."

    "But how to play this?" Li Zhi turned over with his handsLooking at the playing cards, I found some inexplicable patterns and numbers painted on them, which seemed quite complicated.

    Although life in the Tang Dynasty was wonderful for Li Min, it was a bit boring in his spare time. After all, there were too few entertainment methods in this era, especially at night, in an era without computers and TVs, it was simply a nightmare for Li Min.  In desperation, Li Min could only play cards that he often played in his previous life, and spent time playing landlords with Wen'er and Hua'er every night.

    "The rules of this thing are very simple, you will understand if I tell them once!" Li Min spread the cards and explained to them the differences between the four suits, and then explained the rules of Landlords again.  Afraid that they would not understand, Li Min called Wen'er and Hua'er over again and played it again for them to watch. Now everyone knew how to play it, and after playing it a few times, they were immediately hooked on this extremely interesting game.  Li Min no longer bothered with the game, and ran away to play by himself.

    "Brother Six, can you tell Sizi a story now?" Sizi was very well-behaved just now. Although she was young and couldn't understand how the cards were played, she still patiently waited for Li Min to settle Li Zhi and the others before asking.  road.

    "Okay, Brother Six will first tell Si Zi a story about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Bah~, it's the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!" Li Min sweated profusely, almost turning a good fairy tale into an evil one.  It is an adult story. This is all due to the influence of the Internet in later generations. Any messy stories dare to be posted on it. Li Min is also one of the victims.

    There are so many fairy tales for Li Min to entertain children, "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales" are enough for him to tell for several months.  There is also "One Thousand and One Nights", which has more stories, but Li Min didn't dare to tell it after thinking about it. What he watched was the unabridged version on the Internet, which was perverted and bloody. It was really not suitable for someone as pure as Si Zi.  little girl listens.

    After Li Min improved the European fairy tales, Si Zi was immersed in one interesting story after another.  Children usually only have one reaction after listening to stories for a long time, and that is to feel sleepy. Especially after a meal, the blood in the body is concentrated in the stomach to digest food, and the brain will naturally feel sleepy, so I listened to three stories, Si Zi  He fell asleep in Li Min's arms.  He handed Sizi to Wen'er and asked her to take Sizi back to her bedroom to sleep. After all, she had been weak since she was a child and would easily get sick if she slept in the pavilion.

    "Four and two, I won again! Hahaha~" As soon as he sent Sizi away, he heard Gao Yang's excited laughter, and then heard her shouting loudly: "Give me money, give me money quickly."  !¡±

    Li Min turned around and saw Gao Yang standing with one foot on the table, pointing at Li Zhi and Qinghe and shouting arrogantly.  Li Min was speechless for a while. These little guys were really able to draw inferences from one example. He just taught them how to play, but in the end, they used cards as a gambling tool without any teacher, and they had a great time playing.  In fact, this is not surprising. Gambling was common among the nobles of the Tang Dynasty. Li Min had already seen it at the Five Kings Banquet last time. No matter what he played, he had to add a bonus. In fact, it was gambling in disguise. As a prince,  Li Zhi and the princesses have been influenced by it since childhood, so it is not surprising that they used it for gambling for the first time playing cards.

    Li Zhi took out his money bag with a frustrated look on his face and poured it down for a long time. In the end, he only poured out a few copper coins. He had lost a lot just now, and these few copper coins were already his entire possessions.  Qinghe's situation was not good either. She had better luck than Li Zhi. She won a few games at first, but she didn't expect Gao Yang to suddenly kill everyone. After becoming a landlord, he won seven games in a row, losing both her and Li Zhi's money.  Empty.

    "Sister Seventeen, this is what I ordered, do you like it or not?" Li Zhi angrily pushed a few copper coins and said in a rogue manner. According to regulations, each person must give out ten copper coins as a lottery jackpot in each round. These few coins of his  Of course not enough.

    "Hey, Pheasant Slave, you are a royal prince after all, how can you act like a rogue?" Of course Gao Yang, a shrewd girl, refused and pointed at Pheasant Slave angrily and scolded.  Gao Yang and Li Zhi were actually born in the same year, but Gao Yang's birth month was older than Li Zhi's, so she was Li Zhi's older sister.

    Li Zhi was really afraid of this shrewd young lady. When Gao Yang got angry, he immediately scared him to the point of losing all his rogue energy. He shrank his head and looked at Qinghe for help. Qinghe covered his money bag and said with a helpless expression: "I have nothing left.  There are not many bets left, if Gao Yang continues to win like this, this little money won¡¯t be able to support more than a few games.¡±

    "Sister Seventeen, how about I write an IOU?" When Li Zhi saw that Qinghe couldn't help him, he had no choice but to choose the last option.

    "It's not impossible to write an IOU, but" When Gao Yang said this, he rolled his eyes and looked at Li Zhi with a smirk on his face. Suddenly he stretched out his hand, snatched the jade pendant from Li Zhi's waist and said with a smile,  "But just leave this jade pendant with me first as a mortgage!"

    Li Zhi accidentally let Gao Yang succeed. He immediately became anxious and shouted loudly while grabbing it: "Sister Seventeen! Give it back to me! That was given to me by my father, I can't give it to you!"

      "No, this is a mortgage for the money you owe. I will give it to you after you repay the money." Gao Yang happily held up the jade pendant and danced to prevent Li Zhi from reaching it. Girls' bodies develop early, and Gao Yang's  He was half a head taller than Li Zhi, so Li Zhi couldn't get it no matter how hard he tried.

    While the two were fighting, a big hand suddenly reached out and took the jade pendant from Gao Yang's hand. No one in the pavilion except Li Min had the courage.  He took the jade pendant in his hand, looked at it, and smiled at Gao Yang: "Sister Qi, are you really greedy? You want to exchange it for a jade pendant for just a few cents?"

    "Tch~, I didn't say I wanted it, I just used it as a mortgage." Gao Yang tried to snatch it back from Li Min, but failed several times, so he replied with disdain.

    "Okay, isn't it just a few cents? Brother Six will pay it back for the pheasant slave." Li Min threw the jade pendant to Li Zhi and said to Gao Yang with a smile.

    "Humph, you are still rich, Sixth Brother. Unlike us sisters who have not left the palace, it is not easy for us to save private money." Gao Yang was still unwilling to get the jade pendant he had always wanted, but since Sixth Brother had agreed to pay for it,  When the pheasant slave paid the debt, she couldn't mess around, so she could only say sourly.

    "Thank you, Sixth Brother, you are my great benefactor!" Li Zhi took the jade pendant and rushed forward to hug Li Min's thigh in an exaggerated manner, with a grateful expression on his face.  But Li Min won't be fooled by this kid. Li Zhi is just a wallflower with no sense of moral integrity, and he might sell himself out at some point.

    "Gao Yang, from what you said, you seem to be short of money. What's going on?" Li Min turned to Gao Yang, who was still angry and asked. Ordinarily, the princes and princesses like them, even if they haven't left the palace to open a mansion,  But he shouldn't have to worry about money.

    Hearing Li Min ask about this matter, Qinghe's eyes suddenly brightened up next to him, and her eyes immediately turned to Li Min with a golden light. She ran to Li Min very affectionately, hugged Li Min's arm and said coquettishly: "  Sixth brother, you can¡¯t remember your life in the palace before. Princes and princesses like us in the palace have to pay for food and clothing from the palace, so they basically don¡¯t give us money. Sometimes we can only get money from our father.  I received some silver from my mother¡¯s reward, but it¡¯s not a lot. It¡¯s not even enough to reward the palace people, let alone buy anything?¡±

    "Yes, Sixth Brother, princes like us are better off. When we reach a certain age, we can leave the palace and build a mansion, and our monthly salary will be based on that of a first-grade prince. But like Sister Qinghe, as long as they are not married, they cannot build a mansion. Even though they are in the palace,  I have no worries about food and clothing, but I want to buy something I like, but I can't even get the money together." Li Zhi also began to express his bitterness. Although it was a bit exaggerated, most of it was the truth.

    Li Min didn¡¯t expect that the rules in the palace were quite strict. It probably had something to do with the fact that Empress Changsun was very strict with the management of the palace. Even the rules for the use of the princes and princesses were very strict. She probably didn¡¯t want their children to develop the habit of lavish spending.

    "Sixth brother, you are now a well-known rich man in the royal family. The Five Kings Drunk you created is a huge profit. I heard that the sales are very popular now. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as making a fortune every day. Can you do the same?  We younger brothers and sisters, for example, let us have some share or something, let us also make some small money to spend, so as not to have to collect money for several months to buy something." Qinghe is the oldest girl, and she is very thoughtful.  He was also the one who shook Li Min's arms and kept acting coquettishly.

    "Sister Eleven, you have a really big appetite. Don't even think about taking a share. After all, Brother Six doesn't own that winery. Uncle Wang Hejian and Uncle Wang Jiangxia both have shares in it. I heard last time  The eldest brother wanted to gain some share, but they both rejected him, so let's forget about it." Although Li Zhi is not old, he is very well-informed and even knows the last time Li Chengqian was rejected.

    "Um" Li Min was also a little embarrassed. There was no need to think about the winery. As long as Li Daozong, the miser, was around, no one could get involved, not even tea frying. That was the main source of the palace's expenses.  In addition to the Wang family's properties, he only has a coal mine that has not yet started construction, and there is no profitable industry at all.

    "Brother Six, please help us." Gao Yang, the annoying girl, also came up and hugged Li Min's arm and said coquettishly. Seeing that Li Min was a little embarrassed, the little girl added, "Actually, you don't need to earn too much money.  , as long as it covers our daily expenses.¡±

    Gao Yang's words reminded Li Min that Qinghe and the others usually only spent some money when they went out of the palace occasionally. In addition, they rewarded the palace people in the palace. In fact, each person didn't need much money at all. As long as they found a way to give  They just earn some pocket money.  Li Min immediately felt relaxed when he thought of this. When it came to ways to make small money, he had a lot of ideas, and there was one right in front of him. As long as it was done properly, it would definitely satisfy Qinghe and the others.

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