Chapter 58 Traveling to Chang'an

Wei Chi's plan was proposed and he received the promise of His Majesty Li Er's full support. In some flaws, His Majesty Li Er gave correct guidance and suggestions. Of course, Wei Chi had only nodded. People are more important than knowing themselves. Conspiracy theories are his weaknesses. After the plan was passed, the rest was implemented. In order to better let Lu Dongzan understand the Tang Dynasty, in the Tang Dynasty, "eat fun and drink well, don't run around after the end", His Majesty Li Er, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, specially formed a reception group, and Wei Chi was also on the list of the reception group. In this regard, Wei Chi privately believed that the reception group was the official statement. The real situation was that they were the new era of accompanying food, drink and play.

On the first day after the imperial banquet, Ying Lu Dongzan admired the Tang Dynasty. Qin Wei, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Dynasty and the leader of the "Three Accompaniment" group, accompanied Lu Dongzan to visit Chang'an, and Wei Chi, the member of the group. The tour itinerary fully referenced Comrade Lu Dongzan's request. The first day I visited Chang'an City.

Early in the morning, the two brothers went to the restaurant where Lu Dongzan lived, but they were not wearing official uniforms and dressed in casual clothes. Seeing this, Lu Dongzan quickly asked if he needed to change his clothes. Qin Wei smiled and said, "Da Xiang, you are a guest. Your official uniform is not like our Tang Dynasty. People don't know it, so there is no need to be like us. Lord Wei and I dressed like this, so that Da Xiang can better visit Chang'an, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble because of our identities. Da Xiang, if you prepare well, please."

Lu Dongzan nodded, and saw that Qin Wei and Wei Chi had only two people with him. He also followed them, and took two guards and followed them. Lu Dongzan's travel hall was closer to Dongzan, and the group went to Dongzan first. Although the Tang Dynasty Chang'an is not all foreigners, there are quite a lot of foreigners. Wei Chi and Qin Wei were wearing casual clothes, so they could only tell that their identities were not bad. In this Dongzan, there were many people wearing this kind of dress. Lu Dongzan and his party were wearing furs, long robes, and a scimitar covered with gems hanging on their waists, but only occasionally people looked at them and did not pay special attention. Obviously, everyone was used to foreigners. Lu Dongzan understood why Qin Wei asked him not to change clothes because there was no need to change them at all.

Walking around the street casually, occasionally seeing things that are of interest, Lu Dongzan would ask the accompanying people to buy them, and Wei Chi would pay behind them. Of course, this is the cost of public funds. Seeing Wei Chi paying, Lu Dongzan said strangely: "Do you nobles of the Tang Dynasty still need to pay for these things? In our Tubo, everything is aristocrats. The serfs give us things, which is the supreme glory."

He was quite proud of his words. Wei Chi said with a smile: "I have heard what the great minister said below. I heard that in Tubo, there is no money, and bartering. Serfs have been slaves of nobles for generations, and all their outputs are nobles."

Lu Dongzan has not yet agreed, and Qin Wei continued: "I have heard what Lord Wei said. It seems that the regions, ethnic groups, cultures, and lifestyles are also different. Since the First Emperor unified the six kingdoms, slavery system has perished. Now, it has been nearly a thousand years."

Qin Wei sighed a little, and after sighing, he only expressed his apology expression on his face and praised Lu Dong: "I am very sorry, Da Xiang, I sighed for a moment, I am neglecting Da Xiang, please do not blame me."

Lu Dongzan said, "It's okay, we Tubo people are straightforward. We are not as polite as you Tang people, so why do you neglect them? Please continue to take Lu Dongzan to another place to see."

After a morning shopping in the East City, I bought a lot of things, so I directly found a carriage and asked the guard to send it back. Qin Wei said, "Daxiang, it's almost noon, so I guess Daxiang is already hungry, right? The restaurant in front is the most famous restaurant in Chang'an City. At noon today, I will entertain Daxiang here and invite Daxiang to taste the delicious food of my Tang Dynasty."

Lu Dongzan patted his belly and smiled and said, "I was fortunate to taste the imperial banquet in the palace yesterday. Today I can come to taste folk food. Lord Qin is willing, so Lu Dongzan is disrespectful, please."

Wei Chi also followed him to his restaurant. Of course, he came more often, and the restaurant's staff had been told about everything. When Wei Chi came, he was also treated like ordinary people and could not reveal his identity. After going to the restaurant, he directly asked for a private room. The staff gave him a menu with exquisitely prepared and well-trained introduction to everyone's dishes today.

Qin Wei and Wei Chi are both regular customers. Qin Wei flipped through the menu and asked: "What kind of dishes are there for Guilou today?"

The guy said politely: "Returning to the guest, I slaughtered a fresh lamb in the kitchen today, so today's main dish is small to recommend roast lamb legs to all guests..."

The guy talked about a skewer dish about mutton and asked Lu Dongzan. Lu Dongzan was obviously interested in the mutton of the Tang Dynasty and said he wanted to try it out and see what was different from their Tubo. At that moment, Qin Wei ordered roast lamb legs and several other dishes. Looking at the number of people, he guarded a table, Lu Dongzan and others had a table, and according to the number of people, he brought five dishes and one soup.

It’s not a bragging thing to do when you order food. When you order food, you will specifically explain that you will take into account the taste of Lu Dongzan. You are satisfied with the food and clamoring to come to the restaurant for dinner in the future. Qin Wei and Wei Chi looked at each other without any trace, without saying anything.

After dinner, I continued to visit Xishi. Compared to Dongshi, Xishi was much more lively. There were many places like the restaurants and other folk craftsmen, and the shouts and hawking sounds were mixed together. Although it was a bit noisy, it also had a unique atmosphere.

Lu Dongzan was stunned when he saw it. If the East City was a place where wealthy people gathered, then the West City was a place for ordinary people, with all kinds of things and all kinds of daily necessities. Lu Dongzan said with admiration: "If you want to know the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, you don't have to go anywhere. Just go around the East City and West City to understand that it is really a country of the Heavenly Kingdom, which is truly admirable."

There was nothing to buy in the West Market. Lu Dongzan just strolled the streets, stayed at the place where the four treasures of the study were sold, and even copied someone to take a handful of white noodles in the place where the rice and white noodles were sold. He looked at ordinary people with a smile and bought rice and noodles from the store. He looked at the smiles on everyone's faces and was stunned for a long time. However, there was no depressed look between his eyebrows, but instead he was determined, with thick lips tightly pursed, and he wandered silently for an afternoon. When Qin Wei called him back, he was still feeling a little unfulfilled.

He sent Lu Dongzan back to the hotel, Qin Wei and Wei Chi went back together. Because they had to do the job of the reception group these days, and the old men and women missed each other, Xie Jiu and his two children came here together. Currently, the family of four in the Wei Mansion lives in Qin Mansion.

"Today, let Na Lu Dongzan experience the prosperity of my Tang Dynasty. Tomorrow, according to the itinerary, I will take him to the Imperial Guards."

Under the sunset, Qin Wei and Wei Chi rode on horseback and slowly returned home together. Qin Wei said lightly. Wei Chi replied with a wicked smile: "Well, it's time to see the army. With Your Majesty's style, tomorrow is worth looking forward to. However, we are just a foil. Don't worry, let's continue to worry about how to continue to praise Lu Dong's hint that "We in the Tang Dynasty know Tubo very well". In short, we just want to make Ya think that we are familiar with every grass and tree in Tubo as if we are our own backyard."

Qin Wei laughed and said excitedly: "Where is there any place that needs Brother Yu to cooperate? You need to give it a little earlier."

"Don't worry, brother, we both cooperated well today and continued tomorrow."

The two brothers went back with a chat and laugh. As soon as they entered the house, they handed the reins to the servants, and they flicked them all over the dust, and went back to the backyard to change their clothes. Xie Jiu was not in the backyard, so he probably took the children with the two old ladies. Wei Chi changed his clothes and went out to find someone, and greeted the old ladies by the way.

A group of women, both young and old, sat under the shade of the tree, playing chess and playing mahjong, Xie Jiu, godmother, adopted mother, and Qin Wei's wife, four of them gathered together. The little girl from Niu Niu also came, helping to take care of the two children, and helping the old lady adviser. Wei Chi opened her throat as soon as she arrived at the door, "Godmother, adopted mother, the child is back, how much has the godmother won today?"

Everyone was used to his lively nature. When he was away, the family seemed much deserted. When Wei Chi came back, it seemed like there were several more people. It was very lively and very popular with the two old ladies. When Wei Chi came in, he smiled and said, "Silang is back. Come here quickly and help my godmother take a look. Your adopted mother has Niu Niu. That little girl is a personal sperm, but she has won a lot of money from me."

"Dad, hug!" Qiqi, who was in Xie Jiu's arms, immediately rubbed off Xie Jiu's body and ran towards his father with his little hand. Wei Chi hurriedly hugged the daughter who rushed over, put it on her little face, and then sat down behind her godmother, lifted up her sleeves, and began to fulfill her responsibilities and obligations as a staff officer. Perhaps Wei Chi was really standing on the side of the goddess of luck today. Occasionally, under the instigation of his godmother, he helped to touch a card, but it happened to be the one he called, which made the old lady laugh and wrinkles on her face. He kept praising Wei Chi as a golden hand and her little god of wealth, and gave her a card as soon as she came.

Wei Chi was also very happy. He accepted the title of the Little God of Wealth and helped him with enthusiasm to continue his advice. He was so desperate that he even gave him several tricks, allowing his adopted mother and sister-in-law to make a joke. However, he was thick-skinned. Compared with the pleasure of winning cards, these jokes were nothing but worth mentioning.

Just after the sister-in-law fired another shot, Niu Niu, who was sitting behind her, suddenly smiled at Wei Chi and said to Lin Lin, who was holding a piece of dried meat in her arms, "Xiao Lin'er, sister will give you another piece of dried meat, can you lend your father to sister?"

Lin Lin looked at his father holding his sister, then looked at the jerky meat in his hand, stretched out his chubby little hand, his big eyes were shiny, and said in a slight voice: "Sister, give Lin Lin Duoduo's jerky meat, Dad will give it to you!"

As soon as these innocent words came out, the people present laughed. The father, who was replaced by a few pieces of flesh by his son, was full of laughter and resentment. It turned out that in his son's eyes, he was not as good as a few pieces of jerky. He smiled helplessly and glared at Niu Niu, which was the little girl's pretty smile. However, the teasing in his eyes was also very obvious. The stinky girl was so bad.

Wei Chi is not someone who is willing to suffer losses. Of course, she has to take revenge. She simply teased Niu Niu's bad behavior in order to please her future mother-in-law, and called on everyone to contempt and despise her. This joke made the little girl shy and annoyed. If she hadn't expected that her future mother-in-law would have retorted, she would have been used to being big or small with Wei Chi, but when she was with her future mother-in-law, her image had to be taken into account.

Seeing the little girl being defeated, Wei Chi was given another exclamation. When the servants came to call for dinner, they helped their godmother make a few more fools. A group of people talked and laughed, ate dinner noisy, and walked around the Qin Mansion garden to exercise after meals. However, Wei Chi did not participate. They spent the whole day shopping with Lu Dongzan. The legs hurt like they were not their own. It hurts when they pressed them casually, and their heels were numb. To coax the children to sleep, Wei Chi soaked her feet in hot water and cooked some medicine to relieve fatigue. Xie Jiu washed his hands and helped him with massage. He would continue to accompany him tomorrow, but it would be fine if he didn't have a day. Wei Chi enjoyed the occasional friendly service of the Taizu Man, rubbed his chin and sighed: "It turns out that men are crazy about shopping, not much worse than women. Lu Dongzan is so good at shopping, so I'm so tired."

Xie Jiu smiled slightly, without saying anything, and was massaged attentively. After being pressed sorely and painfully, Wei Chi could only divert his attention and started to chant. As he was reciting, he talked about Lin Lin’s “bold words” today. Wei Chi said: “It’s pitiful, it hurts so much that he hurts. He sold his father for a few pieces of dried meat. He was a little bitch! But it’s much better than me.”

Wei Chi's last nagging aroused Xie Jiu's interest and asked curiously: "What do you say? Have you done this too?"

Wei Chi rolled his eyes and said, "Who hasn't done such a stupid thing when he was a child? I remember back then, my dad's friend used two hawthorn balls to make me shout and knock down xxx. I forgot to say that xxx is the name of my dad and my mom, hahaha..."

Recalling his innocent childhood, Wei Chi was quite happy and giggled. Xie Jiu also laughed and said with a smile: "It turns out that our Lin Lin's stupid words today are also genetic factors."

Wei Chi was choked and his smile was on his face. Facing Xie Jiu's beautiful smile, a man howled: "Yaya, you bah, you actually make fun of me like this. You dare to laugh at the imperial court officials. What should you blame!"

As he said that, a tiger jumped over, grabbed Xie Jiu and started scratching. Then, a string of laughter and screams came out, but it seemed that it was too much. There was only a "bang" and a "bad", and it seemed... maybe... a man kicked over the basin of the foot soaking! So the lion living in the east of the river began to shout: "Wei Chi, you are causing trouble, wipe the floor!"
Chapter completed!