"Your official has really eaten at home just now." County magistrate Liu stared at the plate of green vegetables in front of him, startled, and said, "Lord Li, I want to ask you..."
"I suddenly felt something just now, and I came across a poem, how about Master Liu to help me comment and analyze it?"
County magistrate Liu was stunned again, cupped his hands and said: "Master Li is the most talented scholar in the dynasty, his poetic talent is unparalleled, Liu's talent is poor, how dare he..."
Li Yi waved his hand and said, "It's just a communication. Don't underestimate yourself, Mr. Liu. It's nothing."
County Magistrate Liu had no choice but to cup his hands again and said, "Your Majesty, listen carefully."
Li Yi smiled and said: "I have traveled to some places in the early years, and I have been to a place called Chilechuan under the Yin Mountain."
"Yin Mountain?" County Magistrate Liu asked suspiciously, "Your Excellency, have you ever been to the northern country beyond the Great Wall?"
Li Yi nodded and said, "Chilechuan, that's a good place. When I saw this plate of green vegetables, I suddenly thought of the endless green grassland there, and I couldn't help feeling a little poetic. Magistrate Liu might as well listen..."
A thoughtful look appeared on Li Yi's face, and he spoke after a while: "Chilechuan, under the Yin Mountain. The sky is like a dome, covering the four fields..."
"Thousands of Yin Mountains, Chile Plain, the sky is vast and boundless, covering the wilderness in all directions..." After hearing the last sentence, County Magistrate Liu nodded and said: "Master Li really has read a lot. This poem has a broad realm and a majestic tone, which is quite similar to that of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. At the time, the feeling of northern folk songs... ”
"The sky is blue, the wild is vast..."
"These two sentences carry on, and the magnificence of the picture, the magnificence of the field..."
"I live next door and my surname is Wang."
"Ah..." County magistrate Liu was stunned for a moment, and said with some doubts: "The sky is blue and the fields are vast. I live next door and my surname is Wang?"
The previous sentence has been talking about the openness of the world, but this sentence turned too quickly, and the strong contrast made him not believe his ears for a while.
"Why, Master Liu thinks this sentence is not good?" Li Yi thought for a while, and then said: "Then change it, the sky is blue, the wild is vast—a branch of red apricot is about to come out of the wall, what does Master Liu think of this sentence?" ?”
"Mr. Li's poetic talent, the lower officials can't match it just in case." County magistrate Liu shook his head in shame, and said, "I just want to ask Mr. Li..."
He couldn't understand the deep meaning of such an obvious hint, so it seemed that he could only speak clearly.
Li Yi sighed, walked over, and said, "No matter what, the child is innocent. I can't help you with this matter. Master Liu, think twice."
County Magistrate Liu was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Could it be that if parents have single eyelids, it's true that they can't have a child with double eyelids?"
"Not necessarily..." Li Yi thought for a while, and said, "Double eyelids and single eyelids are both determined by genes. It stands to reason that it is impossible for parents with single eyelids to give birth to children with double eyelids, but there are no absolutes. Maybe the child Mercury is retrograde, Halley's Comet is also retrograde, and if you don't save Fei Krypton, you don't change your life, the autosomal sex chromosome gene mutation... and a double eyelid?"
Fortunately, after practicing martial arts, he deliberately exercised his body, and even his lung capacity has increased a lot. After talking a lot, Li Yi didn't take a breath. Li Yi took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then looked at County Magistrate Liu Asked: "Master Liu, did you understand?"
"Mercury, Comet, Xuan... Ke, dye... body?" County magistrate Liu looked at Li Yi in a daze, nodded and said, "I understand."
"Understood?" Li Yi looked at him in surprise, and said, "Since you understand, please tell me, Mr. Liu."
"..."
County Magistrate Liu coughed dryly and said, "Master Li means that parents with single eyelids are also very likely to give birth to a child with double eyelids..."
Under normal circumstances, what is the probability of a gene mutation controlling eyelids, one in a few million, or less, Li Yi is not sure, but another possibility is much bigger.
Li Yi nodded, and said, "It's pretty big, Jing Guo and Qi Guo, and maybe Zhao Guo... We should be able to make up two or three."
"Jing Guo, Qi Guo, Zhao Guo..." Magistrate Liu stood there dumbfounded as if he had been hit by a thunderbolt.
Seeing his dazed look, Li Yi sighed, and said, "Master Liu, the world is impermanent, you have to be strong..."
I don't know how long it took before County Magistrate Liu woke up from his trance, cupped his hands at Li Yi, and said, "Lord Li, I'm going to take my leave first."
Seeing him stumbling out, Li Yi glanced at Lao Fang and said, "Go and send Master Liu back."
Old Fang was holding the plate of green vegetables and eating fiercely. Hearing this, he raised his head and said, "He's such an adult, why should I send it to you? Don't you think so, Lao Liu?"
County magistrate Liu stepped over the threshold, swayed his body, turned his head and said, "Fang, brother Fang, you should see me off."
When Li Yi followed him out, a servant informed him that a member of the Ministry of Rites, Wailang, asked to see him.
An official walked in quickly, bowed and said: "My lord, the imperial concubine's birthday is approaching, and this official is here to send invitations..."
The royal rules are strict, and there are corresponding etiquette procedures for the concubine's birthday in the harem.
Concubine Cui's position as concubine in the palace is second only to that of the empress, so birthdays are naturally held every year. Of course, this does not require all officials to participate. According to the rules of previous years, on the day of the birthday banquet, Concubine Cui will be allowed to leave the palace and Relatives get together for half a day, and then rush back to the palace in the middle of the night.
This banquet was actually hosted by the Cui family.
Although Li Yi and the Cui family have always been at odds, with his current status, if there is any enmity, the Cui family still routinely sends him a copy of the invitation sent to all officials.
When the official from the Ministry of Rites saw Liu Dayou, he was stunned, and immediately said: "Master Liu is also here, but the provincial officials will come again."
He rummaged around, took out another invitation card, and handed it to County Magistrate Liu.
Although the official position of this capital magistrate is small, the power he holds now is not small and cannot be ignored.
When the official from the Ministry of Rites left, Li Yi saw County Magistrate Liu staring blankly at the invitation in his hand, and asked casually, "It's Concubine Cui's birthday, and Lord Liu is going too?"
"I was invited last year, and I went there once." County Magistrate Liu nodded and said, "It's not easy for me to shirk things like this..."
His eyes flickered, "This year, I'm afraid I have to go and see again."
Li Yi nodded and said, "I won't be going for Concubine Cui's birthday, but the gift still has to be delivered. You said... 50 eggs, isn't it a bit too much?"
The Cui family was cheated out of millions of taels of silver just now, and it has not been long since, how could they have spare money to hold a grand birthday banquet for Concubine Cui Gui, the gift was too heavy, but they couldn’t get it back...
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"Okay, it's time to go to the yamen, Lao Liu, go in by yourself." The carriage stopped at the entrance of the yamen, and Lao Fang jumped out of the carriage and waved his hands, "I have to go to Qunyu Yuan to discuss a big business, so I won't go in it's..."
He shook his head with some doubts. When he was leaving, my uncle specifically told him to look at County Magistrate Liu and not let County Magistrate Liu do anything stupid. He is a big man, and he is still a county magistrate, so he can do stupid things. …
In the back of the county government office, in a quiet small courtyard, County Magistrate Liu was lying on a recliner, holding the invitation card in his hand, staring at something blankly.
It was a small garden.
My wife likes red narcissus, Erniang likes yellow chrysanthemums, and the unnamed blue flower next to it was transplanted by my daughter a few days ago.
However, at this moment, all he saw was black.
Because the sky is falling.