The backyard of Li Mansion.
Li Zexuan was pushing Lan'er on the swing when Xiao He suddenly ran over and said to Li Zexuan: "Master, Cheng Chumo, who had dinner with us yesterday, is here and is waiting for the master in the front hall. He said that you owe him a meal. Just waiting for you to treat him to dinner." At this point, Xiao He couldn't help but laugh.
Li Zexuan was stunned, almost forgetting that there was such a thing, but Cheng Chumo's stuff was really interesting, how could he go to other people's houses and ask others to treat him. However, Li Zexuan also likes this guy's straightforward temperament. He is better than those people who are friendly with you on the surface but stab you behind the scenes. Such brothers are worth making friends with.
Li Zexuan took Lan'er to the front hall and saw Cheng Chumo sitting there drinking tea. Hey, this guy really doesn’t regard himself as an outsider!
"Hey, why are Brother Chou Niu here today?" Li Zexuan said pretending to be confused.
When Cheng Chumo heard this, he stared blankly at Li Zexuan. This guy obviously owed him a meal and was still pretending to be confused. He didn't believe that the little maid didn't tell him why he came today when he went in to report. He really didn't expect him to be so thick-skinned. Li Zexuan is thicker-skinned than him.
He could say in private that Li Zexuan owed him food. Anyway, everyone in Chang'an's dandy circle knew that Cheng Chumo was a straightforward idiot, but now he couldn't say in front of others that I came to you to treat me to dinner, right? Cheng Chumo hummed there for a long time without knowing what to say, and his face turned red.
Li Zexuan didn't want to tease him anymore, so he quickly said: "Oh, yesterday I said that I would go to Zuixian Tower to treat Brother Chou Niu to KFC. I almost forgot. It's a sin. Let's go. Let's go to Zuixian Tower. KFC is today." For others, it’s a limited amount, but for Brother Chou Niu, he can eat as much as he wants, and just treat him as a younger brother to make amends to Brother Chou Niu.”
Cheng Chumo also knew that Li Zexuan was teasing him on purpose. A small joke between brothers usually didn't hurt, so he didn't take it to heart. When he heard the last sentence, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he instantly felt that the joke was worth it. If possible, he wouldn't mind Li Zexuan opening a few more with him.
He stepped forward and patted Li Zexuan hard on the shoulder, he laughed and said: "Brother, that's funny, haha. If you ask me, brother, you are good at everything, but you are too polite, but I, Lao Cheng, like it, haha!"
Li Zexuan was speechless. When he was watching the TV series "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" in his previous life, he often heard Cheng Yaojin calling this person Lao Cheng, and that person calling him Lao Cheng. Unexpectedly, his son also liked to call himself Lao Cheng. Li Zexuan was thinking, what if Cheng Yaojin If he were here, would Cheng Chumo still dare to call him Lao Cheng
Putting aside these messy thoughts, Li Zexuan took Lan'er and Cheng Chumo out of the house and saw a strong black horse at the door.
"Brother Chou Niu came here on horseback!" Li Zexuan originally wanted everyone to walk there together, but when he saw that Cheng Chumo came on horseback, he immediately had a problem.
"Aren't you talking nonsense? My home is so far away from yours. If I don't ride here, how long will it take to get here?" Cheng Chumo said angrily. Lu Guogong's mansion is in Huaidefang, west of the West Market. It is quite close to the West Market, but quite far from the Li Mansion. It is difficult for him to come all the way to have dinner with Li Zexuan early in the morning.
"Sambo, do we have a horse?" Li Zexuan had no choice but to ride over. Although he had never ridden a horse in his previous life, he now relied on his martial arts skills and did not believe that a horse could do anything to him.
"Yes, young master, I have raised several horses before. Sanbao will go and lead them for you right now." Sanbao quickly went to lead the horses for Li Zexuan.
After a while, Li Zexuan took Lan'er in his arms and rode together with Cheng Chumo, running towards the West City. In the Tang Dynasty, unlike other dynasties that followed, you could ride horses in Chang'an City.
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When he arrived at Zuixianlou, Li Zexuan was a little surprised to see a long queue outside. You must know that this was the first day KFC was on sale. But he didn't know that before they came, several groups of people ordered KFC at Zuixianlou. After eating it, it was naturally astonishingly delicious. However, a portion of KFC was only about ten pieces of chicken, which was not enough to eat, so he quickly asked the little boy to eat it. Two and one more.
The waiter could only say with a grimace that each table can only have one serving, and the entire Zuixian Tower is limited to two hundred servings a day.
This is very frustrating for those who have just finished eating KFC. After eating these crispy and delicious fried chicken nuggets, they immediately lose their appetite when they look at the other dishes on the table.
But there were also smart people among them. Seeing that there were not many people coming to Zuixian Tower for dinner at this time, they immediately paid their bills and went out to find the followers they had brought, and asked them to go back and find a few more servants. Then after the group came in, everyone Each person occupies a table and each orders a piece of KFC.
Of course, those servants will definitely not be able to eat, and they can only leave it to their master. This caused Zuixian Tower to be full and a queue formed outside. Some passers-by who didn't know what was going on inquired about it and joined the queue out of curiosity, and the queue became longer and longer.
West Market is always a place with dense crowds, so such a long queue naturally attracted everyone's attention, and everyone spread the word. In this way, KFC was completely popular on the first day it was launched.
Cheng Chumo looked at the long queue and couldn't help but feel a little dumbfounded. He was secretly glad that he had found Li Zexuan to eat with him, otherwise he would have had to wait in line so hard.
Don't think that because he is the son of Lu Guogong, he can jump in the queue casually. You must know that those who can spend money in Zuixian Tower are usually rich or noble. If he jumps in the queue and offends a second-generation censor or something, everyone will get into trouble. Naturally, it will be unavoidable. Being impeached, although the emperor won't do anything to you for such a trivial matter, but think about it from another perspective, do you think it's worth it for you to be reprimanded by the emperor for such a trivial matter
Li Zexuan doesn't have to queue up. He has to queue up when he goes to his own store. This doesn't make sense anywhere. So he directly took Lan'er, pulled the horse and Cheng Chumo directly around the crowd and walked towards Zuixian Tower.
"Hey, Brother Zexuan." Suddenly he heard someone in the team calling him. Li Zexuan quickly turned around and saw Li Chengqian pulling Li Lizhi towards them from the team.
"Oh, it turns out it's brother Gao Mingxian and sister Li Zhi. Did brother Gao Mingxian also come to Zuixianlou for dinner?" Li Zexuan stepped forward to say hello.
"Exactly, my brother and sister saw that Zuixianlou was quite popular in the West Market today. They seemed to have quit some new food and came to join in the fun."
"That's just right. If Brother Gao Ming doesn't mind it, why don't you come with us? To be honest, Brother Yu, this restaurant is the property of Brother Yu's family." Li Zexuan also felt that the second-generation official in front of him had no airs and was worth making friends with, so he invited him road. He didn't notice the ugly cow behind him, and saw Li Chengqian's expression change slightly.
"That's what I meant, let's go in together." After Li Chengqian returned to the palace yesterday, he asked people to check Li Zexuan's background. Naturally, he knew that this restaurant was the property of Li Zexuan's family. He was quite happy after seeing Li Zexuan just now and gave up decisively. I waited in line for a long time to catch Boss Li and went in for a big meal.
"Hey, Chou Niu, why are you with Brother Zexuan?" Li Chengqian spotted Cheng Chumo beside him and asked with a strange expression.
"Li Zexuan is the brother I just met yesterday. Today he invited me to drink." Cheng Chumo said matter-of-factly.
"Brother Chou Niu, do you know Gao Ming?" Li Zexuan asked with some confusion.
"Well, I know him because of my father's relationship in the family." Cheng Chumo saw that Li Zexuan didn't seem to know Li Chengqian's true identity, and it was difficult to clarify it for him at the moment, so he could only respond vaguely.
"Oh!" Li Zexuan exclaimed in sudden realization. It was not surprising that the two second-generation officials knew each other.
The group stopped talking nonsense and went straight into Zuixian Tower.
(End of chapter)