On March 3, the weather is fresh, and there are many beauties by the water in Chang'an. The Shangsi Festival on March 3 was originally a day for purification, that is, bathing by the water to drive away illness and pray for well-being. Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it has gradually faded out of the officialdom and the people, giving way to Qingming. However, after Emperor Taizu of this dynasty ascended the throne, he re-advocated the ancient ritual of Qushui Liushang and feasting by the river, so this festival has been preserved.
But as time went by, the waterside feast gradually turned into a spring feast or an outing. So, on March 3rd, the court officials took a day off, the government stopped working, and even the students of the Imperial Academy got a day off.
On this day when everyone in the city was wearing light spring clothes and going outing or feasting, Zhang Shou did not ask Zhu Ying out for a trip. It was not because he did not want to, nor was it because he did not have time, but because Zhu Ying did not have time. Although this was a very rare thing, Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying met every few days. Even if there was no marriage certificate, the marriage was already a foregone conclusion, so he was not in a hurry.
Therefore, on this Shangsi Festival, he went to the house that Lu Sanlang had invested in but registered under his own name, which was a combination of a blacksmith shop and a carpenter shop. It was not until the afternoon that he came out, breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned his head to look at Ah Liu next to him.
"You and Guan Qiu are really good together! You sold such a simple cotton candy machine for a thousand strings of cash."
Although sugarcane is widely planted in various suitable areas in the south under the promotion of Emperor Taizu, so that sugar is no longer a luxury, compared with the sugar needed for seasonings and various sweet soups, cotton candy is definitely a luxury. Therefore, when Guan Qiu just carefully told him that the cotton candy machine was sold, he was quite surprised.
What's more, after he and Lu Sanlang teamed up to cheat the eldest prince, he didn't think that anyone would buy the machines made by his people. Aren't they afraid that he would submit the blueprints to his superiors in a blink of an eye, and then lose both their money and their lives
Seeing Ah Liu's innocent expression, as if he didn't understand anything, he asked unhappily, "Stop pretending! This is the money you two earned, and I won't share it with you! You too, stop using it to supplement the family income, and you should also think about getting married! Tell me, who did you sell it to? It wasn't a forced sale, was it?"
It wasn't that Zhang Shou was paranoid, it was just that Ah Liu was too resolute. In February, there were more than a dozen cleaning servants in his Luwang Villa, and no one knew where they came from. Then half a month later, he got a detailed blueprint of various secret rooms and tunnels from Ah Liu, which were of course built in the past.
The most frightening thing was that some of these secret rooms and tunnels had been surveyed and cleaned by the royal family long ago, clearly in preparation for his future use. However, many of them were found to be in a mess after they were opened, and there were even bones in them! After listening to Ah Liu's detailed report, he couldn't help but twitch his eyelids, and almost planned to order all these secret rooms and tunnels to be filled up.
But this would inevitably make him look like he was hiding something, and he once considered discussing with the emperor whether he could change his house. But when he told Zhu Ying about it, Miss Zhu promised to go to the palace to talk to the emperor and the empress dowager, and then brought him a message.