The longevity peach of Taiyuan Prefecture weighs about half a catty.

  "It's said that it was made according to the rules of the palace and the Jiang family in Mingzhou for sending longevity peaches." Lu Yi seemed to be responding to Li Wenshan, but his eyes were fixed on Qin Wang.

  The King of Qin used his folding fan to gently push away the longevity peach, and there was no discernible expression on his face.

  Jin Zuo Yan picked one up, turned it around in a circle, opened it, and found a red date wrapped inside the peach bun.

  Gu Liu took half of the longevity peach from Jin Zhe's hand, pinched off a small piece, smelled it, and then rubbed it again. He put it under his nose to smell carefully, and his mouth drooped down at the corner, "It's just a white-faced mantou."

  "White-faced jujube kernel small steamed bun." Jin Zhiyan picked out the jujube, held it up to take a look, and together with half of the longevity peach, threw them onto the fine cloth.

  The King of Qin lifted his legs, gently swaying the folding fan with a hint of coldness, and smiled as he watched Jin Zuyan and Gu Liu scrutinize the longevity peach.

  Li Wenshan looked bewildered, what rules does the longevity peach have? This longevity peach is not a white-faced small steamed bun, what else can it be? Right, it should be a white-faced big steamed bun, half a catty each.

  Li Xia leaned against Wu Ge's side, biting a piece of red bean cake, lowering her eyelids, and listened intently to the words of Qin Wang and others.

  This Shou Tao, roughly also has other rules here in Jiang Huang Hou's place.

  Apart from Jiang Huanghou, the palace sent longevity peaches, each weighing half a catty. The dough for making longevity peaches must be kneaded with sufficient oil and pastry. There were no jujube cores.

  This custom of giving longevity peaches originated from Empress Dowager Li, the mother of Emperor Taizu. She said that those who came to receive the longevity peaches were all poor people, and each peach was half a catty, wrapped in oil pastry. Those poor people would take one or two back home, and it would be enough for a family to have a good meal together.

  The palace has such a rule, the ancient family, the Jin family, the Li family, the Zheng family, the Zhou family... many families are like this, only in Jiang Huanghou... it seems that after the crown prince was established, when Jiang Huanghou celebrated her birthday, the longevity peach became like this.

  However, Empress Jiang sent birthday peaches for several years in a row...

  "Is the longevity peach of Taiyuan Prefecture also half a catty each?" Lu Yi asked Li Wenshan, who looked puzzled, and Li Wenshan hastily nodded.

  "In the capital city, most families send longevity peaches that are half a catty each, and lard is also added to the dough. Do the longevity peaches from Taiyuan Prefecture have lard?" Lu Yi explained with a smile, then asked another question.

  Li Wenshan nodded, "Among them, the peaches from Delong Old Shop are the sweetest."

  "That's our home." Gu Liu hastily added a sentence.

  "I heard that in the past, these longevity peaches were half a catty each, with plenty of lard and pastry, originating from the Gu family..."

  "Exactly!" Lu Yi's words were cut off by Gu Liu, who looked very pleased with himself. "That was the rule in the imperial court back then too. The palace also followed the same tradition of giving out half a catty of longevity peaches for each person, and it was actually our family that started this custom."

  The King of Qin, with a proud and pleased expression on his face, slightly raised an eyebrow, pulled down the corners of his mouth, and then again, used the folding fan in his hand to gently push the package of longevity peaches to one side, stood up, "Let's go, take a look at the scenery of the lake and mountains, and dispel the stagnant air."

  "You go first, I need to take A Xia to buy a few pens." Li Wenshan hastily chimed in.

  The King of Qin stopped abruptly, turned his head and slanted his eyes at Li Wenshan, whose face had turned pale with anxiety. "You and your sister, how did you get here? On horseback?"

  Li Wenshan hastily nodded, "Right, a horse is coming. Buy the pen well, I'll go to Qingfeng Building to find you, in a moment, just a moment!"

  "Where's the horse? I didn't see it at the entrance of the shop just now, and where's your paulownia tree? Has it arrived?" Qin Wang turned around to face Li Wenshan.

  "The horse has been put in Mr. 's residence, the phoenix tree hasn't come, he can't be empty..." Li Wenshan had a few points of inexplicable confusion, what's the point of asking this?

  "So how are you going to get to Qingfeng Building later? Qingfeng Building is by the West Lake, it's not close from here, what are you going to do? Are you planning on carrying your sister there or running there?" Qin Wang looked down at a piece of red bean cake that Li Xia had been nibbling on since she came in.

  "This... " Li Wenshan scratched his head, he hadn't thought of this, a place like Qingfeng Building, he had never been there even once. "Let's rent a car and go over in a bit."

  They often hired cars in Taiyuan Prefecture.

  "Hire a car?" Gu Liu exclaimed in surprise, "How dirty!"

  Before he could utter another word, he was picked up by Lu Yi and placed to one side.

  "Then hire a clean one, it's just spending a bit more money. When we were in Taiyuan Prefecture, we always hired cars. That big car needs both horses and people, which family has nothing to do with raising a big car!" Li Wenshan glared at Gu Liu, retorting back.

  The King of Qin turned his head away, his shoulders shaking with laughter. Jin Xian's mouth twitched upwards at the corner as he gazed at Gu Liu with a pained expression.

  Lu Yi desperately held back his laughter, and with a sudden push, he shoved Gu Liu, who was about to turn around and leave, looking at Li Wenshan, wanting to speak but unable to get the words out due to being choked with laughter.

  Li Xia stuffed the remaining half of the red bean cake into her mouth, and her grandfather said that such a fifth brother was not upright, jealous of others' wealth and honor, and could not be promoted...

  "You..." Qin Wang spoke up, "Don't hire a carriage, Qingfeng Tower is quite far away... cough, cough." Qin Wang didn't know if he was choked or something else, and he coughed several times with a serious face. "It's really quite far, hiring a carriage will cost a lot of money, it's expensive. I think we should do this: you go buy things, we'll wait for you outside, and give you a horse to ride together. We can save some money if possible, every penny counts. What do you say?"

  Gu Liu burst out laughing, "Right right right! We'll wait for you outside and take you and A Xia over. Every penny counts!"

  Li Wenshan looked at Qin Wang, then glanced at Gu Liu again, and looked at Jin Zhiyan who was staring out the window in a daze. He nodded, "That's fine too."

  This is laughing at him for being poor and stingy, he knows, but what's so funny about it? What's the big deal about being poor? It's not like it's shameful, being stingy... He doesn't have money, of course he has to be stingy!

  A Xia is right, these few princes who only know how to eat, drink and have fun are the biggest things in life, can't be measured by ordinary standards!

  Li Wenshan led Li Xia, and together with the crowd, they came out. Qin Wang and others didn't go over, but waited at the entrance of Xiangji Silver Building. Li Wenshan led Li Xia into the adjacent Wenfang Pawnshop.

  As soon as they entered the shop, the shopkeeper hurried over to greet them and led Li Wenshan and Li Xia inside. "Mr. Li, please this way. The things you wanted are all ready, just waiting for your inspection before we wrap them up."

  Li Wenshan was taken aback, but when he looked up, he saw Chengying standing at the corner of the desk with his hands hanging down, slightly bowing to him. He immediately understood that this must have been arranged by General Lu.

  Li Xia glanced at Cheng Ying, lowered her eyelids, and felt a warm, soft ache in her heart, her eyes stinging with tears.

  Her Imperial Guards were all commanded by...

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