Chapter 369 Ceremony

With Long Aotian's words, the room was quiet. Whether it was Li Zhi, the Imperial Doctor, or the people watching the fun, they all looked at Wang Ping'an, wanting to see what kind of expression Wang Ping'an would have after victory.

Surprisingly, Wang Ping'an did not show an ecstatic expression, and his expression was still calm, as if he had been recognized as the number one in Chang'an medical skills, which was a trivial thing!

Wang Ping'an smiled slightly and said, "Where is Brother Long saying? Why do I call you Long Xiaoni? Your name is Aotian, not Xiaoni. I'd better call you Brother Long!"

Although Long Aotian has a weird personality and is extremely difficult to get along with, one thing is good. If he loses, he will lose. There is absolutely no such thing as not being able to afford to lose!

He shook his head and said, "Brother Wang, the people of Chang'an call you the best in medical skills. I am very dissatisfied, so I competed with you. Now that the competition has been lost, according to the agreement, if you call me Long Xiaoni, I will never be angry, just call me!"

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Wujian is the most generous person, so he won't call you Long Xiaoni!"

Ouyang Li also laughed from the side, and he said, "If you don't call you Long Xiaoni, if you want to call me, call you Long Xiaoni!" As he said that, he laughed.

Wang Ping'an shook his head and said, "Brother Long, you made a bet that you must have thought that the word Xiaoni was an insulting person, so he was so angry that he made such a bet with me. Since he knew that these two words would make you unhappy, how could I call you that way?"

Long Aotian's face improved, and he said, "It turns out that Brother Wang thought he was scolding me? You are so friendly, it's really rare!" After a pause, he said, "Actually, I was careful when making a bet. The word "Xiao Ni" does not mean insulting me..."

Wang Ping'an said oh, turned to look at Li Zhi. Li Zhi blinked his eyes and felt very strange. Long Aotian is such a proud person. The word Xiaoni is nothing to others, but to him, it is not an insult. What would it be?

Long Aotian took a deep breath and said with a little honesty: "My original name is not Aotian. I changed it myself after I was successful in medical skills. My real name when I was young... The real name is Xiao Ni!"

Everyone upstairs exclaimed in unison, "No, the famous Long Aotian is actually called Long Xiaoni?" Why haven't you heard of it before!

Li Zhi opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it, and said in surprise: "How could anyone call Xiao Ni in this world? Who gave you the name?"

Long Aotian said without any concealment: "What his parents originally named Gou Shenger, so such a name is easy to support. Dog Shenger and Dogs dislike them, and they all chose the remaining people, so the King of Hell would not want them. Later, when he met my mentor, he thought Gou Shenger was not elegant enough, so he named me Ni, with the name Xi Tu!"

Everyone upstairs said together. It turned out that his real name was Ni. I guess he was young, and his parents and master called him Xiao Ni. This kid seemed stupid, but he was actually very conscientious. His bet method was equivalent to losing, and it became the same as not losing!

Wang Ping'an smiled and shook his head. He really didn't expect that Long Aotian, such a coquettish person, had even been called Gou Sheng'er! But to be honest, the name Gou Sheng'er is very good. The parents' care for their children is fully demonstrated, in order to make the children live a healthy life and live a hundred years of life!

Li Zhi looked at Long Aotian and suddenly said, "So you are not stupid?"

Long Aotian laughed dryly and said, "Your Highness, why do you think I'm stupid?"

Wang Ping'an asked, "Brother Long, I guess your surname is not Long either? What is your surname?"

Long Aotian shook his head and said, "We didn't have any gambling names at the beginning, we just had a gambling name!"

Wang Ping'an shrugged and did not ask. Ouyang Li said, "Ni Long, I didn't have a gambling surname at the beginning, but I gambled and ran around the Chang'an city walls with bare shirts! How about it, are you running away now?"

Long Aotian smiled and said, "I never said I wouldn't run, but be careful, it's like betting on this table. I just said eating, and Wang Ping'an said that he could eat any time. So I said he ran with his shirtlessness, but I didn't say when he would run!"

Li Zhi clapped his hands and smiled and said, "I'm done. It's not just you who planned to cheat. Long Xiaoni is not stupid at all. He had already made plans. And he dared to guarantee that he planned to be earlier than you!"

Wang Ping'an laughed, reached out to hold Long Aotian's hand, and said, "Okay, okay, okay! Brother Long, I admire you, you just look a little muscular, but in fact there are so many more colorful things in this belly than me!"

"Give me a prize, a prize!" Long Aotian smiled and said, "Although I lost the bet, I have improved my medical skills. I know the usage of radish and croton, and I have also seen how you use moxibustion. To be honest, acupuncture is the weakest part of my medical skills. I didn't ask you today, so I taught me a trick!"

Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "No, you can't be so foolish. It's okay if you run around the city wall with bare arms, but you have to go to order a pan of oil. If you refuse to order, then I will give the order to let the guards strip you naked, throw you out of the city, and force you to run!"

When everyone on the upper floor heard such a lively look, they clapped and shouted, "Your Highness is wise, let him run away, and he must take off all his clothes and run away!"

Long Aotian was a little scared. He was not in a mood to care about outside affairs these days. He didn't know the Olympics. He heard that he wanted to have a oil pan. How could he not be afraid of such a dangerous thing?

Wang Ping'an looked out and said, "I've been busy for so long, it's getting late. If I rushed to Xuanwu Gate now, I guess it would be almost dark when I arrived at the city gate!"

He held Long Aotian's hand and smiled and said, "Brother Long, don't worry, Your Highness is joking with you. It's not the big oil pan that explodes, but a headlight, a big one!" He didn't know what the lamp looked like, and he didn't see the real thing, so he had to vaguely speak.

Long Aotian nodded then. Wang Ping'an's words were always clear. If he said there was no danger, it would definitely be no danger.

It’s strange that after being stimulated by Wang Ping’an’s “crazy”, Long Aotian actually felt close to Wang Ping’an. He didn’t accept anyone, but once he was convinced, he would listen to whatever he said. Like Li Zhi, he trusted Wang Ping’an very much. This may be related to Wang Ping’an’s always gentle and polite personality and able to consider others!

After looking at the people upstairs, Wang Ping'an said, "Let's just go here today. I know there are many patients coming to seek medical treatment today. Isn't it necessary to hold a race meeting? I can't take time... Otherwise, it's better to work harder on the first and fifteenth day of every month. The colleagues of the Imperial Medical Office work harder and do not charge the people for free for the treatment. They only prescribe prescriptions and ask the people to go to the pharmacy to buy. In this way, the people can get benefits, and the business of the pharmacy can be taken care of. What do you think, Your Highness?"

He didn't ask the imperial physicians, because there were too many people, and there were many thoughts. Maybe someone would object, and even hold a meeting to study it. That would be so troublesome. Just ask Li Zhi. Anyway, Li Zhi would agree to whatever he said, and he was quite obedient!

Sure enough, Li Zhi nodded and said, "Good idea, Wujian makes a lot of sense, just do it!"

The imperial physicians grinned and everyone thought to themselves: "I just knew you had no opinion. You said everything Wang Ping'an said, "It's very hard to have a free clinic!"

Wang Pingan grabbed Long Aotian and said, "Come on, Brother Long, let's accompany the prince to Xuanwu Gate. There will be a grand gathering there tonight. Let's accompany the prince to see!"

Long Aotian was reluctant to go, and he said, "I still have to go back for dialectics..."

Li Zhi smiled and said, "What are you going to tell me about the evidence? Let's go!" He also grabbed Long Aotian and Wang Ping'an, and almost carried Long Aotian downstairs.

Everyone upstairs saw that the competition ended. Although the result was not unexpected and the little miracle doctor Ping'an won a great victory, no one expected that in the last competition, Wang Ping'an cured Long Aotian. Everyone was talking, and followed them downstairs and rushed towards Xuanwu Gate.

Li Zhi and Wang Ping'an walked downstairs, and the people outside were watching the fun cheered together. Like the people in the building, they all thought that Wang Ping'an could win. This result was nothing unexpected. But what really made them excited was that grand Olympics was about to begin!

Li Zhi let go of Long Aotian and got on the carriage first. Wang Ping'an followed him with the same carriage. Li Zhi was more or less close to Long Aotian, so Long Aotian had to make the car he hired, followed the prince's carriage and rushed to Xuanwu Gate.

You cannot directly reach Xuanwu Gate from the East City. You must walk north through two yards, go east out of Tonghua Gate, and then walk around outside the city so that you can reach Xuanwu Gate. Although it is a little more troublesome, it is not too far!

After leaving Tonghua Gate, I saw countless people outside the city rushing towards Xuanwu Gate. The Olympics are a new thing, and everyone wants to see the excitement, so they naturally support the elderly and the young to watch the ignition ceremony. What does this ceremony mean? Few people understand, but if there is excitement, they have to watch it and must not be missed!

When the car arrived at Xuanwu Gate, Wang Ping'an and Li Zhi got out of the car and saw that Xuanwu Gate was decorated with lights. The sky was just getting dark, but countless big red lanterns had already been lit on the city tower. Behind the battlements, wooden frames were set up and long ropes were drawn. Each battlement had lanterns, countless battlements, and countless lanterns, which made the north wall of Chang'an bright, and the landscape was extremely beautiful!

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it has never been so luxurious. Even on the day of its founding, the late emperor Li Yuan was not willing to decorate this with lights and decorate. He had no money, and the world was not peaceful at that time! And he had never celebrated this way on the day of Li Shimin ascending the throne. At that time, the Turks invaded the border and almost fought to Chang'an, and they had no money or the mood to celebrate!

But Wang Ping'an came up with the Tang Dynasty. As soon as his idea came out, the court could almost be said to have money immediately, and the court had no need to buy anything. Countless merchants rushed to give money to the court like lanterns and candles. If these were purchased by the court alone, it would be a considerable expense. Li Shimin couldn't bear to spend money on building a palace for himself. How could he be willing to spend money on lanterns to embellish the peace!

Now, you don’t have to let go, because you don’t have to let go at all, you can get it directly!

On the city.

Li Shimin stood in the city tower, looking down with satisfaction, and behind him were all civil and military officials, Changsun Wuji was closest to him.

Li Shimin turned around and said, "Wuji, we have never been so lively in Chang'an!"

Changsun Wuji touched his beard and smiled, "Yes, even Yang Guang from the former Sui Dynasty was so extravagant that he was so angry that he was resentful, but he had not had so many lanterns. The prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty began!"

"It's beginning!" Li Shimin nodded slowly and said softly: "I have left behind great rivers and mountains for Zhier. The prosperity and glory of the times depends on him to create!"

Changsun Wuji said: "Your Majesty, why do you say that? The prosperous era is brilliant, why wait for the prince to create it? You can do it too!"

Li Shimin pressed his heart and wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything, just said, "I can do it, I can do it too!" He sighed softly.

Changsun Wuji was stunned for a moment, looked at the emperor's hand, and thought to himself: "What's wrong with the emperor? How come he suddenly said such words?"

Under the city.

When Long Aotian got off the carriage, he saw that there were crowds of people at the entrance of Xuanwu Gate. He could not count how many people came. Anyway, they looked all of them, and there were probably no one hundred thousand, or at least eighty thousand!

Looking at the bank of the moat, a wooden frame is erected high. This wooden frame is seven or eight feet tall, and is painted all over the body. The bright red paint can be seen. The frame is covered with red and green, and it is full of joy!

Under the wooden frame, there is a big drum, and the outside of the frame extends to both sides, and there are countless big drums!

On the top of the wooden rack is a large iron pot... No matter how you look at this large iron pot, it is used to cook people, and it definitely doesn't look like a lamp! Moreover, this large iron pot is actually cast in brass and is inlaid on the edge of the iron pot. It looks like it is the name of a business name, with the black pot and yellow characters, which is very conspicuous!

According to the appearance, Li Zhi said it was reliable, but Wang Ping'an said it was ridiculous. There was no such big lamp in the world! If the pot was filled with oil and then lit it, it would probably be possible to see the flames ten miles away!

Long Aotian walked towards Wang Ping'an, pointed to the big iron pot, and said, "Brother Wang, the headlight you mentioned is not this iron pot, right?"

Wang Ping'an was also looking up at the pot. He did not answer Long Aotian's words, but asked Li Zhi: "Your Highness, this lamp is too rough. Why do I look like a big pot that can cook for more than a hundred and dozens of people in the army?"

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Yes, it's just that kind of big pot. There is not enough time to make lights temporarily, so I used this big pot. The words on it were inlaid with the back. The lamp merchant said that he would add an equally large lamp afterwards, but now he can only use the pot to deal with it!"

After saying that, Li Zhi waved to the guards, and the guards immediately dismounted, ran under the wooden frame, and said a few words to the soldiers beside the drum!

The soldiers who were already ready picked up the drumsticks and beat the drums with a pounding sound!

As the drums rang, the lively people below slowly calmed down and rushed towards the wooden frames.

Everyone knows that since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the largest grand ceremony is about to begin!
Chapter completed!