"Teacher! Is something good happening today? You look awfully happy!"
"Hehe! Ah Gan! Today, I managed to get myself a pretty good assignment. You could say I've been promoted to a slightly higher post!"
The sun was setting!
Li Chengqian, disguised as Li Gan, was following beside Li Shande as the two of them walked through the streets of Chang'an during the Tianbao Era!
"Teacher, you got promoted? Is it a big promotion? What assignment did you take?"
Upon hearing Li Shande's answer, Li Chengqian could not help but grow curious!
Could it be the assignment he had been waiting for all along?
"It's not really any particularly important assignment!"
"It's just that His Majesty and Consort Yang wanted to eat lychee preserves, so they put me in charge of procuring them. They even granted me the title of Lychee Envoy!"
Hearing Li Shande's reply beside him, Li Chengqian's brow instantly rose. Just as Qing Mo had said, the task of transporting lychees had truly arrived!
But why was it lychee preserves rather than fresh lychees?
Could there have been some mistake?
"Teacher! Are you sure the order says for you to procure lychee preserves? Not... fresh lychees?"
Still somewhat uncertain, Li Chengqian looked at Li Shande with a trace of doubt in his eyes!
"Fresh lychees? Ah Gan, you really dare to dream!"
"Fresh lychees only grow in Lingnan and the Sichuan-Chongqing region, and Lingnan alone is five thousand li from Chang'an!"
"If you truly wanted to eat fresh lychees in Chang'an, then even if they were rushed along by galloping horses, by the time they made it from Lingnan to Chang'an, they would surely have all rotted away!"
Hearing "Li Gan's" words, Li Shande was first taken aback, then shook his head with a light laugh!
"Then, Teacher,