As soon as Zhao Liexian entered the room, Li Chengfeng felt a strong "anger" coming towards him.
Nothing else, because what this guy wears is really too sexy. Zhao Liexian wears a purple gold crown with hair and jewels on it, a pair of dragon beads on his forehead, a two-color gold dress with red arrow sleeves with hundreds of butterflies on his upper body, and a multicolored silk tied with flowers and long tassels around his waist. The palace sash was covered with an eight-piece Japanese forged tasseled gown with azure flowers, and green satin powder-soled court boots were worn at the feet. At the same time, as he came in, a thick smell of makeup and powder hit his face.
In Li Chengfeng's eyes, he always felt that Zhao Liexian, the fourth prince, seemed to be clearly distinguished from his third brother Zhao Hanqing, so his dress, words and deeds were almost the opposite extremes from Zhao Hanqing.
Zhao Hanqing lives a frugal life. As a prince of a country and a prince who travels around all year round, he only changes into two or three sets of clothes at most a year. Sometimes he walks next to Zhao Hanqing. When he walks with him, Li Chengfeng can even see Down to the patches on the lining of his clothes, and even the clothes Zhao Hanqing was wearing were made of the most ordinary materials and styles. There were no bright colors or fancy patterns. He was the most luxurious. Yes, it's the goldfish bag he sometimes hangs around his waist.
But Zhao Liexian was completely different. The clothes he wore at all times were the most expensive. They were made of fine materials, exquisite workmanship, exquisite patterns, and novel styles. Moreover, unlike the prince who never dressed himself up or put on makeup, He likes to make juice and apply powder very much, and this is what Shilin and the literati like to do the most.
Here, makeup is not a woman’s exclusive privilege.
If compared, Zhao Hanqing is like an ordinary bastard from an aristocratic family, living a low-key life every day for his own survival and status, while Zhao Liexian is more like a prince who is extraordinary and respected at first glance.
After Zhao Lie entered the room, he didn't even look at Li Chengfeng or the two central government officials Jing Shaoyin and Jing Zhaoyin sitting next to him. He sat next to Zhao Hanqing with a smile and glanced at the simple table on the table. After eating four dishes and two soups, he said: "Brother, you have made a fortune this time, why are you still so stingy? Are you treating yourself too badly? How can the people under you live if you are so stingy?"
Zhao Lie first said something hidden in his words, which looked like a playful smile, but in fact he was hiding something: You, the prince, are so stingy and frugal, what will the people below do? Do they dare to be greedy? As the saying goes, one has to be an official for thousands of miles in order to make money. He studied hard for ten years and finally passed the exam. Why is he working for your brother the prince just to eat chaffy vegetables every day
Zhao Hanqing was not willing to argue with his brother about these things. As the saying goes, there is no mutual agreement. He smiled slightly and said: "We have already finished eating, but you are late."
Zhao Liexian said with a smile: "Anyway, since I'm here, the dinner has just begun! If I can't eat, then everyone's next meal will be in doubt, and I will have to go to my brother's house to beg for food!"
Zhao Hanqing smiled and said: "Then let your sister-in-law prepare more. But the fourth brother has to eat this meal alone. Don't order too much. It would be bad if you can't finish it and waste it."
Zhao Lie first smiled and said: "No, no, I have a big appetite and will never waste it. But my brother ate this table of food cleanly!"
Zhao Hanqing smiled and said: "After all, I'm not the only one at this table."
Only then did Zhao Liexian seem to see Li Chengfeng and others. He looked at Jing Zhaoyin and Jing Shaoyin in surprise and said, "Aren't these the two adults, Jing Zhaoyin and Jing Shaoyin? When did the two adults arrive?"
Jing Zhaoyin and Jing Shaoyin were sweating on the sidelines. They had been involved in official circles for many years, and they clearly heard the wit in the conversation between the two princes.
Others thought this was just ordinary chatter between the two brothers, but the two of them knew what it meant.
The translation is: Brother, you have made a fortune this time, so stop pretending, right? If you do this, the people under your command will be careful to rebel!
Brother, stop talking nonsense. All the profits from this game have been shared, and it’s not your share.
Brother, what you said is wrong. How can you not play with me? If you don't play with me, I'll overturn the table.
Brother, if you want the Overlord to take the bow, don't act recklessly, or you won't be able to eat it.
Brother, I have a very good appetite, so I can definitely eat it. But brother, you are greedy enough to eat nothing and leave no way for others.
Brother, why don’t you take a look at the people involved
Hearing this, Zhao Liexian pretended to be surprised at these two seemingly powerful parents of Shenjing. The implication was: Who do you think you are? go away!
Indeed, for the common people in Shenjing, Jing Zhaoyin and Jing Shaoyin can be said to be the two great gods of Shenjing. If you offend them, you will not be able to live in Shenjing. Even if the eight leaders hear Jing Zhaoyin and Jing Shaoyin Even if you invite me, I don't dare to put on airs and refuse to go.
But for someone like Zhao Hanqing, these two... are really not in his eyes.
In the eyes of little people, they are gods, but in the eyes of big people, they are just... scapegoats.
The two of them exchanged wits in the midst of plain banter. Li Chengfeng sat there and waited for Jing Zhaoyin and Jing Shaoyin to greet each other, and when Zhao Lie talked about himself first, he then stepped forward to greet them.
But Zhao Liexian ignored Li Chengfeng, and just yelled at the maid standing nearby: "You bastard, why don't you bow to me when you see me!"
The maid was so frightened that she knelt down trembling all over. She cried out in an extremely unjust tone: "I have seen His Highness Prince Ping. His Highness is a thousand years old..."
She thought to herself, this slave has already bowed to you as soon as you came in, why are you telling lies with your eyes open? The prince is amazing!
Sorry, the prince is so great...
Li Chengfeng originally thought that the fourth prince Zhao Lie had remembered it wrong first. Unexpectedly, after the maid saluted, Zhao Lie shouted angrily at another maid who was waiting nearby: "Where did you get out of this despicable thing? When you see me, The king doesn't even show respect? I think you have no respect for the king and are living a crooked life!"
The maidservant was even more frightened. She almost knelt down and trembled to say hello.
Li Chengfeng understood clearly this time, how dare he criticize the fourth prince!
He was scolding these maids, but he was talking about Li Chengfeng every time! This is giving him power!
Keren had to lower his head under the eaves, so Li Chengfeng had no choice but to stand up and bow to Zhao Lie first. He was now a genuine nobleman. He didn't need to kneel when he saw the prince, he only had to bend down to salute.
The fourth prince Zhao Lie first saw Li Chengfeng saluting and saying hello. He immediately stood up, smiled and grabbed Li Chengfeng's hand, and said enthusiastically: "Who am I? It turns out to be the most popular Lord Li in Shenjing. Yeah! Brother, you’re having a banquet with Lord Li and you’re not inviting me? You really deserve to be punished, you deserve to be punished!”
Zhao Hanqing smiled slightly and said without saying anything, "Brother Li Xian and I are discussing business..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhao Lie slapped his thigh and said with a smile, "What a coincidence, I have something serious to do with Lord Li!"
As he spoke, he smiled and said to Li Chengfeng: "Master Li, thanks to your blessing, my Baixi Theater will open tomorrow. Be sure to be there then. Let's be busy!"
Although the one who had just been accused of slandering and scolding Huai was showing off his power, when he turned around to face the fourth prince with a smile on his face, Li Chengfeng really couldn't deal with him with a cold face. After all, the difference in status was too big.
Li Chengfeng pretended to be surprised and asked: "Is this Baixi Theater a theater? Then I want to take a stroll!"
Zhao Liexian laughed loudly and said: "No, no, this hundred theaters are *** theaters, and one of them contains the new gambling code play proposed by Lord Li!"
Zhao Hanqing's face immediately darkened and he said, "Fourth brother, this kind of gambling can only be started with the approval issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs of the imperial court. You..."
Zhao Liexian interrupted again and said with a smile: "Brother, you are only allowing the state officials to set fires and not the common people to light the lamps. Ouch! Why, you are a prince and an official. Am I not the same as my younger brother? My Wenbi Yeah, but it was approved by my father himself! If you have any comments, can you send them to your father?"
After saying that, he laughed loudly, cupped his hands towards Li Chengfeng, and said, "Master Li, I'll see you tomorrow, I must come!"
After saying that, he clasped his hands behind his back, laughed and walked away, leaving Zhao Hanqing sitting there with a gloomy expression, motionless.
Li Chengfeng sighed in his heart: This battle in the court is simply a hundred times more complicated than the civil war in Tiange. If there are conflicts between practitioners and they don't like it, if they come to fight, many problems will be solved by themselves. Let’s have a chat during the Lingshan Conference.
But now... Li Chengfeng used three big moves in a row to help the prince Zhao Hanqing turn things around, but the fourth prince took away the fruits of victory with one move of "monkey stealing peach"...
Li Chengfeng stared at Zhao Hanqing, not knowing what he had to do to deal with it. Now that he was in this situation, there was not much room for Li Chengfeng to make a leap. The rest would depend on how the prince would deal with the fourth prince's attempt. Peach's method.