Rule the Roost in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 13: Yiyang

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Wu Mei held her forehead and sighed one after another. She was so helpless that she had one head and two children. What kind of son did she give birth to? This, this... this... she could imagine all this!

Wu Mei held the wooden block in her hand and pondered. This was not something that could be made out of imagination just by relying on cleverness. She knew in her heart what the thing made by Li Hong meant! This is simply a feat for Datang.

Upon closer inspection, compared with the engraving bookmaking commonly used in the Tang Dynasty, this is much more convenient and faster. Moreover, if there are typos, it is easy to change. Such small wooden blocks are convenient to store, but if a few words or more words are broken on a large-scale engraving, it will be completely discarded and cannot be used.

Wu Mei held her forehead and sighed. The tall and thin figure knelt there looking a little lonely outside the door, and she still looked pitiful, as if she had been wronged a lot.

"What's wrong, Hong'er? What wrong thing did your mother catch you for again?" Li Zhi smiled and rubbed Li Hong's head, but did not let him get up. Instead, he passed by him and stepped directly into the palace. Li Hong was not given a chance to speak.

Li Hong let Li Zhi rub his head and continued to kneel there with his ears erect, just waiting to hear his father tell him to get up quickly. The ground was strangely cold. Unfortunately, everything did not go as he wished, and Li Zhi ignored him.

Now that Wu Mei is the master of the harem, Wu Mei has to decide everything in the harem. Naturally, Li Zhi will not excuse Li Hong as before. The queen still has to give her face in public.

"What's going on?" Li Zhi looked back at Li Hong, then looked at Wu Mei, who had held her forehead and sighed as soon as she came in, stood up and saluted him, and asked lightly.

"Alas... I... I really don't know what evil I have done, to give birth to such a master who makes people worry about you every day. Just take a look." Wu Mei handed the wooden block in her hand to Li Hong.

Li Zhi took the small piece of wood inexplicably, took it away and turned it over in his hand, looking at it: "What is this?"

Wu Mei remained silent, and then showed him the words that had just been rubbed on the paper.

Li Zhi looked at the paper, and then at the wooden block in his hand. Although he didn't understand Wu Mei's intention of letting him see these things, he was very familiar with the handwriting on it.

After the court today, Shangguan Yi showed him the "Book of Commandments" that Li Hongxun had copied a hundred times. The handwriting on it was exactly the same as this one. The handwriting on a hundred pieces of paper was so neat that it looked like It's carved from a template.

Li Zhi still remembered the question-marked expression on Shangguan Yi's face just now. He stroked his beard and shook his head in confusion and said: "Your Majesty, this... It is well known that the king is intelligent, but at such a young age and with a child's mind, I am punishing him." "The Book of Commandments" has been copied a hundred times, and it can be copied so neatly, but every word looks too neat."

Li Zhi also said at the time: "Isn't this great? It means that my Hong'er has grown up and his character has gradually stabilized."

"But..." Shangguan Yi thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, I suspect that the king is very smart and has worked hard. But the handwriting on it is exactly the same, it doesn't look like handwriting at all, and you Look, with a child's mind, how can he completely calm down and copy a hundred times tediously? Even if I were asked to copy a hundred times, I would never be able to write the same words on every piece of paper. It feels the same.”

Li Zhi reached out and took the thick stack of "Book of Commandments" that Shangguan Yi gave him from Yang Wu. In one hand, he held the paper with a few words given by Wu Mei, and in the other hand, he held the complete "Book of Commandments". "Book", I carefully looked at the handwriting on the two pieces of paper, and found that they were exactly the same, as if they were printed on engravings.

"This...is this Hong'er's calligraphy?" Li Zhi asked doubtfully.

"You can print this word on this piece of wood." Wu Mei really has a headache. Is this what this little thing thinks of? Could it be that the Wenqu star from heaven really came down to earth? Otherwise, how could he, a little kid, be able to make such an extremely convenient printing!

Li Zhi followed Wu Mei's wishes and printed a word on a wooden block chosen by Wu Mei. It seemed to be just the right size.

Wu Mei picked up a piece of wood dipped in ink in her hand, took the piece of paper in Li Zhi's hand, and without hesitation scratched in the blank space of the "Book of Commandments" with neat handwriting.

Li Zhi looked at Wu Mei's behavior strangely. When Wu Meiyu raised her hand, he suddenly saw the word "husband" written on the place where the wooden block was rubbed.

"Do you understand now that that little guy would waste time and effort copying the "Book of Commandments"? We were all deceived by him. He made the rubbings." Wu Mei said angrily, her eyes glaring fiercely. He glanced at the shaky little figure at the door.

"Impossible." Li Zhi immediately denied: "If the "Book of Commandments" was printed with engravings, then what about the "Thousand-Character Classic"? Could it be that Hong'er could have two engravings?"

"Sigh... This is what makes that little thing give me a headache and makes it hard to guard against, Your Majesty. The words he made are all alive. If you need to rub a sentence, just find out the words engraved on it, and then Arrange them neatly so you can make rubbings.”

"No need for engraving?" Li Zhi's voice rose an octave higher. This... This is incredible. How did the little guy come up with this idea? Could it be Shangguan Yi? Impossible, Shangguan Yi is still confused.

"No need." Wu Mei sighed: "That little thing calls this 'movable type printing'. With it, if you want to print any book, you just need to engrave the words on this piece of wood. There is no need to store so many engravings as before. If any character is broken, just replace it with a new one. "

Li Zhi had completely understood at this moment, his face flushed with excitement, and he quickly stood up and paced back and forth: "Great, great! Hong'er has made a great contribution to the Tang Dynasty, yes, like this First of all, isn’t it easy to save and print books? We no longer have to spend time, energy and materials to engrave them. No matter how many words the book has, with Honger’s... movable type printing, it’s easier than ever. Everything is convenient!”

Wu Mei smiled and watched Li Zhi walking around excitedly, with bitter helplessness towards Li Hong in her eyes, as well as a mother's pride and satisfaction for her son.

"How did he do it?" Li Hong stopped and asked.

Wu Mei shook her head with a smile, her red lips parted slightly and she said slowly, "I don't know, maybe this little thing was forced out by Shangguan Yi."

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, then looked out the door together. They saw that the little figure was lying there on his knees and asleep, with his buttocks sticking out high, half of his face pressed against the ground, and the saliva flowed from his mouth to the ground.

Wu Mei's face turned cold, and her sword-like gaze made Xia Zhi and Mang Zhong frightened. They hurriedly ran to the door and picked up the sleeping Li Hong.

"Put it in the dormitory until he wakes up and then take it away." Wu Mei glanced at the scenery outside the door and said.

Li Hong fell asleep after kneeling for a while, which still made Wu Mei feel distressed. She thought she didn't sleep well last night, otherwise she wouldn't be so sleepy today and could fall asleep while kneeling.

Li Zhi watched the sleeping Li Hong pass by. The flush on his face due to excitement had not completely subsided. Looking at Li Hong's sleeping appearance, he couldn't help but reached out and pinched Li Hong's little face. Then he watched Li Hong being carried into the bedroom by Xia Zhi.

"My son is really a child prodigy. In recent days, it has been said that my son is the Wenqu star who descended to earth. From this point of view, it is true, haha.... For such extraordinary achievements, Queen, please tell me how I should reward him."

Wu Mei looked at her husband who was in high spirits, with a hint of worry in her brows. She slowly opened her mouth and said: "Last night it rained and the wind blew, and I couldn't get rid of the remaining wine in my deep sleep. I asked the person behind the curtain, but the crabapple was still the same. Do you know, do you know? It should be Green, fat, red and thin.”

"Eh? Is this the Queen's new work?" Li Hong was attracted by Wu Mei's poetry reciting and asked.

Wu Mei smiled bitterly and shook her head: "It was the little thing in the dormitory who did it."

Li Zhi recited it several times in a low voice, his brows gradually wrinkled, he couldn't help shaking his head and sighed: "This seems to be a metaphor. Did Hong'er not sleep well last night?"

Wu Mei lowered her head and arranged her clothes. Red and green colors have always been her favorite, especially the underwear, which was basically green or red. When she first entered the palace, the outer shirts and skirts were She often shows herself in aqua shirts and skirts.

"I'm going to the examination school to test him to see if he wrote this poem." Wu Mei walked up to Li Zhi and stood side by side, smiling and saying.

Both of them tacitly ignored what happened in the harem last night. No one wanted to talk about those embarrassing things at this time.

Li Hong, who was inside, had already woken up the moment he was picked up by Xia Zhi. He listened to Wu Mei reciting "Ru Meng Ling" that she had recited this morning, and silently said in his heart: "Do you know, Do you know that it is necessary to depose the king and establish Wu?"

As for why his mother knew the poem he recited this morning, Li Hong was not surprised at all. It would be strange if his mother didn't know. Although he has nine lifetimes of memory, the child's body is still unable to consume too much of his thoughts, and he fell asleep again unknowingly.

When he woke up again, Li Zhi had left his mother's palace and returned to the Manna Hall. Wu Mei sat on the edge of the couch and looked at Li Hong, whose little eyes were wandering around. She pinched her nose and said, "Is the little thing awake?"

The maid next to her hurriedly brought a wet wipe to wipe Li Hong's face. Then, after Li Hong woke up and stood up, she began to serve Li Hong and the queen's meals.

Li Hong ate a few mouthfuls in a hurry, and then teased Li Xian, who was in Wu Mei's arms, to tears again. He wiped his mouth and said, "Mother, I have to take my leave. I still have something to do when I go back."

"You little thing..." Wu Mei hurriedly coaxed Li Xian, who was making him cry in her arms. When she was about to pat him, she saw that the little figure had already walked out of the door. Xia Zhi and Mang Zhong followed behind, slowly. Slowly disappeared from sight.

The moist air in the early morning has been evaporated by the scorching sun. The high temperature of the sun and the lifeless air have combined to create the sultry heat that has continued this summer.

Walking on the path in the back garden, he suddenly heard a little head hidden among the flowers shouting to him: "Li Hong, come here."

Li Hong stopped and looked at the black head that was close to the flowers. A golden hairpin shone brightly on the bun, shining with dazzling light.

"What's the matter? Stop hiding it. The hairpin on your head has betrayed you. You're so stupid." Li Hong said angrily.

Yiyang is like this, no matter big or small, he always likes to act mysterious and mysterious, as if he is working underground.

(End of chapter)