Dusk opened the curtain of the coming night, and a carriage slowly drove out of the East Palace. Hua Meng and Mang Zhong were on separate sides. Naturally, Xia Zhi and Xiao Xue were sitting in the car with His Highness the Crown Prince.
When passing by the gate of Jiafu Gate, Li Hong looked at General Zuo Wei, the crown prince, and suddenly stopped the carriage.
Opening the window on one side, he waved to Zuowei General Quan Yi. When Quan Yi came up, Li Hong looked at both sides, and then asked: "Yiyang hasn't been looking for you lately, has he? Be careful. Although my father and mother are not here during this period, if you are too blatant, it will still easily arouse other people's suspicion. "
When Quan Yi heard Li Hong's words, he couldn't help but said with a sad face: "Your Highness, I don't dare, it's just the princess... I don't dare to refuse. She keeps threatening you with you, and I don't want to..."
"I'll go, can you please give me a better attitude? It's your fate and your blessing that the royal princess likes you! What's your expression? Why? Is it possible that I have wronged you? Why is she three years older than you? "Hey, haven't you heard of the female junior holding a gold brick? Don't look so sad. Next time you see Yiyang, be more enthusiastic and proactive, or I will punish you!" , making Xia Zhi and Xiaoxue in the car purse their lips and snicker.
Both of them, including Quan Yi, couldn't figure out whether you should let people get closer to Yiyang, or let people stay farther away from Yiyang.
I don’t know when it started. In short, after His Royal Highness the Prince suddenly recalled Quan Yi from Anxi, Princess Yiyang didn’t know what was going on. She seemed to have taken a liking to Quan Yi. Coming to the East Palace to visit His Highness the Crown Prince was a reason I had used no less than eight hundred times, and I came here to see Quan Yi every day.
If Quan Yi is not at the gate of the East Palace one day, Yiyang will enter the East Palace and speak earnestly in the ears of His Highness, scolding His Highness for not paying attention to his own safety.
Quan Yi helplessly looked at the warning eyes of His Highness the Crown Prince, but he didn't know how to express the bitterness in his heart. It was Your Highness who asked me to be careful. It was Your Highness who told me not to neglect the princess. What are you asking me to do? Which way should I go
Seeing the helpless Quan Yi, Li Hong stopped talking nonsense and said: "If you have nothing to do these days, just go to Taiyi City and see how the soldiers in the Taiyi City barracks are training. By the way, Yiyang will also go there in two days to visit the perfume workshop with Aunt Lanling. "
After finishing speaking, Li Hong gave Quan Yi a knowing look, then closed the car window and walked away, leaving Quan Yi with a depressed look on his face, thinking about the will of His Highness the Crown Prince.
Xiaoxue and Xia Zhi still don't understand why His Highness the Crown Prince wants to fix the fate between Princess Yiyang and Quan Yi.
Li Hong knew it clearly in his heart. This was last year when he was talking to his father about the war in the Western Regions. When he saw the word Quan Yi in the memorial, Li Hong felt familiar, as if he had heard this name in another life.
After thinking about it for several days, I finally remembered that Quan Yi was not the consort whom Yiyang married in the history books!
So, after a long period of planning, Li Hong mobilized Quan Yi, including Wang Xu, a Xiazhou official from Henan Province, to Chang'an.
And this is the advantage of Li Hong being a nine-reincarnation and tenth reincarnation. This Wang Xuze is the consort that Princess Gao'an will marry in the future. Therefore, Li Hong transferred him here in advance to see what his talents are and whether he is worthy of marrying Gao'an.
The most important thing is that now Yiyang and Gao'an are both famous invisible rich women in Chang'an City, with each family fortune reaching one million yuan.
It's so bad that Li Sujie, a useless person, is crying every day. He always says that Li Hong prefers his two sisters and completely forgets about him as an imperial brother.
Far away, I saw a carriage with four people parked not far from Yiyang Restaurant. Under each carriage stood an eunuch who was looking up. The four people in the carriage were all waiting for Li Hong to appear. Go down and wait.
Li Hong's carriage drove slowly over. Four people, Ze Wang Li Shangjin, Xu Wang Li Sujie, Pei Wang Li Xian, and Ying Wang Li Zhe, hurriedly got out of the carriage and looked at Li Hong's carriage approaching with a smile.
Li Zhi only had eight sons in his life. The eldest, Li Zhong, is still in Liangzhou, living a simple life in seclusion and not caring about worldly affairs.
The second eldest son, Li Xiao, died in Suizhou the year before last. Li Xiao's health had never been very good, so Li Hong and the others could only feel sorry for this matter.
The old Sanze King, Li Shangjin, is twenty years old this year. He was summoned back from his fiefdom, Yizhou, a few days ago. If it hadn't rained these two days, he would have gone back.
The fourth Prince Xu, Li Sujie, was eighteen years old at the time. Because of his biological mother, Concubine Xiao Shu, although his fiefdom was in Yuanzhou, he spent most of the year in Chang'an City.
It would be difficult for Li Hong, the fifth child, not to live in Chang'an.
Li Xian, the sixth king of Pei, had just turned twelve years old. Every day he played in the palace with Li Zhe, the seventh king, who was one year younger than him, or he went to see King Cao to play.
The eighth child, Li Dan, is still a little kid, just four years old. This time Li Zhi and Wu Mei went to Dongdu, and naturally they took Li Dan and the one-year-old Taiping Princess Li Lingyue with them.
So now there are only five people left in Chang'an City. Headed by Prince Li Hong, Shangguan Yi and Yang Sijian are now assigned the post of "Tong Zhongshu Menxia Ping Zhang Shi". With this title, they are really The prime minister can now participate in state affairs discussions.
Before Li Zhi and Wu Mei left for Chang'an, they naturally warned them that they must take good care of the prince and not allow him to act recklessly in Chang'an.
But Li Hong didn't listen at all. Over the years, Shangguan Yi and Yang Sijian had long been tempered by Li Hong's behavior, so they usually turned a blind eye. As long as nothing went wrong in the court, they would Normally their behavior was not too out of the ordinary, so the two of them let the prince do what he wanted.
Li Hong got off the carriage, first looked up at the restaurant called "Yang'an House" in Yiyang, then looked at Li Shangjin and Li Sujie on the left, and Li Xian and Li Zhe on the right, and asked: "How is it? ? Did He Lan Minzhi go in? Did Yiyang leave room for us?"
Li Xian pointed to a carriage in the distance and said with a smile: "Look, that's not Duke Zhou's carriage anymore. People must be inside already."
Li Hong turned around and looked at the four eunuchs. Before Li Hong could speak, Li Sujie and the other four sent the four eunuchs away and asked them to find a place to eat by themselves. They would just wait at the door for a while.
"Let's go in and take a look. See what Duke Zhou is going to show off today." Li Hong rubbed his hands and took the lead to walk inside.
Xia Zhi and Xiaoxue had already called the shopkeeper inside to arrange the room that Yiyang and Gao An had specially reserved for Li Hong.
A group of five people, plus Li Hong's Xia Zhi, Xiao Xue, Hua Meng, and Mang Zhong, a total of nine people quietly ran into their private room.
Needless to say, the food and drinks are of course something that Yiyang and Gao An have already told her about what the prince likes and dislikes. The shopkeeper here is also a eunuch in the palace, and he borrowed it from Li Hong, so he didn’t wait for instructions. Then you know what to do.
The youngest among the five is naturally the King of England Li Zhe. He is now eleven years old. He and Li Xian sit next to Li Hong and say: "Fifth brother, you treated Helan so badly back then, why did the queen mother still give him some money?" Granted, a small man from the south of Jianguo County was granted the title Duke of Zhou just a few days after you returned to Chang'an."
"Then what can we do? The mother is just a nephew, and the Cuiwei Palace incident has not been spread out. Plus my aunt is trying to please her, it is difficult not to seal her." Li Honghua pulled the turban on Li Zhe's head and said, I really want to take off the emerald green gem on my forehead.
"Wouldn't this make him even more arrogant? Now many officials in Chang'an City are said to be very close to him. Duke Zhou's reputation is at its peak." Li Sujie said gloomily.
Among the five people, who hated Helan Minzhi the most, it was Li Sujie and Li Shangjin. The prince who was born as a concubine was nothing in Helan Minzhi's eyes. He could only obediently let Helan Minzhi bully and ridicule him. .
Even Li Xian and Li Zhe were often bullied by He Lan Minzhi, but they were helpless. Although He Lan Minzhi was hateful, he was not useless to his father and mother.
He Lanmin was talented, smart and alert, and he was well-read in poetry and books. He had very high attainments in both calligraphy and poetry. At that time, he also convened some people in the Hongwen Museum to compile the "Spring and Autumn of the Thirty Kingdoms". This is a large book that is still occasionally published by the Imperial College.
In addition, in the past two years, he had deliberately tried to please his father and mother, so for a while, Li Hong couldn't do anything to him, and the two rarely met in the past few years.
Basically, He Lan Minzhi always avoided wherever Li Hong appeared. If he couldn't avoid it, he would stay with his neck hunched. Unless Li Zhi and Wu Mei were destined, otherwise he would be in front of Li Hong. I dare not say a word boldly.
But as long as Li Hong was away, He Lan Minzhi gave up his sweet demeanor in front of Li Zhi and Wu Mei, and his whole person immediately became more vicious and fierce.
The young wives of several families in Chang'an City who had not yet left the court were defiled by him and then ran away. They even went to other people's homes and went to the young lady's boudoir in front of their parents!
But every time something like this happened, Helan Minzhi would use his sharp tongue, graceful and handsome appearance, as well as his well-read poetry and erudite talents to get rid of the people who had been tainted by her. The young lady was coaxed to give up the lawsuit. Coupled with the protection of his mother, Helan Minzhi naturally remains at large!
Helan Minzhi never promised the status of the women he had sullied, and he deceived them with clever words for a month. After the news passed, Helan Minzhi got tired of playing and walked away.
At this time, jerky Chinese came from next door: "Duke Zhou, I hope you can convince His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to send troops for my father. As long as my father can regain the throne, your benefits will be indispensable."
"Haha, it's simple. Ask everyone here, when have I, Duke Zhou, deceived anyone? But... you came here in a hurry this time, so I reluctantly accepted a few Korean girls you sent as maids. Occasionally, He Lan Minzhi's proud laughter came faintly from over there.
(End of chapter)