Rule the Roost in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 48: Lanling wine

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After coming out of Ganlu Hall, Li Hong did not go back to the East Palace directly, but went to his mother.

There was no way, the queen mother had already said that if Li Xian and Li Zhizhi were to go bad, it would be her who instigated them, but she was still a child. You can't bear this responsibility no matter what you say!

Li Hong used two magic weapons: backpack and skateboard. After walking out of Ganlu Palace, he put his backpack on his back, put his skateboard on the ground and stepped on it, then walked towards Wu Mei's palace like lightning.

After several years of improvement, skateboards have become lighter and lighter, and overall they have made a huge leap forward. Even Li Hong believes that they are comparable to the skateboards of the previous generation.

Xia Zhi, Xiao Han, Mang Zhong, and Hua Meng were used to it. The prince was shouting and flying across the ground on his skateboard, so they had no choice but to follow behind and chase him.

"My son, please see your mother." The voice came first before anyone came.

After Li Xian and Li Zhe heard Li Hong's voice, they looked at Wu Mei in unison, with their eyes saying why he was here again.

Wu Mei raised her head to listen angrily, then looked at Li Xian and Li Zhe and said, "Don't cry when he teases you later. It's nothing like you two when your eldest brother was a kid."

"Mother, we won't be as shameless as eldest brother. Everyone in Chang'an City knows about the royal family's reputation. It has been defeated by eldest brother a long time ago. Now when Chang'an City mentions the prince, he is about to be classified with flies and mice. "It's gone in the pile," Li Xian said with a pout.

"Oh, then you must be like him. If you are not good at other things, you are very good at teasing palace maids. And you, you are not allowed to learn from Li Hong and Li Xian." Wu Mei looked at the youngest Li Zhe said.

"My sons attach great importance to royal etiquette. Naturally, I will not be like them." Li Zhe straightened his face and said seriously as if he wanted to take credit.

The two brothers are only one year apart, one is three years younger and the other is four years younger than Li Hong, but together they are still bullied by Li Hong. Every now and then, the two of them would run back to Tai Chi Palace crying from the East Palace and complain to Wu Mei about Li Hong's evil deeds.

A head flew past the window that had been replaced with glass, shouting: "Give way, don't blame me if you hit me, I can't control the speed of my newly made skateboard." Erchen See you again Queen Mother..."

Before she finished speaking, a figure flew straight into Wu Mei's palace. On the precious Persian carpet, he made a parking movement that he thought was handsome and unrestrained. Then he stepped on the edge of the skateboard in front of him with his toes, and the skateboard tilted up obediently. At the end, the prince took it away and threw it back without looking. Hua Meng, who was panting behind him, quickly reached out and took it in time.

The series of movements were smooth and flowing, smart and capable, without any sloppiness. It looked like he had done this dozens of times before. Li Xian and Li Zhe watched with envy, but they couldn't learn how to fly on a skateboard.

Li Hong smiled and greeted Wu Mei again, with a coquettish expression on his face, and he was about to rub his body into Wu Mei's arms.

Wu Mei looked at him with complicated eyes, not knowing who this skinny monkey looked more like. I haven't paid much attention to it in the past few years, but now I see that the little guy who was spanked by me has grown a lot.

I don’t know if it’s because the royal bloodline is good or because the royal food is nutritious. A ten-year-old child is as tall as a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old child. Now standing next to Li Sujie, who is two years older than him, they are both vaguely taller than Li Sujie. Half a head.

Moreover, he was much stronger than Li Sujie, and his whole body exuded the energy of a calf. It was just that naughty smile that always hung on the corner of her mouth. Every time Wu Mei saw it, her palms itched, and she really wanted to pull her over and beat her up without asking any questions.

"In front of the two royal brothers, can you act like an elder brother or a prince? How unbecoming it is to be so unruly and unruly every day." Wu Mei is too lazy to take care of herself now. She has been in charge for ten years. He didn't even care about acting like a royal child.

Li Hong chuckled, not caring at all that Wu Mei pushed him away from her arms, walked up to Li Xian and Li Zhe, quickly knocked on their foreheads, and said with a smile: "How about skateboarding? Have you learned it? I won’t take you to skate together in the future. To protect you last time, I almost fell to death. If you take me again, I will take Li Dan to play.”

"Huh, we're not slippery yet. We don't have any royal rules. If you say it, it will make people laugh." Li Zhe wanted to swat away Li Hong's hand that flicked his forehead, but he had no choice but to slap Li Hong's hand faster than his. Empty, he said sadly.

"A joke? Why are you afraid of being laughed at? Remember, people who laugh at you are often people inferior to you." Li Hong taught Li Zhe a lesson.

"Then you are not as good as us, haha." Li Xian caught Li Hong's sick words and countered.

Li Hong rolled his eyes and looked at Wu Mei's untouched sip of new tea on the table. He picked it up without hesitation and drank it in one gulp. Wu Mei was so angry that her mind was filled with black lines again.

It didn't work even if she was beaten or scolded. She simply pretended not to notice and continued to tease Li Dan in her arms. This youngest guy was now her heartthrob.

"Am I not as good as you? Li Xian or Li Zhe, you two take your pick and see which one of you is worse than me. Of course, except for royal etiquette and other rules." Li Hong said.

"Humph, I want to compare our royal etiquette with you. Mother and Queen have said that this is what a prince should have. As a prince, you should have it more and set a good example for us. But you don't I didn't do it." Li Zhe continued to argue.

"What the Queen Mother said is not entirely correct. The Queen Mother even asked you to learn skateboarding. Have you learned it? Why don't you listen to this?" Li Hong waved his hands and was too lazy to argue with them.

He continued to approach Wu Mei shamelessly, looking at Li Dan who was just born for more than half a year, and stretched out his hand to touch the pink little cheek. Before he could touch it, Wu Mei quickly knocked his hand away. .

"I just coaxed him to sleep, and you want to tease him to wake him up again?" Wu Mei stared at him and warned.

"By the way, my mother said that you always bullied us and made us cry when we were children." Li Xian also ran over and looked at Li Dan in Wu Mei's arms and said.

"It's as if I can't make you two cry right now." Li Hong said disdainfully.

Ignoring the two brat brothers, Li Hongtian put his arm around Wu Mei's shoulders and said: "Mother, when will you give us a sister? I don't want a brother like this anymore. Take a look." These two things in front of me... Ouch... Mother, my ears... my ears... are about to fall off, I know I was wrong. "

"Hahaha… ."

Li Xian and Li Zhe looked on with happy smiles. From the moment they entered the house, they had not tolerated Li Hong's mother getting angry and trying to deal with Li Hong.

"Little one, do you still have some rules? I've tolerated you since the moment you entered the house, and you've gotten even worse. Which two are the scum? If you want a sister, I'll give you a sister. You can teach her well." Look at how spoiled Yiyang and Gao An are now! You little monkeys are becoming more and more unruly!" Wu Mei said through gritted teeth.

Li Dan in her arms was immediately taken away by the palace maid. Wu Mei, with both hands free, grabbed Li Hong's ears and walked step by step to the study. Li Xian and Li Zhe were also sent out to play by her. went.

"What's wrong? What's the matter with your non-stop running from your father to my place?" Wu Mei let go of Li Hong's red ears and began to blame herself for being too harsh.

This little skinned monkey is like this every time. When he makes people angry, he wishes you could rip off his ears to vent his anger. When it's over, he looks at those red ears again, feeling distressed and regretful again. .

"Mother, I have something to ask you to agree to." Li Hong grinned and rubbed his ears.

Wu Mei snorted, pulled the half-grown young man into her arms, and helped Li Hong rub the other ear.

"What do you want to talk about first? After you finish talking, I will make a plan based on the situation. Don't expect me to agree immediately." Wu Mei said coldly.

"Yes, Queen Mother, I will know that Queen Mother is the best and the most beautiful, just like a fairy. One day I must draw the most beautiful portrait of Queen Mother."

"Let's get down to business." Wu Mei gently twisted Li Hong's ear.

"Queen Mother, I would like to ask Queen Mother to allow Yiyang and Gao An to leave the palace." Li Hong said softly.

"Why?" Wu Mei's hand froze slightly and she asked.

"Aunt Lanling is going back to her fiefdom this time. I hope she can take either Yiyang or Gao'an with her, and Aunt Lanling has already agreed."

Wu Mei looked out the window intently, caressing Li Hong's head unconsciously with one hand, and murmured: "Can you tell your mother why you arranged this? You have had your own opinions since you were a child, and every time you do something, you have deep meaning. No Like Li Xian and Li Zhe, when you are six or seven years old, you are not as sensible as you were when you were four. "

"Mother, you have also seen that Aunt Lanling and Aunts Chengyang and Xincheng, if it were not for them occupying the shares of this glass, they would not be able to repair their current mansions in Chang'an. If Yiyang and Gao'an , if it is like them..."

Wu Mei keenly noticed the subtext in Li Hong's words, and asked quickly: "What does that have to do with Lan Ling going to the fiefdom? What are you going to do?"

"Hehe, you really know your son better than your mother. Your mother is so smart, gentle and kind..."

"If you don't get down to business, I'm going to change my mind."

"No, no, no, Queen Mother, it's like this. Lanling Xiao's Lanling wine is too expensive. Every time the father drinks so much wine at a banquet, it costs a lot of money. My son feels distressed when he sees it. Therefore, I hope to cooperate with Lanling Xiao..."

"No, don't you know your father's recent intentions towards the Five Surnames and Seven Families? A decree has just been issued prohibiting the Five Surnames and Seven Families from marrying freely. If you are so cooperative, aren't you going against your father? You can't do such a simple thing. Don't you understand?" Wu Mei objected and warned Li Hong before he could finish.

"Mother, my main goal is just their wine. You also know that these aristocratic families control the middle and lower levels in the court, and even the officials from the left and right servants. I am not stupid, how can I cooperate with them? "Yeah." Li Hong said to calm Wu Mei's mood.

"Then what do you mean?" Wu Mei asked strangely.

"It's very simple. Make Lanling wine come from the Tang Dynasty, not Lanling Xiao's. 'Lanling's fine wine is filled with tulips, and the jade bowl contains amber light. But it makes the host drunk, and the guests don't know where they are.' This way If the good wine is only used as a source of wealth for the Lanling Xiao family, wouldn't it be a shame for my father and you?" The evil smile appeared on the corner of Li Hong's mouth again, which made Wu Mei's palms itch.

(End of chapter)