Li Zhi originally thought that there would be a lot of excitement in the East Palace again, but he looked at the hurried carriage and ran into the East Palace as if running for his life. Then, a prince in tattered clothes came down like a beggar, and then the queen left. Entering Li Zhengdian, the entire East Palace was very calm all the time, and nothing happened as he expected.
He was sure that Li Hong's outfit might have moved Wu Mei to a loving mother's heart, or Li Hong's explanation relieved Wu Mei of the responsibility of pursuing the prince, but what was the reason
Standing at the top of the castle in the air, the entire city of Chang'an was trampled under his feet, and a sense of pride and ambition to look down on the world arose spontaneously.
He likes this feeling of overlooking, just like he, as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, controls the world, the feeling of power, the feeling of controlling life and death, but this feeling will be lost as his physical condition deteriorates day by day. Worn out.
"Huh? The emperor's brother didn't get beaten. Why didn't the queen mother beat him for such a big crime?" Li Lingyue put down the telescope in her hand and said with regret.
In the warm winter sun in the Imperial City, a tall young man, accompanied by the beautiful and elegant Queen, slowly walked on the streets of the Imperial City to the Daming Palace. Behind him were the Queen's ceremonial guards and so on. .
"Do you really want your imperial brother to be beaten by your mother?" Li Zhi slowly sat down and also put down the telescope in his hand. The faces and expressions of the two people on the streets of the imperial city were blurred before his eyes.
Li Lingyue curled her lips, shook her head and jumped up to Li Zhi, giggling: "I don't like the queen beating the emperor's brother, but I like to see the emperor's brother being afraid and giving way to the queen at every turn."
Li Zhi caressed Li Lingyue's little head speechlessly: "Then your emperor brother is still not tolerant to you?"
"Yes, but I'm young, so they have to let me go." Li Lingyue saw Li Zhi turning to look at her with some doubts, and continued: "Of course this cannot be taken for granted, but the emperor said that it can be taken for granted."
"Then my father is going to test you. Guess why your mother didn't beat your brother?" Li Zhi knew very well that not only Li Hong, but also the princes Li Xian, Li Zhe, and Li Dan, each one of them was not pampering everyone in front of him. Little man
Now he has such a little princess by his side, and she is also the daughter of a queen. She is smart, well-behaved and cute. There is probably no one in the Tang Dynasty who does not love her.
"Hmm... I guess it's because the emperor had something to do and delayed his trip to greet the queen yesterday, and... this matter must be very big and important to the Tang Dynasty, so the emperor has to give up welcoming you and the queen. Isn't it just an accident?" Li Lingyue is currently changing her teeth, and her words are still a little leaky.
Li Zhi nodded thoughtfully, holding the little body of seven-year-old Li Lingyue beside him, looking at the two figures in the imperial city, and said lightly: "You are smart, I told you to tell me."
The mother and son on the Imperial City Road would definitely not be able to hear the conversation between the father and the daughter, and the conversation between the mother and the son would naturally be inaudible to the father and daughter in the castle in the air.
"You mean, if Li Chunfeng succeeds in this voyage, he can find more crops? Much more than the current yield per mu of Datang?" The warm sun shines on her body, Wu Mei enjoys the imperial city In a rare moment, Jingyi and Xianghe raised their heads slightly and looked at the prince who was standing next to them. The prince who was much taller than her asked.
"It's not just crops, there are other things that I don't have in the Tang Dynasty. How many types are there? This son also needs to carefully recall the records in that strange book..."
"Oh, if I had known earlier, I shouldn't have let you go to the Imperial College and the Hongwen Hall to do mischief. You have lost such a strange book without any reason. When you return to the palace later, I will help you look for it. Take a look inside the Penglai Hall. Do you have any of those old things?" When Wu Mei heard the strange book, it felt as if someone had dug a knife into her head.
Li Hong was shocked when he heard Wu Mei's words. How come his old things were still kept by his mother
Noticing the shock and confusion on Li Hong's face, Wu Mei asked lightly: "What's wrong?"
"Do you... still keep my son's old things?" Li Hong felt guilty in his heart. Over the years, when facing his biological mother, he would always wear colored glasses and be on guard. The heart is with the mother.
All the records about his mother in history, whether they were good or evil, made him unknowingly place them on her again when he was getting along with her. Even a small move would make him ponder for a long time. Try to figure out what the Queen Mother’s intention is!
Just like after rushing back to the East Palace today, as the Queen Mother said just now, it was just that the moment she got off the carriage, she felt distressed and sad when she saw her appearance, so she was exempted from accountability for not picking up the carriage yesterday.
But what about yourself? However, from the moment when the Queen Mother ordered her to wash up until just now, she was secretly wondering in her heart what the Queen Mother wanted to achieve by her extraordinary actions today, and what was her real intention!
When getting along with the queen, I always have a defensive mind. Even if I am favored by the queen again, I dare not be careless in the slightest. Whether it is the coquettish and cute behavior when I was a child, or the arrogant behavior now, it is nothing more than I hope to create an illusion for the Queen Mother, that she is nothing more than truly acting as a Prince of the Tang Dynasty, rather than truly being a Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, and truly feeling the most authentic maternal love from the Queen Mother!
Every time I feel the deep love of my mother, every time my mother chooses to support me, every time my mother uses her influence in the court to help me resolve a crisis, my first reaction is always, after all, what will happen if my mother does this? Do you want to get something from yourself? Do you want to unite yourself and maintain your influence with her
Even if he went to Liaodong and left a thousand pagoda camps for his mother to dispatch, did he really just want to protect his mother at the beginning, and did he really have no intention of guarding against her
The sun is warm and comfortable on people, but it definitely doesn't make people feel hot.
But at this moment, Li Hong felt unbearably hot all over his body, especially on his cheeks. Wave after wave of scorching heat made him become impetuous.
"What's wrong with you? Is it caused by the air wave you mentioned yesterday? You look red in the face. Why, are you spending the summer?" At the door of the Daming Palace, Wu Mei stopped and looked at the body around her in surprise. Li Hong is at ease.
"No, although those air waves are very powerful, they will not hurt me. Those copper pipes, copper furnaces, etc. do not meet the requirements. We need more sophisticated things to build it. There will be many difficulties, even more It’s unimaginable that I felt a little worried when I thought about this.”
Li Hong looked at his mother who was standing still, and after finishing speaking, he wanted to hold Wu Mei's shoulders and move forward, but Wu Mei said coldly: "Are you looking for death? This is the palace, and the eyes of the imperial doctor are more... Jin Wuwei’s eyes are even brighter. Seeing that you, the prince, have no etiquette, you still think that you have not been impeached. "
Li Hong curled his lips, and in order to relieve the embarrassment, he raised his arm to help Wu Mei pat the non-existent dust on her shoulder, and said quibly: "My son, I see there is some dirt on your shoulder. I will help you pat it off. I didn't want to hug you." Walk forward with my shoulder on your shoulder, you are overthinking.”
"Do you think that when you were a child, the ministers of the DPRK would not pursue it because of your young age?"
"My son and I have already said that you are overthinking."
After a mother and a son entered the Daming Palace, they walked slowly towards the Penglai Palace. The scene just now at the entrance of the Daming Palace was clearly seen by a pair of small eyes in the castle in the sky: "Father, father, that little bastard wants to hug you." Your queen's shoulders were rejected by your mother, haha..."
"Tong Yan Wuji, talking nonsense, follow me down."
"Then remember to scold him later. He actually wants to hug the Queen Mother's shoulders."
"What? Do you think you are the only one who can do it?" Li Zhi had a headache. Did this little grinder have a grudge against Li Hong in his previous life? Why did he always want Li Hong to be beaten and punished
When the father and daughter walked to the entrance of Penglai Hall, they happened to meet the mother and son walking from the outside to the entrance of Penglai Hall. Li Lingyue broke away from Li Zhi's hand and immediately turned into a traitor, running to Li Hong: " Ling Yue has met Brother Huang, and she really misses Brother Huang these days. "
"Really or not? I can tell by the look on your face that you must have said bad things about me again just now, but it doesn't matter, just keep talking. Anyway, if you say it once, a tooth will fall out and it won't grow back... Oops... "Li Hong was patted on the back of the head by Wu Mei expressionlessly.
"Giggle... you deserve it! The queen mother said that I am changing my teeth and they will grow out in a few days." Li Lingyue took Li Hong's little hand, and after Li Hong saluted Li Zhi, the two of them took the lead in entering the Penglai Hall.
Li Zhi looked at Wu Mei who was waiting for him at the door, pointed at Li Hong's back, looked at Wu Mei again, and said with incredible surprise: "Yesterday's disrespectful behavior, is it over like this? Don't you plan to punish him? Take office Let him get away with it?”
"He is your minister, your prince, no matter what happens, you should be the first to punish him." Wu Mei said provocatively with an "I'm like this, what can you do to me" expression.
Li Zhi was speechless, but couldn't hold back his curiosity. He couldn't help but approached Wu Mei and asked, "What on earth is going on? What was so important yesterday that you couldn't even make it in time to meet the driver?"
"Do you believe that there is a kind of carriage that can run very fast without a horse. Whether it is uphill or flat, it can run as fast as flying. It is more comfortable and stable than the current chariot." Wu Mei supported Li Zhi Asked in a pretentious manner with his arms.
"This... daydream, you don't need a horse to pull you, but you can still run as fast as flying? A fairy tale?"
"But Li Hong said that he would let me sit in a carriage like that in my lifetime, saying that I could operate it myself." Wu Mei let go of Li Zhi's arm and walked straight into Penglai Hall.
"You believe it?"
"Um."
"He lied to you just to avoid punishment."
"I do." Wu Mei replied without looking back.
(End of chapter)