Father came here so soon? Li Hong was a little confused. It seemed that he went straight to his mother and concubine as soon as the court came. He didn't know if Xiaohan had delivered the popsicles.
As Li Zhi's figure appeared in front of Li Hong, his doubts were also dispelled. But what surprised him was that Li Zhi actually held a popsicle in his hand, and was eating it with gusto attached to the outer layer of paper. He made sucking sounds from his mouth from time to time, obviously enjoying the coolness and relief from the heat. New things.
"Zhaoyi, look at what good things I have brought you. This food tastes very cold to relieve the heat. It is rare for Hong'er to have such filial piety. He is worthy of being my son. These things are all... eh? You guys? Why are you looking at me like this? "What's wrong?" Li Zhi said as he walked away, looking at Wu Mei hugging Li Hong with a surprised and strange expression on their faces.
Seeing the clear smiles in their eyes, Li Zhi lowered his head unnaturally and looked at the clothes on his body. No problem, why are the mother and son looking at him like this
Wu Mei looked at Li Zhi's silly look, with a little confetti still left in the corner of his mouth. She laughed out loud, slapped Li Hong on the butt and said with a smile: "Look at the good things you did, let me Your father has made a fool of himself."
Li Zhi still looked puzzled and asked, "Why does Zhaoyi speak like this?"
Wu Mei pushed away Li Hong in her arms, stopped smiling and walked to Li Zhi to salute. First, she gently wiped away the scraps of paper from the corners of Li Zhi's mouth, and then slowly took the half-eaten popsicle in Li Zhi's hand. , handed it to Yang Wu next to him.
Wu Mei sighed and said, "Your fifth prince has made you look embarrassed and you don't even know it. This popsicle has to be torn off the outer paper before it can be eaten." After saying that, she turned around and took out another popsicle from the basket. Carefully peeling off the thin white paper on the outside, he handed it to Li Zhi: "This is how it should be eaten."
Li Zhi was obviously slow to respond. He took the popsicle handed over by Wu Mei and muttered: "No wonder it's not very refreshing when you suck it, it's sticky."
Li Hong giggled and looked at the two of them with a popsicle in his mouth. Li Zhi didn't care, and he didn't care that eating the paper on the outside of the popsicle would make him lose his appearance. Even if he felt it, facing his favorite prince, He can also laugh it off. So he dotingly waved to Li Hong to come over.
Li Hong obediently walked forward and saluted: "My son, Li Hong, has met my father."
"Tell Father, did you make this yourself?" Li Zhi bent down and stroked Li Hong's head, his eyes full of pride and pride. He really gave birth to a smart prince. He has been surprising himself every time these days.
"Yes, Father, this was the day when I saw Hua Meng and Mang Zhong, oh, it was Erchen's attendant holding ice cubes in his mouth to relieve the heat, so he suddenly thought about whether adding some sugar would make it delicious. So I made these popsicles," Li Hong said honestly, with a smile on his pink face.
"My son is smarter than me. Such simple but practical food has never been discovered by anyone..."
"Smart? I think he is a complete snack foodie. Why don't you ask him how much candy he took from Shangshi Bureau?" Although Wu Mei poured cold water on her mouth, Li Hong's intelligence obviously made her proud. In the bones.
Her child is smart and smart. As a mother, Wu Mei is naturally proud of her face, not to mention having a son. This is truly the foundation for her to gain a foothold in the harem. Not only does she know how to please her father, but she also knows how to Presented to Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu.
With such benevolent and filial behavior, no one in the harem would think that they were ostracizing the Queen and Concubine Xiao Shu. And he can more legitimately rely on Li Hong to achieve his goals.
When Li Hong saw his mother and concubine talking like this, he knew that there was no reward for him in front of his father. Even if there was any reward, he would probably be rejected by his mother and concubine. What would he say? Don’t spoil him, wait until he grows up.”
Seeing that his father really had no intention of rewarding him, Li Hong opened the door curtain of his mother's palace. Little Li Xian must be sleeping at the moment. I haven't seen him for a long time. Let's take a look at him.
A personal maid who was obviously Wu Mei was sitting next to him guarding the sleeping Li Xian. She heard footsteps behind her and turned around quickly. When she saw the king, she immediately stood up and saluted.
Li Hong stretched out his hand to signal her to excuse herself, and walked quietly to the bed. He looked at Li Xian, who was sleeping soundly, mumbling his little mouth, as if he had dreamed of something delicious, and the little guy was spitting out a small mouth. blister.
Li Hong was curious and stretched out his little finger to pop the blister. Then he turned to look at the palace maid and giggled mischievously.
"Did I feel like this when I was a kid?" Li Hong touched Li Xian's little nose, touched his little hands and feet, and then playfully put his little finger to Li Xian's mouth for Li Xian to suck.
The palace maid looked at Li Hong's amused prank, smiled, and replied to Li Hong: "I don't have that blessing. When I was a child, you were served by Xia Zhi and Bai Lu."
"Hey, yes, the question I asked was too stupid." Li Hong patted his little head and laughed at himself, making the maid next to him laugh.
Wu Mei and Li Zhi were sitting in the outer hall and talking. Li Zhi glanced around and saw that Li Hong was gone, and couldn't help asking: "Where has Hong'er gone? Doesn't he want me to reward him?"
After being reminded by Li Zhi, Wu Mei also noticed that the wild boy had disappeared at some point, but saw that his maid was still waiting, so she turned to look at her maid.
When the palace maid saw Wu Mei looking at her and asking, she said respectfully: "On behalf of the king, he..."
"Ah... wow... wow." Before the palace maid could finish speaking, little Li Xian's loud cry came from Wu Mei's bedroom.
When Wu Mei heard this, black lines suddenly appeared on her jade-white forehead. She gritted her silver teeth and said angrily: "This wild boy is teasing Xian'er again, Li Hong...!"
Before he finished speaking, the bedroom door curtain suddenly lifted, and the wild boy ran out of it like a gust of wind. His short legs were like hot wheels at this moment. In a whooshing moment, before Wu Mei and Li Zhi could react, , the wild boy had already rushed to the palace gate, shouting urgently: "Xia Zhi, Xiao Han, run quickly."
It was obviously not the first time that the two palace maids were called to an "emergency gathering" by the King. Xia Zhi and Xiao Han were shaking like chaff, and their faces were pale from nervousness, or because their master's wretched image made them feel embarrassed. In short, Half nervous and half embarrassed, after hurriedly saluting Li Zhi and Wu Mei, he hurriedly ran out to chase the smaller and smaller figure.
Wu Mei looked at the back of Li Hong who had disappeared from the door. She stood up angrily and walked to the door and shouted: "Li Hong, come back here. I'm so angry. Don't let me catch you. Your Majesty..."
"Haha... haha... haha, interesting, interesting, interesting." Li Zhi still saw the interesting scene of Li Hong escaping in a hurry just now. He laughed out of breath, with tears in his eyes, and gasped: " What a strange boy. He has the demeanor of his imperial grandfather back then. I, Li Zhi, am worthy of my ancestors. I thought I had a weak character, but Zhaoyi, you have given birth to an excellent prince for me. "
Wu Mei looked at Li Zhi, who was excited and his face was a little flushed. She showed off her rare daughterly attitude, stamped her feet on the ground, and said angrily: "I am so angry with this wild boy, you still have the heart to watch my jokes. "
"Haha, if this ghost spirit runs away, just run away. Let Shangguan Yi educate him tomorrow. This royal etiquette still needs to be learned." Li Zhi was obviously trying to deal with Wu Mei. You can tell by his expression. He likes this kind of prince very much, just like his imperial brother Qingque in front of his father, he is smart and studious, but he just doesn't respect etiquette.
Li Zhi was determined to learn to be as free and easy as a young bird, but his weakness in character prevented him from being disrespectful to dogma like his imperial brother. Moreover, after the death of his mother, he had been with his father, and he did not have such an opportunity to release his nature. , looking at Li Hong like this, he was envious from the bottom of his heart.
The maid guarding Li Xian was obviously used to Li Hong teasing his imperial brother, and she had taken every precaution in the dormitory just now, but she failed to prevent the acting king from making King Lu Li Xian cry.
At this moment, Li Xian, who was still crying in his arms, hurriedly walked out. Seeing Wu Mei still standing at the door of the palace and being angry with Li Hong, she didn't know what to do. She only heard Li Zhi say: "Bring Xian'er over, I will Come coax this little guy."
The palace maid hurriedly and obediently gave Li Xian to Li Zhi. Li Zhi took it with both hands, shook his arms, and said softly: "Xian'er is good, Hong'er is bad, and Brother Hong'er is the bad guy." , made the little baby cry again, right? When Father catches him, Father will punish him for you, so Xian'er won't cry anymore."
Wu Mei leaned against the door and looked at the father and son angrily and amusedly. She naturally knew that Li Zhi's words just now were to perfunctory him to punish Li Hong, but that was not the case in her heart. If Hong'er could win His Majesty's favor alone, , which is also a big help to myself.
Wu Mei shook her head and walked helplessly from the door. She had tried all kinds of martial arts on Li Hong, but none of them worked on that brat.
Li Hong has been in his palace every day these days, either on the way to Hongwen Pavilion or on his way back to the palace. Anyway, except for making popsicles these days, he has never left the house at other times. Mai.
Only this time, after giving popsicles to Queen Wang, Xiao Shufei and others, he no longer took the initiative to give them to Yule. The next day, the concubines in the harem also prepared small gifts for him and the maids gave them to him.
Concubine Xiao Shu sent her eldest daughter Princess Yiyang to deliver it. When she left, Yiyang tyrannically took away a basket of popsicles for free. Although Li Hong's popsicles were provided free of charge to the concubines in the harem at this time, the other maids and eunuchs had to spend money to buy popsicles if they wanted to eat them.
Among them, Yang Wu was the most aggrieved. Li Hong sold it to others for two cents, and sold it to him for ten cents. That's it, Yang Wu felt pretty good and was happy every day.
When he found out that the price of selling it to others was two cents and that of selling it to himself was ten cents, one can imagine the grievance in his heart, and he had a deep understanding of Dai Wang's character of retribution. But before he could go to Dai Wang to reason, Dai Wang found him first.
(End of chapter)