Yiyang and Gao'an are now graceful and beautiful women. Originally, they were already very old when they got married. In addition, after these years of accumulation, both Yiyang and Gao'an have different temperaments. There is a bright and touching nobility and elegance in everything.
Compared with Pei Wanying and others who still have a slight youthful atmosphere, it is more able to arouse people's understanding of beauty.
In the Daming Palace, Bai Chun was completely an outlier among the outliers. When everyone was lamenting the natural law of getting older and getting older, she was the only one who seemed to have maintained all the original beauty. everything.
It seems that these years, the years have completely forgotten her in the corner of time, and she has never looked at her, allowing her to maintain the enviable ice-muscle and jade-like skin, becoming more and more beautiful, more and more impressive. People are jealous.
Pei Wanying, Chen Qinghan, and An Xiaohe all gave birth to children for Li Hong, so their status in the East Palace naturally became more and more important than others.
Even Yan Lingbin and Ye Yue, including Wen Wen brought back by Bai Chun from Jiannan Road, gradually gained more respect for the three women.
In the Zichen Hall, Li Zhe and Li Dan were accompanying Li Zhi at the desk to review Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy and paintings, which Li Zhi had never been willing to show to Li Hong.
Li Hong has been thinking about Wang Xizhi's Lanting Collection Preface since he was a child, and he did not hesitate to use it to seduce the Minister of Works, hoping to find out whether the Lanting Collection Preface was still in the palace.
At first, Li Zhi guarded Li Hong like a thief. He was deeply afraid that Li Hong would know that the preface to the Lanting Collection had been buried with the late emperor in Zhaoling. Who knew whether this "traitor" would sneak away at that time? Zhaoling, which was completely sealed, found out the preface to the Lanting Collection.
When Li Hong greeted Yiyang, Gao An, Xiao Shufei and others, Hua Meng behind him also gave Yiyang one by one the gifts that Bai Chun had prepared for Li Hong earlier today for the heirs and county heads. , Gao An and Li Zhe's children, then they walked from the flower hall of Zichen Palace to Li Zhi's study under the guidance of the palace maid.
In three years, Li Zhi worked hard for the Tang Dynasty's state affairs for another three years. His body was already weak, and vertigo still attacks from time to time, making Li Zhi look like an old man who is still decrepit. Standing together with the magnificent, noble and elegant Queen Wu Mei, no one would think that Father Long was several years younger than Mother Long.
It was like he deliberately pretended to be older after meeting Li Hong. After Li Hong saluted him, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty pretended to cough twice to show that he had helped Li Hong handle government affairs in the past few years. , worried and worked hard, and ended up in this situation.
He has gray hair, a gray beard, and is dressed in dark yellow casual clothes. There is just a simple wooden hairpin on the top of his head to fix his hair. I don't know if the robe was made earlier, or whether Li Zhi deliberately had it made to make him fatter. , in short, it looked loose and baggy on his body, making him look a little old and weak.
His eyes still looked a bit lively. Although wrinkles had covered the corners of his eyes, and with the growth of longevity eyebrows, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who had no interest in Taoism or Buddhism, could still vaguely understand his face when he focused on it. I saw some of the majestic and noble appearance of Emperor Longyan back then.
Li Hong sighed speechlessly, and then murmured: "You are taking care of the country for yourself. This country is still your country. Don't act like you are taking care of the country for your son, okay? My son is just the prince. So if you want to make your son feel guilty..."
"You bastard, if you hadn't disappeared without a trace, would I still be using this body to work for the country now? You are my prince, and I am ill. Shouldn't you, the prince, be in Chang'an for me? Sharing worries? You shouldn't handle the government affairs for me! It's unfaithful and unfilial..." Li Zhi sat behind the desk and walked to the calligraphy and painting first before Li Hong, and hurriedly motioned to the palace maid to put the calligraphy and painting away.
Li Zhe and Li Dan were originally able to discuss some calligraphy and painting techniques with Father Long in harmony and happiness. However, with the arrival of the prince, the happy mood in the imperial study room, where the father was kind and the son was filial, was instantly destroyed. Nothing left.
"Father, you and your brother haven't seen each other for a long time, and you haven't had time to talk together these days. Obviously, your brother also has state affairs to report to you, and your minister and Li Dan are not..." Li Zhe saw that Li Hong was arguing with Father Long again. If there is a quarrel over the throne, then he and Li Dan, the two princes who cannot touch the throne, are obviously not suitable to stay here, lest the two of them quarrel later and let him argue with Li Dan, which will be embarrassing. The only ones in trouble were himself and Li Dan, so it was better to retreat quickly before they started arguing.
"Li Dan, please wait a moment." Li Hong rubbed his empty hands. The maid in front of his father must be newly trained. It seems that he is still a practitioner. He wanted to snatch away Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy and painting, but he couldn't. She grabbed it, but she avoided it quietly and without leaving any trace.
"Ah? What's the matter, Brother Huang?" Li Dan's title of "Little Fatty" is now even more worthy of his name. With Taiyi City completely opened to him, this guy will stay in Taiyi City for at least twenty days a month. come out.
So now, in addition to Bai Chun, the person in charge of Taiyi City is the King of Yin, Li Dan. Now, as he spends more time in Taiyi City, his influence is getting bigger and bigger, and he has great influence. Bai Chun is equally famous.
Fortunately, Li Dan is not a fool. He knows which ones he should touch and which ones he should not touch. For those new species that were brought back from overseas, Li Dan seemed to be fascinated, looking at those Things were changing back and forth, and even looking at the rubber tree, the white latex cut from the tree, after some processing, turned out to be very elastic, full of toughness and wear resistance, after simple shaping After taking shape, it can be transformed into many kinds of extremely useful things.
Even that kind of seed was squeezed out of oil in Taiyi City and used to make more sophisticated paints. Even the rubber nut shell was forcibly extracted into an unnamed substance.
Everything in Taiyi City was extremely fascinating, dazzling, and even shocking to him, but he had never even heard of it before entering Taiyi City.
As for the rest of Taiyi City, as long as it dealt with property, Li Dan didn't ask anything. Even when his father-in-law wanted to deal with some in-demand items in Taiyi City, Li Dan shook his head and refused to let go.
Only after negotiating with Bai Chun, will Bai Chun take care of these housework for him. The longer he soaks in Taiyi City, the more he knows what Taiyi City hides. Huge wealth and intimidation.
And this also made him more aware of the importance of Taiyi City and Baichun to Datang when he stayed in Taiyi City. Especially when he started to come into contact with the medicinal kitchen, he had another impression of Taiyi City. His level of understanding, even in his own heart, has raised Taiyi City to the level of the foundation of the country.
He also knew that Bai Chun was willing to open all the gates of Taiyi City for him, which contained the great trust of his brother Li Hong in him.
So now, Li Dan can still walk freely in various areas of Taiyi City as if he is in no one's land, entirely because Li Hong is not wary of him at all.
And Li Dan also made Li Hong and Bai Chun absolutely reassured. Except for entering the herbal medicine room and the environment of some new things, because he needed a lot of money to verify his crazy ideas, basically he It is rare to go to Prince Pu's Mansion to find Bai Chun, but once he goes to Prince Pu's Mansion to find Bai Chun, then Bai Chun will definitely give an absolutely considerable amount of silver.
Sometimes even Li Zhe was surprised by Bai Chun's straightforwardness. No matter what Li Dan wanted money for, Bai Chun never said a word or even asked. He just paid for it according to the budget given by Li Dan. Spending a lot of money, Li Zhe sometimes thought that Li Dan wanted to rebel because he wanted so much money.
But even when Li Dan faced his teasing questions, he shook his head, pretended to be mysterious, and didn't even tell him what he was doing now.
Bai Chun and Li Hong obviously understood what Li Dan wanted so much money for, although Li Zhe sometimes had a hard time understanding it. Li Dan happily brought a small gadget to Bai Chun in his hand. When he said that this was what he spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to make, Bai Chun even stupidly thanked Li Dan.
In Li Zhe's opinion, after spending so much money to get such a small gadget in his hand, has Li Dan become smarter, or has Bai Chun become stupid? Why do you believe that the little thing in Li Dan's hand is worth so much money!
When Li Dan excitedly held the black circle and ran to Bai Chun and asked for money again, Li Zhe's outlook was completely shattered by the two people's wasteful behavior.
After Li Dan took off the wheels of Baichun's carriage, he took it to Taiyi City and worked hard for several days. He was dirty and sweaty and took several people with him to take away the things he had taken away a few days ago. The wheels, after being put on the black thing, were installed on the carriage again.
Then she looked at Bai Chun with a look of praise on her face, and asked Bai Chun to get on her carriage and use her handy driver to test whether the carriage was more comfortable than before.
Li Zhe watched boredly as the two "idiots" tinkered around. Finally, when Bai Chun sat on the wheel with ugly black rims and sped away, Li Dan was attentive and focused. He looked at the ups and downs of the carriage carriage.
After the carriage came back in a circle, Bai Chun jumped out of the carriage excitedly, showing a rare bright smile, and praised the carriage with great satisfaction. When he praised the carriage for its comfort, Li Zhe slowly came to his senses, and the two of them made a gesture. It’s just a wheel, so why are you so happy
So when Li Dan changed the carriage for him, Li Zhe sat in the carriage for a long time. However, it was obvious that he couldn't feel excited anymore, so Li Zhe kicked off the coachman and drove the carriage himself. He put on the carriage with new wheels and ran out of Chang'an City in a hurry. Then with a loud noise, the wheels stopped, so Li Zhe had no choice but to limp the carriage and slowly wander back to Chang'an City.
(End of chapter)