The two of them did not continue to discuss the topic of flying immortals. It was as if they had a tacit understanding, and it seemed that it was not the best time. In short, Wu Mei and Li Hong put aside this topic in a tacit understanding.
Liangshan is not very big, and the imperial tombs built on the mountain, starting from Taizong, were just to save money on construction. Therefore, the imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty royal family were basically built on the mountain, and in The preservation for later generations is also very complete.
The patrol team of the Jinwu Guards were far away, and they had all dismounted, and then stood on both sides of the road with the same well-trained horses, silently watching His Majesty and the Empress Dowager, slowly walking from the Shinto of the Lord's Mausoleum. In the middle, go outside.
Wu Mei and Li Hong just glanced at the Jinwu Guards guarding the imperial mausoleum with their helmets on both sides, and then continued to move forward slowly.
Jinwu and his horses on both sides were just like the mythical beasts on both sides of the road, silent and firm, motionless, watching Li Hong and the charming figure disappear, and then after giving an order, they moved neatly, He quickly mounted his horse and began to patrol.
"When do you plan to return to Chang'an?" Walking on the narrow path to Xiao Shufei's courtyard, Wu Mei picked a mountain wild flower and sniffed it at the tip of her nose.
"I'm not in a hurry. I'll just go back with you when the time comes. There's nothing big going on in Chang'an City. What's more, it only takes half a day to get to Chang'an with a fast horse. It won't delay anything." Li Hong clasped his hands behind his back and looked at The sun was shining brightly above my head, which was somewhat dazzling.
The colorful and unknown wildflowers all over the mountains and plains enjoy the most harmonious side of nature under the sunshine and breeze. The buzzing bees and the fluttering butterflies staying on the flower stamens seem to be laughing and playing, under the sunshine. Tirelessly chasing.
In the lush mountain forest in the distance, birds perched lazily on the branches chirped from time to time, announcing to the two people who stepped into the flowers all over the mountains and fields that this was their territory and that you were just passers-by.
From time to time, Li Hong stretched out his hand to catch the butterfly flying in front of his eyes, but every time he could only watch helplessly as the butterfly passed by his fingertips, and then continued to dance happily.
Wu Mei seemed to have returned to the past. With a little effort, she got a bouquet of wild flowers in her hands. At this time, she was still looking for her favorite flowers with great interest.
"I plan to stay here for a while and spend more time with your father. Living in the palace for a long time has become a bit boring. Concubine Xiao Shu will enjoy it. She can not only accompany your father here, but also cultivate her sentiments. , Cleanse the mind." Wu Mei put her hands on the awning and looked into the distance with a frown.
Li Hong followed Wu Mei's line of sight and saw an occasional figure moving in the distance. He smiled and said, "They are from Hua Meng and Jingwei. They will not come to disturb you."
"You can see for yourself. If something happens in the court, go back early. The matter of establishing a prince is your business as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. I, the empress dowager, am also old and have no time and energy to care about the political affairs of the court. Pei Qing's case or that of Kong Yuan and others, you have to be merciful and merciful. After all, Pei Wanying is the empress of the Tang Dynasty, you still need to take some care of her face." Holding a large bouquet of colorful flowers. Wu Mei, who was obviously tired of picking, looked at Li Hong holding a big leaf in his hand and motioned to Li Hong to lift it up to use as an umbrella for her to protect her from the sun.
"So I leave it to Li Ye to take care of it, and I have to take care of the worldly affairs, but... just like what I said, only laws are greater than anything else..."
"Stop, stop, stop, I don't want to listen to your court affairs. I've said everything I need to say. It's your business whether you listen or not." Wu Mei motioned to Li Hong to put the big leaf aside. Move over, the sun is over there, what's the point of covering this side.
"Then how long do you plan to stay here?" Li Hong changed the leaves in his hand from left to right, followed Wu Mei, and the two returned to the path they had just taken, and continued walking towards Concubine Xiao Shu's courtyard.
"I can't tell, it depends on my mood." Wu Mei walked slowly, and Li Hong, who was holding a leaf as an umbrella, naturally couldn't walk fast, so he followed behind her step by step, switching his left hand with his right hand from time to time.
"I saw it yesterday. There is no heating in the mountains. Once the autumn harvest is over, the mountains will get cold, but it won't look as elegant and leisurely as it does now." There are green wheat fields under the mountain. Whether it's in Li Hong's eyes or Wu Mei's eyes, they are both so gratifying.
"So what do the officials of your Ministry of Industry do for food? Concubine Xiao Shu is here alone. Taichang Temple often comes to the imperial mausoleum, but no one cares about Concubine Xiao Shu. What do you mean by saying this now?" Wu Mei stopped and said, Glancing at Li Hong, his dissatisfaction was palpable.
"My son is not thoughtful, but Gao'an and Yiyang are not? Their biological mothers and concubines are not short of money. They can make the courtyard on the mountain more comfortable and it doesn't cost much. "Li Hong rolled his eyes and said helplessly.
"By the way, find someone to go back and bring me my feather duster. I felt something was missing yesterday, and I realized today that I forgot to bring it with me." After walking to the entrance of the courtyard, Li Hong's arms were already a little sore. .
After finally being able to put down his hands and throw the leaves aside casually, Li Hong discovered that both arms were shaking involuntarily, and the symptoms of muscle fatigue were extremely obvious.
"Then I'll stay here for a while. I've been wasting my body during this time and rarely exercised. Not long after I lifted it, my arms became a little sore." Li Hong, who was shaking his arms, looked at Xiao Shufei and others slowly walked out and said.
"It's up to you. I will discuss the rest of the courtyard with Concubine Xiao Shu in two days. You can let your people from the Ministry of Industry make preparations now." After Wu Mei finished speaking, she began to talk to Concubine Xiao Shu, and Yi Yang and Gao An, from time to time followed the conversation between Wu Mei and Xiao Shufei, covering their mouths and laughing softly.
Yiyang and Gao An are still somewhat restrained in front of Wu Mei. Even after so many years, the shadow of Wu Mei's strength in their childhood has been deeply imprinted in their minds. No matter how much time it takes, they cannot heal it. Changed again.
Seeing Wu Mei and Xiao Shufei walking deep into the courtyard, talking endlessly to the large handful of colorful wild flowers, the abandoned Emperor of the Tang Dynasty reached out to stop Yiyang and Concubine who were about to leave. Gaoan.
The smile was like a wolf seeing a sheep, which made Gao An and Yiyang feel highly alert to Li Hong's treacherous, sinister, shameless, and despicable smile.
"If you have something to ask Gao An..."
"If you have something to ask Yiyang..."
Gao An and Yi Yang betrayed their biological sisters in unison. Before they finished speaking, the two looked at each other and laughed without feeling any embarrassment.
The two of them are now too familiar with Li Hong's current smile. As long as Li Hong shows this smile, then nine out of ten people who can see this smile will be unlucky. If they don't pay a large sum of money, it is absolutely impossible. He escaped wholeheartedly.
As members of the royal family, even if they paid a large sum of money, with the mentality of losing money and avoiding disaster, they would eventually be cheated by Li Hong.
So Yiyang and Gao An, looking at Li Hong's despicable smile, and thinking about the words of the Empress Dowager when they came over just now, "Let your people from the Ministry of Industry prepare it now", Yiyang and Gao An said It felt like a dark and thick cloud, mixed with lightning and thunder, was slowly enveloping them.
"The Queen Mother plans to live here for a while, so the courtyard needs to be repaired. In the next few days, the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother will come up with a rest plan, and then we can start. We will take advantage of the warm weather now, and try to get there when late autumn comes. , we can make this courtyard more comfortable, right? So at this time, as children, how can we not show some filial piety?" Li Hong looked at Yiyang and Gao An and was about to run away with a twitching expression. , holding a sleeve with one hand and saying with a "kind" smile.
"Hey, what do you want to do? The queen and the concubine just left, and I'm going to scream." Yiyang covered his chest with one hand, as if he was facing a pervert.
"Shout, no one will pay attention to you even if you shout at your throat? Who do you think in this world can or dares to interfere with my affairs as the emperor? Gao An, don't bother, don't come to me when your wrists are blue. ." Li Hong grabbed Yiyang and Gao An's wrists and snorted coldly.
The iconic smirk on the corner of his mouth made Yiyang and Gao An instantly feel like they were falling into an ice cave. Their chests were rising and falling angrily due to depression. Gao An had a face that looked like he was going to die heroically: "Say it, you How much do you want?”
"It's vulgar, superficial, and too superficial. Are you asking for money? Compared with having more money, who can be richer than me? Am I the one asking you two for money? I am a dignified emperor, and I will Do you want money from you? Well, it's not much. I will take it as your filial piety to honor your mother and concubine. This is not what you want. Money, this is obviously a great opportunity for them to honor the Empress Dowager and Xiao Shufei. It's just that they don't know how to cherish it, but they dare to resist.
"Why don't you go and grab it? You, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, have the nerve to ask us for two hundred thousand taels of silver each?" Yiyang gritted his teeth, and the towering perfect curves on his chest were rising and falling at the moment, giving him a feminine look. The charm possessed by talents.
"That's right, you are extorting! Let each of us pay 200,000 taels of silver. How much will you pay? You honor your mother and concubine, why don't you say you honor your father? Well, my father is right next to me anyway. "Yuan, you might as well just add them too." Gao An was so angry that he couldn't calm down for a long time. He gritted his teeth and wanted to bite Li Hong.
Compared with their teenage years, Yiyang and Gao An at this time naturally have a touch of charm and mature temptation, but these are not visible at all in Li Hong's eyes.
Ignoring the seductive towering curves and the heart-stirring charm of the two women, he said shamelessly: "I am the one who provides the work, and the Ministry of Industry is my people. I provide the people and the effort, and you provide the money. Let's divide the work and cooperate."
"You... you... you are despicable! Cough cough cough..." Gao An was so angry that he almost choked himself, and tears came out from his coughing.
"Li Hong, you are becoming more and more shameless. In the past two years, you have become more and more excessive and stingy! If you have no money, you can ask Bai Chun for it. Why do you keep cheating us?" The bitter and angry expression was extremely inconsistent with her dignified and beautiful appearance.
"By the way, just now Gao An, you said you should honor your father, right?" Someone was not moved by the two women's painful drama at all. He grabbed the two women's wrists, looked up to the sky and thought for a while, and then said to himself as if : "How could I have forgotten this? Yes, my father is right next to me. How can I forget my father if I have to be filial and filial? Let's do this, five hundred thousand taels per person."
"Bah! Go to hell!"
"Bah! Why don't you die!"
"Fifty thousand taels? I won't even give you five taels!"
"How about I give you five cents? Is that enough?"
The two sisters sang together, and in short, they made up their minds this time. They would never let the bandit emperor in front of them extort themselves so easily again!
Li Hong suddenly let go of the two women's wrists. One of the two women was unsteady, staggered, and almost fell into his arms. Fortunately, Li Hong was not completely blinded by money, and he quickly helped the two women. Stand firm.
Just when the two women thought that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had nothing to do with them and could only spend the money to repair the Liangshan courtyard themselves, they heard the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty speaking to the deep and empty courtyard.
"Hua Meng, let Shangguan Wan'er draw up the edict. This edict... is for Princess Yiyang, Princess Gao'an, Princess Taiping, as well as King Ze Li Shangjin, King Xu Li Sujie, King Pei Li Xian, King Li Zhe of Ying, and King Yin Li Dan, um..." Li Hong paced in front of Gao'an and Yiyang, who was looking at each other, and after thinking for a moment, he continued: "I will write about repairing the courtyard for the Empress Dowager and Concubine Xiao Shu, and repairing the father's mausoleum to fulfill our filial piety and establish filial piety for the people of the world. As a role model, I have issued a decree today that each of them contributes... five hundred thousand taels of silver to fulfill their filial piety. I deeply believe in the true and pure filial piety of each of my brothers and sisters."
Li Hong said there to Hua Meng who quickly appeared, while Yiyang and Gao An wanted to have a fatal conflict. This despicable and shameless person, this abominable and shameful bandit emperor, actually used the means of issuing an imperial edict to blackmail them. silver!
Gao An wanted to give himself a big mouth at this moment. Why did he say in anger that he still had his father next to him? Why do you have to be mean-mouthed? Have you forgotten that being mean-mouthed in front of Li Hong will never yield good results? Why do you have such a short memory
"That's it. I'll pass the order orally to Princess Shangguan and ask her to polish it for me. It's too verbal. It seems that my imperial edict is not so formal. It seems like I'm robbing them of their money. I must tell the princess without leaking anything. , We must not let them take advantage of it, and block it at both ends..." Li Hongsha said matter-of-factly.
Yiyang and Gao An, with their beautiful faces as white as jade, couldn't help but cursed in their hearts: "This is an imperial edict. Who dares to disobey it? Who dares not to listen? For money, you dare to even issue an imperial edict. ? Aren’t you afraid of being known as the most money-grabbing emperor in history?”
Gao An and Yiyang were speechless. In the end, Yiyang was like a fish that had been out of water for a long time and was about to die. He muttered his red lips and said: "I think I can already imagine when Li Lingyue, Li Sujie and others saw this. When delivering the imperial edict, the colorful expressions on their faces combined with the pain and depression in their hearts.”
(End of chapter)