Li Chen followed his parents to Luoyang, the eastern capital, Luoyang Palace is very large, but Taiping is not there, this time his parents went to the Eastern Capital, several brothers stayed in Chang'an, and Sister Taiping did not come because she said anything about cultivation. Li Chen, who used to always be accompanied by her sister, suddenly felt very bored, she sat on the corridor of the Zhenguan Palace, the spring was bright outside, and the peonies in the courtyard were also blooming just right.

She leaned against the pillar behind her, and the spring sun was very warm, and everyone was lazy.

She sat a little boring, lazy on her body does not mean lazy in her heart, she looked at the peonies blooming in the courtyard, and began to instruct the palace maids around her to cut flowers. One moment he said that he wanted a flower at the highest point of the drunken jade over there, and another time he said that he wanted a branch near the wall in the upper left corner of the Lantian jade on the right, and then he fell in love with the fragrant jade near the edge of the pond. Finally, she finally picked a few peonies she wanted, and a group of palace maids were driven away by her disgust.

A few peonies were placed at her side, and after she tossed around, she finally began to fall asleep.

Shangguan Wan'er and Li Xin watched Li Chen not far away, waiting for Li Chen's orders at any time. They looked at Li Chen's little head as if they were fishing, and they all wanted to step forward to persuade the princess to go back and take a nap, but the two of you look at me, I look at you, just when the two of them hesitated, a long figure appeared on the corridor, Shangguan Wan'er and Li Xin were startled. Turning his head, he saw that it was Li Zhi, and quickly knelt down to worship the saint, but was stopped by Li Zhi waving his hand.

When he came out after dealing with political affairs, he heard from the guards that Princess Yongchang had visited Zhenguan Hall an hour ago, but when he heard that he was dealing with political affairs, he didn't go to trouble him.

Li Zhi asked softly, "How long has she been sitting there?" ”

"Back to the saint, about half an hour."

Li Zhijian raised his eyebrows slightly, walked over, and saw that his daughter's eyes were closed and her head was constantly tapping very cutely, and she smiled a little, but she also lifted her robe and sat down beside her.

Although spring is coming, it is still cold, and the palace maids are afraid that the little princess will catch a cold when sitting in the corridor, so they spread a thick mink blanket underneath. 、

"Yongchang." Li Zhi shouted.

Li Chen opened his eyes in a daze, and when he saw that it was his father, he simply fell into his arms, Li Zhi couldn't cry or laugh, and reached out to pat her face, "Yongchang." ”

She opened her eyes in some exasperation and glared at her father.

Li Zhi got up with a smile and said, "Let's go, yesterday I said that I would accompany you to practice calligraphy, and Aya will accompany you to practice calligraphy." ”

Li Chen was woken up, got up with a bang, puffed out his cheeks, and said loudly: "Mother has already practiced with me." ”

Li Zhi was not annoyed, but said, "Oh? I got an autumn toad leaf jade wash today, which is very delicate and good-looking, and I wanted to show it to you when I practiced calligraphy with you. ”

When Li Chen heard this, the sleepy insect disappeared all of a sudden, and when he got up, he disappeared without a trace, and his little face lit up.

Seeing this, Li Zhi bent down and picked up a few peonies that she had placed aside, "Since your mother has already practiced calligraphy with you, then Qiu Toad Tong Ye Yuxi will show it to you next time." Are these peonies for your mother? ”

Li Chen hurriedly got up and said, "I cut the peony to give it to Aya, didn't you say that you want to accompany me to practice calligraphy, go now!" ”

"Didn't you say that your mother had already practiced calligraphy with you?"

Li Chen bent his eyes wide, and showed a flattering smile to his father: "You can practice after practicing, my mother said that the way of calligraphy is to insist on diligence." "If she has a tail behind her, that tail is probably shaking with excitement.

Li Zhi smiled helplessly and dotingly, "You haven't seen that autumn toad Tong Ye Yuxi, do you like it so much?" ”

Li Chen said: "Aya said that good things must be excellent. ”

Since Li Chen followed his mother Wu Zetian to practice calligraphy, he couldn't help but like to collect all kinds of pen washes, porcelain pen washes and jade pen washes are still relatively common, Li Zhi saw that she liked pen washes, and ordered someone to carve some precious materials paid tribute by the subject countries into pen washes for her collection. In the autumn and winter of last year, in the □□ of Guannei, Li Chen dug up the lotus root in Buxian Garden Lake and distributed it to Changgong, and many dignitaries and nobles in Chang'an City saw this and followed suit. The so-called unintentional planting of willows and willows, Li Chen and the actions of high-ranking officials and nobles can slightly alleviate the food shortage in the surrounding areas of Chang'an. It happened that the subject country paid tribute to a batch of rhino horns, Li Zhi felt that the color and pattern of the rhino horns were very similar to withered lotus leaves, so he ordered someone to carve a rhinoceros lotus leaf with rhino horns to wash, she saw that the love was overflowing, her eyes were as bright as the stars in the sky, and she couldn't put it down with the rhinoceros lotus leaf all night.

Before arriving in Luoyang, the eastern capital, he heard that there was a jade carver in the eastern capital who made a jade wash, so Li Zhi ordered someone to secretly find the jade carver to make an autumn toad leaf jade wash.

The jade wash is carved with good white jade, the body is a paulownia leaf, the edge of the paulownia leaf is rolled up, it becomes a natural container, and the little toad has been staying on it, looking up as if waiting for something, lifelike, Li Chen liked it at a glance.

Li Zhi laughed at her: "Yongchang knows what a good thing is at a young age." Aya's pen wash can't catch up with you much. ”

Li Chen glanced at his father, and then hugged a brand-new inkstone that his father had placed on the desk in his arms.

"It's mine too!"

This inkstone is produced in Shezhou at a glance, and the workmanship is fine, my father does not like extravagance and waste, but the person who sent the inkstone must have been selected to dare to give it to my father. She doesn't lack good things, but no one has too many good things, Li Chen feels that she is a princess, and her collecting habits are stricter than before.

Seeing this, Li Zhi laughed so hard that he couldn't do it, and pointed to a string of decorative agate beads on the table, and asked, "What about this, it's also yours?" ”

Li Chen didn't even look at it, and nodded violently, "Yes!" ”

Li Zhi laughed, he was a little upset in his heart when dealing with political affairs, but now that he was tossed by Li Chen, he only felt that the sense of turmoil in his heart had been reduced a lot. When he was in an ordinary mood, he was obedient to his daughter, and now that he is in a better mood, he can't wait to spoil her to the sky, so he waved his hand and said with a smile: "If you look at anything else you like in this room, I'll let you take it back." ”

Li Chen's eyes were bent into crescent moons, and he smiled with his father: "I don't like anything in this room, but I like the guqin that Aya got a few days ago." "I heard that it is a guqin made by a top master, and there are only two in the world, one of which was obtained by my father, and the whereabouts of the other are unknown. Li Chen doesn't know the piano, but he also knows that the piano must be priceless.

Li Zhi bent down and leaned over and pinched Li Chen's nose, "You little elf ghost, you actually have the idea of playing that guqin?" You can't play the piano now, but I can't give it to you. In this way, when you learn the rhythm well, well, I don't want you to be better than your father, as long as you can play it so that I feel good, when you descend, I will take the guqin as your dowry to the princess's mansion, okay? ”

Li Chen, who was a collector, heard this, and was worried: his father's attainments in music and rhythm are first-class, and his choreography and soundtrack are all the rage, so how much work does it take for his father to think she plays well?

Li Zhi and Li Chen played in the Zhenguan Hall for a while, and Li Chen really practiced calligraphy for nearly an hour in the company of Li Zhi for the sake of the autumn toad Tong Ye Yuwash. When I got tired of practicing, I pestered my father to go to my mother to enjoy peonies.

When the father and daughter went to find Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian was exchanging some harem matters with the concubines who went to Luoyang together, and the concubines saw Li Zhi and Li Chen, and left after meeting the saint. The people in the harem all understand that Her Royal Highness the Queen has the grace to accommodate people, but they never like the concubines next to her to make eye contact with the saint in front of her, and they don't like the concubines to be spoiled. They all remember the death of Mrs. Wei.

Although the emperor and his wife accompanied their daughter to enjoy peonies, what Li Chen heard along the way was that they were discussing the affairs of the court.

Speaking of Chang'an, Li Zhi smiled and said to Wu Zetian: "You and I will go to the Eastern Capital, and leave the prince in Chang'an to supervise the country." I heard that a few days ago, the prince saw that there was no food in the house of some guards, so he got some fluffy grass seeds and went back to plan to put them in the rice and use them as food. Seeing this, the prince quietly ordered the family to order the temple to provide rice and grain to his guards. ”

Wu Zetian nodded and said: "The prince has been kind-hearted since he was a child, and as the prince of the country, it is a good thing to be able to worry about the worries of the people, but the concubine is worried that he is too good." ”

Li Chen raised her eyes and looked at her mother, she knew what her mother said. Her mother once told her that when the prince and her brother were children, he couldn't bear to hear such things when the teacher read him some sinful things in Zuo Chuan, and later changed to the Book of Rites.

When Li Zhi heard this, he sighed lightly and said, "No one is perfect, but there will always be growth." When I became the crown prince, the first emperor was worried that I would not be able to take on the great responsibility, but now it seems that although I cannot compare with the first emperor, I can finally live up to his expectations. ”

Wu Zetian turned his head sideways, looked at Li Zhi with a smile on his face, and said: "The Lord is a saintly person, so naturally he will not live up to the expectations of the first emperor." ”

When Li Zhi heard this, he also smiled, looked at Li Chen, who was bouncing in front of him to see the flowers and plants for a while, and then chasing butterflies, and said, "Of course, thanks to Mei Niang who has always been by my side." Not only for me to have children, but also for me to share worries. ”

"This should have been done by the concubine for the Lord."

Li Zhi looked at Wu Zetian standing in front of him, smiling, and behind him was a peony flower, she stood in front of the graceful and luxurious peony flower, and she didn't feel like being compared to it at all, but was lined with peonies to make her more radiant.

Li Zhi was about to say something, when suddenly a rush of footsteps came.

"The slave has seen a saint!"

Li Zhi turned his head and looked at the person who came, his face was displeased, "Why are you so flustered?" ”

The palace man who rushed to the ground immediately knelt on the ground and said to Li Zhi: "Sage, Princess Chengyang is seriously ill and has died in Fangzhou. ”