Li Zhi was shocked when he heard what Wu Zetian said. You must know that Mrs. Rongguo died at the age of more than 90 last year, which was a happy funeral. An old woman in her nineties had an affair with her grandson in her twenties, and Li Zhi was a little dumbfounded.

Looking back at Wu Zetian, she bit her lower lip with an embarrassed expression. It can be seen that if it weren't for Helan Minzhi's actions going too far, she couldn't tolerate it anymore, and she definitely wouldn't tell him such a family ugly. Li Zhi felt that it was not that Wu Zetian deliberately concealed him, but that he had been married for many years, and Wu Zetian was so showy and loved face, Li Zhi still knew.

Since his queen didn't want to tolerate Helan Minzhi anymore, Li Zhi also waved his hand and allowed Wu Zetian to repair Helan Minzhi.

Li Chen knows Wu Zetian's wrist very well, his mother will not make a move, and once he makes a move, He Lan Minzhi will not survive.

Taiping and Li Chen muttered some aristocratic gossip again, and at this time, Li Xin had already prepared items such as tea sets and tea cakes. Li Chen jumped off the kang and turned his head to look at Taiping, "Sister, let's go, let's go to the East Palace to visit the prince and brother!" ”

Taiping came down with a smile and went to the East Palace with Li Chen.

When Li Chen and Taiping arrived at the East Palace, the second brother Li Xian was with the prince's elder brother, Li Xian turned his face slightly sideways, listening to the eunuchs beside Li Hong talk about the prince's illness.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had a severe cough a few days ago, and he didn't get better after taking a few pills, but now that King Pei is here, the prince's complexion is much better."

Li Chen said with a smile: "That's because no one plays with the prince's brother, he is stuffy, and his illness is naturally not good." Now that the second brother is here, someone accompanies the prince and brother to relieve their boredom, and they are in a good mood, of course, their complexion is good. ”

The three people in the courtyard were stunned and turned around.

Li Chen and the palace maid behind Taiping greeted Li Hong in an uproar, and Li Hong waved his hand, "No need to be polite." ”

After Li Chen asked the palace maids to place the tea set for making tea on the stone table not far in front, he drove out all the palace maids who followed, leaving only Shangguan Wan'er and Taiping's personal female chess players present.

Li Hong sat on the Taishi chair, he stretched out his hand towards Li Chen, and said with a warm smile: "Yongchang come over and let me take a look." ”

Li Chen walked over obediently, and also turned around in front of the prince's brother, and finally stood still, and asked with a smile: "How is it?" Brother Prince, is Yongchang good-looking? ”

"Of course, our Yongchang is the most beautiful." Li Hong smiled and reached out to pat her shoulder, and said softly.

Li Xian pointed to the tea set that the palace maid put down just now and asked, "Yongchang, what are you going to do this time?" ”

Taiping said with a smile: "Lu Sicheng of Buxian Garden found a set of tea sets for Ah Mei and taught her how to make tea. ”

"Oh? So my sister is now successful in learning? Li Xian looked at Li Chen with a smile and said teasingly. On the day in the Taishan Temple, Li Chen drank tea and sprayed Li Xian's face, and now he still remembers it vividly, Li Xian doesn't want to be poisoned for the second time.

Li Chen glanced at Li Xian, snorted lightly, and was very confident: "Anyway, it won't be worse than Taishan's tea." "According to the modern cooking method, boiling a pot after the tea cake is broken will not be more difficult to drink than the dried tea in the Taishan Temple. Li Chen is not good at tea ceremony, but she is from a thousand years later, so she still has this confidence.

Seeing her arrogant appearance, Li Xian couldn't help but reach out and pinch her nose, "I heard that there are people in Chang'an City who are also starting to have good tea, Ah Mei, can you bear it a lot." ”

Taiping said: "The second brother doesn't want to think that so many tea leaves in the garden have been made into tea cakes, so Ah Mei asked Lu Sicheng to prepare a lot of tea cakes and let my father distribute them to the minister." Ah Mei also told her mother a few days ago that the tea cakes were also put away, and she wanted to take out the tea cakes and sell them for money. ”

Li Xianwan scratched her nose again, "Could it be that you still lack so much money?" ”

Li Chen slapped Li Xian's hand away with some annoyance, and retorted confidently, "How can I be short of money?" But it's always good to have money, brother, you don't see that during the famine last year, if it weren't for the prince's brother forcing grain merchants not to raise the price of grain, and taking money from the treasury to buy grain, how many hungry people would not be able to eat. Tea cakes will also be bad if they are left aside, and they will also affect the taste, and the tea will be delicious only if it is new tea. ”

Seeing this, Li Hong smiled and said softly: "Then what Yongchang brought here today is new tea?" ”

Li Chen nodded.

Li Hong: "It's rare that you came here with Taiping, and brought a complete set of tea sets, Brother has never seen Yongchang make tea, let me take a look today?" ”

Li Chen smiled and nodded, "Okay, but-" She frowned slightly, looked sideways at the prince in the chair, and said with some hesitation: "But Brother has been using medicine recently, and people who use medicine can't drink tea." ”

Li Xian said: "Well, this is okay, since my father got you a garden, I have also read a lot about growing tea, tea will have antidotes, but if you just taste it, it won't have much effect." ”

Li Hong stood up with a smile, he always wore civilian clothes when he was recuperating in the East Palace.

At this time, Li Hong was nineteen years old and an adult man. His facial features are somewhat like his mother's, but his temperament is like his father's. However, Li Chen felt that there was still a difference between Li Hong's temperament and his father's. The father's temperament is elegant and noble, and when he stands in front of others, his smiling appearance is the bright moon and breeze. The prince's brother is the same as his father, with a bit of elegance, but he has studied etiquette since he was a child, read Confucian classics, and believes in the way of benevolence, so when others see him, they feel that this person is gentle and easy-going, and he smiles, as if he is the warm sun in spring, which makes people feel warm.

Several people sat down at the stone table, and Shangguan Wan'er, who was used to waiting, stepped forward and laid out the tea sets, water, and tea cakes one by one.

In these years, there is no tea ceremony, at most I have learned the habit of drinking tea in the south. But Li Chen has memories of the past, knowing that different boiled tea will have different tastes, and since he is making tea and talking with the prince's brother, of course he must be forced. So Li Chen brought the teapot, water and tea cakes from the East Palace, all of which are high-quality, the water is the mountain spring water of the mountain behind the garden, and the tea cakes are the best tea cakes carefully selected by Lu Sicheng, and even the tea sets are very exquisite.

Li Chen stood in front of the table, her hand raised slightly, Shangguan Wan'er had already handed her the things she needed with ease.

The little princess, dressed in a pink dress, stood in the garden of the prince's east palace, looking focused and engrossed in the tea ceremony. In the past, she had heard that the art of separating tea was prevalent in ancient times, and that the Japanese tea ceremony was passed down in China during the Tang Dynasty, and those who were proficient in the tea ceremony could use the soup flowers of the tea to make various patterns, but unfortunately she didn't understand.

Li Chen felt a little sorry in her heart, she felt that her current posture was very compelling, but a good posture did not mean that she really had the ability, and she didn't know what the tea ceremony was about, so she could only temporarily cook a pot of tea according to the method of Lu Temple Chengjiao, and distribute it to the two brothers and sisters Taiping.

Li Xian looked at the orange and yellow thing in the cup, and hesitated.

Li Chen looked at him with big eyes and asked, "Second brother, don't you drink?" ”

Li Xian remembered that Li Chen, who was about to cry because of the tea at that time, it was difficult for him to drink this small cup of tea without psychological obstacles. On the contrary, it was Li Hong, after taking the tea handed to him by Li Chen, he tasted the tea slowly, "There are some unique fragrances, but the taste is also a little bitter, well, and a little astringent." ”

Taiping often mixes with Li Chen, and I don't know how many times I have tasted the tea made by Ah Mei, so a cup of tea is just left in front of her, but she doesn't drink it.

Li Chen didn't pay attention to drinking tea in the past, but the modern tea ceremony has long been developed and matured, and the manufacturing and preservation of tea is not known how many times more advanced than now.

She sighed softly, holding her face in her hands, a little listless.

Seeing this, Li Hong put down the teacup in his hand and looked at Li Chen, "Yongchang? ”

Li Chen said: "This tea doesn't taste good. ”

When Li Xian heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then drank all the tea that Li Chen had just given him, and said, "How come?" I think it's good! ”

Li Chen couldn't help but glance at him and said, "How can you know if the tea is delicious or bad when you drink it like that?" What is tea tasting? Tea tasting is the same as tasting fine wine, you have to drink it slowly and taste it slowly, like the second brother just called cow drink, not tea tasting! ”

Li Xian couldn't help but reach out and pinch her tender face, "Give you a few colors and open a dyeing workshop, huh?" ”

Li Chen pouted and slapped Li Xian's hand away.

Seeing this, Li Hong said: "If you want to do things quickly, you can't reach it, and now my father has just invited a master from the south to grow tea, if this tea is really a good thing, in a few years, it will naturally prevail in this dynasty." When the time comes, I'm afraid that there are all kinds of tricks to drink tea, and you won't be able to learn it. ”

Brother Prince's words won Li Chen's heart, so Li Chen lifted his spirits and showed a professional and cute smile to Brother Prince, "Brother is right!" ”

Seeing her innocent and lovely appearance, Li Hong couldn't help but reach out and touch her head, "Speaking of which, Brother hasn't been to your Envy Garden yet." ”

Li Chen said: "Last year, all the lotus roots in the Buxian Garden were dug up, and this spring the water was stored and the lotus flowers were replanted. ”

Li Hong was stunned.

Li Chen tilted his head with a smile, and his voice was delicate: "Brother Prince, okay?" ”

Li Hong nodded with a smile and said, "Naturally, it's good, Yongchang will call a few more little playmates together to be more lively." ”

Li Xian blinked a little mischievously and said, "It doesn't matter who you forget, Yongchang must remember to invite the young ladies of the Pei family when the time comes." ”

Li Chen was stunned, "The young lady of the Pei family? "She doesn't know the young lady of the Pei family.

Taiping came over like a ghost and said, "I've heard that my mother and father are thinking about taking the crown princess next year for the crown prince's brother, my sister, our future sister-in-law seems to be surnamed Pei." ”

Li Chen suddenly realized.

Li Hong's white ears next to him were already slightly pink, but he was still calm, and coughed lightly twice, "Taiping, what nonsense?" ”

Taiping looked innocent and said, "Brother Prince, your ears are red, how can you say that Taiping is nonsense?" ”

When Li Hong heard this, he almost fell off his chair.