"Really...... I don't know who is embarrassing whom. Li Sujie, who was at the same level, snorted and whispered softly. Behind him, with the position of Keqing and the body of a relative, Helan Minzhi, who was alone behind him, said lightly: "His Royal Highness King Qi didn't expect it, right?" originally thought that in this way, he could make the prince lose his honor in the court, but he didn't expect that instead, His Royal Highness King Lu, who had never been in his eyes, joined forces with His Royal Highness the Prince, and together they would lead an army. ”

Li Sujie raised his head and drank without looking back, and raised his eyebrows with his mouth and asked lightly: "Join forces?" This king also thought that this time it was Li Mingyun, the yellow-haired boy, who was bent on looking for trouble. ”

"It's true to be looking for trouble, but it's also true that you don't make your brother suffer if you take over." Helan Minzhi curled the corners of his lips and smiled leisurely: "It seems that His Royal Highness King Lu is not a person who can be ignored." However, His Royal Highness King Qi has always known how to advance and retreat, and he doesn't think anything big will happen. ”

Li Sujie snorted, stopped talking, and just turned his head to look over.

Sure enough, as He Lanmin said, Li Shangjin quickly calmed down from the shock and anger at the beginning, and then changed his face to a panicked face, hurriedly attended and knelt down - because he was running too quickly, he even tripped and almost fell to the ground.

But it didn't fall in the end.

Then, he made repeated compensities to the two brothers Li Hong and Li Xian, who hurriedly ran down to help him—but Li Hong and Li Xian didn't say anything, just blindly supported him to see if he was injured. Then, the crown prince Li Hong personally took this brother who was a little hooked and sent him back to the table. Li Xian also followed, and together with Li Hong, he held his hand on the left and right, and said comforting words for a while, and then they each returned to the table.

At this moment, the ministers under the rank were discussing again.

Di Fang was stunned: "It's really a good show!" ”

"The play is fake, but the love is real." Di Qing finally understood, staring at Li Hong, who was being lectured in a low voice, Li Xian, who was blushing and crying, nodded and said, "At least here with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King Lu, this love is true." ”

"Not bad."

Rare to see, Di Renjie also sighed, shook his head and said: "Anyway, these two brothers really regard this half-brother's little caution as a competition between brothers, and you and me come and go between children...... It's just that for them, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. ”

Di Fang glanced at Di Renjie, who had a sideways face and was worried: "Then in this way, His Royal Highness King Qi doesn't have such a heart?" ”

“……”

Once again, Di Renjie did not answer questions to these two attendants who had been by his side since childhood, who were regarded by his grandparents and parents as parents and his own brothers, but after being silent and hesitating for a long time, he said softly:

"I don't know...... But there is one thing I know. ”

He looked at Li Hong, who was already full of distress but a little angry, in his arms, wiped his little Li Xian who was about to shed tears with his sleeve, and said softly: "I know that I can train such two brothers, but it can be seen that our queen mother is far more than those who have dirty hearts, or are quite prejudiced because of her background......

In terms of their hearts and virtues, they must be too much and too much upright. ”

Di Qing and Di Fang were silent for a while, looking at the two brothers on the steps, who had already aroused the concern of the ministers.

"yes...... Look at their sons and know their parents. If it is the Lord and the Queen, it is really such a mediocre or ruthless person...... How can such a good child be trained? ”

Di Qing muttered.

Di Fang also nodded, his eyes full of emotion: "A few days ago, I heard from the masters of the Hongwen Pavilion that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the most virtuous and benevolent. But if you have your own mistakes, you have always admitted them frankly, and you have never denied it like other children. Even Shangguan Yi's old man always said that it was really a great blessing for him to be able to serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince like this......

But it's just these people, all of them are ignorant, and they say bad things about the Lord and the mother in vain, so they don't wait to open their eyes and take a look-

They say that the prince is so good, but they are all trained by our two saints!

And these two saints are exactly what they are talking about in private in the town, saying that one is cowardly and useless, and the other is ruthless and poisonous! Hum! I don't want to think about it, can the jackal nest raise the Son of Heaven and the Dragon of Tzu Chi in the world? ”

Di Renjie raised his eyebrows, glanced at the indignant Di Fang, but said with an interesting smile: "This statement is novel, but it is also very reasonable." ”

Di Qing also nodded on the side: "Not only should it be reasonable, but also deserve it-to be honest, if it is only His Royal Highness the Prince, it can also let those people take credit for themselves." But now I see that although His Royal Highness King Lu has a lively temperament, he is not as calm and down-to-earth as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but he is also kind and simple-"

He shook his head, and his face was full of regret: "It can be seen that the officials are too prejudiced against the lord and the mother." ”

"It's not just prejudice, it's shameless." With a low snort, Di Fang pursed his lips and snorted, and said softly: "Is it true that others can't see their thoughts?" ”

"What do you think again?" Di Renjie looked at him amusedly.

"Of course I can see it." Di Fang squinted his eyes and looked at Shangguan Yi, who was salivating and being flattered left and right: "At the beginning, it was these people......

These are the people who teach His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. They saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince taught well, so they thought that they were meritorious, thinking that they would be famous for a hundred years, and they didn't dare to let others know that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was originally the Lord who received it well, and it was the Queen Mother's mother who taught it well-

Wouldn't that let them slap their own hands in the face? After all, the first to say that the queen mother was not good, it was a few of them.

Therefore, they must teach everyone in the world that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince teaches well, but it has nothing to do with the biological mother of the queen mother, but it has something to do with them, old and rotten old things.

So the queen is bad, and the lord is not smart. They are the smartest, and they are the most governors, and the credit for teaching His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, without them having to say, should naturally be attributed to them. ”

After a pause, Di Fang pointed to the officials around Shangguan Yi and several other old ministers: "Then there are them—they, all of them are brainless and heartless. When you see someone who is in power and who is the master, you should attach it to it, so that you may have peace of mind. Naturally, they have to be attached to them...... Therefore, they also have to preach for those people and sing praises of virtue, but they say that they are good at a good prince and a good child raised by a father and godmother, and they are forced to be close to these virtuous ministers in desperation...... It's really a good thing that adults say, this one pretends to join the army and the other plays a falcon, isn't it a big play? ”

Di Renjie couldn't help but smile when he heard his muttering, but Di Qing next to him listened carefully and nodded again and again, and then asked coldly: "What about you?" What kind of corner are you? ”

This question was asked, but Di Fang, who has always been articulate, also opened his mouth, and didn't know how to answer, so he could only babble.

Di Renjie smiled, and when he saw that several female dependents had come to take a look, he hurriedly raised his glass to block it and threw a look at the second attendant.

Immediately, the two attendants closed their voices, and each sat upright, ......

Watching a play.

Such a move was seen by Li Zhi, who was sitting on a high place.

Although he also felt sorry for his youngest son being rectified for no reason, he was more concerned about another thing - that is, the reaction of the ministers under his ranks.

At first, he watched the reactions of his ministers, and his eyes were full of disappointment. But when he saw the performance of Di Renjie's master and servant, his eyes couldn't help but light up. Then, he looked at Li Hong.

Li Hong easily helped him with kindness to prevent disasters, but because of his misconduct, he was coaxed by his little brother Li Xian, who was crying with a few reproaches, and gave him a big peach, and after coaxing him to make a little face, he received his father's gaze.

He was stunned for a moment, then looked down the stairs quietly. After sweeping it, he immediately understood what Li Zhi meant, and stared at Liu Xiangdao, who was sitting in Dali Temple, and after Le Yanwei and Lu Dunxin, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Di Renjie, who had already returned to his position as a member of Dali Temple, raised his eyebrows and thought thoughtfully. Oh immediately regained his calm expression.

"Big brother...... That Di Renjie is very interesting! The small whispering sound in his ears surprised Li Hong very much, and he turned his head to look at Li Xian, who was staring at Di Renjie like himself, and said in surprise: "Brother Xian also saw it?" ”

"Hmm." Little Li Xian tried hard to nibble on the peach as big as his face, and at the same time tried hard not to let the peach block his face, and looked at the young man who was drinking and talking with his attendants: "He looked...... They don't seem to take our side too seriously. But Brother Xian just felt that he must have some thoughts of his own. Big brother, wasn't he still the Shaoqing of Dali Temple before? Why is he wearing a court dress in the color of the five-grade uniform today? Brother Xian remembers that the Shaoqing of Dali Temple is clearly the rank of the fourth grade? ”

"He was originally a special five-grade - originally he was just a young man in Dali Temple, that is, from the sixth-grade grade. Because of the previous investigation and handling of several cases, won the praise of the court, the previous Dali Temple Qing Tang Jian vigorously recommended him, Shangshu for him to enter the Dali Temple Shaoqing, the father also loved his material, so he rewarded him with a positive five-grade rank with him, but also called him to be Dali Temple. ”

"Oh......" Li Xian heard this, but raised his voice strangely, turned his head to look at Li Zhi, who was raising a glass to invite hundreds of officials to drink, and he also followed the eldest brother Li Hong, raised the little glazed jue, said two pleasing words, drank the smooth and fragrant fruit juice* in the jue, put down the purple glazed jue, and then continued to hold the peach to block his face, covering his small mouth and smiling at his brother: "Father is playing this game again......"

(Note: Twisted fruit juice, in the Tang Dynasty, because of the exchange with the Hu merchants in the Western Regions and other places, the Central Plains melons and fruits increased.) At the same time, a rich and colorful food culture has developed as a result. One of the most creative in the author's opinion is the juice of the fruit.

As the name suggests, the juice of the fruit is the freshly squeezed juice of today. But unlike today's freshly squeezed juice, the production capacity at that time was limited, and people may not have thought of using the method of grinding fresh fruit to extract the juice, so they used another form - with thin wooden sticks at both ends to support the crisp, steamed and washed several times, sterilized and clean muslin cloth wrapped the chopped and seeded fresh fruit, and then the two ends were twisted quickly and vigorously in two directions to make the juice of the fresh fruit that was twisted in the middle. Later, there was even a principle of water or wind movement, or animal power, instead of artificial small juice or fruit - that is, the original tool type of grinding the whole fresh fruit into juice without filter residue, which is similar to today's small water mill or small wind mill.

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, upper-class aristocratic families could already see fresh juice at large banquets. However, because this method is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and because of the limitations of the force applied by this method, not all fruits can juice in large quantities like watermelon, which was called cold melon, or cucumber, which was called courgette. Gradually, the juice of the fruit was replaced by the more readily available fruit juice as a fashionable drink. As for the tools for making the juice of the fruit, such as the long cloth strip tool with thin wooden sticks at both ends, such as the small stone mill with extremely fine and shallow grinding grain, and its silky pattern, can still be seen in the area from southwest Henan to southeast Henan, where the primitive culture of the Han and Tang dynasties has accumulated heavier. As for Xi'an, Shaanxi, the birthplace of Tang culture, as far as the author has heard, it is also a very common thing.

In the 80-90s, this kind of small bluestone mill that is very different from the traditional stone mill for grinding grain and juice still plays a very important role in some rural families with lack of electricity - when getting up in the morning, there is such a plate of small bluestone silk grinding head, grinding a pot of soaked soybean mung soybean milk to boil, with another bean dregs filtered down with a twisted burlap bag mixed with corn grits, green vegetables and so on kneaded into a steamed salty wotou for breakfast, its fragrant and delicious, time-saving, labor-saving and material-saving, is time-consuming, labor-intensive and material-consuming grinding can not be compared. Therefore, in the author's childhood impression, in the countryside, whether there are three kinds of small bluestone silk mills, dough rolling machines, and sewing machines for both manpower and electricity are used to judge whether a family is a wealthy family. And if it is a family, as a great writer who has a good understanding of the history and folklore of southern Henan said, there can be a plate of about ten inches, a plate of about five inches, so two plates of small bluestone silk grinding heads, and can take the larger plate for breakfast, and the smaller plate can be used as a juice or fruit grinding machine......

In the village where it is located, it is a wealthy family with a very good quality of life.

The author was fortunate enough to see this ancient tool at a very young age, and to try the juice it made – honestly, not much worse than a modern juicer, and even slightly better in taste. If you have the chance, I hope you can try the drink made by this small stone grinding method and feel this antique taste. ）