The night of the end of July in the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty.

In the Taiji Hall, Li Zhi heard a burst of laughter: "You mean...... That Shangguan Yi, but today he walked out of Hong'er with a blue face? ”

"Back to the Lord, exactly."

The one who replied at the bottom of the stairs was Jing'an. He looked at Li Zhi with a smug expression on his face, and said softly: "In the opinion of the minister, I am afraid that Lord Shangguan would not have imagined that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would be so faceless with him." ”

"What is he, but he wants Hong'er to save face for him." Li Zhi stopped laughing, only snorted lightly, got up and walked to Jing'an's side, looked at him, and suddenly asked after a while: "But there is something interesting to say this...... Then Shangguan Yi seems to have revealed his heart to Hong'er? ”

"Yes."

Jing'an replied calmly: "Shangguan Yi didn't seem to have thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would be cold and indifferent. So he was anxious for a while, so he explained his meaning to His Royal Highness the Prince, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince resolutely refused.

However, in the opinion of the ministers, you should have personally rejected this matter for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. After all, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince himself is concerned, that Lord Shangguan is not a broad-minded person, and in the future, I am afraid that he will have to give His Royal Highness the Crown Prince some embarrassment. ”

"It is precisely because he is not broad-minded that I want Hong'er to take this head for himself. Only in this way will he Shangguanyi understand that it is not me and Mei Niang who look down on his precious daughter, but really their family...... Hum. Shaking his head, Li Zhi said slowly: "After all, the gate of this imperial city is not really for people to enter and leave at will. Even these so-called famous nobles, then we also have to see where the gate of this imperial city opens......"

Li Zhi turned his head and looked at him meaningfully: "He naturally wants to embarrass Hong'er, and if he is so self-righteous, he naturally wants to embarrass Hong'er." But the more this is the case, the more Hong'er himself is needed, so that he, a good master, can understand a truth: with his Shangguan Sect, or even the Guanlong high-ranking officials and the clan faction are all united, they can't really turn the direction of Chengtianmen-

Being able to turn the Chengtianmen in a different direction has never been something that these self-righteous people in purple and scarf can do. ”

Jing'an nodded silently. After a while, Li Zhi said again: "Everything in the East Palace has been arranged?" From then until the end of the year, I'm afraid it's going to be in the Ninety Percent Palace. Hong'er's daily application, can it be fully prepared? ”

"The Lord can rest assured, everything is ready, just waiting for His Highness to accompany him on the journey."

"Okay, then you can go home."

Li Zhi waved his hand back and thanked him, and then turned his head to look at Qinghe: "How?" ”

"Sure enough, as Niangniang expected, that Shangguan Yi is really not a calm person." Qinghe shook his head with regret on his face.

"Don't say these white-toothed words to me! If you lose, then you have to be willing to gamble and lose. Don't forget the conditions we talked about at the beginning. ”

Li Zhi smiled triumphantly, but Qinghe immediately looked bitter: "Lord, that salty ball, it's really not that Qinghe won't take it for you, it's really that it's too rare to get it back from Niangniang...... These days, she saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also helping you, so she gave an order early, and even His Royal Highness the Prince's share was stopped. ”

When Li Zhi heard this, he was immediately furious: "She is like this! Not! How can this be done? Come! Set up a political palace! I'm going to see her! I'm going to ask her, why don't you let Hong'er eat better?! The kid is still growing! ”

Qinghe looked at Li Zhi's imposing appearance, shook his head helplessly, and went with him.

On the other side, inside the East Palace of Taiji Palace.

Seeing Jing'an's calm expression when he returned to the palace, Li Hong, who was flipping through a few old books, was happy: "It seems that my father listened to you!" ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent Jing'an to report to His Majesty, isn't it just to use this opportunity to sharpen Jing'an's temperament? At this point, Jing'an still understands His Royal Highness the Prince's painstaking efforts. ”

Looking at Jing'an's face, Li Hong burst into laughter: "Haha, you don't have to say such sour words, this palace is asking you to go, but it doesn't have a mind that will make you uncomfortable."

Then again, you're weird too. Up and down the entire Taiji Palace, there is no one who is not in a hurry to ask for an envoy who can see his father and the emperor, and ask for a good reward. You're not.

It's really...... Since the Three Sages, what emperor has been like his father, but someone stood in front of him, said a few useful words, and did some useful things, and immediately rewarded him generously, regardless of whether he was high or low?

Everyone likes his father, even Ji Yue's two uncles, and he can never say that he is bad, but he has been doted on and favored by his grandfather since he was a child.

You're the only one who always avoids him. ”

"That's because Jing'an is a close minister of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, not a close minister of His Majesty." Jing'an replied calmly: "It is precisely because he is a close minister of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that Jing'an should figure out what is the duty of a minister and what is something that a minister should not or should not interfere in."

Your Majesty is benevolent and loving, but this is not an empty word, the minister naturally understands it, and naturally it is also love, respect, and admiration. But the more this is the case, the more the minister can't do things that seem to be close to the heart, but in fact they are of no use to His Majesty, or even annoying the sacred heart.

The minister's love and respect for him is to do what he should do and do what His Majesty wants His Majesty to do well - in this way, let His Majesty worry and feel at ease for His Majesty, this is the way of the minister's admiration. ”

Li Hong stopped smiling, looked at him steadily, and suddenly shook his head after a while: "You are really boring." What is the difference between the close ministers of the main palace and the close ministers of the father? Since you admire your father, you should get close to your father and learn more. You look at the two of Derui, and then look at the two of the Ming and Qing dynasties today, which one of them was not trained by his father and the emperor, but he immediately opened his mind? ”

"What His Royal Highness said is very reasonable, but it's a pity that the minister thinks that although they are both close ministers, the responsibilities of us and a few others are very different." Jing'an said calmly: "Not only is this the case for the Lord, but also for the two little highnesses in the future, Jing'an will also have the same attitude. ”

"Why? Just because they are from their father, the emperor, and the palace, they are all men from the Li family's royal family, the same line as the Son of Heaven? Li Hong smiled, shook his head and said: "My father often said that the palace was too old, and he learned a lot of thoughts at a young age. Now it seems that it is the majority of you who have brought this palace badly. If you meet your father and blame the palace again, you must pull you out to be a shield. ”

"In the eyes of His Highness, it is a joke, but in the eyes of the minister, it is not. His Royal Highness should understand that since he was a child, he followed the master with the two senior brothers. But unlike them, Jing'an has never been with a prince since she was a child, let alone close to the lord or the mother. Because of this, there are some things that Jing'an naturally sees more clearly. ”

Li Hong stopped laughing, looked at him fixedly for a while, and suddenly laughed again: "That palace should really be glad that you didn't include the queen mother in this 'them'." ”

Then he got up, took a long breath, and strode out: "Let's go! These days, the palace can't take salty balls for his father. I'm afraid that he must go to make trouble with the queen mother tonight. It's time for this palace to do its duty to comfort your father and mother. lest the father and the emperor make it, and the queen mother and the queen are annoyed again, and they don't say anything unhappy for two or three days...... Up and down the palace, there will be no peace again. If you go all the way to Jiucheng Palace, it will really make hundreds of officials see jokes. ”

Watching him stride out, Jing An, who was left alone in the Li Zheng Hall, watched for a long time before shaking his head lightly and said, "No...... His Royal Highness the Prince, among the 'them', Jing'an is the first to be counted, and the queen mother. ”

After lowering his eyes for a long time, he finally smiled faintly and followed.

As Li Hong expected, as soon as he entered the door of the Lizheng Palace, he saw Li Zhi puffing up like a three-year-old child who didn't want to eat sugar, and his two real children, his second brother Li Xian, and the third brother Li Xian shrank in the corner of the phoenix bed, with a sideways face and did not speak.

On the other side, Mei Niang covered her forehead and frowned, looking helpless.

Take a look at the attendants next to them - very good, all of them are low-eyed and pleasing to the eyes, and they can't see their faces and expressions, but the trembling high brows, or the corners of their curved lips that are desperately flattening, reveal their thoughts at this time.

"Father, mother."

Li Hong sighed in his heart, but he still had to smile on his face, and he saluted the two of them, and he couldn't help but complain in his heart:

In this family, who is the delicate son and the loving son, and who is the benevolent father and mother?

"Ah......" As soon as Li Zhi saw Li Hong, his eyebrows and eyes opened, and as soon as he made a sound, he turned his head to look at Mei Niang, who was also smiling, pursed his lips, snorted very hard and disdainfully, and continued to turn his head, holding his face with both hands, and gambling on himself.

The two little babies beside him were naturally overjoyed when they saw the eldest brother, but they screamed, jumped off the phoenix bed, threw themselves into their brother's arms left and right, and said children's language that most adults couldn't understand.

Li Hong laughed, hugged them in his arms, squatted down and listened to them for a long time, and it is estimated that even the two little dolls themselves don't know what to say, so he nodded and said, "Oh, it's because of that salty ball...... Mmmm, this thing is really harmful! ”

"What does it mean to be harmful? You're ...... Where did you learn it? Li Zhi heard that his heart was bold, and when he said this, he was immediately annoyed, and when he turned his head, he put on his father's posture and scolded in a deep voice: "Okay, don't you learn, do you learn this?" It seems that Shangguan Yi really didn't teach you anything good! ”

"Isn't it? Isn't that what Hong'er said? It was Xian Hexian who said it! They are not taught by Shangguan Yi. How is it? Brother Xian, Brother Xian, are you right? That Shangguan master, didn't he teach you? ”

Li Hongyang asked in surprise, and at the same time asked the two younger brothers for verification, and sure enough, the two little babies who didn't understand anything immediately nodded like pounding garlic, and tried their best to support their eldest brother.

Anyway, compared to the father and mother who are talking with a straight face, obviously the eldest brother who has been smiling like spring is more amiable and cute-

Although such a smile also made the two little babies instinctively feel a little inappropriate, the intention of trusting the eldest brother still prevailed.

If you don't believe him, can you still believe in the ridiculous father and mother who made a fuss because of a few salted ducks?

Immediately, the three brothers sang and harmonized, in exchange for their parents brushing two pairs of eye knives and throwing them over:

Dare to use such sour words to secretly count your queen mother (queen mother, me) can't teach well? You three little guys, but you're thinking about family law, right?

A cold snap struck the Lizheng Palace, and the weather in July was so cold that it felt like falling into an ice cave. Shocked, the three brothers hugged each other tightly and couldn't help but tremble.