Chapter 43: The Undercurrent of Chang'an City
Just when Li Kuan was looking for the heirloom jade seal in the ruins of the Turkic king's tent, Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Empire, was surging undercurrent.
The eldest grandson Wuji has been wandering between the mansions of the major nobles for a long time, and he has been carrying out his plans in an orderly manner. Although the price paid made his painful face twitch, he was relieved to think of what he was about to achieve. The industry of the eldest grandson family is constantly being replaced by various nobles in Chang'an City, which makes all the officials of Chang'an City feel very surprised, but their level is not enough, they only know that the eldest grandson family will make a big move, but it is unknown what it is.
The eldest grandson Chong was very depressed, he knew that his father was planning for his future, but he was ashamed that he couldn't help him because he couldn't do anything. In this case, the son of the first powerful minister of the Tang Dynasty began to work hard, turned down the invitation of a fox friend and dog, and stayed at home to read the history books quietly. This made the eldest grandson Wuji even more pleased, and the eldest son began to understand the matter, which made him more confident. In fact, the eldest grandson Chong became like this, and the eldest grandson Wuji always felt that it was his fault in his heart, when his son needed his father's teaching, he often fought outside, and only his weak wife was left in the family, how to teach well!
In the Lizheng Palace, Li Er finished dealing with the pile of high-ranking state affairs, and moved his sore back. Picked up the warm lotus seed soup at hand and took a sip gently. The lotus seed soup is boiled just right, and the temperature is also mastered, which is the handiwork of the eldest grandson. A smile appeared on Li Er's face, remembering that his eldest grandson was pregnant with a child again, and he helped him boil lotus seed soup like this. It's a little too much to go. Let's go to her and chat with her later, Li Er made a decision.
At this moment, a rider rolled up smoke and dust and stepped into Chang'an City. Walk along Suzaku Street directly towards the Imperial Palace. The knight on the horse was dusty, his face was cracked by the cold wind, and the traces of blood dried up on his cheeks and turned into smudges. The soldiers guarding the palace gate stopped him, checked his waist plate, and immediately let him go, and did not let him dismount, because the red feather on the helmet determined that he could ride his horse in the palace city.
Li Erzheng wanted to go to the harem and talk to the eldest grandson. However, he received a message from the chamberlain, and immediately summoned the messenger.
"Wechen has seen the emperor, long live my emperor!" The soldier is dressed in military uniform. The armor leaves of the armor rubbed against the bluestone floor of the Lizheng Palace.
"But the Turkic war report?" Li Er didn't let him get up, but hurriedly asked what kind of news he brought.
"Back to the emperor, exactly!" The soldier untied a small bamboo tube from his body and took out the battle report written by Li Jing himself. Raise your hands above your head.
Li Er didn't ask the attendant beside him to help. Standing up straight from the throne, he came to the soldier's side in a few steps, took Li Jing's recital and looked at it.
Li Er's expression was very fickle and complicated when he looked at this letter: "I didn't expect the Turks to have such a plan, if it weren't for Kuan'er, maybe they would have really succeeded!" It's just that the pharmacist let Kuan'er rush into the grassland alone like this, isn't it ......" Li Er frowned, and his heart turned a thousand times.
"Go down and rest! I know! Li Er instructed the messenger and sat alone on the throne. Think about it.
Li Er was thinking, Dunhua Fang in Chang'an City. This Fang City, located on the bank of Qujiang Pond, is a small courtyard. It looks like Lei Pu is ordinary, but there is a lot of things inside, this workshop is relatively remote in Chang'an City, the people who live here are very complicated, the three religions and nine streams are all-encompassing, and the Qinglongfang adjacent to it is Zhang Daliang's mansion. Most of the people who live there are his old ministries. Therefore, although the flow of people here is complex and changeable, no one dares to make trouble, because Zhang Daliang's hundreds of sons are already half old, and they are all screaming guys, and they often wander here with a team of subordinates. If someone makes trouble, they will definitely be beaten up by them, and then sent to Chang'an Mansion Yin.
In one of the innermost rooms of the courtyard, an old man and a young woman were discussing something in a low voice, and in the dark room, the doors and windows were closed tightly, and only one candle was lit in the room, and the candlelight like a bean could only slightly illuminate the room.
"Why, you haven't given up yet, you're still staying in this Qujiang Pond, now all the people who come here are gentlemen, and there are important people there who will come! It's better to stay away from here, we have already contacted the people in the palace, endure it for decades, and slowly lay it out! Anyway, seven or eight hundred years have passed, and it's not bad! The old man stroked his beard and said.
"Last time we chose the wrong person, let's do it again! The soldier giant went to the grassland, and the Legalist family is said to have accepted an extraordinary disciple, called Lai Junchen, although he is still very young, but he is extremely talented. And the Mo family is nowhere to be found! We're all left! The young woman's eyebrows frowned slightly, a long aqua blue skirt wrapped around the concave and convex body, the pretty face was not powdered, her own eyebrows were picturesque, a pair of eyes were like the autumn water of the long sky, the chest was wide open, revealing the moon-white embroidered narcissus bust inside, and the towering chest revealed an unfathomable ravine.
"You haven't given up yet? Just don't do it like last time, this time it's the right choice! It's just a pity for that kid! The old man's cloudy eyes stared at the young woman's pretty face, and after looking at it for a long time, he sighed long.
"Don't worry, I watched Lianxing grow up, just like my daughter, how could I harm her!" The young woman patted her chest lightly and reassured, bringing up a wave of turbulence, but the old man opposite was unenthusiastic and indifferent.
"The soldier didn't mix very well! I can't see the shape clearly at all, I've done so many things over the years, and now I actually ended up like this, which really makes us laugh! The young woman did not want to say much more about the man called Mercy Star, and talked about the soldiers' family instead.
"It's not that he doesn't want to, it's not that he can't see clearly, it's that he doesn't dare! Do you think his identity can really be hidden from Li Shimin? Li Shimin already knew! It's just that Li Shimin himself came over from the battlefield, and he will not act if he has no prejudice against these, but if he dares to make the slightest move, he will definitely be directly knocked into the dust by Li Shimin! The old man scoffed at the young woman's opinion.
"Okay, okay, as far as you can see clearly, we women can't see it! Forget it, you can go too, do your business, we little women will live like this! The young woman stood up, swayed gracefully, pushed open the door, and went out. The slender waist twisted slightly, and the plump buttocks crossed the beautiful arc, bringing a gust of fragrant wind and leaving.
"Alas! What a fool this woman is! It's just that it's worth it for you to do it! The old man looked at the figure of the young woman leaving, sighed, blew out the candle, and walked out, and then drove out an ox cart from the backyard of the courtyard, drove out of Chang'an City, and disappeared at the end of the official road.
In the palace, in the Tibetan Jade Zhai, three little girls gathered together, roasting their little hands around a stove. These three little girls are beautiful one by one, and two of them are wearing beautiful skirts, one is as white as the moon, and the other is bright red like fire. The skirt is embroidered with a phoenix with wings ready to fly, a small golden step on the head, soft hair draped around the waist, both of them stretch out their hands, and their ten fingers are as slender as onion roots.
The rest of the one was dressed in a maid's costume, but it didn't look shabby at all, with two bags on his head, and the top was tied with a light blue kudzu cloth, which looked very pretty.
"Alas! The second brother has been gone for two months, why hasn't he come back! I want a lamb, I want a big horse! The little girl in the red skirt looked the youngest, about five or six years old, with a little baby fat chin resting on her crossed little hands, and pouting her little mouth.
"Okay, the second brother is going to war, where will he come back so soon! And where can you find these things you want, let the second brother bring something! The girl in the moon-white skirt looked twelve or thirteen years old, and her pretty face was worried at this time, and she waved her hand lightly, knocked on her sister's little head, and said angrily.
"Humph! I just want my second brother to bring it back, and it's not uncommon for others to give it to me! Don't rob me when the time comes! I'll let the second brother not give you at all! The little Lori in red pursed her small mouth, stretched out her little hand that was still a little fleshy and rubbed her little head, it was really a little painful just now.
"Okay, don't make trouble, what's wrong with you, Tianxiang?" The girl in white stopped playing with her sister, turned her head to look at the girl in the maid's costume and asked.
"I miss my master! When will the master come back? Tianxiang doesn't want anything, she wants her master to come back safely! Tears began to fall from the big eyes of the girl in Baotou, and she said with a crying voice.
"Okay, what do you cry every day! The second brother will come back safely, you girl is better than me, but she is too weak, go with me to bully Brother Qingque! "The little Lori in red doesn't look at the smallest, but she is the most daring, she got up and pulled up Tianxiang and walked out.
These three girls are Li Lizhen, Yuzhang and Li Kuan's little maid Tianxiang, the three of them live together, and they become familiar with each other after a long time, plus the three of them have a great relationship with Li Kuan, so Li Lizhen and Yuzhang did not regard Tianxiang as a subordinate, but like their own sisters.
The three of them left the main hall and headed towards the Taihe Palace on the other side, where Li Tai, the king of Yue, the second and fourth sons of the fat Li, lived. Li Tai can be said to have been left and right over the years, the crown prince Li Chengqian and he are brothers, and the relationship between the first mother and compatriots is naturally not said, and the second Li Kuan, although he is not the same mother, but he is also very related. Because who called Li Kuan's favorite sister, Li Lizhen, was his sister, so the two of the two most outstanding of Li Er's many heirs were very kind to him, so that he could not think about the rest of the princes like that. He now reads poetry every day, writes poetry and writes poetry, and lives a very comfortable life, but it would be better if he didn't have that vicious neighbor! (To be continued......)