Chapter 37: Is Everything Beautiful?
Li Zhi was drunk again, this time even more thoroughly, and when he was sent back, he was already asleep, and he had just been sent to the Lizheng Hall by the palace maid.
Li Shimin sat on the dragon chair, his face gloomy and terrifying.
The guards who sent Li Zhi back said tremblingly: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin has a beneficial artifact to present to Your Majesty." β
Artifact for the benefit of the people? Li Shimin remembered the last time Li Zhi was drunk and offered potatoes, suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked in a deep voice: "What kind of artifact for benefiting the people?" β
"Quyuan plow."
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Half a month has passed since the test plow, and Wang Xiang has been worried about this half month, because Li Zhi's little ghost is drunk again, who would have thought that he could get drunk by drinking fruit wine, but fortunately, at the critical moment, he had an idea and whispered to the guards who sent Li Zhi back, so there was a scene of King Jin drunk and offering a plow.
Since that day, the crown prince Li Chengqian, Yue Wang Li Zhen and Li Zhi have not come back to the mansion, which is what Wang Xiang is really worried about.
Today he finally breathed a sigh of relief, because as soon as he arrived at the door of the front hall, he heard Li Zhi's familiar voice.
"Sister Xiao Wu, I was grounded by my father a few days ago, so I didn't come to see you."
"Why do you ban your feet?"
Hearing Xiao Lori's question, Wang Xiang stood at the door and pricked up his ears.
"It's not because of drunkenness, my father is really angry this time, he said that next time I get drunk, it will be useless to offer a hundred auspicious rui."
Wang Xiang said secretly, I'm afraid that Li Er said this to me, it seems that this time I have passed the test, and I will not let Li Zhi's little ghost get drunk in the future, and fruit wine will not work! Qu Yuan plow, not to mention the addition of officials to the knighthood, at least you should be rewarded with tens of thousands of taels of silver, this is good, I am afraid that it will be offset by merit and demerits, and Li Zhi will not be good for drinking.
Little Lori smiled heartlessly: "Who knew you were so useless, you can get drunk when you drink fruit wine." β
Li Zhi was about to defend his ability, but Xiao Lori didn't give him a chance to speak and said, "It's good that you came out today, otherwise you would have missed the fun things." β
Li Zhi asked curiously, "What's the fun thing?" β
Little Lori said mysteriously: "Make a cheongsam." β
"What is a cheongsam?"
"It's a beautiful dress, my brother-in-law drew a lot of drawings a few days ago, and I bought brocade today and asked Xiaoya to do it."
Li Zhi has always been a curious baby, and asked, "Why do you want to make a cheongsam?" β
"Wear it for the second child in Dengxian Building, but I asked my sister to make two sets for me." Little Lori seemed to be very happy.
"Use brocade to make clothes for Xiao Er?" Li Zhi was even more confused.
Although Wang Xiang said that the beautiful girls who bought it back were actually the welcome and etiquette of Dengxian Tower, Xiao Lori still preferred to call them Xiao Er, and the senior Xiao Er was also Xiao Er.
After all, Degui still didn't have the courage to go to a place like Yicui Building and Wanxiang Building, but bought seven or eight good-looking maids from Renyazi, and only spent a total of sixty taels of silver.
Wang Xiang underestimated the gossip heart of Xiao Lori, and when he heard him talk about "official prostitutes" with Degui in Dengxian Lou, Xiao Lori kept this matter in mind, and later quietly found Degui to ask about it, how can the future empress's means be ordinary, after some coercion and temptation, Degui confessed properly, and even Wang Xiang suggested that he go to Yicui Building, and the ransom of Wanxiang Lou was also all recruited.
When Xiao Lori heard this, she quickly told Wu Shun, then the Yang family knew, and then the Wang housekeeper knew, and in the end, the entire Hou Mansion knew.
The previous prince Xin had a bad record, so everyone was skeptical of his defense, until he drew a drawing of the work clothes called the cheongsam and said that he could accept the supervision of Wu Shun and Xiao Loli when training the waiters, which won everyone's trust.
When considering the clothing of the welcome and etiquette of Dengxian Tower, Wang Xiang suddenly thought of the cheongsam, the cheongsam is the traditional clothing of Chinese women, known as the quintessence of China and the national dress of women, can enjoy such a high evaluation naturally has its advantages, the beauty of the cheongsam is an elegant and noble beauty, Xiao Lori and Wu Shun were fascinated by this kind of "clothes worn by the little two" when they saw the cheongsam drawings for the first time.
Little Lori's enthusiasm for cheongsam successfully aroused Li Zhi's curiosity, and the two waited in the front hall to go out to buy brocade, and Wang Xiang went back to the backyard.
As soon as Xiaoya came back, Xiao Lori couldn't wait to pull her to find Wushun, and of course let her and her sister choose the brocade back before making clothes for those senior juniors.
Little Lori chose a big red brocade, Wu Shun chose a light blue brocade, and the result of Wang Xiang's guess is almost the same, with the character of Little Lori, she will definitely choose the most gorgeous red, and Wu Shun's quiet and gentle personality will definitely choose a more elegant color.
After choosing the brocade, Xiao Lori picked up the drawings on the table and compared, looking left and right to see which one looks good, it is difficult to choose, Wu Shun looked at the dilemma of Xiao Lori and smiled: "Ernan, if you like it, my sister will make it for you in the future, just choose one and try it today." β
"Okay then." Little Lori hesitated for a while, and finally picked out a high-necked style and said, "Let's do this set first." β
Little Lori is still so-so in reading and writing, and the needlework is really not good, so everything is done by Wu Shun.
"Wang Jiancheng, did you also come up with this cheongsam?" Li Zhi obediently sat on the side and watched Wu Shun sew cheongsam, his temperament has always been very quiet.
"I think wildly when I'm bored."
Li Zhi bowed his head and was silent when he heard this: Wang Jiancheng is very good at poetry, and he also knows how to make wine, and even Quyuan Plough can think of it, and his father said that Qu Yuan Plough can indeed be called an artifact for the benefit of the people, and he can come up with such beautiful clothes when he thinks about it randomly, no wonder Sister Xiaowu also likes Wang Jiancheng.
Li Zhi thought about what he would do, and finally found that he was dejected and found that there seemed to be no place to compare with Wang Xiang except for the identity of the prince.
"Hey, child, what are you thinking?" Little Lori is a master who can't sit still, at first she could sit and watch Wu Shun sew cheongsam, but after a while, she felt bored, and when she saw Li Zhi in a daze, she couldn't help but push him.
"No, I didn't think about anything."
"Let's go out and play."
"Okay, what's going on?"
Little Lori didn't notice Li Zhi's strangeness and said with great interest: "A few days ago, my brother-in-law made me a shuttlecock, it's very fun, let's go kick the shuttlecock." β
Is it the king and eunuch again? Li Zhi was suddenly a little interested. He thought a lot about the half month of the grounding, thought that he was drinking wrong, thought of his father's sideburns with gray hair, and thought of his mother's qi illness seemed to be much better, but he thought more about Xiao Lori. Since that day, he inadvertently learned that Wang Xiang and Xiao Loli have a fiancΓ©e's gambling contract, he always feels a little inexplicably uncomfortable, he likes Wang Xiang very much, sometimes even feels that Wang Xiang is more kind than his father and prince brother, and he will always feel very happy when he is with him, this kind of happiness is different from the usual happiness of being praised by the master, it is very relaxed and very happy, so after learning about Xiao Loli's feelings for Wang Xiang, Li Zhi felt not angry but wronged, and felt that he was not interested in anything when he was wronged.
Although Xiao Lori is smart but still young, she naturally didn't expect Li Zhi to have such a complicated mind, so she took the shuttlecock and came over to see him standing in the yard stunned for a moment, and suddenly pouted unhappily: "Child, do you want to play!" β
Li Zhi was about to speak, when he suddenly felt that his shoulder was gently pressed.
"Let's play by myself, I'll talk to His Royal Highness King Jin."
Li Zhi hesitated for a moment and followed Wang Xiang to the side of the tree to sit down, looking up, he could see the little Lori's agile body jumping in the courtyard, and the shuttlecock was flying up and down like a cheerful elf under her feet.
"Do you like Ernan?"
The answer Li Zhi said to Wang Xiang, but Wang Xiang pretended not to hear it at that time, and Li Zhi also thought that Wang Xiang didn't hear it, but he didn't expect that this late love counseling class would not be able to escape after all.
Li Zhi didn't expect Wang Xiang to suddenly ask this question directly, and he didn't know how to answer in a panic.
Wang Xiang hugged Li Zhi's shoulders as if he was talking to himself: "I also liked a girl when I was nine years old. β
Li Zhi glanced at Wang Xiang unexpectedly.
"At that time, I always felt that she didn't care about me, so I tried my best to show in front of her."
"And then?" Li Zhi asked curiously, he felt that what Wang Xiang said was very similar to himself, but he didn't know how to express himself.
"Then she didn't pay attention to me, and for a while I didn't even want to do anything."
Li Zhi's mood was also a little low.
"Then she left, and I thought I had lost everything, until one day I met another girl......"
Wang Xiang didn't tell Li Zhi any love truths, not to mention a nine-year-old little kid, that is, how much he knows about those love principles, he just calmly tells a story, this story will make him understand that life has a long, long road, everything he has experienced is just a scenery on the road, and everyone he meets is just a passerby in life, whether it is people or landscapes, there are beauty and regrets, but all this should not affect his own road, let alone other people's roads.
It's not so much about Li Zhi as it is about himself.
Wang Xiang is an outsider, he does not belong to the Tang Dynasty, but he does integrate into the Tang Dynasty, because of his arrival, the fate of many people may change, if it weren't for him Wushun may have married the demon man of Helan Yueshi, the eldest grandson queen may have asthma medicine and live longer than in history, and the people of the Tang Dynasty may have less famine if they get potatoes...... For all this, Wang Xiang felt that he was worthy of Datang, and even contributed to Datang, because everything in Datang seemed to be developing in a good direction because of his arrival.
It wasn't until he saw Li Zhi's gloomy appearance that he realized that there were many things that he had overlooked, Li Zhi's emotional problems were only one of them, he also thought of Liu Guang who was robbed of his position as a prisoner, thought of the four talents of Luoyang who were robbed of the limelight by himself at the poetry meeting, and thought of his helpless eyes when he saw Ma Wenxin in Yicui Building, is everything really so beautiful?
Li Zhi listened to Wang Xiang's story in a daze, but he could feel Wang Xiang's heartfelt concern, which made his mood improve all of a sudden.
"Wang Jiancheng, you should still chant a poem."
"Yes, bard." Wang Xiang looked at Li Zhi with an innocent face and smiled.
"Outside the mountain, Qingshan Building, outside the building...... Sister has a lot of paper, let's not worry. β
"It's not poetry."
"Haha, who said this is not poetry."
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