A few days passed smoothly.

Li Zhi and Princess Chengyang came to the palace every day, and Xiao Wu gradually came diligently.

The three of them are all royal brothers and sisters, and when their identities are revealed, the three of them have a good time in the palace.

And Princess Chengyang is older, and she can't play with children, so Li Zhi and Xiao Wu naturally have the best play among the three.

Bai Song noticed the situation and found that these two little guesses were still a good match.

History will always return to its original track, and these two people will eventually come together, and Bai Song did not interfere too much.

Li Tai was originally a pastor of Yongzhou, and after the news of the East Palace came out recently, the fourth prince also returned to Chang'an.

The speed at which Li Tai returned to Chang'an exceeded Bai Song's expectations, and it only took thirteen days to go back and forth, which shows Li Tai's reaction speed.

As soon as Li Tai returned to Chang'an, the atmosphere in Chang'an City became tense.

Everyone can see why the fourth prince is in such a hurry to come back.

It's winter, and it's snowing heavily in Chang'an.

The guests of the Four Princes' Mansion dispersed the day before, and they arrived in front of the Beiding Mansion in a fur coat early this morning.

The snow accumulated deep overnight at the gate of the Beiding Palace, and there were people clearing the snow in front of the palace.

"Li Tai asks to see Lord Bai, please report it." Li Tai stepped forward and bowed, very polite.

The subordinates of the palace are also very experienced, and after returning the salute, they informed: "If you go back to the prince, my lord mostly gets up at noon, and you come too early." ”

"Noon?"

Li Tai is not often in Chang'an, so he doesn't know much about the living life of the Beiding Palace, so he pounced early this morning, but he didn't expect anyone to get up.

Li Tai was not angry, looked left and right, and rubbed his hands again: "It's okay, then...... Then the king waited outside. ”

"The prince doesn't have to be restrained, please follow the villain into the house, take the little one to inform a lady, even if you have to wait, you have to drink hot tea in the house and wait, right?"

Li Tai smiled, thanked him again and again, and followed his subordinates into the house.

When he arrived at the palace, Li Tai was still looking around, feeling that the status of this Beiding palace had risen rapidly in recent years, which was a little incredible.

He is in Yongzhou, the news is hearsay, yesterday the guests came to the door, without exception, they all said that the first thing was to go to the Beiding Palace.

I have heard a lot of legends about Lord Bai Song Bai, and today I want to come to see it in person.

Because he knew that Lord Bai was the husband of his eldest brother Li Chengqian, he was naturally his elder, and he came to visit to give enough face, so he would rather wait in the snow for two hours.

Li Tai had some plans in his heart, and he had only one purpose for returning to Chang'an, which was to compete for the position of the crown prince.

He knew that his disadvantage was that his roots in Chang'an were not deep, and he was mostly related to the military department, as well as Yangzhou, Yongzhou and other places where he had stayed.

To stand at the foot of the pillar in Chang'an, as long as a flag is planted in the Beiding Palace, it will be able to develop slowly in the future.

And his biggest advantage is that the prince's body is already disabled, how can the king of a country hand over a cripple?

Under the order, he is the only choice, as long as he plays steadily, don't be dead, this is God sending an emperor to him.

Li Tai was in a good mood, so he was very patient, sitting in the living room drinking tea, and he was not in a hurry at all.

A pair of eyes saw the people in the living room from the passage in the backyard, and Li Zhi and Xiao Wu held hands and jumped over and bumped into Princess Chengyang.

"Oops."

"Sister, I'm sorry." Li Zhi said weakly.

Princess Chengyang stopped the two from going over, thought for a while and said, "Li Zhi, who do you see sitting in the living room?" ”

Li Zhi looked at it and was pleasantly surprised: "It's the fourth brother!" Why is the fourth brother here? ”

"Then you can go and call the fourth brother to the backyard to play with us now?"

"Yes, yes! Then why didn't my sister go along? ”

"Because my sister is a girl, it's inconvenient."

Li Zhi seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and honestly walked towards the living room.

Princess Chengyang turned her head and led Xiao Wu: "Sister, let's go." ”

Xiao Wu likes the eldest sister of Princess Chengyang, and feels that she is very similar to Brother Bai Song in some places.

He looks very young, but he is very smart, and he can always think of something that others don't know.

At this time, Xiao Wu asked, "Sister, is there something wrong?" ”

"What do you want to know?"

"Why did you ask Li Zhi to call that person in? This is the backyard of the palace, and adult men are not allowed to enter. ”

"So let Li Zhi say it."

The two sisters had already walked away, and Li Zhi had already walked to the door of the living room.

"Fourth brother."

Li Tai took a sip of tea, was stunned when he heard the voice, and saw Li Zhi standing at the door, but he didn't recognize it for a while.

"Are you...... Are you a child? ”

"Yes, fourth brother, when did you come back?"

Li Zhi was very happy and walked up quickly.

Li Tai put down the teacup, went up and touched Li Zhi's head, and sighed: "Zhi'er, why did you grow so tall." ”

"It's because the fourth brother hasn't come back to Chang'an for too long, and the queen mother ...... at the beginning"

"Hey, when the queen mother died, it has been a long time since I heard the news, and I have not been able to return to Beijing when I encounter the Tubo country, and this time I came back, and one more thing was to worship the queen mother. By the way, Zhi'er, why are you in the Beiding Palace. ”

"I'll come every day." Li Zhi said innocently.

"Every day?" Li Tai frowned.

"Mr. said that we come to Beiding Mansion every day to clean the backyard, saying that it is cleaning, but in fact, it is also playing. The fourth brother also went to the backyard with me, Sister Chengyang and the fifth sister are here. ”

"Chengyang is also there? But who is Little Five? ”

"The fifth little sister is the newly adopted daughter of her father, she is very good-looking, let's go, let's play together."

Li Zhi grabbed Li Tai's hand and walked out.

Li Tai stopped and said seriously: "Zhi'er, you are young, you can go to the inner courtyard of the palace, and my brother can't go there when he is old." ”

"That's right...... So what to do? ”

Li Tai rubbed Li Zhi's head and said, "Zhi'er, go play with your sister by yourself, my brother still has a lot of official business, so I won't talk to you." ”

Li Tai was about to leave after speaking.

Li Zhi didn't quite understand, why his brother was very calm just now, why was he about to leave in the blink of an eye?

Li Tai didn't like to explain much, and left quickly.

In the back garden, Xiao Wu was still pestering Princess Chengyang: "Sister, just tell me, how do you know that the fourth brother will definitely leave?" ”

"Little Wu, why are you so interested in these?" Princess Chengyang also became a little curious about this curious baby.

"I just want to know what other people think in their hearts, and one day I can know what my eldest brother thinks."

Princess Chengyang didn't know who the eldest brother in Xiao Wu's mouth was, but she also explained well: "The fourth brother has the best face, if he doesn't have a good face, how can he wait until today to come to the Dingwang Mansion to make friends?" Before, Mr. and the eldest brother were in the same line, but now the fourth brother knows that the relationship between the eldest brother and the eldest brother has faded, so he will come immediately. And when he knew that there was already a little prince in the Beiding Palace, he would naturally have the same mentality as before, and he would leave for the sake of face, at least temporarily. ”