Great Tang princess

Chapter 39

For the people in Chang'an City, no matter what, they still have to live a good New Year.

This year's Shangyuan Festival is no different from usual. There are still a large number of river lanterns floating down the water, turning the ditches running through Chang'an City into shining stars.

Countless Kongming lanterns flew into the sky, flying and flickering in the dark night sky.

Well-dressed men and women sang loudly in the wine shop, chanting poems and reciprocating, and cheers sounded from time to time between pushing glasses and changing glasses.

Li Zhi still brought the children to the city wall of the imperial city quietly, looking at his prosperous world with a satisfied face.

Li Yuechen was hugged by him and wrapped in a thick animal skin cloak, so he didn't have to worry about getting cold at all.

After watching the night lights for a while, Li Zhi smiled: "Is Chen'er hungry? How about going back to eat hot pot tonight?"

Before Li Yuechen could speak, Wu Zetian next to him nodded and agreed.

The queen has spoken, and the children can't say anything.

But Li Yuechen is actually a bit helpless, hot pot without spicy taste has no soul, and he feels a bit lacklustre if he eats too much.

Although it is said that there are ginger slices in it, the spiciness of ginger is not the same as that of pepper after all.

After returning to the Hall of Yanying, Li Zhi called people to start serving the hot pot, lit the fire, and brought the sliced ​​mutton along the way.

Taking advantage of this time, Li Yuechen walked up and down the Yanying Hall boredly, listening to the chat between Li Zhi and Wu Zetian.

Second brother Li Xian sneaked up from behind her, as if trying to scare her.

However, Li Yuechen could already hear his lowered footsteps, so he pretended not to know and continued to walk two steps forward.

Then suddenly turned around and shouted: "Wow!"

"what!"

On the contrary, Li Xian was taken aback, took two steps back suddenly, and bumped into the next bookshelf.

With a "bang", the bookshelf swayed, and the books on it fell to the ground.

Wu Zetian frowned and turned around to start cursing, but was stopped by Li Zhi: "Xian'er, are you hurt?"

"No, thank you, Grandpa, for your concern." Li Xian waved his hand, and quickly squatted down to pick up the books on the ground.

While picking it up, he raised his head and said in a low voice, "How did Yuechen know that I was coming?"

Li Yuechen also squatted down to help him pick it up, and at the same time replied in a low voice: "Second brother, does it mean that I can't hear you when you wipe the floor?"

While speaking, he picked up the book on the floor, and casually looked down at it. The title of the book was "Thousand Gold Food Cure".

"Recipe?"

Li Yuechen muttered to himself and turned a page casually, but when he saw it, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Among them, there are a few words that are particularly conspicuous: eat dogwood, taste spicy...

She was in no mood to read the following words.

Fuck!Besides ginger and wasabi, are there any other spicy things in this era?
She didn't know what it was, so she stood up and threw the book in her hand to Li Xian, and jumped over with one hand supporting the table next to her.

He trotted all the way to the gate of the hall, and waved to Zhang Chengxin: "Eunuch Zhang, come here!"

Zhang Chengxin bent down slightly: "What orders does Your Highness have?"

"Do you know about eating dogwood?" Li Yuechen asked.

"I know!" Zhang Chengxin nodded, "This thing is a medicinal material and a seasoning..."

Li Yuechen opened his eyes wide in an instant: "Is there any in the palace?"

"Have!"

"Bring it to me!" Li Yuechen looked excited.

Although she didn't know why she was so excited all of a sudden, Zhang Chengxin nodded: "Your Highness, please wait a moment, and this servant will send someone to fetch it."

Back in the Hall of Yanying, Li Xian had already packed up his books and walked over: "Why did you suddenly run out just now?"

"Second brother, maybe the hot pot will taste better tonight!" Li Yuechen raised his head and smiled, and went in directly after speaking.

Li Xian was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand what she meant.

After a while, Eunuch Zhang came to Li Yuechen with a small wooden box: "Please look, Your Highness, this is it."

Li Yuechen took it over and took a look. This thing looks a bit like Zanthoxylum bungeanum, but it's a bit bigger.

I picked one up and put it in my mouth and tasted it. It does have a spicy taste, but it is not as pure as chili pepper, but it has a bit of bitter taste.

But even so, it was enough to make her feel satisfied!

So he turned around directly, ran to the hot pot, grabbed a handful and threw it into the still-boiling white soup.

"Chen'er, what is that?"

"Hey, eat dogwood." Li Yuechen ran to Li Zhi with a smile and handed the box to him, "Add this, the hot pot will be even more delicious!"

"That's right..." Li Zhi smiled, "Then wait and try!"

After this stuff went down, it didn't change the color of the soup, and it started to boil after a while.

Li Zhi looked around, raised his arms and waved his hands: "Okay, let's start the banquet."

The family sat together and began to eat formally.

As the emperor, Li Zhi was the first to pick up a piece of mutton and put it in, rinsed it, dipped it in the sauce, and put it in his mouth.

Then he nodded suddenly: "Well, it is indeed as Chen'er said, the taste is much better."

After Wu Zetian followed suit, Li Yuechen couldn't wait to pick up a piece of mutton and put it in his mouth.

A slightly spicy taste came, and she couldn't help closing her eyes.

At the same time, I couldn't help sighing in my heart, the sixth year in this world... I finally tasted the spicy taste again!
Although the spicy is not so pure, but at least it has a spicy taste!

For a moment, Li Yuechen couldn't help but began to feel moved.

The other brothers and sisters also felt that the combination of cornel and hot pot seemed to make it more delicious, and their appetites were whetted, and everyone was sweating after eating.

Seeing them like this, Li Yuechen couldn't help showing a smug smile, now you know what a hot pot with a soul tastes like?
Although this soul is not complete, it is still there anyway.

……

After the Lantern Festival, I'm going to pack up and go to Dongdu.

Luoyang is not far from here, but in this day and age, the road is not easy to travel, the key is that the emperor is on tour, and there are more than a thousand people cheering and hugging?
This road is mighty, looks full of momentum, but in fact the speed is extremely slow.

Li Yuechen who was sitting in the chariot couldn't help but lifted the curtain and looked outside, feeling as if he couldn't run as fast as himself.

After more than a thousand years, if you drive a car and abide by the law, it will take about three or four hours.

According to the current situation... it is estimated that it will be the end of the month.

During this time, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian spent most of their time in the chariot, and would come down for a walk when they were in a good mood.

Li Yuechen also returned to his carriage, and because Shangguan Wan'er was still young, he pulled them into his carriage together.

After half a month of ups and downs, I finally arrived in Dongdu in early February.

Li Yuechen was playing a clapping game with Shangguan Wan'er in the carriage, when he heard Fulai's voice outside: "Your Highness, you have seen the Dingding Gate."

"Ah."

After agreeing, Li Yuechen and Shangguan Wan'er got off the carriage hand in hand.

Mainly Li Yuechen, who wanted to see for himself what it was like a thousand years ago.

After getting out of the car, I looked up... I couldn't see anything!

He could only see the tall city wall getting closer, but Mao couldn't even see what it looked like inside the city wall.

But she couldn't stay outside the chariot all the time, after entering the Dingding Gate, she had to return to the chariot.

If you want to see anything, you can only open the curtains and look at it.

But let alone, just looking at the wide city wall in front of you is enough to be called magnificent!

There are already heavily armed soldiers patrolling back and forth on the city wall, and flags of various colors and styles are flying.

As the distance to the city gate got closer, Fulai also reminded: "Your Highness, it's time to return to the chariot."

"Ah."

Li Yuechen agreed, a little unwilling to be carried to the chariot by Fulai.

It was very boring along the way because there were troops opening the way ahead, and I didn't see any merchants or common people coming and going.

Seeing Li Yuechen standing by the bed, raising a corner of the curtain to look out, Shangguan Wan'er came over to join her out of curiosity.

Xiao He next to him reminded: "Your Highness, it's better not to look outside, just in case..."

"It's okay, it's all in the city, what danger can there be?" Li Yuechen waved his hands directly and ignored her.

Xiao He was also a little helpless, so she could only remind her to lower the curtain as much as possible.

As the chariot entered the Dingding Gate, the first thing Li Yuechen saw was the fully armed soldiers lined up in two lines, completely emptying the road in the middle.

And this main road is no worse than the Zhuque Street in Chang'an City, and the width has exceeded 100 meters by visual inspection!

Behind the two rows of soldiers were the common people coming and going, and all of them looked solemnly at the chariots that were slowly entering the city gate.

Of course, most people's attention was on the Emperor Yujia in front, and almost no one looked at Li Yuechen.

This place is the same as Zhuque Avenue in Chang'an City. There are square walls on both sides of a road, and there are no shops at all.

After watching it for a while, Li Yuechen felt bored, so he stopped watching.

Not long after, Xiao He who was sitting at the door opened the curtain to take a look, then turned around and reminded: "His Highness, sit still, we are almost at Tianjin Bridge."

Li Yuechen promised, but he climbed directly to the door of the car, and secretly opened the curtain to look forward.

The huge Yingtianmen came into sight first, and Li Yuechen opened his eyes wide.

too big!
This Yingtian Gate is even bigger than the Danfeng Gate of Daming Palace!

On both sides are the three gates that fly out together with the wings, forming a "concave" shape with the three huge doorways as a whole.

The length of the east and west sides exceeds 100 meters by visual inspection, and the height is as high as a dozen floors.

Li Yuechen couldn't help opening his mouth slightly, and said in a low voice, "Damn it!"

It is really hard to imagine how people in this era built such a huge and magnificent building.

Although Danfengmen was enough to surprise her, she never thought that Ziwei Palace could bring even more shock!

Like Daming Palace, Yingtianmen is still a combination of red walls and green tiles.

It's just that maybe because of the long time, the tiles tend to turn black and become dark green.

And below, the foundation made of gray-white wall bricks rose from the ground, abruptly pushing a two-story gatehouse to a height of tens of meters!
The chariot hadn't been on the bridge yet, but her gaze had already crossed the imperial road in the middle, passed through the Qianyuan Gate inside, and landed on the Qianyuan Hall behind.

This was the second time Li Yuechen felt the magic of this era since he was born in Daming Palace.

Facing such a magnificent ancient building, Li Yuechen could only say in his heart, it's so magnificent!
Beyond Yingtian Gate is the Luohe River that runs through Luoyang City, which seems to be called Luoshui in this era.

A stone bridge with a width of more than 50 meters spans the Luoshui River, connecting both sides of the river bank like a super-large turtle shell.

The neat stone bricks in the middle of the bridge have the same width as the royal road in the middle of Yingtianmen, extending straight into the imperial city.

There are two heavy buildings more than ten meters high on both sides of the stone bridge, which contrast with the three gates on both sides of Yingtianmen, and they look very harmonious.

The chariot slowly climbed up the stone bridge, because today they came with the emperor, so the whole team can enter through the royal road in the middle.

When passing through the generous Yingtian Gate, there is a huge square, and directly opposite is the Qianyuan Gate.

Arriving here is considered to have entered the Ouchi.Li Zhi ordered to stop, and got out of the car with Wu Zetian.

Seeing their father coming down, Li Yuechen and other children also got out of the car one after another, and came to Li Zhi and Wu Zetian to pay their respects.

Li Zhi wrinkled his nose, stretched his shoulders vigorously, stretched without leaving any traces, and relieved his stiff body shrunk in the car.

Then he hugged Li Yuechen and laughed: "Go, follow me in!"

After entering the Qianyuan Gate and outside the Qianyuan Hall, Li Zhicai put her down.

The ministers were already waiting in the hall, so it was obviously not very nice to just go in with their daughter in their arms.

Li Yuechen was actually born here, but at that time he was still in his infancy, he had hardly been out of the palace, and it was impossible to have any clear memories.

Now that I'm back again, I plan to go shopping inside.

"Grandfather, can you take a look around?" Li Yuechen asked.

Li Zhi nodded domineeringly: "Chen'er goes shopping at will, if you want to live in any inner hall, tell me!"

Wu Zetian next to her couldn't help it: "How can Your Majesty spoil her so much?"

"No problem, no problem!" Li Zhi, who has become a slave to his daughter, waved his hand indifferently, "Chen'er can watch as he pleases!"

Li Yuechen raised his fists with both hands: "Grandpa is mighty!"

After speaking, he turned his head and ran away, to see if there was any inner hall that he wanted to live in.

As for the brothers... think too much!How could a man live in a harem?Not even the emperor's son!
It didn't matter that the two older sisters would definitely live with her anyway.

Seeing that Li Yuechen quickly disappeared, Wu Zetian shook his head: "Your Majesty is really not afraid of spoiling her?"

However, Li Zhi turned his head and grinned: "In all these years, apart from Chen'er being more lively, does Meiniang feel that she has any signs of being spoiled?"

"This……"

Wu Zetian thought about it carefully, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.On weekdays, Li Yuechen didn't seem to have any embarrassing things except that he was a little unruly.

Seeing her looking down in thought, Li Zhi smiled lightly and took her hand: "Don't worry, Chen'er is more sensible than Mei Niang! Let's go, follow me into the palace!"

As he spoke, he took her by the hand and entered the hall, where he was greeted by the officials.

　Thank you [The Invincible is me] for the reward of 100 starting coins!
　　Thank you [Fallen Starlight] for the reward of 100 starting coins!
　　Thanks to [Shuo Ma] for the reward of 100 starting coins!
　　Brothers, I am still close to Shangsanjiang, please help me! ! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)