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Chapter 88: Chapter 90: Li Ping Visits the Prison
Xu Lian on the side could only laugh along with him: "Your Majesty is right, Li Hao's handwriting is indeed a bit ugly."

"Is it just a bit ugly?" Li Shimin said with a stern face, "It's too ugly. If it weren't for the excellent writing of this poem, I'm really afraid it will stain my eyes."

Xu Lian continued to laugh: "Your Majesty is right, it is very ugly and almost stained His Majesty's dragon eyes."

Li Shimin glanced at the poem again, then turned to ask Xu Lian: "Is this kid safe in prison recently?"

Xu Lian nodded and said: "Return to Your Majesty, this time Li Hao is much more stable than before. He sang something nonsense every day in the prison, and the spies learned a few lines, and they sang like this: 'Sell my love, you I have owed my conscience, and finally I know the truth, and I shed tears...'"

"Stop, stop!" Li Shimin raised his hand impatiently, "What kind of nonsense is this singing, the palace is not palace, the feathers are not feathery, what else is he doing besides singing these things?"

Xu Lian continued: "He occasionally practices calligraphy and reads books, anyway...he doesn't make much trouble."

"Well, that sounds like something to say." Li Shimin nodded and said, "If he dares to make trouble again, I will let him sit through this prison."

Xu Lian didn't have anything to say. He had served Li Shimin for many years and knew Li Shimin too well. This sentence seemed to scold Li Hao, but it actually meant that Li Hao could almost be released.

Li Shimin was silent for a moment, as if thinking of something, he asked: "Xu Lian, the beautiful woman mentioned in the title of this poem is the girl he met in Jingzhou last time, right?"

"Return to Your Majesty, yes." Xu Lian bowed.

Li Shimin asked again: "Whose girl is this Wu Yan? How old is she?"

Xu Lian replied: "It's the daughter of Duke Ying's warrior Xun, she's thirteen this year."

"Oh..." Li Shimin nodded thoughtfully, and asked again, "Is this woman really like the one in Li Hao's poem 'tasting the beauty of the past, and regaining the beauty of the city'?"

Xu Lian said: "Returning to Your Majesty, according to the spies' report, in terms of beauty, she can only be regarded as a first-class figure, not perfect, but this woman is full of charm, her eyes are like waves, and she can capture people's souls. She is by no means an ordinary beauty. comparable."

"Really?" Li Shimin became more curious when he heard the words, frowned and thought about it, and murmured, "If this girl is given to Li Hao..."

If Li Hao heard this sentence, he would definitely feel thunderous, but Xu Lian didn't think there was anything wrong, but he still kindly reminded Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, you have already given Li Hao a marriage."

"Oh, I almost forgot." Li Shimin nodded when he heard the words. The emperor bestows a marriage is a great honor, and it is not appropriate to repeat it, otherwise Li Hao's tail will probably go up to the sky.

At this time, a Jinwu guard came to the door and knelt down and raised his voice: "Your Majesty Qizuo, Jiangxia King Li Daozong is begging to see you!"

"Xuan!" Without thinking about it, Li Shimin announced that Li Daozong came in, because he sent someone to tell Li Daozong to come.

Li Daozong walked quickly into the Ganlu Hall, saluted in the hall and shouted: "The humble minister Li Daozong kowtows to my emperor, long live."

"Stay flat." Li Shimin tried his best to put on an approachable attitude, and asked with a smile, "Chengfan, I summoned you this time to ask you, are you ready for the draft?"

Li Daozong nodded and replied: "Reporting to Your Majesty, everything has been prepared. The beautiful girl is arranged by the household department and is already on the way to Chang'an."

"Oh..." Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is there anything going wrong?"

Li Daozong's expression changed suddenly, and he remembered the note Li Hao handed him.

In fact, when he went to see Li Hao in prison, Li Hao secretly stuffed a note in his boot. He found it only after he got home, opened it, and it read: "Answer the truth to the Holy One."

He didn't understand at first, but now when he heard Li Shimin's words, he suddenly understood that the fact that he went to see Li Hao had already fallen into Li Shimin's eyes, so he cupped his hands and bowed his head and said, "Go back to Your Majesty, nothing will go wrong. However, Weichen still has something to report, this morning, Li Hao asked Weichen to meet him in the prison, after the meeting, he asked Weichen about someone."

"Let me guess." Li Shimin asked with a smile, "Is this person a woman who lives in Jingzhou and whose surname is Wu?"

Li Daozong was startled when he heard the words. It seems that Li Shimin really sent someone to monitor Li Hao. Fortunately, Li Hao stuffed the note in his boot. Otherwise, Li Shimin would definitely record him if he lied today. The consequences were unimaginable, so he replied truthfully: "Your Majesty is wise, this is the person Li Hao asked. He asked the minister whether there is such a person in the list of beautiful women, and the minister replied no."

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and asked leisurely: "In fact, is it on the list or not?"

"Yes!" Li Daozong nodded and said, "Wu Yan, the daughter of the former governor of Jingzhou, the warrior Yi."

If Li Hao was present, he would have greeted the eighteenth generation of Li Daozong's ancestors. This guy actually lied to himself, causing him to write poems and make plans.

Li Shimin frowned when he heard the words, and his face gradually became ugly. For some reason, he suddenly became a little angry, not angry with Li Daozong, but angry with Li Hao. Why, to be honest, he himself didn't know why.

In fact, the reason is very simple, because since Wu Yan entered the draft list, she is the emperor's woman. Li Hao is thinking about him, the Tang emperor's woman, can he be happy?
As the Heavenly Khan who dominates the world, Li Shimin has an occupational disease that emperors have always had. In the words of Guanzhong, it is: "Oudi! Oudi! It's all Oudi!" That's right, the world is his, and Qin Shihuang This is the case, Li Shimin is still the same now, this!It is the emperor!
Li Daozong kept sneaking glances at Li Shimin, and when he found that Li Shimin's expression was wrong, he was startled and wondered if he had said something wrong.

Li Shimin coughed lightly, waved his hands, and said, "Okay, Chengfan, you can step back first."

"Yes, my minister is resigning." Li Daozong exited the Ganlu Hall anxiously, breaking out in a cold sweat, and suddenly regretted lying to Li Hao during the day. After all, although Li Hao had a bad attitude at the time, he even stuffed a small note to remind himself Well, it shows that Li Hao is quite kind.

But when he thought about it, no matter in terms of age, status or official position, he was much taller than Li Hao. It would be too embarrassing for him to apologize to Li Hao, and it was not a big deal. Give up the idea of ​​apologizing.

After Li Daozong left, the Ganlu Hall was quiet for a long time, but Xu Lian was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, do you plan to release Li Hao?"

"When did I say that I would let him go!" Li Shimin looked at Xu Lian with a fierce face.

Xu Lian was so frightened that he fell to his knees with a thud: "This old slave will die!" In fact, he was very curious, why did Li Shimin suddenly change his mind?

"Hmph!" Li Shimin snorted coldly, "This kid doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth, let him stay in prison for a while longer."

Poor Li Hao was cheated by Li Daozong. In fact, Li Daozong can't be blamed only. The main problem is Li Hao's way of questioning. Why don't you sit down and talk politely and calmly? Can someone as arrogant as Li Daozong be threatened by you?

As soon as Li Daozong returned to the mansion, the housekeeper rushed to report that Miss Li Ping was missing. There was a wooden ladder by the courtyard wall, apparently she had sneaked out over the wall.

Li Daozong was so frightened that he hurriedly dispatched all his servants and servants to look for it, and he himself took a few followers to the streets to look for it.

In the prison of Dali Temple, Li Hao was sitting in the prison, when he suddenly heard footsteps approaching, he looked up, and saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy walking towards him with the head of the prison, and when he got close, the head of the prison said: " Li Hao, someone is visiting you, do you know him?"

Li Hao took a closer look, and immediately stood up and grinned, "Hey, brat, why is it you!" The person who came was actually Li Ping who was disguised as a man.

Li Ping rolled his eyes and said, "Why can't it be me, I came here to see how miserable you were when you were imprisoned."

Li Hao smiled and said: "Everyone is so familiar, so don't run on me."

Li Ping smiled slyly, put down the food box in his hand, and said, "I brought you some food, I bought it from your Taibai Building."

"Yes, I'm interested, haha." Hearing this, Li Hao stretched out his hand to the prison bar, opened the food box, and a burst of aroma came out, and it was indeed the flavor of Taibailou. Li Hao suddenly moved his index finger, picked up the chopsticks and just Eat through the bars.

Li Ping turned his head and asked the jailer, "Can you let me in?"

"This..." The head of the cell looked at Li Hao in embarrassment. After all, Yao Shouzheng had told him not to let anyone into Li Hao's cell casually, and he must ensure Li Hao's safety.

Li Hao also knew these things, waved his hands and said with a smile: "It's okay, let her in, she is my wife."

Hearing this, the cell leader no longer hesitated, and immediately took out the key to open the door.

Li Ping blushed when he heard the words, thinking that he was taking the opportunity to eat his own tofu, and spat angrily: "Dogs can't spit ivory out of their mouths."

As soon as the words were finished, the cell door opened, Li Ping walked in, the cell boss locked the door again, and then walked away tactfully.

Li Ping came in and turned around to look around Li Hao's cell, and asked in surprise, "Why is your cell so clean, and there are such things as beds, tables, chairs, and toilets?"

Li Hao shrugged and said, "I'm obsessed with cleanliness. What are these things? There were camel hair carpets before."

Li Ping was surprised: "Why do you sit so comfortably in prison?"

Li Hao said with a grin: "A handsome person will receive preferential treatment wherever he goes."

"Bah! Shameless." Li Ping rolled his eyes and spat at him, but was amused by Li Hao's cheap smile.

Li Hao put all the food and wine in the food box on the table, rubbed his hands and said happily: "It's rare, there are wine, vegetables and beauties, come on, girl, let me have a few sips with my grandfather!" Two glasses of wine.

If it had been before, Li Ping would definitely have scolded him when she heard this sentence, but for some reason, ever since she came back from the battle against Tuyuhun, she has always been thinking about Li Hao, and there has never been a day off. She was very anxious, recently heard that Li Hao was imprisoned in Dali Temple by the emperor again, she couldn't bear it anymore, so she sneaked out to meet Li Hao while Li Daozong was out, so even if Li Hao said so She wasn't angry at the bastard's frivolous words, she sat down opposite Li Hao, picked up the glass and prepared to drink.

"Wait a minute." Li Hao suddenly stopped her, then took the wine glass from her hand, and said, "You are too young to drink such a strong wine, come, mix some water." After speaking, he picked up the wine glass on the table The teapot was half filled with water in her wine glass, which was full in an instant.

"You..." Li Ping couldn't help but smile bitterly, "No one mixes wine with water."

"Children can't drink alcohol." Li Hao said solemnly, "You are only 13 years old this year, and you are a girl, so..."

"What's wrong with women?" Li Ping pouted displeasedly, "You look down on women?"

"How could it be!" Li Hao raised his eyebrows and stared innocently, "I've always believed that men and women are equal, I'm not those old feudalists."

"What is old feudalism?" Li Ping couldn't understand what he said.

"Don't worry about these details." Li Hao raised his wine glass with a smile, "Come on, let's go!"

The two clinked glasses and took a sip each. Li Ping guessed it was the first time he drank alcohol. After taking a sip, he stuck out his tongue and yelled, "It's so spicy, it's so bad."

Li Hao laughed: "It's still too spicy when mixed with water, now you know I'm doing it for you."

"I want you to pretend to be kind." Li Ping was aroused by his words, so he picked up the wine glass and closed his eyes and took another sip. He was stunned to hold back the taste of wine in his mouth, and he didn't want to show Li Hao a joke.

Li Hao didn't understand her little thought, so he ate two mouthfuls of food and asked, "Why did you think of coming to see me? Your father asked you to come?"

"My father doesn't know." Li Ping ate his food nonchalantly, "I sneaked out by myself."

(End of this chapter)