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Chapter 421 Li Hong's Daily Life

After completing the important tasks of flattering his father and getting close to his mother, Li Hong went to the East Palace.

Although he is already six years old, because he is already an official prince, he now lives in the East Palace which is separated from the imperial palace every day.

The East Palace of the Tang Dynasty is not good. It is said that 13 years ago, that is, in the 17th year of Zhenguan, many people died here, and the ground was covered with blood. The stench gradually dissipated after three years.

So much so that in the East Palace, the most vigorous flowers are the meat-eating peonies, willows, and locust trees.

Every spring, the peonies in the East Palace are the most beautiful in Chang'an City.

Li Hong doesn't like this thing, mainly because he likes to wear floral dresses, and Naha, who makes herself fragrant, will be stung by bees attracted by peonies.

It's not because he likes Naha, but because Naha is stung by a bee, and he will catch a bee and prick him before giving up.

The planting of onions in the East Palace is spectacular.

The cabbage planted in the East Palace is also very spectacular.

The cabbage planted in the East Palace is also very spectacular.

Li Hong had already decided that once the cabbage grew to more than five catties, he would go to his father to announce the good news, and named the cabbage Xianqingcai.

If the bulb of the cabbage is big enough, Li Hong is going to give it to his mother, and he is going to name this thing Queen's Cuisine.

As for the onions, Li Hong decided to keep them for himself.

When returning from the imperial palace to the Eastern Palace, Li Hong saw the eldest grandson Wuji who was looking at the blue sky with his hands behind his back.

Li Hong didn't hesitate, and walked over immediately, but this time he didn't salute, because he knew that he was the prince and the emperor, and no matter how powerful the uncle was, he could only be a minister.

Changsun Wuji seemed to wake up from his confusion, looked down at Li Hong, and saluted, "I've seen the prince."

Li Hong returned the courtesy: "There is no need to be too polite."

Did Li Hong let go immediately after performing the ceremony of monarch and minister, and said to Changsun Wuji with a smile: "Is the ancestor basking in the sun here?"

Changsun Wuji squeezed out a smile and said: The sun here is not warm. "

Li Hongdao: "How warm is the sun there?"

Changsun Wuji said: "When your emperor was still alive, the sun was very warm. No matter how cold your heart is, it will warm up after a while."

Li Hong looked at the sun in the sky strangely. There is no wind in Chang'an today, but the sun is still very warm.

When he wanted to talk to Changsun Wuji again, he found that the man had gone a long way.

Li Hong didn't understand why this happened. In the past, Changsun Wuji liked him very much. He even hugged him on his lap and chatted with his father.

Standing on the top of the imperial palace, looking down casually, you can see the tall and weird Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Da Ci'en Temple.

Seeing the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Li Hong wanted to go to the ordinary little courtyard under the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

Today, Li Yifu's hemorrhoids broke out, so the banquet lecture in the afternoon stopped. It was strange that Shangguanyi also reported illness at the same time, and I don't know if it was a problem with Li Yifu.

Without the master, Li Hong, the prince, can spend a whole day at ease.

Never devote your limited life to unlimited learning, this is what Yunchu said when he parted with Li Hong.

Therefore, Li Hong did not put all his thoughts on his studies. His father was very poor in his studies. He was not as good as Li Chengqian, Li Tai, or Li Ke. If so, it would be bad for his father to find the shadows of the above uncles in him.

"Leave the palace, let's go to Jinchangfang."

Li Hong ordered that when he reached the palace gate, the carriage and guards were ready.

The leader of Li Hong's guard is Chen Zhi, the onion general.

Chen Zhi was supposed to be General Ningyuan, but Li Hong didn't like it, so he called him General Onion.

Under his command, there is also a cabbage general, a cabbage general.

Although they are all good generals, their force is not good at all.

General Yuan Cong led [-] cavalry to roam the Western Regions for thousands of miles, and finally got him Yuan Cong, who is a first-class talent both in martial arts and intellect.

Li Hong treats him best.

Woke up too early in the morning, causing Li Hong to fall asleep after being shaken by the carriage. He didn't wake up yawning until the carriage entered the noisy Jinchangfang.

Li Hong stuck his head out of the car window, sniffing the strong smell of boiled meat in the alley like a puppy.

Then he jumped out of the carriage, stepped on a crooked locust tree by the side of the road, climbed up the wall, and then jumped off the wall.

This is the place specially used for cooking meat in the canteen of Jinchangfang. Every day, five to six thousand catties of beef, pork, chicken, donkey meat, and dog meat are cooked from here, and finally sold to people in Quanchangan.

Groups of fat and greasy women didn't feel any surprise in the face of His Highness the Crown Prince who fell from the sky.

Even if he was holding a huge steamer, he just bent over to His Royal Highness, and it was regarded as a salute.

This is a world of fat people. Both men and women are very fat. Li Hong thought it was because they stole meat.

It was only later that I learned that these men and women who were busy cooking meat all day long would rather eat bamboo than eat their own cooked meat.

However, each of them is really fat.

Li Hong likes the freshly cooked chunks of beef the most. Yunchu said that children who eat more of this will not only grow taller but also lean and strong.

A fat cook rummaged through a huge iron pot with an iron hook, and took out a piece of fat and thin yak rib meat from the big pot, and trimmed the yellow fat on the meat with a foot-long knife. After a while, Li Hong used a small iron fork to pierce a piece of beef that was not fat or firewood, which was about the size of a human head. While biting fiercely, he beckoned a servant woman to bring a ladder.

Everyone is used to the guards of the Eastern Palace standing on the wall. These people can see that if they want to eat all kinds of meat from the cauldron like the prince, they are not allowed.

He climbed up the high wall by stepping on the ladder as if going up the stairs, then walked down the crooked locust tree, and stepped into the carriage.

When passing by the polo field, Li Hong gnawed on the beef, and watched those women playing polo on the polo horse with their buttocks pouted. After watching for a while, he saw Naha strolling over from the other side.

Seeing Li Hong, Naha leaned over, tore off a piece of beef that had never been contaminated by Li Hong's saliva, and asked while eating, "Are you the same as them, to see these women's butts?"

Li Hong held a piece of beef in his mouth in doubt and thought for a while, "It shouldn't be, what's so good about the butt?"

As he was talking, he deliberately walked around to Naha for a look, shook his head and said, "It's nothing to see."

Naha thought so too, so the two ate beef and entered Yunchu's house.

Watching the prince enter Yunchu's house, only Chen Zhi and two older nuns followed into Yun's house.

The Yun family doesn't even have a place to step down. As long as it can see the sun, it is covered with pure white cotton.

These cottons are not very fluffy yet, and they are not so white. They have to be dried in the sun before entering the cotton plucking workshop. At that time, the cotton can be comparable to the white clouds in the sky.

Sitting under the eaves, Yu Xiurong was styling the hair of Li Hong's sister, Li Si. This kid has a big head, little hair, and yellow hair, but he is still a smug one, and he spends a lot of time on his hair every day.

Yunjin and Yunjin could already stagger and run around on the thick cotton cushions.

Li Hong tore a piece of beef from a piece of beef and was about to feed it to Yunjin, but Yu Xiurong knocked it off.

"She can't eat this yet."

Li Hong looked at the cotton all over the floor and said, "You guys are making money?"

Cui said on the side: "This is not considered to be profitable, but what kind of business can His Highness tell the old woman that can make money?"

Li Hong looked at the sun in the sky, squinted his eyes and said: "Lead one hundred thousand troops, cross thousands of mountains and rivers, and conquer the barbarians. After one battle, it is not difficult to get a hundred thousand dollars."

Yu Xiurong looked at Li Hong and said, "Why, the 50 troops sent by Emperor Ni's father earned Datang a million guan in silver?"

Li Hong looked around and found that he and the Yun family were the only ones, so he nodded and said, "Master Yun handed over 100 million guan to my father at one time."

Yu Xiurong said with a smile: "That's what he deserves for his loyalty to the country, defending his family and defending the country. Moreover, he went to fight, not to make money."

Seeing that the big piece of beef in his hand was taken away by Naha, Li Hong quickly finished the remaining beef, washed his hands and face in the basin brought by the maid, and then said to Yu Xiurong: " In short, the emperor likes it very much, and the queen mother likes it very much, and they even drank wine together, and what they drank was anti-virus medicine."

Yu Xiurong said: "As long as it's a good thing and makes everyone happy, even if he did nothing wrong."

Li Hong didn't answer Yu Xiurong's words, but frowned and said to Li Si: "You have a big head and short hair, so don't braid it, or it will look like two ropes on a gourd.

Yu Xiurong's face immediately changed color, and he immediately covered his ears with his hands, and immediately, Li Si's high-pitched crying and howling resounded throughout the Yun family.

Li Si started to cry, and the Yunjin brothers and sisters naturally joined in.

Naha looked fiercely at the innocent Li Hong.

Li Hong spread his hands and said, "Can't even tell the truth these days?"

It took Yu Xiurong half a day to arrange the three crybabys one by one, and each of the two young ones gave a small piece of cake to eat for themselves. As for Li Si, it was Yu Xiurong who assured her that the prince was talking nonsense , Li Si is the best-looking in the whole world, and only then did he control the situation.

"I don't know when your master Yun will come back. If he's not here, it's as if the family has lost half of its population."

Li Hong shook his head and said, "Let's see if I can come back next autumn."

Yu Xiurong became anxious when he heard it, and hurriedly said: "Didn't the mansion report two days ago say that the Yinggong army has pushed to the city of Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo?"

Li Hong shook his head and said: "I heard from my mother that if this battle fails to settle the old land of the Three Hans, the Eastern Expedition will be considered a failure."

　Chapter 3, and one more chapter

　　
　
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