Li Hong looked at Li Zhi's resolute back, and a sentence kept popping up in his mind: Ginger is still spicy with age.

Li Hong took the backpack that Xia Zhi handed to him and looked at Wu Mei standing at the door with her beautiful and flawless face, staring at him with a smile. He couldn't be happy no matter what.

Little Li Dan, who was over one year old, held the palace maid's trouser leg and looked at herself with excitement, grinning and waving her hands. No one knew what she was humming, but perhaps only he could understand it.

"Your son pays homage to the Queen Mother." Li Hong stood behind the small tree, holding the tree with one hand and putting the backpack on his back, and said with a wry smile.

"Come here, let me see what abilities you, Li Hong, have acquired recently."

"No need, mother. I think this distance is fine. Just tell me what you want me to do. You have pulled my ears so well for so many years that I can hear everything." Li Hong continued to act stupid.

Wu Mei stood leisurely at the door, wearing a light red and white dress with narrow sleeves, and a well-groomed Chao Yun Jin Xiang bun on her head. A hairpin fixed her hair loosely in a single bun on top of her head. Her cheeks were as white as jade, without any makeup, but still bright, charming, noble and graceful.

Seeing this outfit, Li Hong knew that he was doomed today. Since his mother became the queen, she rarely dressed so casually. But! Whenever she was determined to dress herself up, she would often dress like today.

The main purpose of dressing like this is to make it easier to fight, as the clothes will not hinder the use of fists and feet, thus affecting the lethality.

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Wu Mei sneered and said, "Li Hong, don't even think about running away today. You even dared to lie to your mother. Since you did it, you have to be prepared to be punished by me. Didn't you see? Li Xian and Li Zhe were both sent away by me. I know Lian Tie is afraid of you, but the other eunuchs are not afraid of you. Look around you, do you think you can run away today?"

Li Hong looked at Wu Mei, and confirmed again and again the distance between them to ensure that his mother would not be able to launch a sneak attack. Then he turned his head and looked around. He saw several eunuchs staring at him eagerly, while Lian Tie had a look of ease and embarrassment on his face.

Looking at Hua Meng and Xia Zhi, who had no ambition and no future, they were now kneeling on the ground like shrimps. Even if Li Hong shouted at the top of his lungs, these two would just lie there and would not move a finger.

Li Hong turned back helplessly, and once again took a nostalgic look at the two hopeless people, and had to negotiate with Wu Mei: "Mother, I didn't mean to deceive you, it was really forced by the situation at the time. You should be able to understand my mood at the time, right, mother?"

"Tsk tsk... Is that so? Don't tell me that you, Li Hong, didn't see it that day. I was acting for your two uncles. Since you knew I wouldn't really take Xia Zhi's life, you actually dared to deceive me with the cosmetics she used. Do you think I, as the mistress of a palace and the queen who rules the country, can stand it?" Wu Mei was not in a hurry. She had plenty of time today to discipline this little bastard. Beating a child on a rainy day was a good thing.

After Wu Mei finished speaking, before Li Hong could do anything, Xia Zhi knelt there and kowtowed like crazy, not daring to say a word, and could only kowtow continuously.

"Alright, there's no need to plead for your master. Xia Zhi, I don't want to hurt your master's feelings because you have taken care of the prince for many years."

"Then mother, aren't you afraid that if you beat me, I will hurt my skin? As the saying goes, 'My body and hair are given by my parents. I dare not damage them. This is the beginning of filial piety.' If you beat me, you will make me appear disrespectful and unfilial."

"Haha, have you, Li Hong, ever been filial to your mother over the years? You use things used by palace maids to deceive your mother, and you think that's filial piety?" Wu Mei asked sarcastically.

Seeing that today's matter could not be resolved amicably, Li Hong had no choice but to continue guerrilla warfare and said, "Mother, please tell me, how can I get a way to survive." He tightened the backpack on his back, which he had prepared a few days ago in case of a situation like today.

At the same time, it is also a reminder to Wu Mei, look here, mother, there are good things here that can be used as bargaining chips.

"Oh..." Wu Mei stretched lazily, her slender figure in the red and white narrow-sleeved dress looked curvy, plump and tight. You couldn't tell that she was a mother who had given birth to several children!

"Li Hong, what do you think of your mother..."

"Mother, please change your name. If you call me by my full name, I will feel too murderous and might faint."

Wu Mei just wanted to laugh in her heart. This little bastard was so good at coaxing people. She didn't know what she owed him in her previous life. The majesty she had in front of other princes was like snow meeting water, melting at the touch of a finger.

"Minister Li? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Hong'er? Little bastard? Which one do you think I should call you so that you will feel better?" The palace maid behind Wu Mei actually brought a chair to Wu Mei and placed it at the door.

In the weird atmosphere, Wu Mei sat on the chair at the door, like a female bandit leader who had gone to the mountains to become a bandit. She sat there with a sense of heroism, as if saying, "This road was built by me, and this tree was planted by me. If you want to pass through this road, you have to leave money to buy your way through."

Li Hong had no other choice. He could not escape this disaster today. Just looking at his mother's expression, he knew it was over, all over. His butt was going to be beaten to a pulp.

"Lian Tie, come here." Li Hong shouted to Lian Tie.

Lian Tie glanced at Li Hong, hesitated, then looked at Wu Mei. The female boss waved her hand and said, "Go ahead. Let's see what tricks the little bastard can come up with."

Hearing this, Li Hong could only laugh dryly. He took off the backpack from his shoulders behind the tree, took out several white jade makeup boxes, and handed them to Lian Tie: "Take them and present them to my mother."

Lian Tie took it hurriedly, walked about fifty steps quickly, and put the thing in his hand... The palace maid actually brought out a table!

After seeing the table, Li Hong's face turned green. They were going to fight to the death!

Wu Mei opened the makeup boxes one by one, looked at the contents and the mirrors, and was quite satisfied. However, she had no intention of letting Li Hong go and shook her head at him.

It's like saying, this little bit is not enough.

"Come here." Li Hong shouted again to Lian Tie who was standing in front of Wu Mei.

Wu Mei gestured with her chin to Lian Tie to come over, and then Lian Tie began to run back and forth between the mother and son, who were only fifty steps apart.

Li Hong naturally didn't bring soap. Could he ask his mother to wash little Li Dan's diapers herself? So, Li Hong took out a piece of soap that Bai Chun had rushed over last night. It was a light pink soap. Although it was wrapped in a layer of snow-white paper, it still couldn't block the faint pleasant fragrance.

Li Hong took out several bars of soap of different colors from his backpack and put them in Lian Tie's hand. Then he waved his hand and asked Lian Tie to present them to his mother quickly.

Wu Mei took the soap and smelled it at Li Hong's suggestion. Suddenly, her eyes lit up and her face was full of joy. Her expression was as if she had received a piece of jewelry that made her happy and satisfied.

After Li Hong's explanation, the palace maid immediately prepared a copper basin of clean water. Wu Mei couldn't wait to wash her hands and try it out. As Li Hong said, after wetting her hands with clean water, applying the soap, and then rubbing them together, her hands immediately seemed to become smoother, whiter and tenderer.

Especially the unusually refreshing feeling made Wu Mei overjoyed. She wished she could listen to the little bastard and turn around and go back to take a shower to try.

But then I thought, wouldn't that mean I've been fooled by that little bastard? Besides, judging by the little bastard's behavior, he must have some good stuff that he hasn't revealed yet.

"That's all. Although my mother admires your filial piety, you deceived her and your father, which is not..."

"Lian Tie..."

Lian Tie ran over again, and this time Li Hong took out several small and exquisite glass bottles. Each bottle cap was covered with a cork, and they were filled with liquids of various colors. Wu Mei was shocked when she saw it. Could it be poison?

Lian Tie did not dare to disobey the words of either the mother or the son. After walking to a place not far from Wu Mei, he followed Li Hong's instruction, shook one of the exquisite glass bottles a few times, pulled out the cork and squeezed it, while waving his hand in the air. Vapour-like liquid fell from the air with a refreshing fragrance that lingered in the air for a long time.

"What is this?" Wu Mei sniffed the air a few times. This fragrance was tailor-made for women in the world. It was much better than the smell of rouge and powder. Moreover, the smell of perfume still lingered in the air for a long time.

Wu Mei believed that no woman in the world could refuse the soap and perfume given by the little bastard. This would definitely have a fatal attraction to women in the world.

Moreover, she was very sure in her heart that such things must have been made by his Taiyi City, which had been doing mysterious things in recent years. This perfume and soap must have been made in recent years.

Wu Mei held a bottle of perfume in her hand, looked at the somewhat turbid color, and then smelled the scent. Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind: "Such a heart-warming treasure, how much wealth will it be in the future?"

At this moment, Wu Mei looked at Li Hong's figure behind the tree, and she felt as if the little man in front of her was a little man plated with gold. How did he come up with this? Didn't he know that once such a thing came out, all the women in the world would go crazy for it?

But Wu Mei is Wu Mei. Everything can make her curious, and everything can also make her calm down immediately. After thinking about the pros and cons of the perfume in her mind, she seemed much calmer. She lightly placed the perfume that she loved so much on the table and was about to shake her head.

Li Hong had a solemn look on his face, turned his backpack upside down, and said in a tough tone: "Mother, if you still want to beat me, go ahead. I will never say a word."

"What is that? Yes, it's the papers in your bag. What are they drawn on?" Wu Mei asked with a frown.