"March last year." Li Hong looked at Wu Mei warily and answered decisively.
"March last year?" Wu Mei looked at the two palace maids on the left and right, slowly approaching Li Hong, frowning and wondering what happened in March last year.
"Yes, last March, I went to offer sacrifices with you and father, and I said I had a stomachache..." Li Hong swallowed. He really didn't blame himself at that time. It was his fault for eating something bad.
"And then?" Wu Mei's forehead was full of black lines. She was on the verge of going crazy!
"And then nothing happened." Li Hong said, blinking his bright eyes innocently.
She had a vague idea of the truth! What was this little bastard doing at the time? During the sacrifice, none of the palace maids dared to leave with him, so he sneaked away alone. She wanted to catch him, but the little bastard was as slippery as a loach, so she didn't care where he ran to or what he did.
Now he knew that the little bastard had a stomachache from eating something bad and couldn't find a place to relieve himself, so he simply took it out in his own carriage. Then the silk on the roof of the carriage was gone, which meant that he...he...
"Li Hong, you really pissed me off. I'm telling you, look how I'm going to skin you today!" Filthy thing, she actually sat on that little bastard... Wu Mei couldn't think any more, she was so angry that she was about to lose her mind! It was a waste that she was still enjoying herself in the carriage today!
"You shouldn't ask." Li Hong said kindly for his mother's sake.
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"Li Hong, I will skin you alive!" Wu Mei could no longer control herself. Without waiting for the two palace maids to control Li Hong, she ran over hysterically!
Suddenly, the entire conference room was in chaos. Li Hong's voice of exhortation, Wu Mei's roar, and the sound of tables, chairs and benches being moved came one after another.
Zong Chuke at the door was so frightened that he didn't know what to say. He stood at the door like a wax figure: Is this the legendary Queen who is the mother of the country and the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty who is famous for his kindness and filial piety?
He twisted his neck with great effort and looked at the people around him. They all looked calm and indifferent, as if they were used to the noisy and chaotic sounds happening on the opposite side.
From time to time, one could hear people whispering, "Why didn't you stop His Highness from getting on the Queen's carriage that day?"
"I tried to stop him, but I couldn't stop him. The ancestor wanted to go up, who dared to stop him?"
"It's over. Just wait. Your Highness's butt will be swollen for several days."
At this time, Wu Mei's voice was heard in the conference room again: "Li Hong, stop right there. I'm telling you, I'm only going to settle the account with you for the carriage. Minzhi's account is written off. Come here and let me beat you up."
"Why should Minzhi's crime be blamed on me? He deserves it. If you hadn't stopped me, mother, I would have chopped off his head long ago." Li Hong's forehead was sweating and he was panting.
There was no way out. The three women surrounded him and he had nowhere to hide, so he had to crawl under the conference table. Wu Mei and the two palace maids leaned over to look at him, but they couldn't reach him.
"Okay, you little bastard, just wait. Banmei and Xunlan, you two just watch here. I'm going to kick his butt from behind. I don't believe I can't kick her out." Wu Mei also panted, her plump breasts rising and falling violently with her chest.
The two palace maids were obviously the most tired, and they did not dare to use heavy hands, fearing that they would hurt the Crown Prince. However, if they were weak, they would not be able to catch him. When the Crown Prince broke free from Banmei's arms, he even pulled away her underwear, which he was now using to wipe his sweat.
Li Hong turned around under the conference table. The floor was covered with Persian carpets, so there was no need to worry about hurting his knees or elbows.
"Mother, let's discuss it. I'll show you something good. I guarantee that you'll be proud of it. No matter who asks about it in the future, I'll say it was your idea." Li Hong casually threw Banmei's underwear to Banmei and said hurriedly.
"Don't try to fool me with your Taiyi City's junk. Apart from perfume and soap, there's nothing else in your Taiyi City that I like." Wu Mei walked to the other side, holding onto the conference table. She kicked the little bastard below with her slender legs, but she could only reach the tip of his nose, and the guy blocked her foot with his hand.
"This thing is different. You have to believe in my intelligence. Besides, this matter has been carried out in secret, and I have never told anyone. Also, there are only two of us here. As long as you agree, I guarantee that no one will know." Li Hong looked at Wu Mei sitting on the chair, kicking under the table from time to time, and said.
"Tell me what it is first." Wu Mei couldn't catch him, so she had to compromise and take him out first.
"It's not an object, it's a kind of dance, which will definitely please you more than Hu Ji's whirling dance or any other messy dance. What do you think? I will let them perform for you tonight, and I have already put the most prosperous street in Taiyi City under martial law, just to let you, the queen mother, enjoy the dance."
Li Hong watched Wu Mei stop moving and slowly crawl out. No matter what, she was going to be beaten. With this dance, the beating would be lighter.
The screams echoed in the conference room for a full cup of tea. Zong Chuke was petrified from the beginning and could not believe what he saw and heard!
The queen, who was the mother of the country, beat her own son? Isn't it ironic? The prince, who was kind and filial and well-known in the Tang Dynasty, made his mother so angry that she beat him up. Isn't it ironic?
The door of the conference room finally opened. The queen was still noble, elegant, and graceful, and the two palace maids were also bright, lovely, fresh and smart.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still... grinning, dishevelled, ragged, messy-haired, and full of resentment.
"Take me around." Wu Mei said to Li Hong behind her without even looking at Zong Chuke.
"Can you be gentler next time? My bottom is almost broken into pieces." Li Hong was being gently rubbed on the ears by Xiaoxue who was waiting at the door. Seeing Zong Chuke still there, he quickly said, "Chuke, why don't you go see the queen? What are you doing standing there?"
"Your servant, Zong Chuke, the magistrate of Lantian County, greets the Queen." Zong Chuke's short-circuited brain finally reacted at this moment. He quickly put aside the noise he had just heard in the conference room and greeted her.
"Get up." Wu Mei said lightly.
"How do you, the magistrate of Lantian County, know the prince?" Wu Mei began to look at Zong Chuke seriously. Anyone who could be introduced to her by Li Hong was usually not an easy person to deal with.
"Your Majesty, I had the honor of meeting His Royal Highness the Crown Prince when I was collecting herbs in the mountains a few days ago. So I followed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to Taiyi City." Zong Chuke said respectfully.
"Okay, then follow the prince and work hard. Don't let the prince down. Go down." Wu Mei glanced at him indifferently, turned around and began to look at the interior of the building with unique furnishings.
"Yes, Queen." Zong Chuke looked at Li Hong and waved his hand, then bowed and hurriedly left the building.
He was lucky to be able to enter this building. He knew that only the first floor of this building allowed men, including eunuchs, to walk on it. No one except the prince dared to go up to the second floor and above.
Li Hong sent the maid away. The jerk who had just been beaten took the initiative to hold Wu Mei's jade-white right hand and said with a grin, "Mother, I will personally take you to visit this. This is the work of my son's painstaking efforts."
Li Hong excitedly introduced the two large and small meeting rooms on the first floor, the two living rooms usually used for reception, the leisure room, etc. to Wu Mei, talking eloquently and knowing them all like the back of his hand.
Finally they came to a door that was wider than an ordinary door. Li Hong stretched out his hand and pulled it open horizontally. Surprisingly, there was a small room that looked like a box.
"Mother, come with me." Li Hong took Wu Mei's hand again and walked in slowly.
Then Wu Mei looked at Li Hong with a smug smile, closed the door again, and looked around the small room. She saw that the surroundings were full of exquisite landscape paintings. The precious wood and the carvings by famous artists made the small room look noble and elegant, without losing its grandeur. People did not feel stuffy staying in it at all.
With the use of winches and pulleys in bows and crossbows, this manual elevator was also built by Li Hong using rather complicated mechanical means.
"Mother, how about we take a look at your floor first, and then slowly walk down?" Li Hong shook his head, and from time to time he used his head to nod Wu Mei who was still looking at the carvings around her.
"I'll listen to you, little thing." Wu Mei relaxed for a rare time. Leaving the palace made her less majestic and more feminine.
Li Hong held a crank in the room and slowly cranked it. Wu Mei only felt a slight movement under her feet, and then through the carved sculptures in front of her, she saw that the small room was slowly and steadily rising.
From time to time, she saw the new numbers that Li Hong taught her, 2, 3, 4, 5 flashing before her eyes. When Li Hong's hand stopped, the whole room, in the hollow space, was aligned with a number: 5.
Li Hong opened the door again, made a gesture of invitation, and walked out of the "ladder" with Wu Mei. (Sweat, I really can't think of a good name, please come up with a name for me if you see this.)
As the room was introduced one by one, Wu Mei was truly like Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Garden. There were new things everywhere, some of which she had never even heard of.
The first time you step on the thick carpet, you'll have a warm, comfortable feeling. The soft-colored walls, lanterns and other decorations are all exquisite to the extreme.
These were different from the systems Wu Mei was familiar with before, and although they were different from tradition, Li Hong explained each one in a clear and logical manner, and they were not haphazard designs.
Finally, Li Hong brought Wu Mei to her dormitory and gently opened the thick double wooden doors, as if opening Wu Mei's long-silent girlish heart.
Wu Mei covered her red lips with one hand, widened her eyes, and looked at everything in front of her in disbelief, fearing that she would scream out in shock at the scene before her!
She... seemed to have walked into a fairyland. All the furnishings gave her a dreamlike and unreal feeling.
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