This was the first time he saw his mother so weak and powerless, and her resolute back was full of loneliness and resentment in the night. But even so, his mother chose to compromise for his own sake and finally chose to hand over Li Yifu to him.
Li Hong looked at the lonely figure and sighed, "In the Grain in Ear and the Flowering Moon, I will send Li Yifu to the Dali Temple. He entered the harem without permission, flattered and seduced the queen..." Looking at the stars in the night sky, Li Hong said as he walked, "Falsely accuse Concubine Xiao Shufei, and rape Princess Yiyang and Princess Gao'an."
Li Yifu knelt there motionless, with his head down, watching Li Hong's feet walk past him. At this moment, he was clearer than anyone else that his official career had finally come to an end. However, what he could not have imagined was that he would end up being questioned by the crown prince.
"Thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince." Li Yifu kowtowed in thanks as he listened to the Crown Prince's footsteps gradually fading away.
"It's good that you understand the situation. You have worked hard these days." Li Hong did not stop and said with his back to Li Yifu.
Li Yifu knew very well that the charges of disrespect, which he had committed together with his daughter and son-in-law in buying and selling official positions, attacking his colleagues, and even not apologizing when the emperor summoned him to the palace to question him, would be wiped out.
In order to protect him and give an explanation to the court, the prince turned his crime into a private matter of the royal family. This also meant that his wish to strive to revise the "Clan Records" and so on would never come true.
As for the future of his daughter and son-in-law, it depends on whether the prince will show mercy to them because of the friendship they have had over the years.
Passing by the queen mother's palace, it was still brightly lit, but behind this prosperous palace, it seemed like there was a sad woman crying.
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Li Hong sighed silently, and finally did not enter Wu Mei's palace with Xia Zhi and Xiao Han, and continued to move forward slowly.
In the dark room, Wu Mei also looked at Li Hong. When she saw Li Hong staring at her palace in a daze, she felt a sense of relief and satisfaction. But the ambition in her heart, the emptiness after it was extinguished, would still linger in her heart for a long time.
Letting go of Li Yifu would mean compromise. From now on, he would be at ease with the affairs of the harem. In the court, it would be a matter between father and son. Whether it was father-son affection or father-son rivalry, it would have nothing to do with him in the next few years.
At dawn the next day, Princess Lanling's carriage stopped in front of the Jiafu Gate of the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace.
"Hurry up and get up. It's already this time and you're still sleeping!" Lan Ling opened his eyes wide and pulled at the soft cotton quilt covering the prince's body.
The prince grabbed a corner of the quilt tightly, curled up in the remaining quilt, covered his head, and said that he wanted to sleep a little longer.
"Who gets up so early? When Yi Yang arrives, you can just leave directly. Do you want me to see you off?" Li Hong said lazily while hiding in the quilt.
"Is this just my business? You leave such a big thing to me alone, and to a delicate princess who has never left the palace. What do you think of me, your aunt? You think of me as a guest of your prince, right? You expect us to run errands for you and make money, right?" Lanling stood in front of the bed and pulled for a long time. He was so tired that he was out of breath, but he couldn't reach the little thing's ears.
Now that I'm grown up, I can no longer pinch and hit him at will like when I was a child. The little kid who is just ten years old is so strong that I have to use my trump card.
"I'll ask you again, are you going to get up or not?" Lan Ling put his hands on his hips and watched Li Hong wrap himself in a quilt like a cicada pupa.
"..." Li Hong told Lan Ling with his actions that he was determined not to get up.
"Okay, little thing, do you think I have no tricks left?" Lan Ling said, and then, in front of Xia Zhi, Xiao Han and others staring in amazement, he jumped directly onto Li Hong's bed without taking off his shoes.
"Hey, this is my bed and I haven't put on any clothes yet!" Li Hong was shocked. He suddenly felt like there was another person on top of him, pressing him so hard that he could hardly breathe.
"Little thing, you're still shy? You're just ten years old. I, Lanling, don't care even if it gets out. Besides, I'm your aunt." Lanling said as she struggled with Li Hong's hands, trying to break free from Li Hong's hands and pull Li Hong's ears.
"Princess Yi Yang is here." Hua Meng's voice came from the door.
"Let her come in and help." Lan Ling said on behalf of Li Hong.
"Don't let Yi Yang in." Li Hong was anxious. This was outrageous. He had always liked **. If the two women pulled back his quilt, how could he survive in the East Palace and be the crown prince?
Xiazhi and Xiaohan, under the threat of Lanling's eyes, dared not move or speak to stop Yiyang from coming in.
"Yi Yang greets Aunt...Aunt Lanling." Yi Yang, who came bounding in, was so shocked by the magical scene in front of him that he forgot to greet.
The scene in front of her made her a little confused. Li Hong, wrapped in a quilt, was fighting with Lan Ling who was riding on him? Was this real?
"Yi Yang, why are you still standing there? If you really want to go to Lanling with me, help me hold down Li Hong's hands now! Hurry up!" Lanling said to Yi Yang who was in a daze.
"Oh, okay, aunt, I'll help you right away." Yi Yang is a stupid guy. Lan Ling is old after all, so he doesn't care about her, not to mention that she is Li Hong's aunt!
You, a sister of the same generation as Li Hong, climb into his bed again. If this gets out, the censor will impeach you to death. It's possible that Li Hong's crown prince and her princess will be deposed.
"Stop. Yi Yang, you are stupid. What kind of place is this? If you dare to come up, be careful that the censor will find out and depose your princess." Li Hong was a little overwhelmed. After all, he was too young. Lan Ling had teased him to the point of exhaustion for so long.
"You don't call me your royal sister and you say I'm stupid! Aunt, Yi Yang is here to help you!" Yi Yang jumped onto the bed without saying a word.
The bed, which was already in a mess, was now even more of a shambles. The addition of Yi Yang, the new force, was too much for Li Hong to handle. After a while, screams of the Crown Prince were heard from the Crown Prince's palace in the Eastern Palace!
Li Hong reluctantly washed up with Xia Zhi's help. Lanling and Yiyang tidied themselves up. Their shirts and skirts were messy when they were playing just now. The originally open clothing of the Tang Dynasty women had already revealed the two women's private parts. The whiteness of their chests touched Li Hong's body from time to time.
Fortunately, Li Hong is still young. Although he has been through many reincarnations, his physical age is still enough for him to withstand these sexy scenes. But if a few more years pass, Li Hong might never dare to play with them so wantonly again.
He finished washing up with Xia Zhi's help, looking unhappy and unhappy. Xia Zhi was about to help him tie up his hair and put on a crown, but Li Hong waved his hand and said impatiently, "No need to do it. I won't leave the palace today. Except for going to Chongwen Hall, I won't go out. There's no need to tie up your hair."
Xia Zhi smiled sweetly. She had become more mature, and she and Xiao Han had already grown into graceful beauties. Every time Lan Ling saw them, he would tease them: "It's a pity that you are so beautiful now. If only Hong Er was a few years older, you could sleep with him."
Every time, Lan Ling, who had been married twice, would tease Li Hong's four palace maids until their faces turned red and they were full of temptation. At that time, even Li Hong could not respond to Lan Ling's every word.
It is enough to imagine how open-minded the women in the Tang Dynasty at that time were in terms of secular aspects, whether they were royal families, nobles or ordinary people.
After the three of them finished their meal in the East Palace, they, led by Li Hong, slowly walked towards the entrance of Jiafu Gate, and naturally passed by Chongwenguan in the Prince's Mansion.
The students who came to Chongwenguan to study early in the morning saw the Crown Prince and Princess Lanling walking out, so they immediately stood aside and bowed.
Every student looked at Li Hong with eyes filled with fear and admiration of having survived a disaster, because none of the difficult problems they came up with in Chongwenguan could stump His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
No matter what kind of bizarre and fantastic question you ask, as long as you ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he will always be able to give you some seemingly plausible answers that are very close to the correct answers. Sometimes he will even just give you some hints, and then let you follow the light he gives you to find the brighter answers behind them.
This is why the students admired him. As for being afraid of him, it was because any student who was lazy or slack would be punished by the prince, making their life worse than death and look miserable.
"Are you sure you are just... you are just going back to Lanling, and you are not planning to move your home to Lanling and never come back?" Li Hong asked in disbelief, looking at the long queue of carriages lined up at the door.
The Princess Lanling who used to live a simple and frugal life is no longer around. She has become the wealthy Lanling who lives lavishly and puts comfort and luxury first.
"Are these things a lot? They are needed for the travel expenses. Of course, we have to be fully equipped. Otherwise, it will be very troublesome if we are missing something on the road. And this time, the goods from the shops in the south can be loaded as well, so we don't have to pay extra for the water route." Lanling said proudly.
"Aunt, have you ever calculated which is more cost-effective, the cost of traveling by water or by horse carriage?" Li Hong asked unkindly. She has become a wealthy woman in Chang'an City in recent years, but why can't she figure this out?
"Of course I know that water transportation saves money. Do you really think I, your aunt, am stupid? But there are many shops along this road. If we go all the way down by water, don't we still have to take a horse-drawn carriage to deliver the goods to the shops?" Lanling Fengqing rolled her eyes at Li Hong, who was almost as tall as her shoulder.
"Okay, what you said makes sense. Flowering Meng and Grain in Ear." Li Hong said to the two people behind him.
The two men nodded, and then, with dozens of left and right guards led by the Prince Six at the door, began to check the goods in the carriage one by one.
Mangzhong watched the guards on both sides rushing towards each carriage and shouted, "Be careful with your hands and feet. Touch what you should touch. If anyone dares to touch what you shouldn't touch, I'll chop off his hand!"
Lan Ling turned his head and looked at Li Hong with a half-smile, snorting, "You checked your aunt's carriage like this, have you checked the carriage in the name of your mother? I heard in Chang'an that the Queen's family can get anything from Taiyi City, and most of the banned goods now reach merchants from various countries through them!"
"It's just hearsay, how is it possible?" Li Hong frowned and responded perfunctorily to Lan Ling's warning.
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