The people had grown accustomed to the guards of the Eastern Palace standing on the wall. These guards could watch, but they were not allowed to freely scoop various kinds of meat from the large pot like the Crown Prince.
They climbed the high wall like stairs, then walked down the crooked locust tree and boarded the carriage.
As Li Hong passed by the polo field, he was munching on beef and watching the women playing polo with their buttocks sticking out on their horses. After watching for a while, he saw Naha strolling over from the other side.
Upon seeing Li Hong, Naha leaned over and tore off a piece of beef from the block that hadn't been contaminated by Li Hong's saliva. As she ate, she asked, "Are you like them, here to see these women's butts?"
Li Hong, with a piece of beef in his mouth, thought for a moment and said doubtfully, "It shouldn't be, what's so interesting about a butt?"
As she spoke, she deliberately went around to look behind Naha, then shook her head and said, "There's nothing to see."
Naha thought so too, so the two of them ate beef as they entered Yun Chu's house.
After watching the Crown Prince enter the Yun family, only Chen Zhi and two elderly nannies followed him into the Yun family.
The Yun family now has nowhere to put their feet; every place that can see sunlight is covered with pure white cotton.
The cotton wasn't very fluffy or white yet. It had to be dried in the sun before going through the cotton-carding workshop again. Only then could the cotton be comparable to the white clouds in the sky.
Yu Xiurong was sitting under the eaves, styling the hair of Li Hong's younger sister, Li Si. The girl had a big head, thin and yellow hair, and she was also vain, spending a lot of time on her hair every day.
Yun Jin and Yun Jin are already able to run around wobbly on the thick cotton mat.
Li Hong tore off a piece of beef from the beef chunks to feed Yun Jin, but Yu Xiurong slapped it away.
"She can't eat this yet."
Li Hong looked at the cotton covering the ground and said, "You call this making money?"
Cui said from the side, "This doesn't even count as making money. Your Highness, could you tell this old woman what kind of business can make money?"
Li Hong looked at the sun in the sky, squinted his eyes and said, "Leading an army of 100,000, crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, and going on a distant expedition against the barbarians, it wouldn't be difficult to make a hundred thousand or so strings of cash after the battle."
Yu Xiurong looked at Li Hongdao and said, "What, did your father's 500,000 troops earn a million strings of cash for the Tang Dynasty?"
Li Hong looked around and found that he was alone with the Yun family. He nodded and said, "Master Yun once paid one million strings of cash to my father, the Emperor."
Yu Xiurong smiled and said, "That's what he should do to be loyal to his country and protect his home. Besides, he went to fight a war, not to make money."
Seeing that Naha had snatched a large piece of beef from his hand, Li Hong quickly finished the remaining beef, washed his hands and face in the basin of water brought by the servant, and then said to Yu Xiurong, "In short, Father Emperor likes it very much, Mother Empress likes it very much too, and they even drank wine together, which was poison."
Yu Xiurong said, "As long as it's a good thing and makes everyone happy, that's fine, even if he didn't do anything wrong."
Li Hong didn't answer Yu Xiurong's question. He frowned and said to Li Si, "You have a big head and little hair, so don't braid your hair. Otherwise, it will look like a gourd with two ropes hanging on it."
Yu Xiurong's face immediately changed color, and she immediately covered her ears with both hands. Then, Li Si's high-pitched wailing resounded throughout the entire Yun family.
Li Si started crying, and Yun Jin and her brother naturally joined in.
Naha glared fiercely at Li Hong, who looked completely innocent.
Li Hong shrugged and said, "Can't we even speak the truth these days?"
It took Yu Xiurong half a day to settle the three crybabies one by one. The two younger ones were each given a small piece of cake to eat by themselves. As for Li Si, the situation was only brought under control after Yu Xiurong assured her that the Crown Prince was talking nonsense and that Li Si was the most beautiful woman in the world.
"I don't know when Master Yun will be back. Without him, it feels like half the family is gone."
Li Hong shook his head and said, "Let's see if I can come back next autumn."
Upon hearing this, Yu Xiurong became anxious and hurriedly said, "Didn't the official gazette just say a couple of days ago that Duke Ying's army had already advanced to the gates of Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo?"
Li Hong shook his head and said, "My mother said that if we cannot pacify the former territories of the Three Hans in this battle, the eastern expedition will be considered a failure."
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