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Life in Chang'an Chapter 3 The bad news brought by Li Ke

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    Although he was confused, Li Min immediately stood up to greet Li Ke.  The thing that made him most uncomfortable when he returned to ancient times was the excessive etiquette. For example, he and Li Ke were brothers. According to Li Min's idea, if Li Ke wanted to come, he could just come in directly, but Li Min had to go to the living room to greet him in person.  Prince Liang's Mansion occupies a huge area, and there are no means of transportation such as cars or motorcycles. Every time I walk there, I break out in sweat. It is extremely inconvenient to go back and forth. But this is etiquette, and even brothers cannot do it.  negligence.

    "Third brother, didn't my father forbid others from visiting me? Aren't you afraid of his punishment?" Li Min entered the living room and asked directly. As soon as he entered, he saw that Li Ke had been sitting there drinking tea. On the first day he was sober, he had already talked to  Li Ke has met before, so he is quite familiar.

    After speaking, Li Min sat down on the chair. Originally, people in the Tang Dynasty generally sat on their knees. Although chairs and other furniture have appeared, not many people used them. Of course, modern people like Li Min are not used to kneeling, so  Let the craftsmen make several kinds of furniture of later generations, and the chair is one of them.

    "Haha? The style of your bed is very exquisite and novel!" Li Ke ignored him and just looked around at the chairs and coffee tables placed in the living room, saying with some surprise.  The chairs in the Tang Dynasty were also called Hu beds. They could sit or lie down, so they were generally large and bulky. The chair designed by Li Min had a backrest and armrests. This kind of chair did not appear until the middle and late Tang Dynasty. In addition, the chair  The materials and workmanship are very exquisite, so Li Ke naturally feels exquisite and novel when he sees it.

    "Haha, if third brother likes a little gadget, I will have some more delivered to your house." Li Min said generously.

    "Then thank you sixth brother!" Li Ke was not polite, picked up the tea bowl, took a sip and put it directly on the coffee table, which was very convenient.

    "Third brother, you haven't answered my question yet?" Li Min saw that his third brother was only looking at the furnishings in the living room, and couldn't help but remind him again.

    "Oh, today my father was testing our calligraphy, and I was lucky enough to get the first place. While my father was happy, I begged him to allow me to visit you. I only dared to come after my father agreed. Otherwise, I wouldn't be as old as you.  The courage." Li Ke said half-jokingly. He also felt helpless towards his own brother: he was naughty, domineering, and bold, coupled with the doting of his mother and concubine, making Li Min a complete playboy. Sometimes he was a fool.  There was nothing he could do about his brother. Fortunately, Li Min respected his own brother, so the relationship between the two was pretty good.

    Li Min was a little embarrassed by Li Ke's words. He laughed twice and didn't know what to say.

    "Okay, no more joking." Li Ke put down the tea bowl and said with a somewhat solemn expression, "Actually, I came here this time to talk to you about something important. This news is not a good thing for you!  "

    "What's the news?" Li Dao was startled by Li Ke's serious look, "Is it because the Xiao family wants to regret their marriage?"

    "The fact that the concubine of the Xiao family can be your princess will give them face, the Xiao family. How can we regret the marriage? If we regret the marriage, we regret the marriage. How could you have such a ridiculous idea?" Li Ke frowned,  He said with a displeased look on his face that his brother married a concubine's daughter as a princess, and his brother's face was not good-looking either. He and Concubine Yang had the same view on this matter, and both wanted to find an opportunity to break off the engagement.

    When Li Min heard that he was not regretting his marriage, he was immediately convinced that he got such a beautiful woman as his fianc¨¦e for no reason. Although people in the Tang Dynasty thought that the concubine of the Xiao family had favored him, in Li Min's opinion, it was just the opposite.  After all, he has not yet adapted to his noble status as a prince, and from time to time he still brings thoughts of later generations of Li Tian into his thoughts, so he blurts out this ridiculous question.

    "What bad news can there be?" Li Min said indifferently.

    "You are already fourteen this year. According to the rules, you have to serve as an official in another place for one year. I heard the news that my father wants you to go to Yizhou as the governor."

    "Yizhou? What a great place!" Li Min said with a longing look on his face.  Yizhou is Chengdu in later generations, the land of abundance.  Weird noodles, dragon noodles, rabbit heads and other delicacies, especially Sichuan's world-famous Malatang. Unfortunately, peppers are still in America, so many delicacies cannot be made. This makes Li Min, who is extremely spicy, very disappointed, but it doesn't matter.  , the Sichuan Basin is a good place rich in products, and it is also good to taste the Sichuan cuisine of the Tang Dynasty.  It seems that Li Shimin still loves his unfilial son very much!

    "A good place?" Li Ke was completely desperate for his unlearned brother. He couldn't even tell the difference between good and bad. He couldn't help but said loudly, "Yizhou is located on Jiannan Road. The folk customs are fierce and miasma is rampant, and Shu  The road is difficult, and it takes at least two months to go there. In addition, it is close to Tuyuhun. Although the army has pacified Tuyuhun last year, its southwest is Tubo. Tubo is becoming stronger and stronger, and there is constant friction with Tuyuhun. A war may break out at any time.  Do you still think it¡¯s a good place?¡±

      Li Min was stunned by Li Ke's words. He didn't expect that his cheap father was so cruel that he would send himself to such a dangerous place. He would have to shed his skin even if he didn't die. But when he thought about it, it was normal.  , Li Shimin is a ruthless man who kills his brothers and brothers. It is not surprising that he is ruthless to his own sons. For example, the fifth king of Qi, Li You, above him, wasn't he ordered to die by Li Shimin a few years later?  Thinking of this made Li Min's neck feel a little chilly. It seemed that in the future, he would have to think of some way to please this cheap dad!

    "Father is too cruel, am I only fourteen years old?" Li Min said with a look of sadness and anger, "What does the mother concubine mean?" Now he can only count on Concubine Yang to intercede for him. During this period,  Li Yinfa discovered that his mother, Concubine Yang, seemed to be very favored by Li Shimin. Many of the troubles he had gotten into before were resolved by Concubine Yang asking Li Shimin for mercy.

    "Hey, you are such a grown-up, how can you always count on the protection of your mother and concubine?" Li Ke said with a bit of hatred, "Although my father dotes on my mother and concubine, you also know my father's character.  The mother and concubine can help you intercede for some irrelevant matters, but for such a big matter, the mother and concubine begged the father several times to no avail. Moreover, because the queen's condition worsened, the father was in a very bad mood, and the mother and concubine did not dare to  If you overdo it, the key still lies with you.¡±

    "Me? What can I do? It's not like you don't know that my father doesn't like me at all. No matter how much I beg him, it's useless." Li Min said very frustrated. Now he has completely assumed his identity as Prince Liang.  .

    Li Ke also sighed in a low voice. He was very clear about his father's attitude towards his younger brother. Not only did he not like it, he even hated it. That's why he sent Li Min to be the governor of such a far away place. It was obvious that he wanted to stay out of sight.  The mind is pure.

    "Let's do this. You write a confession right away. I'll take it back and present it to my father. Then I'll help you and see if I can ask my father to change you to a place closer to Chang'an. It will be more convenient for you to come back to visit your mother in the future.  Concubine." Li Ke thought for a while, and in the end he could only come up with a solution that was not a solution. Although the hope of success was slim, it was better than doing nothing.

    "Want to write? There's there's something wrong with this." Li Min said hesitantly. In his previous life, he had attended college, but in the Tang Dynasty he became semi-literate. He didn't know most of the traditional Chinese characters, and the writing brush was even worse.  Needless to say, he had never touched that thing since he was a child, so he immediately got a headache when he heard that he was going to write something.

    "What? You were beaten so hard that you can't even write, right?" Li Ke asked casually angrily.  But what he didn't expect was that his good brother actually nodded, with an aggrieved expression on his face.

    "Youyou really can't write?" Li Ke was startled. He stood up suddenly and looked Li Min up and down. Although he had long known that the disorder would cause many unpredictable sequelae, he did not expect that  It's so serious. If a prince can't even write, he will definitely become another laughing stock if word spreads about it.

    "Prepare pen and ink, you can write a few words now and let me see!" Li Ke ordered.

    Wen'er, who was standing aside, immediately went out to prepare, and soon the pen and ink were ready.  Although Li Min was very reluctant, under Li Ke's compelling gaze, he could only pick up a wolf hair brush and dip it in ink, and then tremblingly wrote the simplest words "ÈË" and "´ó" on the paper.  The two characters are written like this in both simplified and traditional versions, so I don¡¯t have to worry about making mistakes.

    "Third brother, when I woke up, I found that I didn't recognize most of the characters, let alone write them. These two characters are the ones I barely remembered." Li Min handed the words to Li Ke with a blushing face, mainly because  The writing of this character is so ugly, it is all crooked and twisted, and there is no distinction between thickness and thickness. It is probably at the level of a three-year-old child.

    Li Ke was mostly disappointed when he saw the way Li Min held the brush, because Li Min was holding the brush in the same posture as a fountain pen, which was not right at all.  When Li Ke saw the two words written by Li Min, his disappointment immediately turned into despair.  Originally, he planned to write a confession for Li Min, and then ask him to copy it before submitting it, but now it seems that this method is not feasible. His father values ??calligraphy most, and he is very popular with his father because of his good calligraphy.  The emperor's love, if Li Min's current name is presented to his father, it will definitely make his father's impression of Li Min even worse.

    "Forget it, I'd better think of other ways!" Li Ke said weakly.  Next, he had another conversation with Li Min, and then left Prince Liang's Mansion unhappy.

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