Chapter 21: Crazy!
"Fourth sister, please listen carefully to your elder brother. When you see Your Majesty, you can't cry or make trouble. You can stand aside in a proper manner." Wu Yuanqing touched Wu Xu's head and seemed to be caring.
But the young Wu Xu frowned with his small willow eyebrows and opened Wu Yuanqing's hand in disgust. She had always been not close to these two brothers, thinking in her heart what Yang once said, "The lone wolf who is good at hiding always mingles into the dog group with a hypocritical mask, but it is easily exposed when he barks."
The disgust hidden deep in her heart was impossible to abandon. Wu Yu was short and just touched Wu Yuanqing's waist. She clearly saw that the calves hidden by her elder brother's lower skirt were trembling, and the folding fan that was casually wrapped around her thumb, and the number of times she accidentally fiddled with the jade pendant was increasing.
Wu Qi has been influenced by the Warriors' preaching to their brothers since childhood. Although he didn't understand why he did such an abnormal behavior, it was like Yang's whole body relaxed when he touched her hair intimately, and it was definitely not like this!
So big brother, second brother and two lied!
She was about to speak, but Wu Yuanshuang quickly discovered an abnormality and took a step to block Wu Yu's face, which just blocked Yang's vision. "Mother, a brother and two brothers took their fourth sister to the front yard to see His Majesty, and asked her mother to leave first."
Yang was angry with a warm face, stared at the "son" a few times, then shook his skirt, and led the commander's wife and dozens of servants to retreat.
After Yang left, the two brothers felt relieved. Wu Yuanshuang turned around and looked at his brother with admiration, and smiled: "Fortunately, the eldest brother covered the fourth sister's mouth in time, otherwise Yang would not have walked away easily."
Wu Yuanqing's face was stiff, and a smile squeezed out from the corner of his mouth, and said with a bitter look: "Second brother, what should I do now?"
"Fourth sister, the second brother will give you malt candy. Don't cry or make trouble when you meet my father and a stranger, okay?" Wu Yuanshuang took out a few small brown pieces wrapped in oil paper from her cuffs and handed them to Wu Yu, who was tearful.
Malt sugar is a fermented malt syrup. Because the ancient sugar-making technology was underdeveloped and the nobles were sweet, this simple malt syrup was made and sold. Wu Yuanshuang bought it from Dongshi.
In fact, malt sugar has been recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the Mian Chapter of the Book of Songs, it is written in this way: "Although the lettuce in its nature is bitter, it is as sweet as honey."
The second half of the sentence gradually evolved into the idiom that sweetly enjoyed it.
Wu Yu burst into tears and laughed, holding malt sugar in her right palm, holding Wu Yuanqing with her left hand, and said crisply: "Thank you, brother, second brother."
Facing the disguised lone wolf, Wu Qi remembered that Yang once said: "Wolves mingle with dogs. Before hunters find out, they will pretend to comfort them, and the meat they feed will often be more fed."
The three-year-old little Wu Zetian did not understand the deep meaning of Yang's words, but she knew to follow the wishes of her two brothers. When Yang was there, she dared to cover her mouth, let alone now she is alone?
After Wu Yuanshuang coaxed Wu Xi, she looked at her brother with contempt.
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The main room in the front yard of the Duke of Yingguo Mansion.
It was lunch time, and the tables of several people were filled with food, wine and meat. The warrior did not dare to neglect Li Yuan, so he arranged for the kitchen to go to the East City to buy ingredients early.
But it was already early autumn, and the dishes were very rare, with only a plate of cooked ginger and bracken, and more of them were feasts of various colors. The Tang Dynasty was so strange that beef could not be eaten in law. The pork tasted too fishy before castration, and only the most common meat left was mutton.
By the way, in the minds of the Tang people, these three types of chicken, duck and fish are not meat, but just side dishes similar to chicken.
Ma Zhou in the Zhenguan Dynasty was very interesting. During the local inspection, he liked to eat chicken locally. Some censors reported it as wasteful and extravagant. Later, Emperor Taizong of Tang did not punish him, but instead said: "I forbid the censors to eat meat, and I am afraid that the county will pay more money, so how about eating chicken?"
Therefore, for the Tang people, chicken is just a dish and cannot be considered meat.
Li Yuan ate the same taste as wax. The most mutton I ate these days was mutton. In his previous life, with various spices and methods, mutton could be eaten without getting tired of it. However, in the Tang Dynasty, the most mutton was boiled and roasted mutton!
When he encountered these things, he wanted to vomit, so he only used chopsticks to pick up some green vegetables.
A few quarters of an hour later, a servant walked to the samurai's seat and whispered. The samurai's face was happy, and he stood up and bowed to Li Yuan and said, "Your Majesty, my two dogs are waiting outside the house. Please ask Your Majesty to let them come in and meet."
"Finally, I'm here to play the meat!" Li Yuan said excitedly. He woke up early in the morning and rushed to the Duke of Yingguo's mansion. He had a hammer in the east and a hammer in the west, and gave him 10,000 guan. Although he didn't feel sorry for selling his baby, he made so much effort to receive the seedling of Wu Zetian under the tent.
He didn't want to coward Li Shimin, and he had to coward Wu Meiniang! The best plan was to completely destroy Wu Zetian's path to becoming ante, blocking her before she entered the palace at the age of fourteen!
Speaking of this, Li Yuan also felt strange, why didn’t the history books write like this: “Taizong is quite fond of fishing. Empress Wende entered the Qin Palace at the age of thirteen… Wu Zetian entered the palace at the age of fourteen…”
The conscience of heaven and earth. If we were to say it in modern laws, Li Shimin, this old spoiler, was sentenced to indefinitely imprisonment, and it was countless!
After taking his daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law under his command, the rebellious camp doubled. How could the group joined by the two founding emperors be comparable to Li Er?
As for why she didn't kill Wu Zetian, Li Yuan thought it was completely unnecessary. Wu Zetian's path to becoming emperor was to be concubines, queens, empresses, and emperors. As long as she blocked her way into the harem, she could not rebel!
Wu Zetian's political capital was Li Zhi's empress. According to Confucian etiquette, it was "motherly ceremonial to the world". It is reasonable to rule the people of Li Tang. In the eyes of the people of the Tang Dynasty, the establishment of the Great Zhou was just a widow who changed the name of the head of the household. For example, the former widow of the Li family called you, what could it be like to call you a widow? It cannot change the fact that you are a Li family!
"Xinming, there is no need to be polite between you and me. I am just visiting friends today." Li Yuan waved his hand and smiled, looking outside the room, "Let them come in."
After a moment, Wu Yuanqing took Wu Yi in men's clothing into the room and said respectfully: "The eldest son of Duke Ying Guo, Wu Yuanqing, and his fourth sister Wu Yi, met His Majesty."
Before Li Yuan could speak, the warrior who had slightly changed face looked around and looked for Wu Yuanshuang's figure and shouted, "Qing'er, where is Shuang'er?"
Wu Yuanqing looked nervous and lowered her head and whispered: "Second brother is behind, come later."
As soon as he finished speaking, four or five servants were carrying an exquisite and luxurious Hu bed. On the Hu bed was a young man, sleepy eyes, half of his clothes were exposed, half of his belly was exposed, and he bowed his hand casually, yawned and said, "Wu Yuanshuang has seen His Majesty."
Chapter completed!