boyutpedia Chapter 309
Chapter 309
After passing through the Vermillion Bird Gate, Su Chen and others arrived at the palace.
The carriage stopped steadily, and Su Chen and Princess Changle carefully moved the big cake off the carriage.
The cake was not heavy, but a little big, and it was not easy for one person to carry it.
"Li Tai, why don't you come and move the cake?" Su Chen called out unceremoniously.
Li Tai didn't bother with Su Chen and walked over slowly.
"Li Zhi, let me do it!"
"Su Chen, why don't you let the eunuch come and move it? It's a bit far from the Queen Mother's Lizheng Palace." Princess Changle suggested.
It takes more than ten minutes to walk from the Taiji Palace Square to the Lizheng Palace.
Su Chen looked around and didn't see any eunuchs or palace maids.
"It's okay, we'll talk to the eunuchs while we walk."
"Oh, okay! Little Sizi, follow up." Princess Changle and Jin'er walked in front, and the two little guys followed behind her.
"Li You, where did you take Li Shen?"
Su Chen suddenly found that Li You took Li Shen to another direction and did not go with them.
"Uh, brother-in-law, I'll go to my mother first." Li You said hesitantly.
The palace has strict rules. The prince can only go to the palace where his mother is. Only the emperor and some housekeepers can enter and exit the harem.
Or with the emperor's permission, the eunuchs must be present to supervise.
"Su Chen, let them go, and let them know later." Li Tai certainly knew why Li You didn't go to Lizheng Palace with them.
"Oh, then!" Su Chen didn't think much about it, just thinking that Li You was in a hurry to see his mother Yin Fei.
The two continued to walk with the cake.
"You don't know, the palace has a strict system. Except for my father and the eunuchs, no man can enter the harem without being summoned.
Even if my uncle wants to see my mother, he needs my father's approval and be accompanied by the eunuchs.
And there is a time limit."
Halfway through the journey, Li Tai popularized the rules of the harem to Su Chen.
Su Chen then understood that several times when he had dinner with everyone in the palace, it was in the Taiji Palace of the retired emperor, not the Lizheng Palace.
"Then how can I enter and leave the harem at will?" Su Chen suddenly asked.
"How do I know why you can be so unscrupulous!" Li Tai said angrily.
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"Guanyin, do you want to go with me to Zhenguan Hope Primary School tomorrow?"
Around 2:30 in the afternoon, Li Shimin just woke up from his lunch break.
Empress Changsun handed Li Shimin a cup of tea and sat down beside them.
"Your Majesty will have political affairs with the ministers tomorrow, so it is inconvenient for me to go with you." Empress Changsun smiled.
"Well, it won't be too late to go next weekend." Li Shimin thought for a while and said.
"Well, the weekend rest that kid came up with is very reasonable!
Hahaha..."
Li Shimin rests two days a week, and those ministers probably don't get one in a month.
Empress Changsun looked at Li Shimin with some hesitation, and she didn't know whether to say something or not.
"Well? Guanyin, what do you want to say to me?" Li Shimin saw that Empress Changsun was hesitant, put down the teacup and asked.
"Erlang, do you know what year and month it is today?" Changsun smiled and asked.
Li Shimin frowned slightly, "September of the second year of Zhenguan, what's special about it?"
"Be more detailed!"
"September 28th of the second year of Zhenguan, right?" Li Shimin was even more confused.
Empress Changsun smiled slightly, nodded, and continued to ask:
"Erlang, do you know when Li Zhi was born?"
Li Shimin thought about it carefully, and surprisingly, Li Shimin even forgot the year of Li Lizhi's birth.
"Uh, this... It's been a long time, I don't remember it very much."
Li Shimin said with a little embarrassment.
Empress Changsun rolled her eyes at Li Shimin and said, "Today is Li Zhi's fifteenth birthday."
According to the customs of the Tang Dynasty, people under the age of thirty, especially men, may hold a banquet when they are ten years old, but women are generally rare.
Unless they are the eldest daughter of a wealthy family.
The reason why Empress Changsun suddenly mentioned Princess Changle's fifteenth birthday was mainly because Su Chen held a birthday party for Jin'er last month.
Su Chen's original intention at that banquet was to inform some acquaintances and friends that he had a younger sister.
The birthday party was secondary.
"Oh? In that case, there should be a banquet at Lijin Manor today!" Li Shimin reacted immediately.
He expected Su Chen to hold a birthday banquet for Princess Changle.
Empress Changsun glanced at Li Shimin, 'You only know how to eat. '
"That doesn't make sense! Why didn't that kid mention it yesterday? Did he forget to say it?
Not right, I'll send someone to find out!"
After careful consideration, Li Shimin made a decision immediately!
"Erlang, where are you going? What time is it now?" Empress Changsun quickly dissuaded him.
Li Shimin looked at his watch after hearing this.
It's past half past two, it was past lunch time.
"How can this be? When I see that kid tomorrow, I will definitely teach him a good lesson~" Li Shimin's voice gradually became smaller.
"Mother, mother, I'm back!"
Li Shimin was halfway through his words when Xiao Sizi quickly climbed over the threshold of the hall.
After Xiao Sizi ran into the hall, he went straight to Empress Changsun and lay on her lap, saying:
"Mother, we are all back, and my brother-in-law is here too!"
Then he looked at Li Shimin and asked in confusion: "Father, what's wrong with you?"
"Hehe, father is fine! Xiao Sizi, why did you suddenly return to the palace?" Li Shimin asked with a smile.
"It was my father who asked us to come back!
My brother-in-law said that there was an old lady celebrating her birthday in the palace, and my brother-in-law prepared a big box for my sister, called an egg knife." Xiao Sizi made a big circle with his hands and gestured.
Little Sizi heard Su Chen and Princess Changle talking in the carriage.
But she didn't understand.
Empress Changsun and Li Shimin looked at each other in confusion.
Old nanny's birthday? Giving an egg knife to a beautiful girl?
What the hell is going on!
What a mess!
Not long after, Princess Changle, Li Zhi and Jin'er came to the hall.
"Father, mother!" Princess Changle and Li Zhi greeted at the same time.
"Your Majesty, Queen!" Jin'er hurried forward to pay respect.
Empress Changsun smiled, Li Shimin nodded slightly, but his eyes were looking outside the hall.
"Jin'er, you are more sensible than that boy, you don't have to be so polite in the future!" Li Shimin said casually.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Not long after, Li Shimin finally saw Su Chen and Li Tai appear outside the hall.
"This kid has some conscience! Otherwise, I..."
Feeling the murderous look of Empress Changsun, Li Shimin stopped talking.
Li Tai and Su Chen carried a large box into the hall.
"Jin'er, clean up the big round table and remove all the tableware." Su Chen didn't seem to see the old king outside the hall. Usually, the old king would stay outside the hall.
"Okay!" Jin'er hurried to clean up the table, and Princess Changle also went to help.
Seeing Su Chen and Li Tai carrying such a large box, Li Shimin hurried over to help.
"Your Majesty, mother." Su Chen greeted with a smile.
"Is this the egg knife?" Li Shimin asked curiously.
"What egg knife? This is a cake, a birthday cake!" Su Chen corrected.
"Yes, yes, it's a birthday cake!" Xiao Sizi echoed on the side. She didn't know it was food.
Princess Changle and the others didn't know what a cake was.
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