"This can't..." Before Li Yan finished speaking, Yizi had already reached out and grabbed a piece and put it in her mouth. After all, she was just a three-year-old girl. She had no idea about pork, mutton, nobles, civilians, etc., and she could eat it if she wanted to.

"Brother Six, this meat is so delicious!" Yizi's eyes lit up immediately after eating the first piece. She couldn't wait to grab another piece and stuff it into her mouth. Li Yan couldn't stop it, so she could only watch as Yizi had eaten braised pork and ate all the other dishes.

"Brother Jiu~Jiu, you... Huh~ Come and try it, this dish is delicious!" Yizi yelled at Li Zhi and the others while stuffing it into his mouth.

Among the many princes and princesses, Yizi is famous for her mouth. Seeing her eating so happily, Li Zhi and Qinghe were also a little moved, and stood up and ran to Li Yan's table.

"Hey, why are you joining in the fun? This is pork. Don't slander our royal family." When Li Yan saw that Li Zhi and the others were coming, he hurriedly scolded. However, his sixth brother had never had any prestige, and Qinghe and the others pretended that they hadn't heard it.

After all, Li Zhi was a boy and was quite brave. Seeing that the crystal clear skin jelly seemed delicious, he tasted it first. As long as he had a bite, he could not stop it anymore, until he was full. So Li Zhi quickly started to stuff it into his mouth like Yizi. Now Qinghe and Gao Yang also threw away their reserve and acted in a ranks of robbery.

"You little guys, this is my medicine for curing the disease!" Li Yan was still making the final struggle. He originally planned to take it alone, so Lao Wu didn't do much, and now it's not enough for the five of them to share.

"Brother Six, don't be so stingy, isn't it just a pork?" Qinghe smiled and raised his head and said, then immediately lowered his head and started to compete with Gao Yang for the last piece of braised pork.

Seeing these greedy cats, Li Yan gave up his final efforts and finally gave them the seat and went to Yizi's seat to eat duck and fish. In fact, these were also very good, especially the ice plum duck and Yellow River carp, which were all very authentic, and even Li Yan couldn't find any fault.

After dinner, Li Yan played with them for a while, and then sent them back to the palace in person. However, Yizi was very reluctant to let Li Yan go and held his hand and didn't want to go back to the palace. In the end, Li Yan agreed to let Yizi go to the palace to play with her tomorrow. The little girl turned around and entered the palace gate in three steps.

In the Liangyi Hall of Tai Chi Palace, Li Shimin was frowning and looking at a memorial. Fang Xuanling and Li Jing were sitting below, and the memorial was presented through them.

"Your Majesty, General Niu sent someone to send news that they would arrive in Chang'an soon, but the messenger also sent this memorial. The above said was very unfavorable to the situation in Jiannan in our Tang Dynasty!" Fang Xuanling waited for Li Shimin to see it almost before he stood up and said.

"Well, I also know that the south is hotter than Guanzhong, but I didn't expect the situation to be so serious. Three or four out of ten soldiers were sick. This is really..." Li Shimin put down his memorial and said, and at the end of his speech, his tone was so heavy that he couldn't even say the following words.

The memorial was sent by Niu Jinda, who was rushing to Chang'an. The superior reported an extremely bad news to Li Shimin. Most of the 30,000 elite soldiers he brought were from Guanzhong. Except for some of the meritorious people who came back with him this time, most of them stayed in place to repair. Now the weather in Jiannan is extremely hot and humid. The Guanzhong children who stayed near Songzhou could not adapt. Thirty or forty percent fell ill because they could not withstand the hot weather.

"Your Majesty, for the sake of this plan, we must withdraw the seriously ill soldiers as soon as possible. Chi Ze's army's spirit will change!" Li Jing also stood up with a heavy face and said, "The battle in Songzhou made Tubo scared, and a gap had been opened from Songzhou and a stronghold was established on the Tubo Plateau for training. Unexpectedly, an accident happened now. If Songzhou withdraws troops, the stronghold on the Tubo Plateau would have to be given up. If you want to enter the Tubo Plateau again in the future, you don't know when you have to wait.

"I am not willing to give up! Such a great situation, did you give up because of this small accident?" Li Shimin angrily pounded the table with his fist. The letter from Songtsen Gampo last time had already made him murderously towards Tubo. Now he has finally gained the upper hand. It is a good time to completely suppress Tubo. How could he give up so easily?

However, even if Li Shimin is unwilling to give up, there is no way. After all, 30,000 of the army are sick, and the rest are in panic. Fortunately, these 30,000 people are elites of the Tang Dynasty. They are usually strict in military discipline. Under the suppression of the generals, the morale of the army is still stable. If it were other less-than-defeated troops, it would have been a riot. General Niu Jinda received this news halfway. Now he is hesitating on the way. At the end of the memorial, he asked Li Shimin whether he should go back to Jiannan first to prevent any accidents within the army?

"Father, you are losing your temper again!" At this moment, a tender voice came from the entrance of the hall, and then a small figure ran into the hall and threw herself into Li Shimin's arms with a smile on his face.

Li Shimin, who was still full of anger, hugged the visitor, and the clouds on his face disappeared into a smile, and said in a very doting way: "Yizi, it's so late, why haven't you slept yet?" The only one who can turn Li Shimin into joy and can break into Liangyi Hall without any notification is our Princess Jinyang.

Seeing Li Shimin's face change so quickly, putting the important matter aside, and teasing his daughter, Fang Xuanling and Li Jing both smiled bitterly in their hearts: As a rare wise ruler, His Majesty is a very outstanding emperor in both political and military affairs, but he often seems very naive when dealing with the relationship between children. For example, although he has already made his eldest son Li Chengqian the crown prince, he has a very favor for the fourth prince Li Tai and even allowed him to open a recruitment hall, which is a treatment that only the crown prince can have. This has also led to Li Tai's position as the crown prince.

He developed covetousness, and fought with Prince Li Chengqian openly and secretly, and even affected the court. If Li Shimin said that he was ignorant of Li Tai, then he would spoil the princess Jinyang without reason. No matter when, as long as the little princess came to him, Li Shimin would immediately give up political affairs and accompany his daughter, and even a big thing would be put aside. Fortunately, this Jinyang princess is young, but she is very sensible and rarely disturbs Li Shimin. She just doesn't know why she suddenly ran here today?

"Father, today Yizi learned a trick from Brother Six. Will it be good for you to see?" Only then did Yizi say to Li Shimin with a slight voice. Fang Xuanling and Li Jing smiled bitterly again. They were discussing the big things in Jiannan. How could they have time to see a child do something trick?

"Okay, my father likes to watch tricks the most." Li Shimin picked up the wicked son and smiled. This answer was indeed not unexpected.

"Father, look, this is your teacup." Yizi reached out to bring the teacup on the table, which contained undrinkable herbal tea. As a child, he would certainly not let go of fun things. So when Yizi returned to the palace, she asked Li Yan for a lot of saltpeter. Before she came to Liangyi Hall, she had already performed at Empress Changsun and Concubine Yang, which scared both of them, thinking that Yizi could do something fairy at a young age.

Wei Zi has a strong imitation ability and has learned a lot about Li Yan's appearance as a charlatan. Even Fang Xuanling and Li Jing, who are full of national affairs, were amused by the little girl's appearance and wanted to laugh.

"Father, look, it's changed~" Wei Zi couldn't say the difficult words "urgent as a rule", so she could only shout and draw Li Shimin's attention to the table, and then suddenly lifted her sleeve. Although this action had been done several times, it might be because she was too excited in front of her father. Wei Zi didn't grab the bag of saltpeter in her sleeve, but she threw the bag out and spread a lot of saltpeter. Fang Xuanling in front could not dodge and hit him all at once.

"Ah!" Yizi screamed in disappointment, feeling full of annoyance. She had no mistakes in her mother and Concubine Yang, but why did she go to work with her father?

"Hahaha~, what are you doing, are you going to plot against Lord Fang?" Li Shimin laughed at Fang Xuanling's dirty look. His attention was attracted by the flying saltpeter powder, and he didn't notice the changes in the teacup on the table.

"Fang Xiang forgives his crime, but Yizi is wrong." Although Yizi was disappointed, she did not forget the etiquette and jumped out of Li Shimin's arms to apologize to Fang Xuanling.

"Haha, it's okay! It's okay!" Fang Xuanling certainly wouldn't care about this little thing.

"Huh? This... how is this possible?" At this moment, Li Jing, beside Fang Xuanling, suddenly took two steps forward, stared at the teacup on the table and muttered to himself, with an incredible expression on his face.

Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling were also attracted by Li Jing's appearance. When they saw the teacup on the table, they were immediately shocked. They saw that the teacup covered by the sleeves had formed a piece of crystal clear ice. There were still a few tea leaves frozen in the tea-colored ice cubes, and a slight cold air appeared on the ice.

"This...this..." Li Shimin rubbed his eyes with his hands, looking disbelief. Finally, he reached out to pick up the teacup. After feeling the biting coldness on it, he believed that he was really not dreaming. Fang Xuanling's behavior was similar, but he kept pinching his arm.

"Hehe~" Seeing the appearance of the father and the house and the two ministers Li, Yizi could no longer help but cover her mouth and laughed out loud. The frustration that had not been successful just now was wiped out by the trick.

"Yizi, what's going on? How did you turn water into ice?" Li Shimin asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Hehe, Father, guess!" But Yizi kept it a secret and said mischievously, "Fang Xiang and Uncle Li also help him guess!"

Although shocked by the scene in front of him, Li Shimin and the other three were all very talented and soon thought of the white powder sprinkled from the sleeves of Shizi. Fang Xuanling picked up the bag of saltpeter from the ground, smeared a little and put it on his nose and smelled it. He said with great certainty: "This is saltpeter!"

"Saltpe? Could it be..." Li Jing frowned and took the teacup on his table. Fang Xuanling also thought of this and poured the remaining saltpeter in the bag into the teacup.

"Oh, it's so boring!" When Yizi saw that the two old men had guessed their tricks, she said to herself with dissatisfaction.

Although there was not much saltpeter left in the bag, it was enough to freeze a glass of water. Soon, cold air began to vent on the water surface, and tiny ice residue appeared. Seeing that his guess became a fact, Li Jing and Fang Xuanling looked ecstatic, and sparks were almost emerging from their eyes when they looked at Yizi.

Li Shimin looked at the teacup slowly frozen in Li Jing's hand. He was shocked at first, then slowly turned to ecstasy. Finally, he couldn't help laughing loudly, and shouted while laughing: "Heaven bless the Tang Dynasty~! God bless my Tang Dynasty! Hahahaha~"
Chapter completed!