The night has darkened and the noise has dispersed.
Finally, Xiao Han, who was alone and drunk, fell on the white paper on the ground.
Li Shimin followed Xiao Han and drank a lot, but at this time his spirit was extremely high. He called a few palace ladies to help Xiao Han go to the dormitory to rest. He himself stayed in the Manlu Hall and watched the eunuch writing the paper on the ground.
Collect them one by one and copy them on silk.
"Erlang, let's have a sip of tea!" The eldest grandson walked out from behind the curtain, holding a cup of fragrant tea in his hand.
Li Shimin felt his mouth was dry. When he smelled the aroma of tea, he didn't bother to taste it carefully. He drained the cup of fragrant tea in one gulp! When the last drop of tea fell into his mouth, he smacked his lips and praised his eldest grandson, "
Great tea!”
However, when the eldest grandson heard the compliment, he did not accept it as happily as before. Instead, he looked at Li Shimin angrily and said, "Didn't you say before that you should savor the tea carefully? Like Cheng Yaojin, drinking tea is like fighting a war, and he can't wait to drink it."
The method of swallowing the teacup is called cow-drinking! Can’t you taste the inner taste of the tea?”
Li Shimin didn't blush when his eldest grandson exposed him in front of him. Instead, he laughed loudly, pointed at the pile of crooked white paper filled with words and said proudly: "Hahaha... If you don't get drunk with wine, everyone will get drunk! The same goes for tea!
With these, let alone tea, even coptis water will be sweet now!"
"Oh? These are the things you and Xiao Han spent most of the night writing. Is it important?" Changsun knew his husband's thoughts best. Seeing how proud he was, he deliberately reached out and pulled out a piece of paper from the pile, pretending to frown.
Looked up.
"Be careful, don't tear it, I haven't copied this yet!"
Sure enough, when the eldest grandson grabbed him, the originally proud Li Shimin's face immediately fell down! He looked at the paper in the eldest grandson's hand nervously, just like a child who had his toy taken away.
"Haha...look how nervous you are!" Changsun looked at him like this and laughed so much that he bent over.
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then he started laughing too! Only the eunuch who was left behind was wiping the sweat from his forehead while writing furiously on the silk cloth, not daring to look up at the couple's joke.
"Erlang, what are the values of these things?"
After a long time, the eldest grandson took the silk cloth that the eunuch had copied and looked through it, while asking Li Shimin, who was beside him with his eyes closed to rest.
After hearing this, Li Shimin slowly opened his eyes, first looked at the densely packed words on the silk cloth, then looked at the pile of white paper, and sighed: "One word is worth ten thousand gold!"
"Oh?" Changsun glanced at Li Shimin with a smile and said, "We can't give so much gold to Xiao Han now."
Li Shimin burst into laughter. He knew that Changsun was reminding him: as a superior, subordinates must be rewarded for their merits! You must not omit this process just because you have a good relationship!
However, thinking about Xiao Han's current state, Li Shimin could only sigh in his heart: "Hey, other people who are emperors hate their ministers for being incompetent, but I am the only one who worries about my ministers being too capable!"
"Guanyin Maid, what do you think I should reward him for?" Pulling himself together, Li Shimin said seriously: "Originally, when he came back from Jiangnan this time, he should be well rewarded for his contribution! But after thinking about it,
I can't even think of how to reward him!
Title? He is only 20 years old this year, and he is already a marquis, and he also owns a rich fiefdom like Lantian! You also know that even many princes covet Lantian.
Official position? He is now the general of the Seventeenth Guards, a fourth-rank official, and is only one step away from becoming a supreme minister!
Children? Her daughter was adopted as an adopted daughter by you and me. The title of Princess Lantian is far more noble than that of an ordinary princess!
As for money? Hey! This guy’s family might be richer than the national treasury..."
"...Yeah, what can we reward him with?"
In the Ganlu Hall, the world's largest pair of landlords and wives sat together on the steps, holding their cheeks and thinking hard. Thinking of their headaches, they could only look at each other and smile bitterly.
And just behind the Ganlu Palace, Xiao Han, who should have been sleeping soundly, clearly had his eyes open at this time, looking tiredly at the slightly moving gauze curtains around him, and he also didn't know what he was thinking in his heart at this time.
A long night passed. During this night, some people slept very soundly, while others tossed and turned and could not sleep all night long.
Early the next morning, Xiao Han stared at a pair of dark circles under his eyes and walked out of the palace gate with a haggard look on his face.
Some ministers who got up early to go to court were all stunned when they saw him walking out of the palace. They stared at him all the way until Xiao Han disappeared on Zhuque Street, and then they quickly started whispering to a few close friends.
"Huh? When did Xiao Hou come back?"
"Tch! You don't even know this? Those nobles went to welcome him yesterday, and I heard they even went to Baihua Pavilion later!"
"Tsk tsk, what do you mean? I have a brother-in-law in Qianniuwei. He told me personally this morning that just last night, for some unknown reason, His Majesty and Xiao Hou got drunk and ran to Li Yuanjing's house to deal with him.
!As a result, Li Yuanjing ran fast and reached the palace in advance, and the two of them fought to the palace again..."
"I behaved like a darling and joined the emperor in beating the emperor's younger brother. Who is whose biological brother?"
There was a lot of discussion in front of the Zhuque Gate, and as the court officials arrived one after another, the situation became more and more intense! Even the guards guarding the gate couldn't help but look over here frequently.
Later, Fang Xuanling, who came here one step ahead, couldn't stand it anymore and shouted to stop everyone! But even so, some people were muttering in private.
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Today is the great court meeting.
But today's imperial meeting is a little different from before.
After handling several routine matters, Li Shimin left behind Xue Shou, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui, and dismissed the court meeting early.
"I'm keeping you here to show you something."
After the court dispersed, Li Shimin and his close friends came to a small hall and handed them the imperial examination system they had studied and copied last night.
"This is?" Du Ruhui stood up and took the silk cloth, opened it carefully, and then read it bit by bit. As a result, just after reading a few lines, Du Ruhui raised his head in shock and asked: "This is, Xiao
Was it written by Hou?"
Li Shimin was holding a cup of tea and nodded lightly when he heard the words.
On the silk cloth, every sentence is spoken in vernacular! This way of writing is only used by Xiao Han in the whole world!
"Lao Du, what did you see?"
Fang Xuanling was sitting on the chair next to Du Ruhui. At first, he could still maintain his grace, sipping tea and waiting for Du Ruhui to finish reading. But when he saw the expressions of the two of them, he couldn't help it anymore and stretched out his head.
Then he started watching.
"Hiss, this is an imperial examination? It's so perfect! Did he come up with this?!"
