Xiao Han leaned back and lay heavily in the carriage.
Hey, today's young people... let him go, just don't be pissed to death by Luo Shixin's bad face.
Xiao Han and others, who had survived the ordeal safely, continued walking north along the rugged road.
At this time, Chang'an in the south was as calm as a pool of stagnant water.
In other words, since taking back military power from Li Shimin, Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng have been prepared to deal with his counterattack.
Even in the most critical days, the Sixth Commander-in-Chief of the Crown Prince and the Qianniu Guards stayed up all night to guard the palace just like they did during the war!
But no one expected that Li Shimin, who was at the center of the current storm, would not take any action at this time.
Want military power? If you want it, it will be given to you.
Removal of generals? Removal of generals. Removal of generals. Removal of generals. Removal of generals. Removal of generals. Removal of generals.
After Li Shimin came out from solitary confinement, he showed no resistance or anger. He just stood in the court with a look of loneliness that even a blind man could see.
"Have you gone too far towards Shimin?"
Today's court meeting dispersed, and Li Yuan, who returned to the Zhengzheng Hall, was stroking a jade pendant, and he no longer knew where his thoughts were.
"Your Majesty, Your Highness the Crown Prince asks for an audience!" Just as Li Yuan was wandering around, a chamberlain suddenly ran over to report.
After coming back to his senses, Li Yuan looked up at the door, put down the jade pendant, took a deep breath and said, "Let him in."
"Here!" Upon hearing this, the chamberlain bowed his hands respectfully and took a few steps back, then turned around and left in a hurry.
A moment later, Li Jiancheng, dressed in regular clothes, came to Li Yuan with a smile on his face.
Looking up at his heroic eldest son, Li Yuan's guilt for Li Shimin that had just risen in his heart suddenly disappeared. He stood up with a smile and asked: "Jian Jiancheng, what, why do you want to see your father?"
Li Jiancheng bowed and cupped his hands, and said with the same smile: "Father, I heard that you have been working too hard recently, so I specially found a thousand-year-old ginseng and boiled it into ginseng soup and sent it to you. I hope you can take care of yourself!"
"Oh? You still have your heart! Then as a father, let's give it a try, haha..." Li Yuan was greatly relieved when he heard this!
These days, my eldest son is very attentive and attentive to me.
Even his many concubines were moved by Li Jiancheng's filial piety. Unlike his second son, he never saw them once, and even turned a blind eye to the empresses in the harem.
Just as Li Yuan was thinking about it, the ginseng soup was already served by the waiter.
In a fist-sized white porcelain lamp, the clear ginseng soup flows in it, and a trace of hot steam comes out from time to time.
"Father, please let me taste the warmth for you!"
Seeing the old eunuch behind Li Yuan striding towards him while staring at the ginseng soup, Li Jiancheng quickly took the ginseng soup, took a careful sip, blew on the hot air on the ginseng soup, and then presented it to Li Yuan.
When Li Yuan saw Li Jiancheng's actions, he couldn't help but frowned and turned back to glare at the old eunuch: "Nonsense, what else could be wrong with the things my son sent me?"
"Ahem, the king will not eat unchecked food!"
The eunuch's wrinkled face twitched, but he finally spoke cautiously.
"you……"
When Li Yuan heard this, his expression suddenly changed! Seeing this, Li Jiancheng stepped forward and said, "Father, what he said is right. Now that the world has been settled, there are many rebellious ministers and traitors. Father, we must guard against it!"
After saying this, Li Jiancheng didn't wait for Li Yuan to think about who those rebellious officials and traitors were, then he looked at the old eunuch and said: "Father, I just tested the poison on your behalf, is it possible?"
The old eunuch glanced at the prince and nodded slowly: "The prince is determined. Since you have tried it, it will definitely work!"
"Okay, please step aside." Li Jiancheng waved his sleeves, and his aura as a superior was clearly revealed.
The old eunuch glanced at Li Yuan, then slowly retreated to the corner of the room, and then stood there quietly like a piece of wood. If he didn't look carefully, he wouldn't notice that there was anyone else there.
After dismissing the old eunuch, Li Jiancheng turned around and handed the ginseng soup to Li Yuan again. His majestic face just now was replaced by a gentle smile:
"Father, don't be angry, he is just like a child, he is doing it for your own good!"
"Hey, I know!"
Li Yuan sighed softly for some reason, took the decoction in Li Jiancheng's hand and drank it in one gulp.
After drinking the ginseng soup, he put down the empty bowl. Li Yuan took Li Jiancheng to sit down at the desk and said to him, "I have nothing to do today. Please tell me about your daily routine."
Li Jiancheng nodded in agreement: "Okay, I haven't chatted with my father for a long time."
Li Yuan smiled and nodded: "I heard Concubine Yin and Concubine Zhang say yesterday that you paid tribute to some rare gouache?"
Li Jiancheng smiled and said: "It's not gouache, it's something called perfume. As long as you drop a little bit on your body, it will smell fragrant all over your body. It's very rare in Chang'an."
"Oh?" Li Yuan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said with sudden realization: "No wonder I always felt like there was a fragrant wind blowing yesterday. So there is such a strange thing?"
Li Jiancheng said with some embarrassment: "I just found out about it, so I took some to honor the ladies, so that they can serve my father with all their heart."
"Yeah!" Li Yuan nodded, and then asked: "Where does this thing come from? Why haven't you heard of it before?"
Li Jiancheng's eyes flickered for a few times and he said softly: "I heard that it came from a country called Persia in the Western Regions."
"Persia?" Li Yuan frowned slightly when he heard this name. This name always sounded familiar to him!
When Li Jiancheng saw Li Yuan thinking hard, he whispered from the side: "Father, have you forgotten? Aren't those tabby cats in the palace from Persia?"
"Oh~"
Hearing Li Jiancheng's explanation, Li Yuan suddenly realized again!
"I didn't expect that this tiny country would have so many good things. Where did those gorgeous carpets come from, right?"
"Yes!" Li Jiancheng nodded, and then said in a strange voice: "But it happened to be a coincidence that there happened to be a few Persians in the son's house. The son was curious about them before, so he left them to talk about their experiences in the Western Regions.
When I got the perfume, I showed it to them, but those people said they didn’t recognize it at all.”
"What? Are they ignorant?"
Li Yuan asked with a smile. He didn't care about this matter, because it was a woman's thing after all, and it wasn't worth asking him to get to the bottom of it.
"Haha, those few people are also guests of the King of Persia, how could they not even hear about their own things?" Li Jiancheng shook his head with a wry smile.
"Then why?" After hearing this, Li Yuan became a little interested and asked.
The corners of Li Jiancheng's mouth raised slightly, and after a pause he said: "My son also thought it was strange at the time, so he asked someone to check it out! Then he found that perfume, in Chang'an, was all sold by people from the Xiao Han family, except for his family.
