Li Heng spread a Persian blanket and sat in the pavilion. He ordered Li Siye to sit opposite, and beside him was a palace maid who bowed her head and silently made tea.
"It has been almost five years since our last farewell. Today at the court meeting, I heard all of your Majesty's appreciation for you. In less than five years, you have been able to get rid of the influence of your status as a commoner Li Ying's former subordinate.
It is indeed not easy to get to this point, and I am happy for you."
At the mention of his dead brother, Li Heng's lips couldn't stop trembling. Li Siye could see his fear of the shadow of this matter on his face. Among all the princes, only the one who could feel this fear most deeply was Li Siye.
He is alone.
Li Siye quickly crossed his hands: "Your Highness..."
"No, it doesn't matter. I brought it up on my own initiative and it has nothing to do with you." Li Heng smiled haggardly and took the tea cup from the maid's hand. Li Siye also turned around quickly and held the tea cup in his hands.
He hesitated for a moment, and felt that it would be better to speak, so he adjusted his tone and said: "Your Highness, what I want to say is that your current method of dormant coping is not in line with your current status."
"Otherwise, what else can I do?" Li Heng smiled bitterly: "The position of Crown Prince is like a sharp sword suspended above my head. It may fall at any time. The only thing I can do is to let Your Majesty feel it."
Without my presence."
"It won't exist. You are here. The position of Crown Prince is bestowed upon His Highness. Everyone will notice your dazzling brilliance. How can you hide from it?"
"The truth may be this, but..."
Li Hengyao recalled that when Li Siye worked as a nip qianniu in his brother Li Yingdong Palace, when the prince encountered an unsolvable problem and even he thought that the other party would not be able to escape, a small nipui qianniu jumped out.
, turned nothing into nothing, turned decay into magic, and successfully resolved the huge debt on Li Ying's head. From then on, he looked at Li Siye with admiration.
"I... really don't know how to deal with myself. Please ask the general to teach me." Li Heng knelt on the ground and bowed to Li Siye.
Li Siye quickly returned the gift: "Your Highness, you must not do it. I will kill the last general."
He took a sip of tea and lowered his voice and said: "Your Highness is familiar with "The Doctrine of the Mean" and you should know that destiny is called nature, and willfulness is called Tao. The middle way is the way of humanity, and humanity is the way of benevolence. Your Highness holds the position of the prince.
To be high-profile is to show off, and to be dormant is to be suppressed. The two are absolutely undesirable. The only way to win is to be in the middle. Your Highness, think about it, if you are too flamboyant, you will make people jealous, but if you are too dormant,
It will definitely make people think that you are a sinister bird of prey and the city is deep, which will make people more and more jealous of you. What you should show is the strength that a prince of yours should have, instead of deliberately hiding it and making people think that you are dormant and waiting. Aren't you a general?
Does your majesty feel more at ease with the natural prince?"
Li Heng raised his head and meditated, tilting his turban back, as if he was pondering the aftertaste of Li Siye's words just now. Then he smiled lightly, touched his palm and said, "That's good."
"Actually, this degree is entirely controlled by His Highness himself. I think it is probably that all the forces around you are what the Saint has seen and allowed you to have. Use this as a basis to build a team to be able to cope with any changes that occur."
Li Heng raised his hand and praised: "Siye's words have solved many doubts in my heart. I want to thank you for your guidance. I will prepare a banquet and drink wine in the palace today to congratulate you for this."
Li Siye quickly crossed his hands and refused: "I drank a lot yesterday at the Linde Hall after the Great Court Meeting. Besides, I stayed in His Highness's Palace for too long, so it was not safe, let alone drinking. It would be better to eat a few
A cup of tea soup can calm your mind and keep your desires."
Li Heng smiled and said: "What Siye said is very in line with my heart, so I will replace the wine with tea."
Li Fuguo, who had a rake-faced face, stood not far away and listened closely to the conversation between the two. He couldn't help but cursed in his heart: "This man is really humble. What do you say about warriors who are stupid? If you are stupid, how can we people?"
Isn’t it all stuttering?”
The two chatted in the pavilion for a long time. Li Siye estimated that the time was almost up and stood up to say goodbye to Li Heng: "Your Highness, Siye has been bothering me for too long. It's time to say goodbye and leave."
Li Heng looked dejected and said rather reluctantly: "It's a pity that the general can't stay with me forever to answer my questions. I don't know when we will meet again in the future."
"It's simple. When I come to Chang'an next year to express my merits, I can come to visit His Highness again."
Li Heng quickly waved his hand and said: "You may move to the right again next year. For the sake of the safety of you and me, you must not go in and out as you do today. When you come to Chang'an next year, I will ask Jingzhong to send someone to contact you.
, I will find a remote corner at Jianfu Temple when the time comes, and you and I can meet at Jianfu Temple then."
Li Siye felt a little weird when he heard this, as he was acting like a spy. Li Heng thought he was disgusted by this, and quickly explained: "This is just a temporary expedient. It's better for you and me to be more careful when meeting each other."
"Okay, see you next year."
"See you next year."
Li Heng sent him to the door of the inner courtyard and told Li Jingzhong: "Jingzhong, please send General Li off for me."
"Here."
Li Jingzhong followed Li Siye and was a little more grateful to him. He invited Li Siye here today with the idea of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, but he did not expect that Li Siye's advice actually had an effect.
Walking out of the side door of the palace, Li Jingzhong bowed ninety degrees and bowed to the ground to express his apology: "I'm sorry, General Li. I invited the general to leave the palace without telling His Highness. Jingzhong is here to apologize to the general."
This kind of behavior of Li Jingzhong really disgusted Li Siye. He could have said this kind of thing openly, but he used this little cleverness to lure him into the trap step by step. Even if he was consensual in this matter,
But it felt like I was being tricked.
"It's okay. Eunuch Jingzhong still can't trust Si Ye. It's understandable that he made such a decision. It's just that I've always been honest with others. I hope that Eunuch-in-law can also be honest with me in the future."
Li Jingzhong became more and more ashamed and bowed again and said: "If you dare not forget the general's teachings, Jingzhong will never be like this in the future."
He took the horse from the horse nest on the wall and said to Li Jingzhong who was following him to see him off: "Eunuch Jingzhong, please go back. It's not good to send him too far for others to see him."
Li Jingzhong hurriedly turned back. He had been following the prince for a long time, and he was always on guard when he was close to him.
In fact, the middle-aged child like the prince is pitiful. His three elder brothers have learned from the past experience. How can he have a sound and normal psychology under the influence of the cold imperial power that has lost family ties?
He led Hei Pang out of the Sixteenth Prince's House, and suddenly thought that this place was not far from the Qinglian Winery in Changlefang, and he could take this opportunity to visit Li Bai. It would be even better if he could get the calligraphy treasure.
Relying on yesterday's dizzy memory, he asked someone for directions. He turned to the end of the alley and smelled the aroma of wine, which was so hard to leave. No wonder Li Bai went to this place as soon as he entered Chang'an.
Just with this fragrance, how could it not inspire poetry and inspiration?
The shopkeeper stood in front of the abacus, with a pile of abacus chips in front of him, placed on a shelf. It seemed that he already had the rudiment of an abacus. But when the shopkeeper was doing calculations, he picked up the beads with holes drilled in the jade plate and fined them.
Set on the pole.
"Guest, are you selling wine?"
"If you don't sell wine, where is Li Taibai?"
The shop owner hurriedly raised his head and asked, "Does Taibai owe you money for the wine? Our Qinglian Winery can pay the debt on his behalf."
"No, no, I'm just an ordinary friend of his."
"Oh, Li Taibai is not here. He has gone to the palace. Now he is your Majesty's minister. How can he be as carefree and carefree as before?"
"That's right." Since he didn't have the opportunity to ask for calligraphy treasures, he didn't have the free time to stay here. He turned around and was about to leave. But he saw the shopkeeper stringing beads on the pole one by one. After stringing enough beads, he picked them out and added more to the front.
A bead. He, who has mild obsessive-compulsive disorder, couldn't bear to see this situation.
He strode to the front of the wine bar and slapped the wooden stand hard, almost knocking the abacus stand to the ground, where big beads and small beads fell to the floor.
"Guest! Taibai isn't here, so you don't have to get angry with us." The store owner blew his beard in annoyance.
"If you calculate like this, can you calculate until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse?"
"The Year of the Monkey and the Moon of the Horse? No way, I can finish yesterday's accounts by the afternoon."
"Forget it," Li Siye rolled up his sleeves: "Bring me a pen, ink, paper and inkstone."
"What are you doing with paper and inkstones? Do you also want to write poems?"
"Haha, writing poetry, can writing poetry help you?"
The shopkeeper stroked his beard and replied: "If great poets like Wang Changling and Gao Shi write poems in our shop, it will increase the reputation of our Qinglian Wine Shop. Well, hey..."
Despite this, the shopkeeper still took out the jute paper, took the pen and ink for writing accounts, and handed it to Li Siye, wanting to see what he could write and draw.
Li Siye took the pen and inkstone, spread the linen paper on the desk, placed paperweights on each side to hold it down, covered the pen and ink with juice, and took a deep breath.