"Little sister, don't be angry. I haven't seen my father and mother for a long time. You should go and visit. Why do you want to run away from home and never come back?" Xiangcheng tried to persuade him, but Xiao Changle was minding his own business. Eat happily and enjoy the delicious food.
"Sister, I don't care, why should I be sent to get married? Humph! If my father and mother don't love me anymore, I won't go back." Xiao Changle's words were full of grievances.
The little nephew Xiao Ping'an next to him hugged Xiao Changle's arm and said in a sweet voice: "Auntie, we love you, don't leave."
After rubbing the little guy's head and stuffing a piece of boneless chicken into it, Xiao Changle chuckled and said, "Don't worry, my aunt loves you too, so I won't leave. How can I let you little cuties go?"
At this time, Xiao Rui came over with a plate of Sixi meatballs that had just come out of the pot. Looking at the messy cups and plates on the small dining table, he was surprised and said, "What? Are you living in such a poor life with Uncle Ge? It's like you haven't eaten enough for how many days?"
Xiao Changle complained: "Brother-in-law, what are you talking about? I told the master to stay here to study, but the master refused, saying that you are too arrogant and extravagant here, and you should endure hardships when studying. Every meal is just potatoes and cabbage. Look, Look, I’ve lost weight.”
"Have you lost weight?" Xiao Rui looked at it and said, "No, look at your little face, you are said to be chubby and cute."
puff……
Xiao Changle dropped his chopsticks and came up to tear Xiao Rui with his greasy hands. Xiao Rui was so frightened that he hurriedly hid outside.
"Okay, okay, you two are really out of character. How old are you, and you are still fighting in front of the children? Little sister, sit down quickly and continue eating." Xiangcheng stopped.
"Don't eat, hum! He says that to me even after eating his meal." The little guy said angrily.
Xiangcheng winked at Xiao Rui and said, "Same for you, husband. My little sister is living a miserable life. She finally came back to make things better. What are you talking nonsense about?"
Xiao Rui smiled and sat down together, and personally put a big meatball for Xiao Changle, "Aren't I kidding you? Look, my brother-in-law cooked this specially for you. How can others be treated like this? "
Looking at the delicious food, Xiao Changle swallowed, but couldn't hold it back and rolled his eyes, "This is pretty much it."
Seeing the little guy eating happily, Xiao Rui asked with a smile: "I heard that you rode a big cat to Honglu Temple and beat up the Tubo people?"
Xiao Changle's mouth was full of food, so he could only wave his hands and say no.
No? No way, the information cannot be wrong.
"I didn't beat him, I ate him!"
What?
"You, you let the big cat eat Lu Dongzan?" Xiao Rui exclaimed.
After swallowing a sip, Xiao Changle explained: "I'm different from you. How can you just beat them up? They don't have long memories at all. We should kill them all..."
Forehead……
Xiao Rui was speechless. It seemed that this was the reason. After I beat them and warned them, not only did they not listen, but they went to the court to complain? It is true that beating is not enough.
Sigh... It's not that I don't want to kill people, it's that I am no longer the best in the world that I was back then. If my martial arts skills were still there, I would have led the Xuanjia Army into Tubo and captured Songtsen Gampo alive. Can we still give them a chance to get married?
"So, you really killed them?"
Xiao Changle shook his head, "No, they had a master who blocked the big cat. Then my uncle came and didn't let me kill anyone. So I came to find you."
"But they can't have it easy. The big cat said that the man who fought with him had one of his arms bitten off."
Pfft... Xiao Rui really wanted to cover his eyes, thinking so fiercely?
Fifth brother Li Junxian has never beaten that person, and now the big cat has bitten off the other person's arm, tsk tsk... It's over, fifth brother, your group status in Xiaojiazhuang has been reduced by one, and there is another one you can't beat.
"Brother-in-law, why do they have to get married?" Xiao Changle asked the doubts in his heart.
"Them? Are you asking Tubo? Or are you asking the Tang court?"
Xiao Changle thought for a moment and said, "You told me before that it was to avoid war. If both parties don't want to fight, then wouldn't it be enough to discuss it and make a covenant? But we have to get married."
Xiangcheng explained with a smile: "A marriage often occurs when there is an imbalance of power. The party marrying a girl is afraid of foreign invasion, so she marries a girl to seek peace."
"Isn't that blackmail? But our Tang Dynasty even defeated the Turks, so how can we be afraid of the Tubo?" Xiao Changle was very confused.
Xiangcheng doesn’t seem to be able to answer this question.
Everyone turned to look at Xiao Rui.
Xiao Rui said with a smile: "That's because the country of Tubo is very strange. Any army that wants to invade their territory, without exception, will fall ill and lose combat effectiveness, and finally have to retreat. This creates such a situation , as long as Tubo sends troops to harass us, we will not be able to invade their territory."
What? ? ?
"how so?"
"Haha, according to the Tubo people, they are protected by gods." Xiao Rui joked.
"Ah? How could this happen? The gods are so unreasonable, why do they protect bad people? They should protect our Tang Dynasty." Xiao Changle pouted.
Xiao Rui said disdainfully: "Fucking God's protection. At most, they are just acclimatized. I have a hundred ways to deal with them."
"Really, brother-in-law? Then hurry up and defeat them. See if they dare to blackmail us?" Xiao Changle urged.
Xiao Rui comforted him: "Don't worry, it will take two years to prepare, but don't worry, as long as I'm here, it's impossible for them to get married. Whoever in the court dares to support the marriage, I will be the first to not spare him."
Xiao Changle chuckled, "That's pretty much it."
Xiangcheng asked: "Husband, are you saying that someone in the court will support the marriage? Why? This is obviously a kind of humiliation."
Xiao Rui sighed: "It's still the same question just now. Does Tubo want a marriage? Or does the imperial court want a marriage?"
The two princesses shook their heads at the same time.
"Tubo wants to get married, it's blackmail. That Songtsen Gampo has never met Changle, so he dares to say that he loves her so much that he can't let go of her. What a liar! They don't care what the princess they marry looks like."
Xiao Changle's face turned red and he spat: "Bah! Who wants him to be so infatuated and unable to let go? It's shameless. Don't let me see him. If I see him, I will use a hundred kinds of poisons with no antidote on him."
Forehead……
Why does Xiao Rui feel a little cold on his back?
"In fact, they shamelessly begged for a marriage in order to defraud the dowry. Often when a princess gets married, the emperor will give a generous dowry. This dowry is not only gold, silver, silk and satin, but the most important thing is the maids and servants, and various craftsmen and employees."
"With these, various advanced craftsmen and technologies were brought to Tubo, and they could develop quickly. For example, those who are good at farming can increase food production, those who are good at mulberry planting and weaving, and those who are good at smelting steel. Those are what they want most.”
"With these advanced technologies, they can develop quickly, then enrich the country and strengthen the army, and finally the army and the horse are strong, so that they can come to blackmail us Datang even more forcefully."
Oh...so that's it!
"Then you can't give it to me anymore. Brother-in-law, tell your father quickly and don't fall into the trap of the Tubo people." Xiao Changle urged.
Xiao Rui waved his hand and said: "Do you think His Majesty really doesn't understand? In fact, Your Majesty is the most opposed to marriage. Firstly, he is reluctant to let go of his daughter, and secondly, he does not want to be fooled. However, people in the court are not united, and some people are picking on the inside and outside."
What? ? ?
Xiao Changle said angrily: "Who is it? Brother-in-law, don't you hate this kind of person the most? Also, is there nothing my father can do? Can't we just arrest this kind of person and send him to prison?"
