The two of them walked all the way to the imperial garden and were about to leave the realm of the cold palace.
However, Li Sixu stood beside the bamboo bush near Taiye Lake, looking as if she didn't understand what Li Linhuai was talking about at all, and then pointed to the pile under the bamboo bush.
"Why is this bamboo bush arched? Are there bamboo shoots growing underneath?"
Li Sixu urged him: "My lord, dig it out and take a look."
Only when spring is warm and flowers are blooming, bamboo shoots will dig out of the soil. How can there be bamboo shoots growing under the soil in late autumn?
But he was used to following her, so Li Linhuai had no choice but to put aside the matter of her having a banquet in the cold palace, except for him, and squatted down to dig in the soil resigned to his fate.
As soon as I pulled away the upper layer of dead branches and leaves, without digging deeper, I found a wine jar hidden under the dead leaves of the bamboo forest.
Li Linhuai stood up with a small jar of wine and met Li Sixu with a bright smile on his face.
"Your Excellency is a very important person to Sisi. Sisi and her mother planted the longevity fruit, how could they only forget about you?"
There was a hint of cunning in her eyes, and she took out the fried longevity nuts wrapped in oil paper from her pocket: "Hey, these are the longevity nuts for drinking wine. Sisi specially reserved them for you, sir. Your hand." The jar above is calamus wine brewed by Sisi herself."
I don't know whether it was because of the calamus wine and longevity nuts that the princess specially left for him, or because the princess said that he was a very important person to her. Li Linhuai, who was carrying the wine jar, took the oil paper package from her and his face felt a little hot.
Fortunately, it was already dusk at this time, and the night gradually enveloped the imperial garden, so no one would notice that his expression was different.
After practicing breathing and breathing techniques and Qinggong for so long, and being trained by masters like Li Linhuai and Eunuch Yang, Li Sixu has actually become very agile.
Passing by the maple forest next to Taiye Lake, Li Sixu jumped onto the rockery.
Li Linhuai hurriedly followed her, spread the longevity nuts wrapped in paper on the rocks of the rockery, and sat down next to her with the wine jar in hand.
It was dark at this time, and Li Linhuai couldn't see clearly the color of the wine made by the princess, but after drinking it, his mouth was full of mellowness, sweet but not greasy, and a unique medicinal aroma.
"The wine made by the princess is very good!"
Abstinence is the most deadly thing when a beautiful man drinks alcohol!
With the last glimmer of nightfall, Li Sixu clearly saw his Adam's apple rolling while he was drinking. She silently recited the Qingxin Mantra several times, then she hurriedly rolled a peanut into her mouth and chewed it.
"Do you know why Sisi laughed when she came out of the cold palace?"
Li Linhuai was not a drinker, but because it was the calamus wine specially reserved for him by the princess, he drank half a jar of wine in one breath.
Seeing Li Sixu swaying on her feet and chewing peanuts, he asked warmly: "What did Lady Xu do to make the princess laugh?"
"Ms. Xu is so close to my mother and queen that I have been seen by my father several times!"
Li Sixu brought Xuanzong to Leng Palace and kept his eyes fixed on Queen Wang. Because Xu Cairen was too close to Queen Wang, he told her about beating Xu Cairen when he left Leng Palace.
Regardless of Li Linhuai's expression, she laughed secretly: "When my mother and Empress Xu got closer, my father felt something was wrong, and even used the power of wine to remind Empress Xu whether it was funny or not."
So this is what the princess was laughing at?
Li Linhuai didn't quite understand her mind: "Could it be that the princess is overly concerned?"
"Why would you think that Sisi is too worried?"
Li Sixu blurted out in a hurry: "Didn't your Excellency also come here to remind Sisi because Sisi hosted a banquet in the cold palace for General Zuo Yulin, Eunuch Yang, and senior fellow apprentices?"
"Fortunately, Sisi guessed that you were coming and deliberately buried the wine left for you next to the bamboo forest and asked you to dig it out yourself, giving you a surprise."
There seems to be something wrong with this analogy!
Li Sixu coughed to cover up: "Well, Sisi didn't mean that. Sisi meant that you are aboveboard."
Li Linhuai just held up the wine jar and took a sip of wine. When he heard her words, he almost spit out the wine he just drank.
But he came to the cold palace and deliberately mentioned that Eunuch Yang and the others had been entertained by the princess, but he was the only one who was left behind. Isn't it the same as His Majesty's move to find Lady Xu?
It was okay if the princess didn't mention it. But when the princess mentioned it, Li Linhuai suddenly felt that he had done such a childish and stupid thing?
"Well, my father and Eunuch Yang said that fried longevity nuts are great for drinking!"
Li Linhuai pushed the longevity nuts wrapped in oil paper towards her: "I guess the princess is holding a pig-killing banquet in the cold palace for the sake of the queen."
Anyone who had eaten pig-killing dishes in Leng Palace today thought that she was holding a pig-killing banquet to promote the cultivation of longevity fruits that can be fried and the method of raising pigs in captivity.
The person in front of her really understood her best, and he actually saw the deep meaning behind her pig-killing feast.
Although her mother and queen had been gaining prestige in the eyes of the court and the people of the world for a long time, her reputation was damaged when the news about her involvement in the Shengsheng Shu case spread.
Only by spreading the credit of growing longevity fruit and raising pigs can she help her regain her reputation and regain control of the Sixth Palace.
"Well, Sisi wants her mother to leave the cold palace."
Li Linhuai answered: "I don't understand something!"
"What?"
Li Sixu turned her head and looked at him.
The princess took a risk and rescued Wang Shouyi, who was supposed to die for her empress, so that she would have the will to survive. She even made arrangements step by step to help her leave the cold palace in glory.
He also helped the empress regain the emperor's favor.
When doing these things, the little princess is taking risks every step she takes. If she is not careful, she may lose everything.
The stakes were too high, and he secretly worried about her several times.
Meeting the little princess's gaze, Li Linhuai considered it carefully and said, "The queen does love the princess, but what the princess has done for the queen has long exceeded the kindness the queen has ever shown to the princess."
Can Li Sixu say that in the script she has read, Queen Wang is the key to the Tang Dynasty's transition from prosperity to decline?
Once Empress Wang died, the harem would become the domain of the Wu family. She was the only one to gain favor, colluding with treacherous ministers to stir up trouble, and her father was devastated by her death. In his later years, he committed the scandal of seizing his own daughter-in-law.
Perhaps the reason why she came here was to prevent the bloody storm in the Tang Dynasty decades later, right?
It was not a good time to reveal this secret, even to the person she trusted the most.
Li Sixu moved out the dead Yao Chong: "To be honest, Master Yao entrusted Sisi to protect his mother before his death. He said that no matter how wise the emperor was, there would be times when he went astray. The queen and his father shared weal and woe. The father needs the help of a virtuous queen like the mother to ensure the stability of the world, and the foundation of Li Tang can be prosperous and prosperous for a long time after Wu Zhou's rule."
Li Linhuai was once again impressed by the young but righteous princess. He felt that when she said these words, it was as if the stars at night suddenly converged on her. The ten princesses of the Tang Dynasty were the most dazzling ones on the sky. stars.
It was a cold night, and the jar of wine was almost finished. Li Linhuai wanted to send the princess back to the Manlu Palace as soon as possible. Through the faint starlight, he saw a black shadow jumping out from the direction of the Hanbing Palace, passing through the maple forest near the rockery, as if to Dive into the Manna Hall.
Just as Li Linhuai felt that the passing shadow looked familiar, another black shadow followed him. He quickly drew his sword and stood up. The sword in his hand unsheathed and flew towards the black shadow.
