Li Ke's look made Yang Anning and the others cover their mouths and snicker twice before they sat down in their seats again, and then the soft music sounded again.
"Dad, you have tea." Li Ke ran to the side and brought a cup of brewed tea over.
"Yes." Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction, and then took the tea cup from Li Ke's hand.
Chang Lin: "..." Your Highness, you took my job.
But, what else could he say? Just stay there honestly.
Li Shimin picked up the tea cup and took a sip. The slightly bitter tea leaves lingered in his mouth, and soon a fragrance unique to tea leaves remained between his lips and teeth. This taste... Li Shimin glanced at Li Ke with some surprise: "This is what you did. That fried tea that came out?"
"Yes, dad, this is the correct way to drink tea. I think the way we drank tea before the Tang Dynasty was too rough, and the original taste of the tea has been covered up." Li Ke nodded quickly and said.
The way of drinking tea before the Tang Dynasty... It's hard to describe in one word. It's a bit like the Mongolian milk tea of later generations. The tea leaves are boiled in water, then milk is added, and salt is added... Anyway, all kinds of things are thrown into it. The taste, Forget it, Li Ke never drank again after drinking it twice.
"Yes, I'll send a few pounds to the palace." Li Shimin nodded.
Li Ke: "..." My dad, although this thing is not valuable, a few kilograms... is too much. But he didn't dare to refute it, forget it, save money and avoid disaster, think about it from another angle, after Lao Li drinks it, he will definitely give it to his ministers at some point, Lao Li is the spokesperson.
If you think about it...
"Dad, I don't think a few kilograms is enough. Let's do this. I'll send you some of all kinds of tea. I've developed green tea, white tea, black tea, yellow tea, oolong tea and other teas here. Black tea is also Yes, but the production of black tea is more complicated. The older the better, and there will be better ones next year. I will give you a try, each with its own characteristics." Li Ke said generously.
"Huh? Are you so generous today?" Li Shimin raised his head and glanced at Li Ke.
"Looking at what you said, you are my father, and it is only natural that a son should respect me!" Li Ke said casually.
"Yeah." Li Shimin took a sip of tea. It tasted really good, much better than the previous tea.
"Did you also invent this chair?" Li Shimin looked at him lightly and asked.
"Yes, how is it? Not bad, right?" Li Ke smiled and pulled another deck chair from the side, placed it directly side by side with Li Shimin, and lay down too. The two of them faced the Weishui River and looked at Distant scenery.
In the distance, several older princesses gathered together.
"Sister Changle, the third brother is so powerful, I'm not afraid of Aye beating him." Linchuan whispered.
"You don't understand this. Third brother is afraid of everything. He is probably not afraid of being beaten. Once you are not afraid of being beaten, then there is nothing to be afraid of." Baling curled his lips and said.
"Sister Baling is right. I saw my third brother being beaten once when I was a child. His screams were so miserable that I was frightened. Who knew that the third brother would cause trouble again when his butt was just right, and then he would be beaten again?" Yeah, I got beaten." Pu'an was still frightened when he said this.
Changle snickered in his heart, miserable? You guys really don’t understand Third Brother. The more miserable Third Brother screams, the less painful it is. When the beating became more severe, the third brother didn't even say a word.
Chang Le couldn't help but think of the scene when Li Ke disturbed her marriage. Chang Le was present at that time. Li Ke's clothes were already stained red by blood, but he didn't say a word. She even cried at that time. Crap.
"Hehe, actually third brother is still very good. I was ready to act like a spoiled brat just now." Dongyang said with a chuckle.
"Okay, we'll act according to the situation later. I don't know why Aye suddenly came here again today." Changle also lowered his voice and said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Several people nodded crazily. It was so much fun here for Third Brother, how could he be locked up.
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"What did you think yesterday?" Li Shimin asked after taking two sips of tea, lying on the recliner and rocking, looking at the green fields in the distance.
"What do you think? Those words?" Li Ke asked knowingly.
"Yes." Li Shimin nodded.
"I didn't think much about it. Dreams can only be dreams." Li Ke said in a nonchalant manner. There are some things that have not been realized by future generations more than a thousand years later. How many people's efforts are they? He Li Ke is so virtuous and capable.
Li Shimin: "..."
Li Ke always has the ability to make him angry with just one word. Fortunately, I was so excited when I saw what you said yesterday. But you told me that dreams can only be dreams?
I thought of countless words along the way and prepared to say them to comfort you, but you told me that dreams can only be dreams? !
But Li Shimin held back, mainly because he, the emperor, couldn't provoke Li Ke to do this, right?
"Then why do you think so?" Li Shimin asked again.
"When I was patrolling around Chang'an before, I looked at Chang'an from Tongguan and saw the working people, and I suddenly felt something." Li Ke sighed.
"Oh? Tell me." Li Shimin was a little surprised and became interested.
"The peaks and ridges are like clusters, the waves are like raging, the mountains and rivers are inside and outside Tongguan Road. Looking at the Western Capital, I hesitate. I am sad. Wherever the Qin and Han Dynasties passed, thousands of palaces and palaces have been turned into dirt. When they prosper, the people suffer. When they die, the people suffer." Li Ke's voice Not big, not very interested, but what he said sounded like the sound of a heavy hammer to the ears of the people around him.
Li Ke didn't do it to show off in front of Li Shimin, but after coming to Datang for so many years, he truly felt what Zhang Yanghao felt when he wrote the song "Sheep on the Mountain: Tong Cares about the Ancients", a personal feeling!
That is something that future generations of more than a thousand years will never be able to appreciate.
Just like those few words written in history books, but extremely cruel.
For example, there is a sentence in the "Book of Jin" recently revised by Fang Xuanling and others: The city of Chang'an was completely empty and scattered in all directions. In two or three years, no one left the pass.
That's Chang'an City!
If you don't live in this era, you won't be able to experience that kind of cruelty. And this sentence will be passed down to later generations with the "Book of Jin". What kind of insights will people have when they read this sentence more than a thousand years later?
Far less shocking than what Li Ke saw with his own eyes, this was what he saw, the prosperous age of Zhenguan! So how can the people live in peace when it is not a prosperous time?
The sentence "Prosperity means people suffer. Death means people suffer." Li Shimin was stunned, Chang Lin was stunned, the four girls Yang Anning and Liu Qingchan were stunned, and Chang Le and other princesses not far away were also stunned.
Li Shimin was silent. These eight words were the greatest irony to the ruler.
But Li Shimin had no way to refute, because he had always known that many people in the Tang Dynasty did not even have enough to eat, or in other words, they had never had enough to eat.
"Hehe, Dad, am I feeling very sympathetic to the world and everyone in the literary world right now?" Li Ke suddenly burst out laughing, smiled at Li Shimin and said.
Li Shimin: "..."
Just as he was about to say something, Li Ke had already stood up from the recliner and ran directly to Jinyang in the distance, imitating the sound of a wolf: "Aww... Sizi, the big bad wolf is coming to catch you. "
"Giggle... Sanguo, you don't pretend to be anything like that!" Jin Yang's laughter came quickly.
