"Your Highness." Yang Anning and others looked at Li Ke worriedly.
"What's wrong? You are all well at home. Don't worry. Dai Guogong and others won the battle on the front line. There will be no danger after I pass." Li Ke said with a smile. He could probably see the worries of the women.
"Your Highness, I want to follow you." Yang Anning said softly.
"Nonsense, this time we set out with the cavalry all the way. I dare not say that we will travel under the stars and night, but the daily rest time is not long. If you fall ill halfway, how should I take care of you?" Li Ke looked at her and asked.
"Your Highness, I will never cause trouble for you." Yang Anning said seriously. The reason why she proposed this idea was because Li Ke was not a general, but a prince. His mission this time was different from others. There is nothing wrong with having a maid or something like that.
Of course it would be better not to bring it, but no one would say anything if I did.
"No." Li Ke shook his head simply.
"Your Highness, your mission to the Western Region this time is very heavy?" Yang Anning bit her lip and asked.
"What do you want to say?" Li Ke looked at her.
"How about you bring Li Changge with you?" Yang Anning took a deep breath and then made another suggestion.
"Why should I take her?" Li Ke was a little strange.
"Your Highness, I have helped you find out clearly during this period. She was born in the Western Regions and has been able to ride horses since she was a child. It will not affect her schedule. The most important thing is that she can speak Turkic, Persian and Da Shiyu. She is familiar with the thirty-sixth chapter of the Western Regions. I also dabble in some Chinese languages, which will be very helpful to you, Your Highness." Yang Anning said.
"Oh?" Li Ke was a little surprised. In this era, such linguists were not valued very much, not to mention the Tang Dynasty, because people from all countries came to the Tang Dynasty and had to learn Chinese. All the dignitaries and dignitaries in the surrounding vassal states can speak Chinese. Ordinary people in countries such as the Western Regions can even understand Chinese and speak a few words.
Therefore, most of the Tang Dynasty disdain to learn other languages. Of course, the officials of Honglu Temple have special official translators who need to learn the languages of some major countries. Some of these translators are people studying abroad. Some of the officials in the Tang Dynasty were its own officials.
In addition, the people of the Tang Dynasty had a specialized professional "tonguer", who was actually a translator. It was some poor ordinary people who taught themselves the languages of these countries to translate for these countries and make money.
It’s a bit like those children in Southeast Asia more than a thousand years later who didn’t go to school much but knew several languages.
Ordinary people like the Tang Dynasty were also illiterate, but they could learn these languages.
Li Ke can ignore other aspects, but for translation, although these people can speak Chinese, when they communicate with themselves, Li Ke also needs to know what they are talking about. This is indeed quite necessary.
After pondering for a moment, Li Ke said, "Let's do this. You leave three days in advance and follow the people from Yuelai Trading Company. You take a carriage and go alone."
It's okay to let them go. Some of Li Ke's past actions required the cooperation of some maids and beauties. He was originally planning to ask for Li Zhang's Dunhuang room. They went, and some of his own people were fine.
"Yes!" Yang Anning's face was filled with joy. Just as she was about to say something, an eager female voice from outside the door came through, "Third brother, third brother."
Li Ke was stunned for a moment, why is Changle here?
With a bang, the door of the room was pushed open by Chang Le from the outside. Seeing Chang Le rushing in, followed by several maids, Li Ke waved his hand to signal them to go down. If Chang Le wanted to come in, they couldn't stop him.
"Third brother." After entering, Changle called out in grievance.
"Come here, sit down, why did you come here?" Li Ke smiled and said hello.
"Third brother, the Western Region is so dangerous. What did you do in the past about the war?" Chang Le bit his lip and asked with worry on his face.
"Why do you look down on your third brother? Your third brother is capable of bringing peace to the country and opening up borders with force." Li Ke laughed and said.
"Third brother! You know what I mean, it's too dangerous... Aye does the same, why do you always ask you to do these things." Changle couldn't help but stamp his feet, and said with some embarrassment.
"Okay, Changle, the third brother is the prince of the Tang Dynasty. The newly crowned King of Qin has the obligation to make his own contribution to the Tang Dynasty. This time, it is either the eldest brother or me who will go to the Western Regions. But the eldest brother is the prince. The second brother is the prince. Since my legs and feet are inconvenient, the third brother can only go." Li Ke said with a smile.
Chang Le bit his lip and hesitated to speak, but his eye circles were already red.
"You guys go out first." Li Ke waved his hand.
Yang Anning and others immediately turned around and left the room. Yang Anning, who was the last to leave, closed the door.
When Yang Anning and the others left, Changle's tears fell down.
"Oh, dear, why are you crying, Lizhi? Don't cry, don't cry." Li Ke was a little in a hurry, and he hated this the most.
It was okay if Li Ke didn't coax him, but when he did, Changle cried even harder, and Li Ke didn't know how to comfort him for a while.
Changle, on the other hand, wiped away his tears, and then sobbed: "Third brother, it's the beauty that I can't help you with."
"What did you say?" Li Ke was dumbfounded.
"For example...if it wasn't for my marriage...for my marriage, third brother, you wouldn't think about making money and tossing these things. If you...you didn't bother with these things with aristocratic families...you wouldn't have to go to such a dangerous place. "It's beauty that drags down the third brother." Changle burst into tears.
"I...I know...I know Third Brother...Third Brother, you hate these things the most...Third Brother, you just want to live a carefree life and be a happy prince..."
"Good boy... this has nothing to do with you." Li Ke couldn't help but stretched out his sleeves to wipe Chang Le's tears. Who knew that more and more tears would come out of his eyes?
Li Ke also smiled bitterly, and he said helplessly: "Li Zhi, raise your head."
Changle raised her head to look at Li Ke with misty tearful eyes. She wiped away her tears again. After a while, her eyes were already red from crying.
"What you just said is correct. Third brother's biggest wish in this life is actually to be a happy and happy prince, one person below ten thousand people, and then no one will care about me. I can walk my dog every day and raise small animals. Third brother heard that iron-eating beasts were discovered in Yizhou, and he plans to raise a few of them, as well as a kind of red panda, and the golden monkey is also very cute."
"Every day, I sleep until I wake up naturally, wake up and eat the delicious food I developed, then go boxing, kicking and playing Cuju. If I have nothing to do, I go out for an outing. I take you sisters to play everywhere, just like last time, go out for spring outings and eat Eat barbecue, then go to the brothel to buy a bunch of singers and come back, study some songs, dance, listen to songs, and sing songs."
"When you reach the age, you have a lot of children, and you watch these naughty children playing every day. Third brother and you have become adults, and then you can relax and go fishing." Li Ke described the life he wanted to live.
Changle stopped crying when he heard this. Instead, his eyes were full of yearning. This kind of life was what a princess wanted most.
"But there is a premise for all this." Li Ke said this, looking at Chang Le with a smile, and his tone became serious.
