I am Li Shen and Li Shimin, the free kings of the Tang Dynasty

The New Year's Eve is approaching, and the city of Chang'an is filled with joy. People all have smiles on their faces. The reason is that they have all the lanterns and candles this year.

Prince Ji was in charge of the household affairs and provided them with enough candles and red cloth, so that every household was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations.

The workshop in Prince Ji’s Mansion has been closed for holiday.

Li Shen is a good boss. He does not exploit his employees and does not take consecutive days off. He goes back to work after the Lantern Festival and takes more than 20 days off in a row.

The various managers of Prince Ji's Palace also became busy. In addition to the things that the Palace needed to purchase from Yuanzheng,

Various benefits must also be provided to the four manors.

Slaughterhouses have added more staff to slaughter livestock.

This was even more the case in Prince Ji's Mansion. Hundreds of servants began to clean every corner of Prince Ji's Mansion.

More than a dozen managers are responsible for inspection to ensure that there are no omissions.

The whole mansion was bustling with activity.

"My dear, the accounts have been calculated and are waiting for you to listen to them."

Lu Dingniang looked at Li Shen who was climbing the tree with a helpless look on her face.

Li Shen was also very busy. Like in previous years, he took Xi Xi and Yang Yang to hang lanterns everywhere in the palace, colorful lanterns.

Originally, these jobs could be done by servants, but Li Shen chose to do them himself. He found that he was the most idle person in the whole mansion.

Even the princess brought a group of people to settle the accounts.

When everyone is working and one person is doing nothing, that person feels very embarrassed.

So Li Shen felt that he couldn't sit idle, otherwise others would think he was useless.

He had to keep himself busy.

"My lady, you have already read it, as long as there is no problem, you can talk to me when you rest at night."

Li Shen rode on the tree and shouted to Lu Dingniang below.

"My dear, you are the head of the family, how can you not listen?

Come down quickly, there are more than a dozen shopkeepers waiting over there."

Lu Dingniang urged.

"Aye, your color is wrong, it should be green."

Xixi looked up and pointed at Li Shen and said.

"Oh, then change one."

Li Shen nodded quickly and changed the lantern.

Lu Dingniang was speechless. The prince really wanted to be a hands-off boss.

"Xixi Yangyang, have you finished your homework today?"

Lu Dingniang looked down at the two little ones.

"Aye said Yuanzheng is done, so we don't have to do it."

As long as Li Shen is present, Xixi becomes bolder.

"My dear, it's already the middle of the year, you need to rest, why are you doing schoolwork? They are so young."

Li Shen also protested from the tree.

"Hey, my dear, you guys..."

"Your Highness, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wei has arrived."

Just when Lu Dingniang was about to teach the father and daughter a lesson, an eunuch ran over.

"Really here?"

Li Shen was a little surprised. He had received a visiting card from Prince Wei's palace yesterday, saying that Li Tai would come over today.

Li Shen didn't care much about it at first, but he didn't expect it to really come.

"Please invite the King of Wei to the living room and tell him that I will be there soon."

Li Shen said this and quickly climbed down from the tree.

"My dear, please change your clothes and don't be impolite."

Looking at the dust and wrinkles on Li Shen's body, Lu Dingniang pulled Li Shen to change his clothes.

Li Tai was invited to the front hall by Wei Fugui, who ordered someone to serve tea.

"Your Highness the Prince of Wei invites guests. My master will be here soon."

Wei Fugui personally served tea to Li Tai.

"Your master is really busy." Li Tai took the teacup and said with a smile.

"Your Highness, the King of Wei, it's almost the New Year's Day. The whole mansion is busy. My master has done more than any of us."

Wei Fugui smiled and said that he needed to stay here and talk to King Wei and could not neglect him.

"This prince knows that the Ji Palace is a large family with a great business, and the New Year is coming, so it will naturally be busy."

Li Tai nodded to show his understanding.

Not long after, Li Shen changed his clothes and walked in with the stone.

"Hello, Fourth Brother. Please forgive me for not coming to greet you in person."

After Li Shen came in, he bowed first, and Li Tai returned the bow, and then they sat down as host and guest.

"You are too polite, Old Ten. You have a big family and a lot of business to attend to. I should ask for your forgiveness for coming to bother you today."

Li Tai also smiled and was polite.

Li Shen saw the tea Li Tai was drinking and pretended to be angry;

"My fourth brother is here, how can he drink this kind of tea? Go and get me my treasured collection."

After hearing this, Shitou immediately took Li Tai's teacup and replaced it.

"Fourth brother, do you have any instructions for me to visit you today?"

Li Shen asked with a smile.

"Haha, nothing much, I just haven't seen my tenth brother for a long time and I miss him a little."

Li Tai also had a smile on his face.

Li Shen's expression remained unchanged, but he snorted in his heart with disdain. Burning newspapers at the grave, are you trying to fool ghosts?

"Eh? That's not right. Isn't Fourth Brother under house arrest? Now that you come out like this, aren't you afraid of Aye's punishment?

This is a crime of disobeying an imperial order, a serious crime."

Li Shen suddenly remembered, weren't the three rebellious sons all under house arrest?

I went out by myself because I was thick-skinned and not afraid of being beaten, but these two guys should not be at the level of daring to disobey my orders.

"Haha, I know that disobeying the emperor's order is a serious crime, but I have sent someone to ask for instructions today.

Aye agreed to come to you for my brother,

Otherwise, Fourth Brother doesn't have your ability to disobey the order."

When Li Tai came, he guessed that Li Shen would say this.

"Aye agreed? Then what's the point of this house arrest? It's useless."

Hearing this, Li Shen couldn't help but say to himself,

Although the voice was low, Li Tai heard it clearly.

"What? You are allowed to walk around everywhere, but we are not?"

"I didn't walk around randomly. I have always been law-abiding and I dare not disobey an order."

Hearing what Li Tai said, Li Tai hurriedly denied it, saying that his reputation was very important.

"Haha, Lao Shi, you usually go to Dongshi. Not to mention the Industrial Park, you've been to Hehe Manor, Dongshan Hospital several times, and the barracks several times.

You still say you are not disobeying the order?"

Li Tai was so angry that he laughed. Li Shen lied without hesitation without any guilt.

"Well, what exactly does Fourth Brother want you to do? Just tell me directly."

Li Shen was still somewhat embarrassed after being directly exposed, but only a little.

Seeing Li Shen's embarrassment, Li Tai smiled even more.

"Nothing, I just came to see you, Old Ten. You know that because of you, Fourth Brother was grounded for a month and fined half a year's salary.

Half a year's salary may not mean much to you, but to my fourth brother it costs him half his life.

You said you should compensate Fourth Brother."

"Stop... you are talking nonsense. How could I have implicated you? It is you and Brother Nine who implicated me.

Because of you two, I was grounded for another month and sentenced to three years, three years!!

If there is any compensation, it should be you, fourth brother, and ninth brother who compensate me.

You two should each pay compensation for one and a half years, and I won't bother with this matter."

Li Shen became emotional when he heard Li Tai's words.

(I've been working hard on this, but you may have forgotten that I'm just a newbie.

It is your tolerance and encouragement that enables me to persevere. Thank you very much.

I will continue to work hard to meet everyone's needs.