Prince of Tang Dynasty

"Tell me, what reward do you want?"

"I want silver." Li Yu raised a finger, "I don't want much, just give me a hundred taels of silver."

"What do you want silver for?" Li Shimin didn't expect his youngest son to ask for silver. He thought that his youngest son would ask for some rare treasure.

"Of course it's shopping." Li Yu said, "In a few days, I'm going to take Mingda out of the palace to go outing and fly a kite. How can I go out without money?"

Li Shimin felt that what the younger son said was somewhat reasonable, but 100 taels of silver was too much for a child.

"100 taels of silver is too much, I'll give you 50 taels."

"Aye, you are too picky. I only asked you for 100 taels of silver, but you still deducted half of it from me." Li Yu looked at Li Shimin accusingly, "We must go shopping after we go out for an outing and fly the kite. Buying things, how can you not bring more money, when the time comes, you want us to stand on the streets of Chang'an and perform operas to make money?"

Tang Taizong, who was said to be stingy, was speechless: "..."

"Forget it, I won't ask you for it anymore, I'm going with Auntie." Li Yu puffed up his face, his tone was helpless and angry, "I knew you didn't want to reward me, and deliberately tricked me down."

Li Shimin quickly stopped his younger son: "Wait, I will give you 100 taels." After finishing speaking, he asked Feng Yong to take out 100 taels of silver, and then stuffed it into the hands of his younger son, "Take it, take it, but don't spend it indiscriminately." During the two years when Li Shimin first became emperor, the Tang Dynasty was full of disasters, and the treasury was clinking poor.At that time, he, the emperor, had to live frugally.Although in the past few years, the Tang Dynasty has had good weather and abundant food and clothing, and the treasury has also been filled, but Tang Taizong, who has been thrifty for a few years, has become accustomed to thrift and spends money very frugally.

Both he and Guanyin's servant girl are frugal people, and they usually teach a few children to save money and not to be extravagant.

"Let's just buy some food and play." Li Yu stuffed 100 taels of silver into his arms, and thanked Li Shimin with his hands clasped together, "Thank you!"

Li Shimin waved his hand in disgust: "I got the reward, hurry up and get out."

"Okay, then I'll get out of here smoothly." Li Yu saluted Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling again, "Uncle, Uncle Fang, talk slowly, I'll go first." The ground disappeared from the Temple of Manna.

Li Shimin saw his youngest son run away after getting the silver, and scolded with a smile: "This little bastard..."

Fang Xuanling said: "His Royal Highness King Rui has become more energetic."

"This little bastard is not only energetic, but also very rambunctious. Didn't you see how he climbed the corridor pillar just now?" Li Shimin thought that he was cheated by his youngest son for 100 taels of silver, and said angrily and amusedly: "Zhen Rang He memorized "Thousand Characters", but he took the opportunity to ask me for 100 taels of silver, do you think this bastard is angry?"

Changsun Wuji could naturally see that Li Shimin was not really in His Royal Highness Qi Rui, and followed his words: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Rui Wang has memorized the "Thousand Characters" verbatim at the age of six, really. He is very smart. You reward him, which will make him work harder to study and memorize."

"Although this bastard is very mischievous, he is quite smart in reading." When Li Shimin said this poem, he couldn't help but show off his face. "This bastard is just like me in this way."

When Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling heard this, they almost couldn't help laughing.Your majesty, you are actually boasting that you are smart.

"His Royal Highness King Rui is your son, so he is naturally as smart and wise as you."

"Let's not talk about him, the two of you came to find me together, is there something urgent?"

After Li Yu got a reward of 100 taels of silver from Li Shimin, he returned to Yiyuan Hall happily.He first stinged Li Shimin and refused to reward him by "the villain sues first", and he even told Empress Changsun about beating him.As a result, he accidentally told the story of him climbing the colonnade, and was taught a lesson by Empress Changsun.

Empress Changsun twisted the ears of her younger son and warned him not to climb the pillars next time.The pillars at the entrance of Ganlu Hall are very high and bare, it is really dangerous to climb up.

What the second brother said is not wrong at all, this bastard will have to go to the house one day sooner or later.

After being severely reprimanded by Empress Changsun, Li Yu became extremely well-behaved and honest, earnestly studying with Empress Changsun.

At the beginning of noon, Li Zhi came back from school on time.Just when Empress Changsun was about to ask her third son what he had learned this morning, Feng Yong who was beside Li Shimin came over and invited His Royal Highness King Jin and King Rui to have lunch.

Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling discussed political affairs with Li Shimin until noon, when Li Shimin saw that it was time for lunch, he stayed with them to have lunch together.

Thinking that he hadn't eaten with his nephews for a long time, Changsun Wuji suggested to Li Shimin that Li Yu and Li Zhi be called to have dinner together.Li Shimin thought that if he called his two younger sons, he might as well call his two older sons over for dinner.

On the way to Ganlu Hall, Li Yu lost his appetite when he learned that Comrade Li had also invited Crown Prince Li Chengqian and King Wei Li Tai to have lunch together.

Li Zhi also lost his appetite. He was most afraid of eating with his father, and his eldest brother and fourth brother.Every time I eat with them, I feel very... In Xiao Yu'er's words, I feel very tired.

When Li Yu and Li Zhi arrived, Prince Li Chengqian and King Wei Li Tai had already arrived.After Li Yu and Li Zhi saluted politely, they took their seats.

The eldest grandson Wuji called Li Yu and Li Zhi to his side. He loved and loved these two little nephews very much.

Li Shimin sat in the upper seat, with Prince Li Chengqian on his left and King Wei Li Tai on his right.On the right hand of Prince Li Chengqian is Changsun Wuji.Li Yu sat on Changsun Wuji's right hand, and Li Zhi was next to Li Yu.Fang Xuanling sat between Li Zhi and Wei Wang Li Tai.

Feng Yong led the little eunuch, and quickly prepared the meal.In the middle of a table of dishes is a plate of roasted chicken and salted chicken, which Li Yu asked the imperial chef of Shangshi Bureau to make out some time ago.Since these two chickens were made, Li Shimin has to eat them every day.

Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling had never eaten roast chicken and salted chicken, and this was the first time they had seen each other.At this time, Li Shimin introduced roast chicken and salted chicken to them a little proudly, and told them how to eat these two chickens.

"Uncle, the roasted chicken and the salted chicken are made by the chef of the Shangshi Bureau. They are delicious. You and Uncle Fang should eat more."

"You asked the chef from Shangshi Bureau to make it?" Changsun Wuji couldn't wait to taste a piece, and then he was full of praise for the roast chicken and salted chicken, and also praised Li Yu's ingenuity.

Li Yu, who was praised, proudly puffed out his small chest: "Uncle, among other things, I have studied this piece very well." Wait, how could he forget about the roast duck.After lunch, he has to go to Shangshi Bureau and ask them to make out the roast duck.

Li Shiming saw his youngest son being praised so much that his tail was almost up to the sky, and couldn't help but want to hit him, "What's so proud of this, a gentleman stays away from the kitchen."

Li Yu glanced at Old Comrade Li, and said unceremoniously: "Aye, if you say that, don't eat the delicacies I researched if you have the ability." A gentleman should not eat or eat vegetables."

Li Shimin, who had just picked up a piece of grilled chicken, stopped, and the atmosphere in the dining room suddenly became quiet and awkward.

Wei Wang Li Tai was about to teach Li Yu a lesson, but he heard Li Shimin say rascally: "I'll eat it, what can you do?" After Li Shimin finished speaking, he stuffed the grilled chicken into his mouth, and deliberately babbled twice.

Prince Li Chengqian: "..."

Wei Wang Li Tai: "..."

The brothers were taken aback, as they didn't seem to have expected such a rascal side of their father.

Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling seemed very calm.When they followed Li Shimin back then, they saw Li Shimin's rascal, despicable, and shameless side.

The kid Li Zhi was dumbfounded, with a stunned expression on his face, like the two elder brothers, he couldn't believe that their father had a rascal side.

"Aye, there is a saying that cannibals have soft mouths but short hands. If you eat the delicacies I have researched, don't make irresponsible remarks to me." Li Yu didn't respond to Li Shimin's rascal side.If Li Shimin wanted to take back Cheng Yaojin and his group of scoundrels, if Li Shimin was not a scoundrel, how could he make Cheng Yaojin and the others follow him loyally.

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows lightly, and looked at his younger son with interest: "You still know the saying that you can eat people with soft mouths but short hands."

"Aye, I still know something."

Li Shimin saw that his youngest son was smiling maliciously, and probably guessed that what the youngest son said next was not a good one, so he raised his hand to stop him and said, "I don't want to know."

Seeing that Li Shimin was not fooled, Li Yu showed a regretful expression on his pretty face, "That's really a pity."

Li Shimin thought to himself that he had guessed right, he knew that this little bastard couldn't spit ivory out of his mouth.

"How can there be so much talking about a meal." After Li Shimin finished speaking, he took a chicken leg and put it in his youngest son's bowl, "Eat your chicken leg."

Li Yuxue Li Shimin raised his eyebrows just now, "Aye, is this a hush money?"

Li Shimin said angrily: "Yes, hush money."

"Since it's a hush money, one chicken leg is not enough, two are enough." Li Yu stretched out two fingers towards Li Shimin.