Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

Li Shimin twitched his eyebrows, "You're getting bolder, you dare to plot against Aye?"

Immediately, Li Shimin made a serious face and asked Li Mingda to talk about it.

"Shangyuan Festival, Sizi wants to spend it in Plum Blossom Temple." Li Mingda grinned at Li Shimin.

Li Mingda was afraid that he would refuse when he opened his mouth, so he immediately pulled Li Shimin's sleeve to distract him, so that he could think about it first instead of answering himself immediately.

Li Shimin glanced down at Li Mingda's hand pulling his sleeve, then raised his eyes shrewdly to look at her, naturally seeing through Li Mingda's little thoughts.

"Okay, let me hear your reason."

Li Mingda prepared a lot of speeches, but under Li Shimin's scrutiny, thousands of words turned into a simple sentence.

"I want to pay homage to my mother."

"When can't we worship your aunt, must it be on the Lantern Festival?" Li Shimin immediately looked at Li Mingda suspiciously, "Do you have any other reasons?"

"Every year, the Shangyuan Festival is celebrated in the palace. Everyone has fun together, but the mother under the nine springs celebrates the festival alone. Sizi suddenly thinks of this, and feels guilty and sad. Aye wants Busy with state affairs, worrying about the common people in the world, and rewarding the ministers during the New Year's Day, he must be unable to take time off, so my son thought of comforting his mother for Aye this year." Li Mingda blinked.For her father, only the eldest grandson empress can convince him at the moment.

Li Mingda felt a little guilty in her heart, and she swore that she would recite scriptures well and make amends to her mother when she came to Plum Blossom Temple on the Lantern Festival.

"Have you made up your mind?" Li Shimin stared at Li Mingda.

Li Mingda pursed his lips and nodded.

Li Shimin lowered his eyes and thought for a while, but he didn't ask any more questions, and then nodded and agreed.

Things went smoothly unexpectedly, Li Mingda thanked Li Shimin happily, and then expressed his gratitude to Li Shimin sincerely.

"Aye, Sizi will cook soup for you every day from now on."

"No need, watch your little hands carefully."

Li Mingda excitedly said: "It's okay, what do you have to do to keep your hands white and tender, Sizi doesn't care about that."

"I care, I will get tired of eating the same thing every day." Li Shimin sighed honestly.

"Aye, I'm sad." Li Mingda turned his head away, ignoring Li Shimin.

"I have agreed to all your requests, but you are still sad, otherwise I will take back what I said earlier?" Li Shimin teased her.

"Don't, don't, I'm just joking with Aye. If Aye wants to drink it, I will make it for Aye." Li Mingda said with a smile, and stayed with Li Shimin for a while.When ministers rushed to summarize and sing praises for the past year, Li Mingda left quickly and returned to his residence.

Li Shimin raised his hand to signal the courtiers not to speak, he glanced at the back of Li Mingda leaving, and beckoned Fang Qirui to come over.

"I see that this girl has other thoughts, so I send someone to follow her to find out the clues." Li Shimin ordered.

Li Mingda outside the hall stopped immediately after hearing this, and hurriedly ordered Tian Hanshan to send his cronies to send a message to Fang Yizhi, telling him that he had kept his promise and would do what he said.

Not long after Tian Hanshan left, Fang Qirui came out.

Li Mingda pretended to walk slowly, turned his head and saw Fang Qirui by chance.Fang Qirui naturally wanted to come to salute Li Mingda.

"I just want to give you something, you follow me." Li Mingda couldn't bear to say anything, so he turned and walked in front.

Fang Qirui hesitated, "But slave—"

"Is there something urgent?" Li Mingda asked.

Seeing that Princess Jinyang was right in front of him, Fang Qirui smiled and said it was all right, and then followed Li Mingda into the house.

Li Mingda handed a letter to Fang Qirui.

"This is?" Fang Qirui was startled.

"Do you have a mother and brother in your hometown?" Li Mingda asked.

Fang Qirui was shocked, he quickly took the letter and opened it.

Li Mingda continued to explain: "I don't know if it's true or not. Two days ago, someone was wandering around the street near the palace gate, and was taken by the guards of the city. Guard Cheng happened to pass by, and he sold his favor when he heard that person mention your name." , left him behind. Ask carefully, I heard that this man is your younger brother, and the old mother at home asked someone to write a letter for you before she passed away. Now that he is gone, leaving this only last wish, how could he I also wanted to finish it, so I rushed to Chang'an City to deliver the letter. Guard Cheng couldn't make the decision, so he asked me. Yesterday, all the old guards were human, and I couldn't give it to you."

Fang Qirui grabbed the letter with trembling hands, tears streaming down his face.After reading the letter, Fang Qirui nodded his head. Judging from the contents of the letter, it was indeed his mother.Fang Qirui immediately knelt down and kowtowed to the south, apologizing to his late mother.

Afterwards, he got up and said to Li Mingda: "Since I voluntarily entered the palace as a eunuch 30 years ago, I have never had the opportunity to know the situation at home. The money I exchanged for entering the palace was to treat my sick father. But I didn't expect that I still couldn't save him, and now even my mother is gone."

After Fang Qirui sighed, he thanked Li Mingda again and again, and begged to ask about his younger brother's situation and how he is doing today.Knowing that he has married a wife and had children, he not only has more than ten acres of land, but also has two cows.Fang Qirui was very relieved, and begged Li Mingda to help him pass a message to his younger brother.

"Everything is fine now in the palace, let him live in peace, and continue the descendants of our Fang family."

After Fang Qirui finished speaking, he took out a jade pendant and begged Li Mingda to send it out. "I don't have anything. This is a reward I got before. It's a gift for my newborn nephew."

"Don't worry, I will bring it to you." Li Mingda smiled immediately, "Don't delay Eunuch Fang's important affairs, you can go to work quickly."

Thinking of Li Shimin's order, Fang Qirui nodded to Li Mingda guiltily.Although your lord is kind to him, he cannot disobey the sage's orders.After Fang Qirui saluted Li Mingda again, he obediently withdrew.

Not long after Fang Qirui left, Tian Hanshan came back.

Tian Hanshan said to Li Mingda puzzled: "Eunuch Fang is very interesting today, he was lost in thought while walking. I called him, and he was shocked."

"In the future, be more cautious about spreading messages outside the palace. Don't do it without the permission of the sage. From now on, our master and servant must be cautious in our words and deeds." Li Mingda said.

Tian Hanshu was stunned, "What happened?"

"Yes, someone is following me." Li Mingda threatened Tian Hanshan.

Tian Hanshan shook his head, and immediately agreed solemnly.Then he looked at the people in the house, ran outside to see the people outside, then closed the door cautiously, and said to Li Mingda: "His Royal Highness is back, I just saw the eunuch from the East Palace coming to deliver a message, and I listened."

Li Mingda saw that after Tian Hanshan listened to his instructions, he immediately looked cautious and careful, and couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, I got it. By the way, the Plum Blossom Temple is in the mountains, and I'm afraid of the cold. I just need to prepare some carbon before I leave. I don't need to prepare anything else. I just stay for one night. It doesn't need to be too much trouble." Li Mingda said .

Tian Hanshu promised and kept it in his heart.

On the next day, Li Mingda heard the news that Li Chengqian had an audience with Li Shimin.The father and son talked alone in the Lizheng Hall, one angrily reprimanded, and the other repented again and again.In the end, Li Shimin forgave Li Chengqian with several sighs, told him not to make mistakes again, and told him again and again that as long as he does things well, he will correct his mistakes and act properly, and the position of emperor will still belong to him. Rob.

Li Chengqian agreed with tears, kowtowed to Li Shimin's subordinates repeatedly, and promised again and again that he would definitely change his past. "My son promises that within half a year, he will reshape himself and turn into a completely different person for Aye to see!"

Li Shimin was very pleased to see that he was full of energy, and his words were sonorous and powerful when he swore an oath, and he appointed two well-learned ministers to the East Palace to teach the prince, so as to correct his virtue.

Li Chengqian thanked him again, kowtowed his head very loudly, and then backed away.

Soon afterwards, Li Mingda got the news.Li Shimin will lead Li Chengqian to entertain all the ministers during the Lantern Festival.

It seems that his father really intends to forgive his elder brother, and he only hopes that his elder brother can live up to his expectations this time and will not disappoint his father's expectations of him.

Every day, Li Shimin announced to the court and his ministers that Prince Li Chengqian, as the eldest son, was the rightful heir of the Tang Dynasty, and no objection was allowed.

Previously, because of Li Chengqian's poor moral character and the crown prince's leg problems, the ministers had been doubtful about the candidate for the future crown prince and wavering.And because Wei Wang Li Tai is very talented and deeply loved by Li Shimin, many ministers already have the idea of ​​​​supporting Wei Wang Li Tai.

Li Shimin's announcement today immediately extinguished the other thoughts of the ministers in the court.All the ministers also knew that the crown prince Li Chengqian was His Majesty's first son and was deeply loved. Even if he had foot problems, as long as the sage didn't mind and insisted on letting the crown prince succeed the throne, then their courtiers would have nothing to say.

For a moment, all the ministers were of one mind, and the highest voice was for the Crown Prince of the East Palace.

Li Chengqian's position as the crown prince was consolidated, but he did not show arrogance. After handling government affairs diligently every day, he devoted himself to studying hard in his spare time.Sooner or later, he would go to greet Li Shimin and talk about his thoughts on studying and doing things all day.Li Shimin really saw a good son who knows his mistakes and can correct them, and the prodigal son turns back.

Li Shimin was so relieved by this, that he was in a very good mood these past few days, which made all the followers of the Lizheng Palace relax.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Lantern Festival.

Li Mingda greeted Li Shimin early in the morning, then drove out of the palace and went to the Plum Blossom Nunnery outside Chang'an City.

The sky was gloomy, like it was going to snow, but it was not as cold as the previous few days.

Li Mingda's trip was also low-key, and it was not announced to the public, but there were many guards accompanying him, the number can be said to be twice as many as before.It was all because she had accidents one after another some time ago, and her life was in danger.Although the thieves who helped each other had been beheaded and disposed of, Li Shimin was still worried about Li Mingda's personal safety, so he sent double the number of guards.

There are many people who go to the Plum Blossom Temple to offer incense in time for the Lantern Festival.Li Mingda left early, not only because he wanted to catch the first stick of incense, but also to avoid troubles for many people who offered incense when he went to Plum Blossom Nunnery.

When Li Mingda's carriage arrived, more than a dozen people had already arrived at the Plum Blossom Nunnery, but they couldn't enter and were stopped outside the nunnery to avoid it.

The people who were forced to wait outside saw a large group of well-dressed guards entering the Plum Blossom Nunnery escorting a luxurious carriage.The common people discussed one after another, guessing whose carriage it was, and who could put on such a big show.

"See that guard in purple at the front? No one else has such a grand pomp for a serious third rank, unless it's the royal family."

"You mean the princess or the prince?"

"There are so many people in this battle, maybe it's the prince, didn't he make an altar here some time ago!"

"Then he is probably the crown prince!"

"Oh, I haven't seen what the prince looks like, can I see it later?"

"I also want to see."

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After Li Mingda was welcomed by Mrs. Yong'an, he burned the first stick of incense in the Daxiong Hall.After praying again and again, Li Mingda listened to his master's lecture in the meditation room, and then rested in the arranged courtyard.

There are plum blossoms in the courtyard, and the flowers bloom just right.

A gust of cold wind blows over, and the plum fragrance fills the nose.

The Plum Blossom Nunnery is located in a well-known blessed place in Chang'an City, and because of the beautiful scenery of plum blossoms all over the mountain, many nobles came to enjoy the scenery on the grounds of incense.The common people also followed suit with the preferences of the nobles, and as time passed, the incense here became particularly strong.

Also because Empress Changsun likes plum blossoms, and there is a place in the southwest of Meihua Nunnery with particularly good geomantic omen, Li Chengqian chose to build an altar here a few days ago.

The courtyard where Li Mingda lives is not far from the altar.After a short rest, Li Mingda was going to go to the altar to offer incense to pay homage to Empress Changsun, and wanted to have a good talk with Empress Changsun by the way.

But when Li Ming arrived, he found that there were two sticks of burning incense in the supposedly empty incense burner, one long and the other short.The short one is almost burnt out.I also saw that a lot of incense ash had settled under the censer, and it seemed that someone had come here to offer incense.

If there was no incense burning right now, Li Mingda would probably think that the ashes were left by her elder brother.But now her elder brother has returned to the palace, and there is no one from his elder brother in the Plum Blossom Nunnery.The altar has been built, and the death date of Empress Changsun has not yet come, and the place where the altar is located is expressly forbidden to foreign pilgrims.Logically speaking, no one should come here to offer incense this early in the morning.Estimate the length of the short incense burnt, and the incense burner should have come here to burn incense when the sky is dawn.

Li Mingda felt strange, so he sent someone to ask Mrs. Yong'an, thinking that it might be arranged by people in the temple to offer incense.

After a while, Mrs. Yong'an came back and informed Li Mingda.

"Master said that after the altar is built, it will be a forbidden area of ​​Plum Blossom Nunnery. No one in the nunnery or pilgrims will be allowed to enter."

"It seems that someone escaped the guards and came here to offer incense." After Tian Hanshan thought about it, he said to Li Mingda, "I'll ask you to check it out."

"If it's just to commemorate the Empress Changsun, it's not a crime to have such thoughts. Forget it, I won't pursue it." Li Mingda said.

Li Mingda knelt on the futon, holding incense to the statue of Empress Changsun, unable to recover for a long time.She didn't have any impression of Empress Changsun when she was a child, and all she saw was her in the portrait.Now his eldest brother ordered someone to carve out a stone statue based on the portrait of Empress Changsun, which looked more realistic than her in the portrait, more like a lifelike person.

Seeing the princess miss her so much, Tian Hanxiu couldn't help being so moved that his eyes turned red, he blinked, and lowered his eyes, his heart was full of love and distress for your lord.

Li Mingda immediately kowtowed three times to offer incense to Empress Changsun.Seeing this, Tian Hanxi hurried to help Li Mingda up.Li Mingda shook his head, signaling Tian Hanshan to leave for now, she wanted to have a good talk with her mother by herself.

Tian Hanshan agreed, "Na Nu and Cheng Shiwei are waiting for your lord at the door."

Li Mingda nodded.Then she told the stone statue of Empress Changsun, one by one, about her recent experiences.Starting from solving the case after she fell off the cliff, how many friends she had made, and how many problems she had solved, she had explained to Empress Changsun carefully one by one.

When Fang Yizhi was mentioned later, Li Mingda stopped talking, not knowing what to say.

"He is a talented and intelligent person, but sometimes his thoughts are the most unpredictable. He is a bit like Aye."

Li Mingda raised the corners of his mouth unconsciously as he spoke, and then became a little sad, lamenting that all these experiences he had experienced could not be seen by Empress Changsun.In this life, she is also doomed to never have the opportunity to act like a baby in the arms of the queen and honor the queen properly.This is a kind of regret, a regret that is doomed to fail.

Li Mingda wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, smiled again, and hastily kowtowed to Empress Changsun, feeling that he should not be sad in front of her.

"Sizi, everything is fine, please rest assured, Auntie under Nine Springs." Li Mingda kowtowed again.

At this point, she stood up and turned to go out, but after walking a few steps, she suddenly felt that something was wrong. She turned her head to look at the stone statue of Empress Changsun, and looked around, but she didn't find anything wrong.

Li Mingda frowned, thinking that he might be a little too vigilant, so he walked out of the main hall of the altar.

Outside the door, Tian Hanshan and Cheng Chubi hurriedly saluted Li Mingda.

"Go back." Li Mingda said.

Not long after returning to the residence, the maid Biyun told Li Mingda, "Nowadays there are quite a few nobles who plan to spend the Lantern Festival in the nunnery. They heard that your lord is coming, and they all want to pay their respects. The servant girl refused all of them on her own initiative. Thinking that you mainly want to see them, you just need to summon them later, it’s too noisy to wait in this small courtyard.”

Li Mingda nodded and praised Biyun for handling it well.He also asked whose family members were here, and heard Biyun's reports one by one, Li Mingda didn't think it was new, but when it came to Wei Wanshu, Li Mingda paused for a while.

"Why is she here?"

"The servant girl also found it strange, and was worried that she had heard some rumors and was coming towards your lord, so she asked a few more questions. Only then did I know that the little lady of the Wei family lived in Meihua Nunnery three or four months ago. I have been studying and reciting Buddhism all day long, cultivating my body and mind, and I have lived here until today and have not left." Bi Yun replied.

"Why?" Li Mingda asked.

Bi Yun shook her head, "I asked, she smiled awkwardly, and said she came here to meditate, probably she didn't tell the maidservant the truth."

"Forget it, don't care about her, I'll just stay here for a day, and I don't want to ask too much. I'm also tired, so I'll take a rest after eating the vegetarian meal." Li Mingda ordered.

After taking a nap for a while, Li Mingda lay on the couch for a while before getting up and stretching.Hearing that it was snowing outside, she became interested and wanted to go to the nunnery to take a look at the red plums that were all over the nunnery.

Appreciating plum blossoms in the snow and strolling among them is the most beautiful.The nuns in the nunnery are busy hanging up lanterns to celebrate the Shangyuan Festival.The pilgrims also dispersed after noon.When Li Mingda was taking a walk, he heard two or three nuns talking in a very low voice.

"Those pilgrims are too funny. There is no prince here. If you want to see it, you should come early!"

"However, there is only one princess in the nunnery now, but she is a little more handsome than a woman, and a little more gorgeous than a man. I am so beautiful that I am envious!"

"The royal daughter is naturally extraordinary, you really only have envy. But speaking of the prince, I wonder if you saw it a few days ago? He seems to be..."

"Shh, you guys don't talk nonsense. It's all right to say these things, but don't say... Anyway, be honest and keep your mouth shut. This is the rule in the nunnery, and it's for your own good. Otherwise, it will be better for you. Anyway, this kind of It has nothing to do with us, let's not meddle in it. Hurry up, there are so many lanterns to be hung, don't wait until it gets dark to hang them."

The little nun promised not to mention anything else, and the two laughed and worked together.

Li Mingda heard that something was wrong, so she sent Tian Hanshan to inquire. She wanted to know what happened to the prince during the construction of the altar.

And the prince also thought about it some time ago, especially during the Chinese New Year, who came to the nunnery.

"I want another list of pilgrims who stayed in the nunnery during this time."

Tian Hanxiu and Cheng Chubi agreed, and they immediately complied.

Li Mingda continued to go to the back mountain of Plum Blossom Nunnery, where the plum trees grew densely and bloomed even more.She came here by car earlier, and saw the redness here from a distance at the foot of the mountain, so she really wanted to take a closer look at it.

Now the entire nunnery is busy preparing for the Shangyuan Festival, and the back mountain is even quieter.

The guards opened the way first, and went to search the back mountain for any suspicious persons.

When Li Mingda was waiting for the news, he wondered whether he would come after the next room.

Li Mingda didn't really believe that Fang Yizhi asked her to spend the festival alone outside the palace during the Shangyuan Festival. It was really out of wanting to "revenge" her, just to let her taste the joy of spending the festival alone. taste.He's not that boring.But it's strange that others haven't shown up until now.

But no matter what, she came here today to say "this trip is not in vain".It is good that it can talk to the stone statue of its mother and enjoy the beautiful scenery of red plum blossoms in Meihua Nunnery.

"Reporting to your lord, the subordinates at the back mountain have already searched, and there are no outsiders." The guards came forward to report.

Li Mingda was stunned for a moment, nodded, and went to the back mountain.The snow has already covered the ground with a thin layer, the plum blossoms are still red and gorgeous, and the snow is still falling one after another. Looking from a distance, it seems that there are dots of red blooming in a cloud of mist, wisps of fragrance, refreshing.This scene is rare, and it is so beautiful that people can't help but feel happy and jump for joy.But for some reason, Li Mingda suddenly lost interest when he looked at Hongmei whose eyes were wide open.

"Go back." After walking a few steps, Li Mingda turned around and walked back.

Out of the back mountain, after passing two treasure halls, she was about to reach the small courtyard where she had settled down before. At this time, she suddenly heard someone say "Fang Shizi" from a distance, Li Mingda paused, and looked in a blink of an eye. In the distance, there was a tall figure she hadn't seen for a long time.

Fang Baozhu followed Fang Yi directly, and when she saw Li Mingda, she saluted happily.

Li Mingda was also very happy to see their brothers and sisters, but he deliberately asked Fang Yizhi, "Why did you come here?"

Fang Yizhi greeted Li Mingda with a warm smile and said: "It's a coincidence, my mother likes the plum blossoms here, and today coincides with the Lantern Festival, so I plan to pick a few back and put them in her room."

Fang Baozhu nodded hastily, echoed her elder brother's words, and sighed for fate.

Li Mingdaming knew that it was not a coincidence that Fang Yi had met him all this time, but he was very consistent with what he said.

"You brothers and sisters are filial!"

"Thank you for your compliment." Fang Yizhi was blunt, and asked Li Mingda where in the Plum Blossom Nunnery the plum blossoms bloom the best.

Li Mingda told him without hesitation that it was Houshan.

"Houshan?" Fang Yi pointed at the road behind him, "Just follow this road?"

Li Mingda smiled, "Let me guide you?"

"Thank you, my lord."

Fang Yi expressed his thanks bluntly.

Li Mingda was stunned, the previous rhetorical question was meant to imply that Fang Yizhi was bold, but he did not expect him to answer cheekily.

Fang Baozhu felt that the atmosphere between the princess and her eldest brother was a bit weird, so she took a few steps back, not wanting to participate in the battle between the two of them at all.

"I heard that Empress Changsun is fond of plum blossoms, so Yi Zhi dared to guess that your lord would also like to see the plum scenery on the mountain behind the Plum Blossom Nunnery." Fang Yi explained directly.

"That's right, but I've seen it. But I can still guide you, not for you, but for Mrs. Lu. I have eaten the delicacies she made many times, and the soup she taught me is also very popular with saints." Huanxin, I should do something to thank her."

Li Mingda immediately reached out and asked for the blue and scissors from Luo Singer, expressing that he would personally pick plum blossoms for Mrs. Lu.

The three then went to the back mountain.

After Fang Baozhu arrived at the back mountain, she felt happily that the plum blossoms were beautiful. She wanted to walk around more, talking and laughing at Yanyan, so she walked briskly and quickly disappeared in the plum grove.

Li Mingda took the basket and instructed Fang Yizhi how to cut the plum blossoms. The reason why the scissors were transferred from her hands to Fang Yizhi was because she was not tall enough, and the beautiful plum blossoms grew on tall Therefore, in desperation, the tall and slender Fang Yi can only be cut directly.

"There, or here, it seems that this branch is better..." Li Mingda's fingers flicked eastward and westward for a while.

Fang Yizhi has no temper, he will cut whatever branch Li Mingda says.If Li Mingda changed his mind, he would let go and exchange the branch she pointed at as he said.

"I don't see that you are quite patient." After tossing Fang Yizhi a few times, Li Mingda didn't have any complaints about Fang Yizhi.

"To whomever." Fang Yi clicked the scissors, and cut off a beautifully curved red plum that was just about to bloom.

He took the plum branch and twirled it in his hand, "This one is the most beautiful, I leave it to your lord to put it in the room."

Li Mingda also thinks this is the prettiest, "Let's leave it to Mrs. Lu, and I promise to give her a plum blossom. You can't just keep your word."

"Your lord, please keep it. It is Yizhi's apology gift to the princess. It is indeed Yizhi's sin to let your lord spend the festival alone in this deserted Plum Blossom Temple." Fang Yizhi saluted and apologized.

"I would like to admit defeat. If it's just for this matter, you don't need to make amends. But you have to remember that even if you make amends for me in the future, you should give me a heavy gift. You can't fool me with a plum blossom." Li Mingda half-jokingly said.

Fang Yizhi nodded seriously, showing that he understood, "That's not an apology gift, it's a meeting gift, after all, your lord will keep this branch, and a good-looking thing should be matched with a more beautiful person."

"If Mrs. Lu heard what you said, she would probably beat you to death." Li Mingda couldn't help laughing.

Fang Yizhi turned around and continued to cut plum blossoms. After two clicks of scissors, Fang Yizhi suddenly said: "There is a folk saying, 'When you have a wife, you forget your mother'. I didn't understand it before, but now I understand it."

When cutting the plums, only Fang Yizhi and Li Mingda walked forward.Fang Yizhi's voice was very low, and there was a trace of doting in that low voice, which only Li Mingda could hear.

Li Mingda blushed, and subconsciously grabbed the basket tightly.

"The new year has passed, and your lord is one year older." Before Li Mingda could respond carefully, Fang Yizhi shifted the conversation to another place, which was too embarrassing for Li Mingda.

"You have grown too." Li Mingda agreed.

"In the past year, what new insights did your lord have?"

"New insights?" Li Mingda thought for a while, then asked Fang Yizhi, "Do you have any?"

"Following your lord to solve the case this year, Yizhi has gained a lot. Compared with the previous few years, it's a waste of time." Fang Yizhi said truthfully.

"White work?" Li Mingda looked at Fang Yizhi with a surprised smile, "What you said sounds nice. At first it sounds like you are talking about yourself, but in fact you are secretly flattering me. I am really happy."

"It can't be said to be cryptic, Yizhi's little thought has already been seen through by your lord at a glance."

"I can see through too many things, but I haven't seen through you yet." Li Mingda looked at Fang Yizhi meaningfully. When he met his eyes, he suddenly found himself extremely nervous, and hurriedly pointed at Fang Yizhi. The plum blossom behind said, "This one is also good, cut it off."

Fang Yizhi immediately went to cut the plums as he said.

"The sage guessed that I came to Plum Blossom Temple for another purpose, so he sent someone to watch me." Li Mingda said.

"I expected it, that's why Yizhi came here in the name of his mother."

Li Mingda always felt that what Fang Yizhi said was a bit strange, why did it sound like he would choose to 'come here secretly' without Li Shimin's supervision?

Fang Yi stretched out his hand to catch the snowflakes falling from the sky, "Tonight's night scene must be beautiful."

The night scene will be beautiful, if the moon is bright and the stars are few, or the sky is full of stars.

Now because of the snow, the sky is very cloudy, and it is almost evening, how could there be a moon and stars.

Li Mingda asked Fang Yizhi puzzledly: "Are you joking?"

"Then why don't you gamble again?" Fang Yizhi smiled lightly, with an indescribable allure in his words.

Li Mingda refused to admit defeat and said: "Just bet, I don't believe that you will be lucky this time, and the sky will turn fine immediately."

"Just take Zishi as the boundary. If the sky remains unchanged before Zishi, then you will lose. Your master should check it with your own eyes. After all, your master's eyesight is different from that of ordinary people."

"Okay, you have to see clearly, don't play tricks on me then." Li Mingda agreed.

Fang Yizhi nodded, and then said goodbye to Li Mingda with a basket of plum blossoms.Before leaving, Fang Yizhi gave Li Mingda the most beautiful branch of plum blossom.

After Fang Baozhu was called back, she kept complaining, "I haven't played enough, can't I stay longer?"

Although Fang Baozhu spoke directly to Fang Yi, she secretly glanced at Li Mingda out of the corner of her eye.She feels that she has a great responsibility to create opportunities for her elder brother and future sister-in-law.

"It's just cutting plums, how long will it take? Hurry up and follow me." Fang Yi said bluntly, and left with Fang Baozhu.

Fang Baozhu was still not reconciled, she discussed with Fang Yizhi as she walked, or she would stay in Meihua Nunnery temporarily, anyway her mother would not mind if they didn't go back.Fang Baozhu was still thinking about it, but finally she shut up knowingly because Fang Yi gave her a stare, and finally she waved to Li Mingda with a step back and forth, and then reluctantly left.

After watching Fang Yizhi and Fang Baozhu leave, Li Mingda went back to his room.Tian Hanshan handed over to Li Mingda the list of Plum Blossom Temples he had obtained from Master Yong'an.Li Mingda reached out to pick it up, only to realize that he was still holding a plum blossom in his hand.

"This plum blossom looks beautiful. I happen to have an empty vase in this room. I'll put it in." Tian Hanshan happily took the plum blossom from Li Mingda's hand, and went to put it in the vase.

Li Mingda looked at the plum blossoms, and couldn't help but think of Fang Yizhi's words, "If you have a wife, forget your mother", his cheeks will soon catch up with plum blossoms as red.

After Li Mingda regained his composure, he glanced at the list given by Mrs. Yong'an, and his gaze stayed on the name "Wei Wanshu" several times.In the end, he felt that this matter could not be ignored, so he ordered Tian Hanshan to immediately send someone to secretly investigate whether the prince had anything to do with Wei Wanshu during the time he was in Meihua Nunnery.

Li Mingda usually falls asleep shortly after dark.Today, because of a bet with Fang Yizhi, in order to wait for time, she copied the Book of Filial Piety by candle, quietly immersed in it stroke by stroke.After an unknown amount of time, Li Mingda suddenly heard Tian Hanshan who was not out to look at the sky, calling out that it was dawn.

Its daybreak?

Could it be that the moon came out?

Li Mingda really didn't believe that Fang Yizhi would be so evil, even the unpredictable weather could be as Fang Yizhi expected.

Li Mingda put down his pen and rushed out, looking at the sky which was still gloomy.Turning his eyes, he saw that the western sky was brighter, like daytime.But it's not moonlight, it's Kongming lanterns, countless Kongming lanterns.

Li Mingda has good eyesight, but he can't count how many there are in the sky. If he estimated the number, there are two or three thousand.These Kongming lanterns were placed not far from the Meihua Temple Mountain, the distance was just right, each one was shining brightly, and they were blown higher and farther under the night wind.It was the first time for her to see such a grand occasion even as a princess.

Li Mingda found that some lamps had words on them, which only she could read clearly.Li Mingda memorized all the different characters and formed a sentence.

Li Mingda's heart was shocked, and he burst into tears.

He actually knew about it.

Li Mingda clasped his hands together and closed his eyes.

There are thousands of wishes in the world, but she has only one wish since she was a child, and it has been fulfilled today.