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

After Li Shen left the palace, he found Wang Xuance still waiting for him here, which made him feel a little strange.

"Hey? Xuan Ce, why didn't you go back? Are you waiting for me to do something?"

Seeing Li Shen, Wang Xuance immediately bowed and said:

"Greetings, Your Highness Prince Ji. I am worried about Your Highness Prince Ji, so I am waiting for Your Highness Prince Ji here."

"Worried about me? What are you worried about? Are you worried that I'll be killed?"

Li Shen asked doubtfully.

"Your Majesty, raising a private army is a big deal. Even if I don't kill you, I think I will have to punish you.

Now seeing that the prince is safe and sound, it is a blessing."

Wang Xuance looked Li Shen up and down and found that Li Shen did not seem to be injured, so he felt relieved.

He waited outside for a long time, thinking that since His Royal Highness Prince Ji had not come out for such a long time, he must have been beaten by His Majesty.

I didn't expect that Prince Ji came out without any injury.

"Humph, this king is blessed with great fortune and the protection of the gods, so he will be safe and sound.

Your Majesty is very clear about justice, how could you be so narrow-minded as me?"

Li Shen looked up with his nose in the air and acted arrogantly.

"Yes, yes, your Majesty is blessed with great fortune, a long life, and great virtue in both literature and martial arts..."

"Stop, Xuan Ce, if you don't know how to flatter, then don't flatter me anymore. Are you crazy? This is the gate of the Imperial City, and you actually told me what I said to His Majesty.

Do you feel uncomfortable because I didn't get beaten today?"

Hearing Wang Xuance's words, Li Shen felt a chill on his back and quickly interrupted Wang Xuance to teach him a lesson.

"Your Majesty is right. It is my fault."

Wang Xuance also realized that he had just said the wrong thing and that he was not skilled enough.

"Learn more from Wang Hongfu in the future; he is much better than you in this area.

Go, go, go, go quickly, I always feel cold standing here."

As he spoke, Li Shen quickly rode on Little White Dragon No. 2 and rushed towards Prince Ji's Mansion.

Wang Xuance also got on the horse and thought to himself: It seems I really need to learn from Wang Hongfu.

It turns out that flattery is a technical job.

After running all the way, Li Shen finally returned to Prince Ji's Mansion. After he dismounted from his horse, Lu Dingniang and Wu Meiniang and others came out to greet him.

Prince Ji left the palace in a hurry yesterday and did not return all night, nor did he send anyone back to inform him.

This made several women in the palace very worried.

Prince Ji is the pillar of Prince Ji's Mansion. If something happens to Prince Ji, who among them can carry the banner of Prince Ji's Mansion?

By then, all the properties of Prince Ji’s Mansion will be occupied by others.

"My dear, you didn't come home last night, and I was so worried."

Lu Dingniang stepped forward and looked at Li Shen to see if there was anything wrong.

"Don't worry, ma'am. I went out of town last night to do some work. It was too late, so I stayed outside the city for one night. I didn't have time to send someone to inform you. I won't do it again next time."

Li Shen took Lu Dingniang's hand and comforted her.

It feels really good to come home and know someone is concerned about you.

"Aye, aye."

At this time, a thin figure rushed towards Li Shen and hugged Li Shen's thighs. It was Li Shen's eldest daughter Xixi.

"Well, Aye didn't go looking for you, but you actually walked into the trap yourself, you prodigal child, you are not a little cotton-padded jacket at all, you don't even have a belt to keep you warm."

Li Shen bent down and lifted Xixi in front of him, his face full of anger.

"Oh, Your Majesty, don't scare Xixi. Let's talk it over nicely. Xixi has done something wrong."

When Lu Dingniang saw Li Shen's expression, she quickly snatched Xixi away and complained.

"What did you do wrong? Ask her."

Hearing this, Lu Dingniang looked at Xixi in her arms and asked:

"Xixi, did you do something wrong to make your father unhappy?"

Xixi blinked twice, put her fingers in her mouth, and tried hard to recall.

"No, Xixi is very obedient and didn't do anything to make Aye unhappy."

Finally, Xixi shook her head.

"Your Majesty, what is going on? Xixi has been in the mansion all the time. Even if she caused trouble, it should have been in the mansion."

Lu Dingniang asked.

"What else? Xixi, didn't you go to the palace a while ago and tell your grandfather that you're getting irritated from eating meat every day in the palace? You still want to eat vegetables, right?"

Li Shen looked at Xixi and asked.

Lu Dingniang must have understood and quickly explained:

"So that's what happened. I know now that I was the one who took her to visit my mother.

But it’s nothing. She just heard from others that eating meat will cause internal heat, so she followed suit.

Why, Your Majesty blames the prince for this?"

"Not really." Li Shen shook his head.

"Why is the young master angry?"

"Xixi, did you bring something with you when you went to the palace?"

Li Shen continued to ask.

Xixi thought about it and nodded her head.

"My dear, I only know about this matter. Xixi said it was a gift for His Majesty, and it seemed to be a fishing rod.

It was in a box, and it looked like it had been used by my husband.

I saw it was a gift to Your Majesty, and I didn't look closely, nor did I try to stop it. How could it not be a fishing rod?"

Lu Dingniang seldom looked at Li Shen's things. She only knew that Xixi took a fishing rod of Li Shen and gave it to His Majesty.

Is there something wrong with the fishing rod?

"There's nothing wrong with the fishing rod, but the problem is that it's very valuable, there's only one in the world."

Li Shen felt sad when he thought of his fishing rod.

"So that's what it's for."

Seeing Li Shen's distressed look, Lu Dingniang laughed in her heart. The prince was such a miser that he even felt sorry for the gifts he gave to His Majesty.

"My dear, it is valuable, but it is a gift to His Majesty, not to anyone else.

This also shows Xixi's filial piety."

Lu Dingniang persuaded.

"More expensive? Madam, it's not just more expensive. The material of that fishing rod took the Academy of Sciences two years of experimentation to obtain.

It cost a lot of money.

Even the silk of the silkworm is not precious in front of him.

That fishing rod is worth at least a million dollars, including the processing fee. If you include the research fee, it would be even more expensive."

"What! Ten thousand taels of silver."

This time, not only Lu Dingniang was surprised, but also Wu Meiniang, Lan Yuer and others were also shocked.

I never thought that a small fishing rod could be worth a fortune.

"Just tell this prodigal child that you can't give him a fishing rod, no matter what else you give him."

Li Shen was so heartbroken.

"But Aye, Ah Weng said he likes fishing. Isn't it right for Xixi to give Ah Weng a fishing rod?"

Xixi asked her father innocently in Lu Dingniang's arms.

"Well... this... it should be the case, but Xixi, it's right to give you a gift.

But you can’t give your father-in-law something that belongs to someone else. You should wait until you grow up and give your father-in-law something that belongs to you. That’s how you can be filial.”

Li Shen was somewhat speechless when asked, could it be that it was not right? Then his father would immediately come to his house with a knife.

After hearing what Li Shen said, Xixi seemed to understand, and after thinking for a while, she said:

"It turns out that Aye is not Xixi's Aye, but an outsider."

"......"