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

Seeing her husband arguing his case, Lu Dingniang felt helpless and amused.

She has witnessed the love-hate relationship between Prince Ji and His Majesty for many years.

No one else could understand why Li Shen was unwilling to obey His Majesty, and His Majesty always liked to provoke the disobedient Li Shen.

The father and son often quarreled with each other, and there was no sign of fatherly kindness or filial piety between them.

Especially when Li Shen showed no respect for His Majesty, who was both a king and a father, it puzzled the people around him.

They could not understand at all how happy the father and son were, and of course most of the happiness was shared by Li Shimin.

Li Shen is just one of them.

This made many people envy Li Shen. If someone bullied the emperor or disobeyed his order, they could just be beaten up.

Only Li Shen himself felt that his happiness was earned at the cost of his body.

"Madam, do you know how much this will cost?" When Li Shen heard his princess' dissuasion, he immediately prepared to teach Lu Dingniang a lesson.

"My dear, there are not many people. His Majesty, the Queen and the concubines are just there. How much can they eat?" Lu Dingniang said indifferently.

"My lady, that's not the way to calculate it. There are also those eunuchs and maids. There are at least a hundred of them.

There are also two thousand soldiers and two thousand horses in the Imperial Guard.

If you do the math, the grain alone would be over a thousand buckets a day, the meat would be at least several hundred kilograms, and there would also be fodder.

All added together, two hundred guan a day wouldn’t be enough.”

Li Shen counted on his fingers to calculate the expenses for his silly wife. More than two hundred strings of cash a day was not a small amount. If he stayed for ten days or half a month, he would have to spend several thousand strings of cash on food.

Do you really think you are a vegetable market?

Lu Dingniang was stunned by what Li Shen said. More than two hundred strings of cash a day was indeed a bit high.

With an expenditure of two hundred thousand yuan a day, how many people would it have to support among the people?

But Lu Dingniang always felt that something was wrong. After thinking for a while, Lu Dingniang finally reacted:

"My dear, you are calculating the price for purchasing outside. We are not purchasing outside. We have a lot of grain in the warehouse. We can just send someone to transport it over.

We raise our own meat and grow our own vegetables, so why would we need so much money?

My dear, you have deceived me again."

I almost got fooled by King Ji. They were all my family's stuff, so why did they need such a high price?

Li Shen felt somewhat embarrassed to be exposed by Lu Dingniang.

"Okay, okay, I'm just trying to save some money for Er."

"Shitou, go inform Fugui and have him send someone to inform him. Also, go to the warehouse over at Zhuangzi's and prepare a batch of food and fodder, and send it to Cuiwei Palace in Zhongnan Mountain as soon as possible tomorrow morning."

Seeing that Li Shen agreed, Lu Dingniang instructed Shi Tou.

After receiving the order, Shitou went to the front yard to inform Li Shen. Li Shen sighed in his heart, what a spendthrift daughter-in-law.

"My dear, remember to be frugal in the future. This family business will be given to your son in the future. If you squander it all, he will have to beg for food."

Li Shen felt that he should give Lu Dingniang some chicken soup, otherwise it would not be acceptable for her to just accept whatever the palace said.

"Your Highness, what are you talking about? Honoring one's parents is a matter of course. Besides, it doesn't cost much. If it can make His Majesty and the Queen happy, why not do it?"

Lu Dingniang pouted and retorted.

"Oh my~~ Madam, you are so arrogant, and you didn't spend much. The cost for this day is almost half a year's salary of my father-in-law, and it's not much."

Li Shen opened his mouth exaggeratedly. His father-in-law, Lu Shuang, had been promoted from a military doctor to a military assistant minister.

But the salary is not much.

After hearing this, Lu Dingniang rolled her eyes at Li Shen. She was not like this before, but only became like this after she came to Prince Ji's Mansion.

She had to change, as it was not in keeping with Princess Ji's identity.

As a result, Lu Dingniang rarely goes back to her parents' home. When she chats with her mother, she always talks about trivial matters such as thousands or tens of thousands of strings of cash.

Although her mother was from the Zheng family, tens of thousands of strings of cash were a big deal in the family, and her mother had never seen tens of thousands of strings of cash.

But she said it so casually, spending tens of thousands of strings of cash in just a few days.

Zheng was shocked and didn't know how to respond. After a long time, Lu Dingniang found that she could not chat with her mother for long.

She could only talk about some of the private matters in the boudoir, but there were not so many private matters in the boudoir as she was managing the huge Prince Ji’s Mansion all day long.

Over time, I went back to my parents' home less and less often.

"My dear, what you said is to show respect to His Majesty and the Queen. How can it be mixed up?"

"Okay, okay, I'm not filial, I..."

Since he had nothing to do, Li Shen planned to chat to kill time.

At this time, Shitou, who had gone out to do some work, came back to report:

"Your Majesty, the four young masters of the Wei family are outside seeking to see you."

The four gentlemen refer to Wei Siyan and his four brothers.

"What are they doing here? I just got some free time, why are there so many things going on every day?

Will you let me enjoy myself? I can’t live like this anymore.”

Li Shen couldn't help but complain. His own unjust case had just been resolved, and now he was dealing with Princess Gaoyang's case.

I just finished delivering food ingredients to my father today, and now someone from the Wei family has come again.

I just want to be a prince who lives a life of idleness and waits for death. Is that so difficult?

But when Wei Siyan and the others came, Li Shen had to see them. After all, he was his mother's cousin. If he didn't take care of anything,

They might go and trouble their mother again.

Helplessly, Li Shen could only sigh:

"Well, take them to the front hall. I will come as soon as I change my clothes."

"Yes, Your Highness." Shi Tou agreed and went to the front yard again.

Li Shen asked the wet nurse to look after the two little ones, and went back to the room with Lu Dingniang to change clothes.

Wei Siyan and several others were led to the front hall. In addition to Wei Siyan and his companions, there were several other people, one of whom was a woman.

"Cousin, you are familiar with His Royal Highness Prince Ji, and I hope you can help me later." One of them saluted to Wei Siyan and others.

Wei Siyan returned the gift:

"Well, we should speak for you, but you have heard about the temper of His Royal Highness Prince Ji.

It is unknown whether our words will be effective, so don't hold out too much hope.

But don't worry, since the clan has given the order, we will do our best to help."

"Then thank you, cousin. If it doesn't work, we can only ask the Imperial Concubine to come forward. I believe His Royal Highness Prince Ji will agree."

Another middle-aged man spoke up.

"Hmph, I advise you not to do that, otherwise I'm afraid that what you want won't be accomplished and someone may die.

Even we in the Yungongfang didn't dare to go to the eldest sister when we had problems, for fear of being blamed by King Ji.

His Highness Prince Ji has already said that everyone in the clan knows that we cannot disturb the eldest sister at any time, and we can only report good news and not bad news.

Otherwise, His Royal Highness Prince Ji will make you worry even more."

The youngest, Wesley, snorted coldly, not hiding the threat in the slightest.

(It’s time to go to work, everyone. Work hard to make money.)