area51novel Chapter 411
Chapter 411
Li Shimin nodded, then looked at Princess Changle with a hint of sarcasm and asked:
"Su Chen didn't go back to the palace with you today?"
Princess Changle smiled faintly and pointed to the carriage beside her, "Su Chen fell asleep. He got up at 6:30 today, two hours earlier than usual."
Li Shimin opened his mouth slightly when he heard this. Can you fall asleep in a carriage? Then he thought that the road from the manor to Chang'an City was flat and cemented, so it was not strange to fall asleep in a carriage.
"Let the bastard sleep, wake up Su Hou in half an hour." Li Shimin said the second half of the sentence to the eunuch beside him.
"Yes!" The eunuch of Taiji Hall bowed and answered.
Little did he know that when Li Shimin called Princess Changle, Su Chen had already woken up.
"Oh, we're here so soon!"
Su Chen got out of the carriage, yawned and stretched.
"Your Majesty, hello! How dare you come to greet me?" With a sincere smile, he waved to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin's face darkened, "Why don't you get off!"
Su Chen jumped off the carriage quickly, but Li Shimin attacked from the side as soon as his feet landed.
"Hey~ I can't kick you!"
Su Chen twisted his waist and dodged to Li Chengqian's side.
"Humph!" Li Shimin failed to succeed, snorted coldly and looked at the eunuchs and said: "Tell those people in the Imperial Study that I have important matters, let them do their own things!"
"Boy, go!"
Then, he took the lead and walked towards Li Zheng.
A quarter of an hour later, everyone came to Li Zheng Hall.
"Guanyin maid!"
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you!" Empress Changsun and several other imperial concubines in the harem were knitting sweaters without distraction. Hearing Li Shimin's voice, they immediately saluted.
Li Shimin nodded in response and consciously sat aside. He knew that Su Chen would be conspicuous wherever he went.
"Su Chen, you are here, come and sit down!" Empress Changsun greeted with a smile and led Su Chen to sit down.
Li Chengqian had long been accustomed to this. As long as he was with Su Chen, everyone would automatically ignore his existence. He smiled and bowed to Empress Changsun and Concubine Yang, and sat on the right side of Li Shimin.
"Mother, hello, all the aunts!" Su Chen bowed respectfully and greeted.
Empress Changsun pulled Su Chen to sit down again. "Su Chen, sit here."
Su Chen couldn't stand his mother-in-law's enthusiasm for a while, and it was awkward to sit between Empress Changsun and the others.
"Mother, Li Zhi brought you a lot of wool yarn." He quickly walked to the two palace maids holding the packages, grabbed one in each hand and sent two packages of wool yarn to Empress Changsun.
"Mother, look, there are all kinds of colors." After saying that, Su Chen hurriedly sat next to Li Shimin.
Empress Changsun smiled, took out a garment ruler from behind and walked to Su Chen, "Su Chen, stand up, I will measure your body length."
It turned out that Empress Changsun wanted to measure Su Chen's shoulder width and sleeve length.
She was knitting a sweater for Su Chen!
"Spread your arms flat."
Empress Changsun instructed Su Chen, and after a while, Empress Changsun put away the garment ruler, looked at Su Chen and smiled.
"Okay, sit down!" Immediately, Empress Changsun returned to her seat and wrote down the body shape numbers she had just measured on a piece of paper.
Li Chengqian, who was standing by, saw it clearly.
Good fellow!
This is too biased!
Princess Changle immediately walked to Empress Changsun's side, "Mother, can you teach me?"
"Haha, you can't learn it, it depends on talent!"
As the saying goes, no one knows a son better than his father, and no one knows a daughter better than her mother. Empress Changsun knew Princess Changle, and she was not suitable for such delicate manual work.
The maids in Lizheng Palace served steaming hot tea to Li Shimin and others.
"Thank you!"
Su Chen nodded to the maid in front of him and thanked her, then looked at Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty, just give me a cup of boiled water in the future. We rarely drink tea in the manor."
"Really?" Li Shimin glanced at Su Chen and Li Chengqian respectively.
The two nodded very affirmatively.
Li Shimin nodded, "That's great! Do you have anything else to do in the palace today?" It's best not to drink tea, save some tea leaves.
"Nothing important, just take a look around."
Li Shimin suddenly remembered the kang he had seen in the manor that day, and was very curious about the effect of the kang.
"Boy, has the kang been put into use these two days? Can you sleep peacefully at night?"
Li Shimin was always wondering that day. There was a fire burning under the kang. Wouldn't people sleeping on it get burned?
"Oh, don't mention it. Look, he, Li You and Li Ke all snore when they sleep at night."
"I couldn't stand it after sleeping with them for only one night."
Su Chen said this loudly, without any reservation.
Empress Changsun and the others heard it clearly, and couldn't help laughing.
Concubine Yang had learned from Li Shimin the day before yesterday that Li Ke had returned to the manor and complainedSaid Li Ke didn't want to come back to see her.
"Lizhi, does Su Chen snore when he goes to bed?" Concubine Yang glanced at Princess Changle and asked casually.
Empress Changsun gave Concubine Yang a bad look.
Princess Changle thought about it seriously. There were several times when she went to wake Su Chen up early in the morning, but she seemed to have never heard him snoring.
"He doesn't snore when he sleeps."
Empress Changsun looked at Princess Changle with pity and shook her head.
Sighed in her heart: 'Alas! Poor silly child! '
Seeing that Princess Changle was so 'pure', Concubine Yang and the others wanted to continue teaching her, but found that Empress Changsun's eyes were not kind.
So they stopped there and laughed it off.
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Su Chen really couldn't figure it out. In the past, Li Tai was a fat man weighing nearly 200 pounds.
Among their brothers, he was the only one who didn't snore when he slept.
The kang is indeed effective. Su Chen plans to build a kang in all rooms with conditions in the manor, and has built three more kangs.
Needless to say, Princess Changle's room is definitely arranged.
There are two more, one for Xue Rengui's mother and one for Sun Simiao. They will be added later, but the cement board will take a little time.
"Great, is the kang comfortable to sleep on at night?" Li Shimin turned to ask Li Chengqian.
"Father, the temperature of the kang can be controlled artificially, and it can maintain a suitable temperature for the human body to sleep until you wake up naturally."
Li Chengqian suddenly touched the corner of his mouth, "Well, it's just a little bit of heat. According to my brother-in-law, it will be fine after a period of adaptation."
I don't know if everyone will get hot when they sleep on the kang for the first time, or if it's a regional habit. Su Chen slept on the kang all night and felt a little dry.
Li Shimin learned the basic situation of the kang, "Su Chen, send skilled craftsmen to the palace to build the kang after returning to the manor."
"Your Majesty, it is not difficult to build a kang and does not require skilled craftsmen. As long as you draw a general shape and a few key points that need attention, ordinary craftsmen can build it."
"The materials are also cheap, and ordinary people can use other materials to build kangs at home."
Su Chen was planning to write a tutorial in the newspaper to teach others how to build a kang, but it was very troublesome to draw pictures in the newspaper.
"Okay, you should explain the details of the kang as soon as possible and write it into a book. I will order the Ministry of Revenue to promote the kang to the people. The cold winter is coming and the kang can keep the people warm."
Li Shimin was unambiguous and always had the people in his heart.
Su Chen nodded, "Okay, Your Majesty."
Suddenly, the old king shouted outside the Lizheng Palace, and he walked straight towards Li Shimin with a letter in his hand.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, Ganzhou reported that the Western Region envoys had entered Ganzhou three days ago.
There is another letter for your Majesty."
The old king is very dedicated. He just returned to the palace from outside today and happened to meet the military scout who was returning to Chang'an from Ganzhou to report the news.
"Good!" Li Shimin shouted and quickly took the letter and opened it.
The old king took the opportunity to greet Li Chengqian and Su Chen.
Then, Li Shimin shouted three times in a row and laughed: "Good, good, good! Hahaha...!" He handed the letter to Su Chen casually.
After reading the letter, Su Chen nodded with a smile and thought for a while:
"Your Majesty, is there a lot of bullshit in the palace?"
Li Shimin immediately restrained his smile and asked in confusion: "Bullshit? What do you want bullshit for?"
Why did Su Chen ask for bullshit for no reason?
Five hundred yaks from the Western Regions are on the way!
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