Author: The cat who doesn’t drink water

Li Yanran picked up a piece of meat and blew on it before sending it to Li Zhi's hand.

Li Zhi fanned it and took a bite eagerly.

"tasty."

Li Zhi nodded to Li Yanran, it tasted really good.

"Brother Hong, you should try it too."

Li Yanran forked out another piece and stuffed it into Li Hong's mouth.

Looking at the meat on his hands, Li Hong told the truth that he wanted to eat it but didn't dare to eat it, but after glancing at Li Yanran, he opened his mouth to devour it.

"Yanran, you should eat too."

After Li Zhi ate a few pieces in succession, he couldn't eat anymore. He glanced at Li Yanran and didn't understand why she just didn't eat.

"I don't like eating these, you can just eat them."

Li Yanran took out another piece and handed it to Li Hong.

Li Hong was about to cry. Sister, the way you think of it, if you don't eat it yourself, you really have to pick it all out.

"Brother, why don't you eat? Your mouth was watering just now when you looked at the pot."

Li Yanran glanced at Li Hong threateningly, and the other man also bit into it in a manly manner.

After drinking and eating, Li Zhi, Li Hong and Li Yanran also sat side by side, enjoying the pleasant time after dinner.

After a while, a chamberlain came over in a hurry and whispered something into Ruian's ear.

Ruian raised his eyebrows, glanced at the father and daughter on the side, hesitated for a moment and then walked over.

"What's wrong? Didn't you see that I was resting?"

Li Zhi glanced at Ruian, who was approaching, with a look of displeasure in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, your parrot is missing."

"What?"

Hearing this, Li Zhi's brows almost took off.

My parrot is no ordinary bird. It is taken care of by dedicated people every day. How could it go missing?

After looking at the angry Li Zhi, Li Hong shuddered and looked at Li Yanran next to him with an aggrieved look.

Li Yanran smiled slightly, her face full of indifference.

"Check, if my parrot is not found, all the people responsible for raising the parrot will be executed."

Li Zhi looked at Ruian with a sullen face. It must be those eunuchs who neglected their duties, which led to such a situation. They couldn't even look down on a parrot. Why was he raising those wastes?

"His Majesty."

Ruian glanced at Li Zhi and then at Li Hong, who was standing aside, and hesitated.

"If you have something to say, just say it."

Looking at Ruian who was hesitating, Li Zhi was also puzzled.

This old guy is not usually like this.

"Your Majesty, someone in the palace discovered that His Highness the Crown Prince was walking around the palace with your parrot not long ago."

After saying this, Ryan knelt on the ground directly.

One is the current emperor, and the other may be the emperor in the future. He cannot afford to offend either of them.

"???"

Li Zhi looked at Li Hong beside him with a confused look, wanting to ask for proof of the authenticity of Ruian's words.

"Father, I was wronged."

Sure enough, what was supposed to come was coming, and Li Hong threw himself directly into Li Zhi's arms.

"You are unjust? Then my parrot is not unjust? Duzi, my parrot has offended you in some way, and you are going to treat it like this."

Li Zhi directly pulled Li Hong out and stared at his good son.

The murderer who killed his own parrot.

"Father, father, my son and I are really unjust."

Facing the furious Li Zhi, Li Hong burst into tears.

He was really wronged, it was all Sister A's fault, but now he dare not say anything.

The so-called catching a thief and dirtying him up, he was seen carrying the parrot carcass, even if it was covered with mouths, it was hard to explain.

"Father, what you hear may not be true, and what you see may not be true. Although some people in the palace saw the emperor's brother holding the body of the parrot, the murderer is really not Hongdi."

Li Yanran looked at the trembling Li Hong and hurriedly came out to smooth things over.

"Don't intercede for that traitor. If you kill my parrot, how can I spare him?"

After Li Zhi said this, his eyes widened and he slapped Li Hong on the buttocks.

"Father, Hongdi just wanted to bury your parrot and help it get revenge."

Li Yanran tugged on the corner of Li Zhi's clothes and said what she said.

"You mean this is the murderer who killed his parrot?"

Li Zhi glanced at the boiling soup in the pot, his eyes full of disbelief.

It would be strange if you could believe this nonsense.

"Father, do you know what this is?"

Li Yanran glanced at her father, pointed at the iron pot and asked.

"What?"

Li Zhi was stunned and didn't understand what this was.

Li Yanran whispered a few words in Li Zhi's ear, and Li Zhi felt bad after hearing it.

"You said, this is your mother's spirit dog?"

"That's right."

Li Yanran nodded, and Li Zhi was so frightened that he took a few steps back.

"Boy Li, you are hurting me."

Li Zhi finally understood why they were so kind in asking him to come and eat good food. It turned out that they wanted to bear the blame on him.

"Father, what are you talking about? You are avenging your parrot. How could it be harming you? Even if the queen mother knew about it, she could only blame her own spiritual dog for being ignorant and killing your parrot."

Li Yanran patted Li Hong on the shoulder, and the other party nodded crazily.

"You. You."

Li Zhi felt that the sky was about to collapse. He had really experienced Wu Zetian's power.

Although his parrot is magical, how can Wu Zetian's spiritual dog be ordinary? What if Wu Zetian knew that he had eaten her spiritual dog?

Then he's finished.

But now that the meat has been eaten by himself, no matter what he says, it will not help. He will definitely take the blame, but he can't be angry.

He directly grabbed Li Hong by his side, raised his arms and unleashed crazy output.

"It's all your fault for being such a rebellious son. I will be hated by your mother."

"It's all your fault for asking me to come and eat this delicious food."

"It's all your fault. I have to bear the blame for the death of your mother's spirit dog."

Li Hong was shocked. Father, why did you hit me after you took the blame?

The parrot was killed by Sister A, and the spirit dog was killed by Cheng Chubi. I am truly an outsider.

If you leave the culprit alone, why should you hit me, an innocent passerby?

"Father, father, if you hit Hongdi again, you will beat him to death."

Li Yanran quickly hugged Li Zhi's arm. She had expected everything, but she had not expected that the other party would become angry.

Brother Hong, it's all my fault that my sister didn't think about it and made a mistake.

"Hmph, even if you beat him to death for being such a traitor, it's not an exaggeration."

Li Zhi slapped Li Hong again in anger, and then let Li Hong go.

"Yanran, what do you think we should do now? We must find a way to fool your mother, otherwise the world will really fall apart."

He glanced at Li Yanran bitterly. Li Zhi knew that she had the most clever ideas and he could only rely on her now.

"Father, this is actually very simple. You can follow the same pattern as the gourd. As long as my mother-in-law also eats this, there will be nothing to blame."
To be continued...