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Chapter 3 The bad news brought by Li Ke

Although he was confused, Li Yan immediately stood up to greet Li Ke. What made him most uncomfortable when he returned to ancient times was that he was too much etiquette. For example, he and Li Ke were brothers. According to Li Yan's idea, if Li Ke came in directly, it would be fine if Li Ke wanted to come in directly, but Li Yan had to go to the living room to greet him. The Liang Palace covers a huge area and does not have cars, motorcycles and other means of transportation. Every time he walked over, he would get tired and sweaty. It was extremely inconvenient to go back and forth, but this was etiquette, and even brothers could not neglect it.

"Third brother, isn't your father forbidding others from visiting me? Are you not afraid of your father's punishment?" Li Yan asked directly after entering the living room. As soon as he came in, he saw Li Ke sitting there to taste tea. He had already met Li Ke on the first day of sobering, so he was quite familiar with him.

After Li Yan said that, he sat on the chair. Originally, people in the Tang Dynasty usually knelt on their knees. Although furniture such as chairs had appeared, not many people were used. Of course, Li Yan, a modern person, was not used to kneeling, so he asked craftsmen to build several types of furniture from later generations, and chairs were one of them.

"Haha? The style of your Hu bed is very exquisite and novel!" Li Ke ignored him and just looked around at the chairs and coffee tables placed in the living room, saying in surprise. The chairs in the Tang Dynasty were also called Hu beds, which can sit and lie, so they are generally larger and bulky. The chairs designed by Li Yan had a backrest and armrests. This kind of chair did not appear until the middle and late Tang Dynasty. In addition, the materials and workmanship of the chairs were very exquisite, so Li Ke certainly felt exquisite and novel when he saw them.

"Haha, a little bit of gadget. If my third brother likes it, I'll ask someone to call more and send it to your mansion." Li Yan said generously.

"Then I'm thankful for my sixth brother!" Li Ke was not polite, and picked up the tea bowl and sipped it and put it on the coffee table. It was very convenient.

"Brother Third, have you not answered my question yet?" Li Yan saw that his third brother was only caring about looking at the decorations in the living room and couldn't help but remind him again.

"Oh, today my father is looking at our calligraphy. I was lucky enough to get the first place. While my father is happy, I beg my father to allow me to visit you. My father agreed to me before I dared to come. Otherwise, I would not be as brave as you." Li Ke said half-jokingly. He was helpless with his younger brother: he was naughty, domineering, bold, and his mother's spoiling, which made Li Yan a completely playboy. Sometimes, his brother is unable to do anything to him. Fortunately, Li Yan respects his brother, so the relationship between the two is pretty good.

Li Yan was a little embarrassed by Li Ke's words, and he laughed dryly and didn't know what to say.

"Okay, I'm not kidding anymore." Li Ke put down the tea bowl and said with a serious expression, "Actually, I'm here to communicate with you in this important matter. This news is not a good thing for you!"

"What news?" Li Dao was startled by Li Ke's serious look, "Is it because the Xiao family wants to regret the marriage?"

"The illegitimate daughter of the Xiao family can be your princess. This is giving them the face of parents Xiao. How could they regret the marriage? We regret the marriage. How could you have such ridiculous thoughts?" Li Ke frowned and said with an unhappy expression. His younger brother married the illegitimate daughter as the princess. His brother's face was not good-looking. In this matter, he and Concubine Yang had the same viewpoint, and they wanted to find an opportunity to break off the engagement.

When Li Yan heard that it was not a matter of regret for the marriage, he immediately felt relieved. He had such a beautiful woman as his fiancée for no reason. Although it was the concubine of the Xiao family who was the one who was the one who was in the Tang Dynasty, it was the opposite in Li Yan's opinion. After all, he had not yet adapted to the noble status of the prince, and he would occasionally bring the thoughts of Li Tian of his future generations, so he blurted out this ridiculous question.

"Then what else is bad news?" Li Yan said indifferently.

"You are already fourteen this year. According to the rules, you will be a foreign official for a year. I heard the news that my father wants you to go to Yizhou as the governor."

"Yizhou? What a good place!" Li Yan said with a longing look on his face. Yizhou is Chengdu in later generations, the country of Tianfu. Strange noodles, dragon bag hands, rabbit heads and other delicacies, especially the spicy hotpot in Sichuan. Unfortunately, the chili peppers are still in the Americas and many delicacies cannot be made. This disappointed Li Yan, who is extremely spicy, very much. But it doesn't matter. The Sichuan Basin is a good place with rich resources, and it's also good to taste Sichuan delicacies from the Tang Dynasty. It seems that Li Shimin still loves his unfilial son very much!

"Good place?" Li Ke was completely desperate for his ignorant brother, and he couldn't even tell the difference between good and bad. He couldn't help but shout, "Yizhou is located in Jiannan Road. The people are rampant in miasma, and the Shu Road is difficult. It will take at least two months to go there. In addition, it is close to Tuyuhun. Although the army had pacified Tuyuhun last year, its southwest is Tubo. Tubo is becoming increasingly strong now, and it is constantly rubbing with Tuyuhun. A war may break out at any time. Do you still think there is a good place?"

Li Yan was stunned by Li Ke's words. He didn't expect that his cheap father was really cruel. He sent him to such a dangerous place. He would have to peel off even if he didn't die. But it was normal to think about it. Li Shimin is a cruel person who killed his brother and was not surprised to be cruel to his son. For example, the fifth prince of Qi, Li You, above him, wasn't Li Shimin killed in a few years? Thinking of this made Li Yan's neck a little chill. It seems that it is the king to think of some solutions in the future. It is the king to win the favor of this cheap father!

"Father is too cruel. I am only fourteen years old?" Li Yan said with a look of grief and anger. "What does the mother's meaning mean?" Now he can only count on Concubine Yang to plead for him. During this period, Li Yan found that his mother Concubine Yang seemed to be favored by Li Shimin. Many of the disasters he caused in the past were resolved by Concubine Yang pleading to Li Shimin.

"Oh, you are all such a big person, how can you count on the protection of your mother everywhere?" Li Ke said a little disgusted, "Although the father favors his mother, you also know the father's character. Mother's mother can still plead for you in some irrelevant trivial matters, but in such a big matter, it is useless for the mother to beg for the father several times. Moreover, because the queen's condition worsens, the father is in a very bad mood, and the mother does not dare to do too much. The key is still you."

"Me? What can I do? You don't know that my father doesn't like me at all, and no matter how much I beg him, it's useless." Li Yan said in great frustration. Now he has completely replaced himself as the King of Liang.

Li Ke also sighed softly. He knew his father's attitude towards his younger brother very well. Not only did he dislike him, but he could even say that he was very disgusted. Therefore, he sent Li Yan to such a distance as the governor, obviously because he wanted to be purified without seeing his eyes.

"Let's do this, you write a confession letter immediately. I'll take it back and present it to my father, and then help you ask for it to see if you can change it to a place closer to Chang'an, so that it will be easier to come back to visit your mother's mother in the future." Li Ke thought about it, and finally he could only come up with such a solution that was not a solution. Although the hope for success is slim, it is better than doing nothing.

"You want to write? This... there is something wrong with this." Li Yan said hesitantly. He had been to college in his previous life, but in the Tang Dynasty he became a semi-illiterate person. He didn't know most traditional Chinese characters, let alone brushes. He had never touched that thing since he was a child, so he immediately had a headache when he heard that he wanted to write something.

"What? You can't even write a slap after being beaten, right?" Li Ke asked casually in anger. But what he didn't expect was that his good brother actually nodded, and his face was full of aggrieved expression.

"You...you really can't write anymore?" Li Ke was startled and stood up and looked at Li Yan up and down. Although he had known absenteeism for a long time that many unpredictable sequelae were caused, he did not expect it to be so serious. If a prince couldn't even write a word, it would definitely become another laughing stock if it spread.

"Prepare your pen and ink, just write a few words for me to see now!" Li Ke ordered.

Wen'er, who was standing on the side, immediately went out to prepare, and the pen and ink were ready in a short while. Although Li Yan was very reluctant, under Li Ke's forced gaze, he could only pick up the wolf brush and dip it in the ink, and then trembled and wrote the simplest words "man" and "big" on the paper. These two words are written in this way, regardless of the traditional Chinese, and I am not worried about being written incorrectly.

"Brother Third, when I woke up, I found that I didn't recognize most of the characters, and I couldn't write them. These two characters I barely remembered." Li Yan handed the characters to Li Ke with a flushed face. The main reason was that the characters were written too ugly, and the strokes were twisty and twisted, and they were not distinguished in thickness. It was probably the level of a three-year-old child.

When Li Ke saw Li Yan holding the pen, he was mostly disappointed because Li Yan used the pen to hold the brush, and the posture was not right at all. When Li Ke saw the two words written by Li Yan, he immediately changed from disappointment to despair. He originally planned to write a confession for Li Yan and then let him copy it again and present it, but now he saw that this method did not work. His father valued calligraphy the most, and because he wrote good characters, he was deeply loved by his father. If he presented Li Yan's current characters to his father, it would definitely make his father's impression of Li Yan even worse.

"Forget it, I'd better think of other ways!" Li Ke said weakly. Then he talked with Li Yan for a while, and then left Prince Liang's Mansion unhappily.
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