Just as Li Chongyi's younger brothers thought that Li Xiaogong was going to fly into a rage, Li Xiaogong said calmly,""Alright, remember to come back often in the future."
Seeing Li Chongyi's surprised expression, Li Xiaogong smiled and said,""Hearing your words, as a father, I'm very happy. How could I want you to live a life of drunkenness? Which father didn't want his son to be able to stand up to the heavens? However, you are already a young prince. You have no place to rise. The Hejian Commandery Prince is a shackle to you. Now, without this shackle, I hope you can soar to the sky!”
Li Chongyi did not expect Li Xiaogong to say such a thing, and his expression could not help but be a little complicated. Before this, to be honest, he didn't think much of Li Xiaogong. One was his sense of superiority as a modern person, and the other was his personal perception.
However, at this moment, his sense of superiority as a modern person was gone. How could a person who could stand tall for many years and ascend to the second place of the twenty-four meritorious officials of the Lingyan Pavilion be a simple person? Li Xiaogong had seen through his thoughts the moment he had spoken, and there were probably not many people in the Great Tang who could achieve such boldness.
After chatting with Li Xiaogong for a while, Li Chongyi said goodbye.
During this period, Li Chongyi did not mention that he met Li Shimin yesterday, and Li Xiaogong did not take the initiative to ask. As for saying that Li Xiaogong did not know about that? Of course not.
Li Xiaogong seemed to have guessed the route Li Chongyi wanted to take, so he sent another 20 craftsmen to Li Chongyi. He had wanted to give him ten singers, but Li Chongyi quickly shook his head and refused.
Before returning to the manor, Li Chongyi strolled around the city and did some shopping. He decided to do something big!
After returning to the manor, Li Chongyi threw all the people he brought back to Wu Dayong and asked him to arrange for them to stay at the manor for the night.
After he ate some simple food, he brought the ingredients he had bought back and entered the courtyard. Before he entered, he told Wu Dayong and Yue 'er that without his instructions, no one was allowed to come within three meters of his courtyard.
For three whole days, he walked out of the courtyard twice. Both times, he ate something simple and then returned to the courtyard to fiddle.
No one knew what Zhang Xin was doing until the fourth morning, when Li Chongyi's courtyard exploded. Then, Li Chongyi's laughter was heard."Haha, it's finally done. This power should be enough.”
This was the big thing he wanted to do. He used three days to make gunpowder.
In the few days that Li Chongyi was fiddling with gunpowder, many things happened in Chang 'an.
First, there was a rumor about Empress Zhangsun that spread like wildfire among the noble ladies. It was spread by a marchioness who said that Empress Zhangsun had obtained something called perfume. With just a little bit, it would make people feel as if they were in a flower garden, and their bodies would emit an alluring fragrance.
Unfortunately, everyone only knew that there was such a thing, but they did not know where to buy it.
The second piece of news was that Li Chongyi, the heir of King Hejian, had actually separated from the Hejian Prince's residence. He had lost the right to inherit the Hejian Prince's title and was now being inherited by Li Chongyi's younger brother, Li Chongli.
Regarding this, everyone had a lot of discussions. Because there was no concrete news, everyone could only rely on guesses. Most people thought that Li Chongyi had 'fallen out of favor,' and there were a few who knew 'inside information.' They believed that Li Chongyi had angered Li Shiming because of the matter with Princess Gao Yang, and Li Xiaogong had no choice but to do so under Li Shiming's pressure.
Fang Yi 'ai, who had been grounded by Fang Xuanling for three days because he had gone to cause trouble for Li Chongyi, heard people talking about this matter the moment he stepped out of the house. Immediately, he gathered a dozen servants and invited seven to eight second-generation silkpants to cause trouble for Li Chongyi again.
Originally, he had planned to endure for a while, but now that Li Chongyi was no longer the young prince, he naturally did not need to continue enduring.
There were more than twenty people. Seven or eight of them rode horses in the front, and a dozen servants followed behind them. They came to the Imperial Manor while shouting.
However, when they arrived at the manor, Li Chongyi actually went out early in the morning.
Under the interrogation of a few servants, an honest farmer revealed Li Chongyi's whereabouts and went up the mountain.
As they walked into the mountain, Fang Yi 'ai teased,""Li Chongyi must have received the news that I was coming, so he hid in the mountains in fear.”
"Haha, Yiai is right. I really didn't expect this Li Chongyi to be so cowardly.”
"He definitely wouldn't have thought that we would enter the mountain as well. I swear to find him.”
"Hey, look, isn't that Li Chongyi?”
Following the man's gaze, he saw Li Chongyi holding a shovel and digging something under a cliff.
"Haha, I know. He was afraid that we would find him, so he wanted to dig a hole to hide. I didn't expect him to be so well-prepared. It's a pity that his digging speed is a little slow.”
Of course, everyone knew that he was spouting nonsense because there were six or seven people following Li Chongyi, including a little maid.
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