After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

Chapter 17 Two Living Treasures
In the early morning of the next day, Li Lingyue had eaten breakfast, and the maid came in and reported:

"Princess, King Zhou is wounded in bed, please come over to the mansion!"

Li Lingyue was a little strange, didn't they just get beaten yesterday?Why are you looking for me again today?Could it be that he came to Xingshi to inquire about the crime?
Recalling the scene that happened yesterday, she really failed to help them. With Empress Wu present, no one would lose face, and they could only blame them for having an old lady whom they did not recognize.

"Got it, I'll go later!"

Li Lingyue responded, and then told Zhao Lihua, the female officer in charge of Fengyang Pavilion:

"Master Zhao, call Si Bo and follow me to the warehouse."

Zhao Shi wondered why the princess suddenly cared about her money, and she never asked about it before.

Not long after, under Zhao Shi's leadership, a female Si Bo came in with a thick account book. Li Lingyue waved her hand, and the three of them went straight to the warehouse without waiting for the other party to salute.

In the Tang Dynasty, the princess's monthly salary was not much, and it would be uniformly distributed by the Shanggong Bureau.

But Li Lingyue is different from other princesses. She has been favored by Wu Zetian and Li Zhi since she was a child. On her birthday, she will be rewarded with a lot of jewelry, plus some gifts from royal family members, courtiers and female relatives. The entire room was filled with piles. For this reason, Shang Gong Bureau assigned the princess a secretary who counted the money alone.

For Li Lingyue, gold, silver and treasures are no longer novelty. She is in the palace and has no worries about food and clothing, so she has no need to spend money at all.

It's just that now that I want to go out of the palace to visit her imperial brother, I can no longer be empty-handed as usual, the imperial brother was beaten more or less because of her, and as a younger sister, I must bring some condolences. There is also a small vault.

The first time she walked into her small treasury, Li Lingyue opened her eyes.

There are several wooden shelves in the middle of the house, and each shelf is lined with various treasures.

From the inside to the outside, the first shelf is full of Buddha statues, Ruyi statues, and auspicious statues. There are gold statues, sterling silver statues, emerald statues, and white jade statues. The number is too numerous to count;

On the second shelf are all kinds of precious stones, such as luminous pearls, star shining stones, bodhi strings, gilt sachets, white jade belts, jadeite handles, etc.;

The third shelf is some porcelain, glass cups, ivory carvings, red coral...

The fourth shelf is some famous calligraphy and paintings, including Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface", Gu Kaizhi's "Luo Shen Fu Picture", Zhan Ziqian's "Spring Tour", each piece is a priceless treasure in modern times.

Around the room, wooden boxes were neatly stacked, and each box was filled with pearls, agates, gold and silver jewelry.

During Li Lingyue's cruising, she would touch this for a while, and look at that for a while. Every time she picked up a treasure, Si Bo behind her would patiently explain the origin, quantity, and value.

After turning around twice, I finally picked out a few short knives inlaid with gemstones from the Western Regions on the weapon rack, intending to give them to the two emperor brothers.

When he was about to leave, he caught a glimpse of a large white stone in the corner of the wall. The surface of the stone was uneven, and it was stained with dust, which had long lost its luster.

Li Lingyue was puzzled, supposedly this kind of stone shouldn't appear in her small treasury, so she asked casually:
"Si Bo, why is this white stone placed here?"

Si Bo looked through the account book in his hand, searched for a long time, and finally replied: "Princess, this is the chief guard of the Anxi Governor's Mansion. The Khotan jade that was sent to the princess on her birthday last year, has been left here before it can be carved. !"

Khotan jade?Isn't this what later generations call Hetian jade?

Li Lingyue was startled, walked over and knelt down to touch it with her hands. The jade was warm and smooth. When she picked it up and put it in the sun, the whole stone was crystal clear.

If it is really suet jade, then this thing would be too rare in her era. Such a big one, conservatively estimated, is also dozens of "small targets" in Mr. Wang's mouth.

Li Lingyue was very excited, and said to Shi Zhao: "Send someone to move this out, my princess wants to take it outside to make some beloved accessories!"

"Princess, Shang Gong Bureau can be built!" Si Bo reminded.

"No need!" Li Lingyue flatly refused.

Si Bo stopped talking, Zhao Shi thought for a while and asked, "Princess, excuse me for talking too much, the jade in this room is not inferior to this Khotan jade, why do you only focus on this jade?"

Li Lingyue immediately understood the meaning of her words. It is the early Tang Dynasty, and Hetian jade is not very popular in the court. Among the royal family and nobles, the most popular is Lantian jade. After all, Qin Shihuang's imperial seal is made of Lantian jade. , Lantian jade is a symbol of imperial power, and ordinary people are not qualified to wear it, so Zhao Shi asked this question.

"Nothing else, just because this princess likes it!"

Li Lingyue didn't explain, and after getting out of the small treasury, she boarded the carriage, surrounded by all the maidservants, and went to the Prince Zhou's Mansion.

Zhou Wang Li Xian was 15 years old, and Li Zhi agreed to move out of the palace and build a mansion in Chang'an City.

Zhou Wangfu was established in Kaihuafang. Not long after the establishment of the Wangfu, the fourth son Li Dan also moved there.

Li Dan was still young and should have lived in the palace, but he and Li Xian were friends, and the two brothers liked to be together, so Li Zhi didn't care.

As soon as Li Lingyue arrived outside the palace, the father-in-law beside the two princes had already greeted her for a long time.

After getting out of the carriage, under the guidance of the two father-in-laws, they walked through the garden of the palace, more than 50 steps away from the apse, and they heard the wailing of Li Xian and Li Dan from a distance.

It was obvious that the two of them were trying to sell misfortune. Li Lingyue pretended not to know, walked into the hall, and saw the two brothers lying on the two soft couches, with their buttocks sticking out and howling.

"Oh, little sister, you're here, sit down!" Li Xian first saw Li Lingyue, his eyes lit up immediately, he stretched his body forcibly, and greeted pitifully.

"Hi, two imperial brothers, how are you!" Li Lingyue held back the urge to laugh, and waved at the two living treasures.

"What's the matter, you have no loyalty, my third brother and I were almost beaten to death by the emperor yesterday!" Li Dan stared at Li Lingyue and complained.

"No, no!" Li Lingyue laughed.

"Why not? It wasn't you who was beaten. Look, your butt is rotten now!" Li Dan pouted his fat buttocks, a little impatiently.

"Oh, is it? Then I'll have to see!"

After finishing speaking, Li Lingyue walked up to the two of them, and without waiting for their reaction, she suddenly stretched out her hand and slapped their buttocks hard.

The next moment, the two brothers howled like killing pigs came from the hall.

Li Xian: "Smelly girl, you are going to die!"

Li Dan: "Stinky girl, I'm going to kill you!"

Li Lingyue snapped her fingers and said with a grin, "It seems that the injury is not serious, because your minds are still clear!"

Without waiting for the two brothers to figure out what it meant, Li Lingyue supported the edge of the bed with both hands, jumped back, sat on the side of Li Xian's bed, swayed her feet, and looked at the two brothers with a smile.

"Let's talk, call my little sister over early in the morning, if you have any requests, just ask!"

"Hey! That's what you said!"

Li Dan was immediately elated, and what the two brothers were waiting for was Li Lingyue's words.

Li Lingyue rolled her eyes and looked at the slightly reserved Li Xian:

"Third brother, don't pretend, just tell me what you want me to do, don't say I didn't give you a chance!"

Speaking of this, Li Xian, who was still selling miserably a moment ago, beamed with joy the next moment, and immediately replied:
"Little sister, my brother called you here. I have no other requirements. I just want you to finish "Journey to the West" for both of us, okay?"

"Yes, yes, we were beaten by the emperor, but you refused to save us. What you owe us must be repaid!"

After Li Dan finished speaking, he supported the bed with his fat hands and wanted to sit up, but because he was too fat, he twisted on the bed for a long time, like a struggling fat maggot. Diaphragm response.

"Third brother, fourth brother, you two should lie down, it will make my stomach feel better!"

Li Lingyue touched her forehead, she was speechless for a while to these two living treasures.

The story of "Journey to the West" was the bait she threw out in order to drive the two brothers to do things for her. The two brothers became obsessed with it, pestering her repeatedly to finish the story.

"Well, I'll tell you more today!"

Seeing that the younger sister readily agreed, the two brothers were overjoyed, and immediately ordered the servants to move a soft couch for Li Lingyue, and ordered four maids to beat Li Lingyue's legs and shoulders, and prepare melon and fruit snacks.

In order to express his sincerity, he ordered the cook to kill chickens and sheep early on, and make a bigger lunch.

After everything was ready, the two brothers lay down on the couch, eating melon seeds, and waited for Li Lingyue to tell a story.

The little maid picked a grape, peeled off the skin, and brought it to Li Lingyue's mouth. Li Lingyue chewed it twice, and then said, "It is said that the four masters and apprentices left Chechi Kingdom and embarked on the westward journey to learn Buddhist scriptures. This day..."

After half a stick of incense, Li Lingyue started to talk, unexpectedly, Li Xian interrupted her first:

"Little sister, stop talking about the kingdom of daughters. The story of Tang Seng and the king of the kingdom of daughters is really boring!"

Li Dan echoed: "Not only is it boring, it's simply boring. I almost fell asleep hearing it. Just this, I have the nerve to say that it is the hardest of the nine-nine-eight-one difficulties?"

Hearing what the two brothers said, Li Lingyue was both surprised and speechless, but Li Dan was fine. Eight or nine-year-old children are not yet in love, so it's normal to feel bored, but Li Xian is fifteen or sixteen years old, just at the beginning of love. Time, it shouldn’t be, so I couldn’t help asking:

"Third brother, don't you like the king of the Daughter Kingdom? That is a peerless beauty comparable to Chang'e in "Journey to the West"!"

Li Xian looked at Li Lingyue like a fool, and said directly:
"What's so good about being beautiful, she's not a fairy!"

Li Lingyue said speechlessly: "Brother, when you grow up a bit, you will understand that women like this are even more elves than fairies!"

Li Xian said disapprovingly: "Then will she fly into the sky and escape from the ground?"

"She can make men fly into the sky and escape from the ground!"

"Then can she spell?"

"She can seduce a man's three souls and seven souls with just a wink?"

"Then will she change at 72?"

"Not only can she change 72 times, she is fickle, even a man can't stand it!"

"Then she is so powerful, why doesn't she fight with Monkey King?"

"That's because... Hey, what are you doing talking about these things!"

Li Lingyue couldn't help swearing, and the two brothers looked at her in astonishment, with innocent and cute expressions on their faces.

Li Lingyue brushed the hair beside her ears.I made a complaint in my heart:
'I'd rather watch a monkey play with a golden cudgel than a goblin winking!Alas, your two brothers are really hopeless! '

(End of this chapter)