Happy Little Scholar

"Your Highness Prince Jin is so relaxed, have you finished all your math homework?"

Li Yi looked at Li Han calmly and said, "That's right, in four months, even if Your Highness reads for half an hour every day, it will be more than enough. Starting tomorrow, I will make up for the homework I owe you. I will see you in the Bowen Palace at 9:00 tomorrow. Your Highness Prince Jin, don't be late."

Li Han's forehead was sweating. He had torn the math textbook to pieces a few months ago. What half an hour a day? He didn't even want to waste half an hour on such boring things.

"Father, the emperor said that the weather is too hot, we, we don't have to go to the palace school these days..." Li Han stammered, the preconceived fear was very difficult to eliminate.

Li Yi smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay. If God wants to give a man a great responsibility, he must first make him suffer and work hard. What's the point of this little heat? I will report to His Majesty in a while. Your Highness Prince Jin doesn't need to worry anymore."

Ignoring the Prince of Jin who was already stupidly standing there, Li Yi squatted down, rubbed Yongning's little face, and asked, "I'm sorry, it's been so long since I came to see you. Are you still hungry now?"

The little girl shook her head, took out a bulging brocade handkerchief from her sleeve, and put it in Li Yi's palm.

The brocade handkerchief was cold and wet. Li Yi opened it and took a look, and found that it was wrapped in a piece of ice.

After giving Li Yi the only remaining ice cube, the little girl turned around and walked towards the palace next to her.

"It's important to see His Majesty." Li Yi watched her small figure disappear in the palace, and heard Li Xuan's reminder in his ears.

"Come here, both of you." Li Yi waved to the two eunuchs standing not far away.

"What do you want, sir?" The two eunuchs who were planning to go back with Princess Yongning came running over immediately.

Li Yi pointed to the direction of the palace gate, gave them a few instructions, and took another look at the palace where Yongning was, and then walked slowly with Li Xuan to the deeper palace.

After a while, Jin Wang Li Han saw the two eunuchs who had just left, each carrying a huge wooden barrel, walking out of the palace gate.

When the two passed by him, they brought a comfortable breeze. Li Han glanced into the wooden barrel, and when he saw the ice cubes that almost occupied the entire wooden barrel, his eyes couldn't help but widen...

These two buckets of ice cubes together are equivalent to his monthly share!

At this moment, how much he wanted to hold such ice cubes and have a good sleep, but after this unrealistic idea dissipated, he finally realized something more terrifying.

That devil is back, and his good days are finally coming to an end...

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"Your Majesty has just fallen asleep, Your Highness the Crown Prince, please wait in the side hall first. When Your Majesty wakes up, I will go and inform Your Majesty." The eunuch at the door of the palace whispered.

"Forget it, it's even hotter inside the palace, let's wait here." Li Xuan stood in the shade of the corridor, feeling the breeze, and it felt good. This position is definitely much cooler than inside.

Just look at those guys wearing Taoist robes, with sweat on their faces, and you will know that although it may be cool to roll up your sleeves and lift up the hem of your clothes to fan the wind like Li Yi did, the royal etiquette he has been taught since childhood does not allow him to do such a thing.

He began to miss the pot of iced wine.

"This is the palace after all, can't you behave yourself?" Li Yi was fanning vigorously, and suddenly heard a voice. He turned his head and saw Her Highness the Princess standing in the corridor looking at him.

With the lady present, this action was a bit indecent, so Li Yi had to put down his sleeves and tidy up his collar.

The palace was still not as comfortable as home. If it was just him and Ruyi, they only needed a piece of cloth to cover the key parts.

"When did you return to Beijing?" Li Mingzhu came over and asked.

"Just a few days ago." Li Yi evaded the question with one sentence.

Li Mingzhu wanted to ask more questions, but two guards came over with several monks.

"Hello, Princess." Master Tanyin said with his hands folded.

"Master, you don't have to be polite." Even if she was a princess of a country, it was not appropriate to put on airs in front of a great monk, Li Mingzhu returned the greeting.

"My father just went to bed, Master, please go to the side hall and wait."

Li Yi was a little curious, what kind of sparks would collide when a monk and a Taoist priest were in the same room?

Although they both make a living by deceiving others and are roughly considered as colleagues, monks and Taoists generally do not like each other. Buddhism and Taoism have to compete for believers and incense. Resources are limited. If one side has more, the other side will naturally have less. As a result, they will naturally have a grudge.

Although Taoism is the orthodox state religion of Jing State, its development in Jing State is far less than that of Buddhism. Since they cannot compete with the other side for incense and believers, they will naturally not give the monks a good face.

In response to their unfriendly eyes, several young monks behind Master Tan Yin stared back.

"I wonder what the master is doing in the palace?" Li Yi walked over to chat with Master Tan Yin in a low voice.

Master Tan Yin said: "Your Majesty is ill. At the invitation of the Queen, I, the poor monk and my disciples, came to chant scriptures for Your Majesty to cure his illness."

After listening to the words of the old monk Tan Yin, Li Yi understood why Taoists were more popular in the palace despite the prosperity of Buddhism.

The reason is simple. No matter what happens, monks can only chant scriptures and pray to Buddha, and perform rituals. Taoists can also do these things. They put on Taoist robes, mutter a few words that no one can understand, dance with peach wood swords, and chant two sentences of "Taishang Laojun is urgent as the law order", jump back and forth, and look serious.

But in addition to these, Taoists can also make elixirs!

The various elixirs made by Taoists are very popular in the powerful circles of Kyoto. Eating one can prolong life, eating two can make you immortal, and eating three can make you ascend to heaven in broad daylight and be ranked among the immortals...

Although these have never been realized, they cannot resist the rock-hard dream of immortality of these people.

However, a wise man like the old emperor should not do such a thing to seek death. From ancient times to the present, no emperor has prolonged his life by taking elixirs. Many emperors died in battle, but it is unknown whether they became immortals.

Could it be that he wanted these monks and Taoist priests to unite and perform a ritual? It's quite interesting to think about it, but I wonder if the Buddha and the Taoist priest will fight in the sky...

"What do these Taoist priests do?" Li Yi walked over and asked Li Mingzhu in a low voice.

"These Taoist priests from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau are delivering elixirs to my father." Li Mingzhu explained: "My father's illness is thanks to the elixirs they made."

Li Yi's expression froze, and he looked at Li Mingzhu in shock, "What did you say?"

"What's wrong?" Seeing the expression on Li Yi's face, Li Mingzhu suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart.

"Has your majesty been eating those useless elixirs?" Li Yi raised his voice and asked again.

The old emperor really dares to eat anything. Is he hoping that he will die soon?

"Shut up!"

In the hall, an old Taoist priest with a fairy-like appearance stood up, pointed at Li Yi, and shouted: "Who are you? How dare you speak wildly and slander my Taoist holy medicine!"