Li You sent the gift, this time it was Li Yin's turn, he walked out of the ranks, stepped forward and said: "I wish my father and emperor will live forever, and live as long as the heavens, and hereby present a glazed statue of the birthday star Antarctic old man.".
The Antarctic old man is the longevity star among the three stars of fortune, wealth and longevity. Since the Qin Dynasty, he has frequently appeared in the sacrifices of emperors, because every emperor desires to live forever. At the same time, he also carries an ethical concept, that is, filial piety. Especially in the Tang Dynasty, the Antarctic old man was even mythologically regarded as a god.
When Li Min was in Yizhou, he was thinking hard about what gift to give to Li Shimin. Money and other things are too vulgar, and Li Shimin would not care too much. Psychologically speaking, like any emperor, he has an extreme desire for immortality in his heart, and Li Yin grasped this psychology and prepared this gift.
"Present it!" Sure enough, after Li Yin mentioned the birthday star, Li Shimin's face suddenly added a smile, and he looked at Li Yin with more satisfaction. The courtiers had been discussing the fireworks incident last night. Many courtiers also talked about the auspiciousness of Taiji Palace, and used it to sing praises for Li Shimin, making Li Shimin very happy.
"It's the father!" Li Yin responded, and said to the eunuch. After a while, Rong Da brought in a statue covered in golden silk with a servant.
At this time, everyone turned their attention to the statue, and Li Shimin also stood up, waiting for the moment when the statue was raised.
Jia Ding carefully placed the statue on the ground. At this time, Li Yin stepped forward, grabbed the silk leg and pulled it, and suddenly a humanoid sculpture about 1.7 meters high appeared in front of everyone.
"Hush!" The moment the silk was lifted, there was a neat sound of breathing in the whole hall, and Li Shimin's eyes widened, and his mouth opened slightly, obviously extremely surprised.
The old man in Antarctica is also the birthday star. He is an image of a kind-hearted old man with a broad, full and prominent forehead. With a white beard hanging down to his waist, he put his right hand on his chest, holding a big longevity peach in his hand, and a dragon head crutch in his left hand. A big gourd is hung on one end of the crutch, and it looks like a fairy bone as a whole.
Li Yin, an old man from Antarctica, is specially customized. The whole body of this statue is made of glass. Whether it is pink and white peaches, brown walking sticks, white beards, or red clothes, they are all made of colored glass of their own colors. It is dazzling and exquisite. The overall look is also translucent. It can be seen at a glance that this is made of colored glaze.
Changsun Wuji and a group of veterans looked at the glazed statue of the old man in Antarctica in shock, "Such a large glazed statue is priceless, and the sixth prince is really willing." This is Changsun Wuji, full of sour taste.
"How else can His Majesty like the sixth prince so much? Who else has such a big hand among you princes!" This is Fang Xuanling. He kept shaking his head and sighing as he spoke.
"It's all said that the Sixth Prince's prosperous Tang Chamber of Commerce can only think of goods, not buy goods. The Sixth Prince can even get this kind of thing, I have to believe it." Wei Zheng tilted his head and looked at the glass statue, and read. .
Compared to the reactions of these courtiers, the princes were even more embarrassed. Li You's complexion was uglier than those who had eaten arsenic. Comparing the golden dragon in front with this glazed statue, it was a mastiff. Seeing a dirt dog, he himself felt ashamed, but Li Chengqian and Li Tai were smart, knowing that Li Yin came back unexpectedly. The gifts are all calligraphy and paintings.
Li Ke also sent calligraphy and painting, because Li Yin had already let him see the gift in advance, and Li Chengqian and Li Tai did not know where they heard that he changed the gift temporarily, and they all imitated the example of returning those luxury items and replacing them with other gifts. Need elegant calligraphy and painting. It made Li Ke very angry.
Li Shimin stood up suddenly from the dragon chair, strode to the glass statue, and walked around the glass statue a few times. This glass is not only about the material, but also the color, because all the utensils in this period are very colorful. Monotonous, but the emerald green color of the glazed glass statue seems to drip out at any time, and the colors of different parts are also different, there are roughly seven or eight kinds.
Touching the longevity peach in the hands of the old man in Liuli Antarctica, a cold feeling came through the palm of his hand, yes, this is Liuli, Li Shimin said in his heart, because the Liuli from Persia is very similar to this kind of Liuli, and this The quality of colored glaze is obviously several times better than the tributes from Persia, and there are bubbles, dust and other impurities in those colored glazes, but the one in this statue is as pure as water.
"I like it very much!" said the ministers in front of Li Shimin, making no secret of their love for this glazed statue, "I'm even pleased that Min'er has such filial piety, everyone should learn from Liulang!"
The more Li Shimin looks at it, the more he likes it, because this statue not only symbolizes longevity, but also Li Min's benevolence and filial piety, an emperor's long-cherished wish, a father's long-cherished wish, and this long-cherished wish is all integrated together. Affection is more important.
"Yes, father!" The princes said respectfully, and Li You also squeezed out a few words from between his teeth. He wanted to show his face, but now he is throwing his face to East Turkic.
"It is my son's greatest wish to be liked by my father and emperor!" Li Min acted humbly, happy in his heart, the tens of thousands of dollars was worth it.
Li Shimin nodded slightly when he heard the words, implying approval.
"Hey, the third brother can't compare with you now." After the court was over, Li Ke immediately took the position on the right side of Li Yin, and his words were sour.
Li Yin said: "I don't see my father a few times a year. If I can't send something ingenious, my father will not forget me completely. It's not like you have a Yongzhou shepherd who can show his face every day." , Li Yin also deliberately used sour words.
Li Ke's mentality immediately became balanced, jealousy was jealousy but he was indeed happy for Li Yin, they were two brothers, now one was in Chang'an, the other was in Xiongzhen, and the courtiers in Chang'an had to consider each other when they moved, so, Li Ke I feel more secure now than ever before. This is because of Li Yin, a younger brother who is far away in Yizhou, especially after Li Yin won the Songzhou victory. A kind of deterrent, "This father's gift has been delivered, it's my turn."
"Of course you are indispensable, come back to the hotel with me, I guess Li Zhi's gang has blocked the door." Li Yin said with a smile, he is almost becoming Santa Claus now, and is responsible for giving gifts.
The two of them laughed and chatted as they left the Taiji Palace. Behind them, Li You's dark eyes swept over the two of them. He followed closely and left the Taiji Palace. He wanted to make a plan with Zan Junmo and Liang Mengbiao on how to deal with Li To vent out the anger in my heart.
But Li Youhun didn't realize that there was another eye staring at him behind him. He was Li Chengqian. Watching Li You leave, the corners of his mouth raised.
As Li Yin expected, the residence of the Shu Palace is now surrounded by younger brothers and sisters. Cui Yingying is asking her servants to distribute gifts at this time, and the gift list for each prince and princess has been prepared.
When Li Yin and Li Ke came back, Cui Yingying was chatting and laughing with several older princesses from Changle and Xiangcheng, and the girls were listening to Cui Yingying talking about interesting things about Yizhou.
"Is this kind of goldfish really so beautiful? I really want to see it!" Princess Changle said with fascination.
"There is still a puppy, I really want to keep one to play with." Princess Ankang heard Cui Yingying talk about the butterfly dog, and she was extremely envious.
"..."
The eldest princesses surrounded Cui Yingying and asked about this and that, but Sizi didn't care. She skillfully pushed aside the toffee and ate it, hiding her things while eating.
Li Zhi’s things haven’t been distributed to him yet, he is jumping and shouting, “There’s still mine, and there’s still mine that hasn’t been given.”
Rong Da wiped the sweat from his forehead, thinking that this is really not an easy job, when he looked up and saw Li Yin and Li Ke approaching, he said: "Your Highness!"
Li Zhi turned around, seeing that it was Li Yin and Li Ke, he immediately became honest, and said, "Third Brother, Sixth Brother, why did you come back so soon?"
"Why, don't you want the third and sixth brothers to come back?" Li Ke said deliberately pretending to be vicious.
Li Zhi immediately shook his hand and said, "No, no!", Li Zhi also wanted to ask Cui Yingying for a few more things, because he found that Cui Yingying had a good temper, and even took out his own things to share with several princesses, but It may be over now.
Rongda distributed gifts to Li Zhi according to the gift list. Since it was the Chinese New Year, it was better to eat more, and Li Zhi was a child, so he gave more food.
After dismissing Li Yin, Li Ke said mysteriously: "Take me to see." It turned out that on the way, Li Yin told Li Ke that he had prepared a mysterious gift for him. No way, hurry up and rush over.
Li Yin called Rongda and asked him to lead the way, and the two followed behind to the temporary warehouse of the hotel, where all kinds of gifts Li Yin brought from Yizhou were placed.
"Rongda, open the box for King Wu!" Li Yin looked at Li Ke anxiously with a smile on his face.
Rong Da answered yes, walked to a one-meter-high wooden box, and unlocked it. Li Yin also walked over at this time, and said to Li Ke, "Please look!"
Li Ke was not polite either. He walked quickly to the box, stretched his head to look inside, and saw a silver armor neatly stacked in the box.