The Great Tang Dynasty: The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain, Starts by Being Deceived into Ma

"Jinghe, what do you mean?"

Li Shimin asked, "Why not take medicine and eat delicious food instead?"

Can this cure the disease?

"Xiao Sizi's illness is a qi disorder, which is currently incurable and can only be managed through recuperation."

Lu Jinghe explained, "To take care of your health, you naturally need to eat and drink well. Judging from Si Zi's condition, I suspect he hasn't been eating very well."

"How could that be?" Empress Zhangsun asked in confusion, "I also suffer from qi stagnation, and I ate the same things as Si Zi, didn't I?"

"So Your Majesty, your health isn't very good either, you should eat something better."

Leaving aside the culinary skills of the imperial kitchen, the nutrition was certainly inadequate.

Empress Zhangsun and Xiao Sizi ate almost entirely vegetarian food, which was not good for their health.

"You should eat more meat, eggs, and dairy products, which will help your body recover. Eating only vegetables is not a big problem, but it is not nutritious enough."

"Again! Persimmon loves Qi again." Upon hearing that he could eat meat, Little Sizi immediately spoke up.

My brother-in-law is such a good person, letting her eat meat. He's so kind!

"Also, this room isn't very good; it's too tightly closed."

Lu Jinghe got up, opened the window that had almost never been opened, and said, "We should always make sure the air is circulating; it's good for your health."

Just then, a gentle breeze swept by, bypassing the group and landing squarely on Xiao Sizi's face.

The wind blew her bangs up, and Xiao Sizi was very happy, saying, "So comfortable!"

"Mommy, Persimmon wants to sleep. This breeze feels so nice and warm."

"Okay, little Sizi, be good, Mommy will sleep with you."

Empress Zhangsun placed the baby on the bed, sat by the bed and looked at her. Feeling that this might be inappropriate, she covered her with a corner of the quilt to cover her belly.

"Let's go outside."

Li Shimin glanced at it and was the first to walk out of the house.

Next came Li Chengqian, and then Lu Jinghe and Gao Yang walked out side by side.

"Heh, you two," Li Shimin chuckled, speechless. "You're not even married yet, and you're already inseparable?"

"Yes, we're becoming more and more inseparable," Lu Jinghe said, then asked, "When does your father-in-law plan for me and Zhaoning to marry?"

"Well..." Li Shimin had a headache. It would be difficult for him to grant Lu Jinghe a marriage based on his status. If he couldn't convince the ministers, he might be impeached to death.

"Hurry up and choose an auspicious day. I will definitely issue the imperial decree of marriage before then."

Li Shimin paused for a moment, then continued.

Gao Yang smiled immediately, looking sweetly at Lu Jinghe beside her.

Li Chengqian then joked, "I really don't know what kind of bewitching drug you gave my sister."

"What did you say, brother...?"

Gao Yang blushed as she spoke, then turned her head away.

"Jinghe, what about Sizi's health..." Li Shimin thought for a moment, then asked.

He had an idea: why not send the child out of the palace? Send him to Lu Jinghe; after all, Lu Jinghe has connections everywhere, so there shouldn't be any more accidents.

Besides, Gao Yang is about to marry Lu Jinghe, so sending Si Zi to him is a good idea. He can take care of her after Gao Yang gets married.

"Little Sizi... take it slow and let him recover. There's no other way." Lu Jinghe shook his head. Little Sizi's health is better when it's slowly nurtured.

After all, she is still growing and young.

"I'm planning to have Sizi stay with you."

Li Shimin's sudden words startled Lu Jinghe and the other two.

What are you doing?

"Father..." Gao Yang asked, puzzled. Li Chengqian didn't speak, but he looked at Li Shimin seriously.

Send the two-year-old little Sizi out of the palace?

"Your Majesty, this is not appropriate..."

Although Lu Jinghe felt that it would be much better for Xiao Sizi to go to his place, was this really a bad idea?

The two-year-old princess stayed with him.

"Didn't you say that Si Zi needs to eat and drink well? Last night, after Li Chunfeng returned to the palace, he bragged to me for a long time about your cooking skills. You are the perfect person to take care of Si Zi."

"If you don't let Sizi stay with you, then you'll have to move her to the inner palace for me."

Li Shimin spoke directly, and Lu Jinghe thought he must have misheard.

What does it mean to move into the harem?

Li Er, are you awake?

What are you talking about?!

Lu Jinghe: "..."

"It's not impossible for Xiao Si to stay at my place, but my house is too small."

Saying that means you agree. What's the problem if the house is small?

"What? You think being my son-in-law means you'll get a house less?" Li Shimin laughed in exasperation. This guy was asking him for a house.

"You can stay in the mansion you won from Li Chunfeng for now. We'll get you a new house after your wedding with Gao Yang."

Li Shimin snorted. Could his enormous city of Chang'an possibly be missing a single house?

Lu Jinghe thought for a moment and then said, "Father-in-law, can I do the interior decoration myself?"

"What? Are you worried that the craftsman I found won't meet your expectations?"

"No, that's not it." Lu Jinghe shook his head, nudged Gao Yang, and said, "You can ask Zhao Ning. I like to make little things myself in the house."

Gao Yang nodded excitedly, "Yes, Father! For example, the glass talisman lamp, the marble floor tiles, and the incredibly comfortable bed!"

A glass talisman lamp? Marble floor tiles? An exceptionally comfortable bed?

What are all these things?

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian were both dumbfounded, but Li Chengqian was even more bewildered than Li Shimin.

What do you mean? How do you know so much? Are you living together?

Li Shimin asked, "What are those?"

"Father, don't you know?" Gao Yang was taken aback. It was normal for Li Shimin not to know about the marble floor tiles and the exceptionally comfortable bed.

The glass talisman lamp is different.

"Should I know?" Li Shimin looked at Gao Yang with a dark face. He had never been to Lu Jinghe's courtyard, so how would he know those things?

Lu Jinghe was amused. It turned out that Li Chunfeng had taken the two glass talisman lamps and kept them all to himself, without Li Shimin knowing a thing.

Lu Jinghe grinned mischievously and said, "That shouldn't be the case. Yesterday, when the Grand Astrologer left, he took two of my glass talisman lamps with him. One was for his research, and the other was for my father-in-law. Didn't he receive them?"

"Wu She!" Li Shimin shouted at Wu She, who was standing guard not far away, "Go and call Li Junxian, bring the Grand Historian here to me, and remember to bring that lamp."

Lu Jinghe was secretly delighted; his goal had been achieved—he had gotten this old bastard to trick him.

Although he did find his ideal wife, it is also true that Li Chunfeng tricked him.

He tricked Gao Yang into coming to him to commit marriage fraud, which is wrong.

Lu Jinghe holds grudges and will definitely retaliate when he gets the chance.

If Li Chunfeng schemed against him, then he should retaliate against Li Chunfeng in return.

It's even... It's not even, how could it possibly be even?

It's impossible to even things out before he's had his fill of playing around.

Lu Jinghe said, "Father-in-law, I just calculated that the end of next month will be a very auspicious day."

"How about Zhaoning and I get married on that day?"

"Okay." Li Shimin nodded. A little over a month would be enough time for him to settle things with those ministers.