Chapter 34 Xiao Yu holds a grudge
After returning to the Eastern Palace, Fubao also brought the dog back to the Eastern Palace.

Li Chengqian had no objection to his son having a servant boy. He just gave Li Xiang a few words of advice and went back to Mingde Hall to play with Ruyi.

Li Xiang was a little helpless and didn't know whether his father took Li Lizhi's words to heart.

You say he is not serious... just now he looked at the affection and it was not fake; you say he is serious, he went home and played poker with Ruyi...

Forget it. My aunt will have to go to the palace in a few days anyway. I’ll see what happens then.

When I turned around, the dog was already on his knees on the ground, shaking like a clockwork toy soldier.

"What are you doing? Get up." Li Xiang signaled Fubao to help the man up.

"No... I didn't expect that the noble man is actually the emperor's grandson..." Gou'er said stutteringly.

Normally, the highest officials he could imagine were the police officers and county magistrates. As for the emperor's grandson... that was a level that was out of his reach.

"What's your last name?" Li Xiang asked.

"My last name is Li," the dog answered cautiously.

"No, from now on, just call me Dalang together with Fubao." Li Xiang got goose bumps when he was called that.

"I dare not!" said the dog quickly. He did not dare to address the person so intimately.

"Why not... just call him Young Master." Fu Bao came up with a compromise.

"That's fine." Li Xiang nodded, looked at Gou'er and said, "But you should change your name. It's not nice to be called Li Gou'er. From now on, you should be called Li Wei."

Hearing Li Xiang's words, Li Wei bowed his head.

"Li Wei thanks you for the name!"

"That's enough, that's all. You keep doing this." Li Xiang waved his hand and said to Fu Bao, "Go and clean up a room for Li Wei and hire two teachers to teach him. You can't live without reading. At least you have to be able to read."

"Yes." Fubao responded and retreated.

Li Xiang did not intend to let Li Wei go to school with him. Even if he was a book boy, he was not qualified to follow him to Wei Zheng and Xiao Yu to attend classes. It was not because of his feudal remnant class ideology, but mainly because he wanted to respect the two teachers.

More importantly, Li Wei would never be allowed to enter the Lizheng Hall.

That night, Li Xiang stayed up all night and drew a bunch of sketches for Fubao, asking him to find some craftsmen to work in the East Palace.

He also arranged for Fubao to buy a mansion in Yongchangfang next to the East Palace, and Li Xiang planned to do some small things in it.

Of course, this matter still had to be reported to Li Shimin. When he talked about this matter with Li Shimin in Lizheng Hall the next day, Li Mingda unexpectedly fanned the flames, and Li Shimin got so excited that he reimbursed the money for the house.

While they were busy preparing for the research on printing, Li Xiang also did not fall behind in his studies. Four days later, he successfully became Xiao Yu's disciple.

Unlike Wei Zheng, Xiao Yu started teaching impatiently.

The two of them sat in the main hall, and Xiao Yu asked the first question.

"The way to be a king begins with setting your ambition. Without a goal, you cannot succeed."

After Xiao Yu finished speaking, he looked at Li Xiang and asked, "In that case, may I ask what the prince's ambition is?"

Li Xiang was a little puzzled and asked me about my ambition.
I want to be an emperor. Is this an ambition?

Of course, he is just a prince now, and the son of the crown prince, so it is not his turn to say these words.

There are some things you can think about, and others know you are thinking about them, but you cannot say them out loud.

"Cultivation of one's character, order of family, governance of country, peace of the world."

He gave a panacea answer.

"I am asking about the prince's ambition to be king!"

Xiao Yu stared at Li Xiang with his sharp eyes, making him feel uncomfortable.

Seeing that Li Xiang was hesitant to answer, Xiao Yu actually smiled.

"I thought the prince had the qualities to be a ruler, so I agreed to be taught by the sage. But I didn't expect that the prince didn't have the ambition to be a ruler."

He concluded that Li Xiang was hiding his incompetence.

Stimulated by these words, Li Xiang was unwilling to do so.

You are defeated by your mouth! How dare you rap here?
"I want everyone in this world to learn Chinese characters, speak Chinese, and practice Chinese etiquette! I want everyone to identify themselves as Han Chinese!"

Xiao Yu stared at Li Xiang for a long time, pointed at the paper in front of him and said, "Your Highness, you might as well write it down." Li Xiang picked up the wolf hair brush on the table, sucked it full of ink, and then splashed ink on it.

Then he picked up the paper and handed it to Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu looked at the paper with a complicated expression.

“See that spider in front of the window?”

He put down the words written by Li Xiang and pointed at the spider flying around in front of the window and asked.

"Ah..." Li Xiang didn't understand what Xiao Yu meant, and responded like a stupid goose.

Lao Xiao slammed the table and snorted, "I'll catch it, dip it in ink, and put it on paper and make a few circles. It will still look better than your handwriting!"

Li Xiang took a deep breath.

Damn, that's so insulting.

Then he seemed to understand.

Old Xiao is a man who holds grudges very much. I'm afraid he hasn't forgotten the revenge he had done to him in Liangyi Palace.

No, Lao Xiao, we are adults now, it’s not good to hold a grudge like this, right?
"Books are only enough to remember names, not to learn..."

Li Xiang subconsciously spoke stubbornly but before he could finish, Xiao Yu interrupted his spell.

"Are you going to imitate Xiang Yu and get trapped at Gaixia?" Old Xiao sneered, "Stretch out your hand!"

Li Xiang stretched out his hand reluctantly.

"Snapped!"

"Ow!"

"Next time I teach, if this character is still not as fast as a spider, it won't be solved in one go!"

Seeing Li Xiang curling his lips in dissatisfaction, Xiao Yu scolded him harshly: "Why, if you have a chance to become the emperor in the future, you are going to use this character to review memorials?"

"You don't feel ashamed, but the Tang Dynasty does!"

Seeing that the matter had been escalated to such an extent, Li Xiang immediately sat up straight and saluted Xiao Yu in a proper manner.

"Students are willing to learn!"

"In this case, it is not considered rotten wood."

Xiao Yu stroked his beard and smiled, then reached out to pick up the paper, folded it and put it in his arms.

Facing Li Xiang's puzzled look, Xiao Yu smiled and explained, "This is the ambition of the prince when he was young. I want to keep it as a family heirloom."

Li Xiang: …

I can see that you did it on purpose.

"Now that I know the prince's aspirations, I will take my leave first. I will come back to teach the prince how to be a king in the next class."

After Xiao Yu asked Li Xiang about his ambitions, he was about to leave.

Only by asking about the other person's ambitions can you provide targeted teaching.

After sending Xiao Yu away, Li Xiang became angrier and angrier.

No, I can't stand this humiliation! I need to practice calligraphy!
He gritted his teeth and pondered for a long time, wondering which master he should find to learn calligraphy.

But suddenly an idea flashed across my mind: yes, my aunt’s handwriting is very good, so why should I go to a distant place to write?
Thinking of this, Li Xiang walked happily to the side hall, ready to ask his aunt for advice.

Just as he walked into the side hall, a carriage stopped at the gate of the East Palace.

In front of the carriage were Zhang Sizheng and Hegan Chengji, who were so respectful that they wanted to pretend to be grandsons.

"Immortal Sun, we have arrived at the East Palace!"

"The person who wrote this is in the East Palace?"

Sun Simiao's eyes were full of red bloodshot, and it looked like he didn't rest well.

(End of this chapter)