Tang Dynasty: Starting at Xuanwu Gate, this prince is better off not being one.

What the hell!

That Li Er is really good at insulting people!

"How could this be? My nephew has always been honest and kind, how could he possibly use such a petty trick?" Li Yu was very unconvinced.

"Are you honest and kind?"

Li Yu's indignant look successfully made Li Er laugh in exasperation: "Go ask Li Chengzong and see if he will fly into a rage after hearing what you said."

"He and my nephew are mortal enemies, so naturally he won't have anything nice to say to them..." Li Yu pursed his lips, indicating that he was just an honest person.

"Hahaha! Alright, kid, stop with the jokes. Tell me, how many years?"

Li Yu calculated for a moment in his mind and said, "That depends on how well the artisans of my Great Zhou understand glass. Five years it is then!"

It's simply a matter of using wood ash to extract alkali. If I teach the craftsmen the techniques I know and then study it for another five years, I'm still very confident that I can succeed.

Seeing how confident he was, Li Er nodded and smiled, "Alright! I'll give you five years. If you can't figure it out in five years, I'll still give you a beating."

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The old lady eventually found out about the injury, so she brought Li Xuanba, who had been blocking her way, to the Qin Prince's mansion.

Although a day had passed, Li Yu still found it difficult to get out of bed and walk.

So when Dugu Jin saw Li Yu's miserable state, he was heartbroken and wept bitterly.

"Is this how you defend your son?!"

"This king..."

After asking Li Yu countless times if he was in pain, Dugu turned and glared fiercely at Li Xuanba: "Since you can't handle it, then I will! Even if my father is gone, I will ask my two elder brothers if they can stand up for their nephew!"

"Jin'er! Jin'er! Don't be impulsive! This matter involves the Crown Prince, it's not that simple!" Li Xuanba grabbed his wife's hand with a headache. It was really hard to stop his wife when she went crazy.

"I don't care, all I know is that my child was beaten and his incompetent father just sat by and did nothing..." At this moment, Dugu Jin couldn't listen to anything at all, and broke free from Li Xuanba's hand to go back to her parents' home.

"That's enough!"

Faced with his wife's sarcastic remarks, Li Xuanba said with some embarrassment and anger, "What do you know, woman! This whole thing was deliberately orchestrated by the Crown Prince to get Father to reduce Second Brother's power. Your outburst has just done exactly what he wanted!"

"That's right!"

Before Dugu Jin could say anything more, her second sister-in-law, Changsun, approached and gently explained, "Your husband is right. This matter isn't that simple. I'm a mother too, and it pains me to see these four boys beaten, but even though we are women, we must consider the bigger picture, mustn't we?"

"Right now, the relationship between our two families and the Crown Prince and Prince Qi is very tense. Even for the sake of your husband and the future of our mentally challenged son, we should be patient for the time being."

Sure enough, the words of comfort that women offer to each other are always the most effective. After being comforted by Changsun, Dugu Jin finally calmed down.

She glared at her husband, gave a coquettish sigh, and was then pulled out of the bedroom by Changsun.

After everyone left, Li Xuanba rubbed his forehead in exasperation.

Suddenly, she saw Li Yu looking at her with a smile, so she slapped him on the back of the head in embarrassment and anger.

"What are you laughing at! See? Women from wealthy families are so hard to please. So you can't marry a daughter from a wealthy family. Your mother is enough for our family!"

Hearing his father's words, Li Yu almost rolled his eyes to the sky: "Father, I'm only eleven years old at most. It's too early to talk about marriage!"

"Besides, even if you say that, haven't you still been through thick and thin with my mother for so many years?"

"What do you know!"

Seeing his son start teasing him, Li Xuanba slapped Li Yu on the back of the head again and said, "Even if your mother has a bad temper, she still takes good care of your father and has never caused you any trouble in managing the household."

"Yes, yes, yes! Your son will follow your teachings, Father..." Li Yu's lips never left his bed as he lay there.

Even though he had been reborn, there were still many people who cared for him deeply, which gradually gave him a sense of belonging to this unfamiliar world...

.........

My father passed away, and after taking care of myself for a day, my mother also left because the house needed someone to manage it.

However, she summoned Green Robe to take care of her, which made Li Yu very embarrassed.

"Green Robe, you can leave the applying of medicine to Butler Chen. You just need to keep me company..."

Feeling the green-clad man's hand stroking his buttocks, Li Yu felt extremely uncomfortable.

Seeing Li Yu blushing so deeply, Green Robe chuckled twice and said, "Young Master, there's no need to be embarrassed. Green Robe always served you when you bathed. Applying medicine is no trouble at all."

What else can be said?

Li Yu sighed inwardly, realizing that he had memorized all of the original owner's dark history.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but become curious about the original owner's background.

From the time the original owner was born until she was eight years old, so many years had passed. The palace sent people to search for her, and the all-powerful Emperor Li Er also sent people to investigate, but there was not a single clue about the lost eight years.

He had also wondered if he was really his father's biological son, but after asking around, there was no problem.

The similarity between myself and the Li family members, as well as the two birthmarks they pointed out on my neck and buttocks, are things that have been on me in both my past and present lives.

Moreover, the longevity lock around her neck when she was found was said to have been prepared by Empress Dou long ago, and was personally hung on her by the current emperor when she was born.

All of this proves that Li Yu is the grandson of the emperor, but even he himself doesn't know where he was during those eight years.

The original owner's memory fragments only contained information from the three years that had been retrieved.

"Could it be that I didn't just transmigrate as a soul? Or that I suddenly arrived here as a whole eight years ago?"

"Young master, are you feeling unwell? I'll be gentler."

Not hearing what Li Yu was muttering, Green Robe assumed she had hurt Li Yu, so she stopped what she was doing.

"It's nothing, there are just some things I can't figure out."

Li Yu shook his head, indicating that the woman in green didn't need to be too careful.

Seeing that Li Yu was not feeling unwell, Green Robe was relieved and continued what she was doing: "Young Master, my mother used to tell me that if you can't figure something out, don't think about it, so you don't get stuck in a rut and waste your energy. Everything is God's will."

"Your mother is right, we really shouldn't get stuck on one thing."

Li Yu nodded, no longer dwelling on his background, and turned to ask, "By the way, how long has it been since you went home?"

Green Robe was taken aback by Li Yu's question, then said somewhat forlornly, "I've been in this manor for three years and haven't been home. I only hear news about my family from Steward Chen."

Seeing the little girl's sad face, Li Yu felt a pang of pity and asked, "Do you want to go home and visit your family? I'll give you some time off."

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