Yuwenzhu sent two big scarves, embroidered with the names of cloud patterns, cold hooks and Wudi. She once saw someone tying a falcon around her neck, hoping to tie these two big scarves around Hangh and Wu Di’s neck.
There are also embroidery pieces for Li Xuanba. A handkerchief is much smaller than a large scarf and has no name embroidered yet.
Yu Wenzhu asked about Han Gou and Wu Di in the letter, and was very curious about the two smart eagles. She also listed some tonic herbs that she heard that Diao can also eat, so that Li Xuanba would never treat Diaocao badly.
Thinking about the super rational letter Yu Wenzhu wrote to herself, and then looking at the vivid and lively letter Yu Wenzhu asked Diaozai about his vivid language. Li Xuanba was in a little complicated moment.
Li Shimin laughed so hard that his stomach hurt.
He wiped the tears of laughter and said, “Who told you and your sister-in-law not to find an opportunity to meet her secretly when they were in Luoyang? Look at me, Guanyin maid never forgets me after seeing me. You are still a stranger in your sister-in-law, and a boring wooden stranger who sent medical books for the first time when you wrote a letter. Carved cubs are more interesting than you. Hahaha!”
Li Xuanba was a little embarrassed.
Sweet words are all deceitful things. I send the most practical things based on Yu Wenzhu’s hobbies, and I don’t write greasy nonsense in the letter. How can I be dull and boring? Do you want to write “I miss you” ten times to your sister-in-law like you?
You are even willing to write poems, and you have to write love words in the past. Based on the experience I have seen on the Internet, women do not like rustic love words at all, they all like practicality.
Well, that must be true.
Li Xuanba said in a muffled voice: “Don’t read Fang Xuanling and the others’ letters and gifts?”
Seeing that his younger brother was about to be angry, Li Shimin put away his sarcastic smile at the critical point of being angry, and changed the topic according to Li Xuanba’s words: “Look!”
In addition to greetings, Fang Qiao and others told Li Shimin and Li Xuanba more carefully about some major events worth mentioning in Luoyang after they left.
Li Shimin and Li Xuanba looked at these seemingly trivial things one by one, and pieced together the current situation in Luoyang’s court after they left.
After Yang Guang left Luoyang, the seemingly rich Luoyang had no need to maintain the illusion of prosperity anymore, and ragged refugees appeared in the streets and alleys. Fang Qiao and others speculated that more people could not survive in the battle against Tuyuhun.
Fang Qiao has accepted the appointment from the court and has gone to Jiangnan to serve as the county magistrate.
This is the place Li Xuanba chose for Fang Qiao.
Most of the future loyal ministers of the second brother come from the north and do not know much about Jiangnan.
Emperor Wen of Sui destroyed several major cities in Jiangnan. Especially after the destruction of Jianye, the economic and cultural regression occurred in the Jiangnan area, which had been more fully developed during the Southern Dynasties.
After Yang Guang built the Grand Canal, Jiangnan recovered. In the future, the Tang Dynasty will be established, and wars will rage in the north, and it will be difficult to resume production. At the same time, increasing efforts to develop the South will be very beneficial to dealing with the successive natural disasters in the early Tang Dynasty. So Li Xuanba discussed with Fang Qiao, hoping that he could learn more about Jiangnan.
After Fang Qiao returned to Luoyang, his father Fang Yanqian had the idea of accompanying his father.
But Fang Yanqian scolded Fang Qiao.
Although Fang Yanqian didn’t know that Fang Qiao was preparing for the moment when the prophecy and divination was realized many years later, as a father, he could detect that Fang Qiao was doing something major related to his friends.
Fang Yanqian scolded Fang Qiao: “If you don’t agree to your friend, then you’ll have to do it. Since you have agreed, one of the most important qualities of being a human being is to keep your promises. I have my own servants to take care of you, why do you need to be a child on the side? Go and complete your business quickly.”
Fang Qiao woke up ashamed and went south with his wife to Jiangnan.
Du Ruhui was also elected as the county magistrate. He looked down on the small county magistrate and was unwilling to go there.
But Fang Qiao persuaded that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. He has experience in governing a county and has personally contacted the people. Only in the future will he be able to be at a high position.
Before Li Shimin and Li Xuanba left, they often talked about getting close to the people with their friends.