"Girl?" Pei Ji couldn't help but look at Li Xiu with a strange look when he heard the servant's report. He couldn't figure out why a girl came to find Li Xiu?

"Haha, it must be Lizhi who brought Mingkong. Come bring them quickly!" Li Xiu immediately smiled when he heard this.

"Lizhi? It should be the eldest daughter of the prince, but who is that Mingkong?" Pei Ji finally asked again. He used to often enter the palace, so he naturally knew that Li Shimin's favorite daughter was Li Lizhi, but he didn't know who Wu Mingkong was.

"Mingkong's surname is Wu, and her father is the warrior who was demoted from Beijing before." Li Xiu explained.

"It turned out to be her. I remember that when this little girl was born, I had gone to drink her 100th anniversary wine. But I didn't expect that the warrior was demoted from Chang'an in the blink of an eye, and I had to resign from my office to protect myself!" When hearing that Wu Mingkong was the daughter of the warrior, Pei Ji couldn't help but sigh. At that time, he and the warrior were both Li Yuan's confidants, and they were naturally powerful in the court, but who would have thought that the world was impermanent, and they had reached this point in just a few years?

Hearing Pei Ji's self-pitying words, Li Xiu didn't know what to say, so he had to stay silent with him. After a while, a sound of horse hooves came from afar. Then a team of guards rushed towards him. The horse in front was Princess Pingyang's maid's helmet, and she was holding two little girls in her arms, Li Zhi and Mingkong.

"Uncle, what are you baking? I can smell the fragrance from afar!" Lizhi saw Li Xiu waving his hand and shouting loudly. She has been playing in the Wu family courtyard until now, but Wu Mingkong suggested to come to find Li Xiu, so the two of them came together.

"Lizhi and Mingkong, come down and try your uncle's skills. I shot this pheasant to death with my own hands!" Li Xiu also laughed loudly at this time.

While talking, the helmet and the others came close to each other, then jumped off the horse and let them down. Then the two little girls ran over quickly, and Li Xiu smiled and pointed at Pei Ji next to him and said, "This is Pei Xiang, hurry up and salute!"

"Meet Pei Xiang!" Lizhi and Mingkong were both very polite, and at this time they saluted Pei Ji like a little adult.

"Pei Xiang, the older one is beautiful, the smaller one is Mingkong, and she is also a student I just accepted." Li Xiu said to Pei Ji with a smile.

"Haha~, you are obviously giving your niece to yours. Students want a meeting gift!" Pei Ji couldn't help laughing when he heard Li Xiu's words. He naturally understood what Li Xiu meant, and it was also a matter of the elders' gift to the younger generation.

Pei Ji thought about it for a while, and then ordered a servant to receive the meeting gift. In a short while, a servant held an exquisite jade box and presented it to him. Then Pei Ji took the jade box and opened it gently. As a result, there were two jade balls in the jade box, which were as white as condensed and as black as pure lacquer. At a glance, you could tell that it was the best among the jade.

"These two jade balls were just given to me by someone else. They are all the best among Hetian jades. Just give them to you as a gift!" Pei Ji personally delivered the jade box to the two little girls and smiled. These two jade balls are all Hetian jade, white mutton fat jade, pure white and flawless, and the black jade is extremely rare, and the carvings are extremely round. It is indeed a rare gift.

"Thank you Pei Xiang!" Lizhi and Mingkong were happy to thank Pei Ji when they saw the jade ball in front of them. Then they picked one of them. Mingkong liked the black one, while Lizhi chose the white one. Each jade ball had half the fist of an adult. They couldn't grasp the little hands at all, so they could only hold it with both hands, and then happily presented treasure to Li Xiu.

"This is a good thing, Pei Xiang is really generous!" Li Xiu touched the little heads of the two girls, then smiled and said with a smile on Pei Ji.

"Haha, just some gadgets, not worth mentioning!" Pei Ji smiled generously.

Looking at the jade balls in Lizhi and the others' hands, Li Xiu suddenly felt a move. He borrowed them from them for a while, and then weighed them in his hand. He found that the two jade balls were about the same size as the fitness balls in later generations, and it was very easy to hold them in his hand, so he couldn't help but turn them around. He used to have an elder who liked to play with this thing after retirement. The two iron balls in his hand jingled and were very interesting.

"Huh? The prince consort is..." Pei Ji said a little surprised when he saw Li Xiu turn the two jade balls like flowing clouds.

"Pei Xiang didn't know anything. Holding two jade balls in his hand and turning like this can stimulate the acupoints on his hands and make his body healthier!" Li Xiu explained with a smile. He decided to let someone play two jade balls when he went home. He usually held them in his hand and turned around to kill time and exercise.

"Oh? The prince-consort is so knowledgeable!" Pei Ji couldn't help but exclaim when he heard this. Li Xiu laughed when he heard this, then returned the jade ball to Lizhi and the others, and invited the two little girls to taste his own barbecue.

After eating barbecue, Pei Ji took Li Xiu to visit his villa again. There were two young followers, Li Zhi and Mingkong, behind him, and there were a lot of laughter along the way. When Pei Ji was very surprised by Mingkong's intelligence, he even went to the martial arts house to propose marriage for his children. When Li Xiu heard this, he was silent for Pei Ji's children for three minutes. Marrying a woman like Wu Mingkong is not a good thing.

When they left, Li Xiu and Pei Ji agreed to visit Li Yuan tomorrow, and then waved their goodbye. The next morning, Pei Ji came to Li Xiu's house early, and then they took the same car to Chang'an.

"Mr., every time I walk on Zhuque Street, I wonder, do you think Chang'an City will continue to flourish forever?" As soon as I entered Chang'an City, Pei Ji suddenly asked Li Xiu with some emotion.

"Maybe, maybe not, who can explain this kind of thing clearly?" Li Xiu hesitated for a moment before speaking. According to the original history, Chang'an would definitely not have been so prosperous, but had experienced ups and downs. However, with his intervention, God knows what the history of future generations will become?

"Yes, life is just decades. Whether it is emperors, generals, or peddlers, they are just a pile of loess. Before we were alive, we could only do our best. As for the things behind us, we can only comment on them!" Pei Ji sighed in a low voice.
Chapter completed!