Chapter VI
Li Zhi looked at Wu Meiniang in front of her, who was reviewing the folds, she had completely changed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info only thinks about the government and politics wholeheartedly, only thinks about power, and doesn't care about him and the child at all, this kind of Wu Meiniang makes him feel strange and even more terrible! Once a woman's desire for power exceeds the level that her husband can tolerate, and a woman's concern for power exceeds her concern for her husband, then such a family will naturally have problems. It's just that Wu Meiniang didn't know at this time that her husband was already very dissatisfied with her, but he didn't say it because of the pain of losing his son!
"Your Majesty, can the concubine really make all the decisions for you? Don't you think that the concubine interferes too much? You don't hate the concubine because of this, right?" Wu Meiniang had a flattering smile on her face, I don't know why, such a smile is so fake in Li Zhi's opinion?
"It's up to you to decide!But, Mei Niang, there's one thing I don't understand, and I want you to give me a satisfactory answer. Li Zhi looked at Wu Meiniang's calm face, and there was no longer that flattering smirk.
"Your Majesty is joking, you are the husband of the concubine, the concubine is not only your wife, but also your courtier, no matter what questions you have, you can ask?
"Good. You used to be very nice to the kids and let them go to dinner with you every night. Now you never call the kids over, and even when they do, you don't want to keep them. I wonder why, how can a mother's heart become so fast and so thorough? And you used to love Taiping, and now you are very cold to Taiping, I want to know why. As a mother, why did he change like this?" Li Zhi said in one breath what he couldn't figure out.
Wu Meiniang didn't expect Li Zhi to say this, let alone that Li Zhi didn't turn a blind eye to her changes, but just kept testing her. "It's because of Hong'er, because of the loss of Hong'er, it's too hard for me, and when I see the children, I think of Hong'er's death, so I don't want to see the children, I don't want to think about Hong'er's death anymore. It's not that I don't love Taiping, it's just that Taiping has grown up, and what he needs is not our favor, but the favor of his husband. Besides, if we are too pampered, it will make her more willful and domineering, I don't want to harm my daughter!Your Majesty, I will always be your Mei Niang, this will never change, please don't be dissatisfied with me!" Wu Meiniang knelt in front of Li Zhi, "Your Majesty, Mei Niang begs you, I ask you to believe in Mei Niang's heart for Your Majesty and the children, please Your Majesty don't misunderstand Mei Niang!" Wu Meiniang burst into tears.
Li Zhi couldn't bear it after all, and helped Wu Meiniang up, "It's me who is not good, it's me who blames you." Mei Niang, I have always believed in your heart for me and your love for my children. Mei Niang, whether it is Taiping, or other children, they all need maternal love, please give them at the right time!" Li Zhi remembered that this sentence was said by Wu Meiniang himself before, but when he said this, Wu Meiniang in front of him had a surprised and puzzled expression, although this expression was very short-lived, but it still made Li Zhi see clearly.
Wu Meiniang, who had a natural expression, still had tears in the corners of her eyes, "The concubine will, the concubine knows! The concubine just understands the pain of His Majesty's loss of a child more, and Mei Niang is the same." So I want to accompany Your Majesty, comfort Your Majesty, and at the same time let Mei Niang ease the pain of losing her son a little! Please understand Your Majesty's thoughts about Your Majesty and miss Hong'er. Wu Meiniang shed more tears, which softened Li Zhi's heart. Li Zhi doubted her, which proved that Li Zhi missed the previous Wu Meiniang very much. In this way, she can always stabilize her position, because Li Zhi is reluctant and can't bear to hurt her!
"I know, that Mei Niang has worked hard! I want to have a good rest, and all the government affairs will be handled by Mei Niang!" Li Zhi is tired, and he doesn't want to discuss anything with Mei Niang anymore, let alone see her emotionless tears. Losing Hong'er was a big pain in his life, and he couldn't ignore it easily.
Walking out of his palace, he smiled bitterly at the night sky, this is not his Mei Niang, although I don't know why, although the Mei Niang in front of him is still exactly the same, but her temperament has changed greatly, not the Mei Niang who doesn't seem to care about anything, not the Mei Niang who will make him helpless and angry at any time. It turns out that that kind of Mei Niang is more attractive, or is that kind of Mei Niang more pampered by him, so that he can't care about it for a long time?
Li Zhi fell to the ground, and the guards around him immediately helped him up. "Don't say it, don't let the queen mother know, you send me back to the palace to rest!" However, there was no reason for such a loss, and he could only feel sad in his heart.
"Your Majesty, do you need to pass on the imperial doctor?" the guard asked.
"No, I'm fine! Just let Grandpa Gao come and serve!You go down!" Li Zhi leaned weakly on the couch. Suddenly, he felt that he no longer had the strength to investigate how Wu Meiniang had become? He also had no strength to know why the previous Wu Meiniang was completely different from the current Wu Meiniang? He just wanted to have a good rest, he just wanted to sleep well, and when he woke up, he might understand what he wanted to know.
"Your Majesty, your face is very bad, can you send the imperial doctor to take a look? The slave is worried about Your Majesty's dragon body? Your Majesty, pass on the imperial doctor to take a look!" Gao Gonggong said on the side, hoping that Li Zhi would care about his body.
"I'm fine, I'm fine! Don't tell the queen, let her continue to review the folds! I want to rest well by myself, and don't want anyone else to serve me. "Li Zhi made a will, and Gao Gonggong had no choice but to serve by Li Zhi's side alone. After a while, Li Zhi asked again: "Do you think that after the queen mother recovers from her illness, she is not the same as before, more decisive and tougher, and loves power and status more, or is this just my opinion?" Li Zhi couldn't help but want to ask the people around him, is he the only one who feels like this.
"The slave thinks that the queen mother is indeed a little different after recovering from illness, but the slave can't say anything different, does Your Majesty think the queen mother is different? Or maybe the crown prince has died, and the queen mother can't stand such a blow, right? Your Majesty thinks the queen mother has changed?" Gao Gonggong said to Li Zhi flatteringly. Although he knew that in this palace, Empress Wu's power was no less than that of Li Zhi, but he still chose to be loyal to the emperor. Li Zhi didn't let him say anything, and he wouldn't confide in anyone if he was killed.
"Yes, how can I make you clear what I can't say clearly? I'm tired, I'm resting!" Li Zhi closed his eyes weakly and fell into a deep sleep.
Wu Meiniang reviewed the folds very seriously, and it was already very late after the approvals! Xiaochun stepped forward and helped Wu Meiniang up, "Niangniang, it's ugly, are you hungry, are you hungry? Eat something, right? You have never reviewed the folds for the emperor so late before?"
"When you get older, you become stupid, these folds have been reviewed for so long! We will accompany the emperor to the court in a short time, we don't have to go back to the palace, just rest here for a while, the palace will have to go to the court! Xiaochun, you go back to the palace first!" Wu Meiniang walked in the palace, "People are getting older, and the years are really unforgiving! It is indeed old, and I always feel tired!"
"What did Niangniang say? Niangniang will always be young and beautiful, how can she grow old? Niangniang's beauty is obvious to all. Xiaochun flattered Wu Meiniang, she vaguely felt that this Wu Meiniang didn't seem to be as gentle and kind as before, and she was even more cautious and cautious.
"You are very good at talking, and you speak very well! I have been busy with court politics, and I haven't disciplined those concubines in the inner palace well, are they still trying to please the emperor now?" Wu Meiniang looked at Xiaochun and asked, she heard that those little talents who don't know whether to live or die are still making trouble?
"Niangniang don't worry, they don't dare to make a fuss. The emperor has been accompanying Niangniang recently, how can the concubines in the palace compare with Niangniang? The emperor's affection for Niangniang is husband and wife, and how can it be compared with those concubines who rely on their beauty and ignorance?"
"Xiaochun said very reasonably, this palace really shouldn't spend too much effort to pay attention to those little talents, this palace should help the emperor deal with the government, this is the queen that the emperor likes?" Wu Meiniang knows that she has done a little too much recently, and has interfered too much in the government, but she has not been able to retract her attachment to power, she has not had such power for a long time, so she doesn't want to lose, let alone hide her desire for power. Fortunately, Li Zhi has always believed in her, and this is enough! She believes that Li Zhi's reliance on her will continue forever and will not end!
In Li Xian's East Palace, the minister who was accompanying him said to Li Xian: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the emperor has been very dissatisfied with the queen's excessive interference in the affairs of the court recently, and His Royal Highness can take this opportunity to beg the emperor to depose the queen, otherwise His Royal Highness the crown prince will not have real power in his hands for a day?"
Li Xian turned his head to look, "I am the son of the queen mother, and I should not only be loyal to the queen mother, but also have the affection of a mother and son, I will not do that kind of unfaithful and unrighteous thing! What's more, Brother Hong also wanted to ask his father to abolish the queen mother, but what was the result? I don't want to cause more trouble, I just want to live in peace in this emperor's house." The queen mother's suspicion is very heavy, and you must not say such things again in the future, until it reaches the ears of the queen mother, and I will never have a day to live in peace. ”
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is thoughtful, and the ministers are in a hurry!"
"Go down. Li Xian waved his hand to let the courtiers stand down. Was Brother Hong's death really the work of his father's little talent in order to compete for favor? Or was this the will of the queen mother, including the daughter of her aunt, who had been dead for a long time, Mrs. Wei Guo, how did she die? Li Xian could not help but consider all the things before and after, and could not help but plan for his own life. Power and government are not things that he has to get, he just wants to live peacefully and well, why should he earn a long time with his mother?
Once, when Li Hong was still alive, he went to the queen mother's palace for dinner every night, the days at that time were really happy, there was no power struggle, there was no life-and-death conspiracy, at that time they were just ordinary mothers, sons, mothers and daughters, so it was enough. Born in such a family, they can't choose, and even the queen mother herself may not be able to choose, right? Li Xian can only see Wu Meiniang in the court now, and he hardly sees him in ordinary times. He felt that since Li Hong left, the queen mother had become very indifferent, whether it was to him or to other siblings. Such a queen mother is very similar to the queen mother he knew when he was a child, unlike the queen mother after him. He wouldn't dare provoke such a mother!
The next day, someone reported to Wu Meiniang that the prince was dissatisfied with her. Even the people in the East Palace asked the prince to ask the emperor to depose the queen. Wu Meiniang slapped the table heavily, "What an ambitious son? He wants to get power so much, or is he dissatisfied with the palace's interference in the government? Xiaochun knelt at Wu Meiniang's feet.
The prince is extremely filial to his mother, and he will not have such thoughts, let alone any dissatisfaction with his mother. Don't listen to the villain's words, she is too harsh on the prince. Niangniang, think about it calmly, the prince is really not such a person?"
Wu Meiniang squinted at Xiaochun, it turned out that she was so committed for Li Xian! "This palace knows what Li Xian is like, and he also knows that it is just that his subordinates are unwilling! He is the son of this palace, how can this palace bear it? This palace just wants him to be vigilant, not to be provoked by those villains to stir up the relationship between mother and son! Go, let Li Xian come to see this palace, this palace has not seen this son for a long time!" Wu Meiniang watched Xiaochun go out, and a cold smile appeared on her lips. She won't do anything to this son for the time being, after all, Li Hong has just passed away, and Li Zhi can't accept the departure of another son. What's more, Li Xian is very smart, he didn't conflict with her openly, and he was very filial to her, so she would let him live the life he wanted for a while!
Wu Meiniang's accomplishment is not only to accommodate Li Zhi, but also to do her best for her child! Although the struggle for power has made her lose her love for her child, she still hopes that she is a good mother when she is calm occasionally, just like the person who replaces her!
She usually asks Taiping, "Was I very good to you all before I got sick?" Is it because your brother Hong is a little confused, I have forgotten the previous days, as if I don't remember anything!" Wu Meiniang said to her daughter with such an excuse.
What the queen mother said was that because Brother Hong's mother was too sad, she would be a little confused about Brother Hong's days. At that time, the queen mother even made dinner for us herself, and even Brother Hong's snacks were made by the queen mother herself! And the queen mother, your craftsmanship was very good at that time, and we all liked to eat the things cooked by the queen mother herself?"
"Because your father's dragon body is getting weaker and weaker, the queen mother spends most of her time helping your father deal with political affairs, and it is inevitable that she will ignore you and your brothers, you hate this kind of queen mother, don't you like it as much as before?"
"The queen mother will always be our queen mother, and this will not change! Queen mother, can I often come to the palace to see my father and you in the future? I want to visit you in the palace often, and be filial to you, will the queen mother accept her daughter's wishes?"
"You have such filial piety, of course the queen mother appreciates it. Wu Meiniang took her daughter's hand and patted it gently. Although it is not a child born to her, she is willing to become a real mother and daughter with this daughter, she has lost her daughter, and she is satisfied to be able to have it again this time! To Taiping, she will be a good mother, a real good mother! Other children, she can't do it! After all, she can't surpass the desire for power for a child who is not her own!