At dawn I finally took a break from my contemplation, changed my clothes, and went to my mother to find out the news. When he arrived at the gate of the Xianju Palace, he saw Li Rui coming over in a hurry, and calculated the time, he should have left the city when the city gate was opened, and he got up so early, there must be something urgent.

I bowed my head to him and called him "prince", and when he saw me, he was anxious, showing a dignified prince's appearance, and nodded: "Son." - The tone is described, it is deliberately imitating the original Erlang.

Although I was in the palace, my mother still got up very early, and when she heard the news, she summoned our two brothers and sisters in, and when she entered, even my father got up early and sat down, squinting his eyes, looking at a scroll in the light, and when he saw us, he nodded lightly, and tried to pose as a strict father, but the corners of his mouth were still unconsciously hooked: "Liulang, Erniang, you came just in time, I have something to say to you with the queen." ”

My heart was beating up and down, and I couldn't help but glance at Li Rui, but he was also looking at me, as if he was a little hesitant, and when I saw my mother beckoning me to ask about my daily life, and whether I would be sent out for a while, I made up my mind, knelt on the ground, and said loudly: "Father, mother, please ask if my son has something." ”

My father looked at him in amazement, and his eyes involuntarily turned to his mother, who put her hand on me and looked at Li Rui and said, "What's the matter?"

Li Rui straightened up and said: "I heard that my father and mother want to take Wei Xuanzhen's fourth daughter as my son's wife, but I don't know if this matter is false or true?"

When I finally heard it with my own ears, my heart ached, but I looked up at my mother with a look of astonishment.

She stroked her hand on my shoulder, as if facing me, and as if facing Li Rui and said: "Wei's Yiye Guisheng, Clan Mao crown, Wei Huan's chastity and righteousness, words and appearances, for your concubine, it is okay." ”

Li Rui got the definite news, and immediately became anxious: "But her father is of low grade, and her brothers are all indecent and useless." ”

The mother said lightly: "Her father's brother is of low grade, and he is relying on your promotion in the future. You read history books, don't you know these truths?"

Li Rui said: "Although this is the case, her family is really bad..."

Before she finished speaking, her mother had already interrupted her: "The Li family is the son of heaven, the door is naturally the first in the world, and then the low door, marrying into my family, is the family of the heavenly family, no matter how high the door is, can you still cross my Li family? Not to mention that you are already the prince, and you will be the supreme in the world in the future, why do you need these doors to decorate?"

Li Rui was really anxious, and he also raised his neck and interrupted his mother: "But she is a concubine and a child! Since ancient times, there have been concubines and sons for the prince?"

There was a moment of silence in the hall, and my heart instantly jumped to my throat, and I clenched my fist with one hand, afraid that my parents would see it, so I quickly lowered my head - Wei Huan, who I asked for but couldn't get, turned out to be just a concubine in Li Rui's eyes.

My mother thought I was frightened by Li Rui, so she put her arms around me and patted me lightly on the back a few times, and ordered: "Son, go out, Dugu Shao is here today, ask her to accompany you to the garden for a walk." ”

I gritted my teeth and squeezed out a smile, looked up at my mother and said, "Brother's family affairs are a major matter of the family and the country, although the son-in-law is a daughter, he doesn't want to stay out of the matter, and the son-in-law also wants to know as soon as possible, who will be the sister-in-law of the son-in-law, and the son-in-law will have to rely on the sister-in-law for more care in the future." ”

My mother smiled and didn't force me to go out, but just pinched my face and said with a smile: "People are so small, but they have so many thoughts." So I still sat leaning on her, and when I looked up at Li Rui, my smile faded: "Who said that Wei Huan was a concubine, her mother is clearly the Qinghe Cui family, and the sect is clearly genealogy." ”

Li Rui saw that his mother was very resolute, so he turned his eyes to his father again, and his father said uncomfortably: "What your aunt said is that Wei Huan is indeed recorded in the name of the Cui family, and her mother is Cui Yide's father's younger sister, Qinghe Cui. ”

Li Rui was stunned, took a few steps forward, hugged his father's leg and said, "Aya..."

The father waved his hand impatiently and said, "You asked for her yourself, we have obeyed your heart and married her to you, what else do you want? You are now the prince, you can no longer blindly mess around as before, learn more from you..." He paused, and the word "two" was about to come out, but he suddenly closed his voice and sighed dejectedly: "Learn more from your mother." ”

The mother smiled and glanced at her father, and said affectionately: "If San Lang is tired, go back and rest first, Rui'er has always known the general situation, let him think about it himself, and he will understand." ”

My father nodded, stretched out his hand, and my mother and I held him aside and sent him into the inner hall.

The mother had a cold face and scolded: "The saint is not hesitating, it is when you, the crown prince, are in charge of the country and take on state affairs, but you only think about the concubines and concubines, you can see for yourself, can you look like a prince?

Li Rui still didn't give up, and said: "But that's the concubine of Er, the future queen... Does A-Niang really want a concubine to give birth to a child and a mother to serve the world?"

My mother let go of me, slowly walked up to him, looked at him condescendingly, and said coldly: "What about concubines giving birth to children? When Your Majesty wanted to appoint me, the courtiers still thought that your eldest father was a businessman and his status was slightly cold. Although your Li family boasted of being a gate lord and was called a relative of the Li family in Longxi, it was actually a border Wuzhen, and it was despised by the big surnames of Shandong, and it was better to be a family that forbiddens marriage than a wife of Wuzhen, but who is the son of heaven now? Who is the one whose reputation is inflated and his inner reality is down? Where do you think your honor and wealth come from? Is it an illusory surname?"

Li Rui Nene couldn't say it right, so he had to bow his head, bow hastily, and say when he got up: "If A-Niang insists, I have to admit it there." But A-Niang can take the princess for her son, but she may not be able to give birth to a grandson for her son-'s farewell. I only had time to call out "Brother", and I heard a crisp sound, but it was my mother who slapped Li Rui in the face, and he was stunned.

Fortunately, the people in the hall had already withdrawn, and only Wan'er and I were left in the room, I hurriedly lowered my head and pretended not to see anything, but I couldn't help but glance forward from the corner of my eyes, and I saw Wan'er take a step out of the corner and stand at the junction of light and darkness in the hall.

Mother said to Li Rui word by word: "That's how you talk to your mother and me?"

Li Rui's face turned white. He probably never thought his mother would do this to him.

He finally remembered to cover his face, his hand stretched out halfway, but as if he had thought of something, he showed a frightened face, and even forgot to cover his face, so he knelt down with a plop and said in a low voice: "My son is wrong, beg my mother... I beg Her Majesty the Queen of Heaven to forgive her sins. Child... I would like to take Merriam-Webster as his wife and treat him with courtesy. ”

Mother lowered her eyes at him, the fingers of her right hand were slightly open, Wan'er walked quickly to her side, respectfully supported her right hand and walked back, mother sat where her father was sitting just now, waved her big sleeves, let Wan'er retreat, one hand still on me, one hand on the case, and said indifferently: "How you little husband and wife get along with each other is your business, I just need a good daughter-in-law, inherit the temple, benefit in the center, be chaste and obedient, and appease the six relatives, understand?"

Li Rui knocked his head on the ground and let out a muffled sound: "Listen to the Holy Sect." When I was about to leave, I stopped him: "Brother... Wei Huan who asked Aya for it?"

Li Rui lowered her eyebrows and was silent, my mother touched my head gently, and explained to me with a smile: "You Aya want to put both Concubine Zheng and Liangdi for him at one time, so I asked him if he has a favorite candidate, I think His Majesty is still sick, and the prince will choose one concubine and two palaces at the beginning of his establishment, which seems not very appropriate, so I stopped admonishing him." Wei Huan has been in the palace for two years, knows how to advance and retreat, has courage, and serves nobles and handles palace affairs, and is also very decent, I chose to be your sister-in-law, and I will hand over this harem to her in the future, I am also relieved. ”

I asked again, "Does my brother like her?"

Li Rui looked at me puzzled, secretly glanced at his mother, and said sullenly: "The appearance is medium and the temperament is acceptable, it can be regarded as... I like it. ”

The mother quietly brushed her sleeve and looked at him and said, "Just like it." He picked me up and asked, "Do you like Wei Huan to be your sister-in-law?" You are so familiar with Wei Huan, if someone bullies you in the future, and your brother is not good at getting ahead, you will look for her, Liulang is only your sister, and she is a sister-in-law, so she should take care of you in a reasonable way. ”

I lowered my eyes and said, "If someone bullies me, I don't want to find someone else, I just look for A-Niang and ask A-Niang to make decisions for me." A-Niang is a diva, much stronger than the crown princess. ”

My mother shook her head with a smile, and then pinched my face and said: "Idiot, my mother is old, I can't take care of you for a lifetime, in the future, your brother and sister-in-law will be in charge of the world, you have to rely on them to live, and when the bride enters the door, you must serve well, don't be disrespectful to her because she has been your servant, remember to uphold the courtesy of your sister-in-law, understand?"

I felt a sadness in my heart, I don't know if it was for Wei Huan or for myself, the tears were crumbling in my eyes, I couldn't bear it for a moment, and then it dripped out of my own eyes, my mother picked up my face, wiped her fingers across the corners of my eyes, glanced at the tears on my hands, and asked in surprise: "It's so decent, why are you crying?"

I don't know where the wit came from, and I threw myself into her arms in an instant: "A-Niang is not old, A-Niang has to take care of her son-in-law for a lifetime, and her son-in-law doesn't want Wei Huan to be a sister-in-law, and her son only needs A-Niang." The more I cried, the more sad I felt, the more I screamed loudly, wiped my tears and snot on my mother's clothes, my heart ached, and Wei Huan's shadow kept appearing in front of me, and I almost blurted out "I like Wei Huan, Liulang doesn't like Wei Huan, Ah Niang will give Wei Huan to me", but in the end, he could only hold his mother and call "Ah Niang" over and over again.

Both my mother and Li Rui were frightened by me, Li Rui stepped forward hesitantly, glanced at my mother cautiously, and waited for her permission, Fang reached out and rubbed my head, and sighed: "A-Niang has always been healthy, and she will definitely live a long life and enjoy happiness forever, don't be sad." ”

His mother seemed to be very dissatisfied with his official words, snorted, and said: "State affairs are complicated, you go back to the palace to manage the government, if it is something important, you don't have to come over to report it." He sent him away impatiently, but he put his arms around me affectionately, caressed and comforted, and exhausted all patience and tenderness. (. Just Love)