The porter seemed to be negotiating with the visitor.

"Guess who?" asked Li Ke with interest.

Jiang Chengzi had already heard the voice of the visitor, so he stood against the window and asked with a smile: "Is there a colorful head?"

"Thief spirit. Your ears have always been good, and you want to ask me for a color head. Li Ke was disdainful.

"Okay. Why don't we gamble on the purpose of his visit?" Jiang Chengzi still smiled.

"He's a person—" Li Ke paused, shook his head, and then said, "It's hard to say." ”

"You don't dare to bet. Jiang Chengzi joked that he felt that such a moment was the most pleasant.

Li Ke's eyes were light, he leaned over and bowed his head, and said, "What is mine is yours, and how you gamble is also yours." ”

"Not serious. Jiang Chengzi avoided his gaze and only lost this sentence.

"Lonely men and widows, enjoying the snow late at night, no one can look serious. Li Ke said it rightly.

The porter had trotted all the way from the eaves of the porch, stood still in front of the window, and arched his hand: "Nine girls, Chai Gongzi said that there is something to discuss, but you want to let him in?"

"The visitor is a guest, you go and invite Chai Gongzi to come in, and by the way, let Abi and a few people come together to add some dishes, chopsticks, dishes, and pastries. Jiang Chengzi commanded.

After a while, Chai Lingwu, who was dressed in a big coat, walked over quickly, took off the big hat when he arrived at the window, shook the snowflakes on his body, and said, "I didn't expect there to be such heavy snow in Shuzhong." ”

"The winter in Shuzhong is cooler and colder than Chang'an. Li Ke put down the wine glass, turned around and stirred the charcoal fire in the stove a few times.

Chai Lingwu cut through the window, rubbed his hands, and said, "I thought that I would go back to Chang'an tomorrow, but I was a little reluctant. I also thought about the heavy snow tonight, and you definitely didn't have the heart to sleep, so I looked for you, and when I saw Yunge, I knew that you were eating, drinking, and enjoying the snow here. I didn't understand the amorous feelings, so I came to make up the numbers and eat and drink. ”

"I know that I don't understand the customs, why do you still come?" Li Ke asked unceremoniously.

Chai Lingwu was not angry, he laughed and said, "I will leave with my father tomorrow, do you think I am here to find you?"

"You just said you came to me. Li Ke sat down by the charcoal fire.

Chai Lingwu had already entered the room, shrugged his shoulders, sat down on the chair, and sighed: "It's still this chair to sit and stretch, when I go back to Chang'an, I have to find a carpenter to make a chair, and I have to open a restaurant with chairs." ”

"Open a restaurant?" Li Ke raised his eyebrows, quite puzzled.

"Yes, when I get rich in the future, I will never forget you. Haha, Gou Fugui, don't forget each other. Chai Lingwu laughed, looked at the wine in the wine vessel again, bit his lip, and said greedily: "Ah Zhi, get a cup for my brother." ”

Jiang Chengzi smiled and poured a cup for him.

Chai Lingwu drank it all and said with a sigh: "As far as Ah Zhi's craftsmanship, the group of masters who were ordered to make wine have to kneel down to worship the master." Tsk, Ah Zhi, Ah Zhi, if you are a man, how much fame you have to receive for this skill. ”

Chai Lingwu sighed for a while, Jiang Chengzi instructed Ah Bi and others to set up the dishes, while chatting: "I am used to idle clouds and wild cranes, and I do things casually, this kind of character is the most unbearable rules, not to mention that I can't sleep comfortably, and I have to get up early in the morning to go to the morning court." That's why I don't want to enter the court. Furthermore, the so-called 'different ways do not conspire with each other'. The people in the court are either flies and dogs, or they have great ambitions. I don't fall into either of those categories, so I shouldn't be in them. In that way, it is a bitter self. ”

"Haha, I think so too. Chai Lingwu happily agreed.

"Therefore, my character, even if I am smart, at most I can take an idea to mix an official and a half-job, and I will not die of hunger, or if I am really short of money, I will use it to mix silver taels to solve the problem of food and clothing. Jiang Chengzi replied.

Actually, that's what she really thinks in her heart. If so, it would be great to live this ordinary life with Li Ke, eating and waiting for death.

But such an ordinary life, which abounds in modern society, is very difficult for them with special status.

"Ah Zhi, I like you more and more, we really deserve to be a family. Chai Lingwu reclined in his chair, holding a panda-shaped cushion and giving his thumb up. Jiang Chengzi lowered his eyes, leaned on the cushion, and thought that or the previous life was the Tang Dynasty he was familiar with, Gao Yang rebelled, he was dragged into the battle, and finally died tragically in Chang'an in March, I never thought it was the handiwork of the eldest grandson Wuji, but I never thought that it was the harmless eldest grandson Chong. However, later historical records show that a few years later, Wu Zetian destroyed the eldest grandson, and this eldest grandson Chong seems to have only been exiled.

Later, the eldest grandson was destroyed in the end. She said.

"My father was scheming and painstakingly arranged for Lao Jiu, and it was only a matter of time before the family was destroyed. Li Ke said calmly.

"It's a pity that your grandfather didn't calm down back then, otherwise, he would also plan for his children and grandchildren, I am afraid that the world will not be in chaos, and the Sui Dynasty will not be in just a few years. Jiang Chengzi shook his head.

Li Ke just smiled and said, "What the major families want to do, my father knows very well. In the previous life, Hongnong Yang placed two chess pieces, one in the court and the harem. You are the one in the court, and the one in the harem is the ruthless Wu girl. ”

"You mean Wu Mei. In the past, my father also said that it is not necessary to look at the beauty of the empress, but it is also created by the competition of forces behind her and her opportunities. Jiang Chengzi remembered the few conversations he had with his father in his previous life.

In fact, it was very strange at that time, when the father and daughter met, they basically revolved around the history of the Tang Dynasty, if they didn't talk about history, the father and daughter had nothing else to say, and the silence was embarrassing.

Li Ke nodded and said, "It's her." Back then, you died unexpectedly, and I became more and more depressed. Hongnong Yang gave full support to that girl. However, in other words, without the acquiescence of her father and Lao Jiu, she would have been destroyed shortly after entering the palace. She can live a prosperous life, not only as a pawn of Hongnong Yang's family, but also as a sword given to Lao Jiu by her father. It's just that the father has forgotten, how can people be just pawns. ”

Li Ke said that later, his face was full of ridicule, and the prophecy of "Li Xing of the Wu Dynasty" planned by his father was actually a prophecy. Of course, what he knew about the subsequent historical trend was what he got not long ago, when the two were chatting.

At that time, he knew that Wu Zetian would later become the emperor, and his face was full of surprise: "I didn't expect that girl to be so vicious, Lao Jiu actually couldn't stop it." ”

At this moment, Jiang Chengzi was surprised. She never thought that the prophecy of "Li Xing of the Wu Dynasty" had anything to do with the Li family. Now, I heard Li Ke say that all this was just planned by Li Shimin.

Jiang Chengzi Wu drank a cup of shock before asking: "Do you mean that your father and Lao Jiu both know that the girl surnamed Wu is behind the Hongnong Yang family, and they know that she is a chess piece planted by the Hongnong Yang family in the harem?

Li Ke nodded, squinted slightly, and said, "My father may be more powerful than you think." ”

Jiang Chengzi nodded in agreement: "I know this." I also know that he is more ruthless than you and I think. ”

"He has always used the old aristocracy as a counterweight to the new aristocracy. The two tigers competed, and both tigers were injured, and then the hunter was good to start a pot. What's more, he intentionally or unintentionally gave Hongnong Yang hope. When Li Ke said this, he fell silent and poured three glasses in succession.

Jiang Chengzi could see that he was in a bad mood, so he didn't speak, just sat silently.

"Because I'm here, because of his words, because of your talents—" When he said this, he raised his eyes and looked at Jiang Chengzi in a daze, and a decadent sadness appeared on his face.

"What's wrong?" she asked softly.

"Because of me, because of your talents, because he intentionally or unintentionally said that I am like him, I can be made a prince. This information made the shallow people of the Hongnong Yang clan seem to see that I can ascend to the throne and the hope that the old nobles can become the heroes of the new emperor, so the old nobles are even more crazy. Oh, my father is a really powerful guy. Li Ke tried his best to calm his tone, but he still showed great sadness.

Jiang Chengzi only felt distressed, but he didn't know how to comfort him, so he had to take a bamboo colander and mechanically scoop it in the pot, picking the meat and vegetables that Li Ke liked to eat into his bowl little by little. Li Ke was also silent, just leaning on the chair with a wine glass, watching the movements of the girl in front of him.

Silence, silence!

I don't know how long it took before he suddenly whispered: "Ah Zi, do you know? Half of the royal children are used to kill." ”

Jiang Chengzi heard the word "kill" that he gently spit out, his body was stunned, and his hand holding the colander froze. She slowly raised her eyes to look at Li Ke, only to see that his eyes were full of sadness, but there was still a light smile on his face.

Jiang Chengzi only felt that a heart was delicate and dense, and it hurt so much. But she still didn't know how to comfort him, just looked at him, and had the urge to reach out to touch his sadness, but she never moved.

"Cheng Qian is his pawn, so is the fourth, and so am I. He continued, slowly, in a still low tone, and the last "yes" was almost to himself, but it gave a smile on his face a kind of dying despair.

Jiang Chengzi couldn't hold it anymore, got up with a "whoosh", walked quickly around to him, leaned over and hugged him from behind, and leaned his face against the back of his neck.

He also let her hold him, still in a low tone, and said: "Ah Zi, I thought I was at least his son, but later I found out that I, however, am just a chess piece." He is an excellent king, and he can even take great pains to choose an heir for the country. ”

Jiang Chengzi felt a chill down his spine when he heard this, and his heart ached. Even his father, who studied the history of the Tang Dynasty quite thoroughly, never thought that Li Chengqian, Li Tai, and Li Ke were just Li Shimin's pawns.

Not only his father, but all the historians Jiang Chengzi has met have never had such a cognition. They generally believed that Li Shimin was forced to be helpless, and finally chose Li Zhi. There are even some people wishfully believe that at the end of Li Shimin's last years, the most wanted heir is Li Ke.

Even she had never thought he was just a father.

But listening to what Li Ke said today, at least half of the royal children were killed.

She was suddenly refreshed in her worldview. Sure enough, not everyone can become an emperor, and not everyone can stand at the top like that.

I thought I was at least his son, but a pawn!

What a desperate realization for a child who adores and loves his father.

Jiang Chengzi thought of this, her heart was cold, but she couldn't do anything, she could only hug the shrunken young man tightly.

After a long time, she asked unwillingly: "You, are you saying that he didn't plan to hand over everything to Li Chengqian or Li Tai in the future in the first place?"

"For the crown prince, it should be hopeful at first. But he is such an excellent person, he has to be strong, how can he tolerate his prince is that kind of character-, as for Li Tai, the force is too weak, and he has never liked people who are weak. And I'm just a pawn used to use the old aristocracy to deal with the new upstarts in Guanlong. Ah Zi, we are his sons, but we are not his sons! His son is only a slave when he arrives. Li Ke said very slowly and carefully, as if he was not careful, his heart would break.

Jiang Chengzi hugged him tighter, feeling him tremble even more.

"Ah Nian. She shouted.

"Hmm. He replied in a low voice, his glass long gone, and his hands clasped her little hand.

"That was from a past life. In this life, everything has changed, or he has changed. She finally found a word of comfort, but she felt pale even herself. No matter how much that person changes, he is also an emperor.

And the situation in front of him shows that there is probably no change in that person.

Li Keliang was silent for a long time, and Jiang Chengzi also hugged him from behind, motionless. She only felt him cry, and the burning tears rolled down the back of her hand.

There was a steaming heat all around him, and his good smell, and his quiet breathing.

The winter night wind has stopped, and large snowflakes are falling outside the window. The silent snow field is filled with the occasional crackling sound when heavy snow breaks through the bamboo.

"Ah Zi. After some time, he shouted.

"I'm here. She liked to answer him like that.

"Do you want to murder my husband because you make my neck hurt?" he teased.

She finally breathed a sigh of relief when she heard him say this. Looks like he's recovered!

Jiang Chengzi let go of him directly, tidied up his clothes, and changed the topic and said, "There is not much water in the pot, I'll add some more." ”

He watched her add water and smiled.

"What do you see?" she sneered.

The smile on his face was even stronger, he sat upright, and said solemnly: "Yes, those belong to the previous life, and this life is different. However, fortunately, I still met you, and I can still win your heart. ”

"Then you have to be nice to me. Her face was full of pride.

He nodded solemnly and said, "Of course." ”

"Come, how about a sword dance to make Bo Jia smile first?" Jiang Chengzi cleared his throat and asked.

"Since Ah Zi likes it, I am respectful and obedient. Li Keshi Shi Ran got up, drew his sword, jumped into the courtyard, and danced his sword in the snowflakes.

Jiang Chengzi stood in front of the window and looked at the broad-robed young man dancing with a sword in the courtyard, and in a trance, he suspected that this was a dream.

"There is no music to cheer up, after all, it is a bit monotonous, Ah Zi, can I dance to your heart?" he took the sword and entered the house.

Jiang Chengzi smiled and handed over the handkerchief to wipe his face, took the sword and put it away, and then said: "The sword dance is excellent, but I am a rough person and don't understand music theory, so I can't play the piano for you like the girls in Pingkangfang." ”

Li Ke was stunned and stunned on the spot. However, this person is really a human spirit, so he immediately changed his smiling face and asked in a low voice, "Ah Zi is this jealous?"

(To be continued.) )