Li Tai's request to go to his father's place surprised Ah Nian, he didn't expect that after just a few days of getting along, Li Tai, who has always been well-behaved and obedient and deceitful, would make such an outrageous move.

He tossed and heard that Li Tai didn't know what he said, which provoked his father to be furious, and then grounded Li Tai, and urged the eldest grandson Empress to start the marriage between Li Tai and the Yan family after the marriage of the crown prince Li Chengqian, and the marriage must be completed in the second year of Zhenguan.

Li Tai protested to the death and was punished to two months, and he was not allowed to eat meat for two months. This is a great punishment for Li Tai, who has no meat and no joy at every meal.

Ah Nian dressed up in the palace, handed over the palace to his subordinates, and went to the palace to see his mother in person. Mother's palace has always been deserted, only Qingling is on duty, and the rest are rough sprinklers and palace maids.

He climbed the stairs and saw a green spirit dressed in a dark red palace costume carrying a basket towards the Buddhist hall. He hurriedly followed, looked at the food in the basket, frowned, and said, "Mother only eats this coarse tea and light rice every time, how can my body stand it?"

Qing Ling bowed and said, "Ah Nian is back." ”

"It's back. He answered, and replied with a little answer, wondering how to talk to his mother about this long journey.

"In the past few years, you have always been on the move, previously Taiyuan, now Chang'an, as if they are all places that can't keep you. Niangniang used to eat fasting Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first month, but whenever you go out, you always eat fasting Buddha every day. Qing Ling sighed.

Ah Nian felt a pain in his heart, and he felt guilty, and said, "It turns out that I made my mother worry like this. ”

"You're the mother's only hope. Qing Ling said, and then asked. "I heard that you went to the imperial study a few days ago to ask for a reward?"

"Aunt Qing is so well-informed. Ah Nian quipped that he was really worried about how to tell his mother that he was about to stay away for several years.

"You joke about me, but the waiter around you is my fellow villager. Occasionally see each other and say a few words. Because I am a mother's person, what I say naturally has to be related to my mother. It's just that he didn't say, what reward are you going to ask for?" Qing Ling inquired.

Ah Nian lowered his eyes and said: "I have captured all the people who made people panic in Chang'an City before, and I have also involved the members of the imperial court, and this matter is very important. It is also a meritorious service. Moreover, I surrounded the Qiang people and joined forces with General Cheng. Let the Qiang people's vitality be greatly damaged. Longyoudao's great victory has my great merit. ”

Although his voice was small, his mother in the Buddhist hall had heard it, so she shouted, "Ke'er, you come in." ”

He stepped in. I saw a mother who was as cold as water. Liu raised his eyebrows and shouted: "You are a concubine, why do you want so many meritorious deeds? What does it matter to you to involve the court officials? What does it matter to you to surround the Qiang people?"

"Mother, the world is alive. He also felt that his words were too pale, and he was facing a mother who loved her son.

"What does it matter to you and me? I'm just a concubine, and you're just a concubine, and you're just a concubine, that is, a marriage with a foreign country. It's not your turn. To put it bluntly, you're not worth as much as a princess. Do you understand?" the mother was very excited.

He remained silent and let his mother count them. When his mother saw that he didn't speak, she sighed and said, "Power is the most beautiful poison, Ke'er, your grandfather is illustrious, and you and your grandmother are working hard." Even so, it was still suppressed by the joint force, and was recorded in the history books as a tyrant and a lewd stick that had been stinking for thousands of years. Ke'er, my mother has seen such dirt for herself, why do you bother to wade through those troubled waters. This world belongs to the Li family, and you are just the concubine of the Li family. ”

The child knows what makes sense. But I don't want to be helpless when someone I care about is in danger. He said slowly.

The mother seemed to want to say something, but she didn't say it, only moved her mouth and looked at a few peach blossom trees in the courtyard. In early summer, the peach blossom trees have long passed their flowering period and are now lush with greenery.

"Ke'er, you've grown up. "After a long time, my mother said such a sentence.

"Thank you mother for your approval. The mother lives in a simple place and has a deep understanding of the world, and the son must also try to stay out of it and remember his own identity. Ah Nian replied.

"You went to the imperial study the day before yesterday to discuss this matter. I won't say anything, but I heard that you also made everyone angry, but is there such a thing?"

Ah Nian had to tell it all, he originally thought his mother would say something. She thought about it for a long time, just frowned, and said, "That's it, this is also a clever move to stay out of the matter." It's just that in Yizhou, you have to be cautious. Since everyone has heard about the disadvantages of the princely system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, they will never let you go free alone. After all, you are father and son, and you are also kings and ministers. You are his son, his courtier, and the prince's brother-in-law. ”

After some advice, his mother asked him to stay with her, and the meals his mother ate were all vegetarian. While the two were eating, they were talking about marriage.

"On the Yang family's side, it is clearly Li Dai Taozhuang, and they are also harboring evil intentions. He talked to his mother without any scruples.

Mother didn't even raise her eyelids, but said lightly: "They are just a chess piece used by your father to restrain Guan Long's upstart, but they are still self-righteous, don't bother with it." If you talk about the protection given to you, my mother and son, it is negligible. ”

Mother thought so. The son was reassured. He smiled, thinking that in this world, his mother and his own heart.

The mother smiled faintly and said, "Back to Hongnong Yang's that day, the plan you proposed to choose a concubine for your birthday is because of someone you want?"

"Don't hide it from my mother, about the fairy in my dream, my son inquired in many ways, and it was Yang Minzhi, the ninth girl of the Hongnong Yang family. The birthday sticker I sent out is also her birthday sticker. Ah Nian replied directly.

"This, they reported Yang Yuanshu. Mother's brows furrowed, and for a moment, Ah Nian saw that a layer of frost suddenly appeared on her mother's face, which had been as indifferent as water, and there was a violent aura between her eyebrows.

"Mothers don't worry, everything is under the control of their son. Now, the sixth room of the Yang family was thrown to Jinyuan County by Mrs. Yang to be a county magistrate. Before, they wanted to rob and kill on the road, but their son had escorted them to arrive safely. sent someone to guard it, but his son was not at ease, afraid that they would kill the killer again, so he thought about going to Yizhou. Ah Nian told his mother and the plate.

The mother's expression was still indifferent, and she said, "That is so. It is not an exaggeration for everyone in the world to know that you are ridiculous and famous. ”

"The mother's intentions, the son's understanding. Ah Nian replied.

The mother did not speak, and the mother and son finished their meal. She went straight to the Buddhist hall to chant and knock on the wooden fish. Ah Nian stood outside the Buddha Hall for a long time, and in the past and present life, this Buddha Hall imprisoned his mother here. In the end, his mother's ending, he felt extremely bitter when he thought about it.

He stood for a long time, and Qing Ling packed up some jewelry, saying that since he was going for the woman he liked. In the end, it can't be too shabby. The mother ordered to pack up a few pieces of jewelry and give them to others.

In this way, after the wedding of the crown prince Li Chengqian, he led several of Yang Chu's entourage to Yizhou.

Early spring respectively. It's summer in Shu again. The scorching sun of Chang'an City does not exist in Shu at all, and the faint green mountains are all left behind by his non-stop.

Although, since the separation. Nian Qing has news about Ah Zi every three or five days. Said she stayed at home. Nesting in the backyard to plant plants, very low-key, and comfortable, those ladies held a drinking banquet, she also pushed off one by one.

He didn't know what she was doing, only the secret she told her back then.

came to Jinyuan County non-stop, and there were a few generals who came together. It is said that he came to Jinyuan County to experience. But he knew too well that they were the eyes of their respective families. What you look at is his movements, and see if he has two hearts in Yizhou.

He turned red at the crown, and he let them know that he really came only for a woman. For a woman, not at all like herself.

At this moment, Ah Nian leaned on the recliner, only looked at Ah Zi in front of him, and thought back to where he came this time. He originally wanted her to keep a low profile, not to expose her to the public too early, and he didn't want the enemy to know that she was his weakness, so as to put her in danger.

However, when he thought that she might be someone else's, he was not calm, and he couldn't wait to see her day and night, so he proposed to let her enter the Jiang Mansion as soon as possible, so that he would go home to accompany him after handling government affairs every day.

He always thought: after dealing with government affairs, he will go home and be with her. Whether it's piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, taking a walk and watching the scenery, even if it's drinking tea with each other, or cooking together, or hugging each other and watching the wind rise and fall outside the window and gossiping.

Every second of such a day is happiness, even if you don't return to Chang'an, even if you don't want to be the third prince anymore, even if you are no longer an official or a general. If you don't have big ambitions, you don't have big ambitions.

It's good to have her!

However, he also knew that she would refuse.

His Ah Zi has always been smart and has a good understanding of the world. Decisions are always made for the sake of others, so you have to consider the pros and cons.

"Ah Zi, can't you just do what you want? I don't know what will happen tomorrow today, and the world is impermanent. You calculate too much, and you suffer yourself after all. He finally couldn't help but persuade Ah Zi, but he didn't dare to be casual in his heart.

People, it's a contradiction. He laughed at himself in his heart, raised his eyes and saw Ah Zi who turned over from the recliner and was pacing in the room, and finally she turned her head to look at him, and said very seriously: "Ah Nian, the matter of salt can be called my eldest brother or you, but I must go with you." Moreover, the salt wells elsewhere are too far away from here, and they have long been famous, and if we find them, we will have to make some improvements, so it is better to find another way to explore the salt mines and make refined salt. This is a great feat. ”

"I don't want to make a big merit, I just want you. He was a little angry.

Jiang Chengzi lowered his eyes, sighed, and said, "Since you are a reborn body, you should know the fate in front of you." Do you think the path of seclusion will work? Eldest grandson Wuji will be like a cat with wide eyes staring at you at any time. I also want to live a comfortable life, but God has brought me here to give me a chance to defend you. ”

"Guard me!" he said, with a movement in his heart, he looked at the girl standing in the darkness.

Jiang Chengzi somehow, thinking of those stupid days before, suddenly had a lot to talk about. She chuckled and whispered, "Yes, I think the biggest reason I came to this world is to protect you." ”

After all, she didn't dare to say that she was a soul from a thousand years later, although she didn't know if Jiang Chengzi in her previous life had said it after crossing over. But in this life, she is not sure whether Li Ke is really worthy of her telling the truth.

"You—" In such a plain tone, in such ordinary words, he only felt pain in his heart.

He stood up suddenly, took her in his arms, and whispered, "In this life, I will not live up to you." ”

Jiang Chengzi didn't speak, she only felt very warm, like a fragment of a dream, and she leaned on his arms.

At this moment, human voices sounded outside the house, and the two of them were shocked, and hurriedly let go of each other, tidying up their clothes, and their hearts were pounding.

"Why are you two here?" said Yang Wang's voice in displeasure.

"Oh, Madame Hui, the two of us are here to guard. The ninth girl and my son-in-law went inside to check the growth of sweet potatoes and potatoes. Xiao Jiu replied.

"Know, go down. Don't chew your tongue nonsense, ruin the reputation of the nine girls, even if your master protects you, I will not let you go. "Yang Wang's straight to the point.

The two said again and again that they didn't dare. Yang Wang took Yunzhu to this side, Jiang Chengzi held the lamp, and Ah Nian pretended to be there to see the growth of potatoes.

"Ah Zhi. Yang Wang shouted in displeasure.

"A-Niang, you're here. I'm looking at this potato with Ah Nian Gongzi, and I'm wondering if I can invite someone of weight here for tomorrow's harvest ceremony. She said with a grin.

Yang Wang glanced at Ah Nian and said, "What other weighty people do you invite?" This Ah Nian son is the king of Shu, the third prince, and the governor of Yizhou. ”

"Oh. Jiang Chengzi muttered.

Yang Wang looked at the two of them and felt that they were too worried, although they were smart, they were still children, or they were too worried and thought dirty.

"Okay, you two will also have a hard day today, so rest for each other. Yang Wang waved his hand, asked Yunzhu to send Jiang Chengzi home, and asked Xiao Jiu to serve his son-in-law.

The two people who originally wanted to talk at night were separated like this. The two looked at each other reluctantly, and Jiang Chengzi said before entering the house, "See you tomorrow." ”

Jiang Chengzi went back to the room to rest, although he was tired, he felt that what he had seen and heard today was too much, and he couldn't sleep for a long time, and finally jumped up with excitement, played a set of Tai Chi boxing, a set of five bird operas, and then practiced the fighting techniques he had learned in the past in the courtyard, and only ran to lie down when Dongfang was white.

Yang Wang didn't sleep all night, just sat by the window and watched his daughter practice martial arts in the yard for a night, and he always felt faintly uneasy in his heart. Especially the other child is the third prince Li Ke, what kind of bloodline he has, everyone knows it.

Yang Wang was worried for a long time, and when she saw her daughter go to sleep, she also had a headache, so she went to sleep after having some breakfast.

It wasn't until noon that the family got up to prepare for the potato and sweet potato harvest ceremony. Yang Shuyue felt that this was a big deal, so he invited the county magistrate and some famous people to watch it together. (To be continued.) )