179 179: The Empress of the Ages (XVII)

Song Jing also knew about the matter of recalling Li Zhi's former princes and princes back to Luoyang, but he didn't say anything, and after a long silence, he said to his princess: "I understand that you have good intentions in this matter, but those people may not be grateful to you in the future." 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】”

Song Jing's reminder, Li Chen listened to it. If her mother adopts her opinion, it means that all the Li clan relatives will be under house arrest in Luoyang, and they will eat and drink well, but they will not be free.

Li Chen has also heard that if there is no freedom, it is better to die.

Some people can be killed but not humiliated.

But so what?

No one can stop those who want to die, but there will also be people who would rather live in secretion than die like this. Her four brothers were under house arrest by their mother in the palace, and the children of her four brothers were also locked up in the palace and could not have contact with outsiders.

But they lived just as hard.

Li Chen thought, those who think that they can be killed and humiliated feel unacceptable, so let them do whatever they want, anyway, she will do her best to find a way to save their lives.

She also doesn't want to hide it in front of her mother, if this thing is hidden, it will make her mother leave a knot in her heart, so that she will be estranged from her, which is not what she wants. After thinking about it, I had to talk nonsense to my mother seriously that it was something that my father had mentioned to her before his death. She felt that it was not good for her mother to accept the matter of calling the prince and the prince back to Luoyang, but she would always think about it.

Sure enough, when Wu Zetian heard what Li Chen said, he thought about it for a while and looked at Li Chen, "Did your father really tell you that before?" ”

Li Chen nodded, "Hmm." ”

Seeing this, Wu Zetian stopped talking.

Li Chen didn't say anything more to his mother on this matter, and if he said more, he would take it too seriously, and he could stop there. So he smiled and told his mother that he had been stuffy and about to get moldy during his recent confinement, in short, he was talking about trivial things.

The Queen Mother has been in the palace for a long time, and she usually listens to military affairs, and holds banquets with male pets to sing poems, and she has not eaten fireworks in the world for a long time, so now listening to Li Chen talking about those trivial things in life, I also feel relish.

The Queen Mother stayed in Princess Yongchang's mansion for a while, and returned to the palace in the evening.

When Song Jing came back from the Yushitai, Li Chen had just laid down with the child. Li Chen comes from the next generation, she has no special superstitions about breast milk, but she also wants to stay with the child for a while, so she often asks the nurse to bring the child over to sleep on the couch with her, but it is only a nap, and at night, the child will be sent back.

Song Jing entered the inner room and saw Li Chen lying on the couch at a glance, her eyes closed, the corners of her mouth slightly hooked, as if she was happy in her sleep. Seeing this, Song Jing's heart warmed slightly, and suddenly gave birth to a kind of scene that he had been waiting for in his life, maybe such a scene.

When I got closer, I realized that the little one's eyes were open.

As if he had only been in this world for a long time, he was particularly curious, and his eyes as if they had been soaked in water rolled down to look at his father, and then showed a silent smile.

Song Jing exclaimed, ignoring that Li Chen was sleeping for a while, and exclaimed very rarely: "Yongchang, look, Yu'er is smiling at me!" ”

Li Chen hadn't slept too soundly, and he had been a little numb by Song Jing's fuss these days, and it was very rare for this man to yawn when he saw a child for the first time.

She opened her eyes, which were a little misty because of sleepiness, and glanced at Song Jing helplessly, "The child is not sensible at this time, and he can't laugh, he is not smiling at you, don't think too much." ”

Song Jing glanced at Li Chen, and couldn't help muttering in his heart, he was obviously laughing, how could he be thinking too much.

He muttered in his heart, leaned over, and dropped a light kiss on the princess's forehead, "I heard that the Queen Mother came to see you and Yu'er today." ”

When the kiss fell, Li Chen's eyes closed slightly, and the corners of his mouth raised a very sweet arc. She likes Song Jing's inadvertent kisses very much, as if from his heart full of family and country, revealing the tenderness and attachment to his family, although it is not much, it is very moving.

"Well, I wanted to send someone to the Yushitai to call you back, but my mother said that she wanted to see her little grandson, and she was too lazy to greet you, so she didn't let me call you back."

Song Jing sat on the couch and looked at his princess.

said that the child didn't toss her too much, but it just said that the time from labor pain to giving birth to the child was not too long, in Wenpo's opinion, it was the shortest time for a woman to give birth. But the concubine who insisted on accompanying the princess had already seen the princess in pain and weakness at that time, and she couldn't speak, and after giving birth, she collapsed directly.

Song Jing was so distressed that she couldn't do it, but there was no way, so after the princess gave birth, the whole person became a little different, when she was by the princess's side, she always had to touch this and that, and occasionally she would steal one or two incense sticks when the princess was not paying attention, which made Li Chen cry and laugh, and felt very sweet in her heart.

Seeing that Song Jing didn't speak, Li Chen raised his eyes to look at him, and just bumped into his eyes, he couldn't help but show a smile, "What's wrong?" ”

Song Jing: "No, it always feels like a dream." ”

Li Chen: "...... Then I'll pinch you and see if it hurts? ”

Song Jing laughed, reached out and touched the princess's face, "I'll go and change the court clothes." ”

Li Chen looked at his figure hidden behind the screen, smiled slightly, lowered his head, and happened to see Xiao Song Yu's sleepy appearance. She smiled and lowered her head and kissed the child's tender face, and asked Shu Zhi to call the nurse to take the child away.

Song Jing came out after changing his clothes, and when he saw that the child on the couch had been taken away, he raised his eyebrows, "What about Yu'er?" ”

"When he fell asleep, I asked the nurse to carry him down to sleep."

"He fell asleep as soon as I came back." The look on Song Jing's face couldn't tell whether he was happy or disappointed, but his tone was like the feeling of getting a favorite toy but not having enough of it.

Li Chenwaner, "He's still young, it's already good to be awake for a while." ”

Song Jing nodded, didn't say anything, and was already very consciously squeezed onto the princess's couch. His hand unconsciously reached over and hugged the princess, and said to her, "Uncle has sent a lot of things from Chang'an Meizhuang, and asked me when I can let him see our Yu'er." ”

Song Jing's uncle Song Shizhao learned that the princess gave birth to a little Langjun for the Song family, not to mention how happy he was, although the princess lacked nothing, but Song Shizhao also sent a lot of things every now and then, he seemed to know that Li Chen did not lack tonic medicine or any rare treasures, and Chang'an was not close to Luoyang, so the dry goods he sent were all made by farmers in Meizhuang, which looked very ordinary, but Li Chen knew at a glance that he had spent a lot of thought.

Moreover, Song Jing lost his parents at a young age, and Song Shizhao has always taken him with him, treating him as if he were his own son, Li Chen has always respected Song Shizhao very much, and when Song Jing went to see his uncle, it was a family gift.

Li Chen thought of the elder who had brought up Song Jing since childhood, and said softly to Song Jing: "Uncle wants to see Yu'er, you can come at any time." Our Yu'er's Ah Weng left earlier, and when you were young, you also had to be taken care of by your uncle, and when Yu'er saw her uncle in the future, she would do it as a junior gift. ”

When Song Jing heard Li Chen's words, she was very moved, and her hand around her shoulder tightened slightly, "Yongchang, I'm really happy." ”

Li Chen pursed his lips and smiled, and said to him: "When Yu'er grows up, I will take him back to Chang'an to live for a few days, my Buxian Garden was given by his grandfather, and now the best tea leaves in the territory are picked in Buxian Garden, wild trees and wild flowers all over the mountains, he will definitely like to play in it." Well, it just so happens that my uncle is now living in Meizhuang, so Yu'er can go to see his uncle and see what the grange where his father studied when he was young was like. ”

Song Jing's heart was so soft this time.

In fact, he never thought that in his marriage with Li Chen, he would give so little, but he could get so much.

The princess is the proud daughter of the sky, sometimes she is willful and wanton, but she can always be targeted. When she is good to a person, she is really good. Especially between them, at first, she seemed to care about him at first, and often made him so angry that he was about to vomit blood, but after a long time, he realized that it was just a layer of disguise for the princess. After stripping away the camouflage of cold and willfulness, she revealed an incomparably soft lump inside her in front of him.

As soon as he treated her well, she returned it with ten points.

Song Jing thought back to his journey with Li Chen, in fact, Li Chen understood him, so he has been paving the way for his career. may also have her personal considerations in it, but Li Chen and Song Jing have always helped support more. What is more important in life than meeting a wife who understands him?

As a princess, she is indescribably expensive, she can think about him like this, what can't he do for Li Chen?

What's more, what she wants is nothing more than the prosperity of the Li family's Tang Dynasty a hundred years after the Queen Mother.

This thing, if not what she wants, is the ambition of a minister.

It's just that what she wants, which happens to be in line with his ambitions.

He would do his best to do it no matter what, not only for the sake of his desire to ask for the people's life in the first place, but also for the sake of the woman in his arms at this moment.

The colt, who was in a fluctuating mood, finally told the princess the only promise in this life-

"Yongchang, in this life and this life, Jing will live up to you."

After Wu Zetian returned to the palace, he kept thinking about what Li Chen said to her.

Shangguan Wan'er saw that the Queen Mother's expression seemed to be very solemn, and she did not pretend to others, and personally served by the side.

"Queen Mother, are the princess and the prince okay?"

Wu Zetian bowed his head and said concisely: "It's all good." ”

"Since the princess and the prince are all right, did the princess say something that made the queen mother feel a headache?"

"It seems that you also know Yongchang quite well."

Shangguan Wan'er bowed her head slightly, "Wan'er is only loyal to the Queen Mother." ”

Wu Zetian glanced at her lightly, but didn't say anything more.

Faithfulness is not spoken. Shangguan Wan'er has done a lot of things for her over the years she has been by her side, and she can be regarded as doing her best.

Moreover, Shangguan Wan'er is very sensitive, knowledgeable and exquisite. She grew up in the harem since she was a child, and she was born to know the times, and she also has an obsession with supreme power in her bones. Wu Zetian will always have blind confidence in some people, such as Shangguan Wan'er, such as the Wu brothers. She has confidence in these people, not because she has much confidence in their abilities, but because she is loyal to them.

Shangguan Wan'er's mother is the daughter of a family, both vision and temperament are broader than others, she taught Shangguan Wan'er, not only has the literary style of her grandfather Shangguan Yi, but also has the eight-sided exquisite and ruthless way of survival in the harem, she circulates among the officials of the imperial court, collects intelligence for her and enjoys it. The people in the court who wanted to get the favor of the queen mother all competed to please Shangguan Zhaoyi.

It is not for nothing that he spends a lot of money for a red face.

Wu Zetian also turned a blind eye to these things.

After all, Shangguan Wan'er's actions over the years are indeed consistent with her words and deeds, and she is only loyal to her, and she also regards Shangguan Wan'er as a confidant.

If she wants to ascend to the throne, she will have to deal with Li Zhi's royal family. These things can't be put on the table, and they can't be put in the court to tell the minister. Usually things that can't be put on the table, Wu Zetian is handed over to the cool officials or Shangguan Wan'er to do, which is why Li Zhen, the king of Yue, and Princess Changle have committed suicide by taking poison, but she still has to hand over their rebellion to Ji Xuan.

The reason is very simple, she hopes that Ji Ji will wipe out the Li clan through the rebellion, kill those who should be killed, and exile those who should be exiled.

One does not stay, and it is best to prevent future troubles.

This will also leave an opportunity for people in the world to criticize her, and it will be difficult to stop the world's Youyou people from saying that she is not in the right position to kill the Li clan for a high-sounding reason.

Now Li Chen's words made her see another possibility.

After Shangguan Wan'er heard Li Chen's words, she said to Wu Zetian with a happy face: "Congratulations to the Queen Mother!" The princess really wants to intercede for her relatives, but in her heart, the princess is also thinking about the queen mother, but as the princess of the Li family, she can't talk too clearly with the queen mother, so she has to use the first emperor's dream to hint at the queen mother. ”

Of course, Wu Zetian knew Li Chen's meaning, which is why she did not show any displeasure when she was in the princess's mansion at that time.

"The last wish of the first emperor is that the relatives of the Li family can get together in Chang'an and no longer divide their things. Now that the first emperor has gone, the queen mother and the sage moved the capital to Luoyang, so they let the Li clan gather in Luoyang to comfort the spirit of the first emperor in the sky, which is reasonable, what reason do they have not to come back? And as long as they come back, no matter what they think in their hearts, is the Queen Mother still afraid that she won't be able to cure them? For several important princes, the Queen Mother can send an army to take them back to Luoyang, if someone does not obey the edict, it is a rebellion, let the general who went to pick up the person to correct the law on the spot. ”

If there are words, it is not suitable for the Queen Mother to say it directly, so Shangguan Wan'er said what the Queen Mother had in her heart.

Wu Zetian tilted his head slightly and looked at Shangguan Wan'er.

Shangguan Wan'er said with a smile: "Over the years, the Queen Mother has devoted herself to the people. The saint has long had the heart of Zen, if it is the saint Zen position, and the Li clan is involved in the rebellion case, not everyone in the world can understand the queen mother's painstaking efforts, if this makes the ministers of the court and the people of the world misunderstand the queen mother, it is not good. Why don't you follow what the princess said, take the princes and princes back to Luoyang, and the queen mother will personally send guards to protect them. ”

In this way, all Li Zhi's relatives were put under house arrest. Not only did they not kill them, but they also gave them fine clothes and food, so that the hundred officials of the court and the people of the world still have something to say?

Of course, the guards sent by the Queen Mother were not to protect those people, but to monitor.

If there is any abnormal movement, it will be killed.

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