182 182: The Empress of the Ages (20)
Now that the saint is no longer young, the question of the prince has been raised again and again by the ministers.
Li Chen couldn't figure out what her mother was thinking, but she was indeed more willing to make Wu Chenghei the crown prince, which was certain, but she couldn't stand the unanimous opposition of the ministers of the court, and even the old man Di Renjie directly told Wu Zetian that only his son had never been worshipped by his mother, and he had never heard of a nephew worshipping his aunt, if the saint made a person from the Wu family as the prince, what should happen after his death?
The ancients have always paid attention to the name and afterlife, Di Renjie mentioned this, Wu Zetian waved his hand, after all, he did not make a decision to make Wu Chenghei the prince.
Li Chen breathed a sigh of relief, she hadn't entered the palace for a long time, and now her mother and Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, who had been putting on a face like a lotus flower every day, probably forgot about her children. But on this day, a letter suddenly came from the palace saying that the saint had not seen Princess Yongchang for a long time, and he missed it tightly, so he asked Princess Yongchang to bring the little prince into the palace.
Xiaojun Wang is the son of Li Chen and Song Jing, Song Yu, who is now more than seven years old and looks very much like his father. In the princess's mansion, Li Chen didn't like to restrict him with too many rules, so he looked like a little county king who couldn't check much with the horse, but his personality was very different from his father.
Song Yu heard that his mother was going to take him into the palace, so he was very active in dressing up early and went to his mother's residence.
"Auntie, do you want to take me into the palace to see my grandmother?"
Li Chen looked at his son, smiled and nodded, "Hmm." β
When Song Yu heard this, he cheered, "It's so good, I haven't seen Ah Pu for a long time." β
The Apo that Song Yu is talking about is Li Longji, who is about the same age as Song Yu, and he also likes to play drums. Song Yu probably inherited his father's love for drums, and he especially liked to play with that thing since he was a child, and sometimes the father and son could play for several hours as soon as they played.
Li Chen felt that for the father and son, probably the only common language was the drum. Song Yu didn't know how he grew up, whether it was temperament or preferences, it was different from his father.
"What, you want to hide it?"
Song Yu nodded, "Well, he's very good, I really like to play with him." The last time my mother took me into the palace, I went to play with him for a while, and he heard that my drum was taught by my father, and he was very envious. Song Yu tilted his head and asked his mother, "Ah Niang, if Yu'er wants to invite Ah Pu to live in the mansion for a while, is it okay?" β
Li Chen was about to reply, when suddenly a very familiar male voice sounded, "No." β
When Song Yu heard this, his mouth pursed, he was very aggrieved, but the moment he turned back, the aggrieved expression on his face had become very surprised, and the joy in his tone was also very in place, "Oh, Aya, you're back!" β
Li Chen was really amazed when he watched his son's face change, so he pursed his lips and smiled.
Song Jing glanced at Song Yu, and then walked over, Song Yu was originally sitting opposite his mother, and when he saw his father, he stood up very consciously and gave up his position to his father. Song Jing was not polite, took the hem of his clothes, and then sat down.
Song Yu saw his father sit down, and poured tea for his father himself.
Song Jing took the tea and said to Song Yu: "Ah Pu is going to live in the palace, you can't invite him out." β
Song Yu wrinkled his nose slightly, wanting to ask why, but after thinking about it, he still held back his words.
Song Jing saw that his son looked very much like his mother's small movements, his heart softened slightly, and he said, "If you want to invite Ah Pu, you can, after a while." β
When he said this, Li Chen looked at him in surprise.
The concubine met the princess's gaze, showed her a slightly calm look, and continued to say to Song Yu: "Now Ah Pu lives in the palace, unless the saint wants to let him out of the palace, he can't leave the palace." I heard you're going to go into the palace with your mother later? β
Song Yu nodded, with a look of excitement: "Well, my grandmother said that she missed me!" β
Every time he saw his grandmother, he would receive a lot of fun little things, and when Song Yu thought of his grandmother, his heart put on his wings and flew into the palace.
Li Chen never interfered much with the way the horse and the little prince got along, in her opinion, men naturally have their own ways of communicating with each other. Anyway, since Song Yu was born, there is nothing to say about Song Jing's love for his son, and while giving him enough love and attention, he is also very strict. Song Yu is young, and he already knows how to seek common ground while reserving differences with his father, and he doesn't talk back if he doesn't agree, anyway, what do you say is your business, and what I do is my business, and he is very characterful. If it is discovered by the father, if it is naughty and mischievous, it will be a good punishment, and if it is just a difference of opinion, even if the father finds out, he will not say anything.
It's just that Song Jing sometimes can't help but complain to the princess, "Yu'er's temperament is really like you, you can say everything well, but in fact nothing is good, and you have a lot of ideas in your heart." He's so stubborn at a young age, I'm going to have to beat him up. β
At this time, the princess would only be very speechless, and she didn't know who was an out-and-out mallet back then.
Sometimes Li Chen is also thinking, after all, Song Yu has an inextricable relationship with the royal family, does she have to let him understand something? But later I found out that her Yu'er is very smart, and she doesn't need to say much about many things, and her little brain can sometimes figure it out. may be in such an environment, even if she doesn't deliberately teach him, she has never avoided him, so he has been affected by it.
But...... Li Chen frowned, she remembered that she hadn't taught this kid the skill of changing his face instantly.
Song Jing looked at his excited son, waved his hand, and asked him to go out to play first.
Song Jing: "Yesterday, Elder Di Guo was summoned to the palace by the sage, and the sage was already hesitating about the prince's confrontation, and it probably won't be long before a few of the emperor's heirs can be released from the cabinet." β
Since Wu Zetian ascended the throne, he has been putting the imperial heir Li Dan under house arrest in the palace, not only him, but even several of his children are under house arrest in the palace and cannot contact outsiders. As for Song Yu and Li Longji being able to play together, it is nothing more than that Wu Zetian is not worried about anyone to contact Li Dan's children, including Taiping and Xue Shao's children, but Song Yu is different, in Wu Zetian's opinion, Song Yu's mother is her daughter, and his father is not a powerful person...... More importantly, she can recognize people with her eyes, so she loves and connives, Song Yu is very fond of.
Li Chen couldn't help but smile when he heard Song Jing say that Wu Zetian's confrontation with the crown prince was beginning to waver, and said, "Mother has always been thoughtful, and hesitation is a matter of time. β
Song Jing raised her eyebrows, "Why is the princess so confident?" β
"Don't forget, don't forget, no matter how much glory and wealth my mother gave to the Wu brothers, how did their father die back then, and why were they exiled to Lingnan? Later, they were recalled, and they enjoyed all the glory and wealth, but if they had more power than my mother, the colt thought they would treat my mother well? Li Chen said, the expression on his face was almost indifferent, "No one will understand better than my mother what it means to turn your face and not recognize people." β
Let's not say that Wu Chenghe's mud can't support the wall, let's just say that Wu ZenaΓ―ve set up Wu Chengsi as the prince, and he can't pass the level of the court minister alone.
Now the court officials are willing to be loyal to Wu Zetian, but they still think that they are loyal to the Li Tang royal family, and after Wu Zetian returns to the west, this world is still the Li family. If Wu Zetian insists on going his own way regardless of everyone's opposition, I am afraid that Wu Chengsi only became the prince in the morning, and someone will oppose Wu Zetian at night.
Taking a step back, the ministers of the court agreed, so Wu Zetian probably still couldn't get over it in his heart.
Li Chen felt that whether it was his father, or the third and fourth brothers later, no one said that he was very sorry for his mother, and under these power struggles, no one was a white lotus. But after his mother became the emperor, she demolished the temple of the ancestors of the Li family, and later only built a temple to worship Gaozu, Taizong and Gaozong, and the other ancestors of the Li family did not care. Of course, the ancestor of her martial arts family was not invited into the temple to enjoy the incense.
As a person from later generations, Li Chen felt that being not worshipped was just a psychological comfort, but the ancients were very fond of these. Although she didn't say anything about her mother's approach, she always had a lot of opinions in her heart. No one of the ancestors of the Li family offended her, without the Li family, where did Wu Zhou come from?
No one has done this kind of thing better than his mother.
Mother is the daughter-in-law of the Li family, and no one in the ancestors of the Li family has harmed her father and mother or the eighteenth generation of ancestors, after she became the queen, her father added a title to her deceased father, and Mrs. Yang was also a variety of honors before and after her death, even so, her mother did not worship the ancestors of others. What's more, she executed Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi's father at the beginning, and exiled them all to Lingnan, making them suffer a lot.
Song Jing probably also understands that Li Chen has been hiding it all these years, but he has always had a lot of complaints about Wu Zetian in his heart. It's just that she covered it up well, since Wu Zetian ascended the throne, except for paying attention to some necessary things, she rarely tosses anymore, as if she is concentrating on staying in the princess's mansion to teach her son.
Seeing the almost indifferent look on the princess's face, the colt moved over, took her into his arms with outstretched arms, and smiled and left a tender kiss on the princess's cheek.
After so many years, this habit of his has been retained. When the princess was unhappy or on fire and needed to be soothed, he would go over and hug her and kiss her, and every time he did this, the princess still felt unhappy, but her originally tense body would relax.
The horse's chin rested against the top of the princess's head, and her voice was gentle but firm, "Yongchang, those things in the past have passed. Trust me, soon there will be new beginnings. β