In March, the queen kissed silkworms.

The queen's silkworm gift was grand and grand, and of course, it was also very hard.

Before the ceremony, you have to fast for three days, and on the day of the ceremony, you have to get up before dawn, and go to the silkworm altar under the escort of the honor guard, and after the performance of raising silkworms, you have to go to pick mulberry leaves.

Wu Zetian led the internal and external wives of the Tang Dynasty to participate, and a bunch of people from the harem concubines, crown princesses, and princesses, princesses, and princesses all participated in the ceremony, how to stand and kneel, and even to pick a mulberry leaf princess in what position.

Li Chen was only four years old and nodded, and he and Taiping also followed their mother to participate in the silkworm ceremony, almost half tired to death, and when they returned to the palace, they had already slept in the carriage for a while.

returned to the princess courtyard and changed out of the Zhai clothes worn during the silkworm ceremony, and Li Chen and Taiping were taken to Qingning Palace by the female officials.

Li Chen felt that he couldn't walk anymore, so he simply let Liu Xin carry her over.

When the sisters went to Qingning Palace, Wu Zetian had already changed the bow clothes she wore when she held the silkworm kiss, and she was sitting in front of the mirror platform, thrushing to the mirror.

Li Chen felt that her mother was a very delicate woman, although she was a queen of a country, but except for her hair, which was made by the maid, the makeup on her face never faked others. My mother rarely paints the kind of charming and moving willow eyebrows, but paints the kind of heroic thick eyebrows that are closer to the aesthetics of modern people.

Bright eyes can be the tenderness when looking at the father, or a thousand kinds of warmth when looking at the children, but more often, the mother's eyes are quite sharp, and the pair of heroic eyebrows are lined with a majesty, which seems inviolable and not aggressive.

When Wu Zetian saw Li Chen and Taiping, he waved at them with a smile.

"Auntie."

The two walked over, Wu Zetian put down the pen that drew eyebrows, held the two daughters in both hands, and said with a smile: "But you feel tired?" ”

Taiping held his head and shook his head.

Li Chen simply leaned on Li Wu Zetian and yawned, "I'm very tired and want to sleep." ”

Seeing this, Taiping couldn't help but tease: "Ah Mei always thinks about sleeping." ”

Li Chen's head was resting on Wu Zetian's shoulder, and he didn't have the energy to take care of the peace.

Seeing this, Wu Zetian picked her up and put her on the kang, stretched out his hand and silently touched her red face, and he didn't feel particularly hot, probably because he was tired from attending the ceremony, so he put his mind at ease.

Li Chen simply hugged his mother's neck, kissed his mother's side cheek, and said in a delicate voice: "Auntie, accompany me." ”

Wu Zetian was stunned, a gentle smile appeared on his face, he reached out and patted her little head, and coaxed softly: "Good girl, A-Niang still has something to deal with." ”

Li Chen pulled at the placket of her clothes.

Wu Zetian raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Chen, who bent his eyes and smiled flatteringly at his mother.

The daughter's innocent and flattering smile made Wu Zetian's heart soften slightly, so he sat down on the kang, stretched out his hand to caress Li Chen's hair, and said with a smile: "Then A-Niang will accompany you for a while?" "Although I have something to do, it's too late to take care of my daughter after she's put her to sleep.

Seeing this, Taiping also automatically climbed onto the kang, lay down beside Li Chen, and looked at Wu Zetian with blinking eyes.

Wu Zetian was so angry and funny by the two sisters that he had no choice but to get on the kang, and the two daughters lay beside her on the left and right, and asked her to tell bedtime stories.

Wu Zetian's bedtime story is not a folk legend or the like, most of what she said was when their maternal grandfather Lu Guogong left Chang'an to serve abroad, at that time it was Wu Zetian's childhood, Lu Guogong left Chang'an and served as the governor of Yangzhou, Yuzhou and other places, and later died of illness when he served as the governor of Jingzhou. When he was young, Wu Zetian followed his father to travel thousands of miles, increased a lot of knowledge, and also appreciated a lot of customs.

Those things that I saw and heard and the customs and customs were always interesting when they came out of her mouth.

Li Chen listened to Wu Zetian's gentle voice, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise a smile. She had to be coaxed by her mother to sleep, she just liked such a mother who was full of warmth.

Li Chenmo seemed to have been asleep for a long time, and he didn't seem to sleep much, and he closed his eyes for a long time before he was fully awake, and when he woke up, he heard his parents talking about things.

Wu Zetian: "I heard Chengyang say that King Yue seems to want to marry the British duke. ”

Li Zhi's voice was a little curious, "Oh? Are the little county lords of the Yue Wangfu already at the age of saying goodbye? ”

Wu Zetian said with a smile: "The little county lord of Yue Wangfu should be the same year as Dan'er, and he is already a teenager. ”

"What does Chengyang mean by not wanting them to get married?"

Wu Zetian's answer was very subtle, "Chengyang didn't say that. ”

Li Zhi sighed and said, "But that's probably what she thinks in her heart." ”

Li Chen listened to his parents' conversation, stunned for a moment, and really wanted to know what was going on, so he didn't alarm them and continued to listen quietly to the corner.

In fact, Princess Chengyang and Princess Yue's Liangzi were married more than ten years ago, when Princess Chengyang descended Du Ruhui's son Du Cao, and later Du Cao was killed for participating in Li Chengqian's rebellion, and Princess Chengyang was taken back to the palace by Taizong. And Princess Yue didn't know what to smoke, and told her personal maid about Du Cao, and regretted that Taizong was a good husband who was selected by Princess Chengyang, but she was also on the wrong team, although Princess Chengyang was born by Queen Changsun, but she did not have the good fortune of Queen Changsun so cloudy.

The personal maid probably had a grudge against Princess Yue, and privately told Princess Chengyang, saying that our princess was so cloudy in private.

Princess Chengyang sneered, sent Princess Yue's personal maid, turned around and went to Taizong to complain.

When Taizong learned about it, he was furious, and attacked King Yue's biological mother, Concubine Yan De, and asked her to discipline her daughter-in-law, and then sent King Yue to the military camp to practice for half a year.

Since then, Princess Chengyang has had little affection for Princess Yue.

Li Zhi pondered for a long time, and then said: "If Chengyang is unwilling, you can come forward to solve it." ”

"Chengyang told us about this, maybe it wasn't her selfishness. King Yue and the Duke of England are both people who are very valued by the Lord, and it is natural for them to get along in harmony, but if they become in-laws, it is definitely not a good thing. Wu Zetian analyzed slowly and methodically: "The concubine has also thought about this matter for a few days, today's gift of silkworms, tomorrow the concubine will have a banquet in the main hall to invite the internal and external women, it is better for the concubine to take the opportunity to talk to the princess of Yue at the banquet, and solve the family affairs of the small county lord of the Yue Palace." ”

Li Chen, who was listening to the corner, was almost about to cheer for Wu Zetian.

She comes from the future, so she will not think that Wu Zetian is willing to be a queen like his father and all the people of the Tang Dynasty. Her mother is the one who will be the female emperor in the future, and she is afraid that since the turmoil after her father and Shangguanyi were abolished two years ago, her mother had the idea of snatching the imperial power.

A person who wants to snatch the imperial power will not want to see that the power of the Li Tang royal family is too deep and too reliable, she couldn't interfere in the past, but what she is in front of her can interfere.

King Yue is one of the sons of Taizong, quite talented, and now he is also in charge of the Jingshi Suwei, if he really marries the British Duke, it is not a good thing for Wu Zetian.

Of course, for Li Zhi, it is not necessarily a good thing.

The art of the emperor is nothing more than the word balance.

It is good for the ministers to love each other, but too much love for each other may also lead the joint forces of the two sides to sit big, and the emperor is not easy to control.

Therefore, Li Zhi didn't say anything to Wu Zetian's Jianyi, but just sighed lightly and said, "Mei Niang, up to now, there is only one Chengyang left among the brothers and sisters who share the same mother as me." ”

Taizong and Empress Changsun have three sons and four daughters, and now only Li Zhi and Princess Chengyang remain. Li Chengqian and Li Tai don't talk about it, the two of them rebelled for the position of the prince, the prince was demoted to a concubine and left Chang'an, and died in a foreign land, Li Tai was also demoted from Chang'an, and died at the age of thirty-five. Taizong originally had four daughters, the eldest daughter Princess Anle and Princess Jinyang, who Taizong took to raise herself, all died of illness early, and there was also a new city princess, the cousin of the eldest grandson Wuji, the eldest grandson Quan. Later, the eldest grandson Wuji was falsely accused of rebellion by Xu Jingzong, and the eldest grandson Quan, who was a cousin, was naturally implicated. So the princess of Xincheng was taken back to the palace and then remarried, and a few years after the princess of Xincheng remarried, she also died of illness.

Li Chen didn't know what was going on with his Ah Weng and his grandmother's children, they all died young.

In short, now, Princess Chengyang is the only person in this world who has the same bloodline as Li Zhi.

In Li Chen's heart, his father and mother are very different. My father may be indecisive, but he is a very important family lover. As an emperor, he may sometimes have to abandon something, but most of the time he is always very generous and warm to his relatives.

Li Chen was thinking about it when he heard Wu Zetian's gentle voice, "Lord, there is Mei Niang by your side." ”

Li Zhi was slightly silent,

Li Chen didn't listen anymore, although he slept for a while, he still felt so tired that he turned over and fell into a dream in a daze.

The next day, Wu Zetian feasted on the internal and external women in the main hall, and sure enough, as she said to Li Zhi, in the casual conversation, three or two sentences settled the family affairs of the lord of the small county of Yue Wangfu.

Wu Zetian picked a personal home for the small county lord of Yue Wangfu, the other party's family was closed for three hundred, and his background was not low, his ancestors were officials, and it was not bad to this generation.

Princess Yue has to accept it if she likes it, and she has to accept it if she doesn't like it.