Chapter 40: The Hearts of the Two Ladies!

"Tell me, kid, what do you think? ”

Liu and Wu had dark eyes and stared at Li Yiqi.

Li Yiqi took a deep breath, his heart moved, he frowned instantly, his face was embarrassed, and he said with a wry smile: "Auntie, aunt, the child wanted to tell you about this earlier, but last night I was so excited that I forgot about it at the dinner table. ”

"What's the matter?"

The two beautiful women frowned slightly, and looked at Li Yiqi with puzzled faces.

Li Yiqi's eyes moved slightly, stood up, bowed to the two ladies, and explained the words and dishes he had thought of before, and said respectfully: "Aunt, aunt, I can't hide it, I serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the East Palace, and the deep prince is very important, and he has told me several times that he wants to marry an imperial sister to me......"

"What?"

Liu's heart was prepared, but when he heard this, he was still stunned, almost couldn't believe his ears, and subconsciously looked at Wu, only to see that Wu was also shocked.

"Qi'er, it's a big deal, you can't talk nonsense!"

Liu's eyebrows were frowning, her voice was quite majestic, and Wu also looked at Li Yiqi with suspicious eyes, if Li Yiqi's words were true, it was really not a trivial matter.

The nine generations of the Li family are all important ministers of Great Xia, and in the generation of the old man Li Jiu, the power of the Li family has reached its peak, but the Li family has never married a royal woman.

"There is no nonsense, this matter is said by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince himself, although there is no actual proof, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has personally mentioned that he wants to ask the Queen Mother to make an order for me, and, listening to the Prince, when he chatted with the Queen, the Queen Mother seemed to have this meaning......"

Li Yiqi said with a straight face, and as he spoke, he pretended to have a sad face, and muttered softly: "This matter...... It's a bit complicated, I'm afraid it's difficult......"

Although Li Yiqi's muttering voice was soft, it was deliberately suppressed to the extent that the two ladies could hear it.

"How is this a good ......?"

Seeing Li Yiqi's appearance like this, Liu became anxious in his heart, the marriage of a royal princess is not a trivial matter, it is a matter of royal face, and the disciple of the family who marries the princess must not only have a clean family background, but also be excellent, so as to be worthy of the children of the royal family.

Although in the eyes of the Liu family, Li Yiqi is naturally an extremely 'excellent' nephew, and the façade of the Li family is also worthy of the status of a royal princess, but she is worried about another level of problems.

Once the princess of the royal family marries, she will naturally be the wife of the Li family, and Li Yiqi, as the master of the horse, will need the princess to nod and agree to the concubine in the future, so the question is, what should I do with the woman sent by Li Jiuxian?

In Shangjing, once the family is determined to marry the royal family, then the disciple of the family will not dare to marry another person for the rest of his life, even if he has a marriage contract before, he will be annulled, although the royal family did not say this clearly, but no one dares not to do it.

This is a rule that circulates silently in the family, and even some big families who established with the founding of the Xia Dynasty are silently abiding by this rule.

"Qi'er, you tell your aunt honestly that everything you say is the truth. ”

Liu's expression was slightly nervous.

It doesn't matter to the prince, she knows that the prince is as old as Li Yiqi, and he is unscrupulous, the point is that Li Yiqi mentioned the queen mother in his words.

"Nine times out of ten, it is true, although the prince is a little frivolous, but he is not the kind of person who talks about it. ”

Li Yiqi responded with a solemn face, and when he said the four words 'open the river', his face turned slightly red, but because he lowered his head at the moment, he was not discovered by the Liu family.

As he spoke, he casually patted the dust on his coat, revealing a red, warm square ancient jade tied around his waist.

"Sister, I'm afraid it's true, otherwise the queen mother wouldn't have given treasures to Qi'er inexplicably. On the side, Wu's eyes lit up, and he suddenly spoke.

"Sister, what kind of treasure do you mean?" asked Liu in confusion.

"It's Qi'er's piece of jade ......"

Wu Shi calmly pointed to Li Yiqi's waist, and the treasure she was referring to was naturally the 'Xuanyang Jade' on Li Yiqi's waist.

"What's wrong with this jade?" asked Liu Shi with a frown.

Last night, they had already mentioned that Li Yiqi's jade was a treasure sent by the royal family, and it should not be given away at will, but listening to what the Wu family said, is there anything they haven't noticed? As the second lady of the Li Mansion, the Wu family usually speaks little in front of outsiders, giving people a feeling of introversion, but the Liu family knows that the Wu family is more shrewd and careful than himself, and the Li family's property in Shangjing City is also secretly managed by the Wu family.

"I don't know, but the queen's move should have a deep meaning, we didn......'t expect it for a while last night," Wu said indifferently, with a glint in his bright eyes.

Being able to navigate a group of princely ladies in Shangjing City with ease, which one is not very shrewd in her heart, Wu is such a person, although she doesn't know the value of this jade, but Li Yiqi's unintentional behavior made her think a lot in an instant.

As the Empress of Great Xia, there is no need to get close to a prince of a princely family, unless this person is really valued by the empress.

"The ancient gentleman must admire the jade, and the jade will not leave the body, in order to show the virtue of the gentleman! The queen's move is really implying that she is very fond of Qi'er?" Wu said softly to Liu.

Hearing this, Liu's face also showed a sudden look, and he nodded silently, and now, everything became much more logical.

"Auntie, this jade is called 'Xuanyang Jade', it is a kind of treasure that conquers heaven and earth, only in the depths of the 100,000 mountains in the southwest, in the hinterland of the demon clan, and there are only two hands in the royal family......"

Li Yiqi lowered his head, a subtle smile flashed in his eyes, and responded respectfully.

After naming the value of this jade, the Liu family and the Wu family were silent for a while, and the lobby suddenly became much quieter.

"This ......"

Liu's face was embarrassed, on the one hand, there was a marriage contract letter sent by the old lady, and on the other hand, a princess who could marry at any time from the royal family, even if they were to let Li Yiqi get married at the moment, according to the unspoken rules of the family, the next woman would also be taken away from her name, if the princess was unhappy, it was possible to be kicked out of the Li family...... In this way, what is written in Li Jiu's marriage book is not an extra move.

Wu's eyes flickered for a moment, as if he had thought of something, and suddenly chuckled and said, "Sister, I think it's okay to do this." ”

Hearing this, Li Yiqi's eyelids jumped sharply, and just as he wanted to speak, he heard Wu Shi continue: "Sister, look, in the old lady's letter, let us handle Qi'er's marriage immediately, does it also mean that you want to hold your great-grandson quickly?"

"Sister, you're right!"

Liu Shi was first surprised, then his face was happy, he nodded in agreement, and said with a smile: "If that woman is pregnant with the flesh and blood of my Li family, and stays in the Li Mansion at that time, the royal family will have nothing to say." After all, this way of humanity was put forward by Confucianism through the hands of the royal family, and it is impossible for the royal family to slap themselves in the face......"

"Hmm. ”

Wu nodded, smiling, as if extremely satisfied with the solution he had come up with.

"No!"

At this time, an exclamation suddenly sounded in the lobby, and Liu and Wu looked sideways, both with puzzled faces.

Li Yiqi's face was embarrassed, knowing that he was a little out of shape. His heart moved, he cleared his throat, and said with a straight face: "There is no precedent for this matter in the family of Shangjing, knowing that the royal family has the intention of marrying a princess but marrying someone else first, it is a great crime of disrespect, besides, the queen mother did not say this matter clearly, it may be ...... There are some variables...... For example......"

As he spoke, a layer of fine beads of sweat suddenly appeared on Li Yiqi's forehead, and he stopped talking, as if he was thinking and phrasing.

He never expected his aunt's reaction to be so fast, and he even thought of the meaning that Li Jiu Yu vaguely expressed in this letter, which caught him off guard.

However, fortunately, Li Yiqi's reaction was not slow, and he quickly thought of his rhetoric again, and said with a smile: "Auntie, I also saw the meaning of my grandfather's letter, as a man of the Li family, it is my duty to inherit the family incense." ”

However, this matter is not in a hurry, there is not much difference between a few days earlier and a few days later, and the 'immediate marriage' mentioned in the grandfather's letter does not specify a specific deadline. After all, when I get married, it is impossible for my grandfather not to come, and the border defense in the south has never been stable...... As you know, my grandfather is in Annan, and he doesn't know what happened in the capital. Now that I have become a personal entourage of the crown prince, he may know that it is normal for grandpa to misjudge the form...... I'll go back to the palace tomorrow, so let's let me figure out the queen's mind first, and then talk about it." ”

Li Yiqi said with a straight face, and didn't say too much, leaving the rest to the two ladies to slowly reverie, he believed that with Wu's shrewd head, he would definitely be able to perceive the stakes.

"What Qi'er said also has a point. ”

Liu looked at Wu and asked, "What do you think, sister?"

"Indeed, this matter has come to the present, and there is no hurry at one time, there are less than two months left for Qi'er to tie her bun, let's reply a letter to the old lady first, and see what the old lady thinks, and the queen mother said that she wants to be a matchmaker for Qi'er, how should the old lady and the two of us know, the queen mother has not made an order, and we are not good at guessing, sister, we should not disclose this matter for the time being. ”

"Good. Liu nodded silently,

Wu's eyes flashed with contemplation, and then, her willow eyebrows frowned slightly, and she said to Li Yiqi quite seriously: "Qi'er, actually, there is something about aunt and aunt...... I don't know if I should tell you now. ”

The aunt said bluntly, and the child listened to the teachings. ”

Li Yiqi had a straight face, lowered his head and said respectfully.

"Hmm. ”

Wu glanced at Liu, the strange light in the eyes of the two flickered, and it seemed a little difficult to speak, and finally, it was the older Liu who spoke: "Qi'er, do you know a rule for our Li family's male son to marry?"

"Rules?"

Li Yiqi was stunned and subconsciously shook his head.

"Alas—just look at your two uncles and a few clan uncles, I, your aunt, and your aunts are all wives......"

Liu's words had a deep meaning, and Li Yiqi was stunned at first, but quickly reacted.

Indeed, when the men of the Li family marry, they always only marry one lady in the main room, and they don't even marry a flat wife, let alone take a concubine...... Li Yiqi's eyes showed a deep look of surprise, he had never noticed this before!

"Why is that?" Li Yiqi was a little puzzled.

In the Great Xia Dynasty, it is common for men to have three wives and four concubines, and the Xia Emperor has three palaces and six courts, not to mention that those ministers in the court are not a group of wives and concubines, and even many princes and nobles, I don't know how many nameless women they have received in private.

Even some great Confucians have a lot of concubines, after all, the saying of "one wife, two equal wives and four concubines" is written in the Confucian classics.

Li Yiqi is most familiar with the Tang family where Tang Qi belongs, and Tang Dingtian, the old man of the Tang family, seems to have married a full wife and twenty-eight equal wives in his life...... It can be called a leader, a model, and a model among men!

Although the Li family belongs to the lineage of military generals and is not a Confucian scholar, the Li family is a first-class princely family in the capital, and it is common to marry a few more, who dares to say anything?

"Is there any mystery in this matter?" Li Yiqi frowned, just about to speak.

However, before Li Yiqi could ask, Liu first explained: "This is the rule of our Li family, the crockpot does not leave the well, the general will inevitably die in battle, and the man is fighting outside, I can't say that there will be an accident that day, leaving an orphan and widow, marrying one more, just leaving one more sad person......

Liu seemed to think of the husband he had died, his eyes were a little moist, and he said with a slight choked up: "The ancestor of the Li family also understood this truth, and he set this rule, which is generally not known until the men of the younger generations of the Li family tie their buns. ”

"I see!"

Li Yiqi was full of emotion in his heart, and he also had a trace of admiration for the ancestor of the Li family.

People are not sages, they all have desires, and the man who does not want to marry three wives and four concubines and have children and grandchildren is not only the result of people's expectations, but also a helpless move in the context of the times.

Li Yiqi thinks that he is not a sage, and when Qi'er came to him this morning, he also thought about this problem, and originally planned to meet two or even more women who made him fall in love in the future, and he would never distinguish between a wife, a wife, or a concubine.

Treat everyone equally, and never treat anyone badly, this was originally his concept of love, but now he is bound by the rules of the Li family.

"The ancestor of my Li family is really worthy of the word 'big husband', even if he dies, he will never affect others much, since this is the case, I can't break this rule......"

Thinking like this, Li Yiqi suddenly realized, and hurriedly nodded and said: "Aunt, rest assured, since it is a group training, the child should abide by it, and only marry one person for life." ”

Hearing Li Yiqi's words, Liu suddenly became smart, hurriedly waved his hand, and said with a wry smile: "Child, you are mistaken, my aunt didn't mean that......"

"Qi'er, aunt and aunt are supporting you to marry a few more wives. ”

The Wu family on the side took over the words, his expression was a little gloomy, and he said with a sigh, "You also know that this rule was originally aimed at the men of my Li family's expedition to the battlefield, you ...... If you are weak and will not be able to go to the battlefield in the future, there is naturally no need to stick to this rule. ”

Wu's words were very tactful, but they were also very realistic, Li Yiqi, a disciple of a family with weak literature, was okay to fiddle with poetry in Shangjing, if he was to be allowed to go to the battlefield, she and Liu would not agree at the first time.

Hearing this, Li Yiqi was stunned, and a strange look appeared on his eyebrows, Wu's words were completely different from what he thought......

The two ladies actually supported him to take a concubine, which is completely incomprehensible from a woman's point of view, but if you take into account the current situation of the Li family, Li Yiqi understands a lot, the Li family is left with such a single seedling, if he only marries one, and it happens that the belly is not angry, then the Li family is ...... from his generation

"However, you also have to remember that you are not allowed to provoke those indiscriminate women outside, if you fall in love with the woman you like, you must give someone a name! Our Li family never owes anyone!"

Liu said earnestly, and his voice revealed a trace of the majesty that the eldest lady of the princely mansion should have.

"Sister, aren't you worried about this, Qi'er was raised by you and me since childhood, what kind of heart does he have, shouldn't you know ...... best?"

Wu covered his mouth and chuckled lightly, Liu's eyes also lit up, and a smile appeared on his face, and he quipped: "Yes, sister, don't say it, Qi'er has been sensible since he was a child, and he was as steady as an adult when he was a child...... Hehe. ”