When there were still three days before Lan Qiduo's birthday, Changyi went to the palace and carefully reported all the big and small things in the princess's mansion to Emperor Kangtai.

“…… His Royal Highness doesn't like that gorgeous thing, but it's not good for the little girl's birthday to be too plain and bland, so the servant asked people to go to Xijiang Mansion to order a set of tea dishes and plates, and the patterns are all fired in the shape of fruits and some mascots, so that they will not look plain and boring in the past, and those who come to the princess's mansion as guests are also honored. ”

"Well, you've done a good job, my daughter should be unique in the world." I take it for granted.

Such trivial things such as tea cup styles and flower bonsai placement should have been a matter of a woman's back house, not to mention Emperor Kangtai, even ordinary courtiers or ordinary men would not be so concerned about the birth of a daughter.

However, Lan Qiduo's mother went early, and Emperor Cui Guifei avoided suspicion, even if there was a good arrangement, it would not be too fine, and Emperor Kangtai felt that he owed Lan Qiduo, so even if there was the crown princess and a group of loyal servants, Emperor Kangtai would not be able to do anything, lest he let this daughter who was on the tip of his heart be wronged.

Emperor Kangtai is both a father and a mother, and even asked about the dishes on Lan Qiduo's birthday, and even asked how to match the clothes to be worn on Lan Qiduo's birthday, or the prince who has been sitting on the side as an invisible man couldn't stand it and reminded a few words euphemistically, and Emperor Kangtai restrained a little.

After all, Emperor Kangtai is in his fifties, he was originally well-maintained, and there was nothing too unpopular except for worrying about state affairs, but this time he got a lot older because of his son's affairs, and his temples quickly turned white in the past few months.

"You're having a good day?"

Emperor Kangtai looked at the crown prince, but he had never seen him so eagerly guarding in front of his bad old man.

The crown prince sat down in an orderly manner and looked at Emperor Kangtai and said, "There are indeed some things to discuss with my father. ”

"Humph! I know how you have been with me for so long, a bad old man! ”

The prince couldn't cry or laugh, and it was strange that people said "old child, old child", he didn't do this on weekdays, is it because he has a well-behaved and obedient daughter for comparison, so his son is disliked?

"The father and emperor misunderstood, what the son wanted to say was not a state affair, but a matter of Yuanjia."

Emperor Kangtai immediately frowned and said, "About Yuanjia? What's wrong with her? ”

The prince continued to take the euphemistic route: "Is this this? Father, you see, yin and yang are combined, the way of heaven and earth, and all things naturally alternate ......"

Emperor Kangtai frowned: "Talk about the point!" ”

"Men should get married, women should get married!" Gritted his teeth and told what he thought in his heart, but he saw Emperor Kangtai displeased and reprimanded: "Baocheng!" You've disappointed me! Now that I have entrusted most of the things to you, you don't need to go through my consent to give marriage to whom, and you still have the right to be the prince of a country. If it's because of the third child's affairs, you don't have to worry about it, the third Xiao thinks about things he shouldn't think, that's what he deserves, and I won't be angry with anyone! ”

Emperor Kangtai always calls his son "prince" on weekdays, which is not only a symbol of status in front of people, but also a recognition of him as an emperor, but at this time he was a little annoyed and shouted out the word "Baocheng", "Baocheng" is the word taken by Emperor Kangtai himself after the prince became an adult, at this time Emperor Kangtai called it out like this, that is, it was treated as a private matter, he sighed after speaking, only felt tired!

Seeing that Emperor Kangtai seemed to be impatient, the prince's mind turned sharply, and he blurted out: "What is my father talking about, my son is saying that Yuanjia should get married!" ”

The expression on Kang Taidi's face was wonderful for a moment, angry, annoyed, reluctant, and finally yelled angrily: "What to marry?" Yuanjia doesn't need you to raise it! You conscienceless bastard, your sister is so kind to you, you want to marry her? What's wrong with her not getting married? ”

The crown prince saw that his father was annoyed and angry, and knelt down very happily: "What the sons said is the truth, the most important thing is that the father and emperor vigorously promoted the handling of things in accordance with the "Great Qi Law", and the "Great Qi Law" clearly stipulates that if a woman reaches the age of twenty and does not marry, she will be forcibly married by the government, and will also fine the woman's parents or relatives, and the father also specially asked the Supervision Department to let people supervise in various places to see which people do not act according to the law. ”

He paused, looked up at Emperor Kang Tai with a change of expression on his face, and continued: "Now that Yuanjia will soon turn twenty, if he is not married at twenty, then his father must be the first person to violate the "Great Qi Law" because of his marriage, just imagine that his father is the most honorable person in Daqi, and you yourself do not abide by the "Great Qi Law", how can you ask others to obey it?" And this woman will have children when she marries, and having children is the foundation of reproduction and proliferation of the country, and the sons hope to see the scene of congratulatory from all directions under the rule of their father in their lifetime! Show off my great Qi national prestige! ”

The prince's words are not wonderful, he can talk about such a strict issue from the marriage of a little woman, and he also said so eloquently, it simply said to Emperor Kangtai's heart! But Emperor Kangtai was a little uneasy.

"In the final analysis, you are just going to get Yuanjia's family out and marry someone else's family, where is she comfortable when she is a princess......"

The prince reminded appropriately: "Yuan Jia can continue to live in the princess's mansion, and the horse can live in his own house!" ”

"Then what's the difference between marrying a daughter and not marrying!" Emperor Kangtai said angrily, and the prince said in his heart, the daughters came over like this before, why didn't they see such a chatter...... However, Yuanjia is his own sister-in-law, and his father is only happier with her.

Thinking of someone who had recently been a low-pitched man and a horse before the saddle, the prince seemed to say casually: "Father, isn't it a bit too early for us to discuss this now, what do you think about Yuanjia's marriage?" If you want to get married, you have to determine the person first, right? ”

Emperor Kangtai thought that his flower-like daughter was going to marry into someone else's family, and he felt aggrieved in his heart when he was not his own daughter or someone else's wife in the future, but what the prince said was also the truth, and sighed: "Originally, you were going to give Yuanjia a marriage after you came back from Yangui Mountain to worship your ancestors, but you knew that it had been delayed for so long, and with the third child in front of me, I always thought that you could accompany me more." ”

This is still after the rebellion of the three princes, the father and son mentioned this matter for the first time, and the father and son discussed various things in private before, but they avoided talking about this matter, and the three princes became a taboo in the palace, and even the three princesses, the sisters of the three princes, were silent, at this time Emperor Kangtai took the initiative to say it, and the prince's heart was not a taste.

Emperor Kangtai saw the prince sitting there silent, he had always known the prince's temperament, it can be seen that this incident hit him hard, and now this is the only son who comforts him.

But some things are just like the past and sealed in the memory, it's only to blame him for not teaching the children of the Lan family, so that some of them are born with thoughts that they shouldn't have, he is the emperor who sees that it can never be personal interests, and there are longer-term goals.

"What do you think of Xiahou Yi?"

The crown prince was a little distracted because of Emperor Kangtai's words, and when he heard Emperor Kangtai suddenly ask him how Xiahou Yi was, he immediately understood that Emperor Kangtai was unwilling to talk about it, and smiled slightly, since his father and the emperor were tacitly acknowledged by him, there was nothing to say.

"A few years ago, Erchen once went out with Xiahou Yi to suppress bandits, this person is strong in kung fu, although he is rigorous in leading soldiers, but he loves soldiers like children, and the soldiers and generals under him love him very much, and this person is quite tenacious, and he is a rare general."

also took Xiahou Yi to Lan Jing as a cavalry archery master, Lan Jing is the eldest son of the prince, the prince naturally pays more attention, he can comment on Xiahou Yi like this, Emperor Kang Tai is interested: "How can you see it?" ”

"As far as that recent incident is concerned, Xiahou Yi has a deputy general surnamed Yu by his side, and he has known him for ten years, and the day before yesterday Xiahou Yi sent Yu Lao San to practice Kangtai's eighteenth year Xiliang Mansion City is the most famous. The battle of the night battle of Ping An Street, Yu Laosan missed the signal flare in advance during the drill, Xiahou Yi didn't care about 3721, and directly asked the 3rd to beat 40 military sticks, and afterwards he sent the best gold sore medicine, and pointed out to the third that he was wrong, Yu Laosan was not angry with Xiahou Yi at all, but humbly taught. ”

"It's an iron-faced and selfless one." Emperor Kangtai said this for a long time, but his brows never stretched.

"Father is wise, such a life in Daqi is a blessing in Daqi."

"Leading troops to fight is not the same as living at home, Xiahou Yi is a good general but not necessarily a good horse."

"He has never been married, he has married a daughter-in-law, if he doesn't give it a try, how does his father know that he won't be a good concubine?"

"Give it a try? Your sister is going to spend the rest of her life with a man she doesn't know, how about trying? In case Xiahou Yi is not a thing, can it still be returned? If my daughter is married, can she still be treated as if she is unmarried? How important is the daughter's family name festival......"

"Father is not worried, Xiahou Yi is there a more reliable person? Who? Wang Yunshen? Wu Yuan? ”

"Presumptuous!"

The father and son were tense, and they couldn't wait to start their full martial arts, Changsheng who was standing outside and Ah Fu, who was serving the prince closely, couldn't help but glance at each other with some worry, such a situation has not appeared for many years, the first time the prince was convicted with His Majesty was when Her Royal Highness the princess was a child, and the black-necked turtle raised by Her Royal Highness the princess was killed, and then it was stimulated and had a fever that night.

"Changsheng!"

Emperor Kangtai shouted, Changsheng hurried in, and listened to Emperor Kangtai say: "Go and call Xiahou Yi to me!" ”

The prince stopped him from the side: "At this time, it is the class time for Jing'er and Xiahou Yi. ”

"Well, I'll go over and see if Xiahou Yi is really as good as you say."

The prince smiled and didn't speak, but Changsheng hurriedly prepared the guard of honor, and Emperor Kangtai said, "There is no need to mobilize the people. Changsheng understood when he heard this, Emperor Kangtai was going to go over quietly to see it.

The East Palace is still as comfortable to look at as always, because the prince is not a good woman, and he himself is in love with the crown princess, so there are not many women in the East Palace, and there are fewer women who are unnatural.

The group came out of the Qianqing Palace and walked a stick of incense before arriving at the East Palace, the autumn tiger was still very powerful, although it was morning, Emperor Kangtai still walked out of sweat, and the prince thought about asking the princess to prepare some tea and send it to the martial arts field.

At this time, the princess was taking a group of girls to tidy up her small warehouse, she and the prince were husband and wife, and heard the news from the prince that Lan Qiduo's marriage was about to be decided, coinciding with Lan Qiduo's birthday, and the princess thought about adding one or two more things to the original gift to Lan Qiduo.

Suddenly receiving the words from the prince, the crown princess was taken aback, and she didn't know why Emperor Kangtai wanted to see Lan Jing on a whim, so she hurriedly asked people to go down to prepare tea.

In the martial arts arena, what Xiahou Yi taught Lan Jing today was archery.

"Have you ever learned archery from someone before?"

Lan Jing is just a few years old now, even if he has only finished learning "Thousand Character Literature" when he is studying, he will only learn half of "Thousand Family Poems", and his love for kung fu is just a boy's innate love for force! The prince himself has kung fu and occasionally teaches him!

"Back to my master's words, my father has taught me."

Xiahou Yi is nominally the cavalry and archery master of the emperor's eldest grandson Lan Jing, but in fact, in addition to Lan Jing, there are also a group of small hairy heads. In addition to the four subordinates who served Lan Jing closely, the rest were his three companions, and each companion brought another person, so there were many people.

"I know that many people in Beijing know kung fu with fists and feet, and this archery must also be involved, but now I only ask you one word? What do you want to learn is the archery that I use to kill people on the battlefield or the archery that the young people in the capital play? ”

It's all such a little child, what can you understand, Emperor Kangtai stood in a hidden corner, glanced at the prince, and saw that there was appreciation in the prince's eyes.

Lan Jing was the highest in this group of children, and he naturally asked: "What is the archery technique of killing, and what is the archery technique of playing?" ”

Whether it was Emperor Kangtai or the crown prince, they listened on the side, and they didn't think about what was wrong with killing people in front of a group of children of a few years old, and those subordinates didn't dare to say anything if they thought it was inappropriate, because General Xiahou said on the first day of the martial arts arena that they only treated themselves as if they didn't have zài in the martial arts arena, and if they were too talkative, they would directly hand them over to their respective family masters for disposal.

At this time, it was already five o'clock, under the shade of the trees on the edge of the martial arts arena, the four little boys were all dressed in short clothes, Xiahou Yi stood in front of them, the sun happened to hit him, the black power suit showed that he was heroic and majestic and inviolable, and the four small hairy heads of different heights, like any previous riding and archery course, looked at Xiahou Yi with a kind of admiration. (To be continued.) )