Li Mao is a kind of "good man".

He is the second eldest in the family, but the younger brother left early, and since he grew up, he is no different from the younger son, but he has not been favored by the young son in the family.

He agreed to the advice of his parents and brother as long as it did not exceed his acceptable range. He doesn't have to think, he just does it. Because he knew that his family would not harm him.

When he came out, what the emperor told him, as long as it did not exceed the scope of his acceptance, he agreed to it. Go to the horse farm and go to the battlefield to go to whatever field, as soon as the emperor gives the order, he will go. What he didn't understand, the emperor taught him, and he learned.

At home, he has advisers Wu Yuzhou and Chen Yi, and a group of subordinates behind him who contribute to him, he doesn't need to think hard by himself, he just needs to find a suitable way to do it.

Went to the front, it was the same. He is not good at the art of war, and he is not good at strategy. He only knows one thing, the front-line soldiers have clothes to wear, food to eat, and their families behind them, so they will not run away or retreat. Therefore, Li Mao will not lead troops to fight or arrange troops, he can collect grain and grass for them, buy winter clothes, clear roads, and let someone send them letters home.

Li Mao's role is more and more like a lubricant in a machine, he is not a screw, not a pillar, but he still has his own special role.

After moving the capital to Chang'an, the little emperor trusted Li Mao and Li Rui almost in a posture of blind trust, obeyed Li Mao's words, never disobeyed, and was friendly and harmonious to Li Mei, inseparable. Li Mao is very satisfied with this, and it is also very fresh.

Because of the change of emperor, the situation before and after is really different.

If Li Mao didn't think about gaining power, it would be false. But Li Mao immediately put out this thought. He has a few taels, Li Mao knows very well in his heart. Not to mention that he can't play with some old ministers, even a young man like Qi Shao, he can't see through it.

Everyone supports "orthodoxy". Not him. He knows it well.

And now, Qi Shao told him that the Queen Mother was coming back, and the Duke of Jin was coming back, and at this time, the Xungui faction would be greatly hit. The Duke of Jin and the Queen Mother are both from a family, and now they are succeeded by the Young Emperor, the Young Emperor is not as good as the first Emperor Chu Rui, and he can also balance the political situation, how do you want Xungui and Hanmen to believe that the emperor will not abandon them?

How do you want them to believe that you have the ability and influence to fight against the Jin Kingdom?

Then Qi Shao smiled and said, yes, as long as your daughter marries the emperor, you will work wholeheartedly for the young emperor, and your whole family will also work wholeheartedly, and the young emperor and the queen mother will be satisfied with you as soon as they see you become in-laws. Nobles will be relieved to see that you are about to become the ruler of the country.

Li Mao is not stupid, he understands Qi Shao's analysis.

But he didn't want to.

"Mrs. Qi's kindness, my father understands it." Li Mao looked at Qi Shao with a satisfied smile, and also smiled back at him; "But my father has always thought that this kind of thing has to be done wholeheartedly. The master knows the situation of my family, and even men don't take concubines, and my father really can't accept his daughter and fight with a group of women in the future. ”

"What's more, the little girl is vulgar, and entering the palace will only cause trouble."

Qi Shao felt that he had analyzed Li Guogong very thoroughly, but as a result, this prime-aged Guogong who was a very popular minister had a faint intention of refusing, and the reason was so absurd.

If the Li family can decide not to take a concubine, can they not marry a daughter? It won't be a complication!

They have men on top of them!

It's just that at their level, they won't say anything to death. So Li Mao smiled again and added a few words.

"Besides, Your Majesty's marriage should not be decided by the ministers, and this is not what a courtier should do. Qi Taifu is talented, and it is a good thing for young people to see it thoroughly, but they must be down-to-earth, don't always think about the future, but focus on the present first. ”

"If Your Majesty can take charge of the government alone in the future, my father will ask to retire."

Qi Shao smiled bitterly.

What you are saying now is light, when the Duke of Jin returns, will those people behind you be willing to let you retire?

Qi Shao and Li Mao finished discussing the matter of going down to Jiangnan to welcome the Empress Dowager, and soon prepared to go back to their respective residences to convene people to discuss again. Although Li Mei was reluctant to leave Grandma Fairy and Chu Chengping, she still reluctantly followed her father.

She is now ten years old, and she runs around with the emperor as a stand-in during the day, but at night it is not appropriate to stay in the dormitory.

Gu Qing first began to think that he would be dragged behind Li Mei like before, but found that he couldn't do without the little emperor. Although I don't know what the law and reason of my crossing are, but if I come, I will be safe, Gu Qing accompanied Chu Chengping, and waved goodbye to Li Mei with a smile.

"Kiss, what are you looking at?" Li Mao saw his daughter turning back frequently, and couldn't help but bend down and ask.

"It's nothing, Dad, let's go." Li Mei watched in frustration as Grandma Fairy was occupied by Pingping, and dragged her father back to her residence in the front palace.

It's a shame that grandma can tell a lot of good stories.

And she also knows a lot of things about her brother.

Gu Qing accompanied Chu Chengping and watched Li Mei gradually walk away. The little boy stood in front of the temple gate, watching her little granddaughter until she was completely out of sight.

Obviously, there were many palace guards around him, but Gu Qing inexplicably noticed the shadow of loneliness on this young man's body. The loneliness was so deep that Chu Chengping's spine was reflected a little thinner.

"Every day, this is the time when I feel the saddest the most." The new emperor looked up at his immortal aunt, "Whether it's the father or the emperor, the crown prince and brother, many, many people, and ......."

And you.

"You're all leaving."

"Huh? Are you sad? But won't the kiss come again tomorrow? Gu Qing squatted on □ and communicated with him at eye level.

"What if she doesn't come tomorrow? Why is it a girl? Because I'm a girl, I can't stay here at night with me, and I can't live in the same room as I did in the Shinkoku Mansion. Chu Chengping didn't have the concept of "love" at the moment, but he was worried that his relatives would never come to the East Palace again one morning.

She is a girl, she wants to grow up, this reason, he can't find a reason to refute at all.

"Ah, this fairy aunt can't help it." Gu Qing frowned. "But even if you leave, the memories of being together are good, and that's enough. In this world, no one can accompany you for a lifetime except your wife. Parents will grow old, children will grow up, and only wives can join hands for a lifetime. ”

Gu Qing said what he had said to his two grandsons before.

"Only a wife?"

Chu Chengping looked into the distance.

But his father and the emperor did not join hands with his mother for a lifetime.

Chu Chengping faced Gu Qing and his relatives, and never used "I" in private.

Perhaps, as he said, he is not used to it yet.

Gu Qing was very satisfied with this.

In the evening, Gu Qing watched Chu Chengping eating dinner alone with torment, but her stomach would not be hungry, she could only smell the fragrance, she could only see, she couldn't eat, and her greedy eyes were green.

In the past, when eating, Chu Chengping always felt very bored. In the past, when he lived with his mother in Kunyuan Palace, he ate with his mother, and sometimes he used it with his father, queen mother, and never ate alone.

When he arrived in Chang'an, he was the only one in the huge palace. All the palace people called him "Your Majesty" and served him respectfully, but he was not happy at all.

There is a person in front of you to eat with you, and with an expression of "ah, I want to eat, why can you eat but I can't eat", and even the appetite for eating has become a little stronger.

Chu Chengping was satisfied and ate two more bites of food.

Yes...... For the first time, I felt that it was such a joy to be able to eat.

When it was time to go to bed, Chu Chengping climbed onto his "dragon bed" and patted the vacant seat beside him.

"Aunt Fairy, come and sleep too."

Gu Qing stayed with Chu Chengping for three days and three nights, and he was no stranger to sleeping with him. So Gu Qing climbed into bed as she said, slept on the outside of the bed, looked at the little emperor who had obediently closed his eyes, and showed a smile.

This kid is really getting better and better.

He looked like a cherub when he was asleep.

"Aunt Fairy, what happened to the story of "Mulan" you told me last time? After the battle, Hua Mulan returned to the court, did she accept Shang Shulang? ”

"Ah......" Gu Qing thought about it and told the little prince about the follow-up to Mulan's story.

Hua Mulan did not accept the official position in Shangshu Province, but confided in her true gender and asked to resign and return to her hometown. The emperor wanted to admit her into the palace, but she did not accept it, and returned to her hometown under the escort of officials of the Ministry of Rites. ”

"Her parents were looking forward to it, her brother had already married, and the comrades who returned home with Mulan were surprised to see that Mulan was a woman, and they had fought together for twelve years, but they didn't know that she was a daughter."

"And then ......"

Chu Chengping, like all children who have listened to fairy tales, continued to ask the end of the story.

Gu Qing closed her eyes and wanted to say, "Then, Mulan married her comrade and lived a happy life from now on", but the words came to her mouth several times, but she couldn't say it.

I don't know why this is happening, Gu Qing's tongue seems to have an idea, and it says a different ending.

"Then, when she returned to her hometown, Mulan was already thirty years old, his parents were old, and they lived with their younger brother and sister-in-law, and Mulan was an unmarried sister-in-law, so she was really embarrassed to live with her younger brother, so she took out the gold given by the emperor, and set up another house next to the house where her family lived, and lived alone."

"She's thirty years old, and she's spent the best years of her life on the battlefield. Her hands were covered with hard calluses, and her face was dark and vicissitudes blown by the wind and sand. She was not beautiful in the first place, but now her temperament is even colder. She has killed people, held a knife, is old, and has a reputation for eating and living with men in the barracks for more than ten years, so she can't even find a serious husband when she returns home. ”

Mulan's father and mother are very guilty about their daughter, and they talk about her family affairs all day long. She is thirty years old this year, and her comrades in the army have already married and had children, and she is the only one who has been stumbling so far. Without General Zhao, without Brother Liu......"

"Hey, who are General Zhao and Brother Liu?"

"Uh...... In short, there is no meaning of handsome men waiting for her. Gu Qing was stuck, and it was not good to explain to him countless versions of Mulan.

"Oh."

"Mulan is a person who has experienced joys and sorrows, life and death, and has seen the world. Ordinary ordinary people naturally can't get into her eyes. The fingers or blind fear of her hometown made Mulan hurt and prepared to die alone. ”

"Later, some of Mulan's relatives coveted the reward given to her by the emperor, so they wanted to pass on their children to her, so that she could support her in old age, and Mulan's younger brother also wanted to pass on his son to his sister and sweep the grave and keep watch for her in the future."

Mulan, who was only in her thirties, suddenly found that she could no longer live the life of an ordinary person. She can withstand knives, guns and sticks, but she can't withstand the guilty eyes of her parents; She endured the parting of life and death, but she couldn't bear the clever words and calculations of her younger siblings; She withstood the temptation of high-ranking officials, but she couldn't withstand the silence of the room. ”

"On a cold night, as she had traveled thousands of miles to the army many years ago, she stepped into her BMW, lifted her sword, and began a new journey with the gold that the emperor had given her."

After Gu Qing's version of "Mulan" was finished, she opened her eyes and looked at Chu Chengping beside her, but found that his face was full of tears, looking at the tent next to the bed in a daze.

"Why are you crying?" Gu Qing made a hug and gently leaned against Chu Chengping's side.

"General Flower, isn't General Flower a hero......"

"She's a hero. But just because she's a hero doesn't mean she can't do it. The general unloads her armor, the beauty is white-headed, and Mulan has all met, so she has the experience of returning to her hometown later. ”

Gu Qing knew that she was cruel, and she didn't know why she would say such an unpleasant version.

But in her mind, this is the scene that Mulan is most likely to encounter.

When Li Mei began to show the terrible strength inherited by Li Laoguogong, and she was not beautiful, she was sincerely worried about her granddaughter.

She couldn't help but think of a legendary woman - "Mulan".

Mulan's story is very beautiful, but whether Mulan herself is happy or not has been flashing repeatedly in Gu Qing's heart.

As she was worried, Li Mei grew up day by day, her strength continued unabated, and her appearance was just mediocre. Her personality is straightforward and hearty, without the softness and gentleness that a girl should have. Their Li family did have an unusual young lady, but because of the turmoil involving the royal family, she was destined to be impossible to be ordinary in her life.

When they get older and older, with their mediocre personalities, can they really let Li Mei marry an ordinary man and live a life of husband and children?

He is sad now even to watch his kiss come home.

So Gu Qing had to tell a Gu Qing version of Hua Mulan as he had told stories to several grandchildren countless times.

She wants to tell Ping Ping that if she is selfish and really uses her kiss as a man, the end of her kiss will never be good.

"She is so good at fighting, she can continue to go back to fight for the emperor." Chu Chengping wiped away his tears. "If it were me, I wouldn't mind re-admitting such a female general who can fight well."

"Well, that's also a path for Mulan. But Mulan asked to unload her armor and return to the field, but she was actually very tired, have you thought about it? Not everyone likes to fight. ”

"There is no female general who has never fought, isn't the ending so sad?" Chu Chengping's nose was red from crying, and he sadly accused Gu Qing, "Aunt Fairy, you are all the victims!" It's been a long time since I've cried like this! ”

A story that has been looking forward to for several years, waiting for such an ending, Chu Chengping said that his heart was heavy, his nose was also very sour, and he couldn't sleep at all.

"Ah, it's Auntie, it's not right. Auntie will think of a better ending for you. Gu Qing scratched her head, and after thinking about it, she really thought of a female general who could fight again, had a good death, and had a good story.

In the past, the medical conditions were not developed, and he only lived to be in his thirties.

"A long, long time ago, in the Shang Dynasty, there was a Shang king named Wu Ding." Gu Qing looked at the little emperor who still had tears on his face, and told him another story.

"Wu Ding has a beautiful wife, the queen of another tribe, and a female general who can fight well. Her name is Woman. ”

"Wu Ding and Nu Hao are very affectionate, one year, there was a war in the north, and Nu Hao led the army to ......"

Gu Qing beautified the story of the good woman a little, because what Hua Mulan said just now was too miserable, Gu Qing said that the queen and queen of the good woman were virtuous and good at fighting, how Wu Ding loved his wife, let her take one-tenth of the country's troops, and how did the woman often protect her husband Yunyun in large-scale events.

The story of a good woman is beautiful in that era. The story of the woman can be consummated, and the woman herself is a fiefdom noble.

In this story, Gu Qing instilled some concepts of "equality between men and women" in later generations, because the status of women in the Shang Dynasty was not low, so it was not abrupt at all.

After the story was told, Chu Chengping was still unfinished, and the sadness just now when discussing Mulan was also swept away.

Gu Qing looked at Chu Chengping and suddenly remembered his idea of "education should start from the doll".

So she smiled and said:

"Pingping, Aunt Immortal asks you, how many kings and emperors have there been throughout the ages?"

Chu Chengping stupidly calculated for a long time, and finally gave up.

"I don't know."

"Yes, the emperor is the highest status of the Son of Heaven, but throughout the ages, there are still a lot, and there will be more in the future, isn't it?"

Chu Chengping nodded.

"How many have taken a wife who can fight well throughout the ages, and can stay with them until death?"

Chu Chengping has been studying history since he was five years old, and naturally he is not an ignorant child who doesn't know anything, so he thought hard and replied to Gu Qing:

"There is only one Wu Ding."

"Therefore, Wu Ding is the happiest of all emperors. He married one of the greatest women in the world. Whether it is called a king or an emperor, or the power of the world, there are always people in this world who can do it. ”

"But as a woman, there is only one person who can be a good woman. Such a great woman, but married Wu Ding, isn't Wu Ding the happiest one in the world? ”

Chu Chengping blinked, not knowing what he was thinking.

Gu Qing sighed.

She said this, and if she continued, it would be too explicit.

However, Chu Chengping got up and saluted Gu Qing.

"I understand what Aunt Fairy means. Thank you Aunt Fairy for your suggestion. ”

He appointed him to become the emperor with the sky, and he was ordered by this immortal several times, so he was naturally grateful to her.

"I'll make my kiss a good woman, not Mulan."

The author has something to say: the new book preview, "Mulan Has No Eldest Brother". The inspiration I got when I wrote Li Mei was to write the story of Mulan, an older female forensic doctor who returned to the field dressed as a disarmer. The new book is still in the manuscript stage, and it will be opened on September 10. Later, the address and the full text of the manuscript will be released, and interested friends can collect and wait for fat. The pit of prayer is secured.

The next shift will be at 8 p.m., and in the afternoon, I will take the children crazy.

The author's column begs for support, so that the new book will know it early!