The door of the imperial study was gently pushed open by the palace maid, and Wei Wushuang, the Holy Empress of Shuntian Yi, walked in with a bowl of soup in her own hand.

Princess An Le, who was kneeling at the door, took the opportunity to cry loudly, but Wei Wushuang didn't seem to hear it, and walked straight to Li Xian, who was wearing armor, and advised softly: "Holy Lord, drink some lotus seed soup!" On a hot day, how do you put on all the armor? Come, wait for the Holy Lord's clothes! ”

"No, you don't!" Li Xian glared at the palace maids who gathered around him angrily, with a clear gasp in his voice, "It's good for me to wear it like this!" Lest one day someone be unhappy and send an assassin to give me a knife! ”

With that, he took a big stride and returned to the bookcase with a sonorous voice, and buckled the dragon helmet on his head. Touching the mechanism without a teacher, he pulled the mask down with a "click". In an instant, no one could see the joy and sorrow on his face clearly.

has been a husband and wife for so many years, but Wei Wushuang doesn't need to observe words and emotions at all, he can grasp Li Xian's thoughts clearly. With a smile, he first put down the white porcelain soup bowl in his hand, and then gently took the lacquer plate, silver bowl, spoon and other things from the hands of the palace maids, and placed them on the bookcase one by one. From beginning to end, he didn't ask his husband who he was guarding against to assassinate, nor did he ask for half a word of mercy for his daughter who was kneeling at the door.

Li Xian's heart was immediately surrounded by his wife's tenderness, and his anger was suddenly a little unsustainable. However, when I turned my head and saw an unedged axe on my back outside the door of the study, Princess Anle, who was guilty of the crime, suddenly hated the root of her teeth.

bribed the assassin to murder the minister of the dynasty, just because the other party had swept her face a few months ago and did not offer the life-saving elixir with both hands! Where is this what a princess should do? The daughter of a robber would not be so arrogant as the leader of the cottage! What's more, that "leader" has always done his best, and he is almost indispensable for the development of "cottages".

"Stand down, all of you!" Wei Wushuang moved his body intentionally and unintentionally, just blocking Li Xian's view. Immediately, while scooping lotus seed soup into the silver bowl with his own hands, he commanded softly.

"Yes!" The palace ladies agreed, bowed and retired. Zheng Kejun, who was originally standing in the study at a loss, also quickly pulled his stunned young subordinate and took the opportunity to escape.

"Father, mother, the child is wronged, wronged!" Seeing that no one was paying attention to herself, Princess Anle suddenly cried more and more aggrieved.

Li Xian's brows quickly furrowed, and his fingers firmly supported the table. Although Wei Wushuang couldn't see his forehead, he keenly sensed that he was already on the verge of rage. Standing up first, he walked to the door of the study and closed the thick wooden door with his own hands.

The crying was blocked for most of the time, and Li Xian suddenly no longer felt as irritable as before. And Wei Wushuang walked back to the bookcase, scooped the lotus seed soup with her own hands, tasted the heat and cold with her mouth first, and then raised the silver spoon to Li Xian's face armor with a smile, "Shengshang, this face armor is not good, at least, you should leave your mouth out, so that the concubine can feed you soup." ”

"With the axe on the side, how can I have time to drink soup?!" Li Xian couldn't live up to his wife's tenderness, raised his hand and pushed the mask up again, gritting his teeth in response.

"Even if it's Sun Wu and Wu Qi, they still have to eat." Wei Wushuang deliberately pretended not to understand what he was referring to, retorted with a smile, and then brought the spoon to his mouth, "Holy Lord, drink a little soup to extinguish the fire." The concubine boiled it with her own hands, and it was stewed for two hours, and the white fungus inside had been stewed. ”

"Hmm-" The anger in Li Xian's heart was extinguished by tenderness for most of it. He groaned and opened his mouth obediently.

After so many years of husband and wife, Wei Wushuang knows all his habits well. Like a child, spoonful after spoonful, feed the lotus seed soup to his mouth, until the lotus seed soup in the bowl was wiped out for most of the time, then slowly put down the silver spoon, smiled and grabbed a sweat towel from the lacquer plate, and wiped the corners of his mouth.

Under the double "encirclement and suppression" of lotus seed soup and the love of husband and wife, there is not much anger left in Li Xian's heart. Unable to bear to continue to serve the shelf, he glanced at Wei Wushuang with pity, sighed and took the sweat towel. First wiped the side of his mouth twice, and then shook his head slightly, "Don't think about interceding for her." She has made a big mistake this time, and if I let her go again, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will be chilled. The law and order of the imperial court will also be gone! ”

"Huh?" Wei Wushuang's eyes widened in surprise, and his red lips opened slightly, like a budding rose.

"Ahh Li Xian rolled his eyelids and responded angrily, but his voice was not very high: "Even if I want to kill any courtier, I can also get the name of the law of the country." It's good that she summoned a large number of bandits through the White Horse Sect to intercept and kill the officials of the current dynasty, but she actually bribed the Right Yi Guard Brigade who escorted the other party to assassinate halfway! ”

"What?!" In an instant, Wei Wushuang's eyes widened, just like ordinary people's parents heard that their children had committed crimes, and instinctively refused to believe it, "Impossible!" Comfort is impossible! You say she's naughty and bullying, and I believe it. It is impossible to say that she bought murderous assassins and colluded with bandits! She, she is widowed at home, she has no power and no power, what benefit can she give to others?! Then the White Horse Sect, why did he listen to her dispatch?! ”

The heart of Li Xian, the Emperor of the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty, was deeply stabbed by the words "widowed at home". slapped the table with his hand and stood up, "She has no power and no power?" In the past six months or so, how many official positions she has sold out, don't you know when I am a me? I accommodated her, thinking of her pitiful, but not acquiescing to her doing whatever she wanted! ”

"Shichiro, what do you say? Selling official beards, don't you hope to recruit talents from all over the world for the imperial court? Whether it is the imperial examination or the recommendation, how many can bypass the dozens of families in the world? Wei Wushuang was taken aback, but he raised his head and pleaded with tears in his eyes, "And just a vacant position, all the talented but untalented people will be under the command of the saint, and it will be beneficial to Datang." If this is also a crime, the official position sold by the concubine here is three times as happy! The concubine is immoral, please Qilang issue an order to abolish the concubine body and correct the harem! ”

After that, he wiped a handful of tears and knelt down. When he boarded, Li Xian panicked. didn't care about being angry with his daughter anymore, bypassed the bookcase, and put his hands together: "Wushuang, Wushuang, what are you doing here?" When did I accuse you of betraying your official position? I am saying, I am saying, alas, you get up first, and sell your official beard, I acquiesced, and I should not rely on you! ”

"The saint, the saint loves, the concubines, the concubines are broken and there is no way to repay them!" Wei Wushuang didn't have Li Xian's strength, he stood up delicately and weakly, crying so much that the pear blossoms brought rain, "But, but Bao'er is innocent, she was born with a bitter life, these years, for the sake of our husband and wife, I have gone out to feed the tiger with my body!" She, although she is a little pampered and willful, is by no means the irrational person. Whoever she hates, at most she will knock on the door. With you in charge of her, she doesn't need to collude with bandits. You don't need to buy murderous stingers! ”

said that Li Xian's heart became more and more like a knife.

The reason why Princess Anle's name is Li Bao'er is because when she was born, Li Xian was degraded to Luling under residential surveillance, and the husband and wife were so poor that they couldn't even afford baby clothes, so they had to take an old robe from Li Xian and wrap her to prevent her from freezing to death. And Princess An Le did not hesitate to use the means of getting pregnant before marriage to marry Wu Chongxun, the son of Wu Sansi, in order to be a father for Li Xian and stabilize the position of the prince!

If Li Xian had taken this breath for his daughter when Zhang Qian politely refused to marry, and belittled this person for thousands of miles, there would have been no provocation by the little monk, and all the conflicts between him and the princess and the White Horse Sect would not have happened later.

If Li Xian refused to offer medicine to the princess after Zhang Qian, he would also decisively stand up and be a faint gentleman to support his daughter. Even if it was just a few words of reprimand for Zhang Qian, Princess Anle could regain face and no longer hold a grudge against Zhang Qian. In this way, there is no motive for the series of assassinations and collusion with bandits.

And Li Xian worked hard to be a "wise gentleman" in the first two critical moments, and now Princess Anle chooses to take risks, and no matter how impartial he handles it, he will inevitably be too sorry for his daughter!

"Shichiro!" Wei Wushuang didn't need to look at Li Xian's face to know that his words had a role. Raising his hand to wipe a handful of tears, he continued to add sadly, "If our wrappers are really like you said, sins are unforgivable." You are the emperor, and your concubines cannot be abolished for personal reasons. However, Qilang, the concubine doesn't ask you to open up the net, but only asks you to read those few cries when the two of us were desperate and ready to commit suicide, and give her a chance to defend herself. Qilang, if it weren't for her back then, there would have been no two of us as a husband and wife a long time ago, let alone today's Yingtian Shenlong Emperor and Shuntian Yisheng Empress! ”

Speaking of sadness, she burst into tears again. Looking at Li Xian, the Emperor of the Heavenly Dragon Empire, he had already wet the iron armor with tears.

I want to be in Luling back then, and I was humiliated by the officials who were responsible for monitoring them. The husband and wife had already made up their minds to die. However, when the two of them put their necks into the rope and were about to kick the stool away from their feet, they suddenly heard their daughter's cry of hunger.

The husband and wife couldn't bear to let their daughter lose her parents in infancy, hugged her head and cried, and gritted her teeth to survive. In this way, there was a chance to turn over later, and there were today's emperors and empresses.

If the price of being an emperor and empress is to kill his own daughter, what is the taste of this emperor and empress? ! If you become an emperor, you have to step on the bones of your own children, so what is the difference between Li Xian, the emperor, and the great sage of heaven back then?

"Come on, bring that troublemaker to the Holy Lord!" Wiping away a handful of tears, Wei Wushuang turned his head and shouted at the door.

"Yes!" The palace maids, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately agreed to help Princess Anle, who was eavesdropping with her ears pricked up, pretending to be serious, and "dragged" the latter into the imperial study.

And Princess Anle honestly knelt at Li Xian's feet, holding his thighs with both hands, crying silently.

Seeing that the heat was almost over, the Holy Empress of Shuntian Yi, Wei Wushuang, first signaled the palace maids to retreat and close the door of the study. Immediately, he lowered his head and screwed Princess Anle's ears fiercely, "What are you crying about, you did something wrong, and you still have a face to cry?!" You honestly confess, did you instruct the monks of the White Horse Sect to collude with the bandits? Did you bribe the brigade rate of the right Yiwei and assassinate the official of the dynasty? ”

"Wronged, my daughter is wronged, my mother saves my daughter, and my daughter doesn't know!" Princess An Le immediately screamed and shouted loudly, "Father, the only thing my daughter knows is that the female official in her daughter's palace has a personal affair with the brigade leader of the right guard. My daughter doesn't know anything else! Father, if you don't believe it, even if you send a hundred horsemen to investigate, if it is found that the bad thing was done by the daughter, the daughter is willing to be dealt with by the law of the country. If you don't have any credentials, punish your daughter, and your daughter won't be blind! ”

"Tough mouth, you still have a strong mouth!" Wei Wushuang pulled his ears stiffly and dragged Princess An Le away from Li Xian's feet. Then let go of the hand, lift the foot, and kick "hard" at the thick point of the flesh on the latter's body.

"Help, Father, help, help!" Princess Anle immediately cried for help like a slain pig, and her voice was hoarse.

When Li Xian heard this, he suddenly felt pity for his daughter. raised his hand and wiped it twice on his face, and then pleaded in a low voice: "Okay, even if you beat her to death, it won't help." ”

"It's better for me to beat her to death than for her to die stupidly!" Wei Wushuang refused to stop, and continued to kick "hard" at the floor under Princess An Le, while crying and responding, "Killing people and killing people, such a simple trick, who can you fool?" The Hundred Cavalry Division went to investigate, among the Hundred Cavalry Division, who was so bold as to dare to find out about this matter? You are the princess of a country, if you do it, you must dare to admit it. After doing so, you still try to deceive your father, and you deserve death! ”

Princess An Le neither argued nor dodged, just lay on the ground and continued to cry "Father, help". Li Xian, the Emperor of the Yingtian Divine Dragon, heard this, raised his hand to wipe two handfuls of tears, and ordered in a trembling voice: "Okay, don't beat her." Whether she did it or not, I took it for her! ”

"Thank you, Father!" Princess An Le got up and rushed to Li Xian's side, hugging his shoulders with both hands. Tears fell on Li Xian's shoulders, and through the iron armor, they were faintly "hot".

Emperor Yingtian's heart was as clear as a mirror. The so-called unverified confession on the side of the Hundred Riders is the truth. The White Horse Sect, bandits, and assassins are all inseparable from Princess Anle. However, as a father, he was reluctant to hand over his daughter to the law of the country, so he could only sigh with tears in his eyes.

Seeing that Li Xian's attitude had finally softened as completely as he expected, Wei Wushuang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Immediately, he deliberately pretended to be serious, and commanded in a low voice, "Let go of your father, it's a bit human!" He was clad in iron armor and was already heavy. How can I still have the strength to support you. ”

"Yes, Queen Mother!" Princess Anle agreed delicately, immediately let go of Li Xian, untied the small axe behind her back, and put it lightly at the door of the study.

"Holy Lord, the assassin is Zhang Qian?!" Glancing at his relaxed daughter, and then at his helpless husband, Wei Wushuang shook his head and asked in a low voice.

"Knowingly ask!" Li Xian rolled his eyelids at her, turned around, and slowly walked towards the bookcase.

The wife just hit her daughter, and she was completely beating him. The sentence "Who is so bold in the Baiqi Division, and find out about this matter" was also specifically said to him. Also, there is also the daughter's cry for help, I'm afraid that seven or eight times out of ten, it has also been practiced in advance, otherwise, it is impossible to cooperate with his wife's actions so tacitly. He knew all of this, and he could see them clearly. His heart is like a mirror, but at this moment, he has no choice but to pretend to be confused!

"Father, where did you get this set of armor, it looks vaguely similar to the great-grandfather in the portrait!" Princess An Le turned back, looked at Li Xian's dragon armor, and patted his ass.

If it is changed to normal times, some people say that they are like Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, and Li Xian is sure that Longyan is happy. However, after listening to his daughter's sycophants today, he pricked up his eyes again, "After I go back, I will think about it behind closed doors for two months!" Unless it is my will, you shall not leave the house for half a step. ”

"Father-" Princess An Le didn't know why she had made Li Xian angry again, and when she landed, tears were swirling in her eyes again.

"Shichiro, what's wrong again?" Unexpectedly, Li Xian suddenly turned his face again, and Queen Wei Wushuang was also confused, stepped forward, and gently grabbed her husband's finger.

"You're my daughter, and I don't want to mutilate myself, but I'm not stupid!" Li Xian didn't want to give his wife and the mud another chance, so he raised his other hand and pointed straight to the door, "What, don't you plan to listen to my words?" Go back and think about it behind closed doors! Kill people and kill people, who wouldn't. The Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, just pull someone out, I'm afraid they will be ten times cleaner than you! ”

"The father is angry, and the daughter obeys the order!" Princess An Le was so aggrieved that her face was full of tears, squatted down and saluted, and hid her face and left. Li Xian couldn't vent the anger in his heart, grabbed the silver bowl on the bookcase, and smashed it on her back.

"Jingle Clang—" The silver bowl jumped up on contact with the ground, emitting a series of pleasant echoes. Li Xian quickly reached out to the porcelain bowl again, but saw the lotus seed soup boiled by his wife in the bowl, and pressed his hand on the desk, panting like a cow.

Wei Wushuang suddenly found that he seemed to have lost control of her husband's mentality, and she didn't dare to ask more. Slowly walked behind Li Xian and gently hugged the other party's waist.

Li Xian still felt his wife's tenderness and uneasiness through the iron armor. The anger on his face slowly extinguished again, and after a while, he raised his hand and patted the back of the other party's hand, and sighed softly, "Okay, it's none of your business." If I don't teach An Le a lesson, she will have to kill herself sooner or later! ”

"The concubine knows that you are for the sake of peace!" Wei Wushuang pressed her head to her husband's back, and her mouth responded like a cat. "It's a concubine, and she is too pampered by her."

"I don't blame you, she's not a child anymore, she knows what she's doing." Li Xian gently broke free of his wife's embrace, turned around, took the other party's hand, and added in a low voice, "I hope she knows how to converge, otherwise, alas, ......"

"Why don't you find her a husband and let her remarry sooner?!" Women, with a husband, naturally don't have the heart to cause trouble anymore! Wei Wushuang clearly knew in his heart that Princess An Le was definitely not innocent, so he hesitated for a moment and decisively used housework to distract Li Xian's attention.

"Marry whom? Wu Yanxiu? That's a bombastic straw bale! Li Xian really forgot to continue to be angry with Princess An Le, frowned, and responded disdainfully.

"As a royal son-in-law, what's wrong with a straw bale?" Wei Wushuang didn't agree with his opinion, smiled and shook his head gently, "An Le has a strong temperament, Wu Yanxiu has a little grass, and the two of them can get along well after marriage." Besides, with His Majesty here, can there be less glory and wealth for the two of them? The couple will not do anything in the future, just eat, drink and have fun, which is the right thing. Trying hard to be motivated is troublesome! ”

"Hmm-" Li Xian's eyes lit up and he nodded in a deep voice.

According to the standard of talent in his eyes, Wu Yanxiu must be 108,000 miles behind. But if you follow the standards of a royal son-in-law, Wu Yanxiu's shortcomings are nothing. Even, it may still be a plus!

"If the Holy One doesn't object, the concubines will start arranging their marriage?" Finally feeling her husband's mind clearly again, Wei Wushuang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a smile.

"You are the queen, this kind of thing should have been in charge of you!" Li Xian sighed and nodded with interest.

"Shichiro is the king of a country, you have to satisfy Shichiro first!" Wei Wushuang smiled and responded softly. Immediately, his eyes swept to the Panlong armor on Li Xian's body, and he praised with a smile, "Where did the armor on Qilang's body come from?" Bao'er was actually not wrong at all. Shichiro wears it, vaguely with the style of Taizong! ”

"The Armoryman made his own iron, so he made a suit of armor for me. There is also the kind of cavalry armor on the bookcase, and ten sets were also sent to my Qianniuwei for trial. There was a wave of anger that surged into Li Xian's heart again. Gritting his teeth, he whispered an answer.

"What kind of iron is iron?" Wei Wushuangmin [Tian Lai www.23txt.xyz] sharply sensed the existence of anger, and deliberately pretended to be stupid to distract Li Xian's attention.

"It is a kind of Persian or Tianzhu side of the steel, because the pattern is special, so since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it is called iron. The original value is similar to silver, when you build a weapon, you can use a little on the blade to make the weapon reborn! Li Xian's mentality, sure enough, was successfully "pulled" by her, patient, and explained in a low voice. "Forge armor, just like this one on my body, twenty steps away, the strong crossbow can't penetrate!"

"Huh?!" A look of surprise immediately appeared on Wei Wushuang's face. Quickly squatted down and congratulated Li Xian, "Congratulations to the saint concubine, and you have another treasure of the town!" In the future, my Tang Dynasty soldiers, all wearing iron armor, holding swords and swords, pointing to the flag, the enemy army is like a chicken, a tile and a dog! ”

"Humph!" When Li Xian heard this, he couldn't help but be angry again, "Just the day before yesterday, the person who figured out the secret method of refining iron almost died in the hands of our daughter. I'm wearing the armor he offered at the moment, but I'm wondering how to exonerate my daughter, I, alas—"

He really didn't have the face to say anything but sigh. If he wants to be a wise man, he shouldn't chill the heart of his loyal ministers. However, he is more reluctant to be his daughter than to be a Daoming gentleman.

"That Zhang Qian again?!" Wei Wushuang finally understood why Princess Anle's mention of the armor just now made Li Xian angry. If I had changed myself, I would have felt sorry at that time.

However, without waiting for Li Xian to count her daughter's faults again, she smiled and said in a low voice: "This person has a heart, and it is not in vain that Qilang has always been kind to him!" ”

"If anyone else can do the things he did, I won't be disadvantaged!" Li Xian knew what his wife wanted to express, thought about it, and responded suddenly. "Even, the reward will be greater and more important."

"It is true that he has meritorious service with the country, but even Emperor Taizong cannot be like Qilang, who has been promoted three times in just half a year. From Buyi, he was promoted all the way to secretary and young eunuch. Wei Wushuang refused to agree with her husband's opinion, and shook her head with a smile. If you don't believe me, can Shichiro give an example? ”

"This ......" In Li Xian's mind, names such as Su Dingfang, Ma Zhou, and Xue Rengui quickly appeared, but he had to admit that Empress Wei's words were right, Zhang Qian's promotion speed was indeed too fast. Unconsciously, he surpassed all the famous ministers since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

"Not really, Wushuang is right!" He wasn't a person who liked to pay his debts in the first place, and when he found out that he was wrong, he immediately nodded with a wry smile.

"Then after he was intercepted and assassinated, can he send someone to complain to Shichiro?" Empress Wei suddenly changed the topic and asked in a low voice.

"Nope. He handed over all the captured prisoners to Liuhe County, and then continued to Yangcheng on business. Li Xian felt more and more guilty in his heart, and responded with a sigh.

"That's right, he is really a person who knows gratitude, and it is in vain that Shichiro treats him as a national soldier!" Empress Wei laughed again, with a sense of relief all over her body.

Li Xian's mood was quickly infected by his wife. He also smiled and shook his head slightly, "He is a civil official, and when he encounters a risk, he will naturally report to Yousi, and it is appropriate not to complain to me." What can it have to do with knowing that you don't know how to be grateful? ”

"Judging from the concubine, he doesn't want to make it difficult for the saint!" Empress Wei suddenly changed her title and responded solemnly, "After all, he was in danger this time, and the captive deliberately slandered An Le." If he follows the wind and shadows, where will he put the saint? Therefore, he simply pretended to be an outsider, so that the Holy Lord could handle the matter at will. ”

"Is that so?" Li Xian was skeptical, but hoped that Zhang Qian could really think about himself so considerately.

"He's not really in any danger?" Empress Wei smiled, her eyes suddenly became a little cold, "If you bite our daughter and don't let go, you will be an ungrateful person." He is not worthy of the Holy Lord's justice for him. ”

"Hmm!" Li Xian nodded, feeling that although his wife's words were a little arrogant, they seemed to be very reasonable.

If Zhang Qian died, or was seriously injured, he should indeed avenge him. And Zhang Qian jumped to Yangcheng alive, but he had to deal with An Le, so he made a little fuss. Presumably, he won't feel at ease afterward.

Thinking about it from this point of view, Li Xian's heart immediately stopped feeling guilty as before. His hand touched the deliberately bulging and thickened left chest on the armor and nodded slightly.

"Holy Lord, the concubine forgot to tell you good news?" Wei Wushuang finally sorted out the hidden dangers for his daughter, and changed the topic with a smile.

"What's the good news?" Li Xian didn't want to continue wasting time on the same topic, so he immediately asked with a smile.

"Hui Fan is grateful for the grace of the saint's care, and is ready to offer 400,000 yuan to the saint to enrich the inner treasury! The money is ready, just wait for God's permission! Wei Wushuang's eyebrows fluttered, and he announced loudly. (Note: In the official history, Hui Fan was raided after failing because of his support for Princess Taiping, and there were hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash at home.) ）

The setting sun shone through the glass window. At this moment, she was sprinkled with pure golden light from head to toe.