Chapter 455: A Break (Part II)
Li Minchun always had a polite smile on his face when he spoke, but his eyes flickered because of the drooping pressure of his eyelids, low and tactful, such a look was naturally intentional by Li Minchun, but it seemed to be caused by being too tired to mobilize his muscles.
Li Minchun's expression Lan Ziyi is very familiar, this is loneliness, how many times Lan Ziyi spent a long night with such a look when he was alone and tired.
Lan Ziyi picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea, and at the same time, he kept looking at Li Minchun with his eyes, and waited until Li Minchun finished sighing before Lan Ziyi put down the tea bowl and asked:
"What does Your Highness say about this?"
Li Minchun glanced up at Lan Ziyi when he heard this, put away the lonely eyes just now, and said to Lan Ziyi with a smile:
"Wei Hou is so smart, naturally I don't need to say more, protons are protons, there is nothing to explain."
The more polite Li Minchun smiled, the more Lan Ziyi could feel the helplessness in his heart, such a smile was practiced and hung on his face as a mask to show others, and people who could smile like this must have experienced a lot of grievances.
Lan Ziyi thought about the wording, and then said safely, Li Minchun said:
"Your Highness, don't think like this, if Your Highness thinks that he is taking hostage in the capital, I am the same, not much better than Your Highness."
Li Minchun shook his head when he heard this:
"Different, different, Weihou is different from me. Daigong was a powerful general in the north, and my father, King Silla, was only a vassal of Taisho, and he has always been, and has never changed.
Wei Hou's entry into Beijing was valued and reused by the imperial court, and I entered Beijing only because I should have entered Beijing. “
Lan Ziyi said:
"I have seen a Silla tributary mission enter Beijing in the streets, when I went from the General's Mansion to the prefect of Pingcheng in the south, officials at all levels and various places prepared banquets to welcome the mission for days, and I did not see any disadvantage, did His Highness receive any disadvantage in the capital?"
Li Minchun shook his head and said:
"That's not it, Honglu Temple and even the adults in the capital treat me very politely, and I will try my best to meet any needs, just like I came to the capital just to eat and drink."
Lan Ziyi said:
"Your Highness, don't think like this, your lords don't dare to look at Your Highness like this."
Li Minchun nodded and said:
"I know, I know."
Lan Ziyi thought about it and said:
"With my Taisho title, the throne is already the highest, and the king of Silla is a very popular minister, one person is above ten thousand, and in the future, His Royal Highness will become a vassal king after inheriting the throne. In contrast, my father's position is only a duke, one level worse than His Royal Highness, and I am only a marquis, two levels worse than His Highness, so His Highness has a lot of advantages than me. “
Li Minchun smiled:
"Wei Hou is also a person who reads poetry and books, and it is already a very long story to build a wide seal, and now what is the use of the title of Taisho in addition to honor? At the level of acting duke, what is the significance of awarding a title? Although my father is a prince, I don't think he dares to offend the acting duke, I am now a duke, but do I dare to argue with the marquis of Wei? I don't dare to ask myself. “
After Li Minchun said this, Lan Ziyi couldn't find anything to answer him, and Li Minchun himself fell into silence and didn't speak for a long time.
The sun hung high, the sun shined brightly through the window, and the damp cold caused by the rain was dispelled, but the gloom in the house did not disappear, first the matter of Lan Ziyi Deer Park being sealed, and then Li Minchun's infinite emotion, the atmosphere in the house has always been very depressing.
Lan Ziyi and the father and son of the Qiu family returned their eyes and wanted to change the topic and continue to chat, or find an excuse to go back first, when Li Minchun suddenly spoke:
"Has the Marquis of Wei seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"
Lan Ziyi didn't react when he was suddenly asked, and subconsciously replied:
"I've seen it, the son is not talented, and he once had a relationship with the prince."
Li Minchun nodded, and said:
"Wei Hou knows that I was originally serving the prince in the East Palace."
Lan Ziyi had already reacted to this, and when he heard this, he just nodded as an answer.
Lee Min Chun went on to say:
"The prince is a man...... He was very gentle, and I only remembered him being kind when I was around the prince, and I never saw him get angry, and I never saw him reject others. “
Although Lan Ziyi heard this, although he was talking, his brows were furrowed, Li Minchun suddenly mentioned the crown prince, what did he want to say?
Li Minchun ignored Lan Ziyi and continued:
"Not long after I arrived at the East Palace, I saw many fathers-in-law with colored faces, and when I asked, I realized that many people were too low, and they usually couldn't eat enough. I didn't want to go, so I proposed to the prince at that time that the East Palace didn't need so many people, so it was better to send these fathers-in-law back to Taicheng, otherwise there was no need to add money, and add some food to these fathers-in-law, it wouldn't cost a few silver, at least don't let people starve anymore. “
When Lan Ziyi heard this, he asked:
"Although I haven't entered the palace many times, I have also seen that the young and large ministers in the palace are all brightly dressed, and I haven't seen any of them show their faces."
After Lan Ziyi asked this, before Li Minchun could speak, Qiu Wenruo said:
"All the fathers-in-law are close ministers of the emperor, if they don't dress well, it will hurt the emperor's face, so the clothes issued to them are all good, but the matter of eating, inside and outside my Dazheng Taicheng, is not in the compilation, the number of fathers-in-law is afraid of no less than 50,000 people, and there are only a few people who can mix with the fish father-in-law's share, those who eat and drink well are close to the emperor, those who are far away from the miscellaneous and starving to death, and the situation in the East Palace is afraid that it will not be much better than Taicheng."
Lan Ziyi was taken aback when he heard this, he had always thought that Father-in-law Yu was the norm for his ministers. After thinking about it, Lan Ziyi said:
"Then according to this, those little fathers-in-law who come to me every time, I give a silver tael every time......"
Qiu Wenruo said:
"Ten taels is enough for them for three years."
Lan Ziyi lowered his tongue when he heard this, and he didn't say more, he really didn't expect that his shot would be so generous. However, this is not the place to discuss this kind of thing when he goes up and down, so Lan Ziyi turned around and asked Li Minchun:
"Since His Royal Highness proposed to the prince, what should the prince do?"
Li Minchun sighed softly when he heard this, and then said leisurely:
"When the prince heard my suggestion, he immediately agreed, and the prince was very happy at the time, and he praised me for being observant and kind-hearted."
Lan Ziyi nodded and said:
"So that His Royal Highness's advice has worked?"
Li Minchun shook his head with a smile and said:
"That's what I thought at the time, so I was happy for a few days. It wasn't until the happy days had passed that I suddenly found out what the East Palace was like before, and what it was like later, those fathers-in-law with yellow faces and thin muscles were still thin and yellow-skinned, and their conditions had not improved at all. “
Hearing this, Lan Ziyi turned his face and glanced at the Qiu family's father and son, Qiu Wenruo sighed and shook his head, and Qiu Xiaozhi sneered.
Lan Ziyi asked Li Minchun:
"Didn't His Highness ask the prince why?"
Li Minchun pursed his lips and teased:
"Of course I asked, but I can't even see the face of the prince, and I will never see him again."
Lan Ziyi asked:
"What do you mean by that?"
Li Minchun sighed and said:
"When I went to see the prince again, I was stopped by the prince's attendants and a few teachers, who told me that His Royal Highness the prince should learn the way of the sage, instead of focusing on trivial matters, and that the affairs of the palace would naturally be done by the officials, and the prince's concern about this kind of thing was caused by the end. As for me, I don't want to distract the prince anymore. “
Lan Ziyi squinted his eyes and listened to what Li Minchun said, and then he asked:
"In this way, His Royal Highness and the crown prince ...... in the next life"
Li Minchun nodded and said:
"I haven't seen the prince since, and after a few years I was assigned to serve the king. As for King De, he is talented and energetic, and I feel that I am not as good as King De, so I can't accompany him to read. “
Peach Chase Tiger heard the words and said:
"His Royal Highness the Prince of the World summed it up really incisively and gorgeously."
Li Minchun smiled bitterly:
"I just saw it through. I also understood that I was an expensive vase from a foreign country, and it was useless to put it on the table to show the identity of the owner. “
Lan Ziyi looked at Li Minchun, whose eyes were lonely again, and asked:
"So Your Highness is depressed."
Li Minchun said:
"I'm in my nature, there's nothing so."
Lan Ziyi nodded when he heard this.