Chapter 232: The Alliance of Mother and Son

Chapter 232: The Alliance of Mother and Son

The wind blows on the face, the autumn water sends coolness, and the middle end of the cool hall is cold and bleak.

Empress Wu sat alone on the soft couch, holding a letter tightly in her hand, her face was sometimes gloomy and sometimes gloomy, which could be described as changing rapidly. A few days ago, the henchmen she secretly sent out finally met Li Yifu, and the favored minister she loved so much in the past sent someone to deliver such a letter that made her unbelievable.

She took a deep breath, slowly stood up and took a few steps forward, and the wide floor-length skirt immediately made a rustling sound. She gently rubbed her lower abdomen, which still didn't have any fat, and couldn't help but show a gentle smile when she thought of the life that was conceived inside. But in an instant, the smile disappeared without a trace.

She already has four sons, and now she is most looking forward to giving birth to a daughter. Only then can she make up for the daughter she lost in the past. However, why did she know such a fact at this time!

"!"

A familiar voice came to her ears. Empress Wu looked back and saw that it was Ah Qian who was curtsifiing in front of her, so she put away the expression on her face and lazily returned to the couch and sat down - at this time, either her supreme husband ordered someone to send some tonic medicine, or which palace person came to visit, and nothing more.

"His Royal Highness King Pei has come to see you!"

Looking for an ordinary sentence, but the Empress Wu's heart was shocked, and she immediately nodded freely, but before Ah Qian withdrew, she gave an additional order, saying that after Li Xian came, she temporarily transferred the inner servants of the palace who were waiting in the outer hall, and she had something important to tell Li Xian. Such a thing had happened before, so Ah Qian agreed without the slightest suspicion.

Having just slipped out of Penglai Palace, Li Xian felt quite frightened - what bastard said that his father was so foolish! He made enough gestures and said all the high-sounding words. This made Dad believe that his sudden outburst was entirely for the sake of the two aunts and grandmothers who became monks.

Speaking of which, his prince brother is easier to deal with than his father, and it was solved in a few words. Because of this, Li Hong, who was obviously on the way, returned to the East Palace first. Only he came to this Hanliang Hall to visit the Empress Wu.

The moment he stepped into the inner sanctum, the door behind him suddenly closed, and then he did. He was keenly aware of an unusual scent. Empress Wu's ever-changing eyes had been experienced many times as early as when he was still an infant, but this time, I saw from a distance that the eyes were indifferent but seemed to be full of multiple emotions. He felt a palpitation in his heart for no reason, and a strange thought suddenly came to his mind.

Could it be that he is in the net today?

Because she was pregnant and didn't see any outsiders, she was dressed quite lazily on this day. Under the seven-fold skirt with purple and gold bamboo and phoenix patterns on the ground, a pair of jade feet wearing brocade slippers were exposed, and the upper body was draped with a bright red silk shirt over the topless jade silver mud undergarment, and only a lazy makeup bun was gently pulled on the head. However, it is such a dress, which gives people a sharp edge of a sword out of the sheath.

"Queen Mother!"

Li Xiancai went up and asked. Then he saw a white hand stretched out in front of him, holding a letter on it. He looked up in confusion, and saw that the bright eyes of the old mother above were staring at him motionlessly, and there was a little indescribable cold light in them.

"Let's take a look."

Hearing this, Li Xian took the letter. When he took out the letterhead and looked up, he gasped. Originally. This turned out to be written by Li Yifu! He didn't have time to sigh at his mother's supernatural powers, so he read the letter straight to the end of the day. He couldn't help but sweat a little in his vest.

Although it was all speculation, although there was no evidence, Li Yifu was stunned and attributed all the things about the return to Li Hong and Li Xian brothers - so, the secret letter written to Liu Renyuan for the first time was stolen, Wang Hanchao and Han Quanquan were the first, Yang Xingying was impeached, and Liu Xiangdao and Li Ji were tried...... Everything has become the design of the two brothers, and the purpose is to eradicate Li Yifu, the right-hand man of the martial queen. The words in the letter are sincere and bitter, if you don't know the local people, you still think what kind of lonely and loyal minister you are.

"Hahahaha!"

Obviously, he should be nervous and scared, but after reading the whole article, he broke out in a cold sweat, and Li Xian suddenly laughed. After laughing, he returned the letter to Empress Wu with a calm demeanor, and then shrugged his shoulders and said: "When Li Yifu Changliu was demoted, my fifth brother and I happened to go out and enjoyed a scene in the West Market. I thought that I would not see such a funny thing for the second time in this life and this life, but I didn't expect to experience it again today. ”

Empress Wu gave birth to a total of four sons, the eldest son Li Hong, as the crown prince, lived in the East Palace at the age of eight, although the etiquette was thoughtful, but the relationship between mother and son was inevitably estranged; The third son, Li Xian, is playful and active, and he doesn't care about everything, even if he likes it, he is naturally limited; The youngest son Li Dan is still in infancy, and that love comes from the mother and son, and he can't say for sure.

Only Li Xian has been coaxing people since she was a child, and she often tries her best not to say anything about the gifts for the New Year's holidays, and often gives her unexpected surprises, even the palace people around her have always praised her. Literary and elegant, bold and loving martial arts, friendly brothers, willful and arrogant...... God knows how she gave birth to such an eccentric son.

So, at this moment, listening to the laughing and indifferent words, she didn't feel angry, but only slightly annoyed—all

For this sake, this lazy guy still uses this set to cover up?

"You dare to say that nothing in this letter is true?"

"Li Yifu said that I conspired with my fifth brother, and most of it is true."

In the imagination of the Empress Wu, Li Xian is naturally clever and can definitely say that the dead are alive, and most of them will deny the matter cleanly, but unexpectedly, this guy readily admits it. However, before she could question, Li Xian immediately added another word.

"It's true that Han Quan caught that snitch, but if I hadn't instigated the fifth brother and given him a hundred guts, he wouldn't have dared to sue. As for the matter of the father's summoning of Li Yifu to remind him, it was Shangguan Yi and Shangguan Xianggong to his father in advance, at that time, the father had the intention of calming the people, and summoned Li Yifu to remind him, who knew that he would be robbed of the white instead, this deception of the king was reckless, Li Yifu was probably not wronged, right? As for the final Yang Xingying complaint. That's because he is seeking fame and fortune, but he really has nothing to do with me and my fifth brother. ”

Seeing that Empress Wu's face was getting more and more gloomy, Li Xian simply stepped forward and said aggressively: "The queen mother knows." Li Yifu is proud of his own pampering, and how many angry things have he done outside? It doesn't matter if he doesn't have a reputation, but. That ruined land is the queen mother's reputation! His ability to promote the prime minister is valued by the queen mother, so his accumulation is innumerable. He forced officials to death, his arrogance, his abuse of people's power, and all of them were recorded in the account of the queen mother. ”

"My father is not in good health, and my mother and offspring have not made any mistakes for many years in order to deal with government affairs, but because of the rat poop of Li Yifu, a pot of soup has been ruined! But this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Li Yifu has an unforgivable crime. That is the separation of the queen mother and the crown prince, which I will never tolerate! He is not here, and the queen mother can use Xu Xianggong to take charge of the book, but he is here, and sooner or later one day it will cause a great change in the officials! ”

Seeing the martial queen, she was shocked. Li Xian finally knew that he had grasped an important key. At this time, it is unnecessary to continue to talk eloquently, and it will be counterproductive to say too much. Nevertheless. He didn't believe that these words could completely impress his fierce mother, mother and son, for many years, he could be regarded as having seven points for the temper of the martial queen, but he still hasn't been able to understand the remaining three points.

After a long time, Empress Wu finally sighed half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Okay, you virtuous son, you have been well hidden all these years, don't talk about me, the queen mother, even your father and emperor may have mistaken you!" ”

showed most of the hole cards, Li Xian was indeed forced - throughout the ages, there was a queen who abolished his own prince and still sat in the back seat; But there is absolutely no queen mother who has been deposed, but the prince who sits on the throne of the prince. In other words, if Empress Wu is not protected, whether he is deposed or killed, he, Li Hong and his two younger brothers will definitely be unlucky, and the ending will not be better than that of the abolished prince Li Zhong.

At the moment, there is only one opportunity he can take advantage of, although the power desire of the Empress Wu is strong, it is not strong enough to defy heaven and earth, and there is still a way to use it. In other words, he just had to put down what he needed to do now.

Therefore, in the face of this joke that seemed to be true and false, he leaned forward with a smile: "Queen Mother, you should know my temper, I am arrogant and willful, not the kind of person who does big things. But I can't do big things, but I can help with small things. Don't you feel that Li Yifu is inconvenienced? As long as you are willing to work hard, how many people like this are there? As the saying goes, a scholar dies for a confidant, and there is a virtuous queen like the queen mother, among those young but unpromising scholars, are there still few who are willing to serve? ”

"It's the fifth brother of the crown prince, I also mentioned it to him, don't think that Zai Fu is all upright and gentlemanly, and you should think about everything yourself. The love between mother and son is deep, is it better for outsiders to be pampering than mother and son? ”

This last sentence suddenly became the last straw on the scale, and suddenly made Empress Wu's calculations lean in another direction - although Li Yifu is easy to use, it is a double-edged sword, although she used it to liquidate her political enemies, but she also almost cut herself. If you can recruit a group of young and better courtiers as Li Xian said, the effect is indeed far better than getting Li Yifu back. After all, the latter is likely to anger her supreme husband.

The question is, should she believe this kid's nonsense?

"Queen Mother, why don't you believe me?" Li Xian shrugged his shoulders with a grin, with an extremely innocent expression on his face, "Li Yifu is an outsider, and you have warned him many times, but he didn't listen, obviously arrogant enough to have a different heart." Alas, Hengzhu Helan has already become a monk and entered the Tao, if you really don't believe it, I will simply become a Taoist priest! ”

The solemn atmosphere in the hall was washed away by Li Xian's words, and the Empress Wu stared at Li Xian for a long time, and finally smiled, and made a decision in her heart. Xu Jingzong is already old, she has no other person to trust, if she really doesn't believe Li Xian, in the future, the prince will instigate others, what she has to do is really difficult.

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