The seventh day of the first month of the second year of the Tang Dynasty. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tai Chi Palace.

East Palace, in the Lizheng Palace.

When they heard the news that Li Zhijia had arrived at the gate of the East Palace, the attendants were panicked, but they were also surprised. After all, in such a situation, even a little bit of good news is enough to make them fragile and want to hold on.

However, Li Zhong, who had already removed the crown prince's clothes and sat in flat clothes, looked at their busyness, but couldn't help but want to laugh: How is it possible? Now that the matter has come to this, what room for redemption is there?

Let alone......

His eyes sank: besides, from the beginning, he had never wanted to redeem it. Therefore, when Li Zhi entered the temple, he was still sitting firmly on the mountain, unmoving.

Qinghe, who was beside Li Zhi, saw him like this, he couldn't help frowning and took a step forward, just about to say something, but was stopped by Li Zhi raising his hand.

"Stand down, all of you."

Li Zhi said calmly, and asked the courtiers to retreat for a while, leaving only the father and son in the palace.

Li Zhong sat on the steps, never greeted him, let alone looked at each other, just stared blankly at the ground in front of him.

Li Zhi stood with his hands in his hands, standing a few steps in front of him and lowering his gaze, looking down at the child. After a while, he suddenly spoke: "You have grown taller." ”

Li Zhong didn't seem to hear it, but soon sneered: "You've grown taller...... yes, it's getting taller. It's a pity that he can't be higher than his father. ”

"It's a good thing if it's not high." Li Zhi held his breath slightly, spit out, and instead looked up at the top of the hall: "At least when my father faced your imperial ancestor, he hoped more than once that he could never be higher than him, and he would never be able to see through what he was thinking and doing." ”

"And then be played with as a pawn for the rest of your life?" Li Zhong sneered.

Li Zhi said lightly: "It's not about being a chess piece, but completely losing the qualification to be a chess piece...... Zhong'er, do you think you're a pawn? ”

He shook his head, his eyes were slightly warm: "You are not, if your father is a pawn when you are a pawn, even if you are now the crown prince, you must be sitting firmly." ”

Li Zhong sneered: "There are also many kinds of chess pieces...... Maybe the chess piece that my father needs is the kind of chess piece that can be used for a while for your great cause? ”

Li Zhi shook his head: "What you said is not called a chess piece, it is called an abandoned pawn." You've never ...... Never a pawn. If there is any chess piece between you and me, it is the father, not you. ”

Li Zhi said this sentence calmly and indifferently, but it was full of power. Such a tone made Li Zhong look up and look at his father.

Such calmness, such indifference, and such sad eyes made Li Zhong's heart soften. Just thinking of his mother, he couldn't help but sneer again: "Father is a chess piece? So who is the chess master in this world? Could it be that the emperor wants to say that this is a big game of chess, and he is still following the emperor's chess method? ”

"Chess Master...... It's not your father, it's not your ancestor, it's the entire Tang Dynasty. I, the Son of Heaven of the Li family, are actually just countless chess pieces who were elected by the people and the people, in the name of the heavens, and by the reputation of the people, and fought for the world. From the very beginning, there was no such thing as an emperor in the world...... What should really be said is the emperor of the world. ”

Li Zhi's gaze gradually became complicated: "Because the real emperor's house is always destined to bear the ...... of all the resentments, suspicions, worries, worries, troubles, pains, uneasiness, and sorrow of all people in the whole world."

Looking at Li Zhong's somewhat puzzled gaze, Li Zhi smiled faintly: "If only in terms of people, I am afraid that the most terrible thing in this world is to be a human emperor and a monarch." The lord of the community. ”

He sighed lightly, slowly walked to Li Zhong's side, sat down, looked ahead, and said calmly: "Because in the entire Tang Dynasty, everything of the people and the people is pressed on you alone." Whether it's good or bad, true or false...... It's all on one person.

Alone, with a pair of shoulders and a pair of hands, you will carry the burden of the whole world...... The emperor is also a human being, and he also has seven emotions and six desires, love and hatred, greed, hatred, and resentment......

But for the sake of the people of the world, we must forcibly turn ourselves into a person who has no hatred, no ignorance, no hatred and no resentment, and will always guard the country and peace the world, and is close to God......

You say, in this world, with the emperor, who is the chess piece and who is the chess master? ”

Li Zhong opened his mouth, but he was speechless.

Li Zhi smiled faintly and shook his head: "You can't answer either...... After all, you are still a child, how could you ever think of such a thing? ”

Li Zhong was silent.

Li Zhi was silent for a while, and suddenly said lightly: "I was sorry for your mother back then. But...... Zhong'er, if you put all the misfortunes of your mother's life on me, is it a bit inappropriate? ”

Li Zhong turned his head and looked at him, his eyes were deeply painful: "Father can actually say this?" ”

"Why not?" Li Zhi turned his head and looked at Li Zhong with a deep gaze: "You only think that your father chose her to enter the palace back then, but she never had the affection she deserved, so you can't stand her...... That Zhong'er, have you ever thought about the pain of your father? ”

Li Zhong was stunned.

Li Zhi continued to say lightly: "There are some things, I think you also know, you don't need to say more...... Back then, in order to keep my most beloved woman, I had to agree to abandon the free life I had already achieved, and embark on the throne of the country, carrying the court and political opportunities that I hated the most, and even forcing myself to marry countless women I didn't love at all......

All this is just to be able to protect my most beloved woman and have no worries about her life......

Zhong'er, if it were you, how would you choose? ”

Li Zhong opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but he couldn't answer.

Li Zhi nodded: "Yes...... At the beginning, your mother had only two paths to choose, one was to be selected by me to enter the East Palace, serve as a concubine, and go to the ending she has set now. On the other hand, I can also choose her, and let her enter the main palace and become one of the countless palace ladies in your ancestor's court who are not allowed to marry until they are gray-haired, or they can be assigned to which prince and prince they are, and become a concubine who is not favored or even abused because of their origin...... What do you think she would choose if she had the chance to do it again? ”

Li Zhong was silent—he could only be silent. Because with his understanding of his mother, he knows that his mother's choice is still the former.

Li Zhi nodded and said: "Your mother is a good woman, so for the sake of your grandfather, she will definitely know that entering the East Palace and becoming the concubine of the East Palace is the best result for your grandfather, and it is also the most likely ending for her to have a peaceful life."

Just ......"

Li Zhi's eyes were gloomy: "What she didn't expect was that in this originally destined ending, she was moved and thought about it...... More with you. ”

Li Zhong bit his lower lip and was speechless for a while. Li Zhi closed his eyes, took a long breath, opened his eyes again after a while, looked at Li Zhong, and said calmly: "So you can hate me, you can resent me, and you can't even forgive me in your heart for the rest of your life." But...... You don't have any right to say that what I'm doing is wrong. For I have given her whatever I can give to your mother. ”

"Really? But when my mother suffered so many grievances, did my father really think about her? Did you take care of her? If not......"

"If it weren't for her, there would have been some grievances and pain, or it wouldn't have happened at all." Li Zhi interrupted Li Zhong's words of gritting his teeth, and said calmly: "You may think that I have the heart to clear this unkind and unrighteous name for myself. However, from Dali's point of view, what I should have done was done for her. It was she who forced me step by step to sit idly by. ”

Li Zhong was stunned, Li Zhi sighed, looked at him, hesitated for a while, and then said lightly: "Because, if it weren't for your mother to save your grandfather, she used her wrist on Wang Xiao and the others and betrayed your current mother, maybe you would ...... later."

Li Zhi sighed and said lightly: "Maybe she is good, I don't care, and even your mother herself doesn't have to suffer so much anymore." ”

Li Zhong was stunned and silent.

……

A moment later.

Taiji Palace, Lizheng Palace.

Mei Niang stood on the steps, looking at Li Zhi who was standing at the bottom of the steps, looking at the moon in the sky with his back to him, and after a while, Yanran smiled and said, "What are you looking at there?" ”

Li Zhi didn't look back, lowered his head and smiled: "The moon." ”

"The moon?"

"Hmm...... Just now, someone said something quite meaningful, he said......" Li Zhi paused, turned around, stood sideways with his hands, under the moonlight and snow, and smiled warmly at Mei Niang: "It is like the moon, and I can only appear after the sunset." ”

Mei Niang thought about it, but said with a smile: "Really? It's an interesting question...... I'm afraid that it may not be right! ”

Li Zhi raised his eyebrows and looked at Mei Niang: "What do you mean?" ”

"Since Pangu opened the world, in this sky, there has been the rotation of the sun and the moon, and the saying of day and night. But...... Whether there was night or day? Was the sun or the moon the first to appear on this earth...... But no one can tell? Why did Jiro think that the moon was destined to appear behind the sun? ”

Mei Niang walked slowly, walked to Li Zhi's side, held her waist, and asked with a smile.

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly a big smile suddenly appeared in the middle of the night, and he reached out to take her into his arms, and wanted to hug her tightly.

……

Nine days later.

Kaichao.

Tang Gaozong Li Zhi was the emperor to accept the above table, but he felt that the prince Li Zhong often cried to himself that his temperament was extremely weak, and he was also sick and restless, and it was difficult to bear the weight of the national prince.

The will is out, and the court is silent.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zhi made another announcement: At present, the position of the national reserve is empty, and it cannot be long, and after making the officials think about it, it is to discuss the new prince.

……

Afternoon.

Chang'an City.

In a red-sleeved Chu Pavilion in the West Market, in the innermost and most hidden small attic.

Several girls who are on the verge of being named with red cards are serving here, playing or singing, dancing or playing, each serving left and right. The people sitting on the top were Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu.

If the wine is not drunk, everyone is drunk, and if the color is not charming, everyone is obsessed with themselves. After a while, several people each had some wine, Li Yifu saw that Xu Jingzong had already begun to bury his head in the arms of the red-card dancer headed by him and eat tofu, knowing that once he started, he would definitely not be able to call back the gods, so he hurriedly said: "My lord, let's cut off those things first, and then ......."

Xu Jingzong was not confused, he looked up at Li Yifu, although he was a little unhappy, but he also understood that what he said was true, so he lazily kissed the dancer again, and then waved his sleeves and repelled a group of women, leaving only the two of them.

Li Yifu saw Xu Jingzong looking left and right, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, adults, the students have already secretly arranged it, and now the outside of the house is full of our own people." And it's secluded, but if there is a little sound, no one can hear it. ”

In fact, Xu Jingzong was also relieved that he was doing things, but it was inevitable that he would have to do something, so he nodded and said: "That's good, then, presumably you have already planned it?" ”

"It's a ...... It's just ......" Li Yifu looked at Xu Jingzong and said lightly with a smile: "It's just that the student has one thing, and he is a little hesitant......"

"What?"

"Let's ...... Just need to go to the table and say that the Lord is virtuous, and there is no need to say some good things on behalf of His Royal Highness? Li Yifu said with a smile.

"Of course. Nothing else has to be said. Because ......" Xu Jingzong smiled mysteriously, looked at him and said lightly: "Because whether it is King Yong or King Qi, someone will clean them up." As for King Xu, not to mention. So...... Let's just talk about the establishment of virtue...... That's it. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled.