Moments later, King Xu's residence. Shang Bang Yu hurriedly rushed in, saluted Li Xiao, who was leaning on the couch and reading the scroll, and then said: "Your Highness, Niangniang sent someone to take an old housekeeper named Wu Defu inside. ”

When Li Xiao heard this, he put down the book in his hand and pondered for a moment before saying, "Who else knows about this matter?" ”

"The Lord and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince don't need to say it. I'm afraid that His Royal Highness King Lu also knows. But not so with others. ”

"That's good......" Li Xiao thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "What kind of person is this martial arts butler in the Ying Guo Mansion?" ”

"He said that he had been in the house for many years. The old housekeeper before was his father Wu Xiang, who was the brother of Ying Guogong, whose real name was Wu Yingxiang, and because Emperor Gaozu gave the name Ying Guogong, it was changed to Wu Xiang. ”

In this way, he has a deep relationship with Ying Guogong. It's okay, the queen mother looked for him, most likely because she held him to watch the Wu brothers closely. ”

"Yes, this Lord has only arrived in Bingzhou, and the two brothers Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang are vying to see the Lord, it's really ...... It's as if he's forgotten all the things in the old days. ”

"People are like this, not to mention that in their hearts, most of them think that the queen mother is still the little girl who let them slander and bully at home."

"If they really think like that, then they really don't have a good life."

"yes...... Don't mention anything else, just say that the father won't give them too much good fruit to eat, let them go, as long as they don't make anything embarrassing for the queen mother, the king will ignore it. But speaking of which, the virtue of the Duke of the Kingdom can teach a strange woman like the queen mother, but how can the heir be so unbearable? ”

"It's helpless, right? After all, these two brothers followed their mother Xiangli in their early years, and they didn't have much to be taught by Guogong. As for the later Mrs. Helan, she was also untaught. It seems that the only people who have been personally trained by Ying Guogong are the current queen mother and the early death of Mrs. Guo. Everyone can see the queen's mother, and as for Mrs. Guo, she is a good girl praised by everyone. ”

"No wonder...... Otherwise, with Ying Guogong's mind and knowledge, he can train the mother of a country, but teach such two short-sighted sons, which is really incomprehensible. ”

"Speaking of which Ying Guogong is so open-minded, I heard that he has made a lot of contributions to my Tang Dynasty, but in the end he had to be finally named the Duke of Guo...... It's really weird. Ying Guogong was originally a former Chaoying Yang Mansion five-product team, right? Because of his huge wealth and friendship with Emperor Gaozu, it was when Emperor Gaozu hesitated that he and the first emperor actively advised Emperor Gaozu to start an incident, and contributed more funds to the first emperor.

First, there is the subsidy of military salaries, seeking to help the work of starting a career, and then there is the virtue of good politics and guarding. Therefore, it has a reputation for being incorruptible and thrifty. Originally, such a person with both ability and integrity should be reused. It's just that I heard that because of his humble background, and he has always been criticized by his wife Yang, they all think that his official rank is obtained by money or with the help of his wife's power, so naturally it is not easy to fight for anything. ”

"Is it not good to fight for, or is it not good to fight?"

"What does Your Highness mean is that Ying Guogong is not unable to fight but does not like to fight?"

"Not everyone in this world loves power and power, and regards power as life, just look at today's queen mother. Speaking of which, she is the queen of a country, right? In this Tang Dynasty, all the countries in the sea, except for her father, she is the only one who holds great power? But she didn't do anything inappropriate except to drive out the women in her father's palace who only knew the longs and weaknesses of the town.

Watching the woman knows the father's virtue. This Ying Guogong should be a big material. It's just that he has been squeezed out by those pretentious clan officials, and he has no intention of competing for fame and profit, so he is content with his position and willing to do his job. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiao couldn't help but sneer: "Really, I don't know what those clan officials have to be proud of, it's just a surname and a skin." ”

Shang Bang looked at him, opened his mouth, but said nothing.

Li Xiao understood what he meant, and nodded: "You want to say that this king is also a clan, right?" ”

With a laugh, he put down the scroll and sighed:

"That's right, this king is also the queen of the clan.

But what about after the clan?

What did the Zheng family do after the death of the Queen Mother?

There is not a single hint of introspection, or even caution. On the contrary, he was in a hurry to send another Zheng girl to the palace, and he wanted to take advantage of the wind in the emperor's ears to climb up again.

Later, the former emperor Concubine Zheng who was sent in had an accident again, how did they react?

I don't think about my own behavior, but I only know how to resent others-

Externally, when people complained, they complained that they were framed by the mother of a young talented person at that time, and internally, they hated the incompetence of the female relatives in their own clan......"

Li Xiao said as he spoke, his expression getting colder:

"This king originally thought that everything was really as they said, the death of the mother concubine was just the old road of the palace, and the father and the queen mother were really just a pair of cold-blooded and ruthless faint queens.

It wasn't until that day that they brought Shuhua to the king that the king knew that all they had planned in their hearts was their own glory and wealth. And it wasn't until that day that the queen mother said to the king that if she felt sorry for Shuhua, she would be rescued from those people, and the king knew that the one who really had good thoughts was the queen mother who was denounced by them as the poisonous woman of the demon queen.

And they never cared about the mood and fate of these people who were used by them as pawns......

No,"

Li Xiao shook his head, his face full of sadness:

"They still care. At least for the ten or twenty years that these people can still be used, they still care a lot......"

Shang Wanji hung his head silently.

The Shuhua that Li Xiao is talking about is the Zheng family, Princess Xu, who is the youngest daughter of the Zheng family, Li Xiao's biological mother.

Shang Bang Ji also knew as well as Li Xiao that it was precisely because Li Zhi refused to admit anyone except Empress Wu Zhao into the palace, and because the crown prince Li Hong was too young to accept a concubine.

That's why the Zheng family had nothing to do, so they sent this little girl who was only eleven or twelve years old into Li Xiao's mansion to be a nominal princess-

What they want is not really to Zheng Shuhua and Li Xiao grow old together, what they want is that one day Li Xiao can be promoted to the throne, and Zheng Shuhua can get another emblem for the Zheng family.

So Li Xiao felt pity and distress for this smart, kind-hearted and gentle little cousin.

Zheng Shuhua's appearance when she entered the mansion, they still remember it vividly-

The small body, wrapped in a completely ill-fitting palace dress, and the huge and gorgeous beaded hairpin tree pressed on the top of her little head, even their master and slave were worried about her, worried that her neck would not be able to bear the silver and gold crown and break off in the next second.

Shang Bang sighed, and there seemed to be an abnormal appearance of Li Xiao when he married Zheng Shuhua in front of him:

"That's why Your Highness, you tore the crown of the princess in front of them and gave her a relief, didn't you?"

Li Xiao snorted and looked back at him, as if a layer of mist rose from the hot spring on a spring night in his eyes:

"She's too young to take on any of this. The king did not like to see her distressed by this. ”

"But Your Highness, you have also torn off all the people she may rely on in the second half of her life......"

"Since she is the princess of this king, she will take off with those people.

What's more, if the king of Japan is gone, there is still the father and the queen mother, and the brother Hong, the virtuous brother, and you, she will live well. ”

Li Xiaoxiao smiled:

"Besides, this king's body is weak, but haven't you heard that people who are too sick don't live a short life?"

Shang Wanyu looked at him for a while, and suddenly smiled:

"Your Royal Highness, everyone says that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the one who looks most like the Lord, and His Royal Highness the King Liang who is most like the Lord in temperament. But according to the minister, don't talk about the appearance, the most similar temperament to the Lord should be Your Highness. ”

Li Xiao was stunned, and immediately shook his head: "You are wrong, not to mention that the person who is most like his father is not this king or Hongdi, let alone Brother Liang, but a virtuous brother." In terms of appearance, Brother Hong is not like his father. It should be said that his appearance and temperament are most like the emperor's grandmother. ”

He looked up into the distance:

"That's why this king wants ...... the most One day, that crown will be worn on his black hair. ”