The other side.

Li Zhi, who was in a good mood, was walking quickly to the front hall, but suddenly heard a somewhat familiar "Your Majesty".

He frowned and turned around, but was surprised to see a woman with a declining face appear behind him.

He was stunned for a while, and then his eyes widened and he looked at the person in front of him in surprise:

"You...... You are ......"

"It seems that His Majesty still remembers the concubine."

The visitor smiled slightly, holding a child who was learning to speak in his arms, and the child seemed to be very happy when he saw Li Zhi, and opened his hand to hug him. And such an action startled Li Zhi to take a step back slightly.

But he soon realized how unseemly his behavior was. So he made up his mind and stood firm, and then he looked at the woman with a straight face:

"I thought you shouldn't be here anymore."

"Why shouldn't it?"

The woman smiled faintly, looking at Li Zhi's expression, gentle and calm: "Because Your Majesty thinks that the concubine should be the one who is afraid of the eyes and ears of the world?" ”

Li Zhi pursed his lips, pressed the slight uneasiness in his heart, and waved his hand to stop the shocked Qinghe behind him from seeing this woman, and then he made peace with her:

"I never felt that Cui ......" he paused before saying lightly: "I never think that Mrs. Liu should avoid anyone. ”

"Yes, just like Your Majesty never has to avoid concubines, and the queen doesn't have to avoid her grandson." The person who came - it was Li Zhi's former concubine, and now Liu Hongye's wife Cui Shi, smiled politely at Li Zhi.

Li Zhi only felt his whole body tremble, and only after a long time did he say lightly:

"If you can come in here, there must be someone to help."

"If Your Majesty wants to blame those concubines, I'm afraid it will be difficult. After all, dead people can't speak anymore. Cui Shi smiled, his face was very flat:

"Actually, Your Majesty doesn't need to be so alarmed, because the concubine didn't come this time to ask about the past. On the contrary......" Cui Shi stretched out his still white fingers, stroked the youngest son in his arms, and said with a smile: "The concubine came today, firstly, to thank Your Majesty for fulfilling the relationship between the concubine and her grandson, and secondly, to repay Your Majesty's gift." ”

Li Zhi only felt that he was unbelievable: "You said that in order to repay this gift......

"Isn't it? If it weren't for His Majesty's gift, the concubine would never have met Liu Lang, let alone such a lovely child...... It's ...... to have such a life."

Cui's gaze became gentle, and the demeanor of the young son in his arms was even more moving.

In a trance, Li Zhi suddenly had a thought:

The once luxurious Cui Guifei......

That Cui Guifei, who used to love satin......

It seems that it has completely disappeared from this world.

Only a vague back that no one can think of and cannot recall is left in the hearts of everyone in this palace.

After being stunned for a while, Li Zhi came back to his senses, looked at Cui's gaze, and no longer had many precautions, but instead took some understanding: "It seems that he ...... Also coming. ”

Cui Shi pursed his lips and was happy:

"It seems that Your Majesty still can't mind. Sure enough, the matter involved Niangniang, Your Majesty's heart, and she will never be able to regain her calm. ”

Li Zhi's face turned slightly red, and he lowered his head and smiled shyly.

Such Li Zhi, in the eyes of the people around him, seems to have returned to the little Jin King again......

The young man who was on the shore of Jingchu Lake, holding lotus jade.

For a moment, Qinghe's eyes moistened slightly-

How long has it been?

How long has it been since I've seen Li Zhi smile like this?

Xu is Li Zhi's smile instantly pulled the time back to the young man, so for a while, the entire Royal Highness was quiet, and everyone was nostalgic......

I miss my high-spirited self back then, and I miss everything that was high-spirited back then.

But only for a moment.

The first to come back to his senses was Qinghe, who stepped forward and saluted Cui's family, and said softly: "If there is anything wrong with Mrs. Liu, please report it to Your Majesty." In a few moments, the ministers will be in the court. At that time, if Mrs. Liu is seen by someone else......"

"Thank you, Lord Qing, for reminding me." Cui Shi saluted with a smile, and then said to Li Zhizhengse: "Your Majesty's expectation is not bad, at this time, the grandson should be in the Niangniang Palace, and tell the cause and effect of the whole thing to Niangniang." However, please also ask Your Majesty and Niang Niang to take such a big sin...... If it weren't for the urgency of the situation, the grandson wouldn't be like that. ”

Li Zhi nodded lightly: "If he comes to see me directly, I will not see me." So it doesn't hurt...... It seems that someone found you and asked you to push everything back then on Mei Niang. ”

Although before she came, Cui had already thought that this man who had been her pillow person would know the purpose of her coming here to see him, she still did not expect that he would immediately guess why she came.

And what she didn't expect was that Li Zhi's next sentence was to ask the right center:

"Shangjin has this heart and such ability, but he doesn't have the ability to approach you. So it can only be vegetarian......

After all, his mother was also the fourth concubine back then. ”

Cui Shi opened his mouth for a while before shaking his head and sighing:

"It seems that the grandson and the concubine are too worried - His Royal Highness King Xun is not His Majesty's opponent at all."

"Knowing the son is more than the father. No matter how you say it, I have been holding him since I was a child, and he has some ability, and I still know how much I know. Li Zhi snorted, his expression getting colder:

"It's just that his ability is really wrong."

Cui Shi is now Mrs. Liu, and she really doesn't want to get too involved in these rights and wrongs today - although not long after she met Liu Hongye, she immediately figured out Li Zhi's scheming and immediately understood Li Zhi's intentions. But instead of resentment, she was full of gratitude.

Yes, full of gratitude.

Although Li Zhi treats her like this, he is indeed ruthless, but on the other hand, ruthlessness is not ruthless? With her heart, if she was forced to stay in the palace at that time, she was only afraid of the final result, and she would only have a desolate life, and she might even be used by others, and she might even be poisoned......

In any case, it was not a good ending.

And Li Zhi arranged it like this, went out of the palace, met the man he was destined to meet, fell in love with him, went on a blind date, accompanied each other, stayed together, gave birth to a son, spent a lifetime together, and grew old together......

Such a life may not be glamorous in the eyes of her mother's family, but it is a rare happiness and stability.

She loves this stability, and she loves the man who treats her like a jewel, and since she met her, she has never thought about the past.

So she has to thank Li Zhi for his painstaking calculations, and she also wants to thank Li Zhi for tolerating her husband in every way, and thank Li Zhi for choosing Wu Zhao after all, cutting off her husband's last bit of obsession with the past, and even more thanking ......

Thanks to this man who was once her husband, he can bear the prosperity and stability of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Otherwise, she would not have today's happiness, let alone today's satisfaction.

Therefore, although she was indeed calculated by him, she did not resent him as his two sons expected. Because those pasts are not what she wants.

On the contrary, it was all she desperately wanted to escape.