December 28 of the sixth year of Yonghui of the Tang Dynasty. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tai Chi Palace.

Today, the palace is full of excitement and jubilation, a magnificent scene.

There is only one place, but it is an exception.

In fact, this place has not been bustling for several days...... I don't know when it started, this should have been the most lively place in the Taiji Palace, but it was no longer lively......

In the midst of the ice and snow, Mei Niang was dressed in fiery red, standing under the stairs that were swept away without a piece of snow, looking at the stairs, the plaque with three big characters hanging on the big Lizheng Hall, stunned for a long time.

Unexpectedly, she suddenly remembered that she had been extremely eager to be able to walk here, walked to the vermilion circle chair in front of the gold-framed banner with Taizong's handwriting, and gently bowed down, and sat alone in the chair with the same as him, looking at the young man who was obsessed with the picture scroll, sitting side by side, talking on his knees, and having fun.

Yes...... What she couldn't tell him back then can tell him now, but ...... She was so desperate to let him know her thoughts, but she was already like yesterday, and she no longer felt like this life.

She closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she was calm again, and no emotions were brought in.

Then, he opened his eyes, looked ahead, and said softly, "Let's go." ”

took two steps, but noticed that Ryan beside him did not react, and was stunned for a moment, and turned his head to look at him.

Ryan looked at Mei Niang's gaze and hesitated for a moment before he said lightly: "Niangniang, do you really want to see His Royal Highness the Prince?" ”

Mei Niang lowered her eyes: "I will see this sooner or later." ”

Ryan looked at her for a while before he said carefully, "Niangniang, there is something that Ryan has never told you...... Nowadays......"

"I didn't say it at the beginning, and I don't have to say it now." Mei Niang said lightly, and blocked all the words that Ruian wanted to say, and also made him completely understand one thing: perhaps, Mei Niang knew more things and perceived more than he thought.

So no longer hesitate to declare the driver.

……

In the main hall of Li.

On the main seat.

When Li Zhong heard the news of his attendants, he didn't believe it at first: "Who do you say is coming?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, it's the queen, the queen's mother......"

"Nonsense! That woman is long dead, where will she come?! You don't see each other in the daytime......" Li Zhong said this, and suddenly stopped.

Suddenly, his eyes widened, he blinked, the pen in his hand fell on the paper, and the ink smeared: "Emperor...... Empress...... Empress? She ......"

The attendant nodded, his eyes filled with excitement and horror: "Yes...... It's the Queen's Mother. ”

Li Zhong sat dumbfounded, looking at the blank gaze in front of him, and suddenly jumped up and shouted after a while: "Someone!" Come! Change! Incense! Come! ”

His voice was so sharp that it changed its tone a little.

……

A moment later.

The woman in red, standing in the main hall, facing the direction of the palace gate, heard a rush of footsteps, and a long voice: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to—"

She didn't look back, because now she has no need, let alone a reason to turn back. Because now she is Li Zhi's queen, the mother of the Tang Dynasty, and the rightful stepmother of this child. So......

She won't give anything she shouldn't give. Whether it's a smile, or a look, or even a ...... It's a faint look back. Because she knows too well that even a gaze at this moment will produce a different kind of young man's mind.

She is Li Zhi's wife and Li Zhi's woman. She didn't have that kind of mind, and she didn't have that kind of time, to provoke more men. For her, having Li Zhi alone is enough for her life. No matter how much it is, it is tasteless.

What's more, she came here today to make ends with this child......

Thinking of this, she straightened the back of her neck a little more, and her eyes became more awe-inspiring.

"Zhong'er has seen it...... Queen mother...... Mother......

Li Zhong stood behind her and sang the praises of Jianyi with difficulty.

Mei Niang nodded without replying, and then slowly spoke, her voice was as light as clear water, and she was cold without wind: "The emperor is exempt." ”

It was just four words, but it was like a knife, stabbing Li Zhongxin fiercely, making him shrink for a while before he slowly got up. Hanging his head and hands, he stood in place, but he didn't even have the courage to look up at her, he could only hang his head, and his heart seemed to be extremely happy, and it seemed to be desperate.

Ryan saluted and saw the driver, then he raised his eyes to look at Mei Niang and lowered his gaze.

Mei Niang turned around, but when she saw Li Zhong, she was stunned: there was no other reason, his snow-blue embroidered gold clothes were too similar to Li Zhi's favorite set of robes back then. couldn't help but provoke her to be in a trance.

But only for a moment. Soon, she calmed down and said lightly: "Why is the emperor dressed so plainly?" As the crown prince's East Palace, wearing Zhu Pijin is the right thing. ”

Li Zhong lowered his head and responded. However, the attendants around him couldn't stand it, so he couldn't help but take a step forward and said lightly: "The little minister is brave, dare to ask the queen's mother......"

said that he was brave, but this young child still looked at Mei Niang looking at him, and acquiesced to him before he spoke: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has always admired His Majesty, and he is proud of serving His Majesty everywhere in the story. This snow blue embroidered gold plain robe is also His Majesty's favorite shirt when he was the prince, His Royal Highness thought that this move could show His Majesty's frugal style, so he followed suit. ”

When Mei Niang heard this, she turned her head to look at Li Zhong, but said lightly: "It's okay to follow thrift, after all, it's a good idea, as a prince, it should be so." But the prince, as the saying goes, is too good......

You didn't think about what kind of mood and thoughts your father was when he was wearing a snow-green embroidered gold robe...... It's really inappropriate to just imitate things in physiognomy like this. ”

Li Zhong froze. Listening to her continue: "When your father ascended the throne as the crown prince, the reason why he wore this plain robe embroidered with snow blue and gold was because that dress was made by your imperial grandmother, Empress Wende. When Empress Wende wende's mother went, your father was only eight or nine years old. However, the affectionate Empress Wende, your imperial grandmother, was sick before she died, and she also made twelve robes for your father...... With such thoughts, how can you give up your father? ”

As soon as these words came out, in the entire main hall of the Lizheng Palace, only Ryan and Mei Niang's demeanor was calm, and the rest of the people were all worried.

In the Taiji Palace, everyone knows that Li Zhi is thrifty, and more than a dozen robes that are so plain that they can no longer be plain can be worn for more than ten years...... But no one ever thought that the reason for this was the case.

Mei Niang looked at him, shook her head, and said softly: "You don't know...... I can't blame you either. After all, the kindness of children and fathers is the principle of heaven. So over the years, your father has never said that you are not a single one. For he was also a son of man, and understood that admiration.

So ......"

Mei Niang sighed, shook her head, took a step forward gently, stood in front of Li Zhong, and looked at him quietly, condescendingly.

She looked at this young man, who was actually one or two heads taller than her, but he was always accustomed to bowing his head and shrinking his neck, making people feel that he would never dare to look up at people, and in addition to pity, sympathy, and more helplessness in his heart, he was helpless: "So you will never know that your admiration is not only a kind of pride for your father, but more of a heartache......

Because he doesn't want you to know this pain, this kind of pain that he can never forget, how painfully he lost his mother, how he was afraid to relive this feeling, so afraid that he didn't have the courage to tell his eldest son the truth, but paradoxically watched his eldest son over and over again, bloody with such clothes, forcing him to relive the great pain caused by his mother's death. ”

When these words came out, not only the little waiter who originally wanted to please his master was stunned, but Li Zhong was also stunned.

Both of them raised their heads and looked at Mei Niang in a daze. Li Zhong even forgot that he had always been cowardly in front of Mei Niang, and just looked at her in confusion.

Mei Niang nodded and said lightly: "You don't know, right?" ”

Li Zhong was dazed and shook his head.

Mei Niang nodded, and sighed again: "You don't know the real purpose of your father wearing these plain clothes made by his own hands in those years, right?" ”

Li Zhong shook his head again, his eyes even more confused.

Mei Niang lowered her eyes, and after a while, she asked him as if she had made up her mind: "Zhong'er, I think you have probably heard of how those people talk about this palace?" Especially those things from the past? ”

Li Zhong lowered his eyes and was silent.

Mei Niang looked at him with such a timid demeanor, sighed clearly, no longer pressed, just raised her head, and said calmly: "Everyone said, it was the palace that overthrew the abolished Zhaorong Wei clan back then, and it was the palace that did those things...... It was the palace that forced the four ladies one by one to lose their positions...... But the truth is not so...... At least, in the matter of abolishing Zhaorong Webster, it is not the palace that really does its best. It's your father, who was the king of Jin at the time, your father. ”

Li Zhong raised his head sharply and blinked at Mei Niang.

Mei Niang smiled faintly: "You can't believe me, can you?" ”

She smiled again: "I don't blame you, don't say that you don't believe in such a thing, it's this palace, it's anyone, if you don't put it in it personally, you can't believe it after going through the ups and downs of the year." ”

She raised her head and looked ahead, her eyes were in a trance, as if she was recalling the old years, and she seemed to be savoring the present: "When her mother died, everyone in the world thought that she left because of her illness...... This is not the case.

It is not false that her mother has been angry, but at that time, she was in the prime of spring and autumn after all, how could she go because of this? What's more, she also got the promise of Sun Simiao, the king of divine medicine...... Have you ever wondered? ”

Li Zhong looked at Mei Niang steadily, and shook his head slowly after a while.

Mei Niang nodded and said, "You didn't think about it, but you're right." Because of the events of that year, if it weren't for the fact that your father was a young son, he was very favored by the first emperor and his mother, and he has been living by their side, seeing and observing with his own eyes...... I'm afraid that it will be difficult for him to find out that the reason why the Qi illness of the original mother has not healed for a long time, and finally lingered to the point of lingering, and even made Datang lose his virtuous queen...... The reason is because Zhaorong Wei, who has long resented the favor of the first emperor, sent an empty stomach Buddha statue and your imperial grandmother, and the empty stomach was full of moldy pollen......

If there is such a thing on the near side, even if you are not sick, you will also be uncomfortable, not to mention your imperial grandmother, who was originally riddled with qi? ”

Li Zhong listened to Mei Niang's calm tone, and suddenly felt cold all over his body-yes, he didn't know these things, not only him, but all Li Zhi's children didn't know......

None of them knew what their father had been through...... Because what they see is always what they see.

He suddenly held his breath, and suddenly had the desire to hear Mei Niang talk more about his father.

This is what Mei Niang wants. So she smiled faintly and said lightly:

So he wants revenge, he wants to get justice for his mother, and he wants to protect his little sister An's peace, who was still in infancy......

And he was just a kid at the time. He had no idea how much his father loved the children of their successive mothers.

He also didn't know that his father loved his mother as much as Yuanchen.

- Zhong'er, do you know that at that time, as long as he told the truth, even if there was no real evidence, even if he wanted to cause chaos in the world, his father, the wise and martial emperor, would have tortured those who had harmed his mother with the most cruel means to the point that he could not survive and could not die......

But he didn't believe in his father, on the contrary, he believed in the pedantic teachings of the so-called masters around him, thinking that all emperors who sat in the three palaces and six courts must be merciful. is the first emperor who was infatuated with his mother, and if it is a long time, he should not be as deep as ever.

So the only thing he can do is to use the little grief that he and his sister have received from their mothers, and at the same time secretly create all kinds of opportunities and possibilities, so that his father can never forget his mother's goodness, and finally, avenge his mother step by step......

Zhong'er, do you know what happened next?

When the first emperor accidentally learned the real cause of death and the real purpose of your father's actions, the first thing he did was to completely wipe out the woman who killed your imperial grandmother from this world. From body to heart, from name to part, all erased.

The second thing is that from then on, I don't think about my body very much...... Blindly just forge ahead, blindly only know how to forge ahead, but treat yourself as a sword, and never plan to take it back when it is out of the sheath.

The third thing...... is to start arranging everything for your father, and from the beginning, he will not let your father go half a step away. ”

Mei Niang said calmly, looking at Li Zhong's stunned expression, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.