Chapter 570: How Bitter Is He in His Heart?

I don't know if the emperor has any worries and can't think of how to solve them, or whether there are so many state affairs today that he can't deal with them all night, the imperial study of Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Empire, has been lit up all night, and the emperor has not walked out of this room since yesterday's court meeting. First, he called two courtiers with low official rank in, and after a while, the two confused courtiers came out again. After that, Princess Li Huining of Pingyang, who hurried back from Taiyuan and didn't have time to freshen up and rest for a while, entered the imperial study, and the father and daughter talked all night in the imperial study.

It wasn't until the sky was light that Li Yuan stretched his waist and stretched his body. He looked at his daughter curled up in a chair covered with a felt blanket in front of him, and said with a little complaint and dissatisfaction in his doting: "I sent people to Taiyuan countless times, but you refused to come back, but when you mentioned this matter, you rushed back like flying." I know you feel sorry for him, but if you didn't do that in the first place, I would be sorry for the entire Li family. He...... was born on the same day as Li Hun's son, and you also know what happened to Li Hun. ”

Li Huining nodded tiredly, and shook her head again: "After all...... Yang Jian also has to read a little bit of kinship. ”

"Relatives?"

Li Yuan sneered and said, "You have been trained on the battlefield all these years, are you still so kind and naïve?" If I hadn't been decisive enough, I'm afraid you wouldn't have had a chance to sit here and laugh at me. But I don't blame you, although you were still young at that time, you and Jiancheng watched that incident happen, so you all have some pain in your hearts, I know...... But why don't you want to think about it, no matter how painful you are, is there still pain for me? ”

"This thing ......"

Li Yuan shook his head and said, "I want to come and go, it is most appropriate for you to go to Yanyun Village." Others can't believe it, after all, this matter must not be known to outsiders except for our Li family for the time being. It was built as the crown prince, and it was not easy for him to do it. Shimin ...... I reckon he knew about it, but he pretended not to know that I was up to him. As for Motoyoshi...... It's not that you don't know his temperament, and letting him go will only ruin a big deal. ”

"An Zhi has been wandering outside for a lot of years, and he has suffered enough, but you know how many people I have sent out to find him over the years. Don't look at me with that kind of look, if I was really ruthless enough, I wouldn't have let people throw him at the door of the nunnery in the first place, but directly asked Lao Zhen to find a place to bury him! ”

"Didn't Lao Zhen bury it? Aunt Xue's child...... The two of them are a ......."

"Shut up!"

Hearing the words Aunt Xue, Li Yuan's eyes widened violently, that name and that thing was a taboo in his heart that could not be mentioned, and no one could tear this taboo apart. I don't know if it was because he hadn't slept all night, or because of his anger, his eyes turned red in an instant.

Hearing this loud shout, Li Huining's body curled up in the chair couldn't help but tremble. Her face turned pale, but she stubbornly did not withdraw her gaze and looked directly at Li Yuan.

"Forget it...... It's been the last twenty years, so let's not mention it. ”

Li Yuan sighed, he spent a night last night, softly saying a lot of heart-warming words, before he repaired the rift between father and daughter, he didn't want to let his daughter completely distance himself because of a woman who had been dead for many years. Because of Chai Shao's matter, and because of the disgusting method that Shimin came up with when he was in Yanmen, his daughter Li Huining has refused to come to see his father for a long time.

"Our Li family has experienced too many things, and now it is not easy to turn our family into a country. At that time, I did not have the ability to protect you enough, but now that I have the ability, I will naturally compensate for some of it. If it weren't for the guilt in my heart, would I have been able to show off his might in front of my Tang Dynasty like that? Yanyun Village claims to have 300,000 elite soldiers, can't I slaughter his village with all the strength of the country? ”

"Ning'er, after you go, say it well, if he has any grievances, as long as it doesn't hurt the national body, it's not too much, I will follow it."

"Father...... You said that my eldest brother and I knew about it, so our hearts were painful, but not as painful as you, but have you ever thought about it, who is the most painful? Now my father, let me say, doesn't this make him suffer enough in his heart again? No...... It's not bitterness, it's a knife to cut out his heart. ”

"If you don't let him know, it's hard to guarantee that he won't do anything excessive! The Tang Dynasty is now unstable, can you guarantee that he will not unite with others to subvert my world? ”

"Let's talk about it...... Or because of this. ”

Li Huining shook his head with a wry smile, stood up and said word by word: "I will go to find An Zhi, but by no means for the reason that Datang can be forever, just because he is my younger brother and your sister-in-law, I was still thinking that Lao Zhen was too old, and he sent An Zhi to the nunnery that day, and he would ...... Buried, I thought that my father would kill him, but my father didn't, and then it was Lao Zhen who sent Shimin back to his hometown in Longxi, a person like him who knew so many things, his father actually let him live until now, but he is really old...... is so old that if my father doesn't say it, I'm afraid that no one will know the truth in a few years. ”

"Let him live in the old mansion in Longxi...... He was a faithful man. ”

At the mention of Lao Zhen, a trace of doubt flashed in Li Yuan's eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

"Thank you, Father."

Li Huining stood up and saluted solemnly.

Li Yuan shook his head with a wry smile, waved his hand weakly and said, "You go, it's not too late to rest for a few days before you go, I'm going to go to the early court, this night is really fast...... We...... It's been a long time since I've talked about it so calmly. ”

"If the father is free, the daughter is willing to accompany you more."

Li Huining looked at Li Yuan's gray hair, wrinkled face, and tiredness in her eyes, the calmness and cruelty she disguised still couldn't hold on after all, she held Li Yuan's arm and said a word, then turned around and walked out.

"The Emperor's ......"

Looking at his daughter's distant back, Li Yuan muttered three words, and there was endless helplessness and desolation in his tone.

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Li Huining went to meet the queen Dou, and stayed in the palace for half a day before leaving the palace, Dou's body was almost at the end, and now he was bedridden all day, even if he had insisted on worshipping the Buddha for many years, he didn't have the energy and physical strength to do it again, just lying in bed in a daze, and always muttering something that others couldn't understand at all.

Li Huining felt sad in her heart, and couldn't help crying when she looked at her mother's appearance.

Waiting for the queen to eat lunch, she said goodbye and left, looking at the reluctance in the queen's eyes, she felt a knife in her heart, but she still left, her heart was too painful, there was too much depression in this palace, she didn't dare to stay for a minute. The name muttered to the queen made it impossible for her to face this old woman.

Knowing Today...... Why bother in the first place?

She sighed in her heart, when she walked out of the palace gate, the sun shining on her face made her very uncomfortable, the walls of the palace were too high, so high that people could not see the sun, rubbed her eyes and put down her hand when she was in a trance, she saw someone standing outside the palace gate with her hands in her hands, standing there and smiling at herself.

"Big brother...... The minister has seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ”

Li Huining hurriedly saluted.

Li Jiancheng walked over quickly, helped her up and said dissatisfiedly: "Why are you like this, when did we brothers and sisters ever have such a relationship, when I was the son of the world, you dared to pull my hair and pull my ears, and when I was a child, I rode on my shoulder as a horse, why is it so cold now that it doesn't seem to be a family?" ”

"The son of the world is the son of the world...... The crown prince is the crown prince......"

Li Huining said with a smile.

"The prince, the prince, are all the sons of the emperor, and they are all your eldest brothers!"

Li Jiancheng pretended to be angry.

These words made Li Huining lose her mind for a while, and she muttered and repeated: "They are all the sons of their fathers, yes...... They are all the sons of their fathers, but why are their life experiences so different, they are very different. ”

"Ning'er, what's wrong with you?"

Li Jiancheng asked with concern.

"Nothing ......"

Li Huining came back to her senses, smiled and said: "My father summoned me to return to Chang'an quickly, I entered the palace overnight and talked to my father all night, I am a little sleepy, don't blame the eldest brother." By the way, big brother, can you guess what big deal my father said when he got me back? ”

"Left and right aren't that man's business?"

Li Jiancheng said in a low voice.

"Big brother, how did you guess!"

Li Huining asked in surprise.

Li Jiancheng shook his head and said with a smile: "I'm not an immortal who can pinch and calculate, how can I guess what my father will say to you." Besides, the outside of the imperial study is heavily guarded, even if I want to eavesdrop, I don't have the ability. Why do I know ...... It's because my father mentioned to me a few days ago that I proposed to let you go to Yanyunzhai. ”

"Big brother will stuff this headache to me!"

Li Huining pouted: "Why don't you go by yourself?" ”

"I wanted to go, but my father entrusted me with all the less urgent matters in the government, and I couldn't get out of it every day just by arranging them one by one according to my father's approval. You also have to listen to Wei Zheng's salute, you don't know what kind of person that guy is, I escaped by borrowing urine in order to pick you up. ”

"Big Brother ......"

Li Huining's face turned red and couldn't help complaining: "You are already the prince, so you don't care about how you talk." ”

"I said, the prince is still your eldest brother!"

Li Jiancheng pulled her and said: "Go, go to me, you will definitely not go to Chai Shao's Guogong Mansion, the Pingyang Princess Mansion specially built by my father has not yet been completed, I expected that you would have to go back to the barracks, so I came to wait for you." It's not like you don't have a home, why let yourself suffer that hardship! ”

It's not that you don't have a home, these words make Li Huining's heart extra warm. She nodded, just like when she was a child, she let her eldest brother Li Jiancheng take the carriage by the hand.

"How are you going to talk to Yasuyuki?"

In the carriage, Li Jiancheng couldn't help but ask.

Although he couldn't see anything different in his expression, it was obvious that he was also very concerned about this important matter. Back then, he watched the housekeeper Lao Zhen holding the child in the heavy snow and drifting away, and this picture was repeated countless times in his dreams. Even if he didn't have any affection for that child, it was his brother after all.

"What else can I say?"

Li Huining straightened the hanging hair, sighed and said: "I'm just worried that guy can't stand it, his temperament is the easiest to drill the tip of the horns, if you can't get in and out, no one can persuade you." It would have been better if he had made things clear when he was poor, but now he is the king of Yan, with 300,000 elite soldiers under his command, 20 counties, and millions of people, let him ...... How can it be easily accepted? ”

"Maybe it's not as hard as you think."

Li Jiancheng said meaningfully.

"Big brother...... Do you know something? ”

Li Huining subconsciously sat up straight and asked.

"You know ......"

Li Jiancheng lowered his voice and said: "My father asked me to be responsible for talking to Luo Yi about the matter of the surrender, the day before yesterday, Luo Yi personally went to Chang'an, and after meeting my father, he discussed with me most of the time. He came in person to explain, his brave son was robbed by An Zhi's faction, and he was afraid that his father would question him, so he ran away. ”

Li Jiancheng paused for a moment and said, "Although I don't know why Luo Yi knew about that incident, Luo Yi told me that An Zhi knew." ”

This is a bit awkward, but Li Huining understands the meaning.

Seeing Li Huining's astonishment, Li Jiancheng sighed and said: "Although An Zhi is extremely strong, he has never really done anything to our Li family, I was still wondering, but now that I think about it, it seems that he should know, so he will be contradictory, otherwise with his strength, why not fight?" ”

"He doesn't fight ......"

Li Huining was stunned, and suddenly felt that she couldn't help the pain in her heart.

"How bitter is he in his heart? There is nowhere to say it, and there is no way to say bitterness. ”