Chapter 49: Subservience
"When Yue'er was five years old, she also wore a little blue dress like this, and your grandfather loved the way you bounced." Emperor Wu looked at the marquee and started a new round of animation, patted Shen Mengxi's hand, and recalled.
Every mother can't forget what her children looked like when they were young.
In other words, if a person mentions an interesting story about your childhood, he says, "I grew up watching you!" It must be a gesture of goodwill, showing that he likes you and deeply remembers your cute appearance when you were a child.
In fact, Emperor Wu gave birth to five children, none of whom were taken care of by himself, and the attendants were like clouds, and she had to concentrate on the fight between the queen and the concubine, so she had no time to take care of a few children. It wasn't until she became the queen and gave birth to Taiping that she had some leisure to take care of the children, and Taiping was the only daughter, so she naturally had more intentions. When it comes to childhood, there are also a few words to talk about.
Emperor Wu watched the animation again before continuing to move forward and look at other lanterns.
The eleven-year-old boy was curious about what was hidden in the lantern, and when everyone walked by, he quietly climbed onto the float to see if there was anyone inside, so anxious that the palace attendant stomped his feet and didn't dare to make a sound.
After a skimming around, Emperor Wu was a little tired and ready to return to Miyagi.
Li Longji squeezed in front of Emperor Wu, saluted solemnly and said, "Grandmother, can San Lang follow my aunt to the princess's mansion tonight?" ”
Although Emperor Wu didn't like Li Dan's conformity, he loved this lively and cheerful grandson, and when he heard that he was going to the princess's mansion, he lowered his head and asked with a smile: "Oh? Why did Saburo go to his aunt's house? ”
"Grandpa just talked about his aunt's house, and there is a small marquee!" Li Longji pointed to the lantern, "San Lang likes the lantern and wants to go to my aunt's house to see what is going on!" Come back and make a lamp for Grandmother too! ”
The young man has not yet reached the period of voice change, his voice is clear, male and female are indistinguishable, in the colorful night of the Shangyuan night, like a stream in spring, Emperor Wu involuntarily smiled, stroked his shoulder, and looked at Shen Mengxi, "Then San Lang has to ask your aunt!" ”
How could Shen Mengxi say that he was not welcome, looking at the eager eyes of the other two nephews, he simply said: "Welcome, all three nephews should go, it's just that the lamp at home is shoddy, don't regret it after reading it." ”
Li Dan stopped, "There is no curfew tonight, there is chaos on the street, San Lang will go by himself." Li Dan is like a frightened bird, and he doesn't want Li Chengqi to leave the palace at all.
The eyes of the two teenagers who had just bloomed suddenly dimmed, and in the past seven years, they had lived in the East Palace with their parents, like internment, and they had not gone out of the imperial city once.
Emperor Wu glanced at his son and said, "San Lang go, come back before sunset tomorrow." ”
"Thank you, grandmother!" Li Longji cheered.
Shen Mengxi took Li Longji, walked through the imperial city, came out of the end gate, passed Luoshui, and went back to Shangshanfang directly, there were countless lanterns of various colors on the heavenly street, Li Longji was dazzled, and the carriages and horses could not travel, Shen Mengxi had to get out of the car and take Li Longji's hand, and move forward with the flow of people. There was the guessing pot to win the lantern, he was eager to squeeze in, but was ruthlessly dragged out by Shen Mengxi and said, "Brother at home is waiting!" Li Longji reluctantly gave up, this kid was really suffocated.
Fortunately, he soon arrived at the princess's mansion, Wu Youji also followed with a cheeky face, Shen Mengxi looked at him strangely, he smiled and said, "Look at the lights, look at the lights." ”
When it was close to entering the house, the children were waiting for Shen Mengxi to come back and look at the lights together.
As soon as they saw Li Sanlang, the children were pleasantly surprised, and they were very happy to see each other, and Jian'er and Li Longji were even more shoulder to shoulder, as if they were alone.
The marquee lantern in the house is half smaller than the one that is offered, and the workmanship is not so fine, it is purely an experiment, unlike the lantern that is carefully painted by the painter, this lamp, Guanyin is painted by Yu'er, martial arts and polo are painted by Yin'er, and the last little girl is painted by Shen Mengxi with Lu'er as a model.
Because animation imaging requires a large number of coherent pictures, many details, and a huge workload, even Jian'er and Lu'er are also involved in coloring, pasting, assembling, a lantern, and the whole family goes into battle, although it is not perfect, but it is precious.
Everyone watched the side of the marquee with great interest, laughed and screamed, looked over and over again, and discussed to draw another picture of the sunrise and the galloping horse, Li Sanlang was eager to start designing immediately.
After watching the lights, the fireworks were set off again, and the boys did not feel sleepy, and gathered at Yin'er's residence, Shen Mengxi didn't care much, only ordered the maid to take care of it carefully, and asked Commander Lu to strengthen the defense, so they were placed separately.
Physically and mentally exhausted, but unable to sleep.
Shen Mengxi sat cross-legged on the couch, this day of coquettishness and idiot, it was really more tiring than playing a game of polo.
forcibly arrogant, making her extremely hard, this is really not in line with her life philosophy of being at ease and happy when she encounters.
Meditated silently, and went through the movie in his mind about the situation of the day, and smiled bitterly in his heart.
- In the end, I still succumbed, it is impossible to live a quiet life, and it is delusional to want to believe in the reins of the horses in the galloping of thousands of horses, and to fish in a light boat in the rushing of the big river.
I don't want to be trampled to death, I don't want to die in the boat, I don't want to be fish, I have to be a knife.
From today onwards, I can only integrate into this mode of fighting.
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Last year, the Khitan leader Sun Wanrong rebelled, captured Jizhou, Hebei was shaken, the government and the opposition were shocked, and Emperor Wu transferred Di Renjie to Weizhou to serve as the assassin to resist the Khitan.
In April this year, Emperor Wu took Wu Yizong, the king of Hanoi, as the general manager of the Shenbing Road, and in May, he sent Lou Shide as the deputy chief of Jingbian Road and led 200,000 troops to attack the Khitan.
Don't talk about Lou Shide, just talk about Wu Yizong, this person is the nephew of Emperor Wu, with a short figure, a strange and ugly appearance, and insidious and vicious, good at framing, and his means and deeds are no less than those of Lai Junchen.
Shen Mengxi felt that although Emperor Wu had outstanding political talents, her disgraceful way of being the emperor still affected her mentality, she always had to rely on cool officials to maintain her rule, and she could not convince people with virtue, but only by killing.
Shen Mengxi once persuaded Emperor Wu when he was massaging her head, "Ah Niang, come to Junchen and the like, for the sake of disaster for the government and the opposition, and hurt Datang at all, in a few years, Datang will be unavailable." ”
Emperor Wu opened his eyes and glanced at her, "Yue'er also understands this?" ”
"Ahem, it was Junchen who came to target Yue'er first!" It's a mistake to say it, and you can't mention sensitive topics.
Emperor Wu reused cool officials as usual, and reused the children of the martial arts family who could only intrigue and frame frames.
Soon after Wu Yizong came to Zhaozhou, he heard that thousands of Khitan cavalry were about to arrive in Jizhou, and he was frightened and fled in a hurry, causing a large number of military supplies to be discarded and lost. turned around, but slaughtered the people who were coerced by the Khitan, one thief, and the whole clan was punished.
Especially for the killing of Yang Qizhuang, it is even more chilling.
It turned out that Yang Qizhuang was originally an unknown person, just because the Turkic Khan asked for peace this year, and wanted to marry his daughter to the son of Emperor Wu, Emperor Wu was not easy to refuse, so he ordered Wu Yanxiu, the king of Huaiyang, to go to the Turks to welcome his relatives, and let him take the daughter of Namo as a concubine.
When Mo Xuan saw Wu Yanxiu, he was very annoyed, and asked Wu Yanxiu directly: "You are just the emperor's nephew, my Mo Xuan's daughter naturally wants to marry the emperor's son!" ”