Chapter 101: Heartbeat
This sudden kiss is a little reckless, a little strong, and a little tender.
Although this deep kiss was not long-lasting, the impact it had on Li Fengming was huge.
On an occasion where there should be no intimate behavior, in an unexpected situation, when she was physically and mentally unprepared, she suddenly ushered in a sweet clinging between her lips and teeth.
The heart was so pounding, and the divine consciousness seemed to fall rapidly into the void, and finally fell into a trance that made people not know where they were.
This taste is difficult to put into words, and Li Fengming's whole person is a little fluttering.
The sweet noodles that were not willing to eat all the way were taken away and eaten, what is there to be angry about?
She looked directly at Xiao Mingche's handsome face, and thought to herself, if he likes to eat, it's a big deal to find a time to ask Yu Fang to come over and make it for him. You can eat whatever you want!
At this moment, she not only experienced the "unexpected fun" emphasized in the book, but even understood why most of the subjects in the world could not see the emperor indulging in beauty.
In the face of this kind of knowledgeable and active goblin, it is really easy to be mediocre.
Just like now, Li Fengming knew that Xiao Mingche's sudden kiss was very strange, which was completely inconsistent with his usual temperament and style, but she didn't think about anything serious in her head.
"Who, who taught you?" Her heart was beating so fast that she was stumbling when she spoke.
Xiao Mingche staggered his gaze, clenched his fists to his lips, and pretended to cough calmly. "Xiao Mingxun."
His brain seemed to be blocked by an invisible sweet paste, Li Fengming struggled to concentrate, and it took a long time to remember that Xiao Mingxun was the king of Fujun who was talked about by Yongjing people for his "husband and wife love".
She had to sigh that King Fujun was a good teacher, and he could make Xiao Mingche improve by leaps and bounds in a few days.
"Oh." She made a meaningless single sound, and her face burned horribly. I didn't know what to say or what to do.
Although Xiao Mingche also blushed, he was obviously more sober than her, "I've been very busy lately. ”
After waiting for a long time and not waiting for his next step, Li Fengming raised his eyebrows in confusion, "So what?" ”
"So, don't be outside...... What sweet noodle people eat indiscriminately. ”
Looking at Xiao Mingche's back as he walked away, Li Fengming was extremely confused.
You've been busy lately, and whether or not I'm going to eat sweet noodles outside, is there any mysterious relationship between these two things?!
The next day there was rain, Li Fengming was very bored, so he went to the incense shop again.
It's not that she's playful, it's just that the shop has been open for so long, and everything is passed on by Chun Yudai, and she hasn't met with the big or small shopkeeper yet.
Because it was a rainy day, the shop in front of the incense shop seemed cold. However, the liveliness of the small building in the backyard has obviously only increased compared with yesterday.
An older man in the front bunk smiled apologetically, "The distinguished guest came late today, and the various Accords on the small floor are full." If not, please be early tomorrow? ”
Xin Wei stood behind Li Fengming's side, and when she saw that she had no intention of going home, she took out a few coppers and handed them out.
"I'm tired of going to tell your shopkeeper that this is the first guest of Baihao Xing, see if you can think of ideas."
wants to enter his own industry and see his subordinates, but he still needs to spend extra money to accommodate, Li Fengming really can't laugh or cry.
After a while, the guy went and returned, followed by the big shopkeeper of the incense shop, Yufang.
The big shopkeeper Yu Fang and the small shopkeeper Tuwu of the fragrance store also grew up in Li Fengming's mansion in the past.
Before Li Fengming's coming-of-age ceremony, Yufang and Tuwu left their homeland on her orders and came to Qi to lie dormant.
Her original intention at that time was to wait until the establishment of the Huizheng Yuan was perfected, and then let them start to spread the intelligence network here, so that she, the prince of Wei, could better grasp the movements of neighboring countries.
It's a pity that the establishment of the Huizheng Yuan has not yet been completely perfected, and that incident happened. Li Fengming was claustrophobic in the East Palace in disguise, Chun Yudai and Xin Wei followed left and right, and no one knew the existence of Yufang and Tuwu.
The two of them became lonely broken kites in a foreign country, and worked as buddies in a gambling house in Yongjing for several years.
From finding them in the gambling house, to the two of them sitting in Baimaoxiang as shopkeepers, everything was passed on by Chun Yudai, so today is the first real reunion between Yufang and Li Fengming after four years.
Through the tulle hat, Li Fengming couldn't see the details of Yu Fang's face clearly, but vaguely felt that he was very excited.
In front of the guys in the front shop who didn't know the inside story, Yu Fang tried his best to restrain himself, bowed slightly, and raised his hand to signal, "Distinguished guests, please come with me." ”
Yufang did not take Li Fengming into the small building, but walked all the way through the carved small arch and entered the study in the inner courtyard.
Xin Wei stayed outside the study to guard, and he didn't need to worry too much about talking.
As soon as the door closed, Yu Yi could no longer restrain his excitement, and landed on one knee, "His Royal Highness the Prince......"
"That's why I've been afraid to come and see you in person. Get up and speak. Li Fengming interrupted him, took off his hat, and threw it on the table.
She walked to the back of the table and sat down, put her arms on the armrests of the chair circle, and looked at the jade square standing across the table, smiling lightly.
"Yufang, the prince Li Ying has been dead for several years. I'm just Li Fengming. Not only is it now, but it will still be in the future, and it will not change again. ”
Yu Fang's eyes were slightly red, and the hand hanging by his side clenched into a fist excitedly.
"Although his subordinates have been away from the country for several years, it is unlikely that the general situation in the country will change dramatically in the past three or five years. As long as His Highness is willing to ......"
"I don't want to," Li Fengming held his forehead with his left hand, and his voice was shallow and soft, "Yufang, I know what you have to say." ”
According to the practice of the Wei royal family, the prince should look at his virtue, character and talent.
The child has not grown up, and he can't see anything, so the successive princes in the history of Wei were selected and canonized only when they were adults.
Only Li Fengming is an exception.
She was made a prince at birth, and at the age of seven she had her own mansion.
Not only did she receive the most elaborate and thoughtful training, but even the close subordinates who would be used by her in the future, such as Chun Yudai, Xin Wei, Yufang, and Tuwu, were all sent to her after being selected from the best of the best, and were cultivated by special people since childhood.
The reason is simple: Wei has not had a female emperor succeed to the throne for three consecutive generations.
This caused the status of women in Wei to regress. The root cause of the dispute between the Wei Imperial Party and the Later Party lies in this.
It can be said that since he was born, Li Fengming has borne heavy expectations that ordinary people can hardly imagine.
Not only did the Hou Party devote all her efforts to the East Palace, but some of the lonely and pure ministers who were separated from the Imperial Party and the Hou Party were also waiting for her to grow up.
Emperor Wei was claustrophobic for more than a year, and did not make a formal decision to depose her, and finally opened the net, allowing her to cheat her death and change her identity, in exchange for her life. This is by no means a concern for the relationship between father and daughter, nor is it completely jealous of the posterior party.
is afraid that she will be forced to take it seriously and completely cold, regardless of the desperate fight to break the net.
"The second prince is mediocre, and the sixth prince is disabled and sick. A-Ning is still young, and he will have to wait at least ten years to get up. If I return to Wei now, I will be called up, and someone will answer. Even if it doesn't turn the sky upside down, it can make big waves. ”
Li Fengming looked at the closed door and smiled.
But the whole Wei country will be torn apart because of this, and it will fall into the chaos and turmoil of the people's livelihood, and I don't know how many years it will take to heal and recover. If I am unlucky, I provoke a foreign enemy to take advantage of me before I can heal and recover, what will happen to me? ”
Even if he wins the throne, even if he finally leads his subjects to defend his family state, he is destined to be nailed to the history of the youth and be scolded by generations, leaving a stench for thousands of years.
"Maybe you think it's cowardice for me to choose this path. After all, the name behind the body is too illusory, as long as the person concerned doesn't care, it's nothing more than a joke. ”
Li Fengming hooked his lips with emotion and smiled.
"But the power in the hands of the emperor is supreme, and the review of history books is one of the few things in the world that can restrain the imperial power."
Yu Fang looked at her in a daze, speechless.
Li Fengming smiled, "Yufang, I came to see you today, just to tell you and Tuwu, don't think about something useless." Li Ying is dead, and Li Fengming will not return to Wei Tu in this life. It's not that you don't dare It's not that it can't. It's that I don't want to. ”
If she really didn't care about killing back, stepping on the white bones of the whole country and listening to the blood wails of the people to ascend to the throne, she didn't have to wait for others to say after death, even she herself would say a word, I am not worthy.
If she had been the first to break her awe of the review of history books, there was no guarantee that her younger siblings would not follow suit.
More seriously, the surname Li will also be based on in later generations.
The emperors of the current generation have plenty of excuses not to care about the name behind them, what kind of Wei state will the Wei Kingdom become?
She was unwilling to allow herself to be a bad precedent.
"If you are unwilling to do anything with Tuwu, and you still want to show your ambitions, when I save enough money, I will take you to Xia Kingdom. When the time comes, you will try your best to fight for a general, and I will be my rich businessman. Remember to cover me and it's done. Li Fengming's words are sincere.
Yu Fang pursed his lips, "No." Although Ji Pingjun of Xia Kingdom is a good emperor, I only recognize His Royal Highness Li Fengming as a lord in this life, and Tuwu also thinks so. ”
If it weren't for this determination, they would not have returned to Li Fengming without hesitation when they saw Chun Yudai four years after the disconnection.
"Yufang, Yufang, you are a man, don't easily say that you can't do it." Li Fengming smiled and sat crookedly.
"Since you still recognize me as the lord, then when you come to the Xia Kingdom in the future, you will have to climb up desperately. In this way, I can safely and securely lean on the gold mountain and sit on a beautiful man. His Royal Highness Li Fengming has this ambition now, understand? ”
Compared with the supreme power, the happiness that money and beautiful men can bring seems to be very simple, but for Li Fengming, who has already thought about it and made a choice, she is now more yearning for the latter two.
Yu Fang was amused, and immediately asked tentatively, "What about King Huai?" Listen to Chun Yu, King Huai is still to your liking. When you go to Xia Kingdom, do you want to tie him up and take him away? ”
"Look at you like this, there is something in your words," Li Fengming tilted his head to look at him, raised his eyebrows slightly, "What do you want to say?" ”
Yu Fang looked at her and carefully considered his words, "Did he tell you that he has been very close to the Fujun Mansion recently?" ”
Speaking of which, Yu Fang was cultivated as a secret agent, and Tu Wu was his deputy.
These two people came to Yongjing a few years earlier than Li Fengming and the others, and they mixed in the most well-informed places like the gambling house, so they naturally knew more about things.
In addition, now that they are running this incense shop, they deal with all the nobles and ladies of various provinces who are not aware of the tricks they are talking to, and there is really no momentum in this Yongjing City to hide from them.
"Fujun Palace? Xiao Mingche didn't say this to me, but he didn't deliberately hide it. Li Fengming unconsciously wiped his lower lip back and forth with his fingertips, and his cheeks began to heat faintly.
Yu Fang said again, "The Fujun Palace, the Eldest Princess's Mansion, the Pingcheng Princess's Mansion, and the Zhengding Bo's Mansion, including General Lian Zhen's family, have now gradually converged with King Huai's side. According to my and Tuwu's observations over the past few years, except for the Lian family's unclear position, the rest of the families wanted to push the Qi State to follow the example of Xia and Wei and change to a system equal to men and women. ”
The so-called snake without a head is not good.
The weight of King Fujun is not enough, the eldest princess and Princess Heisei are women, and under the current Qi system, they can only be rich but have no power, and they can do limited; And Zhengdingbo is just a courtier, and it is impossible to have much appeal.
The crown prince and King Heng have no intention of reforming, and now Xiao Mingche, the king of Huai, who is faintly rising, has naturally become their first choice.
Actually, this is not a bad thing for Xiao Mingche. However, I'm afraid they're simplifying things. ”
Li Fengming pondered for a moment, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Yu Fang's strange expression.
"Is there anything else you haven't said?"
After thinking about it for a while, Yu Fang still said, "The day before yesterday, Princess Heisei came with the seven girls of Zhengding Bofu. Tu Wu was flamboyant, and sold a jar of 'Lying Roses' to them. They opened the jar and drank most of it on the spot. ”
"Lying rose" is a kind of beauty sake unique to the Wei royal family, which is fragrant and sweet in the mouth, but the stamina is not small.
Drunk, Princess Heisei said that the princess of King Fujun had a happy pulse recently. King Fujun counted the days, and wanted to ensure that the princess of the county would be by her side when she was old in winter, so he asked King Huai for one thing. ”
"What?" Li Fengming vaguely remembered that Xiao Mingche gave her a small box of gold ingots before, saying that he had promised to help King Fujun do something, and that box of gold ingots was a thank you gift from King Fujun.
"Earlier, Emperor Qi added the post of border army capital, and agreed that the children of the clan would take turns to serve as the border army capital, and each of them would serve for half a year. After that, it was decided that King Huai would serve as the first commander of the southern border army, which was an opportunity for him to gain a firm foothold. ”
Yu Fang's delicate face gradually became cold, and the stars in his eyes flashed with uncertain light.
"But he promised the king of Fujun that he would go to the royal front to request, and the king of Fujun would go to the south to take up his post first, return to Beijing after winter, and then he would go to the rotation."
From attacking Qian Zhaoyi in the palace to making suggestions behind his back several times later, Li Fengming has always hoped that Xiao Mingche could lean on the prince's side first, and make a decision with his back against the big tree before moving.
This time, she once again let Xiao Mingche take the lead in attacking King Heng, and Xiao Mingche successfully hid in the prince's camp.
He only needs to grasp the opportunity of the reputation of "the first border army capital of the Qi State", and he can establish a firm foothold step by step, and when the prince and King Heng consume each other to a certain extent, he will naturally become a stable third-party force.
Now Xiao Mingche has given this opportunity to King Fujun, which seems to be a trivial matter of personal relations, but in the eyes of the prince's party, the actual effect of this behavior is to win the clan and buy people's hearts, which is undoubtedly a signal to stand on his own.
Seeing that Li Fengming was stunned, Yu Fang knew that Xiao Mingche didn't tell her about it.
Yu Fang endured his anger and said softly, "Perhaps, King Huai just didn't really understand what a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity the title of 'the first border army commander since the founding of the country' was." Would you like to talk to him again? ”
Li Fengming thoughtfully held his left cheek, helplessly snorting.
"What to talk about? I have a temporary symbiotic alliance with him, and I give him ideas, just hoping that he will not take detours and suffer less. There was nothing wrong with him not wanting to trust me completely. ”
In the eyes of others, she Li Fengming is just a royal daughter who was sent out to make peace, if she really has the ability, how could she go to such a depressed field?
Xiao Mingche can't fully believe her in his heart, although it is regrettable, it is not difficult to understand.
Li Fengming understands this truth, and Yufang can also understand it.
But Yu Fang was unhappy and even annoyed by her in her heart, and the real reason was that "Princess Heicheng also mentioned that the eldest princess has a lot of complaints about you guiding King Huai to get closer to the prince's faction several times. They seem to suspect that you have evil intentions, pinched the weakness in King Huai's heart, and want to turn him into a marionette in your hands. ”
After the previous conversation, Yu Fang couldn't bear to be so distorted and looked down upon by Li Fengming.
How could Li Fengming bother to lead Xiao Mingche to make trouble in Qi State?
She even gave up the position of the prince of Wei completely, is it necessary to go to Qi to wade into troubled waters? It's not that you're full.
"The eldest princess?" Li Fengming thought for a moment and bowed his head, "Emperor Qi's youngest sister, Xiao Mingche's aunt." ”
During the half a year that accompanied the Empress Dowager in the Dicui Mountain Palace, Li Fengming met the eldest princess several times, but did not contact it alone.
Everyone is just politely harmonious. I haven't really dealt with it, so I can't talk about understanding and trusting.
The eldest princess had a misunderstanding and thought of Li Fengming in the dark, which didn't matter to Li Fengming at all.
But what made her feel like a fish in her throat was that Xiao Mingche didn't mention these people and these things in front of her.
It's understandable that you can't fully trust her abilities.
However, if Xiao Mingche's silence in front of her stems from the fact that he has the same suspicions about her as the eldest princess and others, he doesn't really agree with her in his heart......
Li Fengming folded his arms in front of him and slowly leaned back in the chair, "That's okay." It's just an alliance, mutual benefit is enough, and I shouldn't have interfered too much. It's nosy, and it's not fun to talk to yourself. Deserve. ”
Anyway, she and Xiao Mingche will break up sooner or later. For the rest of your life, you will have your own place, and you will die of love.
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