Chapter 16: Father and Son

"It's good to think about it, watching you torture each other before for so many years, and the mourning family's heart is not comfortable." The Queen Mother said comfortingly, for Lu Qing, in addition to the betrayal back then, she actually had nothing to dissatisfaction with.

The two talked back again, and saw Rong Li and A Ning walking in, and they didn't look so happy.

"What's wrong with A-Ning, it doesn't look like he's unhappy, who is messing with the beloved baby of the mourning family?" Seeing A-Ning's appearance, the Queen Mother asked.

"It's nothing, it's just that there are too many people in the Imperial Garden, and I'm a little tired." Aning said. As soon as they arrived at the Imperial Garden, before they could see any scenery, they would see which of her uncle's favorite concubines, and then they would see a certain cousin, or a princess, and A-Ning didn't know when she became so popular. This is still the two of them estimating that her mother and the queen mother should have finished saying before coming back. I'd rather stay in the Cining Palace than be tortured, the smell of fat powder on so many people is really bad enough.

"Oh, since A-Ning is tired, let Mama Fang take you to rest for a while, your room has already been prepared." The Queen Mother said.

The eldest princess of Anguo and the queen mother are both human spirits, although A-Ning did not explain it, but the two of them knew what was going on when they thought about it. Isn't it just too much to set the relationship, the little girl is impatient, after all, although the battle for the crown prince's position is not white-hot, but the open and secret competition at the bottom can't stand it. In the future, as the princes become adults and get married, such things will only become more obvious.

After all, Lu Qing is in charge of Jinghai's 300,000 soldiers, and the sea area is a big piece of fat, and I don't know how much income there is every year, and there are even more people who honor Lu Qing. Even if Lu Qing returns to Beijing now, Jinghai is his old subordinates, and it is not easy for others to get a piece of the pie even if they get there, so it is too important to have a good relationship with Lu Qing, and it takes money to win the heir.

In this way, how can Lu Qing, a powerful minister who wants military power and money, not make people blush, but it is a big problem to win over Lu Qing. Regardless of whether Lu Qing is lustful or not, they don't dare to give away women, after all, the eldest princess of An Guo is there, and Lu Qing's mansion has indeed been very clean for so many years. Lu Qing has no sons, there are only two daughters in the house, and the eldest daughter has not grown up by her side since she was a child, how deep the relationship can be. The youngest daughter has been under the knee since she was a child, and she is the eldest princess of Anguo, so her feelings are naturally different, so A-Ning has become a sweet and sweet in the eyes of others.

Seeing that A-Ning went to rest, Rong Li also consciously retreated, and the things decided when he came to the imperial study must always be put into practice, and he never did anything that he regretted.

"Your Majesty, the Seventh Prince asks to see you." Li Jing'an, the chief eunuch of the emperor's side, reported.

"It's Xiao Qi here, let him in." The emperor still lowered his head and did not look up.

"See my father, long live my father, long live my father." Rong Li knelt down and saluted. It belongs to the figure of a young man, because he is still growing, he looks tall and thin, wearing a blood-red prince's costume, taking advantage of his handsome facial features, he looks a little demonic, and his narrow phoenix eyes are flashing with a cold light. Even when looking at the emperor, there was no restraint.

At this time, the emperor raised his head, he was already not confused, but he looked only in his early thirties. The narrow phoenix eyes are exactly the same as Rong Li, to say that all the princes are most similar to the emperor, not his eldest son or his favorite second son, but this son he has been ignoring, there are six or seven points similar, especially a pair of eyes are carved out of a mold.

It's just that the edges and corners of the emperor's temperament have long been smoothed out, and he is more calm and introverted. But it's not that he is not terrible, such that he is the most terrifying, the imperial prestige is faintly emanating, full of mystery. Although today's saint is the son-in-law, he also went through the bloody road to the throne, and he died fighting for the throne, and the only thing left is the amorous three princes of the year, the current Fu Wang, and the young son of the former emperor is now the king.

When the emperor first ascended the throne, the imperial family was in turmoil, and the inextricable relationships between the powerful of the family limited his power. But he has been holding back, and slowly retracting his power is that this endurance is already very within the reach of others.

"But I made a decision." The emperor put down the pen in his hand, and leaned back with his body full of leisure.

"Why does my father have to ask like this, didn't I already know that my son had no choice, although this road was chosen by my father for my son, but it was also taken by my son willingly, otherwise my father would not be able to force my son." Rong Li said indifferently. Although he called that high man his father, he never regarded him as his father in his heart.

"You want power, I also need a sharp sword, isn't it also what you should do as a son of man to share your father's worries, I think what you are doing now is also a kind of filial piety." The emperor said with a light smile that the son in front of him was his favorite son, not the son who had been ignoring him since he was born in the cold palace.

"It's understandable that my father wants to think so." Rong Li said mockingly, he didn't care what the emperor said.

"Then you will go to Jinyiwei tomorrow to report, and you will serve as the Zhennan Zhenfu Division first, you must understand that the troublesome eunuchs in Jinyiwei claim to be the system, and it is all up to you to subdue them. I won't take care of you, and if you're incompetent, I won't give you any chances, you know. The emperor looked at Rong Li's eyes full of seriousness, proving that what he said was not child's play.

"Be loyal to Your Majesty, and your subordinates should do their best." Rong Li knelt down and said.

"Alright, let's go down if there's nothing to do." The emperor waved his hand and said, and didn't say anything about Rong Li not calling him his father.

"Your Majesty is really up to the Seventh Prince?" Li Jingan asked. After all, the attitude towards the Seventh Highness is ambiguous, saying that he does not pay attention to it, but it gives him the right, like other princes, who are now mostly given the right to participate in politics, even if it involves the six ministries, it has only just begun, and Rong Li is the commander of Jinyiwei Zhennan, and he is in charge of the rights of Jinyiwei, and the power is not small. But to say that His Majesty favors His Royal Highness the Seventh, but he has never seen him receive any preferential treatment by His Royal Highness the Seventh, that is, he went out of the palace to build a mansion last year, and the mansions he divided into are the smallest and relatively the most remote. Because of this, coupled with the fact that the Eighth Highness is also divided at the same time, the Internal Affairs Office is much more neglectful of the Seventh Highness.