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I'm silent, what should I say at this point? Explanation is not my style, and with Li Shimin's wisdom, I am only afraid that the more I explain, the worse it will be. He looked at me fixedly, and I could only look back at him calmly. He finally smiled, turned his back and walked back slowly, and I had to follow.

"I've always liked you, talking to you, saying things I could never say to my courtiers and concubines, but I'm getting more and more worried, and I'm worried that you, like those people, just want my rights." His back is desolate, is this the price of being alone? It is never possible to have a heart that can be trusted by anyone.

"Why don't you speak?"

"The concubine is thinking, the concubine has no son to ask His Majesty for a knighthood, and no brother wants to split the territory, so His Majesty will look at the concubine differently, right?"

"Haha!" Li Shimin laughed, but the laughter was full of desolation, and after a while, he said softly, "I have transferred Mei Niang back to the Lizheng Palace, and Mei Niang will serve me in the future." ”

I was stunned, he wasn't asking for my opinion, he just told me about this fact, no wonder I saw Mei Niang standing behind him just now. After a while, looking at his back, he knew that I had stopped, but he didn't stop waiting for me, so I had to take two quick steps to keep up with him.

"Don't want to ask anything?"

"Mei Niang is Your Majesty's concubine, and it is a matter of course to serve Your Majesty." I said with some trepidation.

"You, you only speak so unconfidently about Mei Niang, right?" He glanced at me sideways, and slowly walked forward with a long sigh, "Mei Niang is very smart, she writes a good hand similar to me, I am old, and I am gradually a little powerless, after the polishing of Concubine Xue in the past few years, her temperament seems to be smoother, I want to keep her by my side to help me do something." Besides, she doesn't have a son, I'll let ...... She, like Concubine Xue, will always have something to rely on. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." I bowed, but I still felt weird, what was he talking about? He wants to give Mei Niang a child? Still is...... I was confused, he didn't notice my confusion, and waved my hand to tell me not to be polite.

In front of the Lizheng Palace, Mei Niang took her son and the little princess to kick the shuttlecock, she taught them to kick sandbags since she was a child, and also taught them to kick with tricks. In the afterglow of the setting sun, youth and health are full of vitality.

Li Shimin is quietly watching her from a distance like me, will he feel the same as me? He just explained to me the reason for transferring Mei Niang back, but I know that the biggest reason is that he has actually made up his mind to make Li Zhi the crown prince, and it is not suitable for Mei Niang, as one of his concubines, to stay. At the age of twenty, she is in her prime, compared to a girl who has not grown up in her teens, she is full of temptation, and in the name of her mother, it is indeed a bit risky to let her stay with sixteen-year-old Li Zhi at the age of twenty.

And that's probably why he started worrying about me, right? I got Mei Niang to Li Zhi's side early, except for Concubine Xue, Mei Niang is actually Li Zhi's closest person, plus over the years, I am too close to Li Zhi, take him on vacation every year, I send someone to teach Li Zhi to ride a horse, teach him to play polo, teach him to experience the hard work of farming, and the joy of harvest, if it is just an ordinary prince, it doesn't matter, but as the future prince, I overstepped my authority. If I hadn't done it early, Li Shimin would have killed me a long time ago. He was able to dispel his suspicions immediately, perhaps because I did it too early, and he did not expect that I knew that Li Zhi would become the later Emperor Gaozong before anyone else in this era.

"It's like when Madame was young." Li Shimin said softly.

Am I petrified again, like me? Or when you were younger? Alas! Where are this old man's eyes? It took less than three minutes before and after I saw him for the first time, and more importantly, I fainted in front of him, how can I compare with a healthy and beautiful girl at this time?

"She's much more beautiful than when the concubine was young." I found my voice in a half-day period.

"I think Madame is prettier than her." Li Shimin shook his head, and I decided not to say anything anymore, because it was not easy to reply.

I clapped my hands, Mei Niang saw me, reached out and firmly caught the flying key, put down her skirt and saluted His Majesty Li Shimin in a decent manner, Li Shimin waved his hand. My son came over and took my hand, "Is Madame going home?" ”

"Yes!" I patted her little red face, and alas, did the young know what we were doing for her happiness?

Princess Xincheng stood quietly behind Mei Niang after saluting Li Shimin, looking at us timidly, I sighed secretly in my heart, but in the end I didn't say anything to Li Shimin. Li Shimin also saw it, maybe he was moved by a trace of compassion, and beckoned to the little princess, the little princess hesitated, but still ran over, but she was not tired of being in her father's arms like her son, but just stood in front of her father, "What is the matter with my father summoning his son?" ”

I sighed again, it seems that the upbringing grandmother in the palace is really dutiful, making a child of seven or eight years old look like seventy or eighty years old.

"It's okay, let's send Mrs. Wu and my sister out of the palace with me." He smiled, patted Xincheng's head, thought about reaching out and holding Xincheng's little hand, and the other hand reached out to his son, who stepped forward and grabbed his arm, and the father and daughter slowly walked towards the palace gate in the afterglow of the sunset. In the palace, I couldn't hold her hand, I couldn't hold her, and I didn't dare to ask her if she was okay, how should she live in the last six years?

She didn't say anything, just smiled softly at me, did she want to reassure me? In front of the Qianhua Gate, I still hugged her, and while no one was paying attention, I said softly, "It's good to follow Your Majesty to learn the Emperor's Mind Technique." She stiffened a little, but quickly relaxed. After saying what I wanted to say and saying goodbye to Li Shimin and them, I left the palace gloomily. On the way home, my son snuggled in my arms and was silent, seemingly thinking a lot.

"What's wrong?"

"Did I embarrass Madame?"

"No, my son is my heart's meat, and I like my son the most." I hugged her and kissed her hard.

"Fourth brother embarrassed you?" She sighed.

"Why do you only say the fourth brother?"

"He just saw that his wife's eyes were fierce, and his father didn't seem to be very happy."

"Does my son want to be a princess?" I want to look her in the eye, as if I never asked her.

"What's the matter?" She thought for a moment and didn't answer me right away.

"In the future, there may not be so many gorgeous clothes in Xincheng, and there will not be so many grandmothers, the palace maids will follow you, only me and grandma will be with you. By the way, no one will call you princess again, and not everyone will have to salute when they see you......" I was desperately thinking about what she might lose.

"Can I still go to see Daddy and Brother Jiu?"

"Of course, the son is still the daughter of his father, the little sister of His Royal Highness King Jin."

"That's not right! The princess was annoyed. She waved her hand disappreciatively and hugged me tightly, "I still like to be with my wife." ”

"You're so smart!" I said softly, yes, what a smart child.