The leaves outside the hall are yellow and the grass is yellow, it is still the scene of late autumn, but the hall has already entered the early winter, and it is so cold that people can't help but wake up.

Xiao Jiangyuan wanted to speak and stopped, thought about it and sighed: "...... Sooner or later, Ah Lang will understand. ”

"I don't want to understand! Why should I understand?! Li Longji approached Xiao Jiangyuan, "Now that I am the crown prince, I will be the emperor in the future, the lord of the country, and the king of the world, what do I want and can't get?" You can only listen to me, can't you? ”

Xiao Jiangyuan glanced at Li Longji deeply, and smiled faintly: "Then it is good for Ah Lang to ascend the throne smoothly, if Ah Lang is abolished by the saint before that, then everything he has said will be empty words." ”

"Then tell me, what is your business?"

In recent days, the palace has been so busy with the selection of a side concubine for the prince that people are on their backs, and there is no idle outside the palace. I don't know when a kind of remark started, it gradually became heard, and it was spread by word of mouth, and finally spread to the entire Chang'an - the prince is not a grandson, and he should not be established.

This is Li Longji's innate and most fatal weakness, previously because of the merits, everyone can temporarily ignore it, now it has been four months, the change of courtiers, the situation has changed, it can be said that time has passed, but the dust has never settled, as long as someone mentions it slightly, this weakness will be highlighted, not to mention that everyone is talking about it.

In fact, at this time, if the saint stands up, even if he does not issue an edict, but only stops it verbally, the matter is not so serious, and there is still room for big things to be turned into small things, at least Li Longji can take advantage of the situation, and take advantage of Li Dan's excuse to come forward to punish some people who are talking about it, and kill chickens and monkeys. However, these remarks have been spread for almost a month, and even the palace does not seem to be so calm, and Li Dan has never reacted.

Sometimes, the lack of reaction is already a statement.

Li Longji knew this very well, but he didn't have any reaction, but even as the crown prince, he still often got together with Li Chengqi's brothers as before, eating and sleeping together. He still maintained a distance from his courtiers to avoid suspicion, and when some upright and loyal ministers mentioned this matter to him, or when some neutral ministers did not take a position to knock on him, he pretended not to hear or understand, and then immediately excused himself.

In the eyes of most courtiers, the prince relied on and trusted the saint very much, and never thought that he would be abandoned by the saint. He seems to have lost all the heroism and decisiveness of the coup d'état that day, and he is honest and simple to put it mildly, but to say it ugly is to cower and cowardly. There are only some clear-eyed people who neither look for him nor deny his behavior, such as Yao Yuanchong and Song Jing.

"That's what you're trying to tell me?" Li Longji still looked like he was not salty at the moment, and he smiled very casually, "Then you should know that there is another one that is popular with this kind of remarks, which is about you." ”

Xiao Nei's maid dressed as a woman, and danced "Longevity Girl" in the Taiji Palace, which not only shook the courtiers who didn't believe that she was a woman, but also set off a wave of women dressing up as men outside the palace. After the Taiji Hall banquet that day, this dance was introduced into the market from nowhere, and after several legends of the people, Xiao Jiangyuan pretended to be a eunuch as a woman, and the lingering love story between the prince Li Longji was basically formed.

Xiao Jiangyuan said: "...... The slave maid came today to tell Ah Lang that the princess of Zhenguo had made a move, and as soon as she made a move, she would put Ah Lang to death, and Ah Lang could already fight back. ”

"You're telling me to switch from defense to offense?" Li Longji chuckled, "I am indeed not a long-term adult, this is something that everyone knows, everyone said over and over again, Aya didn't react at all." And aunt, the courtiers have played Aya more than once, don't let women interfere in politics anymore, but did you see Aya listen? I turn defense into offense, what do I use to fight back? ”

"Didn't Princess Zhenguo already send someone?"

"You mean...... Yang Zhenyi? ”

"Yang Liangdi can be sent over by Princess Zhenguo, she must have a lot to do with Princess Zhenguo, what she came here for, you can imagine. But she will be Ah Lang's concubine after all in the future, if Ah Lang successfully ascends the throne, she will be a concubine, the status of the old people in the East Palace will not be too low, and even the family will become more and more prosperous, these benefits are obvious, but she still wants to do things for the princess of Zhenguo, and there must be a reason for this. If Ah Lang can detect this reason, break it, and at the same time really pull Yang Liangdi into the camp of the East Palace, isn't this the least counterattack? ”

“…… You asked me to deliberately approach another woman and then take her heart? ”

"This shouldn't be difficult for Ah Lang."

"Is this a difficult question?" Li Longji immediately stood up, "You...... You actually made me ...... yourself."

Seeing that Li Longji couldn't say anything in the end, Xiao Jiangyuan thought about it seriously and said seriously: "Ah Lang and his wife and concubine have always had a harmonious relationship, Yang Liangdi has become Ah Lang's concubine, and according to Ah Lang's habit of treating women well, contact is a matter of time or time. Once a woman has a deep friendship with Ah Lang, it is difficult to guarantee that she will not have true feelings for Ah Lang, aren't Liu Liangyuan and Zhao Liangyuan like this? Ah Lang doesn't have to be presumptuous and have no confidence in himself. ”

Li Longji: "......"

Xiao Jiangyuan saw that Li Longji's face was still wrong, and said, "If Ah Lang has a problem, he can speak up." ”

"You...... Is that the case? ”

Of course, Xiao Jiangyuan knew what Li Longji was asking: "Does Ah Lang have any other questions?" ”

Li Longji smiled self-deprecatingly: "How can the relationship between people be as simple as you said...... If you really have a deep friendship with me, you can move the truth, then what's the matter with you? I don't believe that you are not emotionally attracted to me at all, but if you are really emotional, why are you unwilling to resume your identity and marry me? ”

Xiao Jiangyuan was a little puzzled: "Is there any inevitable connection between these two things?" ”

"I have seen a lot of ladies who have moved their true feelings, and they will do whatever it takes to dedicate everything they have, even their lives, to the Langjun in their hearts."

"So women are emotional, do they have to be like this?"

"It doesn't have to be, but women in the world are like this."

Xiao Jiangyuan was a little dazed and confused: "It's all like this, so ...... Do I want to do the same? ”

Li Longji's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stepped in front of Xiao Jiangyuan: "You don't need to be like this!" It's just that...... Why don't you even want to do it for me when you restore your identity and marry me? Isn't that the easiest? ”

Xiao Jiangyuan instantly regained his most standard smile on weekdays: "It turns out that in Ah Lang's opinion, this is just an easy little thing." ”

Li Longji shook his head: "I really don't understand your attachment to the identity of a eunuch. ”

"But the reason is that the slave has already told Ah Lang."

"You're saying that you want to be my courtier, but you don't want to be my woman?" Li Longji frowned and said, "Then I don't understand it even more, if you want to become a woman like your grandmother and Shangguan Zhaorong, isn't marrying me a shortcut?" ”

“…… The slave never said that she wanted to be like that. ”

"And what do you want?"

After a pause, Xiao Jiangyuan said solemnly: "Power, a powerful power in your hands." Only in this way can I no longer be humble, no longer see the last side of the people I admire, I can do whatever I want, and I can live the life I want to live away from those I don't want. And what I don't want the most, I've always known, and now I think Ah Lang knows it too. ”

Li Longji hesitated and said, "If you marry me, can't you gain power?" ”

"Ah Lang asked himself, if he can become a great treasure in the future, will Ah Lang give women that opportunity and power again?" Xiao Jiangyuan smiled faintly, "After experiencing the turmoil like Wu Zhou and Li Tang, and Shangguan Zhaorong, Wei Shuren and Princess Zhenguo followed, I am afraid that Ah Lang not only believes in the sentence 'Ji Si Chen', but also can't allow women to challenge Datang and his own authority." So, what is Ah Lang willing to do for his slaves? ”

Seeing that Li Longji was pondering and did not speak, Xiao Jiangyuan relaxed his tone: "The slave maid is still a eunuch at least on the surface, and there is no shortage of women, Ah Lang, and there should be no second eunuch like the slave maid, Ah Lang should not have a second one by his side." ”

After being silent for a long time, Li Longji said: "Yang Zhenyi, I will do it." "My aunt has indeed become more and more excessive recently, of course he will not allow her to oust him from the position of crown prince, he will not kill her, but it does not mean that he will let her go.

"Aaron Shengming."

"As for you, it's not over yet." After Li Longji finished speaking, he turned around and left the Lizheng Palace.

The rumors about the crown prince Li Longji and the inner servant Xiao Jiangyuan are still coming and going, without the slightest sign of stopping, and there will be new content almost every few days, such as the prince and Xiao Nei's servant were happy with each other as early as Shangyang Palace, Xiao Nei's servant refused to rebel against the people for the sake of the prince, and asked himself to guard the mausoleum.

And Li Longji's non-grandson and non-growth should not be established, and his ominous remarks that will make Datang are slightly inferior. But after all, it has been circulating for a long time, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that the country will be unstable, so Yao Yuanchong and Song Jing and other prime ministers will play Li Dan and ask Li Dan to issue an edict prohibiting talking about this matter.

Li Dan thought that the heat was almost over, so he agreed - how many things did Aya prohibit when he issued an edict back then, especially that the people were not allowed to wear vermilion and purple and other colors, it was the edict of the Son of Heaven, but how many people were obedient? Don't you wear a small coat of vermilion and purple under your outer shirt? Could it be that if he issued an edict to prohibit it, such remarks could disappear from Chang'an in an instant?

At the same time, Li Dan proposed another thing: he wanted to chase the seal.

First of all, his mother is the Great Sage Empress, who has just been reinstated as the Queen of Heaven and has been paired with his father Emperor, and now he wants to posthumously crown his mother as the "Great Sage Queen of Heaven", and then add honor and honor. Secondly, no one in the civil and military affairs would have thought that after the Great Sage Queen, the person who the saint wanted to posthumously was Li Chongjun, the abolished prince of Zhongzong?

The swan song of the Tang Dynasty