In fact, Lu Yunniang didn't take the initiative to buy it, but she heard Xiao Jiangyuan say that she wanted to see what interesting books were available in the market, so she bought them for her. At that time, this scroll of calligraphy and painting was given to her as a gift, and if she hadn't opened it by chance, she wouldn't have known that it was in it.

But she doesn't know about people, so she will naturally be curious, this is the most personal little secret, even Xiao Jiangyuan, she has hidden it for several years, until today, she learned that for so many years, Xiao Jiangyuan is still ......

So what has this emperor done all these years? There are nearly sixty children, and none of them are Xiao Jiangyuan's, which is really ...... Speechless.

"I don't know anything else." Lu Yunniang spread her hands.

It was late at night, Xiao Jiangyuan had already dressed and returned to the bedroom with Lu Yunniang. The two of them lay on the pillow, on the bedside light, and looked at the beautiful calligraphy and painting in spring, one was already like a peach blossom, delicate, and the other not only did not change his complexion, but his eyes were also full of inquiry.

"It turns out that princes and princesses were born like this......"

"The emperor and other women are like this, you don't care?"

Xiao Jiangyuan couldn't tell how he felt. Before seeing the calligraphy and painting, she really didn't care at all, even if she saw Li Longji and the concubines intimate on weekdays, she always remembered that they were just monarchs and ministers, so she didn't have much other feelings.

Later, gradually, Li Longji always went to Concubine Wu Hui, Xiao Jiangyuan was unhappy, but Wang Maozhong was still there at that time, so she felt that her unhappiness was all because of Wang Maozhong, and she didn't think too much.

But tonight she finally knew what the so-called intimacy between men and women was like. Now when she thinks of Li Longji, she can't help but think of the various scenes between him and those concubines, and then think of those handsome and slim princes and princesses, her heart is not so comfortable, although she clearly knows that the children are innocent.

"I am only his courtier, and I only want to be his courtier." Xiao Jiangyuan suddenly didn't want to look at it anymore, so he turned his back to Lu Yunniang, "I...... I slept. ”

Lu Yunniang put away the calligraphy and paintings, and when she returned to the couch, Xiao Jiangyuan was already asleep.

After quietly looking at Xiao Jiangyuan's tired and peaceful sleeping face for a while, Lu Yunniang couldn't help but sigh and said softly: "You say...... Why do you bother, women disguised as men to go to such dangerous places, fight with those men, make yourself so tired, and love but can't love...... But it's right to think about it, who said that we women can't fight, and who said that this world can only be in the pockets of men? There will be gains and losses, you will just continue to work hard in the future, everything at home has me, you just have to sleep well at home, and you don't have to think about anything else. ”

It is not so much that Xiao Jiangyuan is worried about Li Longji's princes, it is better to say that she is worried about Li Longji's throne. If these teenagers are restless, for Li Longji, they are no longer sons, but enemies. If there really was that time, even if they all grew up watching Xiao Jiangyuan, she would not show mercy to her subordinates.

But if they have been separating, it is Li Longji who has been suspicious and oppressive, and even caused turmoil in the government and the opposition because of this, she, as Li Longji's first close minister, must also mediate from it, at least to keep the crown prince. It must be known that the crown prince has been established for more than 20 years and has never made a major mistake, if he did not really rebel and caused substantial harm to Li Longji, she must defend the prince first. In this way, the country is stable, and the Tang Dynasty can continue to be stable, which is also the best protection for Li Longji's power.

At the end of the twenty-third year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, after the Shouwang concubine Yang and officially left the cabinet, rumors about the crown prince Li Ying, the king of Hubei Li Yao and the king of light Li Ju began to spread inside and outside the palace.

In the rumors, the three princes have a lot of grievances against Li Longji, and the name change is just one of them, and the rest is Li Longji's preference for Concubine Wu Hui, which caused the three princes' biological mothers Zhao Lifei, Huangfu Deyi and Liu Cairen to fall out of favor, and it is another one to favor the longevity king Li Mao so that he shakes the throne.

Although rumors are invisible, they are the most likely to hurt people, and when Li Longji and Princess Taiping were fighting, Xiao Jiangyuan suffered the loss of rumors. Based on her understanding of the crown prince Li Ying, the rumors may be somewhat true, but she also knows that they are all aimed at Concubine Wu Hui, and the prince Li Ying will never dare to complain about Li Longji.

She knows where this rumor came from, but there is no evidence to prove it, but fortunately, it is only a rumor at present, although her family Ah Lang is displeased, but she can't punish the prince of a country based on this alone.

But it is precisely because of this that Li Longji became more and more depressed and angry: "In the past, Wang Maozhong married a daughter, and my meaning was clear, it was to let everyone who could go to the banquet, and even Song Gong was there in person, but he didn't go." Since Concubine Li's death, his temperament has become more and more gloomy and weird, and he has become less and less like a prince! ”

It's so gloomy and weird, it's just because of the fear of my father, and when I'm nervous, I don't say much. Xiao Jiangyuan patiently persuaded while slandering: "But if you want to say that the prince resents everyone, and even moves thoughts that he shouldn't have, the minister doesn't believe it." ”

"Why don't you believe it?"

"The children in the palace have all grown up under the watch, and the ministers know best. Everyone is their biological father, don't they know better than the ministers? For so many years, everyone has tried every means to restrain the princes, so that even the most basic talents and learning are much worse than their brothers. ”

In the early years, Li Longji was not like this, but watching his sons grow up one after another, although he was conceited of his control over the country and government affairs, he still couldn't help but feel this kind of worry in his heart. At that time, he finally understood why his grandmother hunted and killed the Li royal family in the past, and why Emperor Ruizong had such contradictory and uneasy emotions when he was in power. In recent years, as more and more adult princes have become adults, and even King Shou, who has reached the age of eighteen, has married, and his worries have intensified.

But after all, it is my own flesh and blood, although there is a bias, it never hurts. If they really did something disloyal and unfilial, if they really had the ability to kill him, it would be a hundred times, otherwise the most sad and angry person would be Li Longji as the monarch's father.

He actually suspected the source of the rumors, but Concubine Wu Hui was clean and couldn't find a suspicious point, but it was the crown prince Li Ying, who always had something consistent with the rumors.

He was still unwilling to speak for a while, and in a fit of anger, he said: "The prince is not your son, why do you want to speak for him like this?" You shouldn't have been bribed by the crown prince - he dared to buy you? ”

Seeing that Xiao Jiangyuan's face changed slightly, and he smiled slightly, Li Longji suddenly panicked, got up and grabbed Xiao Jiangyuan's hand: "I'...... I just said the wrong thing on impulse, don't blame me......"

Finally, the courtiers were honest, but Li Longji added such troubles, and Xiao Jiangyuan was also worried about him. She knew that he was just talking in a moment's air, but she couldn't pretend that she hadn't heard anything.

- Of course, the crown prince is not her son, but the child born to him after being so close to other women.

She withdrew her hand lightly, took a step back, and stood respectfully with her hands crossed: "No matter what happens, no matter when and where, the minister will not turn his back on everyone, and I hope everyone will learn from it." ”

Listening to Xiao Jiangyuan's tone so unfamiliar and polite, Li Longji was anxious and angry, and he didn't know what to do. The ability to be comfortable with women on weekdays has gone, and he can only turn around with his sleeves and no longer look at Xiao Jiangyuan as if he is evading.

The hall was quiet for a while, only to hear Xiao Jiangyuan sigh, and said: "What everyone should be worried about is whether the Tang Dynasty will be able to continue to write a prosperous era when it is handed over to such a prince in the future." ”

"If he has mediocre qualifications, shouldn't he be replaced?"

That's not what the minister meant. The prince has been very studious since he was a child, and he is also very intelligent, not a person with mediocre qualifications, as long as everyone cultivates ...... well."

Li Longji suddenly sneered, slowly turned his head, and his eyes were heavy: "Once the cultivation is completed, if I am still here, what will happen to me and him at that time?" ”

Just as the relationship between Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozu, Li Longji and Emperor Ruizong, and the relationship between the emperor and the crown prince is always so elusive and unpredictable.

Seeing that Xiao Jiangyuan was speechless for a while, Li Longji sighed lowly: "Maybe in front of the throne, there are only monarchs and ministers, and there are no father and son......"

There are no husband and wife, Xiao Jiangyuan said secretly in his heart.

In the twenty-fourth year of Kaiyuan, it came tremblingly in the rumors.

I don't know if someone did it on purpose, Li Longji always felt that the state affairs have been particularly busy in recent months, and many small things that he would not have found himself in the past often have to ask for his opinion now. The crown prince Li Ying has also recently begun to strictly enforce the morning and dusk provinces, often bringing Li Yao, the king of Hubei, and Li Ju, the king of light, with their purpose clearly revealed. It's a pity that this not only did not regain Li Longji's trust, but made Li Longji more and more disgusted and alienated.

Feeling the subtle changes in the relationship between the emperor and the crown prince, Zhang Jiuling and Pei Yaoqing, as prime ministers, naturally had to make efforts to ease up, but they were gradually dissatisfied by Li Longji. It didn't take long for Li Longji to lift Li Linfu out of the books of the law, telling him to remember his identity as prime minister, not to patronize the law, but also to take care of other things.

Although Li Linfu felt that he lacked skills at first, he was excited and happy in his heart. He has been obediently in front of Zhang Jiuling and Pei Yaoqing for nearly two years, and he is finally about to come out.

In July, the summer heat was in full bloom, and the idle stable got a good quality white feather, Li Longji liked it very much after seeing it, so he made a white feather fan, kept a handful for himself, and gave Xiao Jiangyuan and Concubine Wu Hui a handful, and then gave the prime minister a handful each.

Xiao Jiangyuan only glanced at the white feather fan fixedly, then put it away, planning to throw it to Lu Yunniang when he went home one day.

Concubine Wu Hui gave the fan to her daughter-in-law Yang Yuhuan: "I heard that you are afraid of heat, and you will sweat nonstop in the middle of summer, so I will give you this stubborn thing." ”

The swan song of the Tang Dynasty