Chapter 8: Singles
The new official document in his hand was sent to him by Emperor Yu.
Emperor Yu said that there was no time to inform him that the holy decree had arrived at Prime Minister Zuo's mansion, and the fourth lady had already received the decree, and the two of them would get married in a few days, and the whole capital knew about it.
Emperor Yu asked Li Cong to go back to the city for him no matter what, not only about marriage, but also about other things that needed to be explained to Li Cong in person.
Li Cong didn't want to get married.
How the first three girls died, he didn't check in person.
Every time someone died, and he was about to leave to visit the girls' houses, there were important things outside that needed to be dealt with.
This back and forth has lost a lot of clues.
After all, a period of time has passed, and the families of those girls have expressed their reluctance to investigate in detail and want the girls to rest in peace, which also vaguely reveals that they do not want Li Cong to take care of these things anymore.
Those people's faces were strange, a little scared, or they felt unlucky.
But Li Cong faintly felt that those three lives might really be related to him.
He knew that he had made too many enemies over the years.
At this moment, seeing that he was engaged again, Li Cong was not happy in his heart.
Emperor Yu has done it.
Such a sudden announcement is a good use of the identity of the emperor.
But as a good brother, he didn't ask him if he wanted to get married.
Li Cong didn't want to kill people anymore, and Ali found a line a few days ago and was following the trail, there was not even a word these days, he had to wait for him in the station.
Just as he was about to take a break from the document and look at something else, Ali came in from outside.
He was gray again, and he looked dejected.
Li Cong looked at it, but there was no wave in his heart: "Another fake news? ”
Ali rushed all the way back, and when he entered the camp tent, he sat in front of Li Cong and poured water to drink.
A pot of water fell into his stomach, and Ali completely eased up, and this time he was sweating a lot.
"Young master, as you expected, that person is not a little princess at all."
Chen Hua, the daughter of Concubine Rong, when the first emperor Li Dong was still alive, he had his eyes on finding her.
The first emperor Li Dong hated Concubine Rong very much, so he didn't plan to let go of Concubine Rong's daughter, and he was bound to crush her to ashes.
But the little princess seems to have completely evaporated over the years, although from time to time some people say that they see a girl whose face is very similar to the woman in the portrait, but it is either the identity or the age.
In the eyes of many people in the previous dynasty, the little princess was similar to her biological mother, and even more beautiful than her own mother.
But she was too young back then, and after all these years, who knows what the little princess looks like, so that portrait is the portrait of Concubine Rong before her death.
People in the whole world can grow into Concubine Rong, even if they are a little imaginary, they are only a few.
Ali muttered, "Young Master, where did you say the little princess went?" I can't find them no matter how I look for them, I knew you wouldn't have let them out of the city that day, and now we're looking for a needle in a haystack. ”
In fact, Ali didn't understand that Li Cong saw the little princess follow Mama that day, and he didn't follow.
Look at the young master's face, it was made by her mother, this is a thing that is imprinted on people's bodies for a lifetime.
Concubine Rong is so ruthless, and she doesn't blame her brother Li Dong for wanting to kill her.
Li Cong was only about ten years old back then, and Concubine Rong actually did it.
On that day, when the Qi Lin army entered the capital, Ali thought that Li Cong was going to kill the little princess with a bow and arrow, but he didn't do it in the end.
In this world, there is a vast sea of people, where are they going to find the little princess? And the little princess at that time was so young, in the troubled times at that time, I don't know if she could live.
In the face of Ali's question, Li Cong didn't have any expression.
His task was not just to find the little princess, after all these years of doing this, he still wanted to find it.
If the little princess Chen Hua died, she would have disappeared completely, but people kept releasing fake news to lure them to keep looking for it.
That may prove that the little princess Chen Hua is still alive, but I don't know whose hands it is.
The two dynasties changed, not only Li Dong doubted that the remnants of the previous dynasty would recover, but Emperor Yu also firmly believed this.
In the Chen Dynasty, there was a prince who escaped, and was pinched in the palm of his hand, so in the name of exterminating the chaotic party, some elite soldiers who didn't know where to find it, tried in vain to put the little prince back in charge of the world.
Every time Li Cong goes to bed, he thinks about what Concubine Rong once said to him.
At that time, a knife slashed his face, Concubine Rong's beautiful face was distorted, and she hated it.
In the palace, even with Emperor Chen's love and connivance, it can't make Concubine Rong feel better.
Her words were all imprinted in his mind along with the pain on his face, the blood.
Every time he dreamed about it in the middle of the night, he would have the words she had said in his head.
But Li Cong can't say anything.
He had thought that the woman would not die so easily, but he found her.
In the ashes extinguished, she hugged Emperor Chen tightly.
She was reluctant to let her daughter go into the fire with her.
The little princess was under the palace walls that day, and her desire to live was so strong.
Li Cong felt that he must find her.
Ali saw such a persistent master, and his heart was also continuous, in the past ten years, he almost broke his legs, he sighed: "Young master, the little princess is now seventeen or eighteen years old, if she lives anywhere, she may have already married." If so, are we still looking for the little princess? Actually, I think it's good for her to live like this, although she is unknown, but it is also relatively safe for her. ”
Li Cong never said what he would do when he found the little princess, so Ali guessed that he wanted to protect her.
After all, Li Cong didn't shoot the arrow that day.
Li Cong put the official document aside and looked at Ah Li, who was a little nervous: "Safety? Do you feel she needs to be safe? Unless her face is ruined and no one notices, then she is safe. ”
Ruined that face, is it the same as him, everyone is afraid to look at it?
Ali's head shrank back: "Young Master, what you said is true." ”
Li Cong smiled, and he turned to another topic: "Your Majesty has set me up for marriage today, and the woman's family has already received the will, he wants me to rush back to get married, do you say that I will run or not this time?" ”
Ali was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "This is a good thing, young master, the girls who were ordered before didn't succeed." I've always been worried that the girl won't want to marry you, and now His Majesty has finally taken your marriage to heart and wants to call the shots for you. You have to enter the palace Thank you, Your Majesty, young master, think about how old you are, you have to leave a queen for yourself. ”
Stay for a while?
Li Cong said that Ali was thinking too much: "Now it's not a question of whether to stay or not, it's a question of whether I want to go outside for a while and avoid it." ”
If you get married, you have to go back to the mansion in the capital often, and you have to go to court every day.
And a lady has a family behind her, this relationship is complicated, and it may not be easy to deal with things.
That was a very distant thing for Li Cong, and he hadn't thought about it before.
Ali saw such a master, but he was actually helpless.
"Young master, if you don't get married like this, what about my relatives?"
Li Cong was puzzled: "If you want to get married, you can go, what do you have to do with me?" ”
"Young master, I also want to get married. If you look around, my son is my age, and all my sons can run and jump to open Mongolia to study, but I'm still here. I've been following you all these years, running up and down, and every time I can only go back to the army, all I see are some new soldiers, or other generals, it's not interesting at all. Master, I don't want to beat a single. ”
Ali sat there tired, the light shining on him a little old.
Li Cong looked a little stunned, and said after a long time: "If you fancy any girl, tell me, I will let the most talkable matchmaker in the capital go to propose marriage to you, and your marriage will definitely be lively, and it will not lose the marriage of a first-class person in Beijing." ”
Speaking of this, Ali was a little shy: "Young master, you mean it seriously, I will take it seriously when you say this, don't lie to me." ”
"Of course, I'm your young master, so naturally I do what I say. If you don't want to follow me around, I'll ask Your Majesty to find you a quiet errand in the palace when you turn around. ”
These words made Ali's tears come out.
He lowered his head and wiped his tears, and slowly raised his head again: "Young Master, even if you run, you can't run away, in this world, where is not Your Majesty's?" You look so eye-catching, you can't avoid it, does the young master think that he is still a teenager? It's all old bachelors, what Your Majesty decides, no matter what, people will catch you married, it's useless for you to run, you better see Your Majesty directly, and get me a young lady back when you go back. The young master may not know that small marriages may be decided by the young lady. ”
Li Cong looked at the official documents on the table in silence, a thick pile.
He did not answer, nor should he not.
In Ali's opinion, he is already an old bachelor.
He smiled bitterly in his heart.
Palace.
Emperor Yu had just gotten up from a concubine's bed.
He was not in high spirits today, drank a little wine, and was dizzy, but he still couldn't sleep long.
He remembered Li Cong's family affairs.
The concubine is what he has been with him since the time of the prince, and her position has been stable over the years, and she has become more and more dazzling.
Seeing that Emperor Yu was not in a state today, and now that she got up again, she naturally couldn't continue to sleep.
The concubine massaged the acupuncture points on Emperor Yu's forehead: "What is Your Majesty worried about?" ”
Emperor Yu did not hide it, and told the matter of his will.
Regarding the matter of marriage, I wrote an official document to Li Cong in the afternoon.
Before going to announce the decree, he deliberately made people make a big fuss, just to let everyone in the capital know that his imperial brother Li Cong, the king of Wu, was about to be engaged again.
Li Cong's matter was yellow three times before, so this time Emperor Yu also let people calculate it in advance.
Selected from among the officials, in addition to the left prime minister Chen Wenli, it is the right prime minister Zhao Yan.