"Do you feel wronged?" Emperor Su Tai put the tea bowl on the table at hand and asked Wen Yan.

The King of Shu lowered his head: "Hexuan doesn't dare!" ”

"The first emperor didn't have much blood and bones." Emperor Sutai ignored his insincere answer, and said to himself, "Not counting the one who 'died violently' in the edict, there are only five of our brothers." The eldest brother and the third brother are no longer there, and the king of Xiangjun is not very close to us, speaking of which, among the royal family, the brothers who have the best feelings and get along with the most are probably me and you. ”

"I haven't paid much attention to the fact that you wanted to inherit the throne before—how can anyone who wants to be a prince and not want to reign over the world? When the first emperor ascended the throne with the intention of Duanhua, why didn't I feel disappointed? ”

"I have this ambition, as the son of the first emperor, you are also born with such a mind when you are pampered by others, I think it is human nature, there is nothing to blame!"

The King of Shu was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, but Emperor Sutai's tone suddenly became cold, "It's just...... If you are like King Liang, you have the ambition to take the throne early on, and you want to take advantage of the chaos to make a move, and you can pay it back! However, you didn't have such a plan earlier, but it was just the instigation of the Wei family - the Wei family can instigate you once, and if there is a similar situation, can you also be instigated a second time?! ”

"You are so assertive, and you don't think so, how can you rest assured that you are called me?!"

Seeing the King of Shu kneeling on the ground, he trembled clearly, and Emperor Sutai said meaningfully, "Fifth brother, born in the royal family, it is not wrong to be ambitious, and it is not necessarily wrong to be arrogant and willful, the most wrong thing is to not be able to see the situation clearly and not recognize the bottom line - sometimes ambition brings fame, sometimes ambition brings ruin!" ”

The young emperor continued lightly, "You are the youngest in terms of elder and young, you have nothing in terms of power, and you are also common in terms of talent, such capital, unless our brothers are all gone, how dare you be involved in such a whirlpool?!" ”

"Do you think you're wronged here? Concubine Xu and the emperor's grandmother's good intentions, I don't know when you will be able to understand? ”

The King of Shu choked up: "Hexuan knows his mistake!" ”

He finally became frightened, stepped forward on his knees, and begged, "Hexuan doesn't dare anymore!" I beg Your Majesty to read it for the sake of flesh and blood, Rao Hexuan's life! ”

Saying that, he kowtowed desperately.

Emperor Sutai was silent for a while, and slowed down his tone: "Since the first emperor executed his half-siblings back then, the royal family has not been happy. ”

"So far, there are only a few people, I can't even bear to do it, let alone you?"

"I'm telling you this today, it's not that I'm disgusted with you, and it's not that I want you to learn from Uncle Yi Wang in the future - I just hope that you can think about the future in the three years of guarding the tomb! It's not just your future, it's our Lu's future! ”

There was a slight tiredness in the emperor's tone, "There is a way to fight tiger brothers, and go into battle as father and son soldiers!" The royal family is not happy, I am a person who lacks skills, and I am now powerless to compete with hundreds of officials, even if I fight back most of the power, do you say that I can manage it alone? Hexuan, I am not the first emperor, let alone Duanhua, I sincerely hope that I can have my brothers to help stabilize the foundation of the Lu family! ”

"The legacy of His Majesty Emperor Taizu and the first emperor will not take many years."

"If my Lu clan can't produce another virtuous king, remind the people of the world, who brought them prosperity and prosperity, and who gave them peace and contentment to live and work - what can Da Rui do except the sunset? You must know that people are always forgetful! ”

Emperor Sutai paused, and Fang continued, "You have been guarding the tomb here for three years, it is your biological mother's will, and I will not and do not want to go against her will. ”

"So, if you are willing, I will send you a famous guard to teach you the art of civil and martial arts."

"I hope that after three years, when you return to the imperial capital, you can immediately enter the court and share your worries!"

Before the words fell, the King of Shu had fallen to the ground crying, and he paused again and again: "Hexuan...... Hexuan will live up to His Majesty's expectations!! ”

…… After the king of Shu retired, his henchmen came in to give Emperor Sutai a new tea, and complimented: "Your Majesty is magnanimous, His Royal Highness the King of Shu can change his mistakes, three years later, I think Your Majesty will have an extra arm to assist, brothers of one heart, continue my great Rui prosperous world!" ”

"The King of Shu has been arrogant since he was a child, he didn't have anything when he was a prince, and no one expected him to take on big things." However, Emperor Sutai only said calmly, "Now that he has become the emperor's brother, I expect him to be able to enter and leave the court in the future, and this is not a little bit or two, whether he can survive or not, I am not sure." In the next three years, you tell the people below to supervise more, where can you take it seriously when you are excited? ”

The confidant and the chamberlain said: "If it weren't for His Majesty's permission, His Royal Highness the King of Shu would be ordered by the late Concubine Xu to guard the mausoleum, how could there be such treatment?" Your Majesty, rest assured, His Royal Highness the King of Shu will definitely not disappoint your expectations! ”

After the king of Shu was excited, he reverted to his old state and refused to move forward?

Then let him have to be motivated - the little prince raised by brocade clothes and jade food, how much can he eat? There are so many ways to make him have to work hard!

Emperor Sutai nodded, and commanded lightly: "I have no heirs under my knees, in the past few years, the only thing I can count on is this younger brother, teach to teach, don't really lose him!" ”

He just hopes that the King of Shu can become successful, but he doesn't want to condone the slaves and maids to bully his younger brother!

After the funeral of the Empress Dowager ended in a hurry, time turned to Chinese New Year's Eve, because the clan had lost two new heavyweights, although this was the first New Year after the new monarch took the throne, the next day was still a big day to change the yuan, but the palace banquet still maintained the cold of the previous two years.

However, the imperial capital still celebrated this festival happily.

The main reason is that everyone is very happy that the major events of the siege of the emperor have passed smoothly, and the world that has been peaceful for decades has not risen again.

So even if they are afraid of the new funeral of the Empress Dowager, it is not good to be too colorful, most people are still happy.

The fifth day of the first lunar month of the new year is the birthday of the Empress Dowager Su.

Originally, Emperor Sutai hoped to take the opportunity of this Holy Birthday Festival to ease the relationship between mother and son.

But the Empress Dowager's filial piety has not yet come out, how can she be a daughter-in-law's birthday?

And the Empress Dowager Su herself doesn't like to celebrate her birthday in a big way.

In the end, at Jian Xubai's suggestion, Emperor Sutai ordered the Mingren Palace to be renovated to welcome the Empress Dowager Su's stay.

Originally, according to the rules of this dynasty, Mingren Palace was the residence of the Queen Mother.

At the beginning, the Empress Dowager Su took the initiative to give way to the Empress Dowager, so she lived in Huiyi Palace.

After the death of the Empress Dowager before, it is said that the Empress Dowager Su can move to the Qingxi Palace.

However, Empress Dowager Su is self-conscious, and she doesn't want people to say that as soon as her mother-in-law dies, she rushes over to occupy the place, but it seems that she let her mother-in-law act like she did it back then, so she has been dragging it out and not moving.

This will make Emperor Sutai take advantage of this to be courteous, and she has nothing to be happy or unhappy, she only coldly said that she knew - although Emperor Sutai was disappointed, but fortunately, the Empress Dowager Su is not very old, and the phoenix body has always been healthy, they are biological mothers and sons, take your time, there will always be a day to coax the Queen Mother, and the emperor is not in a hurry.

On the ninth day of the first month of the first year of Sutai, Pei Yourui, who had locked herself in the courtyard since the first day of the Yanguo Mansion and had not even shown up on Chinese New Year's Eve or the first day of the first month, finally made a decision and went to the back hall to find Song Yixiao, hoping that she could help her husband and wife reunite.

"Has my sister thought it through?" Song Yixiao had already asked about He Lou Duhan's vague situation from the Su family before, this person is alive, but the situation is really not ordinarily bad: all limbs have different degrees of disabilities, and there is no good piece of meat on his body, if it weren't for Empress Wei's success in coercing a confession and using him to testify against the Su family, it is estimated that she would not even be able to keep her appearance.

Rao is like this, and his face was also branded with insulting words - Song Yixiao didn't see anyone in person, but thinking back to the personable Zhuang Yuanlang back then, he only listened to the description of the Su family, and he also knew what He Lou Duhan was like now.

You must know that when He Lou was unharmed, Pei Yourui was also lukewarm, and she didn't mean to be particularly enthusiastic, let alone now?

It's no wonder that the Su family is worried that Pei Yourui won't want this husband.

Song Yixiao personally has a good impression of their couple, but because of the convenience of the female relatives, she is always closer to Pei Yourui.

So although he felt sorry for He Lou Duhan in his heart, if Pei Yourui decided to choose another lover at the moment, Song Yixiao felt that it was understandable - after all, He Lou Duhan deceived Pei Yourui in front, and he couldn't complain that Pei Yourui refused to accompany him to share the suffering.

At this moment, Pei Yourui said that she was willing to continue to live with this husband, and Song Yixiao inevitably had to confirm it again and again, lest Pei Yourui regret it in the future.

"Of course I thought about it." Pei Yourui just smiled bitterly, stretched out her hand to stroke her lower abdomen, which was already obviously bulging, and said abruptly, "So many days...... What haven't you thought about? I came to you because I was sure I wouldn't regret it in the future. ”

Seeing that Song Yixiao heard this, she still wanted to speak a little, she sighed lightly and said, "In my life, the thing I regret the most is that I got too close to my stepmother, so that after Jian Yiyou regretted the marriage, I overreacted, which made my father feel uneasy, and he had to take me out of the imperial capital despite the wind and snow - now that I think about it, in fact, I may not like Jian Yiyou very much, but because of our identity, it is inconvenient to go out, and every time I come and go, there are very few men I can see except for blood relatives." My stepmother Xu was compensated because of my uncle, and deliberately matched me and Jian Yiyu when she was a child. After a long time, I thought that I would definitely marry him, and he would definitely marry me - and then suddenly there was an accident in this matter, and I couldn't accept it! ”

"If this family affair was ruined, I would have calmly held the shelf, and my father would not have been in a hurry to take me back to my hometown to avoid the descent of the eldest princess of Changxing......"

Pei Yourui's eyes gradually filled with tears, "This is the most regrettable thing in my life, but now I am a little vaguely glad that my father went that year, and now there is no need to be sad for me!" ”

She smiled a little desolately, "Of course, I know that although my father is gone, Third Uncle Jian, Princess Chengyang, and you and Ah Xu, for my uncle's sake, will not treat me lightly." If I don't want to do it, you'll help me—but what about my child? No matter how good others are, they are not as good as their biological parents after all. ”

"If my sister wants to continue to be with He Lou just for the sake of the child, in fact, there is no need." Song Yixiao was silent for a while, and said, "The Su family is rushing to appease other secret sons, and it is impossible to ignore He Lou in the future, so we don't have to worry about how he will live in the future - as for the child, if my sister is afraid that he will not have a father, after he is born, he can be raised under the knees of me and my husband." We now have three children under our knees, and one more is just right for us to be a companion. ”

She paused, "My sister is still young, and the days to come...... If it's just for the sake of the child, it's too bitter! ”

"It's not all for the kids, either." Pei Yourui thought for a while, shook her head and said, "It's also because, now, no, I used to, or always along, I just want to find someone who is willing to live a good life and live together." It's a pity that Jian Yi is not such a person, and He Lou Duhan, he is actually very good to me, but at that time I was full of hatred and didn't care whether he was good or not. Later, he was ordered by the Su family, and when I was first picked up by the Liu family, and then went to Zhanchun Hall to live alone, I found that even for people like us, it is sometimes a luxury to want to live in peace. Sure enough, you can't hide from the suffering you deserve. ”

She laughed at herself again, "Speaking of which, you look at my life: Jian Yiyu, He Lou Duhan, who approaches me has no other thoughts?" Now you also attach great importance to me, do you say that if I don't want He Lou Duhan anymore, and then I want someone else, that person must be reliable? It's better to leave it at that. ”

Pei Yourui said this, Song Yixiao didn't say anything more, and after asking Princess Chengyang and Jian Xubai nodded, she ordered someone to go to the Su family to spread the word.

Su Shaoge came over in person to discuss the matter as usual - because the yamen was sealed in the first month, Jian was empty at home, and he happened to receive him.

After the two had a long talk, Jian Xubai returned to the back hall and told his wife: "He Lou Duhan's identity can no longer be used, and the Su family plans to arrange a new identity for him, but Sister Pei is the county lord after all, if the couple has been living in the imperial capital in the future, even if everyone knows it, I am afraid that it will inevitably be said that it should not be passed on." ”

Song Yi couldn't help frowning: "This is to keep Sister Pei away from the imperial capital?" It's not convenient for us to take care of it in that way! ”

However, Pei Yourui didn't care about it: "I was about to say, after our husband and wife are reunited, I don't want to stay in the imperial capital anymore, this place is really sad for me to be honest." I'd rather go a little further and live somewhere else, and never worry about the rights and wrongs again! ”

She has followed the rules in her life, thinking that she will be like the ladies she has seen since she was a child, when she reaches her age, her elders will be in charge, marry a husband who is the right person, take care of his backyard and have children, and live a plain life like this - she may pinch her mother-in-law a few times in the middle, quarrel and cry for her husband's concubine, but in general, it is not characteristic from a noble girl to a noble lady, and then to an old lady.

Who would have thought that she was caught up in a turmoil that she couldn't imagine three times or twice, once she was lost, once she was displaced, once she was hateful, and once she was at a loss...... She's really done enough to make pond fish!

Therefore, I would rather give up the prosperity of the imperial capital and the honor of the county lord's identity, and just seek the years to come, be plain, safe and stable, and don't fall into any schemes, disputes, and overall situations!

After Pei Yourui clearly expressed such an attitude, Song Yixiao was very reluctant to her and not at ease, but in the end she still agreed.

So he chose a new home for her - the Su family treated He Lou Duhan's injuries and arranged a new identity, and then it took time for them and their wives to come together naturally, so Pei Yourui finally agreed to live in Yanguo Mansion until the end of confinement, and then consider leaving.

It's hard to find a good doctor these days, there are even fewer female doctors, and giving birth to a child is a checkpoint for women, although Pei Yourui hates the imperial capital from the bottom of her heart, she doesn't want to joke with the lives of the mother and son.