Chapter 125 Li Tai is difficult

(daily change + pink 439 plus change)

The ice mullioned window opened two doors near the lake, and the cool breeze on the lake surface was sent into the room, blowing a quiet smell, stirring the red bed veil, and the jade curled up in the quilt and turned over, freed out half of the arm in a white shirt from the quilt, and lay on the silk pillow of the blue and red flowers, first let out an uncomfortable moan, and struggled a few times to open his eyes.

What comes into view is a translucent red tent, and between the two pairs of mahogany landscape screens not far away, it can't stop the dim color outside the open south window.

The silence in the room was excessive, and she stared at the color of the approaching dusk for a moment, and a red tide gradually rose on her white face, and then she turned her head and buried herself in the pillow, making a series of vague muttering sounds.

Pingtong pushed open the door, walked in lightly with a tray, bypassed the screen, and just put the plate down on the silver-footed case, he noticed movement on the bed.

"Master, are you awake?" She changed her tone and didn't call Miss again, and this master was closer than calling the princess, just like Ah Sheng calling Li Tai.

Yi Yu heard that it was Pingtong's voice, and although she didn't want to see anyone at this time, she still turned her head sideways and showed her head, and said "um".

"The prince told the slave maid to boil the soup, do you want to get up and drink some?" Pingtong spoke, went to the side of the Caiyu cabinet to get two cushions, the person has walked to the bed to wait, waited for a long time, only to see the people in the account, she hung up the curtain on both sides in time, smelled a faint fragrance on the tip of the nose, looked cramped, and soon returned to normal.

While rejoicing that she had forced Li Tai to put on her middle coat in the morning, she couldn't bear the discomfort on her body, and raised her hand to let Pingtong help her up, and stuffed a soft cushion in her back and half leaned on the head of the bed.

"What about the prince," Yi Yu asked softly, Li Tai fed her a lot of water in the morning, but her voice was still dry and hoarse, and she couldn't speak loudly, otherwise it would hurt.

"I was talking to Steward Li in the study room in the courtyard," Pingtong scooped a small spoonful of soup, blew it a few times, and sent it to her lips, the small kitchen in this courtyard is full of ingredients, that is, all kinds of precious supplements are packed in a small cabinet, she found two boxes of high-quality golden silk blood swallows last night, soaked a few times at night, and stayed up with red dates from morning to now, which is the most suitable for replenishment.

After drinking such a bowl of hot soup, Yi Yu's stomach felt much more comfortable, and he moved his eyes to the beautiful dusk sky outside the window, his eyelids jumped, and he suddenly remembered something, and he already had a bad premonition in his heart, but he still asked out loud:

"What time is it?"

"It's more than halfway through the time of Shen," Pingtong finished answering, and saw that her face had changed, and she was about to get up with her body, so she hurriedly put down the bowl and supported her, and said, "Don't panic, the master came to the palace in the morning, saying that the emperor was slightly sick in the morning, so that the prince didn't have to enter the palace at noon, and he would go to the palace to eat in the evening." ”

Yi Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but he was secretly annoyed that he had forgotten about entering the palace, and slept until almost dusk, and said while reflecting, "Let's change clothes." ”

"It's still early, are you resting for a while?"

Pingtong persuaded that in the morning she was ready to serve breakfast, and at the door of the room she heard the crying inside, so she had to bring the things back, I don't know when the two masters were going to eat, and they warmed up back and forth a few times before they were called to deliver food to the hall.

"If you don't sleep, you'll get up." Yi Yu wanted to lie back in bed and sleep until tomorrow, but the reality couldn't help but make her willful, and she couldn't help but feel a little nervous when she thought that she could face the people in the palace today.

Li Shimin undoubtedly knew that she was Fang Xuanling's daughter, and there was such a reason as her eldest brother, what the emperor thought of her, she didn't have any bottom in her heart, but she was majestic that day, and in one sentence, Li Chen, the originally favored king of Shu, was beaten to the poor countryside, which impressed her.

There are a few high-ranking and powerful people in this world, but in fact, they are just a chess piece pinched by the emperor in the palm of his hand, whether it is Li Tai, the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Qiao, and the deceased Old Man Lu, the crown prince and the king of Shu, Li Chen, are two good examples.

On the point of imperial power, she thought that Li Tai obviously knew better than any of Li Shimin's sons, and he was the most stable, he seemed to understand very well where Li Shimin's measure of his "favor" was, where the bottom line was, and with this favor, he had ascended to the current position from a prince who died at a young age and had an affair with a secret religion such as Hongzhuang, how could it be so simple on the surface?

Yi Yu sighed secretly, people only said that he could be literate, martial arts, good and good at literature, who saw him when he couldn't leave his hand, when Hongzhuang was training hard, only that he was an official who was not required to stay in Beijing, who knew that when he couldn't sleep at night, when he was assassinated and in danger, he only said that he had a handsome skin, and who knew that his eyes had only seen one color.

After knowing the existence of Hongzhuang and hearing about the concubine Jin, how could Yi Yu simply think that Li Shimin's favor for Li Tai was because he liked this son and owed this son, but he was used as a target in front of people, and sometimes he was used as a gun, so that the emperor's mind was unpredictable. It can be said that Li Tai is now like this, and he has been forced by Li Shimin's "favor" for so many years, and he has no right to choose whether to want it or not.

Whether it's a dead end or not, that's why he can only fight

Thinking like this, her heart twisted again, and she hoped to stand by his side, accompany him, and help him, so that she would not be like the King of Wei in history, who failed to seize the throne and died in a foreign land.

In the study, Ah Sheng held in his hand the secret letter that had been sent to Luoyang and returned to Chang'an, and was reporting to Li Tai:

"After the spring on the third day of the first month of March, the king of Shu was sent to Yuzhou, and there were those who flattered Concubine Yang, and six or seven officials privately gave ten carts of money and silk, about 30,000 to the king of Shu and took it away. On the fifth day of the first month, the king of Chu left Beijing and returned to the fief with his concubines, and the king of Wu left Beijing on the sixth day of the first month and did not return to Anzhou, but went to Luoyang with the king of Qi. When Li You, the king of Qi, went to Beijing to recuperate last year, his uncle Yan Hongzhi persuaded him to recruit strong men to defend himself. And because the king of Qi hunted excessively, did not make good friends, and most of his personal friends were treacherous people, known to the saints, and changed the right to Wanji to the history of the king of Qi, and returned to Qizhou after the year, the right to persuade the king of Qi to be good to make friends to no avail, and the two sides became more and more discordant. ”

The study room of the Jade Courtyard is built in the southeast corner, surrounded by water outside the window, the air is very good, Li Tai stood by the window and looked at it for a while, dressed in a green silk shirt, with long hair in a bun, and raised it at the back of the neck with a headband, which is a little less serious than it usually looks.

Ah Sheng put down a stack of letter paper in his hand, looked up at Li Tai's back, and said: "Xu An was ordered by you to lure the King of Shu to collect 100,000 fortunes in the name of field hunting in the past four years, and recruit 500 strong men. ”

"No need," Li Tai stretched out his hand to open the other half of the window, looking at the twilight on the lake, his expression was indifferent, "Quan Wanji, this king had friends in his early years, but he was jealous and evil, Li You was arrogant and stupid in private, and he would be offended as soon as possible. If this king is not wrong, when Li Chen's demotion is settled, it will be his turn. ”

The two of them were out, Ah Sheng's eyelids jumped, and these four big words popped out of his heart, and he opened his mouth and said, "The emperor seems to be more suspicious in recent years, but he wants his subordinates to temporarily send some of the dead soldiers in the palace to avoid it, so as not to let someone slander and affect you." ”

Li Tai snorted softly from his lips, turned around, walked to the desk and picked up the red pen, crossed out a few people on the folded list, and said to himself:

"Ten years of sealing, eight sons were given, leading the governors of all states, is afraid that we will form a party in Beijing, eleven years and then sealed, when the father of the East Palace was all obtained, it is comforting, but the prince of the country has increased more than a dozen people for a while, the title is cheap, and hereditary, the territory is limited, but the descendants are endless, such a reward, how can it be eternal. The sky is high and the earth is far away, and if you live in the Taiji Palace, you don't have to worry, King An's blood training is in your eyes, doubtful? How not to doubt. ”

Listening to his comprehension of the Sacred Heart, if he could peek into it, Ah Sheng's heart jumped, his head lowered a little, he closed his eyes and listened, such a powerful scrutiny, but it was not something he could hear, even if he listened to it, he should forget it in a blink of an eye.

Li Tai was speechless, silent for a moment, and then said, "How is the situation in Jiangnan?" ”

"Back to the master's words, the huge profit of Suzhou and Hangzhou's private salt, it is really hard to think, Zi Ran took people to go for two years, only through the four roads of Shanyin, and the monthly income is 3,000 yuan, but because of the removal of the official road, most of the private salt channels have been occupied by the reckless gangs, and it is difficult for the warriors to collect, every time there are casualties, or dead or disabled, it is difficult to recruit again, and there is no increase in profits for a while."

"Jiangnan, Jiangnan..." Li Tai paced a few steps in front of the table with his hand, paused, returned to the table, took out a hard note to write, and said: "Send a hundred dead soldiers in the house to help him." ”

"Master, is this inappropriate?" Ah Sheng exclaimed in a low voice, he couldn't understand the danger of Li Tai's position, if one is not good, it is not a derogatory, in the palace of the King of Wei, in addition to the guard army tent, there are a total of one hundred and twenty good warriors, if one hundred are sent outside, once there is a change in the capital, or there are other dead soldiers to attack, it is not even the power to protect life.

Li Tai didn't explain, but just asked rhetorically, "Wang Jue is still in the West Courtyard?" ”

Ah Sheng had no choice but to change the topic with him, but he wanted to persuade him in his heart, "Lord Wang's family is outside, since he was appointed by the emperor to enter the palace as a teacher, he has lived in the West Courtyard and has never left, he has looked for you twice without success, and he only plants flowers and drinks tea every day, reads books and paints," he said strangely, "Isn't this Lord Wang sent by the emperor to pick up your daily mistakes and omissions, why has it been more than a month, and there has been no movement." ”

Li Tai shook his head, put the written secret letter into the envelope, and took a round from the drawer and rolled it in, "Up and down this house, it has been found out by the palace, and the dead will sneak away tomorrow." ”

Ah Sheng was stunned for a moment, then shocked, raised his head and muttered, "You mean, you mean that the two attendants brought in by Lord Wang are spies-oh bad" He gritted his teeth secretly and said, "I took all precautions, how could I have missed him, and my subordinates were derelict in their duties."

He took a step back, knelt down on his knees, the dead were extremely difficult to raise, not comparable to those guards and guards, half of them stayed in the mansion, intending to be ordinary people, and half of them were raised around the palace and turned into ordinary traders and ordinary people, but if it was the top spies sent by the palace, at a glance, he would know that Wang Jue had lived in the palace of the king of Wei for more than a month, presumably those two spies were the details of the palace and checked it clearly, which is also the reason why Li Tai combed the pavilion and did not allow people to enter, that is, to prevent a move, who knew that the emperor sent a scribe to find faults, but he came to find out the bottom

"Get up," Li Tai didn't feel nervous at all, and threw the secret letter into his arms, his eyes calm, "It's safe to do this." ”

The clearer you are, the more reassuring you will be.

"Master, you-" Ah Sheng was still about to say something, when he suddenly heard the sound of broken footsteps outside the door, and then there was a knock on the door, and he heard the door outside the corner of the screen: "Lord Wang, the slave and maid are here to deliver tea." ”

Pingtong and Pinghui have all served Li Tai, so they naturally know Li Tai's rules, and a place like the study cannot be broken in unless it is passed through.

Ah Sheng saw that Li Tai was no different, so he pressed the suspicion in his heart, turned around and opened the door for Pinghui, while Li Tai picked up the stack of letter paper on the desk and looked through it in his hand. Pingtong walked in with his head down, put the tea on the table, and listened to him ask:

"The princess is still sleeping?"

At first glance, when he heard the word "princess", Ping Tong was stunned for a moment, then suppressed the joy in the corners of his eyes, and said respectfully, "Back to the prince, the princess has woken up and is freshening up." ”

Li Tai frowned slightly, and saw a handful of letter paper in his hand nested into a paper ball, threw it on the bookcase, and turned around and went out.

As soon as the others left, Ping Tong said to Ah Sheng, "Steward Li, just now Manager Zhao came to the courtyard to look for you, I said that you are waiting for the prince in the study, and he went, it seems that there is something important, do you want to go to him and ask?" ”

Ah Sheng was still bored about the matter of the dead man, so he shook his head and pulled the corners of his mouth at her, and said, "It's okay, he is here to find the master, the prince and princess will enter the palace tonight to face the saint, and there is no time to see them, and they will gather to meet them tomorrow morning." ”

The jade courtyard sits in the north and faces south, is not the shape of the boxy, the northwest corner extends out of a square, it is just the inner room of the new house, from the north corner of the courtyard to the south of the door into it, it is a wide hall, the left side of the hall is connected to the bedroom, the south of the bedroom faces the lake, the east window is near the courtyard, and each opens four mullioned windows.

The floor is paved with rhyograined wooden boards, a few pear-yellow bottom brocade carpets are paved, two double-fan landscape screens divide the inner room into two, a spacious vertical tent screen bed is installed in the north, the west corner of the bed is a wardrobe, a standing cabinet, the east corner is placed in a half-zhang mahogany hanger, and another incense case is set with incense.

There is a tea case and a small silver foot case between the screen bed tents, a chess case under the south window, a soft couch for Hunan concubines, a low foot dressing table under the east window, a copper mirror is half a person high, and Yu Yu is now sitting on the soft carpet in front of the dressing table, and let Pinghui comb her hair.

She is already a wife, and if she wants to enter the palace at night, she can't be sloppy at will, Pinghui combed her hair with a good hand, which is rare to come in, so she tried her best to fiddle with it, but she suffered from the sore jade.

On the day of the wedding, Lu Jingshan and Mrs. Cheng came to make a bed for her, and put some clothes and jewelry in the new house.

When Li Tai came in, she had already combed and put it on, wearing a carmine cloud gauze skirt that wrapped her chest, leaning crookedly on the dressing table and wearing a bracelet in front of the bronze mirror, Pinghui went to the wardrobe to take the palace sleeves, and she put on the plain cotton robe he wore in the morning to block the wind, and dragged it behind her for a long time, I don't know that this light color makes her extremely lazy at the moment.

But she combed a neat lily bun again, with a purple and red tortoiseshell butterfly string on the top of her head, a thin strip of emerald gold on her smooth sideburns, and two gold core ear strings hanging on her round and jade earlobes, with a slightly drooping head and a soft expression, sitting there, like a half-open silk begonia, this should be the first time he has seen her such a luxurious little woman.

The remaining jade is better than wearing the exquisite bracelet with gold, or the jade bead string, the afterglow flashed, and when I saw the slender figure standing next to the door, my heart trembled, my hand trembled, and the jade bead string fell on the dressing table.

"Lord Wang," Pinghui heard the sound, and came out of the screen with a brand-new palace dress sleeve, and hurriedly saluted when she saw Li Tai.

Li Tai walked straight to the dressing table, sat down beside the jade, glanced at the reddish side face that she didn't turn her head to show, picked up the fallen jade bead string with one hand, and held her left hand hanging on her knee with the other, put the bead string on it, and turned it around for half a circle, so that the incense spike hanging on the string hung down in her inner circle, but she didn't let go, only pinched her tiny knuckles and played with it, her eyes fell on her side face, and carefully looked at her different taste today.

Yi Yu knew that his scorching gaze was scorching, but he didn't have the courage to turn his head to look at him, so he was stared at the ground and the tips of his ears were red. Ping Hui obviously saw the ambiguity between the two masters, so she hung her clothes back on the hanger with a blushing face and walked out quietly.

Hearing the sound of the door curtain, Yi Yu turned his face stiffly, stared at the placket of his clothes, and said timidly, "Why haven't you changed your clothes yet, aren't you going to the palace later?" ”

"Does it still hurt," Li Tai gripped the finger she wanted to pull away.

Yi Yu's head "buzzed", and he couldn't answer, so he heard Li Tai say again, "You are just too thin, if you are fatter, you will not suffer this hardship." ”

This time, he stepped on the sore foot of the left jade accurately and ruthlessly, and failed to understand the meaning of Li Tai's words, so he thought that she died and lived twice last night and this morning, but he changed his sentence, Fang Cong was a woman, delicate and expensive, and even her mind was more sensitive, and she was ashamed in her heart, so she pulled her finger out of his palm as soon as she made a move, stared at a pair of watery eyes, and raised her head and said:

"You said who caused me to do this, and you still think I'm thin, as if I was asking for trouble."

Li Tai looked at her little face with sparkling eyes and a slight pink puff, and his heart was strange, so he reached out to grab her chin and leaned forward, but she quickly covered her mouth and pushed back, leaning back in a panic, and said:

"What are you doing, you're going to go out later."

Looking at her defensive look, Li Tai lifted his eyelids, stretched out his arms to wrap around her back to support her, and pushed her backwards down on the velvet carpet, listening to her whisper, with the hairpin ring clanging, looking at her nervous appearance condescendingly.

Yi Yu was simply frightened by him, blushing and pressing his hands on his chest to push, and said awkwardly, "Hurry up, hurry up, my hair is going to be messed up." ”

"Call me what?" Li Tai's strength was much greater than hers, so he easily grabbed her two wrists, pressed them down, stopped less than half a foot in front of her, and asked in a low voice.

She was tickled by the strand of hair hanging down from the side of his neck, and Yu Yu looked into his blue eyes, and her breathing was not very smooth, and she just wanted to tell him to let go quickly, so she stammered and whispered:

“... Husband. ”

Tai responded lightly, lowered his head a few more points, looked at each other, and only saw himself in the other party's eyes, which made her feel sweet and sour, so she softened her body, lowered her eyelids slightly, and closed her eyes.

How did she know that after waiting for a while, the kiss that should have fallen never came, she shook her eyelashes, opened her eyes, and caught the clear and clean color of his blue eyes, with a faint smile, where did she have the slightest meaning of kissing, Fang Zhi was tricked by him, ashamed, without thinking about it, she raised her neck, grabbed his shoulder and bit it.

Li Tai didn't hide, just supported the back of her head with one hand to prevent her from losing her strength, and relaxed her muscles so as not to break her teeth, and actually cooperated with her to bite down this breath.

Ah Sheng stood outside the door, holding the clothes sent from the Comb Pavilion in his hand, hesitating and looking up and down, whether he wanted to remind the two inside, if he didn't prepare to go out, it would be too late.

Yi Yu was not in good health, and the third time she entered the palace, she still took advantage of the night to take the carriage, but this time she sat directly at the gate of the palace, saving her half of the journey, and avoiding the end of her two legs. It is worth mentioning that before she went out, she saw another monk in the palace, Liu Huan, and obviously felt that the former queen's attendants did not want to see her, but fortunately, although they entered the palace all the way, they were not in the same carriage.

This night into the palace face saint was unusually calm and smooth, when Yu Yu followed Li Tai out of the Taiji side hall, he didn't believe that he passed the test so easily, originally thought that King Wu and others who came to participate in the big wedding yesterday would also enter the palace to join in the fun, but only saw Li Shimin and Wei Guifei, and even Concubine Yang did not show up.

Li Shimin said less than five words to her at the end, and she was sitting eight zhang away in the main hall, she didn't even see the emperor's face clearly, she was rewarded with a few things, and was led to the side of the desk to eat, and after a dinner, Li Shimin left the table because of a few passes, Wei Guifei was a quiet middle-aged woman, and after the meal, someone from the Shanggong Bureau came, and the general secretary said that the jade book would be recorded in the jade book tomorrow, which made them leave the palace.

Walking to the second door, the little eunuch in front of him was playing a lantern, and Yu Yu stopped and turned around to look back.

This is the first time she has entered the Taiji Palace, although it is nightfall, and she has seen this group of magnificent palaces by the moonlight, and she can't help but sigh, the ancient emperors are widowed, living in such a big place, such a deserted place, if there is no one around, how can they not feel lonely.

"How?" Li Tai saw her stop, but when she was tired of walking again, she was about to find a place to let her rest, but her hand was suddenly grabbed by her.

"Don't forget what you said last night."

He thought for a few breaths, his eyes flashing slightly, and he nodded slightly.