Chapter 126 Monarchs and ministers are ruthless

The Taiji Palace at night is particularly quiet, the roadside stone lamps will light up the road, and there are colorful silk palace lamps hanging under the trees, the small yellow door carries a lantern in front to guide the way, and the jade follows Li Tai, along the way, except for the two groups of guards who patrol the night, it is a few palace ladies who help the masters of the halls to run errands, and they don't say much, they salute them, and bow down and wait for them to walk before going to help themselves.

"Miss, let's go faster, don't let Your Majesty wait."

Walked through a sandwich road again, and when he turned the corner, he saw the yellow chrysanthemum lantern opposite, and listened to the sound of talking, Yi Yu and Li Tai stopped, and the little yellow door that led the way was the same as a few times just now, and poked forward with the lantern, and saw the figure approaching at the corner, and said softly:

"Whose temple is this? If you don't wait for your master at night, what are you doing here? ”

Yi Yu took a look, and there were two women standing opposite, one also walked in front with a lantern, and the other stood behind with a shadow in his head, as if he was holding a piano in his arms, and his appearance was not very clear.

"It's the Zhou servant," the little palace maid with the lantern said obediently, "The slave maid is from the fragrant bean of the frost hall, and she got her life at noon, and this is to lead the young lady to play the piano for His Majesty." ”

Xiao Huangmen's original surname was Zhou, and he was saluted and served, his face was a lot kinder, and one side of his body revealed the relict jade Li Tai behind him, and said to the two people, "This is His Royal Highness the King of Wei and the Mansion of the King of Wei, and I don't want to see him yet." ”

The little palace maid immediately stepped forward and glanced up curiously, but when she saw a pair of golden and jade people standing under the moon, she was in a trance, so she hurriedly bowed respectfully, "Lord Wei, Princess Wei." ”

Yi Yuyan looked at the woman holding the qin behind her, only to see that the other party took a step back, bowed her head and said, "I've seen the prince and the princess." ”

"Shu, Shuqing, Sister Shuqing?" Yi Yu was shocked and tried to call, and stepped forward to look at the person who was gathered in the shadows, that cold and beautiful woman, not Lu Shuqing, who had seen in Lu Mansion the month before, who would?

When Lu Shuqing saw that she recognized her, she no longer hid it, raised her head, looked at the luxurious palace beauty opposite, the muscles on her cheeks tensed, and said stiffly: "Don't come to harm." ”

Even though Yu Yu was suspicious at the moment, he also knew that this place was not a place to speak, and Lu Shuqing clearly did not mean to talk to her, so he nodded and didn't know what to say.

"Let's go." Li Tai didn't give her a chance to think about it, and took the lead in walking forward, and when Yi Yu saw it, she could only follow, and then turned her head to look at Lu Shuqing, who was holding the qin, and made up her mind to go back and ask Li Tai.

Lu Shuqing watched the two walk away, and the little palace maid beside her whispered happily, "Miss actually knows Princess Wei?" ”

The palace is cautious in words and deeds, like this kind of small palace e, she knows that the east palace is long and the west palace is short, but she doesn't know a few things outside.

Lu Shuqing's eyes darkened, and she hugged Yaoqin in her arms, "She is my cousin." ”

Lu Shuqing was sent to the palace by Lu Rongyuan in March, and now she is staying by Concubine Yang's side.

Since the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin began to recruit women from various families into the palace, and many of them were rewarded for their eyes, and Lu Shuqing was sent to the palace by the Lu family at this sensitive time, obviously because the drunkard did not mean to drink.

After freshening up, thinking that Li Tai told a few words about Lu Shuqing on the way here, Yi Yu leaned on the soft couch with her hair scattered, gently rubbed the balm applied to the back of her hand, and let Ping Tong massage her sore waist and legs, staring at the crane wing carved wooden lamp next to the screen.

Looking for the memories of her previous life, she knew that among the women who were sent to the palace in the past two years, there were several amazing characters, for example, there was a similar character with the eldest grandson, Miss Xu, who was deeply favored by Taizong, no matter how powerful she was, she was the queen of the martial arts who served two generations of emperors and later ruled the dynasty, but she never thought that Lu Shuqing was among them.

Seeing her tonight, it seems that she is thinner than the last time I saw her in Lu Mansion, no wonder she was so weird when she saw her again in a year or two, but she knew that she would be sent to the palace, so she thought it was reluctant.

Yi Yu and Lu Shuqing don't have a deep friendship, but after Lu Zhongzhi died, the granddaughter who the old man had taken care of was sent to the palace to serve the master, how could he not feel uncomfortable.

On the one hand, she was uncomfortable, and on the other hand, she thought about the back of Li Shimin's palace, she vaguely remembered that later generations said that Emperor Taizong was looking for the traces of Empress Changsun in this group of women, whether it was true or not, this reason made her feel ridiculous, if he really loved Empress Changsun so much, how could he be so fanfare to seek pleasure a year after her death, it is still the emperor who is ruthless, and even women have to find an excuse.

Li Tai finished handling affairs in the study, and when he came back, he saw her lying on the couch in plain white, smiling bitterly, and pursing her thin lips.

"All out."

Hearing this voice, Yi Yu turned her head and saw him, she didn't have time to clean up her emotions, Pingtong Pinghui had already retreated, and saw Li Taijing walking to the basin rack, pouring water to freshen up, she hurriedly got up from the couch, walked over and took a towel on the shelf to be handed to him.

After taking the towel and wiping the water droplets on his face, Li Tai turned around and walked to the bronze mirror and sat down, Yi Yu consciously followed, and took off his golden crown skillfully, took a comb and stood behind him to comb him, but this was the first time she combed his hair after the days of detoxification in the secret house two years ago, but for some reason, it was very natural.

Li Tai looked at her halfway through the mirror, and suddenly said, "I had a nightmare in my body that day, and I often asked you to comb your hair in the secret house. ”

After a pause, Yi Yu picked up a strand of his long hair again, and said with a smile, "I just thought of this." ”

"What else? Lu Men is down, the hereditary lord has been demoted, Lu Da and Lu Er have no long position, if you want to revitalize the court, it should be the fastest to please the king, Lu Er has a middle-aged child, the Lu family has a queen, Lu Da does not have to recruit trouble, it is necessary to send a woman into the palace, the harem Yang Concubine is favored, and it is also insurance to send her to her, they have thought about it before and after, do you want to worry about it. ”

Yi Yu was thought about by his words, his shoulders shook slightly, and then he lowered his eyelids and said, "I don't have to worry about it, it's just an accident." ”

As soon as the words fell, the wrist holding the comb was held by him, and she subconsciously shrank back, and heard him say lightly: "Tell the truth." ”

She looked up at the figures of the two almost stacked together in the mirror, thinking that he was already her husband, a trace of strangeness flowed in her heart, a little sour, so she bent down her knees and knelt down behind him, and the other hand wrapped around his waist and tightened in front of his chest, leaning against him, her face against his gentle back, smelling his quiet fragrance, and said slowly:

"When the incident happened, my mother and brother were forced to flee away, and my grandfather took my uncle and second uncle to look for us for more than ten years, and later recognized each other, at first they were very good elders, but after my grandfather died of illness and my eldest brother had an accident, they all changed. The Lu family was suppressed by the eldest grandson's family, and it has been down, in the final analysis, it is my eldest brother's relationship, that is, my relationship. ”

Li Tai held the wrist she was holding the comb, and also bypassed his chest, listening to the depression in her voice, there was silence for a moment, and said:

"Even if there is no matter of Lu Zhi, the Lu family will fall."

"Huh?" Yi Yu was stunned for a moment, and asked blankly, "Why is this?" ”

"During the Wude period, Huaiguo Gong left Beijing in a bad mood, but in fact, he went to Jiangnan to recruit troops and buy horses, and helped his father ascend the throne in the Xuanwu Gate Change. Now, the eldest grandson is the most glorious, Fang Mou is especially favored, and Duhuai Guogong has not returned for ten years - do you really think that it was his father who sympathized with his early years and indulged him in wandering? ”

Yi Yu suddenly turned his thoughts, as if something had run out, but he couldn't grasp the point, his heart was anxious, and he was about to ask, but he listened to his smooth voice and continued:

"Father, this person, even has a trick of employing people is to reward and punish clearly, never treat people who are loyal to him, if I have not miscalculated, it must be Huai Guogong who has done something to make his father and the emperor have a gap, so he did not give him a reward for all his merits, and your grandfather also knew that he had a gap with the king, so he took the excuse of looking for your mother and son, and depreciated himself for ten years so as not to be blamed by his father in the end. Besides, you don't know that your grandfather is out there, if he really wants to find your mother and son, why should it take ten years? ”

There was a bang in his head, and Yu Yu was silent for a moment, and then his head began to glow, and then he pulled his arm away from his chest, barely supported himself behind him, and muttered, "How is it possible, you said that this is impossible, grandfather, he already regrets leaving my mother in Beijing back then, how can he use looking for us as an excuse, he said that he has regretted it, he"

As she spoke, she lost her voice, she was a smart woman, and if Li Tai said this, she would not be hysterical, it would be an elm.

But if she wants to admit that Lu Zhongzhi is indeed using the search for their family of four as an excuse, how can she emotionally accept that she has been deceived, if her mother knows, if his eldest brother knows-

"Do I, my eldest brother, know that?"

Li Tai saw that she looked dazed, and she couldn't bear it, but in order not to let the Lu family's affairs do her knot, she bowed her head lightly and said: "When the Five Academies were in the art competition, I had a detailed discussion with Lu Zhi, and in exchange for him telling me about the Lu family, I helped him win the lawsuit that the Lu family should have lost. ”

"No, that's not right," Yi Yu found a little hope in a panic, grabbed Li Tai's sleeve with one hand, and said busily, "If that's the case, then why did he go back to Chang'an, isn't it for us?" ”

Li Tai grabbed her wrist and stared at her eyes, ruthlessly breaking her last bit of hope, "In the ninth year of Zhenguan, my father sent someone to Jiangnan to look for him, and he should have returned to Beijing as a last resort, not for you." ”

(Thanks to Sih-Han's He's Bi, thanks to the spiritual pet of May flowers, thank you for the gift of the two relatives, O(∩_∩)O, there will be a change later)