Chapter Forty-Nine: Li Yuan's Ordinary Day
"Li Yuan's word is Shude, and his ancestral home is Chengji, Longxi. The founder of the Tang Dynasty was called Emperor Taizu Gao. When Li Yuan was seven years old, he was awarded the title of Duke of Tang Guo, and successively served as Sui Qianniu Preparation, Qiao, Long, and Qizhou Assassins, Rongyang, Loufu Two Counties Taishou, Young Eunuch in the Palace, Weiwei Shaoqing, Honghua Left Behind and Zhiguan Right Military, General Xiaowei, Taiyuan Left Behind and Waited. In the third year of the great cause, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty died violently in the Palace of Nourishing the Heart, and the next day he was added to the yellow robe of the generals, and the country name was changed to Tang, and the year name was Wude!"
Li Yuan slowly put down the pen in his hand, looked at the deeds he had written, and felt very strange! When he was young, he was so high-spirited and vigorous! He also used to be on the edge of the border, calling for wind and rain! But why is he so bored now?
Thinking about what a good friend he was with Yang Guang when he was young. At that time, Yang Guang was so powerful and majestic! At that time, the crown prince was still Yang Guang's elder brother Yang Yong. With the help of several of their friends, Yang Guang successfully won the favor of Emperor Wen of Sui and finally got the throne through his outstanding military exploits on the battlefield and his flawless personal life experience! However, Yang Guang, who was sitting on the emperor's throne, seemed to be a different person, and he became so poor and extravagant, so cruel and indifferent. For the sake of a children's rhyme of "Emperor Yang is injured, Li Zixing, the emperor is the world", it is necessary to kill the officials surnamed Li of the Manchu Dynasty. At that time, fortunately, the "Xuanyi" Taoist reported the news in advance, otherwise he estimated that he would have already become a lump of yellow soil and scattered in this world!
Thinking that when I first arrived in Chang'an, I was really poor enough, and sometimes my family was so poor that I couldn't even eat. It seems that once Yang Guangfa was kind, gave himself a sheep, and prepared to make offerings to his ancestors. They were also stolen by the second boy, and their brothers were really united at that time! In the end, he seemed to be the sheep that he cried and ate with them! By the way, in the end, it was the second boy who forced the last piece of the fattest sheep's eye meat into his mouth. Thinking about it, I can't help but think about these children, especially the second son! I may really be a little sorry for him, maybe I have done a little too much like Emperor Yang of Sui back then!
The words given to him by the divine master Li Peiyan, "The people of the world are also the people of the world, and the people of the world are also defeated", is he dealing with it too urgently. It was that kid who brought me back the 'Xuanyi' Dao Master, so that I occupied the most important position in that earth-shattering change! Later, I accidentally killed his mother in front of him, and he thought that I didn't see him, but in fact, I had already discovered him on the footprints next to the bed! I owed too much to this child! He seemed to be greatly stimulated that day, and many things seemed to have been forgotten. But that's fine, he remembers every day: I killed his mother! Hey! His mother was actually my favorite woman, but why did she do that at the time? It was really not like what she used to do! He was now an ordinary person, without any status. But his brothers often find people to plot against him, thanks to the care of Na Xuantian's master, he can live to this day. I don't know if what I did was right or wrong! Hey! I'm getting older, I don't know who should leave the next emperor's position, look at those children who don't fight, how should that be?
Thinking about the years he has been an emperor, it can be described as surprisingly peaceful. Basically, there were no riots and rebellions, and there were no border clashes of all kinds, and even natural and man-made disasters rarely occurred! Think about yourself now, but you are just a human-shaped stamp in the court! The world is nothing but nothing! I remember that I was so idle in my official position in the past, and I would often be busy with my hands and minds! But now it is too idle! It is really strange that people seem to be silently doing things that only concern themselves, and they do not care about other things at all! As if they had nothing to do with themselves, the farmer, the Confucian scholar, and even the disciples of the family were like this, without the slightest spirit of taking the world as their own responsibility, as if they were all eating and waiting for death. I don't know what happened in this world to cause such a situation? A few days ago, I had the idea of going east to conquer Goryeo, and a report came from the east that the king of Goryeo had invited himself to be a vassal state. If you haven't started to get grain and grass yet, you won't be able to get it, it's really boring!
Thinking about it, and thinking about the yellow robe that day, in fact, I was still very lucky. In fact, his status and rights in Beijing at that time were far inferior to Da Situ Li Hun. In fact, he only entered the inner court a small step earlier than him, and he could start it in advance, and control the most important central power in the inner court in advance! Thinking of that old dog kneeling and knocking to himself three times a day, he felt so proud! But thinking that the old dog was still occupying the important tasks of the Nine Cities Terracotta Division, his psychology was like eating a fly, and he felt extremely disgusted! Suddenly it occurred to me that there seemed to be someone among the hundred officials a few days ago who dared to severely criticize that old dog. Although that person was just a petty official named Xue Mouyuan, he still felt very happy at the time! Because he seemed to dislike Li Hun very much now, and he felt very unpleasant to look at him! I had to remind him again that day! Either I would be a good man with my tail between my legs, or I would get out of here immediately!
Li Yuan thought about it, and suddenly raised his hand and waved. The eunuch below hurriedly sent the secret report of the recent days. Li Yuan slowly picked up a copy and looked at the name on it, it turned out to be the crown prince! Thinking that this guy didn't know what he was doing recently, he hurriedly looked down.
I saw that it was written: "The prince was built, and he read every day, danced the sword for half a day, and practiced calligraphy." Every night, the three maidens fight non-stop all night, and they seem to use drugs to help their fun. Recently, an army of about 1,000 people was secretly set up, training bows and arrows every day, riding and shooting! Yesterday, he collided with the imperial envoy Changhuan on the street, seriously injured him, and vomited blood on the street!"
Looking at the text above, thinking that today it seems that the permanent envoy did not come to the court when he was sick, it turned out that he was poisoned by this rebel, and he thought that the permanent envoy was just a few days ago to report the crown prince's imperial city for arsoning horses, violating the ancestral system, and he was poisoned by this poison, it was really angry!
The more Li Yuan looked at it, the more angry he became, he casually threw the secret report to the ground, and picked up another one to see if it was about the third son, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi. I thought to myself that this guy is usually quite honest, but I don't know what he has done these days? I saw that it read: "Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, has recently secretly set up an army of about 5,000 people, and trains every day to charge into battle, and soldiers often fall from their horses and are injured! In addition, there are several Taoist priests who often secretly meet with him, but they do not know what his purpose is! In addition, he has recently secretly sent assassins to assassinate Li Ne three times, but to no avail! The chief eunuch of the palm seal often has secret meetings with him, and he does not know what to do!"
Li Yuan continued to read a few secret reports, and found that his remaining sons were either secretly training the new army, or secretly meeting and taking refuge, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he felt, thinking to himself, Lao Tzu had not died yet, and he began to fight for the position! Thinking about it, he felt that his right side had a headache, and the right side of his face was swollen and raised! Li Yuan beckoned, summoned a few guards, tightly strangled his head with a rope, changed his clothes, covered half of his face, and quietly walked out of the imperial city and came to a mansion!
Looking at the old man who knelt down in front of the door, crying like a child, with tears and snot on his face, Li Yuan kicked it away, and scolded with a smile in his mouth: "Lao Tzu is not dead yet, pretend to be a filial son, get out, hurry up, Lao Tzu's headache is committed again, I think it is okay to press Lao Tzu on his head back then, so I came here for a trip! Come on, come on, go to your own room, hurry up and press Lao Tzu!"
The old man hurriedly got up from the ground, led the way in front of him, and stumbled into his room. The room was as clean as ever, and the room was very fragrant! The smell was sandalwood, and the smell was very strong!
Li Yuan entered the house, smelled the rich aroma, and couldn't help but say angrily: "You old ghost, make it so fragrant, you are not afraid of smoking yourself to death, why don't you open the window quickly!"
The old man opened the window to breathe in and explained in a low voice: "Aren't our families afraid of smoking Your Majesty? You know that our family's body always has some smell on it, so I'm afraid that it will be bad for my son to smell it and make my son feel bored!"
Li Yuan kicked the old man again, then lay down on the bed inside, and said loudly: "Hurry up, the old man is dying of pain!"
The old man hurriedly stepped forward to prepare for a hands-on massage!
At this time, the door suddenly opened, and a young woman came in, and I saw that the woman came in and bowed deeply to the old man, and said, "Father-in-law, you are okay." I'm here to greet you today. A few days ago, our husband and wife went out to do some things, so we didn't come over for a few days, and today I came to apologize to my father-in-law!"
After that, he raised his head, but found that there were other people in his father-in-law's room, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "It turns out that there are friends of my father-in-law, and my daughter-in-law I don't know, I suddenly broke in and disturbed my father-in-law, I hope my father-in-law will not forgive me!"
When the old man saw the woman come in, the originally flattering and cowardly smile on his face suddenly disappeared. I saw him say very seriously: "This is an old friend many years ago, and it can also be regarded as your elder, I have a headache these days, and I remember that my father-in-law and I used to treat him back then, and I came here to beg me to treat him, and I am preparing to get him here." Besides, I basically don't have anything to do here, if you're okay, you can leave early, so that I can treat this uncle of yours well!"
The woman looked at the old man quietly and said: "Since the daughter-in-law is here, how can I let my father-in-law do it, the slave family has also worshipped strangers as teachers, and I have also learned the method of massage to treat headaches, I can also press for my uncle, and I will definitely be able to stop my uncle's headache! It can also let my father-in-law have a good rest, after all, my father-in-law is old, it is best not to work his body too much." Father-in-law, do you think it's okay?"
Li Yuan looked at the old man who seemed to be very hesitant, and suddenly interjected: "Old Zhang, who are you?"
Lao Zhang hurriedly replied: "This is my son's newly married daughter-in-law, called the eldest grandson! The child is not sensible, don't be angry!"
Li Yuan shook his head and said, "The child is filial to you, let's not let it down, come on! Press it well for the old man, and see how you do it, if it is as good as your father-in-law's old seal!"
So the eldest grandson moved a small stool, came to the old man's side and sat down, slowly took off the old man's hat, and said carefully: "At the beginning, there was a little pain, you have to bear with it a little, and it will be fine in a while!"
Then he looked at the dark circles under his eyes and said, "Your rest is too bad, try to go to bed on time every day, don't stay up too late!"
After finishing speaking, he began to massage the old man. At first, Li Yuan just wanted to experience the feeling of his daughter-in-law giving him a massage, and wanted to feel what it was like to be a family. After the previous few great pains, I felt that my head was full of comfort, and the headache seemed to be gone all of a sudden, but I felt very comfortable and happy! Those two slightly cool little hands, like two very sharp knives, cut off all their pain!
Looking at the old man who had gradually fallen asleep, listening to his more and more even breathing, the eldest grandson's face showed a warm smile, and his face was full of love, just like looking at his own father when he was young!
Li Zhang, who was already very nervous, also showed a knowing smile on his face, and the smile was so happy and pleasant! Li Ne's road home has finally begun to take a solid first step, and no one will know whether the development of history will return to its original track because of this step, or whether it will go further into the abyss of hell!
It's just that the light and shadow of the Buddha IX in Xue Li's mind seem to be becoming more and more opaque, but the expression on the face of the light and shadow seems to be becoming more and more severe, as if he is very unhappy with what is happening! But sadly, it seems that something has begun to slowly erode him, so that he has been unable to speak, has not been able to express his views on the world......