Li Qinzai actually doesn't want to leave Chang'an, his mother-in-law has a big belly and needs companionship, and he is a salted fish character who doesn't seek progress.

However, he never expected that the old man would stab him in the back mercilessly.

I don't know what he thinks, is it revenge for his cheats back then?

"Tell me, what do you think? The father-in-law of the professional pit son-in-law, there are not many in this world, and I must interview you about your mental journey. Li Qinzai said without sadness or joy.

King Teng walked unhurriedly towards the carriage outside the palace gate, and said as he walked: "Just do your father-in-law a favor, aren't you happy?" ”

"More than a dozen states and counties in the south of the Yangtze River don't grow sweet potatoes, what does it have to do with you? This matter has nothing to do with your duties, the Son of Heaven does not blame you, what are you doing with Nyima. Li Qinzai said dissatisfied.

King Teng walked forward silently, for a long time, and said lightly: "Jing Chu, do you know how many years this king has waited for an opportunity to share his worries for the Son of Heaven?" ”

Li Qinzai was stunned.

King Teng didn't expect him to answer, and said lightly: "I have waited for forty years. ”

"For as long as I can remember, I have lived in the Daming Palace in Chang'an, saying that it is a palace, but it is actually a cage, a cage for my father and the emperor to be placed under house arrest."

Li Qinzai was silent, he knew this past, after the Xuanwumen Change, Li Yuan was placed under house arrest by Li Shimin in Daming Palace.

At that time, the Daming Palace was not completed at all, and many places were only laid foundations, and only a few temples were built, and Li Yuan spent the last few years of his life in those palaces.

King Teng was also born during that period, from his birth to Li Yuan's death, King Teng assumed the identity of a prince, but he was not allowed to leave the palace like a prisoner.

King Teng said slowly: "When I was young, I said to my father, I want to go out of the palace to play, and my father said to me with a wry smile, wait a few more years, when your father dies, you will be free, not now, my father is still alive, and we can't get out of the palace." ”

"Later, my father died, and I was not even ten years old at that time, and I didn't understand human feelings, life and death."

"In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, I was crowned King Teng by the emperor's brother, that is, Emperor Taizong, and ate Teng County, Shandong Province. The palace people around me were ecstatic and told me that I could leave the palace and be free from now on. ”

"I was ignorantly sent to Teng County by officials and palace people, where there are palaces and eunuchs, and all the way eastward is the honor guard of the vassal king, with extravagance and extravagance, and the front and back hug."

"When I entered the palace, I found that the huge mansion was cold and lonely, I was like a child who was completely abandoned by my relatives, and no one cared about it from then on, and the palace was full of the eyes of the Son of Heaven, and every month my words and deeds were compiled into a book, and Pegasus reported to Chang'an."

"That's when I realized that I wasn't free, I was still a prisoner, just a different place to be imprisoned."

King Teng looked at Li Qinzai and said self-deprecatingly: "I actually have no ambitions, but it seems that two generations of the Son of Heaven don't believe in it, I never ask about the government and state affairs, and even the local officials rarely come and go, I deliberately be a hermit and live like crazy, and mingle with the literati and scholars all day long, even if I am despised and despised by the Son of Heaven, I don't care." ”

"But...... After all, I can't spend my life like a waste, as I get older, I can't stand the contemptuous eyes of others, that kind of look at waste, piercing my heart, although I am the respect of the vassal king, but I live without dignity. ”

"I can not be a vassal king, but I can at least be an upright person, like ordinary people, marry a wife and have children, serve the country as an official, and leave a good reputation after death, so as not to let future generations feel ashamed when they mention me, such a simple wish, is it too much?"

Sighing, King Teng patted Li Qinzai's shoulder and said, "Thank you for recommending me in front of the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven finally looked at me and gave me an errand." ”

"But my ability is limited, this errand has gone wrong now, but I can't solve it, Jing Chu, how about helping me once? I want to continue to do this errand, and I don't want the Son of Heaven to disappoint me. ”

Li Qinzai's words moved him a lot.

Think about the first acquaintance of Li Sujie, the two princesses of Xuancheng Yiyang, and King Teng......

It turned out that being born in the emperor's family was so depressing, and the kind of life that felt suffocated all the time could not be filled with no amount of brocade clothes and food.

Li Qinzai looked at King Teng and suddenly smiled: "There is fate in this life, you and I are already Weng's son-in-law, I am happy to help you with this favor." ”

King Teng smiled gratefully and said in a low voice, "Thank you, son-in-law." ”

Then King Teng asked again: "You and I have arrived in Jiangnan, what are we going to do?" ”

Li Qinzai said with a smile: "Kill a hundred people, grace and power, that's all." ”

King Teng hesitated for a moment and said, "The Jiangnan Wang clan is powerful, if our methods are too intense, I am afraid that we will force them to rebel......"

Li Qinzai shook his head: "Don't worry, people who are really determined to rebel are usually forced to have no way out, and I will not make such a mistake." ”

King Teng smiled with relief: "Okay, I believe in you, I will assist you along the way and listen to your orders." ”

Li Qinzai suddenly asked: "Zhangren, I have known you all these years, I forgot to ask, how many brothers-in-law and brother-in-law do I have?" ”

King Teng was stunned for a moment, and then showed a vigilant look: "What do you want to do?" It's not enough to blackmail the king, but you want to blackmail the king's children? ”

"It's too hurtful to say this, there is no family affection at all," Li Qinzai said sadly: "The son-in-law just wants to know how many relatives he has, and if he gives birth to a baby in Jinxiang in the future, the baby should also know how many relatives and uncles he can rely on." ”

King Teng looked at him for a long time, and the suspicious look on his face still did not dissipate, but he still said: "This king has given birth to more than ten sons since he was young, and seven of them have been crowned princes of the country or counties. ”

Li Qinzai said in surprise: "I actually gave birth to so many people, I can't see that my father-in-law is so absurd and unreasonable, and my father-in-law is amazing!" ”

King Teng said angrily: "Are you talking about human words?" Marrying wives and taking concubines, and multiplying offspring, how can there be such a thing as fornication? You have married four or five mothers-in-law, how is it worse than this king? ”

After speaking, King Teng looked at him puzzledly and said, "You suddenly asked me what I did when I gave birth to a few children?" What's the conspiracy? ”

"The father-in-law guessed correctly just now, the son-in-law actually wants to blackmail the eldest brother-in-law and the younger brother-in-law, and when Jinxiang gives birth to a baby, I will send them an invitation, how can I be embarrassed to meet people if there are less than 10,000 yuan per family?"

King Teng looked depressed and said miserably: "That's really the case...... Poor daughter, married to a wicked beast that exterminated humanity! ”

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Back at the Guogong Mansion, the news that Li Qinzai was about to be ordered to go south also spread to the mansion.

The whole mansion blew up, Cui Jie, Jin Dayon and other mothers-in-law found him one after another, except that he was reluctant to leave Beijing again, it was more incomprehensible.

The mother-in-law knows Li Qinzai's temperament very well, he can sit and never stand, he can lie down and never sit, how can such a lazy and unmotivated person work so hard to travel so far to the south of the Yangtze River?

It wasn't until King Teng came out to play a round with a look of surprise, saying that his son-in-law had to respond to this errand purely to help his father-in-law, although Cui Jie was reluctant to say anything.

(End of chapter)