Standing beside the Empress Dowager Dou, looking at the seemingly awkward but incomparably intimate warm interaction between the mother and daughter, Liu Sheng was envious, but also a little jealous of Liu Sheng.

Speaking of Liu Sheng, he can be regarded as the most popular among the princes, or the only one who is loved by the Empress Dowager Dou;

But compared with Liu Xuan, Liu Sheng's status in the heart of the Empress Dowager Dou is still more than a little bit worse.

- After all, the next generation, the next generation, no matter how close the next generation, they can't kiss the meat that falls off their bodies.

In particular, Empress Dowager Dou's eye disease made the mother enter the old age stage of 'missing her children and longing for her children' earlier, which made Liu Yan's status in Empress Dowager Dou's heart almost 'unique'.

The reason is very simple: Empress Dowager Dou only had two sons and one daughter in her life.

The eldest son, Liu Qi, is now living in Weiyang Palace, who is so pressed by government affairs all day long that he can't raise his head, and he can't leave the palace once in a year and a half;

The youngest son, Liu Wu, was named the acting king by the former emperor Liu Heng more than 20 years ago, and later moved to the king of Liang.

Among the three, the eldest daughter, Liu Yan, was married at a marriageable age and married an 'honest man' personally designated by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen: Chen Wu, Marquis of Tangyi.

One of the three children is away all the year round, and the other is busy with work, and the only one who can always accompany the Empress Dowager Dou is the head of the household who is married, but in the Tangyi Marquis Mansion: Liu Yan.

Therefore, although Empress Dowager Dou also said that she did things on weekdays, she was actually very conniving.

Here's a very straightforward example.

Let's take some time ago, Liu Shengtong Zhonglang took the Zhidu incident as an example;

Liu Sheng punched Zhidu, and the Empress Dowager Dou was fair and just on the surface, but secretly favored Liu Sheng a little, lifted Liu Sheng high, and put it down gently.

In the eyes of outsiders, this may be enough to show how protective Empress Dowager Dou is.

But in fact, if the person who fights Zhidu changes from his grandson Liu Sheng to his daughter Liu Sheng, then the attitude of the Empress Dowager Dou may be very different.

Princess Tao Chang, inexplicably punched Zhonglang Jiang?

- If Empress Dowager Dou doesn't make up two more punches for her daughter, she has to run fast!

As for Liu Yan, what kind of slapping and confinement are not to be considered.

If you can't cure Zhidu's crime of 'being beaten and not standing firm', it has to be the smoke from the ancestral tomb of Zhidu!

To put it bluntly, it is still the words of the Empress Dowager Dou: Just such a daughter, I don't love it myself, can I still count on outsiders?

Compared with this kind of intimate mother-son relationship, Liu Sheng's importance in the heart of Empress Dowager Dou is obviously far inferior to that of her daughter Liu Xuan.

- There is only one daughter!

As for the grandson?

Hehe;

When today's son Liu Qi's tenth son, he was just born······

"Huh?"

"Xiao Jiu, how can you have time to enter the palace today?"

"Didn't you say that Your Majesty ordered Xiao Jiu to worship the prime minister as a teacher and come to study every day?"

After thinking about it, Liu Sheng asked coldly, and finally pulled Liu Sheng's scattered thoughts back;

Hehe raised his head with a smile and saw the cunning that flashed from time to time in Liu Yan's gaze towards him, Liu Sheng only hurriedly smiled again.

"Isn't it, when you encounter some trouble, you want to ask the imperial grandmother for an idea······

The expression was a little stiff and he said a word, but it provoked the Empress Dowager Dou to turn sideways in disbelief, and gently said, "Huh? With a sigh, he pulled Liu Sheng to sit down beside him.

"How?"

"Could it be that Shen Tujia is an old stubborn cow, and he still dares to bully Xiao Jiu?!"

As soon as these words came out, Liu Sheng's face suddenly danced, and she couldn't wait to nod her head for Liu Sheng!

——In Chang'an, among the departments that have been plagued by Princess Guantao, the treasury under the control of the prime minister definitely belongs to the hardest-hit area on the same level as Shaofu Nei 帑 (tǎng)!

It's just that compared with the unscrupulousness in Shaofu, Liu Concubine is still a little 'unable to let go' in the treasury.

After all, no matter how you say it, the Shaofu is the private wallet of the Son of Heaven;

As the sister of Liu Qi, the son of heaven, no one dares to say anything even if she digs the foot of the Shaofu wall.

However, the treasury is different, bearing the public expenditure of the entire foreign dynasty and even the whole world, and it is in the hands of the prime minister himself;

Therefore, although Liu Yan has coveted the treasury for a long time, she never dared to care too much about the appearance of eating, and moved things out of the treasury one by one.

Especially after Shen Tujia became the prime minister, Liu Yan's 'income' in the treasury has plummeted year after year!

At this moment, hearing Empress Dowager Dou talk about Prime Minister Shen Tujia, Liu Concubine instantly had the idea of smearing Shen Tujia and waiting for an opportunity to make a big deal from the treasury.

It's a pity that Liu Sheng heard Empress Dowager Dou's question, but he shook his head helplessly.

"It's not the prime minister."

"It's a matter of my grandson worshipping the prime minister as a teacher, which seems to make Li Ji a little unhappy······"

With a hesitant word, Liu Sheng's face was full of smiles, and in his place was a heaviness that was extremely inconsistent with his age.

"The people in the palace say that the princes should be crowned kings today and next year;"

"After sealing the king, the grandson will become a vassal and go to seal the country."

"The grandson is worried that after the grandson is gone, Li Ji will be favored by his father and the emperor, and it will be detrimental to his mother······"

Listening to Liu Sheng's worried description, Liu Concubine only pouted in disappointment;

When Empress Dowager Dou heard this, she sighed for a while.

"Alas~"

"This Kurihime ······"

Sighing and shaking her head, Empress Dowager Dou didn't say anything more.

Even Liu Yan on the side, when she heard the word 'Li Ji', it was rare that she didn't add oil and vinegar.

- After all, no matter what you say, Li Ji is still the biological mother of the emperor's eldest son, Liu Rong;

In the matter of canonizing the eldest son of the emperor as the prince, although the Empress Dowager Dou has the confidence of 'making a decision', it is only in the time of canonization;

The position of the crown prince, sooner or later, will always fall to the head of the emperor's eldest son, Liu Rong.

In this way, the emperor's eldest son Liu Rong is the 'quasi-prince', and Li Ji is naturally the 'quasi-queen';

For Li Ji, who is the quasi-queen, even if the Empress Dowager Dou is dissatisfied, it is inconvenient to have too many negative comments······

"Eh······"

"It's also difficult for Xiao Jiu to ······"

I don't know if it was my conscience that Liu Yan sighed, but she even said a good word for Liu Sheng.

It was precisely this sentence that made Empress Dowager Dou finally make up her mind, and looked sideways at Liu Sheng with pity.

"Yu Liji, the imperial grandmother is no longer inconvenient to scold and scold."

"But Xiao Jiu's thoughts, I also understand······"

Speaking in a low voice, Empress Dowager Dou finally stretched out her hand and patted Liu Sheng's hand gently.

"And relax, Ang?"

"The matter of the princes being crowned kings is also the same as the canonization of the prince, and my old wife has to speak;"

"Now that Kanto is unstable again, I will delay the matter of the princes becoming kings for another two or three years······"