When Prime Minister Shen Tujia, Imperial Doctor Tao Qing, and Middle Doctor Yuan Ang walked into Weiyang Palace under the cover of night and came to the Xuanshu Hall where Tianzi Qi was located, several ladies had already returned to Weiyang Palace.

It's just that there are obviously some differences in the thoughts of the ladies about what happened in Changle Palace today······

"Mother."

Weiyang Palace, Phoenix Palace.

took Liu De and Liu Si's two younger brothers, and walked into the side hall where his mother Li Ji was, Liu Rong gave up his hands in a proper manner, but he did not attract Li Ji's attention.

At this time, Li Ji was busy picking up one exquisite jewelry after another from the jewelry box in front of her, regardless of the fact that it was late at night, and dressed herself up.

While dressing up, I didn't forget to mutter.

"Luckily, I didn't have the best pieces of jewelry with me when I went out."

"If not, they will be robbed by the old woman, and they will be exchanged for rice for Qiu Ba in the army······"

was full of casual tone, but it caused the three brothers on the side to frown in unison;

The eyes of Liu De and Liu Yu immediately fell on the eldest brother Liu Rong.

- When is this?

- The Kanto region is in turmoil, and the national disaster is at the head!

But Kurithime is still here, thinking about the gains and losses of a few pieces of jewelry······

Feeling the same gaze of the two younger brothers, Liu Rong couldn't help but take a deep breath, and finally stepped forward and sat down beside Li Ji.

After thinking about it for a long time, the sentence 'Mother shouldn't think like this' that should have been said turned into a ······

"The mother summons the child, but what is there to command?"

As soon as Liu Rong spoke, the two brothers Liu De and Liu Yu on the side lowered their heads together, and there was a touch of sadness between their eyebrows.

It was Li Ji, who heard Liu Rong's question, and was still busy dressing herself up in front of the bronze mirror;

If others see Li Ji and dress themselves up in the middle of the night, I am afraid that they will not think that tonight, the Son of Heaven will come to the Phoenix Palace······

"I can't talk about command~"

"Even today, the jewelry of those foxes was snatched by the old woman."

"I'm looking for some jewelry that I don't despise and send it to those foxes;"

"Why don't you give me a son, and get a few siblings to help you?"

Hearing Li Ji's words, Liu Rong only subconsciously raised his head, and looked at Li Ji's gaze, and subconsciously brought a touch of depression.

"Mother thinks that ladies will stand by the child because of the jewelry sent by the mother?"

"Or will they be grateful to their mothers because of that few pieces of jewelry, and force their respective sons to saddle up for my business from now on?"

Hearing the strangeness in Liu Rong's tone, Li Ji's hand movements stopped, and she turned her head sideways with annoyance: "How did you talk to your mother?!" ”

"Did I give birth to you just to listen to you teach me!!"

After three or two sentences, Li Ji's powder keg-like temper was completely ignited by her son Liu Rong.

didn't even care about continuing to dress up, so he just got up angrily, walked to Liu Rong's side with his waist crossed, and his fingers were even lower in front of Liu Rong's forehead.

"What do you mean by a few pieces of jewelry?"

"-The women in the palace, how can there be anyone who doesn't like jewelry?!"

"It's rare to have such an opportunity, I'm willing to endure the pain of parting love, isn't it all for the sake of your good?!!"

"You're good!"

"I didn't want to thank me, but in front of my two younger brothers, I taught my mother a lesson?!!"

"It's like this now, when I become the prince and the emperor in the future, do you still want to imprison me, the queen and the queen mother, in the cold alley?!!!!"

Several scoldings of shrimp and pig hearts caused Liu Rong's face to become more and more difficult to look at;

The squirming lips were clearly what Liu Rong wanted to say, but in front of his angry mother, he couldn't say a word.

Not to mention Liu Rong, even the two brothers Liu De and Liu Si on the side were also deeply bowed at this moment, shaking their heads in despair and sighing from an angle that Li Ji couldn't see.

- The three brothers really don't understand: how did the three brothers give birth to such an IQ as their mother?

With the genes of the Son of Heaven, it is so powerful?

So strong that even if he is averaged by Kurihime, can there still be so much left······

"You two! Come here!! ”

While thinking about it, Kurihime's trademark high-pitched voice sounded, and the two brothers didn't dare to delay for a moment, and hurriedly stepped forward.

Seeing Li Ji glaring at Liu Rong viciously again, he turned around indignantly and came to the dresser.

Stretching out his hand, he reluctantly picked up a few pieces of jewelry that were obviously not worth much, and even some old ones;

After making up her mind again, Kurihime turned around and handed over the old pieces of jewelry to the two brothers.

"Send one each to Xuanming Palace, Guangming Palace, and Wang Meiren."

"—go immediately!"

lowered his head and looked at the old jewelry in his hand, which ordinary people may have some dislike;

raised his head and looked at his brother Liu Rong's face not far away, which was redder than pork liver.

In the end, the two brothers had to take a deep breath and reluctantly bow to Li Ji.

"······"

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"Hey!"

"This chestnut hime is rare to be generous."

"—it's not;"

"To my mother, I sent such a quaint ······"

"Hairpins?"

Late at night, the apse of Guangming Palace.

Looking at the copper hairpin in his hand, Liu Pengzu said a word jokingly, and casually threw the hairpin to Liu Sheng.

On the couch on the side, Mrs. Jia really shook her head and sat on the edge of the couch with a wry smile, and Liu Sheng lay down without any scruples, pillowed his mother's thighs, picked up the copper hairpin that had already been rusted, and looked at it carefully by candlelight.

After looking at it for a while, he saw that Liu Sheng seemed to have discovered something, and hurriedly bounced up from the couch;

After taking the hairpin to the lamp and looking at it carefully for a while, Liu Shengcai finally smiled helplessly and handed the hairpin to his mother, Mrs. Jia.

"Mother, take it;"

"It's an old thing."

"——Old objects in the reign of King Qin Zhaoxiang ······"

Indifferently, Mrs. Jia and Liu Pengzu hurriedly came to the lamp and looked carefully at the copper hairpin.

When they saw the copper hairpin, the line of vague ancient Wei characters, the mother and son turned their heads in a daze;

They looked at each other for a moment, and then they burst into laughter······

"Kurihime, do you want to show favor?"

"Or humiliation?"

Liu Pengzu made a joke, but Liu Sheng smiled, lay back on his mother's lap again, turned sideways slightly, and looked at his brother Liu Pengzu who was kneeling in front of the couch.

"I'm just afraid of Li Ji, this is trying to be bought."

"—Buy?"

As soon as Liu Sheng's words fell, he saw Liu Pengzu's eyes widen in astonishment, reached out to take the hairpin in his mother's hand, frowned, and looked left and right.

The more he looked at it, the more strange the expression on Liu Pengzu's face became, and in the end, he was even more suspicious, and raised the copper hairpin in his hand towards Liu Sheng.

"Just this hairpin, it is thrown to Shaofu, and Shaofu is afraid that it will be troublesome to remove rust;"

"Even if it is given to the palace people, I am afraid it will also be considered stingy and stingy."

"Kurihime, just buy your mother with this thing?"

"——What kind of woman would be bought by such a 'jewelry'?"

Looking at the rusty, green hairpin, lowering his head and looking at his fingers that had been stained with patina, Liu Sheng only let out a long sigh leisurely.

Turning sideways, he lay down on his mother's thighs again, and his face was full of helplessness.

"Li Ji's original intention should be to take advantage of today, when all the ladies have no jewelry, they will send some of their own jewelry, so as to ease the relationship with the ladies in the palace."

"It's just that Li Ji meant so, but she was reluctant to give too good jewelry."

"That's why I took these jewelry that couldn't be put on the table and didn't feel distressed when I gave it away, to 'buy' my mother's ······"

"Alas~"

"Li Ji does this, naturally it has no impact on us;"

"It's just bitter, big brother~"

Liu Sheng's half-joking, half-helpless words only caused Liu Pengzu to laugh and shake his head;

lowered his head, looked at the rusty copper hairpin in his hand again, and finally threw it aside with disdain, and did not forget to pat the blue-green rust slag on his hand.

"That is, he gave birth to the eldest brother, so that Li Ji took advantage of 'giving birth to the emperor's eldest son';"

"If it weren't for that, I'm afraid that Li Ji would have fallen into a well in a corner of the palace and starved to death."

"Big brother is really."

"--Anyway, he is the one who wants to be the prince, and his mother does such a stupid thing, and he doesn't know how to persuade him."

"If it goes on like this, even if the eldest brother himself has no problems, just a chestnut hime may be able to make his father change his mind."

"Hey!"

"At that time, Li Ji is afraid that no matter how much jewelry she has, she can only wear it in Yongxiang······"

Hearing this, Mrs. Jia and Liu Sheng on the couch also nodded thoughtfully.

Yongxiang is actually the place where people in the Weiyang Palace wash clothes and wash rice.

About forty years ago, Mrs. Qi, the mother of Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao Yin, was imprisoned in this place by the Empress Dowager Lu and composed the famous "Song of Chung" in history.

The Son is King. Mother is a captive.

All day long. Often in the company of death.

Three thousand miles apart. Who will tell you?

- Son, you are king, but your mother is a prisoner.

——Rice all day to sunset, and there is often a danger of death.

- Who shall send you a letter to inform you, who shall be three thousand miles away from you?

Then, Mrs. Qi became a human being;

Then, Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, was also sent on the road by Empress Dowager Lu with a glass of wine.

And the current Li Ji, although she is not like Mrs. Qi back then, needs to face Empress Lu, who gave birth to her eldest son, but what Li Ji has done······

"Eh, Ah Sheng."

While thinking about it, his mother's gentle tone came into his ears, causing Liu Sheng to hurriedly raise his head;

I saw Mrs. Jia lowering her head, her hand couldn't stop caressing Liu Sheng's cheek, but between her eyebrows, there was a faint worry.

"Ah Sheng said before: The matter of Li Ji's entry into the Jiaofang Palace is basically a certainty, so even if it is the Queen Mother, it is not good to say much about Li Ji;"

"But today, in the Changle Palace, the Queen Mother didn't show mercy to Li Ji at all."

"Does this mean that the Queen Mother no longer wants the eldest son of the emperor to be the prince?"

Hearing this, Liu Sheng secretly thought about it for a moment, and the ease on his face was immediately replaced by a touch of worry.

"Last year, the emperor's grandmother gave a banquet in Changle Palace, and she wanted to make King Liang the prince."

"Although this matter was destroyed by my cousin Dou Ying, I am afraid that the thoughts of the imperial grandmother have not changed."

"Right now, there is chaos in the Kanto region, and the emperor's grandmother only doesn't mention this matter for the time being, so that my father can concentrate on quelling the rebellion of Liu Bi and Liu Wu."

"When the rebellion is quelled, the imperial grandmother will definitely act again and persuade my father to appoint Uncle Liang as the prince."

As he spoke, Liu Sheng's expression gradually became a little serious;

He simply stopped lying down, but sat up, naturally came behind his mother, and gently kneaded his shoulders for his mother.

Busy with work on his hands, Liu Sheng did not forget to continue: "In the past, even if the imperial grandmother didn't like Li Ji, she still tolerated Li Ji in every way because of her eldest brother. ”

"-Because in the eyes of the imperial grandmother at that time, no matter what, the position of the crown prince can only fall to the head of the eldest brother."

"Since the eldest brother must be the crown prince, then Li Ji's mother must be the queen because of her son's preciousness;"

"For Li Ji, who is bound to become the queen, the imperial grandmother can only be more tolerant and leave more dignity for Li Ji."

"And after last year's Dada, the imperial grandmother already had the idea of 'taking King Liang as the prince'."

"In that case, in the eyes of the imperial grandmother, the eldest brother is naturally not a quasi-prince, and Li Ji is not a quasi-queen;"

"Li Ji is not a quasi-queen, so the imperial grandmother doesn't need to leave the slightest dignity for Li Ji······"

After some careful insight, Mrs. Jia nodded thoughtfully, but the worry on her face did not diminish at all.

It was Liu Pengzu on the side, hearing Liu Sheng's words, his face also faintly showed some grimness.

In the end, the worries in the hearts of the mother and son turned into a worried inquiry from Mrs. Jia.

"Then in Ah Sheng's opinion, what will be the final result of this matter?"

Asked softly, Mrs. Jia couldn't help but turn her head slightly, pulled Liu Sheng's hand that kept kneading her shoulders, and pulled Liu Sheng back to her side and sat down.

"In the end, will the eldest son of the emperor be the prince of the prince, or will the king of Liang become the younger brother of the prince?"

Mrs. Jia asked clearly, and Liu Shengzi also understood as soon as he heard it: what was his mother's worry for.

After thinking about it for a while, he saw Liu Shengjian smiling and shaking his head, then took his mother's hand and patted it gently on the back of Mrs. Jia's hand.

"Uncle Liang, it is absolutely impossible to be a prince."

"Father, I will never allow the precedent of 'brother to brother' appear."

"Especially when my father does not have an 'heir', it is even more impossible for the situation of 'brother to brother' to happen in my Han family."

"So, Uncle Liang will only be Uncle Liang."

"Even after the rebellion was put down, the imperial grandmother still insisted, and the final result must be so."

"—Because in this matter, the imperial grandmother is not only against her father, but against the entire court, and even the whole world."

"As long as the rules of 'father dies and son succeeds' and 'inheritance of the eldest son' are still there, Uncle Liang Wang will never become the emperor's younger brother."

was full of firm judgments, which caused Mrs. Jia and Liu Pengzu to nod their heads heavily, and then saw Liu Sheng continue: "As for the eldest brother, it is the same reason. ”

"Uncle Liang Wang can't become the prince because Uncle Liang Wang is not the heir of his father."

"And the eldest brother is the eldest son of his father."

"According to the rule of having a grandson and not having a grandson, when the queen has not given birth to the eldest son, the position of the prince can only be sat by the eldest brother."

"Therefore, the one who becomes the crown prince in the end must be the eldest brother;"

"At that time, there is a high probability that Queen Bo will be abolished, and Li Ji will also live in the Jiaofang Palace at that time······"

Liu Sheng did not hesitate to come to a conclusion, which only caused Mrs. Jia and Liu Pengzu to fall into a long period of contemplation.

After a long time, the mother and son finally nodded slowly and agreed with Liu Sheng's assertion.

It's just that when the mother and son recovered from their thoughts, they found that Liu Sheng's eyebrows also brought a touch of worry visible to the naked eye.

Just like Fang Cai, what Liu Sheng said made Liu Sheng himself have some doubts······

"No;"

"It can't be said to be 'for sure.'"

"If the father is willing to follow the rules of having a descendant and having no heir, the eldest brother can become the crown prince, and Li Ji can also become the queen."

"But what if my father doesn't want to follow it?"

"If the father and emperor are finally annoyed by Li Ji, he even has the idea of 'Li Ji has no mother's honor in the world'······"

His expression was full of depression and he muttered to himself, but it made Liu Sheng's face more and more ugly.

It was Mrs. Jia and Liu Pengzu on the side, who immediately brought a worried look.

- The ownership of the prince and the queen, for the mother and son, should not be cared about and do not need to care about.

But the ecology of the harem is actually the same as that of the court: everything pays attention to the word 'stability'.

Just like in the past, everyone knew that Liu Rong would become the crown prince and Li Ji would become the queen;

Therefore, for Li Ji and Liu Rong's mother and son, everyone can be treated 'correctly'.

And right now, Li Ji's more and more incomprehensible behavior has gradually given birth to some other possibilities in this matter.

For this unknown possibility, and the unpredictable future direction, people living in the deep palace will always feel at a loss.

Because 'the storage position is suspicious', it means that the 'rear position is suspicious', which means that in the future, the person who can live in the Jiaofang Palace smoothly is not clear.

This means that from today until the day when the prince is canonized and the pepper house changes hands, all those who survive in the palace will be in an extremely awkward living environment.

- To befriend Kurihime?

People may not be able to be queens;

- Don't befriend Kurihime?

What if someone ends up being a queen······

"During this time, my mother still doesn't go out of Guangming Hall and walks around with other ladies."

"This situation is really disturbed by Li Ji, I can't even see through it."

"—If you say too much, you will lose, and if you do too much, you will pass;"

"Before the rebellion is put down, the three of us mother and son will try our best to nest in this Guangming Palace."

"When the rebellion is settled, a few of our brothers should be crowned kings, and the remaining ones who are not crowned kings will most likely be the crown prince."

"Then everything will be clear······

A deep voice uttered, and when Mrs. Jia nodded slowly, Liu Sheng let out a sigh of relief and got up from the couch;

Supporting Mrs. Jia, he walked in the direction of the dormitory in the front hall.

But what Liu Sheng definitely didn't expect was that his guess today would become a reality just half a year later.

On that day, nine of Liu Sheng's ten brothers were crowned princes.

Even Liu Yu, who is only four years old, is no exception·········

(End of chapter)