Chapter 18: The Prince's Affairs
Li Xiuning watched the eldest grandson Wujian and Li Lizhi come out of the inner hall with a happy face, and the eldest grandson Wujian was about to greet Li Xiuning, but saw that Li Xiuning just nodded at the two and walked past the two.
The eldest grandson Wujian was about to speak, and the afterglow swept over the palace people around him who were probing his brain, and immediately understood, pulled Li Lizhi and saluted Li Xiuning, and then turned to leave.
Li Xiuning walked to the door of the inner hall, turned around and looked at the big and small ones that disappeared in front of him, and before he could sigh, Dou Ma's voice came from behind him, "The bait has been sown, whether the fish bite the hook or not, it depends on the will of heaven." ”
Li Xiuning smiled, "So, ah, I have to add another fire." ”
Under the slightly dim sky, Li Xiuning's big red palace suit burned quietly in the dark like a flame.
In the Chengqian Palace, Zheng Guanyin looked at Li Jiancheng, who was sitting without saying a word, and was a little frightened.
After a long time, Li Jiancheng turned on the faint light, and said in a hoarse voice, "Prepare paper and pen." ”
Zheng Guanyin's beautiful face showed a look of surprise, "Prince, you really can't write?" Princess Pingyang's words are just to use this to knock you, how to say that you are also the prince, is it a bit too much. ”
The corners of Li Jiancheng's mouth pulled up a self-deprecating wry smile and said, "Prince? Do you know that in the eyes of my sister, my prince is worthless. ”
"Then there is no need to please her, Princess Pingyang has always been close to Li Shimin, the king of Qin, we can't win her support at all, why do you want to do such useless work, so humiliated, the concubines are unwilling."
"Unwilling, what's unwilling? Sister's light is so bright that you actually ignore the most important person, that is, the queen mother. Li Jiancheng said, "Why is Sister so eager to show her attitude? Knocking me is just the surface, why did you want me to write Cao Zhi's "Seven Steps Poem"? ”
Zheng Guanyin showed a thoughtful expression, and listened to Li Jiancheng say, "The root is actually in the queen mother, maybe the opinions of the elder sister and the queen mother are contrary, and the elder sister actually wants to use this way to change the queen mother's mind." ”
"The concubine understands, if the prince doesn't write, Princess Pingyang will definitely use her sister to suppress the prince, after all, you and the King of Qin are like fire and water, the world knows, borrowing Cao Pi Cao Zhi's old things, metaphorizing the prince's actions of Cao Pi, the queen mother will definitely not like it, and it will inevitably improve the situation of King Qin."
Zheng Guanyin suddenly realized that today in the front and back of the side hall of Taiji Palace, he vividly remembered, including Li Xiuning's words to Li Liqian, which were also full of deep meaning.
Li Xiuning wanted to remind herself by what she said to Li Lizhen that if the prince pressed King Qin step by step again, she, as an older sister, would be beaten.
"But now she has no military power and no officials, how can she influence the situation?" Zheng Guanyin frowned, and the crown prince Li Jiancheng didn't speak, and after a while, Zheng Guanyin said suspiciously, "Unless she has something else, is the rumor true?" Are she and the queen mother really immortals? ”
Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "There is news from the palace that the elder sister and the queen mother appeared in the main hall of the Taiji Palace out of thin air, and the hundreds of guards are like nightmares in their bodies, unable to move, and the elder sister has also fought dozens of guards alone, unharmed. ”
Zheng Guanyin said thoughtfully, "Today, when I saw my mother and Princess Pingyang, they are all rejuvenated, which is contrary to common sense. But the immortal saying is illusory, how can it be true. ”
Li Jiancheng said suddenly, "The crown princess has a lot of affairs today, and she is also tired, I have a countermeasure to the matter, please rest assured." ”
Zheng Guanyin was a little puzzled, but Li Jiancheng has always been steady, maybe he has his own considerations, so he still don't say more.
According to the words, he saluted Li Jiancheng and withdrew.
Li Jiancheng's face flickered under the lights, and he got up and took out a picture scroll from the dark grid behind him, and after opening it, the picture scroll was a woman in a palace costume, which looked similar to Li Xiuning, but was older.
Li Xiuning on the portrait is a little more dignified and stable than the current Li Xiuning, and a little less youthful and frivolous, but he is just sassy and heroic at the time of his eyebrows, and he does not lose a bit.
Li Jiancheng moved the scroll in his hand to the lamp, and a crazy smile suddenly appeared on his face, "Sister, Bishamen can kill you once, he can kill you a second time, and all those who hinder me from reaching the position of Ninety-Five are my enemies." ”
"It's not that Bishamen doesn't remember the love of sister and brother, it's not that Bishamen doesn't respect his sister, it's not that Bishamen is ruthless and unrighteous, it's not Bishamen's fault, it's all your fault, your fault."
"If you weren't going to persuade your father to let the scourge of the second child go to Luoyang, how could I arrange for someone to replace your decoction when you were having a qi attack, Sister, do you know how sad I am when you die? I didn't get a drop of water for three days, but I thought about my sister who loved me and left like this, how pitiful and sad Bishamen was. ”
"You have become a high immortal, and you don't enjoy eternal happiness in the divine realm, what are you doing in the lower realm? The general of the women's army, Princess Pingyang Zhao, I am also your younger brother, why should I favor one over the other? I am older than the second child, and Li Tang is also conscientious for me, why are you partial to the second child? ”
"I'm also the younger brother who has been following you, why can't you love me as much as you did when you were a child, why do you give the soldiers of the Women's Army to the second child, instead of me, I am the eldest son, I am the prince, this country must be mine, and it must be mine."
"Sister, I don't care what you want to do, I respect you as a sister, if you want me to write, I will write, I will not only write, but also write with great fanfare, and tell the world to write, I want the world to see how obedient and good your brother Bishamen is."
"Hahahaha, good boy, Bishamen is a good boy. Sister, don't you like the second child the most, haven't you become a fairy, then this time, Bishamen will send the second child to heaven to reunite with you, you don't have to think about going down to earth, how good, really good. ”
Li Jiancheng moved the scroll in his hand to the lamp, the scroll caught fire, burning little by little, and the flickering fire light shone on Li Jiancheng's face, which didn't know whether it was excitement or madness, which made people feel a kind of coldness emanating from their bones.
Until the picture scroll burned out, Li Jiancheng lay on the ground like a vent, and cried whining, at first the voice was not loud, but slowly turned into a howling cry, the cry was mixed with a few sad shouts, "Sister, sister." ”
Zheng Guanyin, who was outside the main hall, heard Li Jiancheng's self-talk and crying, and couldn't help but shiver, and while he was afraid, there was a trace of sadness in his heart, this is his own man, a madman, a prince who has gone completely crazy for the throne.
But do you have a choice? From the moment he married Li Jiancheng, his life has been frozen, he can only move forward, he can't tolerate the slightest retreat, the rise and fall of the family, the support of his son, and such a crazy husband, so many burdens are pressed on him, he is really tired.
Sometimes I envy Guanyin, I have a husband who loves her, a free soul, and a warm family, these things are really too far away from me, what can I do?
Women, you can't choose, you can only be chosen.
This is a lonely and dark road, and I can only cry all the way and bear it all the way.
Zheng Guanyin stumbled on the road, without a trace of light in his eyes.