Li Ye had just returned to Qianqing Palace when the Empress Dowager walked in with the imperial physician.

The imperial physician stepped forward to diagnose Li Ye and confirmed that the emperor was only a little weak and had no other hidden dangers or serious illnesses. The queen mother asked the imperial physician to leave.

The Queen Mother glanced at Li Ye's pale face, feeling distressed. "My emperor is really suffering."

From the time the imperial physician began to make a diagnosis to when the imperial physician left, Li Ye was in a daze. He didn't come back to his senses until he heard the Queen Mother's words.

"Mother, the son is fine, you don't have to worry." Li Ye didn't smile.

"I can only be well if you are good." The queen mother sighed heavily.

"I heard that today the Ministry of Rites discussed the selection of a concubine, what does the emperor think?" The queen mother asked casually, it seemed that it was not an inquiry, but just a mention, just for a formality.

However, when it stopped by Li Ye's ear, it was like thunder.Why did the empress know the news just after she went to court.

Li Ye turned his head to look into the distance, but his eyes didn't have a foothold, and he didn't answer anything.

"The emperor is shy." The queen mother joked.

Ever since the emperor's son recovered from his illness, she felt that there was a gap between her and the emperor's son. The queen mother tried her best to say some commonplace words that ordinary people would say to narrow the distance between the two of them, but Li Ye remained silent. No cooperation at all.

Feeling Li Ye's resistance, the queen mother persuaded her earnestly and earnestly: "Your Majesty, don't blame the queen mother for making her own decisions. The queen mother is doing it for your own good. You are still young and don't understand. The choice of queen is not to choose someone who can act coquettishly if you want to , it is necessary to choose a dignified one, so that the grandson born in this way will be solemn."

He is the emperor, but he doesn't know what the emperor's biggest task is, is it to give birth to heirs or to make achievements?

No one asked him if he had the idea of ​​selecting talents and reforming political affairs. All the officials hoped that he would choose a concubine to be a queen, and the queen mother hoped that he would choose a concubine to be a queen. No one really wanted to hear his thoughts or really consider his ideas. Opinion.He is a clay sculpture that everyone can gain power from him, not a living person.

Li Ye suddenly made a sound, looked at the queen mother, and said word by word: "The queen mother thinks the prime minister's daughter is better, or the daughter of the Chao family is better for the queen?"

"This..." The Queen Mother blurted out, but stopped in time.

"It depends on the emperor's will." The queen mother looked at Li Ye's expressionless face, as if seeing the former emperor in a daze, she felt a creepy feeling, and a chill came down her back.

"Emperor, rest well, Aijia will go to deal with the affairs of the harem."

A long time after the queen mother left, Li Ye slowly walked to the window, stood in front of the window and looked at the carefree flowers and birds outside, with a sad look on his face.

In less than a day, the chatter of the officials in the upper court, the chatter of the stepmother in the lower court, the memorials piled up high, and the court ladies coming and going... made him extremely tired.

He began to get tired of this palace life, weak and tired.

A guard in black entered the door and knelt down to present the secret letter.

Li Ye couldn't wait to take it, removed the seal, opened the secret letter and read it carefully.That was exactly the information that Li Ye asked the guards in black to fetch about Xie's family affairs, big and small.

Li Ye just opened it to read the beginning, and saw that the Xie family had only one son, Xie Ziqi, and immediately froze.

No, it's impossible, Li Ye went through the entire secret report quickly and unbelievably, there is no cousin Xie Ziqi, only cousin Xie Ziqi, there is no childhood sweetheart, only Xie Ziqi is studying in the south of the Yangtze River, and the story of walking the north and south of the river alone, he and his cousin have never met each other. Meet.

Is it Zhuang Zhou's dream of a butterfly, or the butterfly of Zhuang Zhou, what is fantasy and what is reality?

Holding the secret letter, Li Ye walked quickly to the sun, staring at the scorching sun unscrupulously, black shadows appeared in his eyes, but he still looked at the sun persistently.

"It's really hot today." Luo Ying took a basin of cold water freshly drawn from the well and poured it on the ground of the yard.After she finished muttering, she took a peek at Ziqi who was reading under the tree.

The breeze blows the leaves, and through the layers of tree shadows, the mottled sun is projected on Ziqi's face, like a meaningful painting.

Luo Ying didn't know any fancy rhetoric, but suddenly remembered a poem her mother had taught her to recite, and she only remembered those two lines: Moshang is like jade, and the son is unparalleled in the world.Luo Ying looked at Ziqi, as if she was insane, and stood under the sun for a long time before leaving.

But Luo Ying didn't know that when she was watching Ziqi, there was someone standing behind her looking at her.

It's just that the meaning in those eyes is dark and unpredictable.

As the wind gradually picked up, the extremely long days finally ended and the summer nights began.

Ziqi rested his chin on one hand, lying on the edge of the bed, flipping through the history books written by Tai Shigong, and seeing that, the corners of his mouth were slowly stained with a smile.

Cheng Fang suddenly barged in.

"Brother, I don't like Luo Ying." Simple and straightforward as before.

Ziqi folded his clothes and sat on the edge of the bed looking at Cheng Fang with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

Cheng Fang suddenly softened his voice: "I don't like her staying in your yard."

Ziqi smiled, Luo Ying seemed straightforward, but she was cunning; Luo Yan was indifferent to people, but she had a better heart than Luo Ying.The two were in the mansion, but within a day, Luo Ying had already won the hearts of the people.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Fang instinctively saw the difference between the two.Maybe he can give some guidance to Cheng Fang.

"From tomorrow, you will start studying. Luo Ying and Luo Yan are your book boys, and they will not serve in my courtyard."

"Brother." Cheng Fang was both happy and sad when he heard this.

Ziqi got up and walked to the table, poured a cup of tea, and handed it to Cheng Fang. "You are different from them."

Cheng Fang nodded and left, walked out of the yard, stood silently for a while, looked up at the bright moon, and murmured: "Is it different?" Is Ziqi grateful for his kindness and pity for them?In other words, he is much more important in Ziqi's mind.

Cheng Fang, who had never thought about such a complicated problem before, gradually began to learn to think, and learned to take things in his heart and chew slowly.

The invitation from the princess mansion has arrived.

Master Xie cast a glance, snorted, rolled up his trouser legs, picked up the hoe and started weeding.

The butler stood on the ridge of the field and watched anxiously as Mr. Xie hoeed the flat field into a mess.

"Master, why are you weeding in such a bright sun?" Besides, there is no grass to weed at all.

"Ah, my miserable eggplant."

Master Xie's hoe was a few millimeters away from the eggplant, and he snorted. "Old man Xu, don't worry, I'm not so dazzled yet."

"My lord, the butler of the eldest princess's house is still waiting in the living room, just see you."

"I see, I see a fart." When Master Xie got angry, he swung the hoe almost to the waist.

"Hey, sir, your waist."

"It's okay, my master is always strong." Master Xie stood in the middle of the field with his waist pinched.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ziqi walked towards Mr. Xie, and took the hoe from Mr. Xie with his usual expression.

"You...what are you doing, kid?" Master Xie was so frightened that he couldn't even speak clearly.

"Weeding."

"It's clean."

The whole land is as flat as before, and there is not a single weed.

what's going on?Master Xie and the housekeeper looked at each other, for some reason, both of them were short of breath in front of Ziqi.

"I'm afraid of you, tell me, what's the matter? Cheng Fang was surrounded by you to study in the yard." Master Xie added a word of complaint leisurely.

"The housekeeper who receives the eldest princess."

"Why?" Mr. Xie hopped his feet, and that girl of the eldest princess always pulled her face, and when she saw him, she would be very angry.Thinking back when he was also walking in the palace, he was often despised by this lady.snort.

"Because the late emperor died, the Xie family has no protection. You want the eldest princess to protect our Xie family, daydreaming!"

"Just borrowing the banquet of the eldest princess, let our Xie family show their faces." Ziqi picked up the weeds that had been hoeed and scattered in the field.

Master Xie felt a headache like a cow. "At worst, we will all be farmers in our hometown."

"Okay." Ziqi nodded in agreement.

"What a fart." Master Xie turned his head abruptly, pretending to be full with the butler who was following him.

"I'm not afraid of losing your great aunt's face."

The children spread their hands.

"Let's go, you go with me, and see what the eldest princess's mansion is about."

"Father, I'm not afraid that the eldest princess will eat you." Ziqi made up his knife leisurely, put the weeds in his hand on the field ridge, clapped his hands, and walked beside Master Xie.

"Fart. When she scolded once, I caught bugs and put them in her water. If she scolded me twice, I threw the frog into her study. If she scolded me three times, I threw the snake into her boudoir. She is not Proud, let me see how proud she is." Master Xie added quite complacently.

Ziqi let out a meaningful oh.

The butler followed Ziqi and Master Xie, looked at the white hair on Master Xie's forehead, and was a little stooped. The mischievous and wanton young master appeared in front of him in a daze. The horses he rode no longer rode, and he never left the mansion, staying in a corner of the mansion.

So many years have passed like this.

Slightly turning his gaze away, seeing the young master's outstanding demeanor, the housekeeper felt a little emotional, he and the master are both old, the young master has grown up and can manage the inside and outside of Xie's house.

Ziqi turned his head, looked at the housekeeper who was full of emotions, and smiled lightly.

"Uncle Xu, bring the red horse."

Master Xie looked at the housekeeper who had been by his side since he was a boy, and then at the grown-up son beside him.

"Okay, I will go to the banquet today on horseback."

"Uncle Xu, I'll ride a horse too."

"Hey." The housekeeper looked excited, and there was almost a tremolo in the voice of agreement.

After so many years, the Xie family was finally no longer the mountain that the master was carrying, and the young master was already the pillar of the Xie family.

"Let's see if I arrive first, or father first arrives at the Princess's Mansion?" Ziqi spoke out aggressively.

"You kid, you really think your father has been living for so many years."

Looking at this scene, for some reason, the corners of his eyes became moist.The housekeeper turned his head slightly, wiping the tears from his eyes.

It's three quarters.

A red horse and a white horse landed in front of the eldest princess' mansion at the same time.Steal everyone's attention.

Sitting on the red horse is a middle-aged man with a firm face, and sitting on the white horse is a handsome and handsome young man like jade.

It was Master Xie and Ziqi.

The two ignored those people, and led the horse into the eldest princess's mansion on their own.

Everyone's eyes changed from surprise and astonishment to stunned, and what was even more wicked was that the two of them didn't bring a gift, and they actually entered the eldest princess's door with such a big fanfare.

My jaw dropped!

Seeing Mr. Xie and Ziqi, the butler of the eldest princess hurriedly greeted them.Let people serve the two horses well, and then lead them to the second position on the right side of the main hall.Ziqi and Master Xie dealt with each other calmly under the eyes of everyone who looked at or suspected them.

"The eldest princess is here." Following the sharp voice of a eunuch, the eldest princess walked into the main hall in a graceful and luxurious outfit.

Master Xie was taking a sip of his wine, when he heard the name, he suddenly raised his head, meeting the eyes that the princess was looking at.It seems like how many hours have passed.

Master Xie spat in a low voice: "It's still that proud girl."

Ziqi lowered his head and smiled.

The eldest princess snorted coldly when she walked past Master Xie, and said to herself: "It's been many years, but I haven't made any progress."

Slightly skimming over the period, a little surprised.

"This guy actually gave birth to a good son. God is so kind to him."

"Much better than my son!" the eldest princess thought angrily.

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