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"It can't be adopted, right?"

Xie Jie really couldn't think of any other possibility.

The Wen family's heirs are thin, but the "thin" here only refers to the solitary ones starting from Emperor Ren's branch.Whether it is Taizu's brothers and sisters or Taizong's half-brothers and sisters, there are many, and there are even cousins ​​who live far away in other places. The relationship between relatives is very complicated.Life should not be too colorful.

And as long as they didn't starve to death or die in battle in those years, one after another, the old peasants who were digging food from the fields, turned into relatives of the official family who were rich and precious.

These old people are no longer alive now, but their children are still there, and so are their grandsons. The eldest son of the eldest son always has a moderate salary and enjoys a flourishing family relationship.

Among these descendants, some settled in Yongji, and now most of them have followed Shenzong to Jiangzuo again; there are also those who lived in Jiangzuo themselves as local tyrants, and were cleaned up by Xie Jie, who first arrived in Jiangzuo a few years ago. Don't dare to stand up again; some even live in other places and continue to live their own lives behind closed doors.

Everyone is far away from each other, and they may not necessarily recognize each other when they meet.

The formation of such a pattern of the clan is inseparable from the rules formulated by the Taizu in the past to avoid the chaos of the clan in the previous dynasty.When the Taizu rewarded his family at the beginning, he had already reached an agreement with them - when the inheritance of the titles of each family fell to the lowest level, they could keep the titles forever, so as not to be completely reduced to common people. The hat also means that they have given up their right to inherit the throne.

Of course, you can also choose not to have this iron hat, but you still don't have the right to inherit the throne.

This includes Taizu's brothers and Taizu's concubine.The ruthless face is so ruthless that people dare not speak nonsense, thinking that getting a title is due to the face of the Taizu, and they are all grateful to Dade.

From Xie Jie's point of view, this thing is like a lock hall test.

The emperor said to the yamen, I have built a shortcut for you to reach the sky, but you will never be the number one scholar.

The emperor said to the clan that the royal family can support each of your main family ancestors for generations, but the clan will never have an emperor.

This condition seemed harsh, but Xie Jie couldn't even ask for it.Because the number of places that can be hereditary has been fixed, the people who come later can only be deleted when the family is extinct, and cannot be increased.No matter how much the reigning emperors favored Xie Jie, they no longer had the right to modify the iron law engraved on the stone tablet by Taizu.If Xie Jie's descendants want to have a great future, they can only rely on themselves. Anyway, it is impossible to rely on Xie Jie.

Xie Jie once wrote a letter to his descendants who have no shadow: Don't blame others because you can't inherit the title. If you want me to say, it can only be that your reincarnation skills are not good enough.Who gave me a worthy father, but you don't have one?

It was as if the eldest princess wanted to hit someone when she saw it, and Xie He wanted to sit up from the coffin board when she saw it.

However, stone tablets are dead, but people are alive.

The iron law cannot be changed, but people can adopt it.Taizu also took into account the fact that Emperor Ren's line of descendants was rare, and he let go. If this line really has no one to inherit, he can adopt from the clan.But it must be approved by the person.

Just like Shenzong and Empress Su had no children, and Shenzong himself didn't want a child, but if the courtiers were anxious for Shenzong and decided to adopt one from the clan for Shenzong, then as long as Shenzong didn't recognize it, the child would be regarded as having no legal inheritance right.The world cut it together.Taizu was also a ruthless person, if he couldn't guarantee that his descendants would get it, then he would rather not get it for anyone.

"No succession, no succession, after the adoption, I won't be able to tell clearly." Shenzong waved his hands again and again, shaking his head, his chubby face was full of fear. He had dreamed about Taizu and his son recently because of the throne. Whip several times.

"Why are you so unpromising?" Xie Jie hated iron for being weak, how many years has his grandfather been in bliss?What are you afraid of?

"That's the power of your Taizu's whip!"

Both in the yamen, Shenzong was frightened by his grandfather Taizu, but Xie Jie had never even seen the face of Taizu, so there was nothing to be afraid of.

In fact, Shenzong also had his own little schemes. He said bluntly to Xie Jie: "The adoptive son will inevitably involve his brother, his nephew, no matter how good-hearted the child is, there is no guarantee that Nianlang will become his heir. This will never be allowed to happen!"

For Shenzong, the emperor in the middle is just a transitional product to work on his behalf and wait for Nianlang to grow up.It's a bit harsh to say that, but it is what it is.Without a surefire candidate, Shenzong would never dare to abdicate.

"Forget it, don't worry about it, anyway, you will know the result soon, just don't be too surprised."

Xie Jie thinks that Shenzong is stupid, and Shenzong also thinks that Xie Jie's brain is not enough. This pair of "hunters and dog friends" don't trust each other's IQ and mouth at all.I always feel that I am still a little bit smarter than the other party.

"Nian Lang?" Xie Jie doesn't care who is the emperor, as long as it doesn't affect his eating, drinking and having fun.

"Oh, your nephew's nickname is Nian'er, and your niece's name is Mengmeng. Your cousin's sister-in-law named her."

"I guess so." This style of sour words in literature and art can only be named by his sad cousin. He decided not to express any opinions on this, but asked, "The daimyo decided Yet?"

But I can't let my cousin get up again.

"The courtiers are still arguing. Before the child was born, they had already started discussing day and night. Up to now, they haven't discussed a ugly Yinmao. Let them do as they please. I can't quarrel with these scholars. "Shenzong is not keen on naming his children, because he is very aware of his education level, and there is no need for his children to live a lifetime with the name of basin like him.

Having said that, the servant came to report that the little prince and the little emperor concubine were ready. If the officials and princes wanted to visit, they could do so at any time.

Xie Jie didn't say the purpose of his trip before entering the palace, but Shenzong had already known from other channels that their big lie had been exposed, so Xie Jie would pursue it, so he sacrificed the child Dafa, hoping to use the cute child to divert Xie Jie. medium attention.

So, just like this, Xie Jie was fulfilled by the right way.

The children are too young, it is obviously unrealistic to bring them over to show Xie Jie, so Xie Jie can only visit the twins' palace.The palace of the twins is in the harem. Although there are not many concubines in Shenzong, it is still inconvenient for Xie Jie, a foreigner, to go there directly.Waiting for the servants to clean up and tidy up will save everyone trouble.

Xie Jie was lucky enough to travel on Shenzong's imperial chariot, which saved a lot of energy and time, and by the way, he also took a few more glances at the harem that he had never seen before.

"You have been in Jiangzuo for so many years, have you never seen what the harem looks like?" Shenzong's face was full of shock and disbelief.

"Why am I wandering around in the palace's harem when I have nothing to do?" Xie Jie was also shocked.

"Too."

Jiang Zuo's palace is really economical. Apart from the emperor and the empress dowager's bedroom having two halls, the harem women including the empress only have one hall, but they are not the worst. , stand out in this miserable segment:

When Taizu ordered the construction of the palace, he had no intention of building another east palace for the crown prince!

I don't know what kind of mmp idea was in Taizong's heart when he was still a prince.

Where does the prince live?It's very simple, live directly in the middle area where the palaces of Emperor Hedi and Empress Dowager are connected.Just like ordinary aristocratic families, they arranged a residence for the son-in-law in the middle of the main courtyard and the backyard.This can be interpreted as the hope that the children can be close to their parents when they are young, or it can be understood that the family really has no room for them.After the children grow up and get married, it is not too late to make other preparations.

To be honest, there are not many royal families as down-to-earth as Daqi.

Worse than the crown prince without the Eastern Palace, is the pair of twins named Nian'er and Mengmeng temporarily. Their siblings don't even have their own palace, but live with their biological mother who has been promoted to the Queen Mother .

The Empress Dowager has two halls, Ci Ning and Ci Ming. The Hall of Compassion is in front, and it will be the residence of the two newcomers of the Wen family for a long time to come.

When he arrived, Xie Jie specifically asked Shenzong: "Do I need to visit my cousin?"

In fact, Xie Jie didn’t want to see Empress Dowager Nie very much. One was that she was supposed to be in confinement now, so he always felt weird going in to visit; the other was because of an old “grievance” between him and Empress Dowager Nie. , although things have already passed for some years, no matter how complicated each other's thoughts are, they should have dissipated with the wind, but after all, the city was full of wind and rain at that time, Xie Jie felt that the two of them should still insist on not seeing each other. I don't want to see a tacit understanding.

"No need." Shenzong also shook his head and refused, "She's not in the Hall of Compassion."

Xie Jie wanted to ask curiously where the queen mother was, but after thinking about it, he finally didn't ask.

Shenzong understood Xie Jie's eagerness to open his mouth, and said with great care: "Are you still embarrassed by that shitty incident back then? Isn't it? Neither of you is the person involved, but you have a direct relationship with the person involved. I am not embarrassed. What are you embarrassed about?"

Xie Jie pulled the corner of his mouth forcefully.

Shenzong had no choice but to follow him.

After seeing the twins, Xie Jie's expression became even more far-fetched. It is not an exaggeration to say that he was disappointed, because "cute children" are not at all!Can!like!

Shenzong patted Xie Jie on the shoulder with an expression of "I understand you" on his face, and said with deep pain: "Da Ya said that children are like this, and they will be fine when they grow up. Don't look at being huddled together now, they will definitely grow up in the future." .The more it looks like a red-skinned monkey, the more beautiful it will grow up."

Xie Jie is really not flattering about this statement, and his little aunt has never had a child, so how can he take what he said seriously?

Shenzong...

Shenzong actually thought the same way, he had secretly cried several times because of the bad looks of the two children.How can it be so ugly?

The two children are still not beautiful and ugly, and they can't even see people clearly. They will be hugged by anyone who comes. As long as they are not particularly awkward, they will not cry.

Xie Jie thought to himself, it's over, it's over, it's not only ugly, but also stupid, how will I live in the future?Thinking of his cousin who is so handsome and handsome, and his cousin sister-in-law who is also a sick and weak Xizi's talented woman, why is the child born by the two of them such, how can it be so hard to describe?What went wrong in this child-making process?Did his cousin take the wrong birth control pill?

Coincidentally, Shenzong also thought about it, and even privately ordered Dr. An to investigate.Dr. He An could only pretend to be very serious and went to investigate the medical skills of the sages all night, and came back early the next morning. There is really no medicine that makes the child in the stomach turn ugly after people eat it.

Just at this time, the child seemed to feel something, maybe it was uncomfortable being hugged, maybe he understood Xie Jie's disgust, anyway, he started moaning.

The eight nannies stood aside worriedly, not daring to go over the line to snatch the child from the eldest son, but also really afraid that something would happen to the little prince and the little emperor.That is the gold that is not enough to pay for the destruction of their nine clans.

Xie Jie also panicked all of a sudden. Although he thought the child was ugly, he also knew that it was his cousin's only "inheritance". His cousin had never disliked him for being stupid back then. How can uncle despise the child being stupid and ugly?Although the other party can't be an embroidered pillow like him, being a haystack is also fun to be a haystack.

Xie Jie cautiously said to the baby in his arms whose skin looked very delicate: "Mengmeng don't cry, don't cry, cousin didn't say you are ugly, I said your brother is ugly. Our Mengmeng is so beautiful, and, Having the power is enough to do whatever you want, cousin will definitely find you the most handsome son-in-law."

Strive to make the next generation look better.

Shenzong was not happy: "What eyes do you have? Are you blind? The one in the red swaddle is Nian Lang."

Daqi regards red as his honor, the court clothes of officials are vermilion, and the court clothes of ministers are scarlet, all in all, they are a family of red.The swaddling clothes of the future prince are also red, embroidered with golden dragons, which looks festive at first glance.

Xie Jie was even more inexplicable and looked between the two children. Although the two children were born of the same child, they were really not the same. Xie Jie thought that the relatively good-looking girl selected by the short Liba General was a girl. ,did not expect……

Xie Jie glanced at the niece in the goose-yellow swaddle over there, and suddenly became a little worried. With this background, even with power over others, it may not be possible to find a good-looking husband.

"The pretty one is Mengmeng, remember?" Shenzong was still teaching Xie Jie how to identify a child.

Xie Jie glanced at his uncle, and said sadly, "When did you become blind?"

After playing with the child for a while, no, watching the child for a while, Xie Jie retreated strategically.He really doesn't have much surging feelings for creatures like children.Not to mention that he is not good-looking, he should not stay and hurt each other.

"You are a child yourself, so of course you don't like others to compete with you." Shenzong had no children for many years, but instead transferred all his father's love to the twins, "Ann, you must be the one who loves you the most, no one else will." Can't compete."

Xie Jie stared at his uncle who was not much older than him.

They had a good relationship since childhood, and they had a natural intimacy in how to skip classes, get angry with Mr., and eat, drink and have fun, even Emperor Wen couldn't intervene.

It wasn't until the imperial chariot quickly walked back to Funing Hall that Shenzong realized: "You didn't give that rattle to me, did you?"

Xie Jie applauded his uncle sparingly: "Congratulations, you finally figured it out, and I can go back and bet with Fang Chaoci at a later date."

Shenzong finally felt a sense of crisis, and asked Xie Jie nervously, "Is Fang Chaoci your best friend, or am I your best friend?"

"...Why is my best friend my uncle? Don't you think this proposition is a bit sad?" This is as pitiful as introducing my best friend to others as my mother.

"My best friend is my nephew, what's there to be sad about?" Shenzong looked at Xie Jie with a full moon-like white and fat face, very puzzled, and his tone was no more serious than his.

When Wen Penzi was a chubby boy, he had been expecting his sister to give him a nephew, because her sister told him that there are no true friends in this world who don't want him, he just compares others Encounters are a little slower, but they will definitely be encountered.If it is impossible, there is also the nephew in the belly of the girl brother, that is the existence in this world that will definitely not despise him.

"Then can I be good friends with my little nephew?"

"Yes, yes, but are you not going to have more choices? My little nephew can wait at the end."

"Then my nephew is so pitiful, why should he be the one to pick the rest? It's decided, if he is a boy, then he will be my good friend for life, the best friend!"

Then, his daughter brother really gave birth to him the best friend in the world.

Xie Jie made a difficult choice between Fang Chaoci and his uncle, and finally said: "Of course you are my best friend, Fang Chaoci is different from you."

Xie Jie couldn't tell exactly what was different.

However, Shenzong was already satisfied, and became happy again: "When things are over, let's go to Nanhu together, go to Goulan Washing House together, watch cuju, donkey ball, and sumo wrestling!"

Before retiring, Shenzong had already begun to think about the future.

Xie Jie imagined together: "I'm going to eat quail seeds cooked with flowers, stuffed crabs, fresh hoofs, fried honey with carved flowers, and rice with small heads..."

Speaking of the latter, both of them were hungry, so they set meals regardless of the timing.I also found the best-looking palace trickster to... talk about history books.There is no way, now is the time when the country is ruined and the whole country is in mourning. If they dare to put on a large-scale song and dance performance in the palace today, tomorrow there will be ministers who dare to splash their blood on Phoenix Mountain.

Fortunately, Mrs. Liu's craftsmanship is still so good. At the end of the meal, the uncle and nephew were so moved that they held hands and looked at each other with tears in their eyes.

One said, "When will you abdicate."

Another said, "When will your health be better?"

It was only then that Xie Jie remembered his character design, a person who has not fully recovered after waking up from a coma for many months.In fact, he wanted to announce that he was healed a long time ago, but Tian Shi said that this was not possible, and it would arouse suspicion.With the help of Tianshi, he could only pretend to be sick for a while, but fortunately, the people around him didn't worry much about him after he woke up for so long.If everyone is still particularly worried, he will make it clear no matter what.

It was already late when Xie Jie left the palace.Not as fast as he told Fang Chaoci at the beginning, "probably soon".Alas, there is no way.Today, when there is a serious lack of entertainment, even listening to beauties telling history can be fun.

But probably fate is like this, when Xie Jie thought he was late, Fang Chaoci was also late.

"I didn't expect it to happen," Fang Chaoci said as if it was real, and cupped his hands at Xie Jie, "Things over there are more difficult than I expected, and I thought you would have gone back long ago."

"I'm also late here, what a coincidence." Xie Jie really thought it was fate, and hurriedly recruited Fang Chaoci to board the car.

"How come it's such a coincidence." Fang Chaoci smiled and said without shame.He selectively forgot how many times Liulang ran back and forth between Taifu Temple and Xinggong.

After the ox cart moved, Xie Jie came up with a whim, and asked Fang Chaoci: "What's the most coincidental thing you've ever seen?"

Xie Jie didn't grasp the distance well, he got too close, as if Fang Chaoci wanted to, he could touch the other party with his nose at any time.

Xie Jie's eyes were clear, without distracting thoughts.

In contrast, Fang Chaoci didn't know how to look back at Xie Jie, because no matter what, he felt that he looked a little dirty when he was wrong.In a panic, he said the first thought that crossed his mind: "The most coincidental thing is... Do you believe that there is a kind of person in this world who is born to know what his future lover will be like?"

"Believe it." Xie Jie belongs to the type who is easy to believe in everything. He believes that there are gods in the world, and he also believes that there are ghosts in the underworld. Naturally, he also believes in the existence of other strange races.His thinking jumped again, and he chatted with Fang Chaoci naturally, "Aren't they either lucky or unlucky?"

"En?" Fang Chaoci did not keep up with Xiao Shizi's train of thought, what luck and bad luck?

"If the lover he knows loves him, he is very lucky. If his lover doesn't love him, he is very unlucky. He can only watch his destined lover be with others. Or should he come to the door as soon as he is born Propose marriage?"

"That race doesn't mention marriage. The lover they see is not the kind of prophecy that can be changed. What they know is always the final result. No matter how many twists and turns they experience in the middle, they will accompany them through the whole life of each other in the end. Yes, it must be the one they've known since birth."

"Isn't that amazing?!" Xie Jie's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and he was even more attached to Fang Chaoci, wanting to know more information, "Where are they? Do you know them? Let me see me too future wife?"

Fang Chaoci shook his head: "I can only see my own. And some people can't see it."

"Then what should we do?"

"This is the most coincidental thing I want to tell you. The only person in the group who doesn't know who his future partner is, has already given up, thinking that being alone is fine, and there is a lover or something But he never thought that one day he would travel hundreds of millions of light years, and meet his destiny by accident in a remote place in the universe."

"What is the word yiwangguangnian? How do you write it? This must be a storybook, right?" Xie Jie felt that he had realized that the story was a good one, and he couldn't stop talking about it.

"You can say whatever you want." Fang Chaoci didn't strongly refute Xie Jie, as if he really just told a story, "But this is the most coincidental thing I know."

The bullock cart bumped at this moment, and Xie Jie almost rushed into Fang Chaoci's arms.The distance between the two was so close that there were only two layers of clothes left, and Xie Jie suddenly forgot what he was going to say just now, breathing in the familiar and pleasant smell.

He looked up and saw that Fang Chaoci was also looking down at him.

Xie Jie got up in a hurry, and while tidying up his loose sleeves, he said, "Then, what would a person from that strange clan do because his lover doesn't love him for a while?"

"Why do you want to do something?" Fang Chaoci looked at Xie Jie strangely, "They will be together sooner or later, why bother adding more things to the snake? Just wait patiently."

Whether it is actively fighting for it or passively waiting, you can always wait, so why do you do things that will make your lover unhappy.

"I like this race more and more." Xie Jie finally came to such a conclusion.

Fang Chaoci's ears turned red for no reason. When Xie Jie was so close to him, he was able to at least keep his expression calm, but now he seemed at a loss instead.

Xie Jie thought, what a weirdo.

The author has something to say: *A little knowledge that I don’t know whether to say boring or interesting: Among the 18 emperors in the Song Dynasty, the probability of non-parent-child succession is 50%.For example, Zhao Kuangyin was succeeded by his younger brother, and Song Gaozong was succeeded by his adopted son.In other words, although you are the emperor, there are only five or five of your sons who become emperor, just like opening a lucky bag, full of surprises and excitement.