Royal rice bug, worm worm!

"Mrs. Dou loves her daughter dearly, and she wants Sister Dou to reconcile her elder brother."

The next day, after the morning court, Li Xi and Wei Yu were talking while eating breakfast on the green ox cart.

"But she can't make the decision. Dou's family has always been made by Dou Shangshu. He is obviously the grandfather, but he pushed Sister Dou into the fire pit. Mrs. Dou also had no choice, so she went to Changle Palace to ask her grandmother to make the decision."

Li Xi stuffed a small ball into his mouth and muttered: "Grandmother can't be the master of this. Her old man is far away from Dou Shangshu's branch, not to mention it is related to elder brother."

After Xiao Wan finished chewing, he glanced at the small garlic box in front of Wei Yu.Wei Yu held the chopsticks in one hand and rolled up the sleeves of his robe with the other, and put them into his mouth.

Li Xi ate it with a smile, and said with a greasy mouth: "Grandmother raised me, and she should take care of my affairs. My elder brother is different. Not to mention that I am not my own grandmother. On the other side of Concubine Dou Shu, grandma doesn't want to touch too much."

Concubine Dou Shu is the one who cries, makes trouble and hangs herself, and the eldest prince is confused. Not to mention that the queen mother has no blood relationship with them, even if there is, she must stay away.

Li Xi sighed: "It's because of sister Dou."

Wei Yu wiped his mouth for him, and said: "If the princess of the county really wants to reconcile, the problem is not with the empress dowager, nor with Shangshu Dou, but with the king of Ruijun."

That is, the eldest prince.

Li Xi thought for a moment, "Isn't that right, as long as the eldest brother agrees to reconcile, and the stinky father will definitely agree, grandma will also be able to support Sister Dou confidently!"

Wei Yu pushed the soup bowl in front of him, "Should King Ruijun return to Beijing?"

"It's just these two days." Li Xi said indifferently.

Originally Li Hong didn't intend to let him come back, it was the empress dowager's begging, at least let him come back for a face-to-face meeting, otherwise the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty would really think he was rejected, and life in Anxi might be difficult in the future.

After all, the queen mother loves him.

Li Xi didn't care.

He's long since stopped being angry, it's not worth it.

The eldest prince's life in Anxi is not good, and he is also responsible for this.

When Li Xi arrived at Honglu Temple, everyone was not in the right state, and they looked at him strangely.

After asking, I found out that it was the eldest prince who had returned to Beijing ahead of schedule.

The emperor and the empress got married, and the kings from all over the world came to the palace to congratulate them one after another. Li Xi was always in charge of receiving them. This was also Li Hong's selfish desire to let him establish a good relationship with the kings in advance.

The reason why the eldest prince was demoted, the officials of Honglu Temple are all clear, and now Li Xi is asked to pick him up, everyone is worried that he will not be happy.

"Why don't you like it? Even if he hides, he should be avoiding me. There is absolutely no reason for me to hide from him."

Everyone let out a long sigh of relief.

Xiao Fu Wang is really magnanimous, really magnanimous, originally he was afraid that this little ancestor would be picky and playful, but he didn't expect him to be so cooperative!

Just finished feeling, I heard Li Xi say: "Go, take out the official robe that I will wear in the court, and let the elder brother see how awesome I am now!"

Everyone: It's... quite generous.

When he left the official office, he saw the second prince head-on.

"Second brother, why are you here?" Li Xi waved at him.

The second prince cleared his throat, and said unnaturally: "Didn't you say to pick up elder brother, I just happen to be fine, so I'll go with you."

"Are you afraid that the elder brother will bully me?" Li Xi smiled, squeezed her throat and said, "Yeah, if you are so soft and cute and weak, what if you are beaten by him and scolded by him, you still need the protection of the second elder brother. "

Second Prince: "..."

"I said, since you've been hanging out with Wei Shaoqing, why have you changed your color?"

"Don't talk about my family book Brother Yun."

Li Xi waved his little insect claws, calling it caring but showing affection, "It's so cold, don't ride a horse, take a car with me, brother Shuyun burned a small stove for me, and there are preserved fruits and taro soup! "

The corner of the second prince's mouth twitched, "I can't sit still."

"There are small taro balls in the taro soup. Brother Shu Yun made them himself. He dug them out one by one and cooked them with milk. Warm them in a small casserole. Second brother, do you want to try them?"

"No, thank you." The single dog was annoyed when he heard it.

"Because I told him that the breakfast was brought from Changle Palace, brother Shuyun lost a chance to spoil me, and I felt uncomfortable, so I made these compensations... By the way, there are yogurt cubes, second brother really Do not eat?"

The second prince hehehe: "I can't afford it that your 'Brother Shuyun' brought to 'pet you'."

Really, it was a mistake for him to rush over to accompany him today.It's cold, isn't it good to check the military pay at the Ministry of War?

"It's not the yogurt cubes, this one was given to me by Rong Rong. Didn't Duo Duo want to go back to Kunling, so she taught Rong the art of making yogurt—Second Brother, what are you doing? Suddenly jump over and scare me."

"Didn't you invite me to have some milk? I just didn't eat in the morning." The second prince smiled as attentively as he could.

Li Xi pointed to the small casserole on top of the small heater.

The second prince was not afraid of being hot, so he grabbed a bowl and poured it out, and drank it down.

Li Xi smiled, "Is it delicious?"

"good to eat."

"Small taro balls, or yogurt cubes?"

"Fuck you." The second prince punched Li Xi, and couldn't help laughing again.

The ten-mile long pavilion, the vegetation withered.

When the group from Honglu Temple arrived, the chariots and horses of Ruijun Palace had already arrived, and Dou Qingyi smiled at Li Xi from a distance, but did not come over.

Seeing her, Li Xi still felt uncomfortable.

I just hope that the eldest prince will accumulate some virtue and let this poor man go.

Dou Qingyi is only 20 years old this year, and after leaving, she can find a good family to marry.Or no one will marry, and with her talent and embroidery skills, it is more than enough to support herself.

The eldest prince's carriage will arrive soon.

To be exact, there were only three horses, a broken cart, and a group of Zhenyuan troops behind him. It was the Queen Mother's order to escort him back to Beijing.

Li Xi leaned on the railing of the car and looked around, but almost didn't recognize the eldest prince.

Is this still the little boy with the chin up and the oily face?

Thinner, darker, frizzy hair, flushed cheeks, gray and wrinkled clothes, like a refugee fleeing famine.

Dou Qingyi went to help him, but he threw him away and said something with a dark face.

Li Xi was about to jump out of the car and beat him up, but was stopped by the second prince.

The eldest prince saw the two of them and walked over.

Li Xi was wearing a red official gown, sitting in a warm and comfortable green ox cart, the eldest prince was besieged by travel and dust, and his face was full of wind and frost.

The four eyes are facing each other, each with mixed tastes.

"I know, I know everything." The eldest prince stared at Li Xi's amber eyes and murmured.

"You know a ball!" Li Xi said angrily.

"I know you are my younger brother." The eldest prince had a complicated expression, "If I had known this, I would not have bullied you in the past."

"Fuck! Little Pepper is still your 'sister', didn't you just push her into the lake?"

"How can it be the same? Mother said that her biological mother was a vixen, so that her father would never take a step into the harem again. She is a little vixen!"

Hu Jiao jumped off the roof of the car, and slapped him on the face with a "slap"—using the same ruler that Zheng Di used to beat Li Xi back then.

The First Prince's face suddenly swelled up.

"It deserves it." Li Xi crossed his legs and spat the melon seeds on him.

The people of the Ruijun Prince's Mansion watched helplessly, shrinking their necks one by one, not daring to stop them.

On the contrary, the officials of Honglu Temple couldn't see it, so they bowed to Li Xi, "My lord, it's getting late, it's time to go back to the palace."

Li Xi waved his hand, "Then go back."

Anyway, I'm too lazy to look at this scumbag.

Unexpectedly, the eldest prince stepped forward.

Li Xi kicked him, "Get out, is this car for you?"

The eldest prince sat down opposite him, "Didn't my father ask you to pick me up? Why can you and my second brother sit, but I can't?"

"This is my own car, I don't want you to sit in it, so you don't even want to keep it."

"I'll just sit!" The eldest prince didn't want to make Li Hong feel that he and Li Xi were at odds once he returned to the capital, so he wouldn't even want to stay.

Li Xi clicked his tongue: "You went to Anxi, you have no other skills, you have a thick skin!"

The second prince laughed secretly: "One foot is not enough, I think at least one foot."

The eldest prince snorted: "Yes, I went to Anxi, you two should join forces to deal with me."

"That's what I call not being with bad people." Li Xi said with a poisonous tongue.

"I just want to uphold justice." The second prince didn't give in.

In the past, the eldest prince would have been very angry, but now, not only is he not angry, but he has a long-lost sense of belonging.

This trip to Anxi was almost a narrow escape.

For the first time in his life, he saw children whose heads were bigger than their bodies, old men with stooped backs whose heads almost fell to the ground, and mothers with disheveled hair pushing a bony girl to the side of a Persian merchant while counting money While crying.

He also saw the endless yellow sand, with no end in sight; he saw vicious robbers beheading a person with a single knife; he saw a caravan with dozens of people swept away by the storm in the blink of an eye.

I saw the good and evil of human nature.

I saw the bitterness and difficulty of life.

It's good to be alive.

With a hoarse voice, he told Li Xi these things.

Li Xi said in a muffled voice: "Don't think that you can soften my heart by being miserable. You have been a bastard since you were a child, and it won't be much better if you go to Anxi!"

The eldest prince was sullen and didn't say a word.

Li Xi was right, he was selfish and stupid since he was a child, and he was always taken advantage of by such and such people.

Including the last time, the drugging of Li Xi and Wei Yu was completely planned by Haoyue, and he was the one who took the blame in the end.

At first he couldn't figure out why the sage punished him so heavily, thinking it was the sage's partiality.Now I understand that the sage thinks he is stupid and disregards brotherhood.

"I know I was wrong, I apologize to you, I kowtow to you, please help me persuade my father, don't let me go to Anxi again..."

"Impossible." Li Xi refused flatly, "Do you think I am Guanyin Bodhisattva?"

The second prince's heart softened, and he poked Li Xi secretly, "Well, about my sister-in-law... Do you want to talk about it?"

"Reconcile? I already know about it." The First Prince took the initiative to bring it up, "I don't agree."

Li Xi was annoyed, "Why do you disagree?"

"Father is already very angry with me. If I continue to make peace and embarrass the royal family, he will stab me to death with a sword?" The eldest prince said confidently.

"You are simply..."

Incorrigible rot!

Big ass!

The eldest prince shyly said: "You can scold me for anything, can you beg my father for me?"

"impossible."

The eldest prince was anxious, "I know, you think this is all my fault, that I betrayed Dou Qingyi. Then have you asked her why she insisted on marrying her when she knew I didn't like women? To me? She chose this path herself, so what's the use of regretting it now?"

Li Xi was startled, "What do you mean by that?"

"Before we got married, I went to her and told her about Haoyue and I, and asked her to withdraw the engagement. It was she who refused to withdraw and insisted on marrying me... Anyway, I never touched her."

"Impossible." Li Xi said firmly, "Sister Dou is not such a foolish person, are you hiding something?"

The eldest prince shrank his neck guiltily.

He was sure to conceal a very important content.

At that time, he had just mixed with Haoyue and didn't want to marry any woman, but Concubine Dou Shu forced him to marry Dou Qingyi.He didn't dare to disobey his biological mother, let alone confess his sexuality to the saint, so he ran to tell Dou Qingyi, hoping that she would voluntarily withdraw from the marriage.

After Dou Qingyi found out the truth, she really cried a lot and refused to marry even if she died.However, she didn't beat her grandfather, nor Concubine Dou Shu.

The father and daughter threatened her with the life of her biological mother and forced her to marry.

The Empress Dowager didn't know about this, neither did Li Xi, only the First Prince, Concubine Dou Shu and the elders of the Dou family knew.

Concubine Dou Shu knew that her son didn't like women, but for his reputation and the position of prince, she did not hesitate to harm her own niece.

Dou Shangshu has many sons, and even a bunch of granddaughters. He doesn't pay attention to Dou Qingyi at all. All he wants is the glory of the Dou family and the dignity of the Dou family.

"You are such a bastard." The second prince couldn't help but said.

Li Xi was so angry that she closed her eyes, she didn't even want to look at the eldest prince, "Go and make peace with Sister Dou."

"I don't." The First Prince pouted, "Unless you convince Father to let me stay in Chang'an."

"You fucking—"

Li Xi was furious and kicked him out of the car.

The eldest prince didn't dare to get angry, he pushed the car gang and emphasized: "That's it, father nods his head, and I sign and leave the book behind—oh!"

A pot of yogurt and taro balls was all on his head.

The second prince sighed: "What a waste, I haven't had enough!"

nausea!

He doesn't want anything in this car anymore.

In the end, the Empress Dowager couldn't bear it, and agreed to let the eldest prince stay in Chang'an, and persuaded him to reconcile with Dou Qingyi.

It is said that the eldest prince signed and left the book in tears. In addition to Dou Qingyi's dowry, he also gave her one-half of the county mansion's money and the land deed, which was enough for her to spend the rest of her life.

Li Xi was originally happy for Dou Qingyi, but unexpectedly, things turned around——

Dou's family disagrees with reconciliation!

The situation of Dou Qingyi and Zheng Jiarou is different.

Zheng Jiarou and Zheng Wei have no elders in front of them. Zheng Wei is the man who is the head of the family, as long as he agrees.

Dou Qingyi was different. Not only were her parents still alive, but her grandparents were also in charge of the house. If her grandfather hadn't made the decision, it would be nothing like signing Li Shu.

There is no way, the Daye Dynasty is like this, many aristocratic families only respect the family rules, regardless of the law, even if the queen mother loves Dou Qingyi, there is only so much she can do.

For a while, people in the streets and alleys were talking about this big gossip after dinner.

"I heard that the concubine of the county and Li were encouraged by the Lord of Changning. The Lord of Changning and Li can still marry a saint. What are we afraid of, the little lady of Daye?"

"That's right! The shoe repairer in Guangdefang is not a thing. He beat his wife every three days. The little lady didn't dare to say a word at first, and she suffered it until she heard that Changning Junjun had reconciled. Then she ran back. The natal family complained. The natal family beat the door with a kitchen knife that day and forced the shoemaker to sign a letter of reconciliation."

"If you want me to say, you have to be tough from your natal family and really love the little lady. If your own family doesn't love you, you still expect others to love you?"

"..."

Sitting upstairs in the private room, Li Xi and Wei Yu listened to it intermittently, feeling very uncomfortable.

"When a young lady gets married, her parents often teach her to always remember to be 'gentle, courteous and thrifty' when she goes to her husband's house, to respect her parents-in-law, to be kind to her sister-in-law, and to obey her husband..."

Li Xi thought of the two elder sisters, "I have never seen one before. The in-laws teach their husbands to be nicer, more humble, and more loving to the little lady."

"Never seen."

Wei Yu clapped his hands and said, "When we have a son, teach him like this, okay?"

"What if it's a daughter?"

"Then teach her martial arts, let her lead troops to fight like the Lord of Shou'an County, and trample those vulgar men under her feet."

Li Xi smiled, "Okay."

After a while, he asked again, "When will we have a daughter?"