Royal rice bug, worm worm!

Li Hongduan sat on the dragon chair, pursed his lips, squinted his eyes, looked at the imperial decree in Li Xi's hand, and did not speak for a long time.

It was originally a blank imperial decree, but two were stamped with the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, and the private seal of the saint was stamped around. It was for Li Xi to go after being lost when he was six years old, but it has been useless all these years. It is in the cabinet It has been dusted for ten years, and a big hole has been gnawed by moths.

Today it was taken out for Wei Yu.

Li Xi was confident, "The sage said it himself, no matter what I want in the future, I can write it on this imperial decree. Today, I have thought about it and wrote it down. Let the sage proclaim the decree!"

Li Hong rubbed his painful temples, his face was as black as ink.

If this is not her own, she must be slapped to death!

"Do you know why I gave you this will?"

"It's uncle who loves me." He used "zhen", but Li Xi wanted to call him uncle.

Li Hong sneered, "I can also not hurt you."

Li Xi said cheekily: "Uncle, you'd better love me one more time, I promise, this is the last time."

"Who told you, the young minister of Dali Temple, that you are so handsome, I can't help it!" He turned his head to look at Wei Yu, deliberately insulting him.

Wei Yu wasn't angry at all, instead he was smiling.

It was Li Hong, who was so angry that he punched the dragon case.

Li Xi shrank her neck in fright, rubbed her hands secretly and hid behind the second prince.The second prince was even more timid than him, with his tall and strong body curled up, he was about to form a ball.

Wei Yu's mentor, Zaifu Longge and Dali Temple Minister Zheng Quan, hurriedly stood up to smooth things over: "Dare to ask King Fu, you and Wei Shaoqing are both men, why do you want to marry him?"

——The word "marry", I really don't want to use it on my favorite student.

It's coming, it's coming, it's coming.

Li Xi gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and shouted out the excuse he had thought of all the way: "Everyone in Chang'an knows that I have a crush on him, and I forced him to have a skin-to-skin relationship. He is in charge."

Cough, cough, cough!

A group of grandparents and veterans immediately blushed with embarrassment.

Young people today, alas!

Li Hong stared at Li Xi, with a hint of warning in his eyes: "Cecchi, do you know what you are talking about?"

"You know... right?" Li Xi hesitated.

Li Hong lowered his face: "I'll give you a chance, say it again."

Li Xi was nervous.

Habitually digging at the jade buckle on his belt.

After hesitating for about two breaths, he suddenly lifted the hem of his clothes, knelt down on the cold bluestone slab, and bowed with his head on the ground.

Li Hong got up subconsciously and wanted to help him.

In the end, I still held back, and no one could see the difference.

Sensing the holy will, Jiang De'an ran over with small steps and helped Li Xi, "What is the prince doing? It's not a festival, and it's not a grand court meeting. There is no need to perform such a grand ceremony."

Li Xi shook his head, but did not get up, "I implore the sage, don't marry the third sister to Wei Shaoqing, and don't listen to slander and ruin Wei Shaoqing's future."

He knew that the reason why the truth behind the conflict in Prince Rui's Mansion hadn't been spread out was not because the eldest prince was too capable and kept him under strict control, but because the sage didn't let it spread out.

By doing this, on the one hand, he was concerned about his reputation, and on the other hand, it was also to keep the eldest prince, or in other words, the royal family's face.

If the world were to know that the eldest prince actually used such indecent means to murder his cousins, the three generations of Li's grandparents would be implicated by him and would be left in bad taste forever.

Therefore, no matter how much the sage loves him and the mother protects him, he will not reveal the truth bloodily.

In this way, the most direct and plausible solution is to sacrifice Li Mujin and substantiate the second rumor.

If Wei Yu disagrees, it doesn't matter, just be dismissed from office and convicted, the reasons are all ready-made - trespassing on King Rui's mansion, injuring King Rui's guards, beheading in severe cases, or exile in light cases.

Li Xi racked his brains and came up with the current solution.

Only if he admits his "personal relationship" with Wei Yu and drags him to the big boat of Prince Fu's mansion, not only can he choose Li Mujin, but also save Wei Yu's life as "Concubine Fu".

Wei Yu can continue to be his official, plant his cherry trees, make a living for the people on both sides of the Yellow River, and be a person who is really useful to the great cause.

In short, sacrifice one of him and save tens of millions of people.

Li Xi felt that she was great.

As for what Wei Yu thinks...

He even ruined his innocence, how dare he have an opinion?

The little prince Li Xi threw a wave of big-eyed flying knives at Wei Shaoqing again, and the little sharp stick in the sword bag was about to move.

Li Hong looked at this smug little gold bug, but after all he didn't want to curse.

After all, he was the one who spoiled him, so who to scold?

Can only pinch soft persimmons.

"Wei Shaoqing, what do you think?"

Wei Yu was not surprised at being named suddenly.He was silent for a moment, then lifted his robe and moved forward, kneeling beside Li Xi.

"Thanks to the great love of the prince, minister, allow the marriage."

Li Hong smiled coldly.

Okay, he didn't know that this young young minister of Dali Temple was so courageous.

I am reluctant to hit my book, but also reluctant to hit you?

"Long Wuwei listens to the order."

"Long Wuwei's order!" In an instant, a team of gold-armored guards escorted Jin Wu into the hall.

Li Hong's voice was not loud, and he couldn't hear any anger. He said calmly, like gossip, "Drag this ignorant brat out and beat him to death."

Li Xi was so frightened that he hugged Wei Yu's neck, "Uncle, you can't kill your nephew and daughter-in-law! If you kill him, I, I will be a bachelor for the rest of my life!"

Li Hong sneered: "It's just right, our old Li family has never had a single man for eight generations, so you can be the No. 1 sect! Longwuwei—"

"Saint!" Dali Temple Secretary Zheng Quan knelt down resolutely, "I beg the saint to forgive me."

"Pray for the mercy of the saints!" Zheng Quan took the lead, and Wu Lala, the sixth department of the three provinces and the fourth supervisor of the Ninth Division, knelt down a large area.

In the end, only a few people from Zongzheng Temple and Yushitai were left, looking at each other in blank dismay.

All the officials at the Yushitai poked their heads and complained wildly - if it wasn't for the burden of the admonisher, we would be the first to kneel!

Shaoqing of Zongzheng Temple tugged on the sleeve of his boss, and asked in a low voice, "Shall we...kneel?"

Zongzheng Siqing threw him a sharp knife.

Kneel ass kneel!

I am in charge of the family affairs of the old Li family, and everything will be included in the history books. Let the dignified prince marry a male concubine, do you want this old face?

Li Hong laughed angrily.

OK, it's good.

I should let that idiot Li Jue take a look at him. In vain, he usually babbles and drinks six times, complacent, thinking that he has enlisted most of the court, see if he sees it, how many butts are sitting on his side at the critical moment?

Li Xi stared wide-eyed, looked at the big men kneeling together, and then looked at Wei Yu, who didn't know that this disciple was so popular!

Speaking of innocence...

Whose arm is this about whose neck?

Like a small spring, Li Xi jumped far away with a swish, "It's just acting, don't get me wrong."

Wei Yu smiled, a little softly.

Then, he gently held Li Xi's hand, "Acting in a full set, please cooperate with me, my lord."

Not at all!

Li Xi pulled his hand away, trying to stay away from him, but as soon as he turned around, he was caught by the hem of the complicated clothes——

The long-lost embrace.

It was under the watchful eyes again.

Wei Yu knelt down again in the posture of hugging him, and said solemnly: "My minister Wei Yu Xiefu King, I beg the sage to declare the decree."

Li Hong pursed his lips, and said in a deep voice: "Wei Yu, you stand before you arrive, you have a bright future, don't be confused about trivial matters. Let me ask you again, is the person you like the Lord of Shouxi County, or who? The little lady at home?"

Wei Yu bowed again without hesitation: "To this day, the minister and the Shouxi County Lord have only met each other a few times, and have no personal relationship. As for the ladies and noble daughters nearby, I don't even know each other."

Said, took the imperial decree from Li Xi's hand, and raised his eyebrows like him, "Only King Fu, I met him once when I was young, and I always think about him after that. Fortunately, I am lucky to meet again. If you get a saint Complete, minister, will not let you down."

Li Xi frowned, feeling a little uneasy for some reason.

Acting is acting, why are you talking so affectionately?

Wei Yu knelt upright with a firm expression.

Li Hong pursed his lips and squinted his eyes as if he didn't hear, planning how to let him die so that his family could save two days of fuss.

The huge Taiji Hall fell into a deathly silence, and everyone dared not even breathe too hard.

At this moment, a small eunuch rushed over from outside the hall, bit the bullet, and reported in a trembling voice: "The Empress Dowager ordered, do you want to announce it?"

Jiang De'an's stiff body suddenly loosened, and he said hastily: "How can we wait for the Queen Mother's order? Please come in soon!"

The little inner supervisor kowtowed and ran away as if fleeing for his life.

Immediately afterwards, Hu Jiao helped Dou Qingtai enter the hall.

Dou Qingtai is the empress dowager's close female official, she is of the sixth rank, and it is not considered a violation of the rules to pass the message for the empress dowager in the court.

"Niangniang's oral order—" Dou Qingmo raised her hand in the direction of Changle Palace.

Li Hong stood up and stood at the bottom of the steps.

"I saw that the child of the Wei family was handsome and talented. It's very good. Since King Fu likes it, let's get married first. It's not like there is no precedent for our great cause to marry a male concubine."

After announcing the decree, Dou Qingtai bowed her knees towards Li Hong, and said with a smile, "That's what the empress means, and the specifics have to be determined by the saint."

Li Hong stood there, speechless.

Among the crowd, some cautiously lowered their heads, some quietly raised their eyes, and everyone was waiting for Li Hong's reaction.

After a while, Li Hongfang turned his head and looked at Li Xi.Unexpectedly, he met a pair of amber eyes, which were exactly the same as those in his memory.

Turning his eyes away, he saw Hu Jiao behind Dou Qingtai again, and he didn't need to think about it to know that the Queen Mother specially asked her to come.

Li Hong closed his eyes and said slowly: "Follow mother's order."

The dust has settled.

Some people breathed a sigh of relief, some people sighed with regret, and some people kept their faces calm, but their hearts set off turbulent waves.

For such a big matter, since King Fu and Wei Yu escaped unharmed, they will be liquidated afterwards, and it is not known who is unlucky.

After the court was over, Wei Yu wanted to talk to Li Xi, but Li Xi avoided him like the plague.

Wei Yu didn't give up easily, he took a few steps and grabbed him.

Li Xi quickly threw out the small pointed stick, slapped it on his hand, and said fiercely: "If you don't let go, it won't be as simple as just slapping it."

Wei Yu didn't bother, and let him go calmly.

Standing upright holding his hand, he gave a deep bow: "Wei, thank the prince for saving his life."

Li Xi turned into a tsundere in seconds: "Just know that I saved you, as long as you stay away from me in the future, it's not rare to see you."

Wei Yu raised his eyebrows, "Then this edict..."

Li Xi snatched back the imperial decree and stuffed it into his arms indiscriminately, "Don't mention it again, this is just a stopgap measure, do you really think I will marry you?"

As soon as the words were finished, the little eunuch from the Taiji Hall ran over and bowed from a distance, "Your Majesty, stay here, the sage sent you to the Taiji Hall for questioning."

"Ah, the wind is so strong that I can't hear anything; the sun is also so strong that it might rain, so I'll go first!"

Li Xi ran away.

Target: Changle Palace.

Purpose: Ask grandma for help.

The little eunuch cried.

Here comes this trick again!

Wei Yu stood there, watching the happy figure disappear into the palace, and looked back at the Taiji Hall on the nine-fold high-level.

more determined.

Li Hong chased him to Changle Palace and tried to beat Li Xi with his whip.

Li Xi tugged at the Queen Mother's sleeve, dodged left and right, howled ghostly: "It's either my own father or it's different, is uncle willing to beat eldest brother like this?"

——I said this on purpose to make the queen mother feel sorry for him and stop the saint.

Unexpectedly, before the whip came to him, the Queen Mother gave him a slap, "Skin monkey, you are getting more and more unruly."

"Grandmother, you don't love me anymore. I cried, and I ran away crying." While pretending to have been greatly wronged, she quietly rubbed towards the door, and then fled quickly.

Everyone in the hall covered their mouths and laughed.

Every time the little prince came, the Changle Palace was as lively as a festival.

Dou Qingtai winked and sent the palace people out, leaving only mother and son in the hall.

Li Hong leaned on the foot pedal in a nonchalant manner, slightly worried, "Little Treasure probably knows something."

Otherwise, why would you say something that pokes his heart?

The Empress Dowager served him a bowl of pear soup, and sat and talked casually like a mother and child in an ordinary family: "The children have grown up and have their own ideas. If you can't manage it, it's better to let it be."

"So, did mother let him mess around today?" Li Hong took the pear soup, as if complaining or having a temper tantrum.

The queen mother chuckled and said softly: "You, really don't understand? Fu Wang's mansion is very popular, so it's better to use this matter to push the boat along and keep the books. He is still young, so he is not in a hurry to marry a wife and have children."

A Fu Wang who likes men, and a military leader who will not have a son, who can threaten?

How could Li Hong not know that allocating Wei Yu to Li Xi is more useful than marrying a Li Mujin.

For one thing, those clans who covet the banning order can no longer target Fu Wang's mansion.

Secondly, a young minister of Dali Temple from a poor family became the concubine of Prince Fu's mansion. Even if it was just a marriage contract, it would be a powerful blow to the family.

Three to...

"You are a rational person. Why do you lose your composure when you encounter something about the volume? If I don't let Moss pass by today, I'll let you do whatever you want, and the outside world may not decide how to arrange it."

Anyone with a normal mind would know that the heir to Prince Fu's Mansion is a broken sleeve, and there will be no legitimate son born in the future. The first beneficiary is not any family, but the current saint.

However, not only was Li Hong not happy to see the success, but he was furious and tried to kill people to silence him. How could he not make people suspicious?

The queen mother sighed softly: "That's fine, those people have always been suspicious, and they have so many twists and turns in their minds. Now they must think that it's us, mother and son, who are singing the oboe, but they won't suspect anything."

Li Hong said guiltily: "The son is not filial, and the mother is troubled."

The queen mother smiled, "Okay, eat it quickly, it's going to be cold."

"Thank you mother." Li Hong stirred the pear water, three times to the left, three times to the right, and finally copied quickly, scooped the pear meat that floated up first into the silver spoon, and then ate it.

For the second block, repeat the above steps.

The same is true for the third block.

Until all the pear meat is eaten, the sweet soup will be slowly drank at the end.

The Empress Dowager looked at it, and laughed softly: "This is not like you, but like Ah Zhen, who always drank up the sweet soup first, and then grudgingly gnawed on the tasteless pear meat."

As for Li Hong, he always eats the bad ones first, keeps the good ones, and then savors them quietly and carefully.

Li Hong couldn't help laughing, "So when Ah Zhen was here, I never drank a whole bowl of soup."

Every time he drank half of it, he was snatched away by that ghostly brother.

then!

The queen mother will secretly take candied fruit and stuff it with Xiao Ding Wang behind her back.

Thinking of the past, both mother and son laughed.

As for those unspeakable longings and sorrows, each hid in his heart.

Rarely became interested, the Queen Mother asked Dou Qingtai to take out a small box, and showed Li Hong all the gadgets inside.

This one was played by Chuchu, that one was broken by the second child, and the one that was snatched by the boss and the second child...

Li Hong realized that something was wrong, and was about to leave, "Mother, my son is busy with government affairs, so I will come to see you another day."

The queen mother sullenly said, "Sit down!"

Li Hong made the last struggle, "I'm really busy."

The Queen Mother snorted, "I've always been unwilling to pay attention to your political affairs, but you can't hide from me the children's affairs."

Li Hong paused for a moment, then said helplessly, "Mother wants to ask me what to do with Li Jue?"

"Don't forget, Jue'er is also your child, and the eldest son with high hopes. How do you plan to resolve this matter?"

Li Hong knew that he couldn't escape today, so he had to say truthfully: "He is not young anymore, I want him to go to the fiefdom."

The Empress Dowager's complexion changed, "You want to belittle him?"

Li Hong lowered his eyes and did not deny it.

"No, I don't agree." The Empress Dowager has always been good-tempered, and it is rare to say such a thing, "What you do is equivalent to telling the world that Juer will no longer be destined for the throne."

"Mother has also seen it. Now that you and I are alive, he dares to set up such a poisonous plan to trap Xiaobao. If he is allowed to ascend to the throne of God, will Xiaobao still have a way to survive in the future?"

The Empress Dowager was naturally very biased towards Li Xi in her heart, but she had to think about Li Hong, "You have spent all these years of hard work on him, isn't it just to train him to be the king of a country? Without him Who are you counting on? The second child?"

Everyone in Quan Chang'an knew that the second prince was a straight-hearted man who only knew how to wield knives and guns, and there were not two drops of ink in his stomach, but his butt was covered with thorns.

Make him emperor?

Heh, I'm afraid the dragon chair is not warm yet, so I can't help but put on my clothes and go out to fight.

Li Hong caressed the two-color dragon-pattern glazed egg in his palm—it was the one Li Xi gave him earlier—slowly said: "Mother, I want to..."

"Don't even think about it!"

The queen mother interrupted him, her attitude was extremely firm, "The book is not suitable, nor is it the material. Besides, how do you explain to your clan and officials when you abandon your parents and make a nephew?"

Li Hongdao: "He is obviously mine too..."

"Don't even mention this."

The Queen Mother looked disapproving, "If one day Chu Chuen's life experience is revealed to the world, how will you let him deal with it? How will you tell him about his biological mother?"

Li Hong was startled.

That person, that shadow buried deep in his memory, that name that he dared not even mention or even think about, had been suppressed for too long, and at this moment, he bottomed out and rebounded.

"Mother, I miss her."

"I miss her..."

"I miss Ah Zhen too."

"Mother, I miss them..."

The king of a country, who had always been moody and angry, fell on his adoptive mother's lap as he did when he was a child, choking silently.

The queen mother stroked his head, tears streaming down his face.