Chapter 111 Conspiracy 2
What's wrong with living a light life, but I often think of things outside, Li Kuan, Li You, and Li Shimin. Although I didn't ask, Qing'er told me about the progress of Princess Pingyang's letter every day. Although I didn't mean to listen, I remembered it in my heart.
During this period, Li Shimin only came once. When he came, I still closed the door. I can imagine Li Shimin's cold face at that time, which could scare the people who knelt down at the door of the palace, but I still said that I was not feeling well and afraid that it would be dishonorable to see each other. When I saw the shadow of his leaving angrily printed on the window, I was extremely frustrated. I was just holding a breath in my heart. I thought he was satisfied with anger in this way, but it changed to deeper uneasiness. In the face of him, I often have extreme contradictions.
is still willing to let him know the fact that I am angry. I hope he can make him think carefully. From the past to now, what point of me is not worthy of his belief. He can't just seize a certain point and cure my crime.
In early February, the news came about the death of Princess Pingyang.
Qinger said that at this time, Li Shimin was more indifferent to Li Yuan, which was due to what Li Yuanji said in front of Li Yuan, and some people raised the crime of Li Shimin hiding the letter of Princess Pingyang in an attempt to cover up the fact of the cause of the princess's death, and asked Li Yuan to punish him.
Even if Li Yuan loved his son and wanted to cover up, the letter had been clearly placed in front of the ministers. Li Yuanji once thought that she was Princess Pingyang, who was angry with Li Shimin. Princess Pingyang and Li Shimin had irreconcilable conflicts. So far, she stayed at home until she died of depression and died of illness. . At this time, Li Yuanji stood on the side of Li Jiancheng. Although Li Jiancheng did not say a word, Zhang Meiyi and Yin Defei had fully formed the fact that the East Palace, the harem and Wude Hall jointly dealt with Chengqian Hall.
This trip simply forced Li Shimin to withdraw from this power struggle. The position of prince was originally Li Jiancheng, but Li Shimin's ambition was not achieved in one day. The two threatened each other and fought against each other, but they just wanted to distinguish the last strong man and seize the hardship to defeat the Tang Dynasty.
When I asked about Li Shimin's news, Qing'er said, "Your Highness can't stand the discussion from the court. After going down, he will stay in the backyard to drink. No one dares to disturb him."
Upward, the East Palace, the harem and the Wude Hall forced him together. How could he bear it alone? In addition, I closed the door to him. His heart must be full of suffering but nowhere to vent. In the end, I still couldn't bear it. I straightened my robe and didn't allow anyone to follow me and go to the backyard of Chengqian Hall alone.
The sky is covered with thin snowflakes, which are too light to touch. The branches with tender buds trembled slightly, and a blue-gray stone table was pressed under the tree, and his pale back leaned diagonally. He raised his glass and poured the cold wine down his throat, sighed sadly. Stepping on the newly fallen snowflakes under my feet, I approached him and stroked a few snowflakes on his hair, which made my fingertips suddenly cold.
Li Shimin turned his head, looked at me, narrowed his eyes, raised his chin and glanced at me: "You are finally willing to come out."
He stroked his hand on his slanted shoulder. After a few days, he didn't even speak too much, but he couldn't say a word when he moved his lips. After a while, I opened my lips again and finally spit out a sentence from my throat, as if talking about them and us: "The more you fight, the deeper you will hurt yourself."
Li Shimin got up coldly, leaning casually, as if smiling: "If he forced me like this, you can't blame me"
"He is your brother. He is the prince."
As soon as I said this, I regretted it. Li Shimin was angry with me because of Li Jiancheng. Now when I mention Li Jiancheng, isn't it adding fuel to the fire? Sure enough, he angrily fell down the porcelain cup and roared mercilessly to cover up the cracked voice: "I beat this country. At the beginning, my father promised me to be the prince, but in the end he gave it to him! He just came out earlier than me, and nothing else is as good as me!"
My heart moved slightly, but I still scolded unmovedly, "Why do you have to compare with him?" When you fought for the emperor for the Tang Dynasty, who was defending the border and who was calming down in chaos! Without him, can you win again and again with all your heart!"
Li Shimin's look suddenly turned dark, but he still clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "Yes, it was he who sent troops to appease the chaos at the border, and my success was inseparable from him. I have my own moderation about him. He came forward and grabbed my arm and stared at me, "If you don't even dare to think about luxury, how can there be hope of success?" You're right, you're my woman, and you should support all my decisions!"
Brother's secret war, he has his own ideas. The key to his anger this time lies in me! I softened my eyes and looked at him deeply: "If you blindly support every decision you make, it's flattering. Forgive me for not being able to do it. I only have one worry. I'm afraid that you have read the wrong way.
He still held my arm tightly, and his deep eyes looked at every trace of emotion in my eyes: "I'm afraid that I'm going the wrong way. Who am I worried about in the end..."
I smiled and looked sad: "You'er is so old that he should know who I'm worried about."
Li Shimin sneered with me, full of helplessness and some impatiently scolding: "It's nonsense! You'er is only one month old. How can you understand this?
I locked my eyebrows deeply, with pity in my eyes and the most desolate sigh: "Yes, Youer doesn't understand this. Why don't you even understand?"
Li Shimin's eyes moved, bringing out gurgling heartache and regret. He gently pulled the hand holding my arm and pressed me into his arms. He lowered his head and said softly, "Okay, I'm too suspicious."
I lowered his chest and blamed him in a low voice: "Don't think because I lost my mind. If you don't care about yourself, what do you want me to do?"
No matter how cold and hard he is, he can't see my pity. On the contrary, the tougher I am, the more cold he is. He nodded and tightened his hug a little. I leaned on his chest, gently wrapped around his waist, and said two words: "The people..."
Li Shimin held my hand, kissed it gently on the back of his hand, and held it on his chest. My heart suddenly warmed, and the strong beating of my palm was his gentle and domineering heart. I looked up at his distressed eyes and thought that I could see the tenderness in his eyes as water all the time, and I didn't envy mandarin ducks or immortals in my life.
The snowflakes falling from the sky are getting thicker and thicker, and I suddenly feel a trace of coolness on my face. Li Shimin hugged me and walked back to the corridor and slowly came to the main hall. The maid in the main hall quickly took a thick robe from both places and put it on us, and then took a stove to warm our hands. However, I never felt cold, because I was surrounded by his warm eyes and his gentle care. He still had a faint smell of wine, and he was a little drunk. He wanted to make Mengding tea with me personally.
I remember that year, I also made Mengding tea for him and Li Jiancheng. At that time, the relationship between the two was not as stiff as it is now. At that time, they laughed and talked about my tea-making technology. Now that I think about it, the dialogue between the two had been secretly, but I just didn't want to evolve into what it is now. Like a clear fight.
I called the palace people to bring Mengding tea and teapot. Li Shimin looked at me washing tea and making tea, and his eyes were full of joy. I poured one for him with both hands. Li Shimin took it with a smile and was about to taste it. He leaned down and ran into an eunuch outside the hall: "His Royal Highness is coming."
When I went outside the temple gate, there was a shadow. When I arrived at the gate of the temple, I bowed to Li Shimin inside. Li Shimin put down his teacup and nod his head and got up to welcome him into the hall.
Li Yuanji patted the snowflakes on his body. Seeing that I was also there, he nodded to me with a smile, and then turned to Li Shimin and said directly, "I came from my father's command. It snowed in the south overnight, and the heavy snow blocked the road and froze many people to death. My father asked my second brother to go to the disaster relief tomorrow as this punishment.
I have also heard some news about the heavy snow in the south. Aside from the heavy snow blocking the road, the low temperature inside is easy to freeze a living person. Because it was too dangerous, no one took the initiative to ask for orders. Li Shimin happened to make a difference at this time. I don't know if it was Li Yuan's own idea that he wanted to punish him for disaster relief. Although Li Shimin has this responsibility as a royal, I selfishly don't want him to take this risk.
"This..." Li Shimin is obviously very difficult. If he doesn't go, he will neglect the lives of the world; if he goes, he will plead guilty. He was too embarrassed, so I stepped forward for him and said, "This matter has not been investigated yet, and I would like to ask the emperor to take back his order."
"Unchecked?" Li Yuanji smiled sarcastically and asked with a fake question, "The facts are all in front of him. I don't know what else Mo Zhaoxun thinks is unclear?"
"It's unclear, it's Your Highness the King of Qi!" After saying a word, Li Yuanji looked stunned, and then raised his eyebrows generously to pretend to listen. He didn't believe what I could say, so I wanted to ask him to the end, so I asked, "Princes Pingyang is already in a hurry. His Royal Highness not only does not care about the princess's health, but also talks about it with a letter. Can you think that you are using this to disrupt politics?" Li Yuanji put away his disdainful look, surprised in his eyes, opened his mouth dumbly, and couldn't speak to the words I asked. I was determined to look at him and continue to say, "The book sent by Princess Pingyang is the family letter, but the king of Qi forced it to make it public. Isn't it too disrespectful to the princess? Besides, the emperor didn't say anything, so what right do you have to talk nonsense here! Also, how do you know that the emperor did not teach His Royal Highness the King of Qin for this? Do you think the emperor is selfish about this?
These questions repeatedly made Li Yuanji blush and thicken his neck. He clenched his teeth tightly and squeezed out a few words: "This... really makes sense."
I asked again: "In this case, why did His Royal Highness the King of Qin make one mistake twice?"
To put it a bad word, if Princess Pingyang is really pissed off by Li Shimin, so what? This is just a housework. At most, it is disrespectful and unfilial. If you violate it, you can't use the national law to deal with it!
Even if Li Yuanji forced him to the extreme, he could not be so angry in front of Li Shimin. What he didn't expect was that the next moment, he actually smiled, and his smiling eyes were a little vicious: "Mo Zhaoxunguo is eloquent, but the second brother doesn't need to take responsibility for one thing twice. You have forgotten Stealing the emperor's letter will be punished!"