Chapter 190 Understand
When the fifth prince came back, his face was very gloomy. After eating, he drank two or three cups of tea with a dull face. He looked up at Li Tian, who had been looking at him, and motioned her to retreat from the maids.
"What's wrong?" Li Tian asked first. The fifth prince put down the cup in his hand and said in a muffled voice, "It's not a big deal," pause, and knocked on the kang a few times annoyance: "You arranged the jade spring scene in those years. The play was good. Is there any way to let our house compete for more on the 15th?"
"These are two things," Li Tian was stunned and looked at the fifth prince with a smile: "I have prepared for half a year before and after Yutang Spring, and now it's only a few days away from the 15th. What can I do?" The fifth prince's face was even more gloomy. Li Tian frowned and asked, "What's the matter?" Is that the lottery so important?
"Well," the fifth prince said speciously, and subconsciously glanced at the door. Li Tian said, "Yue Niang is outside. It's okay." The fifth prince raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Tian. He hesitated for a moment before saying, "It doesn't matter if you want to put it in previous years, but this year we will open a new house..." Li Tian leaned at him and squeezed down the corners of his mouth. This is not the truth. What does opening of the house have to do with competing for the lottery?
"I mean," the fifth prince felt that Li Tian heard that his words were not true and waved his hand with some embarrassment. The daughter-in-law was too smart and not good: "This year is different," the fifth prince exhaled and simply said honestly, "At today's banquet, Dad praised the Dongyang County Prince's family's family's tricks, which came out at the 15th annual lantern meeting. With his elegant demeanor, the king of Dongyang Jun obeded and flattered that he should inherit the holy grace in peace and prosperity, and talked about the word filial piety for a long time. Li Tian frowned, and the fifth prince stopped before saying, "You know, the eldest brother's life is simple, and the house has never raised these singers and dancers. However, look at the lights on the fifteenth of the year, you should never compare with people. Dongyang Prince's words are both holy and filial. The meaning of the fifteen lamps If you don't sing and dance well at the meeting, but you don't know whether you are filial or not. If the eldest brother doesn't speak, I can't help but refute a few words.
Li Tian understood a little. It seemed that the words were crowded. The fifth prince smiled bitterly: "I don't know what Dad thinks. He actually went from this to the great principles of governing the country. He said that this way of etiquette and music is the fundamental way to govern the country and the people. This is very important. Yao Xiang and Liu University scholars followed suit. In the end, I slid all the way to guess which prince's house is the most wonderful and which is the most lively. He also said that I... He said that our house knows how to sing and dance music best. I don't know what my father thinks. He actually made our brother lively. He said which one is the most wonderful and lively, and he still has a reward.
"This reward is not for us, is it?" Li Tian said directly, and the fifth prince seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and spoke much more smoothly: "It's reasonable that we shouldn't argue, but the eldest brother and sister-in-law's temper has never been good. It's been a few days now, and they can't argue. I'm either going to fight, or I can't let the fourth brother win the lottery."
"Can it work in the third master's house?" Li Tian asked with a suspicious face. Han Wang is famous for his love of reading and learning. Of course, people who love reading and learning will not like to listen to music and dancing. Their house has never been outstanding in any year.
"If the third brother's house is better than the fourth brother, I won't worry. I can't let the fourth brother win this again. It's a good thing." The fifth prince was annoyed but sure. Li Tian looked at him for a long time and whispered, "You want to prevent him from winning the lottery, but in the eyes of others, isn't this just a dispute?"
"Alas!" The fifth prince sighed and looked at Li Tian with a complicated expression. He wanted to stop talking and was silent for a long time before he said in a very low voice, "Don't care what others think first. The most important thing is what Dad thinks." Li Tian was a little puzzled. The fifth prince thought about the words: "I can't find out who has done it for more than half a year. My father is resourceful and smart and conceited. I can't think of anyone who can hide it in front of him and talk about it. I think this is Dad's idea."
Li Tian looked at the fifth prince in a stunned way, but what he thought about was those gifts. This marriage may be related to those gifts. The more the fifth prince said, the smoother he became: "Dad has no woman's benevolence. He must have a plan for this marriage. What is he wanted? Playing the assassination of Yuelou, the eldest brother said that it was not the fourth brother. If it was not the fourth brother, who else would be? Third brother doesn't have that ability. My death is not good for Jingling Palace. Who else can there be?
"Grandpa?" Li Tian subconsciously whispered, and the fifth prince slowly shook his head: "Big brother and father, I'd rather believe it's father." Li Tian shuddered and looked up at the fifth prince and couldn't say a word. The fifth prince took a deep breath: "Since I received the order to marry, I haven't slept peacefully. At first, I thought about whose hands and feet it was, and then I thought about whether it was Dad's meaning or not. Later, I just thought about what Dad meant."
The words of the fifth prince were chaotic and vague, but Li Tian heard it clearly. She couldn't help raising her hand and holding her chest and looking at the fifth prince in a daze. The fifth prince smiled bitterly: "Royal, what else can there be? Isn't it all for that seat? In Dad's heart, there is nothing more important than that seat.
"Does he want you to... fight too?" Li Tian's voice was tight, and the fifth prince shook his head very slowly: "At first, I also thought so, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt wrong. My father never had anything special to me. When I was a child, I followed several brothers to send him a window class to show him. I remembered it clearly. My father glanced with such a smile. No matter how well I wrote, my father was always After a glance, later I deliberately wrote the wrong word, but he never saw it. He didn't read my handwriting at all. He never read it. As long as I was alive, he didn't worry about anything else.
"Is he the same for other...?" Li Tian's heart was inexplicably sour and unbearable, and her voice was much gentle. The fifth prince shook his head: "I don't know. Dad's heart is deep. Few of the officials and attendants can see his thoughts. I can feel what he treats me, but I can't feel what he does to others."
"Dad valued this ancestral world so much, how could he hand her over to a person he had never cared about?" The fifth prince pulled out a wry smile at the corners of his mouth: "If you don't force me to fight, you can only want me to stand and where can I stand?"
"Grandpa?" Li Tian was stunned and remembered those gifts again. He had to tell him that maybe this marriage was not what he thought, but for some other reason: "I'll go and show you a few things." Li Tian held the kang a few times to put on his shoes, waved his hand at the fifth prince, and motioned him to come back. He hurried into the inner room to get those gifts.