People in Datang have been expelled from school

Chapter 638 Ask the Prince

Li Zheng put away the cup again and said, "This is called feelings."

Wang Ding took another look at Li Zheng's cup, bowed and said, "Master, everything is ready, let Chang'an order move to the Lizheng Hall first."

Li Lizhi, Li Tai, Xiao Sizi and others also followed.

Wang Ding led the way, and Li Junxian followed along with the princess and prince.

Walking to Wang Ding's side, Li Zheng said, "Eunuch Wang, do you think I really don't need to pay for the prince's wedding?"

Wang Ding glanced at Li Zheng with some surprise, "Dare to ask Chang'an Ling, what is the share money?"

Li Zheng nodded clearly, "It's nothing, I'll just say it casually, don't care about it, Eunuch Wang, um! Don't care about it."

Wang Ding quickened his pace and said: "Chang'an ordered to go to the Lizheng Hall to rest first, the prince's marriage will start in two hours, and this old slave still has a lot of things to do."

Li Zheng nodded repeatedly.

Walking into the palace from Xuanwu Gate, there are many dilapidated palaces in front of you.

They are all in a state of disrepair.

Passing Ye Ting and walking for a while is the harem.

There are also more court ladies and eunuchs here.

The temples have also begun to recover a lot.

Walking here from Xuanwumen is like walking from a black and white world to a colorful world.

The maids coming and going kept walking, and the whole palace was busy with the prince's marriage.

When they reached the Lizheng Hall, everyone was a little tired.

Seeing the Empress Changsun waiting outside the hall, Xiao Sizi jumped into Empress Changsun's empress.

"Queen, Mingda misses you so much!" The little son snuggled into the arms of the eldest grandson empress.

Empress Changsun also looked at the crowd, her eyes fell on Li Zheng and Li Lizhi and she said, "You go to the palace and rest."

After receiving Li Lizhi's gaze, Li Zheng followed Li Tai into the hall.

Thinking about it, Empress Changsun and Li Lizhi's mother and daughter have not seen each other for so long, so there is a lot to say.

After entering the hall, Li Tai sat down and relaxed his legs.

Li Zheng looked at the furnishings here and it seemed that there was no change from when he first came here.

Li Tai ate the dried fruit and said, "You don't have to be so cautious, sit down."

One of the most conspicuous decorations in the Lizheng Hall is the bookshelf.

Rolls of bamboo slips were placed on it, and there were some paper books. I looked at it a few more times, and saw that the familiar printing on it was the book printed by Jingyang.

Li Tai said: "Did you know? At first when the prince's marriage was just announced, several powerful families were unwilling to participate in this marriage."

Li Zheng flipped through these books and said, "What? Is there anyone who doesn't give the royal family face?"

Li Tai said with a long sigh: "Father has always been diligent in political affairs, and I have not dared to be negligent for so many years. I dare not judge Father's quality in Father's name, but there are still so many dignitaries who treat Father as always. dissatisfied."

Li Zheng said in a low voice: "They must have prejudice against your father."

Li Tai nodded.

What Li Shimin did back then may have been too extreme in the eyes of many people.

Perhaps no one could have imagined that Li Shimin would do this for the throne.

Generally speaking, ruthless people don't have many friends.

No one wants to get too close to a ruthless person who won't even spare his own brother.

Li Shimin had just walked outside the hall, and he wanted to ask Li Zheng why he instigated Li You to say such things.

Li You would say this two days ago, apart from Li You's own stubbornness, there was also Li Zheng's instigation.

Hearing voices in the hall, Li Shimin stopped in his tracks.

Seeing that Li Shimin's footsteps had stopped, Wang Ding also stood quietly aside without speaking.

These two boys may not know that I am in the Lizheng Hall.

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Li Zheng said in a low voice: "The prejudices in people's hearts are not so easy to erase. No matter how hard your father works, how well you manage Datang, you can't make them let go of their prejudices."

Li Tai was silent.

Li Zheng smiled bitterly, "Does it feel cruel? Many times the reality is like this. You are a thief, even if you work hard to become better, you will always be a thief in the eyes of others."

Li Tai said in a low voice: "You come from a poor background, your status, your clothes are simple, even if it is an unintentional mistake of yours, all the bad habits you have done will become the prejudices against you in the hearts of others, right?"

Li Zheng put down the book in his hand.

Li Tai said again: "It's just like you. How many people doubted you when you wrote poems, and even suspected that your poems belonged to others. This is a prejudice. I am a prince and many people are polite to me."

"But what about you?" Li Tai said with a gloomy expression, "I've known you for so many years, and to tell you the truth, you have done a lot for your father, and you have made a lot of contributions, but you haven't erased it. What the world thinks of you."

"You, Li Zheng, are a person who sees money and is only interested in profit. This is what they think of you."

Li Zheng said with a smile: "So sometimes it is very tiring to live in other people's opinions."

Li Shimin couldn't help being touched when he heard the words in the hall.

Li Shimin closed his eyes and recalled what happened at Xuanwumen back then.

When Li Jiancheng died, his father's eyes, his clan's eyes, and the spittle of the powerful family.

After so many years, I thought that I had always been diligent, but what I got in return was still cold.

Prejudice in people's hearts is not so easy to erase.

Li Shimin smiled bitterly, what a simple sentence, what a cruel sentence.

You are a villain, you are a bad person, that is what you are in other people's stereotypes.

I have a deep understanding in my heart, those big Confucianists accused me, and those famous scholars scolded me.

I still remember it until now.

I don't know why Li Shimin suddenly felt that he and Li Zheng empathized very much.

In the hall, Li Zheng continued: "Many times, we have heard stories about a person from a poor background who resisted his destiny and became admired by everyone, but those are just stories after all. How can there be so many counterattacks? How can there be so much success."

"Some people say that human prejudice is a paper tiger, as long as you are strong enough, you can easily tear it apart."

"This kind of chicken soup for the soul sounds like this, but the reality is often arsenic and pepper, which are poisonous and spicy."

Looking at Li Zheng's self-deprecating smile.

Li Tai laughed uncontrollably: "What a poisonous and spicy one."

"However, when many people heard that you, Li Zheng, were going to attend the prince's wedding, there were a few famous scholars who were willing to come." Li Tai continued to eat the dried fruit, "Many people came here for you. The prejudice against you is much deeper than the prejudice against the father."

Li Zheng sighed: "I knew it, I shouldn't come."

"Cough cough..."

There was a coughing sound outside the hall, and Li Tai went back to see that his father had already stood outside the hall.

"Father." Li Tai quickly saluted.

Li Shimin glanced at Li Zheng and said, "I thought you wouldn't come."

(End of this chapter)