The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Chapter 185

Before having dinner, Zhao Yao followed Liang Zhaoyi and Yu Meiren to visit Emperor Wu of Zhou.

Emperor Wu of Zhou was not in his own tent, but in Qin Xiulian's.

Sun Kui asked Zhao Yao and Liang Zhaoyi to wait outside the tent, and he went in to pass the message.

In the camp, Emperor Wu of Zhou was chatting with Qin Xiulian.

Sun Kui walked up to Emperor Wu of Zhou, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness, Liang Zhaoyi, Yu Meiren, Pan Cairen, and the Fifth Princess are here to see you."

When Emperor Wu of Zhou heard this, his heart tightened slightly.Of course, he didn't show it on his face.

"Let them in."

"Yes." Sun Kui turned and walked out, and said to Zhao Yao and the others who were waiting at the door, "His Royal Highness, Empress Zhaoyi, the emperor let you in."

Liang Zhaoyi said politely to Sun Kui, "Please trouble Eunuch Sun."

Eunuch Sun hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, you are welcome."

Liang Zhaoyi led Zhao Yao in and walked in, and Yu Meiren led the fifth princess and followed behind their mother and son.Pan Cairen lowered his head and cautiously followed behind.

Walking into the tent, Liang Zhaoyi and Zhao Yao first saluted Emperor Wu of Zhou.

"See Your Majesty."

"I have seen my father."

"Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Qin Xiulian, who was lying on the bed, hurriedly apologized to Liang Zhaoyi and Zhao Yao: "Your Majesty Tenth, Empress Zhaoyi, Yu Meiren, Fifth Princess, Pan Cairen, my servants are unable to stand up and salute you, I will apologize to you."

Only then did Liang Zhaoyi look at Qin Xiulian who was lying on the bed.Although her face was pale at this moment, it did not detract from her beauty at all.On the contrary, because her face was bloodless, it added a bit of weakness and fragility to her, making her even more lovable.

Zhao Yao stared at Qin Xiulian curiously, and then said with emotion in his heart: She is really a great beauty, not inferior to Concubine Rong at all.

Concubine Rong Gui is a bright beauty, and Qin Xiulian's beauty is just like her name, pure and beautiful like a lotus flower.

It turned out that Si Youying, whom the emperor had always been obsessed with, looked like this.No wonder the father never forgot Si Youying.

"You don't need to be too polite, but I also want to thank Miss Qin for saving the emperor in the paddock." Liang Zhaoyi asked with concern, "How is Miss Qin's injury?"

"Mistress Xie Zhaoyi is concerned, the injury of my servant is not serious."

Liang Zhaoyi looked at Emperor Wu of Zhou, and asked with concern: "Your Majesty, are you not injured?"

When Liang Zhaoyi looked over, Emperor Wu of Zhou felt a little nervous for a moment.

"I'm fine."

"It's good that the emperor is fine." Liang Zhaoyi said in a respectful tone, "Thanks to Miss Qin this time, otherwise, your majesty... Your majesty, please pay attention to safety when you are hunting, and take care of your dragon body."

Seeing Liang Zhaoyi's normal expression, Emperor Wu of Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, but soon became nervous again.

"This time it was my negligence."

Just when Liang Zhaoyi was about to retreat, Zhao Yao said, "Father, where are the wolves?"

Hearing Zhao Yao's question, Emperor Wu of Zhou's first reaction was: "Why, do you want to eat wolf meat?"

Zhao Yao nodded and said, "I want to eat it. I have never eaten wolf meat, so I don't know if wolf meat is good or not."

Emperor Wu of Zhou was amused by his younger son's words: "Stinky boy, you are so greedy, you don't even let go of wolf meat."

"I haven't eaten it, I want to try it." Zhao Yao said again, "Father, can you give me some wolf teeth?"

Emperor Wu of Zhou asked curiously, "What do you want Langya for?"

"Make a necklace."

"Making necklaces?" Emperor Wu of Zhou asked, "What do you make necklaces for?"

Zhao Yao felt that Zhou Wudi's question was too stupid, so he almost couldn't help giving his father a supercilious look.

"Of course it's Dai." Has the father's brain been broken?

"What are you wearing a wolf tooth necklace for?"

"It's fun." Zhao Yao said, "I think Hu people wear necklaces made of spikes."

Emperor Zhou Wu looked back at Sun Kui, and ordered: "Go and find some for him."

"Father, I still want wolf skins."

Sun Kui who was standing aside said, "Your Highness, the emperor has already ordered that he will send a few wolf skins to each palace."

"How many cards in each palace?" Zhao Yao's face was full of surprise, "Father, you have stabbed the wolf's den."

Qin Xiulian was amused by Zhao Yao's words, and a smile overflowed from the corner of her mouth.

"Don't you want to eat wolf meat? Later, someone will send you two wolf legs. Is it enough for you?" Emperor Wu of Zhou joked, "If not enough, I will give you a whole wolf, how about it?"

"Is wolf meat delicious?"

"so so."

"Then just give me a small piece of meat." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "I'll try it."

Emperor Wu of Zhou asked, "What else do you want to eat?"

"I still want to eat the bear's paw, but father, you didn't hunt the black blind man, so you can just forget it." Zhao Yao's tone was full of regret and a little disgust.

Emperor Wu of Zhou heard it naturally, glared at Zhao Yao, and said angrily, "I'm really sorry that I didn't catch a black blind man."

Zhao Yao waved his hand and said with a generous face, "It's okay."

Emperor Wu of Zhou laughed angrily, stretched out his hand to pull his youngest son into his arms, and pinched Zhao Yao's chubby face vigorously.

"Stinky boy..."

Seeing that it was almost time, Liang Zhaoyi said, "Your Majesty, Miss Qin needs to rest, so the concubine will not bother you."

Yu Meiren and Pan Cairen hurriedly saluted Emperor Wu of Zhou.

Liang Zhaoyi looked at Qin Xiulian and said, "Miss Qin, take a good rest."

"Miss Zhaoyi, go slowly."

Zhao Yao withdrew from Emperor Zhou Wu's arms, glared at his father fiercely, and immediately saluted: "My son will leave."

Liang Zhaoyi led Zhao Yao back out.

Emperor Wu of Zhou looked at Liang Zhaoyi's leaving back, frowned slightly, with a thoughtful expression.

"Mother and Concubine, let's go back and eat dumplings." As soon as he walked out of Qin Xiulian's camp, Zhao Yao said impatiently, "I want to eat fifty dumplings."

Emperor Wu of Zhou in the camp heard his youngest son say that he wanted to eat fifty dumplings, and laughed and scolded: "Is this brat a pig? He eats so many."

Qin Xiulian said: "Your Majesty, it's time for you to have dinner."

Emperor Wu of Zhou happened to be in no mood to stay here any longer.He stood up and said, "I will come to see you later."

"Go slowly, Your Majesty."

Emperor Wu of Zhou nodded, and immediately left Qin Xiulian's tent and returned to his own.

Sun Kui asked, "Your Majesty, what do you want for dinner?"

Emperor Wu of Zhou blurted out: "I want to eat dumplings."

"Dumplings?" Sun Kui was stunned for a moment, and then he understood, "The servant girl will go to Lady Zhaoyi to get some back."

"Go." Emperor Wu of Zhou recalled that Zhao Yao had just said that he wanted to eat fifty dumplings, and ordered, "Bring me fifty dumplings."

"Your Majesty, isn't fifty a little too much?" The most the Emperor ate dumplings was thirty or so.

Emperor Wu of Zhou gave Sun Kui a sideways look: "I'll let you take it, so there's so much nonsense."

"The slave is going here."

Sun Kui came just in time, Liang Zhaoyi and the others had just finished their first pot of dumplings.

Zhao Yao heard Sun Kui say that Emperor Wu of Zhou wanted to eat fifty dumplings, so he quit immediately.

"My concubine and the others didn't make many dumplings, and my father wants to eat fifty dumplings, so what shall we eat?"

Sun Kui didn't speak, but smiled embarrassingly.

"No." Zhao Yaohu said, "Father wants to eat dumplings, so let the royal cooks make them for him, and don't come and grab us."

"His Royal Highness, this..."

"No, there is no extra food for the father, let the royal chefs cook for the father."

"Your Majesty, this is not very good."

Zhao Yao was about to say something when Liang Zhaoyi knocked his little head down.

"The emperor can't eat fifty, Eunuch Sun, take twenty and bring them back."

"Twenty, too many!" Zhao Yao said dissatisfiedly, "Ten is enough!"

Liang Zhaoyi ignored Zhao Yao, and put twenty dumplings in a food box for Sun Kui to carry.

"We don't pack much, we can only give twenty to the emperor, please forgive me."

Zhao Yao pouted, and said with an unhappy face: "Father, he wants to eat dumplings, why should he eat ours, I won't have enough for later."

Sun Kui took the food box and thanked Liang Zhaoyi: "Thank you, Ma'am, I will retire."

"Eunuch Sun, go slowly."

After Sun Kui left, Zhao Yao began to complain: "Stinky father must have done it on purpose, he just wanted to grab my dumplings."

Seeing her son's angry look, Liang Zhaoyi poked his little cheek with a funny hand.

"Who is to blame, who told you to eat fifty dumplings at the door, and your father heard it."

Zhao Yao was full of annoyance: "Blame myself."

"If you don't have enough food, your second mother and concubine and I will make some more." Liang Zhaoyi filled another fifty dumplings, "Don't you want to invite your fourth brother to eat dumplings? Send these dumplings."

"Mother Concubine, it's definitely not enough for my fourth brother and I to eat fifty dumplings." Zhao Yao said, "I can eat fifty dumplings by myself."

"You can eat fifty, but I won't give you fifty." Liang Zhaoyi pinched Zhao Yao's little nose, "Do you want to burst your little belly?"

"Mother, I can really eat fifty..."

Liang Zhaoyi interrupted Zhao Yao, "Okay, hurry up and take the dumplings, they won't taste good later." After speaking, she handed the food box to Tongxi.

"Mother and concubine, as well as the dumplings from Concubine Li."

"I haven't forgotten, I'll send it to Mrs. Li Bin later."

Zhao Yao didn't say anything more, he bounced around to find the fourth prince.

At this time, Sun Kui had returned to Emperor Wu of Zhou's tent with the dumplings.

"Your Majesty, Lady Zhaoyi said that they don't make many dumplings, and they can only give you twenty."

"That brat Xiao Ten didn't bark?"

"Called, His Highness the Tenth Prince is unwilling to give it to you, and even said that you want to eat dumplings, so let the imperial chef report it to you, so that you don't want to grab his dumplings."

Emperor Wu of Zhou smiled and said, "I knew it." After speaking, he couldn't wait to pick up a dumpling and eat it.His eyes lit up instantly, "This dumpling stuffed with wild vegetables is delicious."

Sun Kui said silently in his heart: It is not the dumplings stuffed with wild vegetables that are delicious, but the dumplings made by Mrs. Zhaoyi are delicious.

Emperor Wu of Zhou ate five dumplings in a row.He hesitated for a while and said, "Liang Zhaoyi...how did she react?"

"What reaction?" Sun Kui didn't react.

Emperor Wu of Zhou looked at Sun Kui and said nothing.Sun Kui finally came to his senses at this time, and said cautiously: "This servant looks at Lady Zhaoyi as usual."

"is it?"

Sun Kui said: "Your servant did not see it." Unexpectedly, the emperor was afraid that Liang Zhaoyi would be unhappy.

When Liang Zhaoyi was there just now, he saw that the emperor was quite calm, but he didn't expect the emperor to be uneasy.

Emperor Wu of Zhou said with disgust on his face, "What can you see?"

Sun Kui suppressed a smile and said, "Your Majesty, are you afraid that Lady Zhaoyi will misunderstand you and Miss Qin..." Before he finished speaking, Sun Kui received a cold look from Emperor Wu of Zhou, which made him shut up quickly.

He raised his hand and slapped himself lightly, "The servant is talking too much."

Emperor Wu of Zhou ignored Sun Kui and ate the remaining fifteen dumplings.

"Your Majesty, do you still want to eat?" Sun Kui said very caringly, "If you are not full, I will go get it from Lady Zhaoyi."

"No need." Emperor Wu of Zhou said with a smile, "If you go and get it again, that brat Xiao Shi won't give you any."

"It's really possible." Sun Kui couldn't help laughing when he thought of Zhao Yao's angry look just now, "His Tenth Highness is really a food protector."

"So protective of food, so stingy, I don't know who she looks like."

Sun Kui said in his heart: Your Majesty, His Majesty the Tenth Prince is just being stingy with you, but he is being generous to the Fourth Prince.

In the fourth prince's camp, he was eating dumplings with Zhao Yao.

"Fourth brother, you must dip the dumplings in vinegar, so that they are delicious."

The fourth prince doesn't like to be jealous: "I think it's delicious without vinegar."

"Fourth brother, are the dumplings stuffed with wild vegetables the best?"

"Well, it's the best."

"Fourth brother, my mother and concubine and I just went to see the father." Zhao Yao said to the fourth prince while eating dumplings, "The father is in that Qin Xiulian's camp. I looked at that Qin Xiulian curiously. It's so beautiful."

Hearing this, the fourth prince paused with the chopsticks in his hand, and looked up at Zhao Yao: "Do you know what is beautiful?"

"I know, why don't I know, that Qin Xiulian is really beautiful, not inferior to Concubine Rong."

The fourth prince frowned, "Do you like it?"

"Ah?" Zhao Yao was asked inexplicably, "What do I like?"

"Like pretty ones?"

"I like it, fourth brother, there is no one who doesn't like beautiful people." Zhao Yao said holding chopsticks, "This is called the love of beauty, everyone has it."

The fourth prince laughed and said, "What do you know as a child?"

Zhao Yao pouted unconvincedly and said, "Fourth brother, I am young, but I know what is beautiful and what is not beautiful."

"Tenth brother, everyone has the love of beauty, but this love of beauty has to be measured..." The fourth prince stopped the chopsticks in his hand, and began to tell Zhao Yao about "beauty" sternly.

Zhao Yao was stunned, and didn't understand why the fourth prince started to preach to him.

The fourth prince was worried that Zhao Yao would be deceived by beauty, so he had to tell him the disadvantages of liking "beauty".

After listening for a while, Zhao Yao understood his fourth brother's intentions.

The fourth brother is because he is afraid of becoming a lustful person, so he specially preached to him.

Fourth brother, are you worrying too much?I'm only six years old, and I can't do anything even if I'm greedy for beauty.

Zhao Yao silently listened to the fourth prince's lecture, while eating dumplings quietly.

The Fourth Prince didn't expect Zhao Yao to understand what he said just now, after all, he was still young.However, just because he is still young, he has to understand that it is not a good thing to be greedy for beauty.

"Fourth brother, do you still eat?" Zhao Yao finished eating [-] dumplings, but he was not satisfied, and wanted to eat some more.

"I'm full, I don't want to eat." The fourth prince ate twenty dumplings.However, twenty dumplings is not too little for him. "Do you still want to eat?"

"I can eat twenty more." Zhao Yao stood up hurriedly and said, "Fourth brother, then I'll go back and continue eating dumplings." After speaking, he ran away in a hurry.He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, the fourth brother would preach to him again.

Looking at Zhao Yao's running back, the Fourth Prince smiled helplessly and dotingly.

"Your Highness, you scared the Tenth Highness away." Wei Mian teased, "It's not like you don't know that the Tenth Highness is most afraid of your preaching. Besides, the Tenth Highness is still young, how can he know how to be beautiful?"

"It's because he doesn't understand, so I want to tell him that it's wrong to seek beauty."

"Aren't you afraid that His Royal Highness is becoming more and more afraid of you?"

"Tenth Brother, he understands that I'm doing it for his own good."

On the other side, Concubine Li also ate dumplings filled with wild vegetables sent by Liang Zhaoyi.

She ate very little for dinner on weekdays, and it was rare for her to eat all twenty dumplings today.

"The dumplings made with wild vegetables taste really good."

"Your Majesty, if you like it, I will take someone to pick some and bring them back to the palace tomorrow."

"Pick more tomorrow." Li Bin said with a smile, "Liang Zhaoyi and the others will eat."

"Liang Zhaoyi and the others really know how to eat. They also grow their own vegetables. They are the only ones in this palace who do this."

"There's nothing wrong with that." Everyone in the palace looked down on Liang Zhaoyi and the others for growing vegetables, but Concubine Li didn't look down on them.Concubine Li thinks that growing vegetables is the same as growing flowers, no one is more noble than the other. "I'm a bit full from eating, go out for a walk with me."

"Empress, do you want to call His Highness to accompany you for a walk?"

"Okay, you go and call him."

The fourth prince was also a little full, and was about to wait for Zhao Yao to finish eating, and took Zhao Yao for a walk to digest food.Seeing Qiu Sang coming to look for him, he went for a walk with Li Bin.

At this time, it was already dark, and the night sky was full of stars.

Concubine Li and the fourth prince took a walk near the camp without going far.

The mother and son talked about reading at first.Both of them like to read books. Even if they go out to participate in the spring hunting, the mother and son will bring books and read them at night.

The fourth prince's liking for reading was also influenced by Concubine Li.Li Bin likes to read since she was a child, and she is very talented.Before she entered the palace, she was a well-known talented woman in the capital.Her poems and articles are highly respected by literati and students.Someone once offered a thousand dollars just to ask her for a poem.

The poems she wrote are very bold and generous, unlike the graceful poems written by other poetesses.Her bold atmosphere is also full of compassion, and she is very popular among literati and students.

The poems and articles written by Li Bin were sold out as soon as they were printed.The literati and students in the capital each have a collection of her poems in their hands.

Concubine Shu is also a talented woman, but Concubine Shu's talent lies in the painting.So she is far inferior to Li Bin in the eyes of the world as a talented woman.

In this palace, the person Concubine Shu is really jealous of is not Concubine Rong, nor Concubine De and Concubine Liang, but Concubine Li.She was also a talented woman before entering the palace, so people often compare her with Concubine Li.In comparison, she is not as good as Concubine Li.Others said that she was not worthy of being compared with Li Bin at all, because Li Bin was a real talented woman, while she was just a "heresy" talented woman.

Even though Concubine Shu was not convinced, she had to admit that she was indeed inferior to Concubine Li in terms of poetry and articles.However, fortunately, her family background is better than that of Li Bin.However, in the eyes of literati and students, Concubine Shu's family background is not as good as Concubine Li's.The Li family is a real scholarly family, while the Xun family is just an aristocratic family.

The conversation is far away, after chatting with the fourth prince for a while, Concubine Li chatted about other things.

Concubine Li asked the fourth prince if he had any thoughts about his marriage.

This is the first time that Concubine Li asked the Fourth Prince this question.Before, Concubine Li had never asked the Fourth Prince about this matter.

The fourth prince was startled when asked, and immediately said: "I don't have any ideas." His marriage is not his decision, so he doesn't have any ideas about his own marriage. "Why did the concubine suddenly ask me this question?"

"In two years, you will be an adult, and I thought I should tell you about this." Concubine Li asked gently, "What kind of girl do you like?"

"Mother and concubine, my liking is not important." The fourth prince's tone was very calm, "Besides, I don't have a woman I like."

Hearing his son's answer, Concubine Li was not surprised at all, but her heart was still full of helplessness.

"Haven't you ever thought about what kind of woman your future princess will be?"

"have not thought."

"Do you like a gentle woman, or a lively woman?"

The fourth prince said blankly: "I don't know."

Concubine Li looked at the fourth prince in astonishment: "You can't..." This child must not have enlightened.

"Mother, I just said that it doesn't matter whether I like it or not. Even if I like it, I can't marry back to be a princess." The fourth prince really doesn't care about his marriage at all. Marriage, why should I worry about this matter."

Concubine Li: "..." For a moment, she didn't know what to say.

"I believe that my father will arrange a good marriage for me and a good princess for me."

Concubine Li was stunned for a while, then said helplessly, "You don't have a thing for women..."

The fourth prince interrupted Concubine Li: "No." After finishing speaking, he was afraid that Concubine Li might misunderstand, so he added, "I don't like men, so don't think too much about it, concubine mother."

Concubine Li didn't think much about it, she just felt that the fourth prince hadn't understood the relationship between men and women, that's why she said such things.

"Your royal father has no plans to give you a marriage right now."

"I'm not yet an adult, so my father will naturally not give me a marriage right now."

"What I mean is that your father hasn't arranged a marriage for you yet." Concubine Li once tentatively asked Emperor Wu of Zhou.She knew that Emperor Wu of Zhou hadn't thought it through yet.

"What does the concubine mean?"

"Your grandfather and your uncle hope that you can marry Xiaoci as the princess, what do you think?"

The fourth prince knew from an early age that his grandfather wanted to marry Xiaoci to him.He didn't think there was anything bad about it, and certainly he didn't think there was anything good about it.Xiaoci often came to the palace, and he grew up with him.Xiao Ci's temperament is quiet, which he is very satisfied with.If you have to marry a woman as a princess after you become an adult, Xiaoci is a good choice, so he doesn't reject it.

"can."

"You like Xiaoci?"

"it's OK."

"Xiao Ci is a good girl with a gentle and quiet temperament, which is very suitable for you, but marrying her as a princess will not help you much."

Hearing the words, the fourth prince looked at Concubine Li in surprise: "Concubine Mother, do you disagree with Xiaoci being my concubine?"

"I don't have any dissatisfaction with Xiaoci. On the contrary, I like Xiaoci very much. It's just that I hope your princess can come from a military family."

The Fourth Prince instantly understood Li Bin's meaning, "Mother Concubine, do you want to..."

"I know the four generals are impossible, but I want to try their subordinates." Li Pin said, "General Shen and his lieutenants all have daughters, and they are about the same age as you."

"Impossible, father will not agree." None of the daughters of the four generals married into the royal family, and none of them married into the family.The same is true for the daughters of the four generals' subordinates.

They do not participate in the struggle of the royal family, nor do they participate in the right and wrong of the family.They are only pure ministers, and they are only loyal to their father and emperor.

"I want to try."

"Mother Concubine, I advise you not to say that." The fourth prince's expression suddenly became very serious, and his tone was very solemn, "For me, you'd better not say that."

　There will be another one tonight.

　　I will update more in these two days, two chapters will be updated, one chapter will be updated at noon, and the other chapter will be updated at night.

　　Emperor Wu of Zhou: Why do I feel guilty?
　　Sun Kui: Your Majesty, I didn't expect you to be afraid sometimes.

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