After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

With a damp heart, Li Lingyue returned to Fengyang Pavilion.

Before his butt was hot, Chen Li and Eunuch Chen, who was next to Li Zhi, came to him.

"Princess! This old slave is following His Majesty's orders to take you to the Zichen Palace to have an audience!"

"Why am I, Aye, looking for me?" Li Lingyue asked casually out of curiosity.

"This...Your Majesty didn't say anything, this old slave dare not speak nonsense, the princess will know as soon as she goes!" Chen Li habitually prevaricated.

Li Lingyue nodded, followed Chen Li out of the gate, boarded the drive, and the group headed towards Zichen Hall.

Not long after leaving, Li Lingyue thought about what happened in the court today, and couldn't help asking Chen Li beside him:

"Eunuch Chen, after you left for me this morning, what happened inside?"

Chen Li glanced around and said in a low voice, "May I ask what the princess is referring to?"

"Nonsense, of course it's about going to Dongdu to mourn!" Li Lingyue asked unhappily: "I'm sure I didn't get what I wanted, so why did they agree as soon as I left!"

Eunuch Chen hesitated a little, covered his mouth lightly, and said in a low voice:

"Actually, this old slave is also very puzzled. Once you leave, princess, the empress will turn her face on the spot and scold the servants under her face. Then she will praise the princess for her filial piety. If it interferes, it will violate filial piety, so I persuaded His Majesty to let the princess keep her filial piety for her!"

"No! No!" Li Lingyue said more and more confused: "If it is so easy, let alone whether I, Aye, will agree, those ministers alone will not let it go!"

"Who said no!"

Eunuch Chen agreed, and continued: "As soon as the empress suggested letting the princess go to the Eastern Capital, half of the courtiers complained one after another, saying that the princess is a member of the royal family, and that the children of the Li family must not mourn for her relatives! Your Majesty suggests that the princess should become a monk to cultivate Taoism, bestow the Taoist name 'Taiping', and mourn Mrs. Rongguo in the name of a monk, in this way, the identity of the princess and the imperial surname of Li will be avoided!"

Li Lingyue had already known this result from Eunuch Yang earlier, but what puzzled her was how could Empress Wu persuade the courtiers to let her stay in Chang'an?
Eunuch Chen saw Li Lingyue bowed his head in silence, he seemed to guess what she was thinking, and said in a low voice:
"In order to prevent the empress from staying in Chang'an, that Hao Shaobao remonstrated with His Majesty, but the empress took the initiative to fight and debate with the officials by herself. In the end, she only used two sentences to distinguish the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty. Word!"

"So powerful? What did my mother say?" Li Lingyue was extremely surprised when she heard it, and hurriedly asked.

Eunuch Chen cleared his throat: "My lady's first sentence was to ask the ministers: which is more important, parents or the king?"

As he said that, Eunuch Chen smiled and asked Li Lingyue: "Princess, if you are a subject, how should you answer?"

Li Lingyue replied with almost no time to think: "This is very obvious. Since ancient times, heaven, earth, emperor, relatives, and teachers, the emperor ranks before the relatives. If I am a subject, I should answer the king first..."

Just as Li Lingyue said this, she suddenly realized and exclaimed, "I understand!"

If according to Confucian teachings, the king is greater than the relatives, then Empress Wu can stay in the palace on the grounds of assisting Li Zhi, and let the princess keep the filial piety on her behalf.
"Huh! No!"

Li Lingyue thought of another possibility, and said to Eunuch Chen: "Even I can think of the ultimate move in this sentence, how could those ministers in the court not think of it? I guess someone must answer: Parents are more important than the king!"

Eunuch Chen looked at Li Lingyue approvingly, and then said: "The princess is really smart. After my mother asked this sentence, Hao Shaobao felt that something was wrong, so he opened his eyes and said nonsense, and replied to his mother: Parents are the most important thing. The king is next! Tsk tsk tsk, look, this old guy is considered a generation of Confucianism, in order to drive away the empress, he really didn't even want face!"

Li Lingyue nodded approvingly, and sighed: "If you play tricks like this, there is really nothing to do with him!"

Eunuch Chen smiled mysteriously, showing a look of admiration on his face: "The old slave thinks the same as the princess, thinking that the empress has no way to refute, but who knows, Hao Shaobao's wrong answer is the real killer move of the empress, and the empress follows his answer. , said the second sentence, once the words were uttered, no one in the court came forward to refute."

"Oh, don't be so convincing, tell me, what did my mother say that is so convincing?" Li Lingyue seemed to be listening to a suspense drama, and her thoughts were teased like a cat's claws, so she kept asking .

Eunuch Chen shook the floating dust, imitating Empress Wu's tone, and said loudly: "Your Majesty said: What Hao Shaobao said is absolutely true. Parents are indeed more important than Your Majesty, so I have to stay with Your Majesty. If His Majesty hadn't given me the fiefdom of the Wu family, I would have A Niang would have no place to live; if His Majesty hadn’t rewarded me with a salary, I wouldn’t have been able to support A Niang, if His Majesty hadn’t given me the status of Empress, my A Niang wouldn’t have been conferred the title of Mrs. Rong Guo, with a prominent status in front of her. After passing away, I will be buried in a beautiful place, and everything I got from His Majesty will be used to honor Auntie. Now that my daughter is willing to do my filial piety on my behalf, then I should stay by Your Majesty's side to serve Her Majesty wholeheartedly, and to share the worries for His Majesty, which is to repay the kindness of my parents. That is true filial piety."

Li Lingyue was dumbfounded when she heard that, her old mother actually brought out the "Which is more important than the royal relatives" in "Hanshiwaizhuan"? ', the most famous sentence of which is: "The land that is not a king can not treat my relatives, the salary that is not a king can not support my relatives, the title that is not a king can not honor my relatives; the king who receives , To dear relatives, everything is the king's relatives."

From this point of view, regardless of Hao Shaobao's answer, Empress Wu has a reason to stay in the palace.

"Wonderful!" Li Lingyue sighed sincerely. What she wanted to break her head was resolved by Empress Wu with a few words. If she had known this, why would she go to the palace to beg for death? From the beginning to the end, she was just worrying about nothing.

As she was thinking about it, Li Lingyue's back suddenly went cold, and a thoughtful conjecture lingered in her mind:

"Since A Niang can kill all the ministers so easily, why didn't she use it in the first place? She had to agree to it, making people mistakenly think that she is really dead end!"

"In the end, did she do it on purpose, or did she really not expect it? If she deliberately put herself in a desperate situation, then what is she trying to do?"

"Could it be that you want to use this to test the feelings and loyalty of a few children to her? Could it be that you want to see if any children will stand up and speak for her?"

"If that's the case, then this mother...is terrible!"

Li Lingyue didn't dare to think about it any further. The only thing she was grateful for now was that she had stood beside this old lady from the beginning to the end. As long as the old lady didn't fall down, then she, Princess Taiping, would be the real 'Taiping'.