Queen Sun

Chapter 32 Children
"I don't know?" Li Shimin stood in the middle of the room, and asked in a very light tone, but he couldn't hide the deep anger on his indifferent face.

The palace people kneeling in a row in front of the king all lowered their heads, not even daring to vent their breath, hoping that the queen would come back soon, or that the princess on the side would not be so leisurely drinking iced mung bean soup. Anyway, say something.

Mingyao sat on one side, her eyes drifted slightly to the side, seeing her father's rare anger recently, she thought to herself with some gloating: "In a while, father will naturally not take care of the mother who is pregnant, and brother Chengqian's I'm afraid life won't be easy, who made mother and brother treat themselves as a cover-up and not take me out together."

"Ming Yao, where did your mother and eldest brother go, you really don't know?" Li Shimin saw that he couldn't find out why, so he turned around and asked his daughter.

Ming Yao resisted the urge to curl her lips, and innocently opened her eyes wide: "Father, I really don't know."

Li Shimin saw the faint complacency in Mingyao's eyebrows and eyes, but could only shake his head helplessly. He really didn't know whose temperament his daughter followed. Her appearance was as beautiful and beautiful as Ruo Shui's, but there was a faint spiritual wisdom in her eyes. Instead of being calm and calm like his wife.

But what Li Shimin didn't know was that when Ruoshui hadn't experienced the tragedy of losing his father and leaving home, he was three points more delicate and pretty than Mingyao. If you are injured, you will not fall if you are not injured.

Just as the father and daughter were in a stalemate, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the hall, and the kneeling palace people all looked out with hopeful eyes, but the person who came in was not Ruoshui, but four people. Prince Li Tai.

Li Shimin turned his back in disappointment, sat on the soft couch, and said nothing.

Li Tai cast his eyes on his sister inexplicably, only to see Mingyao raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Brother Qingque is here too. Speaking of which, our family hasn't been together for a long time."

"Where are mother and elder brother?" Li Tai asked softly.

Ming Yao waved her hand, indicating that she didn't know, then pointed to the sweet soup in front of her and said, "Brother, would you like a bowl?"

Li Tai stared blankly at his sister and father sitting at one end of the table, one with a relaxed expression, and the other with an angry face. After thinking about it, he decided to keep silent, and knelt down beside Mingyao.

"Someone is going to be miserable tonight." Just as she sat down, she could only hear her sister whispering in her ear like a gnat.

Li Tai's palms were slightly wet, and he also asked in a low voice: "What's going on?"

Ming Yao shook the silver spoon in her hand, narrowed her bright eyes, and smiled silently.

Finally, when Li Tai's knees were slightly numb and his eyelids were twitching, "Hey, what are you doing?" His mother's clear voice woke him up.

"Mother, brother." Ming Yao and Li Tai called out in unison.

Ruoshui looked at the back of her husband who was still silent on the other side knowingly, turned her face and slightly raised her hand to the servants: "You all step back first."

Everyone dragged their already stiff feet and staggered away from this suffocating place as if they were relieved, leaving the most noble family in the world to stand on their own corners.

"Chengqian, kneel down." Li Shimin stood up, with a flash of coldness in his eyes, slowly walked to the side of the eldest son, and angrily said: "As a prince, you go out of the palace without permission, who made the rules for you?" ?”

Cheng Qian knelt on the cold ground, lowered his head, and said calmly: "It's my fault, and I am willing to be punished."

Li Shimin's heart trembled slightly, son?It's been a long time, as long as it's a private place, I haven't heard these two words from Cheng Qian's mouth.He squeezed out the words word by word: "Okay, okay, since that's the case, let me go to the quiet room of Liangyi Hall from now on."

"Father, although elder brother is wrong, but since he has sincerely repented, please forgive elder brother this time." Li Tai saw his mother standing silently aside, and quickly knelt down beside Cheng Qian.

The pupils in Li Shimin's eyes shrank slightly, and he pointed at Chengqian and said coldly: "Your elder brother is forcing me to use the majesty of the king to deal with him."

"Daddy, big brother is wrong, but after all, there is a reason." Mingyao walked to Ruoshui's side, and said, "Mother knows best."

Ruoshui's eyes like an ancient well with no waves flashed a trace of teasing, and walked straight to Li Shimin's side, "Is your father and son's drama finally over?" She took her husband's hand and said softly: "You are not tired, I can watch it." I'm tired."

After a long silence, the husband and children stared at Ruoshui dumbfounded, and then their expressions became different. Li Shimin's anger, Li Tai's strangeness, Mingyao couldn't help laughing and squatting on the ground, only Cheng Qian still kept his head down. There was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"What are you kneeling for?" Ruoshui said to his two sons.Then he looked up at his husband and said, "Didn't we walk outside for a long time to see our future daughter-in-law..." Before he could finish speaking, Li Shimin had no time to suppress the cold anger on his face, helped his wife to sit down, and hurriedly Asked: "Is there any discomfort in your body?"

Ruoshui's heart tightened, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Second Brother, do you still blame me?"

"I never blamed you." Li Shimin said with some twists, "It's not that unworthy son who raised him so big and let his parents live in peace." It's the same with Mingyao, you should have married long ago, you should have married. Your mother and I have already started a family at your age, so why should parents worry about it?"

"It was a chaotic time after all, and most parents in the world couldn't take care of themselves. Where did they get the time to take care of their children's well-being." Ruoshui said with a gentle smile, "But today, I realize that there are still people who look down on us Chengqian." What about people?"

Li Shimin was immediately displeased and said, "But Fang Xuanling?"

Ruoshui smiled happily: "Second brother, don't blame Mrs. Fang. The title of princess concubine is really a hot potato for a truly transparent person. Wei Guogong is in a high position, but he never shows off others. He knows how to be prepared for danger in times of peace. Naturally, I don't want the Fang family to have a future queen."

Li Shimin's expression softened: "You're right, but it's time for Cheng Qian to marry a wife, which girl is the most suitable?"

Hearing the words, Cheng Qian raised his head and was about to speak, but found his mother's sharp eyes glanced at his face, his chest was suffocated, so he had to swallow the words back hesitantly.

Ruoshui withdrew his gaze, and said in a gentle tone: "Second brother, if there is no suitable girl, it's better to wait a little longer than to regret it in the future. In the end, Cheng Qian married his own wife. If he has a grudge against the daughter-in-law we picked now , how will you live in the future?"

Li Shimin embraced his wife lightly, and said with a little relief: "It's not that I haven't thought about it, but Chengqian is the eldest son and the first son. He doesn't get married for a day, and the younger brothers have to delay, and there is no way to marry him." Concubine Zheng. A few days ago, Concubine Xian mentioned to me that there are already several concubines in Ke'er's house, and there is only one concubine who is missing to take charge of internal affairs."

Ruoshui's expression darkened immediately, he suppressed all the smiles, and said indifferently: "Even so, Chengqian can't be allowed to stand in front of them. If there is a concubine in the harem who takes a fancy to a daughter-in-law for her son, feel free to handle the wedding That's it, that's one thing, no one should try to use things related to Cheng Qian's life as an excuse."

The room immediately fell into silence, until Ming Yao leaned against her mother, and said coquettishly, half-truthfully, "Mother is partial to the eldest brother, and she doesn't know where to put me and Brother Qingque."

Ruoshui chuckled, and tapped his daughter's forehead lightly: "Why, Yao'er is in a hurry to get out of the cabinet?"

"Mother." Mingyao dragged out her voice in disbelief, and then snickered, "Daughter is afraid that Brother Qingque won't be able to wait."

Li Shimin and Ruoshui looked at their second son in surprise at the same time, and asked, "Does Qingque have a girl she likes? Whose family is it?"

Li Tai didn't expect his sister to mention this matter at this time, he couldn't help lowering his head because of his introverted nature, and after a while he said vaguely: "It's from the palace..."

The husband and wife couldn't help but look at each other, the woman in the palace?Apart from the female officials and court ladies, there are only the emperor's concubines left, no matter what the outcome seems to be...

Mingyao glanced at her parents, and kindly explained, "It's Lord Yan's eldest daughter, Yan Wan."

"Master Yan?" Ruoshui looked at her husband suspiciously, "Which Lord Yan?"

"It must be Yan Lide who is a master craftsman in the Fifth Prison." Li Shimin suddenly said, "Why is his daughter in the palace?"

At this moment, Li Tai replied before his sister: "Recently, the imperial grandfather often called Lord Yan into the palace to inquire about the construction of the imperial tomb, and Wan'er was also called into the palace together."

"Wan'er?" Ruoshui pondered for a while, then smiled sweetly, "I like it if I like it, so what are you doing secretly? Are you afraid that your father and I will object?"

Li Tai looked at his parents in surprise: "But the eldest brother is not married yet..."

"Really, what are you doing so rigidly?" Ruoshui shook his head and sighed, "Your elder brother is your elder brother, and you are you. If your elder brother never takes a wife for the rest of his life, it's hard to be successful because he is a prince. Married?"

"Qingque thank you, parents." Li Tai stood up and respectfully kowtowed three times to his parents.

Li Shimin said with a relieved smile: "When you find a good day, Dad will propose marriage for you in person. Qingque marrying a daughter-in-law can't be settled with a paper."

Ruoshui raised his eyebrows: "Finally, there is a son who is enlightened, Qing Que, and tomorrow I will bring her girl to my mother to have a good look at it. She can be regarded as our family's first daughter-in-law." While talking, she Looking at the expressionless Cheng Qian, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, it seems that this son is destined to be more difficult to raise.

"It's already getting late, Qingque, Yao'er, you all go to bed." Li Shimin looked at the candlestick beside him and said, "Chengqian, stay here for a while."

Mingyao left a self-seeking smile for her elder brother, pulled Li Tai and walked out.

Ruoshui glanced at her husband inexplicably, what did she do, shouldn't she be all right?
Li Shimin's gaze was firmly locked on his son for a moment, and he said in a deep voice: "Chengqian, your mother and I have protected you for more than three years. I never forced you half a point."

Chengqian listened silently, only waiting for his father's next words.

The more Ruoshui listened, the more weird he felt, and Li Shimin continued: "After a hundred years, the burden of this world will fall on your shoulders. Since ancient times, no wise sage is taught by others, but Those who came out on their own, Yao and Shun in ancient times, Duke Wen of Jin in Spring and Autumn, Emperor Qin in Qin Dynasty, Emperor Wudi in Han Dynasty, and even father did not come to this day by relying on one soldier and one soldier! Now that you have performed the crown ceremony, you can also You are an adult, in the next year or so, do you want to follow Xue Wanche to build the Baizhi Canal in Ziyang County, or follow Wen Yanbo to preside over the inward migration of the Turkic people, choose one yourself."

Whether you like it or not, Chengqian is unavoidable for this long journey. Ruoshui knows in his heart that the former is a water conservancy construction that is fundamental to people's livelihood, and the latter has been in operation since the fourth year of Zhenguan, a major event that is critical to the safety of the Tang Dynasty , Li Shimin is cultivating a real emperor, not just an emperor who governs the country. Thinking of this, she couldn't help showing a gratified smile. Who knows, next, Cheng Qian said something that neither of them thought However, it is impossible to imagine the words coming.

"Father, mother." Chengqian bowed solemnly, met his parents' surprised eyes with unavoidable eyes, and said calmly and firmly, "Please abolish your son's crown prince."

(End of this chapter)