Queen Sun

Chapter 33 Reserved
In the inner hall where the candlelight was flickering, the air seemed to be sucked out in an instant, making it so suffocating that people couldn't breathe.

Not as furious as Ruoshui expected, Li Shimin just glanced at his son quietly, and asked lightly, "Why?"

Cheng Qian couldn't help being startled, lowered his eyes slightly, and replied clearly: "My son can't bear the heavy responsibility of the common people in this world."

"Who asked you to bear it now?" Li Shimin said displeased, "It's just to let you practice first. If you make a mistake, you will have a chance to start over. You go back and think about it carefully. Where exactly do you want to go?"

Cheng Qian raised his head and stared at his father, but he did not give in to his clear eyes: "My son has thought about it carefully, unless I lose my son's status as a prince, I will not go anywhere."

"You!" Li Shimin's tone became sharp all of a sudden, "Do you understand what you are talking about? Once the prince is deposed, what will happen to you, you should know better than anyone else."

Cheng Qian pursed his lips tightly, without saying a word, his body stood upright, and he remained motionless.

Ruoshui watched her husband clenched his fists, with a hint of worry in her eyes, she gently held Li Shimin's tight fists, facing his gloomy expression, slowly shook her head.

Li Shimin calmed down, and waited for his wife to take the words, only to see Ruoshui turned his head and looked at Chengqian silently, and after a while, he said indifferently: "Why?"

Chengqian's expression changed, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he avoided his mother's gaze and said: "Mother, I'm not suitable."

"You're not suitable?" Ruoshui asked softly, seemingly continuing casually, "Then tell me, who is suitable for this seat?" As soon as the words fell, she couldn't help sighing in her heart, as if she had asked herself not long ago Same problem then.

Cheng Qian turned his face to the side, as if thinking for a while, but after a light smile, he seemed to have a feeling and said: "Mother, why?"

Ruoshui felt a little uneasy in doubt, exchanged an equally unclear look with her husband, and asked tentatively, "But what did you do wrong because of your mother?"

"Mother did nothing wrong." Cheng Qian met Shang Ruoshui's eyes calmly, "But what exactly is Mother afraid of?"

While thinking about it, Ruoshui seemed to understand something, and pondered: "Just now, did you hear what I said to your uncle?"

"Yes." Chengqian didn't deny it, and said calmly, "If it wasn't for the fear in my mother's heart, why did she insist that if she gave birth to a younger brother, she should take her mother's surname?"

"You can worry too much, Chengqian." Ruoshui said bluntly with a little indifference, covering up the panic in his heart with an indifferent expression, and met his son's searching eyes without hesitation.

Li Shimin sighed slightly, stretched his arms to wrap his arms around his wife's stiff body: "Chengqian, this matter is my idea, it doesn't matter..."

"Second brother, now that he's grown up, we don't have to hide anything from him anymore." Ruoshui interrupted, "Chengqian, no matter what you heard or saw just now, I'll just say it once today, your father has already passed away." With more than 30 children surnamed Li, why can’t my next child have the surname of my eldest grandson, or do you think that my mother’s surname is not enough to match this child’s origin?”

Chengqian looked at his mother who had always been indifferent, and his father's helpless wry smile. After struggling in his mind for a long time, he asked in amazement: "Isn't mother afraid that we will repeat the past of Wude Nine Years, so she made a decision?" ..."

"What should I be afraid of?" Ruoshui sneered, "If something really happens, what's the difference between three sons and two sons?"

Cheng Qian replied sullenly: "I don't want my mother to be uneasy because of the matter of the crown prince. As long as my son is no longer the prince, then my mother will not be as worried as when I was talking to my uncle just now."

"If you weren't the prince, your mother would be even more anxious." A big stone in Li Shimin's heart finally fell to the ground.

Ruoshui shook his head and looked at Chengqian, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Why do I have such an idiot son like you? Your father and I raised you up so much, is it possible that you live for free? In the end, I have to give birth to a younger brother to pick you up." The mess left behind? How can there be such a good thing in the world?"

Hearing Ruoshui's scolding words, Cheng Qian felt relieved. He stood up, bowed deeply to his parents and said, "It was my son who was reckless."

Li Shimin waved his hands angrily: "Don't choose the two places I mentioned just now, just let me stay one by one, do you understand?"

"Ah?" Cheng Qian exclaimed in astonishment, "Father, this is too much."

"Yes?" Li Shimin snorted coldly, "This is a lesson for you. In the future, you must know not to go too far, not to say too much."

Cheng Qian looked at his mother for help in a daze, who knows, Ruoshui turned his face away, and said with a smile: "There are only two places, second brother, I think it's better to let Cheng Qian stay outside for two or three years before coming back." Bar."

"Father, mother, the son will go down first." After hearing this, Cheng Qian hurriedly withdrew to avoid hearing worse news.But when he was walking in the silent night, recalling the scene he saw at his uncle's house today, he still felt a little uneasy in his heart. Although he didn't see his mother's expression, he accidentally bumped into his uncle's face like an old monk in meditation. With an expression of disbelief, followed by their ambiguous dispute, I only understood the shocking choice made by my mother.

But at this time, behind Chengqian's gradual distance, in the palace where the mother was honored to the world, her master finally left behind the calmness and calmness he had just pretended in front of his son, and leaned against her husband with an almost miserable expression. On his chest, he muttered in his mouth: "Second brother, what Chengqian said is correct, I am really afraid, afraid that their brothers will turn against each other, afraid that they will..."

Li Shimin stroked his wife's hair gently. In addition to worries and worries, there was more relief in her heart. Finally, starting from the nightmare that night, Ruoshui gradually let go of her heart to herself, and now she finally let go of her weak heart. I put that side in my hand, "Just now you said that your son is stupid, I see, your mother and son are exactly the same, there is no clue at all, and you are so worried that it seems like the sky is falling apart."

Ruoshui raised his reddish eyes: "Second brother, no, our son will never go that far, right?"

Li Shimin nodded firmly. Seeing his wife's relaxed eyes, he couldn't help sighing in his heart. As the prince of a country, Chengqian has too delicate thoughts, and he is extremely decisive about some things. I really don't know whether it is good or not. Bad.

"If you want to leave the palace again in the future, I will accompany you." Li Shimin suddenly remembered his anger just now, so he said softly.

Ruoshui's mood, which had been suppressed for a long time, finally gradually calmed down. She smiled and raised her head and joked, "I'm going to see a wife for my son, so why don't I have to pick a concubine for my husband?"

Li Shimin was taken aback, then remembered what happened last time, couldn't help laughing and said: "Do you still remember that incident?"

"No, at that time, my brother was still making fun of me." Ruoshui looked at her husband.

"I still can't bear such good fortune." Li Shimin said with a smile.

Ruoshui then asked back: "Could it be that the one I like doesn't catch the eyes of the second brother?"

"My queen, please forgive your husband." Seeing his wife's narrow smile, Li Shimin had no choice but to change the subject, "By the way, Ruoshui, have you seen all the Fang family members today?"

"Yes." Ruoshui casually played with her husband's big hand, "Why? Is there something wrong?"

"What do you think of Xuanling's two sons?"

Ruoshui stopped his hands, and said doubtfully, "I didn't pay much attention, I just cared about Fang's daughter."

Li Shimin said thoughtfully: "How about matching us with Mingyao?"

"Then Mingyao must like it." Ruoshui replied indifferently.

"Or, Wuji's eldest son, Chong'er, looks pretty good to me." Li Shimin didn't care about his wife's perfunctory, and then said in a flurry, "My daughter has also reached the age when you got married back then. As parents, we should think about it for her."

Ruoshui murmured in her heart, she didn't want to invite a plague god into the house, Fang Xuanling was a good man who dedicated his life to dying, that's right, but his sons and daughters almost destroyed the entire Fang family's foundation, his son still gave it to him. Princess Gao Yang, let's make a fuss.As for Changsun Chong, Ruoshui hesitated for a moment, the smile on the corner of his mouth faded a little, and then he said: "Mingyao is not a princess without ideas, second brother should do as she wants, I think, since There is no girl in this world who is more noble than our daughter, so there is no need to add more flowers."

Li Shimin thought for a while, and then laughed at himself: "Ruoshui, is it because of my age, why do I feel that I think about more and more things?"

Ruoshui yawned lazily, with a smile in the corner of his eyes: "They are all about to be grandfathers, and it's normal to nag, but Second Brother, please be more restrained in front of the courtiers."

"You." With doting eyes, Li Shimin gently pressed a kiss on his wife's forehead. For a moment, time seemed to stop, forming a beautiful picture.

The next day, in Liangyi Hall, after the court meeting.

"That's how it is." Li Shimin pointed to Chengqian and said to Wen Yanbo, "The prince will be handed over to you. Just let him do it. Even if something goes wrong, I will take care of it."

Wen Yanbo bowed respectfully and said: "Yes, I would like to obey the holy order."

Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction, then turned to Chengqian and said, "Master Wen presided over this inland relocation policy. Chengqian, when you go to Shuofang this time, you must humbly ask him for advice on matters big and small. identity, arbitrarily and unreasonably doing things.”

"Yes, my son understands." After Chengqian replied, he turned to Wen Yanbo, bowed and said politely, "In the next six months, Mr. Wen will be Chengqian's half-master, please be respected by the students."

Li Shimin looked at his son's modest and calm behavior with a smile, recalling the false alarm last night, he couldn't help shaking his head slightly, his own prince just didn't understand that as an emperor, he should put the Great Tang as the first consideration in any of his actions, but obviously, At this point, Chengqian is far from qualified.

After Wen Yanbo stepped back, Li Shimin looked at his son gently, and said: "This time you are out alone, you must be careful. I have already told Wen Yanbo that there will be no second place for your crown prince besides him. Personally know."

Chengqian nodded and said: "Father, please rest assured, the son will not let parents worry."

Li Shimin frowned, and said after a long while: "Chengqian, don't you know why you were sent out this far? I want you to understand as soon as possible that you didn't take over the position of prince for your mother, and even It's not for me and the ancestors of the Li family, you exist for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, the tens of millions of people, and nothing you say or do can cross this boundary, understand?"

Cheng Qian was slightly taken aback, as if that year, on the night when she left Bie Zhuang, her mother had said this to herself. However, for me, it is not difficult to see which is more important, but... thinking of this, He resolutely looked up at his father and said: "Father, in my heart, mother is the most important thing, nothing can surpass her, I am willing to be a qualified prince for mother, and even a qualified emperor in the future, but only That's all."

Li Shimin sighed deeply, leaned back tiredly, and waved to his son: "Go down first, and tell me your answer when you come back from Shuofang and Ziyang."

Until the son's figure gradually faded away, the man who ruled the world closed his eyes, but what lingered in his mind was Cheng Qian's firm and even somewhat indifferent expression just now. Ask yourself, if water and mountains, what Which is more important?I'm afraid there will never be an answer.

(End of this chapter)