Queen Sun

Chapter 40
Since the full moon of the two Highnesses, an inner room called the game room by the queen has been reopened in the Legislative Hall.The things inside don’t look magnificent, but all of them have been arranged with great care. Among other things, the huge blanket on the ground alone is enough to make people stare. The sound of the queen playing with the children made those who heard it smile knowingly.

"Come on, Mozi, come to Mother." Ruoshui held a small rattle in his hand, attracting his son's attention, but just like in the past, the daughter who was playing on the other side quickly crawled over and stretched out her little hand to grab it. Toys in mother's hand.

Ruoshui looked at Sizi's shining eyes, gave up again, hugged her daughter to his son and put her down, kissed Mozi on the face and said, "Mozi, why don't you know how to crawl? My sister learned it a long time ago." .”

Su Zi glanced at his mother innocently, then quickly snatched the toy from his sister, grinning and started playing with Ruo Shui.

Si Zi was stunned for a while, looking at his empty little hand, he burst into tears, and pulled his brother's arm hard to grab the toy back.Su Zi just hid the snatched treasure in his arms, even if his arm was caught red, he didn't cry or make trouble.

Ruoshui picked up her daughter with a headache and placed her among a pile of toys. Sure enough, she stopped crying immediately, and then returned to Suzi's side, staring at her son with big eyes: "Baby, you will not be born!" What kind of aftereffects did you have when you were born?"

Just when she began to think carefully about this possibility, she heard Li Shimin walk in and asked strangely: "Ruoshui, have you seen a copy of the Guozijian?"

Ruoshui shook his head weakly and said, "I'm just asking why your son can't crawl yet."

Li Shimin walked over with a smile, picked up the last son, raised it high above his head and said, "I remember that Chengqian didn't seem to climb much when he was a child."

"Second brother, Chengqian will crawl and get into trouble when he is six months old, but the last son is almost nine months old." Ruoshui specifically asked Chengqian's wet nurse about this matter, and then he became worried.

Li Shimin rubbed his beard on his son's face indifferently, which made him giggle, and kept waving his little hand: "Look, Mo Zi is very energetic, but he just doesn't want to crawl, isn't he, Daddy's little Mo Zi? Just as the father and son were playing, Li Shimin suddenly felt that his feet were being hugged. Looking down, he couldn't help but smiled happily: "Do you want to hug your son?"

When Ruoshui saw this, she was about to stop it, but it was too late. As soon as her daughter was able to touch the last son, she began to unceremoniously try to push her brother down. They were taken down, and for some unknown reason, the twin siblings changed from the intimacy that they had to stick together even when they slept in the first two months, and became like enemies who wanted to grab and fight for everything. What a headache.

Li Shimin was stunned, then laughed, pinched his daughter's little nose lightly and said, "Be good, don't bully your younger brother." The daughter obviously didn't understand what her father said, and happily dripped her saliva on her face. On Dad's shoulder, there was a constant smile.

When the husband and wife each held a child and sat down to drink tea, Ruoshui asked suspiciously, "Second brother, what happened to the book you just mentioned?"

Li Shimin's face was a little sullen and he said: "The paper that was approved here last night, for some reason, I couldn't find it when I went to court this morning. Zheng Ji and the others are still kneeling outside."

Ruoshui frowned and asked, "Have you looked for it anywhere? A booklet is not considered a small thing, how could it disappear out of thin air?"

"Except for here and the bedroom, I'm afraid I've searched everywhere in the Lizheng Palace, and I haven't even seen a trace. Forget it, I have asked the officials below to make a copy." Li Shimin's face has softened.

Ruoshui thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Second brother, I'm afraid you have wronged Zheng Ji." When the words fell, she put down her son and walked towards the corner on the right.

Li Shimin didn't react for a while, but saw his son, who had never seen him crawl, turned over quickly and crawled towards his mother's back.

When Ruoshui heard her husband's startled cry, she turned her head, glared at her son and said, "What, you can crawl now?" While speaking, he bent down and found a few scraps of paper hidden under the toy, and it turned out to be that A missing booklet.

When Mo Zi saw that his mother had found out his well-hidden things, tears immediately rolled in his eyes, and they were about to fall.The husband and wife looked at each other and sighed secretly in their hearts. There are so many children, none of them can worry about it. Is it born like this, or is there something wrong?

At dinner time, probably knowing that he had caused trouble, Mo Zi, who never liked to drink rice porridge, sat on the couch and opened his mouth obediently, and soon the small bowl of porridge was empty.Ruoshui looked at his daughter, and sure enough, he was still trying to overturn the small bowl in Guangyue's hand. Li Shimin looked at his children and his wife with a satisfied face, and suddenly felt that if time stopped at this moment forever, maybe there would be no regrets Alright.

Suddenly, Dan Yun walked in a little anxiously: "Your Majesty, Miss, there is an urgent message from Lingzhou sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Ruoshui looked at Li Shimin suspiciously: "Second brother, didn't you say that Chengqian went to Ziyang?"

"That's what Yanbo said to me that day. I thought he had finally improved a bit." Li Shimin opened the letter, and after reading a few lines, his face suddenly became gloomy, as if it was a precursor to anger.

Ruoshui raised his eyebrows slightly, and signaled Danyun and Guangyue to take the two children out of the room first. After a while, he saw the veins protruding from the back of her husband's hand holding the letter paper, and asked in a low voice: "Could it be that Chengqian is in Lingzhou?" What has caused the trouble?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly, threw the letter on the couch, took a cup of tea from the table, drank a few sips, the anger in his heart seemed to have not subsided, and he couldn't help but angrily said: "That rebellious son was born to kill me. It's pissed off."

Ruoshui didn't say a word, took the letter and scanned it down several lines at a glance, and asked lightly: "Isn't it just that the son has a girl he likes, and nothing serious happened."

"Why do you say it's no big deal?" Li Shimin said in a serious tone, "Not to mention the princess, even the general princess has to be carefully selected by the royal family, and the family, family background, and the appearance and virtue of the woman have to be carefully considered. How can I agree to such a thing when I propose marriage to someone, but the other party is actually Su Wei's great-granddaughter?"

Ruoshui took a deep look at her husband, and said calmly: "Aside from Su Wei's disrespect to you back then, the Su family's family status can be considered as a Guanlong noble family. Even if there is a queen in the future, it is not impossible, besides, it is only a prince now. That’s all for a concubine. Besides, Chengqian’s vision has always been extremely high, and before so many ladies from famous families didn’t see anyone in his heart, this Su Weixi probably has something special about him.”

Li Shimin turned his head to look at the other side, and said coldly: "It's just that the surname Su can't do it, let Chengqian get rid of this idea as soon as possible."

Ruoshui smiled helplessly: "Second brother, Chengqian brought back all four of his family. Now that you say that, what do you want him to do?"

Li Shimin stood up and said with a light smile, "I can take care of the whole world, but it's possible that my son can't take care of it?"

"Didn't the father also control the second brother?" Ruoshui saw Li Shimin's expression changed, and said sarcastically, "Otherwise, how did Yin Shishi's daughter get into the Li family?"

Li Shimin looked at Ruoshui with displeasure, and pressed his lips tightly. For more than a year, the two of them had tacitly abided by the agreement not to mention the past, lest there would be cracks in the fragile barrier, but now... thinking of this, He still held back his anger and said calmly: "The one Cheng Qian wants to marry is the Crown Princess, how can he be in the same breath as ordinary concubines?"

Ruoshui also knew that he had lost his words for a while, and after looking at her husband silently for a long time, he said with a hint of bewilderment in his voice: "Second brother, it is the first time Chengqian has fallen in love with that woman in his life. If we force him to Marrying someone else, letting him marry someone he doesn't love with the love he already has in his heart, this kind of pain, I'm afraid he will live in the shackles of emotion for the rest of his life."

"Liu Xiu married Yin Lihua first, and later married Guo Shengtong for hegemony. He even had to make Guo Shengtong the queen at the beginning of the dynasty. As an emperor, there are some things that are more important than others. It's time to understand."

"Second brother." Ruoshui said lightly, "Do you know why I still have no grudges against your other women until now?"

Li Shimin glanced at Ruoshui's gentle but profound eyes, and heard her slowly say again: "Because, second brother, you have never accepted a woman out of political considerations. The one you brought in Every woman, or you have been attracted to, or you have admired, or their talent and appearance you have admired. To Yang Rui, you don't care about the taboos of the previous court, to Wei Gui, you You have put aside your views on chastity, towards Yin Mo'er, you have even let go of your lingering family feud. No matter how short-lived your heart is, you have never bothered to exchange feelings or marriage, so why, ours Son, why can’t you marry a woman you love?”

"The order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker." Li Shimin's eyes suddenly showed a sharp light, "Ruoshui, did you forget that this is how we got married? Could it be that you regretted it?"

Ruoshui's heart suddenly suffocated, obviously he should deny it immediately, but why did his throat seem to be choked, and after a long time, he raised his eyes slightly and said: "It's all over, second brother."

Li Shimin still just stood quietly, but his dark eyes added a bit of deep color. After a while, he stared at Ruoshui and said: "What Chengqian wants, he has to get it with his own hands. We I have done enough for him. There is no room for maneuver in the matter of the crown princess, it depends on what he trades for. The road to the supremacy of the world has never been smooth, and he should have understood."

With deep tiredness on Ruoshui's face, he got up and walked straight past Li Shimin, only at the moment he stepped out of the curtain, he turned his face and said with lowered eyebrows: "Second brother, the memories of the past are really so easy Is it forgotten?"

That night, the peach blossom forest that had appeared in Ruoshui's dream for a long time gradually became clear. Two figures with the appearance of children were sitting together under the tree. The breeze blew, and the falling flowers were like the petals that fell when a woman got married. , extremely beautiful, extremely gorgeous...

(End of this chapter)