Chapter 113 The Sacred Heart is Unpredictable
In the Tai Chi Hall, Li Shimin was having a meal. Empress Changsun was not around. It is not difficult to guess what happened yesterday that Li Shimin, the emperor of the ages, was also like the middle-aged and greasy man in later generations, failed to get into his wife's bed last night.
And it is very likely that he didn't even have the concubine's bed, because Li Mu keenly discovered that the clothes Li Shimin was wearing were the same ones yesterday. If he had slept in the palace of other concubines, he would definitely have changed into a set of clothes.
From this we can further infer that Li Shimin slept by himself last night, and he had just woken up shortly afterwards. Looking at his expression, he was like a college student who went back to his dormitory to take a night out after playing in League of Legends in the Internet cafe in later generations.
And... the porridge is so fragrant.
Li Mu swallowed his saliva. He didn't eat breakfast and was very hungry.
Li Shimin raised his eyelids and looked at him, lowered his head to continue drinking porridge. He didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but the sound of snoring became louder.
Li Mu swallowed again.
Li Shimin slapped the spoon on the table and said, "What do you mean, disturbing my appetite?"
"Your Majesty," Li Mu licked his lips and tried to show that I didn't want to eat, but said in his mouth: "I'm hungry."
"Hungry?" Li Shimin snorted coldly, glanced at Li Mu sideways, and said, "Want to eat?"
Li Mu glanced at the pottery pot that was filled with porridge and said, "Your Majesty, the ancients said that when the day hoeing the grains is noon, sweat drips into the soil. Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard to eat. This food cannot be wasted. I see that you can't eat so much, so I will let you eat it for you."
"What ancients said? Do you really have never read ancient poems? There is no such poem at all!" Li Shimin glanced at Li Mu and said, "But this poem is really good, is there any title?"
"Ah," Li Mu thought for a moment and said, "It can be called "The Farmer of Compassion."
"Where is the mercy?"
"There are four sentences in front of it."
Li Shimin was so happy that he said, "There are some things you can do in the backwards when writing poetry? Okay! Come on, if you do it well, I will give you porridge."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Mu felt relieved. The guards on the heaven and earth came earlier than him. Li Shimin must have known the news. He was not angry, but he was still in the mood to talk about poetry, which shows that he was not too angry with Nazha's existence. This was a good start.
Li Mu slowly recited: "Sow a grain of millet in spring and harvest ten thousand seeds in autumn. There is no idle field in the world, and the farmer still starves to death. At noon, the day when the wheat is hoeing, sweat drips into the soil. Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard. "Praise the Farmer" please correct me."
"The Compassion of the Farmer..." Li Shimin seemed to feel something, muttering and chewing on the poem for a while, and said, "It is indeed a good poem, written in detail, and the suffering of the people is indeed like this. Sit and serve the porridge yourself." As he said that, Li Shimin also picked up the spoon again.
"I dare not!" Li Mu suddenly bowed to the ground and said, "I have committed a death sentence, please deal with your Majesty!"
Li Shimin looked down at Li Mu, then put down the spoon, and said, "I already know the matter, what does it have to do with you. The one who made the mistake was Li Siwen, and I have asked someone to take him. As for that woman, I will negotiate with my father, it doesn't matter to you. Get up, eat porridge, and leave after eating."
"I can't get up!" Li Mu lay on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, Li Siwen is my righteous brother. If I don't have brothers, he is like my brothers and feet. I cannot ignore it or ignore it!"
"Li Mu!"
Li Shimin shouted loudly, as if thunder thunder exploded in Li Mu's ears, which scared him to tremble. It was the first time Li Mu met him with such anger without warning. He was only half a meter away from Li Shimin, and his feelings were particularly direct. The emperor's anger was indeed not so easy to bear.
Li Shimin pointed at Li Mu and said angrily: "What a brother, what a brother, what a fool, what a fool cannot ignore, what a fool cannot ignore! Li Mu, are you mocking me? Are you reminding me that I am the kind of ruthless and unrighteous person who breaks my own brothers?! You are so brave!"
"Your Majesty, I have no intention!"
"What do you mean?" Li Shimin roared at Li Mu like an angry lion: "I pity your talents and don't want you to get involved in this matter. You just want to thank you for your orders and stand up for others? What can you stand up for? Do you really treat yourself as a person? I tell you that Li Siwen will kill him, and no one can plead for mercy!"
Li Mu's stubborn temper also came up, and he looked up at Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty really wants this?"
Li Shimin thought it was ridiculous and said, "Ha, are you asking me? Why, are you going to threaten me?"
Li Mu stood up, looked at Li Shimin, and suddenly said, "You foolish lord!"
Li Shimin widened his eyes and was confused. He thought he had heard it wrong and said, "I will give you a chance, Li Mu, tell me again!"
"You can say it three times, you can say that you are a fool, you are a fool, and the fool is you!"
"Come, drag Li Mu out and chop him! He was chopped by me at the gate of this palace!" Li Shimin was furious and shouted roaringly. A group of guards came in from the door. Li Mu's heart was in his throat again. He knew that he was playing big, but he did not give up. He pulled his neck and shouted: "You don't kill the gentry in Shandong, you don't kill Wei Zheng, you don't kill those who are not good to you, just to show your wise demeanor. On the contrary, those who are loyal to you, those who are dedicated to the people, those who are dedicated to the country and the country, you want to chop him. What is you not a fool? If you cut me down today, your name of a fool will be spread in history. You fool!"
The guard's hand was already on his shoulders, and Li Mu felt bitter, he was so happy that he was going to lose his life. I don't have a son yet, and there was such a beautiful concubine, and there was a lover outside... Master God, I am the son of the plane that travels through time, I am the protagonist, I can't just die like this!
Just as Li Mu was about to change his words and beg for mercy, Li Shimin suddenly spoke, his tone was calm: "Let the Marquis of Zhulu go and go down."
The guard retreated like flowing water, and Li Mu sat on the ground as if he was exhausted.
Li Shimin sat down, picked up the spoon and continued to drink porridge, glanced at Li Mu who was still in shock, and said, "You kid is really a bit stubborn. Even Wei Zheng doesn't dare to scold me in front of me. You kid is fine, but you are not satisfied with one sentence. I scold you one after another. I am really a fool in your heart?"
Li Mu didn't know that he had been fooled, and said in anger: "You are going to kill me, are you still stupid? Whoever kills me is a fool!"
"Hahaha..." Li Shimin laughed and said, "I can't refute the reason for being justified. OK, you have reason, get up, don't worry, I don't plan to kill Li Siwen, I don't plan to kill anyone. The guards didn't say it in detail. Come and tell me what's going on."
Li Mu got up with a groan, his feet were still soft, and he finally sat down. He reached out to get the bowl, but his hands were trembling. Seeing him like this, Li Shimin said, "Those who do big things will not change their faces when Mount Tai collapses in front of him. How can you do big things like you?"
"Your Majesty, I am still a child!"
"Ha, this is strange. Who told me not long ago that he is already an adult, so I should not treat him as a child?"
Li Mu was choked and stopped talking. He served a bowl of porridge and started eating it with a snorted snoring. Li Shimin stopped ridiculing him. He watched him finish drinking the bowl of porridge, and then said, "Can you tell me now, what's going on?"
Li Mu wiped his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, I am not talking about Li Siwen. Li Siwen is indeed blinded in this matter, he has good intentions..."
At this moment, Li Mu told all about how Li Siwen met Nazha, what purpose Nazha deceived him, as well as the matter between Nazha and his mother and Li Jiancheng, including the part that Li Yuan described.
"...Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor wants to protect Nazha's life. He asked me to tell His Majesty: He is just an ordinary old man now, and wants an ordinary granddaughter to serve him by his side. If His Majesty has his father in his heart and regards him as a father, when he is alive, don't raise a butcher knife to his relatives. When he dies, everything will be with you and he will not see it. In addition, Nazha also gave up the idea of revenge on Jie Li, and only wanted to serve the Supreme Emperor, and... "
Li Mu said, took out the scroll from his arms and handed it to Li Shimin with both hands.
Li Shimin held it in his hand, but he was not worried about Li Mu's attempt to find out. He just wondered and asked, "What is this?"
Of course, Li Mu would not say that he had read it, and he copied a picture and collected it, lying: "I don't know, but Nazha said that she wanted to offer this item to His Majesty for his life."
"Beg for your life?"
Li Shimin unfolded the scroll, and then his face changed. He leaned closer and carefully identified the marks on the picture and looked very seriously. After a while, he rolled the scroll back up.
"Tell me about my father that I had no choice but to do something wrong, and I often feel guilty in my heart. I will never do the same thing again. In addition, you also tell me Nazha. I have accepted this picture, thank her for me."
Li Mu was a little confused. He didn't expect that Li Shimin would care so much about this picture. Although Li Mu had just foreshadowed from Li Shimin's reaction that he would not kill Nazha, he could not talk about the word "Xie"? Is this former Sui treasure so valuable? Can he buy the word "Xie" from Li Shimin's mouth?
Seeing Li Mu's doubts, Li Shimin did not hide it from him and said, "Li Mu, are you surprised why I said the word "Thank you"?"
Li Mu nodded vigorously, and he was indeed puzzled.
Li Shimin held the scroll in his hand and rubbed it gently, as if he had recalled something. After a while, he spoke: "During the former Emperor Wen of Sui, the country was prosperous. Emperor Wen built seven underground palaces for his descendants to store money and grain for future generations."
Li Mu already knew about these things, but he did not reveal them.
Chapter completed!