Chapter 445 I am the father of the child
"Go and see, what's going on?" Li Ruliu said coldly.
The eunuch beside her responded "Yes", and then quickly ran out of the palace gate to take a look. Not long after, the eunuch ran back and replied to Li Ruliu: "Your Majesty the King, there are many ministers kneeling outside the palace."
After hearing this, Li Ruliu frowned slightly. Before she could tell her how to deal with it, Li Nianjun, who was sitting beside her, turned her head and asked Li Ruliu: "My mother, do we still have to worship our ancestors?"
Li Ruliu looked at Li Nianjun and said, "Remember, when you become a king in the future, you will encounter many people making things difficult for you and many things that bother you. But you cannot retreat, you must face it bravely, do you understand?"
"Yes, my child understand." Li Nianjun nodded and said to the eunuch: "Don't pay attention to them and order people to move forward. If anyone dares to stop the king's carriage, arrest them immediately!"
"Yes." The eunuch responded, then secretly looked at Li Ruliu, meaning that he was asking Li Ruliu whether Li Nianjun's order should be executed.
Li Ruliu nodded slightly. The eunuch shouted: "Go up"
"Mother Queen, why do all the ministers in the court oppose their child's inheritance of your throne? They all say that the child's origin is unknown and his life experience is suspicious. Mother Queen, why does the child's origin is unknown and his life experience is suspicious?" Li Nianjun looked at Li Ruliu and asked.
Li Ruliu reached out and hugged Li Nianjun in her arms, and said in a weak voice: "Silly child, how could you have unknown origin? Are you the son of the queen?"
"Who is the father of the mother? Where is he?" Li Nianjun seemed to be eager to ask this question, and after Li Ruliu finished speaking, he asked quickly.
Although this kid is smart, he is still a little stunned after all. From his tone, Li Ruliu could tell that the little guy actually wants to ask the last question.
However, he was afraid that he would get angry when he asked this question directly, so he first used other topics to lead to this question.
Li Ruliu smiled silently in her heart and said to herself: "It's true that he is worthy of being his child. His temper is exactly the same, especially his cunning spirit."
Li Ruliu reached out and touched Li Nianjun's little head, and said with some difficulty: "Your father is a man who stands tall and upright, and he is a respected hero. The time is not yet ripe. When you grow up a little more and the time is ripe, the queen mother will ask you to find him."
"Mother Queen" Li Nianjun called her in a strong coquettish tone, actually urging her to tell him how to find his father earlier.
After leaving the palace, as the eunuch said, all the ministers knelt on the wide road outside the palace. When they saw Li Ruliu's king's carriage coming out, the ministers shouted, "Please take back your majesty."
The guard of honor paused as a whole, Li Ruliu took a deep breath and forced herself to use a voice that was full of energy and said: "Continue moving forward, don't stop. Anyone dares to stop and be taken to the water jail immediately!"
"Yes!" The palace guards responded one after another, and then the long guard of honor continued to move forward.
The ministers did not dare to forcefully stop them, but just knelt on the ground and kept shouting, "Please take back your majesty."
When all the guard of honor passed by, the ministers immediately stood up and followed behind the guard of honor. While walking, the ministers shouted, "Please take back your order."
Walking out of the imperial road outside the palace, the guard of honor turned into the street. The streets were now full of people watching, and they whispered when they saw the guard of honor coming out.
What the people said is insinuated, and some are even unpleasant.
It would be impossible to say that Li Ruliu had no feeling at all after hearing this. However, Li Ruliu opened her mouth lightly, shook her lower lips with her beard teeth, and forced herself to hold it back.
The ministers behind the guard of honor were still shouting loudly: "Please take back your life!"
It was nothing at first, but soon the people on both sides of the street joined the call.
The people shouted, "Please take back your life."
"You must never let people of unknown origin steal the throne!"
The calls followed one after another, and Li Ruliu's beautiful eyes were red, but she insisted that she did not let the tears fall.
However, Li Nianjun's tears kept falling from her eyes like rain.
Li Ruliu Chen shouted: "Don't cry! Wipe off your tears!"
Li Nianjun silently raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes. Although the tears were still flowing, he had already shown strength that was not an eight-year-old child at all.
Li Ruliu looked at Li Nianjun who kept wiping her tears but didn't cry. She couldn't help but wonder if she was too cruel to him like this.
As he insisted on moving forward, listening to the opposition sounds all the way, Li Ruliu's guard of honor finally arrived at the entrance of the Taimiao.
Outside the entrance, Li Zhengba, wearing armor and Pei Xianlin, wearing official uniform, were standing there.
Seeing them, Li Ruliu felt as if she had taken two reassurance pills.
There are only two people who can unswervingly support her in the entire Annan Kingdom.
Seeing the guard of honor coming, Li Zhengba and Pei Xianlin fell to the ground together and shouted loudly: "Welcome to His Majesty the King!"
A smile finally appeared on Li Ruliu's face.
But the smile quickly solidified because she saw the civil and military ministers running to the entrance quickly and blocked the entire entrance with their bodies.
Cui Xian, Minister of Rites, is an old minister who is almost 60 years old.
He knelt in front alone and shouted loudly: "Please take back the life of your Majesty. The position of king must not be passed on to people of unknown origin. Annan Kingdom cannot be reduced to a laughing stock! If His Majesty the King insists on doing this today, please kill the old minister immediately and then step over the old minister's body!"
"Please kill our Majesty the King, and then step over our bodies." The ministers shouted in unison.
Li Zhengba and Pei Xianlin looked at each other. He looked outside and couldn't help but mutter, "Didn't that boy Jiangxia agree to find a solution? Why didn't he show up yet?"
Pei Xianlin gave Li Zhengba a look, then looked at his nose and his heart, and instantly opened the old monk to enter a state of meditation.
When Li Zhengba saw Pei Xianlin, he almost didn't scold me. This old fox clearly wanted to throw the problem in front of me.
Li Zhengba stomped his feet in anger, then walked to Cui Xian and said, "Old Cui, you are so old, the ground is cold and hard, how hard it is to kneel down. Why not get up quickly and wait until His Majesty the King completes the ceremony of ancestor worship first, and then we will slowly discuss what you are talking about?"
Cui Xian looked up at Li Zhengba and said bluntly: "Prince, stop talking, I will not be fooled by you. Who in the whole Annan Kingdom knows that you are the number one hob meat in Annan? If we move out of the way today, the position of King Annan Kingdom will fall into the hands of outsiders of unknown origin."
"What is the origin of unknown? I have said it hundreds of times, that is, His Majesty the King's son, His Majesty the King's son. Do you fucking not understand or what?"
"Where is the father? Who is the child's father?" Faced with Li Zhiba's yelling, Cui Xian had no intention of retreating at all, and yelled at him with his neck. Judging from his momentum, Cui Xian not only did not lose to Li Zhiba, but also slightly surpassed Li Zhiba.
"If a child has no father, he will have an unknown origin. He will give birth to a child without marriage. Do you know what should he call the prince? He is called a wild breeder!"
"You immortal, why are you talking nonsense?" Li Zhengba roared, and immediately pressed his right hand on his knife handle, and he had the urge to kill Cui Xian with one knife. Cui Xian's words were indeed too much. He dared to say that the king's son was a bastard.
"What did you say?" Li Ruliu couldn't sit still, lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, glared at Cui Xian and said, "You are looking for death."
"Puff!" Li Ruliu was not at all relieved, and she suddenly vomited blood.
"My mother!" Li Nianjun shouted in panic.
But Cui Xian still refused to give in and said, "Kill, kill, anyway, I, Cui Xian, are also ready to die today. The child has no father, just."
"Who said the child has no father?" An angry shout, like spring thunder blooming on his tongue. Almost everyone's eardrums were sore by this question.
Everyone turned their heads and looked over. Li Zhengba suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and murmured: "Thank God, you are finally here."
Accompanied by Hai Dayou and Xiao Sha, Jiang Xia stood not far from the guard of honor.
When the Three Kings and One Duke seized the throne, Cui Xian, as an old minister, had experienced it. So when he saw Jiang Xia, he felt familiar, but he couldn't remember Jiang Xia's identity.
Li Ruliu, who was in the Huagai sedan chair, turned her head and looked at Jiang Xia. The tears that she had been holding back finally couldn't help but shed. She kept repeating a sentence from her mouth: "You are here, you are here."
Jiang Xiachen shouted: "The child's father is me!"
"Ah? He is the father of His Highness the Prince?" "Who is he?" "What? I just think of him as His Highness the Prince's father. Isn't the prince's identity unidentified? It's still unrighteous."
Cui Xian asked Jiang Xia: "Who are you? Why should I believe what you said?"
Jiang Xia sneered, walked over step by step, and then walked away and said, "What? You won't know me after I've been away for a few years? Mr. Cui!"
Jiang Xia walked to Cui Xian, and he reached out to Hai Dayou beside him, and Hai Dayou immediately gave him a scroll.
Jiang Xia opened the scroll and said, "His Majesty the former king personally issued an order to grant me the son-in-law, and passed the throne to me. Because I was a Han man, I felt that it was inconvenient to inherit the throne, so I transferred the throne to His Highness the Princess.
This matter can be witnessed by Li Zhengba, King of Guannan! Pei Xianlin, Duke of Annan, can be witnessed! The edict of the throne in my hand can be witnessed! Mr. Cui, if you are not confused, I am afraid you can also testify?
And you guys!"
Jiang Xia pointed to the courtier kneeling on the ground and shouted loudly: "Don't you remember me any of those who have experienced the three kings and one king fighting for the throne back then?"
"Mr. Prince Consort, Jiang Xia!"
"Yes, yes, it's Jiang Xia! I remember that if it weren't for him, I'd probably have been deceived by King Renxian."
"Yes, it's him, it's him."
Li Zhengba took a step forward and whispered loudly: "I can testify that this is the son-in-law of the past, the husband of His Majesty the King, and the father of His Highness the Prince!"
"I can also testify." Pei Xianlin, who has been in a state of "meditation", also opened his mouth.
After so many reminders, Cui Xian naturally remembered it. He said excitedly: "I remember, I remember you are the prince consort, the prince consort."
Jiang Xia looked at him coldly and asked, "Okay, do you still suspect that my child does not have a father? Do you still say that he has an unknown origin? Who else dares to say that he is a bastard now? Who?"
"I, Jiang Xia, here I swear that anyone who dares to insult my wife and children like this will take his head and kill his whole family!"
Jiang Xia said something so murderous. Who else dares to speak out?
Suddenly, the scene of Jiangxia talking about destroying the Three Kings and One Dukes seemed to have appeared in the minds of the ministers again.
When Li Zhiba saw that the ministers were all tending to retreat, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Sure enough, this kid is still as powerful as he used to be. No, he is even more powerful than he used to be."
Li Zhengba finally understood why Jiang Xia only appeared now. He remembered it very clearly that the edict of the throne was placed in the palace.
Jiang Xia glanced at the ministers and shouted, "Now His Majesty the King wants to pass the throne to Nianjun, who wants to stop him? Nianjun is going to complete the ceremony of ancestor worship, why are you kneeling here?"
Cui Xian kowtowed heavily to Li Ruliu and shouted: "The old minister is confused and deserves death. Before Your crime is reduced, please allow the old minister to write a tribute to the new king."
The ministers immediately kowtowed to Li Ruliu and said, "I am confused, I deserve to die if I am guilty, and I will welcome Your Majesty."
After saying that, the ministers immediately made way and divided into two rows.
Jiang Xia turned his head and looked at Li Ruliu. Li Ruliu took Li Nianjun's hand and said, "Hurry, Nianjun, this is your father, call him Father!"
"Father" Li Nianjun excitedly uttered a word, and the one behind could no longer be called out, leaving only tears flowing.
Jiang Xia's eyes were red when she saw Li Ruliu and Li Nianjun.
He had thought about whether he would feel strange or nervous when he saw Li Nianjun. But at this moment he realized that, as a father, even if he had never met his children, he would feel close.
Perhaps, this is the legendary bloodline.
Jiang Xia walked to Li Ruliu and reached out to wipe the blood from the corner of Li Ruliu's mouth.
Jiang Xia looked at Li Ruliu and said, "I'm sorry, I'm late."
Li Ruliu shook her head and said weakly: "The person you should say sorry is me, I have been hiding it from you."
Jiang Xia shook his head, then looked at Li Nianjun and said, "No, he is your gift to me."
At this moment, Li Nianjun finally sorted out his breath and cried loudly, "Father!"
After saying that, Li Nianjun jumped into Jiang Xia's arms, and Jiang Xia also hugged him tightly.
Chapter completed!