Chapter 696: I don't enter the palace
"My son kowtowed to the queen mother!" In Kunyi's palace, Li Xiao was dressed in prince's clothes and kowtowed three times. "My son was unfilial and had never paid tribute to the queen mother for eight years, and even invited the queen mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother mother, and she was not filial to her mother.
Original food!"
The Empress Dowager's eyes were covered with blood. Since Cao Yi launched a coup and controlled her to Beijing, she has not had a good sleep. Every night when it is late, she will be awakened by nightmare. In her dream, she often sees her own.
His biological son Li Jian was covered in blood and was helplessly stretching out his hands and calling for help from her.
The Empress Dowager was obviously much more haggard. She could not get news outside the palace. The palace is now completely isolated from the outside. She is like a deaf and blind man. She can only look at that side in the palace.
The sky.
She hated that woman, so she didn't like Li Xiao, even if Li Xiao was brought in from her cradle, she would be brought up by her.
It seems that Li Xiao became the biggest competitor of her biological son Li Jian. When she finally learned that she was seriously ill, the departing emperor decided to pass the throne to Li Xiao.
At that time, her anger was finally unstoppable. She had been hesitating and finally decided to participate in the coup launched by Li Jian, and became the most indispensable factor in that coup. Her phoenix chariot stopped.
At the gate of the Jinwu guard Cheng Qun's camp, Cheng Qun, who was intending to go out to suppress the rebellion, directly blocked the camp in the camp. This allowed Li Jian to gain control of the capital without any obstacles...
The Empress Dowager knew that Li Xiao hated her. She narrowed her eyes and looked at Li Xiao who was kneeling in front of her and seemed extremely respectful.
They hated each other deeply, but they still had to pretend to be kind and filial. It seemed that Li Xiao had forgotten that if it weren't for the woman above, Li Jian would not have succeeded, and the empress dowager seemed not to have done anything.
I knew that Li Xiao was facing a large army and was fighting back to the capital, but the wanderer who had been out of the capital for many years is now returning with honor.
After a warm speech, I gave me a seat to tea and greet. After all the homework was done, the empress dowager finally couldn't help it. She stared at Li Xiao and asked, "Your elder brother is now there."
Li Xiao smiled and slowly put on his clothes, "Mother, the eldest brother should be near Guizhou now! I have sent Su Can and Quan Changbin to greet him, and it should be shortly after
I can take my elder brother back to Beijing, so my mother can rest assured."
The corners of the empress dowager's eyes jumped wildly, and her face turned pale. Li Xiao was like before, with a gentle smile on his face, looking at the empress dowager above respectfully, but the touch of deepness in his eyes
The ridicule was finally captured by the queen mother's eyes that had experienced vicissitudes.
In Kunyi Palace, the atmosphere was as cold as ice.
Li Xiao can be silent, but the empress dowager knows that she can no longer remain silent. She wants to do her best to find a glimmer of life for Li Jian. She knows that Li Xiao is the kind of person with a very cruel heart.
"For eight years since Jian'er's success, the people in China are living in poverty, and internal and external troubles are coming one after another. He is indeed not suitable to stay in this position again. In the future, this great fortune will be handed over to you." The Empress Dowager spoke.
"Thank you, Queen Mother!" Li Xiao was not angry and bent down slightly, "Xiao'er must have lived up to what Queen Mother expected, revitalize my great spirit, calm the border troubles outside, cultivate people's livelihood inside, and give me a prosperous world."
Looking at Li Xiao, the wrinkles on the Empress Dowager's face became more and more obvious. As he said this, Li Xiao still didn't answer the question. He was trying to force himself to say it, he was blatantly beating him.
My own face! The Queen Mother's lips trembled slightly.
"What are you going to do after you ascend to the top, your elder brother?" Finally, the queen mother asked in a trembling voice. Her face turned from pale to red because of humiliation.
Li Xiao sneered in his heart, and finally couldn't help it. Li Jian is your own son after all. I was forced to escape and died for a lifetime, but I may not be able to give you a comfort or a little concern.
"As long as the eldest brother is willing to come back, the eldest prince's mansion in the capital still belongs to the eldest brother." Li Xiao smiled and said, "Although Li Xiao is unfilial, he dare not disobey the traditions of the ancestors of the Li family."
The Empress Dowager breathed a deep sigh of relief. Although she felt humiliated, she finally got the result she wanted. The tradition of Li's family. When the battle for the throne was revealed, the victorious side could only confine the failed side and not kill at will.
"That's good, that's good!" A smile finally appeared on the empress dowager's face.
Li Xiao stood up, "Mother, my son has just returned to Beijing, and he is full of troubles. He can't serve his mother here, so he can't forgive him!"
"You go and do it!" The empress dowager waved her hand and got the promise she wanted. She also no longer wanted to see Li Xiao again.
Li Xiao bent down deeply, took a few steps back, turned around, and walked out of Kunyi Palace with his head held high. Hearing the sound of the palace gate squeaking behind him, Li Xiao turned around and looked at the three golden lights of Kunyi Palace.
The big words shining and a sarcastic smile appeared on his face: "My mother, I promise you that as long as the eldest brother returns to Shangjing, I will spare his life and let him be a free prince from now on, but the problem is that the eldest brother can still return
Go to Beijing, hahaha!" Li Xiao left with his head held high with a long laugh.
"Transfer my order. From now on, Kunyi Palace will be enshrined. Without my order, people outside are not allowed to enter, and people inside are not allowed to leave." Li Xiao's cold voice echoed on the stone road in front of Kunyi Palace.
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The Fourth Master's Mansion, which had been deserted for eight years, was once again revitalized. The entire street before the mansion was replaced with new bluestone slabs, neatly and smoothly. The big trees on both sides of the street were neatly trimmed, and soldiers took three steps and one post.
, five steps per whistle. After Li Xiao returned to Beijing, he finally returned to the mansion that originally belonged to him today. The mansion was decorated with lights and colorful, and he was filled with joy.
Stepping into the gate, Li Xiao saw at a glance in front of the screen wall of the yard. Xinmei was wrapped in a fox fur, sitting on a chair with a blanket on her legs, looking at him with a smile, Duoer Xiner and others.
He grabbed the armrest of the chair on the left and right and was looking at him timidly. Although the father and daughter had already met when they were in Weizhou, Li Xiao, who was busy with affairs, did not have much time to go with them.
When communicating, looking at Li Xiao’s eyes at this time, his fearful expression was also revealed.
"Fourth Master, welcome you home!" Xinmei smiled and owed her body on the chair. Behind her, there were people kneeling all over the floor.
"Why are you coming out? The weather is so cold outside!" Li Xiao stepped forward quickly, walked to Xinmei, and reached out to hold her cold hand. "I am weak, what if I get sick again?"
In front of the servants in the yard, Li Xiao held his hands tightly. Xinmei's face turned red with shame. She struggled a little and pulled back her hands, "Fourth Master, it's been eight years, you finally went home.
, Xinmei must come to greet him in person. Duoer, Xiner, why don’t you pay tribute to your father?”
A pair of children walked up timidly and fell to the ground, "See your father!"
Li Xiao laughed loudly, holding the two of them with one hand, "Okay, go into the house quickly, don't get frozen!"
The old housekeeper behind Xinmei got up and quickly directed his servant to lift Xinmei and walked towards the hall. Li Xiao held a daughter in one hand, followed Xinmei tightly, and walked into the warm hall.
"It's great to go home!" Li Xiao sat next to Xinmei, staring at the wife who suffered all her hardships for her, and said emotionally: "Xinmei, you have suffered over the years."
Xinmei shook her head slightly, "Xinmei is not bitter, the Fourth Master is really bitter. Although Xinmei has lived a little harder, she has no worries about her life. That is comparable to the Fourth Master walking on the brink of life and death."
Patch Xinmei's hand, Li Xiao smiled and said, "You are still like you have ever been, thinking about everything for me. It's a pity that your mother tribe has been hindered by me. Xinmei, who are there left in them.
Go down?”
Xinmei lowered her head, her eyes filled with tears, "Cao Yi told me that there was only one distant nephew."
"Okay, there is one more thing. Adopt him to your mother's house and inherit your incense. I will compensate your mother's house well." Li Xiao stood up, "Xinmei, Cao Yi is now preparing for me to ascend the throne.
On that day, I will announce to the world that you, Xinmei, will be my Li Xiao’s queen, and you will be the mother of the world.”
Xinmei looked up at Li Xiao, but there was no joy in her eyes.
"Fourth Master!" she shouted softly.
"What's wrong, I'm so happy!" Li Xiao asked with a smile, "This is what you deserve. Your efforts and what you do are worthy of these titles."
"I can't do it!" Xinmei shook her head. "I can't do it."
"What did you say?" Li Xiao could hardly believe his ears.
"Fourth Master, look at how I am now, can I be as good as the world? On the day of the ceremony, you will appear in front of countless civil and military officials, accept their congratulations, and be able to meet in the harem.
Is it impossible to be a noble lady who is so arrogant?"
"I said yes!" Li Xiao's sword-brows stood up.
"Fourth Master, you are the emperor soon, you can't cure the anger. I know that the Fourth Master wants to compensate me, but you don't have to get the position of this queen! Not to mention Dayue, looking at the long river of history, when will it be
A paralyzed queen appeared!"
Staring at Xinmei for a while, Li Xiao walked over and squatted in front of her, "Xinmei, do you really think so in your heart or have another mystery, you are my Li Xiao's concubine, I ascend to the throne
, Of course, you are the queen, and no one can say anything about the world. What's more, you are now, not Li Xiao's stain, but my glory. I, Li Xiao, have you, a queen who is full of virtue,
It is the blessing I have cultivated in my previous life!”
Xinmei smiled and lowered her head, but a trace of tears flashed in her eyes. She raised her head and looked at the roof, "Second Master, I am used to living in the Fourth Master's Mansion and don't want to enter the palace."
Li Xiao stood up in shock, walked around the house for a few times, and suddenly saw the old housekeeper on the side.
"Butler!" he shouted in a low voice, "What happened in the days when I haven't come back."
The old housekeeper raised his head, "Fourth Master, in the past few days, only Lord Cao Yi and Cao have come to the mansion and talked with the princess for a while."
Chapter completed!