Zhu Men Ji Shi

Chapter 134 Phoenix Fate (3)

The queen mother didn't want to look at him, and she didn't dare to look at him, for fear of bringing up her own sadness.

However, there were some things she had to ask clearly.The Empress Dowager's eyes still fell on the prince, and she said in a deep voice: "Prince, come to Ai's house, Ai's family has something to ask you."

Li Zheng stepped forward according to his words, his eyes were submissive, and his demeanor was calm.

The queen mother stared at his young face, looked and looked, and asked calmly: "Your Highness, the Ai family asked you a question, and you must answer truthfully. If you dare to lie, the Ai family will never let you go."

Li Zheng said quietly: "Yes, please ask the empress dowager, my grandson must know everything."

"Is it you? Did you do it?" The Queen Mother asked word by word, her face was ashen and bloodless.

Li Zheng had a serious expression on his face, without panic, and said in a correct tone: "Grandmother, for the sake of the Li family and the people of Liming, my grandson just did what my grandson should do."

When the Queen Mother heard this, her complexion changed instantly, and she shook her head unconsciously.She sat up straight and looked at Prince Li Zheng, with a slight tremor in her cold voice: "It really is you...it really is you..."

Li Zheng knelt down in front of her again, his voice still very calm: "Grandson will never lie in front of the emperor's grandmother, not before, not now, and never in the future."

"Okay..." The queen mother held back her tears, and looked at him intently again, "If you don't beat around the bush with the Ai family, then the Ai family will get straight to the point with you. Because you are the crown prince, the Ai family will fully support your ascension to the throne , but from now on, you are still the emperor, not the grandson of the Ai family, and from this moment on, there is only a difference between the prince and the Ai family, there is no kinship between the prince and the Ai family!"

The queen mother became more and more excited as she spoke, she couldn't breathe well for a while, and coughed.

Li Zheng smiled coldly when he heard the words, "Why is the emperor's grandmother doing this? I am the son of heaven and your own grandson, how can the emperor's grandmother have the heart to say such cruel things to me?"

When the Queen Mother heard him addressing herself as "Zhen", her face showed a bit of surprise, her body was trembling with anger, she stretched out her fingers out of breath, pointed directly at his face, and said: " You are not the grandson of the Ai family, the Ai family does not have such a vicious grandson like you! Your father is still alive, yet you dare to call "Zhen" in front of the Ai family, you are really unfilial!"

Li Zheng also knows that calling himself "Zhen" now is an extremely bold act. He knows that he has exceeded the rules, but he is not afraid. He just wants to vent the anger that has been accumulated in his heart for more than 20 years.

After Li Zheng heard this, there was a slight sarcasm in his eyes, and his tone was also light: "Grandmother don't need to get angry, it doesn't matter if Grandmother treats me as my own grandson, because I will still treat Grandmother as a relative and do my best Serving you can be regarded as doing a little bit for the late emperor."

After Li Zheng said this, he accidentally saw the medicine bowl on the table, got up slowly, brought the medicine bowl to the Empress Dowager himself, looked at her very calmly, and then slowly sat on the side of the bed, He said lightly, "It's time for the imperial grandmother to take medicine."

The Empress Dowager turned her eyes away, breathed calmly and said, "How dare you bother the Holy Majesty with such a trivial matter? The Ai family is really not blessed to endure it."

Li Zheng refused to leave, but still held the medicine bowl, and said, "I remember, when I was five years old, I suffered from a serious illness. Grandmother, you have been by my side all the time in your clothes, feeding me medicine and feeding me personally." Drink water. I dare not forget the kindness of the imperial grandmother, nor can I forget it... I will ascend the throne soon, I need the support of the imperial grandmother, and I also need the encouragement of the imperial grandmother, the imperial grandmother, you must help me!"

The queen mother twitched slightly when she heard the words, a sore feeling welled up in her heart, she couldn't help but shed tears again. "Ai's family is getting old, and they have more heart than energy. You can figure out the way forward...Earlier, Shangqing Tianzun approved a hanging, saying that our Li family royal family will suffer a catastrophe. In order to stabilize the country, You need to lure the phoenix into the palace to make everything auspicious. The Ai family has been sending people to pay attention. Among all the ministers in the court, only the child in Duke Jing's mansion is destined by the phoenix. So, you can figure it out. "

The wind and snow stopped, the sun was shining brightly, and the winter sky was as pure as water, but it still couldn't change the heavy and depressing atmosphere above the capital.Li Zheng took the queen mother's words very seriously, and immediately sent someone to find Ruan Linluo's embroidered portrait.

Eunuch Chen, the chief servant next to Li Zheng, looked at the person on the embroidered portrait and said with a smile, "Your Highness, this child is a beauty."

"En." Li Zheng responded lightly, nodded, and still looked at the embroidered portrait with a calm expression.

There are so many beauties in the palace, no matter whether it is the beauty of the country or the beauty of the moon, there is nothing new about it.Once you see it a lot, you get used to it, and it's hard to feel amazing anymore.

Eunuch Chen said again: "Your Highness, this child is the blessing that God bestows upon you. Your Highness is the son of the real dragon, and she is the treasured prime minister of the phoenix body. They are a match made in heaven."

Li Zheng got married at the age of 16 and lost his wife at the age of 20. There are countless concubines around him, but the position of the princess has been undecided for many years.

Li Zheng's eyes turned cold slightly: "How can a child from a concubine be compared with me? It's ridiculous!"

When Eunuch Chen heard this, he knew he had made a slip of the tongue, and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to admit his mistake: "This slave deserves to die, this slave deserves to die."

Li Zheng stopped talking, and tapped the table with his slender fingers, making a soft sound.

Hearing this, Eunuch Chen felt so tormented that he didn't even dare to breathe, and after waiting for a while, he heard Li Zheng say in a deep voice: "From today on, send me someone to closely monitor every move in Duke Jing's mansion. I want to know whether that old bone of Ruan Zhengshan really surrendered to me!"

"Yes!" Hearing this, Eunuch Chen immediately bowed and stepped back as if he was about to receive an amnesty.

Li Zheng is extremely suspicious and shrewd. He never makes decisions lightly, but once a decision is made, he will go all the way to the end and do whatever it takes.

At the same time, the fourth prince Li Huan was also secretly planning a major event in his heart.

Li Huan was standing in front of the desk writing and painting, bathed in warm sunlight all over his body, as if he had been coated with a faint golden light.

His pen is a pair of ink and wash landscape paintings, the peaks are like Daisy, the pines and cypresses are lush, and the atmosphere is full.

Li Huan has a very good memory, and he has the ability to never forget from a young age, so even if he only saw a scene once, he will firmly remember it, and then turn the scene in his mind into a lifelike picture stroke by stroke .

"Your Highness." There was a rush of footsteps outside the door. The man's footsteps were light and strong, and his steps were solid. He heard that he was a martial arts practitioner.

The person who came was a tall and strong man. He was Li Huan's personal bodyguard Xu Linhai. He had been by Li Huan's side since he was ten years old. Although the two were master and servant, they were as close as brothers.

"Your Highness, I have just received news from the palace that everything is ready for the enthronement ceremony."

Li Huan paused, then finished the last stroke, and said calmly, "Got it."

The empress dowager is now on the side of the prince, and the only people His Royal Highness the fourth prince can rely on now are the senior ministers in the court.

Xu Linhai was extremely anxious in his heart. Seeing that Li Huan was still in the mood to paint, he moved the corners of his lips, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.

After following him for so long, I can sort of figure out his character and temper. Li Huan's concentration is excellent, and the more important he encounters, the more calm he is. Admire and feel helpless.

Thanks to the full support of the empress dowager, the enthronement ceremony of the crown prince Li Zheng was held as scheduled, and all officials above the seventh rank made a pilgrimage to Beijing to congratulate the new emperor on his enthronement.

The plan of the fourth prince Li Huan had to be stopped halfway because of the appearance of the Queen Mother.Then, Li Zheng, who became the emperor, did not touch him, but personally made him the prince to show the mighty grace of the emperor.

Duke Jing's mansion was closely watched by Li Zheng's people, and he wished he knew what they ate and drank every day.

After Li Zheng ascended the throne, in order to avoid suspicion, Ruan Zhengshan kept claiming to be sick at home, trying to hide on purpose to avoid the limelight.

However, although he thought well, he didn't know that rumors about the Ruan family had spread from the palace, saying that the Ruan family lost a golden phoenix.

There must be a reason for it to come out of nowhere.

The originally tense heartstrings of the Ruan family immediately tensed again.

The Ruan family was originally a neutral faction, in order not to offend others, the Ruan family spent a lot of time in dealing with it.In the past two years, because the fourth prince, Li Huan, had just shown his talents, the Ruan family wanted to associate with him, but unexpectedly, Li Zhengyi inherited Datong, which made many of their like-minded ideas useless.

When Li Zheng was still the crown prince, the Ruan family never deliberately made friends with him, nor did they make friends with King Jingrong. Everyone, the monarchs and ministers, always kept a distance that was neither close nor far.

As the eldest son of the Ruan family, Ruan Dongsheng wanted to persuade his father to give up his stubbornness for the sake of the hereditary title, and to follow the example of others and curry favor with the new emperor.

Ruan Zhengshan had been complaining about Li Zheng in his heart, and he still insisted: "The emperor has just ascended the throne, and there are not many people around him who are flattering and flattering? Why should we bother ourselves?"

Ruan Dongsheng frowned and said: "Father, this is not the time for us to lose face. You are a veteran minister in the court. At this time, you should stand up and express your gratitude. How can you keep saying that you are sick at home? What if the emperor feels wronged?" We have a rift, then..."

Before his son could finish speaking, Ruan Zhengshan raised his hand, pointed out the window, and said in a deep voice: "Do you think the emperor doesn't have a deep suspicion of us now? Who are those people outside the door? What's their purpose? ? Can't you see through it?"

Ruan Dongsheng frowned even more when he heard this. "The son understands what the father means. I think, since this is the case, we can't just sit idly by. Dad, rumors in the palace have spread, saying that the dragon seeks the phoenix, and the phoenix hides the ruan... This is clearly the truth. Tell us."

Ruan Zhengshan let out a long sigh, shook his head and said, "A companion is like a tiger. He can call you a phoenix today, and a worm tomorrow, whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's not just a matter of one sentence... Dongsheng, you He is also a person who has lived a small half of his life, why can't he even see through this?"

Ruan Dongsheng pondered slightly: "The situation is like this, my son just doesn't want to sit and wait for death. Besides, it doesn't matter if she is a phoenix or a worm, as long as the emperor likes it, the crow can still rise to the top."

Come to think of it, the reason why the Qin family can be so prominent without any official or salary is not because they gave birth to a group of outstanding daughters.Daughters of officials and eunuchs are born to support their natal families. This is their destiny and their glory.Therefore, since they were young, they were given fine clothes and fine food, silk and satin. Since they have received the favor of the family, at critical moments, they naturally have to stand up and work hard for their natal family!
(End of this chapter)