Li Hong himself didn't know why he did this. If he was really afraid that his father and mother would force him to pardon Li Xian after he ascended the throne, he didn't care too much about it.
But it can't be said that he doesn't mind at all. After all, Li Xian was the second prince to compete with him for the throne, and because of his ambition, everyone in the government and the public knew about it. Even now, some thoughtful people , and occasionally mention this matter.
How to deal with Li Xian is not a thorny issue, but it is not a simple matter either. Returning him to Chang'an will bring disgrace to his own face. How can he deter others in the future? What's more, after he ascended the throne, his sudden change of status... seemed to be very different from being a prince. Leaving Li Xianzai in Chang'an didn't seem to be a matter of honor to himself or the court.
Therefore, after thinking about it, before he ascended the throne, he had to put him in a place that could be regarded as a territory expansion, and tied him up with Jiling City so that he would never be able to go back, or he would not be able to go back in a few years. Returning to Chang'an may be more in line with one's own interests.
Li Zhe must follow Li Hong back to Chang'an, and Li Xian has also sent Li Hong to Loulan City. In front of him is a slightly deserted and lonely garden, which looks somewhat desolate.
Due to the sudden arrival of Prince Li Hong of the Tang Dynasty and King Li Zhe of England, a few of the mausoleum guards knelt tremblingly at the entrance of the cemetery, waiting for the arrival of His Royal Highness.
"Where is the boss's heir? Li Zhe, you don't know?" Li Hong was in the middle, with Li Xian and Li Zhe on the left and right. The three brothers walked slowly on the path in the cemetery.
Evergreen pines and cypresses stand on both sides. At the end of the clean loess road, a shabby mausoleum stands alone not far away. The loess is a bit new. Apparently, someone came here specially to pay their respects after the New Year.
"I really don't know." Li Zhe spread his hands and shrugged.
"It's like in Loulan City. After he died, I should have been in charge of it, but then all the messy things got mixed up and I forgot about it. I am still a commoner these years, even if I find someone I couldn't help them, so I gave up the search." Li Xian stroked the cold tombstone, and a dozen auspicious beasts were scattered around the tomb like guards.
"If the boss has a child, he must be... almost ten years old, right?" Li Hong looked at the door of the underground corridor. The things that had just been commemorated looked like they had just been placed there.
"almost… ."
"It's a pity that Li Zhong made a needless sacrifice just because of you. What's the use of being granted the title of King of Yan after his death." Li Zhe walked around the tomb, and the wooden guard of the tomb guard on that side The rooms are arranged in rows and are simple and tidy. It looks like there are women... "Brother, look, there is a carriage over there. Could it be..." From the angle Li Zhe stood, he could see from the rows of rooms. In the gap between the trees, I saw the place where the tomb keeper stayed, looked at a simple carriage, and immediately shouted in surprise.
"I've seen it a long time ago. The loess on this road is newly paved. The clear rut marks and the footprints on both sides can be seen at a glance. They are the tomb guards who guarded the carriage. You go over and ask Ask if they are the boss's family members. If so, don't scare them and be gentle." Before Li Hong finished speaking, Li Zhe had already raised a cloud of dust and ran towards the house where the tomb keeper lived. go.
Li Xian put down the clod of soil in his hand, but still threatened in his mouth: "If you have the guts, don't run so fast!"
"You said that I arranged for the boss's family to be in Chang'an City. Will my father and mother have any objections?" Li Hong didn't care if there was still dust on the auspicious beast in front of the mausoleum. He sat on the beast's head and looked at it. Li Xian asked, sitting down on the head of another beast.
"I don't know if my father and mother have any objections, but can I?" Li Xian touched the cold beast's head with one hand and rushed to Li Zhong's cemetery early in the morning. Obviously Li Hong had known for a long time that today Someone will come to pay homage to the boss.
"What's the meaning?"
"What do you mean?" Li Xian shook his upper body, squinted his eyes at the rising sun in the east, sighed and said: "You have arranged for the boss's family to return to Chang'an. This will set a precedent for the handling of the family members of the royal family. Fang Muqing and my two children will be just like the boss and his family, and we will never see each other again, right? The only difference is that I was buried in the grave in Jiling City by your own hands. It’s a graveyard, but the boss has been lying in the dirt for many years.”
"The boss is a concubine, and my father and mother don't care at all. If I agree now to move the boss's mausoleum back to the Central Plains, where do you want me to place him? Buried with him in his Qianling Mausoleum? What do you think about my father? Will you agree now? We can only do it step by step. First, move the boss's family back to Chang'an and see how the father reacts, and then see how to deal with the situation. "Li Hong understood what Li Xian meant. So far, he still feels that after putting him in Jiling City, he will never let him return to Chang'an, or even let him meet Fang Muqing again.
"That said, what about me? Lao Wu, tell me the truth. Can I return to the royal family in the future? What are you going to do with Fang Muqing and those two children? Will I be like the boss in the future? Treated like family members?”
"What do you want?"
"I want to reunite with them, and I want Fang Muqing to accompany me. I have long been fed up with the windy and snowy days in Bazhou these years. I am alone, facing the four cold walls, and there is no one at night. There is no one who wants to warm the bed, let alone anyone who wants to talk to me about my heart. The winter here is longer than the ten years in Chang'an combined. Although there are still a few servants in the house, But those are servants after all, what can I say? I have been wandering like this all these years. Sometimes I really miss Fang Muqing’s warm bed. Even in the most difficult times, as long as I get on the kang at night, When she hugs her, all her worries will be forgotten." Li Xian sighed with nostalgia, looking towards the distant east towards the prosperous and prosperous city of Chang'an.
"You call yourself so pitiful? I heard that Li Zhe came here twice and gave you no less than ten beauties. Can't they warm your bed? Hold them in your arms... don't tell yourself. So pitiful, Fang Muqing is indeed good, gentle, virtuous, and knowledgeable. He has helped you take care of your two children over the years, but do you want Fang Muqing to accompany you to Jiling City? Don't even think about your two sons. Even if I want them to come, my father and mother may not agree." Li Hong looked at the distance. Under the leadership of Li Zhe, a girl in plain clothes led a boy of about ten years old. Son, walking this way nervously.
Behind Li Zhe and the others, there were the tomb guards who were far away. They looked at the backs of Li Zhe and the young woman with expressionless faces, dull eyes, and some fear, and slowly walked towards His Royal Highness. .
"I am also a man, and I also have needs. Fang Muqing is not here, can't I... I can't always use the fifth girl? But having said that, Hu Ji is Hu Ji after all, and she is still not as comfortable as my own wife. Holding her How could Fang Muqing's calmness and warm and comfortable feeling be compared to Hu Ji's? Besides, I never let them spend the night in my bed, so when I woke up, the bed was cold. "Li Zhe squinted his eyes and looked at the boy hiding behind the young woman.
But before he could speak, the girl had a cold face and trembling lips and said: "If the two nobles come to mourn my husband, I welcome them, but if the two nobles sit on the head of this auspicious beast and say If you say some nonsensical words, then the little lady hopes that the two noble men can give my husband some face and leave here before saying those words."
"I..." Li Xian didn't expect that Li Zhong's widow was still a fiery person. Before meeting Lao Wu, she scolded herself and Lao Wu before saluting.
Although it was a bit disrespectful for the two of them to sit on the head of the auspicious beast and talk about Hu Ji, as the fifth child, they would not be reprimanded like this.
"Yes, yes, it's our fault, but it makes my sister-in-law laugh. But... the boss was also interested in Hu Ji for a while before he died, so we just..."
"My dear, I'd like to take my leave. I also ask the nobles to leave quickly. Even though my husband is dead, he will not let these nobles be humiliated like this." Although the young woman lowered her head, she did not dare to look at Li Hong and Li Xian. But the words in his mouth were still extremely sharp.
Li Hong's old face finally started to look a little embarrassed. The sister-in-law yelled out first. Now they scolded him and others, but they were justified. Even if he wanted to show off, it was already too late.
"Sister-in-law, please ignore them. They are just that kind of virtuous. Since you admit that you are King Yan's wife, then this child is King Yan's..." Li Zhe looked at Li Zhe who was rubbing his nose and had nothing to say. Hong, looking at the other Li Xian who only had one hand and was holding the head of the auspicious beast and looking at it carefully, he had no choice but to excuse Li Hong and the other two.
"Everyone is dead, don't you even let the innocent children go? What does he know? When the accident happened, he was still in his infancy, and he didn't know anything. Even in Loulan, who still knows We, just ordinary people, can't you let us go and live our lives in peace?" The young woman finally raised her head, with a trace of fear and uneasiness on her delicate face, and held the boy tightly. In front of him, he looked at Li Hong and others warily.
"The blood of the royal family has never been among the people. If this spreads out, it will not be the boss's face that will be disgraced, but the entire royal family's face will be disgraced..."
"Then what did you do? Now that I have worked so hard to raise me, you come here to snatch me away?" The young woman interrupted Li Hong's words and asked nervously.
(End of chapter)