Li Xian, who had just returned to the mansion, walked into the living room with Fang Muqing, who had returned a few days earlier to clean up the mansion with his servants. Fang Muqing looked at Li Xian with somewhat worried eyes.
Li Xian looked at Fang Muqing's worried and anxious eyes, smiled gently, grabbed Fang Muqing's hand and said, "Don't worry, nothing will happen."
"Your Highness... I hope you..." Fang Muqing moved her lips, but didn't know what to say.
She failed to persuade her husband and father back then, but now that her husband is being targeted again, who knows whether her husband will lose control of her mood again and be fooled by others again.
"Don't worry. No matter how stupid I, Li Xian, am in the eyes of outsiders, I will never be so stupid that I don't understand current affairs. Pei Qing is just a stupid pig. Let him do what he wants. I will not participate." Li Xian continued to smile, took Fang Muqing's hand, and sat down on the chair next to him.
"Then what exactly does Pei Qing want to do? Why did you find you just after you came back? I thought that no matter what, we have persevered in the past three years and don't have to think about those things anymore..."
"I know this. Don't worry. You don't really think that I, Li Xian, am stupid, do you?" Li Xian continued to smile gently and said: "Everyone in the world thinks that I, Li Xian, am stupid, but this stupidity is compared to Li Hong. , if you are like Pei Qing... they are not worthy of comparison with me."
"Then what do they want? Aren't they afraid that His Majesty will cause trouble for them?" Fang Muqing was still worried and continued to hold the hand of one-armed Li Xian and asked.
Li Xian sighed slightly, thought for a moment and said, "What else could it be? The imperial palace has never been a completely isolated place. In the imperial city with tens of thousands of people, it is normal for fish and dragons to be mixed together, and there are many eyes and ears to the outside world. Li Hong The idea of conferring titles on Li Cheng and Li Nan as King of Ji Ling and King of Donghai has already spread among the ministers in less than half a day, which naturally made Pei Qing a little anxious."
"Just because of the matter of establishing a heir apparent? What's the point of being anxious?" Fang Muqing let go of Li Xian's hand and bit her lip gently. She couldn't figure out why Pei Qing was so involved in the royal affairs. How could he be the only one involved in the royal affairs? The state governor can participate!
"Pei Qing and Queen Pei Wanying are relatives. They have not been given the opportunity to be promoted in these years. When Pei Xingjian was still in the court, he ignored his younger brother. Apart from the word "justice", Pei Xingjian has already seen through it. His younger brother didn't have any superior vision or talent, so he didn't think about promoting him. That was really just and fair. Because Pei Xingjian had suppressed him in the court for so many years, Pei Qing had nothing to say. No matter what, at least with Pei Xingjian here, he, Pei Qing, could move around in the positions of governors and governors. Pei Qing originally hoped that when Pei Xingjian retired, his brother would be able to work for him. Chang'an was looking for a position in the Sixth Ministry or a position in Jingzhao Mansion, but Pei Xingjian didn't even think about it. He had no idea at all." Li Xian took the tea handed over by Fang Muqing and looked at the water that was still moving back and forth. The low-quality tea leaves that floated but did not sink disturbed the first few green leaves. I took a sip before putting them down.
"So as soon as Lord Pei Xingjian retired, Pei Qing started to want to find his own way out?" Fang Muqing thought for a while and asked.
"Yes, my brother who I originally relied on did not help him in the end, so I started to make plans for the queen in the palace. You also know what happened before the queen entered the palace. Pei Qing and other Pei Xingjian Relatives didn't care about Pei Xingjian, a foreign minister in Tubo, so they rarely interacted with Pei Xingjian's family. After the queen entered the palace, the Pei family naturally became the backbone of the Pei family. Relatives who had never visited the house in the past would come here every now and then. The empress knows what these people are thinking about as shown in the Deng Mansion. Over the years, neither the empress nor Pei Xingjian or Mrs. Pei have received more than ten taels of silver from various relatives, and the gifts in return are all equal, that is, I don't want to get too close to these relatives and end up taking advantage of their reputation." Li Xian shook his head and smiled bitterly. It seemed that Li Hong had settled everything in the palace, but the involvement outside the palace and inside the palace were not that big. It breaks easily.
Whether it is Pei Xingjian or Pei Wanying, both of them will receive more or less criticism and pressure from their clan members. However, since they are loyal to the court and Li Hong, Pei Xingjian and Pei Wanying can only admit it even if they feel guilty about it, just like Loyalty and filial piety are not the same, and this is especially true for kinship relationships in the world. No one can dare to say that it can satisfy all parties.
"Pei Qing was anxious, fearing that he would only stay in the position of governor in the future, so he could not use the queen, so he decided to take advantage of the young eldest son of the emperor. He began to think of shortcuts, hoping that one day, His Majesty would appoint Li Ye As the crown prince, he can be the first to become the prince's confidant?" Fang Muqing blinked, but Li Xian read a hint of doubt from those still bright and beautiful eyes. With worry.
"Yes, this is Pei Qing's plan. It is extremely stupid, but it can still fool some bigger idiots who want to get promoted and get rich. Lin Zhongyu is one of them, and he actually believes that Pei Qing can lead them to rise up and become a new force. In the future, he will be a loyal minister and good general in the temple." Li Xian shook his head, looked at the lingering doubts in Fang Muqing's eyes and said, "I have been a filial piety for three years and have never asked about the affairs of Chang'an and the court. I can even let go of Jiling City. , let alone a court that has nothing to do with me. These are things Li Dan, Li Zhe, or Li Hong occasionally mentioned to me when they visited my father. "
After listening to Li Xian's explanation, Fang Muqing breathed a sigh of relief. After his towering chest rose and fell a few times, the smile on his face that had turned cold just now turned back to a gentle look.
"So, Your Majesty knows everything about Pei Qing?" Fang Muqing's tone became obviously relaxed.
"Know a little, but he didn't say how much he knew specifically. But he also knew it from Pei Xingjian. Now that Li Ye is involved, he was probably used by Pei Qing..."
"Then... then you..." Fang Muqing looked at Li Xian and suddenly became hesitant.
"Me?" Li Xian smiled, caressed Fang Muqing's cheek and said, "Don't be unreasonable. Li Hong is famous for protecting children. He is cold-blooded and cruel to outsiders, but internally he is always fair to his ministers. Selfless, nothing will happen to Li Ye in this matter. If my guess is correct, I am afraid that Li Ye will not be established as the prince in a short time. "
"Ye'er is also very good to our mother and son. He would come to visit us during the holidays. Several of them were Pei Wanying's idea. Occasionally, he would sneak out on his own to give the boss and the others some convenience, even if he was studying at the Imperial Academy , Li Ye has always protected them, so... "
"This is not the case. Of course Li Ye has a good heart, but what I said does not mean that Li Ye will not be established as a prince in a short time. It does not mean that he will not be established as a prince in the future. It just means that Li Hong does not have a heir apparent now. plan."
"You can be granted the title of Prince..."
"It's two different things. Li Hong has never followed ordinary people's ways, and it's even harder for others to guess. Li Cheng, Li Nan, and especially Li Cheng are only six or seven years old now. This is just a matter of rushing to the shelves. The situation forced us to do it. If my father and mother wanted Li Hong to recall me to Chang'an, Li Hong would not have done so." Li Xian smiled openly, and he did not feel sorry at all for losing Jiling City, which he had worked hard for for many years.
"That's good, this child is good. Over the years... even the queen mother has taken great care of our mother and son, so I hope that this child can... in the future." After Fang Muqing said this, he didn't know what he wanted to say. In short, the last thing she wants is that the people and things of the next generation will be like this generation, at least not like what your Majesty and her husband did back then.
"Then do I need to tell His Majesty what happened today?" Fang Muqing thought for a while, but still felt that there was something wrong with Li Xian being so relaxed and at ease. He was targeted by someone who had just returned to Chang'an. Who knows if His Majesty would have any thoughts in his heart? Other ideas.
"Those are not things that I should worry about. Let the servants clean up the house as soon as possible. Maybe someone will come to our house tomorrow. No one knows what we are worried about then." Li Xian shouted. He took a breath, then stood up, stretched and said.
Fang Muqing nodded silently, and then walked out of the room. Although she was a woman, she also knew that Li Hong's recruitment of Li Xian at this time was generally related to the Great Food Messenger.
In another room in the Shengyun Building, there was already a lot of singing and dancing. Women in tulle, their graceful snow-white, concave and convex bodies were looming. Even the woman sitting in the corner playing the piano and zither was all dressed in thin clothes. With the gauze covering the body, the obscene clothes underneath are clearly visible. The slender thighs and perfect curves of the buttocks are all looming, adding an alluring beauty.
In the second year after Pei Xingjian retired, and with Li Hong's permission, Chen Jingzhi finally began to live out his old life in Chang'an City. He formed a deep friendship with Pei Xingjian. In the past two years, he often quarreled with Pei Xingjian. , scolding each other, and then after deciding who lost, the next day he would carry the bottle of wine, run to someone's house, and shamelessly have lunch and lunch.
In short, a bottle of wine can make each other lose a lot of money, and it can be regarded as regaining some of the face lost in the scolding battle the day before through wine and food.
Pei Qing's purpose is very simple. The way to save himself is obviously to find Dali Temple or the Ministry of Punishment, or even the Yushitai to let him go. In the past two years, he has been accepting bribes in Suizhou through the reputation of the emperor's eldest son Li Ye. , buying an official position and selling an official position.
Rather, he plans to give his all and hope to persuade these old ministers who were influential in the court, as well as some ministers close to His Majesty the Emperor, family members of the royal family, etc., to join forces with His Majesty the Cambodian Emperor as quickly as possible. The emperor's eldest son Li Ye was made the crown prince.
Then he can use this to solve his current internal and external troubles and urgent needs. Only in this way, when Li Ye becomes the prince, can the things he has done in the past two years have the opportunity to be reduced to trivial matters in front of His Majesty, so that he can He truly entered the eyes of the big guys in the court.
(End of chapter)