Li Chaoge fell behind, and the palace was quiet. Li Chaoge didn't pay attention, and lowered his head to lift the tea cover, slowly blowing away the heat.
In the dense mist, a figure jumped down from the beam and landed silently, only fine dust falling gently. Bai Qianhe jumped to the ground, and as soon as he stood firmly, he said, "Beforehand, I just came here, and I won't be here when you change your clothes."
"I know." Li Chaoge took a sip of tea calmly and said softly, "Otherwise, you wouldn't be alive now."
Bai Qianhe was speechless for a while, but knew that Li Chaoge was not exaggerating. If he dared to have a bad idea, he didn't need to execute it. Li Chaoge killed him as soon as he thought of it.
Bai Qianhe saw that there was no misunderstanding between the two of them and they could talk calmly, so he found a place to sit down by himself, picked an orange at random and peeled it open: "You know?"
"Of course I know." Li Chaoge gave him a light look, "If I don't know, why did I come to Dongdu?"
Bai Qianhe peeled off Huang Chengcheng's skin, and casually threw a piece into his mouth. A bit unexpected, but looking back, it makes sense.
When he asked Li Chaoge's name earlier, Li Chaoge refused to tell her, presumably because she was a princess. Her inappropriate dining etiquette, her extraordinary knowledge of court institutions, and her strange behavior when she saw the emperor and empress are now explained.
Bai Qianhe finished eating the oranges, clapped his hands, and asked, "You really are?"
"Obviously." Li Chaoge put down the teacup, lowered his head and straightened his sleeves. Even though she had worn it many times in her previous life, when she changed it again, she still felt that the under skirt was extremely inconvenient. While struggling with the overly wide cuffs, she said flatly: "If I wasn't, with a shrewd personality like the Queen of Heaven, would you allow me to occupy her daughter's place?"
Too. Bai Qianhe finished eating and asked questions, and there was no reason to stay. Bai Qianhe stood up, cupped his fists and said, "I, Bai Qianhe, have been in the rivers and lakes for ten years. I have seen many heroes, and I have seen countless Xiaoxiao. My younger sister is wise and brave, and deserves the praise of a young talent. It is Bai Qianhe who met my younger sister." Fortunately for the crane, however, people in the Jianghu do not deal with the government. Since my sister is a member of the court, let's say goodbye. If there is a chance to see you later, as long as my sister is willing to associate with us, I will personally compensate my sister and future son-in-law for my brother. Dinner."
After Bai Qianhe finished speaking, he was about to leave. Li Chaoge didn't stop him, and when he was going out, he suddenly asked: "You run errands and steal things for others, it's just for money. What if I can give you more?"
Bai Qianhe didn't look back, and smiled softly: "The rivers and lakes and the court wells don't interfere with the river water. Thanks to the princess, I appreciate it. I'm a small thief, and I dare not enter the princess' eyes."
Li Chaoge nodded, and asked casually: "What is Jianghu, and what is Chaotang?"
This sentence stopped Bai Qianhe. He stayed for a while, then said: "The rivers and lakes are the rivers and lakes, and the court is naturally the government."
"The rivers and lakes are chivalrous and righteous, and the government also defends the people. Fighting and killing in the rivers and lakes, above the court, murderous wars are everywhere. When you are a knight in the rivers and lakes, you save one person, one thing, and one side of the people. Only Only the court can save the world."
Bai Qianhe laughed at being told, he turned around, looked at Li Chaoge, raised his eyebrows and asked: "I didn't know that the girl was a princess before, how disrespectful. Now that you have got your wish, your parents have recognized it, and you have become a princess. With your force, In the future, no one can hurt you, whether in the court or in the back house. You have already got everything, why do you keep me? What do you want to do?"
In this regard, Li Chaoge just smiled lightly. She slowly raised her eyes, her eyebrows were picturesque, and the corners of her eyes were raised upwards, quite charming, but the light in her eyes was bright and dazzling, and she said incessantly: "Who said, I want to return to the back house!" gone?"
She worked so hard to become a princess, but it wasn't for the sake of glory and wealth? Bai Qianhe was about to say something when the sound of walking suddenly came from outside. Bai Qianhe was stunned, and immediately wanted to perform lightness kung fu and leave. Li Chaoge glanced at his position coldly, and said mercilessly, "Come back, and take your orange peel."
Bai Qianhe ran far away, but came back jolting, put away the orange peels and continued running.
Not long after Bai Qianhe left, there was a knock on the door. Several court ladies stood outside and asked in a low voice, "Princess, are you inside?"
Li Chaoge finished his tea unhurriedly and said, "I'm here. Come in."
The ladies of the court opened the door and bowed their heads to Li Chaoge: "Princess, please come over, the Queen of Heaven."
Li Chaoge knew that after she changed her clothes here, the Queen of Heaven would definitely come to pass her on soon. Li Chaoge was not surprised, she put down the teacup, stood up and said, "Thank you, let's go."
Li Chaoge went out to see the Queen of Heaven. In the front hall, Tianhou was reading a booklet, when she heard the report from the palace servants, Tianhou closed the booklet, raised her head and said with a smile, "Chao Ge, you are here."
When Tianhou saw Li Chaoge's face earlier, she knew that she would be very beautiful in a new outfit, but even though she had prepared for it, the scene in front of her still shocked Tianhou greatly. The woman in front of her is young and in her prime, with picturesque eyebrows and eyes, black hair and snow-skinned skin, and moles of tears looming under the corners of her eyes. Willow leaf eyebrows and tear moles, such a face on other women should be extremely bitter and weak, but Li Chaoge's eyes are hooked up, her pupils are extremely black, her temperament is cold and strong, and she looks bright and dazzling in an instant, beautiful and aggressive. Moles of tears have become murderous.
There was a look of admiration in Tianhou's eyes. She sighed in her heart again, she was old.
The Li family has Hu blood, but the Wu family is from Bingzhou, a pure Han. The Wu family sisters all have oval faces, willow-leaf eyebrows, and cherry lips. They are gentle, amiable, charming and charming. It is precisely because of this that Tianhou was able to become a queen from Zhaoyi, and had two sons and two daughters with the emperor, and she was always in favor.
She was able to get to where she is today, naturally because of her clever mind and outstanding political ability, but she was favored at the beginning because of her appearance.
Among Tianhou's several children, Prince Li Shan and Zhao Wang Li Huai all followed the Li family, and their body and temperament were just like their father's. The younger daughter, Li Changle, has a physique like a queen. She is naturally energetic, lively and healthy, but she looks like her aunt, and she has no traits inherited from the Wu family. Only Li Chaoge is the most like a queen in every respect.
The more I look at it, the more I like it. After ten years of separation, now that the eldest daughter has returned safely, the Queen of Heaven can't wait to make up for the missing mother's love these years. She gestured for Li Chaoge to sit beside her, held Li Chaoge's hand, and asked softly, "I was in a hurry just now, and I didn't have time to ask you about your experiences over the years. Where have you lived these past few years, have you suffered, have you been bullied?"
Li Chaoge is not good at dealing with emotional relationships. When Tianhou asked questions, she answered seriously: "I can't remember what happened when I was young. I heard from old man Zhou that he picked me up when he was six. Before we were twelve, we lived in Pingshan. Later, we met When something happened, he took me to move to Heilin Village, Shili Dashan. Martial arts training inevitably entails suffering, but life in the mountains is inconvenient and full of dangers, so it is right to suffer. If you refuse to endure hardship, you will die. Being bullied... This is not the case."
What Li Chaoge said was the truth. Old man Zhou has always adhered to a principle since he was a child. Being bullied means that he is useless. When he becomes stronger, he will beat him back and cry and ask his parents to come forward. He is simply a peerless coward. When Li Chaoge was very young, she was ridiculed for having no father and no mother. Later, when she became stronger in force, she would beat anyone who dared to provoke her into a pig's head. She avenged her childhood revenge one by one, and it was not considered being bullied.
When Tianhou heard these words, her heart was sour and emotional. What kind of life did Li Changle and the prince brothers live when they were young, and what kind of life did Li Chaoge live. Compared with Luoyang Gongqing's children, Li Chaoge lives in another world completely.
Tianhou remembered that Li Changle could not write when he was eight years old, and was slapped by his master, and cried for three days and three nights. The emperor, prince, Zhao Wang, Wu family, Pei family, and the eldest grandson's family took turns giving gifts, and tried every means to make Li Changle happy. It was easy to make Li Changle laugh again. As for Li Chaoge, he can say frankly, "It is right to endure hardship, and you will die if you refuse to endure hardship."
Tianhou sighed in her heart, and she asked again: "I heard that you saved the saint today. Why are you so strong that you can withstand the attack of the demon bear with your bare hands?"
"It's not a powerful monster." Li Chaoge said in a nonchalant tone, "The small mountain village we live in is surrounded by a black forest and behind it is a ten-mile mountain. Wolf. Jiannan is foggy, and there are many monsters in the mountains. I followed old man Zhou into the mountains when I was a child, and I have seen many dangerous monsters. The black bear spirit is nothing but strength."
Days later sigh again. But she believed Li Chaoge's words. They chose to go to Jiannan during the Shuofang change, because they valued the natural danger, the prosperity of Taoism, and the many hermits there. Listening to Li Chaoge's voice, she was adopted by an expert, and grew up in a mountain village isolated from the world and with extraordinary martial arts. People in the village may not be able to detect it, but outside, I am afraid that everyone is a master.
Killing a wolf at the age of five is definitely not something that ordinary children can achieve.
Tianhou tentatively asked: "Where are the knights and the village that adopted you? They took you in and protected you from growing up, so they deserve a reward."
Li Chaoge shook his head and said: "Old man Zhou disappeared when I was fourteen years old. The village is surrounded by mountains and forests, and the Black Forest is a barren land. Few people have survived for many years. Outsiders cannot enter, but there are ancestors in the village." They are not allowed to leave their homeland unless they are punished by heaven. Therefore, the rewards may not be delivered to them."
Tianhou was asking casually, but after hearing Li Chaoge's words, she knew that such a stranger was the most difficult to win over, so she gave up the idea of soliciting. However, Tianhou noticed some details: "Not only do you know martial arts, but you can also kill demons?"
Li Chaoge nodded slightly, and said honestly: "It's not really good, just barely able to kill."
Tianhou had already heard the story of Houshan told by her attendant. According to the description of the attendant, Tianhou did not feel that Li Chaoge was "reluctant". Tianhou vaguely had some thoughts in her heart, but it was still too early, Tianhou smiled softly, and said to Li Chaoge: "It is a good thing to have skills. Although I love you for suffering, but seeing that you can protect yourself, don't worry about anything you want. Wherever you go, you feel relieved. Women are born weak, and they are nothing without the backyard and husband. But you are different, no matter who you marry in the future, A Niang will not have to worry about the concubine bullying you."
Perhaps, instead, he should worry about the son-in-law being bullied by Li Chaoge.
Li Chaoge didn't answer, but his expression agreed. She knew that the Empress Dowager was different. Among the women in the world, Li Chaoge was the only one who admired the Empress Dowager. There are some things that Li Chaoge is only willing to say to Tianhou, and only Tianhou can understand Li Chaoge's thoughts.
Stripped of his motherhood, Li Chaoge really admired this woman. Li Chaoge later proclaimed himself emperor by force, but the Queen of Heaven proclaimed herself emperor, and every step and every step forward relied on her own mind and political ability.
There is a wise king in a hundred years, and a Wu family in a thousand years. Li Chaoge doesn't know, if her mother hadn't proclaimed herself emperor, if her mother hadn't taken that step to show her the heights a woman can achieve and the beauty she can create, would she have been born to be an official in the court and become an emperor on her own? idea. Perhaps her whole life was just a husband and wife, caring for her husband and teaching her children, no different from Li Changle and Pei Chuyue.
Tianhou looked at Li Chaoge, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that this daughter gave her a big surprise. After losing that year, Tianhou thought that the relationship between mother and daughter was broken in this life, but who knows, they will see each other again ten years later.
Tin Hau adjusted the shawl around her arms, and asked with a smile, "I remember when you were young, you liked yellow the most. You wanted yellow clothes, and you only ate yellow fruits. Why didn't you wear the yellow suit today?"
Li Chaoge frowned, did she like yellow when she was a child? Can't remember at all. Li Chaoge said truthfully: "I don't remember. If mother likes it, I will change it now?"
"No." Tianhou said, "I just mentioned it casually, where else can I let you change clothes? Alas, I only regret not knowing your whereabouts all these years, not being able to grow up with you, and not even knowing what you like now gone."
Li Chaoge didn't know how to answer the question. She hesitated for a while, and tentatively said: "After I lost, many of my memories before the age of six were blurred. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been living outside for so many years. But no matter what, I'm always my mother. daughter."
"That's right." Tianhou looked away quickly and said, "You are already sixteen years old, how can you have the same preferences as when you were six years old? It doesn't matter, we will spend a lot of time together in the future, just remember it slowly."
Li Chaoge was moved. She remembered what she had done in her previous life and felt more guilty. Just as she was about to speak, a report from the palace came from outside: "His Royal Highness is here. King Zhao and Princess Guangning are here."