Liu Mingzhi brought the warm tea to his mouth and tasted it briefly. Looking at the doubtful eyes of the two sisters, he smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"It's true that I didn't get into trouble, but what I did was worse than causing trouble outside."
The queen raised her slender jade fingers and twisted Young Master Liu's thigh with a coquettish expression: "Then tell me! Can you stop showing off?"
Qi Ya obediently sat on a stool nearby and gently shook Mr. Liu's shoulders: "That's right, husband, don't be so pretentious as to seduce the appetites of us sisters."
"Tell me about it, I haven't told you yet. I've just returned from the court. You two have to let me take a breather and have a cup of tea before we talk, right?"
"Drink quickly!"
"Not hot!"
Young Master Liu looked helplessly at the anxious-looking queen sisters and drank tea to sort out his thoughts.
"Today Baoyu, Baotong, Yeluhu, Zhebieshu, Rongweihou and others are escorting the former Western Turks and the generals from Tsarist Russia and Tsarist Russia to the palace to meet their husbands.
On a whim, my husband went to the Palace of Ten Kings, intending to see the children Chengzhi and Yue'er..."
After talking about what happened in the Palace of Ten Kings, Young Master Liu placed the teacup in his hand heavily on the table.
“These little bastards scared my husband’s heart so much that it almost jumped out of his chest.
If you were there, if you had witnessed Yue'er lying on the floor, twitching all over, vomiting acidic water as if she had been poisoned by deadly poison, you would have been frightened.
At that time, my husband felt that his eyes were going dark and the sky was about to collapse.
It turned out that his teeth were chattering and his whole body was shaking from the soreness of eating the lemon Jiang He brought back.
Don’t you think this is a disease?
These little bastards are not good at playing any kind of game, they are playing this kind of game.
Do they feel that my husband has lived too long and died too late? "
The Queen and Qi Ya couldn't help laughing as they looked at Young Master Liu cursing angrily.
Although my husband described what happened in the Palace of Ten Kings as thrilling and heart-stringing, I still couldn't help laughing when I saw his appearance.
"Hey, hey, what's going on, you guys are still laughing? You're happy to be a widow after your husband was so angry, right?"
The two women hurriedly shook their heads in denial: "No, no, I would never dare to think that."
"Even if I don't feel sorry for you, I still feel sorry for the child in my belly. How pitiful it will be if the child is born without a father in the future!"
Both women are thoughtful women. After listening to this, they understood in their hearts that Young Master Liu seemed to be reprimanding the little cutie for playing such a game and scaring his father.
In fact, what he said was full of helplessness after seeing his children become a little embarrassed and helpless, hating the iron that cannot be transformed into steel.
Especially Liu Da mentioned Li Tao several times. It seems that the comparison between the sons and daughters who entered the Ten Kings Palace and Li Tao, the former King of Zhao, put pressure on the husband!
Regarding this kind of thing, the two women didn't know how to admonish Liu Mingzhi.
The queen lowered her head and gently caressed the high belly in her jacket. She raised her bright eyes and looked at Liu Mingzhi with complicated eyes for a while.
"Heartless, you have changed."
"Ah? What has changed?"
The Queen pursed her red lips and remained silent for a long time. Then she lightly opened her lips and said, "Now you look at everything with suspicion.
The root of the problem actually does not lie with the children at all, but with yourself.
The authorities are obsessed with the onlookers, and you become a little worried about gains and losses.
I started to doubt everything.
You were not like this before.
In fact, you are afraid!
Is it right? "
Liu Mingzhi stared blankly at the Queen for a while, his body suddenly shook, and he narrowed his eyes slightly to look at the desolate scenery in the courtyard.
"Did it turn out that I was the one who was really at fault?"
The queen stood up slowly, walked behind Liu Mingzhi, gently hugged Liu Mingzhi's waist, put her head on Liu Mingzhi's shoulder and sighed quietly.
Seeing this, Qi Ya gently put down the teacup and quietly exited the courtyard where the Queen lived without saying goodbye.
Liu Mingzhi gently grasped the queen's hands around his waist.
"To put it mildly, have I really changed? Have I become suspicious of everything I look at?"
"Fool, although you are far away from the palace, you deliberately do not want to govern.
But you are becoming more and more like a qualified emperor.
You want to have everything under your control, seemingly carelessly and uncaringly.
You want everything to develop according to your predictions and according to your ideas.
You don't like that some things will be out of your control, and you feel that something bad will happen to you.
Everything shows that you are becoming more and more like a qualified emperor.
Although you are not in the palace, the affairs of the world have never escaped your eyes and ears.
Isn't it?
When you were talking just now, your behavior for a moment really looked like that person back then.
It seems that his influence on you is really profound. "
Liu Mingzhi's eyes narrowed and he felt a little irritated. Although he had already guessed who the queen was talking about, he still couldn't help but ask.
"who?"
"Li Zheng.
Although he was not able to personally dominate the world, his magnanimity, broadmindedness, and far-sighted character meant that even though he had been hostile to him for many years, he had to admit that he was indeed a great leader.
You are following him more and more now.
In fact, under your nonchalant appearance, you really care about your identity as a rebellious minister and traitor who conspired to usurp the throne, right?
In the past, I politely thought you had already given up.
It wasn't until today that Wanyan realized that after so many years, you still couldn't let go of your identity as a rebel and proclaimed emperor.
You are afraid.
It's not that I'm afraid.
But I am afraid that a hundred years from now, my sons and daughters will be able to carry the banner of One Hundred Thousand Mountains and Rivers.
You are afraid that the trouble you leave behind will bring disaster and death to them.
You always want to be like Li Zheng, and want to use your achievements during your reign to erase the stain of your own attempt to usurp the throne.
But he is a polite and foolish man!
Gong is a fault, and a fault is a fault.
Some merits and demerits can be offset, and some merits and demerits cannot be offset no matter what you do.
Why do you need to put so much pressure on yourself?
The inscription that your father-in-law gave you in the study is in the hope that you will understand that as long as a person has a clear conscience and a clear conscience, he can prosper in the world.
At least you tried hard to be a loyal minister and general who will be remembered forever, right?
The only thing to blame is God's will. "
Liu Mingzhi glanced at the Queen with a dull expression: "To put it bluntly...I...
I am just afraid that the children will not be able to carry this banner in the future.
I have never had too high requirements for them. Even if they can't be the emperor who will carry forward the past and open up the future, they will be satisfied if they can be a steadfast king and husband.
But the scene in the Ten Kings Palace today made Weihu feel a little upset.
My husband is not afraid that they will become playful, but I am afraid that they will forget their identity, the heavy responsibilities on their shoulders, and the burden on their shoulders.
From the looks of their brothers and sisters, Weihu didn't see any of them qualified to inherit the throne.
How can you not be anxious as a husband? How can you not be afraid?
All the civil and military officials in the dynasty, and nine out of ten frontier generals are now taken in by their husbands.
Their loyalty to me is the result of their husband and the relationship between them as monarchs and ministers.
But we are all old, what about the relationship between the succeeding king and the succeeding civil and military ministers?
Who can guarantee that their relationship as monarch and minister will be the same as my husband's current relationship with the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty?
Among these children, I haven't seen anyone with the means and mind to easily control the country's pillars.
Maybe my husband was wrong.
Their path now is not in the court, but among the people.
Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.
It’s time for them to travel around the state capitals. "
The Queen's expression changed and she looked at Young Master Liu in astonishment: "You--you want to release them as officials?"
“That’s not to say, their current ability is not enough to shepherd one side.
Let them visit privately incognito first, and do some hunting on behalf of the sky!
Let them spend this New Year with the common people.
Let them see for themselves what the world one of them will be in charge of will look like in the future! "
"What about their safety? The spy's people are always hiding in hiding. What if they are kidnapped by the spy's people?"
Young Master Liu slowly stood up and stared calmly at the warm sun in the sky.
"They dare not, because the shadow master knows in his heart that if he dares to touch a hair of any of my husband's children, my husband will completely kill all his hopes of restoring the previous dynasty and being loyal and honest in an instant.
The Li family members who remain in the clan mansion are the talismans of their children. "
