"Brother, is my guess right?" Seeing Li Ke's silence, Li Yan asked softly.
"Yes, if nothing else happens, that may indeed be the case. But why do you want to take the initiative to get married?" Li Ke sighed, and not only Li Shimin, almost all of the more than 20 princesses who got married in the entire Tang Dynasty were clan girls.
In fact, it's not just the Tang Dynasty. Throughout history, most of the princesses who got married in various dynasties and generations were almost all clan daughters, adopted daughters and the like.
"Because I'm worried about my sister." Li Yan hesitated for a moment, then sighed.
"Why is this?" Li Ke looked at her and asked.
"She has a very good relationship with me. What I just said to my brother, I accidentally said to her three years ago. She was still young at that time, but who knew she remembered it, and then she also took the initiative like me? Learn the languages of Tubo and other countries and understand their culture, and Xin'er is actually smarter than me! She learns faster!"
"The point is that she often said she wanted to protect me. I'm afraid that one day..." Li Yan paused here, and then continued as if she had made up her mind: "Actually, there is another important reason. I actually She is not my parents’ biological daughter.”
Li Ke: "?"
He looked at Li Yan in confusion. Wasn't he Li Daozong's biological child?
"I am actually the daughter of one of my father's personal guards. My biological father died in the battle with my father in his early years. When my father returned in triumph, my mother became seriously ill again. My father wanted to take care of us mother and daughter. Unexpectedly, I was the only one left, I was three years old at that time."
"My father may think that I can't remember what happened when I was a child, and I never mentioned it. In fact, although I don't remember much, I know that I was adopted by my father."
"And many people knew about it at the time. Things like marriage represented the face of the Tang Dynasty, and the royal family gave the daughter of the clan the title of princess. Even countries like Tubo would not say much if they knew about it, but if it was an ordinary citizen's personal guard, Daughter, I’m afraid it’s inappropriate for this matter to spread, so if that day comes, Your Majesty will probably allow Xin’er to get married.”
"So, I beg my brother, if one day, I can intercede for my little sister, my little sister prides herself on her beauty, and I have been working hard to learn how to be a qualified marriage princess. I am willing to marry my sister on my behalf. , please help me, brother." Li Yan stood up directly from her position, and then knelt directly on the ground.
"Get up." Li Ke quickly sat up and stood up, supporting Li Yan.
"I don't dare kidnap my brother, I just want him to help me." Li Yan stood up following Li Ke's hand and said seriously.
Looking at the serious expression on the little face that was not fully opened, Li Ke suddenly thought of a sentence: The history book is very thick, it can hold five thousand years of China, but the history book is very thin, it cannot hold a single person. A person's magnificent life.
Li Ke is still not sure whether Li Yan is Princess Wencheng or Li Xin. Maybe she and Li Xin are not, but there is no doubt that the simple words in the history books will never be able to record what they went through behind the scenes.
In those seemingly glorious lives, what kind of pain and twists and turns they experienced, and these can never be known from history.
"Who said you are going to get married?" Li Ke suddenly said with a smile.
"Ah?" Li Yan looked at Li Ke blankly. Is there any problem with this? The Tang Dynasty has already made peace, and His Majesty has not only promised to make peace with these small countries once. Although it did not happen in the end due to various reasons, it can be seen that Your Majesty does not reject this kind of behavior.
After all, one of their women can stabilize a country and buy several years or even decades of peaceful development for the Tang Dynasty. This is a good deal, isn't it?
Even Li Yan herself didn't think there was any problem. Although it might not be fair to her, how could there be so much fairness in life? She is extremely lucky to be able to grow up safely under the care of her father.
So she didn't feel that she was unfair or wronged.
"Don't worry, Datang will never marry again." Li Ke patted her thin shoulder and said.
"This..." Li Yan was a little confused, but she didn't know where Li Ke got his confidence.
"In this case, you believe my words. If the day you say comes true, then I will definitely speak for you and let you get married, okay?" Li Ke said with a smile. He was afraid that Li Yan wouldn't believe it, so he added One sentence.
"Thank you, brother." Li Yan saluted directly again.
"You're welcome, don't be so harsh. In this way, you and Xin'er will be just like Changle and the others. Just call me third brother." Li Ke said with a smile.
"Yes, third brother." Li Yan immediately changed her title.
"Then third brother, I won't disturb you, little sister." Li Yan said softly again.
"What? Now that you've finished your work with third brother, you're going to run away." Li Ke made a joke.
"No, I'm afraid of disturbing third brother's work." Li Yan was a little embarrassed.
"You shouldn't have anything to do after you come here?" Li Ke thought for a while and asked.
"Yes." Li Yan nodded without explaining. She believed that the third brother must know what women like them do every day.
"If nothing happens, you can come to my place for help. It just so happens that I still need help with some things." Li Ke said with a smile. Li Yan is very knowledgeable. To be honest, Li Ke has never seen anyone so smart like her. At least not Yang Anning and the others, they are not on the same level.
Li Yan can think of these things at her age. She is already very powerful. And she has the thinking of a person of this era. Coming to help can also give Li Ke some inspiration.
"If the third brother can use it, then the little girl will come here every day." Li Yan hurriedly saluted. In fact, she was also very bored at home. Li Ke wanted her to help, of course she was willing, and she was learning these things. Is it also to do some practical things? Now there might be an opportunity to test her abilities, and she certainly didn't want to miss it.
Except for Li Ke, no one else was willing to give her this opportunity.
Mainly because some of His Highness King Qin’s ideas and practices were so amazing. She learned a lot from Li Ke. For example, that day when her father led the army to pick them up, after Li Yan asked her father, she roughly guessed When it comes to what Li Ke wants to do.
But what she never expected was that Li Ke did more than she imagined! And the scale is bigger too! The point is, the effect achieved was much stronger than she thought!
"In this way, I will teach you mathematics first, oh, numeracy." Li Ke thought for a while and said, people in this era also paid more attention to mathematics, but it was far less important than later generations.
In fact, later generations said that mathematics is the basis of everything, which is really very reasonable.
Therefore, based on this theory, the question he planned to give to the Tubo people was not considered to be a embarrassment to them.
