Dizi Policy

Chapter 19: Your Majesty's Call, Grandmother's Teachings

The little eunuch who led Li Jingchen had a round face, with curved eyebrows and eyes, very pleasing, as if he knew Li Jingchen's nervousness, the little eunuch said with a smile: "Lieutenant Li, don't be nervous, Your Majesty wants to see you, so let the slave leader It is inconvenient for you to be seen in the past, so you took these remote trails, please forgive me, Captain Li."

Li Jingchen was surprised, the emperor wanted to see him, how could he let the emperor see him, and said with some trepidation: "It's okay, I wonder if my little eunuch can tell you why your majesty wants to see me?"

The little eunuch smiled and led Li Jingchen to turn a corner, "I don't know very well, Captain Li will know when he sees His Majesty."

"That's troublesome, little eunuch." He took out a plain purse from his sleeve pocket, and there was a 50 taels of silver bill in it, walked to the little eunuch and handed it to him lightly, "It's also my first time when I come to the capital." Entering the palace, many people don’t know much about it, please give me more guidance.”

The little eunuch did not refuse, and took it over with a smiling face all the time, put it in his pocket, touched it, and saw that it should be a silver ticket, and Li Jingchen is not the one who can't get the money, there should be no money in it. few. "Young Lieutenant Li, you're being polite. It's not the first time for anyone. Walk this way, and you'll be there after passing this corridor."

"That's not very far away." Li Jingchen continued.

Not as stiff as at the beginning, on the remote palace road, the two casually said some irrelevant things, but Li Jingchen also drew a conclusion from it, that is, the emperor wanted to see him, not to embarrass him.

The seemingly pointless revelation of the news by the little eunuch made Li Jingchen's uneasy heart calm for a little bit, but then it brought even more uneasiness. He was about to meet the most authoritative person in the Great Qi Dynasty, who was the object of his father's previous allegiance. Qi Hongzhi's father, he, he really wanted to tell the emperor without hesitation about Qi Hongzhi's atrocities in Yanshanguang in the northwest.

However, Li Jingchen knew that he could not do this rashly.

The little eunuch took him to wait in a small side room of the side hall, served tea and snacks, and asked Li Jingchen to wait quietly before going out, leaving Li Jingchen alone in the small side room, the snacks were about It just came out of the oven, with a sweet milky fragrance, which made Li Jingchen growl in his stomach. He should have gone out of the palace to eat at this time, but now he has to wait in the side room of a palace in the inner courtyard of the palace. I don't know when the emperor will be free to summon him.

Getting up early in the morning, Li Jingchen only ate a basket of siu mai and three or four buns with tofu skin. No one dared to eat porridge or water, for fear that it would be inconvenient to go to the toilet in the palace.The sweetness of the pastry became more and more alluring, but Li Jingchen closed his eyes to hypnotize himself.

Li Jingchen kept an eye out and tried not to touch tea and snacks in the palace, just in case something happened.

It didn't take long for Li Jingchen to wait. The little eunuch who led Li Jingchen in in less than a cup of tea let Li Jingchen out and detoured to the entrance of the main hall. "Lieutenant Li, Your Majesty is inside, go in."

"Hmm." Li Jingchen glanced at his clothes and took a deep breath when he found that there was nothing wrong, and took a step inward.

The main hall is not as magnificent as Li Jingchen imagined, but rather elegant and cold, with a faint fragrance of cold plum in the air. Li Jingchen frowned and thought, where has he smelled this smell?It's just that now is not the time for him to think about these things. He lowered his eyebrows and looked at the square inch in front of him. He kowtowed and saluted, "My minister Li Jingchen pays homage to His Majesty, long live long live Your Majesty."

Li Jingchen is already an official, and he claims that everything has changed.

The middle-aged man sitting on the seat looks handsome. Although he has no movements or expressions, he is not angry and majestic. He has the natural majesty of a superior. If Li Jingchen can see him, he will find that the tenth prince Qi Chengxuan looks similar to the emperor, but it is a pity The emperor didn't like children who looked like him.Li Jingchen's appearance and his appearance touched the softest part of the emperor's heart, and the person in his heart was probably the same when he was young.

The emperor quietly looked at Li Jingchen who was prostrating below, his thoughts drifted far away, and through Li Jingchen he saw that he had been asking for nothing all his life.It's just that that person is not as quiet and stable as Li Jingchen. He was cheerful and quiet when he was young, and he still had many unrealistic fantasies. Alas, he is not that person after all!

Kneeling on the ground, Li Jingchen didn't dare to make any more movements. After keeping it for a long time, his body became stiff. Fortunately, the emperor didn't stay silent for a long time, and Li Jingchen got up soon, "Get flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Jingchen tried his best to make every movement conform to the rules, but after all, he was unfamiliar, and less than three days of study time could not allow him to master this set of strict etiquette proficiently.

"What books have you read?" The emperor asked Li Jingchen some small things about his study and life like a relative or elder.

Although Li Jingchen was surprised by the emperor's intentions in asking these questions, he still answered attentively according to his usual habit, "Return to Your Majesty, I have read "Book of Songs", "The Analects of Confucius", "Shi Lin Miscellaneous Notes", "Sun Bin's Art of War" at home. "."

"Everything is involved, very good, have you practiced martial arts?"

"Return to Your Majesty, my father has taught me martial arts." Li Jingchen said respectfully, not relieved because of the emperor's "very good", but more cautious.

"Following the Tenth Prince from now on, you should work harder on riding and shooting, otherwise you will be disgusted." There was a slight smile in the emperor's tone. At this time, Li Jingchen didn't understand, and it would be later that the Tenth Prince Qi Chengxuan looked stupid in reading He can't be taught, but he has shown excellent talent in riding and shooting. His riding and shooting kung fu is the best among his brothers.Just like this, other people said that he was a reckless man, uneducable, etc., which further confirmed his reputation of cruelty in the future.

The emperor asked some irrelevant questions, and Li Jingchen answered them carefully.

"Li Wenyu is my trusted general. I have met your mother. She is a gentle and kind woman. Your parents are very nice. You look a lot like your mother." The emperor added this sentence for no reason.

Li Jingchen's heart skipped a beat. For some reason, she suddenly remembered what was mentioned in her mother's diary. She and her uncle met Dongshan King and a man when they were outing by the Baihe River. After that, she often heard about these two people from her uncle's mouth. I also met the two of them several times with my uncle.

Li Jingchen didn't say a word. He lowered his head and looked at the square inch of land in front of him. The blue brick floor was smooth and bright, and his face could be seen vaguely. He couldn't overcome the tension in his heart. He was still afraid, afraid that he couldn't control it. Shout out the parents' grievances.

He firmly controlled himself and gritted his teeth. He knew he couldn't do this. He had no evidence. Jin Wang Qi Hongzhi was the emperor's son.

After half the payment, Li Jingchen heard the emperor say: "From now on, study hard with the tenth prince, let's go down."

"Here, Your Majesty, I will take my leave."

After stepping out of the palace, Li Jingchen let out a long breath, his heart beating wildly, and then he realized that he had controlled his breathing just now in order not to gasp loudly, once he relaxed, his chest felt tight and uncomfortable, and he couldn't stop beating wildly.

"Li Xiaowei, please come with me, and I will take you out of the palace." The little eunuch who brought Li Jingchen came over, smiling more cordially than before.

"Thank you, father-in-law, I'm sorry to trouble you." Li Jingchen also smiled.

Li Jingchen didn't know that after he left the study room in the main hall, the emperor took out a painting. The handsome young man under the smoked willows by the river was beautiful and peaceful. Looking carefully, the young man and Li Jingchen's brows were somewhat similar.

Li Jingchen's safe exit from the palace soon reached the ears of Qi Hongzhi, the Prince of Jin's mansion. He felt panic for a moment, but what lingered in his mind was his pair of eyes that seemed to know everything, and the prestige of life he had finally obtained. It's hard to let the emperor look at him differently, he can't lose everything.

Once panicked, Qi Hongzhi wanted to vent. He pulled the curtains of the beautiful girls and replaced them one after another, but he either disliked them for being unattractive or not attractive enough, and the entire Jin Palace fell into a commotion.It was Mr. Shi, a staff member who was advising Qi Hongzhi at Yanshanguan, who made a note of it and found a beautiful Hu girl from the west city of the capital. Hongzhi couldn't do without her as if he had taken Wudusan, and he loved her for a while.

After Li Jingchen went back, he was called by his ancestors and asked him how he was in the palace. Li Jingchen told the truth, including that he was almost killed and his majesty summoned him, but he didn't mention that he was rescued by the tenth prince Qi Chengxuan. Subconsciously think that Qi Chengxuan doesn't want others to know his true face.

The old lady Wu patted her chest, "Amitabha, Chen'er must be more cautious when walking in the palace in the future, the tenth prince is not smart, and the mother family will still end up like this, since you have become the companion of the tenth prince, you have to think about him, Don't go after other nobles, the royal family is most jealous of people who betray their lords, do you understand? The emperor is in the prime of his life, and our Li family doesn't need to stand in line to gain that reputation."

"Grandmother, grandson understands." Li Jingchen was sitting on the footsteps next to the old lady. He just ate a bowl of bird's nest porridge to fill his stomach. The kitchen will bring lunch later.He came back late, and his siblings had already been taken away for a lunch break, and he hadn't seen the two of them for a long time.

The old lady Wu touched the bun on Li Jingchen's head, she was gentle and kind, but her tone was serious, "Chen'er, you must always remember this. It's not bad to be the companion of the ten princes. To put it bluntly, the ten princes The talent is average, and he is not favored by His Majesty among the many princes, but because of the great general of the country, His Majesty will definitely take care of him a little bit more. I feel relieved if you follow him, but there are many villains in the palace , you don’t have to keep everything in mind, just serve the Tenth Prince well.”

It was only later that Li Jingchen found out that General Zhen Guo was on the side of the emperor. He blocked the way of the political opponents, and the political opponents couldn't move the Great General Zhen Guo, so they stretched their hands into the palace. , disdain those deceitful intrigues, but because of this kind of character that can't rub the sand in the eyes, the emperor had to beat him into the cold air.In fact, Qi Chengxuan's mother family was the victim in the struggle for imperial power. They won the battle by bearing infamy as the emperor, but in the end it was Qi Chengxuan who suffered.

After hearing what the old lady said, Li Jingchen suppressed the urge to twitch the corners of his mouth. It would be great if the tenth prince was really a stupid person, but Qi Chengxuan hides his inner evil, like a little beast lurking in a corner, watching their every move If you move, you will counterattack at any time.

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