Dongdu Pavilion Case Record

Yong'an Palace.

Li Shu came to visit the Empress Dowager as usual, the mother and son sat in the palace, and the palace servants stood by, shaking cattail fans, and the two chatted for a while.The Empress Dowager said: "Has the funeral ceremony for General Tang been completed?"

"Yes." Li Shu said, "Jing Xiao has been a soldier all his life and has made countless contributions to the Great Zhou. His sudden death from illness really makes me sad."

The queen mother nodded and said solemnly: "The Ai family heard that General Tang's wife, Mrs. Liu, has just been tested for pregnancy. You ask the queen to comfort Liu. This child will be the head of the Tang family in the future, and the Tang family needs her to take good care of it."

"Yes, that's what the queen mother is thinking about." Li Shu knew that Tang Wuyi was not of the Tang family after all, and that he and Wen Tao's identities were too special to be an official in the court. Now he is in charge of the Dongdu Pavilion is the most suitable choice.And Tang Jingxiao's posthumous son can continue the Tang family's blood, continue the Tang family's tradition of martial arts for generations, and go to the battlefield in the future to make contributions.

The Empress Dowager ate a piece of watermelon leisurely, gave Wei Momo a wink, and asked her to turn away the palace people, leaving only mother and child in Yong'an Palace.The afternoon sun shines through the window lattice, casting a light and shadow on the ink bricks of Yongan Palace. Li Shu remembers that when he was a child, he often acted like a baby with his mother in the harem. His mother's face soaked in the sun was the softest memory in his heart.

"What do you want to ask?" The queen mother looked at Li Shu and said.

Li Shu seemed to have made up his mind, and finally said: "Mother, is that child protected by the mother?"

The queen mother seemed to have anticipated this problem, and nodded: "When the Uighur princess became pregnant, your father was furious. Your brother is his eldest son, and he will inherit Guozuo in the future. Is there anything to do with the lost daughter of the subjugated country? He ordered Aduo Li to take abortion pills, and your brother was also imprisoned in the East Palace."

The queen mother looked at the window lattice, and her thoughts seemed to return to those years: "Although I promised your father to handle this matter, I really couldn't bear it when I saw that child Adori. He is a good-looking child, innocent and filial. , he and your emperor brother often meet with me here, and they love each other, I really can't do it..."

The queen mother continued: "I kept Adoli in my palace without telling your father, and told your father that the fetus had been conceived. Your father never doubted me, so he thought it was. Since Adori Knowing that your imperial brother has been worrying about his stomach since he was imprisoned, the fetal image is not good, he gave birth before he was full term, and he died of hemorrhage after childbirth due to excessive thinking. I know that their child cannot be kept in the palace, so I entrusted it to Kunlun Master Ji. My natal family has some connections with Kunlun, so I asked someone to send this child to the charity hall in the eastern capital, and Master Ji sent his disciples to help him, so the child was raised in Kunlun."

"Did the queen mother recognize him at the Dragon Boat Festival?" Li Shu asked.

The queen mother nodded: "This child looks very similar to his mother, and there is a shadow of your emperor's brother in his eyebrows and eyes. When I asked if he was a Kunlun disciple, I knew his identity in my heart. I didn't know what happened after the Dragon Boat Festival. Chaozi, as soon as he sees him, he wants him to leave the place of right and wrong as soon as possible."

"That's why the empress mother gave them the Jade Emperor Li at that time, in order to ask them to leave." Li Shu said.

"That's right." The queen mother continued, "I'm worried, and I let Madam Wei watch secretly. Sure enough, something happened at night, and your third brother's people wanted to kill him. I knew your third brother also knew about him. Your identity. You have never met Aduoli, but your third brother has, and he will definitely not tolerate your emperor's brother's child."

"How much does the queen mother know about the events of the past?" This question troubled Li Shu for a long time, and he really wanted to know if he was the one who was kept in the dark from beginning to end.

The Queen Mother frowned: "I didn't know that back then, I have been serving your father in the palace, and suddenly I heard that Tang You led the Tiance Army to force the palace, and your third younger brother guarded the gate of the palace, and only a few thousand imperial troops were used to guard until you Bring the troops back to the court. Although I don't want to believe that your brother emperor will do such a conspiracy, but the facts are in front of me, and I have to believe it."

She sighed, as if she didn't want to think about those fragments. "But then I witnessed your third brother's actions over the years, and I became more and more suspicious that your emperor brother did not rebel at all, but fell into your third brother's trap, and was wiped out together with Tang You and Tiance Army. In this way, the world is yours."

"How did the queen mother find out?" Li Shu asked.

The queen mother said slowly: "All of you were born by me, and you are all the flesh that fell from my body. Your fifth younger brother is the most incompetent, let alone. Your emperor brother has been the softest one since he was a child, and he wants to obey you all the time. Confucius and Mencius act in the way. Although I am a woman, I also know that he thinks too much about this world. You are the most naughty since you were young, and you are the fastest at learning riding and archery. Your father actually likes you the most in his heart, but he doesn’t It's easy to say, I often regret that I established your emperor brother earlier, and then Yi Chu was afraid of the courtiers' opposition. Your third brother is the one I can't see through the most, and I have the most thoughts, but even if I can't see through, I know that his whole heart is only for you. Thinking about you. When you were young, your bow and arrow broke, so he beat and scolded your attendants, asking them to replace you with the best ones. Later, when you went out to fight, he was very happy when you won the battle, and he always respected your father and the emperor. I said in front of you that you are worthy of the position of the East Palace. He was weak since he was a child, and he didn't learn riding and archery, so he devoted himself to studying. I found out later that he had long wanted to assist you. He is different from your imperial brother. Your imperial brother reads All of them are the Four Books and Five Classics, the orthodox Dao, but your third brother loves to read history, and what he admires is Shihuang and Yangdi who practiced the way of kings and hegemony. I was faintly worried at the time, but it turned out to be a disaster."

After the queen mother finished speaking, she sighed deeply. Others said that she was blessed with great blessings, and all the princes she gave birth to were dragons and phoenixes among the people.At this moment, she wished that her luck would be less. If she only gave birth to two sons, or even only one son, would the ending be different?

Li Shu walked up to the Empress Dowager, knelt on the ground as he did when he was a child, and rested his head on the Empress Dowager's lap.The Empress Dowager rubbed Li Shu's head with her hands, and finally shed two lines of tears slowly. She remembered how when she was young, the four children were all in front of her eyes. Leaning by Li Shu's side, she watched with gusto. The youngest King Qi was still a baby, and she held her in her hand and patted it gently...

There will never be a time like that again...

One month later, the emperor issued an edict to rehabilitate the former prince Li Huan and posthumously make him emperor.Li Xu was deprived of the title of prince for the crime of treason, and Bian was a commoner and could not be buried in the imperial tomb.Tang Jingxiao died of illness at a young age, and was posthumously named the Duke of England.

That year, Li Shu changed the name of the anniversary to Huai Ti.

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