Tang Fengzhi Chengqian

The eldest grandson said softly again, "My mother knows that you are complaining in your heart that your father doesn't care enough about you. Last time about Bi'er, if Gan'er explained it, your father would not be so angry, but Gan'er you Didn't do that, did you do it on purpose?"

Cheng Qian was taken aback for a moment, but his mother thought he was blaming his father for doing this?She bowed her head silently. In fact, the queen mother thinks so is right.At that time, he felt a little awkward because he couldn't face his father, so he was a little self-willed...

So, he silently lowered his head, twirled his fingers, and listened to Empress Changsun's soft voice.

Empress Changsun looked at Chengqian with his head lowered, looking quiet and obedient, and couldn't bear it, so she sighed softly, and explained in detail, "My mother didn't say anything about you...but it doesn't mean you What you did was right, Ganer, you have to remember that your father is the emperor, the king of a country, he has supreme majesty, if the son of an ordinary family does something wrong, the father will beat and scold at most, but Our royal family is not like this, you must remember this!"

Shocked, Cheng Qian raised his head, and seeing Empress Changsun's serious face, he couldn't help but nodded slightly.Thinking of that time, the queen mother did not scold him, but comforted him, and felt puzzled, she couldn't help asking, "Queen mother, at that time, why didn't you tell me I was wrong?"

The eldest grandson stared at Chengqian, and said angrily, "Why else? At that time, the queen mother was patronizing and worrying about you!" After a pause, he said softly, "It's also because at that time, your father's words were a little too much..."

Cheng Qian nodded slightly and smiled shyly.Thinking about what his father said at that time, it was too much, but he had experienced even more extreme things. Compared with it, although his heart was sour, it was more numb.

The eldest grandson saw Chengqian nodding and smiling shyly, but his expression seemed a little disapproving, he sighed in his heart, and continued, "Ganer, your father is wise and wise, and you like smart and well-behaved children the most. Excessive, but... also because he likes innocent children..."

Cheng Qian nodded and thought for a while, Father seems to really like innocent children, such as Ming Da, Brother Zhi, um, and Qing Que, it seems that the ones that Father favored most at the beginning were relatively innocent.

The eldest grandson paused, and what he didn't say was that the change in Xuanwumen made your father's thoughts more and more difficult to figure out...

"Since your father still loves you, you can't be so willful anymore."

Chengqian looked at his eldest grandson and smiled slightly, "My queen, what you said is not to be surprised by favor or humiliation, Gan'er will no longer be self-willed, but what should I do if my queen, Gan'er won't be the innocent child in my father's heart?" Cheng Qian Gan deliberately tilted his head and asked in confusion and distress.

The eldest grandson couldn't help but chuckled, tapped Chengqian's head with his fingers, and said angrily, "You child! The queen mother didn't want you to please your father, you, as long as you don't make your father angry like last time, Thank you, Queen Mother!"

Cheng Qian scratched his head and giggled silly.

The eldest grandson stared at Chengqian, slowly suppressed the smile on his face, touched Chengqian's face, and said softly, "Ganer, the queen mother has nothing to ask for in this life, as long as your brothers and sisters are safe and sound, the queen mother is satisfied." gone."

Chengqian raised his hand to press his eldest grandson's hand, raised the corners of his mouth, and smiled brightly, "Mother, don't worry, my son, I will definitely not let my mother worry anymore."

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Back in the front hall, Changle and Yuzhang just finished playing two games of chess.

Changle saw Chengqian and grandson coming, got up happily and ran to Chengqian, smiled sweetly, "Brother, I won Yuzhang!"

Chengqian looked at the shy Yuzhang and said with a smile, "Yuzhang, did you really lose?"

Yuzhang nodded slightly, smiled shyly, and said in a soft voice, "Changle remembers every step very accurately, and I lost when I was halfway down..."

Cheng Qian smiled and said, "It's okay, next time my brother teaches you, you won't lose."

When Yuzhang heard this, his eyes lit up, he nodded and said softly, "Thank you brother, Yuzhang."

When Chang Le heard it, his eyes lit up, "Okay, okay. My brother taught Yuzhang, so if I win Yuzhang, won't I win my brother?"

When Cheng Qian heard this, he raised his eyebrows, "Chang Le, do you really want to win brother?"

Chang Le stuck out her tongue, ran to the eldest grandson, pulled the eldest grandson's sleeve and said, "Every time I play chess with my brother, I lose. Of course I want to beat my brother."

Cheng Qian pretended to be annoyed and stared, "Hmph, want to win against me? It's not that easy!"

The eldest grandson looked at Chengqian and Changle's laughter gently, and out of the corner of his eyes, he caught sight of Yuzhang who stood aside shyly and seemed a little envious, so he walked over, took Yuzhang's hand, touched Yuzhang's head, and said with a low smile, "Yuzhang has to work hard. Be sure not to lose next time. Do you understand?"

Yuzhang looked up at the eldest grandson's gentle face, nodded slightly, and quietly snuggled up to her.

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It was almost dusk when the eldest grandson and others were sent away.

Watching the eldest grandson, Changle and Yuzhang go away, Chengqian looks calm and looks up at the sky, is the day coming to an end again?

"Your Highness, it's very windy here, can this servant push you in?" Hongyu who was standing behind Chengqian asked softly.

Cheng Qian hummed.

After advancing into the front hall, Zhu'er came up to meet her, knelt down to pay her respects, and said with a smile, "Your Highness, the snacks given by the Empress have already been heated up by servants."

Chengqian was curious, what did the queen mother bring here?The queen mother didn't say anything just now, she said, "Show it up."

Just when Zhu'er presented it, and Chengqian, supported by Xiao Yinzi, moved to the cushion and sat down, he heard—"The emperor is here!"

Cheng Qian was taken aback.But after a while, he came back to his senses, and when he was about to ask Xiao Jinzi to help him back into the wheelchair, he heard a magnetic voice, "You don't need to be polite." Accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps and the prostration of the court ladies and eunuchs , Cheng Qian only felt a strong hug, and found that he had sat firmly in someone's arms.

Immediately—

froze!

Slowly turning his neck straight after a second, looking at Emperor Taizong who had an obvious playful smile in his eyes, Cheng Qian said dryly, "Father Emperor..."

"Ok?"

"My son...can you come down?" Cheng Qian asked dryly.

Emperor Taizong raised his eyebrows slightly, with a half-smile, "What? Isn't it good to sit on the father's body?"

"...my son... panic..." Chengqian lowered his head, feeling embarrassed, father, you are like this, my son is under a lot of pressure.

Emperor Taizong touched Cheng Qian, who lowered his head, and said with a calm expression, "You don't need to do this, I am your father. What does it matter if your son sits on your father's lap?" Turning his head to look at the snacks on the table, he smiled Said, "Is Gan'er eating apricot cake?"

Cheng Qian raised his head and nodded slightly, "En."

Emperor Taizong waved away all the court ladies and eunuchs, and then he picked up the cake and handed it to Cheng Qian. His handsome face was full of smiles, "Come, eat."

Chengqian took over, feeling very uncomfortable. He had never gotten along with his father like this before. Before he was eight years old, his father went to war in the south and north. After sitting on the dragon chair, he was established as the prince again, living in the East Palace, and getting along with his father is always about political affairs...

This kind of intimacy is too strange, and too...overwhelming.

But remembering what the empress said about not being surprised by favor or humiliation, and not in vain, Chengqian's heart was a little clear, and he slowly settled down.

The chewing action of eating apricot cake is not so stiff.

Emperor Taizong noticed it keenly, smiled slightly, and said seemingly unintentionally, "Do you like apricot cake?"

Cheng Qian raised his eyes, still chewing the apricot cake slowly in his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and nodded slowly.

"Hmm..." Emperor Taizong raised his hand to wipe away the debris from the corner of Chengqian's mouth.

Cheng Qian froze because of Emperor Taizong's seemingly unintentional gesture of wiping his mouth, but then he was distracted by Emperor Taizong's next words.

"When I was young, I also liked eating apricot cake for a while..." Emperor Taizong stared at the crescent moon that suddenly appeared outside the window sill and said with nostalgia.

Almond cake?Chengqian remembered that apricot flower cake was the thing his father disliked the most. Sitting in Emperor Taizong's arms, he looked up at the nostalgia flashing across Emperor Taizong's face and some kind of sentimentality that should not belong to Emperor Taizong.Cheng Qian was puzzled, but he still listened quietly.

After a moment of silence, Emperor Taizong looked away, lowered his head and said, "Ganer, shall we have dinner?"

Calling the servants to serve dinner, and dismissing all the servants, Emperor Taizong poured himself a glass of wine and drank it leisurely.

Cheng Qian looked at Emperor Taizong, and asked hesitantly, "Father... what happened next? Don't you like it?"

Emperor Taizong paused his hand slightly, stared at the wine glass in his hand, shook it, and said lightly, "Once, with..." After a pause, he said, "The brothers had conflicts, and they didn't like it anymore. ..."

Cheng Qian nodded slightly, hummed, and didn't speak again, but he was a little shocked in his heart.He sneaked a glance at Emperor Taizong, who was drinking by himself, his expression was very calm, as if nothing happened, but Cheng Qian felt that he was not so calm.

What Chengqian knew about the change of Xuanwu Gate was only some opinions from later generations.He was only eight years old when the Xuanwu Gate rebelled, why did he rebel, and who made the arrangements first?Who will start first?He didn't know that after the change of Xuanwu Gate, he was named the prince, and the change of Xuanwu Gate had long been taboo in the palace, no one dared to mention it, and no one wanted to mention it.

However, since ancient times, there has been no right or wrong, the outcome is the only one, and victory is the only one.

And his father, the emperor, won.

It's just that the price of winning...

Seeing Emperor Taizong drink another cup, Chengqian couldn't help but make a noise when he poured it again.

"Father, look—" Cheng Qian raised his hand to stop him, smiled shyly, and pointed to the wine glass.

At this time, the bright moon was hanging high, and a round of bright moon fell on the wine glass, and the small moon dangled in the wine glass.

"Huh?" Emperor Taizong raised his eyebrows in confusion.

"My son remembered a story..."

Emperor Taizong stared at the mysterious smile on Chengqian's face, feeling amused. How much does this quiet child not know?He said, "Oh? Let's hear it."

"A group of monkeys saw the shadow of the moon in the river one day, and thought that the moon had fallen. They were afraid that if the moon fell, there would be no moon in the night, so they wanted to pick up the moon. But the place where the moon falls is the river under the cliff. What should I do? There is a monkey who is very smart. When they were looking at the moon, they found that the moon was gone?! And they also accidentally fell into the river..."

After the story was finished, Cheng Qian looked at Emperor Taizong with a smile.

Emperor Taizong stared at Chengqian thoughtfully, "What do you want to say?"

"Father, look, the moon seems to be in the wine glass, but in fact, it is in the sky, and monkeys can't see it. Father, do you think monkeys are stupid?" Cheng Qian asked with a smile.

Emperor Taizong stared at Chengqian for a while, then smiled slightly, "Well, monkeys are really stupid." He raised his hand and touched Chengqian's head, feeling very warm in his heart, he already understood what Gan'er wanted to say.Monkeys can't see the moon, just like people in the world are chasing the past in a daze and regret, but they don't see that the present is the most important thing.

In the past, I thought of the moon falling on the wine glass. You can see it, but you will never be able to chase it. Why don't you look up at the moon and grasp the present life well.

Chengqian saw how dazed he was just now, so he told such a story to comfort himself in a tortuous way.

"Actually... the apricot flower cake is also quite delicious." Emperor Taizong picked up the remaining apricot flower cake on the table and put it into his mouth with a smile.

Cheng Qian frowned.

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In the middle of the night, staring at the bright moon outside the window, Chengqian thought in his heart, not to be surprised by favor or humiliation, to advance and retreat worthy, to keep his heart?

Perhaps, the royal family doesn't have the affection of ordinary people, but it's okay for him to be the obedient son of his father, keep his heart, and wander the world for so many years. If he didn't have a clear heart, he would have escaped into the devil's way long ago...

Therefore, the queen mother does not need to worry about her son.