Reborn as King again

Empress Xia heard Li Muyi say that she wanted to marry Du Wen as the concubine, she was silent for a while, but she didn't reply, she asked Li Muyi to go back first, and then immediately got up to find the emperor, and told the matter.

The emperor was also dumbfounded when he found out, and couldn't help wondering, although the folks had the custom of marrying male wives and male concubines, and the first emperor also had male concubines, but he couldn't like it, not because of any discrimination, but because he felt that men were too hard to hold Uncomfortable, so I don't have a male concubine in my harem, and without my own example, how could Li Muyi fall in love with men?It would be fine to say that Du Wen is a beauty, but he is not at all, and he is five years older than Li Muyi, no matter how you look at it, he is not worthy.

Empress Xia had never met Du Wen, but only knew that he was Li Muyi's companion, so she couldn't help wondering if she told the emperor that Du Wen was a coquette who seduced the young prince?

The emperor thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "No, Du Wen was born in the Du family, and the Du family's family is strict, and the education of his offspring is even stricter than that of the royal family, so Du Wen can't do anything overstepping. It's probably because the crown prince was blinded for a while, so if you talk to him carefully, it must be feasible."

It's okay not to say, but Li Muyi is determined to marry Du Wen.

On the second day, the emperor and the empress called Li Muyi to the imperial study room for a long talk. They talked about a lot of reasons, such as Du Wen's ugly appearance, and he was the eldest son of the Du family, and he was going to inherit the family business in the future. Yes, you married off the heir. The Du family must have some opinions if they don’t say it on the surface, and you are not worthy of your age. You are too young now. When you grow up and meet someone more beautiful, you will definitely regret it. Yes, there is one more important thing, you like Du Wen, but does Du Wen like you?

The emperor said a lot of words earnestly, but there was only one central idea, and he refused to agree.

Li Muyi was not in a hurry or annoyed, but looked at the emperor and said lightly: "Father, when I first became the crown prince, the first thing you did to educate my son was, you said, this son is a prince, and in the future he will belong to Datong." Emperor, there are only things in this world that your ministers don't want, and there is nothing that your ministers can't get."

The emperor was speechless by Li Muyi's words. He did educate the prince in this way, but the prince challenged him with his own education, which made the emperor a little annoyed. All the things he said just now were in vain !Immediately, he slapped Li Muyi across the face, scolded angrily: "Nizi!" and walked away.

The inner eunuchs guarding the door heard the emperor's "Nie Zi" and saw the emperor push the door angrily and leave with a dark face. Then the queen also frowned and went out with a sigh. Finally, it was Li Mu. Yi walked out of the imperial study with half of his face red and swollen.

Immediately, pots exploded in the harem and above the court hall, and the emperor became angry at the prince!The emperor actually got angry with his most satisfied son!And hit him!Even the Queen didn't intercede!This series of news made people wonder what the prince did to make the empress and the empress so angry.

In the eyes of everyone, the crown prince is the most favored by the emperor and empress. Even if the crown prince did something that was inconsistent with the emperor in the past, the emperor would never blame him and would teach him carefully. But now he is not only scolded, but also beaten, so everyone Everyone was asking each other about gossip about what the prince had done to make the empress so angry. It's a pity, I don't know if the empress deliberately blocked the news, but everyone didn't find out anything. This made everyone even more curious.

Among the curious people is the fourth prince Li Mujing. It is said that the fourth prince is the direct younger brother of the prince Li Muyi and the second son of Empress Xia, but his personality and conduct are very different from Li Muyi's. When he was the third son-in-law, he always had a headache and said: "If the fourth son has a tenth of the crown prince, I (my palace) will feel at ease." It's not that Li Mujing is hated by the empress, but that he is too Too naughty, causing trouble in the palace every day.

As soon as Li Mujing heard that his perfect second brother had angered his father, queen and queen at once, he immediately went to the East Palace to join in the fun and see what Li Muyi had done.

Li Muyi was forced to question him by his younger brother, so he gave in. In the harem, he and Li Mujing had the best relationship, and Li Mujing had a lot of tricks, so if you tell him to discuss it, maybe you won't. He was able to help him with ideas, so Li Muyi told him that he liked Du Wen and wanted to make Du Wen the crown princess, but his father and queen mother refused to agree, and asked Li Mujing to help him, the emperor brother, find a way.

Li Mujing rubbed his chin and thought for a while, then looked at Li Muyi, and said, "It's not difficult to get father, queen and queen to agree, I have a way, but it depends on whether you can bear the pain, brother."

"I can bear any kind of suffering." Li Muyi expressed his heart immediately.

"It's not a big ordeal." Li Mujing thought it was funny seeing his brother's look of death, "You just go on a hunger strike and starve for a few days."

"What?" Hunger strike?What is the solution?Li Muyi asked suspiciously: "Can it work?"

"Yes~" Li Mujing patted his chest and said, this is how it is performed in the play.

It turns out that all the concubines in this palace like to watch dramas. Li Mujing felt curious and watched a few of them with Empress Xia. The content of the dramas was nothing more than some infatuated and resentful things. Forced to separate, the woman washes her face with tears every day, and the man misses and cannot eat. When the woman's eyes are about to cry and the man is about to starve to death, the elders of both sides finally compromise, so the lovers finally get married. The lovers are finally together.Li Mujing felt that this kind of drama was terribly vulgar, but Empress Xia and the concubines in the palace watched it with tears.

Therefore, when Li Muyi talked about his own affairs, Li Mujing thought that this was the content of the drama, so let the emperor learn from the man in the drama, and after being hungry for a while, the empress must be soft-hearted, and the empress will be soft-hearted He will intercede with his father, and then he can say anything.

This is the first time that Li Muyi disagrees with the emperor and the empress, and he really doesn't know how to resolve it. Now that Li Mujing swears that his plan is feasible, why not give it a try.If Li Muyi knew that his younger brother was inspired by the play, he didn't know how he would feel.

Then Li Muyi started absenteeism for no reason, lay in bed without eating or drinking, and started a hunger strike to protest. He went hungry for three days like this, alarming the emperor and empress Xia.

I have to say that Li Mujing's method is quite effective. When the two entered Li Muyi's bedroom, they immediately felt sad when they saw the "sick" prince lying on the bed.Other people's sons grow up and become more mature, but why did my own son go back and go on a hunger strike to protest?How can he do it?With a hairy body and skin, and receiving parents, isn't Li Muyi cutting off the flesh of Empress Xia?I'm afraid that the emperor and the empress would never have imagined that they would be "calculated" by the two sons.

Empress Xia wanted to talk to Li Muyi and persuade him to eat something, but Li Muyi just kept saying nothing and turned a blind eye to the porridge brought by Empress Xia. Anyway, she just ignored her. Yi was not that serious at all, but in the eyes of Empress Xia, the son who hadn't eaten for three days was as thin as a skeleton, and he began to cry immediately, and the emperor didn't know what to do, because Li Muyi was very sensible before. , never let him worry about it, now it's good, it's fine if you don't admit your mistake, but you get angry with him instead.

Empress Xia could see that she didn't want her son to suffer, so she begged the emperor: "Your majesty, why don't you let that Du Wen come over to see the emperor first? He persuaded the emperor, and the emperor should listen, so let the emperor eat first." something."

The emperor thought about it, and immediately ordered Du Wen to enter the palace.

On the way Du Wen was rushing to the East Palace, the little eunuch accompanying him quietly revealed to him that the prince had quarreled with the empress a few days ago, and recently he was angry, and did not eat or drink for several days. The emperor was in a hurry, so he called him Enter the palace to persuade the prince to at least eat something.

Du Wen didn't pay attention at the time, he thought Li Muyi was having a childish temper.

Du Wen entered Li Muyi's dormitory, where the emperor and empress were still guarding. Du Wen went up to greet the two, and then walked to Li Muyi's bedside.Is he an idiot?How old are you still on a hunger strike?

Du Wen called softly: "His Royal Highness?"

Hearing a familiar voice, Li Muyi opened his eyes immediately with his eyes closed and saw the person he was thinking about day and night. He thought it was a dream: "Wen Wen?" His voice was a little hoarse.

Du Wen nodded and sat by Li Muyi's bed. He saw a bowl of barley porridge on the bedside table and touched the bowl. Well, it was still hot, so he picked up the bowl of barley porridge and served it. He took half a spoon and handed it to Li Muyi's mouth, as if he wanted to feed him.

Li Muyi was immediately flattered, and immediately put the purpose of the hunger strike behind him, opened his mouth obediently, and took a sip of porridge.Li Muyi frowned after swallowing it, turned his face and complained: "The porridge is sweet." He hates sweets.

The little eunuch who served Li Muyi knew his master's taste well, so he hurriedly said, "I'm going to change a bowl now."

"No need," Du Wen called to stop the little eunuch, motioning him not to run away, and glanced at Li Muyi: "There are too many things." Then he filled another tablespoon of sweet porridge and handed it to Li Muyi's mouth again Bian: "Open your mouth."

Although a little reluctant, Li Muyi opened his mouth obediently and let Du Wen feed him. After a while, most of the bowl of porridge went down.

At this time, not only the eunuchs in the house, but also the emperor and empress Xia's eyes widened, and they were shocked.The two emperors and empress coaxed Li Muyi for so long just now, but Li Muyi ignored them. As soon as Du Wen came, Li Muyi stuck to it like a little pug, doing whatever he was asked to do, except for the A little tail flicked and flicked.

The emperor looked at the happy expression on Li Muyi's face as he was being fed spoonful by spoonful of porridge by Du Wen, and sighed, that's all.

Du Wen didn't know the reason for the conflict between the crown prince and the empress at all. Let Li Muyi eat the food and he would consider the task completed, and in front of the empress, he couldn't say whatever he thought to Li Muyi as usual, just say After telling Li Muyi to take good care of his health, he left.

That day, after Du Wen left, the emperor and empress sent away the inner eunuch in the dormitory, and had a chat with Li Muyi alone. As for the content of the discussion, it is unknown.

In the morning court on the second day, the first thing the emperor announced was to designate Du Wen, the eldest grandson of the Du family, as the crown prince and get married three months later.

Du Wen's grandfather, Bachelor Du, also went to the court every day. When he heard the emperor's decision, his first reaction was that he was old and his ears were hard of hearing, so he wanted his grandson to be the princess? !This is simply impossible. If you heard it wrong, you must have heard it wrong.It wasn't until after the imperial court that ministers from all walks of life came to congratulate him with smiles on their faces that he believed that his ears were fine.

The officials were also taken aback by the emperor's decision. This Du Wen was the prince's former companion, why was he suddenly conferred the title of concubine?The official wanted to protest, but he couldn't find a reason, because Du Wen's background, knowledge, and talent completely met the standards of a princess, but there are not a few official ladies and sons who meet the standards of a princess, so why did they choose Du Wen? ?The officials thought about it, and suggested to the emperor to let the emperor think about it again. The prince is still young, only 13 years old, and he got married earlier, and Du Wen is five years older than the prince, so his age is not suitable. The prince chooses a concubine, if the prince is not satisfied in the future, he has to blame you.

The emperor looked helplessly at the speaker, he already said what should be said, so do you need to remind me?So he said four words coolly: "The prince likes it."

When Du Wen knew that he was going to get married in three months, he was in a daze. He wanted to marry that little kid?Marry into the palace?When the princess?no!This is not the life he wants, he doesn't want to be Li Muyi's bedside person, but wants to be Li Muyi, the number one virtuous minister under the future monarch.He wants to obtain fame and fame, enter the court as an official, and pursue an official career, instead of competing for favor with a group of concubines in the harem!

In the next few days, Du Wen went to find Li Muyi, and they had to make it clear that there should be some misunderstanding, and how could they marry him?But I don't know if Li Muyi avoided him on purpose, and he couldn't see him every time. In the end, the little eunuch next to Li Muyi simply said: "Mr. Du, new couples are not allowed to meet before the big wedding. It is bad luck to meet you. Let's go back to the Du Mansion and prepare for marriage."

Du Wen saw that there was no result in looking for Li Muyi, and he was not an official yet, so he couldn't see the emperor. After thinking about it, he had to go to Fengyi Palace to ask to see Empress Xia.

Empress Xia received her future daughter-in-law very politely.

After Du Wen saluted Empress Xia in Fengyi Palace, he directly said what was in his heart. He didn't want to be a crown princess. Brother to see.

Empress Xia thought, it's no wonder the crown prince is so eager to marry Du Wen, I dare say he's so hot, let's talk about occupying the person first.Empress Xia said: "The emperor has decreed that you must marry the prince."

"But……"

"It's nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter that you don't like the crown prince. The important thing is that the crown prince likes you." Empress Xia interrupted him, and secretly got to know Du Wen. As the crown princess, Du Wen was a little tender. It seems that after he enters the palace, he has to practice hard: "Why do you think the prince is angry with the emperor and the palace? Who do you think the prince is on hunger strike for? He does so many things just to get you Forget it, how can a parent not help his son fulfill his wish."

After hearing Empress Xia's words, Du Wen secretly resented. It turns out that Li Muyi's hunger strike was to marry him as the princess?If I had known it earlier, I would not have gone to see him, because I was still so worried about him, and let him starve to death.

Du Wen said: "But empress, His Highness the crown prince is still young, he is only temporarily confused by this minister, when he grows up, he will meet someone he really loves, you are his concubine mother, you probably don't want him to go there Regret it later, empress, please persuade the emperor."

"Convince the emperor? You can't even convince me, how can you convince me to persuade the emperor?" Empress Xia raised her eyebrows like a willow, looked at the unattractive Du Wen, and said with a smile: "The prince has grown up. , he has to be responsible for his actions, even if he regrets it later, he will ask for it. Besides, the crown prince is the son of this palace, and this palace knows him very well. Don't look at his gentle and polite manner on the surface, as if You are very gentlemanly, but once you find something you like, you must get it, even if it is by any means. The prince likes you, he will not let you go, you will become his person sooner or later, don't make unnecessary struggles, enter now Palace is the best way out for you."

Du Wen didn't understand something, and his voice trembled slightly: "Why did the empress make such a statement?"

Empress Xia smiled, and explained to this simple future daughter-in-law: "In my opinion, you have two paths to go. The first one is to return to the Du Mansion to be married. After three months, you will be the most beautiful woman in the Datong Dynasty." One of the masters of the grand wedding, marry into the East Palace, go on the genealogy, record the history, become the princess, the future queen, Guangzong Yaozu. The second way, you can try your best to ask the emperor to intercede, if the emperor agrees softly, you will be released from the relationship with the prince. If my guess is correct, you will take part in the imperial examination, become an official, marry a wife and have children, inherit the family business, and live a peaceful life. But one day the emperor will die and the crown prince will succeed. This palace can Let me tell you clearly that the first thing the crown prince will do after succeeding to the throne is to pull you, a minister of the court, from the golden palace to the dragon bed, and put him under him, so that you will become the number one courtier next to the emperor, and you will have a bad reputation forever. Du Wen, Which path will you choose?"

"I..." Du Wen was stunned by Empress Xia's series of analysis, "Too... His Royal Highness would not do this, he...he is not that kind of person..."

Empress Xia sneered and said, "Is he that kind of person? You can choose the second way to try."

"..." Du Wen lowered his head, not daring to say more, she didn't know whether Empress Xia's words were credible or not.

Empress Xia looked at Du Wen who was already blocked and speechless, and thought that the education was enough, so she gave a candy with a whip, so she comforted her, "Du Wen, in fact, you don't have to be so pessimistic. Speaking of which, your marriage to the royal family will bring no harm to your Du family."

Du Wen was taken aback, raised his head, and looked at Empress Xia in confusion. Why did Empress Xia say that?

Empress Xia laughed and said: "Since the emperor ascended the throne, he has led troops to fight. It can be said that he has emphasized martial arts and despised culture. Even if your grandfather is highly respected and has many disciples, he still does not get the emperor's attention. If you marry into the royal family, marry the prince, Then the family behind you will rise, and the Du family will naturally be reused by the emperor, isn't what I said right?"