Fairy Road Return [comprehensive]

Chapter 493 Sui Dynasty Princess VS Tang Dynasty Prince—01

It was May, and the weather was not too hot yet, but the heat in the air in Chang'an City rushed towards our faces.In May of last year, Tang Guogong Li Yuan raised troops in Jinyang. In November, the Tang army invaded Chang'an City. At that time, Emperor Yang Guang was still alive, so Li Yuan appointed Yang Guang's grandson Yang You as emperor, and respected Yang Guang as the Supreme Emperor. The reign title was Yining, and he proclaimed himself King of Tang.

Calculated according to the year name, this year is the second year of Yining. However, news has just spread to Chang'an that the Supreme Emperor Yang Guang was killed by the rebels, and the king of Tang forced Yang You to abdicate.

Anyway, regardless of the process, King Tang has now become the founding emperor of the new Tang Dynasty, and all procedures have been completed. This new dynasty with Chang'an as its capital is newly established, and everything is ruined.

Li Yuan was naturally proud of becoming the emperor, but now he is very worried, because the establishment of the crown prince had no problem at all with the establishment of the eldest son as the crown prince.But it happened to involve an incident of his eldest son, and it also involved the inheritance of his ancestors, which made Li Yuan have to think carefully.

Now the emperor has confiscated the harem, but his original wife had passed away five years ago, so he had to issue an imperial decree to follow up the concubine, and his harem was handed over to the former concubines for management, among which Concubine Wan Gui was the most respected.

The whole imperial court is waiting to see the emperor's promotion of the princes. Will the eldest son be crowned prince?Many people are beating drums in their hearts.No one dissatisfied with the eldest son's literary and martial arts strategy, even the second son who has always competed with the eldest son is all-rounder in both civil and military affairs, but as long as he has been in contact with the two brothers, everyone will be convinced by the eldest son's temperament.However, the eldest son has a flaw. He has no wife and no children. Since the eldest son's first wife died of illness five years ago, the eldest son has not remarried. Originally, he thought that the eldest son wanted to keep his filial piety for Empress Mu, but this is not the case. Five years have passed, and the three-year filial piety period has passed, but the eldest son has no plans to get married.

The eldest son doesn't seem to be interested in marriage, but what makes all the civil and military officials look at him is that the emperor, the father, is not in a hurry about his son's marriage. You must know that the eldest son is already 29 years old, and the second son is ten years younger than the eldest son. In addition to the main wife, there are several concubines in the mansion. Although he has no son yet, the second son is already a father, and apart from the maidservant, there is no woman in the mansion of the eldest son. There are no rooms.

The imperial palace, the new dynasty, Li Yuan, the emperor, is very busy. He finally finished discussing important matters with a group of ministers, took a break and drank tea slowly. At this time, the people who were drinking tea and chatting with Li Yuan were the left and right arms that Li Yuan had always liked. Pei Ji and Feng Deyi.

"Pei Ji, do you think I want to make Dalang the crown prince?" Li Yuan was full of sorrow, staring at the water in the teacup with his eyes straightened. He really values ​​the eldest son. It is simply unreasonable to make him the crown prince.

Pei Ji and Feng Deyi's hearts skipped a beat. They could naturally see His Majesty's high hopes for the eldest son, but this person is not perfect. For such an outstanding person as the eldest son, God does not allow him to be perfect.

Pei Ji put down his teacup, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I won't say much, I think Your Majesty has already made up his mind."

Feng Deyi sighed slightly in his heart, and he didn't express any additional opinions, but after him, Pei Ji couldn't hold back, and said in a low voice: "Besides, it's too early now, the eldest son's illness may not have been cured day."

A gleam flashed in Li Yuan's eyes, and he thought to himself, yes, Da Lang is only 29 years old, and the Tang Dynasty was established at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. After the unification of the country, if Da Lang can't stay, then he can think about it, or can he adopt other grandchildren to Da Lang?

"Hey, Da Lang, it makes me reluctant to give up. It's like cutting my heart." Li Yuan was telling the truth, not just the secular eldest son system, but Da Lang is good enough, so good that he can't see behind him at all. Son, Da Lang has never let him down so far.

Pei Ji and Feng Deyi accompanied the emperor with frowning faces. After two quarters of an hour, they were released by Li Yuan and walked out of the imperial study. The two walked on the steps of the palace. After taking two steps, they heard the sound of the spacious training ground on the left. There came the uniform slogan.

"One-two-one, one-two-one, one-two-one..."

The two stood and waited for about half a quarter of an hour. They saw two rows of soldiers approaching in unison. When they reached the long steps, they squatted down immediately, with their hands folded behind their hips. Then they jumped up the steps, like frogs. Now these people stopped shouting slogans, and after jumping a few steps, their faces turned red from holding their breath.

Behind this group of training soldiers, a man in a green uniform walked over with his hands clasped as if strolling in a garden, and he gave a military salute to the two adults.

"Uncle Pei, Uncle Feng, are you leaving the palace, or are you going to see Father?"

Pei Ji slapped him on the shoulder and laughed loudly: "Don't you always lead by example? Why are you being lazy today?"

A faint smile also slipped across Feng Deyi's face, and he said: "I don't want to see Your Majesty again today, Your Majesty is too busy, Da Lang might as well help His Majesty solve problems when you have time."

This young man is Li Jiancheng, the eldest son Li Jiancheng who Li Yuan had abandoned as if he was distressed. Of course, he is not the original Li Jiancheng now, but Li Xie who came through time travel.

Li Xie didn't expect that this trip would come to the famous Tang Dynasty, and when he came, it was the chaotic era of the late Sui Dynasty. Of course, his father Li Yuan has established the country now, but the land area belonging to the Tang Dynasty is still small. Many places still belong to other warlords.

He came here five years ago, in the ninth year of the Sui Dynasty, that is, in the later AD 613. At that time, the Li family was experiencing two funerals. Died by accident, Li Xie came through when Li Jiancheng was extremely sad.

Of course, Li Xie doesn't care what era he travels to, but what's surprising is that he seems to have come early, and Yunyao didn't come at the same time as him at all. If it wasn't for Lu Shiwu's repeated assurances, Yunyao would definitely appear in this time and space , how could he stay here with patience.

In the past five years, he has not interfered with the process because of his understanding of history. Of course, he is not lazy when he should contribute. He can do whatever Li Yuan asks him to do. .

He followed Li Yuan in most things, and the only thing that disobeyed Li Yuan was that in the 11th year of his career, Li Yuan wanted to propose marriage to him, but he repeatedly refused, which finally aroused Li Yuan's suspicion. He was injured during the battle, and then it was logical that the doctor found out that he had hidden diseases in his body, and he might not have offspring in the future.

Li Jiancheng married his first wife, but because his first wife served his parents-in-law in his hometown, he was away almost all year round to fight or train soldiers. He rarely went home, so that the two married for several years. The concubine had nothing to do, after the death of the first wife, Li Xie came, and then dismissed the two concubines.

These two days, Li Xie is in a good mood. Of course, in the eyes of outsiders, the Eldest Young Master is in a good mood because his father has become the emperor.In fact, Li Xie sensed Yunyao's arrival, but Yunyao seemed a little far away from Chang'an, but she was gradually approaching Chang'an.It is unknown who she is now, but based on the sensed direction, she should be in Luoyang.

Luoyang was the capital of the Sui Dynasty. In the 12th year of Daye (616 AD), Yang Guang went from Luoyang to Jiangdu and never came back. Does this mean that Yunyao's current identity has nothing to do with Yang Guang?

Hearing what Feng Deyi and Pei Ji said, he smiled and shrugged: "When the political affairs are smooth, father will not be so busy." In fact, strictly speaking, all affairs are now handled one by one according to the rules and regulations Going on, it has greatly saved the time of the emperor and officials, and at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, if you want to benevolent to the world, it will not be long before you open the Civil and Military Enke to select talents from all over the world. Rixie can't go home in the government office.

Pei Ji and Feng Deyi sighed slightly in their hearts. As always, the Eldest Young Master let go as soon as he can, and never takes too much trouble, but once someone finds him, he has an idea in an instant, and the matter is quickly resolved without any effort.

After parting with Pei Ji and Feng Deyi, Li Xie wondered if he should go to the Imperial Study Room?The main reason is that after the founding of the country, every time he appeared in front of Li Yuan, Li Yuan looked scrutinized and entangled. Of course he knew what he was entangled with. According to the history books, Li Jiancheng was established as the prince next month.

He can't be the emperor. I don't know if Lu Shiwu will let him be the prince?Li Xie didn't want to stop or push back, he let this matter go with its own flow, so Li Yuan is having a headache now.

Li Xie thought about it for a while, but it was better not to obstruct Li Yuan's eyes, he planned to leave the palace after the training of this soldier.

About half an hour later, Lixie left the palace. At this time, he had changed back into Hanfu. This royal blue round-neck gown was naturally unparalleled in luxury, and Lixie wore it with a sense of luxury.

"Big brother, big brother, wait for us."

As soon as he stepped out of the palace gate, someone was calling him from behind, he didn't need to look back, he could tell which two people it was just by hearing the voice.

Two teenagers ran out from behind. They were about the same age. One was Li Jiancheng's fourth brother, Li Yuanji, and the other was his half-brother, Li Zhiyun. Maybe there will be signs of separation. Since Dou's death, it has become Li Xie's responsibility to take care of the youngest brother of the same mother.

Li Jiancheng has three younger brothers from the same mother, the second is Li Shimin, the third is Li Xuanba, and the fourth is Li Yuanji. Before Dou's death, Li Shimin and Changsun were married, and the third was Li Xuanba, who was one year younger than Li Shimin. There was no time to propose marriage to him, until now, among all the brothers, only Li Shimin was married.

Li Xuanba and Li Yuanji basically ran around with Li Xie later on, and because Li Zhiyun was the same age as Li Yuanji, the two had been separated from each other before, but Li Zhiyun always liked the eldest brother, and later Li Yuanji became Li Xie's little follower , These two little brothers turned fighting into friendship.Li Xuanba is four years older than Li Yuanji. After growing up, especially after coming to Chang'an, this kid always likes to argue with others, and there are many scholars in Chang'an, so Li Xuanba is like a fish in the sea, spending all day talking with others Learn about culture, as for the dispute between the eldest brother and the second brother, he is not worried at all, can the second brother compete with the eldest brother?

Li Xie paused for a moment, and when the two of them ran forward, he frowned and asked, "It's past Shen Shi, and you still want to leave the palace?"

As soon as he said this, Li Zhiyun snorted: "Big Brother, Fourth Brother and I will stay at your place tonight."

Li Yuanji nodded again and again, the abnormality of the two made Li Xie curious, and asked, "Is something wrong in the palace?"

Li Zhiyun shook his head vigorously, Li Yuanji lowered his head and snickered, Li Xie put on a tiger face, Li Zhiyun hurriedly said: "I'm not a mother concubine, she's only 15 years old, and she's so crazy that she wants to choose a wife for me."

Li Xie immediately understood that Concubine Wan Gui is now the empress with the highest status in the harem, unlike before she was just a concubine and had no right to intervene in her son's marriage affairs, but now that she is a high-ranking concubine, she has the right to intervene in his son's marriage affairs right now.

"Isn't this too urgent?" But just after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Concubine Wan Gui couldn't wait to get engaged to her son, why didn't she wait a little longer?Anyway, let's wait until Li Yuan canonize the princes.

Li Zhiyun crossed his face and said with a flat mouth: "It's not the second sister-in-law. I liked the second sister-in-law very much before. The second sister-in-law is gentle and gentle. Seeing her feels like a spring breeze, but from now on, I decided to hate her. She He actually took a thick stack of pictures of ladies and asked A Niang to choose a wife for me."

Li Xie nodded, knowing what was going on.As Li Shimin's wife, the famous Empress Changsun is a mediocre person. Is she planning to win over Li Yuan's harem now so as to contribute to Li Shimin?

Li Yuanji covered his mouth and snickered for a while, and then said with a little pride: "Fortunately, my father said that I will let my elder brother decide about my marriage. With my elder brother in charge, I am not afraid that I will not be able to marry a beautiful woman."

Li Zhiyun looked at the fourth brother sadly, he was not kind at all, then he turned his head, A Niang didn't have any objection to him getting close to the eldest brother, why not say that the marriage should be controlled by the elder brother some other day?Thinking of this, Li Zhiyun had an idea in his mind, and his expression softened.

What Li Xie thought of was the marriage of the third younger brother Li Xuanba. Li Xuanba was already married, but because of his big brother's bad example, he never got engaged. Li Yuan really thought of his sons as debt collectors, but now He is very busy, so he can't take care of his son's marriage for the time being. Li Xie reckons that in three months, Li Yuan will be free to deal with the marriages of his third, fourth, and fifth brothers. As for his marriage?When Yunyao arrives in Chang'an, he will get married immediately.

Patting the heads of the two younger brothers one by one, Li Xie said: "Let's go, stay if you want, anyway, it's not the first day you've lived here."

The three brothers gradually drifted away, and the afternoon tea party in the royal garden in the imperial palace and harem was finally over. The eldest grandson Wuyou, Li Xiuyun, and Li Xiu'e bid farewell to the concubines respectively. When the three of them left, the concubines also left. .

Li Xiuyun and Li Xiu'e are Li Jiancheng's half-sisters, but they are four or five years older than Li Shimin and the others. They are already married, and their children can play soy sauce.

Concubine Wan Gui returned to the palace and changed her clothes under the service of her maid. While looking sideways at the charming face in the bronze mirror, she asked the mother beside her, "Mother Gao, has Wu Lang left the palace?"

The diminutive nanny in a dark palace uniform nodded with a smile: "Yes, ma'am, Goro and Shiro went out of the palace together to find Daro."

This nanny has served Concubine Wan Gui for many years, and she has a lot of face in front of Concubine Wan Gui. She joked: "Oh, ma'am, Wu Lang is so shy about the engagement, how should we spend the wedding night in the bridal chamber?"

Concubine Wan Gui burst out laughing, and sighed, "Wulang, I don't ask him to have great talent, but I only ask him to be healthy and safe."

Erlang married a good wife, but now Dalang Jian is in the hearts of the people. It is really impossible for Erlang to snatch Dalang's crown prince. Da Lang didn't lose any points. On the contrary, His Majesty will love Da Lang very much. The more he loves Da Lang, the more he wants to treat Da Lang well.

Of course, this is just the beginning. Whatever the future holds, everything is possible.

Here, Li Xie took his two younger brothers to the street. There are many shops on both sides of the street, small vendors are hawking, pedestrians are hurrying, or strolling in the courtyard, and there are many people who are chatting together in groups.

It's around five o'clock in the afternoon, because it's summer, so the setting sun is still hanging in the sky, originally Li Xie planned to take his younger brother back to his mansion for dinner, but after a second thought, his mansion was empty, except for a few sweeping women , Maids, all of them are tough men, it is really boring, if you want to find an interesting place to have dinner, where should you go?

I happened to see half a cart of vegetables on the vegetable farmer's cart, so Li Xie bought them immediately and asked the vegetable farmer to go with him.

Li Yuanji and Li Zhiyun covered their mouths and snickered the whole time. They know where the elder brother went?There is no other place except the second brother's mansion!Among the brothers, only the second brother is married. Besides the second sister-in-law, there are three concubines in the backyard. They were all brought back by Lieyan when the second brother was away on business. Now the second brother is the father of two daughters. Yes, he was the first among their brothers to become a father.

At the same time, the second brother's family has a big burden, so every time the eldest brother takes them to the second brother's house for dinner, he will buy some vegetables or cooked food, anyway, they don't eat for free.

Since entering Chang'an in November last year, Li Xie has often brought his younger brothers to Li Shimin's mansion to eat big households after the brothers divided the mansion. The ministers all saw Li Xie carrying his two younger brothers, followed by a vegetable farmer pushing a cart, and the ministers knew what was going on at a glance.

The ministers on the street greeted the three Lixie brothers one by one, and the three brothers naturally had to return the courtesy, but there were more ministers hiding in teahouses and restaurants.

Not far away, on the second floor of the teahouse, there was a middle-aged man in a black robe. He had a beard and was many years older than Li Xie.

Fang Xuanling stroked his beard, looked at the three brothers downstairs, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

As early as last year when His Majesty invaded Chang'an, because Erlang Jun happened to save him, he took advantage of the opportunity and joined Erlang Jun's command, but in the past few months, he has basically seen the situation of the Li family brothers clearly.

If he didn't have the desire to make contributions and be famous in history, he wouldn't come out to seek a future in such troubled times. Mr. Erlang is fine except for being a little irritable, but Mr. Erlang still has Dalang on his head Jun, if he had been more cautious at the beginning and was not so anxious to invest in Erlangjun's mansion, he would definitely try his best to join Dalangjun's mansion, because Dalangjun is really excellent, and Erlangjun is also very good, but Dalangjun is He's two hundred times as good.

There were a lot of people staring at him on both sides of the street, Li Xie didn't bother to pay attention, the reason why he swaggered through the market like this was to frighten these courtiers, don't be so impatient to sow discord between their brothers, wouldn't it be more important to focus on the right way? beautiful?

Li Xie's mansion and Li Shimin's mansion are not in the same street, on the contrary, they are separated by some distance. His mansion was chosen by Li Yuan, and Li Shimin's mansion was chosen by their husband and wife. If they walk, the distance between the two mansions is at least a quarter of an hour, of course. Riding a horse or taking a carriage will be much faster.

Now Li Xie and his identities are unknown, so there is no plaque on the gate of the mansion.Of course there used to be, but after Li Yuan proclaimed himself emperor, the plaque was taken down, and the new plaque had to wait for His Majesty to ennoble it before putting it up.

The concierge at Li Shimin's mansion saw Li Xie and his group from a long distance away, and they opened the door while sending someone to report to the mansion, waiting under the steps.

"This old slave greets Mr. Dalang, Mr. Silang, and Mr. Wulang." The porter nodded and bowed, very respectful.

Li Xie nodded: "Let someone take the food away, are Erlang and Er Niangzi here?" While talking, he had already walked inside.

The concierge smiled and said: "Mr. Erlang is at home, my wife has not returned yet." Then the concierge knew the way and asked people to move the vegetables from the vegetable farmer's cart.

Here, the three Lixie brothers have already entered the door, and they saw Li Shimin who was drinking in the hall, Li Yuanji and Li Zhiyun took a quick step, stepped forward and saluted: "Second brother."

Then he asked with concern: "There are no appetizers here, and you actually drank boring wine alone?"

Li Yuanji smirked and said, "Did you sneak a drink while the second sister-in-law was not at home?"

Li Shimin glanced at his younger brother depressedly, then put down his wine glass, stood up and saluted Li Xie who had just stepped in: "Brother."

Li Xie raised his eyebrows: "Why do you drink so much?"

Li Shimin is a typical slut, and in history he never let go of his own sister-in-law. Now he is full of energy, and it would be strange if he doesn't go out and make trouble.

"It's okay." Li Shimin dared to tell the truth, he lost his face, he was a woman anyway, he has a virtuous and generous wife, and he still lacks a woman?

Li Yuanji sneered: "Second brother, you must have been dumped by a woman."

"Fourth, if you want a woman, I can ask your second sister-in-law to introduce you to some famous women." Li Shimin murmured in his heart, the fourth is still so unpleasant, can't he learn from the fifth?Look at Lao Wu, he never said anything that made him angry.

Li Yuanji gave a push: "Thank you for not being sensitive, Second Brother can keep it for himself."

Li Zhiyun doesn't say offensive words, maybe he and his brothers are separated by a layer after all, unlike the four brothers who are born of the same father and the same mother, so the second brother has unlimited tolerance for the third brother and the fourth brother.There is also the second brother who has been striving for the top. To put it bluntly, the second brother is grabbing the rights of the eldest brother, but it seems that the eldest brother, the third brother, and the fourth brother do not take it seriously. The third brother and the fourth brother should still hate the second brother. The second brother was so annoyed that he couldn't speak, but after that, the second brother was still close to the third and fourth brothers, and he should take care of the third and fourth brothers.

At this time, a servant came to ask for instructions. How about dinner as usual?The so-called is still eating hot pot, the brothers gather around the hot pot, scalding dishes, drinking small wine, these days are like gods.

Just as the servants had prepared the dishes and the hot pot was on the rise, Li Xuanba hurried over. He bowed to his two elder brothers, and then complained, "You don't know how to call me when you eat hot pot?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly: "I didn't call you, didn't you just come here?"

"Second brother, have you eaten fire/powder today?" Li Xuanba quickly found a low stool and sat down, then motioned the servants to bring him more bowls and condiments.

Li Shimin secretly glared at the third younger brother who couldn't understand the wink. Were these two younger brothers specially born to beat him?Li Xie just raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything.

As soon as the eldest grandson Wuyou stepped into the house, the concierge told her that Mr. Da Lang, Mr. San Lang, Mr. Silang, Mr. Wu Lang and Mr. Er Lang were drinking and having fun in the flower hall.

She kept walking, and nodded gently yet dignifiedly: "Got it."

Although each of them is behind the scenes, they are all aboveboard methods, and this does not affect Erlang Jun and their brotherhood.

Of course, it may be the beginning, but it may not be the case in the future.

In the flower hall next to the front hall, Li Xie and the others were eating happily, and they were completely unaffected when they saw Changsun Wuyou coming in. Behind Changsun Wuyou, there was a string of beautifully dressed maids, and they were still carrying plates, which had already been washed. fruit.

Li Zhiyun immediately smiled and narrowed his eyes: "Oh, second sister-in-law, you are so kind!"

The wine in Li Yuanji's mouth spewed out all of a sudden, and he laughed wildly. Li Zhiyun thought of something, and immediately covered his mouth with his hand.