The Submissive Emperor

See Yu in the Anguo Gonglou, with the word Bosang, slender and elegant. He doesn't look like a military commander, but like a civil servant. He sent Huaizhong away with a smile, and Lou Jianyu couldn't wait to go to Suzaku Hall.

Taizong died, and the queen mother held her young son to control the political affairs, so that the king of Chaogang was in chaos. Emperor Sejong, who was almost killed, made a national edict. The queen must be a man. Once the crown prince was established, he would be handed over to the queen for training, and he was not allowed to have a blind date with his biological mother. Now that Sejong has passed away more than a hundred years, this national policy has been implemented so far, and it can really stabilize the court, but this kind of thing is his turn, and I can't be happy anymore.

"...Lou Jing, the prince of Anguo, has a good manner and good looks, and bestowed on the prince Xiao Chengjun..." Lou Jing pinched the bright yellow brocade embroidered with colorful dragons, and was speechless for a while.

Lou Jianyu was very satisfied with his son's current expression, and said coldly: "The imperial decree has been laid down, so don't do anything extra!"

"Father," Lou Jing slowly raised his head, his voice was like an ancient well deep pool, calm, "Why?" He considered himself filial, and never disobeyed his father, except for the years when he went to war with his grandfather, as long as he was at home, no matter the heat. Severe cold, twilight and twilight have never been lacking. Today my father asked the guards to beat him, and he kept asking, why, why should he treat his own son like this!

"Humph!" Lou Jianyu just snorted and flung his sleeves away.

Gao Yi didn't come back until the moon in the middle of the sky. Hearing the afternoon's decree, he couldn't help being stunned. How quickly?

Lou Jing received several replies from Gao Yi, "Tomorrow you go to Zhuangzi and call in two masters." The matter was more serious than he thought. The emperor had already made an order and there was no room for change. His father again I don't feel sorry for him at all, it's always good to have a few more people by my side.

"Yes," Gao Yi replied, and his resolute face couldn't help showing sadness, "My son, what should I do in the future?"

"What else can I do?" Lou Jing put down the letter in his hand and closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes, he was already smiling a little. , The minister should naturally share his worries for the emperor."

"Shi Zi..." Xun Xia called out worriedly, wondering if Shi Zi was confused.

Gao Yi knew that the elder son showed this look as if he had been caressed, so he retired with peace of mind. Xun Xia was afraid that Lou Jing would have a fever at night, so he dismissed the young man on duty and rested in the penthouse. Suzaku Hall became quiet, and the evening breeze blew over the green bamboos in the courtyard. It was like the sound of withered grass blowing in the wind on the desert, which gave people a sense of desolation for no reason.

Lou Jing looked at the bright moon outside the window, trying to remember what the prince was like. He went to the battlefield with his grandfather when he was eleven years old. Two years ago, his grandfather died in battle and returned to the capital to keep his filial piety. The prince seldom made friends with noble children. , It was the child in apricot and yellow robe that he saw when he was a child, with a small face stretched out to give him silk candy.

At night, the moon was as cold as water, flowing on the vermilion glazed tiles, making the palace more and more lonely.

East Palace, Chongren Hall.

"Lou Jing was beaten?" A slender hand squeezed the paper in his hand, revealing an apricot sleeve under the clear moonlight, and no joy or anger could be heard in the calm and sweet voice. It was the master of the East Palace— Prince Xiao Chengjun.

"Yes," a man dressed as a Confucian student stood next to him, and respectfully responded, "An Guogong is concealing this matter, and the emperor probably doesn't know it yet."

Xiao Chengjun nodded slightly, put the paper on the candle, and the flame swallowed the white paper.

"His Royal Highness, if the elder son is dissatisfied with this family relationship, let him marry into the East Palace to be afraid..." The tone is full of worry and hesitation. The queen and the prince have never been the only son of the Gonghou family, let alone Anguo The mansion is a family of hairpins, which is completely different from the nobles of those days. After marrying the son of Anguo, after breaking the founding fathers, how could the emperor make such a confused decision?

Slowly putting his hand behind him, Xiao Chengjun didn't mean to take the conversation, he seemed to be waiting for the following, and he didn't seem interested.

The speaker was not sure what the prince meant, so he had to bite the bullet and continued, "Although the Lou family is prominent, but the heirs are thin, it is not very helpful to your Highness. And the son of Anguo was personally raised by the old Anguo. He hunted last autumn. Both riding and shooting took the lead, and the emperor rewarded the fourth-rank Yulin Zhonglang. No one among the noble children can match him. He is a rare young talent..." Trapped in this square inch of the harem, It's a pity not to mention it, it will leave a lot of hidden dangers.

"It's okay." Xiao Chengjun raised his hand and interrupted the fierce advice. Since the queen father wants him to marry Lou Jing, he naturally has his reasoning, and moreover, it is useless to say more.

Gao Yi went to Zhuangzi outside Beijing the next day and brought back two men with grim faces.

"This is Yunqi and Yunba. Yunqishan treats trauma, and Yunbashan investigates the news." Gao Yi pointed to the two black-clothed humans who were kneeling on the ground. These were the Youyun Sixteenth Guards left by the grandfather of the old country. Two of them.

Lou Jing nodded. These sixteen dead men were elite soldiers in the hands of his grandfather. Even his father did not know the existence of these people. On weekdays, he was reluctant to use them. "You are asked to come here just in case. No shots are allowed."

The day of the decree was already August 17th, but the wedding was scheduled for the second day of September. I don’t know how Qin Tianjian counted it, and even set the date so close. The Anguo Government was so busy these days. The Suzaku Hall, where the son lived, was deserted and even tightly guarded.

Lou Jing has Yunqi to heal his injuries, and his trauma is gradually getting better, but the time is too short, I am afraid that he will only be able to recover 30% by the day of the ceremony. Mrs. Anguo's wife Wei had learned a lesson from that day and never came to provoke Lou Jing. Instead, she sent people to send some tonics such as ginseng and velvet antler every day. Lou Jing was busy inquiring about the news these days, and she has no time to take care of it. she.

"Shizi," Gao Yi walked in with a strange expression, "Subordinates saw Master Jiming over the wall."

"Zhao Xi?" Lou Jing, who was lying on the bed reading a book, raised his eyebrows, "bring him in."

After a while, I heard a youthful voice that was as clear as a golden bell, "Your guards are getting more and more rude. It's time for them to study with me for two years."

"My guard is illiterate, and I'm afraid it will humiliate Zhao Jieyuan's reputation if I study with you." Lou Jing squinted at the people who were busy tidying up his robes, and couldn't help but catch a smile in his eyes. The visitor seemed to be only fifteen or six years old, with good-looking eyes, and with the characteristic bookishness of Jiangnan literati, "When did you come to Beijing, how come no one came to deliver a letter?"

The Zhao family is a family of officials, and Zhao Xi's second uncle is Zhao Duan, the current leftist. It stands to reason that there is no intersection between honor and civil servants, but Zhao Xi is a very special person. He has read sage books since he was a child, and he has a gentle face, but he is lively like a monkey. When I was a child with my uncle studying in Beijing, I met Lou Jing by chance, and it happened at first sight. As long as Lou Jing was in Beijing, he would come to him every three to five.

Two years ago, I went back to Jiangnan to study and test the hometown exam with great concentration. I learned about Yuan at the age of fourteen. Zhao Xi was ranked ninth at home. None of the first eight cousins ​​could compare to him. The family was very happy, and his grandfather gave him ahead of time. Take the table word "Ji Ming".

"Hmph, grandpa asked me to take the next year's test, saying that I was arguing at home and he was having a headache. He wanted to surprise you. Unexpectedly, when I first entered Beijing, I heard that you were going to marry the prince!" I sat down by the bed, took the cup that Yingqiu handed over, drank it in twos or twos, and smiled, "Thank you, sister, please give me another cup."

Yingqiu covered his mouth with a veil and smiled and refilled him with another cup of tea.

Zhao Xi took the cup, didn't drink or talk, just looked at the person on the bed with interest, as if examining how many days the injured person could live.

Lou Jing lifted his chin, and Gao Yi and Ying Qiu walked out with interest.

"I handed the greeting card, but it was rejected by Anguo," Zhao Xi put away his gloating face, frowned and said, "He put you under house arrest?" Anguo said that the son was not in the house, so he went to the north. Ya, the general left of the Yulin Army said that Lou Jing hadn't been there for several days, only then realized that something was wrong, and simply overcame the wall and entered the Suzaku Hall.

Lou Jing put down the book in his hand, slowly changed his posture and lay on his stomach, "Forget it."

Zhao Xi looked at Lou Jing's indifferent expression, and suddenly became angry, "Then you are going to marry you obediently?" He never understood why An Guogong didn't like Lou Jing, but for so many years, he didn't. Seeing what Lou Jing suffered, how could he be so easily pinched this time?

"I can't even walk, so what can I do?" Lou Jing yawned lazily. "It's not bad to marry to the East Palace. At least I don't have to go to war. My father will have to kowtow when he sees me in the future."

"You..." Zhao Xi jumped up with anger. "Nowadays, the imperial concubine specializes in pampering, and the prince is declining. Do you think you can have a good life when you marry to the East Palace? If the prince is generally not like the emperor, what do you do?"

Lou Jing watched the person jumping up and down quietly, and smiled slowly, "Zhao Jiu, I have a friend of you, even if you are beaten to death by your father, it is worth it." Even if this kind of words don't put the royal family in his eyes, Zhao Xi's own temperament is related, but it is only for him to think about it, and it is estimated that Zhao Xi is the only one.

"Bah," Zhao Xi gave him a sip, "It is true that the emperor is not in a hurry to die the eunuch. When is this, you still talk such nonsense."

Lou Jing put aside his smile, and said with a serious face: "The emperor has already made an order on this matter. It is impossible for the emperor to take his life back if I have the ability to reach the sky. Besides... have you heard about the Jingnan waiting?"

"The emperor seems to intend to transfer back to the capital from Nanhou." Zhao Xi couldn't help lowering his voice when he said this. He is an unborn genius in the family. The second uncle regarded him very seriously, so he would tell such secrets about the imperial government. he.

Lou Jing nodded, and said for a moment, "I heard that marrying me as a princess is the meaning of a queen."

"Ah!" Zhao Xi couldn't help exclaiming. The queen is the parent and child of Jingnan, and Jingnan has been guarding the southeast area for so many years. The emperor asked him to be transferred back to the capital. In fact, he wanted to take his military power. The time to accept the princess is to comfort the queen. The queen didn't take the opportunity to fight for more benefits for her family, but instead wanted the prince to marry an irrelevant person, Lou Jing. Why?

Lou Jing ignored Zhao Xi's astonishment, but asked about another thing, "What's the impression of Zuo relative to the prince?"

Zhao Xi blinked, and he remembered that his uncle did not overestimate the prince, and the prince has always been quite well-behaved. He has never actively made friends with anyone, "Do you think the prince has a problem?"

Lou Jing banged on Zhao Xi's head dumbfoundedly, "Sooner or later, I will be killed by your broken mouth." Can the prince have a problem and say it casually?