Chapter 117: ordinary road

Chapter 117: ordinary road

  Chapter 117 The Ordinary Road

  Tai Chi palace.

   Li Yuan was lying on the couch in a nightgown, drowsy, while a music girl was playing a pipa.

  The servant Zhao Yong approached, "The house, the Crown Princess is here to see you."

  Li Yuan didn't even open his eyes, he just waved his hand and said impatiently, "No see."

   "The Princess Changle is also here, as well as the Princess Ma Duwei."

  Li Yuan opened his eyes, "Is that the concubine of Qin Shubao?"

   Hearing that the concubine brought Qin Qiong's concubine to visit, Li Yuan sat up angrily, "I have always treated my uncle well. I never thought that he would repay me like this on the fourth day of June."

   "The slaves let them go back!"

   "No, let them come." Li Yuan thought for a while and gritted his teeth.

Qin Lang stepped into the Taiji Palace for the second time. The last time he came, he rode in with his helmet on and armor and a sword in his hand. He felt like it was still yesterday. When he entered the palace again, Li Yuan was still the owner of the Taiji Palace, but it was only this palace. The master of the palace is gone, and his influence can no longer go out of the Tai Chi Palace.

  All the gates of Taiji Palace were closed and locked, and the keyholes were filled with lead. Only the north gate, Xuanwu Gate, was allowed to enter and exit. Outside the Xuanwu Gate, there is a battalion on the left and right, and the north gate camp. The original soldiers in the camp were the emperor Yuan Cong's forbidden army, but now they have been replaced by Xuanjia cavalry from the original Qin Palace, and another hundred cavalry commanded them.

Passing through the blockade guards and entering the palace, there were no traces of palace changes in the Linhu Palace, Haichi, Changsheng Palace and other battlefields in Xuanwumen, but along the way, there was no internal servant palace. guards.

  The original Qianniu and personal guards in the palace have all been transferred away, and now only the patrol cavalry led by the left guard of the Eastern Palace will come to patrol the palace several times a day, and there are less than a hundred guards on duty in the palace.

  Even the eunuchs and maids in the original palace were released by Li Shimin on the grounds of being sympathetic to the old eunuchs and eunuchs.

  The palace people usually dare not move around at any time, so they look more depressed and quiet.

  A long weed grew out of the cracks between the floor tiles, and no one cleaned it up. The cicada yelled loudly, but no one came to catch it.

  Qin Lang looked eastward and westward, followed not far behind the princess, mother and daughter, Qian Niu prepared himself and Cheng Chumo led a group of guards to **** them.

   "His Majesty is not in a good mood recently, so be careful later."

  Cheng Chu silently wore a thousand-ox sword on his waist, and leaned close to him to remind him in a low voice, "There are already more than a dozen eunuchs who have been killed by sticks in the palace in the past two months. It's all trivial things, but they were killed by His Majesty's stick."

   "Just this morning, another person was killed with a cane."

   "Why?"

   "He farted while serving His Majesty's breakfast, and then he was killed with a rod."

The emperor farts while eating breakfast, it is obviously disrespectful and disrespectful, and he would be punished under normal circumstances, because even the ministers of the court will be punished if they fart loudly during the court meeting, but if they fart, they will be killed with a stick, obviously It's over.

  Cheng Chumo took good care of his brother Qin Lang, telling him everything he knew.

   "Actually, that guy was just unlucky. This morning, Taishi ordered Fu Yi to enter the palace to report to the celestial phenomena."

   "Has there been any astronomical changes recently?"

   "Fu Yi said that there is a celestial phenomenon where five stars overlap." Cheng Chumo said quietly, "He said that the five stars overlap means that the sky changes."

These are all forbidden secrets. Cheng Chumo is now telling Qin Lang that it is actually leaking forbidden secrets. If he is held accountable, he can be executed. Of course, he believes that Qin Lang will not betray him, and Li Yuan will not be able to hold him accountable. After all, the court Now the crown prince has the final say.

  Qin Lang was thoughtful, Taiji Palace is so tightly guarded, Fu Yi must not be able to enter the palace privately, it seems that Li Shimin let Fu Yi in, and hinted at Li Yuan by the celestial phenomena. Li Yuan understood what he meant and was annoyed in his heart, so he finally took the anger out on that palace man who farted.

   This shows that Li Yuan is not willing to accept the hint of abdication.

  It seems that my task today will be more difficult.

   In front of Liangyi Hall.

   Li Yuan's palace governor Zhao Yong sang loudly, "Crown Crown Princess, Princess Changle, and Duke Ma Yi of Changle County Qin Lang have an audience!"

   This was originally sung by other internal servants, but now that there are fewer people in the palace, he personally rolls the name.

  The Hall of Liangyi is magnificent and splendid, but at this time, only Li Yuan is sitting on the side of the hall, and there is only one female singer playing the pipa in the hall, and there are only two eunuchs standing in the other corner, which looks very empty.

  Prince Princess Changsun took her daughter's hand and entered the palace, followed by Qin Lang.

   Cheng Chumo led the team of guards and stood outside the hall, holding a thousand-ox sword in his hand. Zhao Yong glared at Cheng Chumo angrily, but Cheng Dalang just smiled at him and ignored him.

   "Daughter-in-law pays homage to everyone!"

   "Changle pays homage to Grandpa Huang."

  Qin Lang followed to pay respects, "Mr. Qin Lang pays respects to Long Live."

  Li Yuan snorted coldly, "Long live? I'm afraid that even if God is willing to let me live long live, no one will."

  Concubine Changsun said, "How are you all?"

   "Not good." Li Yuan said coldly.

  The atmosphere in the palace was cold, and Li Yuan didn't give his daughter-in-law any face at all.

   "If everyone thinks that there is something missing in the palace, the daughter-in-law will arrange to send it immediately."

   "You should take good care of the East Palace first. I heard that Erlang is now the regent of the country. He has great power, so he has no fear. I heard that the fourth daughter-in-law is now in the East Palace? Is this plausible?"

  The fourth daughter-in-law Li Yuan mentioned naturally refers to Qi Wang Yuanji's concubine Yang Shi. She is the grandniece of Sui Guan Wang Yang Xiong. On the day of the palace change on the fourth day of June, Yuan Ji was killed by Yu Chigong, and then the Qi Palace was breached. Yuan Ji's five sons were all killed, including Concubine Yang's parents and sons. But not long after, Li Shimin favored Concubine Yang, and Insert her into the East Palace.

  This matter is actually not unusual, even almost the entire city of Chang'an knows about it, and it has also attracted many secret criticisms.

   There is even a popular version because of this, saying that Jian Jiancheng and Yuanji wanted to murder Li Shimin, and they deliberately poisoned the wine at a banquet, and Princess Qi secretly informed Li Shimin and saved Li Shimin's life. Later, the two had an affair.

  Concubine Changsun didn't look too good when her father-in-law mentioned the fourth daughter-in-law. She had persuaded her husband about this matter, but he didn't listen to her. Some things are hard to explain to outsiders.

  In fact, not only Princess Qi is in the East Palace, but also the abolished Crown Princess Zheng is also in the East Palace. It’s just that the abolished Crown Princess is now bringing the princess of Wenxi to chant Buddhist scriptures, not like Concubine Yang.

  Qin Lang knelt on the ground, lowered his head, trying not to attract Li Yuan's attention, he planned to listen to their conversation first, so that he could ponder Li Yuan's current state of mind. However, upon hearing this, I was also slandered at Li Shimin. This new crown prince, who looks very tall on the outside, actually has many things that are not noble. It makes sense, but why did you occupy Yuanji's wife?

  Sister-in-law, especially the son who killed the sister-in-law here, how can you still get along with him?

   It's really hard to speculate what kind of thinking is going on here, I just feel that there is a bit of abnormal feeling in it.

   "Child of the Qin family, what are you thinking about with your head down?" Li Yuan was also not sure how to get angry with his daughter-in-law, so when he saw Qin Lang lower his head, he shouted angrily.

   "Your Majesty, I have prepared two gifts to present to Your Majesty, please allow me to present them."

   It's not surprising that there are many people in the ceremony, but Qin Lang didn't come here empty-handed, he was already prepared.

   Li Yuan stared at Qin Lang, "A gift? Beauty or gold?" He spoke with disdain.

   "No, how dare you disturb His Majesty with such vulgar things, they are two kinds of elegant things."

   "Okay, I'd like to take a look."

   "Please allow me to go out of the hall to get it. The things are outside the hall."

   After getting permission, Qin Lang came back after a while.

  Li Yuan stared at the thing that Qin Lang handed over to Zhao Yong, "It looks like a musical instrument, with strings, similar to a pipa, but quite different, boy, is this He Qin?"

   "Return to Your Majesty, I figured out this qin myself, kid. It was made according to the qin and pipa. Because of the six strings, it is called the six-stringed qin, and it can also be called a violin."

  Li Yuan took the guitar, plucked it a few times, and found that the sound of the piano was good, but it was not the same as the pipa. He tried to play a piece of pipa, but found that it didn't feel right.

   "Come and play for me."

  Qin Lang smiled and stepped forward to take it, then waved his hand and started playing the piano.

  The prelude begins, slow and lyrical, which is completely different from the faster and more energetic pipa music. Playing and singing ambush on the pipa can make people excited and excited.

  Li Yuan was not only an emperor, but also a good archer. He fired more than 70 arrows and killed dozens of thieves when suppressing bandits and chaos.

  But Qin Lang's six-stringed violin pulled out a completely different tune, which made people feel a lot more relaxed after listening to it.

   After playing a prelude, Qin Lang actually began to hum along.

  He played and sang, listening to Li Yuan in a daze.

  ·······

   "Are you really listening to the story

  I have crossed mountains and seas

   also through the sea of ​​people

  everything I ever had

   In the blink of an eye, it all drifts away like smoke

  I was lost and disappointed lost all direction

   Until you see ordinary is the only answer

  When you are still fantasizing..."

Li Yuan felt that the banjo tune seemed to be sung into his heart, and the lyrics seemed to be telling his story. Li Yuan, after the Bazhu Kingdom of the Western Wei Dynasty, lost his father when he was seven years old, and joined Dou Yi, the Duke of Shenwu County, at the age of sixteen. In a martial arts competition with the daughter of Princess Xiangyang, two arrows hit the eyes of the peacock on the screen, and he stood out from among the children of Chang'an nobles. The selection of a son-in-law by Queping has since become a good story, and Li Yuan has also become famous.

The Sui Dynasty usurped the Zhou Dynasty, and his uncle Yang Jian usurped his wife's uncle's family... From the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, from Yang Jian to Yang Guang, he, Li Yuan, step by step, finally came out from the anti-king at the end of the Sui Dynasty and became the last The winner wins the world.

  He crossed the mountains and seas of the Sui Dynasty, and passed through the crowds of people who rebelled against the king at the end of the Sui Dynasty. He became the emperor, unified the country, and owned everything.

   But now it was all gone like smoke in a blink of an eye, he was disappointed and lost all direction.

   Li Yuan continued to listen.

  Qin Lang is using a song to persuade himself that seeing the ordinary is the only answer?

   After a long time, Li Yuan let out a long sigh when the sound of the piano stopped and the singing also ended.

   "What's the name of this song?"

   "Ordinary Road."

   Li Yuan smiled wryly, the way of the ordinary, is this trying to persuade me to accept the facts and be an ordinary person?

  In the morning, Fu Yi said that the sky will change when the five stars overlap, and now Qin Lang is playing and singing about this ordinary road.

It's just that this song didn't make people feel so angry after listening to it, unlike this morning, after Fu Yi said that, he beat the farting guy to death in anger, but now he feels that his mood seems to be very stable .

   "You just said that you have two things to dedicate to me, what is the other one?"

   Li Yuan suddenly looked forward to another thing.

  (end of this chapter)