Chapter 185 Fighting brothers
"Woooooo~, sixth cousin, you must help me. Xueyan doesn't want to marry into Tubo!" A little girl threw herself into Li Yan's arms on the hospital bed, and cried with tears in her eyes. Li Jingheng, the round little fat man next to her, also cooperated to wipe her tears, howling in her mouth, while Li Yan comforted the little girl in her arms with helpless look on her face.
The little girl's name is Li Xueyan, and she is Li Daozong's favorite daughter, which is the real sister of Li Jingheng. When the Five Kings Yan, Li Yan and Li Xueyan met for the first time, they liked each other's liveliness and cheerfulness. Later, they often met, and their relationship naturally became deeper. Li Yan always regarded the other party as his own sister.
"Okay, OK, Xueyan, don't cry anymore. Let your cousin calm down and think of a solution, so that you can help you better!" Wen Xin also walked over at this time, patted Li Xueyan's shoulder and said softly. She had been taking care of Li Yan's bedside, and Li Jingheng and his sister were not outsiders, so she did not avoid it.
Li Yan's condition had just improved, and his brain was still a little thirsty. Now, when Li Xueyan cried like this, he felt even more uncomfortable. Therefore, when he heard Wen Xin's words, he immediately spoke: "Xueyan, your cousin's sister-in-law is right. Please stop crying, let me think about it carefully. Don't worry, as long as you have a cousin here, you will never let you marry far away to Tubo!"
Perhaps Wen Xin and Li Yan's words worked, and Xue Yan slowly stopped crying. But a little girl who was originally pretty now has swollen eyes and tears and snot all over her face, looking very haggard. Xue Yan looked so embarrassed. Wen Xin's mother was so excited that she asked someone to get water to help her clean up.
"Brother Jingheng. Stop howling, hurry up and tell me the details of the matter!" Li Yan looked at Li Jingheng who was still howling half true and half false, and couldn't help but shout loudly. But he was really sick two days ago, and he still couldn't lift his whole body until now, and he didn't even have much strength to speak.
Li Jingheng howled for a long time, and his throat could not stand it anymore. He just heard Li Yan's promise to his sister and felt relieved immediately. So when he heard the other party's question, he immediately stopped and grabbed the tea bowl and drank a few times. Then he said with a look of grief: "Liulang, you must help Xueyan. If you really marry into that ghost place in Tubo, then she will be ruined in this life. And I also heard that Tubo is the same as the customs on the grassland, and there is also a tradition of father and son inheriting the death of a son. Songtsen Gampo is older than Xueyan. If he dies, Xueyan will marry his son. This is simply a beastly journey!"
Li Jingheng is useless except doing business. However, the words he said just now are so organized and extremely sensational. With Li Yan’s understanding of Li Jingheng, it is definitely not something the other party can think of.
"Okay! Put away all the words that Uncle Wang taught you. Now I want to hear how far this matter has progressed?" Li Yan was still a little drowsy and didn't want to listen to Li Jingheng's nonsense anymore, so he went straight to the point.
"Uh~" Li Jingheng was stunned, thinking that it was indeed Li Yan, and he saw through his background. Indeed, the reason why he came to Li Yan for help was actually because he was instructed by his father Li Daozong.
Although Li Yan saw through it, Li Jingheng didn't care at all, because his father had expected this situation a long time ago and told him to tell the truth by then. Therefore, he said, "Liu Lang, the matter of marriage has been decided, and His Majesty has agreed, but the candidate for marriage has not yet been decided."
"Huh?" Li Yan was stunned when he heard this and asked in confusion, "Since the candidate for marriage has not been decided yet, why did you and Xueyan come to me and cry? And from what Xueyan said, my father seemed to have made a decision to let her go?"
"Liulang, listen to me and finish it!" Li Jingheng said with a wry smile, "The candidate for marriage is indeed not decided yet, because according to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, although the marriage partners are nominally princesses, most of them are royal women, and the real princesses will definitely not marry!"
When Li Jingheng said this, he looked at Li Yan with a resentful look. Li Shimin was reluctant to marry his own daughter, but he was willing to marry someone else's daughter!
"Although there are many women in the royal family, they have requirements for age, appearance, and marriage. So after excluding these, there are not many others who meet the conditions in the end. Xueyan is one of them. And last night, His Majesty suddenly found my father and revealed that he wanted Xueyan to marry him." After Li Jingheng said that, he looked at Li Yan with a grievance.
"Then, your father agreed in one go?" Li Yan's mind had not fully recovered, so he asked another nonsense.
"What else can I do? Since your father spoke, my father has the courage to refuse?" Li Jingheng replied angrily, whose daughter is not his biological son? What's more, his father and mother usually love Xueyan the most. From yesterday to now, his family has been in a mess. My mother cried and wanted to hang herself. My father sighed and didn't say anything. His hair was half white all night. It was finally decided to let him take the girl to Li Yan to try his luck.
"I just found Uncle Wang last night, which means that the fact that Xueyan was selected has not spread yet. Only your mansion and my father knew that there are more me and Wenxin now?" Li Yan said to himself in thought. Although these two men stayed in the mansion to recuperate, they were not idle either. They were thinking about how to stop this marriage? Now there is finally a rough solution, but I just don't know if it's OK?
"Brother Jingheng, go and find my third brother, and send someone to call Li Yun, Li Zhen, Li Zhi, and Li Shen. Also, don't mention Xue Yan's affairs to others. This time I have to force my father to give up the marriage!" Li Yan finally made up his mind. Although this method was a bit ridiculous, he could only try his best.
"Okay, wait a moment, I'll do it myself!" Although Li Jingheng didn't understand why Li Yan called all his brothers, as long as the other party was willing to help, he would do whatever he wanted.
Seeing Li Jingheng jogging away, Li Yan looked at Wen Xin again and found that Xue Yan had finished washing, but her eyes were still swollen unnaturally. Looking at the little girl who was just fourteen years old today, Li Yan couldn't help but sigh, comforted her a few more words, and then asked Wen Xin to take her to the inner house.
After a while, Li Ke was the first to arrive, followed by Li Yun and Li Zhen. The three of them had already opened their palaces, and they lived not far from the Qi Palace, which was very convenient for notification. Until the end, Li Zhi and Li Shen, who were still living in the imperial city, rushed over. However, after this round, Li Jingheng was exhausted and sweating profusely.
"Liulang, why did you call your ninth brother and your tenth brother?" At first, Li Ke thought that Li Yan had only called him, but later Li Yun and Li Zhen also came, which made him a little strange. Later, he saw that Li Zhi and another eight-year-old Li Shen also came, which made him even more confused and couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, Brother Six, I escaped from my husband. If you are accused of your father, don't forget to plead for me!" Li Shen, the youngest, is also a clever person. He was impatient in elementary school. When he heard Li Yan call him, he immediately threw down the book and ran over excitedly.
"Tenth brother, have you asked your husband to complain less? If you ask your brother to plead for you every time, then he will be very busy!" Li Zhi teased him. He and Li Shenxing were in love, and he was about the same age, so he made some jokes.
"Don't make trouble for you two little guys. Brother Six asked us to come and have something to talk about. Please be quiet!" Li Zhen is a wise man. He is more domineering and has always been stricter than gentle to his younger brothers and sisters. So Li Zhi and Li Shen were a little afraid of him. When he heard him speak, they immediately calmed down. Li Yun was an honest man. He sat aside when he came and didn't speak.
Seeing that several brothers looked at him, Li Yan on the hospital bed showed a warm smile and said slowly: "Brothers, I want to discuss something today. I believe everyone knows that the Tubo king came to our Tang Dynasty to propose marriage again?"
When Li Ke heard that Li Yan mentioned this matter again, his heart immediately moved and a bitter smile appeared on his face. It seemed that this serious illness did not make his younger brother dispel his determination to interfere in the marriage.
"Sixth brother, I know this. Speaking of which, Songtsen Gampo is really shameless. Last time he failed to propose marriage, he fought with our Tang Dynasty. As a result, he was greatly damaged. It's just two years later, and he came to propose marriage with shame. It's really a barbarian in the foreign world. I don't know what shame is!" As soon as Li Yan finished speaking, Li Zhi immediately spoke. He has been helping the newspaper for a while, and he was forced by Changsun Wuji to pay attention to current affairs, so he is very familiar with marriage.
"Okay! I love hearing what the ninth brother said. The last time the Tubo envoy insulted our sisters, but was beaten by the third brother and the sixth brother, and they are still in prison. Unfortunately, I was not here at that time, otherwise I would have kicked that bastard hard!" When Li Zhen heard Li Zhi's words, he felt deeply, and jumped up and waved his fists and said. Since Li Yan helped him beat his fifth brother Li You last time, he has always regarded himself as Li Yan's best friend and likes to learn everything from Li Yan. As for the last time Li Yan beat the Tubo ambassador last time, he admired him.
"Liu Lang, eighth brother, Songzan Gampo is not the messenger Lu Dongzan, so you must not move too much!" Li Ke couldn't help feeling a little headache when he saw Li Zhen's violent appearance. But what made him even more headache was that when Li Yan saw his younger brothers' performance, his eyes shone and looked a little juicy. Now he had to speak and remind him.
"Don't worry, third brother, we are all civilized people, how could we use that method?" Li Yan said, with a despicable smile on his face, and then he seemed to have thought of something and laughed loudly on the spot. Unfortunately, he had not recovered from his illness and coughed halfway through laughter. As a result, he couldn't breathe for a while and almost suffocated himself to death.
Chapter completed!