The Li family's house in the capital only had three courtyards, and only three or two servants were left behind. Li Chengping backed away from the maids who came forward, and quickly carried Li Qi into the study.

Sure enough, the back of Emperor Yongde, who looked like a tall and straight pine, stood waiting in the room. He also looked heroic in his ordinary dark gray mountain ink straight skirt, and he was quite intimidating just standing in the room.

"Where are you?" Emperor Yongde noticed that there was still a trace of oil on Li Qi's mouth. Li Qi, who was discovered, quickly wiped away the oil with his sleeve.

Emperor Yongde: "..."

Now I no longer wanted to hug my little son.

"I ate another roast chicken from Haiyantang on the way." Li Chengmo smiled helplessly, and he would go to heaven to eat Li Qizhen.

"That's right! He won't cause trouble until he's hungry." Emperor Yongde really had no idea what to do with Li Qi, especially since he was able to eat and was born in the womb.

Li Cheng looked at the sadness in his father's eyes and comforted him: "Don't worry, father, the medicinal bath has not been missed."

Li Qi was drugged in her womb. The alchemist said that this drug combines poison and chronic poison and is called "Yuansheng". The beautiful name implies its tragic ending.

This poison is colorless and odorless. It can be hydrolyzed by simply dropping it into a meal. It cannot be detected by a silver needle test. The poison only starts to take effect when a woman is pregnant.

This shows that someone has been secretly taking advantage of the mother since she was pregnant.

The poison caused the Li Qi in the fetus to continue to grow and eat away at the vitality of the mother's body. It was only when the fetus was too big to give birth that the chronic poison took effect.

It makes the mother's body weak and unable to give birth smoothly. Even if she is lucky enough to give birth to a child, the mother's body will not be able to recover due to the inability of the uterine body to recover, and she will die from massive postpartum blood loss. If her child is lucky enough to be born, he will be weak and incurable all his life.

This extremely vicious medicine was a forbidden technique in the barbarian territory of Southern Chu. Emperor Yongde secretly investigated it for more than ten years but was still unable to find out where it came from or how to solve it.

The fierce fighting in the palace did not end because of the loss of the queen and the defeat of the prince. After all, the two brothers gave up their status as legitimate sons, and the fierce fighting did not stop.

Unable to find a solution to this forbidden technique, Emperor Yongde could only heartbrokenly follow Taizu's instructions and let the two children return to the Li family to stay away from the palace.

At this point, his harem no longer accepted new people, and when he established a successor, he also gave up the real names of his two children and changed them to the ancestral characters. The children after Li Qi were all named after Li.

This also made the two children truly the legitimate sons of Emperor Yongde, regardless of whether their names were on the royal jade certificate or not.

"It's a shame for both of you." Emperor Yongde reached out to touch Li Cheng, but he had to stop when he saw that he had accurately avoided the gesture by cupping his hands and saluting.

Being nearly forty makes him envious? That's right! If Empress Li had any spiritual power to blame these two children who had been together for a long time and separated for a long time, he would not be able to take good care of the children properly as the person with the highest imperial power.

"My son doesn't have to work hard, he has more freedom outside the palace." Li Cheng replied respectfully.

"Yes! I also like my father outside the palace." Li Qi went to Emperor Yongde's side and hugged him without any courtesy.

This is my mother's former residence. Emperor Yongde said that here they had no king or ministers, only father and son.

The former prince had few heirs, only two princes and three princesses. He succeeded the former Empress Dowager Le as concubine Shu. In order to ensure that Emperor Yongde grew up peacefully and stably, when he became an adult, he did not seek enfeoffment but only wanted to build a residence and live as an idle prince.

Emperor Yongde and Empress Li were a young couple, and they had a close friendship. Unexpectedly, the prince fell off his horse in spring hunting and was injured. I don't know if he chopped off the heads of several imperial doctors, but he still failed to survive. The candidate for succession fell to Emperor Yongde.

On the head.

The late emperor and the late empress, who were over fifty years old, were deeply saddened by the death of the prince. They died of heart disease within three months of each other, earning them the reputation of being extremely affectionate.

If there had not been only one prince, there would have been another bloody battle for the throne. The throne came so suddenly that Emperor Yongde and Concubine Shu were caught off guard. It can be said that they had to bite the bullet and get the throne.

And Li Cheng spent most of his childhood in this house. Watching his parents love each other and playing the piano, he reluctantly entered the palace. The ministers began to fill the harem with the excuse of extending the imperial heir. Although Emperor Yongde guarded the queen for his mother,

The position has become the target of public criticism.

The emergence of an empress dowager from a pure minister is already a matter of smoke rising from the ancestral grave. After another pure minister, how can the officials swallow it? Shouldn't the previous dynasty check and balance the constraints of the harem?

If the harem is not filled with three thousand beauties, there will be dozens of beauties, not to mention that the new emperor ascends the throne without any concubines and only has one queen. How can we not make some interested people ready to take action?

The Li family had a pure family tradition and did not like the chaos in the court and the fights in the harem. Moreover, she had no intention of becoming emperor, so she married the Li family's daughter to Emperor Yongde to show her loyalty. Little did she know that fate was not as good as fate, and that was how she ended up today.

Li Cheng, who witnessed his mother's tragic condition, knew that if he wanted to find out the cause of death, he could only hide his sharp edge and live like a prodigal son in order to break the hearts of those people.

Emperor Yongde took out the white porcelain bottle from his sleeve pocket. After opening it, the fragrance of bamboo spread in the study room. He raised a malicious smile on his lips and asked with his eyes if he wanted to drink.

Li Cheng: "..." Are you trying to seduce him with what he gave you?

So, Li Cheng opened the double-open cabinet door on the upper floor of the book rack, and his eyes were blinded by the eight white porcelain bottles on both sides.

Emperor Yongde: "..."

Li Qi: "..."

As for being so arrogant?

Okay! The third brother brought me the wine on his knees.

The third brother and his father were not on good terms, and he gradually started to develop an interest in him when he was seven years old. The older the third brother got, the colder he became to his father, not only to save his life, but also because he did not want to get too close to his father.

Grandfather said, "The third brother complained that his father did not take good care of his mother."

After listening to what his third brother secretly told him through the window before entering the palace, Li Qi finally understood that his grandfather's family had been working hard for him for more than ten years, all in order to find an antidote for him.

Although I still can't figure out what the third brother is planning, I only know that the third brother and his grandfather are trying their best to save his life. Even the two uncles are looking for prescriptions and medicines everywhere, hoping that he can get rid of the poison of fate as soon as possible.

.

But it seems that the fate is not bad! Once someone poisoned his food, he returned home and vomited and had diarrhea, so he would know which food was untouchable!

The new poison cannot affect you, and you can clearly refuse the meeting. How great is this!

"Third brother wants to drink with father?" Li Qi pretended not to understand and hurriedly placed three chairs and porcelain cups. There was not much time for the family to get together properly, and he did not want to waste it on being arrogant.

Emperor Yongde was satisfied with Li Qi's expression, so he sat on the small stool and raised his eyebrows to demonstrate to Li Chengyang.

Li Cheng struggled internally for a long time before sitting down, comforting himself that he couldn't refuse Li Qi.

"Father said that this is what my mother smells like?" Li Qi only had the painting of playing the piano in the bamboo forest in Xiaoxiang to his mother, and the rest were mostly paraphrases and imaginings.

"Yes!" Emperor Yongde sipped the contents of the cup. "The Xiaoxiang Bamboo Forest in the west of the city is the village where your mother was married. She said that wine in bamboo tubes is the most nourishing. She always spent a lot of effort to cultivate wine in the bamboo forest, and would give it to your grandmother and grandfather from time to time.

Serve it, I can only drink the wine beside the pot."

Only in front of his two children can he call himself me. The word "I" is the beginning of losing Queen Li. He is not happy at all. What's the use of having the world and losing his favorite?

"How does this wine taste compared to mother's?" Li Qi thought about looking for his mother's shadow in the wine.

Emperor Yongde caressed Li Qi who was lying on the edge of the table. "Silly boy! Your mother's wine is filled with longing. This Yu Lizui is drinking with missing. What she drinks with you and your brother is caring."

I can't watch my brothers grow up, I just hope that all the news they send is peace.

Emperor Yongde's words shook Li Cheng's heart, but his words were still sharp. "It seems that mother drank a lot of mist soup."

Emperor Yongde raised the corner of his mouth. "It's your mother who feeds me most of the soup."

Empress Li's smile and frown are still vivid in my memory, not to mention the bright stars between the two children's eyebrows are similar to Empress Li's.

Li Chengsi and his mother also put on warm smiles. "That's right! Mothers often say that children must grow up with praise so that they will not be afraid of adversity."

"The third brother is always scolding me to death! He doesn't praise me much either." Li Qi quickly added.

"You don't want me to scold you? Or should I let the courtiers do it? Why don't you tell me what happened after I praised you last time?"

Li Qi hesitated for a moment. "It's better for Third Brother to scold me! If you send me to Tingwei again, I might not be able to get out."

The last time he entered the imperial court, it was all because Li Cheng praised him, "He has made progress in Cuju!" So Li Qi, who was overly happy, kicked Laoyuan again and hit the ancestral temple accurately, destroying a hundred pieces.

Eight immortal lamps almost burned down the ancestral temple and the treasures of the late emperors.

Li Cheng raised his eyebrows and sneered. "You do have foresight."

I would like to ask how many court officers really dared to whip the emperor's direct prince? Li Qi was whipped more than ten times. If the young father-in-law hadn't delivered the news quickly, Li Qi might have been gone.

Each of his father's four concubines is not a fuel-efficient lamp. There are no clues about the bewitchment on his mother. This is the scary part. Now, in addition to their brothers, his father also has four princes and six princesses, and there is exactly one fourth concubine.

Can a prince and his fourth concubine have some tricks? He still doesn't believe it.

"You should pay attention to what your third brother says. Don't always make trouble. Your third brother has been made like a bad old man by you." Emperor Yongde was helpless and powerless towards Li Cheng's cold face. He also missed the look on his face and eyes.

A child with a bright smile, but time always changes everything inadvertently.

The three of them could never go back to the days when they were laughing and playing in the small yard, singing to the wind and enjoying the moon, and sharing calligraphy and painting.

"Father! It's you who makes the old man look so bad! No wonder Third Brother." Li Qi took out a small bronze mirror from his arms. The mirror reflected the mustachioed Emperor Yongde, and his resolute starry eyes seemed to be gradually igniting fire.

"There really isn't a day that goes by that you don't need to be beaten." Li Cheng indeed inherited eight points of his father's appearance, but it was not the appearance that he liked. He would rather be like Li Qi, with the look and features of his mother.

"What's wrong if I tell the truth?" Li Qi still held the mirror and didn't understand.

"It's okay! Go back to Xieyang and continue to bury it." Li Cheng announced the punishment unceremoniously.

Why does he still need to be polite when he has made it clear which pot should not be opened and which pot should be lifted? Could it be that he didn't know that Li Qi was trying to reconcile the conflict between him and his father?

Thinking of this, he and his father couldn't hide their tacit understanding and smiled at each other.
Chapter completed!