Yuwen Zhaoyi heard the deep meaning in Li Yuanjia's words, and the smile on his face froze, then quickly recovered.
If possible, she wouldn't want to do this.
They are all raised by their father and mother. Who is willing to lower his eyebrows and smile at others, and who is willing to nod and bend down to pretend to be a grandson?
But what happened in the East Palace was so tragic that she really didn't dare to let the same scene happen to her palace.
So she had to lower her profile in front of Li Yuanji.
"Would you please Yuwen Zhaoyi tell the other people in the palace for me, let them do whatever they have to do. There is no need to live too restrictively because of me, and there is no need to live so humble because of me.
I won't do anything to them."
Seeing that Yuwen Zhaoyi still didn't relax, Li Yuanji couldn't help but say another sentence.
Yuwen Zhaoyi looked at Li Yuanji hesitantly. She didn't know how much Li Yuanji's words were true or false, so she didn't dare to agree easily.
Li Yuanji thought for a moment and then added, "Of course, if they take advantage of their power to bully others and allow their servants and family members to commit crimes, then I will not be merciful."
When Yuwen Zhaoyi heard this, her heart beat wildly. She didn't know what happened, but she actually believed Li Yuanji's words.
She said with a slightly excited expression: "Then... I will thank His Highness Prince Qi for his kindness on behalf of the other sisters in the palace..."
Li Yuanji glanced at Yu Wen Zhaoyi and said with a smile: "You can't say this nonsense. In our Tang Dynasty, the only person who can give people grace is my father. At best, I just accept my father's will and act on my father's behalf."
I don’t know whether it’s because I’ve been dominated by the art of emperors for a long time, or because I’ve been poisoned by feudal ideas for a long time. People in the palace don’t seem to believe in pie-in-the-sky things.
Therefore, it seems difficult to win their trust if you only show kindness and not force.
Li Yuanji discovered this from Yuwen Zhaoyi, so he added decisively.
The effect is very good.
Yuwen Zhaoyi believed what he said and made some responses.
I was just a little too excited and started to speak incoherently.
After Yuwen Zhaoyi heard Li Yuanji's words, she also realized that she had said the wrong thing in excitement. In order to avoid saying the wrong thing again, she simply did not speak again and just said "um" in a weird accent.
This can be regarded as a response to Li Yuanji's words.
That tone was like someone who won a big prize but didn't dare to shout out, so he could only express his feelings with "Uh-huh, uh-huh."
"Come, Yuanjia, come to Fourth Brother and let Fourth Brother take a good look."
After appeasing Yuwen Zhaoyi, Li Yuanji comforted his eleventh brother Li Yuanjia.
Li Yuanjia, who was four and a half years old, did not dare to move at all when his brother greeted him, nor did he raise his head. Instead, he buried his head deeply into his mother's arms.
Yuwen Zhaoyi knew very well that now was not the time to coddle her son, so she pushed her extremely reluctant son to Li Yuanji's side.
Li Yuanji knelt down, caressed Li Yuanjia, who was stiff and looked like he was about to cry, and said softly: "Little guy, I am your fourth brother, dear fourth brother, you don't have to be afraid of me."
Li Yuanjia pursed his lips and made no response.
Although Li Yuanjia's expression was gentle and his tone was gentle, he did not dare to get close to Li Yuanji at all.
Because he heard his maids, nuns, and eunuchs discussing his fourth brother last night, the night before, and the night before.
It was said that his fourth brother beat Zhang Shigui to death in the Xuanwu Sect, killed hundreds of people, crippled Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong near Anli Gate, and killed his second brother's concubine behind the Ganlu Palace.
My uncle, he attacked thousands of people.
He didn't listen to everything else, but he heard something that frightened him, that is, his fourth brother killed tens of thousands of people during the turmoil in the palace, and also ate human hearts and drank human blood.
, quite scary.
So he didn't dare to get close to his fourth brother, not even for a moment.
Although he was still young and didn't understand the truth yet, he already knew what kind of person it was to kill people, set fire to people, eat human hearts, livers, and drink human blood.
In the words of his uncle who once commented on Zhu Jie in private, he was a human demon, more terrifying than a ghost.
He still knows what ghosts are.
Because when he once passed by a sealed palace, a very scary sound came from inside. His mother-in-law told him that there were ghosts living inside, and they would secretly catch people in the palace when night fell.
The kids running around outside go back to eat.
He was so frightened that he couldn't sleep well for several nights, so he knew what ghosts were, and he could also judge how terrifying human demons were, which were scarier than ghosts.
"Come on, call Fourth Brother and listen. Fourth Brother will give you something good."
In order to show his ability to please children, Li Yuanji specially took out a jade pendant seized from Fang Xuanling from his arms and waved it in front of Li Yuanjia with a bright smile.
Li Yuanjia looked at the white and sharp teeth and thought that those white and sharp teeth could eat people's livers and drink human blood. He couldn't hold it back and cried.
"Wow……"
The loud crying suddenly embarrassed Li Yuanji.
Li Yuanji stood up with a smile, quickly handed the jade pendant to Yuwen Zhaoyi, and stepped back two steps: "It seems that I am not very popular with children..."
Yuwen Zhaoyi held the jade pendant in her hand and didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
This was a rare opportunity for his son and Li Yuanji to exchange brotherly feelings, but it was ruined by his unpromising son.
She should cry.
But Li Yuanji's embarrassment and panic made her feel a little funny.
Just the funny look he showed after Li Yuanji made his brother cry is enough to show that Li Yuanji is not a particularly bad person.
This way, she felt more at ease.
"You, you are so worthless. Your fourth brother wants to take some time out of his busy schedule to get close to you, but you are still crying..."
Yuwen Zhaoyi carefully put the jade pendant given by Li Yuanji around Li Yuanjia's waist, tapped Li Yuanjia's forehead lovingly, and gave a lesson that made people laugh and cry.
Li Yuanji smiled dryly and said: "It's not too busy... However, he doesn't want to get close to me. I think it's because I haven't seen him since he was born.
If we see you more often in the future, you should be willing to get close to me."
Li Yuanji did not blame Yu Wen Zhaoyi for this kind of thing, nor did he make it difficult for Yu Wen Zhaoyi. Instead, he took all the reasons on himself.
Without waiting for Yuwen Zhaoyi to express any words of gratitude, Li Yuanji waved to Li Ling, Li Xu, and Li Chengye and asked them to take Li Yuanjia to play with them.
They are both children, both are proficient in baby talk, and they don't have any scheming, so they should be able to play together.
Just like when Li Chengye forcibly hugged Li Yuanjia and refused to let go, Li Yuanjia didn't cry.
It's not like a certain Li Laosi who didn't want to be named and scared other people's children to tears when he showed up.
Under Li Chengye's warm greeting, and under the comfort of Li Ling and Li Xu like big sisters, Li Yuanjia soon stopped crying, put down his guard, and gradually started to play.
Seeing the four little guys gradually getting together, laughing and playing small games among children, Li Yuanji finally felt the slightest bit of beauty in this Tai Chi Palace full of calculations and killings.
.
However, this kind of beauty is limited to children.
Adults can't put down their guard as quickly as they do and get together to talk and laugh.
Li Yuanji glanced at Yu Wen Zhaoyi, who was a full foot away from him after the children left, and the corner of his mouth twitched.
It’s not that they don’t want to come together to chat and laugh with him, His Highness, the King of Qi, or they don’t want to come up and have a relationship with him, His Highness, the King of Qi.
There is no way people can come together.
Because people want to avoid suspicion.
Ever since the incident involving Li Jiancheng, Concubine Yin De, and others happened in the palace, the concubines in the palace would walk around adult men when they saw them. If they couldn't avoid it, they would take the initiative to keep a distance of ten feet away.
The reason for doing this is that I don't want to be misunderstood, I don't want to be rumored, and I don't want to follow in the footsteps of Concubine Yin and others.
Although Li Yuan was old and frail, and liked the new and disliked the old, he had not favored the elderly concubines in the palace for a long time. Because of their age and staying alone in their empty rooms for too long, those concubines also became unbearably lonely and in urgent need.
Catharsis.
But compared to venting one's own selfish desires, the heads of oneself, one's own children, and one's parents' family are obviously more important.
Therefore, the concubines would rather ask Mr. Jiao to help them day and night, and would not dare to get even closer to other men.
The reason why Yu Wen Zhaoyi appeared here today was because he asked someone to find out that Li Yuanji went to Gonglimen today to greet Jiajuan. He should have stayed with Jiajuan in Wude Hall for a day and would not appear here, so he took the risk.
Went here with my son to have some fun.
But I didn't expect to meet Li Yuanji.
Fortunately, Li Yuanji didn't say anything about her taking the initiative to distance herself, nor did he take the initiative to talk to her after the children left, otherwise it would have been difficult for her.
"Father, father, do you think the flower I picked is prettier than Uncle Wang's?"
After the four little guys played games for a while, Li Ling took the initiative to pick flowers and compete to see who picked the most beautiful flowers.
Although Li Xu is a girl, she doesn't like flowers very much and doesn't have much research on flowers. Although the flowers she picks are big, they look rough and rough. They are immediately defeated by the delicate flowers picked by Li Ling.
Li Chengye didn't like flowers very much, but after being forced by his two sisters, he still picked a flower that Li Xu tortured and made it look ugly. Then Li Xu, who was defeated by Li Ling, became the last one.
name.
Although Li Yuanjia was the youngest, his knowledge of flowers was far better than Li Ling's, so he chose a flower that was more beautiful than the delicate flower in Li Ling's hand.
Then Li Ling was defeated, but Li Ling didn't want to admit it, so he dragged Li Yuanjia to his father to be the referee in an attempt to get some favoritism from his father.
