Li Siye stroked his beard and nodded slightly, and said kind words to Yu Chaoen: "Chaoen's words are wrong. I am really lucky that you can be Yunlang's messenger. Now you have told me the whole story.
I also have a plan to deal with it."
He immediately ordered the servants outside the door: "Call Aunt Wu over."
The person who entered the door was an old woman with frost-white temples. She was wearing a jacket made of Sichuan brocade, but she couldn't hide her philistine aura, and she looked quite neat and tidy.
Li Siye told the housekeeper at home: "Aunt Wu, arrange for Mr. Yu to live in a separate courtyard of the mansion."
Yu Chaoen solemnly gave Li Siye a cross-hand salute, turned around and followed the housekeeper out of the study.
The study was temporarily quiet, but Li Siye scratched his head in melancholy. He tried every means to prevent his family from going to Chang'an, but in the end his eldest son had to be sent there as a hostage. He, a child who had just turned thirteen, was sent to Chang'an alone as a hostage.
, even though he has the power of his father as his backer, he still has to be careful.
What he was worried about was not how his son would be treated in Chang'an, but that in the fourteenth year of Tianbao's reign, the world was in a state of change. A historical milestone was bound to happen. China would be catastrophic, the people would be in chaos, and Chang'an would not be able to escape the danger. He
As the leader of the three towns in the northwest, he will naturally be feared by the court. In the drastic changes in the future, he himself will be swaying in this wind-like situation and is in danger of overturning, let alone a little child like him.
.
Although Li Chongyun was not his biological son, the three brothers and sisters were brought back from their infancy on the Suiye River grassland by him. He had always regarded these three children as his own and never told them that their true identities were sudden.
Riding Shiren.
This matter needs to be discussed with Twelve Niangs back at home. Women's ideas may be more useful in this kind of matter.
Li Siye walked out of the study, waved away the many subordinates sitting in the hall, and strolled into the inner courtyard.
Since he took office as Jiedushi, he ordered people to repair and expand the inner courtyard of the Dudu Palace and the Jiedushi, and merged the two inner houses into one. However, he did not have many female dependents in his family, and many of the redundant houses were vacant.
He ordered people to demolish it and built a garden in the center of the backyard. He also ordered people to search in many places in Hexi and transplanted a fringed tree that only two people could hug. He also used hundreds of people to move it to the garden.
Under the tassel tree was the place where he and Twelve Niang fell in love? Although the two have spent more than ten years together, they no longer have the strong feeling they had at the beginning. But this tassel tree not only allows Twelve Niang to remember that time,
Can it also make her miss her master Gongsun Auntie? In those years of Tai Zhen Guan? It is also the most innocent memory of her girlhood.
There is a small lake on the earth platform surrounding the fringed tree, with a long embankment leading to the island in the center of the lake. There is a veranda around the lake shore, and the other ancillary buildings are distributed in a semicircle around the lake.
Twelve Niangs were sitting in the small gallery with double eaves hanging on the top of the mountain under the tassel tree, discussing the embroidery method of peonies with several servants in the house who were good at female embroidery.
Li Siye walked through the corridor and came to the island in the middle of the lake. He stood in silence for a moment under the tassel tree that had not yet sprouted branches and leaves, and then walked towards the small building.
The maids sitting in the corridor quickly stood up and bowed to him, Li Siye just smiled and nodded. Twelve Niang sat on the railing next to the beauty, holding needle and thread in her hand and raised her head. When she saw the hidden meaning in her husband's smile,
The sadness on his forehead? He seemed to have had a premonition of something? He said to the maids around him: "All of you, please step aside."
"Here."
The maids lined up and left with their needlework. Li Siye stepped into the corridor and sat next to the beauty opposite Twelve Niangs. He held his knees with his hands and didn't know how to speak.
"On weekdays, you are busy with government affairs and always come back to the inner house very late? Why did you come back so early today?"
"Nothing happened today, so I came back a little early."
Twelve Niangs asked understandingly: "But what is the matter that is difficult to decide? Although I have little knowledge, I am still willing to share your worries for my husband."
"Huh? No, this matter requires you to make a decision for me. Now that your husband is becoming increasingly powerful? He is feared by the court. The saint sent eunuchs to send envoys to Liangzhou? Do you want to bring your eldest son Chongyun to Chang'an? Do you want to let him?
He is married to the princess of the clan, but in fact the court is using him as a hostage to stabilize me."
Twelve Niangs remained in a sitting position lying on their sides, still concentrating on sewing the round fans in their hands. She seemed not to care about her husband's words, but she was listening attentively.
"My father-in-law has not fulfilled his responsibilities as a father. My wife has been taking care of my children for a long time in the house. They are also closer to you. When it comes to family and relationships, I don't know how to make a decision, and I can't bear to say it to Chongyun face to face.
I have made such a cruel decision. Please help me find a good plan."
Twelve Niang put down her needlework and raised her head and asked him: "Li Lang, I just want to ask you, has Chongyun gone to Chang'an to get married and become a hostage? Is it an irreversible outcome?"
Li Siye hesitated for a moment, then said with some difficulty: "Of course it is, if there is no change, I will not come to you."
She moved her legs off the beauty's backrest, put her hands on her knees and sat upright, showing a somewhat calm and heroic posture, and said: "Since we got married, the male has been in charge of everything in the family, and the female has been in charge. Now the emperor has to do it for us."
The marriage granted by Yun Lang is naturally an internal matter that I am in charge of. Don't worry about it, Li Lang. In half a month, you only need to order someone to send Yun Lang on his way."
Li Siye looked surprised. He originally wanted to ask his wife for advice, but was deprived of her right to speak. However, this was fine. Women always handle emotional matters more delicately than men. He just had to wait for the result.
He sat next to his wife, raised his hands and kneaded her shoulders and said, "Fortunately they are not Xiaosi. After all, they are not the flesh that fell off your body. This is still acceptable."
"Are you willing to let go of your children if they are not your biological children? In my eyes, Chongyun, Chongle, Chongbao and Zuoguo are all my children, and there is no distinction between them. It's just that Chongyun is the oldest and has always been more stable than them.
His going to Chang'an reassures me more than them."
"What the lady said is absolutely true." Li Siye held Twelve Niang's hands, feeling that his confidence was getting weaker and weaker.
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The private school teacher in the mansion temporarily suspended classes and let the children run out to play. Five or six children ran around in the garden like birds, sometimes disappearing at the end of the grass and trees, waiting for the children who caught the cats to find them.
The Twelfth Mother was sitting in the corridor doing needlework. She looked up and saw Li Chongyun who was bending down and hiding behind the pavilion. She waved to him and said, "Chongyun, come to my mother."
Li Chongyun was told by his mother that the game was over, so he had to walk towards her gloomily.
The child stood still in the corridor. Twelve Niang took out a crimson robe with a missing crotch from her arms, lifted it up and made a gesture on his shoulder. The size was just right.
"This is the robe that Aniang made for you. Can you try it on and see if it fits you well?"
When Li Chongyun heard this, he happily ran into the house and changed his clothes, then walked out swaggeringly, stood in front of his mother and twisted a few times like a peacock.
Several children gathered around and looked at their brother with envy as he put on the crotchless robe that only adults could wear, and they all asked their mother for it.
The Twelve Mothers scolded them severely and drove them away, leaving the eldest son alone in front of her with a look full of reluctance.
"Chongyun, if you put on the clothes made by my mother, you will be an adult from now on. When my father and mother are not around, you should think more, see more, and figure out more. You should learn to distinguish which people's words are for your own good.
, whose words are hurting you."
"Yes," Chongyun responded with a solemn nod.
"Go and invite your husband here. Mother has something to give you and wants to tell him."
Li Chongyun trotted to the private school in the yard next door. After a while, the child led his teacher, Mr. Lu Hong, to Twelve Niangs. She touched the child's head affectionately and said, "Go and play."
Yun Lang spread his legs and ran in the direction of his friends. His voice was childish and simple. He was indeed just a child.
The Twelve Mother stood up from the low stool and saluted her husband. Lu Hong hurriedly returned the greeting with folded hands.
"Sir, please take a seat. I invite you here just to ask, what lesson has this child Chongyun learned?"
"Mrs. Qi, I have just learned this section of "The Great Learning", so a gentleman should first be careful about his virtues. I am very fond of it. I am very fond of it."
Twelve Niang raised her chin and asked reservedly and politely: "I have a humble request. Could you please give me a different lesson tomorrow?"
"I wonder what Madam wants me to tell the children?"
"Let's talk about "Touch the Dragon and Talk about the Empress Dowager Zhao" in "Warring States Policy". This can be regarded as the last lesson Yun Lang learned as your student."
Lu Hong frowned slightly, already understanding the connection. He bowed ninety degrees and bowed his head to the ground in front of Madam: "Madam, please don't worry, I will definitely teach you this last lesson."