Being a courtier and being a loyal dog are two different things.
Unfortunately, many people in this world don't understand the difference between the two.
In people's minds, these five persons, the Lord, the Earth, the Lord, the Master, are the ones who must be respected and obeyed in life. This concept has been deeply rooted in people's hearts since ancient times.
People must maintain respect for heaven and earth, be loyal to the emperor and love the country, honor parents, and respect teachers. These are certainly virtues, but loyalty to the emperor is for patriotism, and patriotism does not necessarily require loyalty to the emperor.
When you encounter a foolish king like the late emperor, being loyal to him is the same as harming the country.
For the sake of spiritual practice and to realize the value of justice in his heart, Li Mu was willing to do something for the Zhou court and the people of Zhou Dynasty. This did not mean that he had to crawl at the Queen's feet and be a loyal dog.
The Queen may be high and majestic in the eyes of others, but she is not majestic in Li Mu's heart.
When he thinks of her ravaging him in his dream, the majestic image he has built up for her will instantly collapse.
Li Mu could not see through Zhou Zhong, but he knew that over the years, as the Minister of Punishment, he had shielded many people from the old party, but he had also made unparalleled contributions to improving the laws of Zhou.
If you read "Zhou Lv Shu Yi" carefully, you will find that almost every once in a while, Zhou Zhong would modify or add a legal provision.
In Wei Bin's case, if the old laws were followed, there is no doubt that he would have had his sentence reduced.
However, Zhou Zhong defined rape by more than two people as a serious situation two years ago. Wei Peng's "Dazhou Law" was not updated in time. Due to some mistakes, Wei Bin successfully obtained the death penalty.
If you study "Zhou Lv Shu Yi" carefully, you can easily discover one thing.
In the past ten years or so, Zhou Zhong has not touched the interests of the dignitaries of the divine capital. Since the failure of the political reform, he has never tried to abolish the substitutionary silver law. Instead, he has used a silent way to promote the bottom
Reform of the law.
If it hadn't been for his practice two years ago, Li Mu would have been able to see Wei Bin and others again in the capital a few years later.
Human nature is complex. For a person like Zhou Zhong, it is difficult to label him a good person or a bad person, but there is no doubt that he is a smart person and would not say those words to Li Mu for no reason.
Regarding Cui Ming, it is too early to talk about victory or defeat.
Li Mu thought about it for a long time and was sure that from a legal perspective, Cui Ming could not escape death for the crime he committed unless the Queen protected him. Therefore, Princess Yunyang would definitely persuade the Queen Mother or the Dowager Princess to persuade the Queen, but in this case
The Queen's character will definitely not agree, but she will inevitably be embarrassed...
After feeling sorry for the Queen for a while, she had already walked to the door of Li Mansion.
Li Mu pushed the door open and said, "Xiao Bai, come here and see what I bought you..."
Li Mu stepped into the door and paused.
Xiaobai was squatting in the garden in front of the yard, holding a small shovel. Besides Xiaobai, there was also a woman standing in the garden.
Xiaobai planted the flower seeds he bought a few days ago, patted the soil with a small shovel, and asked, "Sister Zhou, when will these seeds bloom?"
The Queen whispered: "Step aside."
Xiaobai took the shovel and walked out of the garden. When he saw Li Muchi, he said happily: "Master, you are back!"
Li Mu had just said goodbye to the Queen at the palace and went to Zhongshu Province. She also chatted with Zhou Zhong on the street and wasted a lot of time. However, she arrived home before Li Mu. It seemed that she had been at Li Mansion for a while.
Already.
The Queen glanced at him and said, "There will be no peace in the palace for the past two days. I came to you to take shelter."
Li Mu understood her meaning instantly.
In Cui Ming's case, Princess Yunyang will definitely turn to the Queen Mother and the Crown Princess for help. These people are the late emperor's concubines and the Queen's elders. If they are of low status and plead for Cui Ming, the Queen will definitely be in a dilemma.
In this case, it might be a good idea to be out of sight and out of hearing.
Li Mu thought for a while and asked: "How long will your Majesty stay here? Do you need to clean up a room for you?"
Xiaobai put down the shovel and said with a smile: "I made an agreement with Sister Zhou that she will sleep with me at night."
Li Mu sighed, when will Xiaobai become more vigilant? During the time when Li Mu returned home from the palace, she seemed to have regarded the Queen as a sister.
Human minds are complex. Monsters like her, who grew up in the mountains and have never interacted with humans, are very naive. They are so naive that people feel that they are missing a muscle. She and Bai Tingxin are both like this.
type.
Of course, the Queen is trustworthy, and Li Mule sees the success of Xiaobai's establishing a good relationship with her.
Xiaobai still doesn't know that the sister Zhou she calls is the richest woman in Zhou Dynasty. If you get closer to her, you might have a chance to grow five tails and six tails...
What surprised Li Mu was that Xiao Baitian was really ignorant and didn't have much respect for her identity as the empress. The empress could actually put down her identity and call her sister to a little fox. There was really nothing that a queen should have.
appearance.
However, he soon realized that Li Si was probably right.
She is strong and has a high status, but she is also a human being and will be lonely as a human being.
After becoming the queen, she had no relatives, no friends, and even no enemies.
The Xiao royal family fought fiercely with the New Party for the throne, but what they were fighting for was the next throne. As the youngest detached powerhouse in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Xiao family would not and did not dare to become her enemy.
Li Mu sighed. She was a person who didn't even have enemies. No wonder she was lonely.
This is why Xiaobai is stupid. If others know the Queen's identity, they will stay away from her. Xiaobai will be close to anyone who treats her well. This is the nature of the Tianhu clan.
As for Xiaobai himself, because he was so beautiful that even women could not feel jealous, he could easily capture the heart of the Queen.
Last time the Queen gave her a few drops of black fox spirit blood to advance her to the fourth tail. She remembered this kindness in her heart, and she might have forgotten the task Liu Hanyan had given her and automatically excluded the Queen from the ranks of vixens.
As soon as these thoughts flashed through Li Mu's mind, the Queen had already walked out of the garden.
She stood outside the garden and gently waved her sleeves. Li Mu instantly noticed that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the courtyard suddenly became abundant.
In the garden, the seeds that Xiaobai had just planted sprouted out of the ground and grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. First they gave birth to green leaves, and then they formed flower buds. In just a short moment, the seeds that had just formed buds were born.
The buds are competing to bloom...
In just a few breaths, flowers bloomed all over the Li Mansion.
Li Mu marveled at the Taoist method of transcending the powerful to reach the mystical realm. Xiao Bai was dumbfounded.
She grabbed the Queen's sleeve and said blankly: "Sister Zhou, I want to learn this..."
The queen pinched her face and said, "When you grow another tail, I will teach you."
Li Mu did not tell Xiaobai that if she wanted to be like a queen, she would have to grow three more tails and become a seven-tailed black fox.
Bringing spring to dead trees is a magical power that can be used by strong people in the Creation Realm, but the Dao of the Fifth Realm can only make buds grow on the dead trees. The Queen's hand bloomed the garden, and in a short period of time, from seeds to
To promote birth to flowering, you must have at least the cultivation level of the seventh realm.
In the small courtyard, the fragrance of flowers filled the air. Xiaobai ran into the garden, smelling here and there, looking here and there. Li Mu thought that there was no food at home, and the matter of Cui Ming might not be over in a day or two. In other words,
The Queen will stay here for at least two days.
He looked at the Queen and asked: "Your Majesty, what kind of food do you like to eat? I will buy it."
The Queen said calmly: "I told you, you don't need to call me that outside the palace."
It seemed that she really didn't like being the emperor. She didn't even say "I" when she left the palace. But in this way, Li Mu was a little embarrassed as to how to address her.
Let's call her Miss Zhou, which seems natural. Let's call her Miss Wu, which is a bit strange.
Like Xiaobai, calling her Sister Zhou doesn't seem appropriate.
Xiaozhou, Xiaowu, or calling her by her full name is even more inappropriate.
Li Mu thought for a while and asked, "What do you like to eat?"
Since you don’t know how to call me, just don’t call me by name and avoid the confusion.
The queen thought for a while and said: "Fish, tofu..."
For three people, four dishes and one soup should be enough. Xiao Bai likes to eat chicken, and the Queen likes to eat fish. Li Mu made a steamed sea bass, Xiao Bai's favorite stewed chicken with mushrooms, braised tofu, and fried it.
I ordered a green vegetable, and the last soup was made by Xiaobai carefully for an hour.
Without Master Mei and Shangguan Li, this meal was more interesting than the last time due to Xiao Bai's activity. Gradually, Li Mu also realized something.
He could completely separate Zhou Wu from the Li Mansion and the Queen in the palace. The woman sitting opposite him now was not the king of a country, but a sister with the same name as the Queen, whom Xiaobai had just met.
There was a lot of fun at the dining table in the Li Mansion. In the palace, in a certain hall of the West Palace, Princess Yunyang knelt on the ground and begged: "Concubine, please save the prince-in-law!"
Opposite her, a woman in palace clothes who looked about the same age as her and looked very similar to her slowly stood up and said coldly: "I advised you at the beginning that Cui Ming's status is not worthy of you.
, but you refused to listen to me. Now that he has caused trouble, you know how to come and beg me?"
Princess Yunyang stepped forward, hugged her legs, and said: "Concubine, no matter what, she is still my prince-in-law. My daughter has already died by a prince-in-law. Do you want your daughter to die by another prince-in-law?"
After all, it was her daughter. The woman in palace clothes sighed, helped her up, and said, "Okay, I'll put on this old face and go and beg Your Majesty."
Princess Yunyang stood up, wiped her tears, and said happily: "I knew that the mother-in-law is the best..."
After a while, they arrived at the entrance of Shangyang Palace.
Looking at the woman in palace attire walking slowly towards her, Shangguan Li bowed and said, "I've seen the Crown Princess before."
The woman in palace clothes asked: "Is your Majesty in the palace? The Ai family has something to do and I want to see your Majesty."
Shangguan Li looked at the woman in palace attire, shook his head and said, "Back to the Crown Princess, Your Majesty is not in the palace."
