Li Mu looked at Zhong Ling, who looked innocent, and explained: "Ling'er, be good and don't act nonsense. Giving birth to you is different from giving birth to a younger brother or sister."
The little girl blinked curiously and asked, "What's the difference?"
She might be envious of other children having brothers and sisters, but how should Li Mu explain to her that she was actually born from heaven and earth, not the brainchild of him and the queen.
Zhong Ling's spiritual intelligence is growing rapidly, but it is obvious that he is still unable to understand this.
Li Mu and the Queen looked at each other. Li Mu looked embarrassed. The Queen held Zhong Ling's face and said with a smile: "Ling'er, don't worry, you will have younger brothers and sisters in the future..."
After receiving the Queen's promise, Zhong Ling happily ran to play.
In Changle Palace, seeing the Queen looking at him, Li Mu said decisively: "Your Majesty, give up this idea as soon as possible. I and your wife have not planned to have children yet..."
In the next few years, Li Mu, Liu Hanyan and Li Qing will be in seclusion and busy with political affairs. Even if they have children, they will not have much time to accompany them. This is not good for the growth of the children, so they
I plan to regenerate in a few years.
Zhong Ling's appearance was at most an accident.
Zhou Wu glanced at Li Mu lightly, "Ling'er is my daughter, her younger brother and sister, why should another woman be born?"
Li Mu thought for a while and asked, "Does Your Majesty want to give birth by himself?"
Zhou Wu asked back: "Are you willing to watch helplessly as the world that you and I have worked so hard to build is surrendered to others?"
Li Mu didn't hesitate and said decisively: "I don't want to."
How could Dazhou be willing to give it up to others after he had spent so much effort to achieve the grand success he has today?
The virtues of the Xiao family are obvious to all the people in the city of God. If the world falls into their hands again, the foundation that Li Mu has built for the Queen in the past few years will be completely destroyed by them in a short time.
The geographical location of the Great Zhou Dynasty is not very good. There are water tribes in the east, countries with evil intentions in the south, Youdu in the west with evil intentions, and demon kingdoms in the north. There are threats from all sides. Once the internal defeat of the Great Zhou reaches a certain level, the barbarians will surely
Attack them in groups.
This is also an important reason why the central dynasty of Zuzhou has never been very long-lasting. There are powerful enemies watching from all sides. Once there are more than three generations of weak kings in succession, the surrounding neighbors will not give the central court a chance.
When the outside starts to exert pressure, the already loose interior can easily be defeated.
The key question is, if the Queen herself wants to have a child, how and with whom?
Considering the voice of the masses, of course this candidate must be Li Mu, but this is not in Li Mu's life plan.
Zhou Wu looked at him and said: "The reason why Da Zhou is today is mostly due to you. To whom the imperial energy is given, this is not only my business, but also your business."
Li Mu didn't know what she was thinking, so he could only say: "I will obey your Majesty in everything."
After Zhou Wu thought deeply for a moment, she said: "I plan to give it to our child."
Li Mu shook his head and said: "Your Majesty also knows Ling'er's identity. Not only the courtiers, but even the people may not be able to accept that the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty is not a human being. This will make the Great Zhou Dynasty lose the foundation of people's support..."
Although Li Mu thought he was recognized by the people, this did not mean that he could do whatever he wanted in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
It is absolutely impossible for a foreign race to rule a place where the human race has been in charge since ancient times.
Zhou Wu glanced at him and said lightly: "I'm not talking about Ling'er."
Li Mu was even more confused and asked: "Besides Ling'er, do we have other children?"
Zhou Wu said: "It doesn't happen now, but that doesn't mean it won't happen in the future."
Li Mu looked at the Queen blankly, and various thoughts flashed through his mind------Is this a hint?
No, this is no longer a hint, this is a naked expression, not even an expression, this is a confession. The Queen finally couldn't help but confide her feelings to him...
Zhou Wu continued: "As long as you take your bloodline and merge it with mine, you can have a child with both of our bloodlines. In this way, I don't have to pass on my throne to outsiders, and Ling'er will also have a younger brother or younger sister."
Li Mu suddenly said: "So that's what your Majesty meant."
Zhou Wu looked at him and asked, "What do you think you mean? Do you want to be my queen?"
Li Mu did not obey the Queen this time. He shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, I cannot accept this method. I hope that my child, like all the children in the world, will be born to his mother in ten months of pregnancy, rather than through this kind of method."
If he asks us the same question as Ling'er in the future, how should we answer it?"
Zhou Wu's chest rose and fell. After taking a deep breath, she said: "You are blaming me. Do you think I don't want to? If you had appeared earlier, if you had been more determined and not fascinated by other people's beauty, how could you be where you are now?"
What does it look like?”
She flicked her sleeves and said angrily: "Mei Wei, A Li, come with me to the Royal Garden to relax!"
Lord Mei and Shangguan Li had just walked in with Zhong Ling, and then walked out with the Queen. The little girl walked up to Li Mu, tugged on his sleeves, and whispered: "Dad, Mom is angry, go and calm her down."
Coax her..."
Li Mu could hear the deep resentment in the Queen's words.
But everything has to be done on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are late, you will always be late. If he met the Queen first, then now in the Great Zhou Dynasty, he would have been inferior to one person and superior to tens of thousands of people, and his father respected the world.
All people admire him.
But he met Liu Hanyan and Li Qing first, so he was destined not to enter the harem. If Li Mu was given another chance, he would still not change his choice.
He knelt down, held the little girl's face, and said, "Your mother is still angry with your father. You can comfort your mother on your father's behalf."
Zhong Ling nodded seriously and chased in the direction of the Royal Garden.
At this time, he had just gone to court, but Li Mu had no interest in going to Zhongshu Province. After walking out of Changle Palace, he left the palace directly. However, as soon as he walked out of the palace gate, a figure stood in front of him.
Li Mu looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, raised his eyebrows, and asked: "Your Highness, Prince Ping, is there something wrong?"
King Ping glanced at him and said calmly: "Don't think that you can do whatever you want if you are handsome. No matter what the surname of the Zhou royal family is, they will not be surnamed Li."
Li Mu looked at King Ping and asked, "Did you spread the rumors in Shendu?"
King Ping did not respond directly, but said coldly: "Theft of the country will not happen again in the Great Zhou Dynasty."
If the Xiao family stays honest, for as long as ten years or as short as five years, when the imperial energy gathers, the Queen will still be with them, and they will win the Zhou family's years of struggle without a fight.
But the premise of all this is that you don't mess with the queen.
Li Mu sighed softly, looked at Prince Ping, and asked, "Do you know how the pig died?"
Prince Ping frowned and said, "What do you mean?"
Li Mu didn't bother to answer him and left directly.
Although King Ping doesn't like Li Mu, it is undeniable that he is indeed very capable. Such a person would not throw such a question to him out of nowhere. There must be other deep meanings in it.
A person's ability is limited, so for this reason, he called together the core people of the Xiao family and made a joint decision.
"Is this what Li Mu said?"
"Without beginning and end, how to solve it?"
"The word "pig" is certainly not as simple as it appears. Does it have any meaning?"
"Is he secretly scolding our Xiao family?"
"He must know that the rumors about him and the Queen in the market were secretly inspired by us."
…
While several people were discussing, a voice suddenly sounded from the corner. King Shou stood up and asked in disbelief: "You have spread rumors about Li Muhe and His Majesty in the market. It is impossible to hide this kind of thing from His Majesty."
Prince Ping said: "So what if you know? This was originally meant for him and the Queen. They are not kings and ministers, so aren't they afraid of provoking criticism from the people in the world? If a child is really born, it will make Da Zhou Yi
Laugh for eternity."
King Ding said regretfully: "It's a pity that those stupid people actually applauded this matter..."
King Shou sat back down again, covering his face with his hands, not knowing what to say.
After a long time, his voice came out from between his fingers: "If there is an answer to this question, then the pigs must be so stupid that they flew away the cooked duck..."
Prince Ping frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
King Shou leaned on his chair and said tiredly: "It is obvious that the Queen has no intention of taking the throne. Since she came to the throne, she has used Li Mu to calm the outside world and unite the people's hearts. She intends to gather the imperial energy as soon as possible and escape. And she allowed the three
The uncle Wang stayed in the ancestral temple just to return the throne to the Xiao family, so why do you think you need to do it multiple times?"
"What do you know!" Prince Ping glared at him and said, "It took several generations of the Zhou family a hundred years to successfully steal the country. How could she return the throne so easily? I think she wanted to give birth to a child of her own, so that the Zhou royal family could be completely destroyed.
Changing her surname, if she really wants to pass the throne to the Xiao family, she won't change her mind just because of this little thing..."
"It depends on whether Your Majesty is generous or stingy. It is very likely that because of this small matter, the throne that originally belonged to the Xiao family was lost..." King Shou thought of his experience in the past month, sighed softly, and said:
"Obviously, His Majesty is not a generous person."
Prince Ping frowned and looked at him: "You are not her, do you know what she thinks?"
King Shou covered his face again and said: "I don't understand, it's nonsense. You continue, I will withdraw first..."
He stood up, and when he walked to the door, he paused and said, "Let someone clean up the palace of the three uncles. Let me make a random guess and they should be back soon..."
Not long after King Shou left Prince Ping's Mansion, the figures of three old men fell from the sky.
Everyone walked out of the room, and King Ping was shocked: "Three uncles, aren't you guarding the ancestral temple? Why did you come out?"
The three old men looked gloomy, and the old man in the middle said: "That woman kicked us out. She is really coveting this imperial aura..."
Prince Ping stood there in a daze, with deep regret on his face, and murmured: "He guessed it..."
The old man asked: "What did you guess?"
Prince Ping looked solemn, shook his head and said: "Nothing, three uncles, what should we do now?"
Prince Ping naturally couldn't hide such a big thing. The three old men soon learned the reason why they were kicked out of the ancestral temple. The unbearable and angry sounds of the three people came from Prince Ping's mansion.
"I'm so angry!"
"You messed this up!"
"You are as stupid as a pig!"
"You should apologize to the past kings!"
…
Li Mansion, when Li Mu stepped into the door, Liu Hanyan asked unexpectedly: "Why do you come back so early these days?"
In the past, he worked for the Queen. No matter how hard and tiring it was, Li Mu was willing to work. These days, he was working for the future Xiao family. Naturally, Li Mu was not so motivated. He took out the two bouquets of flowers he had just bought on the street from his back.
He handed one bunch to Liu Hanyan and the other to Li Qing, and said with a smile: "Nothing is more important than being with you."
Liu Hanyan and Li Qing should have returned to the sect a long time ago. The reason why the leader of the peaks was able to advance to the sixth realm early was related to talent and sect resources, but the most important thing was hard practice.
Li Mu used various excuses to forcefully keep them, but he could not let them stay at home while he stayed in the palace all day.
He held the hands of the two women and said: "I will take a long vacation with Your Majesty later and I will not go out at home every day."
Although the two girls were happy to hear this, Liu Hanyan, who liked to think wildly, thought of a fact and became sentimental again. She said melancholy: "Although we can be together now, in a hundred years, whether it is me, Sister Qing, or... Xiaobai and Wanwan can no longer accompany you, so you might as well find someone as soon as possible who is worse than us in strength and talent and can accompany you for the rest of your life."
Women are really strange creatures. Although they are only in their twenties now, in the most beautiful period of their lives, they are thinking about what will happen a hundred years later. Li Mu pretended to think, thought for a long time, and said: "Why are you looking for
My strength and talent are better than yours. When the time comes, I can choose a young and beautiful girl who is seventeen or eighteen years old..."
Liu Hanyan was stunned for a moment, then placed her slender hand on Li Mu's waist, biting her silver teeth: "I will make you young and beautiful, I will make you young and beautiful..."
Li Mu held her restless hand and said: "If you don't want to find someone young and beautiful, for a while, where do you want me to find someone who is stronger and more talented than you, and is willing to be with me..."
In the courtyard of Li Mansion, the space fluctuated, and Zhou Wu appeared here holding Zhong Ling.
She put down Zhong Ling and prepared to return to the palace. She glanced around and saw everyone looking at her, and asked lightly: "What do you think I am doing?"
Liu Hanyan stood up and said, "Your Majesty, are you here to see Ling'er off?"
Zhou Wu nodded slightly and said, "I'll leave Ling'er to you, I'm going back to the palace."
Liu Hanyan looked at her and suddenly said: "We will eat soon. Your Majesty, please have dinner together before leaving. Ling'er probably wants you to stay too."
Zhong Ling was stunned for a moment, then hugged Zhou Wu's legs and said happily: "Mom, stay for dinner, Aunt Mei and Aunt Li will also come together..."
Although the queen may not listen to Liu Hanyan, she will fulfill all her daughter's wishes.
So not only did she stay by herself, but she also asked Shangguan Li and Master Mei to come with her.
During the meal, Liu Hanyan took the initiative to take a piece of fish for the Queen, smiled and said: "Your Majesty, try this, I made it myself."
Li Mu almost got a fishbone stuck in his throat. When Liu Hanyan and the Queen appeared on the same screen, although it was not as explosive as the Queen and Fan Ji, the atmosphere was always extremely cold. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as falling into an ice cave.
, Liu Hanyan actually took the initiative to pick up food for the Queen. Li Mu's first reaction was that he was crazy.
Faced with Liu Hanyan's active kindness, Zhou Wu responded quickly. She took a bite of the fish and said, "When I first met you, I only knew that your piano skills were unparalleled. I didn't expect that your cooking skills were also like this."
Well, it’s no worse than the royal chef in the palace.”
Lord Mei and Shangguan Li looked at each other. She remembered clearly that when His Majesty was still the Crown Princess, the three of them went to listen to Liu Hanyan play together. She praised her piano skills, but His Majesty's evaluation was "nothing more than that"...
Liu Hanyan also continued: "The first time I met His Majesty, I was sighing that there is such a beauty in the capital of God, which makes me feel ashamed..."
Wanwan, who was lowering her head to eat, raised her head to glance at the young lady, then quickly lowered her head again.
If she remembers correctly, when she praised that sister for being beautiful, the young lady said, "That's just the way it is"...
Liu Hanyan and the Queen actually praised each other. Li Mu watched this scene and dropped his chopsticks to the ground. He pinched his thigh hard, and the severe pain told him that this was not a dream...
