Chapter 125 The Binding of Love
The matter of blood recognition was strictly concealed by the emperor. Except for a few of them, no one else knew about it. Presumably the emperor also felt the same for the fifth prince. High hopes.
Cui Xiu knew that the chess move of recognizing a relative by shedding blood was a double-edged sword, and the benefits and disadvantages it brought were almost extreme.
Fortunately, she had already calculated this step in advance. A few years ago, when Princess Wan Ning was still in Hezhou, she sent someone to deliver the news to Wan Ning in the form of an anonymous letter.
If Wanning had developed a laid-back temperament in Hezhou and no longer cared about what happened back then, then she would naturally turn a blind eye to such news.
But if Princess Wanning is still unwilling, she will definitely use this news to find trouble.
This is Cui Xiu deliberately exposing his tail, so that Wan Ning, a sick and injured cat, can rekindle his fighting spirit. Wan Ning has resentment towards the royal family.
But this resentful arrogance was not enough. Cui Xiu thought, since the royal people were so cold and cold, she would use some tricks to take advantage of their suspicion and make them kill each other.
Now that the stage is set up, the opera singer still needs her guidance. When the time is right, he can watch a good show of dog eating dog.
The emperor's suspicion of her did not arise in a moment, but after the bloody recognition, Cui Xiu could understand that the emperor was half wary of her.
After all, the child is his.
The emperor attaches great importance to the blood inheritance of the royal family. He hopes that his children can inherit everything from him. He is good at martial arts, but the late emperor does not like martial arts. In order to please the late emperor, the emperor learned to That scholar is very proficient in writing.
But now that he has become the emperor, he naturally hopes that there will be some among the princes who can be good at martial arts, wield swords and guns with ease and joy, and it is best to be able to lead troops in war, so that the royal family does not have to rely on generals with foreign surnames.
No matter what, you can rest assured that this absolute armed strength is in the hands of your own family, but it will always make people sleepless and sleepless if it is in the hands of others.
Cui Xiu could also guess why the emperor favored the fifth prince and not others.
That's because the fifth prince is the one most likely to learn high-strength martial arts. Her father and brother are both military generals. If the fifth prince wants to learn martial arts, he must be educated by one of the best generals in Kyoto.
In this way, the starting point of the fifth prince is much higher than that of others.
As Cui Xiu thought about it, he looked at the fifth prince who was sitting beside him, eating cakes and sipping tea as if nothing happened. Seeing him like this, Cui Xiu said: "Xiao Wu, What do you think about today's matter?"
When the fifth prince heard Cui Xiu's words, he still held the mung bean cake in his hand, and looked at Cui Xiu, chewing something, and responded to Cui Xiu: " Erchen just thinks that Aunt Wanning is going too far."
"She is so confused that she will believe everyone's words."
"If I were the father, I would have severed ties with her long ago."
The fifth prince did not shy away from what he said, and he did not feel that there was anything wrong with what he said. Anyway, he was here with Cui Xiu, and he always This has always been the case. He is still young and can speak like a child.
When Cui Xiu heard what the fifth prince said, she cast her eyes over him. In this case, the fifth prince would be cloudy, and trouble would often come from his mouth.
“Since you understand in your heart, I won’t say anything more.”
“You have to understand that in this palace, we are just the most ordinary mother and son, your father They have never cared about us.”
"Just from today's events, we can see that, so you must not have any thoughts that you shouldn't have in the future."
"Princess Wanning doesn't like you, then we should stay away from her."
Cui Xiu's words are full of avoidance. Sometimes habits are formed subtly under the influence of language. She said it once or twice, and the fifth prince may still maintain his original rebelliousness.
But what if she said too many times?
She wanted to kidnap the fifth prince in the name of love. From the beginning to the end, she did not believe that the fifth prince could accomplish what she wanted. Cui Xiu could probably understand the suffocation of repressive education.
Many people may think that she is particularly cruel, giving such a "chronic poison" to such a young child.
Destroy the child's self-confidence bit by bit. But only she knows that if she is not cruel, they will be the ones who get hurt in the future.
Being soft to your enemies is being cruel to yourself.
She must be ruthless and strangle the knife in her heart in the cradle.
In fact, sometimes, she would be a little hesitant, and she would wonder if she was a little too ruthless and could do anything to a child.
But whenever she was woken up by nightmares in the middle of the night, she thought of Xiaoliu who was tortured by Concubine Chun in her previous life. That Xiaoliu was demoted to a commoner at a young age and sent to the frontier to work as a coolie. Six, the frail and sick Xiao Liu who needed Chinese medicine every day to survive.
When she thought of this, she no longer felt soft, because being a mother means being strong.
Since she gave birth to Xiao Liu, she must be ruthless to clear away the troubles on his growth path.
"Concubine, I know."
"But I still don't understand why we are told to stay away from Aunt Wanning instead of Aunt Wanning staying away from us."
"Obviously we are the ones living in the palace, and she is already married to someone else. Now, she is no longer from this palace.”
“She is really overbearing and I really hate her.”
The fifth prince said, biting down the half-eaten mung bean cake. He put it back on the plate and walked to Cui Xiu. He knelt down as usual and looked at Cui Xiu with bright eyes.
Cui Xiu looked at the child kneeling in front of her, her eyes looked over, and then the fifth prince turned to one side and rested his head on Cui Xiu's leg. This scene was quite tender.
"Mother, how about we fight for it."
"If Yan'er becomes the future monarch, naturally Aunt Wanning will be properly placed."
"Let us stay together for the rest of our lives. You can't even see her."
Cui Xiu didn't answer immediately, her eyes were a little distant. During her moment of silence, the fifth prince raised his eyes and turned his head to look at Cui from below. sleeve.
“Yan’er, I don’t want to fight, and I don’t want to see you fight either.”
"There is nothing good about the throne. Sitting on it will be tiring. Xiao Yan'er should not sit on it."
Cui Xiu said, raising his hand to symbolically stroke the fifth prince's head. He turned his head sideways, obviously not agreeing with Cui Xiu's words.
"The mother-in-law only hopes that Xiao Yan'er can grow up well, marry a wife and have children, and live an ordinary life."
"You don't have to have a big future, you can have enough food and clothing. Just keep warm.”
“It’s not difficult to live a life. The only thing you can do is eat and sleep.”
"Xiao Yan'er, do you know?"
Cui Xiu took out those old words in her head. This was her last life, when she lived in a small village outside the mountains, the women there often said to her The child said it.
This is nothing to say. For ordinary people, life is just like this, living a simple life with rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.
But this is not the case for a prince like Li Ruoyan. He feels that he is a person who can take on big responsibilities, so how can he just live a simple life?