Chapter eight hundred and eighty fourth knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger
"Especially Father Emperor? What do you mean by that, Jie'er?"
When Chen Jie saw Young Master Liu's puzzled look, a look of sadness appeared on her pretty face, and she let out a long breath with her mouth slightly open.
"What else could it mean? It's just the simplest meaning on the surface!"
Seeing the emotion on the beauty's beautiful face, Mr. Liu narrowed his eyes slightly and silently recalled some past events many years ago.
After a long time, Liu Mingzhi's eyes showed a hint of enlightenment.
He already understood what Chen Jie wanted to express in what he just said.
Young Master Liu stretched out his hand on the stove to warm his hands, and casually took Chen Jie's still cold jade hand into his palm.
"Jie'er, you are talking about the distinction between direct concubines and concubines, right?"
"Well, that's right."
Chen Jie nodded her head without hesitation and admitted directly.
"Husband, for the world's most famous families, or the families of high-ranking officials, the distinction between direct descendants and concubines is a natural chasm that is difficult to overcome.
Compared with those famous families, he was born in the royal family.
The distinction between direct descendants and concubines is even worse."
Liu Mingzhi gently rubbed the beauty's hands, which had regained some warmth, and breathed out silently.
"When my eldest brother was alive, he still loved Shu'er and you two sisters very much.
The same goes for my father, the old man. When he was still alive, he never targeted you sisters at all!
My husband had seen this with his own eyes back then."
After listening to Young Master Liu's words, Chen Jie nodded without hesitation and said softly: "Husband, I do not deny what you said.
Even sister Shuer will not deny it."
"If that's the case, wouldn't that be enough?"
"But, sir, do you really think that you saw some of the scenes with your own eyes.
Does it have to be true?
Is it necessarily what you imagined?"
"this!"
Liu Mingzhi looked stunned, raised his brows slightly, thought for a moment, and replied in a calm tone: "As the saying goes, what you hear is false, and what you see is true."
Chen Jie gently rubbed her emerald green hands and looked up at Young Master Liu.
"Husband, do you really think so?"
Liu Mingzhi looked at the calm and indifferent expression in the beauty's beautiful eyes, with a hint of a sly smile, clasped his brows with his fingers, and shook his head helplessly.
“Actually, that’s not necessarily the case.
My husband has experienced many things, and I understand that some things can even be seen with my own eyes.
It’s not necessarily true.
It’s just that.”
Chen Jie raised her eyebrows and asked directly: "Huh? Just what?"
"Jie'er, as my husband, I can still see whether my eldest brother really loves you and Shu'er, you two sisters.
Things like feelings can really be seen sometimes."
Chen Jie nodded slightly and said softly: "Husband, I have already answered you about this question just now.
I do not deny this."
Young Master Liu frowned slightly and said angrily: "You don't deny it, so why are you asking my husband that question?"
"Husband, I don't deny what I said. I don't deny that your eldest brother still loves me, sister Shu'er and us two sisters very much.
It's a pity that my father, the old man, is just...hehehe..."
Chen Jie only said half of what she said before she stopped abruptly and chuckled a few times with a self-deprecating look on her face.
Then the corners of her mouth raised slightly, revealing a trace of indescribable sadness.
Seeing the look on the beautiful lady's face, Liu Mingzhi hesitated for a moment and asked softly: "Jie'er, what's going on with the father?"
Chen Jie raised her eyes and glanced in the direction of the imperial mausoleum on the outskirts of Beijing. Liu's waist softened slightly, and she leaned on Young Master Liu's shoulder with a chuckle.
"Husband, do you know?"
"Huh? What?"
"When my father was still alive, brothers Ye'er and Tao'er had never entered the inner hall of the imperial study.
And the brothers below your eldest brother, King Qing, King Shu, King Yun, King Jing...
The children of several of their brothers could enter the inner hall of the royal study every once in a while to pay their respects to their father, the emperor.
Ye'er and Tao'er, two brothers, are cousins with Li Xiang and Li Qian!
The treatment I received from my father is completely different."
Young Master Liu frowned and said softly: "Well, I'm really not very clear about these situations."
"Ye'er, Tao'er and their brothers always had red eyes every time they came home from the palace to pay respects.
The most serious incident occurred when Ye'er was eleven years old.
It was one day in early August. Ye'er and Tao'er went into the palace to pay their respects to their father, the emperor.
As a result, as soon as Ye'er returned home, she burst into tears and threw herself into my concubine's arms.
After he finished crying, he choked with sobs and asked me if Grandpa Huang didn't like the two brothers.
Husband!"
"Um?"
"Do you know how I, as a mother, feel when I see my child in such a sad state?"
Liu Mingzhi nodded with a complicated expression, raised his hand and pulled off half of his cloak, and then wrapped it all around Chen Jie's delicate body wearing only a thin and sexy garment.
"Jie'er, as a husband and a father, I can naturally understand your feelings."
"My children have been treated unfairly, and they have been treated unfairly more than once.
I couldn't bear it anymore, so I went directly to find your eldest brother.
After I saw him, I told him in full what happened to Ye'er and Tao'er, two brothers, at their father's house.
At the beginning, I thought that after listening to my story, I would think of ways to help me!
No, it should be said that he will find a way to help his two sons!
But, husband, do you know how your elder brother answered me after listening to my confession?"
Liu Mingzhi shook his head silently, and asked directly with a puzzled expression: "What? How did he answer you, brother?"
No anti-theft
Chen Jie sighed softly, with a trace of vague memories in her beautiful eyes.
"At that time, your eldest brother directly told me that as a woman, I only need to manage the affairs at home.
As for other things, don't ask too much.
Then, he left to his own devices to help his father review the memorial documents.
Seeing this situation, I had no choice but to leave his study in despair.
Later, when two brothers, Ye'er and Tao'er, once again told Concubine and Sister Shu'er about the unfair treatment they received in the palace.
My sisters could only smile bitterly at themselves, speechless."
Liu Mingzhi looked back at He Shu, who was huddled in the brocade quilt and still asleep, and nodded with a clear expression.
"Then what?"
Chen Jie followed Young Master Liu's gaze and also looked back at her sleeping sister.
"Later, the brothers Ye'er and Tao'er gradually grew up and became more and more sensible.
Both of these brothers saw the difficulties I was facing and Shu'er's sister.
Later, every time the two brothers returned home from the palace, they gradually stopped talking about their affairs in the palace."
With a sad expression, Liu Mingzhi let go of his big hand around the beautiful lady Liu's waist, leaned forward and picked up his tobacco bag from the low table beside the bed.
Chen Jie looked at Mr. Liu who was filling the tobacco, leaned his waist and took out a fire dumpling from the copper basin next to the stove.
"Although the two brothers no longer mentioned their situation in the palace to Sister Concubine, Sister Concubine could see that the smiles on their faces were getting less and less.
But what will happen if the concubine sisters find out?
A concubine, concubine, to put it nicely, is one of the prince's many concubines.
In fact, it is no different from a concubine in a noble family."
As Chen Jie spoke, she opened her mouth slightly and blew the fire stick, and carefully lit the shredded tobacco in the smoke pot for Young Master Liu.
"Because of these matters, I and Sister Shu'er discussed it privately.
Deliberately engage in some overt and covert behavior in front of your eldest brother to attract your eldest brother's attention.
This will allow your eldest brother to pay more attention to us sisters, and then direct his attention to brothers Ye'er and Tao'er."
Liu Mingzhi thought thoughtfully for a moment, then turned sideways and blew out a puff of light smoke.
"I'm afraid it's more than that. The original intention of you two sisters is to attract the attention of your father, the emperor, right?"
Chen Jie covered the fire seal in her hand and nodded with a smile.
"I know that my sisters' little thoughts cannot be hidden from my husband.
My husband, you are right. The real purpose of these two sisters is to attract the attention of their father, the emperor, to Ye'er and Tao'er.
It's a pity...it's a pity..."
"It's a pity that the little thoughts of you two sisters can't be hidden from the eyes of my father, right?"
Chen Jie tightened her cloak and smiled bitterly with a sad face.
"Hehehe, yes!
What a person he is, my father. How could I hide this little plan between my concubines and my sisters from my father's eyes?
The behavior of our two sisters did not help brothers Ye'er and Tao'er.
On the contrary, it made the two brothers even more reticent.
Husband, you now know why the relationship between the two sisters is so good, right?
Because there has never been any barrier between us sisters.
We sisters know very well in our hearts that once we enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea.
We sisters are just miserable people.
As two poor people, it was too late to join a group to keep warm.
Where do you have the extra thought to scheming over that insurmountable chasm?"
Liu Mingzhi took a puff of dry cigarette silently, frowned slightly and rested his chin on the beauty's shoulder, recalling the past with his eyes.
In my own impression, it seems that I have never seen the two brothers Li Ye and Li Tao in the inner hall of the imperial study.
You know, I was a frequent visitor to the Imperial Study Room back then!
Not to mention going once a day, but there is no problem in going twice in three days.
You know, from the 26th year of Xuande, the year when I first entered the capital.
As for the seventh year of Ruian, it was the year when my father, Emperor Li Zheng, passed away.
My father-in-law and son-in-law have been kings and ministers for about ten years.
In the past ten years, I have lost count of how many times I have been in and out of the imperial study.
However, in these ten years.
As a frequent visitor to the imperial study, I have never seen the two brothers Li Ye and Li Tao in the inner hall.
It can be seen that the things Chen Jie just said are all facts.
But, then again.
In my own memory, Li Zheng treated Li Ye, Li Tao and his two grandsons very well.
When I first entered the capital, I was selling glass mirrors on the street.
Among the first batch of mirrors that Li Zheng extorted from him were those of two brothers, Li Ye and Li Tao.
He commanded an army of 400,000 for the Western Expedition and conquered the countries in the Western Regions. When his troops returned to the court, he brought back a lot of bloody horses.
After Li Zheng finished awarding awards to the soldiers in the Qinzheng Hall, he immediately sent someone to Li Ye, Li Tao and his two brothers each to send a bloody horse!
It seems that not only Li Ye and the two brothers, but also the girl Jingyao were rewarded with a bloody horse.
There was also the time when this young man Jiang He led tens of thousands of officers and soldiers from the Dalong treasure fleet, and was ordered to patrol the Western nations, and led the envoys of the Western nations back to Beijing for an audience.
After Li Zheng entertained the envoys from various countries, he asked Lao Zhou to lead the young eunuchs and deliver boxes and boxes of rare treasures to Li Ye and his two brothers!
Moreover, they were all envoys from Western countries, presenting the rare treasures to Dalong.
Those big boxes of rare treasures could be bought for hundreds of thousands of taels if placed in major markets.
This series of actions is enough to prove that his father, Emperor Li Zheng, still loves his eldest and youngest grandsons very much!
Liu Mingzhi turned sideways and blew out a puff of smoke, looking at the beauty nestled in his arms with a puzzled expression.
"Jie'er."
Chen Jie took off her cloak and wrapped herself with Young Master Liu again.
"Husband? What's wrong?"
"Jie'er, in my husband's impression, my father is an old man..."
Liu Mingzhi did not hide anything from Chen Jie, and spoke out his inner thoughts one by one with great eloquence.
"Jie'er, no matter how you look at it, my father and I treat Li Ye and Li Tao very well!"
After hearing what Mr. Liu said, Chen Jie said bluntly: "Husband, I know everything you said.
Not only do I know this myself, but my sister Shu'er also knows it."
"What? Both you and Shu'er know?"
"Yeah. I know."
"Since you know everything, do you think the father and the emperor treated Li Ye and Li Tao unfairly?"
"Husband, do you think my sisters' vision is so short-sighted?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Husband, my father's attitude towards Ye'er and Tao'er is not directed at the two brothers.
Rather, he is warning me and Sister Shuer!
I warn my sisters not to have unrealistic illusions about a certain position.
Father, he only loves his grandson!"
Liu Mingzhi's body trembled, and he suddenly became silent.
He finally understood what Chen Jie meant when he said that the concubine was just a concubine after all?