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Chapter 1286 People should not get married and have children
"Do you want to hear this story?"

Li Zhi's voice is gentle and affectionate.

Wu Mei held Li Zhi's cold hand and whispered, "Your Majesty is my husband. I have taken away your most important thing. No matter what you say, as your Majesty's queen, I must listen. This is human ethics..."

Li Zhi looked at Wu Mei's slightly plump face and said, "You are already the queen who rules the country. Everyone in the world respects you. The prince is your son. Why do you want so much power?"

Wu Mei sighed and said, "When I was young, I didn't have a good life. When I grew up, I didn't have a good life. The ancient Buddha with green lamps in Ganye Temple has chilled my heart.

When Your Majesty took me away from Ganye Temple, I swore in my heart that I would repay Your Majesty's kindness to me, so for many years, I have been willing to serve Your Majesty.

However, no matter how hot a heart is, after experiencing many corpses and seas of blood, it will eventually become cold.

If Your Majesty tells the nobles not to hold you hostage, I will stab them with a knife until they are unable to resist.

If Your Majesty wants the noble families to submit to you, I will frame them and kill them until their heads roll and their blood flows like a river.

Your Majesty is worried that members of the royal family are coveting the throne, so I will eliminate them one by one.

I have chanted Buddhist scriptures in Ganye Temple and know that if one commits too much sin of killing, there will never be peace on the road of reincarnation.

I am a poor woman, and I just want to live a good life while I am alive. I don’t want to care about what will happen after I die.

It was not until Shangguan Yi plotted to depose the Queen that I discovered that Your Majesty felt that my hands were stained with too much blood and were too dirty, and wanted to get rid of me so that he could become a clean person.

This is not acceptable, my lord. Husband and wife are one body, sharing the same bed in life and the same grave in death. It is not possible for one to be clean and the other to be bloodstained. My skirt is stained with blood, and your majesty's underwear should be equally filthy. This is how a good couple should be, and only then can they live together for a long time."

Li Zhi looked at Wu Mei and said in a dry voice: "I am the emperor."

Wu Mei sneered and said, "There are many emperors in history books, but not many of them can truly die of old age. Your Majesty, why don't you take a look at the world today and see how many people still think you are the emperor?
When you are in power, you are the emperor. But when you are old and weak and can no longer shock the world, who will regard you as the emperor?

I have heard from scholars in the Arab world that lions live to the west of the Arab world. When a male lion in a group of lions grows old, young male lions from the wild will come to challenge him. After the old lion is defeated, he will be expelled from the group and eventually eaten by hyenas on the grassland. Your Majesty, look at this and see how similar it is to the court of my Tang Dynasty.

Emperor is a way of saying it.

When good luck comes, anyone can sit on the throne and be praised by the world as a sage king of all ages. When bad luck comes, what good is it even if you are a peerless hero? Didn't the King of Western Chu commit suicide by slashing his throat at the Wujiang River, and finally be dismembered by some hyena-like Han generals?

When I am grateful for your grace, you are the supreme emperor. When I hate you, I can pull you down from the throne."

Li Zhi chuckled and said, "Yun Chu is outside Jiucheng Palace. You have no chance."

Wu Mei nodded and said, "There really isn't much chance, but I can give it a try."

Li Zhi said: "You have no intention of fighting. If you really wanted to fight, I would have become a dead man by now."

Wu Mei smiled and patted Li Zhi's hand and said, "If your majesty is really a heartless person who treats me like an ox or a horse, I really want to fight back. I'm just annoyed by your majesty, who is affectionate for a while, and I can't bring myself to do it."

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Aren't you worried about Yun Chu?"

Wu Mei rolled her eyes at Li Zhi and said, "You have been the emperor for so many years, but you have not won over many people. Even your wife and son are not on the same page with you. It is not surprising that Yun Chu appeared.

Yun Chu is actually very good at changing his attitude according to the situation. I thought he would pretend to be deaf and dumb this time, but I didn't expect that he would come to Jiucheng Palace to see you in person. This made me very passive.

He claimed that he would take Your Majesty back to the capital Chang'an, but in fact he was only thinking about Chang'an and not much about Your Majesty. He might make a big fuss, but he would never raise an army to deal with me.

If he was truly devoted to His Majesty, the imperial guards around Chang'an would have been dispatched long ago."

After listening to Wu Mei's words, Li Zhi thought for a moment and said, "You can feed me with that bowl of soup now."

Wu Mei smiled brilliantly upon hearing this, and fed Li Zhi spoonful by spoonful of Tremella and Lotus Seed Soup, which Li Zhi ate with relish.

When Wu Mei came out of Qingliang Palace, she saw Crown Prince Li Hong leaning against a beam with a piece of grass in his mouth.

Seeing his mother coming out, Li Hong spat out the grass in his mouth and said to Wu Mei, "Did father drink that bowl of soup?"

Wu Mei covered her mouth and chuckled softly, "You two are really alike. You both want me to do bad things, but you only do good things. Perhaps this is the bad stuff of your Li family."

Li Hong walked a few steps under the eaves with his hands behind his back and said, "My mother didn't even give me a chance to attack you."

Wu Mei looked at her son who had grown tall and strong and sighed, "Your mother, I have no husband, but I gave birth to four children, but all of them turned against me. I only have a little power left. Do you still want to take it away?"

Li Hong bowed and said, "Thank you, mother, for not killing me."

Wu Mei raised her eyes and said, "I thought about it before, but unfortunately, I just couldn't bring myself to do it."

Li Hong sighed and said, "I have been assassinated thirty-one times, sixteen of which, the evidence we have clearly points to our mother."

Wu Mei waved her hand and said, "It was all the subordinates who acted on their own initiative, just like the three times you tried to assassinate me, it's the same reason."

Li Hong nodded and said, "Indeed, it was all the subordinates who acted on their own initiative. When the dust settles, I think these people will have to bear the consequences of their actions."

Wu Mei looked at her hypocritical son who looked like a nobody and sighed, "This is the Heavenly Family."

Li Hong shook his head and said, "That's not the case. When I was young, I lived in Yun's family and had lunch there every day. Yun's family still had some Hu Feng in them. The family didn't practice separate dining. Instead, they put all the food on a large dining table and everyone sat around the table to share the food.

At that time, I was still young and couldn't compete with the master and his wife, or even Naha. Many times, I watched my favorite dishes being eaten by them, and I could only eat dishes that didn't suit my taste, and we had several fights over this.

As a result, the chef ignored me, but the next time he served the dishes I liked, he would still pick up his chopsticks.

Later, the child understood two truths: if he wanted to eat well, one was to have a big mouth and eat quickly, and the second was to have fewer people sitting at the table to eat.

The first type of children thought that this was unrefined and unacceptable, so they kept implementing the second idea and tried their best to reduce the number of people eating at the table as much as possible.

Over the years, I have tried my best to suppress the people who can sit at the table. As a result, we are the only ones left at the table. Mother has always loved me, so why don’t I leave the table myself? "

Wu Mei smiled and said, "You also know that my mother has suffered since she was a child. She is always worried about not having enough to eat, so she can't leave the table."

Li Hong looked at his mother with regret and said, "In that case, I will eat with you for a few years."

Wu Mei asked, "Don't you want to force me off the table?"

Li Hong shook his head and said, "Master wants me to be an emperor clearly and distinctly, so I cannot bear any injustice or injustice. I'd better wait for a few years. Anyway, my appetite is not big now, and I can still be full even if I eat less. When my mother is old and weak and has a poor appetite, I will eat a lot."

After that, he turned around and left.

Wu Mei called from behind, "Why don't you go and see if your father is safe?"

Li Hong waved his hand and said, "Father will surely be safe!"

After watching Li Hong leave, Wu Mei said to the plump Nanny Chun, "You've seen it too, there's nothing good about getting married, and there's nothing good about having children."

Nanny Chun supported Wu Mei and slowly left Qingliang Palace. As she walked down the stairs, she said, "The Queen is right. I will never marry, have children, or leave the Queen in this life..."

After the giant bear finished chewing the last bamboo, it pulled a lot of green balls outside the Qingliang Palace. After rubbing its butt at the corner of the Qingliang Palace, it entered the Qingliang Palace, put its fat body on the wide footstool, opened its mouth to lick Li Zhi's hanging hand, and seeing that Li Zhi didn't want to pay attention to it, it put its head on the footstool and took a nap.

Li Zhi's fingers twitched a few times, but ultimately stopped moving.

He lay lifeless on the bed, with endless sadness in his one eye.

Yun Chu felt very sad when he saw Xue Rengui, who was dressed neatly.

Xue Rengui's hair and beard were all white, and he looked like a Santa Claus, but he was not as energetic as Santa Claus. He looked so old and frail that people wanted to chop him to death with a knife.

That's right, Yun Chu was now thinking of killing Xue Rengui with one blow, for no other reason than that the Jiucheng Palace he guarded was now a sieve. He was very good at intercepting people who should not be intercepted, but he did not intercept any person who posed a real threat to the emperor.

"Are you planning to be buried alive with the emperor and grab a good position in the imperial mausoleum?"

Xue Rengui glanced at the Chang'an people singing and dancing behind him and said, "Why don't you bring 100,000 soldiers and horses with you?"

Yun Chu spread his hands and said, "I have no intention of rebelling."

Xue Rengui asked, "Why don't you ask how your son is doing?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "If anything happens to my son, I will gather 100,000 soldiers and horses to come over."

Xue Rengui said angrily: "Your Majesty's safety is not as important as your son?"

Yun Chu sneered and said, "Since you think your sons are not important, why bother sending them to Hedong? At least, my son is still in Jiucheng Palace. I won't talk about this with you, a shameless old thief. Where is Ruichun?"

Xue Rengui said expressionlessly: "Dead."

Yun Chu was stunned for a moment and said, "Make way, I want to enter the palace."

Xue Rengui's beard trembled for a moment, and finally he closed his eyes and said, "What difference does it make whether you come or not?"

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