Chapter 296 Eastern Palace (2)
Chapter 296 Eastern Palace (2)
The jade pendant was broken, but there was no problem with the soul. Li Chengyin rubbed the soul into the size of his palm, then tied it up with a rope and tied it to his wrist.
"Let me go, you monster. I am the prince of Feng Dynasty!" the soul shouted, but still no one paid attention.
Li Chengyin blocked the other party's voice. As long as he didn't want, the other party couldn't touch him. It had no effect on him, and it was much safer than the jade pendant.
The next time he entered the palace, Li Chengyin sent his soul to the emperor, of course in the form of a bracelet, an invisible and intangible bracelet.
"Father, my son and the Crown Princess' wedding is approaching. Your Majesty should give me some vacation." The puppet naturally listened to Li Chengyin and even teased Li Chengyin with his own thoughts.
"You kid, ever since you got the Crown Princess, you don't like to come to the palace to visit me. I feel sorry for an old father like me, who is alone in the palace."
The soul looked at this scene of loving father and filial son, and felt envious, jealous and hateful. He had never had these before. Why? Why?
No one can give him an answer. Li Chengyin, who knows the truth, will not pay attention to him, and those who don’t know the truth don’t know either.
After Li Chengyin left, the emperor began to repeat his daily routine. As a puppet, he did not actually need normal human activities, such as eating, sleeping and excreting. He just acted more normal in order to avoid suspicion.
But puppets really cannot sleep, so the soul saw the emperor spending the night with his eyes open, and he was really scared. He had never had the opportunity to sleep with the emperor before, and he just thought that the emperor really slept with his eyes open.
"Is it so hard to be an emperor? I dare not even close my eyes when I sleep?" At this moment, the soul had a little opinion of the emperor's life, which was mainly negative.
He was shocked again when he followed the emperor to court the next day. He saw Gu Jian in the court, while Gao Xian and his party had disappeared long ago. At this moment, he finally felt that something was wrong.
The queen in the harem had long been deposed, his mother was posthumously named queen, and he was the current crown prince with a stable position. Only at this moment did he realize that he had only been away from this world for a period of time, yet how come things had become completely different.
Shiyi, who changed the world, hides his achievements and fame, and he is going to hold a wedding.
Completely different from the wedding in Danchi, the wedding in Feng Dynasty was cumbersome and complicated, which not only troubled the groom but also the bride. Li Chengyin certainly couldn't bear to see Xiaofeng suffer this, and besides, they had no one to control them, so naturally they could do whatever they wanted.
No one in the room said that it was against the rules. What a joke. The emperor was the biggest rule. But look at the emperor sitting there. Did he say anything wrong? His eyes were almost invisible from laughing so hard.
God knows how hard the puppet was trying to smile. The soul looked at the emperor's smile and felt it was very fake, but he had no say.
"Xiao Feng, I know you are not used to everything in Feng Dynasty. When I have the chance, I will definitely take you back." Li Chengyin swore while holding Xiao Feng's hand.
"Xiao Feng, this is a gift from your brother." King Danchi Tiedar also came in person. Everyone couldn't help but feel a little nervous, but the emperor still had a smiling face.
Puppet: Trying to smile.
Li Chengyin also politely saluted King Tiedal, while Xiaofeng hung on his grandfather: "Grandpa, I miss you so much"
"My Xiaofeng has grown up. Now that she is officially married, she should act like an adult." King Tiedal looked at Xiaofeng lovingly.
Li Chengyin's eyes darkened. In the original story, Xiaofeng did not grow up and she remained eighteen years old forever. But fortunately, he came and he would make Xiaofeng happy.
The soul felt a dull pain in his heart as he watched the woman he loved marry another version of himself. This was a more painful feeling than when he had originally planned to use Xiao Feng.
He placed his hand on his chest, slowly realizing that he had lost everything, his status and position, as well as his beloved woman. At this moment, he was just a wandering ghost.
The puppet touched his wrist. Of course he could see the soul, but since his master didn't tell him what to do, he pretended to know nothing.
Li Chengyin had actually completely forgotten about this matter. It was only after he happily spent his honeymoon vacation and took Xiaofeng back and forth between the two countries several times that he finally remembered it.
So, under the pretext of taking his daughter back to see his grandfather, the Emperor, Li Chengyin and his family finally entered the palace again. Although Xiaofeng had become a mother at this time, she still had some of the innocence of a girl.
"Will the Royal Grandfather dislike Ali?" The little girl had a stern face and stared at Li Chengyin with eyes that were exactly the same as Li Chengyin's.
"How could that be? Our Ali is the most beautiful girl in the world. The Royal Grandfather will definitely like Ali very much." Xiao Feng picked up the three-year-old Ali.
"But Ali heard from others that Daddy is the crown prince and will be the future emperor, and needs a prince to inherit the throne. Ali cannot inherit the throne. Daddy also said that he doesn't want any other children, so your daddy's throne will be given to others in the future."
Ali had a conflicted look on her face. She was obviously not aware of the interests involved, but she knew that because of her, the things her grandfather gave to her father would be taken away by others. She was worried that her grandfather would dislike her because of this.
Li Chengyin's expression remained unchanged: "How could that be? Daddy's things belong to A-li, as long as A-li likes them, if A-li doesn't like them, then I can give them to anyone else."
"Ali likes daddy and mom, as well as grandpa and mom's grandpa." Ali couldn't quite distinguish between his own grandpa and great-grandfather, so he called King Tiedal his mother's grandpa.
"We like A-Li too. We like her very much." Xiao Feng hugged her daughter and coaxed her. Li Chengyin looked at the mother and daughter with eyes full of doting.
As for the person who was gossiping behind his back, Li Chengyin gave him a look and the guards behind him left tactfully.
All the servants around Ali were replaced. As for the original servants, they naturally had their places to go. Li Chengyin sent them back to their master.
No one knew what the recipient was thinking, but Li Chengyin and his family had already entered the palace, so the emperor tried to smile more lovingly so as not to scare his master's little daughter.
The soul looked at the harmonious family and felt jealous: "I don't know what means this lonely ghost used to replace me and live such a carefree life. I wish I had such means."
Li Chengyin didn't care about the soul's sour words. After all, his only means besides the Puppet Pill was a sincere heart. The former was common to everyone, but a sincere heart was not something that everyone could have.
Apart from anything else, at least the original owner didn’t have it, and the soul now doesn’t exist either.
Li Chengyin felt that he had done a good job. He helped the original owner to get revenge, won the position of crown prince, and even stayed with the original owner's favorite woman and gave birth to a daughter. The only variable was that the original owner's soul returned.
But he neither killed him nor ignored him. Instead, he kept the original owner's soul by the emperor's side, allowing him to see every day everything he had won for him. What else could he be dissatisfied with?
After the happy drama of the family ended, the emperor made a big surprise at the morning court on the second day. He named Li Chengyin's daughter A Li as the crown prince (the crown prince's granddaughter? I'm not sure how this works).
"Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible! It has never happened before for a woman to be an emperor!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, if a woman is allowed to be the emperor, I'm afraid it will disrupt social order!"
"Your Majesty, please reconsider!" All the ministers knelt on the ground together, and Li Chengyin, the only one standing, stood out.
"Your Highness, the Crown Prince, Your Highness must try to persuade the Emperor to do this." Someone pointed the finger at Li Chengyin.
"I think there is no problem with my father's decision." Of course there is no problem, this is the order given by Li Chengyin to the puppet.
What did the court officials say? The father and son didn't care at all. Some smart court officials thought of A Li's foreign blood and thought this was a good excuse. After all, if A Li ascended the throne, half of the throne of Feng Dynasty would belong to Xizhou.
It's a pity that as soon as he said this, he was criticized by the emperor and Ling Yunche. Even Xiao Feng wanted to scold him after hearing it. Apart from anything else, the purpose of the marriage was to make Fengchao and Xizhou as close as one family.
Besides, Li Chengyin's plan was to use his daughter's identity to incorporate the entire Xizhou into the territory of Feng Dynasty. At least there should be no grudges between the people of Feng Dynasty and the people of Xizhou.
Now, the court officials are publicly rejecting the Xizhou bloodline. How can Xizhou believe that Fengchao will treat them well? The minister who put forward this view was severely punished.
Such news naturally had to be spread, and the views of the foreign races on Feng Dynasty also changed slightly.
Little Ali has no idea what kind of high hopes her father has placed on her. She is still a picky eater.
"Ali, if you don't eat carrots you won't grow tall. A short Ali won't be liked by others." Perhaps as parents, these are the only ways to treat their children.
"It doesn't matter if Ali doesn't grow taller. Ali's father is the future emperor. No one will distance themselves from Ali just because he is short." The child has his own logic.
"So, does Ali think being an emperor is awesome?"
"Daddy!" Ali saw his father coming back and threw himself on Li Chengyin excitedly: "Of course the emperor is so powerful, those old men with long beards are very scared when they see the emperor grandfather."
"Should our Ali become a powerful emperor in the future, so that those white-bearded old men will be afraid of Ali?" Li Chengyin touched his daughter's head, while Xiaofeng beside him showed a bit of surprise on her face.
"Ali wants to be a powerful emperor"
"Then Ali must eat well. Your royal grandfather has never been picky about food." After Li Chengyin said this, Ali picked up the carrot, closed his eyes and ate it. Surprisingly, he didn't find it unpalatable.
Ali was eating his meal with a grunt, while the young couple hid aside and started whispering to each other.
"My husband talked about this with Ali today, could it be that...?" Xiao Feng had some guesses, but she didn't dare to jump to conclusions about such a big thing.
"Your Majesty agrees. I have the same idea. I believe Ali is no worse than anyone else. At worst, we still have Ali's children in the future." Li Chengyin said this for An Xiaofeng's sake.
As early as the first year after A-li was born, some people were restless and wanted to send a woman to Li Chengyin. After being rejected by Li Chengyin in various ways, they changed to persuading Xiaofeng to have more children.
Li Chengyin knew very well how troublesome it was to have children, not to mention having them one after another. Li Chengyin naturally disagreed, but when Xiaofeng's mother began to persuade Xiaofeng, Xiaofeng could no longer sit still.
Li Chengyin had a bold idea at that time, so he drank the drug that cut off his fertility, and began to train A Li. At the same time, he began to let the puppet tentatively establish the crown prince's granddaughter (? ).
After a series of combos, the current situation began to develop in the direction that Li Chengyin needed. As for what happened next, it all depended on Gu Jian.
Gu Jian received Li Chengyin's order and began to act in Xizhou. He stayed in Xizhou long enough for the xenophobic people of Xizhou to recognize him.
All the goods that Gu Jian brought out were sold very well. And not only were they sold, many things were exchanged as well. The people of Xizhou who benefited from it naturally trusted Gu Jian more.
At this time, Gu Jian could publicize Feng Dynasty's policies to the people of Xizhou, such as the benefits of immigrating to Feng Dynasty, the benefits of marrying a Feng Dynasty citizen, and so on.
Thanks to Gu Jian's efforts, the people of Xizhou gradually moved to Fengchao, and the people of Fengchao also moved to Xizhou. It was like a blood transfusion, but there were so many people in Fengchao that everyone gradually began to assimilate.
Five years later, the emperor announced his abdication and Li Chengyin became the new emperor. The soul was transferred from the emperor's wrist to Gu Jian's wrist. Ling Yunche wanted him to see for himself how the world had changed.
Under Ling Yunche's guidance, Ali gradually developed the dignity of a princess, and Xiaofeng also gradually began to participate in state affairs. They had only one daughter, and no matter what the outcome, the throne would be Ali's, so Li Chengyin never cared about Xiaofeng's participation in state affairs.
After spending several years, Li Chengyin finally achieved the point where there was only one Feng Dynasty. Xizhou and other places had been incorporated into the territory of Feng Dynasty. Because of Xiaofeng, Xizhou still had its own name and territory, but everyone knew that when Ali ascended the throne, Xizhou would become a thing of the past.
After following Gu Jian around the country for many years, the soul also eliminated all the obsessions it had at the beginning. He believed that he was no worse than any of his brothers, but compared with Li Chengyin today, he was not worth mentioning at all.
The love for Xiaofeng seemed like a lifetime ago. When the soul saw Xiaofeng's family again, looking at the excited Xiaofeng, it finally willingly dissipated from the world.
Li Chengyin looked at it thoughtfully, and then turned his attention to the succession ceremony. Today is the day when A Li ascends the throne, which also means that countries like Xizhou have completely become a thing of the past.
Xiao Feng leaned on Li Chengyin's shoulder. She always felt that her life was not so smooth, but she liked this kind of life: "Gu Xiaowu, I don't want to meet you again in the next life."
Xiao Feng felt a sigh from someone unknown falling on his shoulder, and he completely lost his breath.
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