Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Chapter 74 Preparation
The fourth lady has to go out in person to find a suitable cemetery for the heir princess.The news quickly spread inside the Sui Palace.

Concubine Dou nodded and agreed, as long as Sui Wang thinks there is no problem, no one will reject it.Although King Sui felt that his granddaughter was too young to do this kind of drudgery, Concubine Dou gave Li Lijun several reasons and convinced him without much effort.Anyway, Li Lijun always needs to bring enough entourage when he travels, just send a few more reliable guards and stewards.The little lady doesn't need to worry about the specific general affairs, just treat the child as going out to relax.

King Sui knew in his heart that he accepted his son Li Dai's suggestion of burying the eldest daughter-in-law early, which was not kind.But he really wanted to get back together with the emperor's brother and return to the harmonious and friendly relationship in the past.The son's words still make sense, he had better not go against the wishes of the emperor's favorite concubine.For the eldest daughter-in-law and the little granddaughter, he felt guilty, and he was happy to pamper the little granddaughter on some insignificant things.

Regarding the location of the daughter-in-law's cemetery, in fact, his subordinate officials and the Taishijian had already selected several places together, but there were too many and messy things before, and he didn't have time to make a decision.Now just tell my little granddaughter about these locations and let her choose.Whether it's close to Qiaoling or another place with beautiful mountains and rivers, it's up to her to go.There is no need to find a place from scratch, and the little granddaughter can save a little trouble.

He also personally selected the accompanying guards for Li Lijun. The leader was Ding Wulang. It was none other than the white shadow who found the white shadow who had climbed over the wall during the patrol. , and finally discovered the whereabouts of Yang Shuo.Although he made great achievements that day, his superiors were worried that after the king lost his concubine, he might regret it, thinking that Ding Wulang was too much trouble.In order to protect this subordinate, the boss found an opportunity to transfer him to another position, and tried his best not to have contact with the heir king.The King of Sui felt that Ding Wulang was dedicated to his duty, resolute and upright, and he appreciated it very much.

Seeing that his little granddaughter needed someone, he simply sent Ding Wulang to her.Anyway, now that the Yang family met Chen's daughter, they were three points shorter when they met, and there was no time to hide, let alone do anything to the people around her.

After seeing Ding Wulang and knowing his identity, Li Lijun felt a little delicate.She was the one who used this person that day. Although he hasn't had any bad influence so far, if he comes to her side to do things in the future, then she will always have the time to make up for him.She greeted Ding Wulang very kindly, explained the purpose of her trip and preliminary plan, and asked the other party to arrange the guard work, and she would try her best to cooperate.

Ding Wulang never suspected that the Fourth Lady of Sui Palace had used him for anything.He still doesn't think that he met a ghost that night. Instead, because of Xiao Yang's mysterious disappearance, he began to suspect that there might be some unknown master haunting here.Since there are such masters working in the Sui Palace, and Fourth Lady wants to travel, safety must be taken seriously.He solemnly accepted this task, and promised Fourth Lady that he would do his best to protect her. After stepping back, he immediately began to consider the arrangements for the carriage and horse personnel.

The successor king Li Dai never showed his face.Although he felt that his youngest daughter was troublesome, his father, King Sui, nodded, so there was no need for him to stop her.Besides, the youngest daughter came forward to take care of the funeral affairs of the stepmother, no matter how well she did it or not, she could never blame him afterwards.He was also happy and relaxed, just ordering his stewards to send enough money and silk to the youngest daughter for her to spend.

So that night, Li Lijun received several large carts of gold, silver, money, cloth, spices, incense candles, etc. from his father, as well as a list of forty strong slaves for her to use when building her mother's cemetery.

Li Lijun accepted his father's kindness expressionlessly.As long as Li Dai doesn't interfere with her actions, she is still willing to play with him the scene of plastic father and daughter's superficial harmony.

However, Li Dai only gave money to others, but he was indifferent to his daughter's actions, as if he really left the burial of his dead wife to the children to handle with full authority, but many people criticized it.Not only Jin Ruren, the second wife, and the third uncle expressed their dissatisfaction to King Sui and Princess Dou successively, but even the female family members of Ning, Xue and other palaces also came to ask for details after hearing the news.When everyone talks about Li Dai, they all say that he is very shameless.In the past, everyone only thought that it was his concubine who was arrogant because of his favor, so they had delusional thoughts and wanted to murder his wife, but now everyone began to think that it was actually him who spoiled his concubine and killed his wife, so that he connived such an evil concubine like Xiao Yang.

Some people also heard the news that he had met two daughters of the Yang family recently, and they suspected that the Yang family was playing tricks on them. Even if the Chen family died, they would not let it go, and insisted on overpowering Li Dai's former concubine, In order to gain momentum for the newcomer, he took the opportunity to avenge the suffering master for the misfortune of Xiao Yang and Yang Shuo.

Because of such arguments, two of the aristocratic families who originally intended to seek successors to the Sui king and concubine quietly backed down.The Yang family is gaining power now, and they have a posture that they are bound to win the position of Li Dai's successor, why bother to offend his family?Besides, Li Dai, who is ruthless and ungrateful, is not a good candidate for a son-in-law.

Li Dai didn't think much about it, he just thought it was the Yang family envoy who drove away his competitors, and was a little displeased.

The brothers-in-law of the Yang family put down their dignity again now, and stopped saying that Xiao Yang was killed by him, and seemed to acquiesce that they rescued him.They began to talk about a few children again, persuading him to continue marrying a daughter of the Yang family, so as to ensure that the children born to the former wives and concubines would not be tortured by the successor.

This sounded reasonable, but Li Dai had heard it so many times that his ears began to callus.He felt that although the Chen family he remarried had various deficiencies, he had never treated the children born to him by his first wife and concubines badly.And the Yang's daughter he brought back spoke nicely, but she didn't necessarily protect her nephew sincerely.The brother-in-laws only said these words for their own interests, which may not really make sense.

Besides, if the Yang family really wanted to make amends to him, why didn't they send little Yang back to him quietly?Even if you set up a separate courtyard outside, it would be nice to let him go there from time to time to relax!They didn't mention Young Yang because they didn't want to reveal how many people they bought in the Sui Palace before they stole him out. They were still planning to count his heirs and throne in the future.Li Dai didn't intend to be fooled.Anyway, they said good things, he just listened to it.As for the candidate for the third wife, he still had to follow his own heart.

Li Dai flirts with the Yang family every day, flirts with the daughter of the Yang family at the same time, and really leaves his wife's funeral to the younger daughter to take care of, and he does nothing about it.When the people around heard about it, there was no one who didn't murmur in private.

Li Lijun didn't care either.The preparations for her trip were almost done, and after consulting Sui Wang and Dou Wangfei for instructions, she planned to set off the next morning.Decide on a burial place as soon as possible, so that she can send her mother to rest in peace.

At night, she counted the things she was going to bring when she went out again, and when she turned her head, she saw Cui Lu and the two nuns standing in front of her full of thoughts.

The two nuns couldn't figure it out: "My lady's grievances have been brought to light, and the noble concubine has issued an order to punish Xiao Yang. Why did the prince and his successor want to let the lady be buried in advance? The little lady didn't complain, she was just so obedient. Followed?"

Li Lijun smiled: "Mother has already left, why do you have to let her stop for such a long time? Is that more decent? But I think, Mother may want to be quiet, right? Aye is already ready to marry a newcomer, why bother to let Mother Stay at home and watch? It’s better not to see it.”

The nuns' eyes turned red when they heard it, and after thinking about it, they all felt that the little lady's words were reasonable, so they stopped talking.

They didn't know that there was another important reason why Li Lijun did this.

(End of this chapter)