Emperor Sui Yang

When Li Yuan came back, the family naturally had to reunite. Li Shimin took leave and returned to Tang Guogong's mansion with his sister Li Xiuning.

Li Xiuning's son, named Yang Cong, was the fourth eldest son and was made the King of Jiangxia. He was a concubine in name, but Yang Ming was a different kind, and all his children were treated equally. Except for the unshakable status of the boss, Yang Rui, all the children loved him. it's the same.

He knew too much about fratricide in history, and naturally wanted to avoid it, so his children would often meet and play in order to promote affection.

Li Xiuning is undoubtedly glorious, because Yang Ming's five sons come from three mothers, Yang Yinjiang has three, Pei Shuying has one, and she has one.

In the Sui Dynasty, sons were favored over daughters. She gave birth to a son for the prince, and she was very competitive. Li Yuan and his family had been relatives since the first emperor of the Sui Dynasty. After Yang Ming went up, they were still relatives.

Li Xiuning is the crown prince Liangdi, the third rank, and there can only be two Liangdi, who are under the main concubine and side concubine, and the highest-ranking wives in the East Palace are she and Chen Shuyi.

The imperial concubine of the Sui Dynasty went to the palace to visit relatives, but it was not as grand as in the Dream of the Red Chamber. Although Jia Baoyu and his family were also the Duke of the State, the gap between the Duke of the State at that time and the Duke of the Sui Dynasty was too great.

After all, this is an era in the history of China where the power of the clan is the strongest. The emperor and the clan are half-leader and half-cooperative.

Therefore, Li Xiuning's going out of the palace was like running out of doors, nothing unusual.

A family banquet in Tang Gongfu was very lively. Yang Cong was five years old this year. As Li Yuan's grandson and the oldest among Li Yuan's grandchildren, he naturally became the protagonist of the banquet. He ran around and couldn't sit still. Teasing the maid, she will fight with Yuan Ji and the others for a while, and the mother Li Xiuning is chasing after her with her skirt in her hands, sweating from exhaustion.

The child is reckless, Li Xiuning is so concerned because he is afraid that his son will bump into Pei Xi, because Jiancheng is very close to his son, so Yang Cong always runs to Jiancheng, but Jiancheng's daughter-in-law is happy, so she can't touch him.

"Find some people to take Cong'er to the side to play with, don't make trouble here," Li Xiuning was really bored, so she beckoned the servant girl to coax her son aside, and she herself sat down beside Pei Xi, and said with a smile:
"It went well this time, did you still use the prince's method?"

Pei Xi shook her head and smiled: "No, since I have a daughter, menstruation has been fixed."

Her daughter, named Li Yuehui, was named by Yang Ming. She is four years old this year.

Li Xiuning nodded and said: "This is a good thing, you are still young, you need to have a few more children, and you will be the eldest son, you must have a son to inherit the family."

Hearing this, Li Yuan quickly put down his wine glass, and said with a smile, "This time it must be a boy, I've already found someone to look at it."

Li Xiuning frowned and said, "Who did you look for? I heard that Taishi Cao Xin came to a man named Yuan Tiangang, who is very good at making looks, is it him?"

"That's not true, it's a western region alchemist named Angata, who is very famous in the capital right now," Li Yuan laughed.

Li Xiuning was puzzled and said: "Those magicians in the Western Regions are not based on the Book of Changes, they are heretics. How can I trust him? Yuan Tiangang is also living in the capital right now. This man has been seen by the prince and the eldest princess. I heard it is very effective. Recently You should be in Xiumu, so you might as well invite him to take a look."

In the Sui Dynasty, the word "please" was used for people without official status, and most of them were people with special circumstances.

For example, those who treat diseases, those who deliver babies, those who observe Fengshui, those who erect monuments, and those who practice monkhood.

Li Yuan immediately asked: "Do you know the result of showing the prince?"

"How could I possibly know this?" Li Xiuning said, "How can I, a woman, know that the crown prince's birthday is related to the fate of the country?"

Li Yuan nodded, looked at Jiancheng and said, "You told me that this person is really so powerful?"

Li Jiancheng laughed and said, "It must be better than the one you found, Angata? You don't even have a proper name, sir, you really are, do you believe this kind of people?"

Li Yuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you know where he lives?"

"I know, in Nancheng Guang'enfang, the house bought by the samurai Xun," Li Jiancheng said, "I will invite someone to come over some other day and show it to Pei Xi."

"You don't need another day, you go now," Li Yuan said.

Li Jiancheng said unhappily: "Recently, the Beijing Normal University is celebrating, and the West Market is very lively at night. They live on the edge of the West Market. If I'm not at home, where can I find it at night?"

Li Yuan was dissatisfied and said: "You are procrastinating in everything you do. If you can't do small things, how can you do big things in the future? Go now, no matter how late, you have to invite someone over."

The corner of Li Jiancheng's mouth twitched, and he looked at his mother Dou for help.

"Don't look at your aunt, go immediately," Li Yuan said with emphasis.

"Heh" Li Jiancheng got up with a face of reluctance, patted his buttocks and left.

It's not easy for the family to reunite. I haven't had a few glasses of wine, so I'm looking for trouble. If Pei Xi is still pregnant with a girl, why don't you admit it?
As soon as he left, Pei Yun came.

Originally on the street outside, Pei Yun saw Jiancheng leading people away on horseback, and wanted to send someone over to ask, but Jiancheng left so fast that he disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Hey, my father-in-law, I wanted to visit your mansion tomorrow, but you fell down." Li Yuan took Pei Yun's hand and sat down in the hall.

Li Yuan was not just being polite to Pei Yun, he had already sent a message to Pei Yun as soon as he returned to the capital, and the appointment was to meet tomorrow.

After all, Pei Yun is a busy person and is often away from home.

Pei Yun was sitting next to her daughter. After greeting Li Xiuning first, she smiled at Li Yuan and said:

"I was supposed to be on duty tonight, but I had to deal with some things, so I left the palace. I think it's still early, and there is no curfew recently, so I thought of paying a visit to Tang Guogong."

Li Yuan smiled and said, "What is worth going out of the palace to deal with during your duty?"

Pei Yun glanced around at everyone in the hall, and said with a smile: "The family banquet will not discuss state affairs."

His action was to tell Li Yuan, don't worry, I will tell you, but it is inconvenient to say it in front of so many people.

If he doesn't look around, that means, I can't tell you.

Li Yuan smiled knowingly, and immediately drank a few drinks with Pei Yun. Both of them are very generous, and they are both steady people. No matter how much they drink, they won't talk nonsense.

This is a habit that was whipped out by the elders of the family when I was young. If there are occasions where I have to drink to my heart's content, I will order my relatives to accompany me in advance. As long as I drink too much, I will get rid of me quickly.

"What did Jian Jian do?" Pei Yun asked curiously.

Li Yuan smiled, embarrassed to say, his wife, Dou Shi, hurriedly blocked him:

"I heard that there is a man named Yuan Tiangang in the capital recently, and his physiognomy is very effective. Jiancheng went to invite him."

Pei Yun nodded: "I know this person, the crown prince immediately asked him to go to Taishi Cao as a prison marquis after meeting him, so it can be seen that this person has real skills, who are you looking for him for? "

Dou was embarrassed to say it, and Li Yuan was also embarrassed.

After all, the two of them wanted to show Pei Xi men and women, and they were obviously patriarchal. As Pei Yun's father, although he knew boys were good, he definitely didn't want Li Yuan and the others to show up.

Pei Xi tugged at his father's sleeves: "Show me, see if the baby is a boy or a girl."

Pei Yun immediately turned down, why, if my daughter can't give birth to a son, can you still ask Jiancheng to divorce his wife?

Li Yuan smiled awkwardly: "I made my in-laws laugh at me. I'm too impatient for Pei Xi to shoulder the responsibility of succeeding my Li family."

Pei Yun can understand, son, who doesn't want a son, and the reason why he put on a face is to serve as a backing for his daughter, meaning that you can't make my daughter angry, or I, a father, won't agree.

This is why in the Sui Dynasty, the status of the main wife was ridiculously high, because the background of the main wife was too awesome.

Li Yuan also has many wives and concubines, who dares to show face to Dou Shi?During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Dou family had four Dukes, and the Dou family was Yu Wentai's granddaughter.

In some unofficial history novels, in order to highlight Yang Guang's evil and Li Yuan's righteousness, Li Yuan in the Sui Dynasty is described as too humble, with no real power and no sense of existence. It seems that he is always persecuted by Yang Guang.

Taiyuan stays behind, and half of Bingzhou is in charge. If Yang Guang persecutes him, can he let him do this?

If Yu Wenhuaji did not kill the king and Li Yuan was Guo Ziyi, then the surname of Yang would still be in the world.

Li Yuan is a social veteran, and he and Pei Yun are not only in-laws, but also political partners. Because of their children's marriage, they must be together.

After all, it was the combination of the eldest son and the eldest daughter, and it was Yang Ming who matched, so the two of them must be inclined towards the prince.

As we chatted, we started talking about the prince's recuperation. He completely forgot that he said just now that the family banquet does not discuss state affairs.

However, they didn't chat a few words before being interrupted by Jian Jian who came back.

Yuan Tiangang found it, and he didn't go out tonight, because he calculated that there would be a nobleman coming tonight, and it turned out that he did.

Yuan Tiangang felt a little guilty when the two central bosses sat in the hall. After all, the level was too high, and it was not comparable to the martial arts, nor Yang Miaozhi from Guanwangfu.

"Sir, please sit down, it's Li Yuan's fault for bothering you late at night, please have a drink first," Li Yuan offered to pass a glass of wine to him.

Yuan Tiangang even said he didn't dare, after drinking, Yuan Tiangang said with a smile:

"I heard from Da Lang that Mr. Tang asked his ministers to come here tonight to see men and women?"

Pei Yun said: "Can you see it, sir?"

Yuan Tiangang nodded with a smile: "Eight or nine is not far from ten."

Hehe, after seeing so many alchemists and warlocks, you are the first one who dares to speak accurately. It seems that you have real skills. Li Yuan said happily:
"What do you need to see, sir? Do you want me to prepare something?"

"No need," Yuan Tiangang waved his hand and said, "I look at the male and female of the fetus, but I look at the parents. During the journey, I already knew Dalang's birth date. Now I will look at the nobleman's and I will know."

As soon as Li Yuan waved his hand, someone brought a pen and paper and put it in front of Pei Xi. After Pei Xi finished writing, he folded it a few times and handed it to Yuan Tiangang.

Yuan Tiangang just glanced at it, then handed it over to Jiancheng to burn it, and then put out fifty yarrow plants, moving his hands together, changing the orientation of the yarrow plants.

After a while, Yuan Tiangang hissed, closed his eyes, and when he opened them, he said to Li Yuan and Pei Yun:
"This hexagram is a stack of different hexagrams. The lower shock is the upper exchange, the shock is thunder, the movement is the change, and the exchange is joy. The movement and joy is "Sui". A concubine is an extremely precious image."

General concubine means to marry.

Li Yuan and Pei Yun looked at each other, both were overjoyed.