After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

Chapter 87
Surrounded by court ladies and eunuchs, Li Lingyue came to empress Li Zhiwu, and respectfully knelt on the ground to pay her respects.

"My daughter pays respects to her father and queen mother!"

On formal occasions, Li Lingyue can no longer call Li Zhi and Empress Wu 'Aye, Auntie! ', this is the rule, so it is natural to abide by it.

"Quickly flatten your body!"

Li Zhi's face was flushed and his face was beaming with joy. If he hadn't been concerned about the king's etiquette, he would have wanted to go down and help his daughter by himself.

Empress Wu didn't have so many worries, she got up and got off the imperial guard.

She hadn't seen her daughter for a long time, and during that period, she heard that her daughter was assassinated many times. As a mother, she seemed calm, but in fact she was worried every day.

More importantly, the daughter managed the locust plague in Guanzhong and made an indelible contribution. This great achievement can only be remembered by Li Zhi and her. , The imperial decree to reward the princess has been read out.

In order to make up for her debt to her daughter, Empress Wu asked Li Zhi to bring all the officials out of the city to greet her. This move directly broke the highest standard for welcoming princesses in all dynasties.

It stands to reason that in a patriarchal society, the ministers of the DPRK and China would never come to greet a princess, especially the arrogant civil servants. Even if Li Zhi went to greet her himself, the ministers would oppose her.

But in the end they still came, and there was only one reason: the princess quelled the plague of locusts and did what they couldn't do.

What Li Lingyue didn't know was that when Li Zhi summoned a group of officials and proposed to welcome the princess, the group of officials came out to object one after another. As a result, Empress Wu's understatement killed them all.

"It doesn't matter if you don't go, then let His Majesty issue an edict to commend the princess for her contribution to quelling the disaster and announce it to the world."

A seemingly insignificant sentence, but it is full of lethality.

Because if you really do this, you are slapping everyone in the face. After seeing the edict, the common people will only think: So these knowledgeable and high-ranking officials are not as good as a little princess in the harem when it comes to managing locusts. !

Just ask, who can afford to lose that person.

Therefore, the two sides reached a tacit agreement, and there was this grand welcoming ceremony.

Empress Wu quickly walked up to Li Lingyue, helped Li Lingyue up herself, stretched out her hand to caress her face, and reprimanded her deliberately angrily:
"Stinky girl, I went to Fuzhou, even A Niang forgot, and didn't write a letter back, look at you now, you are almost sunburned, why don't you love yourself so much!"

Empress Wu chattered endlessly at Li Lingyue, but in Li Lingyue's ears, it was extremely warm!

Of course she knew that this old lady's words were insincere, she was so distressed that she wanted to die, but she wanted to do it on purpose.

Before Empress Wu finished speaking, Li Lingyue couldn't bear it anymore, and called out 'Aniang' in a crying voice!Then, regardless of the princess's manner, she fell into the arms of Empress Wu and cried bitterly.

She herself didn't know why she lost control of her emotions. Maybe it was because she felt the protection of her parents, which gave her a sense of security; or maybe it was because the grievances she had suffered along the way needed to be released.

Seeing his precious daughter crying, Li Zhi didn't care about the king's etiquette. He walked quickly to the mother and daughter, opened his arms, and hugged the mother and daughter. The family of three staged a family warmth drama in front of tens of thousands of people.

The three elder brothers, Yong Wang Li Xian, Ying Wang Li Xian, Xiang Wang Li Dan, who were standing outside the imperial court, looked with envy and jealousy.

Li Dan stretched out his chubby hand, tugged at Li Xian's sleeve, and said with a bitter face:
"Third brother, why do I feel like I'm superfluous?"

Li Xian curled his lips, his thin cheekbones protruding: "Not only is it superfluous, I even feel that I am not my own!"

"Yes, I have this feeling too!" Li Dan echoed.

Li Xian, who was standing in the front row of the two brothers, turned his head and scolded: "Why do you two feel wronged here? The father, the queen, and the queen dote on the younger sister, because the younger sister has put an end to the locust plague in Guanzhong!"

"Isn't it just a plague of locusts? I can do it myself!"

Hearing being reprimanded by the second brother he hated, Li Xian felt very upset and said a word.

"Hehe!" Li Xian smiled sarcastically: "Do you think that disaster relief is like playing tricks? That kind of difficulty is no less difficult than destroying Tubo!"

Li Xian was still waiting to argue, but Li Xian didn't give him a chance, and continued to choke: "Third brother, if you really have the ability, go and destroy Tubo. Then the second brother will be like today, with his father, queen, empress, and civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty." , Eager to welcome you! The question is...do you dare?"

"Why don't you dare! Give me [-] iron cavalry, and I will definitely smash through some cities!" Li Xian said boldly.

"Blow it on you!" Li Xian gave him a sideways glance, turned his head and didn't bother to pay attention to him.

Li Xian felt despised and scratched his head in anger. Li Dan at the side pulled his long sleeves to comfort him:
"Third brother, I still don't want it!"

"Why not? Even you look down on me?" Li Xian glared at Li Dan.

Li Dan pointed to Li Lingyue and the others, and reminded: "I'm not looking down on you, it's just that you destroyed Tubo, what if the queen mother really wants to hug you? Aren't you afraid?"

"I..." Li Xian was choked for a moment, and he suddenly realized that he was usually timid even when he went to greet Empress Wu. When Empress Wu got closer to him, he would tremble with fright. How could he dare to bear Empress Wu? Hug, isn't this courting death on purpose?
Li Xian wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and praised the fourth brother Li Dan:
"The younger brother is still smart, because the elder brother almost fell for the second child's trick, and Tubo is left to the younger sister to destroy, only she is not afraid of the mother's hug! Hehe!"

When the three brothers of the Li family were arguing, Eunuch Chen shook the dust and sang loudly: "Princess, please come on board!"

Zhao Shi and Gong'er supported Li Lingyue to board the 16-person imperial drive, and then more than 100 musicians played musical instruments. Under the guard of the Imperial Army, Li Lingyue followed Li Zhi and his wife and slowly entered the city.

Entering the city, the scene inside is even more lively, both sides of the street are crowded with crowds of onlookers, in addition to the people of Tang Dynasty, there are also a large number of Persians, Turks, Koreans, Japanese... These people crowded the streets, Just to see the face of the emperor, queen, and princess.

As soon as the emperor's drive passed by, everyone knelt down and shouted long live, and waited for the drive to pass by before getting up and following behind.

Zhao Shi trotted to Li Lingyue and handed him a beautiful wooden box:

"Princess, this is money from His Majesty, let you throw it all away!"

Li Lingyue opened the box, and it was really full of coins. These coins are "Kaiyuan Tongbao" commonly used by ordinary people, but the material is made of gold.

Li Lingyue picked up a gold coin and was amazed in her heart. At her time, although Kaiyuan Tongbao was an ancient coin, it was not very valuable because too many were unearthed.

But this kind of 'Kaiyuan Tongbao' made of gold is somewhat similar to commemorative coins. If it is placed in later generations, it will be worth a few houses anyway.

Li Lingyue couldn't help secretly praising her father's generosity. Anyway, she has already traveled through time, and this thing has no collection value, so she simply sprinkled it out.

People flocked to the place, scrambling for gold coins, while shouting "Princess Thousand Years", the voice resounded in every neighborhood in Chang'an City.

The entire city of Chang'an became extraordinarily lively because of the princess' return to the palace. Some children shuttled among the crowd, humming Li Lingyue's poems:

"The thread in the hands of the loving mother, the clothes on the daughter's body! Sew and cut every year, fearing the cold and heat! Whoever says nothing about grass will repay three springs."

An hour later, the royal convoy entered through Danfeng Gate and arrived at Linde Hall of Daming Palace!

Hundreds of court ladies and eunuchs came in and out, all kinds of delicacies and wines were placed on the table, and the officials took their seats one by one. The night banquet held for the princess officially began.

Spring warbler singing, Hu Xuanwu, tail burning banquet, wine...

That night, Li Lingyue got the permission of Empress Wu, got lost at Datang's dining table, got drunk and passed out...

It was also on this night that a postman set off from Luoyang, the eastern capital, and came straight to Chang'an. He brought a bad news, a bad news that involved Li Lingyue...

(End of this chapter)