Chapter 152 Talking in the study

Li Ke left Ganquan Palace, returned to the Han Palace in a daze, locked himself in the study and remained silent. Ma Zhou and others were uneasy about Li Ke's actions, and they took turns to persuade him. Li Ke kept his door closed and let them return without success. In the end, when his most admired teacher Cen Wenben persuaded him, he kept his door shut and ignored him.

The royal family was helpless about Li Ke's abnormal behavior. If he lost his temper with everyone and vented his anger and dissatisfaction, it would not happen if he could not do anything. On the contrary, such silent silence often leads a person to madness and cannot extricate himself. Therefore, the royal family was helpless about his abnormal behavior and looked frowning.

In Juyi Palace, the confidants of the Han Wang Party were not only Su Dingfang in the north of the Mo and Chen Qi who was recovering from the wounded in Lingzhou, but the rest were there. Shangshu Pushe Feng Deyi, Dali Temple Shaoqing Sun Fujia, the royal palace chief Chu Suiliang, secretary Lang Cen Wenben, Chang'an County Magistrate Deng Tongda, Chang'an County Chief Constable Zuo Yi, Wuhu, Ma Zhou, Xu Jingzong, and Liu Rengui gathered together. Everyone looked at me, I saw you, I don't know how to solve Li Ke's current problem.

Ten days ago, when Li Shimin issued an order to betroth Hou Ruoyi to Prince Li Chengqian, Ma Zhou and Xu Jingzong analyzed the powerful relationship. They knew that no matter what method the other party used to make the emperor and the King of Han betrothed Hou Ruoyi betrothed Prince Li Chengqian, his intention was to attack King Li Ke of Han.

It can be said that this person knows the character of the King of Han. He concluded that the King of Han would definitely take back Cheng's fate for Hou Ruoyi. What will the emperor think of King of Han Li Ke at that time? Li Chengqian is his elder brother, stopping the eldest brother's marriage and robbing the elder brother's woman. This makes the emperor, who has always claimed to be friendly and harmonious brothers, will definitely be furious. What consequences will be like this? When Ma Zhou and Xu Jingzong think of this, they can't help but admire this person's contemplation and utilization of the holy will.

It has become a fact that Hou Ruoyi and Li Chengqian have a matchmaker, and the imperial edict has been issued, so how can he take it back? Therefore, there is only one result in King Li Ke of Han advised the emperor, that is, to make the emperor furious, then fall out of favor, and lose the emperor's trust in him. Not only did he lose favor in front of the emperor, but also, if the King of Han prevented his elder brother's engagement and robbed his elder brother's woman, what would the ministers in the court look at the King of Han, what would the people of Chang'an look at the King of Han, and what would the scholars in the world go?

Look at the King of Han, what would the people of the Tang Dynasty think of the King of Han? There are many parties in the court, who would like to believe the King of Han and not respect the imperial edicts of the court? How could the people in the world talk about the imperial edicts just because of the King of Han’s explanation? Therefore, this disguisedly pushed the King of Han to the opposite of the people of the world, making him an unforgivable person who prevented his elder brother from getting engaged and robbed his elder brother’s wife. In this way, the King of Han’s Turkic deeds became useless for him.

Ma Zhou and Xu Jingzong analyzed these things from the decree issued by Li Shimin, so they decided to keep this matter from being covered, so that Li Ke, who had returned from the cold, knew nothing about it. Therefore, Li Ke was not aware of it during his return home to recuperate. However, this matter was not easy to do, and they had to obtain the consent of one person, who was Concubine Yang.

After listening to the analysis of Ma Zhou and Xu Jingzong, Yang Fei, who missed her son day and night, understood that Li Ke knew the consequences of this matter, so she agreed to the suggestions of Ma Zhou and Xu Jingzong. With Yang Fei's tacit consent, Ma Zhou and Xu Jingzong decided not to let Li Ke know about the imperial edict for the time being, and let him recuperate in the mansion. After his condition recovered, he would gradually tell him the truth. At that time, Li Ke would not suddenly suffer a fatal blow like this.

However, what they did not expect was that in such a critical and sensitive period, Hou Ruoyi would come to the Han Palace to find Li Ke and tell him about this. Therefore, when Li Ke insisted on entering the palace to persuade Li Shimin, they knew that the matter had developed to this point and it was difficult to save his ending. Therefore, after Li Ke left, the two quickly summoned the confidant members of the Han Palace, hoping that everyone would come up with a solution before the matter was even worse.

However, everyone discussed for a long time but did not get any effective results. When Li Ke returned home and locked himself in the study, they began to worry about Li Ke, but instead put aside how to deal with this matter.

Seeing that everyone could not think of any good idea, Feng Deyi could only say helplessly, "In this way, I can only go to the palace to invite Concubine Yang, and only he can persuade and enlighten His Highness."

"Empress Yang Fei is sick. Walking back and forth between the palace and outside the cold weather may make her sick. I'm afraid that her condition will worsen? Then the emperor will blame her..." Deng Tongda hesitated.

"When is it? You are still thinking about what the emperor blames. The most important thing now is how to free His Highness from this matter." Feng Deyi said angrily, "As for the emperor's blame in the future, I will help you."

After Feng Deyi finished speaking, he looked around everyone. Seeing that everyone had no objections, he agreed and said to Ma Zhou beside him, "Binwang, come to the palace quickly and tell the Empress about His Highness. Needless to say, the Empress will naturally understand what to do."

"Please rest assured, please go to the palace now." Ma Zhouyi bowed, then quickly left Juyi Palace and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Not long after Ma Zhou left, after about two incense sticks, Yang Fei hurried from the palace to the Han Palace. Yang Fei, who was seriously ill in bed because of missing Li Ke, improved her condition after Li Ke came back and recovered very quickly. At this time, although her face was a little haggard, she could not hide her elegance and luxury. Although her face was full of worries about Li Ke, as the princess of the previous dynasty, she still had a demeanor of the imperial concubine of the Tang Dynasty, which impressed everyone in Juyi Palace.

"I am here to see the Imperial Concubine." Everyone bowed to Concubine Yang.

"Flat." Yang Fei helped Feng Deyi up before he knelt down and saluted him. Concubine Yang valued this important minister of the two dynasties very much. When Li Ke was weak, he was able to stand up and support Li Ke. This is worthy of his courtesy to him.

"Your Highness is in the study, please, Empress." Feng Deyi knew that Concubine Yang had limited time, so he came to the door of the study with Ma Zhou and others.

"Dongdong." The maid next to Concubine Yang used to beside him, Lan'er, who is serving Li Ke, knocked on the door, "Your Highness, open the door, the Empress, come to see you."

"Ke'er, it's the mother, please open the door quickly." Concubine Yang said nervously.

After a while, with a "creak", the door of the study opened, and Li Ke walked out with a disappointed expression. At this time, he had no sense of the former Han King. If he had not been dressed in gorgeous clothes and his haggard appearance was no different from the hungry people who were hungry and cold.

"Mother's Concubine?" Li Ke was surprised by Yang Fei's sudden visit. He saw Yang Fei, whose face was a little white with snowflakes outside the house. Then he suddenly "thumped" and knelt in front of Yang Fei. "The son's minister is unfilial, and often makes the mother's concubine worry. He also let the mother come to the mansion to persuade the son's minister when it is cold and cold, and asks the mother's concubine to punish him."

Concubine Yang ignored the treatment of everyone around her and took Li Ke, who was haggard and looked in her arms, "Ke'er, it's because of her mother's bad luck, so she's causing you to suffer." Then, under Lan'er's service, Concubine Yang and Li Ke entered the study.

Feng Deyi knew that Yang Fei and Li Ke and his son had many important things to talk about, so he ordered Liu Rengui to send heavy troops outside the study room to guard the study room. How could Liu Rengui not understand Feng Deyi's meaning? So he mobilized the black-clothed double evil king Zhongchang and Zhu Tong to lead dozens of black-clothed guards to guard the study room tightly. Feng Deyi was satisfied when he saw Liu Rengui's arrangement, and then ordered everyone to leave the place and continue to go to Juyi Hall to discuss how to solve the problem of Li Ke's advice to Li Shimin to take back the imperial edict.

Discussion is just a form. They mainly wait for news from Concubine Yang in Juyi Palace to see if she can persuade Li Ke, untie the knot in his heart, and allow him to be freed from the blow of this matter. After all, Li Ke has met Li Shimin and must have received a reply from Li Shimin. They don’t know what the emperor’s attitude towards the King of Han, so they are not sure what to do for the moment. Therefore, only by waiting for Concubine Yang to persuade Li Ke and then get the emperor’s true attitude from Li Ke can we formulate corresponding countermeasures.

Therefore, the people who returned to Juyi Palace still didn't say anything, and were silent and silenced. The atmosphere was very strange. Time passed by minute by minute, and the heavy snow outside Juyi Palace was getting heavier and heavier, just like deliberately opposing Li Ke's mood, making it more and more difficult for everyone to calm down while waiting.

Just when everyone was about to collapse, Concubine Yang and Li Ke finally came out of the study and came to Juyi Hall. Seeing that Concubine Yang's expression was no longer depressed, everyone felt much more relaxed.

"Ke'er is nothing serious, so don't worry too much." Concubine Yang said to everyone. Then, accompanied by Li Ke and everyone, she left the Han Palace. Seeing that Concubine Yang's car frame disappeared at the end of the snowflakes, Li Ke just came down to Juyi Hall surrounded by everyone.

"Thank you for your concern for me. I am fine now." Speaking of this, Li Ke looked at everyone and continued, "As for this matter, my father has issued an order, and I will not interfere in this matter again. Mr. Yang, please continue to prepare wine and food, and I will host everyone in the mansion." After Li Ke finished giving the order, he left Juyi Palace without looking back.

"No." Yang En came to his senses only after Li Ke left and replied.

Everyone's reaction was similar to Yang En. They were all surprised by Li Ke's performance that was completely different from each other. At the same time, they were even more surprised what Empress Yang Concubine said to His Highness the King of Han? It would make the King of Han who was still in a state of dismay and haggard just now have such a big change.

However, no matter what Empress Yang said, as long as His Highness the King of Han can be freed from this heavy blow, it would be a good thing for them. Therefore, when they heard Li Ke entertaining him in the mansion, they knew that His Highness the King of Han had finally untied his knot. So, they were very happy.
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