"My son is kowtow to the queen of mother!" In Kunyi's palace, Li Xiao was dressed in prince's clothes and kowtowed three times, "My son is unfilial and has never paid any respects to the queen of mother for eight years, and he also invited the queen of mother of mother to Yuanyao!"

The empress dowager's eyes were covered with blood. Since Cao Yi launched a coup and controlled her to Beijing, she has not slept peacefully. Every night when it was quiet, she would be awakened by nightmare. In the dream, she often saw her biological son Li Jian covered in blood, and was helplessly stretching out her hands and calling for help.

The Empress Dowager was obviously much more haggard. She could not get news from outside the palace. The palace is now completely isolated from the outside. She is like a deaf and blind man. She can only look at the square sky in the palace every day.

She hated that woman, so she didn't like Li Xiao, even if Li Xiao was brought in from her cradle, she would be brought up by her.

It seemed that Li Xiao became the biggest competitor of her biological son Li Jian when she grew up. When she finally learned that she was seriously ill and the departing emperor decided to pass the throne to Li Xiao, her anger was finally unstoppable. She had been hesitating and finally decided to participate in the coup launched by Li Jian and became the most indispensable factor in that coup. Her phoenix chariot stopped at the gate of the Jinwu guard Cheng Qun, blocking Cheng Qun, who was intending to go out to suppress the rebellion, directly inside the camp. This allowed Li Jian to gain control of the capital without any obstacles.

The Empress Dowager knew that Li Xiao hated her. She narrowed her eyes and looked at Li Xiao who was kneeling in front of her and seemed extremely respectful.

They hated each other deeply, but they still had to pretend to be kind and filial. It seemed that Li Xiao had forgotten that if it weren't for the woman above, Li Jian would not have succeeded, and the empress dowager seemed to have not known that Li Xiao was in a big army and was fighting back to Beijing, but the wanderer who had been out of Beijing for many years has now returned with honor.

After a warm speech, I gave me a seat to tea and greet. After all the homework was done, the empress dowager finally couldn't help it. She stared at Li Xiao and asked, "Where is your elder brother now?"

Li Xiao smiled and slowly put on his clothes, "Mother, my elder brother should be close to Guizhou now! I have sent Su Can and Quan Changbin to greet him. I should be able to take my elder brother back to Beijing soon. Mother, please rest assured."

The corners of the empress dowager's eyes jumped wildly, and her face turned pale. Li Xiao was like before, with a gentle smile on his face and looked at the empress dowager above respectfully, but the deep sarcasm in his eyes was finally captured by the empress dowager's eyes that had experienced vicissitudes.

In Kunyi Palace, the atmosphere was as cold as ice.

Li Xiao can be silent, but the empress dowager knows that she can no longer remain silent. She wants to do her best to find a glimmer of life for Li Jian. She knows that Li Xiao is the kind of person with a very cruel heart.

"For eight years since Jian'er's success, the people in China are living in poverty, and internal and external troubles are coming one after another. He is indeed not suitable to stay in this position again. In the future, this great fortune will be handed over to you." The Empress Dowager spoke.

"Thank you, Queen Mother!" Li Xiao was not angry and bent down slightly, "Xiao'er must have lived up to what Queen Mother expected, revitalize my great spirit, calm the border troubles outside, cultivate people's livelihood inside, and give me a prosperous world."

Looking at Li Xiao, the wrinkles on the Empress Dowager's face became more and more obvious. As he said this, Li Xiao still didn't answer the question. He was trying to force himself to say it, and he was blatantly slapping himself in the face! The Empress Dowager's lips trembled slightly.

"What are you going to do after you ascend to the top?" Finally, the Queen Mother asked in a trembling voice. Her face turned from pale to red because of humiliation.

Li Xiao sneered in his heart, and finally couldn't help it. Li Jian is your own son after all. I was forced to escape and died for a lifetime, but I may not be able to give you a comfort or a little concern.

"As long as the eldest brother is willing to come back, the eldest prince's mansion in Beijing still belongs to the eldest brother." Li Xiao smiled and said, "Although Li Xiao is unfilial, he dare not disobey the traditions of the ancestors of the Li family."

The Empress Dowager breathed a deep sigh of relief. Although she felt humiliated, she finally got the result she wanted. The tradition of Li's family. When the battle for the throne was revealed, the victorious side could only confine the defeated side and not kill at will.

"That's good, that's good!" A smile finally appeared on the empress dowager's face.

Li Xiao stood up, "Mother, my son has just returned to Beijing, and he is full of troubles. He can't serve his mother here, so he can't forgive him!"

"You go and do it!" The empress dowager waved her hand and got the promise she wanted. She also no longer wanted to see Li Xiao again.

Li Xiao bent down deeply, took a few steps back, turned around, walked out of Kunyi Palace with his head held high. Hearing the sound of the palace gate squeaking behind him, Li Xiao turned around and looked at the three golden words of Kunyi Palace, and his sarcastic smile came to his face: "My mother, I promise you that as long as the eldest brother returns to Shangjing, I will spare his life and let him be a free prince from now on, but the question is, can he still return to Shangjing? Hahaha!" With a long laugh, Li Xiao left with his head held high.

"Transfer my orders. From today on, Kunyi Palace will be enshrined. Without my orders, people outside are not allowed to enter, and people inside are not allowed to leave." Li Xiao's cold voice echoed on the stone road in front of Kunyi Palace.

The Fourth Master's Mansion, which had been deserted for eight years, was once again revitalized. The entire street before the mansion was replaced with new bluestone slabs, neatly and smooth. The trees on both sides of the street were neatly trimmed, and soldiers were studded in three steps and five steps. After Li Xiao returned to Beijing, he finally returned to the mansion that originally belonged to him today. The mansion was decorated with lights and colorful, and he was full of joy.

Stepping into the gate, Li Xiao saw in front of the screen wall of the yard, Xinmei was wrapped in fox fur, sitting on a chair with a blanket on her legs, looking at him with a smile, Duoer and Xiner grabbed the armrests of the chair, one left and one right, and were looking at him timidly. Although the father and daughter had already met when they were in Weizhou, Li Xiao, who was busy with affairs, did not have much time to communicate more with them. At this time, when he looked at Li Xiao, his fearful expression was also revealed.

"Fourth Master, welcome you home!" Xinmei smiled and owed her body on the chair. Behind her, there were people kneeling all over the floor.

"Why are you out? The weather is so cold outside!" Li Xiao stepped forward quickly, walked to Xinmei, and reached out to hold her cold hand. "I am weak, what if I get sick again?"

In front of the servants in the yard, Li Xiao held his hands tightly. Xinmei's face turned red with shame. After struggling for a moment, he pulled back his hands, "Fourth Master, it's been eight years, you have finally returned home. Xinmei must come to greet him in person. Duoer, Xiner, why don't you salute your father?"

A pair of children walked up timidly and fell to the ground, "See your father!"

Li Xiao laughed loudly, holding the two of them with one hand, "Okay, go into the house quickly, don't get frozen!"

The old housekeeper behind Xinmei got up and quickly directed his servant to lift Xinmei and walked towards the hall. Li Xiao held a daughter in one hand, followed Xinmei tightly, and walked into the warm hall as spring-like.

"It's great to go home!" Li Xiao sat next to Xinmei, staring at the wife who suffered all her hardships for her, and said emotionally: "Xinmei, you have suffered over the years."

Xinmei shook her head slightly, "Xinmei is not bitter, the Fourth Master is really bitter. Although Xinmei lives a little harder, she has no worries about her life. How can she be compared to the Fourth Master walking on the edge of life and death every day?"

Patching Xinmei's hand, Li Xiao smiled and said, "You are still thinking about everything as before. It's a pity that your mother tribe has been hindered by me. Xinmei, who are left with them?"

Xinmei lowered her head, her eyes filled with tears, "Cao Yi told me that there was only one distant nephew."

"Okay, there is one more thing. Adopt him to your mother's house and inherit your incense. I will compensate your mother's house well." Li Xiao stood up, "Xinmei, Cao Yi is now preparing for my throne ceremony. On that day, I will announce to the world that you, Xinmei, will be my Li Xiao's queen, and you will be the world."

Xinmei looked up at Li Xiao, but there was no joy in her eyes.

"Fourth Master!" she shouted softly.

"What's wrong, I'm so happy!" Li Xiao asked with a smile, "This is what you deserve. Your efforts and what you do are worthy of these titles."

"I can't do it!" Xinmei shook her head. "I can't do it."

"What did you say?" Li Xiao could hardly believe his ears.

"Fourth Master, look at how I am now, can I be as good as the world? On the day of the ceremony, you will appear in front of countless civil and military officials and accept their congratulations, and can you receive the imperial decree of the noble lady in the harem? No."

"I said yes!" Li Xiao's sword-brows stood up.

"Fourth Master, you are the emperor soon, you can't cure the anger. I know that the Fourth Master wants to compensate me, but you don't have to get the position of this queen! Not to mention Dayue, looking at the long river of history, when did a paralyzed queen appear?"

After staring at Xinmei for a while, Li Xiao walked over and squatted in front of her, "Xinmei, do you really think so in your heart? Or there is another mystery. You are my Li Xiao's concubine. If I ascend the throne, you are naturally the queen, and no one can say anything about the world. What's more, you are not Li Xiao's stain, but my glory. I, Li Xiao, have you, a queen who is full of virtues, and that is the blessing I have cultivated in my previous life!"

Xinmei smiled and lowered her head, but a trace of tears flashed in her eyes. She raised her head and looked at the roof, "Second Master, I am used to living in the Fourth Master's Mansion and don't want to enter the palace."

Li Xiao stood up in shock, walked around the house for a few times, and suddenly saw the old housekeeper on the side.

"Butler!" he shouted in a low voice, "What happened in the days when I haven't come back?"

The old housekeeper raised his head, "Fourth Master, in the past few days, only Lord Cao Yi and Cao have come to the mansion and talked with the princess for a while."
Chapter completed!