Chapter 333: It is better to have fun alone than to have fun

After leaving Qinglong Street, Qin Lei did not go back to Qinghe Park directly, but turned to Guantao's house located in Tiebi Hutong.

Guantao was having dinner with his mother. When he saw Qin Lei suddenly coming in, the mother and mother were holding their rice bowls and were stunned for a moment.

Qin Lei clasped his hands and smiled, "I'll pass by here alone, aunt, please eat." The two of Guantao girls reacted and quickly stood up to greet Qin Lei. Qin Lei reached out to hold the old lady who wanted to kill the chicken, and smiled, "When you kill the chicken and then make it, Gu is already hungry." After saying that, he pointed to the noodles pot on the table and said, "Just eat this, I've heard from Brother Zhang that your hand-rolled noodles are awesome, and I can meet Gu today."

The old lady smiled happily and said, "Your Majesty, I'll give you some more if you don't have enough." Then she scooped a bowl of hot noodles, drizzled some soy sauce and squid juice, and held it in front of Qin Lei in both hands and said, "Your Majesty, please use it slowly, I don't know if you can stand this vulgar food."

Qin Lei took it and stirred it with chopsticks, laughed and said, "I am not that precious and never picky about food." As he said that, he started to eat. While they were talking, Guantao took out a few plates of cold dishes from the inside and put them on the table and smiled, "The prince can only feel wronged when he eats lightly at home."

Qin Lei chuckled, Feng Juan Canyun finished eating a bowl, then wiped his mouth and said, "Are you crying poor? You are the one who is the maximum salary in the royal palace, and you can eat bear's paw all year round." Seeing that he was having a good meal, the old lady gave him another bowl. Qin Lei thanked him and continued to eat it. Fearing that the prince was not enough, the old lady quickly went to the stove to make another pot.

Guantao finished eating the noodles in his bowl, then wiped his mouth and smiled: "You can't eat anything if you have money. Moreover, your subordinates and your mother are not young, so you should cherish your blessings and nourish your health. Therefore, you mainly eat cooked hot and soft vegetarian food, and you only eat 70% full."

Qin Lei finished another bowl, and the old lady brought out another bowl of hot noodles and said kindly, "Your Majesty will eat hot bowls." Qin Lei laughed and said, "The bowl of the aunt's house is not big enough, so I can only eat a few more bowls." After taking the noodles, I thought it was too hot, so I pulled some oil tofu from the cold dish and laughed at Guantao, "You are a way to keep your health, but it is not suitable for us to do our best."

After hearing this, Guantao's mother giggled, "Your Majesty is putting your efforts? You love to joke too much." She didn't believe Qin Lei's words.

Guan Tao said in a heart-hearted manner: ‘This person jumps up and down every day and takes the big head, not what he puts in his strength.’ He explained to his mother with a wry smile: “The prince is practicing martial arts, which consumes a lot of energy.”

After joking for a while, Qin Lei finally got full, so he moved to the study with Guantao to talk, and a maid with a thick hand came up to help the old lady clean up.

After neatly placing the books scattered on the kang, the two of them sat cross-legged, each holding a cup of hot tea, and smiling at each other.

"How are you doing blind dates?" Qin Lei said lazily. He was eating too much and felt comfortable all over, so he didn't want to talk about something upset first.

Guantao said with a bitter look on his face: "I'll let my mother and the Shi family brother and sister to death. From the third year of junior high school to today, we have been together for six more times. It is said that there are still eight waiting."

Qin Lei narrowed his eyes and smiled, "It's great. Do you feel that the flowers are gradually fascinating? "

Guantao scratched his head hard and said, "That would be great, so it would save my mother from being too verbose."

Qin Leiqing sipped the tea ceremony: "Since last year, you have had at least twenty kisses, tall, short, fat, thin, black, white, handsome, ugly, and ugly. Why didn't you like it? What did you think?"

Guantao thought for a while and sighed, "I am a tiger, and it's thirty-nine this year."

Qin Lei said with disbelief: "Really? You don't look like you just."

Guantao smiled proudly and said, "That may be because I pay attention to health, so I look younger."

Qin Lei grinned and said, "You misunderstood. I always thought you were forty-nine."

Guantao almost fell to the ground and coughed a few times, "Maybe it was caused by ignorance." He was afraid that Qin Lei would not finish teasing, so he rushed to say, "Whether thirty-nine or forty-nine is enough to be the father of those little girls. What kind of interest do you think I can have?"

Qin Lei then understood his problem and said with a slight smile: "It is said that the strange uncles like little girls, especially those who are young and innocent."

Guantao shook his head and said, "I am the other person. I can't accept the little girl anyway. If I can't talk about it, I can't let others become widows early in the future."

Qin Lei shook his head and smiled, "You guy is very kind," and said with a weird smile, "You won't be the same as Le Buyi, you're still a virgin, right?"

Guantao seemed to be greatly insulted, sat upright and stared at him, "The prince also grew up in the capital. Why didn't he ask how many confidants Qiu Fengke has and the best companions in brothels?"

Qin Lei thought to himself: 'I'll ask what that one is doing.' After making a fuss with him, his mind gradually got rid of the stagnation caused by eating. He waved his hand and smiled: "I don't want to find a young man who is too young, so I'll find a little widow, an old girl or something."

Guantao smiled depressedly and said, "I think this is good, but how could my mother promise that the eldest wife of the Zhang family is a widow?" He said, "I won't talk about this anymore. You came here so late, just to have a meal and care about my personal problems, right?"

Qin Lei nodded, his face turned gloomy and said, "I have a question to ask you."

Guantao sat upright and nodded, "Prince, please speak."

Qin Lei rubbed his chin and repeatedly considered the following words. After a long time, he slowly said: "I don't know if you have noticed it. As soon as you enter Beijing, I will be bound to your hands and feet and cannot be used, as if... a tiger broke into the deep forest, and the vine bonds that are not easy to detect from all directions, have only one body of strength but cannot be used."

As soon as the conversation opened, Qin Lei's depression that had accumulated in his heart for a long time poured out: "It seems that no matter how capable or powerful I have, it will have no effect in the capital. Not to mention anything else, even a small tax department head dares to openly provoke even though he knows it is my property."

After hearing Qin Lei say this, Guantao smiled and said, "The prince is afraid that he is a fan of the authorities. How could you be troubled by a small leader? What really bothers you is the huge trap behind him."

Qin Lei took a sip of tea and smiled bitterly, "I know this, I just feel so nervous," he said, "I think back to the time when the golden swords and iron horses were swinging, that was the lonely battlefield." He said, "These flies in Kyoto are really a defeat for people."

Guantao felt silent in his heart. He saw the prince as he looked confident and domineering. He never thought that he could not solve the problem. When he organized a sentence, he carefully said: "The prince is very strong and fierce and feminine. Although he is full of wisdom and tricks, he does not like conspiracy. It is indeed the most suitable for wielding and leading millions of lions to unify the Liuhe."

Qin Lei smiled bitterly and said, "Don't swear, I'll be uncomfortable."

Guantao laughed and said, "There is no stigma only Yang. The prince once said that to serve politics in war, it means putting politics above war." He looked at Qin Lei firmly and said in a solemn voice: "Whether you want or not, politics runs throughout your life. Unless you give up all rights, you must learn to use it proficiently."

Qin Lei sighed and said, "I know everything you said, but I know it's one thing, and doing it is another." As he said, he spread his hands, "In our plan, this stage should be to seize the central authority, at least form a situation of three-legged rivalry with Wen and Li. But I don't like this situation of restraint and strife," he clenched his hands into fists and collided fiercely, "I want absolute control and a right authority."

Guantao looked at Qin Lei with some concern, suddenly understood the problem, and sighed softly: "The prince's problem is not yourselves, but because you were affected by someone."

"Who?" Qin Lei narrowed his eyes.

"Mr. Le." Guantao replied without hesitation.

"Mr. Le?" Qin Lei was reluctant to hear Guantao say bad things about Le Buyi. He looked at Guantao strangely, and saw his open-minded face, then suppressed his inner displeasure and asked softly: "What is the reason?"

Guantao did not answer his question, but instead expressed his eyes and said, "Do you remember this time last year when we discussed how to restrict the power of the prime minister and control the military power?" He pointed at himself and chuckled, "At that time, the subordinate said that the prime minister and the Grand Marshal should be abolished and the power should be taken over to the monarch. I still remember that the prince refuted me at that time."

Looking at Qin Lei with bright eyes, Guantao continued to say in a deep voice: "At that time, you said that the world is the world of all people, and it is too unsafe to tie the life, death, misfortune and fortune of billions of people to one person. Even if the emperor is wise and powerful, he will have a day of aging and sickness. How can he deal with complicated state affairs?"

"This is pretty good. If you meet an emperor who is not right and only cares about selfish desires, wouldn't you defeat the country that our ancestors have worked hard to defeat?" Qin Lei nodded and recalled: "At that time, I said that the power of the state does not have to be taken over by one person. As long as the emperor has mastered the military power and dispersed the power of the general and ministers, he can ensure the long-term stability of the country." Looking at Guantao, Qin Lei smiled slightly and said, "I know what you mean."

Guantao knelt up and bowed and said in a solemn voice: "The prince's foresight at that time was shocking. You said that absolute power would lead to absolute destruction. Only by checking and balanced each other can we have long-term stability. My subordinates agree with it. However, Mr. Le believes in centralization and is determined to achieve great unification. So today the prince said 'absolute control, one thing is the only thing to say'. My subordinates deeply think that he was influenced by Mr. Le. You are not troubled by the troubles in front of you, but hesitating about your future choices."

Qin Lei relaxed his heart and said to himself: 'As long as it is not a sign of not being in his heart.' He pressed his right hand to relax Guantao. He firmly said: "The past thoughts are a bit biased. In this year, I realized that power must be centralized in troubled times. This idea was created by myself, not by Mr. Le's guidance. Don't think too much."

Guantao sighed in his heart and said softly: "The prince should be arbitrary. His subordinate Mr. He Le can only make suggestions, and in the end he can only make the decision." Since he could not turn it around, he could only accept Qin Lei's statement. After all, he has no second decade to waste.

It was just that the gloomy face was floating on my eyebrows and could not be concealed.

Qin Lei pretended not to see it, and smiled helplessly: "We talked about it, but we didn't solve the original problem - what should we do now? How to solve this unfavorable situation that is constrained everywhere?" He just said to Guantao, so that he clearly understood what he wanted. The problems that had troubled him for a long time naturally disappeared.

Guantao packed up his mind, thought for a moment and said softly: "The current problem is this. As long as you don't completely break up with the Li family, you cannot send troops to Zhongdu City. So you can only abide by the current rules of the game."

Qin Lei nodded and said, "Yes, if it weren't for the old bastard Li, His Majesty would have long suppressed Wen Yanbo and his disciples. But our royal family and the Li family have hindered each other, which has made Wen Yanbo live a better and more prosperous life."

Guantao laughed and said, "But you showed up. Although it was not eye-catching, after a year of magical rise, you have become an important figure enough to break the current balance."

Qin Lei smiled angrily and said, "It's just a mess. It's still at the point where it's not enough to succeed."

Guantao grabbed his sparse beard and nodded, "It's enough, it's enough to get the Wen family and the Li family to get rid of you soon. If they can join forces for a short time, it must be because of you."

Qin Lei frowned and said, "This is not worthy of honor."

Guantao smiled brightly, "On the other hand, in the eyes of His Majesty and the Queen Mother, you are enough to make them play this key game of chess. They will never watch you get squeezed off the stage."

Guantao's words were like a sudden enlightenment, which made Qin Lei open his mind. He slapped his forehead and said with a hearty smile: "Yes, I am personal heroism at work. Why do you have to fight against two giants one by one? You should pull everyone into the water and let everyone have fun together."

Guantao smiled comfortably and said, "No, it's better to have fun than to have fun alone. It's better to be more lively."

Qin Leihuo got up and said, "You have a good vacation at home first, and I will go to the palace to meet the saint."

Guantao laughed and said, "It's the end of the Xu hour now. The prince should go again tomorrow. Can you drag His Majesty out of the bed?"

Qin Lei scratched his head and smiled and said, "That's all I can do. I will go back to sleep first and go to see the monk tomorrow morning." Guantao quickly stood up and gave him respectfully.

The next morning, Qin Lei got up before dawn and asked for a meeting at Chengtian Gate early. After waiting for half an hour, the eunuch passed the message and ran back panting, "Your Majesty has an order, Prince Longwei County is facing the holy palace." Qin Lei gave a silver ingot and hurried to Jinyu Palace.

The reason why Emperor Zhaowu came to Jinyu Palace was very simple, because Yongfu was here too. It was strange that Emperor Zhaowu had seven sons and four daughters, but he only favored Yongfu. In other words, only when he saw Yongfu, he would remember that he was still a father, and in front of other children, he would always think that I was an emperor first.

There is no reason for this kind of fatherly love, and it is not because Shanyang is jealous of Yongfu. She often asks herself, why is the difference between being a princess in the eyes of her father?

When Qin Lei came in, Emperor Zhaowu was knocking on the small walnuts outside with an exquisite hammer, and his expression was very focused. Every time he knocked one, he would have covered the bottom of the plate on the side.

He looked at Concubine Jin, who was sitting on the side in a daze, nodded, saying hello. Qin Lei was talking inward, Concubine Jin put his hands together on her cheeks, and tilted her head, which meant that Yongfu was asleep.

Qin Lei grinned at his mother's mother, then stood aside honestly and waited for Emperor Zhaowu to smash the walnuts.

Fortunately, there were not many left. In less than a quarter of an hour, Emperor Zhaowu put down his hammer and pointed to the porcelain plate at his hand and said to Concubine Jin: "Let someone crush it into powder and cook porridge for Yongfu sooner or later. Although this thing is not rare, it is very replenished."

Concubine Jin smiled and took it, saying softly: "Your Majesty has been hammered by himself. How can I stand by and watch? Of course I will smash it with my own hands."

Emperor Zhaowu said happily: "No, you go and deal with it." Concubine Jin was lucky, looked at Qin Lei again, then held the porcelain plate and left the room to a royal father and son.

While wiping his hands with a square scarf, Emperor Zhaowu said lightly to Qin Lei: "Have your body been better?" He always feels cold to Qin Lei. If you want to summarize the rules, it is hot when you can, and cold when you can't. Although it is a bit sad, it is a fact.

Qin Lei said gratefully: "I am worried about my father, but my son is afraid. My son is strong, but he is already well."

Emperor Zhaowu asked, put down the scarf and said, "What's wrong with this now?"

Qin Lei gestured with both hands and said seriously: "There is a big deal."

Emperor Zhaowu was immediately attracted by interest and smiled and said, "What's the big deal?"
Chapter completed!