Li Xian held the letter and was silent for a long time.
She knew that the person who wrote the letter would never make such a request if there was no major event that had to be met.
But now is not the time, no matter how big things are, you have to wait.
In a blink of an eye, another month has passed, counting the days, the battle of the autumn harvest should start.
Lin Wanyue's mood has calmed down a lot since she had a candid conversation with Li Xian. Li Xian sent four fresh faces to guard her day and night, and she was unimpeded in the mansion, but don't even think about stepping out of the eldest princess' mansion.
The days seemed to go back to the past. No matter how busy Li Xian was, she had to eat three meals a day with Lin Feixing, and sometimes they would chat with each other. In the deserted Huxin Pavilion, Li Xian would play chess at the same time. While talking with Lin Feifei about things in the North, of course, he will also listen carefully to Lin Feixing's opinions.
The days looked the same as before, but Lin Wanyue knew that some things had changed.
After going through these things, Lin Wanyue found that she had changed a lot. Lin Wanyue herself didn't know exactly what her relationship was with Li Xian, but she felt that she had been obsessed with this relationship for four years. Suddenly she didn't seem as urgent as before.
The strong emotion of wanting to get a response and to have it seems to be unknowingly diluted.
In the dead of night, Lin Wanyue also once asked herself, did she stop loving Li Xian after she had gone through so much and truly got to know Li Xian
The answer she got was of course no. Lin Wanyue knew very well that her feelings for Li Xian had long since become part of her life, and it was impossible to strip them away.
It's just that Lin Wanyue at this moment is no longer limited to the present. She begins to imagine a more distant future. Like Li Xian, she begins to put more "important" things in front of her eyes, and she begins to accept other things besides military affairs in the north.
She had learned to go with the flow, and she had learned to keep things in her heart that she couldn't ask for temporarily, such as this affection for Li Xian.
After such a change, Lin Wanyue found that she had a feeling of another village.
Growth is often a slow accumulation, and when the accumulation reaches a certain level, qualitative changes will occur.
Lin Wanyue's gaze on Li Xian was no longer as hot as before, and Li Xian's attitude towards her had also changed a lot. The two of them together were more like a gentleman's friend.
Xiao Ci, who "disappeared" for a month, finally returned to the princess' residence.
I heard that a few days before Xiaoci returned to the mansion, a palace maid named A Yan was drowned in the palace. This maid used to work in the palace of Concubine Wen Gui, the mother concubine of the King of Chu. Concubine Wen died on the eve of the ceremony. All the people in the middle were dismissed, and this Ah Yan was assigned to the Qingwu Palace of the King of Xiang by the Nei Ting Division. The King of Xiang did not take her away when he left the capital, and the Nei Ting Division sent Ah Yan to the new queen. A while ago, she accidentally fell into a well and drowned, but as a small maid, no one would investigate, and no one would care. She just became a chatter between some palace maids and eunuchs after dinner. They said in private: Ah Yan was being When it was fished up, his body was hard, and he had been pregnant for several months. As for whether the news was true or not, it eventually became a mystery, and he rotted in the mass grave along with Ah Yan.
"Li Guotong Age" records: the thirty-one year of Yuanding · September
Headed by the Xiongnu's Maotun clan, they joined Jigong, Danghu, Yanzhi, Touman, the five major Xiongnu tribes, and hundreds of small tribes of vassals. Within a few days, they assembled an army of hundreds of thousands, and the heavy army pressed directly against the border of the country.
At this point, Li Guo and the Huns finally tore apart the "peace" that had been maintained for decades by two generations of generals, Wang and his son, and began a protracted tug of war.
This turmoil is known in history as the "Five Random Laws".
From the beginning of September, there are wars in the northern border almost every day.
The military report was submitted to the court, and the emperor placed it on the court.
Later, he adopted the joint proposal of Crown Prince Li Zhu and the Prime Minister on the Right, and the people at the border retreated for a hundred miles.
Li Zhao thought about it and even wrote a secret edict to Li Jin, King Yong: After the people are safely evacuated, the army in the north will rely on the benefits of Yangguan City, take defense as the main thing, and go out to fight as a supplement; Defeat the Huns.
As soon as the news came out, the world was shocked.
The people in the northern border of the country are even more miserable. They have to give up the land and thin fields they have lived in for generations. They are reluctant to bear it! How will they live without the land? But the emperor's life is hard to violate, no matter how reluctant he is, he has to leave.
Due to the active cooperation of various state capitals and the cover of the army, in less than a month, most of the people in the northern border moved to new homes and started a new life.
And the war in the North has just begun...
Yuanding thirty-one, October 15th.
The urgent reports issued by the northern border traveled day and night, and were delivered to the sky.
The messenger was a servant, and because of the red bamboo tube on his back, he went straight to Li Zhao's imperial study.
Shunxi had a heavy expression, holding the red bamboo tube in both hands, kneeling in front of Li Zhao, his head buried very low.
Li Zhao looked at the red bamboo tube, his heart sank, he put down the jade pen in his hand, and opened it.
His Majesty's Reflection: The 31st day of Yuanding, October 10th
The Xiongnu army attacked again. His Royal Highness King Yong sent troops to fight, and encountered a combined attack from five divisions. The two main generals fought for more than a hundred rounds. His Royal Highness King Yong was inadvertently, and was beheaded by the evil Xiongnu thief Tuturba.
Our army suffered heavy losses. Lieutenant General Zhong Liangjun died in battle, more than 10,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, and the criminal minister Gao Deyi was killed.
After Li Zhao read the military newspaper, his hands trembled, and he took three steps back, before he swayed and stood firm, making a "crashing" sound towards the twenty-four beaded curtains on the crown.
"Your Majesty!" Shunxi quickly ran to Li Zhao's side and supported Li Zhao.
Li Zhao gasped for breath, and shouted: "Nizi! Nizi! The few people told you not to be greedy for merit, you...you!"
Before he finished speaking, Li Zhao rolled his eyes, but he couldn't bear the blow and fainted.
"Your Majesty! Come here, come here, pass the imperial doctor..."
Li Zhao ascended the throne at the age of twenty-two, and he is now fifty-three years old. Although King Yong Li Ji was not favored, he was Li Zhao's parent and son. Now an old man over fifty wants to send a white-haired man to a black-haired man. Even a ruthless emperor is unbearable.
After all, Li Zhao was old, and this time, he fell into a coma for a day and a night. The imperial doctor was trembling with the diagnosis and treatment. Fortunately, Li Zhao was not in serious trouble, but he was overworked and the pain of losing his son.
Fortunately, Li Zhao woke up in the afternoon the next day.
"Hey..." Li Zhao sighed softly, and the exhausted Empress De immediately cheered up and knelt down beside Li Zhao's bed: "Your Majesty, are you awake?"
Li Zhao glanced at Empress De and said in a hoarse voice, "Water..."
The palace maid held a water cup, and Queen De fed Li Zhao to drink the water herself, and then called the imperial doctor in. The four imperial physicians diagnosed for a moment and said: "Miss, Your Majesty's body is fine, just need to rest for a while. You can recover as before, and I will give you a prescription for warming up after a while."
"You all go down, the widow's body, the widow knows."
"I'm waiting to retire."
The imperial doctor left, Li Zhao patted his bed, and Queen De sat beside Li Zhao's bed, looking at the gray-haired man who had lived with her for more than 20 years.
"You help the widow to sit up."
"Yes."
Li Zhao leaned on the dragon bed, his face a little pale, and Queen De sat quietly beside him without saying a word.
"Beast! Beast! This unfilial son!" Li Zhao suddenly got angry and patted the dragon bed under him with a "bang bang".
"Your Majesty, it's important to take care of your dragon body!"
Li Zhao also listened to the persuasion and stopped losing his temper, gasping for breath, his chest heaving.
After a long time, Li Zhao asked again, "Where's the prince?"
"Go back to your majesty, you suddenly fainted yesterday, the crown prince, the eldest princess and the second princess have guarded you all night in the palace, and I let them go back to rest in the morning."
"Well, you... go and call the prince to see me."
"Yes."
…
Li Zhu lifted her robe and knelt before Li Zhao's bed: "My son sees the emperor."
"Be flat."
"Thank you, Father."
"Prince, these few days the widow needs to rest. You move back to the East Palace."
"Yes."
Li Zhao turned his head and looked at his only son-in-law. From his face, Li Zhao found the shadow of Li Qingcheng. In a blink of an eye, she had passed away for several years.
Seeing that her father looked at her without speaking, Li Zhu straightened her body and waited quietly.
"The decree, during this period of time when the widow is resting, the crown prince will supervise the country, and the left and right prime ministers will assist each other."
Hearing Li Zhao's will, Li Zhu hurriedly knelt on the ground, her mood was extremely complicated: he had been looking forward to this day, but when he thought that these were all due to his father's illness, he couldn't help feeling a little sad.
"My son obeys the order!"
"You go down, the court is heavy, you don't have to run to the widow all the time, you have to listen to the opinions of the two prime ministers."
"My son understands."
"Go, ask someone to send your imperial sister... Also, the concubine will be passed into the palace."
"Yes."
Li Xian stayed in the palace for a whole night last night. Just after returning to the palace by car, she received an order to enter the palace with her concubine. Li Xian did not dare to delay and entered the palace with Lin Feixing in a carriage.
…
Shunxi walked in from outside and reported, "Your Majesty, Empress, His Royal Highness the Eldest Princess, and Consort Lin Feixing are waiting outside the palace."
"Call them in."
"Yes."
Li Zhao said to Empress De, "Go back to rest first."
"Chen and concubine retire."
Li Xian and Lin Feixing entered the hall. Without waiting for Li Zhao to speak, Li Xian walked directly to Li Zhao's bed and called out to the emperor, and tears started falling down her cheeks.
When Li Zhao saw that his daughter was like this, he smiled lovingly and patted the vacant seat beside him to motion for Li Xian to sit down.
Li Xian sat down and looked at Li Zhao, tears streaming down her face.
Li Zhao's heart warmed, he loved Li Xian not only because Li Xian was his eldest daughter, but also because Li Xian was cool and Xiao Li Qingcheng, but because Li Xian was taking care of the royal character and at the same time made Li Zhao feel Many folks have family affection and experience the happiness of an ordinary father.