In the next few days, outside the gate of Huangzhou, Cheng Wang's soldiers and horses launched several attacks. However, the terrain of Huangzhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack. For those people, it is not an easy task. In addition, the defenders of the city have held the city several times, which greatly damaged the morale of the soldiers and horses of Cheng Wang, and was not as fierce as it was during the night attack on the first day.
The people of Huangzhou still lived tremblingly, but the smooth defense of the city by the city guards gradually gave them confidence. In addition to repairing the burned house that night, he is gradually working hard to restore his previous life. The city garrison still patrols the streets every day to see if there are any fish slipping through the net of the assassin. When the province starts to make chaos again, causing confusion among the people.
When the military affairs were not so stressful, Ji Heng and Lu Ji wouldn't have grandpa not in the house. This morning, the rain stopped for several days, except for the warm sun. Wen Renyao taught Lin Yao to read the characters on his hexagram in the courtyard. Lin Yao's parents, siblings, were buried under the care of Wen Renyao and Jiang Li. Lin Yao has nothing else to do, so he just stayed here. Of course, even if he didn't say anything, Jiang Li would not leave him alone in his original house.
Lu Ji walked in from the outside and said, "Lady Liu was given to death."
Jiang Li had just got up and walked into the hall. This was what he heard. Ji Heng was sitting in a chair drinking tea.
"Is it dead?" Jiang Li walked out, sat down in the chair, and asked, "The King Cheng didn't send someone to rescue him?"
"No." Lu Ji shrugged.
"The emperor's guiding the snake out of the hole is considered to be a failure." Jiang Li said.
When Ji Heng heard the words, he laughed, "Not necessarily."
Jiang Li looked at him, and Lu Ji explained: "The king is selfish by nature. Your majesty may not be ignorant of this. It is too dangerous to go to the palace to rescue Concubine Liu, and it will disrupt his original plan. Once out of this Regarding this matter, Concubine Liu must sacrifice. If the emperor really wants to lead the snake out of the cave, there must be other ways. It is precisely because the emperor understands the nature of being a king that he directly bestows Concubine Liu to death. Concubine Liu can't escape death, it is better to give it to the people earlier. An explanation."
"That's it." Jiang Li nodded. Her knowledge of Emperor Hong Xiao was limited to what she knew from Shen Yurong in her previous life, as well as what her father said. I have seen Emperor Hong Xiao’s face in this life, and I only know that this emperor still has a lot of bargaining chips in his hands, but what Jiang Li knows about the relationship with Cheng Wang is not very clear.
"Also, your Majesty has sent General Wuwei to Huangzhou."
Jiang Li said, "This is good news."
Once General Wu Wei came, Huangzhou City was even saved.
Lu Ji glanced at Ji Heng before saying, "General Zhaode is also on his way back to Beijing."
His tone was so strange that Jiang Li followed Ji Heng. Ji Heng's expression did not change, but he said: "The king is going to go to Yanjing."
Jiang Li thought for a while and asked, "Wang Cheng can't beat General Zhaode, right?"
Ji Heng smiled lightly and said: "A wolf and a tiger, do you think the wolf killed the tiger, or the tiger ate the wolf?"
What he said was an understatement, but Jiang Li felt cold. On the surface, Ji Heng said that the king was defeated by General Zhaode, but after studying the meaning of the words, it was different. Cheng Wang had been preparing for this moment for many years, so that Emperor Hong Xiao didn't dare to move him easily before. However, in Ji Heng's words, King Cheng and General Zhaode are very different in strength. If General Zhaode is really so powerful, that is, he is more powerful than becoming, then when did General Zhaode start preparing
Except that Emperor Xian suddenly transferred General Zhaode to the northwest, nothing special seemed to happen between Emperor Xian and General Zhaode. Is General Zhaode a threat to Emperor Hong Xiao's throne? If Emperor Hong Xiao knew, he probably wouldn't let General Zhaode return to Beijing.
Jiang Li always thinks that Yin Zhan's affairs may involve a big secret of the royal family. But at least for now, she can only see the tip of the iceberg. Moreover, both Ji Heng and General Ji had reminded her not to intervene in this matter. Jiang Li didn't mean to be more nosy, but her instinct told herself that I was afraid that this matter should be taken care of because the Jiang family was also in it.
She must protect the Jiang family, protect herself, and protect Xue Huaiyuan and performance. Otherwise, you will be wronged and you will lose all the games.
While thinking about this in his heart, Ji Heng stood up and walked outside. Lu Ji asked him, "Where is the lord going?"
"Go for a walk." He walked to the door, paused, and asked Jiang Li: "Together?"
Jiang Li stood up: "Okay."
The daylight is still as brilliant as before, but the queen mother after the rain is brighter. The streets of the city are full of stones and wooden beams from the houses. Some have been repaired, and some people are still living. Some were not repaired well, so people searched for some thatch and built thatched huts on one side. There are still coffins on the ground that have not had time to be buried. Some monks sit beside the coffins, chanting sutras beyond their reach.
The children did not know what had happened, or the cruelty of the war. While his parents were not paying attention, Wu Zi played games with his playmates and laughed happily. However, the parents knew that it was not peaceful next, and they all had a sad face.
Most of the shops on the street have closed. Very few are still open, there is a refreshment shop in front of it is still open. The door beam has been burnt to darkness, but it still doesn't care. The tables and chairs inside are much less than before, and an old couple is busy.
It's just that in the past few days, who still has the mind to sit here and eat tea and snacks, so there is no one in front of the table in the thatched shed. There was a woman who came in a hurry, took out a few copper plates from her sleeves, bought a pack, and hurried away.
At this juncture, the streets are extremely unsafe. Although living at home may not be much better, it is better than wandering around on the street. Who knows if those ferocious assassins will suddenly jump out and take people's lives.
Jiang Li stopped in the tea shop and said, "I'm going to buy something."
The servant girl who had been temporarily invited has already left, and Ji Heng and the others are really not suitable for the presence of outsiders. So there was no one serving Jiang Li. Fortunately, Jiang Li was not really a spoiled eldest lady, and she didn't think there was anything. Also helped clean up the house yard. As for the food, Wen Ji bought it outside, because it was like this in the city, of course it wouldn't be so delicious, it just filled the stomach.
Jiang Li wanted to buy some refreshments, not for herself, but for Lin Yao. Although the little guy is accompanied by people every day, he often has nightmares at night, dreaming of his family's tragic death, crying ceaselessly. Wen Renyao was also helpless. Children like sweeter food, buy some back, presumably Lin Yao will like it.
When the old couple saw Jiang Li coming, they asked Jiang Li what he needed. Jiang Li chose some, and when he waited for the old man to wrap it up, he asked the woman by the way: "Mother, it's all like this in the city, why are you still opening a shop?"
The lady smiled and said, "This shop is an old shop, and it was left by our fathers. We eat and live in the shop. Even if a war comes in, we have nowhere else to go. Besides, those soldiers If you go into the city, hide in the house or on the street, it is the same. One day alive will lead a good day. People of our age are not afraid of anything."
When she was talking, the old man had already wrapped the cakes and delivered them to Jiang Li. Jiang Li wanted to pay the money, and suddenly remembered that she changed her clothes today and dropped her purse. She thought about it, just about to take off the bracelet in her hand, a slender hand stretched out, holding a silver in her hand, and placed it in front of the old woman.
"This..." The old woman was taken aback and said: "It won't take so much. We don't have any extra copper plates..."
"No need."
Jiang Li looked back and found that Ji Heng had already walked up to him at some point. About waiting for her for a long time, seeing her predicament again, came here specially to relieve her troubles.
"Little girl," the old woman said gratefully, "Your husband is really a good man."
Jiang Li blushed and was about to distinguish, but Ji Heng had already dragged her away.
Jiang Li was still holding the sweet-smelling oil-paper bag in his arms. After thinking about it, he raised his head to look at Ji Heng, and saw that Ji Heng's mouth still had a sloppy, careless smile, and he walked forward unhurriedly. .
"Did you just hear..."
"What?" He turned his head to look at Jiang Li, his eyes full of playfulness.
"This lady said that you are a good person." Jiang Limian replied without changing her lust: "Didn't you say that I am the only one in the world who think you are a good person. Now it can be said that there are two."
Ji Heng was stunned, he probably didn't expect this to be what she was going to say. But he reacted quickly and said: "I don't mind asking her to take back her words."
This is cool and whistling, Jiang Li is speechless. She then discovered that Ji Heng was holding her sleeves, but their sleeves were wide, and from a distance, it looked like he was holding his own hand. Jiang Li felt uncomfortable inexplicably. She didn't know if Ji Heng deliberately kept her distance because he hated others to be close to him or because he respected the girl's house.
Jiang Li secretly tried to pull his sleeves out of his hands, but unfortunately he couldn't make it. Because of the too much movement, he staggered and almost tripped and was helped by Ji Heng.
"Walk carefully," he said with a smile.
Jiang Li had to give up.
The two of them were walking on the streets outside Huangzhou City, and it was time for them to be so chaotic. There were not many people who dared to walk on the street so swagger in the daytime. In addition, Ji Heng's appearance was too grand, and immediately attracted many people's attention. People hid behind the windows, behind the door of the house, and looked at them secretly. Especially young girls, seeing Ji Heng's extraordinary demeanor, have long secretly looked at it. By the way, even Ji Heng's Jiang Li kept watching.
Jiang Li really couldn't laugh or cry, she really didn't like this kind of appreciation.
Jiang Li said, "Master Guo, I think we'd better go back. Or if you go shopping alone, I'll go back first."
"When you were Xue Fangfei, you should be very used to it." Ji Heng reminded slowly.
Jiang Li choked. Actually, when she first married to Yanjing City, she looked gorgeous, and she was looked at wherever she went. It was uncomfortable at first, and then I got used to it. But now she is no longer what Xue Fangfei looks like. Jiang Li said, "The past is the past, and the present is now. I am no longer Xue Fangfei."
Ji Heng: "Then you should get used to it."
Jiang Li asked: "Why?"
"I don't like being with gray mice," he answered naturally, "if you are not good-looking, don't stand in front of me."
Jiang Li remembered that, by the way, this person is a happy and ugly person. Suddenly she caught the loopholes in Ji Heng's words, and she rarely urged her narrowly, so she raised her head and asked Ji Heng: "What did the Lord of the country mean, I still look good now?"
The excitement and pride in her voice couldn't be hidden, and Ji Heng couldn't help turning his head to look at her. The girl raised her head, her eyes were clear with a smile, and her unique heartiness and courage were reflected in it, making her look like a newborn pear flower, white and lovely, pure and pure, making her laugh.
Ji Heng's heart moved.
From the beginning of a gentle but indifferent, cunning and lonely girl, she has always liked to laugh, but this is different from Jiang Li when she first met. But this may be what she really looked like. In the past few years, when Xue Fangfei had never met Shen Yurong in her girlhood, she was like this.
It is hard to imagine her later becoming a boring woman, busy with trivial matters all day long. She put away her aura and intelligence, no different from those beautiful official wives in Yanjing City. Shen Yurong turned a soft, lovely, hearty and moving pear into a piranha that grew up in the dim flowerbed. This is really a violent thing.
He has never been a person who loves and cherishes jade, and he has seen many beautiful women in the world. He was once criticized for being heart-hearted and ruthless, but at this moment, he also felt that the sun was soft and her smile was lovely. I only hope that such a smile can last for a long time. This Jiang Li is just like the one in front of me to be a forever courageous. The girl, has the courage to be desperate, and the good luck of God's favor.
He leaned close to Jiang Li and said softly: "Yeah."
Jiang Li was startled.
The original plan was to be used to confront him tit-for-tat, and all the ridicules of him came to an abrupt end. The smile on the corner of the youth's mouth was gentle, and in the amber eyes, there was no deep or shallow sentiment and hypocrisy, just like the sunlight at this moment, warm and bright.
She was suddenly speechless, and her cheeks slowly turned red.
The little deer that had been silent suddenly stood up again slowly, slowly raised his legs, walked tentatively, and then bounced around in her heart, stomping her heart into a mess.
Jiang Li could almost hear the sound of her heartbeat.
She had actually forgotten what kind of mood she was in when she liked Shen Yurong at the beginning. After all, it has been a long time, but now, at this moment, she knows that she may have a trace, a little bit, moved by the man in front of her. .
This is not a good thing, Jiang Li was dazed and at a loss. The instigator seemed to have no idea, stood up straight, and walked forward.
The sun shines on his tall figure, dyeing others golden.
Jiang Li knew that something was going wrong.
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