The night at the end of spring and beginning of summer should have been a beautiful one. Have a good dream and wake up with new sunlight and new vitality. However, this night, the night is extremely long, everyone has their eyes open, not sleepy, and is waiting for the good news that does not know when it will come.
The same goes for ginger pear.
The sky faded a little bit of black, as if the water dipped in ink suddenly faded away from Mozi, becoming clear and bright again. At some point, the moon disappeared. The sound of a rooster crowed in the distance, and the sky gradually turned white at the end of the sky, giving birth to a morning glow.
A young man came in from outside panting and said: "Retreat, push, Cheng Wang has retired!"
Lu hurriedly asked: "Really?"
"Really. Everyone came out of the house." The young man was also very happy. "The young man also met the master on the road. The master said that everyone had worked hard all night, and had eaten and rested earlier, and nothing will happen."
Jiang Li thought, in this way, Yanjing City was defended.
Mrs. Jiang was also greatly relieved. She was getting older, and after a night of guarding, the mother hurriedly took her to the house to rest. Lu Shi also stood up, Jiang Jingrui and Jiang Jingyou also stretched their waists, only Jiang Youyao slept well, she didn't know anything, and went to sleep when she was tired. And Jiang Bingji, who didn't understand what happened.
Everyone seemed to feel tired at this time, and they wanted to go back to sleep, and refused to eat even early meals. Jiang Li sat all night and felt her body aches. She was more energetic than them. When she returned to the yard, she ate some snacks and hot tea indiscriminately, then took off her outer clothes and lay down on the bed, but it happened for a while. He didn't fall asleep either, but kept thinking about becoming a king.
General Zhaode defended the city of Yanjing, but it is not yet known how much the soldiers and horses of the king had been consumed. If this disaster is to be completely resolved, General Zhaode is afraid that he will chase out of the city and wipe out all the rebels. Although there are many soldiers and horses to become kings, they are not as many as those of Yin Zhan. In the original plan to become a king, there was no such a person as Yin Zhan. Even if there was one, I would never think that after so many years, Yin Zhan’s soldiers could still fight. The ghost place in the cloud did not kill Yin Zhan. On the contrary, it seems that he has become more vigorous and even more powerful.
In Jiang Li's heart, she was not worried that Yin Zhan would not be able to destroy Cheng Wang. She even had an intuition that the turmoil that Cheng Wang had planned for many years would be quelled by Yin Zhan very quickly. But Yin Zhan's return was really a good thing. A wolf was gone, and a tiger came behind. This time I am afraid that it is to let the tiger go back to the mountain, something she can think of, can it be that Emperor Hong Xiao can't think of it
I don't know how Emperor Hong Xiao feels now.
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No one can know how Emperor Hong Xiao feels now. The emperor's heart is unpredictable, and no one dares to speculate.
In the palace, in the main hall, the Queen Mother is talking to Emperor Hong Xiao.
It was probably because the storm that was set off in the city of Yanjing was so great that even the queen mother, who had been ignorant of the world, left Cining Palace frequently recently, stopped chanting scriptures, and asked about the wind outside. It is the same today. Last night, there were no hundreds of people in Yanjing City whose homes were lit up all night, waiting for a result, so why not in the palace? Even the eunuchs and maids in the palace were more afraid than the common people.
The people are unarmed, but those who become kings can't really slaughter the city. Maybe some can survive a catastrophe, and those who are unlucky will lose their lives. However, the people in the palace are different. I have never heard of anyone who succeeded in the rebellion being soft-hearted and letting go of the people in the palace. After each rebellion, the real blood was actually flowing in the palace, almost no one survived.
This is the moment when life hangs, life and death are in one thought. I heard that the empress dowager chanted Buddhist scriptures in Ci Ning Palace last night, but she did not realize that countless eunuchs and court ladies were the same, praying in secret, praying for a safe night.
It may be that God also has a benevolent heart. Hearing their prayers, this made them escape.
"The people who became the king have finally retired," the queen mother said: "The heart of the Aijia family has finally been put back in the stomach."
"I worried the queen last night." Hong Xiaodi smiled and said: "The king can retreat, and there is a part of the credit for the queen."
"The Aijia didn't do anything," the queen mother laughed, "It's just a copy of the Buddhist scriptures, and the Aijia himself understands that it is thanks to King Xia this time. If he hadn't rushed back with the troops, he wouldn't have become a king. Retreat so quickly."
"This time it is indeed the contribution of General Zhaode." Whether it was intentional or unintentional, Emperor Hong Xiao didn't call Yin Zhan the "king of Xiajun", he said: "Afterwards, I will reward him well. "He sighed again, "I heard that General Zhaode had a lot of feats in the war. After so many years, he is still young. I heard that his pair of sons and daughters are also very good. I have met him, but I have never seen him. Children."
"The Ai family has also heard of this." The queen mother said: "When the emperor wants to reward his merits, he might as well reward his children instead of the King Xia himself. His title is high enough, and the treasures of gold and silver will come back then. Emperor Xian also rewarded a lot."
"The mother's queen is thinking about it." Emperor Hong Xiao said: "All of this has to wait for the king's matter to be completely resolved before making any plans."
The queen mother was silent for a while, and said: "Your Majesty intends to let King Xia take advantage of the victory?"
"Of course, General Zhaode is the same as I thought, and I also told General Zhaode. The ambition to become a king has been planning for so many years, but I forget that I am also guarding him. Want to sit in this position, also It's not as simple as he thought."
He said this with a smile, but in the eyes of the young emperor, there was already murderous aura and ambition, which made people feel chilly.
The empress dowager paused for a while before slowly saying: "The emperor has not been easy for so many years. After all, this position is not what Cheng Wang Nengxiao thought of, so he is asking for trouble. The emperor can do it and wait for it. After the king's affairs, the world will be peaceful."
"It's also thanks to the empress," the emperor smiled: "It is the empress who chants the scriptures and prays for blessing every day to bless Beiyan."
The queen mother smiled and stopped talking. Emperor Hong Xiao looked into the distance. The sky outside the palace was exceptionally blue. It was a clear and fine weather. Everyone wanted to control the power of the world, the picturesque country, and the murderous opportunities everywhere. Once a king becomes a king, is there anyone else
There is no shortage of thoughts, but there is one thing he said correctly. He can clean up a king, and naturally he can clean up other people. In the last scene of the mantis catching the oriole, no one knows who is the oriole and who is the cicada.
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By the afternoon of the second day after Cheng Wang retired, everyone had a good rest. When Jiang Li got up, it was almost evening. She just slept like this for a whole day, only feeling drowsy, but she still remembered to ask the young man to send a letter to Ye Mingyu to ask about Ye Mingyu's situation. In such a chaotic situation, Jiang Yuanbai is even less likely to let her go out at will.
The little servant went quickly and came back quickly. Ye Mingyu didn't want to write a letter, so she sent a message to her, saying that everything in Ye Mansion was fine, and that Ye Shijie and Xue Huaiyuan were both fine. Let Jiang Li stay in the house and don't come out. Take care of yourself. If there is something that can't be handled, let someone go to Ye's house and say, and he will come to protect Jiang Li.
Hearing that Ye Mansion was fine, Jiang Li was relieved. Even if this day passed, it would be a surprise. On the fifth day, Cheng Wang’s soldiers and horses did not continue to attack the city for the second time, but Zhaode General Yin Zhan led them out.
The panic of the past few days has not yet dissipated, and new worries have emerged. Tong'er and Baixue were also very worried. When Baixue was making tea, he almost accidentally poured the tea on the table.
"What's the matter with Baixue?" Jiang Li asked with a smile, "Why are you so mad?"
Bai Xue said: "The slave and maid are worried about the parents at home. I don't know when this battle will be over, and I don't know if it will hurt the family."
"Isn't Zaohua Village very far from Yanjing City? Even if there is a war, it will not affect Zaohua Village for the time being." Tonger replied: "Compared with Zaohua Village, you should worry about yourself first. General Zhaode After going out of the city like this, he is going to drive Wang Cheng out of Yanjing City completely, but what if Wang Cheng comes back?"
Jiang Li smiled and said, "I don't think he is expelling. I am afraid that he wants to wipe out the rebels and wipe them out."
Tonger asked, "Really? That's a good thing. The servants don't have to worry day and night. General Zhaode has done such a big thing, and he will return to the cloud afterwards. The servants thought he would stay. In Yanjing City, it has been guarded against Cheng Wang's comeback."
"How come? The treasury may not be able to support so many soldiers." Jiang Li said, her heart suddenly moved, and Tong'er's words reminded her. As the saying goes, cunning rabbits die, if the soldiers and horses of the king are completely wiped out, Yin Zhan will be meaningless to stay in Yanjing City. But Yin Zhan still pursued the victory in such a way, or he was pure-hearted, dedicated to the country, and did not think too much. As long as he protects Yanjing, he will immediately return to the cloud. Either he was too deep in his mind and already had other plans. Even if he cleared out to become a king, he expected that he would not return to the cloud and would be able to stay.
Why is this
A trace of anxiety slowly emerged in Jiang Li's heart. The battle ahead is unclear, and I don't know what the final result will be. Not a soldier, it seems that I can only sit in the house and wait anxiously for an end.
Mingyue walked in from outside, looked at Jiang Li, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Girl... The Shizi of the county prince is here."
Yin Zhili? why did he come here
Jiang Li frowned involuntarily. She had a three-pointed smile when she saw people, except that every time she saw Yin Zhili, she would be a little bit resisted, probably because she knew what the Jiang family and the Yin family were. She was unwilling to obey, so she was so.
When she walked out of the yard, she saw Yin Zhili coming behind the maid.
This time, even Yin's feelings did not appear.
Jiang Li saluted him: "Master Yin."
"Miss Jiang doesn't have to be so polite to me." Yin Zhili is still in white clothes and gentle, he said: "I have met Mrs. Jiang just now. Today is the intention of my father, to say a few words to Jiang Shoufu, by the way. Give things to Miss Jiang."
Jiang Li looked at him in surprise, strange men and women gave things privately, which was a little out of the cabinet.
Yin Zhili also seemed to understand that what he said was a little abrupt, and smiled sullenly, and said: "In fact, it was given to you by Zhiqing. She knew that I was coming to Jiang Mansion today, so she asked me to send it. I wanted to give it to Mr. Jiang. People, but Mrs. Jiang asked me to give it to you personally."
Mrs. Jiang still didn't dispel the idea of her being with Yin Zhili, Jiang Li thought like this in her heart. Seeing that Yin Zhili took out a small box, he said: "I have seen it, and it feels very suitable for Ms. Jiang."
Jiang Li opened the box and looked at it, and she was stunned. There was a fan in the box. She took the fan out and looked at it. The surface of the fan was white, and I don’t know what fabric it was made of. It was slightly shiny, and it was embroidered with a pear flower. , It is very different, and the embroidery work is also very exquisite. The color is clear and light, but the handle is made of jade, and it feels cold to the touch. There are a lot of fans, but very few of them are so precious. If ordinary girls get such a fan, they are naturally happy.
But Jiang Li didn't feel too happy. Although this fan looked good, it was still inferior to Ji Heng's golden silk peony folding fan. Jiang Li found it strange that she didn't like too strong and gorgeous colors at first, but after getting along with Ji Heng for a long time, she also became infected with Ji Heng's habits. She felt that this snow-white and lovely color was too pale.
Yin Zhili didn't notice Jiang Li's thoughts, and still smiled: "It's going to be summer soon. This fan is also useful if you want to come to Miss Jiang."
"Thank you for the kindness of the county lord of Pingyang, and also thank Master Yin for sending the fan with me specially." Jiang Li smiled and thanked.
Yin Zhili said: "Ms. Jiang likes it."
"I like it very much, thank you, and I will put it away." Jiang Li put the fan back in the box, closed the box, and handed it to Bai Xue.
She said, "She will collect it well" instead of using it. Yin Zhili's gaze paused, and then she said warmly: "You're welcome. The city of Yanjing is not peaceful these few days, so please pay more attention to Ms. Jiang. I heard that Ms. Jiang was treated before becoming the king's subordinate. When we brought it to Huangzhou, it is better to be careful to prevent the recurrence of the old things."
Jiang Li smiled and said, "I know that my father won't let me go out of the house these few days. Speaking of which, General Yin is now confronting King Cheng, so don't you have to go?"
Yin Zhili smiled bitterly: "I wanted to go with my father, but my father asked me to stay in Yenching, saying that if something happens to Yenching, I can deal with it."
Jiang Li: "It seems that Young Master Yin also knows how to train soldiers?"
"As a general, I have to learn a little bit, not only me, but also my feelings."
Jiang Li smiled and said, "It's really admirable."
Yin Zhili said: "I think Ms. Jiang has the style of a military commander. Although she has no martial arts and defenseless, she can still win the battle thousands of miles away."
"It's me that Master Yin said? When have I done these things?"
Yin Zhili laughed: "We've heard those things about Tongxiang in the cloud. Zhiqing told me before that I really want to see you. After seeing you last time, she said that you are different from what she imagined. Look. Going up is really quiet and gentle, not like such a decisive woman."
"When it comes to killing and decisively, I don't want to be an axe. Why should Master Yin tease me."
Her tone was not rushed, and when Yin Zhili was joking with her, Jiang Li did not show any shyness. She was generous and open, but looked very comfortable.
"I don't know what is going on with General Yin right now?"
"Girl Jiang does not have to worry. Although the king has been planning for many years, he is not from a military background after all. Most of the soldiers are mobs. When it comes to platooning troops, they are not my father's opponents. So the king's rebellion will sooner or later die, but It's only time. And I heard a letter from my father's people saying that it would take less than a month to wipe out all the soldiers and horses of the king."
He should have said this to comfort Jiang Li not to worry, but it made Jiang Li think of something else. She asked: "After the matter of becoming a king, will General Yin and you return to the cloud?"
Yin Zhili was taken aback, then smiled: "This... I don't know yet."
He said that he didn't know yet, but he didn't admit that he would return to the cloud. Jiang Li's heart was arrogant. She didn't say anything anymore, Yin Zhili said again: "When we first met, Zhiqing saved a child. I thought it was Ms. Jiang's younger brother, but I heard Ms. Jiang didn't have such an old brother."
"That was the child I saved when I was in Huangzhou." Jiang Li said: "His family all died under the knife of a thief during the turmoil in Huangzhou. He is the only one left in the family. I think he is lonely and helpless. Brought him back. Then my friend was kind-hearted, so he simply accepted him as an apprentice."
"Friend?" Yin Zhili smiled: "It's the person who was with Su Guo Gong that day."
He knew Ji Heng's identity, so Yin Zhiqing wanted to tell him. Ji Heng and Yin Zhan are enemies, and Yin Zhili will naturally not have a good impression of Ji Heng. What do you mean by asking her now
"Does Ms. Jiang and Su Guo Gong know each other well?"
"I'm not familiar." Jiang Li smiled, and simply blocked it back. "If Young Master Yin wants to inquire about Duke Su for the county lord, I am really helpless and can't help much."
Yin Zhili looked at Jiang Li in amazement. He probably didn't expect Jiang Li to be so provocative. He was taken aback, and then smiled. It seemed very helpless and a bit funny, "I didn't expect Miss Jiang to be so straightforward."
"The county owner is also very straightforward."
"Zhiqing has been living in the clouds before, innocent and ignorant of the world, Su Guo Gong is very good, she just asks casually, and has no other meaning." Yin Zhili said.
"I know." Jiang Li smiled slightly, "I just said casually. I didn't mean anything else, please don't care about Master Yin."
Her language is mild, almost tame, but her words are always boring, making people angry and unable to get angry, and inexplicably embarrassed.
Yin Zhili didn't talk about Ji Heng with Jiang Li anymore, and instead talked about something else. Asked about Jiang Li's past, but he carefully skipped the not-so-beautiful past, such as the section where he was sent to Qingcheng Mountain, and the section where Jiang Li was slandered and pushed Ji Shuran to miscarry. All he talked about were beautiful things.
Only one thing that Yin Zhili didn't know was that Jiang Li was not the real Miss Jiang Er. Those beautiful things are just now Jiang Li casually ridiculed. He listened carefully and didn't doubt it.
It seems that he is a pure and innocent person.
Jiang Li thought silently, and after speaking for a long time, Yin Zhili left.
Jiang Li didn't send Yin Zhili away. She was now full of thoughts about what Yin Zhan was going to do, and how could she care about Yin Zhili. But the maids in the yard gathered around. After looking at each other, Mingyue whispered: "Girl, Master Yin, why did you come here to see you?"
Mingyue and Qingfeng are in the outer courtyard, not as close as Tong'er and Bai Xue following Jiang Li, so they don't know about Jiang Li and Ji Heng. In their eyes, this Young Master Yin is already an impeccable candidate. Compared to the marriage that Jiang Youyao snatched away and was later occupied by Jiang Yu'e, the magpie's nest is many times better. Apart from other things, the county prince is much smarter than a prince, and even though Zhou Yanbang is considered to be a good one, he is really pale in comparison to the gentle, elegant and handsome son.
Tonger said: "Go, go, people are just sending things for the county lord, the girl asked him something about war. Our girl always cares about the people, he is the general's son, naturally knows how the situation is now, the girl asked. It’s been a little longer and it’s wasted time. Don’t talk nonsense, there’s nothing special, and it’s not the girl who came to see the girl specially. It’s all gone, it’s gone.” She waved her hand and pushed out the bright moon and breeze watching the liveliness. .
Jiang Li walked to the yard, Bai Xue closed the door, Tong'er curled his lips to the outside, and said, "It's not too much to watch the excitement."
Her two maids, Bai Xue was originally the daughter of a farmer, and she didn't want other families to have children and be slaves since she was a child. She knew so many rules, Bai Xue was honest and duty-bound, Jiang Li's thoughts were her thoughts. Tong'er stayed with Jiang Li in Qingcheng Mountain for eight years, and had long since refused to accept discipline. On the contrary, she was much more open-minded than the maids in this yard, and she was not too restrictive in seeing problems. Yin Zhili is good, but her girl doesn't like it, so forget it. The twisted melon is not sweet. If the girl doesn't like it, can she still be tied to a sedan chair
Bai Xue put the box in front of Jiang Li and said, "Girl, this fan?"
Jiang Li wanted to let people put the fan away, but for some reason, she changed her mind and said, "It's almost summer. Just put it on the table. It will be ready for use when it gets hot. ."
Situ Jiuyue said that everything in the world grows and restrains each other, and even doctors know how to use poison to fight poison. If she can't even deal with a fan, she really has grown so old.
She didn't like Yin Zhili, but Ji Heng didn't want it either. She simply had a good time. Who knows what will happen in the future, entangled and entangled, but it is only an increase in worry.
Life has to be slashing the mess with a sharp knife, and then it is called happy gratitude and enmity.
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In the Guogong Mansion, Ah Zhao was moving hard.
Situ Jiuyue later gave him a wheelchair. There were several wheels on the underside of the chair, and he could walk around with it. He still couldn't walk, but when nothing happened, he tried to push himself into the yard to bask in the sun.
He met Zhao Ke in the yard.
A Zhao knew Zhao Ke, and once Zhao Ke came to see him and said to him: "You kid is a blessed person. When you came out of your private prison, my brother and I told you by heart."
Ah Zhao thanked him.
He knew that the place where he lived was Guo Gong’s Mansion. The owner of Guo Gong’s Mansion was Su Guo Gong. He had also heard of Ji Heng’s name. He remembered that he was a cruel and cruel beauty, but Zhao Ke said that he was in the princess that day. In the private prison of the mansion, it was Ji Heng who saw him and asked people to bring him out.
Ji Heng is his lifesaver, and Azhao does not deny this. It stands to reason that he used to hate such people in the past, and he always felt that he should be with the upright people, and he always avoided the people who played power and thoughts. But after a trip on the edge of life and death, many of Ah Zhao's thoughts have changed. Shen Yurong seemed to be a good person. Back then, he shouted affectionately with "brother-in-law and brother-in-law". Although he also disliked that Shen Yurong could not protect his sister well without martial arts, but he had read so many books, A Zhao also admired it in his heart.
But it is such a scholar who has no power to bind the chicken, who is familiar with the Four Books and the Five Classics, who seems to be gentle and frugal, has done something inferior to his wife. It is a pity that he has no enemies and no chance. Princess Yongning and Shen Yurong have been accused by the Jiang family, sentenced, and went to pay Xue Fangfei's life.
And Ji Heng... A Zhao thought to himself that he was a completely different person from Shen Yurong. Notorious, everyone was jealous, but such a person saved himself from prison. What's the point of him saving himself? His legs are crippled and he has no martial arts. Zhao Ke told him that in the beginning, Ji Heng rescued him, probably because he was to serve as a guard in the Guogong Mansion, but now he can't be a guard. The grandfather of the country also seemed to have forgotten him. After Ah Zhao entered the mansion, he had never seen him.
But A Zhao still remembered the last time he saw Ji Heng, in the dark and day-to-day torment of that cell, everyone had become accustomed to the darkness. At the beginning, he would cry and cry, but in the end he lost his mind, and even the will to survive was wiped out. Ah Zhao insisted. When he thought he was going to be unable to persist, one day, there was a movement in his private cell. He thought it was Princess Yongning and brought people to torture them. The person who never wanted to come was not Princess Yongning. It's a few strange men.
Two of the men got orders and searched one by one in the cell, seeming to be looking for someone. The remaining man walked indifferently. In such a terrifying scene like hell, he turned a blind eye and walked leisurely.
Ah Zhao didn't know what these people were here for, but he didn't want to miss any opportunity, even if it was a bet on his own life. Know that if he wins the bet, he can go out to avenge his sister, and if he loses, it's just a life. And staying here, sooner or later, she will be killed by the tired Princess Yongning.
He dragged two legs and climbed to the fence of the cell. He happened to see the man walking in front of him, so he reached out with difficulty and grabbed the corner of his clothes.
The man's boots stopped in front of him.
He saw an extremely beautiful and gorgeous eye, and from his eyes, there was still a dismissive indifference, although he was still smiling.
A Zhao felt cold and desperate, but he still said what he wanted to say.
Then he was saved.
Thinking about it now, since then, he has had an indescribable sense of fate.
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The relationship between my brother-in-law and brother-in-law can be said to be very good...