In the battle of Chenjiagu, both Dazhou and Liao suffered heavy setbacks, and the war stopped for a while. The Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao wanted to consolidate the internal affairs, so she could take revenge on Dazhou immediately if she could not spare for the time being. On Dazhou's side, Emperor Xuande successively evacuated Cao Yu, Pan Xun, Wang Sheng and other generals were demoted and distributed, and then a group of veteran generals were recruited to lead troops to guard the frontier to prevent Liao from going south.
There was no war, but the situation in the capital was even more tense. The Northern Expedition was a fiasco, the general Li Jizong died tragically, and there were officials in the court who bluntly wrote to Emperor Xuande’s faults. While the people remembered General Li, they also felt that the emperor was a useless person. defeat the battle. The prestige of Emperor Xuande plummeted.
Emperor Xuande is in the palace, but he has countless eyeliners and secret agents. He knows everything he should know. He already had a toothache. A Taoist priest entered the palace to treat him.
At the end of April, when Prince Gong and his wife returned to Beijing, Prince Gong did not want to see anyone, not even the emperor, so he drove directly back to Prince Gong's mansion, and has been behind closed doors since then. Emperor Xuande missed his son and brought Prince Rui and Zhao Heng brothers to visit. Walking to the door, there was a sound of thunderbolts smashing things, followed by King Gong's scolding: "Get out, get out of it for me!"
A general loses his arm, like a woman disfigured, how can he calm down for a while
Emperor Xuande was so distressed that he asked Prince Rui and Zhao Heng to wait in the courtyard, and he went in alone.
Li Mulan was in the General's Mansion, and went to watch for his grandfather, and Prince Gong was lying alone with his back to the bed. Seeing his son's empty right arm, Emperor Xuande burst into tears, walked quickly to the bed, hugged his son and burst into tears. King Gong dared to lose his temper with his servants, but he didn't dare to push his father away. He didn't want to push him either. He closed his eyes and choked out: "Father, my son is useless..."
He was useless, he couldn't save his grandfather, and he broke her heart from crying.
He was useless, with a broken arm and a disabled body, he was not worthy of her.
He was useless, the dignified prince fought in person, but was defeated by the Liao Kingdom, losing the prestige of Da Zhou.
People are on the battlefield, life and death, and King Gong has no time to feel inferior and blame himself, but on the way back to Beijing, King Gong only felt disheartened and lazy, and would rather die than live in such a crippled life.
Both father and son cried, the voice reached the courtyard, Prince Rui lowered his head and sighed, Zhao Heng couldn't bear it either. Although he and Prince Gong did not have much brotherhood, but Prince Gong went to the battlefield to protect his family and defend the country, Zhao Heng sincerely admired them.
Because Prince Gong was agitated, Zhao Heng and Prince Rui were not allowed to enter the house to visit. Song Jianing still didn't know that General Li died in battle and Prince Gong broke his arm. Zhao Heng didn't tell her, and no one around her dared to tell her that raising a baby in the palace with a big belly could be said to be ignorant of things outside the window.
Somebody just wanted her to know.
Zhao Heng had just returned to the mansion and was changing clothes in the front yard when the steward suddenly came over and reported that Princess Rui had come to visit and wanted to visit the princess.
Zhao Heng sneered and said to Eunuch Fu in a fair way: "It's not appropriate for the princess to raise a baby."
Eunuch Fu bowed his head and exited the inner room, glanced in the direction of the door, and whispered to the steward: "You go and tell Princess Rui, just say that before the princess gives birth, there will be no guests." Princess Rui is really stupid. Come on, are the people in the Shou Palace all fools
"Understood." The steward understood, and walked quickly to the gate of the palace, and unceremoniously, relayed Eunuch Fu's words to Princess Rui in the carriage.
Princess Rui gritted her teeth in anger. Yesterday, she just learned that Chen Xiu was three months pregnant. She had been hiding it and deliberately hiding it from her. Princess Rui was uncomfortable all night, so she wanted to see Song Jianing. Song Jianing's child is catching up with the imperial court's fiasco in the Northern Expedition, so she must be feeling depressed. She will add more fuel to it and talk about King Gong's broken arm and Li Mulan's bereavement of her grandfather, maybe...
Who would have thought that Song Jianing would be so careful that she wouldn't even let her see her face
Pulling open the curtains, Princess Rui cast a vicious look at the inner courtyard of King Shou, and secretly cursed Song Jianing to continue giving birth to a daughter.
Here Song Jianing just ate an apricot. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, the apricots were not ripe and sour. Zhaozhao licked them and threw them away in disgust, but Song Jianing loved it so much that he ate two in a row. Zhao Zhao widened his eyes. The nursing mother smiled and coaxed: "Sour girl, this princess must be a little prince."
Just after finishing speaking, Zhao Heng came in.
"My lord." Song Jianing hurriedly put down the apricot kernel, smiled at him a little embarrassedly, and was caught by the lord again.
"Father, it's sour!" Zhaozhao rushed into Father's arms, pointing to the plate on the low table and complained that she wanted something sweet.
Zhao Heng picked up his daughter, gave her a kiss, and said slowly, "My little sister is out, and Xing'er is already cooked."
When Zhaozhao heard it, he wanted to see his sister soon, and then eat sweet apricots with her sister.
Zhao Heng didn't care whether the second child was male or female. All he wanted was for her to be safe. After kissing his daughter, Zhao Heng raised his head and smiled at the princess inside: "Eat what you want, don't worry."
The man's expression was gentle, Song Jianing looked at Xing'er in the plate, and then touched his big belly, suddenly looking forward to it.