Jiang Xuanjin stood still for a long time, stretched out her hand to rub the center of her brows, and let out a long sigh.
He also said that he hoped that he would live a long life, which was obviously to scare him to die young.
A liar whose nature is hard to change!
Grinding his teeth, Jiang Xuanjin turned to look at Jiuwu and said, "Pingling is short of people, General Hu and others are leaving today, you can go with them."
Jiuwu: "???"
No, to be reasonable, why is there so many people here, why does your majesty want to hurt him? ! How innocent he is! I haven't even seen the faces of the two little masters yet!
"Why? Don't want to go?" Jiang Xuanjin gave him a cool look.
Just Wu swallowed hard: "No, take the order of your majesty."
Since he transferred troops for him last time, he has been mixed up with a military position in the Ziyang Army. His Highness means that being in the Ziyang Army is beneficial to his official career. Indeed, Your Majesty promoted him very much. Let him go on any good errands, but... Taking a sneak peek at Jiang Xuanjin, Wu felt that this person seemed to like to throw him far away every time.
And there is a tendency to get further and further away.
Chengxu gave Wu a sympathetic look.
There is no way, my master is reluctant to do anything to his wife, so only people around her can take the blame. What's more... who asked this person to speak ill of the emperor to his wife
Just Wu took a step and turned his head three times, and left reluctantly. Jiang Xuanjin turned sideways and asked Qi Jin, "When will she get well?"
Qi Jin replied: "Confinement naturally lasts for more than a month. Madam has bled a lot and is in poor health. You need to stew more chicken for better health."
After finishing speaking, he glanced at him and couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, don't ask how Miss and Xiao Shizi are doing?"
I have never seen such a person. From the time the child was born until now, he didn't even look at it.
Jiang Xuanjin paused, seeming to remember that there were two more children, and after a little daze, asked, "What's the matter?"
Qi Jin: "..."
If he hadn't been so nervous when his wife was giving birth, he would really have doubted whether the child was his.
Individually, the twins are smaller than ordinary babies, but what is rare is that the two children are both healthy, wrapped in swaddling clothes and sleeping obediently, and several nurses are surrounded by them with happy eyebrows. Lord Ziyang entered the door, greeted him and saluted: "Congratulations, Your Majesty!"
Chengxu sent the happy money at the back, Jiang Xuanjin stepped in through the door, stood by the small bed and looked around.
The nurse hugged one up, and handed it to him with a smile on her face: "This is Xiao Shizi, look, how much he looks like you!"
The newborn baby is so ugly, he doesn't even have eyebrows, so he still looks like him? Jiang Xuanjin stared at it in distaste for a while, but without reaching out to hug her, she looked down at the other one in the shaker.
The daughter is obviously much better-looking than the son. With a small nose and a small mouth, it smells like milk.
His brows were loosened, and he hooked his lips.
The nurse held Xiao Shizi in her arms, then looked at the young lady in the cradle, with a smile on her face, she felt a little puzzled in her heart. Who doesn't like boys more? This Mr. Ziyang is good, just staring at the girl is amused.
There was a crowd of people waiting to see the child behind them. Seeing that Jiang Xuanjin hadn't said anything and hadn't hugged the child, they all scratched their heads anxiously, wishing they could give him a hug.
Glancing at them from the corner of the eye, Jiang Xuanjin said, "There are too many people."
Hearing that this meant chasing people away, Lu Jingxing put his hands in his hands and smiled, "We waited for two hours like your majesty, and we didn't even let you take a look. Isn't it too stingy?"
"That's right!" Murong Qi chimed in, raising his hands and said, "I want to hold a baby, I haven't held one yet!"
Slowly sitting in the outer room, Jiang Xuanjin said: "Shopkeeper Lu and Lord Baihua will take a look first, and the rest will come back after dinner."
There were too many people and the air in the room was muddy, and everyone felt that this arrangement made sense, although they felt itchy. But Qing Xian and the others obediently withdrew.
It was only then that Lu Jingxing noticed that there was a girl next to her. This girl was born extremely beautiful, with bright eyes and white teeth, hooked eyes, slender willow waist that could be grasped, and a slender figure wrapped in black gauze.
The weather in early spring was not too warm, the wind was blowing very cold, but this man seemed not afraid of the cold, inside a black-bottomed white butterfly wearing a bouquet corset, outside a light and transparent black gauze dress, you can vaguely see her white arms.
It's a very bold attire, but because it's dark black, it doesn't look like meng Lang, but instead has an indescribable coldness.
As if aware that someone else was looking at her, Murong Qi raised his eyebrows sideways and smiled at him.
The provocation is also meaningful.
Lu Jingxing paused, turned his gaze away, and concentrated on looking at the two children in the cradle.
Murong Qi originally wanted to hold a baby for fun, but now she suddenly felt that the man in front of her seemed more fun. A pair of phoenix eyes are very beautiful, looking down, they are as gentle as spring breeze blowing blue waves.
Look at his romantic temperament, he is not as serious as Jiang Xuanjin, maybe he is used to rolling in the world of mortals. But when he just looked at her, he didn't seem interested at all.
Touching his own face, Murong Qi began to doubt his own appearance for the first time.
"Have you decided on a name?" Lu Jingxing asked Jiang Xuanjin outside.
The latter said: "Don't worry about Shopkeeper Lu."
"How can I not work?" Lu Jingxing chuckled, "Before, Huaiyu even asked me to name me Lu, something... Hey, Lu seems to be very nice."
These words are so clear that they are looking for death, the nurses all turned pale with fright, and the eyelids of Murong Qi who was beside him also twitched.
However, when Jiang Xuanjin heard it, there was no disturbance at all, he just held the tea and gently skimmed off the foam.
"Master?" Chengxu couldn't help calling him in a low voice.
He took a sip of tea, and said calmly: "It's this time, and you're still arguing with shopkeeper Lu, is your heart made of iron?"
Lu Jingxing: "..."
This person was not very good at saying such things before, who did he learn the skill of choking people to death? !
"Master." Yu Feng came in with a few letters, frowned and said, "There is a battle report."
Restraining his expression, Jiang Xuanjin took it over, glanced at it, and sneered.
Li Huailin dared to reuse Liu Yunlie and sent him to lead troops to Pingling for support.
Liu Yunlie is a child from a poor family who was selected as an official to enter the court, and his only relative is a younger sister. A few years ago, he made meritorious service in the Battle of King Qin, and was promoted to Ting Wei. He is good at power and tactics, with a decent skin. He has fooled Jiang Xuanjin for many years.
For a while, Jiang Xuanjin couldn't figure out why this person wanted to harm him and Danyang. I thought it was a person who was too loyal and could not tolerate the threat of the emperor. But after jumping out of the capital, he looked back and realized something was wrong.
This person's purpose is not that simple.
Gathering the battle report, he got up and told Chengxu: "Do as you said earlier."
Pingling went down to eight cities in a row, and the imperial army rushed straight to the main city of Pingling with an unstoppable force. Li Huailin rewarded the fierce general from Xiliang, and felt that it was all due to him. There is also a banquet in the palace. Celebrate with all officials.
However, a few days later, an urgent report came from the outskirts of Beijing—"Your Majesty! A large number of people are coming to the capital twenty miles west of Beijing!"
The hand holding the cup was loosened, and with a "pop", Li Huailin turned pale.
"Exchanging eight cities for the imperial army to go deep into the hinterland of Pingling, no matter how difficult it is to return to defend the capital, I can't wait for this bold strategy." Nanping Jun sat in the curtain and sighed, "Pingling Lord can't eat these days. Those who couldn’t fall asleep must have been shocked enough.”
Li Fangwu was not only shocked, he almost felt that Jiang Xuanjin was going to abandon him Pingling. As a result, he invited the king to enter the urn, and the 120,000 troops sent by the imperial court were all restrained in Pingling. Ziyang's 50,000 troops sneaked all the way and directly surrounded the capital.
"Doing things with Lord Ziyang has this advantage." Pointing to the Qinwang flag flying high outside, Changlin Jun smiled happily, "He said that he would lead troops to King Qin, and there was no doubt from the people at all. , the imperial court issued a notice saying that Lord Ziyang had rebelled, but not many people believed it, haha, this dumb loss choked those people enough."
Due to the reaction of the people, several lords who really planned to serve as kings temporarily stood still. In this battle, the losers will not end well, so except for a few of them, Jiang Xuanjin pitted them on board for some reason. Except for the people, the rest of the feudal lords dare not make choices lightly at all.
"Who made the emperor really listen to those old things and appoint the generals of Xiliang." Li Fangwu shook his head, "When the people from Xiliang came, didn't they give us a reason to be King Qin?"
Li Huaiyu made a crucial move, using three thousand food and grass to deceive Li Huailin into a doctor in a hurry and win over Xiliang. Although the original intention was to maintain Jiang Xuanjin's reputation, the series of consequences caused by this incident really helped them a lot.
They recognize this Mrs. Jun, and no one can be it except the eldest princess.
"Now let's see what Lord Ziyang means." Mr. Changlin twisted his beard and said, "We have already reached the edge of Kyoto, and we have to go further..."
Going one step further, it is really aimed at overthrowing the emperor.
The lords were very clear in their hearts. While longing for more fief wealth, they were also worried. With Ziyang Lord's compassion and loyalty, would he just want to scare the emperor
No, Jiang Xuanjin answered them clearly with the next siege.
In the ninth year of Daxing, on the fourth day of April, King Qin's army broke through the gate of Kyoto and pointed directly at the palace. Emperor Qin fled. He retreated all the way south with a hundred officials, and led the army of Xiliang into the army to fight against the army of King Qin. The army of Xiliang burned, killed and looted.
Li Huailin's original intention was to ask Xiliang to help, promising a large amount of gold, silver and food. As long as they can suppress the rebels, the Northern Wei Dynasty could even cede a few cities. However, the development of the situation far exceeded his expectations.
Situ Jing suddenly died suddenly, Liu Yunlie took over the 70,000 troops in his hands, disobeyed the imperial decree, and avoided King Qin's army all the way.
"What do you mean?!" Sitting in the palace, Li Huailin was furious, "Why didn't you fight? Why did you retreat?!"
Liu Yunlie clasped his hands and said, "Now our troops are not strong enough to fight Ziyang Lord. Your Majesty might as well let another 100,000 Xiliang troops enter and let them fight against each other. Your Majesty can reap the benefits, wouldn't it be nice?"
Li Huailin narrowed his eyes: "Do you think I'm a fool?"
There are already 80,000 Xiliang troops in the territory of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and another 100,000 will be released... It is easy to ask God, but it is difficult to send God away. He is now regretting why he listened to Liu Yunlie's words and asked Xiliang for reinforcements. How could he make the same mistakes again and again
Liu Yunlie didn't panic at all. Looking up at the emperor, he said: "I am sympathetic to His Majesty. If Your Majesty insists on not listening, then I can only continue to retreat south."
"You..." Touching his eyes, Li Huailin finally realized something was wrong, "What do you want to do?"
He always felt that Liu Yunlie was the most reliable person around him. After all, when he was not in charge, Liu Yunlie stood by his side without hesitation, planning for him how to seize power and how to get revenge. Without him, Li Huailin could not kill Danyang.
After the matter was completed, Li Huailin also promoted Liu Yunlie and increased his salary to express his gratitude and trust, and let him handle any important matters, so that his current status in the court could directly match that of the original Ziyang Lord.
But now, Li Huailin looked into those eyes and woke up suddenly.
Did he... fall into a trap
Seeing the emperor's reaction, Liu Yunlie smiled slightly: "Sister Chen is pregnant and wants to go back to Xiliang. I will send her off."
It is "back", not "go".
There was a sudden shock in his heart, Li Huailin stared at him blankly, and quickly reacted: "You!"
"Resignation." Liu Yunlie retreated calmly, and with a wave of his hand, the people outside the door stood up in unison, blocking the door.
When Ning Guifei came over, the emperor was throwing things fiercely. In the entire palace, everything that could be broken had already fallen to the ground. As soon as she took half a step to embroider her shoes, a vase fell over, and the tiles splashed across her forehead.
"Get out!" Li Huailin yelled with red eyes, "Get out!"
The warm thing slid down, blinding her eyes. Ning Wanwei wiped the handkerchief, silently looking at Yanhong above.
Seeing it was her, Li Huailin froze, strode over, looked at the wound on her forehead, and said angrily, "What are you doing here?"
When he was angry, he always liked to throw things, and he accidentally hurt someone not once or twice, why didn't she stay away
"I'm afraid His Majesty will be angry." Ning Wanwei said in a low voice, holding his hand and looking at it, "I'm hurt."
A thin gash made somewhere, much shallower than the one on her forehead. Li Huailin looked at it, disapproving.
Concubine Ning was stubborn, she carried her skirt to the side to find the medicine box, and sat on the soft couch to wipe it for him.
Her movements were so gentle, she didn't care that her wound was still bleeding, she cleaned his hands with medicinal wine, and wrapped him in a white cloth.
Li Huailin's throat tightened, and he said in a muffled voice, "Give yourself some medicine."
Ning Wanwei nodded and got up to look for the mirror.
Not a single complaint.
Li Huailin looked at her back, suddenly a little irritable: "Actually, you can go."
Like the other concubines in the harem, she left him while the chaos was taking place and went to the Ziyang area. There was no war, no danger, and she could live the rest of her life in peace with the money in hand.
Ning Wanwei, who was applying medicine to herself, gave her hands a pause, and slowly turned her head to look at him.
Li Huailin seldom looked into the eyes of others, and when he saw her eyes at first glance, he was inexplicably flustered.
"Your Majesty." She said, "Why do you think the concubine refuses to leave?"
Why else... I don't want to bear the position, I hope that he will make a comeback and return to Kyoto, or there is no other place to go.
Li Huailin really wanted to say that, but looking at Ning Wanwei's eyes, he paused and didn't say it.