The border in November is cold and windy.
At night, Shangguan Yan came from Pucheng and went to the military camp first.
It was only when she entered the city that she heard that the eldest grandson of the emperor had come. Based on what she knew about her two sons, one was looking for a daughter-in-law and the other was looking for a younger brother. Most of them were in the military camp at the moment.
Sure enough, she saw Gu Jiao and her two brothers in Xuanping Hou's tent.
Shangguan Qing was already asleep, and Gu Jiao was giving him an infusion.
He had a bad appetite these days, and Gu Jiao gave him some fluids from time to time.
But tonight, the atmosphere in the tent seemed to be a little more solemn.
Shangguan Yan's face changed: "What's wrong? Is something wrong? Is Qing'er not feeling well?"
Shangguanqing's situation was not very good at first. He has been relying on the medicine of the National Teacher's Hall to suppress the toxicity, making him look no different from a normal person. In fact, his body has already been exhausted.
Ye Qing said that he would not be too painful to walk, but he would only become more and more lethargic. He might fall asleep one day and never wake up again.
Xiao Heng shared Shangguan Qing's thoughts with Shangguan Yan.
Shangguan Yan slumped down on the chair: "Has he really decided to do this?"
Go to Zhaoguo.
It means that he completely gave up the antidote.
Zhao Guo has a long way to go, and no one can guarantee that he will not die of poisoning on the way.
If he got poisoned, wouldn't he just go all the way in vain
At the thought of her son dying alone on the way back to Zhao Kingdom, Shangguan Yan felt heartbroken!
She didn't want to see her son's last face!
"A-Heng... I can't bear to..."
At this moment, she is not the daughter of the iron-blooded heart, she is just an ordinary mother.
But at the same time, she also understood that she did not have the right to prevent Shangguan Qing from going to see Princess Xinyang.
"Master Hou, Chang Jing, and Ye Qing are heading north. Let me ask, Dark Night Island is in that direction. If the journey was easy, they would have brought Shangguan Qing with them. If they didn't, it means that this trip was a life-and-death experience. ."
The extreme north has extreme bad weather, blizzards ravage the ice fields, and with the arrival of winter, it will become impossible for even experts to pass through.
Perhaps Shangguanqing wanted to understand this, and decided to give up waiting for the comfrey.
He wanted to use the last time in his life to return to his country and take a look at his home.
See your own mother.
Shangguan Yan choked and said, "I took him away back then, but I didn't ask him whether he agreed or not..."
Now he is grown up.
He can't decide his own birth, or even his own life, but he hopes to be able to choose his own way of leaving.
To live or to die, it is up to him to choose.
After taking the comfrey, there is only a 1 in 10,000 survival rate. If he fails, he will never be able to go back alive.
Whether he will bet on this contingency, or use his entire life to see his mother, is up to him to decide.
Inside the tent, Shangguan Yan grabbed his son's hand and cried all night.
…
This year's winter in Zhao Kingdom is extremely cold. At the end of October, the first snow fell in the capital, and it snowed for half a month in November.
After entering the twelfth lunar month, it was sunny for a few days.
In a house on Suzaku Street, Princess Xinyang sat quietly in front of the bed doing embroidery.
In the past, there were only pen, ink, paper and inkstone on her desk, but since then, all of them have been replaced with various fabrics.
She thought the room was stuffy, so she called Yujin to open the window lattice.
A little girl came in.
The little girl smiled and said, "Aunt Yujin has gone out, what is the princess' order?"
"Open the window." Princess Xinyang said.
"But it's cold outside." The little girl was worried about her body.
Princess Xinyang said indifferently: "I'm hot."
"Then, let's drive for a while," said the little girl.
"Yeah." Princess Xinyang nodded.
The little maid went around the table and opened the window lattice with the pole.
The cold wind floated in with the flying snow wrapped in it. Princess Xinyang felt a cool breeze, and even her dizzy head was awake a lot.
The little girl shivered.
It's so cold!
It's snowing again!
Princess Xinyang did embroidery while blowing the cold wind for a while, but the little maid didn't dare to let her do more, so she put down the window lattice, taking the risk of being kicked out.
"Aunt Yujin said, you can't blow cold air, you can't eat cold food, you can't..." The little maid lowered her head and said very embarrassedly.
"Okay, I didn't say I would punish you." Princess Xinyang didn't plan to bother with a little girl, but after sitting in the room for an hour, she was indeed a little unable to sit still.
"Bring the cloak, I'll go out for a walk," she said.
"Ah, yes." The little maid took the cloak over and put it on Princess Xinyang's body.
Princess Xinyang got up, walked out of the house with her swollen legs and feet, and came under the porch.
The snow in the yard was swept clean, and the ground was covered with non-slip mats.
The little girl held an umbrella for her.
"Go to the flower room to see." Princess Xinyang said.
"Yes." The little girl responded and supported her carefully.
The two masters and servants went to the conservatory.
This house was originally quite big. Princess Xinyang liked to grow flowers, so she directly used half of the house as a flower house.
The charcoal is burning in the flower house, and the temperature is high.
The little maid understands that her princess is not here to enjoy the flowers, she just wants to see if the old clothes from the past have dried up.
As soon as the two came to the door of the flower room, they heard a whispering voice inside.
"What do you think the princess thinks? How can you turn out the old clothes from so many years ago? Let us wash and dry them."
"Keep your voice down so no one can hear you."
"Just hear it, do you think it's me who said that alone? Everyone is spreading it in private!"
"What are you spreading?"
"Princess... actually has two sons!"
"what?"
"Half of these children's clothes belonged to the little prince, and half belonged to another little prince. It's a pity that the child's life was not good, and he died early after he was born! You said, let's wash the clothes of the little prince. Forget it, what are you doing washing that kid? It's so unlucky to wash the clothes of the dead during the New Year's Eve!"
The news of the little Marquis of Zhaodu coming back alive has already spread in the capital.
As for Xiao Qing's identity, although it has not been revealed to the outside world, these servants who have closed the door have listened a little while she and Yu Jin are sorting their clothes.
The little maid didn't dare to show her air, she turned to look at Princess Xinyang, and sure enough, the princess' face was icy cold.
The two maids Xu felt the cold gaze behind them, and turned around in a daze, seeing Princess Xinyang, they were so frightened that they fell to their knees on the ground!
Princess Xinyang walked over quickly.
The little girl was frightened: "Princess! Slow down!"
Princess Xinyang came to the two of them and shouted: "Get up! You stained my son's clothes!"
The rude maid just now happened to be holding a small piece of clothes that Xiao Qing wore when he was born.
The maid tremblingly handed the dirty clothes to Princess Xinyang.
Princess Xinyang looked at her son's dirty clothes, and for some reason, a burst of sadness came from her heart.
"Princess!"
Yu Jin went shopping and came back. She heard that Princess Xinyang went to the flower house, so she hurried over to take a look.
Did not know this scene.
She didn't immediately ask what the two kneeling maids had done, but directly instructed the little maid: "Take them off first, and I'll deal with them later!"
"Yes!" The little maid put away the umbrella in her hand and handed it to Yu Jin.
Yu Jin took the oil-paper umbrella and whispered to Princess Xinyang, who was on the verge of collapse: "Princess, I'm here to see you."
Xiao Jingkong often came to visit Princess Xinyang after returning to the capital, and Yu Jin just met him at the door.
Princess Xinyang likes to clear the air very much. When she heard him coming, she pulled away from her extreme emotions and took the dirty clothes back to the house by herself.
Xiao Jingkong has been studying in Guozijian for a month, and he is back to his old self. After this New Year's Eve, he will be six years old.
But he still looked like five years old, which really worried him to death.
Princess Xinyang asked someone to cook him a bowl of goat milk with honey and red beans, which was very delicious.
Xiao Jingkong finished drinking happily, and sat on the stool to talk to Princess Xinyang.
"Princess, you look good today, you are getting more and more beautiful!"
Princess Xinyang was amused by him: "Really?"
"Of course, and." Xiao Jingkong looked up and down Princess Xinyang, opened her mouth, and said, "It's become more cute."
Princess Xinyang pierced him: "You obviously didn't intend to say that."
"Ah." Xiao Jingkong raised her two little hands and scratched her little head, "You can see this too... Well, Jiaojiao told me to say that!"
"Is Jiaojiao back?" Princess Xinyang asked.
Xiao Jingkong shook his head and said seriously: "No, Jiaojiao said it before! Jiaojiao said, you can't say girls are fat, girls are fat, they are all cute and bloated!"
"Pfft—" Yu Jin on the side couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud.
If you want to say that the princess is fat, just say it.
However, the princess is not fat.
"What did you study at Guozijian today?" Princess Xinyang didn't continue the above topic, and instead asked him about his homework.
"Today is the "Book of Filial Piety"." Xiao Jingkong memorized the content of the class completely and explained it again in his own words.
Princess Xinyang nodded, everything was right.
She touched his little head: "What a smart child."
Xiao Jingkong rolled his eyes: "Is that smart or my brother-in-law?"
Princess Xinyang was amused by him: "They are all smart."
Xiao Jingkong bitterly frowned deeply.
Why are the bad brother-in-law and he smart
Obviously bad brother-in-law always takes the last place in the test.
In fact, if he could ask this question, he had already subconsciously admitted that the bad brother-in-law was very smart, but he didn't realize it himself.
He straightened his body and said, "I will be admitted to the top spot earlier than my brother-in-law!"
What Xiao Jingkong didn't know at this time was that he was indeed the champion of high school earlier than the bad brother-in-law, but he was not the champion of Wen.
"Clearance! Going to shoot arrows!"
The voice of Xu porridge came from outside the door.
"Oops! I forgot to make an appointment with them to go archery!" Xiao Jingkong jumped off the stool and bowed politely to Princess Xinyang, "Princess, I'm leaving first, and I'll see you another day."
"Okay." Princess Xinyang nodded gently and asked Yu Jin to send Xiao Qingkong to the carriage.
When Yu Jin came back, Princess Xinyang was sorting out the little clothes that had been soiled by the servant girl.
"King Kong and A-Heng really look alike when they were young." So seeing Jing Kong was like seeing A-Heng when he was half a child, which made Princess Xinyang miss him very much.
Yu Jin smiled: "Isn't it? They are all smart, they like to take the first place, and they are all sullen and mischievous."
Xiao Heng was not as good as he looked when he was a child. He was not allowed to climb trees, he secretly climbed, and he was not allowed to eat candy, so he went into the kitchen with Long Yi.
Princess Xinyang occasionally gets so angry that she wants to beat him, and he even knows to call Long to take him away and come back when she is out of anger.
Thinking of Xiao Heng's childhood, Princess Xinyang thought it was funny at first, but after laughing for a while, her expression became a little sad.
She lowered her head, stroked the little clothes in her hand, and said calmly, "You said, what would it look like if Qing'er was still alive?"
Are you as naughty as A-Heng
Are you as smart as A-Heng
Like A-Heng, do you have too many tricks to hold back
Does he follow the text? Do you still practice martial arts
Would he like to roam around, or would he like to be by her side
Yu Jin looked at her worriedly: "Princess..."
Princess Xinyang shook her head, holding back the pain of losing her child in her heart: "I'm fine, I just think about that child recently."
Yu Jin glanced at the little clothes in her hand: "Seeing Wu Siren, Princess, I'd better put away the little son's clothes."
Princess Xinyang didn't speak. She glanced at the table and said, "Xiao Jingkong's book is here, you can find someone to take it to Bishui Hutong later."
"Okay." Yu Jin just responded.
There was a soft knock on the door.
"I'll open the door." Yu Jin said.
She came to the door and forced the courtyard door open.
Yu Jin saw a familiar figure, with a delicate face, graceful like jade, a little less youthful and youthful, and a hint of maturity, prudence, and self-control that was about to reach the crown between her brows.
Yu Jin was shocked: "Little Marquis! Princess! Little Marquis is back!"
"A-Heng?" Princess Xinyang was overjoyed, she didn't care to put on the cloak, and hurried out of the room.
In the blizzard and snow, she saw her son, whom she cared about every day.
Xiao Heng's body was covered with snow, and it could be seen that he had been standing at the door for a while.
He stepped over the threshold and did not immediately step forward to reunite with Princess Xinyang, but turned around and looked behind him.
"come in."
"elder brother."
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