In the evening, the sun sets.
In a small dilapidated courtyard in an old hutong in Qiushan Town, the outer city of Shengdu, the elderly mother Li was sitting on a small bench at the door, holding a cane in her hand.
She was blind and could not see people coming and going on the road.
Yet she still sits here every day.
If you can't wait for news in one day, it will take two days. If you can't wait for two days, it will take three days.
She was looking forward to news and worried that it would be bad news.
She doesn't know how long this battle will be fought, and her body will not endure until the end.
"It's getting dark, Aunt Li, it's time to come in."
Zheng Shi next door kindly reminded.
Mother Li leaned on crutches and stood up tremblingly while dragging her sagging old body.
She touched the stool with her hand and walked into the yard with one.
Just as he was about to cross the threshold, a familiar and choked voice came from behind: "Mother!"
Mother Li's eyes were hot, and hot tears fell.
…
Zhao Kingdom experienced a ten-year hard winter. Many areas suffered from snow disasters. Fortunately, the court responded in a timely manner. While allocating disaster relief money from the treasury, it contacted surrounding areas to deliver materials to the severely devastated cities.
Yuan Shoufu, as the imperial commissioner for disaster relief, brought a few cabinet personnel along with him, and Xiao Heng was also there.
Since he went to disaster relief, he didn't know about his father's sending an envoy to Shangyan to propose marriage, especially to the young master of the Duke's Mansion.
I don't even know that his father showed off his baby in a thousand miles and went to the country of Yan to show it off.
He has received a lot of letters from the Houfu...
"This letter is mine, this letter... Yuan Shoufu belongs to you." In the county office's study, Xiao Heng handed the letter in his hand to Yuan Shoufu, "My father's letter."
Yuan Shoufu already knew that he was actually the matter of the young marquis of Zhaodu.
When Yuan Shoufu heard that it was from the Marquis of Xuanping, he thought that something important happened in the court, he hurriedly took the letter and opened it with a solemn expression.
As a result, he saw a line of characters that danced with flying phoenixes - my daughter-in-law's eldest brother's future grandfather-in-law, and my daughter-in-law is full moon. Yuan Shoufu is very knowledgeable, so please give her a nice name.
Attached is the portrait of the daughter of Ben Hou.
Yuan Shoufu: "..."
Xiao Heng had no intention of peeking, but his father's handwriting was bigger than the basket, so it was hard for people not to see it.
Not surprisingly, a small portrait of his sister is attached.
He couldn't remember how many "letters asking for a name" were sent by his father
Grandpa also received it.
Also, hasn't his sister's name been chosen long ago
It's enough to show off your daughter under the banner of taking a name!
In the future, when he has a daughter, he will never be like his father!
…
Suzaku Street.
After the spring, the weather in Beijing is fine.
Shangguanqing was riding horses in the yard.
Frozen three feet is not a day's cold, he has been poisoned for 20 years, and there is a comfrey fruit, and he can't be completely cured overnight.
He needs to recuperate for several months. In addition to taking comfrey fruit every day, he has to drink the traditional Chinese medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor. In addition, the imperial doctor also explained that he should exercise more to help his body recover.
Xuanping Hou would come here every day to accompany him to move his muscles and bones. At first, he could only take a light walk, and gradually he was able to take a little stance.
The father and son recovered from their injuries together and recovered fairly well.
"You put on your horses first." In the yard, after adjusting his son's movements, Marquis Xuanping said solemnly, "The weather is nice today, I'll take your sister out to bask in the sun."
Shangguan Qing pouted: "It's fake to accompany me on horse steps, but it's real to hug my sister."
My sister is three months old and her name is Xiao Yi. It is said that her mother had given her a good name when she was pregnant with her first child.
The name sounds good, but in fact... it's still good, that is, she doesn't eat the milk of the nurse, and the princess herself feeds her.
When he was young, his mother seemed to have fed him himself.
Pulling away, back to my sister.
In addition to tossing her mother, another problem with the younger sister is that she cried too loudly, the kind of crying ghosts and gods that shake the heavens and the earth. It was nothing during the day, but at night, the noise was so loud that the whole street could not sleep.
No one could coax him, except his father.
His father came to see him every afternoon, had dinner, and coaxed his sister to sleep at night before leaving.
As his sister grew older and slept later and later, his father also went later and later...
Princess Xinyang went out, and inside the house, Yu Jin was watching the sleeping little Xiao Yi.
Xiao Xiaoyi was born prettier than ordinary newborns. After confinement, she gained a lot of weight and became more charming and cute.
"Master Marquis." Yu Jin bowed to Marquis Xuanping.
Xuanping Hou nodded, answered, came to the cradle, looked at the sleeping little guy inside, the corners of his lips raised slightly unconsciously.
Yu Jin glanced at him without a trace, thinking to himself, Lord Hou is different from before.
Marquis Xuanping raised his eyebrows: "It looks so good-looking, it looks like he has followed this Marquis."
Yu Jin's face darkened, she retracted that sentence, Lord Hou is still Lord Hou!
Not long after, there was the sound of hooves outside the door, and it was Princess Xinyang's carriage that came back.
She just went to the palace to discuss the marriage of Xiao Heng and Gu Jiao with Empress Dowager Zhuang and Empress Xiao.
Regarding the big marriage, the two high-ranking women had no opinion, and even fully agreed.
In Empress Dowager Zhuang's heart, that stinky boy A-Heng owed her Jiaojiao a prosperous wedding.
Princess Xinyang also thinks so. When they were in the countryside, the two never got married in a serious way. Her son was unconscious, and when he opened his eyes, he became a husband.
No worship, no bridal chamber.
What kind of marriage is this
In addition, he used someone else's identity that time, and now he has restored Xiao Heng's identity, the relationship between Xiao Liulang and Gu Jiaoniang is uncountable.
Of course, she also has her own selfishness.
She wanted to witness his son's wedding.
The letter of appointment has been sent to Bishui Hutong. Today, she is mainly to finalize the specific dowry gift and the date of the big wedding with Empress Dowager Zhuang and Empress Xiao.
"Princess, you're back." Yu Jin greeted her with a smile, raised her hand and untied her cloak and hung it up, "Did the conversation go smoothly?"
"It's going well." Princess Xinyang said.
"Master Hou is here." Yu Jin said softly.
Princess Xinyang turned her head and saw that someone was sitting in front of the cradle, looking at the little guy in the cradle with a smirk.
The sunlight penetrated through the window lattice and fell on his mature and handsome face.
There were stars in his eyes.
She turned her face away and muttered lightly, "Why is he here again?"
Yu Jin smiled and said, "Then, the slave maid slammed the Marquis out?"
Princess Xinyang choked, glared at her and said, "Boom out, the little one is crying, are you coaxing him?"
Yu Jin covered her face and couldn't help laughing.
"Alas." Princess Xinyang sighed.
Yu Jin was keenly aware of Princess Xinyang's strangeness and asked, "What's wrong, Princess? Did something happen?"
Princess Xinyang frowned and asked strangely: "I came out of the harem and happened to meet Sanchao. They came to me one by one and named Yiyi... Did I ask them for a name? Why so many suddenly People are keen to name her?"
The Marquis of Xuanping shook the cradle as if nothing had happened, with a calm expression on his face.
…
On the other hand, Shangguan Yan left a blank decree for the monarch to abdicate, and the monarch was so angry that he naturally refused to give in easily.
The big inner master beside him was solved by Xuanyuan Qi, but he still had a large number of the Imperial Forest Army and the troops of the Duwei Mansion.
He pretended to be a decree, and took the opportunity to press the mechanism on the side of the desk. He fell into the dark passage, and at the same time, a fireworks signal on the roof rose into the sky.
The troops of the Imperial Forest Army and the Commander's Mansion quickly rushed towards the harem. Xuanyuan Qi had already prepared, and cooperated with his son to open the palace gate, and 30,000 Heifeng Cavalry and 20,000 Shadow Division troops entered the palace.
They are soldiers who have just returned from the bloody battlefield, and their bodies are full of the breath of gold and iron horses, which is unmatched by these pampered armies in the imperial city.
If Wang Man and Wang Xu's troops were here, they might be able to pull back a round.
But they were all deliberately left on the road by Shangguan Yan.
The Imperial Forest Army was gradually declining, the monarch pressed the second mechanism in the secret passage, and another fireworks order flew high into the sky.
This is to contact Yanshan Jun from the outer city.
Lord Yanshan is not as ignorant as the world sees it. He has a secret army of the royal family in his hands, which is the last line of defense for the monarch.
However, before he could move, a long sword came out from behind him and was lightly placed on his neck.
"I don't want to hurt you."
Gu Changqing said.
Jun Yanshan said coldly: "Do you think it is useful to threaten this Jun?"
Gu Changqing said indifferently: "I know you are not afraid of death, so, do you not care about your daughter's life or death?"
Yan Shanjun's pupils shrank: "What do you mean?"
Gu Changqing tilted the head of the sword, like a silent gesture, and then a guard of the Gu family walked in from the door holding the sleeping little county master.
Yan Shanjun's expression changed: "Xiaoxue! You... You are despicable! You don't even let a child go! Do your wife and Miss Gu know that you are doing this?"
He stayed in the imperial city with Gu Chengfeng, and he knew Gu Jiao's identity from Gu Chengfeng's mouth, and also heard that the person who held him was Gu Jiao's eldest brother.
Gu Changqing's expression did not change at all: "They don't have to know. Choose, your daughter or your brother?"
Yan Shanjun gritted his teeth: "You..."
Gu Changqing said coldly, "Don't think that I will be soft-hearted. Just like you and me, there are people in this world who you want to protect, and you will do anything to do it. Even if you go to hell after death, you will not hesitate."
Yan Shanjun closed his eyes in pain.
Gu Changqing is right, there are people in this world that he wants to protect, and for her, he can do whatever it takes, even betray the brother who trusts him the most!
Yanshan Jun handed over the military talisman.
…
After leaving Yanshan Jun's mansion, the Gu family secret guard ripped off the human skin mask on his face and said with a smile: "Brother, you just acted so well! Even I almost believed it! I was afraid of Yanshan Jun. If you don't agree, you will really kill the little princess with one sword!"
Gu Changqing said sternly: "I didn't act."
Gu Chengfeng was stunned.
Gu Changqing glanced at him and laughed out loud: "Fool."
(End of this chapter)