When the little eunuchs saw the fifth prince's face, they immediately coaxed and dispersed.
Zong Mace pursed his lips tightly, but did not speak.
Sixi quietly looked at the face of the little master, and said in a low voice: "Master, don't listen to their nonsense."
In fact, Zong Qie already knew that he was not born to his mother and concubine. He used to think so, but his mother and concubine did not hide it from him, and told him after he was sensible that his mother was actually someone else.
He just passed away due to illness, and his father gave him to his concubine mother to raise him, and she would love him as if he were her own son.
When he first found out, he was extremely awkward, but his mother and concubine treated him very well, so he gradually stopped thinking about it. Over the years, Zong Qie had heard rumors that he was not born to Concubine Xian, but this was the first time he had heard such a thing today.
"...The one who died back then was a little strange..."
"...Your Majesty, if you walk on the front foot, you can't do it on the back foot. It was fine..."
"...Concubine Li and Concubine Zhao have been beaten to death for the fifth prince, and they are enemies so far, just because of this..."
"... At that time, I guessed that the fifth prince would be recorded in the name of Concubine Li... but it happened to fall into her hands..."
Why, she
Zong Jian said that nothing happened, but after returning to Nansan Institute, he sat at the table in a daze for a long time.
He was not like this before, because his elder brother and his second brother are both good at reading, and he also hopes to be like the two brothers one day, so even after returning from the study every day, he will read silently by himself.
Sixi looked at the sky outside, hesitated to speak: "Master, should we go to Yanxi Palace for dinner?"
"Sixi, why do you think she died?"
It goes without saying that she refers to Zhong Liangyuan, the woman who didn't even make it to the throne of His Majesty.
Sixi was frightened, and hurriedly said: "My little master, don't think about it anymore, those people are just talking nonsense, how old are they, can they know what happened back then? How wonderful, it's not like you can't see it, the empress treats you as her own."
Zong Jiao thought for a while silently, and said: "I know, they all said that the concubine mother sent the eldest sister to marry for me. No wonder the eldest sister didn't talk to me very much during the two years before she left. I thought the eldest sister was busy. .”
There were too many unexpected words from Zongjiae today. Sixi was so frightened that he didn't want to hear it and didn't dare to listen again. There can be no further delay."
But it was still too late, when Zong Qi arrived, Concubine Xu Xian was sitting at the dining table waiting.
Seeing him coming, Concubine Xian didn't think much about it.
"Did you forget to read today? My concubine has told you that no matter how hard you study, you must pay attention to your body."
"My son knows, it's not that my son forgot to read, it's..."
"What is it?" Concubine Xian, who was arranging for a meal, asked distractedly.
Zong Jiao glanced at her, shook his head, "It's nothing."
Concubine Xian naturally saw his abnormal reaction in her heart, but she didn't ask any more questions because she wanted to eat at the moment.
While eating, she still cared for Zong Ji as usual, and she didn't forget to ask him if anything happened in his study today. Zong Jian answered all of them, and seeing that his mother and concubine cared so much about him, he felt even more ashamed of the speculation he had made because of the two sentences.
How can a child at this age hide things, especially in front of someone like Concubine Xian. Just like the creek with a clear bottom, one can see clearly the things below at a glance.
After the meal was finished, Concubine Xian retreated to the left and right, and asked Zong Qie what happened.
Zong Qie didn't say anything at first, but he was really pressed by Xian Concubine to ask anxiously, so he asked: "Mother Concubine, how did my mother die?"
Concubine Xian's willow eyebrows immediately stood up.
She took a deep breath before asking with a smile, "Why do you ask that?"
Zong Jiao looked at her, but shook his head and didn't speak.
Concubine Xian was in a hurry and asked Jinping to call Sixi in.
Originally, Sixi didn't dare to say anything, but Concubine Xian said that she was going to hit him hard, so she just said everything.
After listening, Concubine Xian trembled with anger and stood up.
"Well, He Ze said on the surface that he wanted to form an alliance, but in fact he came here to trick me, and now he ordered someone to provoke the relationship between our mother and son. Empress Chen, I am at odds with you!"
She slammed the kang table angrily, and immediately felt pain, only to realize that her nails were broken.
Jinping rushed forward to see if her hand was injured, Zong Qie was also a little anxious, thinking that he had been provoked to make his mother and concubine angry.
"Mother Concubine, Mother Concubine, don't be angry, it's all your son's fault..."
"Mae'er, you should have heard more or less about what happened in the court recently. It was all a conspiracy by the queen, all to provoke the relationship between our mother and son. When your mother was in the Forbidden City, the mother concubine and other people accompanied your father. The emperor is in Xiyuan, and he does not interfere with each other. When the mother and concubine heard that your mother is gone, she was also very surprised and sad. After all, Sister Zhong is a gentle and good person.
"It was your father's decision to give you to my mother and concubine. If you want to say that it was Li Concubine and Zhao Concubine who forced your mother to die early, they saw that your mother was sick and weak, and they always wanted to take you there. Yang, even the empress thought about this at the beginning, which made your mother go away in a rage. And the person behind Concubine Zhao is none other than the empress. The relationship between Concubine Zhao and the empress, you should be knew?"
Concubine Xian supported Zong Ji's shoulder, looking a little anxious, as if she was afraid that he would be misled and therefore misunderstand herself.
Zong Jiao naturally knew the relationship between Concubine Zhao and the queen, he nodded hurriedly, "Concubine mother, son knows, it's all son's fault, he listened to someone's instigation."
As he spoke, he lowered his head in shame.
Concubine Xian hugged him into her arms, and said in a warm voice: "Silly boy, how old are you, how do you know there are so many malicious people in this palace. As long as our mother and son are healthy, we are not afraid of being provoked."
Her voice was gentle and full of kindness, but where Zong Qi couldn't see her, her eyes were dark and heavy.
Queen, if you touch my son, don't blame me for touching your son.
At this time, outside the Great Wall thousands of miles away from the capital, Su Hai gritted his teeth tightly, enduring the pain from the bumping of the horses.
He was already injured, but was carried on the horse's ass by Fu Qing.
Once the horse gallops wildly, it's good not to knock people out of shape, let alone recuperate their injuries. But there is no way, the Tatars don’t treat their own people as human beings. When their people are injured, they deal with them on their own.
Now Su Hai finally understands why smuggling in some border towns is always banned repeatedly. Apart from iron products, all kinds of wound medicine are the most popular among these prairie people.
The imperial court explicitly prohibited iron products from flowing into the grasslands. Once caught by the border garrison, beheading would be the best end. On the contrary, wound medicines will not be checked so strictly, so there will always be some people who take the risk to sell some inferior wound medicines that Da Zhou has not used for a long time to the grassland.
The price is extremely expensive, and most Tatars only buy a bottle or two for self-defense only if they are extremely wealthy.
Once the tribal leader summoned men and horses to attack the border, they would bring their own horses, wound medicine, and even dry food.
Like the two Tatars who were robbed by Su Hai and Fu Qing, except for the two horses, they are really poor.
They were covered in torn clothes and a broken knife. Apart from the water bag, they could only eat two pieces of black jerky that were the size of a palm. They lived on these two pieces of jerky these days.
Su Hai was swallowing blood foam into his mouth, while thinking in his heart, it seemed that he was going to take another risk to snatch two more people, and he felt that he was about to starve to death.
He didn't forget to beat Fu Qing's waist with his hands, and shouted while hanging on the horse: "Run slower."
The wind blew his voice away, and no one else could hear what he was saying, except a few Tatars who rode past them on horseback, jeering and hissing.
The Tatars are fine at ordinary times. When they are called to fight, no one will rescue their wounded companions.
They couldn't protect themselves, they didn't have any wound medicine supplies, and if they dragged an injured companion, they would only end up killing themselves.
Over time, if some companions were seriously injured and could not get on their horses to leave, they would all leave indifferently, leaving some food at most.
That's why seeing the Tatar man disguised by Fu Qing dragging such a dying person with him, everyone was very surprised. I thought in my heart, this is probably another stunned young man, and it is probably the first time he has played in a battle. If he has played a few times, who would do such a stupid thing
As night fell, they chose a small soil bag as a place to rest tonight.
This group of people is only a few dozen people, dressed in various styles, it seems that they do not belong to a tribe.
In fact, every time the Great Khan recruited troops to fight, after several battles, most of the people from the same tribe would be dispersed. Rangers like them are the remnants of the previous team that was broken up.
Or five or six people, or seven or eight people, gradually adding more and more people.
Either they fight guerrilla attacks by themselves, or follow the big team to pick up food, so there is no leader in this group of people, and they don't even know each other. This is why Su Hai and Fu Qing can be mixed in this group of people.
That day Su Hai was ambushed and was almost certain to die. He thought he would definitely go back to his hometown this time, but he didn't expect to be rescued by Fu Qing.
When he woke up, he saw a man in Tatar clothes carrying him on his back. He thought he was being captured, and his first reaction was to attack, but he didn't expect to bump into a pair of cold eyes.
The border is very windy and sandy, and there are few water sources. Sometimes when there is a war, it is not uncommon to not take a bath for several months. No one is cleaner than anyone else, so Su Hai has seen Fu Qing so dirty that only one pair of eyes can see.
Now Fu Qing only has a pair of eyes left, and the rest of his face is covered by beard.
Afterwards he found out that after Fu Qing rescued him, because the situation was really critical at that time, he snatched a Tatar's horse and clothes without thinking twice, and then stripped a body of clothes from the dead body and put them on for him. .
Just walking and stopping like this, he ran out of the border with a group of wandering generals.
Now they have been following this group of Tatars for a while, because Su Hai was shot not only in the chest, but also in the leg, unable to walk for the time being, and could only be carried by Fu Qing like a dead man.
After lifting Su Hai off the horse's buttocks, Fu Qing went to look for fodder to feed the horse.
The Tatars are all like this, the horse is more important than themselves, they all feed the horse first, and then prepare to eat by themselves. After returning, Fu Qing took out a piece of dried meat from his pouch and threw it to Su Hai.
It was said to be one piece, but in fact it was only the length of a finger. He also held a piece in his hand, sitting beside Su Hai and eating silently.
Su Hai bit off a piece of jerky with difficulty, chewed and swallowed it, and said in a low voice, "I've had enough of this kind of life, I'm going to starve to death, I think there's a lot of food in that bearded pouch, How about grabbing him tonight?"
Most adult men in Tatar have beards, but Fu Qing knows who Su Hai is talking about.
This general soldier of the Soviet Union usually looks majestic, calm and inviolable in the barracks, but he still has the nature of a local ruffian in his bones.
They rob people a lot these days, of course there are only Tatars here, don't look at Su Hai who can't move, but Fu Qing is dumbfounded by the many ghostly ideas he has for robbing people, but it's just like this, they are so disabled that they can be here survive.
Fu Qing was also injured, but not seriously.
Fu Qing didn't answer Su Hai's proposal, but silently lit the fire after eating the jerky.
The temperature difference on the grassland is huge, and they don't have tents. If there is no fire to keep warm, they will never survive the night.