The beauty is delicate and soft, and he madly criticizes the powerful officials for taking her as th

Zhao Zhen was adjusting his clothes and was speechless after hearing this.

Pei Xu just accepted her consent and carried her into the inner room. Zhao Zhen was too lazy to argue with the drunken man and asked the maid to prepare hot water for bathing.

"You stay with me."

"Impossible." Zhao Zhen took a sip of hot tea and said, "You are still drunk and you will easily get sick if you mess around in the water."

Pei Xu listened to the advice and went to take a shower after drinking the sobering soup. When he came back, he held her in his arms. His kisses were unorganized and his movements were rougher than before. He held the woman in his arms who was as soft as water. The voice was slightly angry.

"Your cousin is eight years older than you. He is very thin and weak." He bit the lips of the woman under him. "What do you like about him? I am not as good as him."

"After you don't like me, you fall in love with this kind of person?" Pei Xu sneered, obviously looking down on the eldest son of the Qiao family. "In terms of family background, appearance and talent, no one is as good as me. You are reluctant to stay in Jingzhou, just for he?"

Zhao Zhen heard the man in front of him slandering his cronies everywhere, and sneered: "Who said I reluctantly stayed in Jingzhou just for him?"

After finally sobering up from the drink, Pei Xu looked at the woman beneath him, his breathing quickening, all the jealousy and lust in his eyes gone. He loosened his arms around her, put on his shirt and remained silent for a long time.

"Zhao Zhen, you can't do this to me." He looked down at her, his lips trembling, "I was stabbed twice in Liangzhou for you, and I was assassinated and fell off my horse on the way back. If it hadn't been for the river at the foot of the hillside, I would have died a long time ago.”

"I just want to come back and marry you as soon as possible. I don't feel any pain when I get up. I'm thinking, I promised Zhen'er. If I die, she will be sad."

The pale man lowered his eyes and said, "Zhen'er is hoping that I will die by then, just to make room for your newly chosen consort."

"My cousin and I have nothing." Zhao Zhen interrupted him expressionlessly, "You had enough time to find out that I was joining forces with Shi Zhuo from Jiaozhou. How could you not know that I was so busy that my feet didn't even touch the ground?"

There was a hint of surprise on Pei Xu's face, and then he lowered his eyes and said, "But he stayed in your mansion for the night."

She chuckled: "If you insist that my cousin and I have something, I don't know how to explain it. Does Mr. Pei want to divorce his wife?"

"I didn't." He panicked for a moment and said quickly: "Zhen'er, I said the wrong thing. Don't be angry."

The man who had been looking aggrieved just now came to life. Thinking of her attitude today, and seeing that he was not surprised at all, he said bitterly: "Why can't we be like before?"

In the past, Zhao Zhen's love for him was written on his face, and when he was around him, he would walk more briskly than usual.

"Like that before?" She avoided the question and pulled the man in front of her to lie down. Her fingers drew red marks on his back, and she sighed slightly: "Pei Lang, we can continue."

Zhao Zhen felt that the world had been turned into a hell by his father. He could not bear to look back on the past, and the future was illusory and unpredictable.

As for those of them who are competing for the world, they are constantly adding fuel to the fire, making the world more difficult.

The greater the power in her hands, the greater the price she has to pay for mistrusting others. People will become particularly suspicious. In the end, she can't even trust the person next to her. Everything may be false. Only the comfort of being closely connected at this moment is real. .

Pei Xu had been extremely gentle every time because of the torture he said the first time. Too much gentleness would often lead to Zhao Zhen saying "Pei Lang doesn't seem to have eaten."

Today, he seemed to sense something from Zhao Zhen's attitude and realized that they could never go back to the past. Pei Xu finally understood why Zhao Zhen was particularly keen on leaving traces on him, and the longer the better.

He lowered his head and nibbled on the soft white skin until the red plums were dazzling, and asked hoarsely: "Does it hurt?"

Seeing her shaking her head, the man with scratches all over his body put on his shirt, took her lips into his mouth and enjoyed her rare obedience after she was exhausted.

Pei Xu suddenly remembered that Zhao Zhen had not allowed him to enter the princess's house before leaving, and asked in a low voice: "Can I still come tomorrow?"

"It's not convenient for me to discuss matters with my staff during the day."

"I won't listen." Pei Xu saw Zhao Zhen's expression change slightly and added, "Old General Zhang's son seems to like Zhao Qing. The two of them have just begun to fall in love. If we suddenly don't get along with each other when we see you, I'm afraid it won't be good."

"When did it happen?" Zhao Qing's face became even more ugly, "How old is she?"

"Bigger than when you first asked me to kiss you."

She was a little embarrassed, closed her eyes and said, "Forget it, you stay in the north yard during the day."

*

Zhao Zhen spent more and more thoughts on Jing Yi, and stayed in Xiangyang longer and longer every year.

Two or three years have passed, and Zhao Zhen has not become pregnant again. Pei Xu just thinks that she was injured due to her last miscarriage, and keeps silent about it, feeling that she is not qualified to mention it.

The two were usually busy with official duties, and the differences between Zhao Zhen and Pei Xu on court affairs became more and more obvious, and the subordinates below fought like black-eyed chickens.

When the two subordinates had a dispute in front of the princess's house for the third time and almost got involved, Zhao Zhen asked Pei Xu to go back to Pei's house.

The Pei family has been married for generations, and the house in Chang'an is also extremely luxurious. To be fair, it is much more comfortable than the princess's mansion, but he does not want to leave Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhencong didn't care whether he wanted to or not. After driving Prime Minister Pei away, he checked whether there were any spies in the house.

After the eldest princess and the prime minister separated, the rumors that the two were at odds with each other were confirmed. Every time Zhao Qing heard this, he curled his lips and muttered in a low voice: "What do you know?"

Prime Minister Pei never fails to give her money every month, asking her to help him speak well in front of his sister.

Also, in the past few days, the hairpin on my sister’s head was given by Pei Xiang.

Pei Xu can only see Zhao Zhen in the morning every day, and at night...depending on her mood, if she is in a good mood, he can go back to the princess mansion to stay overnight.

In the middle of the night, the man on the bed whispered: "Zhen'er, can I still come tomorrow night?"

"You've been busy lately, so you still have the time to come to me these two nights in a row?"

Zhao Zhen lowered his eyes. Since Pei Xu decided to re-employ Han Clan, it meant that Pei's previous layout had to be overthrown. He has been in trouble in the past few years, and troubles have occurred frequently in the previously settled territory. The only advantage is to fight again. You will be completely honest after taking it.

Pei Xu felt that Zhao Zhen was looking for excuses, and his face darkened: "Who in a husband would do this, like a little boy who comes and leaves when called upon?"

"Young man? I don't dare. People say that Prime Minister Pei can hold the sky with one hand. Even I, the regent princess, have been in decline many times and need to avoid his edge." Zhao Zhen spoke softly and sarcastically: "Brother, the emperor is listening to you more and more now. If you say so, I believe you are a loyal minister, even if you force yourself on me in the palace after going to court, I can't do anything to you."

In the early morning of this morning, it was rare for the emperor to say more than a few words, but he actually rejected all the candidates proposed by the eldest princess to be the chief minister of agriculture, and the person named Pei was appointed.

Her idiot second brother praised Prime Minister Pei as a loyal minister.

In the past two years, Pei Xu has indeed become more abiding by court etiquette, and he is much more polite to the emperor, and even occasionally flatters the emperor.

Knowing that Zhao Zhen was unhappy and wanted to stab him tonight, Pei Xu didn't say anything back and just let her talk until the person in front of him said coldly and quietly: "I need to go back to Jingzhou tomorrow."

His throat was tight, he nodded slightly and said, "Okay."

Zhao Zhen didn't want to leave Beijing in such a hurry, but the Fu family who made a fortune as a water bandit appeared in the east, which added a lot of obstacles to her. Previously, Lin Wendong acted as a buffer in the middle. Recently, the Lin family was exterminated, and Fu Xing's navy Approaching Jingzhou.

Pei Xu also knew about this. After a moment of pause, he said, "Do you need Pei's support?"

"You're not good at water fighting, so there's no need."

Whenever Zhao Zhen traveled to Jingzhou, he would bring military advisor Yu Xin with him most of the time.

The young man who had grown up no longer had to worry about being identified as having the wrong gender, so he took off the curtain when he was at the princess's house, and was stared at by Pei Xu, who sent shivers down his spine.

He coughed lightly and said, "Your Highness, Prime Minister Pei doesn't seem to like me very much."

"Don't pay any attention to him. This time you will travel lightly and take the road from Jiangxia to help me find someone. We will meet at the front line."

More than half a month after Zhao Zhen left Beijing, Pei Xu rushed to Qingzhou to quell the chaos. A fire broke out in the most stable rear area, catching him off guard.

His cousin was leading his troops to fight against the Guangling County guards. Pei Xu did not have enough troops to mobilize in Chang'an. It was summer, so he simply mobilized troops from Liangzhou to Qingzhou.

Who would have thought that the Chanyu of Beihu would choose to go south during the summer flood season after suffering the loss of blocking the cavalry across the river. After the Chanyu crossed the pass, his troops pointed directly at Chang'an. The emperor was so frightened that he sent an envoy to Qingzhou and told the prime minister to hurry up. return.

Pei Xu was very annoyed and said to the envoy: "Chanyu only brought a few people with him, so he asked Chen Ling to stop observing filial piety in Yingchuan and lead the imperial army to fight."

In troubled times, news was slow, and when news came from Chang'an again, Pei Xu heard that the emperor sent the princess away in a panic.

The man with wet blood all over his body frowned and asked, "What did you say?"

The eunuch who came trembled and said: "Your Majesty agreed to Shanyu's request and sent Princess Qinghe to marry her."

Pei Xu's eyelids twitched. He and Zhen'er almost watched Zhao Qing grow up. Her biological mother was just an unknown palace attendant in the late emperor's harem. The emperor gave her away as a toy. Ordinary married women of noble families were not like this. Feel free to be eager.

There is no tradition of marriage in the Zhou Dynasty. Even if the generals under the Pei family are not loyal to the Zhao family, they will inevitably feel the shame of being slapped in the face at this moment.

The cold light of the three-foot green edge flashed slightly, and there was a eunuch's corpse on the ground.

Pei Xu didn't even look at it. Killing the imperial envoy was regarded as treason, but so what, even Zhao Zhen would make the same choice as him.

The shuo wind from Beihu was blocked by the mountains and could not reach the Jingzhou River. The emperor did not dare to pass the news to Zhao Zhen. Her subordinates who stayed in Chang'an reported the matter to the front line.

Zhao Zhen sat in the tent, turned over the letter several times, and called Yu Xin in disbelief, "Gongming, did I read it wrong?"

"How could your Highness get it wrong?" The young man glanced at the letter and said without surprise: "It is something that the emperor can do. With all due respect, the men who are still alive in the Zhao family are more cowardly than the last, including Wang Shang of Hejian." Can."

Zhao Xuan, King of Hejian, was the husband of her best friend Xu Huiyi and was now the governor of Yuzhou.

When Zhao Zhen was the regent princess at the beginning, the biggest headache was not the riots in various places, but the opposition from the clan. Fortunately, King Hejian supported her without hesitation, which saved her a lot of effort.

Yu Xin thought to himself: "Why doesn't Your Highness proclaim himself emperor?"

Zhao Zhen raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "I am now said to be the regent, but I need to share the power with the Pei family. The emperor has been disobedient many times. It is too early to talk about proclaiming the emperor."

There was joy in his eyes. What Zhao Zhen said was that it was too early, not a fantasy.

The young man dressed in white smiled and said: "The emperor has been disobedient many times. It will not be difficult to change him."

Zhao Zhen also thought this way. Her second brother, the emperor, had finally reached his end. She and Pei Xu had been busy with court affairs in the past few years. Nowadays, it was rare for them to reach a tacit understanding on a major matter.

She spread paper and polished ink, and ordered the shadow guard to send the letter to Pei Xiangna. She didn't say much, only that everything would be discussed in detail after returning to Beijing.