North Journey

"Your Majesty, I don't know if the old servant should say something or not?"

The old man guarding the Empress Dowager Sun took a handkerchief and carefully wiped away the splashed water on her hands.Then he held her hand and led her to sit on the side away from the fragments of the teacup.

"Ami, you can't say anything to me."

Although the Empress Dowager Sun accepted her service as a matter of course, her attitude towards Sun Mi who could be said to have grown up with her was very close.

"Your Majesty, no matter what the Eldest Princess has done, the most important thing now is Your Majesty's attitude."

Sun Mi didn't tremble because of Sun Tangjun's closeness. She received almost the same teaching as the Sun family's first daughter since she was a child, so that Sun Tangjun could have a close friend who could discuss and make decisions by Sun Tangjun's side in the future.She is a maidservant selected from the family members of the Sun family, but she is completely different from the other personal maids of the same background. If you are a big maid, you may choose anyone around Sun Tangjun, but it is absolutely impossible to be her.

Therefore, she is the only one who is qualified to be by her side when the current Queen Mother Sun is furious.

When Sun Tangjun heard what Sun Mi said, he remained silent.Why is she furious because of Qi Ying's actions this time, and even lost her usual calmness?Not for anything else, just because her son was too silent after the Yushufang incident.

Back then, Princess Zhaosheng was honored and favored by the family, so what if she had the military power in her hands?Dayong's state is stable, and the court, Chinese and military have no intention of rebelling against the present, and all the soldiers and horses in the world belong to the imperial power.Even if Qi Ying was once brilliant and sharp, it is all over after all.

Her son is now Dayong's only master, even if he wants to be filial to his aunt, it is Qi Ying who provoked him first and offended the imperial power.Master and master of heaven and earth, no matter what, the one who backs down should not be the emperor.

She, Qi Ying, has nothing to rely on now, and she has no connection with the forces in the court. Just because she broke into the imperial study and made a case against the court, it is enough to punish her for a big crime of disrespect.

However, her son, after being pointed at his nose and scolded, chose to let Qi Ying leave, and even the follow-up plans against Qi Yan were shelved one by one.

This was why Sun Tangjun was in a hurry, and Qi Ye's reaction made her feel that things would not develop as she expected.

"Ye'er, he..."

Sun Tangjun frowned, not knowing what went wrong.But her son is now the emperor after all, and she will not embarrass him in front of others.

"I will talk to His Majesty again after tomorrow's Great Court."

Rubbing his forehead and heart, Mr. Sun Tang didn't want to study the emperor's mind for the time being.Ren Sun Mi helped her into the inner hall, sat on the couch, thought for a while, took out the jade pendant given to her by the immortal master earlier from the wooden box on one side, and whispered a few words to Sun Mi.

"The servant knows."

Sun Mi put away the jade pendant and left the inner hall without appearing in a hurry, first calling the maids waiting outside the hall to clean up the teacups on the floor, then took the waist card and walked towards the east gate of the outer palace.

Sun Tangjun sat alone in the inner hall, listening to the voice of the maid outside the hall asking for instructions, and closed his eyes.

"I don't know if it's the right thing to do..."

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From Dianzhou to the capital almost spanned the entire Dayong, even if Qi Yan and his party drove fast, it would take nearly two months to get there.

However, considering that they don't need to rush back to the capital in such a hurry, and even if they are worried about their mother, Qi Yan still has a five-year-old son by his side. I got into the carriage, and calculated the speed of the journey as fast as I could, so that I could stop in the town every night.

After all, even if they are soldiers who are used to traveling in both wind and rain, they would not be able to do such a "cruel" thing if they wanted a child to live and sleep with them, even if Shi Ying repeatedly promised that he would not be considered.

As for Ming Qi?

Although he hopes that Shi Yu can return to the throne of God soon, he doesn't care about the time of this month. On the contrary, he can sit intimately in the carriage at the same time and play the game of you feed me and I feed you. ▽〒

"Qi Shuai, Huishui County is in front of us, we need to take a rest here tonight."

Qi Yan, who was discussing something with Zhao Lin, heard the news from the soldiers who had explored the way first, glanced at the carriage surrounded by the horse team, and nodded.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, he signaled everyone to speed up and arrived at Huishui County before the city gate was closed.

Huishui County is a large county on the border between Liangzhou and Jingzhou, but when the people in the county saw Qi Yan and his party entering the city, they still avoided looking sideways.

There is a scarcity of fine breeds of horses in this dynasty, coupled with the degraded breeding conditions, few civilians can afford a horse. Most of the good horses are used as military resources, and the bad horses are not affordable by ordinary people. , and even only slightly affluent counties have a few mares, which can be leased to farmers for breeding and used to give birth to mules.

Therefore, no matter how low-key Qi Yan and his party are, just looking at the BMWs in their hands, one can tell that they are either rich or noble, or they were born in the army.

The leading soldiers had already reserved a room in the county seat. There were not many of them in the group, but there were more than [-] people, so they simply rented a large courtyard, so that the grooms could take good care of the soldiers and horses.

Although the waiter in the store saw that the soldiers were plainly dressed, but he had seen many people coming and going from south to north, so he knew that this person had a military temperament, so he dared not neglect him.

Although Huishui County is far away from Dian Prefecture, the news of the war there has been spread for a while, so it is natural that they don't know that Dayong's territory has just expanded.The Nanzhang army was tricked by the emperor with the help of Qi Yan's troops. He thought it was a struggle for power within Dayong.But he didn't expect that this "someone" would be the emperor of Dayong, who used Qi Yan's elite light cavalry as bait to catch Nanzhang's soldiers and horses, and then took advantage of the emptiness of the border defense, broke into the city, and smashed Huanglong all the way , forcing the royal family of Nanzhang to sign a letter of surrender and bow their heads as ministers.

Poor Nanzhang, he thought he could cooperate with Dayong internally and externally, but if he paid some soldiers, he would be able to deal with the lying tiger, but he didn't want to lure wolves into the house and become a slave to the ruined country.

Ordinary people in Dayong didn't know these inside stories, but they knew that from then on, the southwestern border of Dayong no longer had to worry about intrusion from foreign enemies.Therefore, even though Xiao Er was a little afraid of the momentum of Qi Yan and his party, after packing up the food, he couldn't help but remind him.

"My lords, something strange has happened in Huishui County recently, adults must not go out at night."

"What happened?"

Hearing this, Qi Yan and the others couldn't help but look at each other.When they entered the city, they felt strange. There was no one on the street even though it was still some time before the curfew.Occasionally, I also noticed that someone seemed to be looking out through the window, and then closed the window with a "snap" when I felt the sight of someone outside.

Xiaoer was a little embarrassed, but Qi Yan and his identities were unusual, he hesitated for a moment, and told the truth.

It turned out that there was an empty mansion in Huishui County many years ago, which was left by the Qin family, a well-known wealthy family in Huishui County.However, one day more than 20 years ago, the Qin family suddenly disappeared.A curious person ran in to have a look, but found that there were still food, bowls and chopsticks on the table in the dining room of the Qin family, as if the Qin family had disappeared out of thin air after eating halfway through their meal.

There are also greedy people, thinking about the wealth of the Qin family, sneaking in and trying to steal all kinds of decorations and jewels hidden by the Qin family in the house, only to find that no matter what he picks up, his hands will be dripping. There will be endless bloodstains, and the voice of a ghost will come from his ears, and when he comes to his senses, the things have already returned to their original positions, and he has unknowingly walked to the dry well of Qin Zhai. Take one step and you'll fall into the well and break your neck.

Coupled with the fact that some people heard Qingyue's laughter from the woman Qingyue at night in the empty Qin Mansion, and the crisp sound of Linglang's accessories colliding, all of a sudden, the Qin Mansion became a place where no one in the county dared to approach. haunted house.

It's not that no one thought about asking the Celestial Master to visit the Qin Residence, but when the Celestial Master arrived, the Qin Residence seemed to become an ordinary house again.Neither the ghost nor the celestial master could do anything about the abnormality of this mansion. Besides, as long as one did not step into the Qin mansion, nothing would happen. Later, people in Huishui County got used to having such a vacant mansion in the county. house.Even a few people in their county became rich because they used this house to deceive ignorant outsiders, and then made them fall to death in the dry well in the courtyard.

However, I don't know whether it's because there are more dead souls or some other reason. In recent years, this house has become more and more weird at night.In addition, there are several families in the county whose children are fond of playing. After hearing the warning from the adults, they insisted on running to that house, but they never came out after entering. The sum of money was given to a well-connected person in the state capital, and he asked him to help them send a letter to Qingyun Mountain, and invited an expert from Qingyun Mountain to come to the county to have a look.

A few days ago, a man who claimed to be the first disciple of Qingyun Mountain rushed to Huishui County with a group of people.He was capable, and he didn't know what method he used. He figured out that the children were hidden in a cave in Jiuchi Mountain in the northwest of Huishui County. Although they were frightened, they were not in danger of life. Those in Huishui County rescued those children that night.

Those children were indeed safe and sound as he said, but after bringing those children back, the situation suddenly changed.

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If it goes well, there will be another drop tonight (づ￣3￣)づ