Huaiyu is slightly cool

In the 37th year of Taiping, in mid-April, when the grass in the south was growing and the warblers were flying, and the flowers were blooming and the willows were green, the envoys from the Northwest had already rushed to the capital day and night.The team leader was Jiang Wenyuan, who was eloquent, and the adjutant was Wu Mingsheng, who had no official position and had marginal relations with the imperial court and the Northwest.

Zhou Huai was carefully washed and dressed by the eldest princess.Wearing a cyan soft smoke skirt, an ice blue wide-sleeved blouse embroidered with plum blossoms, and a golden hairpin and jade ring, she sat alone in the gazebo in the imperial garden, surrounded by no one, and even the flowers and trees were below knee height.She sat alone in the pavilion, her round fan swaying gently, dignified and luxurious yet careless.

"Iron king of rivers and mountains, you can be the king after I'm done. The emperor takes turns to do it, and come to my house this year."

Wu Mingsheng, who had just entered the garden, walked into the gazebo and asked her, "What are you doing alone?"

Zhou Huai looked up at Wu Mingsheng, smiled calmly, and then said slowly: "Comfort yourself."

Wu Mingsheng looked at her expression, from a distance, he only felt that her figure was slender, but from a closer look, she found that Zhou Huai's complexion was not very good, even if she was painted on, she still couldn't stop her groggyness for several months, resulting in a lack of energy. His face looked very pale and sickly.

Wu Mingsheng was a little distressed, but seeing that Zhou Huai didn't care, he could only hide it and not ask, and asked casually, "Are you planning to give up?"

"If she wants it, then give it to her, it's no big deal."

Zhou Huai finished speaking indifferently, but saw that Wu Mingsheng was a little silent, the smile on his face had already faded away, and he stared at her faintly and asked, "After you give it, how do you protect yourself?"

"The Northwest is gone, there is still Zhaoguo, and Yuehuai City. With so many things, even with my cooperation, it will take a lot of time to take them back one by one. For me, the time should be enough."

Wu Mingsheng was silent for a while before he said: "You live so selfishly, have you ever thought about what will happen to your subordinates if something happens to you? Those who are loyal to you, they will tie their lives to you..."

Zhou Huai interrupted her with some displeasure: "Before I die, I will arrange them well."

"Give it all to your eldest princess?"

"I will give them a choice. They can leave freely or follow her. However, I believe that she can be a good leader. She is open-minded and cherishes talents. Unlike me, she values ​​loyalty more than ability. And, Generally speaking, she should be regarded as a person who is willing to reason and obey the rules. So, you can rest assured."

Wu Mingsheng didn't answer, and Zhou Huai didn't say any more, the atmosphere was a bit silent for a while.

In the end, it was Wu Mingsheng who broke the silence: "Don't worry? If you want to let this matter pass in such a muddle, you have to see if everyone is happy, right? Even if you are sorry to the world, you have never sorry to her, but she One thing in front of one's face, one thing behind one's back. Crossing the river and demolishing bridges is ruthless and unjust. You don't care, but everyone in the northwest feels uncomfortable. The master humiliated his ministers to death. This battle must be fought. And when I set off, Wu Guisi was already Start counting the generals, and it is estimated that they have reached the edge of the Canglan River. If you feel sorry for your eldest princess, you can send an order to let him go back! Although you have given up on them, they still regard you as their master. You If you say retreat, they will definitely listen. However, I don’t know if it will be cold-hearted or not. You said you value loyalty, but now you abandon their loyalty like a shoe, I am not worth it for them!"

After Wu Mingsheng finished speaking in one breath, he stared at Zhou Huai's reaction.You know, in the Northwest, Zhou Huai started from scratch and established a new social framework and rules.Moreover, she is used to arbitrariness by herself, and her behavior in the world has been defined. Those subordinates who accompany her to "conquer the world" know her temper and are used to this way of doing things under her orders.

Now, although the eldest princess can be regarded as inheriting the great cause, the situation is not optimistic. It can be said that Jingguo is suffering from internal and external troubles.This new official has three fires when he takes office, let alone in charge of the world's most important weapon?Without achievements, and not justifiably, how can I secure that position?At any rate, Zhou Huai also opened up the territory and made the Northwest prosperous and prosperous before becoming the uncrowned king. What does the eldest princess have?Before the Regency, there was no merit and no name!As for those people in the Northwest, they may have been influenced by Zhou Huai's brainwashing teachings, or they may have been infected by Zhou Huai's gangster spirit. Stir three points, not to mention the current unmanned situation, I can't wait to pierce the sky, so how can I quietly change the banner and choose a well-behaved person like the eldest princess as the master?This trip to the capital was not to listen to Zhou Huai's arrangements for "funeral affairs". Everyone in the northwest was still waiting for Zhou Huai to make up his mind this time and change the world instead of letting them change masters.

It's a pity that even though these people are determined, Zhou Huai's attitude is dispensable, and seeing that he has already said what he said, it is still useless, so he directly stated the truth: "It is useless to fight. You think she is not Let me go because she didn't want to let the tiger go back to the mountain, so she planned to use strong means to force her. In fact, she can't let me go. Whether I stay in the northwest or the palace is a matter of her life and death. The specific situation is a long story, but you only need to know: I am willing to use my little life and everything I have in exchange for her long life and bright future."

"So, are you really dying? Are you crazy about love now, or are you disheartened?"

Zhou Huai sighed, and said helplessly: "Is there a difference? In the end, it's not mine. But, don't get involved." Zhou Huai forced a smile before continuing: "Your mother shouldn't have let you come back here. Back then It was a mistake to send you back to the capital to be raised by that concubine, and now she is dragging you into this struggle for power, what her mother has done is really unreliable."

Wu Mingsheng shook his head in disapproval when Zhou Huai said it, and couldn't help but laugh with a 'poof': "I said bad things about your eldest princess in front of you, and you just say bad things about my mother in front of me, It really is……"

"It's all taught by Mr. Shen!" Zhou Huai said with a smile and followed her words, with a bit of complacency on his face.

Wu Mingsheng shook his head and teased her: "My mother probably regrets teaching you like this now."

"It's too late to regret."

After Zhou Huai finished speaking, both of them laughed, and the atmosphere relaxed for a while.The two tacitly avoided the previous topic and asked about their future plans.

"Then what are your plans in the future? Go back to Yuehuai City and continue to run the newspaper?"

Wu Mingsheng shook his head: "I made the frame of the newspaper you mentioned, and I will leave the rest to Sister Shuying to complete. In fact, I planned to accompany you wherever you are, but now it seems that you don't need it. Then I’ll wait for you, and I’ll go travel around and have a look.”

"Does your mother know?"

Ming Sheng nodded and said with a smile: "When I decided to come to the capital, she should have already guessed something."

Zhou Huai smiled casually: "Then let's go now, don't get mixed up and don't have to wait, otherwise it will be difficult to get out. I will send someone to escort you out of the capital... have a good journey."

"Would you like to come with me? Let's change our name and face, and roam the world?" Wu Mingsheng said in a joking tone, but his head was lowered and he stared at the peach blossom in his hand, not daring to look at Zhou Huai's expression.

Zhou Huai supported his forehead and sighed: "Actually, I have always felt sorry for you. When I first met you, I got close with a purpose. I didn't pay anything, but you were trapped in the palace because I was controlled by him. Later, I took you back to the northwest , I thought I could protect you for the rest of your life, but it turned out to be like this because of my own will. No matter what happens to me, I will suffer for myself. I have already prepared for the worst. But this has nothing to do with you, You don't have to run around like this for me, go live your own life. Twenty-eight years, youth is just right, don't let it down."

Now that it is used, what is the use of guilt afterwards?Fortunately, Wu Mingsheng knew all of this well.She just smiled indifferently. Since she was a child, she had few friends, and even fewer people showed kindness to her.So she doesn't care about being used.As for Zhou Huai, she doesn't have to be abused by others, and she lives more freely than other princesses.

Wu Mingsheng said freely: "Not everyone lives with a purpose, I just dawdle, it's the same wherever I am."

"Let's go. Wade in muddy water, you will stain your clothes."

"Okay, I'll listen to you. So from now on, the mountains will be high and the rivers will be long, so we should cherish each other?"

"treasure."

Wu Mingsheng stood up, but before turning around to leave, he moved closer to Zhou Huai, inserted a branch of pink peach blossom that he had been holding in his hand into Zhou Huai's temples, and looked at it with a smile for a moment before leaving a moment The words that will be blown away by the wind: "When I went to the northwest from the palace, I brought a drunk hibiscus planted by myself, and I was going to give it to you. Unfortunately, when I saw you, the flowers had already withered, so I didn't tell you. This time I came to the capital, I never I picked this peach blossom outside Yuehuai City, when I picked it, it was just about to bloom, and now this one is the only one that is thankful. Do you think we always miss each other because we met at the wrong time?"

After Wu Mingsheng finished speaking, he left without waiting for Zhou Huai's reaction.Zhou Huai, on the other hand, touched the flowers in his hair in a daze, slowly took them off, held them in his hand and looked at them for a long while, the complicated expression on his face did not return to the original calm and breezy until the maid came to add a new pot of tea look.