[Jian Wang III] Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Snowing.

The goose feather snow fell from night to morning. When people got up and opened the door, they were covered with silver and white.

Just when the camellia planted in the National Teacher's Mansion bloomed, Su Jixian, who hadn't been out of the room for a long time, put on a cloak and went for a walk in the garden.

Most of the plants planted in Guoshi Mansion are trees, and there are not many potted flowers. The camellias in the mansion are not planted in pots, but are planted by the roadside, forming a continuous bush.

At this time, the camellia is in full bloom, which is very eye-catching in the white snow. Layers of petals are clustered into bowl-sized flowers. When the wind blows, the flowers sway and tremble, shaking off the snow. The wind filled half the garden.

When Su Jixian arrived at the camellia, Chen Yue was picking flowers with a basket, and the sable fur on her body was blowing in the flowers, filling her sleeves with a faint fragrance.

"Moon."

"Brother?" Chen Yue looked back at him, and quickly stepped forward to touch his face. She couldn't help frowning when she touched the freezing temperature, "Why don't you stay in the room?"

"It's not good to be bored in the room for a long time. I heard that the camellias are blooming, so I'll take a look." Su Ji smiled and let her touch, vaguely smelling the scent of camellias from her fingertips. On his cheek, "Picking flowers for medicine?"

"Well, the camellia has a good hemostatic effect." Chen Yue withdrew her hand and touched the flowers in the basket. "Nowadays the war is raging, and many medicines are in short supply. I want to stock up on more medicines."

"There are still many medicines that you were asked to make at the beginning, so you don't need to be so busy."

"Although there are a lot of them, they will always be used up." Chen Yue's mood was a little depressed, "A few days ago I received a letter from Ye Xuan, saying that he was in charge of a batch of weapons sent to Tongguan from the Tibetan Sword Villa. There were always rebels coming along the way, and I was worried about him."

"Don't worry, although Ye Xuan is a bit stupid, his skills are still passable." Su Jixian raised his hand to pat her on the head, but she pushed it back just a little bit, and stuffed it back into the cloak, "Ye Xuan Xuan is lucky, nothing will happen."

"I heard that Lu Lingfeng is also near Tongguan, brother, you will also worry about him?" Chen Yue glanced at him, and found that his expression was stunned for a moment, and his eyes suddenly became a little strange, "Brother, don't you remember Lu Lingfeng? Are you in Tongguan?"

"How can it be?" Su Jixian's eyes flicked to the side, and then he looked serious, "I'm busy these days, so I didn't think of him for a while. But I'm not too worried about him, Lingfeng His skills are not inferior to mine, and he is also good at lurking and hiding, even if he can't beat him, he can escape."

Chen Yue suddenly felt a little sympathetic to Lu Lingfeng, and at the same time had a subtle gloat.

"Let's not talk about that, I heard that Hu Yulou in the West City has a new cook, and the mutton feast is not bad, do you want to try it?"

"Okay." Chen Yue naturally agreed, handed the basket in her hand to the female sword attendant behind her, and followed Su Jixian out the door.

The snow on the street has been swept away, and it does not affect the travel. The carriage of the National Teacher's Mansion is running unhurriedly on the Qingshi Road, and the sound of wheels and horseshoes is very clear in the empty East City.

Gradually someone's voice came to the ear, not too noisy, but not deserted.Chen Yue lifted the curtain of the side window of the carriage to look out, and glanced at the busy street.

Suddenly there was a rather rapid sound of horseshoes approaching, the carriage was suddenly stopped, and Chen Yue, who was sitting in the carriage, swayed and fell headfirst into Su Jixian's arms.

"What's going on?" Su Jixian frowned and helped Chen Yue, and brought the little fox Yuan Xiao who had rolled to the corner back to smooth his fur.

"Return to the master, it is the post envoy."

"Stay envoy?" He leaned forward and raised the curtain of the carriage door, and when he looked up, he could still see the imperial court envoy rushing past their carriage.

Their carriage is currently parked at the crossroads between the East and West City and the Imperial Palace. Judging from the direction of the postman, it should be heading for the Imperial Palace.

Such a rush...it seems like a very urgent matter.

Su Jixian was thoughtful, put down the curtain and sat back in the carriage, "Go home."

"Yes."

"Eh? Are you not going to Hu Yulou?" Chen Yue was taken aback, looking at him, a little puzzled, "Did something happen?"

"Well... I hope I'm wrong."

However, his guess was not wrong.

Not long after returning to the National Teacher's Mansion, the Imperial Army rushed to spread the news that Tongguan was lost and the royal family was withdrawing westward!

Sending away the hurried-looking Imperial Army, Su Jixian sent someone to pack up the things in the National Teacher's Mansion, and prepared to accompany Xuanzong's family to evacuate Chang'an. When he turned around, he found that Chen Yue, who had always been calm and indifferent, had an expression that was not quite right.

"Moon?"

"Brother... Tongguan was defeated and defeated, Ye Xuan he...he is in Tongguan!" She burst into tears, clutching the fur of his cloak tightly on his chest, her voice was panicked, her fingertips trembling slightly, "Ye Xuan is in Tongguan! !"

"Yue'er, calm down, don't cry, don't cry." Su Jixian held her face gently and solemnly, "I said that Ye Xuan is a fool who is blessed with fools. He is always lucky. He will come back from Tongguan safely. Yes. Trust brother, huh?"

Chen Yue raised her head and stared blankly at his eyes, her emotions gradually stabilized in his gentle and firm eyes, she closed her eyes hard, hiding all the fragile expressions, but her face was still pale, "Yes... Ye Xuan will be fine I'm going to pack my things, brother, I have to wait for Ye Xuan to come back, wait for him to come back..."

Chen Yue, who was talking in a mess, let go of the hand holding his cloak, turned and ran back to the bedroom in the inner courtyard, Su Jixian didn't follow, but went to the guest room next to his bedroom.

Pushing open the closed door of the guest room, the north wind howled in from the door, the white flags and white silk in the room were blown high, and the originally strong sandalwood became much weaker.

Su Jixian walked in, stood still in front of the niche, and looked down at the white porcelain jar behind the incense burner.

"Yang Ning," he said softly, his voice was extremely soft, as if he didn't want to disturb the long-sleeping soul in the white porcelain jar, "Tongguan is still lost after all, and it seems that Chang'an can't be kept. Today I will I want to accompany the emperor to leave Chang'an."

"My sister-in-law was sent to Taiyuan to raise her baby. Taiyuan is more stable than Chang'an, so there won't be any accidents."

"It's not convenient for me to take you with me this time, you have to stay here. Don't worry, no one will disturb your rest."

"I'll go out when the Li family is settled. I promised you that if you want to quell the war, I will take you back to Beimang. Wait for me."

I reached out and pressed the side of the shrine, and the whole wall turned into a wall with many calligraphy and paintings hanging on it.

When he stepped out of the room, the white banners and veils in the room were removed by Yin Yuanwei, and the guest room became no different from the surrounding empty rooms, inconspicuous.

Because of their early preparations, they were among the earlier group when they rushed to the Suzaku Gate to join the large army, and even earlier were Chen Xuanli and Jianning King Li Tan.

Due to the cold relationship with Li Tan, Su Jixian didn't approach, but nodded to Chen Xuanli from a distance to say hello, and then stopped aside.

Then Chen Xuanli urged his mount to get closer to him, glanced at the carriage behind him, and didn't ask him why he only brought a carriage, "Ge Shuhan was captured."

Su Jixian was a little surprised, but it was expected when he thought about it carefully, "It's a bad idea from the higher-ups, it's very lucky that he was captured instead of killed in battle."

Chen Xuanli shook his head and sighed, "General Xuanwei of Tiance Mansion is not so lucky."

"General Xuanwei of Tiance..." Su Jixian thought for a while before he remembered who this person was, "Cao Xueyang?"

"Yes, it's her. Although she is a woman, she is also a rare good general. After the fall of Luoyang, she and the remnants of her subordinates went to Tongguan to assist Ge Shuhan. He died in battle the day Tongguan fell." Chen Xuanli regretted, "Tiance Mansion This time, his vitality was seriously injured, the head coach Yang Ning died in battle, General Xuanwei fell in Tongguan, and the military advisor Zhu Jianqiu stayed in Chang'an pretending to be a saint to draw away Spike's teeth.

After a pause, he looked at Su Jixian's horse and said, "This horse was given to you by Yang Ning, right?"

In the past in the capital, Master Guoshi rarely went out, and almost no one saw him riding a horse until the outbreak of war.His horse is completely black, with blood-red vine-like markings. It is hard to tell what breed it is, but it can be called the best horse in every aspect, exactly the same as Yang Ning's beloved horse.

Su Jixian touched the horse's mane and nodded, "Well, Yang Ning's horse gave birth to a cub back then, so he gave me one."

"Oh, after Yang Ning left, his horse disappeared, unfortunately." Chen Xuanli raised his head and saw a team coming from the Suzaku Gate, he pulled the rein and turned the horse's head, "I'm going first , There are many dangers on the way to the west, so be careful."

"So is the general."

When Xuanzong's chariots and horses arrived, the army retreated westward, and the journey was extremely hasty.

Su Jixian rode a horse and walked in the middle of the team. The thick cloak on his body kept the cold wind out, but his cheeks were sore from the wind, and the hand holding the rein felt bitingly cold even with gloves on.

He looked back at Chang'an, which was drifting away, and the towering Miyagi Zhuwa was reflected in his clear black eyes. Those thick colors and rolling cornices all became blurred outlines in his eyes, and he could no longer see clearly.

The day after Xuanzong fled, the rebels poured into Chang'an.

The family members of the officials who were too late to leave the city were all captured, and none of the guards in the capital survived, and the Spike Army quickly occupied the capital.

An Lushan rode a horse, surrounded by Spike Army, and walked swaggeringly on Zhuque Street.

There were no pedestrians on the street, only the Spikes wearing wolf-tailed caps.

The palace was also completely controlled by the Spike Army, and the maids and eunuchs shrank aside, like rows of quails that had been drenched by the rain.

As soon as An Lushan stepped into the palace, someone came forward to report: "Report to Your Majesty, the Emperor Tang has been detained and guarded in the Xuanzheng Palace."

"En." An Lushan replied, the bronze face under the wolf hat remained calm, "Where is Concubine Yang?"

"In Huaqing Palace."

So he went to Huaqing Palace first to see his imperial concubine and godmother.

The last time I went to Huaqing Palace was last summer, when Xuanzong held a reception banquet for him, and he was assassinated.I'm afraid no one at that time could have imagined that one day he would step into this palace again as the master.

Walking quickly into the bedroom of the main hall of Huaqing Palace, An Lushan stepped on the threshold, and saw a plump woman in gold sitting in front of the dressing table in the inner room, with her head slightly lowered, silently resisting.

She was still dressed up, and the skirts of the twelve golden embroidered phoenix palace dresses spread on the ground like golden peonies in full bloom. The golden peacock crown on her head was pressed against the cloud hair, and the falling red gem beads shone with a fascinating luster.

An Lushan stood behind her, admired her back for a while, and then said: "The imperial concubine..."

Brush—a cold light suddenly appears!

An Lushan retreated quickly, his clothes were cut by a dagger, blood was faintly seen, and anger surged between his brows, "Come here!!"

The face of the fake imperial concubine was frosty, seeing that one blow would fail, An Lushan was prepared, and the Spike Army outside the door also rushed in after hearing the sound, knowing that they could no longer strike, they reversed the dagger without hesitation and stabbed hard own chest.

The beauty in full costume fell to the ground, blood soon stained the gorgeous palace dress red, An Lushan watched her turn into a corpse with cold eyes, and raised his hand to wipe the shallow bloodstains on his chest.

"Pretending to be a noble concubine and ambushing here again, fortunately, His Majesty's martial arts skills are so strong that they couldn't let them succeed." Yan Zhuang stepped forward and said, "It seems that the person in the Xuanzheng Palace was also pretended by someone else. How does Your Majesty plan to deal with it?"

"Kill him directly." An Lushan's anger was still there, and there seemed to be a cluster of flames in his deep eyes. "There is a palace to the west. They probably ran there and sent people to hunt them down."

"Yes."

An Lushan walked out of the bedroom with a shake of his hands, and stood in front of Huaqing Palace, looking to the west with dark eyes.