Gu Qingci

"Excited Dan Chi, looking forward to the blue sky. The soldiers are trained day by day, and the enemy will be killed without any damage." I read these two lines of poems by chance, and after reading them for a long time, I was stunned.

Can it really "kill the enemy without leaving behind"?In the era when Emperor Lingkong was not yet unified, even if the land of Wangji was singing and dancing, it could not explain the depression and decline of distant villages. It was half a frontier fortress of bones and half a rebirth of weeds.

The time when human life is the cheapest is the time when life is the most vigorous - this is my realization many years later.Now I haven't experienced the deepest pain, and I haven't faced the blood and flesh on the battlefield. Everything is just a fantasy, and the beauty in my mind is greater than everything else.

Perhaps this is the sorrow of a scholar, unlike General Nangong who has been training for a long time since he was ordered to go south to attack the barbarians.He told Liu Yueying that it would take at least half a year to attack the Nanman.

These six months were spent on training soldiers, partly because of the harsh terrain of Nanman, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and partly because the people needed to recuperate.

The topographical map of Nanman was gradually drawn. General Nangong trained his soldiers in a targeted manner targeting swamps, canyons, and hills. Qin Tianjian and the Ministry of Rites recruited many divination experts from the martial arts world to decipher their strange formations.

Half a year later, in the early summer of the ninth year of Tianjia, the Xing army will move south.I wrapped the big cloak around me, vaguely remembering that Daxing completely wiped out the Nanman in just over a year.

It is now December [-], and it is so cold that it is about to snow.I haven't seen Liu Yuehua for a long time, and I can't see her in the early morning. I don't know what's going on with her recently.

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Outside the study of Chaofeng Palace.

Liu Yueying is reading chess records in the study room of the bedroom, which is a pastime in her spare time.Just now Wu Xia came to report that the eldest princess had been pacing back and forth outside the study for a long time, with a worried and gloomy expression, and she hadn't seen her intention to come in for a long time.

"She wants to blow the cold wind outside, so let her go." The emperor continued to look at the chess record, not paying much attention.

The stove in the house was burning brightly, sparks flew and burst, and the door of the study was finally pushed open.

"Sister Huang", a timid voice came to her ears, Liu Yueying turned a page without raising her head.

Liu Yuehua approached slowly, stood still in front of the emperor, and said softly, "Sister Huang, Yuehua has been feeling unwell recently, but she is feeling better now, come to pay her respects to Sister Huang."

"I asked you to copy Jincheng's "Local Chronicles" three times before, but you have finished copying?"

Liu Yuehua trembled, lowered her head and said: "The content of "Local Chronicles" is informative, which shows the profound culture of Jincheng. Yuehua has read it many times, but a few days ago, her body was a little weak and lazy, and her hands were a little swollen. I don't have the strength to sit at the desk for a long time, so..."

Liu Yueying folded the chess records and put them on the table, raised her head with a calm expression: "Since you are in good health, I won't make things difficult for you, just sit down." Her chin slightly lifted to the other side of the go mat.

"Your body has been very healthy since you were a child. Why did you suddenly get sick? It took so long for those imperial doctors to see you well. It seems that the hospital needs a major blood change."

"Well, there's no need for that. It's my own trouble, and it has nothing to do with the imperial doctors." Liu Yuehua became nervous, and her expression stiffened a lot.

"What's wrong with Yuehua?" Liu Yueying took out a sunspot from the box and placed it in the center of the chessboard.

Liu Yuehua felt that her back was a little wet, and she couldn't speak for a while.Seeing her appearance, Liu Yueying was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "Okay, let me change the question, apart from coming to say hello to Yuehua today, does Yuehua have other things to do?

Seeing the emperor's calm and at ease expression, the eldest princess shivered so nervously that she clenched her hands into fists and secretly cheered herself up.

"Sister Chen is here today to do something else. I want to tell Sister Huang that I already have someone I like." She finished speaking in one breath without any pause, with a sense of heroism like the wind is rustling and the water is cold.

"Really, do you want me to give you a marriage?" Liu Yueying didn't blink, and picked up a white stone and placed it to the left of the sunspot.

"On the contrary, Yuehua wants to ask Miss Huang not to give me the rest."

Liu Yueying looked up at her, then continued to play chess with her head down.

"What did you hear? Nangong begged me to give you their child a few days ago, the princess of the Western Regions has plans to get married recently, and the niece and daughter of the Confucian younger brother of the Imperial College are also pretty..."

"No, it's not," Liu Yuehua panicked, "Sister Huang, please don't, I haven't even thought about these people."

"Not at all?" Liu Yueying raised her eyebrows, "It seems that the person you like should impress me, tell me, who it is."

"It's Feng San, the leader of His Majesty's Fengqi Army!" Liu Yuehua closed her eyes and gritted her teeth and said loudly, emboldening herself.

After a while, there was no response.

The eldest princess opened her eyes tremblingly, and found that the emperor was concentrating on arranging the game with the chess pieces, without any surprise.

Liu Yuehua is not a dull person, seeing the emperor's quick thinking: "Did the emperor already know?"

"if not?"

"But Prime Minister You said it?" Liu Yuehua was so shocked that she said it one step faster than her mind, and she regretted it after she finished speaking.

Sure enough, Liu Yueying's face darkened in an instant, and she raised her head and said, "You didn't do your own thing well, and you left clues everywhere for people to catch, and you blame others? Yang Li is more serious than you, but you never gossip about these things with me. If you could pay more attention to political affairs and share my worries as much as she did, would you still be a half-hearted person today? It’s useless for me to cultivate you with so much effort, mud can’t support the wall.”

Liu Yuehua's fingertips were numb from the emperor's scolding, smoke was coming from the top of her head, and she said calmly, "It's my sister's fault. My sister must correct it and spend more time on government affairs."

The emperor immediately asked: "Obviously I have kept it a secret for so long, why do you want to tell me today, if there is anything else you want to say, let's say it together and get out."

Before Liu Yuehua could catch her breath, the emperor pressed her every step of the way, swallowed her saliva and said bravely, "I'm pregnant."

The surroundings returned to calm in an instant, Liu Yueying looked at the ground expressionlessly, as if she was thinking about something, leaving only the eldest princess sitting on pins and needles.If Miss Huang could pronounce the verdict quickly, it would make people feel more comfortable. Being so silent and unable to guess clearly is like standing on the edge of a cliff and not knowing what the next step will be. It makes people feel like walking on thin ice in an abyss.

After a while, Liu Yueying's eyes turned from the ground to the princess's lower abdomen, and she slowly said, "So you were sick and took leave a few days ago, because of this incident?"

"Yes."

The emperor's eyes suddenly became playful, and he looked deeply at the eldest princess and said, "This is the first time I've heard of such a serious pregnancy. It seems that you sealed the mouths of those imperial doctors very well. It's rare to make a beautiful thing."

Liu Yuehua suddenly felt that Liu Yueying's meaning was not as simple as the words. To bribe the imperial doctor to completely keep the emperor in the dark, this method is not something ordinary people can do, and there is always some suspicion of injustice.

So she anxiously argued: "Sister Chen didn't mean that, but I didn't know how to face you, so I let them keep silent. In the end, I will report to you. I haven't figured it out. If you do this It's not worth it if you lose your temper and get angry."

"Now think about what to do?"

"Yes, sister Chen wants to give birth to this child, but she doesn't want to tell the public."

"Why don't you tell everyone?"

"Feng San is your subordinate, a slave. Giving him a title now will only embarrass you. This is what I don't want to see. If I announce to everyone that I am pregnant, the child's father will not know why. It is not a good thing for me or for this child. Therefore, sister Chen wants to give birth to this child in private. As for Feng San's status, how will this child explain to the world in the future? The words that had been kept in my heart for a long time were said out of my brain, and I felt a lot better in an instant.

Liu Yueying stopped holding the chess piece, and nodded slightly: "That's fine, that's all. It's just Yuehua," she said slowly, holding a breath in her chest, "Some things, you know in your heart. Now that you are pregnant, it is the safest thing, so I can rest assured."

With pregnancy, there will be an heir.

Liu Yuehua wanted to say that she did not covet the crown prince's position, and had no yearning for the supreme power, but she couldn't say it.

With the degree of affection Huang Jie has for Yang Li, if she proposes to let her spread out the harem, it will be a knife in Huang Jie's heart.Liu Yueying showed a lack of interest, indifference and indifference to everything, and almost all her enthusiasm was given to that person.Although she doesn't know what the relationship between Sister Huang and Yang Li is, Liu Yuehua always feels that Yang Li will definitely become Sister Huang's husband, and it will be a matter of time and cannot escape.

The task of "inheriting" the foundation of the country had to fall on oneself.

The eldest princess suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in the emperor. This feeling had always seemed to be absent, but now it became more and more obvious.Liu Yueying stared at the black and white pieces arranged on the chessboard, and after looking at them for a while, she suddenly asked, "Yuehua, do you think I am a good person or a bad person?"

Liu Yuehua was taken aback by the emperor's question, and then said without hesitation: "Sister Huang is a wise emperor, who can unify Yanhuang and bring prosperity to Daxing that hasn't been seen in many years, and benefit thousands of people. She must be a good person who will last forever!"

Liu Yueying felt amused, with a bit of sarcasm in her eyes: "You think so?"

"My sister speaks from the bottom of my heart, and every sentence is not adulterated. Not only me, every courtier in the court, every official in the county thinks the same way!"

The self-deprecating laughter was finally unbearable, echoing in this world.

"It would be great if people were like this chess game."

"Ok?"

"Black is black, white is white, how simple. It's a pity—" Liu Yueying let out a foul breath, pointing at black and white with her fingers one by one: "There is no such thing as black and white in this world, good and evil, good and bad."

With a violent wave of his hand, the black, white and white chess pieces were in a mess, falling to the ground one after another mixed together.

"Sister Huang, Yuehua has heard people say, 'Heroes and daughters weigh chess, victory is joyful, and defeat is also joyful.' Take everything into consideration, treat this life as a game, maybe you can... less worry." The princess looked at Liu Yueying's knot that was always lingering between her eyebrows, and couldn't help but comfort her.

Liu Yueying smiled softly: "I hope I can be happy if I lose."