I was a prince in ancient times

The imperial palace is located in the center of the imperial capital, occupying half of the capital city.

The imperial guards were wearing armor and guarding all parts of the palace with solemn expressions, making the entire imperial city as airtight as an iron barrel.

Passing through the winding, twisting and intertwined attic, Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjiao stepped onto Danbi together, and immediately after that, they heard the sound of announcements one after another.

After a while, the door of the palace opened wide, and a palace official came to the two of them humbly and led them into the Jinghua Palace.

The Son of Heaven was wearing a black dragon robe and sat high in the bright hall. When he saw the two people coming in, he only raised his eyes slightly, unable to tell whether he was happy or angry.

Before coming, Xie Anlan repeatedly recalled the etiquette of meeting the emperor in his mind, and this meeting would not be embarrassing, so he and Lu Chengjiao bowed according to the gourd painting.

Xie Cangming raised his eyebrows slightly, and unconsciously turned the jade finger in his hand, wondering when Chen Wang understood the rules so well.

Xie Anlan didn't notice the emperor's gaze, and after paying the salute, she honestly lowered her head and waited for the emperor to ask her a question.

As a result, the emperor didn't move for a long time. Thinking of the virtue of the original owner, Xie Anlan gritted his teeth, raised his head and stared at the emperor in a daze.

As soon as the two eyes met, Xie Cangming let go of the hand that turned the finger, closed his eyes, and asked in an inaudible voice, "Why didn't you enter the palace yesterday."

Xie Anlan breathed a sigh of relief, and said calmly, "Forgot."

Xie Cangming was not surprised either, Xie Anlan had angered all the people who had been sent to teach Xie Anlan the rules. Even those who spent the day before their wedding in the gambling house could expect him to remember the rules.

Xie Cangming lowered his eyes and said calmly, "Why didn't you forget to eat?"

"Hey... If Brother Huang didn't remind me, I would have forgotten to have breakfast this morning in such a hurry!" Xie Anlan patted the back of her head with an annoyed look.

Xie Cangming tightened his hands, and was about to be laughed at by Xie Anlan. He thought that he would be more honest than before when he was married, but he still looked like this.

"Nonsense!" Xie Cangming reprimanded, throwing off his sleeves.

"Brother Huang taught you a lesson, you must remember it next time, next time." Xie Anlan hastily admitted his mistake.

Xie Cangming, "..."

"Go and order breakfast for Prince Chen and Concubine Chen." Xie Cangming really couldn't do anything about Xie Anlan, so he waved his hand and ordered.

Then he said earnestly to Xie Anlan, "When you get married, you have to learn to be more prudent. There are some things you can't do. After all, you are not alone now. Before doing things, you should think about your family..."

Xie Anlan ate the royal meal in the palace, and listened to Xie Cangming's chanting, she couldn't stop nodding.

After Xie Cangming finished speaking, he turned around and saw that Xie Anlan hadn't listened carefully at all, so he shook his head and gave up the idea of ​​educating his younger brother.

Then he turned his attention to Lu Chengjie, who had been quietly serving as a decoration since he came in.

Seeing him wearing an ill-fitting women's costume, he asked plainly, "You can blame me."

Lu Chengjie shook his head, and replied with a straight back, "I don't complain."

"Why don't you complain?" Xie Cangming picked up the teacup on the table and asked with a sip.

Lu Chengjie said without hesitation, "As a citizen of Dayong, the first thing I learned from birth was to be loyal to the emperor and love the country. As time went by, these four words have flowed into my bones. Yong's Majesty, I am loyal to Dayong and loyal to Your Majesty, so I will not complain."

After hearing this, Xie Cangming had mixed emotions in his heart, and thought of Lu Guogong, such a strong general, who ended up dying in battle because of his youngest son, without a whole body.

I can't help but feel sad, and I don't know that Da Yong can last for a few more years, maybe in a few years there will be no more Da Yong Dynasty in this world, and the current prosperity will come to naught, and he will also become the king of Da Yong's subjugation. Jun, leave a shameful stroke in the history books.

However, this kind of sad mind was put away by Xie Cangming in just a moment, and he said with no joy on his face, "Yes."

After taking a look at Xie Anlan, who was useless, he said gently again, "From now on, Prince Chen will entrust it to you."

"Your Highness is fine." Lu Chengjia affirmed, looking at Xie Anlan who was watching him.

Xie Cangming nodded in satisfaction, and wrote down Lu Chengjia's name on the royal file on the royal case.

Since then, Lu Chengjie has been completely inseparable from Xie Anlan.

As soon as I finished writing, there was an urgent notification from outside the hall, "Report—eight hundred miles urgently, the Grassland Department will go south to attack Yanhe, Weiyuanhou will be defeated, and Weicheng will be lost."

"what!"

When Xie Cangming heard the news, his face turned pale, the veins on his hands popped out, and his whole body was filled with grief and indignation.

At the same time, Lu Chengjiao's face became very ugly.

Even Xie Anlan, who doesn't have much memory of the original owner, knows that the Da Yong Dynasty and the Grassland Department have not lost their country for so many years because there is a Yanhe River in between.

People in the grasslands have always lived in the plains. Although their combat power is strong and their immediate skills are even better, they are all water ducks. The Yanhe River is wide and there are many waters. Horses cannot pass through it, which virtually weakens the enemy's military strength. .

As long as Weicheng by the Yanhe River is well guarded, the grassland department will not be able to attack if there are no supply points.

Now that Weicheng is lost, the Grassland Department has nothing to pay attention to, sweeping them all the way, and the country is about to perish.

"Quick pass—two generals Huo and Li are coming to Jinghua Palace." Xie Cangming clenched his fists tightly, flustered for a moment, and immediately cheered up.

Seeing this, Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjia retreated tactfully, and did not go to see the Queen Mother and Empress again, knowing that no one was in the mood to talk to the two of them in this situation.

After leaving the palace, the street was already in chaos. Many people who heard the news fled in a hurry. The rice and grain shop was full of people, scrambling to buy grain. Yesterday, the price of grain was still one tael of silver and two shi. The eyes become a tael of silver and a stone of rice.

Xie Anlan lay on the window of the carriage and witnessed a chaotic world with her own eyes. Even though yesterday the street was still so prosperous and prosperous, people lived and worked in peace and contentment, everything changed overnight.

Even last night he was dreaming of earning money to restore the palace, but today he has to think about his fate after the subjugation of the country.

And this is only the fourth day of crossing!

Counting what happened in the past four days, Xie Anlan felt that there might never be a more miserable traveler than him.

"Is Your Highness afraid?" Seeing that Xie Anlan had been silent since leaving the palace, Lu Chengjia asked aloud.

Xie Anlan shook his head, he was a person who had died once, and he was no longer so afraid of death, how could he be afraid.

He just felt miserable.

As soon as he traveled through time, he was heavily in debt, and finally paid off his foreign debts, thinking that he would be able to make money to pay off his domestic debts, but in the end he was told that the country was about to perish.

Ordinary people can still run, but he can't even run.

It was as if his brief time travel was just to pay off his debts with the ancients with the same name and surname.

"I'm afraid I'll have to pay back your money in my next life." Xie Anlan felt even more miserable when facing Lu Chengcai.

The worst thing in my previous life was that the money was not spent when I died, and the worst thing in this life is that the money was not paid when I died.

What is this all about!

Lu Chengjie smiled and comforted him, "Your Highness, don't be pessimistic. It's just that Weicheng is lost. Weicheng is still far away from the imperial capital, and it won't be able to get in for a while. Besides, there is a sky stream in Jiazhou City, where the terrain is dangerous. , easy to defend and difficult to attack, we have no chance of winning."

Said that Lu Chengjiao paused for a moment and said, "Back then, Grandpa also relied on Jiazhou's Tianjian to cut off the enemy's reinforcements, and trapped the enemies who invaded the imperial capital to death..."

Before Lu Chengjiao could finish speaking, the carriage stopped suddenly.

"What's going on?" Xie Anlan looked at the street outside, she hadn't arrived at the palace yet.

"A patient rolled out of the nearby pharmacy, blocking the road, and the carriage couldn't get across." Lu Chuyi had been driving outside the carriage, seeing the situation outside clearly, and immediately explained.

Xie Anlan lifted the curtain of the carriage, looked out, and indeed saw a man lying in the middle of the road with blood all over his body and burnt. "

Passers-by around him couldn't avoid him when they saw him, as if they saw some kind of disaster.

And his family members knelt in front of the pharmacy door and kept begging, "I beg you to show kindness and save him. He is not some evil spirit who was punished by heavenly thunder, but was burned by charcoal."

"Roll, roll, there is a sound on the ground in the blue sky, and your house is on fire. It's not God's punishment. Besides, the news of Weicheng's defeat came out as soon as you delivered it. It can't be that the disaster of your house angered God. , so that Weicheng was defeated."

The apprentices of the medical center blocked the door firmly, saying that they would not let the woman bring his patients into the medical center for treatment.

Xie Anlan shook her head when she heard this. She had only heard of the superstitions of the ancients before, but she did not expect that the superstitions reached such a level that even the rise and fall of a country could be controlled by patients.

Lu Chuyi was asked to help the patient who was blocking the way, but he jumped out of the carriage and asked the woman, "Can you tell me what happened?"

When the woman saw the fine clothes on Xie Anlan's body, she was so frightened that she prostrated herself on the ground, not daring to hide anything and said, "My lord, the women got up to cook as usual this morning, and the charcoal accumulated in the stove was too much." , I asked Xianggong to take it to the warehouse to store it, and wait until it was colder to take it out to warm the room. Unexpectedly, Xianggong just went to the warehouse with charcoal, and soon there was a loud thunder, and the whole house was instantly shattered and burned. Not to mention, Xianggong was also burned because of it."

The woman couldn't help crying after she finished speaking. Her parents-in-law is still there, and there are three young children below.

"That's not what God's punishment is!" After hearing this, the medical apprentice became more convinced of his guess.

There were also many people nodding in agreement, and even the neighbors of the woman's family among them expressed that it was true.

"My lord, please save him, he really hasn't done anything harmful." After being told by so many people, the woman's mind was in a mess and she couldn't tell whether it was God punishing their family, so she could only desperately Beg.

"At the beginning of the day, take the patients to the car."

Xie Anlan certainly didn't believe that God was punishing her, but after listening to the woman's description, it reminded him of something very important.