Let me eat a soft meal

Cangzhou Ancheng.

"Go in." After searching the caravan, the guarding soldiers waved their spears and nodded while rubbing their frozen red hands with the heat, muttering, "Why is this temperature colder than yesterday? Frozen to death Old man."

"The military adviser said that there will be heavy snow tonight." The person next to him said.

"Damn, I said why it's so cold, it's all because of those damn things who robbed our supplies..."

The winter in the frontier is not easy, not only the temperature is low, the food is also very scarce, but also often faced with the harassment and invasion of the insatiable grassland soldiers.

——Although the army became much more honest after the new Great Khan of Beirong took office, not all the Rong people waited for him to demolish them. nomadic state.

On the surface, they have retreated to the barren desert and struggled to survive, but they are actually hiding in the prairie. From time to time, they pretend to be soldiers or Liang troops to harass each other's troops, rob caravans, and run away after hitting them. It is very confusing. Disgusting and annoying.

As winter is approaching recently, that group of people reappeared, snatching Liang Jun's winter supplies from the main city of Cangzhou, including more than a dozen carts full of charcoal and [-] thickened cotton coats for soldiers, and killed the escort. The one thousand Liang army and the accompanying three caravans attracted the master of Cangzhou to leave the city at night to chase thousands of miles.

It has been dozens of days in a flash.

As soon as the soldiers guarding the city thought about it, they couldn't help cursing those nasty grassland nomads viciously.

Suddenly the earth trembled, and the hooves of horses came rushing from afar, and the flags with black background and red border flew wildly through the sand and dust in the sky.

"It's the prince who's back!" The watchtower saw it and hurriedly shouted.

The guards' eyes lit up, and the well-trained guards quickly descended the tower, clearing the way to enter the city, and they lined up along the gate.

Almost as soon as the team had dispersed, two majestic horses, black and white, walked side by side, leaping over the crowd and landed on the ground. Two young generals on the horses, who were about the same age, looked at each other for a short while, swung their whips and reins, and showed great enthusiasm. Speed ​​into the city gate.

Then one after another the horses galloped over, and the man on the horses lowered his body, his body was full of chills, and the blood-stained weapons were either pressed down or cut behind his back.

"Xiao Wang's army returns to the city, and the idlers wait to retreat!"

The shouts of hundreds of men in the army were like thunder, making people's ears ring.

After this group of people entered the city, the remaining thousand soldiers came slowly. They brought back the robber's body and several carts of military supplies.

"Woo!" Two big horses galloped to a stop in front of the general's mansion, the white horse was slightly faster than the dark horse.

"I won again." Ye Xuan turned over, patted the neck of the white horse, raised his eyebrows and looked at the person who was still sitting on the black horse.

"..." Tai'an also got off his horse, without even looking at him, he took the rein and walked towards the general's mansion without saying a word. Although his face was expressionless, the low air pressure all over his body was enough to show his displeasure.

As soon as the two entered the General's Mansion and took off the cold iron armor, they heard the sound of "da da da" footsteps. A six or seven-year-old boy carved in pink and jade directly rushed towards the two of them, and was grabbed by Tai'an who was closest to the door. Catch and lift.

The little boy held a stick in his hand, and opened his mouth to reveal the half-chewed candied haws inside, with crooked eyebrows and smiling, he shouted, "Duo duo!"

Tai'an met his soft and tender smiling face, and the cold expression on his face softened, and he nodded in response, "Yeah."

As soon as he finished answering, the child in his hand was picked up by Ye Xuan, and the look in his eyes seemed to say: What are you answering?This is my brother.

It happened that Feng Yue turned her head and threw herself on Ye Xuan very happily, hugging his neck and shouting "Duo Duo" all the time.

Ye Xuan raised his eyebrows, the corners of his lips curled up in joy, he patted the little boy on the back of the head, turned around and walked to the backyard with him, Tai'an followed with a dark face.

Ye Xuan shook the little kid in his hand while walking, "Did you obey me today?"

"Yeye is very Tsinghua!" Feng Yue was used to being carried around, and found that she couldn't break free, so she obediently hugged her brother's iron claws and didn't move, with a mouthful of chewed candied haws, she answered vaguely and loudly .

Ye Xuan shook his arm, "Talk after eating."

Feng Yue swallowed all the candied haws in her mouth, licked the candy on the corner of her lips regrettably, looked at her brother with bright eyes, and said, "Yueyue is very obedient, she didn't play tricks on Mr.

"Really?" Ye Xuan frowned, eyes half-closed.

Feng Yue's eyes rolled, thinking of her daily life these days, she immediately felt a little guilty, her big eyes blinked in an attempt to get away with it, and she said in a childish voice, "At least not today."

"Which day is that?" Ye Xuan walked all the way to his own courtyard, put the child on the stone bench under the tree and sat down, and looked at him leisurely.

Feng Yue stood there with a face full of mistakes, moving her little hands behind her back, looked at her brother's condescending and serious face, then looked down at her own toes, and then hummed like a mosquito for a long time, "Except today……"

"Louder." Ye Xuan's voice was flat, but it made the child tremble in fright.

Feng Yue's mouth shrunk, and she was about to cry immediately, and because her brother didn't like him crying, her eyes turned red, she stood there with her head down and said aggrievedly, "Yueyue misses my brother, Yueyue wants to teach me No, I don’t want to be taught by my husband, Yueyue wants my brother!”

As he spoke, his anger still rose, he raised his head and stared at Ye Xuan, his eyelashes fluttered, his big eyes washed by tears were beautiful and clear.

"..." Ye Xuan wanted to fight but was a little bit hesitant.

Tai'an appeared just at the right time, he had already lit the silver charcoal in the house, and he still had a few secret letters from this period of time in his hand.

Ye Xuan immediately took advantage of the slope to get off the donkey, and said to Fengyue, "Don't be an example, you are not in good health, don't blow the wind outside, go indoors and stay."

Feng Yue let out an "oh", sniffled her nose and walked in sullenly. After a while, Qing Lan came out and made a gesture: the little master has entered the bedroom and locked the door.

Needless to say, he must have cried on his bed.Ye Xuan pressed the center of his eyebrows with a headache.

Seven years ago when the Queen poisoned Concubine Liang, Ye Xuan thought that someone had framed the Queen, but Concubine Liang saw through it but chose to use the trick until the night before he left the palace, he was lured to a farm in the suburbs by Tai'an, where he saw Feng Luo and the infant dying child.

Only then did he know that everything was concubine Liang's design. She had asked Nanny Chen to deliver the letter outside the palace. Every step of the plan was carefully considered and determined by her. She sewed a box of clothes Give Ye Xuan and the children in his stomach a box full of clothes from all ages from childhood to adulthood until they reach their crowns.

The dragon-shaped embroidered clothes that Ye Xuan had seen before, the dragon had only four claws, and it was the python robe worn by the prince.

Hidden inside the boa robe was a written letter, which was written in elegant lowercase letters——from my son Xuan.

Ye Xuan opened it, and there were only a few thin sheets of paper inside, telling him to live a good life in Cangzhou in the future, not to believe his uncle's words, and it's best not to come back again.

[When I saw Tai'an many years ago, I knew that my brother had contacted you. It was because the child's eyes were too imaginative with him.When the incident happened at home, I was still young, changed my name and was sent to live in Shen’s family. When I was young, I only knew that I had an elder brother who was in the army, and I often went to the mountain to light a lantern to pray for him...]

[Before I entered the palace, he came to the Shen family to meet me, and told me that the Feng and Luo clans had a deep blood feud with the royal family surnamed Ye. Love is so heartless, even if you kill thousands of meritorious ministers, you are not merciful. If you know that I am a daughter of the Feng family, you must not keep me by your side. , It's just a hoax put on for the world to see. ]

[It's funny that I deceived myself, I was tortured by madness for several years, and I still refused to wake up, admitting that he is just unlucky.Could it be that if he stayed in Jiangnan back then, he could gain a true heart and keep his promise? ]

[… For seven months, I don’t know if this child will live after birth. Every midnight, I am always awakened by nightmares, thinking about the past and all kinds of things, but regretting it is too late.Xuan'er, my mother has done too many wrong things in this life. To you and him, if you calculate it carefully, it is all a debt... If this child can live, I hope that the rest of my life will last. You two grow up together, don't be alone. ]

[I was worried that His Majesty would regret letting you go. After much deliberation, I finally sent a letter to your uncle to help you. You have often exchanged letters with him, and you must be more familiar with him than me... At this time, finally Feeling the absurdity of the past, I couldn't help crying, this is actually the best way I can find for you. ——Mother Feng Wan's last pen]

The letter was hidden inside the python robe, and the python robe was pressed in the middle of the clothes. Ye Xuan only found this letter when he was looking through those clothes. The concubine Liang hid it so tightly that she didn't want others to see it, including her brother Feng Luo. .

Compared with the content of the letter, every time Ye Xuan saw the inscribed word Feng Wan, he felt a chill down his spine, and then he had a feeling that it was so.

Feng Biyang was originally from Xuzhou, a top-ranked Jinshi. He was upright and rigid but quite capable. The late emperor also cultivated him a lot. He successively served as officials in Xuzhou and Jizhou, and was later dispatched to Jiangnan.The waterway in the south of the Yangtze River is convenient, almost every household is engaged in business, and there are countless merchants. Among them, the Luo family and the Shen family are all big merchants in the south of the Yangtze River.

Feng Biyang had a hard time when he first arrived in Jiangnan. It wasn't until the only daughter of the Luo family entered his residence that he entered the Jiangnan merchants.His official career was prosperous, and he was promoted very quickly. In his middle age, he took the position of governor of Jiangnan, and the salt merchants of the Luo family grew to the number one in Jiangnan.

Feng Biyang's eldest son, Feng Zijian, was well-versed in poetry and books when he was a teenager, but he suddenly ran away from home at the age of fourteen or fifteen, saying that he was going to wander the rivers and lakes. After leaving for many years, there was no news of Feng Biyang. They didn't realize for a moment that he still had this child.

After that, Ye Xuan knew all about it. He guessed that Feng Wan's change of name and surname should have been arranged by Feng Zijian alone, and the power of the former empress might have been used.

Ye Xuan has lived here for so many years, and he can guess a little bit of Feng Luo's crazy thoughts. He has no insight, and only intends to watch from the sidelines, knowing nothing.

It's just sealing the moon...

Ye Xuan has a headache when he thinks of his younger brother.

When Feng Yue was born, there was no doubt that the fetus was stillborn. Those who were arranged by Feng Luo among the stable women were escorted by Tai'an to bring the child down. : This child will not live to be six years old.

It is also true that Feng Yue was weak and sickly until the year before last, and she would have to lie in bed for half a day if there was a slight breeze, and how many precious medicinal materials would be enough to hang her life.

In the winter of the previous year, he and Feng Luo led troops to hunt down the former Great Khan tribe who left Beirong after being usurped and killed. How did they know that the army sneaked into Cangzhou? Feng Yue fell into a cave and was frozen for three days on the way to escape After being carried back by Ye Xuan, he had a high fever and vomited blood. He tried many people but it didn't work.

Later, Physician Jiang came here and did something to save Feng Yue's life. Feng Yue's body has gradually recovered in the past two years.

"Master." Tai'an recalled Ye Xuan's thoughts, first handed him a blank envelope, and said, "Thank you."

This Xie Xiang refers to Xie Yushu.

The Qingzhou plague was completely resolved in Ye Xuan's first year in Cangzhou. Although Xie Yushu had saved him, Prime Minister Xie took the blame and resigned, and the eldest prince was also held accountable. He won the first prize in the martial arts examination that year, and was sent to become an official in Gyeongju, which was once again in disarray.

So in the past few years, they didn't see each other very often, and they exchanged letters frequently. Every time Ye Xuan would take a detour to Qingzhou to meet Xie Yushu when he sent troops.

However, the good times didn't last long. Xie Yushu stayed in Gyeongju for less than three years before being transferred back to Beijing. , succeeding Prime Minister Xie, who has been vacant since he resigned.

After careful calculation, it has been almost three years.

After Xie Yushu returned to Beijing, the sky was high and the road was far away, and the correspondence between the two of them decreased a lot, only about one a month—even so, Ye Xuan was quite dissatisfied.

Ye Xuan opened the letter from Xie Yushu, thinking it was a normal day-to-day, but found that the beginning was: Your Majesty named the Ninth Prince Ye Yi as King Zhao.

The bright moon is shining, and his heart can be seen in general.

And as he expected, the eldest prince, King Yu, and the fourth prince, King Qi, were very dissatisfied. Recently, the Gao family and the Xu family joined forces in the court and have been participating in the officials of Li Shangshu's line.

Ye Xuan finished flipping through the letter, raised his brows slightly, and chuckled lightly.

Taian looked at him suspiciously.

Ye Xuan clicked on the last inscription of the letter, as if he clicked on the red tear mole at the end of the eyes of the delicate young man in his dream.

He paused with his fingertips, half-closed his eyes, and finally ordered, "The emperor is seriously ill, get ready, we probably have to be rescued by King Qin."