Crossing the East Palace

After Ning Junchi left, Tang Luojin raised her eyebrows slightly when she heard that Xiaojing and Changqu had told the news that the sixth and ninth princes had come together.

"First pass on the meal, and the sixth and ninth princes will also pass on the meal first, saying that if you are a vegetarian today, you won't eat with them."

Changqu and Xiaojing naturally obeyed, and the sixth prince and ninth prince naturally had no further words, they all waited while eating.

After Tang Luojin finished her meal, now that she had time, she called the two of them over.

The Ninth Prince knelt down as soon as he entered the door, and the Sixth Prince relayed to Tang Luojin what the Ninth Prince said when he found him in the afternoon.

The Ninth Prince dared to hide some things in front of the Sixth Prince, but when he was in front of Tang Luojin, he didn't dare at all.

Tang Luojin listened, but did not speak.

When the Ninth Prince was almost in despair, Tang Luojin stretched out his hand, helped the Ninth Prince himself up, and said, "Since the Ninth Emperor is willing to get close to Brother Wei, Brother Wei is very happy. As for the others...Xia Jia and Xia Jieyu tried to use the method of suppressing nightmares to suppress nightmares. Gu can spare them, and Datang's law and father emperor can't spare them either. However, since Brother Nine Emperors is willing to tell Gu about this, Gu can't spare them. Naturally, we will reciprocate."

The Ninth Prince looked nervously at Tang Luojin.

Tang Luojin raised the corners of her lower lips in a rare way, and said: "Just as Brother Nine Emperors wished, I will do my best to plead with Emperor Father." Let them all survive, but that's all.

The Ninth Prince heaved a long sigh of relief.

His father didn't think much of him, he was almost blatantly an enemy of the crown prince before, and now his mother, concubine and grandfather's family did these things again.Now, Tang Luojin can still promise to intercede with his father for what he said, the Ninth Prince is already satisfied.

The Ninth Prince stood up with Tang Luojin's support, but after getting up, he backed up slightly, and bowed three times and bowed nine times.

He prostrated himself on the ground, put his forehead on the backs of his folded hands, and said solemnly: "My brother, I hope that from today onwards, only the prince's order will be obeyed, and I will never change my mind!"

Tang Luojin helped him up again, patted his back, and said: "My good brother, I will remember what happened today, and I will also remember what Brother Nine Emperors asked for."

Since Tang Luojin made this promise, she naturally kept it.

It's just that the matter of suppressing nightmares was too important, he couldn't wait for the next day, when he found out that Emperor Tianyuan didn't invite concubines to sleep with him that night, so he went to Zichen Palace and told Emperor Tianyuan about the matter.

Emperor Tianyuan was furious, and used his closest confidants to search Xia Jieyu's palace and Xia's family thoroughly overnight, and found out the belongings of Prince Zhenyan and the prince's birthday horoscope—and there were two birth horoscopes.

When Emperor Tianyuan heard about this, he got even more angry when he held two birthday horoscopes that were the same except for the date of birth.But for the prince's mother and concubine and grandfather Prince Zhenyan, this matter is a scandal.In addition, the prince pleaded for mercy, and the nine princes took the initiative to file a lawsuit. Therefore, Emperor Tianyuan had no choice but to order Xia Shangshu to be killed and all the property of the Xia family to be confiscated. Adult men in the family will be sentenced to ten years in exile, and adult female members of the Xia family will be punished in exile for seven years. Minor men and women are not included in this list, but the current children of the Xia family, and the three generations after the youngest generation, are not allowed to be officials.

Xia Jieyu was demoted to be a seventh-rank imperial daughter, and was punished to be confined in the original palace.

All of a sudden, Chao Zhongli became quiet, and no one dared to act recklessly, provoking the emperor's wrath.

After the Ninth Prince learned about it, he once again solemnly thanked Tang Luojin—the matter of suppressing nightmares had always angered kings, Tang Luojin was able to save all his family members except his grandfather under such circumstances The Ninth Prince was already very grateful.

Emperor Tianyuan and Tang Luojin originally spared Xia Jieyu and the Xia family for the sake of the Ninth Prince.Seeing that the Ninth Prince has sincerely surrendered now, the two of them feel at ease.

It's just that the Ninth Prince didn't bother anymore, but the Xia family couldn't tell the origin and name of the person who urged them to use the method of suppressing nightmares and wrote two birthday characters.

The two birthday horoscopes, one is the current horoscope of the prince, and the other is... the birthday horoscope of the fifth princess who was born in the same year, the same month and the same day as the prince.

Although the two were born at similar times, they were not at the same time, so their horoscopes are slightly different.It's just that for outsiders, the crown prince's birthday is the one that is earlier.However, this time Prince Zhenyan wrote two horoscopes, and the last one was the most important.

Although Emperor Tianyuan and Tang Luojin had doubts about this matter, the other party was very cautious in doing things. They even tortured some Xia family members for their words and deeds, but they still didn't get any clues about the person who came up with the idea.

But even so, life went on as usual.

Ten days later, Ning Junchi left Chang'an.

Tang Luojin went to deliver it, and then gave the portrait of the two of them to Ning Junchi with her own hands—Tang Luojin sent it as promised before, but Ning Junchi didn't accept it.Tang Luojin knew at that time that Ning Junchi wanted him to give him the painting himself.

Although we haven't seen each other for ten days, on the day of parting, Tang Luojin still came with that painting.

Ning Junchi opened the painting on the spot. In the painting was Tang Luojin's appearance when he was young - seven-year-old Tang Luojin was practicing sword with 16-year-old Ning Junchi.

Ning Junchi was startled for a moment, and then smiled: "Even so, uncle will still remember your appearance now."

Tang Luojin remained silent.

The two had another conversation, and Tang Luojin was about to leave, leaving time for others, but Ning Junchi suddenly took a step forward and hugged him directly.

——Nowadays when a close friend is parting, it is normal to hug her.Tang Luojin and Ning Junchi are "uncles and nephews", or very close uncles and nephews, so why not hug each other when parting?

"Remember me." Ning Junchi whispered, "Xiaoqi, remember me."

He didn't know if he could really get Tang Luojin by what he did.However, it is obvious that if he does nothing, he must not be obtained.

Prince, emperor.This person's liking must be what everyone in the world desires, but he is the queen's younger brother.

Everything in the future, I don't know the ending.However, he had to do the current effort.

Then he stuffed a wooden palm-sized figure into Tang Luojin's hand.

The little wooden figure was exactly what he looked like.

As for the same woodcarving, he made two, one in his image, which he gave to Tang Luojin, and the other, in Tang Luojin's image, which he kept for himself.

Tang Luojin's hands warmed up, and then he was taken aback, only to find that Ning Junchi turned around and left.

He was half-holding the thing in his hand, and he didn't show it to anyone. It wasn't until he was alone that he could see the wood carving clearly.

It looks like Ning Junchi.

Ning Junchi left at the end of autumn in the 24th year of Tianyuan, and in the spring of the next day, in March of the 25th year of Tianyuan, Ningshan returned with his son Ning Junyu.

Ning Junyu came back late, did not catch up with Xue's marriage, but caught up with Xue's pregnancy.The Xue family announced the good news to their relatives.

In the twelfth lunar month of the 26th year of Tianyuan, the Turks consolidated their forces and raided the soldiers of Datang again.

In February of the 27th year of Tianyuan, Datang won consecutive victories, and Ning Junchi was named a general and granted the seal of temporary commander.

In March, Japan and Koryo joined forces to invade the land of Datang and started a war; in the same month, there was no war in Tubo, but [-] high-quality horses were sent from Tubo territory to Turkic land.

In April, Emperor Tianyuan issued an edict to conscript again, and at the same time announced that he would personally conquer the Turks.

The whole country was in an uproar.

Tang Luojin didn't know about this either.After all the officials quarreled all morning, Emperor Tianyuan didn't even change the tea for a round, and finally left, but stayed.

"Father—"

Just as Tang Luojin spoke, Emperor Tianyuan interrupted him with a wave.

"Little Qi, don't try to persuade me." Emperor Tianyuan is only 47 years old now, but his hair is already mixed with white hair. He said with a smile, "I promised the late emperor in the past, saying that in my lifetime, I must personally conquer once in my life." In the past, Xue Turkic was forced to come to my country of Datang, and made my Datang bow his head and become a vassal! I thought, when I am not too old now, I will go to the royal family for a personal conquest. I can live for a few more years. If I wait a few more years... I'm afraid that I will be ashamed of my promise to the late emperor."

Tang Luojin opened her mouth, but she couldn't say anything to dissuade her.

When Datang was forced by the Turks and had to bow his head to become a minister, it was a shame for the kings of Datang.Almost every generation of kings is trying their best, either to recuperate and recharge their batteries, or to go on a personal expedition to fight hard... All these have brought about the "equality" between Datang and Turkic today.

But obviously, neither Datang nor Turkic were satisfied with the temporary "equality" between the two sides.

Emperor Tianyuan always valued military generals and the recuperation of common people. For this reason, he could even support Tang Luojin, who was only seven years old at the time, against women's footbinding, and supported Tang Luojin's statement that the women in the palace should be released five years in advance, just for the sake of Let those women marry and have children, increasing the population of Datang...

And treat the Ning family extra favorably.

Tang Luojin opened her mouth again, but she closed it again without saying anything.

Military merit is important to generals, and it is also true to emperors.If he can win this time, retreat many miles from the Turks, and even force the Turks to surrender, then the name of Emperor Tianyuan will be remembered in history, and it will be admirable.

"Relax." Emperor Tianyuan patted Tang Luojin on the back and said, "Father will be fine. All the soldiers on the Turkic border are very powerful. Especially Junchi..." Emperor Tianyuan paused slightly , said, "Since he rejected the adoption request that Cheng Engong asked earlier, then Xiaoqi and I should trust him more. The father will be fine."

Since he is unwilling to adopt, then no matter how generous the reward Ning Junchi will be in the future, the younger generation of the Ning family will not be able to inherit it.And the soldiers who followed Ning Junchi also had to easily accept new generals with a non-Ning surname.

Tang Luojin bowed her head, and could only say: "Since father has made such a decision, my son has nothing to worry about. Please rest assured, father, son will definitely guard our home for father, and wait for father to come back! "

Emperor Tianyuan's eyes were slightly moist when he heard the words. Seeing Tang Luojin lowered his head, he laughed a few times and returned to normal, saying: "Okay! Okay! I will leave this family to Xiao Qi, I will feel at ease!"

The father and son are discussing the next arrangements, such as conscription, such as the joint venture between Japan and Korea, such as the person in charge of the military supply and delivery, such as possible corruption in the military supply, etc. The two discussed from noon until night. , which stopped.

The father and son were about to pass the meals when they saw Xu Youwei trotting in with a wrinkled face.

"The emperor is overjoyed! The emperor is overjoyed! Concubine Xin of Changxin Palace has been diagnosed with a happy pulse! The imperial physician is waiting at Changxin Palace."

Emperor Tianyuan and Tang Luojin were startled at the same time. Since the twelfth prince, the thirteenth prince, the fourteenth prince, and the fifteenth prince have landed one after another, and since they died one after another, there has been no such news in the palace.At that time Emperor Tianyuan had just killed the second prince and lost the third son one after another. His heart was in unspeakable pain, so he rarely recruited young concubines to sleep with him, but recruited older concubines.

Concubine Xin was originally chosen by Emperor Tianyuan to enter the palace. He followed him for many years, and when Concubine Xin gave birth to the ninth princess, she was diagnosed as difficult to conceive again. Emperor Tianyuan and Concubine Xin have often seen each other in recent years .

It's just that she didn't expect that Concubine Xin was pregnant!

Tang Luojin was also taken aback, but he quickly came back to his senses and congratulated Emperor Tianyuan: "Congratulations, father! Since mother and concubine Xin have new younger brothers and sisters in her belly, then father, you must be cautious when going out this time." Just be cautious." You must come back alive to see them.

Emperor Tianyuan smiled and said, "Good!"

Afterwards, Tang Luojin refused to stay for dinner, but left alone.

Emperor Tianyuan went to Changxin Palace, Concubine Xin and Princess Nine were there.

Emperor Tianyuan had a nice conversation with the mother and daughter, and then asked the imperial physician about the pulse of Concubine Xin.

The imperial physician said truthfully: "Concubine Xin is a bit old, but she has always taken good care of her. If there is no accident, continue to take good care of her. After eight months, she will be able to give birth to a royal heir safely."

Only then did Emperor Tianyuan smile, but he did not stay in Changxin Palace overnight, but returned to Zichen Palace.

After returning to the palace, only Xu Youwei was left around, and Emperor Tianyuan began to cough violently.

Xu Youwei was busy handing over the handkerchief, and receiving the handkerchief, his heart trembling with fear.

The emperor's illness worsened again.