The Queen Mother of the Red Chamber

For the first time in 20 years, the counties and counties in the west once again ignited the wolf smoke.Black smoke rose into the air like a large black cloud.The people, the ministers, and even the king were all out of breath.The storm that was finally coming finally came.

"Your Majesty, I request to go to the expedition." Chen Moyang knelt down in front of the emperor.

The emperor frowned. Now that all members of Yizhong Wang's party have been purged, he needs someone like Chen Moyang to assist him in the court.Selfishly, he didn't want Chen Moyang to go to war.The Turkic people have been silent for 20 years and are making a comeback. Their momentum is fierce, and this battle must be extremely dangerous.

He looked at Chen Moyang, who was kneeling on the ground at the bottom of the steps, and sighed, "Ayang, your sister would not be willing to let you go, besides, your two elder brothers have already requested to go to the army, and they are more experienced than you. "

"Your Majesty, this minister is also a person with military exploits. He vowed to break through the Turkic cavalry, otherwise he vowed not to return to court." Chen Moyang had a hard back, and his words were sonorous and powerful, revealing determination.

"The elder brothers have already married and married, so it is inevitable that they are worried. This humble official lives alone, vowing to drive the Turkic people out of Dayuan's land!"

This was the first time that the emperor found that the uncle he had cultivated by himself had really grown up.

"Okay, I will make you the general of the Western Expedition to lead the troops to quell the Turkic rebellion." The emperor walked down the steps, helped Chen Moyang up on the ground, and said earnestly: "Ayang, don't rush forward on the battlefield. You always do things That's right, but after all, you are young, and you have to discuss everything with the military adviser and lieutenant general."

"My humble minister thanked His Majesty!" Chen Moyang bowed to thank the emperor for his kindness.

After Chen Moyang left the imperial study, he went to bid farewell to his sister.He is not very sure about this battle, maybe this time he will leave here forever.However, during the conversation, he didn't show it, which made the queen feel at ease.

After accepting the queen's entrustment, Chen Moyang left Kunning Palace.

At this time, the bright sun in the sky was slowly dimming. Walking on the marble road, a canopy carriage drove in from the palace gate in front, and the walls of the carriage were covered with light gauze.He recognized that it was Princess Anping's carriage.

Standing firmly on the side of the road, he still remembered the words of that day, so he never spoke.

The carriage rattled slowly over, and Chen Moyang felt his heart beating violently.Finally, when the carriage passed by, he called softly, "Princess."

The carriage stopped, but the people inside did not speak.The two of them stood quietly through the car window.

After a while, Daiyu finally spoke, "Master Hou is leaving the palace?"

"Well, I just came here to bid farewell to the empress." After a pause, he said again: "Princess, I am going to go to war, and I won't be back for a few years. I hope the princess will take good care of her body."

Daiyu in the carriage was moved in her heart, she looked out of the window, saw a layer of gauze, and could see the outline of the man.Expedition?Daiyu knew about the invasion of Western Turks, but she didn't expect him to go to war.She always thought that he was an idle marquis and the younger brother of the emperor's sister-in-law. Naturally, such a dangerous thing as going on an expedition would not happen to him.

For a while, Daiyu felt depressed and didn't know how to speak.

There was such a strange silence for a moment, with a bitter smile on the corner of Chen Moyang's mouth, "The humble minister is leaving." Then he lifted his robe, turned and walked towards the palace gate.

Daiyu in the car tightly grasped the hem of her skirt, her eyes full of struggles.

After a long time, she finally lifted the veil and stretched out her head to look back.The figure of that person was already far away, and disappeared indistinctly at the palace gate.

In May of the 11th year of Jianyuan, the Western Turks invaded, and Chen Hou, the holy emperor, was appointed as the general of the Western Expedition, leading the troops to the west to resist the Western Turkic army.

In the eleventh and sixth months of Jianyuan, the Western Expeditionary Army won the first battle, and the news of the victory spread to Kyoto, and the government and the public were delighted.

In July, the Turkic general led the army to confront the Western Expeditionary Army on the Mangye Grassland. A large number of soldiers were dispatched in this battle. Both sides suffered heavy losses and retreated to rest.Both main players were injured.

"Bang," the teacup fell to the ground, Daiyu's face froze, "Are you injured?"

Xiao Rong nodded, "The injuries are relatively light. There are horse leather shrouds on the battlefield at any time, and many people return from the army as young men with white hair. So the pain caused by the war is very heavy. Poor bones by the Wuding River , is still a woman in a boudoir's dream. How many wives are separated, it is all caused by this war."

"Then, will Marquis Chen come back?" Daiyu asked cautiously, her heart clenched tightly.

"The Ai family doesn't know," Xiao Rong shook his head. "These days the emperor is also worried about this matter, and the queen is also frowning, so the Ai family dare not ask. Now that the Ai family is old, all they can do is not to give them money." Trouble."

Daiyu lowered her head, her heart went up and down, as if she couldn't find her way.Thinking that that person would never come back again, I felt that I was too ruthless and hurt people with those words, and now I might never be able to apologize to him for the rest of my life.My heart felt tight, like I couldn't breathe.

Looking at Daiyu's reaction, Xiao Rong knew that Daiyu didn't have any intentions for that boy from the Chen family.Maybe the boy has already entered her heart, but she didn't realize it, or dared not admit it.I only hope that what happened this time can make her recognize her own heart clearly, and that boy Chen Jia will come back safely in the future, and the two of them will cultivate to a positive result, and the last concern of her will be settled.

This war lasted for a long time. The ups and downs of the war affected the hearts of the people in Dayuan, and Daiyu was worried all day long.

Finally, after the two parted for a year, Daiyu finally decided to write a letter to the past, with only a few words: "If the king returns, it will be easy for the concubine to return."

It took a long time for the letter to be sent, and Daiyu was counting the days every day waiting for a reply, but among the battle reports that came, there was no reply from that person.She thought, maybe it was because the war was too busy, or the letter never reached that person's hands, or...he had already withdrawn his heart.

Although she pondered and worried every day, Daiyu finally decided to wait for Chen Moyang to come back.She wanted to confirm the relationship between the two of them face to face. She had lost it once before. This time, she didn't want to give up again.

In the autumn of the 12th year of Jianyuan, the autumn wind blows and the flowers wither.Insects and birds return to caves, and everything begins to wither.

It has been three months since there was no battle report, and there was no reply from the envoys sent by the emperor himself.No one knows the situation ahead, only that the last battle report says that this will be the last battle, and also the most heroic battle.

"Mother, he will come back, won't he?"

Daiyu leaned on Xiao Rong's lap, the two sat in the flower hall and looked outside.

Xiao Rong stretched out his hand to caress Daiyu's hair, with worry in his eyes.How many famous generals in ancient and modern times would have ended up with the shrouded body of horse leather, so Chen Moyang, she was not sure.Just sighed softly, "Yu'er, a person has to experience many people and things in this life, and these are all destined. So if there is no fate, you can only let it go."

Daiyu covered her head and did not speak.She knew that what the queen mother meant was to prepare herself to let that person become a passer-by in her life.However, it is easier said than done?

Just after the tense March, good news finally came from Xijiang.In the last battle, the two sides fought at the foot of Mount Meng, with 30 elite soldiers against 30 cavalry of the Western Turks. After a fierce battle, the Turks were finally defeated by rolling stones.The Turks were finally driven out of Dayuan's territory.

It's just that along with the good news came another letter, which was written by Chen Moyang to the emperor.He explained in his heart that the Western Turks were a hidden danger in Western Xinjiang, and he hoped to take advantage of the victory to pursue them and enter the Turkic royal court, at least to make the Turks unable to attack Dayuan again within 30 years.So Chen Moyang led an army of [-] to chase the Turks after the Mengshan battle.According to the Xijiang guard, they had lost contact with Chen Moyang for half a month. At this time, Xijiang was in the bitter cold, and there was a vast expanse of snow everywhere, and the snow was very deep in many places.Many of those they sent out in search got lost and returned in vain.

"Nonsense, it's just nonsense. Why is he so unstable." The queen cried and her eyes turned red.

Sitting in the Kunning Palace, the emperor had a sad look on his face.The thick black eyebrows were tightly frowned, and a few silver strands had been dyed in the originally jet-black hair.He understood Chen Moyang's decision. The Western Turks have always been a serious concern since the time of the Taizu. Over the years, they have repeatedly violated the border, burned, killed and looted, and made a bad name for harassment.If he can take this opportunity to hit the Turkic people hard, Dayuan will have a chance to breathe in the future and make the country stronger.But he also knew that on this vast snowy grassland, the disappearance of the army would be more or less dangerous.

He stretched out his hand to hold his beloved wife's hand, held it tightly, and comforted his wife, "Zitong, don't worry, he has always been able to do it. You have to trust him."

The queen leaned on the emperor's shoulder, her face was full of tears, "The concubine is really scared, Your Majesty, the concubine is afraid that I won't see him, woo woo..." When her mother came to see her a few days ago, her hair She was already gray, and the mother who had always been full of energy and had an elegant manner was so haggard that day, even her hair was combed casually, and her eyes were swollen.But the mother even comforted herself, "As a man, serving the country is what he should do!"

"It'll be fine, Zitong." But his tone was very pale.

After Daiyu heard the news, she locked herself in the hall for a whole day and night. She didn't cry, and she didn't think anything wrong.She was just quietly recalling some things between the two of them before, and suddenly found that she remembered so clearly, the first time they met, and then they always followed each other, and then she said those words to him resolutely, and finally, They all turned into the back figure who disappeared at the palace gate, blurred, and he could no longer see his appearance clearly.

She didn't dare to fall asleep or even dare to sleep, she was really afraid of responding to the phrase "Poor Wuding Riverside bone, still a person in a boudoir's dream." She thought, as long as she didn't dream of that person, that person would naturally He is alive, and he will come back safely. It is only the wind and snow blocking the way now, and he will come back when the wind and snow melt next spring.

Xiao Rong didn't know what to do other than comfort every day.She didn't experience earth-shattering love, but she thought that if one of these children was missing, she would definitely feel the same way.

Everyone will be in the warm spring of the coming year, and the willows will be dark and the flowers will be bright.

In the new year of the 13th year of Jianyuan, because of the war that had not yet ended, there was no riot, and this year passed peacefully.

In fact, some folks have already packed up their things and are going to the western Xinjiang to find the bodies of their relatives.They were shrouded in horse leather, but their relatives still hoped that they would take them back to their homeland, place them in the ancestral graves, and be worshiped by their descendants from generation to generation.They are heroes who died for their country and should not be exposed in the wilderness.

Slowly, more and more people went west in groups.

The government once dispatched officers and soldiers to stop them, but looking at those orphans who lost their sons or husbands, they finally softened their hearts.He handed over the paper to Chaozhong. After reading the paper, the emperor pondered for a while, and then approved a vermilion letter on it.

Everyone is starting to despair.

Just as spring was about to leave, an urgent report came from the frontier.

The general of the Western Expedition led one hundred thousand elite soldiers through the bitter cold land, pursued all the way to the hinterland of the Turks, captured the Turkic general and the Turkic king alive, and returned the army immediately.

The government and the public were shaken, and all the officials and the people began to sing and dance to celebrate the great victory.Ready to welcome their hero back.This belated, long-suppressed joy finally broke out. Merchants, common people, and officers and soldiers were all walking on the street with joyful smiles on their faces.

The spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, and the sun was shining that day.

Holding the skirt of the palace dress with both hands, Daiyu ran forward desperately, ran across the alley, and passed through a series of palace gates, even the eunuchs and maids behind her were left far behind.

She couldn't hear the calls behind her, and couldn't care about the scenery on the side of the road.Just kept running, running, she had never felt so energetic before.

The sun has risen high, and the golden light shines on the marble building, making it look warm and bright.

Daiyu ran all the way to the avenue of the palace gate, where they parted ways that day.She stood there panting, her heart heaving violently, but her eyes were still looking straight ahead.

Finally, a figure slowly walked towards the palace gate, walking towards the sun.Blurred, from far to near, more and more clear.Still the same posture, still the same outline.Familiar eyebrows, gentle smile.Daiyu just watched him quietly walking towards her step by step.

His eyes began to moisten, but his face was filled with the happiest smile.

The queen mother once said that there will be many passers-by in everyone's life.Some people come and go in a hurry, and once they leave, they are never seen again.And some people, once they stay, stay in your life forever.

Fortunately, this person stayed after all.

In the 13th year of Jianyuan, Chen Moyang, the general of the Western Expedition, gave up the title of Duke awarded by the emperor, and in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, in front of all civil and military officials, proposed to marry Princess Anping as his wife with the promise of a couple for a lifetime.

Shang Zhun played and personally decreed to give the marriage.

The author has something to say: I hope everyone likes this result, and there is another chapter to come that will be the finale of the whole story.