[Lu Zhen] Empress Dowager is difficult

Winter snow melts, spring flowers prosper, summer rains burst, and then it turns to cold autumn. The Fusu flowers and trees in the courtyard turn from withered to multiplied, and then from multiplied to withered, carrying the solemn and murderous westerly wind all the way into Yecheng, startling people. A cloud of yellow dust.

Gao Zhan finally healed his wounds and came from afar with an army of [-]. The wind blew the red and black battle flag behind him, and the armor of the neat army shone coldly.On a thunderstorm night in the summer before, he stepped into the towering white palace of Chehu Khan, and brought with him a suicide note and a colorful ring.

Chihu Khan held the ring under the oil lamp, squinted his eyes for a while, looked up at him, and said, "How many troops do you need?"

Afterwards, Gao Zhan went to the state of Wei and borrowed tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the ruler of the state of Wei.

The ruler of the state of Wei has always been sinister and cunning, and he is still an old ginger with a twisted heart. Zhaojun knows this, Gao Yan knows it, and Gao Zhan naturally knows it too.He must know that the lord of the Wei Kingdom is like a glutton, if he bites, he will swallow even the belt and bone.But he can only seek skin from the tiger, borrowing these sporadic forces to rebel against his former brother and the country he has lived in for more than [-] years.

According to the report sent by the eyeliner sent by Qing Qiang, it is said that it is Gao Zhan and his grandfather. There's never been a better time than this.So the uncle and nephew planned this plan to carve up the Qi country together.

Qing Qiang felt that the reason why Gao Zhan's uncle agreed to this matter so excitedly was probably because Gao Zhan had promised him that if he captured Qi, he would take the four cities of Xijun and Xing, the fattest girls in Qi, All the prefectures of Lingzhou were assigned to him.With the great river and mountains ahead, how can he still hold on?

So, Rouran, Qihu, and the forces of the State of Wei gathered together and handed over an army of [-] to Gao Zhan.Gao Zhan found a sunny day, drank a bowl of strong wine at the gate of the city with a group of generals, slaughtered a chicken, sacrificed the battle flag, and led the [-] soldiers and horses straight to the state of Qi. .

When the news reached Zhaojun's ears, Zhaojun was sitting with Tongchang in a newly built gazebo in the garden, and was teaching her some experience in childbearing. Tongchang blushed when he heard this, covered his face and said: " Empress, what do you mean, empress, that there will be a baby coming out of Tongchang's stomach?"

The flushed face turned pale, and she turned to look at Zhaojun with some fear: "Shouldn't that hurt to death?"

Zhaojun was about to speak, but heard Mrs. Yue Guo who was sitting beside him say: "Why does it hurt? Give birth to a baby, it's the easiest thing."

Tongchang breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand and patted his chest as if to comfort him, and said, "It's good that it doesn't hurt..." After a pause, as if thinking of something, he questioned, "Auntie, you are a baby How do you know that giving birth to a baby won’t hurt if you haven’t given birth before!” A proud smile rose from the corner of his mouth: “It can be seen that you are deceiving Tongchang! Tongchang will not be fooled by you!”

Mrs. Yue Guo said firmly: "How could Auntie lie to you? The Empress Dowager is sitting here, the princess can ask the Empress Dowager."

Tongchang turned his head to look at Zhaojun again.

Zhaojun took the teacup, and paused for a moment when he handed it to his mouth. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Tongchang's black and bright eyes, lowered his eyes and took a sip of the tea, and when he put the teacup back on the table, He said slowly, calmly, "Ah, yes. What a big deal to have a baby!" After a short pause, he straightened his face and turned to look at Tong Chang who was completely relieved: "The imperial doctor diagnosed the news this morning, so you came to tell Aijia?"

Tong Chang said in a daze, "Yes."

Zhaojun pinched the lid to float the tea foam, lowered his eyes and said clearly: "Since early this morning until now, you haven't told Yan'er the good news all this time, have you?"

Tong Chang looked at her blankly: "Why did you tell him?"

Mrs. Yue gushed out a sip of tea soup, coughed twice, pinched the embroidered handkerchief and twisted her mouth in embarrassment, and said, "Is this..." After thinking for a moment, she said sincerely, "The emperor will have a little prince. Isn't this a great happy event? Doesn't the princess want to make the emperor happy?"

Tong Chang looked at her, clapped his hands together for a while and said, "Auntie is right."

Mrs. Yue smiled with satisfaction and nodded to Zhaojun. She handed the teacup to her mouth, took a sip leisurely, and savored the bitterness and sweetness in her mouth...

Then I heard Tong Chang continue: "Will he be happier when I give the doll to Ah Yan after it is born?"

Madam Yue gushed out the tea soup again.

It was at this time that the news of Gao Zhan's soldiers fighting against the war came. It is said that the news was not easy to deliver along the way.More than a dozen officers and soldiers who reported the letter had been intercepted and killed in the middle of the road. Now the person who sent the letter was shorter and smaller, so he escaped by hiding under the corpse.From what he said, Gao Zhan's trip didn't look like he was here to grab the throne. Emperors rule the world with benevolence and virtue, and his actions today are enough to make him notorious.

He came with the heart of destroying the world, and wanted to slaughter all his former enemies to death.

The cities on the border were in chaos, Prince Xu was stationed in Yuzhou and refused to evacuate, a long knife was standing on the city wall and he straightened his neck and refused to open the city gate. Unfaithful, unfilial, unkind, and unrighteous, and then intends to jump off the city wall with his son.Gao Zhan was so startled by this move that he didn't dare to act rashly for a while. The two sides confronted each other for a long time. Finally, Gao Zhan said: "Let Gao Yan come to see me. If he can't stop me, then my army of [-] will destroy his country and kill him." His people can only blame him for being useless."

After speaking, he turned his horse's head and went back to the barracks, leaving no time for his sister and brother-in-law to answer.

It had been more than half a day since Gao Yan received the news from Fei Ge, he hurriedly crawled out from a pile of memorials, and ordered someone to dig out the old set that had followed Gao Huan in the battlefield for many years. When the shirt came, a group of ministers who had heard the news of the war hurriedly entered the palace from their respective homes.A group of people, two factions split into Renshou Hall and fought for a long time, but they couldn't come to a result.One side said that Gao Yan was the emperor of Daqi, with a rich body, and if it was damaged, it would be everyone's misfortune, the misfortune of the people.The other side thinks that since Gao Zhan has sacrificed his name before the battle, if Gao Yan does not fight, it will be a shame, and what should be done if the morale of the army is damaged.

The former is dominated by courtiers and Chinese officials, while the latter is dominated by military officials in court and China.

A group of people made a noise in Renshou Hall with your words and my words. In the midst of such noise, Gao Yan, who had been rummaging through boxes and cabinets from the beginning to the end, finally stood up from a pile of messed up books, holding his hand. Taking the old sword, stroked the thick layer of dust on it: "I finally found it."

A group of noisy ministers fell silent, turned their heads to look at Gao Yan, and then looked eagerly at the master they were working with as he pulled out the rusty sword with some difficulty, huh!This rusty sword has a perfectly fitting, also rusty blade.

Gao Yan put the blade back into the scabbard, turned the sword in his hand to Yuan Fu, and said, "Take it and polish it, and send it to me later."

Yuan Fu took the sword and rushed out to Si Baosi very busy.

All the ministers froze in place, unable to react to their emperor for a long time, what was he planning to do?Are you going to take that broken sword to the battlefield?

After a few days at night, the palace was still full of lights, and the drums were beating. The people in the city lit thousands of lights and stretched for several miles to see Gao Yan off.He put on the black armor, got on his horse, and wore the broken sword that had been polished to a shine on his waist. He looked back at Zhaojun standing on the hundred-step stone ladder, and nodded invisibly.

Looking from Zhaojun's point of view, because he was far away from Gao Yan, he couldn't hear what Tong Chang who was standing next to his horse said, and he didn't know what Gao Yan said. The two talked back and forth. After a few words, Gao Yan's face was suddenly startled, and he almost fell off his horse.

Then I saw him staggering off his horse, looking dazed from fright, he didn't know how to place his hands and feet, he seemed to want to reach out to hug Tong Chang, but he was afraid that the armor on his body was too hard to block her, All of a sudden, the usual calm description was completely gone.

But after all, before the battle, one is the emperor of a country, and the other is the queen of a country. The two of them bowed their heads together and said a few more words, then saw Tong Chang turning his head and stepping up the stone steps step by step. , the tail of the orange skirt trailed behind her, and the tassels swayed softly.Gao Yan got on his horse and led a group of soldiers slowly out of the city gate.

Tong Chang walked closer, and Zhaojun heard her wringing her sleeves and muttering, "If you really dare to come back from a little injury, I'll beat you until you can't get out of bed for a month..."

Humming and chirping, she was still a little out of breath. After taking the last step of the stairs, she habitually took another step absent-mindedly.She looked back at a group of dark soldiers passing through the city gate, gradually drifting away, the vast figure finally melted into the night, and could no longer be seen clearly.She stared at the night for a long time before she heard her sigh: "Ah Yan, you must come back safely—"

Mrs. Yue sighed, and Zhaojun also sighed, but the meanings of the two sighs were completely different.What Zhaojun sighed was that Tongchang was so naive, so heartless, and so terribly deceived by Gao Yan. Without a sigh, Zhaojun felt that he was inhuman.

When Gao Yan went to fight, what others saw was a powerless emperor who died for his subjects, but in Zhaojun's view, he was just trying to show off and gain a good reputation.He has no reason to lose this battle.

Under the lingling moonlight, Tongchang's thin figure looked so pitiful. Zhaojun felt that his heart had softened recently, and he couldn't bear to see this kind of parting, so he turned his head and wanted to go back to Zhaoyang Palace.

He walked out two steps, turned a corner, and saw Xiao Huanyun.Perhaps Zhaojun's sudden appearance frightened her a little. She took two steps back and stood still, lowered her head, and wiped her cheeks with the back of her hand indiscriminately. Under the moonlight, there seemed to be a few glistening tears on her cheeks. .

Zhaojun was a little surprised: "Are you crying?"

Xiao Huanyun didn't raise his head, and stood in a water-colored long dress, covering his eyes with one hand, and after a long time, he said coldly: "What? I can't be a queen anymore, and the empress dowager won't even let me cry." Is it?"

Zhaojun is in a good mood tonight, and feels that he is about to taste his long-cherished wish to be a grandma. As a grandma, he should have a little more style and be more magnanimous to others.Thinking of it this way, he didn't bother with her about this rudeness, and just said to her peacefully: "Yan'er will return safely, you don't have to worry."

Xiao Huanyun didn't speak, Zhaojun stood for a while, but seeing that she didn't seem to want to speak, he walked around her, wrapped his clothes and prepared to leave.

After walking a little, I heard Xiao Huanyun's low voice: "Is she pregnant?" But it didn't seem like she was asking someone else, only a very short pause, and then continued: "She is pregnant?" It’s good, and it’s good that Ah Yeon likes her. They are good together, and now they have a child, which is also good.”

Zhaojun was a little dizzy from her series of entanglements, and it took him a while to realize what she was talking about.But after all, she wasn't asking someone, Zhaojun thought for a while, and said: "Indeed, they are very good together. But aren't these things you owned before but didn't cherish?"

Xiao Huanyun trembled.

The cold moon was like water, and the clear and cold moonlight fell on her shoulders like flowing water. There was a faint fragrance of autumn osmanthus in the wind, which was planted by Gao Yan himself when Tong Chang first married.Beautiful scenery on a good day, how suitable for friends to chat with each other under the moon!

Zhaojun thought to himself that at this time, Xiao Huanyun probably wouldn't be in the mood to chat with him under the moon, and he didn't want to say anything else, so he walked around Xiao Huanyun's side and walked out of the corridor. , turned around and saw Xiao Huanyun still standing under the eaves, staring up at the moon in the sky with his eyes wide open.Zhaojun didn't know what she was looking at, but felt that Xiao Huanyun looked a little lonely.

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