The King of Liang, the feudal lords outside the town, and the generals inside

After dinner, the few of them talked about their daily life for a while and then went back to their rooms to rest. Princess Chunyi passed by Yan Xun and said in a low voice, "Don't sleep, I have something to ask you."

Yan Xun waited anxiously in the room, and it didn't take long for Princess Chunyi to come in and slap her across the face, "Bastard, how long will you keep it from me?"

Yan Xun honestly stood in front of Princess Chunyi with his head down, "What did mother say?"

"Still pretending to be stupid?" Princess Chunyi frowned, "When did it happen?"

Yan Xun gritted his teeth and said, "I was there before, when I was in Liangzhou."

"Isn't he the person your brother likes? What's the matter with you?" Princess Chunyi was so angry that she pinched Yan Xun's arm again, "Did the two of you brothers agree to let the Yan family die on purpose!"

Hearing these two words, Yan Xun's expression froze.

"Tell me honestly, did you rob your brother, or did he rob you?"

"He never meant that to Yan Zun."

Princess Chunyi was taken aback for a moment, not understanding what kind of mess they were going on, and said angrily: "I don't care what happened to the three of you, one of you and your younger brother must marry me and have children! The Yan family The goal of 200 years cannot be ruined in your hands!"

Yan Xun didn't say anything, moved his legs, and knelt down in front of his mother with a "plop".

Princess Chunyi stood up, walked to the window and stood with her back turned away, seemingly indifferent to Yan Xun's plea.

The mother and son remained deadlocked for a long time, until the night was dark, the moon and the stars were covered by dark clouds, and the world was gloomy and silent.Princess Chunyi leaned against the edge of the window as if she was exhausted, a tear slid down from the corner of her eye, onto her cheek and chin, and then dripped quietly, not wanting to disturb anyone.

The tears were all dry, Princess Chunyi seemed to have finally realized that she stretched out her hand slowly to wipe away the tears that no longer existed, and suddenly remembered that a few years ago, she seemed to be like this too, and dully missed the little bit of Yan Xun's childhood. Laughter and happiness, when she came back to her senses, Yan Xun had already put on the iron skin that had been passed down by the Yan family for more than [-] years through thirteen generations. It was the iron skin that locked her husband in the battlefield. The chief culprit who sat in a pavilion overnight.Then this iron skin seized her son again, and borrowed all the human emotions and desires from her son to support herself, and rewarded her with injury and glory.

"General Yan."

This respectful title started from Yan He to Yan Xun.Who is that calling?Is it the iron skin?Who were the thirteen General Yan when they took off their iron sheets?

Princess Chunyi turned around and stared blankly at Yan Xun, who was kneeling on the ground motionless, feeling as if snow had fallen in her heart, and her heart was boundless.

Before giving birth to Yan Xun, Princess Chunyi was pregnant once, and it was also a boy, but unfortunately the fetus was stillborn before birth.Princess Chunyi hadn't conceived for several years after that, and when she was already preparing to take a concubine for her husband, Yan Xun finally arrived amidst everyone's anxious expectations and prayers.

One night 26 years ago, Princess Chunyi caressed her swollen belly, and the letter from the family wrote about the pain of lovesickness, and then mentioned that the doctor had confirmed that the baby in her belly was a boy. I hope that the husband will carefully consider the name of the baby.

One month after the child was born, Yan Jun finally returned from southern Xinjiang. He said that the child was named Yan Xun.Princess Chunyi leaned on the bedside, with tears in her eyes when the husband and wife met, and asked happily, what is the meaning of this name?

Yan Jun said that what the husband and the army were looking for was the arrogance and impiety of the barbarians, the Rong and the Di, so they almost went to war.

The happy smile on Princess Chunyi's mouth froze for a second.

She knew the rules of the Yan family, so she hesitated and asked: "I can still have another son, and you will have other sons, can you wait for them to grow up and see who really wants to be a general, and who do you train?"

Yan Jun hugged the child, just smiled, and replied to her, "No one really wants to be a great general. The dozen or so generals in the Yan family are not allowed to engrave the word 'general' on their tombstones before they die."

For a moment, Princess Chunyi wished that she had not given birth to Yan Xun.

She walked over and sat on the ground beside her son, stroking his cheek as she held him in her arms back then, with the love and tenderness unique to a mother.

"You have been procrastinating and refusing to start a family for the past few years, is it because you don't want others to make the same mistake as me?"

Yan Xun didn't speak, but nodded slightly.

"Then what about King Liang? Why do you change your mind because of him?"

Mentioning this person, Yan Xun felt like a small stone was thrown into a pool of still water. He said slowly, "Mom, I didn't know that I would meet him, but I did. I can't help it. I can't do it." Love him, I really tried, I know Rong Ling likes him, I even thought that if he could like Rong Ling, I might not have to suffer so much. The day Rong Ling took him away from my barracks, I was in I have never hated my enemy so much near Cangzhou to investigate the movements of the main force of Xiaoqu. At that time, I thought that when we met again, he belonged to my younger brother, and this life has nothing to do with me. Those two months were like a battle Ling Chi, I left my three armies and armor in my dream, and went back to Shangjing alone to look for him, and after waking up, Lianglun and Yunhui called me 'General' again."

Princess Chunyi has never seen Yan Xun show such a weak look, and say such painful and desolate words.She looked at the teardrops in the corner of Yan Xun's eyes, and wondered in a daze, would he cry too?Her son, actually...could cry?

She gently wiped Yan Xun's tears with a silk cloth, and heard him say: "Later, something happened to Qin Ran, I punished him with a hundred army sticks, he was almost useless, yet he didn't say a word. But that night, I heard him lying on the bed crying heartbreakingly. He told me that he became a general of Yeluo in his early twenties. But he was afraid that he would die in battle and make his beloved a widow. So although He and his wife have been childhood sweethearts since they were young, and they have been in love for a long time, but he has been unwilling to marry her, hoping that she will marry someone better. Mrs. Qin waited stubbornly for many years, and her long-cherished wish was fulfilled at the age of 30. The older a woman is, the more she lives. The more difficult it is to have children, so after she gave birth to Qin Yao, she couldn't have children. But Qin Ran refused to take concubines, his wife and daughter were everything to him. But in the end he lost everything."

"Qin Ran cried and told me that if he could do it all over again, he hoped to marry Mrs. Qin when she was 16 years old, so that they could spend more time together and have fewer regrets. I was sitting by the Hare River that day. One night, I thought of the things I lost, the Danqing paintings when I was young, the big white cat, the kite, the preserved deer, and the right of a 12-year-old child to act like a baby with his parents. These are all things I was forced to lose Yes, I have no choice but to give up Baiyu myself. I couldn't tell which one was more helpless for a while, but I made up my mind that no matter what happens to him and Rong Ling, he must be mine. I I will never let anyone take away everything that belongs to me, General Yan has all kinds of worries, but Yan Xun has none."

Princess Chunyi didn't speak for a long time, and she was in a daze for a while.She thought that her son had been smoothed and stuffed into the iron sheet, just like his eleven ancestors, who were unwilling to engrave the word "General" on the tombstone before their death, but they had already died all their lives. was nailed to it.No one thought of refusing, and they couldn't refuse. They could only get back what belonged to them after death.

It was Bai Yu who allowed Yan to regain the emotions and desires of a human being, made him flesh and blood, and removed the invisible armor on his body.But Princess Chunyi couldn't tell whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

"However, if you are with King Liang, you will not be able to have children. You have no descendants, and the same is true for your younger brother. To whom should the foundation of the Yan family that has been passed down for thirteen generations be handed over?" Princess Chunyi shook her head dejectedly, " Before, your father and I acquiesced to your younger brother's nonsense because you were still in the Yan family, what should we do now?"

Yan Xun immediately replied, he seemed to have been prepared for this question, "Fourth Uncle has an 11-year-old grandson who is talented and well-versed in military literature. My son has met him several times and tested his talents. It's a great job."

Princess Chunyi was stunned for a while, then asked him, "Do you want your fourth uncle to adopt your grandson to you?"

Yan Xun nodded and said: "The child's father passed away early, and he was very close to me when he was alive. Although he is a cousin, he is not much different from a real brother."

Princess Chunyi immediately said: "This will not work. If you like that child, you can keep him by your side, but if it is related to future cultivation and inheritance, things are not so simple. He is already 11 years old, and he knows I am not your biological son, and you will never be able to replace his biological father. One day he will return to your fourth uncle's lineage, and his son will not belong to your lineage. The Yan family lasts for more than two hundred years. It is prosperous because it only respects the line of the only eldest son, other brothers have no chance at birth, and naturally they will not have different ideas. But if you set a precedent here, every descendant of the Yan family will be You can come and fight for this seat, it will be messed up."

Yan Xun said, "Who can control the future. My son thinks it's a good thing. Those who are capable in everything go to them. The position can be snatched away by others. It means that I don't have much ability. So what if I become a general?"

"Yes, if there is fair competition on the surface, the capable will naturally live there. But some people don't think so, they will use shady tricks and use some dirty methods. In this way, it will not take decades , The Yan family fell apart from within, and it was completely over. I, a woman, can see this clearly, and you know it clearly in your heart, but you are blindfolded by love, and you don't want to see clearly. "

Yan Xun smiled, and said back to her: "Mother, everything is going to decline, and there is a day when it is 'over'. Even if the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, it starts to set in the afternoon. The Yan family has been passed down for thirteen generations and more than two hundred In the past year, it is said that our family is full of glory, so what about after the sun has passed? No one can do anything, right? "

Chunyi County advocated opening his mouth, wanting to say something, but he couldn't.

"Mother, you may think that I am too irresponsible for saying this. I am sorry for the ancestors of the Yan family, but I think I have tried my best. I have been living for the continuation of their glory all my life. I want to live for myself. Just This time, the ancestors have spirits in the sky, so they should be able to understand me, because I believe that before they passed away, they also regretted it."