Wind over Yongning

General Xi walked slowly in front of Xi Yuanzhou, and said in a deep voice, "After tonight, there will be no more Baihua Villa. Now you go back to sleep, and everything will be settled tomorrow..."

"Father!!!"

Xi Yuanzhou asked sharply with resentment in his eyes: "Father! What do you mean?"

General Xi sneered, staring at Xi Yuanzhou and said, "Don't you understand, Baihua Villa is facing a catastrophe, so you can concentrate on staying in the barracks from now on."

"Shouldn't we and Baihua Villa stay together?" Xi Yuanzhou gritted his teeth and looked at his father in front of him. At this moment, he felt that this person he had always respected was so strange, and he couldn't help asking: "Winter coats with charcoal fire, summer ice cubes?" The cold soup, as well as the tens of thousands of stones of food and grass that are pulled down in the camp every year, these years, the army has received tens of millions of taels of donations from Baihua Villa every year. Those disabled veterans and the orphans of the soldiers who died in battle are also responsible for resettlement by Baihua Villa. ...For these reasons, you can even send your own son to Baihua Villa, so why did you say that it changed?"

General Xi lowered his eyes and did not dare to look at Xi Yuanzhou, but he still slowed down his voice and said in a low voice: "Without Baihua Villa, the girl you like can fill your backyard..."

"Hehe..." Xi Yuanzhou couldn't help laughing sarcastically when he heard the words. Since he was a child, he always thought that his father was a hero. His father guarded the northern border of Da Zhou, protecting the people in the border town from foreign invasion.So when he was six years old, his father asked him to worship Mrs. Haitang as his adoptive mother, and sent him to Baihua Villa to let him accompany the owner who was two years younger than him. The soldiers under the father can eat enough and wear warm clothes.Especially in these years, he has become more and more aware of the significance of Baihua Villa to the frontier army and the people of the entire border town. They rarely get along with their father and son, but every time they meet their father, they obey him everywhere, which makes him feel that his father is tolerant and magnanimous.But now he realized that his father was different from the father he remembered.

Last year, he begged his father to propose marriage to Hongjuan. His father said that Hongjuan, an unruly Jianghu woman, should not be his wife. If she married her as a regular wife, the entire Xi family would be ridiculed. If he really liked it, he could take her as a concubine...

It's ridiculous to think about it now, since my father felt that the Jianghu sect was low, why did he send him to Baihua Villa back then?

Or now, the father's respectful and polite expression when facing Mrs. Haitang and the master in the past is still in front of his eyes, but in the blink of an eye, his expression is arrogant and disdainful, but there are two faces...

At this moment, all Xi Yuanzhou's beautiful fantasies about his father were shattered one by one. He looked directly at General Xi and said firmly: "Hongjuan will only be a wife and never a concubine. I will not marry other women in this life except Hongjuan. If If Hongjuan doesn't marry me, she will die alone forever!"

He did have the idea of ​​wanting Hongjuan to be his concubine before. At that time, he felt that Hongjuan was the only one in his heart who only wanted to stay with Hongjuan for the rest of his life. So what is the difference between being a wife and a concubine, as long as they are together? , why bother arguing with her father about this kind of thing... But now it seems that the master is right. It is important to be happy with each other, but the status can make Hongjuan respected.

Seeing that Xi Yuanzhou did not repent, General Xi gradually lost his patience. He waved his hand and said to Qin Wei: "Take him down and keep him under strict supervision."

Xi Yuanzhou sneered, and shouted: "Come on!" After saying that, a group of soldiers suddenly appeared from the dark and surrounded everyone present.

General Xi was startled by the sudden change of the situation, he looked at Xi Yuanzhou in disbelief and asked, "What are you doing, Nizi?" Then he looked at the surrounding soldiers and cursed, "Who gave you the courage? Are you trying to mutiny?"

"Father, you don't really think that I didn't do anything for half a year in the army, do you?" Xi Yuanzhou asked sarcastically.

After Xi Yuanzhou entered the army, he often entertained his colleagues in the army, and he was open-minded and willing to help anyone who was in trouble. In addition, everyone was willing to get close to him as the only son of General Xi when he had something to do. General Xi was naturally happy to see him Yes, but now that his son is promising, he is restrained instead, so it is not so gratifying...

"Father often said that sooner or later the army will be handed over to the child, and the child can't bear the father's hard work, and is willing to share the father's worries..." Now Xi Yuanzhou has the upper hand, and the situation has reversed. Now it is Xi Yuanzhou's turn to wave his hand and say indifferently: "Come Please, General Xi, go back to your tent and rest well tonight."

After finishing speaking, Xi Yuanzhou immediately turned around and walked out of the camp, but just a few steps away, General Xi stopped him again: "Stop!"

"Don't go!"

"Nizi! I won't let you go to save your life!"

"The destruction of Baihua Villa is the destiny, and you know that destiny cannot be violated!!!"

Originally, Xi Yuanzhou didn't intend to pay attention to it, but when he heard "Irrefutable Mandate", he couldn't help stopping again, turned around to look at General Xi, and asked, "Father, what do you mean by that? What is "Irrefutable Mandate?"

General Xi originally didn't want his son to know, after all, the less he knows about some things, the safer he is, but now he can't just sit and watch his only son go to death, without knowing anything about the imminent disaster.

"The destiny...is the emperor's destiny..." General Xi sighed and said, "I received a secret edict in the middle of last year, and now it is really the case... No matter how powerful Baihua Villa is, how can it compare to the imperial power, they will definitely die." Xi The general blurred the content of the secret edict. These years, the Xi family has been in close contact with Baihua Villa, and has done some things for Baihua Villa, but it is a capital offense to deploy troops without a war. One choice, under such circumstances, how dare he take care of the affairs of Baihua Villa.

It is precisely because of this that he is unwilling to let his son marry Hongjuan. Their Xi family cannot be involved with Baihua Villa, otherwise it will be bad for the Xi family, Baihua Villa or Yongning Hou Mansion...

Xi Yuanzhou never imagined that the imperial court would be involved in it, and when he heard the news, he came back to his senses and asked: "Father has already learned the news in advance, why didn't he tell the child, and we sent a message to Baihua Villa to make Baihua Villa more prepared. "

"Zhouer." General Xi said very solemnly with a straight face: "Our Xi family is the courtiers of Dazhou, His Majesty's courtiers, not Baihuashan's courtiers, and the Xi family army guards Dazhou. Nongying..." There are hundreds of people in the direct branch of the Xi family, and he can't destroy the Xi family because of his own selfishness.

He could obey the Baihua Villa in order to keep his soldiers fed and clothed, and even his own son could go out, but when the Baihua Villa violated the emperor's order, he had to obey the emperor's order.

General Xi continued to Xi Yuanzhou earnestly: "Last year you wiped out nearly [-]% of your majesty's Jinyiwei in Huaizhou, and your majesty will always get it back elsewhere." Since ancient times, which emperor would swallow his anger after suffering a loss, What's more, His Majesty has long been determined to win over the forces of the Jianghu, so Baihua Villa will bear the brunt of it.

Xi Yuanzhou closed his eyes. He knew that this matter was really difficult. Could it be that the kings in the world, no matter how powerful the power is, would be like a mantis fighting against the imperial power. He suddenly understood his father's approach, but he grew up in a villa. Well, those women in the villa are not his family members, not to mention Hongjuan and Feng Nongying...

The next moment, Xi Yuanzhou opened his eyes, glanced at General Xi without saying a word, knelt on the ground with a 'plop', and kowtowed three times to General Xi, bowing to the end every time, then stood up without hesitation. turn and leave...

General Xi can turn his face and admit it ruthlessly, but Xi Yuanzhou can't. He grew up in Baihua Villa all these years, and kept calling Mrs. Haitang his "beneficent mother". Baihua Villa never treated him badly. his home……

General Xi stood on the spot and wanted to stop him, but he was stopped by the people left by Xi Yuanzhou. General Xi gave one of the soldiers a hard look, gritted his teeth and said, "I am the commander-in-chief of the first army. If you dare to stop me, you are not afraid that I will kill you." you?"

The soldier shook his head and smiled honestly, his white teeth dazzled in the night: "As long as Baihua Villa is safe, you can kill me... My father is also a soldier under your command. He died on the city wall ten years ago. My brother There are seven or eight sisters, and my mother is too weak to do heavy work and can't afford to support her, if it weren't for the money that Baihua Villa distributes every year, our family would probably starve to death... One must repay her kindness."

Yes...you have to repay your kindness, everyone has a steelyard in their hearts, the people at the bottom are too far away from His Majesty, who treats them well, who makes them full, who is kind to them, their hearts who will be biased.

General Xi looked around, and none of the people present retreated half a step. He was horrified to realize that the Xi family army had been too deeply involved with Baihua Villa these years, and how many people in the military camp had not received the favor of Baihua Villa. The livelihood and economy of the entire Mosang City, although the people are not considered rich now, but no one in Mosang City died of starvation in the year of the catastrophe the year before last, and now the people of the entire Mosang City are probably grateful to Baihua Villa...

Xi Yuanzhou walked quickly outside the camp, Mrs. Haitang, who was waiting anxiously outside, could not help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw Xi Yuanzhou in iron armor coming out from a distance.

She didn't ask why the delay was so long, nor did she ask how General Xi was doing, but waited for Xi Yuanzhou to walk in front of her, she just patted him on the shoulder vigorously, then looked at the nearly thousand soldiers behind Xi Yuanzhou, and said something in a low voice : "Let's go."

"Yes." Xi Yuanzhou didn't explain much, but silently followed Mrs. Haitang, turned over the door and galloped towards the south of the city...