Rong Xuan

Sima Xiu went from being an unknown son-in-law in Du Qihou's mansion to King Qingxu, one of the only two kings with different surnames since the founding of Dachao.

The great Confucian Zhu Xi used eight words to evaluate this student before his death——his hands were bloody, and he was upright.

Zhu Xi is a generation of Confucian scholars, his words are definitely not based on speculation.

Qingxu Palace is located in the outer study at the junction of the inner and outer courtyards:

After hearing the feedback from his subordinate, Shadow, Sima Xiu was so angry that his thick eyebrows almost stood upside down.

"This scoundrel!" The thin middle-aged man scolded loudly, and with a wave of his sleeve, he knocked out the indigo Tianmu teacup made by Ci Kiln beside the table.

The tea was spilled, and the extremely precious teacup fell on the thick carpet, and rolled to the shadow like a broken bowl.

Sima Xiu let out the anger in his chest, and finally couldn't help but asked in a deep voice: "Can you die?"

Death is unavoidable, so An Ying naturally didn't dare to report it so bluntly, so she lowered her head and cupped her hands and said, "The guards inside and outside the Chongguang Courtyard are tight, the doctor is the Master Huaiying from the Wuyao Hall, and the little one is hiding nearby. I spent two nights, but I only knew that Junhou was stabbed in the waist and abdomen, luckily his life was safe."

"Hmph, it's fine if you don't die," Sima Xiu's cold expression never loosened a bit, and no one knew how long he was relieved.

He picked a volume from the desk and flipped through it casually, and the sentence "Those who steal the hook will be punished, those who steal the country will be honored" caught Sima Xiu's eyes, and a good policy was born from the heart.

……

Sima Xuan, the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment, was assassinated in the mansion late at night, and fell into a coma for several days.

The armored patrol battalion searched the large and small long streets and residences in Chang'an City for four days, but still had no clue.

Jinglinghou Mansion, Chongguang Academy——

"Let her do it," Sima Xiu sat straight in the square chair outside the partition, with steam rising from the teacup on the coffee table at hand, and his words were flat and unwavering: "You are not dead, after recovery Do you want to continue to protect her, and then continue to fight against your father?"

Sima Xuan half leaned against the head of the bed, his face was pale, he didn't make a sound, he just gestured to the eldest sister with his eyes, Sima Ying, who was sitting by the bed, understood, and gently helped her raise the pillow a little higher.

At the beginning of Sima Yuan Dynasty, Jinglinghou's mansion was a hundred times safer than Prince Qingxu's mansion. Sima Xiu knew it in his heart, but he still didn't dare to relax a little bit.

He said in a deep voice: "You joined the Northern Territory Army since you were young. As soon as you received a letter of honor as a general at a young age, you immediately took your eldest sister to open a mansion and live in another place. It’s all about beheading the Xiongnu Shanyu with his own hands in the tens of thousands of armies, so why did the Tian family disregard the dissuasion of all the officials, and gave you a 17-year-old child the super-grade Marquis for the first time?”

Yes, why?Sima Xuan knew the reason, so he could only choose to remain silent.

Prairie warfare is mostly dominated by cavalry. The Xiongnu are nomadic peoples, and they are best at fighting on horseback. In difficult times, she severely injured the most powerful cavalry force of the Huns. Not only did she keep the title of the Northern Frontier Army, she blocked the mouths of those civil servants in Chang'an who advocated the withdrawal of the Northern Frontier Army's banner after the peace talks with the Xiongnu Yizhixie tribe. It also intercepted hundreds of prairie stallions for the Northern Army, which substantially improved the horses of the Northern Army.

"Where Shan Yu is, there are heavy guards, but you still asked someone to rush into their inner circle, and cut off the head of that Shan Yu with a knife," Sima Xiu held up the teacup, the hot tea was warming cold The palm of your hand was warm all the way to the bottom of your cold heart: "Of course it's because of one aspect that you use your troops properly, but another aspect is because your surname is Sima."

Yanyang Sima, a family of military generals, has guarded the northern border since Chao destroyed the former kingdom. It has only been more than seventy years since Da Chao established the country, and two generations of the Sima family have spilled blood on the northern border.

The Sima family's prestige in the northern border was truly earned by the people surnamed Sima with their blood and lives.

In the northern border army, Sima Xuan didn't need to speak in person, as long as she held the Wuhen long knife and stood on the deployment platform, the brothers of the northern border army would willingly follow her through life and death. .

Why?

Because her surname is Sima!

"...Father," Sima Xuan tried his best to stand on his side, but Sima Ying hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him.

He spoke hoarsely, with unbearable pain: "Father has people and things that he must protect, and children also have them. Father has the bottom line and principles to stick to, and children also have..."

The wound on the abdomen, which had a tendency to heal after a long time, cracked again because Sima Xuan didn't follow the doctor's orders and moved around at will, causing cold sweat to ooze from Sima Xuan's forehead.

She gritted her teeth and continued: "Father, you are not a villain who is greedy for greed and revenge, but you are willing to bear all the filth and stigma in this world for that person, just to repay the kindness of knowing you. The child was also hugged by the father. I have been loved by my father, and I have been brought up by my father..."

Sima Ying couldn't bear it, and finally pushed Sima Xuan back on the bed again: "Lie down and don't move around, speak slowly if you have something to say, father is sitting outside."

"My child knows right from wrong, and I learned everything from my father," Sima Xuan lay down flat, the thin thread sewn on his stomach stretched the wound with his breathing, pulling and pulling, and the pain was severe, "My child Apart from your own selfishness, what is the meaning of protecting her like this, father, you know very well..."

"Shut up!" Sima Xiu placed the teacup heavily on the pear wood coffee table with a thud, his temples swelled suddenly: "You evil bastard, thanks to your big sister who told me to have a good life with you before I came here." Speaking of which, now it seems that I am really being sentimental, and I am trying to let you, a little bastard, know what it means to be prosperous, to be prosperous and to be damaged, and you are just as good as your mother!"

"Father!" Sima Xuan gritted his teeth, and bloodthirsty hatred burst out from his slightly red eyes, which were always calm and cold: "You said it was your mother who lied to you, so why don't you tell Bei Return Jing Jun's commander-in-chief to the second uncle?! You said that your mother lied to you, so why don't you just burn me and help me end this fucking life of anxiety?!"

Two lines of tears slid down the corners of her eyes and sank silently into the gray hair on her temples—she really wanted to destroy everything, destroy everything, destroy to pieces, destroy beyond recognition, destroy shockingly, destroy to Nirvana, Maybe reborn.

"The people who brought you take this opportunity to get the hell out of my hometown in Yanyang. Before the wedding date comes, if you let me hear any gossip in the capital, you will be responsible for all the consequences!" Sima Xiu threw down such a sentence, and finally slammed the door and go.

Sima Ying chased him out and sent his father Sima Xiu to the east gate of the Hou Mansion.

"Don't stay with your second brother all the time." Sima Xiu stepped on the first step of the car seat, looked back at his adoptive daughter Sima Ying, and said in a gentle voice, "Don't neglect your son-in-law and children just because of your natal family." us."

"Father, don't worry about your daughter. Your grandchildren are all grown up. Those who study and those who practice martial arts have their own things to be busy." Sima Ying continued to help his father into the carriage, "Your son-in-law and Yuanchu Alright, I’m almost wearing a pair of pants, and I was chatting with Yuanchu here for a long time yesterday.”

Sima Xiu got into the carriage, opened the window and lifted the curtains, and said in a stern voice: "Yingzi, go back and tell that scoundrel that her father is still alive! Don't let her act recklessly here——He Tong, go back to the mansion !"

Prince Qingxu followed He Commander's order, and raised his hand to signal the coachman to raise his whip and urge the horse to go back to the mansion.

As soon as the front foot of King Qingxu's carriage left, the hideout outside the gate of Jinglinghou's mansion was replaced by several groups of surveillance personnel.

After returning to the Chongguang Courtyard, and relaying his father's words to Sima Xuan verbatim, Sima Ying worried: "Father picked you out like this, could it be that he wants to bear it alone?"

"Whoever has a heart will leak it." Sima Xuan raised his hand to cover his eyes with his sleeve, and said in a dull voice, "Maybe my father grabbed something important."

"It will be Chinese New Year in less than half a month now," Sima Ying brought soup and medicine to feed Sima Xuan: "Going back to Yanyang's hometown at this time, from handing over the paperwork to signing the false order at the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, plus at least ten Half a month's journey, at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, you can't pass this year? Besides, you left, just throwing Yuanrong at Xungong's place like this?"

Sima Xuan brought the medicine bowl over and gulped down the decoction. Junxiu's brows and eyes were wrinkled together by the bitter decoction. I will roll with my people."

……

Because Sima Xuan's injury was caught off guard, everyone outside couldn't help but have their own worries and precautions, and the matter of Jinglinghou returning to his hometown Yanyang to recuperate was also agreed straightforwardly.

Five days later, regardless of whether the so-called "assassin" outside was caught or not, the Jinglinghou's mansion seemed to be more lively than usual.

At the main entrance of the Hou Mansion, there are two rows of soldiers with swords standing down the steps. Under the six gilded plaques of "Jingling Hou Mansion", the vermilion lacquer gate with ninety-nine and 81 black iron door nails is open. Dingba carried the soft sedan chair out of the mansion smoothly.

After getting down the steps in front of the door, the soft sedan landed, and a well-dressed man was firmly sent into the carriage of the Hou Mansion by the servants who surrounded him...

The boat of the Marquis of Jingling was parked at Wanshun Wharf, and Sima Ying supported Sima Xuan to lean on the bed.

"Huan'er and Qing'er will ask elder sister to take care of them." Sima Xuan gently covered the wound, and entrusted his elder sister Sima Ying softly: "If the two of them make mistakes, elder sister and brother-in-law should not be soft-hearted whether they beat or punish them. "

"You said it lightly," Sima Ying took the teacup from Yuyan, lowered his head and took a big sip of tea: "Your brother-in-law and I are not relatives, after all, it is impossible to be free of scruples, but you, fame Lilu has everything, looks not bad, he is a little thinner, but he is by no means a bad person in the crowd, why is he so looked down upon by others?"

"Cough, cough, cough..." Sima Xuan coughed twice in embarrassment, and Yuyan tactfully went out to supervise the people moving things to the boat.

After Yuyan left, Sima Xuan lowered his voice and said, "Elder Sister, she has never looked down on me."

"Whether you like it or not is a matter between the two of you. It's inconvenient for me, an outsider, to comment." Sima Ying took out a small bulging cloth bag from his sleeve pocket and stuffed it to Sima Xuan: "There are many people in my hometown, and they will be indispensable when I go back." Where there is money, you take this first, in case there is something, it can be used as an emergency."

Before Sima Xuan stuffed the small cloth bag back to his sister, Sima Ying added: "This is not my sister's private money, it was given by Yuan Zhi's mother, so don't waste it."

The high-ranking poor Jingling Hou happily accepted the bank note given by his sister, and nodded in agreement: "It makes sense."

"Master, all the salutes are ready." Liu Sheng reported outside the door.

"Then I'll go down, be careful on the way." Sima Ying bid farewell to Sima Xuan, and got off the boat with the help of her personal envoy.

At the end of the year, the wharf was very bustling, and there were too many ships to and fro. Jinglinghoufu's party of three ships, big and small, lifted anchor and set sail, and headed southward smoothly.

The Wushou Canal is high in the sky and wide in the water, but within half a day, the boat sailed out of the border of Huaibei.

Sitting by the window, Cao Hui could faintly hear the wind coming through the cracks in the window.

"It's cold by the window," Sima Xuan said, his voice hoarse and slightly nasal: "Sit here."

Cao Hui didn't respond, but leaned his head against the wall of the ship half asleep and half awake, with a bad expression on his face.

Fortunately, there was a doctor——Cao Hui who was seasick among the accompanying people.

After taking the medicine and getting a few injections, Cao Hui was in a daze, with almost no clear consciousness, and could only be manipulated by others.

Of course, Sima Xuan didn't manipulate Cao Hui much. He just put her on the bed to let her sleep well after she fell asleep, and turned her up from the bed when she was about to vomit and let her vomit face down in the bowl. That's all.

Unfortunately, on the way back to his hometown of Yanyang, there were three days and two nights of water, and Cao Hui was really comatose for three days and two nights, it was almost fatal.

In the evening of that day, the waterway for Marquis Jingling to return to his hometown of Yanyang ended, he saluted and loaded his car one step ahead, Sima Xuan took Cao Hui and some attendants to rest in the local inn.

"Yuan... Yuanchu?" Sima Xuan was helping Cao Hui to go into the room, but an uncertain voice came from behind: "Sima Yuanchu?"

Handing Cao Hui to Yuyan, he continued to walk towards the room. Turning his head, he frowned slightly. Sima Xuan's dark eyes finally had a hint of comprehension, and his voice was hoarse and slightly nasal: "Wen Ruo, are you okay here?" ?”

"Don't come here for nothing, don't come here for nothing," Zhang Yu smiled brightly. He stepped forward and slapped Sima Xuan on the shoulder with a friendly look, "Why did I meet you here? It seems like the Chinese New Year is coming soon." Oh, where are you going? By the way, I heard that His Majesty gave you a marriage, this time you must remember to treat your brother to a glass of wedding wine, haha..."

"It must be," Sima Xuan's face did not hide his fatigue, and his eyes seemed to be a little straight: "Wen Ruo, I have been on the road for several days, so I won't tell you more. If you don't leave Yanzhou now, or Allow me to rest for a while."

"Hey!" Zhang Yu sighed in surprise, looked at Sima Xuan in surprise, and then glanced at the back of Cao Hui who was slowly walking away supported by Yuyan. Zhang Yu seemed to understand immediately. What.

He came closer and touched Sima Xuan's arm with his elbow, lowered his voice, and smiled meaningfully: "It's so wonderful, brother, I won't bother you, let's talk about it later, go and rest, hurry up go……"

As he spoke, he gently pushed Sima Xuan in the direction she was going.

When Zhang Yu went downstairs until he disappeared from his sight, Sima Xuan smiled helplessly and shook his head.

The author has something to say:

There's going to be some progress in the next chapter.

Let me explain the sentence "Da Chao established the country for more than [-] years":

The country title of "Chao" was founded by the great-grandfather of the current emperor, but the great-grandfather raised the banner of "rebellion", but failed to overthrow the regime at that time.

After the grandfather died, his son inherited the business and became the second Lord Chao, continuing to "rebel".

It was not until the current emperor's father (the third) that Chao overthrew the previous dynasty and completed the unification, so the third "rebel leader" became the founding emperor.

In order to show that his court has no boundaries, he took the time when the first term took office as the time when Da Chao established the country.