Rong Xuan

At the foot of the Son of Heaven, outside the city of Chang'an, Wei Jingting, one of the five generals who guarded the capital and Masi, suddenly disappeared while patrolling the camp, suspected of being robbed.

Ouchi Thunder was furious.

In addition to mobilizing the soldiers and horse patrol battalions of the five cities to cooperate with the Jinwu Guards to search in Chang'an City, Ouchi also invited Chang'an soldier talismans to mobilize the Shanqi Battalion, Tongguang Battalion, and Bow and Arrow Battalion stationed near Chang'an City, as well as the guards in Chang'an City. , the Habayashi Army that guards the royal family and guards the Tian family.

There are more than [-] people and horses inside and outside. Wherever they pass, they are blocked by mountains. When they see roads, they are blocked. , To die is to see a corpse.

After such an intensive search, there was still no trace of Wei Jingting for three days. On the morning of the fourth day, Changwei Yulin found Wei Jingting's soft armor and sword in Fengluan Mountain in Xingping County, both stained with blood.

According to the experience of General Changwei Habayashi—General Zhongwu himself, I am afraid that something unexpected has happened.

Sima Xuan, who was also looking for someone outside, got the news and immediately rushed over from Liyang. In the evening of that day, when she rushed back to Chang'an, the news that the loyal general Wei Jingting was in danger had already come back.

Sima Xuan didn't go back to Jinglinghou's mansion, but directly rode to the Zhongwu General's mansion of her eldest sister Sima Ying, and met her elder sister Sima Ying on the sickbed.

But even if her husband is afraid of something unexpected and she is lying on the sick bed, Sima Ying doesn't show the helplessness of an ordinary woman who has lost her mind - even though her anxiety and pain are obvious.

All her reactions were taken for granted by anyone.

Seeing her younger brother returning home alone, Sima Ying couldn't shed tears. After holding back for a long time, she finally coughed up a mouthful of dark black blood.

The imperial physicians of the Imperial Medical Office, as well as the maids and women serving in the General's Mansion, flocked to save people, but they were busy but performed their duties in an orderly manner, which shows what kind of rules the servants in the mansion have been subjected to. What kind of scene has to be seen to be so flustered.

The other side was busy saving people, so Sima Xuan was invited to the outside of the bedroom partitioned by the gauze screen, where the imperial physicians were saving her sister's life, she stood there powerlessly, and could only see coming and going inside through the gauze screen silhouette.

——Just now, at the moment she just rushed into the room, she clearly saw the unspeakable complex emotions in the big sister's eyes.

Sima Xuan clearly knew that her sister was a well-deserved loyal queen—Sima Ying's biological father was General Mao Zi'an of Gui Delang who had a life-and-death friendship with Sima Xiu on the battlefield.

At that time, the various ministries of the Northern Man joined forces to fight against each other, united with the ruler of Xiliang, and millions of Chen soldiers knocked on the pass to attack Chao. Breaking through the eleven states on the west line of the northern border, the blade pointed directly at Chang'an City.

The Jizhou guarded by Maozi'an is the last line of defense leading to the hinterland of Dachao from the northwest border.

The war burned all the way to Jizhou. After Mao Zi'an transferred the people of Jizhou, he led more than [-] troops to hold on to Jizhou for two months without aid and food. Finally, when Sima Xiu, who killed the Huns, led his troops from the northern When we arrived at Jizhou, Jizhou had already become an empty city.

Mao Zi'an's body had been blown by the wind, sand and scorching sun in the northwest into a bloodless mummy. He was leaning on the half-burned flagpole of the city head, facing the direction of the northern barbarians' attack, wearing a Battle flag, hold a knife with one hand, die without falling.

His wife died when the city of Jizhou was destroyed, and the six-year-old only daughter who was raised in the countryside was adopted by Sima Xiu.

After being so loyal, even if she was lingering on the sick bed, even if her husband was missing, she was suffering physically and mentally, but she couldn't shed tears, so she had to bleed.

After a long time, Imperial Physician Bai from the Imperial Medical Office wiped the sweat from his forehead, and walked out slowly together with several imperial physicians.

"Your Majesty," the old doctor Bai bowed his hands to Sima Xuan, and said slowly, with a trembling ending, "The general's wife's condition has been stabilized for the time being, you should take the time to take a look while she is still awake. "

"..." Hearing these few words from Imperial Physician Bai, Sima Xuan suddenly recalled the situation when her mother had dystocia. Suddenly, she had the illusion that she would lose her sister.

The exhausted man froze for a moment, forgot to even say the polite words "Thank you, the imperial physician", and directly pushed aside the imperial physicians and servants and walked into the inner room.

bedroom:

Sima Ying lay quietly on the bed, and the man in the black robe walked over lightly.

"Big Sister..." Sima Xuan said, her voice trembling in shock, she swallowed, and squeezed her palm with her clenched hand.

"I have a few words, I want to talk to you, if you want to ask, please sit down first." Sima Ying turned his palms up on the edge of the bed, and slowly moved towards Sima Xuan Fingers, the spirit is really bad.

Sima Xuan sat sideways on the edge of the bed, and gently held her sister's slender hand. She tried her best to suppress her emotions so as not to show them.

After a moment of silence, she said in a hoarse voice: "Physician Bai said it's fine. You injured your root when you gave birth to Pu'er, and your body was already weak. This time, it was because you were so anxious that you stayed in bed to find your brother-in-law back." Leave it to me, sister, you just need to rest in peace and recuperate."

They were all ordinary comforting words, but when Sima Ying heard them, she smiled warmly. She took a few breaths and said, "Yuanrong is back, and now you can speak well, I I feel so relieved... by the way, where is Yuan Rong."

"She and the children are at Xun's house now." Sima Xuan leaned over gently, and whispered to Sima Ying in a very low voice: "Sister, I already have news of my brother-in-law, and he is in Dongshan."

"Dongshan?" Sima Ying frowned and asked, she suddenly grabbed Sima Xuan's hand with her backhand, and a little blood color gradually returned to her lifeless face, "I have received reports from various sources saying that your brother-in-law ...Why, how did it appear in Dongshan? Did your people personally find the trace cough—cough cough cough...?"

"Don't be impatient, eldest sister," Sima Xuan reached out and poured half a cup of warm water from the square stool beside the bed to feed Sima Ying, before explaining in a low voice, "Yuanrong found it."

The Tian family dispatched many horses, Qingxu King Sima Xiu mobilized all the hidden guards he could send out, but they found nothing, but Cao Hui found Wei Jingting's trace.

Thinking back to the sixth generation of the Cao family, there were three lords, five lords and six generals. Even if the Cao family was wronged and destroyed that year, the centipede died but not stiff, let alone such a big family?

It is not impossible for some forces to be kept secretly.

Thinking of this, Sima Ying tried her best to calm down her beating heart, but she held onto Sima Xuan's hand even tighter: "Dongshan, Dongshan Palace—then Zhao Dalang is in Dongshan to supervise the practice palace!!"

The Prince of the Eastern Palace, Zhao Xuan, is the eldest son of the Tian family. The common people and officials did not dare to call the Eastern Palace directly, so they called him "Zhao Dalang". Sima Xuan did not make a sound, but nodded slightly.

"It really is him." Sima Ying raised her heavy eyelids. After hearing the news of her husband, she finally relaxed a little after being tense for three days. "Before your brother-in-law went out this time, he kept saying Said something else to me,'

Sima Xuan's left hand on his knee subconsciously clenched the hem of his clothes, only to hear Sima Ying say: "He said that Wei Jiaxiu from Hezhou had sent a letter to his family, and mentioned that the salt and tea business was not doing well recently, so his sister-in-law Shen went to the other side." Ji also asked someone to send a letter to the mansion, asking him if the imperial court is going to make a new move on salt, tea and wine tax."

Sima Ying didn't know what her husband and younger brother were planning together. Of course, she didn't know what the tax on salt, tea and wine mentioned in Shen Quji's letter actually referred to.

"At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty," Sima Ying stretched out her other hand, and she grabbed Sima Xuan's cuff, her expression seemed to be pleading: "You never let me know what you are doing. I understand your painstaking efforts. That's all, but you know better than me what the situation is right now!"

After a moment of silence, Sima Ying breathed out calmly, and asked in a trembling voice: "Xiaoxuan, to this day, do you still want to help him and help him hide from Eldest Sister?"

"..." Sima Xuan lowered his eyelids.

What she and her brother-in-law Wei Jingting are doing now is not very safe, and the risk is so great that they will destroy their family and family at every turn. Even if other people know one more word, it will undoubtedly be more dangerous.

No one dared to gamble with their lives—that person once teased her about it, saying that if the Huns knew that she had become so resentful of her life and did not dare to risk it, they might be ashamed immediately.

Sima Xuan was silent for a long time.

However, when Sima Ying couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep, when she thought that her brother's silence was because she chose to refuse to speak, she heard the hoarse voice slowly spit out three words in a very low tone. Character.

"Zhao, Wu, Lang"

Zhao Wulang... is that the five sons of the Tian family who went to the western frontier army when he was young, and have only been back to Beijing for two years now, Zhao Qingyuan, King of Jing'an County? !

Sima Ying's eyes widened, and she stared at Sima Xuan in front of her for a moment. The shock and astonishment she showed was as if she had witnessed how the God of Kunlun in myths and legends crashed into Buzhou Mountain through Gonggong, and used A soul fire on his shoulders burns through Fuxi's seal, releasing the tyrannical ghost clan from the underworld to harm the world.

It had been a long time since Sima Ying recovered from the shock. Sima Xuan thought that the news had frightened his elder sister, so he tentatively shook the hand that was still held by her elder sister: "Sister?"

"..." Sima Ying blinked his eyes stiffly, but didn't make a sound.

Sima Xuan shook her head and sighed——she felt that if her brother-in-law found out that she let her sister know about King Jing'an, she would definitely be beaten by her brother-in-law.

"I'm here to tell my sister that my brother-in-law is safe and well." Sima Xuan broke away from Sima Ying's hand, and wrapped her quilt around her, then turned around and stood up, "Now that my eldest sister knows everything, I hope you don't worry about it." Eldest sister guards against those three words, and when brother-in-law comes back, he must explain it clearly to eldest sister in person."

As he said that, Sima Xuan cupped his hands and saluted: "Sister is resting, she left first at the beginning of Yuan Dynasty."

"..." Sima Ying didn't make a sound, but closed his eyes complicatedly, and turned his face to the other side.

Sima Xuan explained one by one that the maids and women who waited on Sima Ying should protect their lord well, and when General Wei came back, they must be rewarded. All the servants agreed, and they met several of Wei Jingting's confidant guards under the door. Come out of the main courtyard of the General's Mansion with peace of mind.

As soon as she walked to the vestibule, Wei Guang, the eldest son of the general's mansion, ran over from behind the moon gate in the west with an unsharpened little red tasseled gun.

Seven-year-old Wei Guang was wearing plain clothes and short leather boots. His whole body was soaked in sweat. It was obvious that he was learning Kung Fu from his master just now.

"Second Uncle," he ran over sweaty, reached out and grabbed Sima Xuan's sleeve, raised his head, his eyes were black and white: "Do you have any news about my father?"

"Well," Sima Xuan raised his hand and pressed Wei Guang's hair. The heat from the child's body made her palms burn. "Second Uncle already has news about your father."

"What about the fourth uncle and grandfather?" The anxiety in Xiao Wei Guang's eyes subsided a little, and he asked again: "When will the fourth uncle come out? Can the grandfather be reinstated? The Tian Family really intends to Did you abandon our family?"

Sima Xuan's brows pressed slightly, and his expressionless face sank immediately. Little Wei Guang was always a little afraid of his second uncle, so he subconsciously let go of Sima Xuan's sleeve and took two small steps back.

Sima Xuan said in a deep voice, "Who told you these gossips?"

Perhaps it was because Sima Xuan really didn't like children, Wei Guang's nose turned sour after hearing the questioning, and his eyes immediately turned a little red - he shouldn't have come to ask the second uncle such things!

"People outside say that," Wei Guang sniffed his nose, and his voice turned into tears: "Grandfather was dismissed from his official position by the Tian family, and the Northern Frontier Army may change hands if he speaks. Four uncles will face a death lawsuit. After being imprisoned on one side, I will switch to this side, and my father was robbed for no reason, and his life and death are unknown..."

He didn't know how to part at such a young age, but Wei Guang seemed to have matured a little earlier. The little guy was so preoccupied that he rubbed his eyes and started crying.

While crying, he complained to Sima Xuan: "Second, second uncle, my mother is also sick right now, the prince's mansion, the marquis' mansion, the general's mansion, you are the only one supporting the three mansions, I'm afraid...I'm afraid Daddy won't come back, he's afraid that mother's illness won't get better, the younger brothers are still so young, oh, oh, oh, second uncle...I, I'm afraid..."

The sun in the west has set behind the Bell and Drum Tower at some point, and the crescent moon rises from the east. When the light and darkness intersect, the scene between the sky and the earth is hazy, and no matter what the eyes see, they feel vague and unclear.

Sima Xuan raised the hem of his clothes, put all his weight on his right leg, and then committed himself to squatting down in front of Wei Guang.

She looked at Wei Guang at the same level, this child looked like his mother, with a heroic look in his brows and eyes, and he could tell his extraordinary appearance at a young age.

"I lost my mother when I was seven years old, and I was taken to the Northern Army by your grandfather just after my eighth birthday," Sima Xuan said with a calm voice: "When I was in the Northern Army, I couldn't even hold the firehead army's kitchen knife. move."

He suddenly heard the second uncle who had always been cold-faced and rejected people thousands of miles away mentioning his childhood, Wei Guang unconsciously suppressed the crying and sobbing, he tilted his head slightly, and listened to the second uncle's words with sobs.

"Two months after I entered the Northern Border Army, the Huns attacked at night, and the arrows and crossbows that came in were filled with fire, and fell all over the sky like rain, setting the entire barracks on fire. In order to protect me, my two cousins ​​went to They put me upside down under the big iron pot for cooking, and they wanted me to hide, and went to fight the Xiongnu thieves with a knife, "

"Later, when our reinforcements arrived, the Xiongnu killed people, robbed them of food and grass, and ran away. The surviving men in the army assembled their teams and followed the reinforcements to rob and kill the Huns. But in that battle, my two cousins , Sima Hong and Sima Wen both died in battle, one was 16 years old and the other was 13 years old."

"Guang'er," Sima Xuan stretched out her hand, and gently wiped away the remaining tears on Wei Guang's face with her callused thumb. She looked at Wei Guang with an extremely determined light in her dark eyes: "You have blood on your body." With half of Sima's blood, you can be afraid, you can cry, but you just can't choose to escape, let alone shrink back, "

As he said that, Sima Xuan picked up the little red tasseled gun that had slipped from Wei Guang's hand, and put it back in his hand, "Your father is not here, and your mother is ill. You are the most important man in the general's mansion, and the second uncle is helping you." Come on, are you still afraid?"

Wei Guang stared at Sima Xuan for a long time with teary eyes, and Sima Xuan just accompanied him patiently.

Until the servants of the mansion lit up all the stone lanterns in the vestibule, Wei Guang suddenly grasped the red-tasseled spear in his hand, and said, "Second uncle, I've made a note, those who conquer others are powerful, those who conquer themselves are strong! "

Sima Xuan stood up, stamped his numb feet, and smiled warmly—he was not good at words, and told the story upside down, but this child understood what she wanted to express.

She couldn't help stretching out her hand, and patted Wei Guang's thin shoulders that hadn't grown out yet: "Good boy, be transparent."

The author has something to say:

Sima Ren: My niece, who is older than me, is sick, how can I live without me, the master of the Wuyao Hall, by my side? !Author, your hin is great...

Emperor Zhao Yujing: Boy, step down, this is a good time to show how much I love my ministers, the Imperial Medical Office has gathered famous doctors from all over the world, what do you want me to do!

Prince Zhao Xuan: Waiting to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Sima Xuan: Sorry, the snipe and clam are mine.

King Jing'an Zhao Qingyuan: ... I haven't officially appeared on the stage, so I don't have much to say--Madam Junhou, come to take your Junhou home~

Cao Hui arrived on the battlefield in three seconds:

Sorry, our General Sima Xuanxuan has dropped the line.