Han Ruoshi raised her eyes to look at me and said softly, "Miss Yan, do you understand what I mean?"

Although she spoke in a very light tone, the three words "Miss Yan" were specially accentuated, and I was not too dull, and I immediately understood what she meant.

She is Mrs. Pei, and I am "Miss Yan", even if the child in my belly is older than her, even if I am born as a son in the future, but after all, it is a concubine, only this one in her belly can be the eldest son, and the people around me understand this truth and dare not slack off, of course I should understand.

I laughed: "Madame, just to tell me this today?"

"Isn't this enough?"

She looked at me and said slowly, "Miss Yan really hasn't thought about this problem? Although the fetus in your womb is older than me, if you really enter Beijing, there may be some things that are not as easy to control as they are now." ”

"Madame wants me to control—control what?"

Her face stiffened slightly, and she probably realized that her words were a little too 'revealing', and she hurriedly coughed lightly, as if she wanted to leave what she had just done, and then said: "Of course, this child is Miss Yan's own, and I shouldn't have said much." It's just that the breakthrough of Cangzhou City is just around the corner, as soon as Cangzhou City is broken, the 'door' of Beijing and Tianjin will be opened, Miss Yan-" She looked at my stomach and said with a smile: "Does Miss Yan really want to be like this and enter Beijing?"

Although this is much more subtle than what he just said, the meaning is actually more obvious.

There are many people in the capital, if they see me like this, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for me to gain a foothold in the world.

My face darkened slightly.

And this gloom immediately made her feel happy, her body leaned a little towards me, and said, "Actually, Miss Yan also has a plan in her heart, right?"

I raised my eyes to look at her, and suddenly said, "Madame just said that the capture of Cangzhou City is just around the corner, is it true?"

She was stunned for a moment, probably not expecting that I would suddenly shift the topic from the child in her belly to Cangzhou City, paused, her eyes subconsciously drifted to the side, and said, "This, this- of course." ”

“……”

Not absolutely, it seems.

So, I smiled and said, "But I don't think so." ”

When she heard this, she immediately raised her head to look at me and said, "Do you think that Cangzhou City can really hold out for how long?"

“……”

"It's been more than a month since the siege of the city, and it's a cold winter, and there is not enough food and grass, how long can they hold on?"

"Siege?!"

My face sank.

When she saw me like this, her eyebrows furrowed, and she said, "You don't know yet?"

“……”

I didn't speak, but she realized something immediately, but the next moment, she smiled coldly: "It doesn't matter, in fact, it doesn't matter if you know." Cangzhou City is now besieged by the troops of the Cui family and the Song family, and it has been more than a month, although the people defending the city are still holding on, but in fact, their grain and grass have long been exhausted, and they can't hold on for a few days. ”

“……”

"If it is broken now, it will be good for them, at least some people will survive, if they really wait until they are all starved to death before opening the 'gates' of the city-" She paused for a moment and said with a smile: "Well, it's not our sin anyway, it's their own death." ”

“……”

I only felt that my internal organs were slightly hot, and an indescribable uncomfortable feeling came up from my heart.

It turned out that Cangzhou City was besieged.

No wonder, no wonder I came here, although I realized that Cangzhou City was not taken by the Cui family and the Song family, and I also heard Song Xuan personally say that this battle would still be fought, but on the official road, there was no one who fled the war, and there was not even a person's footprints on those snow-covered roads, and now I understand that there is a reason for it.

Because the city is under siege.

Therefore, no one could escape the war, and they were all besieged in Cangzhou City for more than a month.

My brow furrowed vigorously, and I said, "But, it shouldn't be." I remember that the imperial court built a granary in Cangzhou, how could it be that the stock was not enough for them to consume for more than a month?"

Han Ruoshi sneered, and said with a bit of pride: "There is a granary in Cangzhou City, but they can't guard it properly, who is to blame?"

I was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood: "It's the Cui family, and the people of the Song family? They were originally in Cangzhou City, so they—ruined the grain and grass?"

Han Ruoshi said coldly: "Originally, it would not have been so difficult to fight, in fact, as long as it was the same as when they were in Huai'an, those who defended the city still had a chance to surrender." However, the Song family is still in charge of paying tribute to the imperial court, and there is a nosy imperial businessman, because he passed through Cangzhou, he originally wanted to visit Zhang Lao Taijun, but was blocked by the Song family, this person actually saw the clue, and ran to the government to report the news, and after the people of the Song family knew, they asked for 'sex' to strike first, burned the grain and grass in Cangzhou and cut off their back road, and then fought with the defenders of the inner city. ”

I gasped in my heart.

I see.

It may be that Cangzhou City would have been taken down from the inside, just like Huai'an, but because a vigilant businessman discovered the rebellious heart of the Song family, it caused today's situation.

And yesterday, the two people from the Cui family and the Song family came to visit Pei Yuanxiu in full armor, not because they were not polite, but because the situation in Cangzhou had not yet been decided, and they probably had just come down from the battlefield, so they would be armored and even brought a team of soldiers over, I guessed that the road in this section was not very smooth, and it was really not an illusion.

So today, Pei Yuanxiu's army was transferred, and it makes sense.

They are going to hurry up the time and break through Cangzhou.

After all, this place is not far from the capital, but if the time is spent here, it will delay the time for him to enter the capital, and the evil Hou Qi has also said before that the convergence of Shengjing's soldiers and horses with his soldiers and horses is the most critical point in this war, if this time is missed, I am afraid that the situation on Shengjing's side will change.

And Pei Yuanxiu, not to mention others, the powerful gentry in other regions are all staring here, once his pace of entering Beijing is delayed, it means that the control of the situation is insufficient, and it is easy to cause 'chaos'.

Thinking of this, my hands that had been on the armrests of the chair slowly tightened a little.

The slippery cold sweat on my palms made me a little unable to grip the armrests, and I kept exerting myself, and at this moment, there was a knock on the 'door' outside the 'door'.

When I looked back, it was the servant of the pavilion who brought food in, and 'Hua' Zhu and Xiaolian were still standing outside, and when they saw the 'door' opened, 'Hua' Zhu immediately looked into the room very nervously, and saw that I was sitting there unscathed, so I was relieved.

The servant came in, and when he saw that the anger between me and Han Ruoshi was quite harmonious, he also breathed a sigh of relief, carefully placed all the food on the table, and then withdrew.

The food sent to us, of course, is also full of 'color' and flavor, and even takes care of the spicy taste I like, and there is a red spicy dish.

But I felt choked in my throat and couldn't eat at all.

The defenders of Cangzhou have been holding out for more than a month without food and grass support.

When I think of this, my heart can't help but pinch up.

The situation in Cangzhou City, even if I didn't see it, no one described it to me, but I could imagine it.

Just like back then, Pei Yuanhao took me south to Yangzhou and experienced the scene of the disaster victims entering the city, those people can hardly be called people, but more like a group of open mouth pockets, and they have to stuff everything they see, and even some people hold the big tree and start eating the bark after breaking into Yangzhou City, which is still vivid.

The current Cangzhou City, the people there, are they like this?

Or even worse?

An indescribable, almost vomiting feeling kept surging up, and I bit my lower lip to prevent myself from 'showing' an uncomfortable expression, but in the end, a few wrinkles involuntarily appeared in the center of my eyebrows.

But Han Ruoshi couldn't understand what I felt at the moment, she was just very cautious and didn't eat with me, so she reached out and pushed the empty bowl in front of her out again.

It was her action that made me sober up a little.

I struggled to squeeze out the hellish images in my mind, and then looked up at her, "Madame told me this for the purpose of-"

She smiled faintly: "I want to say that Cangzhou City is broken, soon." ”

“……”

"After Cangzhou, it is not far from the capital. ”

“……”

"Miss Yan, you've already thought about this way, haven't you made up your mind yet?"

"Make up your mind?" I looked up at her, "What does Madame want me to make?"

My words are probably a little thorny, and Han Ruoshi also fidgeted a little, for fear that this sentence would become a handle, so she hurriedly held on to the handrail and changed her sitting position, and then said: "I mean, if Miss Yan really wants to enter Beijing with us, then in the future, Miss Yan's identity, and the identity of this child, Miss Yan won't consider it?"

I said, "I didn't think about it that much. ”

She was stunned for a moment, and was about to say something, when I continued: "However, I do know why Madame is so-'enthusiastic' to help me think about it." ”

“……”

"The Han family has a 'woman', who will be the mother of the world. Madame was naturally much more worried than I thought. ”

Her face moved slightly, obviously that sentence had stabbed her to the core, she took a deep breath, leaned over a little, and said in a low voice: "I know you didn't want to stay by his side from the beginning, but with Xie Feng here, you can't leave." ”

“……”

I raised my eyebrows and looked at her silently.

She gritted her teeth, as if she had been broken, and said in an almost thin voice: "Now, Xie Feng is not here. ”

“……”

"If you're leaving, I, I can—"