Thirteen years of Sui Daye.

In the second winter when Mu Qing followed the army to Jinyang City, it was cold and out of scale. There has been no snow this winter, but strong winds have been blowing for two months. The Shangyuan Festival has passed for several days, and it is still cold in the four fields, and there is no meaning that spring is approaching.

Mu Qing shrank in the quilt, and when he opened his eyes slightly from sleep, it was just after the fourth watch. The charcoal fire in the house was extinguished, and in the double curtain, only a night light was still burning, emitting a faint light. A chill rushed down her spine, causing her to move into the warm embrace beside her.

Du Ruhui stretched out his arm to wrap up her and asked quietly, "Do you want to put up the charcoal basin again?" ”

She shook her head in a daze, "It's warm, don't work for others on a cold day." ”

"You're going to get up, and you won't be able to do it for long." Du Ruhui smiled and stroked her messy hair a few times.

Somehow, as soon as he heard this, Mu Qing sat up from the quilt suddenly, completely sleepy, and asked with wide eyes, "Are you going to leave again?" I've never heard of sending troops. ”

Du Ruhui was startled by her, stunned for a moment, and raised her arms from the bed, "I didn't say I wanted to go, you ......"

Being accompanied by the cold outside the guard, she shivered from the cold, her mind was a lot clearer, looking back on Fang Cai's reaction, rubbing her brows and sneering: "I was in a daze, seeing that you got up so early, vaguely only when you were going to fight with the army again......="

He reached over his other arm and pulled her into his arms, wrapping the quilt around her to warm her cold body. "I decided to go to the prison with Erlang to see someone before dawn, so I had to get up early. You should be warm, it will be cold, and you will sleep a little longer. ”

"To prison? Who to meet? Mu Qing asked curiously.

"Jinyang ordered Liu Wenjing."

Where did he seem to have heard this name, Mu Qing meditated for a while before remembering that when she and Ah Yue instigated the eldest grandson's family to raise food and soup porridge last year, she heard her mention it. "Jinyang Order...... How did I get out of jail? What did you do? ”

"A few days ago, Li Mi had led the Wagang army to occupy the Luokou warehouse and opened the warehouse to release grain. Liu Wenjing and Li Mi were originally brothers-in-law, and the Huya Lang general, who has always loved to stir up trouble, is Gao Junya sent by the Eastern Capital, and his hands and feet are extremely fast. I didn't ask Li Gong. Because of Liu Wenjing's sentence 'The future is unpredictable, how do you know that you are poor', he was thrown into prison. ”

Mu Qing's hands and feet warmed up, and his thoughts also warmed up. The words that had been lingering in my heart for a long time couldn't help but pop up. I wanted to ask a few days earlier. It's just in the middle of the New Year's Festival, I'm afraid that the meaning is unlucky, so I didn't say it for the time being. "Last year, I said that everything was ready. How can you endure and still not do anything? ”

She was afraid of his answer in her heart, but her mind repeatedly told herself that she would start the matter one day earlier, and if she had fulfilled his long-cherished wish one day earlier, she would be able to join hands and return together. Even if you are defeated, you have to go to the Yellow Spring Road, and you can go with you in one place. It's better than hanging endlessly, or waiting for him to be exhausted but hesitant in the air, and it is also sad.

Du Ruhui shook his head again and again, and sighed: "Now Yang Guang is going to Jiangdu again, and when he left, he gave Li Gong Taiyuan a long-term position, with high power and grace, Erlang is afraid that he will gradually lose his initial ambition, and he has repeatedly poked the dots several times, but he is now treating Erlang a lot more indifferently, and he can't listen to persuasion." ”

He reached out and touched her hand, and then probed her back, and warmed up, estimating that the hour was not early, so he gently lifted the quilt and got out of bed, and put on a white shirt and a silk stone blue dark cloud pattern silk robe.

Mu Qing couldn't stay on the bed any longer, so he turned over and got down, put up his silk shoes, wrapped himself in a curtain, supported the dim night light, and lit the lights in the inner room one by one.

"It's only been the fourth watch, why don't you sleep? Noisy with you? Du Ruhui looked back and asked with a smile.

She shook her head and sat him down, "I'll tie your hair." She was not good at this, and she was not good at it, but she didn't want to fake her hands to others, and she pulled Ah Yue to practice for several days a few years before she got her hands right, and now, she has already mastered it.

The lights flickered, gilding her face with a gentle halo, and the loose bun added a bit of coquettishness, Du Ruhui stared at her from the bronze mirror as she focused on bunching her hair, and couldn't help but reach out to the back of her shoulder to pull her hand, but taught her to chuckle and open.

Everything is ready, when the sky is the darkest, Mu Qing took his crow-colored feather, fastened it carefully for him, and was going to open the door for him, because the cold outside was pressing, Du Ruhui did not allow her to go out of the inner room, so she was not stubborn, skimmed off the curtain, and was so cold that she hurriedly returned to the bed, hugged the quilt but couldn't fall asleep, and took a volume of "Guiguzi" that had been read several times, and flipped through it casually by the light. Jinyang is a guest residence for her after all, and all the books that she loves are left in the Dongdu mansion, at this time the war is raging, and the books are scarce, and the only few volumes at hand are extremely difficult to obtain.

This winter in Jinyang is extremely dry and cold, and the cold wind blows people's faces painfully, and their lips are almost dry and cracked. Even in the perennial damp prison, there is no damp anymore, only dry and cold. In the single partition bar, in the dry pile of dry straw, a half-white head looms, not moving at all, as if frozen.

Suddenly, the head turned a few times, sat up straight in the haystack that was tightly covered, listened intently for a while, a slight smile crossed his face, and his heart said, Finally, it came. Then he lay down leisurely back in the haystack.

In a few moments, the iron chain on the cell door rattled, and then the door creaked open. A jailer whispered, "Two Ah Lang are careful to step on the steps. The yellow lights turned on, and two tall figures were cast on the wall, and the jailer said, "Please also ask Ah Lang to hurry up, and don't make a big noise and alarm the prisoners next to him." ”

In an instant, two figures blocked the outside of the cage, blocking out almost all the light in the barn. "Mr. Liu." A deep voice came into the cage, and the withered grass rang out, and Liu Wenjing sat up from the withered grass and looked up at the two people outside the cage. The two of them lifted the hood on the hood of the wool canopy together, revealing their faces, it was Li Shimin and Du Ruhui.

Liu Wenjing stood up, stood in the knee-high grass, and bowed his hands, "Erlang, Mr. Du." ”

The three of them exchanged courtesies, and Liu Wenjing looked directly at Li Shimin intently, and couldn't help but smile and nod. Du Ruhui smiled slightly and said in a low voice: "Has Mr. Liu ever seen Erlang?" ”

"I've seen it from afar." Liu Wenjing gave another hand to Li Shimin, "A certain person was imprisoned because he bluntly said that it was unpredictable in the future, and this 'unpredictable in the future' is because of Erlang." ”

His straightforwardness taught Li Shimin to be stunned for a moment, and then he laughed lowly, "If Mr. Liu really dares to speak, how do you know that I dare to do it?" ”

"Mr. and Mr. Du have similar eyesight and similar aspirations, even if Mr. Du can see it, how can Mr. Du not see the clues? If something was wrong, Erlang wouldn't be standing here right now. Liu Wenjing shook her gray hair, and there was a hint of eagerness in her determination, lowered her voice, and said in a dumb voice: "What Erlang wants to do in his heart, the opportunity has come, why not start something as soon as possible?" ”

Li Shimin wrinkled his brows, muttered silently, and only looked at the people who were over half a hundred years old in the cage, and after a while, he turned his head and looked at Du Ruhui suspiciously.

"I don't know what Mr. Liu refers to......" Du Ruhui only asked half a sentence, and then paused, he also mentioned it to Erlang several times, the time is already now, but I don't know if Liu Wenjing thinks the same as him. Moreover, although Li Mi personally wrote a letter as a guarantee, after getting to the bottom of it, Liu Wenjing was not very familiar with him, and it was not good for him to raise troops to plot chaos, so he deliberately let go of the conversation and asked.

But seeing Liu Wenjing smile coldly, "How can Mr. Du not notice what he understands?" It's not wrong to be cautious, or maybe this layer of gauze paper might as well be pierced by a certain to show sincerity. ”

Saying that, he flattened the straw, sat comfortably on the ground, and said with his fingers: "Tang Guogong was promoted to stay in Taiyuan, and at this time he has the privilege alone, he can promote civil and military officials, and he can mobilize soldiers and horses in Hedong, and no one in the court can match it. Jinyang City has always been to resist the Turkic fortress, so in recent years, the grain and grass reserves are abundant, and the treasury is surplus, which can be supported for more than ten years, which is geographically advantageous. The lord patrolled the Jiangdu, the troops moved south, the eastern capital was empty, and Li Mi led the Wagang army in Luokoucang, which could resist the reinforcements from Jiangdu, which was peaceful. The time and place are favorable, and the people are all occupied, and if you don't do anything, when will you stay? ”

Li Shimin hurriedly bowed down when he heard this, and sighed: "That's exactly what it means." However, his father refused to allow it for a long time, and recently because of his high position and power, he enjoyed the emperor's grace very much, so he seemed to retreat and lost his fighting spirit. I didn't know what to do for a while. ”

"It's not that hard." Liu Wenjing stood up from the haystack and approached the prison bar, "The fighting spirit was dispersed by the royal favor, so he taught him to anger Tianwei, and when he lost this honor, he could reunite when he did not have a soldier but had no way to retreat." ”

Du Ruhui nodded and smiled and arched his hand, "Thank you, Mr. Liu, for your advice." ”

Liu Wenjing took a few more steps forward, almost sticking to the prison bar, her eyes were sharp, "I give you a name, he can help you succeed, what can you get in exchange?" ”

Li Shimin did not hesitate, and also stepped forward, "Since the future is unpredictable, I let you out of this prison and conspire with the future generations, what is it?" ”

Liu Wenjing stroked her beard and laughed, "I really didn't misunderstand Erlang." Then he suppressed his smile and said in a low voice, "Pei Lone." ”

When I came out of prison, it was already dawn, and the dry and cold wind blew the streets into a gloomy place, except for one or two hurried by. Li Shimin and Du Ruhui walked side by side with a small step on the horse's top wind, the wind rolled up a little dust, and both of them were covered with veils and silks, which was inconvenient to talk, so they were silent all the way, and only concentrated on walking.

After walking for a while, Li Shimin couldn't help but tear off the veil covering his mouth and nose, turned his head and asked Du Ruhui, "Pei Lin is just the palace eunuch of Jinyang Palace, although he is good friends with his father, he only has a friendship with wine and meat, and he is low-minded in the end, what can he resist?" ”

Du Ruhui squinted his eyes in the wind, and said in a muffled voice behind the gauze: "Wait for me to plan carefully for two days." (To be continued......) R1292