When Rong Jiang returned to the big house, her father was not there, only Rong Min came to pick her up, and when she saw Rong Min, she felt tired and ruthless, and her feet were soft and almost unable to hold on, but Rong Min quickly stepped forward to support her, and took her back to the house with half support and half hug, and ordered no one to tell the old lady, so she sent the minions out.

"Be good." Rong Jiang didn't know what he wanted to say, so he could only call like this, but after the call, there was no follow-up.

Although Rong Min is not in the ranks, he is not an uninformed gentleman, he knows the strangeness of this marriage, and he also knows that the Son of Heaven's patience with the Rong family's military power has reached the limit, but he doesn't know how to comfort his sister, so he can only sit beside her, gently pat her back, like comfort, like comfort, like giving her a support.

Rong Jiang thought of the past-

It was the fourteenth year of the first emperor's reign, the Beidi army invaded the territory, at that time Daye's national strength was not yet now, the first emperor and the ministers were in difficulty, and they were helpless for a while.

Rong Zhen was twenty-two years old at the time, and she had only had Rong Min for a year, and she had not led the army for nearly two years because of the production, so she asked for an order to resist the enemy at the moment. But soon the news of the army's defeat and retreat came back to Yecheng, and people like Rong Zhen couldn't resist Beidi's invasion.

The first emperor was at a loss, and the recital from the household report gave him even more headaches, and the protracted war for nearly half a year had made the treasury a little unbearable.

After that, Rong Zhen secretly returned to Beijing, presented his feelings in person, and built a first emperor to take advantage of Xirong to form a flanking attack on the Beidi army. But Xijon has never been a good country, the first emperor has been the Son of Heaven for more than ten years, and he naturally knows very well that if he wants to borrow the Tao, he must send something that can convince Xirong, or - people.

So in October of the fourteenth year of Hongshun, the twelve-year-old prince was sent to Xirong as a proton to retreat from the Beidi army. At that time, the courtiers wrote to ask the emperor to think twice, or Rong Zhen stood up and angrily reprimanded the ministers "If there is no country, how can you come to the king", just six words, it was decided that the prince must walk in the cold winter season, step on the cold wind all the way, and go to the country full of hostility and unknown.

In June of the fifteenth year of Hongshun, Rong Zhen defeated Beidi and sent the news of the victory back to Yecheng, the first emperor was overjoyed and sent envoys to Xirong to welcome back the prince, but Xirong refused to return the protons, and even the envoys sent were tied up and sent back to the border.

At that time, Rong Zhen and the Rong family army under her command could no longer fight.

Until the seventeenth year of Hongshun, the first emperor failed to bring back this only son from Xirong, coupled with the war with Beidi caused the treasury to be empty, the army was insufficient, and his own health was getting worse and worse, so he had no choice but to set up his younger brother Zhao Liang as the emperor's younger brother, just in case.

In March of the nineteenth year of Hongshun, when the peach blossoms were in full bloom, the first emperor collapsed in the Qingfeng Palace, but Xirong sent the prince Heng, who had not returned for five years, back to Yecheng. The courtiers were immediately divided into two factions, one faction wanted to take the crown prince Heng as the emperor, and the other faction wanted to take the emperor's younger brother Liang as the emperor, and they were at a stalemate for a while. Later, Zhao Liang took the initiative to let Xian, and in the Qingfeng Palace, he knelt at the feet of his nephew, bowed his head and proclaimed his ministers, and cut off the minds of a few courtiers who wanted to respect him as the emperor.

However, it was said that Zhao Heng was the emperor, and the imperial uncle was registered as the king of England and sent to the fiefdom of Yunzhou.

Half a year later, the emperor ordered Rong Zhen to lead 100,000 troops to attack Xirong, but the twenty-seven-year-old generalissimo Rong Zhen never returned to Yecheng alive from that battle, and Daye also ceded more than a dozen counties and towns west of the town and county to Xirong.

Rong Jiang was a little sad, she had doubted more than once whether her mother's death was caused by today's son, but she couldn't ask. His mother died on the battlefield at the age of twenty-seven, which was not only the glory of his grandfather, but also the pain of the old man's life, which was his most proud child, how could he not grieve.

"Do you remember what your mother looked like?" She turned her face slightly sideways to look at her brother, with a rare softness and attachment on her face.

Rong Min recalled carefully, in fact, he didn't have a deep impression of his mother.

Rong Zhen's last years, almost all spent on the battlefield, from Rong Min when she was one year old, she led the army to fight against Beidi, and later met the death of the first emperor, the crown prince and the king of England were deadlocked, and the affairs of the court and China made her have no time to take care of this little son. Finally, when the crown prince ascended the throne, she was sent to Xijon again, and never returned.

Rong Min thought and shook his head with a wry smile. Rong Jiang was a little distressed and a little funny when he looked at him, leaning on his shoulder and telling him a lot of things about Rong Zhen's past, in fact, most of them were also heard by her father from her father, after all, at that time, she was only four years old.

"Congshan, sometimes I often think that my grandfather asked me to lead the army to the battle, and later inherited my mother's title," she grabbed Rong Min's arm, a little erratic, and seemed to be very undetermined, and asked, "Should I refuse at that time?" ”

Rong Min sighed lightly and held Rong Jiang's hand: "You can't think like this, you can't say this, grandfather will be sad," he held Rong Jiang's shoulders and forced her to look at him, "Grandfather pinned all his hopes for his mother on you." Sister, you are the future of the Rong family. ”

"You're wrong." Rong Jiang didn't argue with him strongly, just said these three words very softly, she slapped Rong Min's hand away, got up and walked to the window, where there was a painting of Rong Zhen before his death. She looked at the painting for a long time before she said, "I think my mother didn't want to do it back then." In this world, there is no woman who does not seek to live in peace, but to be crowned a king and a marquis. Sometimes I hate, hate the ruthlessness of the Son of Heaven, and sometimes resent, complain about my uncle's incompetence. But in the end, I thought, since my mother has chosen this path, maybe I should go down for her, just be kind," she turned around to look at Rong Min, "There is a thorn in the heart of the son today, a thorn that no one can pull out for his mother and the Rong family." ”

Rong Min was startled and almost scolded her for not talking nonsense, but after all, she didn't yell out, but her expression changed slightly: "Sister, you shouldn't say this." ”

Rong Jiang smiled instead: "I almost died in Jiangbei this time, do you know?" Ignoring Rong Min's shock, he said to himself, "So when His Majesty ordered me to return to Beijing secretly, I probably knew what he wanted to do." But he wants to involve Sister Yuan again," he said with a little annoyance, "Isn't it possible that the girl of our Rong family can't be exchanged for a stable one?" ”

"The marriage of the second sister, we can't be the master, since Your Majesty has made a will, there is no room for maneuver," he took two steps forward and took the angry sister into his arms, "But you are Rong Jiang, no matter how tired you are, you are still Rong Jiang." ”

Rong Jiang understood this sentence.

All her unwillingness and anger can only be expressed in front of Rong Min, out of this door, she is still the youngest generalissimo of the Rong family, and the Marquis of Gu Ning, who has the highest military merits in this Daye. Because her surname is Rong and she is Rong Zhen's daughter, she can't change the suppression and targeting of the Son of Heaven, she can only bear it, and she can only laugh.

Really, unwillingly.