I didn't dare to start a war with the Southern Zhou Dynasty, for fear that our Northern Zhao would sneak attack. The Emperor of Western Qin died.

A group of three people returned to Xijing half a month later. After a long journey, Qin Zhen's injuries were also repeated repeatedly, and it was half a month back to the mansion before he could be regarded as really getting better.

When Qin Luo learned the news, he rushed back from the southern camp, and as soon as he entered the inner courtyard of the palace, he shouted: "Third brother! Third brother! ”

Qin Zhen was sitting in the courtyard, watering the lotus petal orchid and laughing with Zhou Qingqing. Hearing the shout, he turned around and said to Qin Luo, who was in a hurry, and said with a smile: "What are you calling the ghost, aren't I good?" ”

Qin Luo looked at the intimacy between the two, his eyes turned red, and he said angrily: "Before you went to Yandu, you handed over all the talismans to me, I thought you really planned to go and never return!" ”

Qin Zhen laughed loudly: "I'm giving you a little pressure so that you can provoke the beam." ”

Qin Luo snorted and looked at Zhou Qingqing: "Sister-in-law, you were kidnapped by Feng Xiao, he didn't do anything to you, right?" ”

Before she came back, she had already received the news that the Rui King of the Northern Zhao Prison Kingdom was Feng Xiao, and she was so shocked that she was about to crush her silver teeth.

She grinned and just asked with concern, without much thought. But Zhou Qingqing and Qin Zhen glanced at each other, and she replied to her with a smile: "He just wanted to use me to contain the prince, and he didn't do anything to me." ”

Qin Luo waved his whip in annoyance: "If Feng Xiao falls into my hands one day, I will peel off his skin and drink his blood, so that he can't survive and can't ask for it." ”

Qin Zhen straightened his face: "Southern Zhou suffered heavy losses last time, and he will definitely not join forces with Northern Zhao to conquer the West again." Northern Zhao will definitely find an opportunity to go south, annex Southern Zhou, and then start a war with our Western Qin. We have to be prepared at all times, we can no longer just defend and not attack, once the war between the North and the South Zhou starts, we will attack it unprepared. ”

Qin Luo nodded: "The spies in front are always paying attention to the movements, and tens of thousands of troops are also ready to go. After she finished speaking, she sighed and looked around, "What about Nie Jin?" Was he hurt this time? ”

Qin Zhen said with a smile: "This time it's really thanks to Nie Jin, otherwise I would have died on the road." ”

Qin Luo thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Third brother, anyway, the imperial brother already knows the truth. Otherwise, you take this opportunity to ask the imperial brother to give Nie Jin a position, he has made meritorious contributions many times, even if he is a second-grade general, it is not an exaggeration! Such a good talent was wasted. ”

Qin Zhen looked at his sister's bright eyes and raised his eyebrows: "Even if I am willing to ask for the seal, Nie Jin will not agree!" In the end, he is from the Southern Zhou Dynasty, let him be an official in our Western Qin, I am afraid he will not be able to pass the level in his heart. Unless ......"

"Unless what?" Qin Luo's eyes widened, and he asked a little urgently.

Qin Zhen looked at her but smiled silently.

Zhou Qingqing on the side chuckled.

Qin Luo saw that his brother was playing tricks, so he simply turned to Zhou Qingqing: "Sister-in-law, how do you say Nie Jin is willing?" ”

Zhou Qingqing tilted his head and smiled: "Unless Nie Jin marries your Western Qin woman, then he may be willing." ”

Qin Luo frowned and thought seriously for a moment, then nodded, "That makes sense." ”

The so-called Cao Cao Cao arrived. As soon as she finished speaking, Nie Jin, who was paralyzed, walked in, saw Qin Luo in the courtyard, and politely hugged his fists and said hello.

Qin Luo stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Nie Jin, what kind of woman do you like?" ”

Nie Jin's expressionless face looked at her inexplicably, confused.

Qin Luo continued to smile: "I just discussed it with my brother and sister-in-law, and you are not too young, so it is better to find a woman to settle down quickly." There are so many of our Xiqin girls, what do you like, I'll make the decision for you! ”

She said heartily and generously, but Nie Jin had a cold sweat on his forehead, and said with a sneer: "Thank you princess for your concern, but in this situation, I really don't have the heart to take care of personal matters." ”

Qin Luo snorted and glared at him: "It's a big mistake for you to think so, it is precisely because the situation is very chaotic now that you have to find someone to settle down, so that you can have a hope and do things more securely." As he spoke, he patted him on the shoulder again, "That's it, I'm in Beijing these days, and I'll help you pay attention to the daughters who haven't come out of the cabinet in the capital, and try to pick out a talented and beautiful one for you." ”

Nie Jin couldn't cry or laugh, and looked at Zhou Qingqing and Qin Zhen as if asking for help.

Qin Zhen covered his mouth and coughed lightly: "Fourth sister, even if Nie Jin wants to get married, it seems that you shouldn't interfere, right?" Your sister-in-law and I are still here! ”

Qin Luo waved his hand disappreciatively: "What do you know about these things, your sister-in-law is from Nanzhou, and she is not familiar with our women in Xijing, so it is safest to leave this matter to me." ”

Nie Jin couldn't see that he was stubborn, so he had to hug his fists and thank him: "Then Princess Lao will bother." ”

Qin Luo nodded and winked at his brother proudly.

After Qin Luo left, Nie Jin reluctantly said to Qin Zhen and Zhou Qingqing helplessly: "Miss Wangye, the fourth princess, you can help me talk about it, I really don't have the heart to start a family now." ”

Qin Zhen chuckled, looked at him, and asked casually, "Nie Jin, what do you think of Qin Luo?" ”

Nie Jin hesitated and said, "The princess doesn't let her eyebrows go, and she admires it very much." ”

Qin Zhen looked at Zhou Qingqing with a smile, and the latter pursed his lips disapprovingly.

However, Qin Luo didn't have time to select the daughter of a famous family in Xijing for Nie Jin. There was bad news in the palace, and the emperor suddenly fell seriously ill.

Qin Zhen went out early and returned to the palace late for two days in a row, and every time he came back, he looked depressed. Obviously, Qin Jue's condition is not good.

Until the evening of the third day, Zhou Qingqing, who was sitting in the house waiting for Qin Zhen, suddenly heard a bell ringing in the distance. She was still in doubt, and Mi Zhu Mi Yu next to her was already kneeling on the ground.

It is a death knell that symbolizes the death of a member of the royal family.

Zhou Qingqing reacted and was shocked.

The emperor is dead! The Western Qin Emperor Qin Jue, whom he had only met a few times, died!

The news came so suddenly that she couldn't accept it at all.

It wasn't until the next morning that Qin Zhen returned.

His face was dark and tired after a sleepless night, not to mention that the dead man was his brother.

Zhou Qingqing asked the maid to bring him tea and comforted: "Lord, the festival is smooth." ”

Qin Zhen nodded, took a sip of tea, and sighed: "The imperial brother is not yet confused. ”

Zhou Qingqing looked at him sadly, holding his hand and not making a sound.

Qin Zhen was silent for a moment, and then said worriedly, "After the funeral of the imperial brother, the crown prince's enthronement ceremony will have to be held." The crown prince is only fourteen years old, and I am afraid that Qin Luo and I will not be able to get out of it for a while. ”

Zhou Qingqing looked at him: "Are you worried about Beizhao's side?" ”

Qin Zhen nodded: "The emperor has just passed away, and the morale of the army will definitely be affected, and the soldiers will not be willing to go on an expedition." If the North Zhao attacks the south, we can only watch from a distance. He paused, and then said, "If they go along with it, they can still win time to recuperate." ”

Zhou Qingqing nodded: "No one would have expected this kind of thing to happen." I am afraid that the crown prince will □□not be stable when he ascends the throne, so you concentrate on arranging the affairs of the court, and then consider the rest in the long run. ”

Qin Zhen smiled bitterly: "It can only be like this." As he spoke, his expression darkened, "I don't believe that God will always be on Feng Xiao's side." ”

……

North Zhao Rui Palace.

In the middle of spring, the flowers and plants in the garden come back to life. Feng Xiao stood by the window, looking at the grass swaying in the wind, and Zhou Qingqing's appearance appeared in his mind.

Sometimes he looks forward to it, sometimes he is indifferent and resentful.

He sighed faintly and closed his eyes.

"Lord Wang, I received a news from the spy from Xiqin."

Feng Xiao stepped forward and took the letter in the guard's hand and opened it. The originally cold face slowly evoked a smile, and in the end, it was a chuckle.

He waved his hand casually, and the letter paper in his hand was shattered in the air: "God help me!" ”

The 100,000 troops of Northern Zhao had already assembled on the Yanzhao border, and when the time was ripe, they waved their troops down.

Half a month later, the northern ** expedition, all the way to conquer, approaching Jinling. The Emperor of Southern Zhou, who was sitting on the dragon chair, suddenly woke up to the fact that what Zhou Xun, who had been a proton in Northern Zhao before, came back to tell him was true.

But the general trend is gone, and it is too late to regret it. I had to give the order to close the city gates and resist hard.

General Chen, the chief general who led the troops to resist, fought a bloody war of resistance for two days, and saw that the city gate was about to be missed, so he hurriedly tied up the thirteen-year-old prince Zhao Chan of Northern Zhao and carried him on the city wall to shout.

"His Royal Highness King Rui of Northern Zhao, your crown prince is here, if you don't retreat, we will kill him first."

The ignorant proton Zhao Chan looked at the dense Northern Zhao army under the city, and saw the heroic man in silver armor in the middle, and suddenly his eyes lit up and shouted: "Big brother, save me!" ”

Feng Xiao has been in Western Qin for ten years, and Zhao Chan and his half-brother have only met two or three times, and the others are all from their mother. But he thought that this was his brother, and he was the prince of Northern Zhao. Although he didn't understand why his mother and eldest brother sent him to be a proton in the first place, he believed that his brother would not put his life at risk.

Feng Xiao rode on horseback, looked at it from a distance, and then pulled the bridle and slowly drove the horse to the front of the army.

General Chen looked at this man who came from an expedition, without the slightest tiredness, and the clouds were light and light as if he was facing a war.

He knew that Nanzhou was finished.

Feng Xiao held the bridle with one hand and looked up at Zhao Chan on the city wall, his eyes were gentle, like an eldest brother who loved him.

"Prince, the great cause of the country is ahead, and the eldest brother can't withdraw from the army. But the eldest brother must lay down this Jinling City and give you an explanation. Don't worry, I won't let you die at someone else's hands. ”

General Chen was shocked, and Feng Xiao had already picked up the bow behind him with one hand and pulled out an arrow from the quiver with the other.

The bow is full of strings, and the arrows are swept by the wind.

Zhao Chan looked at the arrow that was shooting at him in disbelief, and he didn't even dodge. Until the arrow entered his chest, he was still stunned and dazed, and muttered in his mouth: "Queen Mother-Big Brother-"

Then the walls were planted headlong.

Feng Xiao took the bow and said loudly: "The prince sacrificed his life for the country, we captured Jinling and sacrificed the prince with the blood of the Southern Zhou royal family." ”

General Chen originally thought that Feng Xiao's blatant shooting of the crown prince of Northern Zhao would cause outrage. But I didn't want the Northern Zhao army to be not panicked because of the death of the prince, but its morale was greatly boosted.

The Northern Zhao army under the city sounded loudly.