At this time, the desert edge that is very far away from the imperial capital Luoyang, the yellow sand is all over the sky, and the dead trees are wilting, although it is far away from the imperial city, it is also closely related to every struggle above the court.

Looking down from the high valley, the tents set up by the army are densely piled up, and the flags planted high are like a proclamation, dominating a side of the loess, and the scene is not spectacular.

A man dressed in the grade uniform of the Central General was walking towards the largest tent, and many guards stood at the door with weapons in hand, heavily guarded, and looked very depressed.

As he passed, all the soldiers bowed their heads to him.

The man paused for a moment at the door of the tent, thought for a moment, and then walked into the tent, where each hand-drawn map was neatly stacked on the military platform, but there was a heavy curtain hanging in the inner room, and a man sat upright, shrouded in shadows and unable to see his face.

He knelt down to the man and bowed a big salute, saying, "The minister is Chen Shi, the general of the Central Committee, and he has something to do. ”

The man standing next to the curtain was a maid in a male military uniform, and when the person sitting inside nodded, the maid understood and said, "The general is okay to say." ”

Chen Shihan knelt on the ground and continued: "The southern battlefield has been cleared, and more than 10,000 people have been killed in the headquarters, more than 100 horses, cattle, sheep, etc., and more than 200,000 people have come to surrender, including a concubine and concubine of Shan Yu of the Northern Xiongnu. In addition, this morning, the hussar general has led 8,000 soldiers to pursue the remnants of Bei Dan Yu who fled to the West Sea, and now Shan Yu has been persuaded to surrender. ”

After saying that, he presented the battle report to the people inside, and the woman took it and carefully handed it into the curtain.

After the person inside read the fold with his hand, there was silence for a while, and Chen Shi, who had originally lowered his head, secretly raised his head and glanced up, only to see the afterglow of the remnant sun outside the tent falling into the bead curtain, and the shadow was cast on the upper half of the person's face, which was extremely mysterious.

Although hidden behind the beaded curtain, it was still a woman, and judging from the soft curve outlined by the side of her face, it was still an extremely beautiful woman.

At this time, the pair of white-skinned jade hands in the curtain gently placed the fold on the front case, without making any comments, Chen Shi was very uneasy in his heart, the content of the fold was testing the noble person in front of him, but from the other party's appearance, it was not clear what she thought.

I saw that the noble man in the curtain looked calm, and said casually: "I will tell Your Majesty the idea of the hussar general, you can retreat." ”

Chen Shi immediately saluted: "The minister retires." ”

Putting down half of the stone in his heart, he quickly got up and left the tent and hurried in another direction. Then the person in the curtain lifted the beaded curtain, and the maid in military uniform beside her immediately took over and lifted it, let the nobleman in the curtain put his hand on his own, and helped her get up and walk out of the heavy curtain.

When that hidden face appeared in the world, this kind of beauty was really incomparable to Shen Zhuangzhao.

I only heard the noble beauty say coldly: "The hussar general's appetite is getting bigger and bigger. ”

"Your Highness, what is it about the excerpt that makes you so angry?"

The maid on the side knew very well that the noble person in front of her would not show her dew even if she was angry, and it was very rare for her to spit out a few words so coldly after she was angry.

"The Xiao family asked that he be crowned the Great Sima General."

"What?" The maid was surprised, "There has never been a reward for meritorious people only by the Holy Ming's majesty, and there is also a matter of asking for a seal with a shy face?" Not to mention ......"

The beauty stared condescendingly at the fold on the front desk with her back hand, her eyes seemed to contain layers of ice, and she took over the words in a cold tone: "...... He is also the atoning battle for the sinful body, the dying one. ”

"General Xiao sent such an excerpt to Luoyang, how angry will His Majesty be!"

The maid's tone was a little hurried, and the nobleman in front of her glanced back at her lightly, and then she knew that she had lost her words, and she was ashamed to admit her guilt.

"It's okay, the Xiao clan may have thought that this world is not my Wei family, but the surname Xiao."

As soon as these words came out, the maid was so startled that she hurriedly knelt down, and at the same time exclaimed in surprise: "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess!" The guard standing closest to the doorway in the inner chamber followed suit, kneeling carefully.

With ill intentions and usurping the country, such words coming out of the mouth of a person with the blood of the Son of Heaven are tantamount to the greatest death sentence for a powerful minister.

Whether the listener should listen or not, he should say whether he should hear or not.

It wasn't until the eldest princess in front of her gave up that everyone dared to stand up carefully.

"Get up."

In a faint tone, it was clear that the nobleman did not care about the person who should not have heard it, and saw her turn around and slowly pull out a brush from the ceramic pen utensils on the Ivy case, and write the official script on the paper with her left hand behind her back.

"Tell me my will," she ordered calmly as she wrote with her hands behind her back, revealing an irresistible sense of oppression in her coldness, "properly settle a prisoner, and confiscate a prisoner and a qiē confiscate cattle, sheep and livestock." The hussar general was ordered to treat Beidan Yu very strictly, and set off to return to Luoyang with Beidan Yu after rectification tomorrow. ”

After speaking, she paused, put down the brush and folded the paper: "Bring the carrier pigeon envoy over, and let the flying slave bring this letter back to Luoyang - be sure to give it to the emperor." ”

After the maid who stood and waited answered yes, she quickly instructed the people around her to do it, and after the others gradually retreated, the eldest princess slowly paced to the door, at this time it was sunset, under the background of this uninhabited loess desert, the whole sky was as red as a fire to the treacherous, which made people feel very depressed and desolate, and then she sighed at the sky without being noticed.

After a two-year journey, he left his hometown and galloped on the battlefield, and now he ...... It's finally over.

And when night falls, Luoyang, thousands of miles away, is full of brilliant lights, people come and go, and gradually in the era of national peace and peace, all these small happiness seem to be so hard-won. Only one day later, the post station in Luoyang City received the news of surrender from the distant battlefield, and the whole city was in an uproar.

In the palace, some people were happy because of the news, and some people were mixed because of the news.

I heard that when Queen Xiao of the Jiaofang Palace heard the news, she immediately rewarded every subordinate and beauty in the whole hall, and it seemed that the entire Weiyang Palace was full of joy, as if excessive rewards were not enough to reflect the mood of the Xiao family at the moment.

The queen's brother led the troops to defeat the Huns and returned with a good harvest, such a good thing, for a while, the upper elites of Luoyang City came to the door to say hello to Xiao Mansion in person.

Even the Shen Mansion, which has always seemed to have a delicate relationship with the Xiao family, did not inevitably take advantage of the first time to say goodbye, although I don't know what kind of complicated mentality the people of the Shen family came to the door, but the Xiao family, who took advantage of the joy on their heads, also showed the grandeur of the general's family with great merit to them, and in the end, the two families were also polite.

At this moment, the "old ancestor" in the harem couldn't sit still.

It was originally July's birthday, and the Shen Mansion learned that the Queen Mother intended to issue an order to take the young lady who had not left the Shen Mansion into the palace a month in advance, and it seemed that the current Queen Mother was already burning her brows.

And Shen Shuzhao, the second lady in the Shen Mansion, is not in a hurry now, because in this life, everything is still going in the original direction.

In the previous life, only Shen Zhuang Zhao and Shen Xiaozhao entered the palace in advance, and they were sent back after the banquet, but now she has the same month as them, which is enough to be able to do a lot of things in a short time.

In the period before the queen mother's decree, the days that should have passed one after another, Shen Shuzhao knew that her appearance was not comparable to Shen Zhuangzhao, so she did not bathe in incense all day long like Shen Xiaozhao, carefully dressed up all the time, and changing a few sets of clothes every day seemed to have become her greatest pleasure in entering the palace to meet the emperor.

And what Shen Shuzhao can do is to visit his mother in the side courtyard more often in the remaining time before entering the palace.

On this day, just after serving the old lady, Shen Shuzhao took the three maids and hurriedly walked to the courtyard of his mother, and the scenery became more and more secluded along the way, and after a while, he walked to the front of his mother's courtyard. The Shen Mansion is very large, but the gap between the courtyards is also very large.

This western courtyard is not as wide as other houses, it is surrounded by a bamboo forest and flowing water, so it is more humid, and because it lives in Shen Shuzhao's biological mother, who is indisputable and unfavorable, this is not the place they want to go.

Shen Shuzhao stepped into the courtyard, saw gray tiles and white walls, lush bamboo and wood, it happened that it was drizzling at this time, and the whole side courtyard was shrouded in the smoke and rain of the south of the Yangtze River, full of faint style, just like the owner who lived in it, and her temperament was as gentle as water like a woman in the south of the Yangtze River.

Walking into the courtyard with three maids, Shen Shuzhao saw a woman standing alone in front of the bamboo forest with an umbrella and waiting for people.

"Mother, what are you doing here?" Shen Shuzhao hurriedly walked over to help the woman, "What about the people who serve you?" Hurry into the back room and be careful if you catch a cold. ”

The woman is Shen Shuzhao's own mother, Ruan, although she is no longer in her prime, she can still see the gentleness of the year from between her eyebrows and eyes. Ruan Shi put his hand on Shen Shuzhao's hand and said kindly: "Daughter, it's okay for Mother. I have something for you, so let me in. ”

Stuff? Shen Shuzhao was puzzled, but he still followed his mother Ruan into the back room.

After entering the inner room, Shen Shuzhao turned around and ordered the other subordinates: "You all stay outside the door, there is no need for so many people here." At the same time, she also ordered Hanyan to wait by the door of the inner room alone.

Although there are not many things in the room, everything is finely made, most of them are sent by Shen Shuzhao here, and it is also because there are few things, so it seems that the whole room is empty, and I saw a small round table inside with a square box of gold-painted flowers.

Ruan Shi took his daughter's hand and sat down, and said at the same time: "This is Yu Yage's jewelry, you open it and take a look." ”

Shen Shuzhao stretched out his hand to open the box, which displayed a crystal clear and simple hosta, looking at the simplicity in the room, he didn't know what it was like for a while, so he said: "Mother, the old lady has already given her daughter a lot of jewelry, so you don't have to go out of your way to choose the ...... of Jade Accord."

"Mother knows," Ruan sighed and said, "It's just that you will enter the palace soon, and Mother can't buy you nothing ......."

This woman, who had a hard life in her previous life, and who lived a little better in this life because her daughter was favored in front of the old lady, secretly saved all the money that Shen Shuzhao often gave her, and spent all her savings on jewelry for Shen Shuzhao in order to enter the palace and meet the queen mother.

For a while, Shen Shuzhao was so silent that she didn't know what to say, her mother was just a concubine who had fallen out of favor, and she had no quarrel with the world, if she didn't usually take care of herself, she didn't know what it would be like to be bullied by other people.

She squeezed Ruan's hand, looked into her mother's eyes and swore word by word: "Mother, my daughter will definitely make you live a better life in the future, and she will be even better than the eldest lady." ”

Nguyen Thi smiled and said, "How good can I be, just if you live well, mother." ”

After finishing speaking, Ruan Shi suddenly seemed to remember something, frowned slightly, and said to Shen Shuzhao seriously: "After entering the palace, you should treat the Queen Mother better than the old lady, the eldest lady is the queen mother, and the queen mother must treat her closer, don't take it too seriously, don't have any conflicts with the eldest lady and the third lady, after the birthday banquet, you return home safely, and the stone in your mother's heart will be put down." ”

"Mother, my daughter knows."

"Not only do you know but you have to do it," Ruan hugged her only daughter she could rely on, and said gently: "Mother doesn't want you to be a palace concubine, the environment there is too complicated, you just follow behind the eldest lady honestly, the eldest lady really wants her daughter to be a palace concubine, you should try to stay away from the emperor and don't annoy the lady." ”

Hearing this, recalling all the things in her previous life, Shen Shuzhao's heart was full of unwillingness, and she replied: "Mother, you only avoided the eldest lady, but the eldest lady never let you go, do you and I really want to live under her face in our lives?" ”

Ruan's expression suddenly became sad, and his brows were full of worry: "But do this...... Your father can have an easier time. ”

Heartache instantly filled Shen Shuzhao's heart, father? She asked herself in her heart that if that man really loved her mother, he would not let her live so hard.

Sometimes it's just a deep love that makes it difficult to understand the truth behind it, and I'd rather treat it as a flower in the mirror and believe what I want to see.

What is wrong is that they believe in love too much.

Seeing that his mother fell into a faint sorrow because of him, Shen Shuzhao suddenly froze in place, and in an instant, the memories of his previous life came to his heart, how could it not be like this in his previous life?

All she wanted was to have more rights and get that woman.

But because he trusts and relies too much, he ignores too many things that are obviously unfavorable, and only wishfully believes that he can bring happiness to the other party, but he ignores that person's response, and he only needs to pay for himself.

If you love each other enough, how can you never respond?