The weather in June is the hottest time of the year.

Whether it is the flowers and trees in the courtyard, the birds in front of the porch, or the people lying on the rocking chairs to enjoy the shade, it is a state.

It's all wilted.

It has been a month since the Dragon Boat Festival, and this year's heat is particularly severe, even if the ice is used in the house, it can't offset the rolling heat wave.

Lu Ye left in mid-May, when Lu Ye received a letter, and then said goodbye to Bai Mingwen and hurried back to Beijing.

Since the Dragon Boat Festival incident, Bai Lian has not been out, and Lu Ye has no chance to meet her by chance, so when he said goodbye to Wei, he said a few words outside Bai Lian's house.

After that, I went back to Beijing.

Later, Bai Lian heard that there was a war in the northwest, and a few years ago, the northwest of the Zhou Dynasty was in civil strife for many years and was divided into many small tribes, so the border in the northwest has always been peaceful.

In recent years, the Qiang have annexed other small tribes, recuperated, strengthened the people and enriched the army, and often made some provocative moves on the border.

Originally, Uncle Yan guarded the northwest, and the Qiang people were afraid and did not dare to act rashly.

Now the situation in the middle of the dynasty is tense, coupled with the death of the crown prince, the status of the Yan family's relatives is threatened, once the next generation of emperors is not from the Yan family's women, the glory of the Yan family can not be maintained for three generations at most.

Therefore, Taishi Yan summoned Uncle Yan Guo back to Beijing. And Uncle Yan brought back Gu Yan, who had the strongest momentum in the army, and left a cousin in the clan in the northwest. Bai Lian can understand the Yan family's move, Gu Yan is capable, if Uncle Yan Guo is not in the northwest all the year round. No one can stop Gu Yan's momentum in the northwest.

The military is still different from the court, and the forces of all sides of the court are holding each other back, and no matter what they want to do, they have concerns. But in the army, those hot-blooded soldiers, what impressed them was not the level of rank, but the size of their ability. It doesn't matter if you have the surname Yan or the surname Gu, they don't care. This is also since the death of Uncle Yan Guo, no matter who in the Yan family is in the northwest, it is difficult to stop Gu Yan's rise in the northwest.

I have to say that Uncle Yan Guo's move was right, because Bai Lian knew about the things in his previous life. The northwest all fell into the hands of Gu Yan. It became the greatest guarantee for him to win the imperial power. However, Uncle Yan's move also had drawbacks.

Uncle Yan Guo was not there, and Gu Yan was not there, which directly led to the attack of the Qiang people. The Yan family's brother mishandled it. Misdeployment of troops. The three cities in the northwest were lost and fell into the hands of the Qiang people.

The terrain of the three cities in the northwest is dangerous, and it is in the pass. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is difficult to recapture, the Qiang people can entrench themselves in the three cities, invade from the heights, and retreat back to the grassland tribes, no matter whether they advance or retreat, they will not suffer. However, it was difficult for the Zhou Dynasty to recover the three cities that were difficult to capture.

When the news came, everyone was shocked!

There was a tug of war on this matter, some people were the main battle, and naturally there were also people who were in charge of peace. The main station is naturally still the Yan family, after all, it was lost in their hands, if they compromise with the Qiang people, they will lose all their face.

The Lord and the Peacemaker believed that the plague in the southern cities had just been experienced last year, and that Nanzhao was eyeing the tiger, so it was better to negotiate peace in order to stabilize the situation.

This is so, that is so, and the controversy of the court is frozen.

When Bai Lian heard this, she was also taken aback.

In the previous life, the Qiang people rebelled, it should have been in the year of themselves and Lu, oh, no, it was the year of Zhou Deyin and Lu.

That is, next year, but now it is a year earlier.

Bai Lian thought about such a change, and then thought that maybe it was because of the untimely death of the prince's younger brother, in his previous life, the prince's younger brother died early, and at that time, Prince Rui was not like the current power in the court, and the grandfather of the Yan family did not have a hard time coping with it, so he did not recall Uncle Yan.

Now that Uncle Yan has been recalled, something happened in the northwest.

Bai Lian thought about the changes in her past life and this life, and thought of whether this Qiang rebellion would be like her previous life, a battle in which Gu Yan became famous.

In the previous life, the Qiang rebellion was menacing again, the three cities in the northwest were good, and when the chaos was quelled, the sacrifice was not great, Gu Yan highlighted the strange soldiers, and won more with less. This time, the three cities in the northwest were lost, the terrain was dangerous, and it was not easy to calm the chaos.

Bai Lian thought, Lu Ye went back, I don't know what role it can play, the Yan family has a holiday with him, according to his temperament, I am afraid that I will have to block the Yan family again.

Bai Lian couldn't help but rub her head when she thought of this.

It's a good thing to have changes, but you can't always change in a bad direction, the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come, Lu Ye faced the Yan family earlier in this life than in his previous life.

Lu Ye was so eager to go back, he was afraid that he could play a role in this matter. I only hope that he can put aside the grievances of the two families and put the affairs of the military and the state first, if there is infighting with the Yan family at this time, it can only be the people in the northwest who suffer, and the only ones who can suffer are the Zhou Dynasty.

Bai Lian was thinking about it, when she saw the cherry coming from outside, she looked at Bai Lian's listlessness, and then looked at the ice basin on the pestle, and saw that it had melted, so she called out to the pothos waiting outside the door:

"Go and change the ice for the girl."

After the pothos stepped back, Cherry picked up the puff fan on the table, sat on the high stool on the edge of the rocking chair, and fanned the white lotus one by one.

"Girl, I just sent the plum soup from the kitchen, I asked Hongshang to take it to the ice, and I will bring it to the girl in a while."

"Hmm." After Bai Lian answered, she still couldn't lift her spirits, she was upset, she just wanted to enter Beijing now, and now in Pengcheng, thousands of miles away from the capital, all the news in the court was brought over when the Jiude came to deliver the account book every month, and it was a long time late.

Cherry looked at Bai Lian's listlessness on the side, so she shook the pu fan while talking to her:

"Girl, when the slave maid was at noon, you were happy to hear something from Mrs. Wu, who was buying vegetables."

Bai Lian raised her head, looked at Cherry with great interest, and didn't spoil her interest, so she asked:

"What's the matter?"

Cherry pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes flashing with a smile, and she gloated:

"What else can make the girl happy, isn't it the matter of the Zhu family, Mrs. Wu, who is buying vegetables, heard something when she went out today, it was said by the mother-in-law of the Hu family, that it was rumored that Mrs. Hu was in harmony with her cousin, niece, wife and concubine, but as early as when Aunt Zhu first entered the house, she was placed in a side courtyard by Mrs. Zhu and kept under close care. said that I didn't know how Mrs. Hu asked her subordinates to take care of Aunt Zhu, but the maid who delivered the meal a few days ago saw that Aunt Zhu was skeletal and skinny. ”

Bai Lian didn't have much expression after hearing it, such a consequence, Bai Lian thought of it early on, Lu Ye's plan was like this, how much disgust it added to the Zhu family and the Hu family, it didn't need outsiders to say it.

Cherry spoke energetically, but after a slight pause, she smiled and said:

"It's not all, it is said that everyone in Hu Mansion dares to show Aunt Zhu's face, but I didn't expect Aunt Zhu to be easy to handle, there was an incident the night before, and everyone in the mansion knew about it."

ps: Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, be cautious if you want to express your heart, thunderstorms, swear less.

Just kidding, everyone has to have a happy holiday.

Thanks to Sunny Day Moyun, Aloe Vera, Dongji2002's peace charm, Gui Su's reward, CPP1997 monthly pass. (To be continued.) )