Zhou Xingyu left Beijing in September, thinking that Empress Yan and Emperor Zhaoren analyzed the severity of the matter, so that Emperor Zhaoren could figure it out so quickly.

Along the way, someone escorted Zhou Xingyu.

In this way, when Zhou Xingyu was in Nanzhao, he relied on the imperial court behind him, and he was no longer the helpless son of the past.

Although he promised to get married, he had to wait for Uncle Yan Guo to come back, at least half a year later.

After Zhou Xingyu's incident, Bailian can be regarded as a victory in the first battle.

As for whether Zhou Xingyu is Zhou Xingkai's opponent after he goes back, Bai Lian can't be sure, but Nanzhao's civil strife in the past few years is indispensable.

Thinking of the future, that feeling of not being able to control is very bad, this is not the small world of the Bai family's back house. It's a turbulent situation and a rapidly changing court.

At the moment, they are still allies, so how do you know if they will stand in the enemy position the next moment!

Bai Lian has always been holding Zhou Hongwen's jade pendant, and often took it out to look at it and look at it, the dragon pendant is owned by the children of the royal family, but Zhou Hongwen's deceased father is the first prince, and the jade pendant is also different from others.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this difference that he was treated differently from other clan disciples.

Bai Lian jumped out of the circle of the royal family, stood outside, and looked at everything as an outsider, only to find that her father owed Zhou Hongwen a lot.

After all, the death of the first prince is an old thing, Bai Lian didn't know what happened at the beginning, and only heard Zhou Hongwen say before he died that it was his father who took the crown prince of the first prince, if Zhou Hongwen was not protected by the emperor's grandfather. I'm afraid that I won't lose my life.

Thinking about it later, it is not impossible for his father to have such an attitude towards Zhou Hongwen.

Now that the royal family is withering, in a few years, the prince will surface as soon as he says it, and Prince Rui's faction says that he has no children to pass on his brother, and this brother naturally refers to Prince Rui.

However, the Yan family chose the right person in the clan to succeed to the queen, so that he would be a legitimate prince. Where is there any childless teaching?

White Lotus knows. His mother first took a fancy to Brother Zheng, but after being rejected by Brother Zheng, she found another son of the clan.

Bai Lian originally thought that Brother Zheng was because Empress Yan asked him to divorce his wife and remarry, but he didn't know until he was dying. He didn't want to wade into the troubled waters of the struggle for imperial power.

At that time, Prince Rui was powerful. Brother Zheng if he accepts. Facing a tough battle, Bai Lian clearly remembers what he said to himself at the beginning: the road to the Supreme. It is a road of swords and swords and shadows, and every step of the bloody wind.

So, he gave up.

However, even if he gave up, he couldn't escape Lu Ye's butcher's knife!

The jade pendant in Bai Lian's hand was held tightly.

Yuzhu and the others saw that Bai Lian was often in a daze with the jade pendant, and they couldn't help but have a lot of worries.

Yuzhu knows, it is King Zheng's jade pendant. Thinking of Bai Lian's attitude towards King Zheng when he was on the boat, Yuzhu was still a little worried.

I'm afraid that Bai Lian's heart will be wrong, even if King Zheng is no longer relevant in the royal family, he is a member of the royal family, and Bai Lian is just a daughter from the six grades, and her identity does not match.

It's just these, Yuzhu doesn't dare to say it, if the daughter's family's heart is broken, it will inevitably be embarrassing, even if it is as strong as a white lotus, I'm afraid it will be no exception.

After some time, Bai Lian was no longer in a daze at the jade pendant, but on the bookcase, holding a map.

That map was given to Bai Lian by Yang Qing, and things like this are only available in the army, and Yang Qing doesn't know how to get them.

The places above, the fortress, and the terrain are all annotated next to them. Yang Qing also gave her a copy of the Kyushu Chronicles, on which the geographical customs and geological changes of various places are different.

With that map, Bai Lian just didn't go out, and also touched the rivers and mountains of the Zhou Dynasty, and her heart became more and more yearning.

Bai Lian knew that if such a thing was known, she was afraid that she would get into trouble, but she was reluctant to throw it away.

As time passed, the longer Bai Lian looked at that map, especially in the northwest direction.

Every time there is news from the northwest, Bailian always has to find the corresponding place on the map and look at the local fortress checkpoints.

Bai Lian is more and more sure in her heart that Uncle Yan is leading the Qiang people to stretch the battle line, and the cavalry of the Qiang tribe is fast and fierce, and once the battle line is extended, it will inevitably cause the supply of reserve resources to be insufficient.

Uncle Yan fought this battle for a year, but he was afraid that the Qiang people would take local materials and directly rob the grain of the people in the northwest, after all, summer and autumn are harvest times, Bailian looked at the battle line, and led the Qiang people to fight in some poorly cultivated places, thinking that he had such an idea.

Bai Lian has always guessed that it will probably be October, and Uncle Yan will fight back.

But in October, there was still no movement, and Bai Lian was a little worried, could all this be just her own speculation?

Could it be that the Qiang are really too brave?

As the days passed, Bai Lian became less and less confident.

Sometimes when I go to bed at night, I often think that if the battle is defeated, the power of the Yan family is frustrated, and there is no power above the court that can restrain Prince Rui, and it will be difficult to move an inch at that time.

Wake up during the day, look at the map again, look at the route they lost, and regain some confidence.

In such a worried and relieved, contradictory mood, Bai Lian waited for news from the northwest.

When the news reached the capital, it was already the end of October.

That day, Wei took Bai Lian to Jiude to choose the fabric for cutting winter clothes, and now one of the Bai family's products, as long as Jiude has them, they are all selected from Jiude.

Yang Qing introduced Wei's throughout the whole process, what kind of fashion, what kind of comfort, and what kind of warmth are listed one by one.

The shopkeeper of the Jiude Beijing shop, seeing this battle, couldn't help but look deeply at Wei's party.

I measured in my heart, if Yang Qing was not there any day, I would be respectful when I saw them.

When she returned with a full load, Wei was in the car, praising Yang Qing with her mouth, and Bai Lian nodded her head on the side, saying that if it wasn't good, she wouldn't be able to trust Yang Qing so much.

In the end, Wei said that the Yang family has a good life, and there is such a promising younger brother, and after Wei finished speaking, he sighed.

Bai Lian listened to her sigh, and suddenly thought of the Wei family.

As early as many years ago, when the dust settled on the affairs of the Wei family, Wei Zhenglian's family was sentenced to the northwest, and Wei Rong, who was the only son in the family, although he was not guilty, but he also went to the northwest with him, and no one knows what kind of situation it is now.

Bai Lian thought, the northwest is now in full flames, and those who wear guilt are afraid that they will not be much better.

Just as he was thinking about the things in the northwest, he heard a hurried sound of horses' hooves, accompanied by a powerful shout:

"Good news, General Yan defeated the Qiang army at Huling Pass, and the enemy army was defeated and retreated!"

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