Chapter 719: Winter in the Border City
The Hou Mansion in Dingbei is quiet, and in the back garden where the big trees are in the shade, Mrs. Hou is listening to her grandchildren reciting the three-character scripture, but she is thinking about the things in the palace, where is this Concubine Wu sacred, why did she let the emperor be so attentive?
Not to mention that she rests in Concubine Wu's palace every day, let's just say that the maintenance of Concubine Wu is also unique. Is it really just because Concubine Wu is beautiful and looks like the moon? Or is there something else?
No matter what the reason, at least it has nothing to do with the Dingbei Hou Mansion, and now I just hope that Mo Li can feel at ease in the border city, and stop thinking about those who don't have it. But can things really go as Mrs. Hou wants?
Naturally, it didn't work, Mo Li didn't believe that Yue'er would just leave, so he personally sent an agent who had followed him since he was a child, and ordered him to return to Beijing to investigate the cause of Yue'er's death and the matter of the new queen's palace. Mo Li always felt that Yue'er's death was too coincidental, not as simple as it seemed.
Looking at the snow gradually falling in the sky, Mo Li would think of Yue'er, and how ignorant he was when he first saw Yue'er. obviously met the girl he liked, but he still couldn't let the other party feel his sincerity.
Emotionally, he actually lost, and Yue'er will always have one person in her heart, and that is Nangong Ming. It's like now that I can't forget Yue'er, because Yue'er is the woman I really fell in love with for the first time.
And Yue'er and Nangong Ming are actually the same, they have memories that they don't have, and the reason why Yue'er worked so hard was to catch up with Nangong Ming's footsteps, but it's a pity that Nangong Ming gave up Yue'er for the sake of status and power.
The snow was still drifting, and a thick fox fur cloak was suddenly draped behind him, and Mo Li turned around and saw a bright little face.
I thought I would be disappointed, but where did this loss come from? Yue'er can't be in the border city at all, and it's impossible to return to herself.
The concubine room behind her was sent by Mrs. Hou, looking at the heroic man in front of her, there was indescribable flattery in her eyes. "Shizi Ye is icy outside, you better go back to the house!" After speaking, he lowered his head slightly, with a look of shame.
Mo Li looked at the women in front of him, he couldn't talk about liking or disliking, but he felt that they were very sensible and peaceful, and they took good care of the small Shizi Mansion in the border city.
When you come back from the barracks, you can have hot food and rice, you can have warm and tidy clothes, and you can have warm soup.
I can feel that the house is a little angry, although I won't accept them, but when I see a few more people in the house, I will be a little more angry.
Mo Li knows that his mother understands herself too well, and she knows what kind of woman she puts by her side, so that she will not be disgusted.
Mo Li was grateful for his mother's intentions, but of course he felt that the three concubines were too wronged, and until now Mo Li didn't know what they were called, and he had never said a word to them. But Mo Li could clearly see the admiration for himself in their eyes.
As soon as the border city is calm, winter is about to fall, and it may only be autumn in the capital. But it's already winter in the border city.
The people of the border city are already busy making dried meat and vegetables, busy hunting in the mountains, and must prepare all the food for the winter when the real winter in the border city comes.
And every winter will also be the most rampant time for the Huns, because the Huns have not enough food for the winter, they have no food, and they will not make a lot of dried vegetables, and will only rely on eating beef and mutton to survive the winter.
But there were so many Huns, and the winter was so long, there was not enough to eat. And eat up those cattle and sheep, and the whole Xiongnu will be finished in the spring.
It is precisely because the Huns lack food and clothing in winter that they come to harass the people of the border cities in winter. Every time they burn and loot, the people in the border city are miserable, and it is because of this that the imperial court will send a large army to garrison, one is to protect the people in the border city, and the other is to resist the invasion of the Huns.
Now the Xiongnu took the initiative to ask for a truce, and I don't know if this war will start again in winter. How greedy and shameless the Huns were, Mo Li knows best.
The Mo family has dealt with the Huns for generations, and they can be regarded as the most knowledgeable about the habits of the Huns in the Nangong Dynasty. Of course, Mo Li also hopes that this year's snow will be heavier, the heavier the snow, the colder the winter, and the Huns will suffer heavy casualties, freezing and starving to death.
When Mo Li entered the house, he immediately felt like he had entered the spring of March, and the warmth in the study was like spring. There is a hot meal on the table, and there is actually a plate of green tea, it is really rare to be able to find green vegetables on such a cold day.
Mo Li knew that this must be the three of them who had taken great pains to eat, so he didn't say much, just sat down to eat quietly.
I don't know when the news from the capital will come back, Yue'er, I'd rather you be by Nangong Ming's side, than I want you to really pass away, alone in the cold underground, you are so beautiful, just like the warm sun in winter. The underground is cloudy and cold, which will obscure your light and heat.
The Empress Dowager looked at the dignified and lovely Li Meiren in front of her, thinking about those things in the palace, she couldn't lift her energy. Although the emperor does not rest in the palace of Concubine Wu now, he does not go to other beauty houses, but the rule of the fifth day of the month, the emperor is dead.
It's a pity that these five days are all in different beauty houses, and it seems a little difficult to make that beauty pregnant with a dragon seed for a while. The Empress Dowager can only wait now, waiting for Concubine Wu to anger the emperor, waiting for the emperor to dislike Concubine Wu!
Li Meiren carefully flattered, "The Empress Dowager, now the emperor is worried about the government every day, and the concubines are in the harem and can't share the emperor's worries.
I am very uneasy, why don't the Empress Dowager come forward to hold a family banquet, so that the sisters of the harem can take care of the house and help the emperor, what do you think? ”
How could the Empress Dowager not understand Li Meiren's intentions? That's it, since Li Meiren wants to try, she might as well give her a few more chances.
Maybe it can make the emperor pay more attention to the concubines in the harem? "Li Meiren has a heart, and the mourning family also thinks it is feasible, so why don't you leave this matter to Li Meiren to prepare!"
Li Meiren knew that the Empress Dowager would agree, and Li Meiren carefully observed that the Empress Dowager did not like Concubine Wu at all.
And it's not half a point of closeness with Concubine Wu, just like coming to the Queen Mother to say goodbye to the Queen Mother on weekdays, Concubine Wu and the Queen Mother are just official and polite, but they can't talk about closeness.
And Li Meiren also faintly read a deep disgust from the Empress Dowager's eyes when she looked at Concubine Wu, although the Empress Dowager hid it well, but Li Meiren found out.
And shocked by it, now Li Meicai dares to mention it so blatantly. Of course, I also want to gamble, if the Queen Mother really doesn't like Concubine Wu, she will have more opportunities.
Sure enough, the result made Li Meiren ecstatic in her heart, as for why the Empress Dowager didn't get close to Concubine Wu, Li Meiren didn't care at all.
Since the Empress Dowager and Concubine Wu are trying to hide some things, they must not be something that can be seen, and when it comes to the Empress Dowager, the less you know, the better.
Li Meiren is very smart and just wants to use the Empress Dowager to help herself get the emperor's favor. Other things don't seem to be important to Li Meiren at the moment.
Respectful blessing: "Concubine Xie Empress Dowager love, concubine will definitely do a good family banquet!" ”
The Empress Dowager nodded lightly, raised her hand, and Mama Su immediately stepped forward to ask Li Meiren to go out. Li Meiren knew the Empress Dowager's habits, this was not to drive people away, but to take a fancy to herself, so she didn't treat herself as an outsider, and asked Mama Su to ask her to leave after speaking. R1152