Yang Kedu asked to see Lu Ning, but said that Duan Sicong, the lord of Dali, wanted to send an envoy to Bianjing to pay tribute, and the Wangwen General Yuan informed the officials of Sichuan and Shu that they could give them permission.

Speaking of which, from the place where the Mo Mibu is located to the capital of Dali, Yang Tho Baa City, the straight-line distance is more than 800 miles, plus the mountains are high and deep, the river is wide and the water is urgent, many roads are not very smooth, it is impossible to have a messenger to go back and forth in more than ten days.

Obviously, Duan Sicong had already had this thought, and now that he had the opportunity, Yang Kedu and Shicheng County had discussed it and formally made a request to the officials of Qi State.

If Dali goes to Bianjing, of course, it is faster to go through Sichuan and Shu, and if you cross Guizhou, not only the road is difficult, but it is also easy to be plundered by the barbarians, after all, the mission disappeared in Guizhou, and no one knows which barbarian department killed it cleanly.

Lu Ning immediately agreed, and put forward the idea of peaceful trade with Dali, and the traders on both sides gave each other convenience at the border checkpoint.

Yang Kedu also verbally agreed, and when he went back, he would give a lesson to the lord of the country, and it was not difficult to come here.

Lu Ning left him to set up a banquet to entertain him, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves.

……

After a turn in Jingu Tucheng, Lu Ning and the little queen and Lan Chan were separated, he walked by himself, but it was easy to say, so he took a raft, regardless of whether the water was turbulent or not, he went down the Wujiang River from the bank of Jingu City, went down the river to Qianzhou to change the light boat, entered the Yangtze River, all the way to the east, to Jiangling, and it only took ten days.

At this time, the female guards guarded his female dependents and the inner secretary room, and it was not a few days after passing through Gangneung Mansion.

At this time, the female guards have been divided into two teams, one team went to Bianjing, and the other team escorted Huang Xianfei to Fuzhou Province, in fact, Concubine Xian helped Lu Ning prepare for the Northern Expedition, and returned to Fuzhou to mobilize the Zhijia army to fight the same enemy, after all, in the face of the Khitan behemoth, it is necessary to prepare in all aspects one or two years in advance.

However, in the Jiangling Palace, Lu Ning saw two urgent reports, because the subordinate officials of the Jiangling Palace did not know where the emperor was now, and the urgent reports could only be temporarily stayed, but the content of the first urgent report was that Li Jingsui had surrendered to Qi; In the second letter, Li Jingsui led his clansmen and several important ministers to the north and went to Bianjing to face the saint.

Lu Ning drove the fast horse north, and when he arrived in Dengzhou, he happened to catch up with Yan Xiaohua's female guard team, and he didn't have time to say more, so he just took Mrs. Hua Rui and Qingcheng, all the way non-stop, and arrived at the nearest post station in Bianjing, and then changed the carriage.

After entering Bianjing, the carriage did not stop and went straight to the palace.

At the same time as reuniting with the concubines, Mrs. Lu Ning was named Concubine Hui, and she was also the first concubine to be canonized in the palace.

And the monarchs and ministers of Jiangnan will not be able to get to Bianjing in a few days, and I heard that Li Yuwei is not among the courtiers who came to the north to see him, as if he was seriously ill, and he didn't know whether he was excused or really infected with the disease.

Lu Ning felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, if Bucktooth was really sick, it was obviously a heart disease, starting from himself, if he excused himself and thought back to the past, he couldn't say that his appearance was good, or not, it was in vain what he said when he first met him, it was your luck to meet me.

Now that I think about it, it seems that this statement is completely wrong.

……

As night fell, pondering about Li Yu's affairs, Lu Ningxin stepped into Yonghe Palace.

The environment of Yonghe Palace is quiet, now live in Mrs. Hua Rui and Qingcheng, under the carved beams and painted columns, the red lanterns are hung high, in front of the main hall, the pines and cypresses are green, so that the palace is majestic, a little more elegant.

The female guards and waitresses I met along the way, seeing that Lu Ning was thinking about things, there were already rules in the palace, so they didn't dare to alarm him at this time, and they didn't dare to say anything after kneeling.

The two female guards and two female officials outside the main hall were busy singing: "The Son of Heaven is to Yonghe Palace!" At the same time, the female official hurriedly pushed open the door of the palace, and in front of the Holy Son of Heaven, naturally any concubine had no privacy.

Lu Ning heard it, in the main hall, Madame Hua Rui and Qingcheng should be talking, and Lu Ning stepped in.

The golden and splendid hall, although it has been a month, but the warm wind is burning, it is slightly hot inside, and on the big bed with the golden veil hanging down, Mrs. Hua Rui is struggling to get up, and Qingcheng next to her supports her.

"Lie down!" Lu Ning waved his hand hurriedly.

Speaking of which, Mrs. Hua Rui followed her to the west, and even when she went to the southern Xinjiang, she was not sick, but returned to Beijing, and on the night she was named Concubine Hui, I heard that she was sick.

Also, the road may be too bumpy, especially from Dengzhou, in order to hurry up, but holding her and Qingcheng on the left and right, although she feels that she is holding it very steadily, but she is shy and timid, and the wind blowing of the fast horse may hurt her body.

Later listen to the symptoms, it should be a cold.

But since I entered the palace, everything has been too busy, and I haven't seen her for a few days.

Seeing that Madame Hua Rui still sat up, Qingcheng was behind her, with a soft pillow.

"Are you feeling better?" Lu Ning sat beside the bed and reached out to probe her forehead, according to the symptoms, in fact, she should have a cold and flu, and it may be caused by psychological reasons, although it was not a trivial thing to catch a cold in the past, but it is naturally okay in the forbidden palace, not to mention that in the forbidden palace now, there are more and more medicines, and there is even a native penicillium.

Madame Hua Rui's pretty face flushed, and she subconsciously wanted to hide, but then realized that her actions were very disrespectful, and she sat up straight, letting Lu Ning's hand touch her forehead, and said softly: "Your Majesty, the concubine is much better." ”

I entered the palace in a daze, and the next day, there was a decree that Mrs. Hua Rui was named Concubine Hui.

Qingcheng told her that Wen Ah Da was Qi Tianzi.

Madame Blossom was in a state of confusion for a moment, and she felt that the sky was dark, and she fainted unconscious.

Now, lying on the dragon bed of the former enemy chieftain, the victor of the enemy chieftain who destroyed the former lord country sat beside him, and even like his mother and daughter, the daughter of the former lord was beside him, and Madame Blossom was ashamed for a while, and trembling for a while, and she didn't know what to do.

"Well, the fever is gone, it's almost well!" Lu Ning touched his forehead again and nodded slightly.

said to Qingcheng: "You can accompany Concubine Hui more in the past few days." ”

"Yes." Qingcheng nodded slightly.

Hearing the title of "Concubine Hui", Mrs. Hua Rui felt even more uncomfortable in her heart, in Shu Palace, she was also Concubine Hui.

"I originally wanted to change your title, so as not to arouse your worries, but then I thought about it, you should be a concubine Hui, smart and understanding, not to mention, to untie some knots, many things, you don't have to avoid taboos, and the palace can't lose the title of Concubine Hui because of you. That Meng Chang ......" said this, and glanced at Qingcheng, "Forget it, don't talk about it." ”

Qingcheng, who was sitting quietly, showed gratitude in his eyes.

"There are many unsatisfactory things in the world, so let's all make do with it." Lu Ning sighed softly.

"Your Majesty also has something unsatisfactory?" Qingcheng was a little surprised, this man, in the eyes of the outside, is like a saint, sweeping the eight wildernesses, where in the world can it be difficult for him?

"Yes! For example, how to make the two of you happy, I'm quite worried. Lu Ning smiled, "Taking you around the world doesn't work very well." ”

Qingcheng said softly: "Your Majesty, how can Qingcheng not know? Qingcheng is not unhappy, but His Majesty, it seems that there is something troublesome. ”

It just so happened that Mrs. Hua Rui also whispered: "Your Majesty seems to have something on your mind?" ”

Lu Ning laughed, "If you don't say that my sister is smart, Qingcheng is also smart." ”

The old name of "sister" when the General Academy of Wen, Lu Ning said it again at this time, and the meaning was different.

Madame Blossom's face turned redder and she hung her head silently.

"Alas, it was Li Congjia of Jiangnan, when I was a courtier of the ancestor of Jiangnan, I met Li Congjia, he was very angry with me, I told him at the time, it was his luck to meet me, but now I look at it, how do I feel that it is his bad luck to meet me, I heard that he is now sick in Jinling, think about it, there is a thorn in my heart."

In fact, Li Yu has a cowardly personality, and of course he can't talk about Lu Ning's temper, but Lu Ning doesn't like to see Zhao Da Zhao Er, and when he saw Li Yu, a celebrity in history, he felt that he should help him get rid of his tragic fate, so he said so at that time.

I didn't expect that one step away would be the current situation.

Even when he was just called the king of Qi, he thought that if he could really unify the sea, it would not be impossible to seal Li Yu with a piece of territory, and it could be regarded as a promise to the ancestor of Jiangnan, and he had an explanation.

But now that I think about it, the idea at that time was very naïve, the Li family in Jiangnan, don't say what fiefdom to give them, and they will be completely suppressed in the future, so that their family will gradually lose a trace of influence.

Thinking about it, Lu Ning shook his head again and sighed softly.