On the evening of July 10, a fast horse galloped towards the You'anmen Gate of the Beijing Division, and it seemed that the momentum did not stop.

After a closer look, he saw that the man did not have the logo of the imperial court messenger, and several sergeants in charge of guarding the gate outside the You'an Gate immediately wanted to stop this person.

Who knew that the knight shouted to the city gate from a long distance: "I am the new Amber family, so you can get out of the way as soon as possible." ”

As soon as they heard the name, a group of sergeants guarding the door immediately let the man in.

"It's strange, what's going on in this Liu Bodhisattva's family, why are you so anxious?"

A group of guards at the door muttered as they looked at the knight's distant back, gossiped a few words, and then threw them away.

In the new Amber Mansion, Liu Ximing was holding the two little milk babies with a doting face, teasing and teasing, and he was reluctant to stop for a moment.

In December of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Xiangjun and Yu Qiaomei both gave birth to a second child, Li Xiangjun gave birth to a daughter, and Yu Qiaoman gave birth to a son.

Liu Ximing named the two Liu Jiayun and Liu Jiahan respectively.

The good news is not only that, more than a month later, there is also good news from his hometown in Sichuan, last year Liu Ximing went home to sow a bumper harvest, and added three sons and one daughter to the family.

There is no way, there are so many entertainment activities this year, and Liu Ximing is even more rare to go home, so he naturally has to hurry up and make people.

Xie Chunxi gave birth to another son, called Liu Jiaxuan.

Dong Xiaowan gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, called Liu Jiahao and Liu Jiaxian.

Cao Wanyi often accompanied Liu Ximing when she was in Beijing, but considering the thoughts of Xie Chunxi and others, Liu Ximing used some contraceptive methods (learn about ancient sheep intestines. ）

When I went home last year and saw the eldest woman, I lost this scruple, so I got pregnant smoothly and gave birth to a son, called Liu Jiaqi.

The Liu family's monster group suddenly expanded to the scale of six sons and three daughters.

Li Xiangjun, who was sitting on the side and gossiping with Yu Qiaoman and others, pointed to Liu Ximing's appearance and smiled at Mingyue, who was also on the side:

"My sister has seen any official like him, if you don't know, you still think he is an old man who asks for land."

I haven't seen her for a few months, Mingyue has changed her dress at this time, in addition to her appearance is still amazing, the girl's bun that she originally kept has also become a peach bun left by a woman.

She sat quietly in a light red and white threaded jacket, like a person in a painting.

Hearing Li Xiangjun say this, Mingyue looked over and immediately chuckled.

Liu Ximing also heard Li Xiangjun's ridicule, and immediately pretended to sigh and shook his head: "The old father is not good, and he will be disgusted even if he holds his own baby." ”

All the women in the room covered their mouths and chuckled when they heard this, and the atmosphere in the room became even warmer.

But this atmosphere was immediately shattered by a rush of footsteps.

Li Biao walked quickly to the small courtyard where Liu Ximing and the others were, and shouted loudly:

"Second brother, there is news from Henan, something is wrong!"

Everyone in the room was stunned.

Liu Ximing hurriedly handed over the two milk babies in his arms to Li Xiangjun and Yu Qiaoman, stood up and took the paper handed by Li Biao.

"On the evening of the eighth day of the seventh month, Zuo Liangyu led the army to rob the army of mules and horses and fled after abandoning the camp, and the thieves took the opportunity to cover up and kill the whole army.

"Among the 180,000 people in the whole army, half of the Tai were killed or captured, Zuo Liangyu escaped by chance, and our department retreated with Cao Zongbing and Zheng Jingcai, and has now retreated to Chen Liu's ......."

This letter was apparently sent by Shao Derong.

Liu Ximing's heart shrank suddenly after reading it word by word, and sure enough, he still waited.

"You guys have a good rest in the house, I have something to do."

threw a sentence at Li Xiangjun and the others, and Liu Ximing planned to take Li Biao and turn around and leave.

"Husband", Li Xiangjun and the others also heard it clearly, and looked at Liu Ximing with a worried face when they heard the words.

"Don't be afraid, Liukou is still in Henan, and he won't be able to reach Jingshi for a while."

casually comforted the panicked women, and Liu Ximing walked out of the courtyard quickly.

"What time is it?"

Before he walked out of the courtyard, Liu Ximing immediately asked Li Biao.

Li Biao looked up at the sky and directly estimated: "It's almost time soon." ”

"Okay, you can send someone to the Zhengjue Temple Hutong in Nanju Xianfang right now to invite Daoist Chai Yuanming and Daoist Dong Fuyu to your home."

"Huh", Li Biao immediately hugged his fists and went to arrange.

"By the way, I'll go and invite Huang Zewang and the two of them to the house to talk later."

No one noticed, and it was dark, and several figures in civilian clothes flashed into the new Amber Mansion.

On July 11, Chongzhen woke up from his sleep, and before he could finish his freshening, he heard Wang Chengen play outside the hall with some horror:

"Emperor, Qin Tianjian Chai Jian is asking to see him overnight, saying that there is a major event to report, and he has been waiting for a long time."

Chongzhen was shocked in his heart, Qin Tianjian? What's going on?

Since he ascended the throne, this vision in the sky has not stopped, and all kinds of disasters in the world have already made Chongzhen unusual.

After a hurried wash, Chongzhen directly met Chai Yuanming in the side hall.

"Your Majesty, the minister has been watching the stars for a few days and nights, and found that there is a white tiger in the Central Plains, which seems to cover the crape myrtle, such a big event, the minister dare not report it, so he asked to see him in the starry night."

Chongzhen's heart trembled when he heard this, and he immediately asked with a gloomy face: "According to the Qing family, what is the symbol of this image?" ”

Chai Yuanming hesitated slightly, bowed his head and said: "The minister recently read the imperial court newspaper and learned that Inspector Ding was leading the Central Plains soldiers to fight against the thieves in Henan, and the minister guessed ......"

Chai Yuanming's voice gradually lowered as he spoke, which made Chongzhen's heart hang.

He stood up directly from the throne and said urgently: "Guess what, it doesn't hurt if you say it directly!" ”

"The minister guesses that it may be that Inspector Ding was defeated and devoured by the rogue, otherwise it is difficult to explain why the White Tiger Star shines so brightly."

Chongzhen sat back on the throne with a heavy butt when he heard this, but the look on his face changed from gloomy to a little panicked.

"Impossible, impossible, Ding Qirui has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, how can he lose to the rogue, you are spreading rumors!"

Before Chongzhen could angrily reprimand Chai Yuanming, an exclamation suddenly sounded outside the palace.

"What's the situation, go and see."

Chongzhen and the others heard this exclamation in the hall, and he hurriedly signaled Wang Chengen to investigate.

Not long after Wang Chengen walked out of the palace gate, he ran back with a panicked face.

"Master......"

After Wang Chengen said a word in a daze, he glanced at Chai Yuanming in the hall with some horror and stopped speaking.

It wasn't until Chongzhen looked at him impatiently that Wang Chengen said bitterly with a crying face: "Emperor, there is news from the Central Plains that Inspector Ding was defeated in the Central Plains, and most of the 180,000 troops were killed in battle, and the Inspector himself was lost in the chaos!" ”

"Ah~~"

Chongzhen on the throne let out a roar and fainted directly.

"The Emperor"

"Your Majesty"

There was a panic in the side hall, and Wang Chengen hurriedly took a group of palace maids and eunuchs to help Chongzhen, looking for water, and calling the imperial doctor.

It didn't take long for several doctors from the Tai Hospital to hurriedly run over, and several people took turns to take Chongzhen's pulse.

"Fortunately, Your Majesty is just sick from hard work, and he fainted with a rush of anger, and he will be fine after a while."

At this time, Chongzhen had woken up leisurely under the help of various means, and when he heard the imperial doctor say this, he waved his hand weakly.

"Everyone else retreated, leaving only Wang Daban and Chai Jianzheng."

"Yes"

When the hall was emptied again, Chongzhen looked at Chai Yuanming with a pale face.

"Sure enough, as the Qing family said, such a disaster, can the celestial phenomena be saved?"

Chai Yuanming immediately answered cautiously: "There is no way to know how to save the minister, but in the past few nights, according to the minister's observation, every time the light of the white tiger violates the crape myrtle, there is a slight victory in the light of the stars under the crape myrtle seat, and the two seem to be-for-tat, and the minister thinks that this may be a turning point." ”

"Wenqu Xing, Wenqu Xing......"

Chongzhen's mouth kept chattering, and suddenly he looked at Wang Chengen: "Big companion, since it is Wenquxing, it must be the minister of the DPRK, who do you think you are talking about?" ”

Wang Chengen's heart trembled and hurriedly said: "The slave is a eunuch, how can you know such a thing, no matter which minister of the court and the central government this Wenqu Xing should be, it is the help of the emperor, this is a great joy." ”

Chongzhen didn't get an answer from Wang Chengen, so he had to look at Chai Yuanming with some disappointment, "Chai Qing, what do you think?" ”

"Well, the minister is not familiar with the ministers of the court, this is not easy to say, but the minister thinks that Wenquxing is not necessarily a certain person, and it may also be an outstanding person."