Chapter 48: Stalemate

The woman with a big belly walked on the road from village to village, and it was about to get dark, and she had to find an empty house before dark, preferably with some firewood. The village was small, and there was not a single house to live in for her, but it was getting dark, and after dark, if she hurried any further, wild beasts would come out of the fields and eat her. Hu Xue'er's family begged: "Can you give me a house to live in?" But everyone was afraid of getting into trouble, and she didn't dare to go to the bachelor's house, and at last a woman appeared: "Go and stay at my house for one night." The people in the village called her Sister Ting, Hu Xueer hurriedly went to her house with her, and saw that there was a lot of firewood in the house, so she asked tentatively: "Sister, your man is very capable, look at the firewood in the yard." Sister Ting looked at the firewood in the yard and shook her head: "I did it all by myself, where is there any man." ”

"Sister, have you always lived alone?" Gong Yiting nodded: "Originally, I opened an inn in the town, and then my buddy and younger brother went to join the army, and I was alone, and it was okay to be idle here, so I split those former tables and chairs to make firewood." She glanced at Xue'er's belly: "Big belly, in this troubled world, where are you going to run to people?" Xue'er shook her head: "There is no one to run to, just to find a place to settle herself and her children." Sister Ting raised her eyebrows: "Then you want to live with me?" Xue'er looked at her and seemed a little angry, and hurriedly waved her hand: "No, no, no, don't dare to have such delusions, don't drive me away, tomorrow morning, I won't bother anymore." Sister Ting turned around and went back to the room, dropping a sentence: "It's okay to stay, but you have to work." Cher went to the room and lay down slowly, thinking that the day was finally over and she didn't have to wander around anymore, so she closed her eyes and began to sleep. But the doll in her stomach was gone, she felt that her stomach hurt so much, and she had no strength at all. So she began to shout: "Sister Ting! Help me! Help me! After a while, Sister Ting appeared with her unique impatience: "What are you yelling about, you don't let people sleep in the middle of the night?" Pushing open her door, Sister Ting smelled a fishy smell on her face, and when she saw the liquid flowing to the ground, she instantly understood: "You wait, I'll find you a midwife, you are here, don't move." ”

The midwife came in a hurry with Sister Ting, she just looked at it, and said to Sister Ting, "Go find some hot water, scissors." Amid the woman's painful moans, a baby boy croaked to the ground. Sister Ting heard the child crying, and hurriedly went into the house to look, only to see that the woman was still lying on the bed, dying, and the midwife put the child in front of her and pulled Sister Ting out. "This woman has given birth to a child and is bleeding profusely, I'm afraid she won't be able to live, you should hurry up and think of a way," she left after speaking, and she didn't dare to ask for money. Sister Ting looked back at Hu Xue'er in embarrassment, she seemed to know her fate. "Sister Ting, please come in." She said weakly to Sister Ting, "I have been like duckweed all my life, after all, I will go ashore, after that, this child will still be handed over to you to take care of, if you think he is cumbersome, throw it away, our mother and son thank you for your kindness." ”

Sister Ting looked at the child, he was wrinkled, the same as when their prince was born. "In that case, you can rest assured, this child will not be displaced if I take care of him." Hu Xue'er nodded, reluctantly glanced at the child, fell asleep, this sleep, can never wake up again, Sister Ting, who is holding the child, did not expect that her promise was not fulfilled in the end, "Look at you, born in such a cold day, just call you Bing, your mother's surname is Hu, and I don't know who your father is, then you are called Hu Bing." ”

In the military tent, the tense atmosphere was still not alleviated, and the soldier reported: "Lord Wang, Xu Yuan asks to see you outside the tent." Zhao Qian nodded: "Let him in." Xu Yuan came in with a disgraced face, first saluted Zhao Qian, and then sat down slowly opposite Qin Qi, Zhao Qian said: "You came just in time, General Qin was still asking how the battle was going just now." Xu Yuan said: "The four city towers were destroyed in the sea of fire, if you take advantage of the chaos to attack the city, the city will be broken." Qin Qi asked, "Then why don't you attack?" Xu Yuan said: "If Your Highness captures Gyeonggi, where will you put Your Majesty?" Where did you put the general? Qin Qi said: "Your Highness raised troops, isn't it to seize the throne?" Zhao Qian shook his head and smiled without saying a word. Qin Qidao: "Then what is the matter with His Highness?" "Justify my father's name." "Oh?" "Back then, Liu Huizu raided his house and killed people without trial in the name of my father's rebellion, and there were many children of the clan, they were tortured to death by Liu Huizu, they are all descendants of Zulong, and we should not be killed casually. Therefore, I came to the army to admonish me in order to correct my father's name. "Assuming that Your Majesty is willing to be the master of the clan and dispose of Liu Huizu, then how should Your Highness deal with himself again?"

It was when both sides were speechless, "The general is a person of the most affectionate and sexual, will he endure the hatred of killing his father and taking his wife?" Qin Qi said: "General Xu Shu's death is indeed suspicious, but it really has nothing to do with Your Majesty; The hatred of taking a wife is even more ridiculous, the general has no marriage contract, where does the hatred of taking a wife come from? "The general doesn't know, as early as the year of the queen's general horn, he made a vow with me not to abandon this life, and now because of His Majesty's thought ten years ago, 150,000 soldiers died in the grassland, I want to personally send my fiancΓ©e to marry, more than 50 people in the Xu family turned into ashes, and my young sister was less than a year old when she died! How can such a deep hatred be easily resolved? The last time my father saw me before his death, he asked me to swear that I would be loyal to the monarch and patriotic in this life. But the monarch is not virtuous, on the contrary, he persecuted Zhongliang and cronyism, in this case, why didn't the Great Zhou change an emperor? In the past four years, the country has been plagued by natural disasters, poverty and weakness, isn't this a warning from heaven? The emperor only cares about enjoying the pleasures of the palace. Immersed in the beautiful dream of the peaceful world, doesn't it chill the hearts of people all over the world? The courtiers admired the emperor every day, and the people supported him was so mediocre, the court should give an account to the people of the world! ”

Qin Qiqi trembled with anger, before he came, he figured out the details of Zhao Qian, and decided that his army was difficult to justify, and now that Xu Yuan was provoked like this, his train of thought was completely disrupted. He stood up and shouted: "The king's fault, the sin lies in the ministers, I have not fulfilled the obligation to admonish, now Qin apologizes with death, and asks the prince not to embarrass Your Majesty for unwarranted things!" ”