In Zhaohua Palace, Zhu Zhijie tossed and turned and still couldn't sleep. Xu knew that she had a lot of uneasiness after being pregnant, and this night, she was very uneasy.

"What time is it?"

"Back to Your Highness, it's the end of the hour, and it's almost dawn."

"Oh, I'm getting a little thirsty."

The palace maid brought the teacup, but Zhu Zhijie had not yet taken it, and suddenly a low bell rang outside the window, which was as cold as frost killing a hundred herbs.

"...... this?" Zhu Zhijie was puzzled.

The palace maid quietly counted the bells, and only then sighed and said, "The slave maid has counted, it is eighteen, which concubine or concubine in the palace should be." ”

Before the words fell, a palace maid ran in in a panic and said, "The news from the Changning Palace says that it is Concubine Wei. ”

"...... Concubine Wei?" Zhu Zhijie thought about it and felt clueless.

"It's the one His Highness didn't see when he came back to Changning Hall once, and I heard that he has been living in the Buddha Hall for decades, but he didn't expect this to happen. Oh, and also, Li Taijun of the Taishi Mansion also died. ”

"Li Taijun?" Zhu Zhijie was shocked, "Wasn't it okay during the day yesterday?" ”

"The slave doesn't know either, but whether it's Li Taijun or Wei Taifei, they are all over seventy years old, so they can be regarded as happy and mournful, right?"

"Shut up! Mourning is mourning, where is there joy! Zhu Zhijie was upset for a while and reprimanded. The woman of Bihai has always lived a long life, and for Zhu Zhijie, dying in her seventies is indeed not a joy or sorrow.

Another palace maid next to her hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, don't be angry, birth, old age, sickness and death are also common sense." Your Highness now has a royal descendant, so take care. Let's not talk about these white things. ”

Zhu Zhijie nodded, she felt that she had not slept all night and was not in good spirits, and she really didn't have the strength to say this again. It's just that Chongyan's favorite aunt and grandmother died suddenly, and he can't tell how sad he will be when he turns around, and he has to comfort him.

The sky is just bright, and in the Changning Palace, the incense mist is shrouded.

Concubine Liu and Concubine Guo were sitting in front of the Buddha hall, a group of monks were busy doing things, and the various ornaments in front of the incense table were obviously arranged in a hurry, and there were still many items missing, but it did not prevent those monks from reciting the Buddhist scriptures in full swing.

"Is it my sister's order?"

"But isn't it, I'm sleeping soundly, and the Evergreen Hall will come to deliver the decree."

"Hey, my sister said before that Wei Ji will always have such a day, and it is true."

"She is an unbreakable character, so naturally she can't hide from it. Every day, I either hide in the Buddha hall and calculate this and that, or I go to the Weiyang Palace on the side to plant some grass, why do you have to live so tired? Now I have lost my life. ”

"Hey, sister, what does the Holy Decree say?"

"What else can I say, I'm dead, and I want to help take care of the aftermath."

"Actually, isn't it just for a child, and there's nothing you can't see through. My sister persuaded me a few words, and I immediately understood. Before Concubine Jing could make a move, I drank a bowl of myself first. ”

"You are a man of understanding, that's why I persuaded you. Do you see Wei Ji over the years, can I persuade you? ”

"That's, to be clear, that sister knows a lot better than I do. But in this world, there are many more people who don't understand than there are people who understand. ”

"Like the crown princess?"

"Well, like the crown princess."

"Happy?"

"Well, I'm glad."

"Well, another one. We thought that she Zhu was an understanding person, and she didn't bother to talk about it. ”

"But my sister has a good heart, or is it costly?"

"It's not that I'm good-hearted, but it's just that seeing her flower and moon look like what I looked like when I was young, I can't bear it......"

"Tut-tut...... My sister is now more and more adept at putting gold on her face. ”

"Why do you call me sister again? I'm younger than you. ”

"But you look older than me."

"Impossible, you just look older than me, among the emperor's favorite concubines, I can rank second, how can I look old?"

"I'm second, you're third at most."

"You're third!"

"You're only third!"

"That's it, don't make any noise, don't worry about these trivialities, we want to live a long life."

"Yes, live a long life."

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At the end of summer, the water level of the Selengar River in the lower city of Shakoye rose to the extreme, so that the weeping willows on both sides of the river were dipped into the river, and from time to time fish were stopped by the willow and jumped out of the water, and then jumped into the river with their tails, and the water splashed in all directions.

As usual, Su You made a pot of tea and sat in the pavilion reading a book.

Sometimes when I stay in the "Ye Mansion" for a long time and want to change places to read, I will come to this Zhenzhu Garden to go around.

During these days, there were no special events other than the Imperial Privy Council.

Wen Lan didn't mention the matter of the southern expedition, and the Golden Blade King Rob didn't bother him with the matter of mining in the mountains. Occasionally, Wen Wen would play a few games of chess with him, and what he said was something that was not painful.

None of them mentioned the Southern Expedition, and Su You naturally didn't speak, but he reminded them instead. Seeing that autumn is about to begin, as long as the weather is cold, it is bound to be impossible to move troops again, and then it can be delayed for at least another half a year.

If you can drag it, you can drag it out.

The only thing Su You is worried about now is Xiao Xiao. She must not have guessed what had happened to her.

Wen Lan said that she went out of the liquid to find herself, and then there was no follow-up. He wanted to beg Wen Lan to find a way several times, but Wen Lan just said lightly: "Isn't it simple that the lord of the country wants a woman?" But it's up to you to see if you're willing to do it. ”

Su You knew what he meant, as long as he was willing to go south, let alone a woman, the entire Taiye Kingdom would be won by Wen Lan, the capital of the entire Taiye Kingdom.

However, it is clear which is more important at a glance, and he must be unwilling, so Wen Lan let him be sullen, as if he couldn't see it.

Su You gently flipped through the "Yun Ce" open in front of the table, the first volume and the middle volume were already familiar to him, and he planned to continue to read the next volume a few days ago. Unexpectedly, when he opened the book, he found that the first dozens of pages of the book had been torn off.

He was at first taken aback, thinking that someone had secretly damaged it, but when he looked closely, the edges of each torn page were not new, apparently they had been torn very early, and there were still some ink stains at the footsteps of the remaining pages. In the remaining pages of the second half of the book, only three pages are written with the words "benevolence", "righteousness", and "faith", all of which are written by Mu Yunyou, and the rest are blank paper.

Since ancient times, gentlemen have been taught to "benevolence, wisdom, righteousness and faith" as the four-character mantra, how can Uncle You lack this wisdom word? Su You thought for a while, and then understood. "Yun Ce" is teaching Mu Yun's method of using soldiers, and "wisdom" has been said enough, Uncle You obviously finished writing the next volume, and tore it all up, before attaching the three words of benevolence, righteousness and faith.

The implication is that the plan is boundless, and benevolence and righteousness come first.

When he was a child, he was always taught the art of war by Uncle You: those who are good at traveling drown, and those who are good at riding fall; If you have a long profit, you will lose, and you will be happy and sad. The more people know about the strategy, the more they must beware of falling into it. The policy is benevolent, and the party is the right policy; If you use it artificially, you will become a slave. Once you lose your benevolence, you can't extricate yourself, and sooner or later you will be eaten by poisonous strategies.

At that time, he didn't understand these things, and when it came to good strategies, he only thought that either they would be leaky or interlocking, and he never thought about what it had to do with benevolence and righteousness. It wasn't until Wen Wen told him the truth about the battle of poison gold that he suddenly understood why Uncle You always looked solemn when he said this in his early years.

In his heart, after all, he didn't agree with his father's plan.

Therefore, in the past 20 years that Uncle You has served as the Taishi, he has never wanted to expand his territory and attack cities and seize land. In fact, with his resourcefulness, why is it difficult to annex the surrounding small states one by one.

"It's not that I can't, but I just don't want to."

Su You suddenly muttered to himself, sighed, and slowly closed the next volume of "Yun Ce".

Whether this is self-contained, or whether it is well understood that the righteousness is to avoid the flames of war, can only be left to future generations to comment.

Suddenly, a person came from outside the pavilion, and Su You took a closer look, it was Steward Lin who had heard the house at the beginning.

Steward Lin walked up to him and bowed respectfully, and said, "Lord of the country, the second master asked me to invite the lord of the country." ”

"Where can I go?"

"Kolzhu Mountains."

Su Youqi said: "What kind of place is that?" ”

"It was a field in the north of the city of Dadu, and the lords of the past would sometimes go there to hunt and have fun in their spare time. The second master said that the lord of the country likes to ride horses, so he asked the villain to arrange it, and invited the leaders of the three clans to accompany him and go hunting with the lord. ”

Su You has not ridden a horse for a long time since he arrived in Shakoye Dadu, and when he heard that he could hunt with horses, he immediately became stubborn and a little unbearable, and praised at the moment: "Okay, good, wait for me to go back to Yefu to change my clothes." ”

Steward Lin responded humbly: "The hunting clothes of the lord of the country have been prepared by the two girls of Heping and Herin in the car, and when the lord of the country gets in the car, they will wait for the lord to change his clothes." ”

"Hmm."

Compared to a few months ago, Su You was already very accustomed to it, and he was no longer surprised by such a meticulous arrangement every time.

Sure enough, on the sixteen-horse car, Heping and Helin were already sitting there. When they saw Su You bow into the car, they smiled and took on the hunting clothes they wanted to change.

Su You held "Yun Ce" in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and then handed it to He Ping and said, "He Ping, take care of this thing for me, and give it to me after hunting." ”

Seeing that he was solemn, He Ping hurriedly answered and took it, but He Lin didn't seem to care at all, and only picked up his clothes there.

The carriage soon drove out of the walls of Parhan's palace and headed north.

Su You hadn't ridden with the two daughters for a long time, and he couldn't help but talk about the scene when they first met Luoying Lake, the three of them were talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was very different from that time.

When the warbler in the car was singing and the spring was just right, Herin suddenly pointed out the window and exclaimed excitedly: "Look, look there." ”

Su You looked down and found that the scenery outside the window had changed. What was once an open flat land has turned into an undulating field.

Green land, flowers bloom everywhere. Wherever the car passes, the horse's hooves are incense, and they are all dazzling scenes.