Three days later, King Wu returned to Yanzhou Mansion.

If it weren't for Xie Yong's unfamiliarity with the path and he could only take the official road, if it weren't for Xie Yuchan's indulgence and making trouble at the post house, then Zhiying would probably not be rescued so easily, so this farce was doomed to fail from the beginning.

Bailizan sighed and said: "It's good that Madam is back, this brother and sister should have died a long time ago, now that they have a suitable name, they can also explain to the Xie family, and they finally don't have to live against the dark clouds." ”

Zhiying nodded and said, "Mr. has worked hard." ”

In the past few days when she was kidnapped, everyone in Yanzhou Mansion was counting the days with their heads up, more than 20,000 people were guarding the city, and they could still lose their wife, it was really not a shame, especially Bailizan, who was under the most pressure, Cui Yi couldn't see Zhiying when he came back, and he must be the first to take him under the knife, because he came up with the idea of testing Xie Yong, so he hasn't fallen asleep in the past few days, and the black green at the moment is like a cat and bear.

Including Shanjian, who didn't care about everything, everyone was worried, but this anxiety was completely dispelled when he went out to welcome the return of King Wu - Cui Yi not only brought Yang Qiong back alive, but also luckily saved the kidnapped Zhiying, and everyone sighed sincerely: It's really a blessing.

"How's Xiaoqiu? Xie Yong said that he threw people halfway down the road, did he send someone to find them? Zhi Ying asked worriedly.

Cao Qian hugged his fists and replied: "Madam, please rest assured, Miss Xiaoqiu is safe and sound, the day after Mrs. disappeared, a farmer outside the city found Miss Xiaoqiu lying in front of her house, and hurriedly sent her into the city for treatment, and was recognized by the soldiers patrolling the city, and she has been picked up, and Aunt Langyue is taking care of her." ”

Zhiying breathed a sigh of relief, and what else to say, Sang Duo stepped forward to hold her: "Sister Zhiying, you better go to rest first, there are still injuries on your body, how can you always stand and talk?" ”

Everyone was shocked: "Madame is injured?" ”

Zhiying hurriedly waved his hand: "A little injury, it's not a big deal, let's go and do things, I'll go see Xian'er." As he spoke, he and Sanduo stepped into the door of the mansion arm in arm.

As soon as Zhiying left, there were four people left outside the palace who were not in favor of the lord, and they all lowered their heads and did not dare to squeak. Cui Yi snorted and said: "For the sake of holding a good profit, this king will not be held accountable this time, and they will all disperse!" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thanked the kindness, buried their heads and hurriedly walked away.

"Yuan Ke, you wait a while." Xu Cheng walked a few steps, and when he heard Cui Yi calling his name from behind, he had to turn back honestly.

Xu Cheng asked cautiously, "What does the prince command?" ”

Cui Yi looked serious and asked him, "How is General Xu doing?" ”

Xu Cheng's thick eyebrows furrowed, and he replied a little helplessly: "No...... It's too good, I worked too hard when I was young, I was injured a few times, and I often coughed recently, thank you for remembering. ”

Cui Yi nodded silently, remembering Xu Chong's gray beard and clear face when he parted, he felt quite uncomfortable, and said, "You went against his old man's wishes and brought someone to help me, and you will definitely be scolded when you go back......."

Unexpectedly, Xu Cheng said: "It was my father who asked me to come, and my father said that the righteousness of the family and the country is far better than personal grievances, and it would be a great injustice to ignore the safety of the people of Yanzhou because of dissatisfaction with the first emperor." ”

"I see," Cui Yi sighed, relieved a lot, "Old General Xu has a sincere heart, but he was ...... by his father Alas, since you have come, follow this king and do it well, and this king will not treat you badly. ”

Xu Cheng hesitated, and Cui Yi asked strangely: "What?" Xu Cheng knelt down on one knee and sighed: "My father asked me to help Shouhu run to the pass, and when the prince comes back, or the Beidi army retreats, I will go back." Cui Yi was stunned, and Xu Cheng buried his head deeply: "The prince forgives his sins!" ”

Cui Yi sighed heavily and said, "Get up, since General Xu has stepped down and wants to live a stable life, it is understandable, how many people have you brought?" Are there any casualties? The pension of the casualties went to Wenyu to support it, and there were also a lot of precious medicinal materials brought from the capital in the palace. ”

Xu Cheng had an apologetic expression on his face and hugged his fists: "Thank you, Lord Wang." ”

Zhiying has been missing for so many days, Xiao Cui Xian can't see her father or mother, she really made a few fuss, and she coaxed and deceived her, so that this little ancestor didn't make any trouble, Zhiying went back to the room to change the medicine and change her clothes, the nurse hugged Xiao Cui Xian over, Xiao Cui Xian was making a fuss when she saw her mother, Sang Duo touched her little head: "Aunt hug you, okay?" ”

"I'll come, my left hand is fine." Zhiying smiled and took her daughter over, Xiao Cui Xian pressed her face closely, babbling and not knowing what to say, Zhiying hugged her and sat down, and found that her cheeks were a little rough.

The nurse hurriedly explained: "In the past few days when Madame is away, Miss has been crying, as if she knows what is going on, and sure enough, my daughter is intimate!" ”

Zhiying nodded with a smile, kissed her daughter's cheek, and whispered: "Xian'er, mother's little baby, it will be fine for your mother." ”

Because she was separated from her daughter for so long for the first time, Zhiying didn't go anywhere this morning, so she concentrated on playing with her daughter in the house.

When it was almost time for lunch, Cui Yi came back from the camp and saw their mother and daughter playing in the yard, so he untied his sword and stepped forward: "Xian'er, come and hug your father." ”

Xian'er blinked her eyes and saw that it was him, cheered "oh", broke free of Zhiying's hand and ran forward, took two steps, and threw herself on the ground, stunned.

Cui Yi was distressed and was about to help, but Zhiying hurriedly said, "Let her get up by herself." Xian'er, go and give one to my father. ”

Xiao Cui Xian lay on the ground and was ignorant, Cui Yi had to squat down and hooked his hands: "Xian'er, come, come over to my father's side." ”

Zhiying also bent down behind to encourage: "Xian'er, do you want your father to hug you?" If you want to, you will get up and go into the bosom of your father. ”

Xiao Cui Xian turned her head to look at her mother, as if she didn't mean to help herself, and turned her head to look at her father, who was waiting for her with her arms open expectantly, so she supported the ground with her little hands, and got up cautiously, and her knees were not straightened, so she staggered and took a step.

Zhiying followed, carefully watching.

Xiao Cui Xian took a step and seemed to feel good, so she took another step, her small body swaying, and the two of them were scared.

From the place where she fell to Cui Yi was only four or five steps away, Xiao Cui Xian walked dangerously every step, and fell again halfway, but this time she didn't wait for anyone to urge, she stood up by herself, took two steps forward, and finally threw herself into Cui Yi's arms as she wished.

Cui Yi's heart was overjoyed, and he hugged his daughter and lifted it to the sky: "Good job!" Father's careful liver, come to my father's prince. As he spoke, he rubbed his daughter with his stubble face, Xiao Cui Xian was pierced and screamed, and two slaps crackled and slapped him on the face, and he couldn't straighten up with a smile.

After a while, the maid came to ask if she wanted to eat, and Zhiying responded, "Stop playing, go wash your hands and eat." ”

Little Cui Xian was riding on her father's neck, running around the yard with high interest in the "divine horse", Cui Yi ran into the house with her daughter on her back without thinking about it.

"Hey! It's going to hit your head! Zhiying hurriedly caught up.

Fortunately, Xiao Cui Xian is not tall, otherwise she would have to break the bridge of her nose this time, and she patted her chest and broke out in a cold sweat.

A family of three sat down to have lunch, Zhiying fed the children twice, ate two bites by himself, and chatted with Cui Yi.

"So in a while, you remember to pick out some good medicinal herbs, and let him bring them when Yuan Ke goes back." After finishing the conversation with Xu Cheng before, Cui Yi specially reminded.

Zhiying agreed and asked, "I haven't met General Xu, and even General Xu Cheng's affairs have only been briefly mentioned by General Cao, what is going on?" ”

Cui Yi handed the empty bowl to the maid to add rice, and said: "It's hard to say, in the end, General Xu was also affected by me." ”

"How?"

Cui Yi then explained the whole story in detail.

It turned out that more than ten years ago, when Cui Yi was still a little prince and the Empress Xiaopian was not dead, Xu Chong, who was in his early forties, was in the prime of life, fought a few beautiful victories, and was summoned to the capital by Emperor Jianyuan to commend him, and also rewarded a lot of good things.

Cui Yi didn't like to study since he was very young, he liked to fight, although Emperor Jianyuan was not very happy that his eldest son couldn't learn things, but the child was still young, and he would always get better when he cultivated it, and the advantages of being aggressive still had to be carried forward, so at the suggestion of Cheng Hu, who was the waiter of the Ministry of Rites at the time, he wanted to keep Xu Chong in the palace for Cui Yi to be his master.

To be a master for the future crown prince, compared with going to the battlefield to work hard, it is really easy and oily, and there is a pie falling from the sky, who doesn't want it? But Xu Chong just didn't eat this set.

"I was still young at the time, I didn't know that there was such a thing, General Xu said to his father at that time, he would only go into battle to kill the enemy, not teach his disciples, please ask his father to invite another master," Cui Yi was full, brought his daughter over and continued to feed, and let Zhiying concentrate on eating, "I think he should mean that he should be worried about teaching badly or really don't want to teach, or he thinks that the military general should still go to the battlefield, there is no disrespect, but the speaker has no intention of listening, and the old General Xu's words are in the ears of his father, and he has become arrogant, pampered and arrogant, didn't take his father in his eyes, so his father was angry and sent General Xu to Yanzhou. ”

Zhiying looked at his clumsy posture of feeding and cried and laughed: "Let the nurse feed it, I haven't spilled much after eating." - And then what? General Xu was angry with the first emperor? ”

Cui Yi handed over the little Cui Xian to the nurse, dusted the rice on his thigh, and said: "No, General Xu Lao is straight, he didn't realize his father's anger at all, and he dutifully guarded Yanzhou for three years, but later the queen mother died, and his father wanted to make the emperor's brother the crown prince, and many ministers in the court strongly objected, saying that since I have no major fault, there is no reason to abolish the heir, and the father and the emperor in order to block the mouth of the Zhongqing family, so he simply set up Concubine Jing Rong as the queen." ”

"At that time, Yan Feng, the secretary of the ministry, had a good personal relationship with General Xu, and the two often exchanged letters, after this happened, General Xu wrote a sentence in the letter, to the effect that fortunately he did not accept the appointment at the beginning, otherwise now the sky has changed, the new queen and the prince The first person to open the knife must be his master of the former prince-to-be, this letter later I don't know how, it was passed to the hands of the father, the father was furious, and ordered General Xu to not leave Yanzhou in his lifetime, and the descendants of the Xu family will never be hired."

Zhiying's expression was gloomy, Cui Yi sneered, and shook his head with a smile: "If you think about it with your knees, you know that Yan Shangshu's private letter will be passed to his father, and it must be the Rong family who did it behind his back, but unfortunately I was still young at the time, I didn't know anything about the world, and my uncle's family was far away in Jiangzhou, and I couldn't reach it, so I could only watch them kill Zhongliang, and General Xu had resentment in his heart, which was also human nature." ”

"Although General Xu was demoted to Yanzhou, he loved the people like a son during his tenure, and after leaving office, he heard that Huben was in difficulty, so he did not hesitate to let his son lead the troops to help, and this mind is admirable enough." Zhiying said with emotion.