In the courtyard of Cao Qian's house, a large group of people were so drunk that some even fell asleep in the corner.

Xu Cheng and Cui Yi poured Cao Qian into a mess, and were helped by their own soldiers to sober up, ready to enter the cave room. Xu Cheng went to the thatched house and came back and didn't see Cao Qian's people, so he smiled and said: "Zhongxing's amount of wine is not good, and he is drunk with less than half a catty." ”

He put his clothes on the stool and sat down, Cui Yi's eyes were red from drinking, and he squinted: "Yuan Ke, you can come, this king is very happy, really happy." ”

Xu Cheng also drank a lot, he was half drunk and half awake, as soon as he heard this, he was scared of the wine, and he was about to get up: "I...... Go over there. ”

"Whoa! Sit down! Cui Yi slapped him on the shoulder, and forced the person to sit back, "Sit, sit, it's rare for you to come once, this king has a lot to say to you." ”

Xu Cheng was sweating profusely, knowing what he wanted to say, but he couldn't admit it, and he didn't dare to run away, so he had to sit stiffly: "Lord Wang, Lord Wang is drunk, let's go back and rest early." ”

Cui Yi carried the wine jug and filled it for him: "Come on, come and drink two more glasses." ”

Xu Cheng picked up his wine glass helplessly: "That...... It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, and the prince is at will. After saying that, he raised his head and drank all the wine in the cup.

Cui Yi shouted: "Okay! Joyfully! Again! ”

drank three glasses in a row, plus the previous one, Xu Cheng was already a little dizzy and drunk, lying on the table and panting: "No, I can't drink anymore......"

"Yuan Ke, this king knows that I can't live with your father and son, because General Xu has been affected by this king, he has been in Yanzhou Mansion for twenty years," Cui Yi put his arm on his back and said with red eyes, "Twenty years...... There have been several twenty years in his life, and he hated the first emperor and hated this king, which can be understood. ”

Xu Cheng's head was buzzing, and he said with a big tongue: "Father...... Don't dare to hold a grudge against the first emperor...... Don't dare to ...... Hold a grudge against the prince......"

Cui Yi shook his shoulder vigorously: "There are no outsiders here, they are all their own people." ”

Xu Cheng panted and said, "Lord Wang, the first emperor...... There is a life, the Xu family...... Never hired, Lord ......"

Cui Yi shook his head indifferently: "What the predecessors said and did may not be right, the first emperor also set up an imperial brother as the crown prince, so what?" This king will take off his crown, the first emperor...... Can you still climb out of the imperial tomb and beat the king's hand? ”

Xu Cheng's eyelids drooped, as if they would stick together at any time, and his voice was even weaker: "My father once said that a companion is like a companion...... With the tiger, I really don't want to ...... I...... And then get involved, get involved, get involved in this strife......"

Cui Yi slapped him on the back as if he didn't understand, and Xu Cheng was almost slapped by him to vomit blood.

"You say! What do you want, say! The wine was strong, and Cui Yi's speech began to be illogical, "I want an official, a fief, a gold and silver, and a beauty...... Just say it! ”

Xu Cheng's stomach tumbled for a while, and he turned to the side and vomited wildly.

At this time, Zhong Luhuan came. There were stinky men all over the yard, and she was the only girl, with a water-green dress, holding a box full of medicinal herbs, stepping over obstacles all over the ground, and floating like a fairy.

"Lord Wang? Why is the prince drunk like this," Zhong Luwan said in surprise, "Come and help the prince back to rest......" When he turned his head, he found that there was no sober person at all, and he couldn't help laughing.

Cui Yi waved his hand to signal that it didn't matter: "This king is fine, what are you doing?" Your sister asked you to come to me? ”

Zhong Luhuan smiled and said: "My sister knows that the prince is happy, and tonight will be drunk or unhappy, I am here to deliver medicine." ”

After Xu Cheng vomited, his eyes were full of stars, he rolled up his sleeves and wiped his mouth, straightened up to find water to rinse his mouth, and when he turned around, he saw Zhong Luhuan.

One is a military general who is five big and three coarse, drunk and has no image.

One is a graceful and beautiful lady like a nine-day fairy.

You look at me, I look at you.

Cui Yi was not drunk yet, seeing this scene, a flash of inspiration flashed in his head, and he grabbed Zhong Luhuan's wrist and walked forward: "This is the king's sister, fifteen this year, to be ...... in the boudoir"

Xu Cheng was so frightened that he almost rolled to the ground, and hurriedly waved his hand: "The prince can't joke!" When I was nine years old, my father betrothed me, and in a few years the girl will be over the door when she turns fifteen. ”

Cui Yi: "......"

Zhong Luhuan: "......"

It's a famous flower again! Zhong Luhuan really cried or laughed, and hurriedly diverted the conversation: "The prince is drunk, and he is talking nonsense, General Xu must not take it to heart." This is the medicinal material that Mrs. asked me to send to General Xu to treat his illness and replenish his body, and General Xu took it away. ”

Xu Cheng said gratefully: "Thank you, Mrs. Wang, thank you, girl." Reaching out to take it, he found that his hands were not clean, so he quickly wiped the hem of his clothes, and then took it solemnly.

Zhong Luhuan looked left and right, and no one was awake, so she had to say to him: "It seems that the drink is also finished here, can the general look at the prince for a while, and I will call someone to take the prince back." ”

After Xu Cheng vomited, his head cleared up a lot, so he nodded, Zhong Luhuan hurried away, and returned with four or five personal soldiers after a short time, and sent Cui Yi, who had already fallen asleep, back to the palace with his hands and feet.

"Where is the general staying tonight? Why don't you see the people around you? Zhong Luhuan asked again.

Xu Cheng pinched the bridge of his nose and spit out a mouth full of wine: "I brought a little guy here, and I am drunk at this time, don't care about him." I'm going to find an inn in the city for one night, and I'll have to go back early tomorrow morning. ”

Zhong Luhuan is not the master in the end, and it is not easy to keep him, and when he was about to nod, Xiaoqiu came.

Xiaoqiu saluted the two and said, "General Xu, Madame has already handed over someone to clean the guest room, please General Xu will stay in the palace tonight." ”

Xu Cheng thought about it, so he returned the salute: "Then bother, please thank the girl on my behalf." Xiaoqiu agreed, and only Xu and Zhong were left on the street.

Maybe it was because of what Cui Yi said just now, when the two of them were alone at this moment, Xu Cheng felt a little embarrassed, and asked without words: "What is the girl's surname?" I remember that the eldest princess left by the first emperor was only thirteen this year. ”

Zhong Luhuan explained her relationship with Cui Yi with a smile, Xu Cheng nodded, and said, "Miss Zhong left her parents alone to come so far away...... Suffering and suffering, how could General Zhong be willing. ”

"It turned out that I was too willful, so I had to follow, my father didn't agree at first, and in the end I had to let me," Zhong Luwan smiled slightly, her expression was a little gloomy, "I won't be restrained when I beat my little father, what I want to do, where I want to go, it's all up to me, and it's the same with the prince and sister here." ”

Xu Cheng lowered his head and was silent for a moment, and then said: "The heart of a parent will always hope that the child will live a peaceful and stable life, otherwise he will not be at ease when he is old, and it will be the unfilial piety of his children." ”

Zhong Luwan said: "Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and they can't be generalized, a person lives for a lifetime, his parents live for filial piety when they are alive, they become a husband or wife and constantly compromise, and they have children and plan for their children, how long are decades, but there is no moment to live for themselves, what is the meaning?" ”

Xu Cheng frowned, and muttered to himself: "It's the so-called involuntary ......."

Zhong Luhuan said: "Although the life of a person's life is arranged by God, but how to live is the final word of the person himself, is it because there is a death in the end, it doesn't matter whether he is happy or not?" ”

Xu Cheng stopped talking, buried his head and walked forward with heavy steps, Zhong Luhuan didn't make a sound, separated from him two or three steps, and returned to the palace together.

When they arrived at the atrium of the palace, Xu Cheng stopped Zhong Luhuan and said, "I still have a doubt in my heart, no one has solved it for many years, I wonder if the girl can answer it for me?" ”

"General, please."

"There are two roads in front of me, one is what I want to go, and the other is arranged by my parents, choosing the latter can keep me safe and happy, but I will also do nothing in my life, choose the former may have the day of glory to the ancestors, but the same thorny road, countless hardships and dangers, if I don't get it right, I will die, how should I choose?"

Zhong Luhuan lowered her head and thought about it, and replied, "The general actually has an answer in his heart, doesn't he?" ”

Xu Cheng was silent, and Zhong Luhuan said: "If you don't want your parents to worry about you, you have to use your actions to prove that your choice is right - besides, there is no flower for a hundred days, how can there be real peace and happiness in this world." ”

"It's not too early, I'll take my leave."

In the early morning of the next day, Xu Cheng went to the hall to thank Zhiying for giving medicine, and after breakfast, he returned home with his little servant.

Zhiying heard that Xu Cheng had a marriage contract, and could only sigh and make people, comforting Zhong Luhuan without mentioning it.

Unexpectedly, a month later, things took a turn for the worse, and in late September, Xu Cheng came back during the busy farming season.

Cui Yi was looking at the excerpts presented from all over the country in the government office, after the war, the population plummeted, the land production was reduced, and all kinds of bad news annoyed him to death.

Xu Cheng was dressed in military uniform, leading the war horse into the city, and when he saw Cui Yi running over from afar, he hurriedly stepped forward a few big steps and knelt down on one knee: "The last general, Xu Cheng, led three thousand militiamen from Bin County to come to the prince!" ”

Cui Yi happily stepped forward and picked him up: "It's good to come!" It's good to be here! ”

Xu Cheng's arrival undoubtedly added another chance of victory for the Wuwang camp, the Xu family guarded the tiger for 20 years, Xu Cheng grew up in Yanzhou, and knew the terrain and climate of Yanzhou well, and had rich experience in fighting against the Beidi rangers.

It's just that he came with his fiancée Nian, who was eight years younger than him, with a round face, completely like a child, standing side by side with Xu Cheng, just looking at the back, I thought it was father and daughter.

Cui Yi looked at his sister sympathetically - even Yuanke has a fiancée, and there is really no general worthy of you in the Yanzhou camp.

Nian Jiaojiao is only twelve this year, it is the age when the teenager does not know the taste of sorrow, loves to talk and laugh, and is not afraid of life, he opens his mouth and calls Zhiying the princess's sister, very likable, Zhiying and Zhong Luhuan both like her, although Xu Cheng has a marriage contract with her, but in the end it is not a wife who has not passed the door, it is not good to live together like this, Zhiying is in charge, and takes Nian Jiaojiao to live in the palace.

There is an extra half-grown child in the house, so Xiao Cui Xian has a playmate, and she is no longer as clingy to her mother as before, and Zhiying can finally get out of her body and wait for childbirth with peace of mind.

Under the dispatch of Bailizan, the grain transportation of Xuanzhou and Jiangzhou to the north, and the problem of insufficient grain in Yanzhou for winter was finally solved.

On the annual Chinese New Year's Eve, Cui Yi raised wine and sang: "Everyone has worked hard in the past year, this king is here to toast everyone, the second uncle is in Jiangzhou, Gongqi and Mr. Shan are in Xuanzhou, and we can't spend the New Year with us, but this king believes that in less than three years, everyone will be able to gather together to celebrate the day of Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

A large crowd of people around the table made a lot of noise, raising their glasses and praying for all the best in the coming year.