Zhiying returned to the palace, Cui Yi had already changed his armor, walked out of the inner room with his cuffs, and when he saw her, he still just nodded and didn't say anything in particular.

Zhiying couldn't help but feel strange, according to Bailizan's meaning, it should have been Yang Qiong who went to talk to him, didn't it have any effect?

The two of them sat down to eat, Zhiying [Zongheng] was full of doubts, and ate absent-mindedly, Cui Yi suddenly said: "Eat quickly, I'll take you to a place after eating." ”

“…… Where to go? Zhiying asked in surprise.

But Cui Yi didn't say anything, just buried his head in eating, and saw that he didn't have any change from before, so he just thought that Bailizan was too full of words, and things didn't go as smoothly as he expected, so he didn't ask anything more.

After lunch, Cui Yi rinsed his mouth, took his daughter from the nurse's arms, and urged: "Go." ”

Zhiying couldn't understand what medicine he was selling in his gourd, so he had to follow him.

Out of the palace, there were soldiers waiting at the door with a horse, Cui Yi asked her to move a horse stool and step on it, and handed over Xiao Cui Xian to her to hold, straddled her long legs, and also rode on horseback, hugged their mother and daughter from behind, and shook the reins: "Drive!" The horses spread their hooves and ran toward the other side of the street.

Zhiying carefully held her daughter in her arms and asked, "Where is this going?" ”

Cui Yi replied: "You'll know when you arrive." ”

Without the golden crow, Cui Yi rode an ordinary war horse, but the distance was okay, and after a while, the three of them went out of the city and ran along a dirt road to Yanlan Mountain in the east of the city.

It is mid-autumn, it is the best time to see the red leaves in the capital every year, Yanlan Mountain also has a mountain full of maple trees, but it is a pity that Yanzhou is too north, and the red leaves have almost fallen at this time.

The mountain became steeper, Cui Yi slowed down the horse, and walked leisurely towards the top of the mountain.

A gust of cold wind blew in her face, Zhiying sneezed, and Cui Yi asked, "Is it cold?" Zhiying rubbed her nose and shook her head, Cui Yi held the reins with one hand instead, and held her with his right hand.

It's just such a simple action, and Zhiying's heart suddenly calmed down all the way.

Cui Yi has practiced martial arts all year round, is strong and strong, not only is he not afraid of cold, but his body temperature is slightly higher than that of ordinary people, and he is like a natural stove in winter, and he will not feel cold at all. After a winter of separation, the familiar warmth suddenly awakened the desire for dependence, and at the same time, she clearly felt Cui Yi's heart.

As Bailizan said, if you care about a person, you don't have to prove it to anyone, no matter how Bomur questioned it, she never suspected that Cui Yi had adulterated her feelings, precisely because Cui Yi never said those meaningless and beautiful words, but he didn't care about her all the time.

Bomur who verbally emphasizes "I will be good to you......

Cui Yi who would rather not have children because he was afraid of losing her......

"It's here," Cui Yi rubbed her sideburns with her chin, "look." ”

Zhiying came back from his rambling thoughts, and found that the horses had carried them to the top of the mountain, and the place where they stopped had an excellent view, just overlooking the large farmland outside the city, under the autumn sun, the golden wheat was bright and dazzling, and countless small black dots were shaking in the field, which was the soldiers of the Yanzhou Army harvesting this year's grain.

Cui Yi raised his arm and pointed to a place: "You see, when I went out of the city with you at the beginning of the year, it was still a reed, and now it is a large rice field." ”

Zhiying looked far away in the direction he pointed, and everywhere he could see, there was a bumper harvest, wheat, rice, sorghum...... The barren mud turned into a stretch of fertile land, and the wind and rain of the year brought them enough food to eat for a year.

"In the past few days, I have been thinking about many problems," Cui Yi hugged their mother and daughter comfortably, and said in a gentle tone, "I'm not like you and Wenyu them, my brain is easy to use, if there is any problem, I can figure it out at once, I can't do it, the more I think about many things, the more I can't figure it out, the more I think about it, the more I feel guilty, and I feel sorry for you." ”

Zhiying was shocked for a moment, and couldn't help but ask, "I'm sorry for me?" ”

Cui Yi said "um", bent down, and rested his head on her shoulder: "Bo Mu'er asked you how I met, what I said to him, half of it was the truth, and the other half was my wishful thinking, no matter how long it happened, I never forgot that I used tricks to get you, and you didn't want to marry me in the first place." ”

Holding Ying was dumbfounded, Cui Yi said: "I am glad that I have you, but on the other hand, I feel ashamed of you, if it weren't for my greed, you would have been the crown princess and the queen a long time ago, instead of following me away from my hometown like now, and I haven't received a letter or greeting from my father and mother for a whole year." ”

His voice was low and sad, and he could hear a sour feeling in his nose, and he couldn't help but put his backhand around the back of his neck, grinding with his ears and temples, and whispering: "But I don't regret it." ”

"I don't regret it either," Cui Yi kissed her on the cheek and whispered, "It is precisely because I don't regret it that I feel more and more sorry for you." Because of me, you have lost so much that it was not until the moment I decided to give up the Golden Crow that I understood your pain at the beginning. ”

Zhiying looked at his close face in a daze, and the indescribable sadness occupied the entire heart.

It turned out that in this month, he was not unwilling to lose the golden crow, but because he experienced the pain of giving up his vested things, and felt sorry for her!

After being reborn, the fate of the two was irresistibly pushed together, and bad luck came one after another, thinking that they had burdened each other, blaming themselves and repenting, but they didn't have the true feelings in their hearts to tell.

Zhiying suddenly felt that there were a lot of things he wanted to say to him, including his original plans, all kinds of despicable hearts about using him, and the secrets of his unknown past life, and he was eager to confide in him.

But Cui Yi smiled slightly: "Gongqi came to me today, talked a lot, and finally figured it out, since I don't regret it, then I don't need to think about it, as long as I follow my own wishes and leave no regrets, it is enough." Everything you gave up because of me at the beginning, one day, I will compensate you with a better one. ”

Since you don't regret it, you don't need to think about it...... Holding Ying took a deep breath, and the gloomy mood suddenly brightened up like a clear autumn sky.

It's pointless to dwell on who owes whom, it's better to do your best to let the other party get far more and better than what you did at the beginning!

"Me too." She snuggled up in that warm and reliable embrace, and made a firm and solemn commitment with a lifetime.

The autumn breeze brings the aroma of wheat, and the autumn leaves on the branches are fluttering, and the bells of dusk melt into the afterglow.

At the time of the unitary hour, the king of Wu returned to the palace with his wife and daughter, and they were greeted by a golden crow grazing in the courtyard with his head bent.

Cui Yi was stunned for a long time, and when he reacted, he immediately turned into a violent beast and roared: "What's going on!" ”

Zhiying didn't expect such a follow-up, and was so surprised that she couldn't speak, Jin Wutong was human, flicked his tail and raised his head, and shouted at her twice, his wet eyes blinking.

"What the hell is going on? What do you mean? Who - who did it! ”

Cui Yi roared madly, Bailizan walked in from the outside with a smile, stroked his beard and said: "The plan will be calculated, the plan will be calculated, Bomur went out of the city that night, and the next morning Miss Sanduo came back to return the horse, I totaled it with Fu Zhi, and decided to hide the golden crow first, and then return it when the prince wants to open it." ”

Cui Yi still couldn't let go: "You have joined forces to deceive this king!" Treat this king as a monkey! Baili Wenyu, this king is going to cut you! As he spoke, he pulled out the Xingyuan Sword and slashed at him.

Bailizan ran away in a hurry, Zhiying really didn't know whether to cry or laugh, so she easily persuaded Cui Yi, and sent Xiaoqiu to thank Bailizan and Yang Qiong.

After this long toss, the knot that Zhiying had been haunting was finally untied, and at the same time, he understood the true thoughts in Cui Yi's heart, and there was no barrier between them.

In October, the decree of the tribute was transmitted from Zizhang City to Yanzhou Mansion.

Bailizan tried his best to make a hard thing to say, and replied to the imperial court with a letter of blood and tears, which mentioned that although the imperial court was reconciled with Beidi, and promised to cut the land and pay tribute, but the Beidi people were ambitious, greedy, and not satisfied with the money in the contract, so they changed their tricks to take advantage of the robbery, waved 80,000 troops to attack the tiger and ran to the pass, and 20,000 soldiers in the pass fought bloodily, and the enemy was defeated to the ground, and at the same time, more than half of the dead and wounded, most of the food was destroyed in the war, and the people were hungry all over the field, and the people were not able to pay tribute according to the requirements of the imperial court. King Wu personally led people into the deep mountains to step on the snow, hunted several deer antler velvets, and several animal skins, and was willing to show his surrender.

"Humph!" Cui Jie received Yanzhou's reply and only gave a one-word response.

In addition to the personal eunuch Fude in the imperial study, there are no other palace people, Emperor Qisheng cut off a large number of palace maids and eunuchs in the name of streamlining the use of the palace, but in fact, in order to eliminate dissidents, several concubines who have children and can not go to the imperial tomb to eat fasting and chanting Buddha in the palace eyeliner in the palace completely removed.

A few feet away from the desk, there stood two people with their heads bowed, one of them was the gray-haired Changsun Tai, and the other was a man who looked to be no more than forty years old, with a rich appearance, and his small squinted eyes looked like he was smiling at any time, giving people the impression of being very good-natured.

"It is expected that King Wu refused to pay tribute," Changsun Tai bowed deeply and said, "Yanzhou is a small land, the land is barren, and since the founding of the Great Chu Dynasty, there has never been a year to pay food and taxes according to the amount, not to mention that Huerhana has indeed sent troops to attack the Hubeng Pass, even if the casualties of the soldiers and the lack of food are exaggerated, the actual situation should not be much better, and the emperor does not need to worry." ”

The man next to him smiled: "Lord Eldest Sun's words are wrong, as the saying goes, raising tigers is a problem, although Yanzhou is barren, but it is close to Dongchang, and there are many birds and beasts in the mountains where the geese return to hunt, and it is not impossible to fight with the imperial court for a while." ”

Eldest Sun Tai snorted heavily, glanced at him, and said, "How can Lord Guo grow the ambition of others to destroy his own prestige?" The emperor is the lord of the Ninety-Five, the lord of Great Chu, and the grain produced by Xuanzhou alone in a year can reach three Yanzhou, is it still worried that he can't beat King Wu? ”

The man surnamed Guo smiled indifferently: "If I am a hundred miles of Wenyu, I will use troops in Xuanzhou in the spring of next year, Xie Zichang is dead, Xie Yuchan is nowhere to be found, King Wu is equivalent to turning his face with the Xie family, Xuanzhou is such a good granary, how can I sit back and watch it fall into the hands of the emperor?" ”

Eldest Sun Tai still snorted, full of rejection and jealousy.

The man surnamed Guo bowed to Cui Jie: "Your Majesty, King Wu is not opposed, the court is unknown, but you must not be on guard, losing the eyeliner of Xie Zichang, the movement of Yanzhou is becoming more and more unpredictable, Weichen is bold, please ask the emperor to summon Xie Xiao back to Beijing on the same day, and send another military general to guard Xuanzhou in case of loss." ”

Cui Jie sat on the dragon chair with a gloomy face and spit out a word: "Accurate." ”