Before Xu Miaojin and Xu Yihua could answer, they heard Xu Zengshou's scream of "ah", it turned out that he had another board on his buttocks, and Xu Zengshou trembled in pain, and couldn't help but scream "oops" and "oops" again.

Looking at his appearance, Xu Miaojin, who was wearing a white cloak, laughed out loud, and the angry Xu Zengshou had itchy teeth, but Xu Yihua next to him was a little distressed, hesitated, took Xu Miaojin's hand and said, "Miaojin, you go and ask what's going on?" Didn't Zengshou catch the Mongol Great Khan? Why was he beaten instead? ”

Xu Miaojin turned his face to look at Wenhua Palace, his face was slightly red, and he said in a low voice: "This is not very good." ”

"What do you want? Ask the father-in-law who made the decree, wouldn't you know? ”

"Oh," Xu Miaojin blushed, quickly turned around and walked to the eunuch Wang Xi, who was in prison, asked a few words in a low voice, and then glanced at Xu Zengshou with a smile, and came back and whispered a few words to Xu Yihua.

Xu Yihua was stunned for a moment, looked back at the Wenhua Palace, and sighed.

……

Xu Zengshou had an injury on his buttocks and couldn't ride a horse, but fortunately, the Wei Mansion had a big business, and soon called a carriage, and the family lifted Xu Zengshou into the car, and the coachman shouted, and the four-wheeled carriage shook slightly, and under the pull of two batches of horses, he rushed to the direction of the Wei Mansion. Xu Yihua and Xu Miaojin's carriages followed closely behind.

The carriages of the Wei Mansion are the top, although the weather is not too cold, but the stove is still burning in the car, mainly because Xu Yihua is not in good health, since the autumn, he began to cough, and he has not healed for a long time, and he has become thin into skin and bones. Xu Miaojin helped her sister sit down, gently touched her sister's forehead, felt some sweat, and said softly: "Sister, you have to pay more attention to your body, it's not okay to go on like this." ”

Xu Yihua leaned on the sofa, gasped for breath, then took Xu Miaojin's hand, patted it, and then said, "Sister, thanks to you this time, if it weren't for you, my sister wouldn't be able to enter the palace." ”

Xu Miaojin's face turned red again, and she said in a low voice: "It's all the lady concubine who has a good heart, and she said that she moved the emperor." ”

"Hehe," Xu Yihua smiled slightly: "Yes, you still want to hide it from your sister?" ”

"Alas," Xu Miaojin sighed slightly: "Who knows, there are some things that can only depend on the arrangement of fate." ”

"Yes, fate!" Xu Yihua turned her face to look out the window, but tears flowed down her eyes.

"Sister, sister!" Xu Miaojin hurriedly took the silk handkerchief, wiped it for Xu Yihua, and said continuously: "It's all Miaojin is bad, it's my sister who is sad, it's all Miaojin is bad......"

After a while, Xu Yihua calmed down, wiped the corners of her eyes, and said lightly: "I don't know what's going on, I came to Beijing, but I can't dream of your brother-in-law, I don't know if he is complaining about me, complaining that I didn't go with him." ”

"But I dreamed of Gao Chi, Gao Xu, and Gao Sui, and they all said that they missed me, alas, my sister may not live long."

"Don't say that, sister, you can live a long life." Xu Miaojin was anxious, but she didn't know what to say, so she could only comfort indiscriminately.

There was silence in the carriage for a while, and Xu Miaojin suddenly said: "When my brother-in-law rebelled, my sister persuaded him, and my brother-in-law listened to my sister." ”

"Hehe," Xu Yihua smiled bitterly: "Miaojin, you don't understand, women's affairs can't be controlled by men." At first, my sister didn't persuade her, because my sister knew that it was useless, it just made your brother-in-law unhappy. What your brother-in-law decides, no one can persuade except Master Daoyan, but unfortunately Master Daoyan strongly advocates your brother-in-law's rebellion. ”

"We women marry chickens and dogs, and he is already about to rebel, can I still drag my feet behind? If his family is not at peace, then your brother-in-law will probably die faster! ”

"This Dao Yan, at the beginning, I thought he was not a good person, with triangular eyes and broom eyebrows, he didn't look like a Buddhist disciple at all, not like Master Boqia, that is the master of the Tao."

Looking at Xu Miaojin's puffed appearance, Xu Yihua couldn't help laughing, pulled her sister to her side, gently shook her fingers like mutton fat and white jade, and then gently stroked the hair of her sister's sideburns, and said with a smile: "My sister is still so young, and my sister is already old." ”

"Not old, not old, sister not old!" Xu Miaojin said urgently.

"My sister won't live for a few years, I really hope to see you wear a red wedding dress and get married. I don't know if my sister has this blessing. ”

"Sister, don't talk nonsense, my sister gave birth to a child, and I'll give you the next one, okay?"

"Forget it," Xu Yihua was stunned for a moment, her face was happy, but she quickly disappeared, and finally shook her head and said, "Sister doesn't have that blessing, and you can't do this kind of thing." Moreover, do you want your child to recognize your brother-in-law as his father? Wouldn't that be a lifetime of suffering? ”

"This?" Xu Miaojin thought that her sister would be happy, but she didn't expect her sister to say this.

"Sister, as the so-called 'wife is honored by her husband', whether we women are doing well or not, we can't be the masters ourselves, it all depends on whether our husband's family is good or not. So no matter what day it is, you have to remember that your husband is your heaven, and the honor and disgrace of your life are on him. ”

"Your brother-in-law was the king of Yan at the beginning, and Wen Taowu was second to none, and his father and the emperor carefully cultivated and taught him. It's a pity that as a vassal king, it's not good to be too capable, and the emperor is suspicious of him and wants to dismiss his military power. Now it seems that it is not bad to be sealed to Nanchang, and the emperor will not do anything to him, but it is a pity that your brother-in-law is not reconciled and has to give it a go, although my sister does not agree, but there is no further idea. ”

"It's a pity that the emperor is also a hero, although he was caught off guard by your brother-in-law in the early stage, but he quickly stabilized his position, Ping'an, Sheng Yong, Geng Xuan, and your eldest brother attacked from all sides, and your brother-in-law had no power to fight back, and finally died of defeat, and also affected Gao Chi and them."

Xu Yihua wiped her tears and said in a low voice: "The emperor is actually merciful, otherwise my sister would not be able to escape death, but my sister is alive and dead." ”

Xu Miaojin pursed her lips, but she didn't know what to say. Being close to her sister, Xu Miaojin can clearly see that her sister's hair has turned gray, and the corners of her eyes and forehead have wrinkles, which is a world of difference from four years ago, and she is just forty years old this year.

……

After arriving in the mansion, the doctor who had been waiting for a long time rushed up, checked Xu Zengshou's injury, and then arched his hand and said: "Don't worry, the little grandfather is just a flesh injury, put on some Yunnan Baiyao, and you can go to the ground for five or six days, and within a month, you can walk as usual." ”

"Oh, that's great, thank you, doctor." Xu Huizu and Xu Yingxu were not at home, so the person in charge of the family was Xu Miaojin, and she ordered to seal some silver and hand it over to the doctor as a diagnosis fee, and the doctor turned it out, and then left with a thousand thanks.

Xu Zengshou lay on the bed, looked around, ordered everyone to go down, looked up at Xu Miaojin and Xu Yihua slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Eldest sister, third sister, why are you in the palace today?" ”

"Oh, fourth brother, that's the case," Xu Miaojin said first: "After my sister came to Beijing, she has been depressed and unhappy, looking at the palace and crying, so my sister went to beg," As she spoke, she glanced at her sister slightly: "Please concubine Niangniang, Niangniang is kind-hearted, let my sister take my sister around the palace, and it can be regarded as a revisit." ”

"What old land to revisit? Ouch," Xu Zengshou slapped a bed board angrily, but accidentally touched the wound on his buttocks, and cold sweat broke out in pain.

Xu Miaojin hurriedly took a towel to wipe his brother's sweat, but found that the green tendons near Xu Zengshou's temples were rising, and he was panting heavily.

"You two," Xu Zengshou raised his hand and pointed: "This time in Mobei, I almost couldn't come back, eldest brother in order to cover me, now I don't know what happened, can't you stay at home and let eldest brother save snacks?" ”

"What's wrong with Big Brother? Is the situation bad? Xu Miaojin couldn't help but panic when she saw Xu Zengshou's appearance.

"This, it shouldn't be a big problem, Zhang Fu's 10th Guards Cavalry Army has already gone north to rescue."

"Then it should be fine, the emperor specially transferred Zhang Fu from North Korea to form the 10th Guards Cavalry Army, which should be very capable of fighting."

"The point of the problem is not here," Xu Zengshou looked at his sister and sister with complicated eyes: "It is indeed an immortal feat to sneak attack Helin with 20,000 lone troops and destroy the Golden Family, but for the eldest brother, is it necessary to take this risk and fight for this merit?" No matter how great the merit is, is it possible that the emperor can still crown him king? ”

"Although the emperor has made arrangements to send an envoy to unite with Warat and transfer the defenders of Helin away, what if Warat repents? What if they unite and gather an army of 100,000 and wait for our army to enter the army? ”

"In fact, at first, the emperor only wanted to send Long Kai, the commander of the Second Cavalry Corps of the Guards, to lead the army, and Kuang Yi, the commander of the special operations battalion, to accompany him, because the emperor knew that this expedition was extremely dangerous, and the slightest carelessness would be the end of the annihilation of the whole army."

"Then why did the eldest brother and the fourth brother go? Could it be that the emperor forced him? Xu Miaojin was suddenly a little scared, and asked anxiously, and at the same time involuntarily glanced at her sister, but Xu Yihua lowered her head and didn't seem to hear it, but she twisted her clothes tightly with her hands, showing that her heart was not calm.

"No, the emperor didn't force him, it was the eldest brother who took the initiative to ask for it." Xu Zengshou gasped slightly and said indifferently.

"Why?"

"Big brother has only one condition, to recall me to participate in this expedition." Speaking of this, Xu Zengshou lowered his head and cried, tears dripping on the sheets.

"This," Xu Miaojin suddenly understood: "Big brother is for you?" ”

"It should be, it seems that the emperor knows about the fourth brother." Xu Yihua, who had not spoken, said suddenly.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that Xu Zengshou didn't answer, Xu Miaojin asked curiously.

"When the fourth brother served as the governor of the Chinese army, he once revealed to your brother-in-law the defense of the Jingshi and the combat readiness of the imperial court."

"What?" Xu Miaojin was shocked: "There is still such a thing? How did I not know? ”

"There's so much more you don't know?" Xu Zengshou, who was lying on his stomach, said lowly.

The three brothers and sisters were silent for a while, and Xu Yihua said quietly: "Fourth brother, are these things told to you by the eldest brother?" ”

"No, the eldest brother didn't say anything, the emperor told me."

"He, he, he," Xu Yihua hesitated for a moment and said, "Will he lie to you?" ”

"Lie to me?" Xu Zengshou suddenly laughed and said, "Why did the emperor lie to me?" I met Zhang Fu, who received an order on the third day after our departure, on the 25th of August, to take a ship from Korea to Peking, and then to be promoted to commander of the 10th Guards Cavalry Corps, and ordered him to go north to rescue his eldest brother at any cost. ”

Xu Yihua was silent and sighed slightly.

"So, don't make trouble for the eldest brother, he is tired enough, the emperor lives in the palace, maybe when he will think of King Yan's matter, eldest sister, don't go to the palace in the future, once the emperor is unhappy, the Xu family is afraid that a big disaster will come immediately."

"Well, the eldest sister was wrong, and it won't be in the future." Xu Yihua lowered his head and said softly.

"And you, what are you going to do in the palace?"

"Me?" Xu Miaojin was stunned for a moment: "I'm going to see Sister Shufei." ”

"Lady?" Xu Zengshou stretched his eyebrows: "Then let's go and move around more, although Concubine Shu is not the queen, she has a deep friendship with the emperor." ”

"yes, got it." Xu Miaojin lowered his head in agreement, but secretly stuck out his tongue.

……

"Eldest sister, the fourth brother has no intentions, and what he said is a little ugly, don't take it to heart."

"Sister, how can the eldest sister bother with him?" Xu Yihua leaned on the quilt and said with a smile: "You four have returned from Mobei, and you have finally grown up, I think back then, my father and his old man liked to increase his longevity the most, if his old man has a spirit in the sky, I don't know how happy I will be to see your fourth brother like this!" ”

"Hehe, yes, although I was still young at the time, I heard my mother say it!" Xu Miaojin was also very happy.

Xu Yihua looked out the window faintly, in fact, her father's favorite and most thoughtful person was her husband, Zhu Di! It's a pity that they are all gone, only themselves are left, still alive, and I don't know when they will die.

And although he said that he didn't care, his brother's words were pierced in his heart like a needle, not only painful, but also a sense of suffocation, this home is no longer his own home after all.

Xu Miaojin helped her sister up, covered the quilt, tucked the corners of the quilt, sighed, and turned to go out.

When Xu Miaojin left, Xu Yihua woke up quietly, looked out the window, and muttered: "Lord, the concubine misses you......"