Chapter Seventy-Nine: Homecoming
When Qu Sui walked to Huayang Palace, his feet were already frozen, and he needed to take off the stairs, and through the thin foot clothes, he could feel the biting chill on the stairs, and only when he entered the hall, the air with the smell of charcoal fire wrapped him, and the whole person gradually warmed up. This is the country of Qin, covered in snow and silver makeup, but how can it compare to the mother country that is as warm as spring?
"I've seen Dr. Qu." Shang Wu smiled and turned to Qu Sui, with him, Shang Wu didn't have to speak Qin.
"Dare to ask the Empress Dowager Zu......" Qu Sui asked, he came uninvited this time.
"Empress Dowager Zu is in the middle court." When Qu Sui ascended the stairs, Shang Wu knew that he was coming, and the Empress Dowager Mi Thorn also knew that he was coming. Shang Wu smiled and led the way for Qu Sui in front. "Doctor Qu, please."
It has been two and twenty days since Mi Qian married into the Qin Palace, and it is clear why Qu Sui came to Mi Thorn, she didn't want to see Qu Sui before, but this time she couldn't see it.
"Doctor Qu is here, do you want to tell the old woman that you want to take Mi Qian back to your home country?" Above the middle court, the thorns sat lonely. Under the towering bun, her face was a little helpless.
It has been nearly three months since I came to Xianyang, and I have already said what I should say several times, so I shook my head and said calmly: "Yes." ”
"Just for that impudent king?!" Her words were filled with anger, and her words were squeezed out between her teeth.
"Please don't insult the widow." Being in Xianyang, he couldn't contact Yingdu, but Qu Sui still heard some news. For example, Xin Wu, the general of the Qin army, was killed by the Chu army more than two months ago, and the legend of the Qin people said that it was King Jing who performed witchcraft at the head of the city, and the general died.
"Insult?!" Mi Thorn laughed, the nine bearded fairy buns trembled, and the pearls and jade hanging on them jingled. "If it weren't for his gamble on the boat battle, the two countries of Qin and Chu would have formed an alliance long ago! If he hadn't married Mi Qian, Qin and Chu would have married long ago! Like his incompetent father, he wanted to regain the old Ying, but he didn't know that his behavior would only make the King of Qin hate his mother country even more, and would only make more of his people die in the conquest. ”
"Please don't insult the first king and the king!" Qu Sui angrily drew his sword. What Mi Thorn said may be the truth, but he is a courtier of the former king and Xiong Jing, and as a courtier, he must not let others slander the king.
"You dare!" Fearlessly, he stood up and looked at Qu Sui. "If there is no thorn in my heart, the mother country will be extinct early."
Drawing the sword just didn't want to humiliate the king, Qu Sui didn't want to talk to the thorn anymore, after collecting the sword, he said: "Tell the Empress Dowager Zu, if the King of Qin does not withdraw the army, ten days later, the minister will return to the country with the princess." ”
"Listen to me." His eyes flashed, and he replied. Seeing that Qu Sui retreated without saying anything, she hurriedly said: "If Mi Qian returns to China, there will be no peace between Qin ......and Chu."
Mi Qian and the King of Qin were in the same prison, they were already husband and wife, and after feeding and feasting women, she began to take charge of the entire Qin Palace as the queen of Qin. If she returns to China and then marries someone else, it will be the biggest insult to the King of Qin and the Qin State. Qi Huan, the first tyrant of the Spring and Autumn Period, raised troops to attack Cai, because Cai Guoren married his wife who returned to China to someone else.
Towering Qin Palace, Qu Sui asked to see immediately after being welcomed into the main bed, more than two months of Mi Qian and the concubine who accompanied the marriage has been living in the general chapter room, the King of Qin has never entered the room except for the rudeness when he was in prison that night, but every day will send someone to send some small gifts. Qu Sui's arrival surprised Mi Qian a little, her expression was like that of a child who was out playing and couldn't think about it, and suddenly saw her parents with a calm face.
"If the King of Qin does not withdraw his troops after ten days, please ask the princess and her ministers to return to China." Qu Sui said, and as soon as he spoke, he was stunned.
"The minister retired." Qu Sui only came to inform him, and after speaking, he retired according to the courtesy.
"Doctor Qu, I am already the king of Qin, how can I ......" Seeing that Qu Sui was leaving, Qi Qian hurriedly stopped him.
"Before the temple, the princess was still the princess of Chu, not the queen of Qin." Qu Sui reminded, looking at Qi Qian's eyes with deep incomprehension, and then shook his head again and again, after all, how can the power of the princess of Chu be as powerful as that of the queen of Qin? He said again: "If the princess is unwilling, petition the concubines and palace maids and ministers who have returned to the country to return to the country." ”
"Doctor Qu is mistaken, how can Mi Qian not want to return to China!" Mi Qian was shocked, she immediately bowed down and asked Qu Sui for her hesitation.
"The queen is going home?!" As soon as Qu Sui left, the eunuch Ling crept to the Ming Hall and whispered, and Zhao Zheng was shocked. "She is already the queen of widows, how can she, how can she return to the country?"
"The king, the queen has not yet told the king about the temple, and she can indeed return to the country." The king loved the princess of Chu very much, and the eunuch Ling naturally knew that the ritual law was the ritual law, and the queen who had not yet told the temple was not the real queen.
"No widows! No one is allowed! Zhao Zheng was furious. At this time, he also remembered that he and Mi Qian had not yet sued the temple. If Mi Qian dies at this time, she will be buried in the ancestral grave of the surname Mi instead of the ancestral grave of the surname Win.
Except for the two chariots that were stolen by the Shaofu to study the structure of the four-wheeled carriage of the Chu State, the rest remained in the Qin Palace. These cars are the property of the woman, and the reason why she does not return to China is not only to show her humility, but also to prepare to take the woman back to China. Only after suing the temple can the man make the decision to let the convoy return to China, and the convoy can return to China, which also represents the joy of the husband and wife.
Although he did not tell the temple, Zhao Zheng loved Mi Qian very much, and her smile was remembered by him, and in the eyes of the Qin people, Mi Qian had long been the queen of Qin, her preferences, clothing, and dress have become the focus of discussion among the nobles of Xianyang, and some women are more scholars of her attire, if she returns to China, it is equivalent to a slap in the face of Qin.
The Empress Dowager Zu is not coming. "Doctor Qu and the old woman said that the queen wants to return to China."
"Meet the Empress Dowager." Zhao Zheng hurriedly bowed, and after inviting Mi Jian to sit down, he said, "Yes." Qu Sui entered the palace to see the queen before noon, and said that he would return to China ten days later. Empress Dowager Zu, Zheng'er loves the queen, how can she return to China with Dr. Qu? Please do not let the queen return to China. ”
"Zheng'er." Seeing that he was anxious, Mi Thorn had to call him. "Before going to the temple, both men and women can repent of their marriage, and this has been the case since ancient times. If it is forced to stay, how can the face of the Qin State remain? And the Chu people are stubborn, how can they force them to stay? ”
Zhao Zheng was stunned when he said this, and he was unwilling to say: "Qi'er is in the same prison with me, how can you marry someone else?" Zheng'er must be forced to stay. ”
"When will Chen Cheng be broken?" Mi Jian had to ask about Chen Cheng, since the personal welcome of Mi Qian, the siege has been more than three months, and the siege has been continuous for three months, but Chen Cheng has not yet been broken.
"Zheng'er ordered Mengwu to go to Chencheng last month, and the defenders have run out of bullets, although there is grain, there is not much." The war in Chencheng has not stopped, the Qin and Wei troops who attacked the city have suffered many casualties, and the Qin army that originally attacked Xiangcheng has also transferred tens of thousands of people to Chen.
"Can the city be broken in three months?" Thorn nodded slowly.
"Three months can definitely be broken." Zhao Zhengdao, three months is already the third and fourth months of the Chu calendar, and if the city is not broken and the East Lake rises, the Qin army can only withdraw its troops as soon as the waterway is opened. "In two months, Meng Wu said that Chen Cheng could be broken in two months."
"In this case, let Qu Sui bring the queen back to the country, and then the king can make the counties along the way not receive their grain." Mi Jian said helplessly, for the sake of Qin Guo's face, she could only come up with such an idea. "As long as the queen is still in the Qin State, once the king withdraws his troops, he can be welcomed back."
"On the day of the destruction of Chengyang City, Zheng'er Ding welcomed the queen back to the palace to tell the temple." Zhao Zheng was excited. More than 1,000 miles from Xianyang to the border of Chu State, if there is no one along the way to help the convoy of grain, they will not be able to move an inch. The queen is in the Qin palace and the people in the Qin country, there is no difference.
"Hey. The old woman really doesn't know when the two countries of Qin and Chu will be able to join the alliance. Mi Thorn sighed.
"Empress Dowager Yuzu, when Zheng'er welcomes the queen in person after Chen Chengcheng is broken, he will have a bloody alliance with the new king of Jing in Jiyi. After the alliance, Jiyi could be given to Jing State, and the two countries would never attack again. Empress Dowager Zu's wish Zhao Zheng had already known, and when she saw her sigh at this time, she hurriedly told her. Seeing that he said so solemnly, Mi Thorn suddenly smiled.
Ten days later, in the early morning, the south gate of Xianyang was opened, and the cars of Chu Guo, who had entered the palace three months ago, left the palace one after another at this time and embarked on the journey back to China. When she went out of the south gate, she glanced back for some reason, and this glance made her see a familiar figure standing on the city tower. When the man saw her looking back, he immediately waved at her.
"But you are reluctant to give up on the King of Qin?" The four-wheeled carriage was very wide, the weather was cold, and the etiquette was not strict on the return trip, and several wives who were married were all crowded in the chariot. For three months, they were like sisters, and they smiled when they spoke.
"If I were a widow, I would be reluctant." An elderly woman said, "Except for that night, King Qin is not a person who does not know etiquette, so what's wrong with being the queen of Qin." ”
"If I am a concubine, I will marry the son of the Xiang family. I heard that the son of the Xiang clan killed the general of the Qin army in hundreds of thousands of Qin strokes and sealed Shangzhigui, what a hero! "The young woman is full of nymphomaniacs, since Xiong Jing and the princesses said that 'the princess of Chu will marry the heroes of Chu State', the princesses have not yet been all moved, and these royal women who were born to be concubines are yearning.
"If it were me, I would marry the king, and the king would be the true hero." The voice that was not ashamed immediately caused a coquettish laugh in the carriage. The one who spoke was pushed by the women.
"Son-in-law, they, they are so shameless......" The carriage was followed by another carriage. When a maid heard that the concubine in front of her actually wanted to marry the king of Chu, her eyes widened. The king of Chu is his master's son-in-law, how can he marry them.
"Xiuzhu, you let them say it." Mi Xuan sat in the carriage, Xiu Zhu could hear the langs in the carriage in front of her, and of course she could hear it. After avoiding the wedding with a vicious illness, she heard that Mi Qian was going to return to China, so she immediately persuaded her eldest father to return to China with the convoy.
"Why should the son-in-law bother with them, the king of Chu ......" The other maid smiled straightly, and finally said in a long tone: "...... I only love the son-in-law. ”
The word love is like a charcoal fire, and all of a sudden, Mi Xuan, who pretended to be a female red, burned her cheeks red, and she stomped her feet and said, ", you don't need to make fun of me." ”
"Yui." The maid who said that she loved respectfully agreed, but she still couldn't hold back her laughter, and the other maids laughed accordingly, and Mi Xuan longed for the car box to crack and get in.