The Empress Dowager's boat traveled along the Yellow River, turned around at Chenliu County and entered the Cao River, all the way south, and in the afternoon, the fleet finally entered the Huai River.

Although the conditions on the big ship are very thorough, but the hot weather still makes this journey extremely difficult, the deck is very quiet, there are no eunuchs in the Bixian Palace, all of them are palace maids, there are more than 300 palace maids in total, this time, more than 100 palace maids followed her south to Chuzhou.

The palace maids all hid in the cabin to escape the heat, but the small window of the cabin was open, and many palace maids were out of the palace for the first time, and almost everyone looked curiously at the outside scenery through the window.

The Empress Dowager's boat is called the Baifeng Boat, named after the painting of the Baifeng, in fact, it is a 3,000-stone building boat, the building is three floors high, the Empress Dowager lives on the second floor, served by more than a dozen of her henchmen and palace maids, the Empress Dowager is not in a very good mood these days, she heard the news of Zhao Wangtan's suicide when she stayed in Chen, and the fratricidal between the children and grandchildren made the old man's heart full of helplessness and sadness.

In the cabin, her four personal maids are carefully serving her for lunch, although Ye Yunqing is the empress dowager, her diet is very simple, a bowl of vegetarian bean porridge, a plate of small vegetables, a piece of tofu, she is a cultivator, for decades, she has long been used to light.

"Have you seen it, this is the Huai River, my mother is from Shouchun County, now called Huainan County, either drought or flood, there are eight disasters in ten years, and when there is a major disaster, I sell my sons and daughters, and I say that my son is having a hard time!"

"Old grandmother, should we go to Huainan County to have a look this time?" A palace maid asked with a smile.

"I won't go, I can't run."

Ye Yunqing sighed, "This time I came to see my great-grandson, if possible, I want to live in Chuzhou for a while, a few grandsons over there are fighting for your life, it really makes me sad, and Jiangning Mansion is my hometown, I lived in Jiangning Mansion for a few years, and in Jiangning Mansion, I gave birth to Xuande." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the boat suddenly slowed down, and I saw a palace maid running in in a panic, "Old grandmother, there are big ships ahead, and we can't move forward." ”

"Then it must be Wujin coming, come! Kids, lift me up. ”

The four palace maids helped Ye Yunqing slowly out of the cabin, only to see that on the big river a few miles ahead, the black pressure ships were lined up, and the big ship headed by was a huge giant, and the side of the ship was full of troops, and on the shore, it was even more flag-waving, overwhelming.

Ye Yunqing's Baifeng boat was on the side, and an officer shouted on the shore: "Empress Dowager, this is the army of King Liang who has come to greet you." ”

Ye Yunqing's face bloomed with a smile, and he said to several palace maids around him: "If you see it, I know that my grandson will come to pick me up." ”

．．．．．． Huangfu Wujin boarded the Baifeng boat alone, he quickly came to his grandmother and knelt down, kowtowed respectfully: "Grandson Huangfu Wujin, kowtow to the emperor's grandmother, I wish the emperor's grandmother good health and a long life!" ”

"Good boy, get up!"

Ye Yunqing hurriedly helped Wu Jin up, looked up and down, and showed a loving smile on his face, "It's much darker than last year, and I'm also thinner, but I'm more energetic, huh!" There is the appearance of a prince. ”

Wu Jin smiled a little embarrassedly: "Originally, Su Han was supposed to come to pick up her grandmother, but she was going to give birth in two days, so she really couldn't come, and Feng Wu was also pregnant." ”

"Oh! That Miss Qi is also pregnant? It's best if all the granddaughters-in-law are pregnant, give me a lot of great-grandchildren and great-granddaughters, and I like it. ”

Seeing her grandson Wujin, Ye Yunqing's shadows in her heart for a few days were swept away, and she became cheerful and joked like a child.

She pulled up the four confidant palace maids and smiled at Wu Jin: "These four beautiful beauties are also left to you, I hope they can also give birth to my great-grandson in the future." ”

Ye Yunqing's half-truthful and half-joking words made the four palace maids blush, and they didn't dare to raise their heads, which made Wujin also a little embarrassed, scratching his head and not knowing what to say, Ye Yunqing smiled softly, "What's the point of being shy, men and women marry, do you want to be nuns for life?" This grandson of mine is tall and handsome, and you can't find it with a lantern. ”

The four palace maids were so ashamed that they almost got into the crack of the ship, and Wu Jin really couldn't hold his face, so he hurriedly said to his grandmother: "It's sunny outside, grandmother, go back to the cabin!" ”

"Go back to the cabin, I'm going to take a nap, the emperor has a letter for me to bring to you, read it for yourself! In the evening, you come to dinner with me. ”

Ye Yunqing asked the palace maid to hand over Huang Fuheng's letter to Wu Jin, she saw Wu Jin, her heart relaxed, her body felt extremely tired, and she went back to the cabin to rest.

Wu Jin ordered the fleet to set sail, and the fleet began to turn around and sail towards Jiangning Mansion.

．．．．．．． In the cabin, Huangfu Wujin opened the letter that Huangfu Heng gave him, it was indeed Huang Fuheng's handwritten letter, not in the emperor's tone, but like a brother asking for brothers, although Huang Fuheng said more vaguely in the letter, but Wujin still understood what he meant: Huangfu Heng actually let himself contain the King of Qi.

Wu Jin walked to the wall of the ship, there was a huge map of the Daning Dynasty hanging on the wall of the ship, he looked at Qizhou above Chuzhou for a long time, in terms of timing, he has now passed the best time to fight Qizhou, it should be the most effective attack of the Qizhou army in the fierce battle in Youzhou, now the Qizhou army has retreated south, and then attack Qizhou, even if he can take it, he will have to pay a heavy price.

What's more important is that if he attacks Qizhou on a large scale, Chuzhou will be empty of troops, will Huangfu Heng take advantage of the void to enter?

Wujin is no longer an impulsive age, he thinks deeply, he even suspects that Huang Fuheng is setting up a bureau, agreeing to the empress dowager's southern tour to confuse himself, he will even agree to all the conditions he proposes, his purpose is to attack Qizhou by himself, be dragged into the quagmire of the Qizhou campaign, and then he will occupy Chuzhou.

Strategically speaking, the occupation of Chuzhou will enable the Jingchu Mountains to be connected in the south, so as to control the entire south of the Yangtze River, and can be governed by dividing the river with the Central Plains.

Will Huangfu Heng keep his promise to himself and never take advantage of the danger of others to attack Chuzhou? The promise is negative, if he can take Chuzhou, after Mo said that he is the emperor of Jin'an, even if he is his own brother, he will also be treacherous.

But it's not impossible to cooperate with Huangfuheng, anything can be done, the key is to weigh the pros and cons and choose the timing.

Huangfu Wujin fell into a long contemplation.

．．．．．．．． At dinner, Wu Jin accompanied his grandmother, and it was still a few light side dishes, but the tofu became braised and there was an extra plate of vegetarian buns.

Ye Yunqing slept in the afternoon, her spirit was much better, she filled Wujin's bowl with vegetables, and smiled apologetically: "Grandmother is a layman, she can't touch meat, and it's difficult for you to eat vegetarian together." ”

Wu Jin likes to eat braised tofu very much, and in a blink of an eye, a bowl of rice will bottom out, he handed the bowl to the palace maid to add more rice, and smiled at his grandmother: "I feel very good to eat vegetarian food occasionally, if I eat it every day, I'm afraid I won't be able to stand it." ”

"You are a young man, you have to deal with a lot of things every day, you definitely can't just eat a vegetarian, and I just need you to accompany your grandmother to have a meal occasionally."

Ye Yunqing's tone was very soft, her kind smile was full of grandmother's love for her grandson, she remembered the letter to Wujin in the afternoon, and asked with a smile: "Have you read the letter that the emperor gave you?" ”

Wu Jin nodded, "He hopes that I can help him contain Qizhou." ”

After a pause, Wu Jin asked again, "Does grandmother want me to help him?" ”

Ye Yunqing shook his head, "I don't want to ask about your affairs at all, they are all my grandsons, what do you want me to do?" Wu Jin, I know that I can't stop you, I just hope that at the last moment, you can think that you actually have the same blood flowing in your body. ”

Wu Jin nodded silently, and after a moment, he sighed slightly and said, "I plan to disclose my identity and officially tell the world that I am the grandson of Emperor Jin'an." ”

Ye Yunqing was stunned, she looked at Wu Jin in a little surprise, obviously, she was taken aback by the idea of Wu Jin, in Luojing, what Huang Fuheng repeatedly wanted to know was that Wu Jin was the real life experience, but he didn't expect Wu Jin to take the initiative to reveal it.

But Ye Yunqing saw a determined gaze in Wu Jin's eyes, she was silent for a while, and finally nodded, "Then I will prove to you the will of the Empress Dowager to the world." ”

"Not only does the grandson need the grandmother's certificate, but the grandson also needs the certificate of the current emperor."

Wu Jin further explained: "Didn't he want me to help him? I can help him, but I want him to give me something in return, and I want him to recognize who I am. ”

Ye Yunqing looked at her grandson who was talking eloquently, and she suddenly had a ridiculous feeling that Wujin was seeking skin with the tiger, but this kind of thing with the tiger had the possibility of being realized.

Ye Yunqing sighed softly, she suddenly realized that Wu Jin, who she was most worried about, was actually not a weak person.

．．．．．．． Four days later, Ye Yunqing's ship finally arrived at Jiangning Mansion, according to Wu Jin's original intention, he and Jiangning Mansion both advocated holding a grand welcome ceremony to welcome the arrival of the Empress Dowager, and Jiangning Mansion wanted to mobilize 100,000 people to come to the dock to greet them.

But Ye Yunqing insisted on entering Jiangning in a low-key manner, refusing to disturb the people, and in the end, Wujin only had to accept her stubbornness and send someone to notify the Jiangning government in advance to cancel the original certain welcome ceremony.

Ye Yunqing's boat arrived at the wharf of Jiangning County in the afternoon, did not go ashore, directly changed to a boat of 500 stones, entered the city through the water gate, and at dusk, Ye Yunqing and her more than 100 palace maids arrived at the wharf of Huangfu Wujin's mansion.

This time, Su Han, who had a big belly, led his family to greet the arrival of his grandmother in front of his pier.

Ye Yunqing was helped ashore tremblingly, and Su Han could only bow slightly, "Old grandmother, I have given you a salute in nine days." ”

Ye Yunqing liked this granddaughter-in-law very much, she hurriedly waved her hand, "You are about to give birth, be careful, don't move the fetus." ”

Jing Niang hugged her two-month-old baby son Huang Fuxiao forward, "Old grandmother, it's him." ”

"It's this little guy, he really looks like his grandfather when he was a child, it's really similar, his ears are big, and his demeanor is more similar."

Ye Yunqing loved it very much, she couldn't wait to hold the child in her arms, but she was too old to hold it, she took out a piece of jade pendant and handed it to Jing Niang, "Jing Niang, put it on him when he was three years old." ”

Jing Niang took the jade pei and said, "Thank you grandmother, I remembered it, and I will definitely put it on him." ”

At this time, Wu Jin led a pair of twins, Luo Luo and Duoduo, forward, touched the back of their heads and smiled: "Quickly kowtow to the great grandmother!" ”

The two little guys immediately knelt down and kowtowed, "Luo Luo and Duoduo give a gift to the great grandmother!" ”

Ye Yunqing was stunned, "Wujin, who are these two children?" ”

(To be continued)