Chapter 191: Worried
"But Changle is not in the palace, let's find an excuse!" Empress Changsun was embarrassed, her daughter's reputation was very important, "And there are so many children, if they start in Changle, it will not be easy to manage in the future." "Empress Changsun treats the children born to the harem concubines equally on the surface, but behind the scenes, only Empress Changsun herself knows, so even if those concubines are jealous of Empress Changsun, there is no reason to compete with Empress Changsun.
"That's not simple, let's just say that Changle and Chengqian went to pray for their father together!" Li Er replied that Changle was his beloved daughter, and he didn't allow a daughter to be not.
"Hey, the other older children must think that my grandmother is biased again." Empress Changsun seemed to be complaining, after all, Li Er has more than a dozen wives and many children, and the relationship is complicated.
These children have all grown up in the palace, and they all want to go out and go around, Cheng Qian and Changle have gone out, even if they don't say it on the surface, they will mumble in their hearts.
Li Er hugged the eldest grandson queen and said, "You have done a very good job, if anyone says that yours is not, I will definitely not let them go." ”
"Second brother, hurry up and put me down!" Empress Eldest Sun exclaimed.
"Don't let it go," Li Er said evilly, and soon after, there was a moaning sound that made people blush
Changsun Chong got Li Er's reply here, so that Princess Changle and Yiniang can continue to stay here, and now they can sit back and relax.
Princess Changle and Yiniang learned that His Majesty and Empress Changsun had agreed, and they were even more excited, plus they didn't need to walk, and they were still sitting in the carriage, and they were even more happy to eat and drink.
Seeing Princess Changle's cheerful smile. The eldest grandson thought that he came over this time, in addition to completing His Majesty's explanation, there was also an important thing, which was to retrieve Liu Muxiang!
If Liu Muxiang saw Princess Changle, she wouldn't agree to go back with him, and she would have a headache. Patronizing not to disappoint Princess Changle, but forgetting Liu Muxiang's stubble, he knew that he should have spared no effort to persuade Li Er to let Princess Changle and Yiniang go back last night.
But it's too late now, so I can only bite the bullet and come to block. Cover the water and adapt to the situation!
With Princess Changle and Yiniang here, Li Yexu has been following Changsun Chong, arguing with Yiniang and joking. It was fun along the way, there was no dull feeling. But although the eldest grandson Chong was smiling on the surface. But my heart was full of apprehension.
Unconsciously, they were about to reach their destination, Changsun Chong and others were sitting in the carriage, their bones were about to fall apart, and they passed through some villages along the way, although there were few people, but everyone had a seed in their hands. There are also Li Er's various promises. Many people couldn't read the official documents, so Li Er instructed the following orders to order people to convey them to the village.
Li Er even made a bloody investment to let the imperial historian come out to inspect, once there were officials who ignored the imperial edict. All will be brought to justice.
Along the way, Changsun Chong also constantly promoted the policies of the imperial court and won the approval of the people.
The reason why the people are so easy to appease is that Li Er's prestige among the people is very loud, whether it is the previous fight against the country or the current pacification of the Turks, he has made great contributions, thinking that Li Er is a wise and wise and simple emperor, and he is willing to follow this emperor, hoping that he will bring the people a good life.
Liu Mulan, Liu Muxiang brother and sister also got the imperial court's rice seeds, although they didn't believe it, but when they saw the seeds full of grains, they were reluctant to eat them, and threw them away, and evenly set out an acre of land for planting rice.
"Big brother, plus the five acres of dry days we bought yesterday, we now have a total of twenty-five acres of land, which can be planted in the spring and harvested in the autumn." Yanagi Xiang worked with her brother and hired a long-term laborer.
"Well, yes, little sister, I want to hire another long-term worker, you know, my legs can't be strong, you are a girl's family, you can't keep sunbathing in the sun, tanned, it's not easy to find your in-laws in the future." When the spring ploughing is over, I am literate, and I just want to open a school, and you can also teach them kung fu to earn some money and be able to afford long-term workers. Liu Mulan worked hard and sweated profusely, and he had been sure that his legs were not suitable for farm work in the past few days.
As soon as Liu Muxiang heard her brother say that she was looking for her in-laws, she thought of Changsun Chong, and that man had forgotten her now! Although I feel very regretful, but I have made a choice, don't regret it, Liu Muxiang persuaded herself like this more than once, but the thoughts are like a flood, and they keep surging in front of me.
Liu Mulan looked up and saw Liu Muxiang slightly stunned, so she guessed that her sister had not forgotten Changsun Chong, and it was right or wrong for him to take his sister away like this!
Feeling that her brother was looking at her, Liu Muxiang showed a smile and said: "Of course you can, learning kung fu can strengthen your body, you can read and write, and it will be very useful in the future, we charge very little, I believe someone will come to learn." ”
Liu Muxiang lowered her head, her sister was smiling, if after another half a year, her sister had not forgotten Changsun Chong, then he would send her sister back, although her sister came back with him, but her heart was on Changsun Chong's body.
After a day's farm work, Liu Muxiang and Liu Mulan came back from the field, heard many people in the village crying, and didn't know what was going on, so they entered a house at the entrance of the village, the yard was full of messes, and asked, "Aunt Hua, what's wrong?" ”
"Those bandits who killed a thousand knives came to the village, injured my old man, and robbed my daughter! I can't live this day! "Aunt Hua cried, the field had been ploughed, so she wanted to go home early, but she didn't expect to see a group of dozens of bandits who had just left after robbing, and there were many big girls on horseback, so she hurried home, and when she saw the mess at home, she knew that something bad was wrong.
"How long have those men been gone?" Yanagi asked.
"It's been more than half an hour!" Aunt Hua cried while talking, don't let people live!
"Then you know, which direction these people are going?" Liu Muxiang asked, the time is very long from time to time, if you follow behind, you may be able to catch up.
"I went south from the east of the village and went in the direction of the Valley of Evil Ghosts!"
"Big brother, you bandage Uncle Hua, I'll go and see, what's going on?" After Liu Muxiang finished speaking, he hurried home to ride a horse.
"Be careful!" Liu Mulan said worriedly.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Liu Muxiang said loudly, there are more than a hundred people who have died in her hands, and thousands of troops can kill in and out, and come back alive, not to mention these bandits.
When I entered the yard, I saw that the house was in a mess and was turned into a mess, but fortunately, the money at home was buried in the soil by Liu Muxiang and placed under the stone mill, so it was not robbed.
Liu Muxiang rode a horse, holding a retractable sharp iron spear, and chased out in the direction provided by Aunt Hua.
There are horseshoe prints on the ground, Liu Muxiang followed the horseshoe prints, chased forward, actually saw an embroidered shoe, and continued to chase out in this direction, into the valley The ground is full of broken stones, after leaving the valley, it has completely disappeared.
Liu Muxiang walked back and forth in the valley twice, found no other way, looked up at the sky, it was about to be dark, and had to go back. After all, she couldn't see the road clearly at night, and she was not familiar with the terrain here, so she could only go back and ask the people in the village to see what the mystery of this valley was.
When I arrived at the village, it was already dark, but Liu Muxiang was alert to find that there were many torches and tents not far from the outskirts of the village. Based on her experience of mixing in the barracks for a year, it can be seen that the tents belong to the army.
It turned out that Cheng Chumo, Duan Qiang, and Fang Yiai, the soldiers were divided into three ways to sweep the past mountains, and Li Yexu personally led a thousand people to follow Changsun Chong.
Although Princess Changle and Yiniang felt very tired from hurrying, they saw a lot of interesting things along the way, and they liked it very much, and often secretly went to the woods to pick wild flowers and mushrooms.
The eldest grandson Chong advised them several times not to run around at will, but they felt that there were so many people behind them, so they didn't pay attention to it at all. Changsun Chong had no choice but to send more people to follow them to protect their safety.
"Uncle, there is a valley in front, called the Valley of Evil Ghosts, which is often haunted, and it seems that there are bandits, who often rob passing merchants. This is a valley of more than ten miles, high on both sides and low in the middle, especially suitable for ambushes, so we should be doubly careful when passing through, as I heard that there are bandits on it! Li Yexu held the map, very anxious, he only had a thousand soldiers, worried that he could not protect their safety.
"It's getting dark now, so let's settle down in a nearby village, and when you explore the terrain here, we'll go, how about we?" Changsun Chong suggested that the promotion of cotton and rice is very important, but it is not as important as everyone's life.
In this way, the group settled down in Daliu Village, waiting for the army to find out the situation before setting off, anyway, the time was still in time.
Liu Muxiang was surprised, the people who were lost this morning, the army came, so fast?
Liu Muxiang rode a horse and passed near the tent, but was stopped and asked, "Who is here?" ”
It was not for nothing that the soldiers stopped Liu Muxiang, it was dark and he looked down on people, and he was riding a horse, thinking that when he first arrived in the village, the village had been robbed, so he was more careful.
"In Xia Liumuxiang, it is the villagers of this village, our village was robbed by bandits in the morning, I went to look for it, but I didn't know anything, it was dark, I had to leave, and I asked my eldest brother to make it convenient for me to enter the village." Liu Muxiang dismounted, hugged his fists and said, directly refreshing.
Seeing that Liu Muxiang said it was reasonable, the soldier was slightly relieved, and said: "The village has been attacked by bandits, and now we are very afraid, so we can't let you in. ”
"Muxiang, have you found Xiaomei?" Aunt Hua came out and looked at the movement outside, and saw the fragrance of willow wood.
Liu Muxiang took out the embroidered shoes and asked, "Aunt Hua, this is the embroidered shoes I picked up on the road, this is in winter, Xiaomei taught me to make it at my home, can you see it?" (To be continued......)