After Hongfu left, Chen Kefu also had some strange feelings in his heart. I always feel that I have been in this position for a long time, and gradually become a little too rational, or too realistic. Everything is always seen so thoroughly, and feelings and interests are always divided too clearly.

He couldn't tell for a moment whether it was good or bad. is the most ruthless emperor's family, maybe it really comes to this point, everyone will choose it this way. It's no wonder that it is said that the high place is unbearable, and everything has to be considered for a long time before and after, inside and out, and the pros and cons inside and out, and anyone will feel this way.

After returning to the case and calming down again, Chen Kefu continued to review the documents.

There was a sound of footsteps, and Chen Lei, the head of the guard, strode into the house.

"Your Highness, General Lu received a courier from Ji County today, saying that he had met a man there who claimed to be going to Jinchen, and he wanted to ask for someone to escort him to Jinchen. General Lu had already sent someone to receive Liyang, and according to his inquiry, the man said that he was Mrs. Li's person, and sent a letter to Jinchen to help Mrs. Li deliver a letter to you. ”

"Mrs. Li? Which Mrs. Lee? Chen Kefu asked with some confusion.

Chen Lei was also stunned for a moment, looked at Chen Kefu for a while, and then said, "It's Li Yuan's third daughter, Mrs. Xiuning." Li Xiuning is Chen Kefu's wife, and she is now Princess Chen's eldest grandson, Wuji, who also entered the door later. However, Li Xiuning was robbed back by Li Shimin, although Chen Kefu later sent many people to try to bring her back, but they were unsuccessful.

Gradually, this matter was slowly put aside. Especially after marrying the eldest grandson Wujian and making her a concubine. The name Li Xiuning has gradually become a taboo. Under normal circumstances, everyone will not mention it again, but will occasionally mention it, usually in the name of Mrs. Li. Originally, everyone was used to it, but Chen Kefu didn't know this, so when Chen Lei talked about Mrs. Li, he was still confused.

Although he had been on this plane for so long, he was still a little unaccustomed to the fact that many women didn't even have names. When it comes to women, they are a certain lady and a certain lady at every turn, but they have no name, and sometimes the bull's head is not in the horse's mouth, and they just can't tell who and whom.

Hearing Li Xiuning's name, Chen Kefu was slightly stunned.

After all this time, it was as if he had forgotten about her. But when I heard it again, fragments of acquaintance with Li Xiuning flashed in my mind. The first time I saw a woman dressed as a man in Liaodong, we met again in Luoyang. Even the grand wedding, the vows in the cave room.

"A-Ning, now that we are husband and wife, from now on, are you willing to share weal and woe with me, never leave wealth and wealth, and never give up life and death?" He remembered asking her that way when he was in the cave room.

He also remembered that under the red candle, Li Xiuning looked at him with clear and bright eyes, and said firmly, "Husband, although the concubine is a woman from everyone's background, she also knows that her husband sings with her wife." Now that the concubine has entered the door of the Chen family, she will naturally be a member of the Chen family in the future. In the words of the market, in the future, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, marry a chicken with a chicken and a dog with a dog. ”

"Then if I am no longer the Duke of Liao, no longer the Prime Minister, or even no longer a general, are you still willing to follow me?"

Li Xiuning stretched out a green onion white jade finger and gently blocked Chen Kefu's mouth, "Husband, since the concubine enters the Chen family, she will be the Chen family in her future life, and she will be the ghost of the Chen family in death." No matter what the husband does in the future, the concubine should follow. Even if the husband is a farmer in the future, the concubine is willing to be a peasant woman, a man who plows and a woman who weaves, will never give up. ”

"In this case, Qing will not live up to me, and he will never fail Qing in this life!" Chen Kefu stood there, muttering softly what he had said to Li Xiuning that day.

Time is like flowing water, the world is impermanent, and the woman he once sincerely paid to was separated by Li Yuan's husband and wife.

I will never live up to me, and I will never live up to me in this life! …,

Reciting the oath of the day again, Chen Kefu couldn't help but feel a little abrupt. Did you take the oath you made that day? Although most of the reason for the separation of the two is because of Li Yuan's barrier. Later, he also sent people to rescue her several times, but after several failures, he gradually gave up.

Thinking about it again, although I heard several times later that Li Yuan wanted to marry Li Xiuning with other families, in fact, until she disappeared, Li Xiuning did not betray the oath they made in the cave room that day. Even if it wasn't for Li Yuan's proposal to send Li Xiuning back, he would have sent someone to inquire about the situation again, but I'm afraid that until now, he still doesn't know that Li Xiuning has disappeared.

After all, Li Xiuning has also been missing for a long time, and the people of the secret service department he sent can't find any trace. But he never thought that today, Li Xiuning suddenly sent someone to Jinchen to send a letter to him.

With excitement in his arms, Chen Ke stood up with a fugitive, "What about the messenger?" Wherever he is, I will see him at once, and I will take him to him. ”

"Your Highness, the person has been taken to Cangcheng by General Lu, I will go and bring him over immediately, you can wait a while." Chen Lei said immediately.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Chen Kefu nodded, "Okay, you bring someone over immediately." ”

After waiting for less than half an hour, Chen Kefu felt that a century had passed before he finally saw the messenger.

Seeing the man come in, Chen Kefu immediately stepped forward, "I'm Chen Kefu, where is Xiuning now?" Is she okay? A series of words came out quickly, and the hand that was holding the messenger couldn't help but increase a lot of force, and it hurt to pinch the messenger's hand.

The man looked at Chen Kefu carefully for a long time, "I've seen my uncle, you are indeed your uncle, but I heard that you are not in Zhuo County?" Why are you here? "That person was also a slave of the Li family before, and when Li Xiuning was sent to Jinyang Palace, he also followed. Later, with Ma Sanbao and them, they escaped from Taiyuan with Li Xiuning and went south.

Chen Kefu didn't have any impression of that person, but when he heard that the man knew him, he became more and more convinced that this person was Li Xiuning's messenger.

"It's good that you know me, tell me where Xiuning is, and the letter she wants to hand over to me?"

When the messenger heard this, he came back to his senses and hurriedly took out a letter from his bosom.

"Our young lady is now on the Purple Mountain in Wenxi, Jiangjun, Hedong, and everything is fine with our young lady. That day, I went down the mountain and heard my uncle going south to Hengshan in the restaurant in Wenxi City, so he wrote a letter and asked the little one to send it quickly. The little one was checked by his uncle's soldiers and horses in Ji County, and he wanted to ask a few military masters to send someone to send the little one north, but he didn't want his uncle to be here. ”

Hearing that Li Xiuning was fine, Chen Kefu was also a little relieved in his heart. Hurriedly took the letter again, and looked at it carefully. The letter is very simple, and it is a little bland, there are no words missing, at first glance it seems to be just a letter from ordinary friends, but if you look closely, you can still see that between the lines, there are many indescribable expectations in it.

The letter also recounted some of the circumstances after the separation, and also said some words of apology for what the father and brother had done. The letter also wrote down the place where she was at this time, and even the fact that she had become the head of the village, and when it seemed that when she wrote about other things, she was somewhat evasive, but when she wrote about it, she was very cheerful, and seemed to be extremely satisfied with this matter.

If you think about it carefully, it is true, everything in the past, Li Xiuning's life was arranged by his father's family, and everything was not as he intended. But since she left Taiyuan, she has become free, even if she has changed from a lady to a female owner of a cottage, she is also happy.

Looking at it, Chen Kefu couldn't help but smile.

After a long time of separation, today's contact again, Chen Kefu found that in fact, the relationship between himself and Li Xiuning was not just a simple marriage of interests, and the initial beginning between him and her was indeed a bit of a difference. But later, especially the words that Li Xiuning said on the night of the cave room. And when she fled to Luoyang that day, she resolutely left with her, which made him extremely moved. Later, by the Luoshui River, the moment he was hit by the arrow, he also saw Li Xiuning's heart-rending cry. …,

and the rumors that Li Xiuning was crazy later, all of which made him understand that this woman did have feelings for him.

"Chen Lei, tell the liaison officer Liu Zhen to come over immediately, I have something to ask him."

"Yes, Your Highness." Chen Lei turned around and left.

Chen Kefu got up and walked over to the messenger, "Thank you, Li Lin, if it weren't for you, I don't know when I would know the news of Xiuning." You're tired along the way, so let's go and rest first. I guess I'll have to work you out tomorrow. ”

"If my uncle has anything to order, you can just explain it now, I'm not tired, why don't you wait until tomorrow." Li Lindao.

"That's the case, I can't go to Hedong to pick up Xiuning back to Hebei in person for a while because of something. I plan to send some people to Hedong tomorrow, and then you will lead the way, and we will go back together to take my wife back to Hebei. Although the journey is a bit far, I will send a ship disguised as a merchant ship, and then you can board the boat directly in Hedong, and you can go directly to Hebei. ”

Li Lin was also happy when he heard that Chen Kefu was about to pick up the young lady after seeing the letter, and he was busy patting his chest and said, "Please rest assured, Uncle will take someone back to Hedong tomorrow." ”

After sending a messenger to rest, Chen Lei brought the liaison officer of the secret service department.

"Your Highness, are you looking for me?"

"Liu Zhen, you immediately sort out another copy of the information about Hedong for me and bring it to me."

"Yes, Your Highness, wait a minute."

Soon, Liu Zhen handed over a copy of the latest information on Hedong to Chen Kefu.

Chen Kefu took the intelligence and carefully watched and analyzed it, the Li family was defeated in Hedong County, Li Yuan and Li Shimin converged in Xia County, but then they were caught up by Yang Xuan's soldiers and horses, and they were desperate to break through after a battle. The Li family originally went south with 100,000 soldiers and horses, but at this time, less than 3,000 people fled all the way from Xia County to the continuous Zhongtiao Mountain.

And it is also quite strange that the more than 10,000 remnants of the Li family can finally break through from the four famous marshals under Yang Xuan. According to the latest information, the Li family had completely fallen into Yang Jun's encirclement at that time, and they were not allowed to break through even if they had lost tens of thousands of corpses in a hard battle. In the end, when there were less than 8,000 people left, in the middle of the night that night, a group of soldiers and horses suddenly attacked Yang Xuan's encirclement from the north of Xia County, opening a small opening for the Li family in the chaos. In the end, the Li family escaped from the encirclement under the cover of 3,000 men and horses, and under the impact of Li Shimin's 1,000 Xuanjia cavalry.

However, Li Shimin's 1,000 Xuanjia cavalry and 3,000 soldiers and horses were surrounded and annihilated by Yang Xuan. In the end, the father and son of the Li family and the mysterious army fled all the way into the Mianzhongtiao Mountain, so as to avoid the end of the entire army. However, although he fled into Zhongtiao Mountain, Yang Xuan's soldiers and horses were in the north, the Yellow River in the south, Wangwu Taihang in the east, and Puban and other cities in Yuwen Chengdu in the west. The Li family was completely killed, hiding in this narrow Zhongtiao Mountain, thousands of people and horses, and they couldn't hold out for long. If there are no reinforcements, then the remnants of the Li family will either starve to death in the mountains, or they will have to survive only by surrendering to one of the three parties of Wang Shichong, Yang Jun, and Yuwen Chengdu.

After reading this information, Chen Kefu immediately understood who this mysterious reinforcement was.

The letter sent by Li Xiuning said that she was in Wenxi Purple Mountain in Jiangxian County at this time, and she also occupied the mountain as the king, and brought 3,000 women army bandits. And this Jian County is not far from Xia County, less than half a day's journey. At that time, Li Xiuning was the only one who could save Li Yuan and could save Li Yuan.

Needless to say, Li Xiuning at this time must have retreated into Zhongtiao Mountain with Li Yuan. Thinking of Li Xiuning and Li Yuan getting mixed together again, Chen Kefu was also a little complicated. The Li family is really at the end of the road this time, even if there are several counties such as Taiyuan still in Li Tang's hands, Li Tang still has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. However, Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Li Xiaoke and other main figures of the Li family were all surrounded in Zhongtiao Mountain, no one could save them, and no one would be willing to save them, they were doomed.

However, thinking that Li Xiuning was also there, Chen Kefu couldn't watch the Li family perish happily. Because once the Li family is destroyed, Li Xiuning will inevitably perish together. He already felt that he was sorry for Li Xiuning before, and it was even more impossible for him to die like this at this time.

can save Li Xiuning, do you want to save the Li family together?

The Li family betrayed themselves so much, hurt themselves, and almost killed themselves, such a thing is impossible to forgive.

Chen Kefu's face was cloudy, and he kneaded his brows with one hand, but he couldn't make up his mind.

Save? Or not save?

Li Xiuning wants to save him, but Li Yuan doesn't want to save him. But how to rescue Li Xiuning from the Zhongtiao Mountain in the east of the river, but not save Li Zhu and the others, this is a big problem.

It's best to think of a way to take this opportunity to get rid of Li Yuan's father and son, so that it can be done once and for all.

Take advantage of his illness and kill him!

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