Chapter Twenty-Six
Walking down the pavilion, you will come to another palace room that is a bit like a long corridor, but it is wider than the corridor and is a closed space, with extravagant purple silk curtains hanging on both sides, and two rows of mullioned windows behind it. You can see a hazy white mist in the depths of the palace, because it is an indoor hot spring soup, and the white mist is the heat diffused by the hot spring, but it looks like the clouds and fairy qi of the Heavenly Treasure Palace, which is very mysterious and beautiful.
Xue Chongxun said in his heart: No wonder my mother likes Huaqing Palace so much, it is indeed very interesting here.
Especially in such a cold season, warm and comfortable places are easy to covet. Walking into the "fog", looking at the inlaid wood pool edge clean and spotless, the white skin and tender palace maid standing next to the antique palace wall, a warmth hit the face. Although it was daytime, the clouds were thick because the weather was not very good, so that the light seemed a little dim, but the Huaqing Palace in the afternoon was very quiet, and in such a quiet and dim space, people felt safe and comfortable.
Such a feeling made Xue Chongxun's heart quickly emerge with a kind of escapist and lazy mentality, and even subconsciously thought that it would be great if he could always hide in such a quiet and beautiful place to enjoy himself, time seemed to stand still...... Just like the winter morning, I am always obsessed with the warm quilt.
But everything is in motion, and this is the concept that Xue Chongxun's teacher in his previous life taught him. So he knew that he couldn't escape it, and he could only actively participate in various games in the world, otherwise he would lose a qiē. For example, Tang Xuanzong in history will lose everything after being passive and slack.
At this time, Princess Taiping walked to the place where she often stayed to recuperate, sat down, and said after a moment of silence: "You mentioned Li Yixun (King Heize), and you want to deal with this matter personally?" ”
There was a chair next to Xue Chongxun, but he didn't sit down immediately, he bowed to the side and said with a respectful attitude: "If you want to transfer troops close to Lingzhou to raid King Size, of course, you can authorize any high-ranking minister in the court. However, if the retainer went in person, he could act cheaply and make a decision on the spot, avoiding many concerns of ordinary courtiers. When the fighter plane is discovered, it can also gather the garrison in the northern part of Guanzhong to seize the fighter plane and take Zhang Renyuan and his accomplices together, so as to avoid a large-scale and long-term war after the Turks enter the Tang Realm and join forces. ”
Princess Taiping paused, looking a little hesitant, and she didn't know what her motive for hesitation was. Rao is a relative who can depend on each other in life and death, who can be completely close to her heart? Life is a loner after all......
She was silent for a short moment before saying, "But you have just been injured, and you should recuperate for a few days, and it is better not to run around." ”
Xue Chongxun said: "There is no need to fight fiercely this time, I don't go to the battlefield, I don't wear armor and even try to ride as little as possible, but I just sit in the carriage and walk around, and I can also bring two imperial doctors to change foreign medicine frequently, so it is not a big problem." ”
Princess Taiping nodded and said: "If you go north in person, it would be fine, the battle of Wuhai is known to the world as one enemy and ten enemies...... It also saves people from the world from saying that our court is unpopular, and allows people to look at the current affairs of the times. ”
"Mother approves of my construction?" Xue Chongxun hurriedly asked.
Princess Taiping suddenly looked into his eyes and said lightly: "What you want to do, I usually don't stop you, right?" ”
Xue Chongxun still said cautiously: "Although I have received my mother's kindness, I can only advise the ministers on all major matters, and you are the one who decides to make the decision." ”
Princess Taiping showed a smile, her bright and deep eyes were like two pools of clear water, and she said thoughtfully: "As the saying goes, how many sons born to a tiger will not be the same...... Your ability to use soldiers seems to be innate, I often think, a few years ago, that big event, if it weren't for the two hundred dead soldiers in incomplete armor temporarily recruited by Chongxun to kill the Daming Palace, what would be the fate of our family? ”
Xue Chongxun didn't answer silently, and said in his heart: What else? It is clearly written in the history books of the previous life that Xiao Zhizhong, Dou Huaizhen and other five prime ministers died in just one morning or at home or on the road to the court, and Princess Taiping fled to Zhong Nanshan, and was given death by Li Longji not long after. Princess Taiping's sons and daughters were all executed, including Xue Chongxun, and her grandchildren also died one after another for no apparent reason, which was simply the death of the whole family. Xue Chongxun didn't think that he was born to win, but he knew the ending in advance, people were forced out, and at that time, it was better to let go of his desperate efforts, and it was very terrible for people to die if they didn't want to die.
Princess Taiping saw that he didn't speak, so she didn't dwell on the past, pointed to the chair covered with tiger skin next to her and said, "Sit down, take off your shirt, and I'll see how you have been injured in a few battles." ”
"Yes." Xue Chongxun sat down at this time. The attendant next to him didn't need to be instructed to bring the charcoal basin by the wall to the side, and then waited for him to loosen his coat and robe, although the shore of the hot spring was much warmer than the palace upstairs, but after all, the weather temperature was so cold that it would still be very cold to take off the shirt, and it would be much better to add a few large pots of red charcoal to roast.
Xue Chongxun took off his coat and untied the lining to expose his upper body, and saw that there were scars left by healing on his chest and shoulders. He turned around again, and he had it on his back.
Princess Taiping was taken aback when she saw it: "You were all fine last year, how did it not take long for you to become like this!" The charcoal fire was a little hot on her, so she took off the mink collar and coat that were around her neck, and said, "Poor Chongxun, move closer and let me see." ”
It's not a little girl, what's the big deal if you have a few scars on your body? But Xue Chongxun didn't want to disobey Princess Taiping's wishes, so he moved the chair forward, and said in his heart that he wanted to discuss a major matter in secret at first, and Princess Taiping was ostensibly saying that she wanted to see the war wounds on my body, which was nothing more than a formality, so she didn't care.
But seeing Princess Taiping's distressed expression, at this time, Xue Chongxun suddenly felt a strange sense of happiness in his heart, and he was quite complacent, feeling that a few scars on a man's body were a kind of decoration, unlike before, although the muscles were very strong, because life was too good, the skin was very clean, and he always felt that it was not violent enough.
"Does it still hurt now?" At this time, Princess Taiping stretched out her finger and touched a long scar on his chest. It was a slash in the chest during the Battle of Wuhai, the cuirass prevented most of the lethality, and the flesh that grew off the skin after the armor was deformed, but the wound left such a scar after healing.
Suddenly feeling Princess Taiping's fingertips in his chest, Xue Chongxun's body trembled slightly, and he hurriedly shook his head and pretended to be casual: "It's been done a long time ago." ”
Princess Taiping's fingertips followed the light red trace, her movements were obviously not steady enough, but fortunately, the absence of outsiders did not affect her majesty.
When her fingers swiped, her palm touched the tip of the breast on Xue Chongxun's left chest muscle, the man had no mammary glands, but what made people ashamed was that the place was still very sensitive. Xue Chongxun's face suddenly turned red, and he couldn't say anything, so he had to hold back expressionlessly.
At this moment, he sat up straight, and noticed Princess Taiping's neckline, she had just removed the fur collar, so that a small piece of snow-white skin was exposed in the neckline, and the skin on both sides of the collarbone looked soft. He instinctively wanted to know what to look further down the page, but he was obscured by a red satin blouse, and the full and large breasts underneath the shirt propped up an exaggerated silhouette...... It's huge.
Xue Chongxun couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and immediately became so ashamed that he couldn't wait to slap himself twice, and he hung his head silently. After a while, he hurriedly grabbed the silk lining and buttoned it up on his body, hugged his fists and said, "It's just a small injury, my mother doesn't need to worry." ”
Princess Taiping looked at him quietly: "You don't have to be in person in the future, the ministers of the DPRK and the central government will hang up the seal and go out on the expedition, and I haven't seen anyone scarred?" ”
"Yes, my son remembers the teachings." Xue Chongxun's attitude seemed to have become a little colder.
"You're just going to cut interest rates at all? Last night, I was stabbed again......" Princess Taiping complained.
Xue Chongxun said in his heart: I was caught off guard last night, if I don't help you block a knife, you may be stabbed by the assassin, what can be done?
Since Princess Taiping woke up and passed that period of political crisis, Xue Chongxun really didn't want to see anything happen to her, in fact, Princess Taiping, who had been experienced in her means for many years and was famous and well-known, was a kind of political protection for him.
Princess Taiping became a little sad as she spoke: "If something happens to you, how sad should your mother be?" ”
Xue Chongxun hurriedly said obediently: "Erchen...... Wrong. ”
Princess Taiping raised her sleeves as if to make a tear-wiping motion, and then took Xue Chongxun's hand: "I will go back to Chang'an tomorrow, and you will leave Beijing again......"
Xue Chongxun's current situation can be completely reluctantly thrown into her soft and warm embrace, he was stunned, and his face looked a little ugly. G