“…… In a desperate situation, the soldiers are exhausted, the aid is exhausted, and the hope of life is lost. There will be a heart of death and no greed for life, the minister led the remnants of 3,000 to stick to the east bank of the Liao River, swearing not to surrender, only to be crippled and full of integrity, and to die in the community. Minister, Qin Kan is a masterpiece. ”

Zhu Houzhao's hand holding the letterhead trembled slightly, his tear-misty eyes stared at the letterhead, his eyes revealed a deep fear, and his heart was like falling into a bottomless abyss, sinking and sinking......

He had experienced this kind of fear, and the moment he saw his father's eyes closed forever, his heart tingled so momentally. Today, he is once again surrounded by that fear.

The Qianqing Palace was quiet, and Liu Jin and the others were also panicked when they saw Zhu Houzhao's expression, and they didn't dare to ask what was written in the letter, so they knelt on the ground one by one, not daring to make a sound.

Tears kept dripping on the letterhead, and a large piece of the yellowed letterhead was soaked, Zhu Houzhao endured the mourning and read it word by word, until he saw the last sentence of the last sentence, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the minister is gone, you take care of yourself in the future." Zhu Houzhao suddenly raised his head and burst into tears.

"Your Majesty's mourning!" Everyone knelt on the ground and said in unison.

"Qin Kanhe, how could he die? How could he die with such great ability? Come on, come on! Xuanzhi, Xuanzhen's will, called the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the Twelve Regiment Battalions, and the Xuanda Border Army...... No matter who it is, send troops to save Qin Kan quickly! Fast! Zhu Houzhao stomped his feet heavily while crying.

The little eunuch at the door froze, looking dazed.

The emperor's holy decree issued in a hurry is really confusing, and the 12th regiment battalion is the elite of the Gongwei Beijing Division. Each battalion is in charge of a founding marquis, it is the largest guard force in the capital, a total of about 100,000 horses, no head, no brain, just by the emperor's words to transfer them to the Liao River outside the Guan, and just to save a person, this ...... I'm afraid that the Manchu civil and military will not agree, right?

Zhu Houzhao panicked, and the little eunuch didn't know what to do when he stood at the door, and he didn't even have a place to go.

Zhang Yong saw Zhu Houzhao's helplessness, and hurriedly said loudly: "Slow! ”

walked in front of Zhu Houzhao, who was crying bitterly. Zhang Yong said softly: "The old slave is dead." Your Majesty, do you think you should figure things out first before making a decision? Lord Qin doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, and it is not too late for His Majesty to understand clearly and then raise the sword soldiers. ”

Zhu Houzhao choked up and nodded, and Zhang Yong immediately said to the little eunuch: "What about the person who reported the news?" ”

The little eunuch said, "It's the honor guard around Lord Qin who reported the news. Sergeant of the Warrior Battalion. At the moment, he is lying outside the Chengtian Gate and waiting. It is said that after three days and three nights of running without changing horses, the horses died of breath, and the people still held on to their breath and did not faint. It is said that it is waiting for His Majesty to make a holy judgment. ”

"Hurry up and announce him to the temple!"

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The sergeant who reported the news was sloppy and sloppy and knelt in the middle of the main hall of the Qianqing Palace in embarrassment, his eyes were dull, and his weak body seemed to fall down in the next breath, but he was holding on to the last trace of spirit, telling the tragedy of the battle of Liaohe.

“…… Five thousand Tartar cavalry landslides and tsunamis rushed towards us, Qin Shuai led most of them as foot soldiers, after the first round of Tartar charges, we lost nearly a thousand soldiers, in the 10,000 horse army, the soldiers did not retreat, subordinates and others have kowtowed countless times and begged Qin Shuai to cross the river and flee first, Qin Shuai has been holding the Chinese army, swearing to live and die with the soldiers, the villain was forced by Qin Shuai to take the letter across the Liao River, until the villain swam to the other side of the Liao River, and saw Qin Shuai's Qincha Dragon Banner still standing, the villain saw the most reluctant scene, that is, the Tartar cavalry broke through the Chinese army, Go to Qin Shuaiwei ......"

As the sergeant spoke, he fell to the ground and began to cry.

Zhu Houzhao lost his soul and sat down on the chair, his face becoming more and more pale.

Zhang Yong, Gu Dayong and others suddenly showed regret and even sadness on their faces, Liu Jin hung his head, and a flash of joy flashed in his eyes.

No matter what kind of thoughts everyone in the hall has, everyone knows that Qin Kan must be more than lucky.

Three days have passed since the incident, so what's the point of sending troops to rescue them at this time?

Zhu Houzhao sat in a daze for a long time, grinned, and cried loudly again.

"Qin Kan, it was I who harmed you, I shouldn't have let you fight for the title of Viscount of Naraush, I shouldn't have sent you to Liaodong, I ...... What should I do? What will happen after I am? Zhu Houzhao cried so much that his liver and intestines were broken.

Liu Jin snorted, his eyes immediately flushed as if he was a trick, and then cried louder than Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, everything is the fault of the old slave, the old slave should not have suggested that His Majesty send Lord Qin to inspect Liaodong, but the old slave was full of good intentions at that time, and wanted to fight for the title of Lord Qin, Your Majesty, the old slave deserves death!" ”

Zhu Houzhao cried: "How can I blame you for this? No one expected that Qin Kan would have such a catastrophe in his life, and I should not have regretted it in the first place! ”

The two hugged their heads and cried, Gu Dayong next to them, Ma Yongcheng and others also wiped away their tears, whether they were sincere or false, everyone cried very sadly, and the saddest of them was Zhang Yong.

Zhang Yong couldn't help but be sad, the relationship with Liu Jin was getting worse day by day, Zhang Yong was in need of foreign aid, looking forward to the stars and the moon waiting for Qin Kan to return to Beijing to join forces with him, but he waited for Qin Kan's bad news, Qin Kan is dead, who else in the Manchu Dynasty can balance Liu Jin?

In the future, I'm afraid it will be difficult, it has become inevitable to be expelled from the power circle of the inner palace by Liu Jin, and the fierce struggle for power and profit in the inner palace is many times more tragic than that of the outer court, how can the eunuch who lost his power end up miserable, Zhang Yong didn't even dare to think about it.

Each has its own plans, but the only one who is really pure and sad is Zhu Houzhao.

Since the death of his father, less than a year has passed, Zhu Houzhao has tasted the familiar pain again, this pain is like losing a loved one, and he realized that he unknowingly regarded Qin Kan as a relative.

"Liu Jin, you say, what should I do? How can I explain to his wife? Qin Kan is the same as me, he died, and he didn't even leave an heir, I not only killed Qin Kan, but also cut off the incense of his Qin family! ”

Speaking of the Qin family's wife, Zhu Houzhao suddenly sat up straight. wiped his tears vigorously and said: "Yes, Mrs. Qin still doesn't know the news, I want to go out of the palace to the Qin family's mansion, I can't hide this matter, even if I am beaten to death by his wife, I will admit it!" Come, quick, change my clothes. ”

Zhu Houzhao ran out of the palace gate and rushed to the Jinshen Hall to change clothes, and Liu Jin and others hurriedly followed Zhu Houzhao out of the palace.

Zhang Yong stood still and opened his mouth unwillingly. But his face was full of bitterness.

Long live Lord's temperament is too frizzy. I cried and cried, and my heart was sad...... You should have issued an order to confirm Qin Kan's corpse first, and then it's not too late to mourn!

- Perhaps, Lord Qin is not dead?

Zhang Yong just had this idea in his mind, and then shook his head with a wry smile.

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The Qin Mansion is still as quiet as ever. After Qin Kan left Beijing. The house is taken care of by Du Yan, the lady of the main room.

The east wing of the inner courtyard has just been laid on the big kang. The gorgeous Du Yan was wearing an emerald jacket pleated skirt and socks, and her two delicate little feet stretched and twisted her toes mischievously from time to time in the socks. He stared intently at a piece of embroidered cloth in his hand that had drawn a pattern, and was clumsily embroidering one stitch at a time, and the pattern was painted with the rising sun, although there were only a few strokes, but it was very expressive, and this picture was from the handwriting of Jin Liu.

The eldest lady of the Qin family wants to be a virtuous and virtuous gentle housewife, worthy of the official position of the prime minister and her own fateful identity, so naturally she can no longer jump up and down like before.

When she was in Shaoxing, Du Yan was very afraid that one day she would lose her freedom, afraid that she would lose the blue sky like a falling kite, and she had been married to Qin Kan for more than two years.

The loneliness of thousands of miles in the sky, how can it compare to a cup of tea with eyebrows raised?

Du Yan's embroidery skills are very poor, so bad that it is beyond Jin Liu's imagination, the rising sun is already the simplest and easiest to learn in the embroidery work, a round of red sun, a few white clouds, embroidery as it is, but Du Yan still can't learn.

The temper of the eldest lady of the Qin family still needs to be honed, and after a few embroidery strokes, Du Yan was so angry that she tore off the silk thread, and with a wave of her hand, a white light flashed, and the embroidery needle had been nailed to the beam.

"No embroidery, no embroidery! Why do women have to do such things? Grinding and chirping is unbearable to death! What embroidery is missing at home, can't you buy it in the store outside? The husband is not bad for silver......" Du Yan said angrily.

Jin Liu, who was also wearing an emerald jacket and looked much plumper than before, sighed lightly and said with a wry smile: "Sister Du, it's not a matter of silver, women are born to do this job, men like women like this, so women have to ...... like this."

Du Yan snorted: "Nonsense, what is there that women are born to do?" ”

Raising her eyes and looking at a pillar of sandalwood lit in the room, Du Yan suddenly showed joy: "Oh, today's time for virtuous and virtuous people has passed, let's continue tomorrow!" Pity the moon and the stars, where did the two girls die? Come and help me iron that imperial dress, the Queen Mother is about to celebrate her birthday......"

While walking outside the house, he was nagging, and suddenly, Du Yan paused, and his eyes looked at Jin Liu.

"Golden Willow ......"

"What's the matter with Sister Du?"

Du Yan twisted her delicate eyebrows and pondered: "You ...... I seem to have gained a lot of weight lately, and I'm getting whiter. ”

Jin Liuqiao's face turned white, and she smiled a little panicked: "Sister, I live in Qin's house, eat and drink well, and I don't have anything to worry about, my heart is wide and I am naturally fat, sister, you are about to raise me into a pig." ”

Du Yan is coarse in the end, and he smiled when he heard this: "Tomorrow I will teach you a set of simple boxing techniques, when it is to keep fit and lose weight, my daughter's family is as fat as a pig, how will I marry in the future?" ”

With a wave of his hand, Du Yan flew out of the house deftly like a swallow wearing through the hall.

Jin Liu sat on the kang in a daze, suddenly sneered, stroked his lower abdomen with his hand, his pretty face floated with a happy look, and muttered to himself in a daze: "Child, do you know what happiness is?" Happiness is when your mother thinks about your father, thinks about it, and laughs......"

Then Jin Liuxian's hand unconsciously stroked the slightly bulging lower abdomen, and his smile gradually turned into a face full of sorrow: "The wrongdoer who killed a thousand knives, if you don't come back to clean up this mess, you will soon be unable to hide it, Sister Du...... What kind of face will I see her again in the future? ”

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Zhu Houzhao's arrival was very sudden.

Just after noon, the old housekeeper of the Qin family yawned and just walked out of the side door, planning to go out to walk his legs, move the old bones, just stepped out of the door, but suddenly saw the door outside the Qin Mansion, Zhu Houzhao stood quietly in a white Confucian shirt, looking up at the plaque with gold characters on a black background above the main gate of the Qin Mansion, his expression hesitated, behind him stood several white-faced and beardless half-old people, and there were some burly and fierce guards scattered not far away.

Zhu Houzhao used to be a frequent visitor to the Qin Mansion, and the old housekeeper knew his identity, so he quickly knelt down on his knees after a pause.

Zhu Houzhao's gaze was taken back from the plaque, his eyes were still red and swollen, his expression was gloomy and mournful, and before the old housekeeper could say words of congratulations, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand lightly, and said in a deep voice: "No courtesy, can the wife of the Qin family be in the mansion?" ”

The old housekeeper hurriedly said respectfully: "Back to Your Majesty, Madame is at home." ”

"Please Mrs. Qin come to the outer hall, I have something to tell her, there is no need to open the middle door, I and Qin Kan are ......" Zhu Houzhao paused, mentioned Qin Kan's name, and his voice was a little choked: "I and Qin Kan are like brothers, don't use these false courtesies." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, please go into the outer hall for a while, and the old man will go to the inner courtyard to inform Madame."

After the old housekeeper invited Zhu Houzhao and the others into the door, he walked towards the inner courtyard with brisk steps, but his mood became heavier and heavier.

The old housekeeper has lived for most of his life, and his eyesight is naturally extraordinary, and when he knelt down in front of the gate just now, he inadvertently looked up, and saw Zhu Houzhao's grief-stricken appearance, and his heart suddenly felt bad.

Broken!

The head of the family has been away from Beijing for many days and has not returned, and today the emperor came to the door rashly with such a sad appearance, and there will be disaster for the Qin family!

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Qinfu Outer Hall.

Zhu Houzhao struggled to tell the bad news while crying, and the low whimper gradually turned into a howl.

Du Yan's face became whiter and paler, but the fist hidden in his sleeve was clenched tighter and tighter, and as Zhu Houzhao sobbed and told the bad news, Du Yan's body shook more and more.

After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, Du Yan stood up suddenly, her pretty face was frighteningly white, and even her ruddy lips instantly lost their blood.

"Xianggong...... Xiang Gong died in battle by the Liao River? Du Yan asked again with a trembling voice.

Zhu Houzhao closed his eyes and nodded heavily, tears sliding down his face.

Bang!

A landscape screen at the back of the hall suddenly fell, and Jin Liu, who quietly ran to the back of the hall to eavesdrop, fell to the ground with the screen, and actually fainted. (To be continued.) )