After she finished speaking, Cui Jiu just looked at her silently, his eyes were bottomless.

Lu Zijin didn't think he would be obedient.

Cui Jiu has been revealing that she doesn't want to go back these days, and now that she wants to stay, how can Cui Jiu be willing to go back alone?

It is best if he can agree, it doesn't matter if he doesn't agree, and it makes no difference if he sends someone else.

Just as she looked away, Cui Jiu nodded: "Okay!" ”

She looked back at him in amazement.

He lowered his head slightly to look at her, his face was ambiguous by the twilight, but his eyes seemed to be dyed with the moonlight of the Mid-Autumn Festival, gentle and clean.

She suddenly felt a finger poke lightly in her heart, and her heart tingled.

The last time I felt this way was in the autumn of the second year of Xinghe, when she returned to Wu County to get married.

As soon as her grandmother saw her, she asked her to fetch Zheng's marriage certificate and give it to her.

The first time she saw the marriage book, she felt this way.

Every word of the routine on the marriage book was written with great care and gentleness, and every stroke and stroke told of trust and comfort.

Through that stroke, she seemed to see a man as gentle as jade and said to her with a smile, It's okay, I will help you.

She felt for no reason that her uneasiness, her unwillingness, that person already knew.

And, he'll help her.

And at this moment, looking at Cui Jiu's eyes, she suddenly felt that he knew her plan and her ambition.

And, he'll help her.

"You really ......," she said, bowing her head and laughing, her eyes slightly hot.

He knew what she wanted, and she knew he would help her.

It's a wonderful feeling.

Cui Jiu also laughed, the laughter was brisk, and she was vaguely naughty, as if she was very proud and made her lose her temper.

"Without further ado, I'll leave early tomorrow morning!" He said.

Lu Zijin calmed down and nodded: "I'll go back and write the recital!" ”

……

The content of the recital is something she has thought about these days.

The scattered sand of the countries in the Western Regions not only gave the imperial court a chance, but also a God-given opportunity for her personally.

If the imperial court wants to maintain its influence in the Western Regions, the best way is to build a government and garrison troops in the Western Regions to unite the countries of the Western Regions to deal with the Turks.

And she has just been on an envoy to the countries of the Western Regions, and her reputation is flourishing, so she should be the best candidate to pacify the Western Regions!

The only thing that can be criticized is the identity of a woman.

Therefore, she not only needs the imperial court to issue an edict to choose a place to build a mansion in the Western Regions, but also needs someone in Beijing to push her!

With her understanding of the new emperor, the establishment of the government will definitely be successful.

However, the candidate for the protector of the Western Regions is not something that the new emperor can decide alone.

"This letter is presented to the political affairs hall on the chapter—" Her gaze fell on the thin letter in her hand, and she smiled slightly, "Please give it to Chi Hou for me." ”

Chi Changting is a wonderful person.

As long as it is his own person, he will help him, and he doesn't need a reason.

She is his daughter's husband, and she counts as her own;

And for Chi Changting, there are few things that are not smooth.

She could imagine that when Chi Changting received this letter, he must have been annoyed that she refused to return to Beijing to hurt his daughter's memory, and on the other hand, he still started to help her.

But when the letter was delivered, the other side did not take it for a long time.

It wasn't until Lu Zijin raised his eyes and asked that Cui Jiu said with a calm face: "I can too!" ”

Lu Zijin felt that his appearance was a little childish, and couldn't help laughing.

Cui Jiu's face was slightly red, and his voice was slightly lower: "Success is your selfishness, and satisfying your selfishness is my selfishness-" Wei Dun, "In my selfish heart, I hope there is no Chi Hou." ”

Lu Zijin stared at him for a while, then suddenly smiled, took back the letter, and tore it in half.

"What other selfish motives does Jiurou have?" She tilted her face slightly, her usually calm eyes sparkling with a smile.

This "Jiulang" was neither soft nor flattering, but his whole heart was crisp when he heard it, and he was stunned for a while.

She laughed again, and glanced past him to the door.

The moonlight in the courtyard reflected in her eyes, as soft as clouds out of the mountains.

"Mingyue He Jiaojiao......" she whispered, and suddenly took a step closer to him.

Cui Jiu's breath was suffocated, and his body suddenly became extremely sharp.

He could clearly feel her toes against his, could hear the heels of her shoes on her tiptoes, the sound of clothes rubbing against her, and could even feel the air flowing from her approach.

Her warm breath brushed his chest, and through several layers of clothing, it still made his heart itch and hurt.

But she still refused to give up, and burned the bare skin around his neck again, and finally rested on his lips.

He suddenly remembered that in the capital in the past, every time he took the document from her hand and touched the residual body temperature on the paper, his heart would tremble.

Once inadvertently touched her fingertips, and after saying goodbye with a smile, he held the paperwork and almost broke into the harem by mistake.

Such a scorching heat, even if you wake up in the middle of the night, you don't dare to reminisce.

And at this moment......

Bright Moon He Jiaojiao......

He didn't dare to think about it, but his lips were burned almost dry by the breath she exhaled, and he was desperate for extinction.

She stopped suddenly, her eyes turned half a circle on his face, met his eyes, and smiled softly: "Jiu Lang won't be Ye Gong Haolong, right?"

A few feet away, the breath of spitting words wrapped around his lips, and he drilled in, entangled, and hooked cunningly and charmingly.

His throat tightened, and he lowered his head to kiss her on the lips......

I don't know where it starts, I don't know where it ends.

The lights exploded a few times, and gradually faded away.

The bright moon is bright, according to my bed.

The moonlight in the gauze tent is blurred, and the figures are staggered.

She wrapped her arms around him, pressed her ears to his chest, and listened to the messy panting as his heart beat for her.

For a long time, the moon shadow is gone, and there is no reunion......

In the early morning of the next day, Cui Jiu left Kangju Country with a concerto.

She sent him outside the royal city as an envoy, and after saying a few words like "have a good trip", she sent him away with a smile.

"Vice Envoy Cui is usually like a little old man, and he is so happy to be able to return to Beijing at this time!" Deng Wei quipped.

Lu Zijin smiled, and when he turned around, he saw Guo Liang's stunned expression, so he comforted: "When the imperial court transfers troops, you can go back to Wuwei County." ”

Guo Liang looked at her thoughtfully and asked, "What about you?" ”

Lu Zijin smiled: "At least six years!" ”

Six years, or a lifetime.

……

After a busy day, when I returned to the hotel, the moonlight was cold and covered with frost.

Freshen up, turn off the lights, lie down, exhausted.

The moonlight in the gauze tent was blurry and ambiguous, just like last night, and even his ears seemed to echo with his uncontrollable feelings of calling her name over and over again.

She stroked the brocade quilt and sighed softly.

The line is re-lined, and the king is separated.

She has experienced death, but she didn't expect to experience a life separation.

But, just as she knew when and where she was moving for him, she also knew that they wouldn't work out.

The credit for the Dingxi Regions has been obtained, and the Cui clan will not let him out of Beijing again.

And since she left the Zheng family, she will not venture into the Cui family again, and it is impossible to give up the work in front of her.

He should be gone forever.

There's nothing to be reluctant about.

It is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes.

Such a promising young man deserves a better place -

and better people......

……

Autumn goes to winter, spring flowers bloom, and half a year is fleeting.

In the past six months, there have been wars in the countries of the Western Regions, and the Turks have also come to disturb her a few times, and she rarely has time to stop and miss anything.

Only occasionally when I look forward to the news of the court, I will think of the night before he left, and secretly laugh at the fact that I am infatuated with the heat of a young man.

But there were really young princes and nobles who offered her courtesy, and they felt bored.

By the end of February, the fighting was suspended.

Kang Yuniang gradually became familiar with government affairs, and she no longer consulted Kangju in state affairs.

After he was free, he took his pen and ink Danqing to the outside of the Kangju King City every day, and practiced calligraphy and painting in the distant mountains and fields.

For this reason, Kang Yuniang specially ordered someone to build a Central Plains-style pavilion for her outside the city, and gave several beautiful waiters as companions, but she didn't know what to do.

The pavilion was built next to the official road, and people often came and went.

In the past, when she was writing and painting, she didn't like to be disturbed, but now she likes to listen to the voices of cars and horses.

When a string of wheels rolls on the ground, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves, it is usually a caravan passing by.

Sometimes it is a caravan from the Central Plains, and when they see Han costumes here, they will come forward to inquire, and after learning that it is the envoy of the Central Plains, they will offer some Central Plains customs.

She will also smile and ask a few words about the personnel of her homeland.

Today, the convoy sounded like a lot of cars, but when it stopped, it was very quiet and looked disciplined.

She suddenly stopped writing and listened to a man turn over and dismount, and the sound of footsteps clearly approached this way.

It's also strange to say that the footsteps that could be ignored in the past can be distinguished at some point.

She smiled, put down her pen and looked up, and asked, "Why did Cui Lang come here in person?" ”

Under the warm sun, the young man is long and jade, beautiful like Zhilan, smiling, like the moon in his arms.

"Lu Envoy is waiting for someone?" He didn't answer the rhetorical question.

"Maybe it is," she laughed. ”

……

In the second year of Yongjia, the imperial court set up the Anxi Protectorate in Qiuzi, with a garrison of 20,000 troops, and led the Anxi Protector with the Qingyang Wang Yao of the clan, and Lu Zijin, the former Honglu Shaoqing, served as the deputy protector to unify the military and political affairs of the Western Regions.

……

"At first, the Marquis of Chi recommended you as the protector of the capital, but there was a lot of opposition, I thought to myself, as long as the military power of the Western Regions is in hand, the position of the protector can be slowly figured out, so I proposed to Your Majesty and recommended the king of Qingyang to lead the protector——"

Lu Zijin heard the childish intention of inviting merit in his words, and couldn't help but smile, and praised him according to his meaning: "Jiulang's clever plan." ”

His eyes lit up, he lowered his head and kissed her, and his voice was lingering and vague: "Zijin...... Zijin ...... Do you miss me? ”

Ever missed?

She pursed her lips and smiled, "I've been hoping you wouldn't come back—"

Cui Jiu's face sank and he kissed her fiercely.

Eagerly demanding, with a hint of resentment and grievance.

She raised her hand, rubbed her fingertips against his back comfortingly, and waited until his body was no longer stiff before she broke free and said, "Although I hope that you will not return, I also miss it." ”

In terms of the depth of affection, she is indeed far worse than him, but it is not for nothing.

It's just that after hiding in the depths, you can also have no power.

An explanation made him rejoice again, lingering, and whispering: "I know, it's good to marry two surnames, and you don't want to be bound by your husband, it doesn't matter, I will accompany you, as long as you want, I will accompany you in any way...... Good no good? ”

She curled the corners of her lips and hugged his neck tightly: "Good ......"

……

After the arrival of the imperial court garrison, after a little handover, the Guzang army was ordered to withdraw to Wuwei County.

Marched for two months to Guzang County, Wuwei.

Three days later, Guo Liang took a small team of personal soldiers and quickly rode out of the city and went to Huile.

When I arrived at Huile County, it was noon.

She couldn't wait for the report and walked in quickly, and Du Yan in the room had just put down the dishes and chopsticks, raised his head, and looked slightly surprised.

But he only bowed his head slightly, turned his head and instructed the attendant: "Add two dishes and a pair of dishes and chopsticks." ”

Guo Liang sat down beside him, looked at the three dishes and one soup on the table, and suddenly thought, I wonder how many dishes he would use in a meal when he was in the Hou Mansion in the capital?

No matter how many dishes there are, it's always more delicate than here, right?

"Why don't you take a few more days off?" Du Yan asked in a low voice.

He also knew about the imperial court sending troops, but the day she came back was half a month earlier than him.

Guo Liang didn't answer and asked: "If I don't come, will you go to see me?" ”

Du Yan froze, raised his eyes to look at her quietly, and did not answer.

Because of the inconvenience of his position, he rarely left Huile, and almost all of them were only when she came from Guzang and were able to get together for a few days.

Guo Liang smiled and suddenly asked, "Do you want to marry me?" ”

Du Yan pondered for a long time and said, "When your term expires this year, are you willing to return to Beijing with me?" ”

"What if I don't want to?" Guo Liang asked rhetorically.

Du Yan looked at her deeply, stretched out his hands, and wrapped her hands.

Such an action made her soften her heart and called out "Ah Yan" in a low voice.

"I can stay on top." Du Yan said, with a hint of tenderness in his tone.

But that's not the answer she wants.

"What about three years from now?" She stubbornly asked.

Seeing Cui Jiu return to the Western Regions, she suddenly understood that there were some feelings, and one party had to make sacrifices and concessions.

Cui Jiu gave up the splendid road paved by the family and chose to accompany Lu Zijin, what about her and Du Yan?

Du Yan slowly let go of his hand.

She brought her hands behind her back and clenched them.

The warmed skin feels cold at this time.

"After three years, I have to go back to Beijing." He said.

She couldn't help but have hot eyes, blinked hurriedly, and asked with a smile: "If I don't go back with you, will you marry another beautiful woman?" ”

Du Yan did not answer.

She waited for a while, stood up, took a step back, and smiled hastily at him: "Ah, what else do you have to say to me?" ”

Du Yan looked up at the attendant who came in with a food box, and said lightly: "Eat first!" ”

Guo Liang sneered, slapped the food box in the waiter's hand on the ground with a backhand, and ran out without looking back.

He went out, got on his horse, went straight out of the city, and ran for miles before he stopped at the shouts of his subordinates.

When the deputy general Cen Lai caught up, he was out of breath and complained: "This, what is this trouble, what is the trouble?" Why is it so, so hypocritical? If he stays for you for three more years, you can't go back to Beijing with him? ”

When the two of them were talking in the room just now, she was in a hurry, one asked tricky questions, the other was quieter than dumb, what a big deal!

Guo Liang took a deep breath and said, "It's not that I can't go back to Beijing with him, it's just that when I think that I can marry another woman if he leaves, I don't think it's worth it." ”

Cen Lai sneered: "Then you are ready to leave him now?" Do you want to marry someone else? ”

Guo Liang was choked by her question, and suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves galloping came from the wind.

Her heart moved, and she looked back.

Riding alone, she ran from the end of the vast field, her outline becoming clear and blurred in her vision.

Before he reined in the horse, Guo Liang blinked vigorously, clenched the reins and said lightly: "What else does the Du County Order have to explain?" ”

His official uniform has not been changed, and his hair bun is messy by the wind, but he still has a cold and self-contained appearance between his eyebrows.

"If you don't follow me back to Beijing, I will tie you up and put you on the road." He said lightly.