Chapter 245: Sacrificial Flag (2)
After saying this, the old emperor fainted again.
The ministers on their knees looked at each other, not knowing what to do. It is inevitable that there will be a lot of dim words on the sickbed, not to mention such a major event as an expedition, even if the ministers are angry, they will not move if they say it.
It wasn't until the emperor woke up and wrote the edict with his own hand, and Bai Chuxi received his order in the court, that he reached a conclusion.
There is a command in the saint, and everything is obeyed. The mission that the Bai family boy was born with made Bai Chuxi not want to, but he had to be ready to separate again.
On the first night of the soldiers, the two lay flat on the bed without saying a word but did not fall asleep, only staring at the moonlight and pondering.
"This time, maybe I'll have to go for a long time."
He muttered softly, Rong Changning turned around and hugged Bai Chuxi's arm tightly and sighed. In the dark, Bai Chuxi's heart could vaguely rise and fall with his snort, which was probably the most down-to-earth thing Rong Changning felt in these years: "Everything in the family has me." ”
"I also went to Beisai that year, and after I came back, I was married by the saint. I thought it was another great grace from God, but I didn't want it to be for you. ”
"Don't think about it, I'm just looking at your young and rich family." Rong Changning leaned on Bai Chuxi's shoulder and smiled lightly: "I don't have much interest in you." ”
After hearing this, Bai Chuxi smiled helplessly, raised his hand and hugged the person in his arms tightly: "After so many years, everyone has gone to ......."
"Master Hou is starting to miss his old man. Isn't it something that comes to mind, sorry people? Rong Changning's words were sour, and he asked back Bai Chuxi didn't know how to answer, so he had to pat her on the back: "Okay, okay, don't mention it." Tomorrow, the troops will be ordered, and the saint will prepare to kill the Santu sacrifice flag on the day of the expedition. ”
Killing a person seems to be very simple in their mouths. But for Rong Changning, Santu's ending is too much of a pity.
But what's the solution?
In the eyes of the emperor, there is only territory, national prestige, and power. In the eyes of the entire Great Qi, the concubine of the Yupu clan plotted to kill the prince and tried to seize the heir, which was a national hatred. For the hot score that has never been in contact with Santu, there is no mercy at all, and I just feel that I should kill him to vent his anger!
So on the day of Santu's beheading, Xuanyuan was full of people in front of the gate, just to see Santu's blood splashed on the banner and raise the prestige of the country.
The storyteller of Hexing Building finally put down the shocking wood in his hand, shook the folding fan and went upstairs to look in front of the Xuanyuan Gate. The Lion Building is rarely so clean, upstairs, downstairs, in the front yard, in the back yard, counting the shopkeeper and running the hall, there are only about 20 people. Honored guests, there is only one - the luthier.
He went upstairs with Qin Du in his arms, he understood why Santu didn't run away, and he also understood why the Son of Great Qi had to kill him. But Santu's innocence is as innocent as a leaf shot by an arrow.
He hated himself for being just a violinist, and he couldn't do anything, so he could only sit upstairs and play a song for him and see him off.
Wearing silver armor, Bai Chuxi and the soldiers who led the soldiers stopped in front of the Xuanyuan Gate, and the soldiers with bright swords and guns spread from Bai Chuxi's body to the entire imperial city.
The emperor stood on the city tower, still looking down on the world.
Gao Guanbo's resentment stood at the Xuanyuan Gate and raised his eyes to look at the sun, and listened to the sound of the piano passing through the quiet imperial city to people's ears.
A song may not be, Gao Guanbo raised his hand with resentment: "The time has come!" Chop! ”
The cloudy wine sprayed on the blade, and the shirtless knife and axe hand raised the bright and dangling broadsword, and when the knife fell, the strings in the lion's tower were broken.
Rong Changning counted the time to stand in the main courtyard, pursed his lips and didn't speak, even if Bai Ji next to him couldn't stop holding her hand and shouting 'A-Niang', she was still indifferent.
"Did the mistress hear that? When Prince Santu was beheaded, Miss Six's master, the luthier in the palace, jumped down from the lion tower. When he heard that he had broken a string before he died, he smashed the whole instrument to pieces. ”
"Hmm."
Seeing Rong Changning's indifferent appearance, Xiao Dong knew her reluctance, so he persuaded: "Why don't you send it to the housewife?" ”
"Thousands of miles away, you must say goodbye."
After answering, Rong Changning went back to eat and lay down, she looked at the curtain with her eyes open, and kept thinking about what would happen to Beisai. So a thought sprouted in her heart, she wanted to see Fuyu.
For the sake of safety, on the third day after Bai Chuxi left the imperial city, Granny Hong went to see Fuyu on behalf of Rong Changning.
And Fu Yu was as happy as ever when he received Rong Changning's invitation, and it could be seen that when he saw Granny Hong take off his cloak, his expression froze, and then he became easy-going again.
"Aunt Hong?" Fu Yu got up and saluted Granny Hong: "I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come unharmed?" ”
Granny Hong also has a rare cold face: "Mr. Tofu's blessing, I can't die." ”
He smiled awkwardly and gave the two of them their seats: "Auntie is really joking." 360 Literature Network
The red mother-in-law was also not polite, sat down and didn't serve the wine cup, and asked directly: "When are you going to stop?" ”
“……”
"Changning is the princess's child, and Li's grievance is the descendant of the Li's family, can you get what you want if you fight with the two of them?" Granny Red continued to ask: "Or have you forgotten how you got to where you are today?" ”
Fu Yu's fingers kept knocking on the edge of the table, looking a little impatient: "Aunt should remember that the child who left the house is not the child who left home, and only after leaving home because of the frost did she raise the child that the regent picked up." ”
"As long as the Lord recognizes it, leaving the grudge is the child who has left home."
What if he found his biological father? What if his biological father was in a high-ranking position, which would have helped him in his career? What if he harbors the same ambitions as I do? ”
Granny Hong looked at Fu Yu silently, there were countless delicacies in front of her, but she couldn't open her mouth.
"Maybe Liwei has found his biological father, but he is just waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity that can help him the most? Auntie, guess who his biological father is? ”
Fu Yu asked with a smile, so that Granny Hong didn't know how to answer. She knew that from the day she decided to enter the imperial city as an official, she began to use the power of the Zangxiang Pavilion to find her biological father in Daqi, and the lord did not stop him.
"We are all people who follow the regent, so why are we in trouble with each other?"
"But what you gave is not what Changning wants."
"This glass world is splendid, you say it's not what she wants? That's just she didn't really hold it in her hands! Saying that, Fu Yu opened his hand and pressed it on the table: "This world should have been his, my sister fought several times for life and death to have the peace of Daqi, all of this should be Changning!" You told me she didn't want it? ”
Fu Yu suddenly leaned on the mat and sneered: "Why doesn't she want it, it's because she can't let go of the 'good days' with Bai Chuxi?" But now, Bai Chuxi has arrived in Beisai, and life and death have to look at creation, right? ”
These words seemed to remind Granny Hong that she couldn't sit for a moment longer, got up and ran back to the Hou Mansion, no matter what she saw along the way, she didn't dare to delay.
She told Rong Changning all this, and Rong Changning, who couldn't sit still, was even more panicked. In my heart, I also quietly made up an idea.
……
It was the middle of summer when the flowers were blooming, but Mrs. Ying Guo was constantly sick, and she had to cough non-stop when the wind was a little cooler these days. Rong Changning asked someone to stew loquat leaf and date soup early, and took him to ask the old lady for peace in the evening.
"The kids are asleep?"
"Ahh Rong Changning nodded, and his preoccupied appearance was seen in the eyes.
Mrs. Ying Guo couldn't bear to make her speechless, put the bowl in her hand aside, picked up a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth: "If you have something, just say it." ”
"I ......"
Looking at Rong Changning's 'me' for a long time and didn't say a reason, Mrs. Ying Guo suddenly laughed: "Why are you so childish?" Let grandmother guess. ”
Rong Changning sat down and quietly raised his eyes, looking at Mrs. Ying Guo's drooping eyelids, he felt a little unbearable.
"Your husband just left, and I don't know when I'll be back. It's been less than two years, and I've been separated three times, thinking that he can't eat or sleep well in the border area, you can't bear it, right? ”
"Grandmother!" Rong Changning's face turned red instantly, and he didn't know how to explain it, let alone say that it was because of Fu Yu's words that he was concerned about Beisai.
"Tell me what you want to do."
The handkerchief in his hand was pinched and pinched, and Rong Changning still knelt on the ground: "Changning wants to follow Master Hou to Beisai, take care of the front and back, and ask for grandmother's permission." ”
This was not unexpected by Mrs. Ying Guo, she just looked at Rong Changning lovingly: "I guessed." When the regent went on the expedition, the princess followed him without hesitation, and you and your mother are the same. ”
"Whenever I think of the hardships that Hou Ye himself encountered in Beisai, Changning has a lot of unbearable feelings in his heart, and he can't bear it with him." Rong Changning lowered his head and whispered: "I know that this is unfair to the two children, and it is also unfilial to the grandmother, but Changning really can't wait for a while." There will be people in the imperial city who will help Changning take care of the children and grandmother, but no one will take care of Hou Ye for Changning, even if Hou Ye is used to fighting for half his life, Changning still can't bear it. ”
"He didn't go anywhere else, it was a battlefield, and life and death were uncertain." Mrs. Ying Guo asked seriously: "Have you really thought about it?" ”
Rong Changning nodded, pulled off the two hostas on his head and held them in his hands: "Hou Ye will be in Changning, Hou Ye is not there...... If Changning really can't come back alive, the two children will be entrusted to their grandmother. Camel and Ah Ruo are in the imperial city, and they will take more care. Beixun and Yucheng will not look at it. These two hairpins were beaten by Hou Ye, and the flowers bloomed and stalked, in pairs. Later, when the two boys got married, they gave it to the bride as a dowry. In the past, he had been standing behind me to support me, but now my granddaughter-in-law really doesn't want him to face it alone. ”
She spoke firmly, sounding like she had already made up her mind and could not be refuted.
The corners of the old man's eyes moistened, looking back at the past when her husband went out on the expedition, Mrs. Ying Guo also thought the same, and also ran to the battlefield with her husband several times, but later she gave birth to a child, so she did not follow her to the last trip, and that separation became a farewell.