An Xiaoshen accompanied Li Ran for a while, said a few other things, and then said goodbye and went back.

He was going to leave in the middle of the night, and apart from the important matter of talking to Li Ran, he couldn't care about anything else.

Li Ran turned around a tent and went to Zhou E's tent.

Zhou E was not in the tent, she was standing at the door of the tent, inhaling deeply at the sunset.

"Practice?" Li Ran came from behind and asked with a smile.

"Inhale the yang energy. I just saw you pass, thinking you'd have to come back in a moment. Zhou E took a deep breath and said.

"It's sunset." Li Ran smiled.

"It's all yang, what's the difference between the morning sun and the sunset? Ming'er rose early in the morning, isn't it still this yang? Zhou E looked at the sunset and took another breath.

"Well, how's your injury?" Li Ran looked at Zhou E from top to bottom.

"Much better, flesh wounds are nothing. Nothing, right? Zhou E raised her chin in the direction Li Ran came from.

Li Ran knew that she was asking An Xiaoshen, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, he said that he would set off in the middle of the night and go deep into Shu from Jinghu." ”

"Is it him, or is it their brother?"

"Their brothers."

"Yes." Zhou E twisted her eyebrows for a moment and exhaled, "The danger is a little more dangerous, a great achievement, with the gold-lettered signboard of their Ning family, this trip, they can be much easier than others."

Alas, the majesty of this gate is all piled up with the lives of his own children. ”

"Well, just now An Dalang said about the purple eggplant, saying that they were taken captive into Oak City, Shi Nan and they found a merchant who came and went to Oak City all the year round to do business, and when they went to Oak City, they met the Purple Eggplant ......"

Li Ran said what Shi Nan had heard.

“…… said that he was afraid of disturbing the handsome's mind, but he didn't tell the handsome. Purple eggplant, I don't know what happened. ”

Li Ran's end is very low, and they are only afraid of being more auspicious.

"Bad luck is less."

Zhou E replied simply.

"Also, the marshal must know that he deliberately wants to release this words, and he has to let the marshal know what he says.

However, don't talk about being handsome, just like me, I also know that it's all nonsense to get married or not, just your temper, hey. ”

Zhou E snorted.

"Take 10,000 steps back, even if it's anything, the handsome won't do anything to you.

Many years ago, when Dashuai was just eighteen or nineteen years old, I followed Dashuai to capture Jucheng, and not long after leaving, Jucheng was recaptured, and we took it back.

When he recaptured it, there was a thousand-commander, when he broke the city and fled for his life, his daughter-in-law and children stayed in the city, and his daughter-in-law was ruined, and the thousand-commander said that his daughter-in-law had lost his face and forced his daughter-in-law to commit suicide.

I ran into this incident, and I couldn't get angry, so I beat up the commander and made trouble with the big handsome.

The commander said that the commander couldn't protect his wife and let his wife suffer, and he should commit suicide to thank his wife.

The commander was a coward, and I helped him.

Later, the handsome sent someone to send the daughter-in-law and the child to the capital, and within two years, the daughter-in-law remarried to a pastry and steamed bun shop, and I also went to drink the wedding wine.

Now I live in the old Fengqiu Gate, my life is very good, her man's mutton buns are delicious, and I will take you to eat them when I go back. ”

"Okay." Li Ran smiled in response.

"Purple eggplant, don't think about it, let's take our lives, we couldn't help it at the time, and we can't help it now, alas."

Zhou E looked at Li Ran and smiled, her depressed face and said in a low voice.

Li Ran was silent for a moment, mumbled, and Zhou E were speechless side by side, stood for a while, quit Zhou E, and went back to the Shuai tent.

Li Ran lifted the curtain and went in, and Xie Ze also came in from the side of the curtain.

"Xiqing said that you slept for a day and rested?" Xie Ze approached Li Ran and carefully examined her complexion.

"It's time to rest." Li Ran looked up at Xie Ze, he looked a little tired.

"Hungry or not? Eat first? Xie Ze saw that Li Ran's complexion was obviously much better than yesterday, so he breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

Seeing that Li Ran nodded in response, Xie Ze raised his voice and ordered, and almost immediately, Xiqing came in with two small servants and set up food.

Xie Ze leaned over and took the small porcelain bowl in front of Li Ran, and while serving her soup, he said softly:

"You've been running around for a while, and you just came down from the battlefield two days ago, so you shouldn't be greasy."

Li Ran snorted and took the bowl of flat-tipped duck soup with only duck meat and no duck skin from Xie Ze's hand.

Xie Ze also served a bowl.

The two ate and drank half a cup of tea, Xie Zecai looked at Li Ran and asked with a smile: "You just went out, did you want to look around and meet Xiaoshen?" ”

"Want to look around, he's about waiting for me."

"It's not dark yet, I'll go out for a walk with you?" Xie Ze suggested.

"Okay." Li Ran stood up and followed Xie Ze out of the tent.

In the distance, only a touch of red remained on the horizon, torches had been lit all over the camp, and individual or strings of dead wind lamps hung high, swaying back and forth by the wind, and the camp illuminated by the warm red lights had no daytime slaughter, accompanied by bursts of the smell of food, and there was a kind of leisurely home taste.

Li Ran and Xie Ze walked side by side and followed him.

"Xiao Shen's camp is over there, and the ugly end is beginning to set off." Xie Ze gestured to the south of the camp.

"Huo Shuai's soldiers and cavalry over there?" Li Ran asked with concern.

"The vanguard led by the Marquis of Chang'an, and the Huo Shuai Department that followed over, led by the Marquis of Chang'an and Huo Wenjie, is on the left flank."

Xie Ze pointed to the left.

"Li Qingan went south with Xiao Shen."

Xie Ze paused and looked at Li Ran.

"Li Qing'an asked you, do you want to meet him? The third son and three ...... of Chang'an Hou Among the four girls, in addition to you, Li Qingan is the most outstanding and reasonable. ”

Li Ran's eyebrows raised.

Xie Ze looked at her raised eyebrows, smiled, raised his hand and pressed it on her shoulder, and said in a low voice while pushing her forward:

"In the past few days that you have been trapped behind enemy lines, I have been suffering day by day, and I don't know how many times I want to leave everything behind to find you and save you."

Xie Ze's throat choked slightly, and he was silent for a moment before he continued:

"If you hadn't told me before that you would have put the army first, I don't know if I would have left everything behind.

Even now, you're back, I think about it a little more, but I'm still afraid, if you don't come back......"

After a while, Xie Ze sighed lowly.

"These days of suffering, I have thought about it many times, back then, when Xie Shangshu was at that time, was he the same as me, heartbreaking, I could only choose one, if it weren't for your words and warnings, I don't know what I would do, my choice is you, Xie Shangshu's choice is in Mrs. Shao, why should I blame him?"

"You didn't abandon the army."

Li Ran stood still and looked at Xie Ze.

"Yes, because you warned me, because, with the rut ahead, I held myself, reluctantly.

Xie Shangshu happened suddenly at that time, and the emperor said it once, saying that he was cowardly and easy to follow the crowd, and he was so hard by nature, I don't think I should be too him. ”

Li Ran looked away and lowered his head forward.

Xie Ze followed Li Ran.

"And Madame Shao, I hate her so much, these days, I think of her from you, if I fail to hold myself down, abandon the army to find you, save you, the world will probably blame me for my fault, they will scold you for trouble, fox, and so on.

But it's my fault, what does it have to do with you?

Xie Shangshu left me and my brother behind, but Mrs. Shao didn't know.

Perhaps, I blamed her wrong. ”

"Just like I told you before."

Li Ran reached out and grabbed Xie Ze's fingers.

"Between a man and a commander of an army, the army is in front, not me.

Back then, you and your younger brother, one was eight years old, the other was five years old, Xie Shangshu was a father and a husband, at that time, a father should be a husband before being a husband, after all, Mrs. Shao is not a child who is too young to take care of herself. ”

Xie Ze held Li Ran's hand, was silent for a moment, and hummed.

"He does have great faults, and Mrs. Shao is not completely wrong, it's just that no one is perfect, in terms of character, Xie Shangshu is not as good as me, and Mrs. Shao is not as good as you, so it is not appropriate to be harsh."

After a pause, Xie Ze looked at Li Ran.

"Back in the capital, I want to go to Xie Shangshu's Mansion and have a look, will you accompany me?"

Li Ran was silent for a moment and nodded.

This is the knot in his heart, he wants to die, she accompanies him, he wants to reconcile, and she will accompany him as well.

"Li Qing'an, do you want to go and see?" Xie Ze motioned to the camp to the south, "I'll go with you?" ”

"Wait until he comes back."

"Okay." Xie Ze responded very quickly, "Then let's go over there, from the gate, you can see Oak City." ”

"Are they still alive?" Hearing Licheng, Li Ran subconsciously asked.

"It should be alive now, over there in Licheng, I probably don't know that you have come back safely, and I order you to be silenced about your return. Besides, it's just a few girls, Qi Yi is not a person who kills indiscriminately.

It's just that when the city is broken, ......"

Xie Ze didn't say the rest of the words.

Li Ran didn't speak, when the city was broken, in the chaos, human life was like a mustard.

"I hope that this time the battle can be completed, and from now on, at least in the Central Plains and within the empire, there will be no more wars."

Li Ran and Xie Ze stood side by side in the gate, looking at the oak city in the distance, and sighed.

"The prince thinks so too, and so do I." Xie Ze took Li Ran to his side.

The battlefield of flesh and blood, how many years he has experienced, how many years he has hated.

Li Ran and Xie Ze overlooked the oak city, the head of the oak city, Qi Yi and Jian Mingrui stood on the city wall, and they were also looking at the continuous camp opposite.

"I didn't expect it to be a child of the An family." Jian Mingrui's face was dark.

Qi Yi looked at him for a moment before answering: "I remember you said once, Cheng is extremely concerned about the An family. ”

"Well, back then, when I heard the letter that An Dashuai died in battle, Daddy sent someone to visit the An family's mansion, and when the people arrived, the An family's mansion was empty.

At that time, the court was in turmoil, and Daddy really couldn't take care of it, and it wasn't until he arrived in Shuzhong that he sent people to find the children of the An family.

At that time, the two sons and two nephews who died in the battle with An Dashuai had already married and had children, I asked Leping, there should be eleven or twelve children, plus the family members who protect them, twenty or thirty people, forty or fifty people, or even more than a hundred people, should not disappear to the point that there is no way to find them.

In the third year, in Xiaowangji, which is more than ten miles away from Wangcheng, he found the children of the An family. ”

"Wangcheng? In Shuzhong? Qi Yi raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Well, the sentinel came back to report, Daddy was also very happy, let me go in person, when I arrived at Xiaowangji, the Zhuangzi was already empty.

After that, Daddy sent a lot of additional manpower, but there was no news, I didn't expect ......"

Jian Mingrui looked at the continuous lights opposite, and sighed very gloomily.

"Seven or eight years ago, I persuaded you that you should let the prime minister be the emperor, put aside the previous dynasty of the Lu family, if you become the emperor, then the girl will be good, or the family will be settled, but Erer.

Now, Shuzhong is holding the banner of the Lu clan and Renzong, but it is ...... That girl doesn't matter, after all, her surname is Li, and she is standing opposite the An family, which is really ......"

Qi Yi didn't say anything about the rest of the story.

For more than ten years, Shuzhong has been holding the banner of recovering the country and Renzong's former ministers, at this time, to be precise, from the appearance of that girl, they have been extremely passive, and the sudden emergence of the Anjia at this time has made matters worse.

Jian Mingrui looked at the lights on the opposite side with great fascination, and only after a long time did he smile bitterly: "How many people in Shu are here because of Renzong?" Called the emperor, how can there be this convenience?

Besides, I told my dad that I was guarding Shuzhong, just for, Leping, I can't be peaceful in my heart! ”

Jian Mingrui's voice trembled slightly.

"All these years, it has been with this kind of grievance, if Daddy becomes the emperor, I will probably escape into the empty door."

Qi Yi looked at him silently for a long time, and let out a long sigh.

(End of chapter)