Two months later, the emperor and queen set out with a large army.

Everyone left with the emperor and queen, including Xuan Jin, and now that he is left alone on Dongshu's side, Qi Ying will definitely not be at ease, after the general matter is stabilized with his help, Xuan Jin will go back to Dajin to stay first, at least after he has completely settled down, he can make another plan.

It was Qi Dao who stayed behind for Qi Ying to clean up the mess and execute the captives and exile the prisoners.

When seeing off the emperor's team, Qi Dao only saw Shen Linglong.

After winning the battle, Jiang Tingye returned to his usual appearance, tricked Shen Linglong into his horse, and ran away in the blink of an eye, only Shen Linglong's exclamation and Jiang Tingye's triumphant laughter could be heard from afar.

Seeing that Jiang Wan and Qi Ying were about to get on the horse, Qi Daocai finally couldn't help but ask: "Cheng. . . What about Jiang Yu? ”

Jiang Wan turned around and said suspiciously, "Didn't she tell you?" ”

Qi Dao frowned: "What did you say?" ”

Could it be that she left early without saying a word?

Jiang Wan pursed her lips and was silent for a while, then she didn't know what she thought, and suddenly laughed again: "You can go back and see." ”

After speaking, refusing to say anything more, Qi Ying and Qi Dao said a few words, and the army headed towards the city gate.

Qi Dao stood in place, with his own elite team behind him, staying with him to deal with things, and going back together when the time came.

Jiang Wan's words made Qi Dao feel uneasy, and after sending the emperor away, Qi Dao anxiously returned to the mansion where he temporarily cleaned up and lived.

Did Jiang Yu leave something for him?

The more Qi Dao thought about it, the more upset he became, and when he stepped into the threshold, he almost ran all the way.

He walked briskly to all corners of the mansion, and finally saw a familiar figure on the path near the backyard.

The man turned around when he heard the footsteps, and saw Qi Dao, who was panting and looking anxious, but showed a relieved expression for a moment.

"Jiang Ying."

He stood there and called out to her.

Jiang Ying's expression was still faint, but this time, she successfully said what she wanted to say: "I'll accompany you." ”

·

The news of the emperor's return to Shengjing was passed through layers of transmission, and how the movement was sent to the harem and to the hands of Concubine Ru.

She stood up excitedly and went all the way to the next wing to find Qi Yan.

The little guy is more than three years old, and he tires his robe very neatly every day, and a little wrinkle must be pulled evenly, and he pays special attention to his appearance.

Because he is the prince of the Great Jin Dynasty and the only prince, Qi Yan, who grew up being loved by thousands of people, is also burdened with a heavier burden.

Learn etiquette, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, recognize words and poems, and practice basic martial arts.

Lu Ran personally took time out to teach Qi Yan every day, and Concubine Ru was not at ease and accompanied him every day.

The etiquette class was okay, as soon as she ran in the morning, Concubine Ru cried more than Qi Yan.

The child stood trembling, his little face was red, he couldn't help it, and the little man shed a few tears with an expressionless face.

As soon as Concubine Ru saw the tears, she covered her heart and stood up: "Don't practice, don't practice, how long will you have to practice, he is only three years old, are you human?" ”

Lu Ran, who came to teach in person, coughed lightly: "I understand that Concubine Ru feels sorry for the prince, but this is necessary." ”

Concubine Ru glared at him: "Why don't you go and squat, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk, you Lord Lu don't tell me about these things." ”

Seeing that he was about to quarrel, Qi Yan, who shed tears but didn't move, sighed, and said seriously in a milky voice: "Ru Niangniang, I'm fine." ”

Concubine Ru put down Lu Ran, walked quickly to Qi Yan and squatted down: "If you are tired, you can tell me, no one can force you to practice, can you?" ”

Qi Yan wiped away his tears, looked sober, and said stubbornly: "Didn't Ru Niangniang say that her father and queen mother are coming back?" ”

Concubine Ru nodded.

Qi Yan pursed his lips, and said in a small voice after half a sound: "If I practice well, my father and queen mother will be happy." ”

Concubine Ru was stunned, and then cried even more fiercely.

This child is too smart and sensible, and sometimes Concubine Ru will wonder if the children born in the emperor's family will have a consciousness and innate sensitivity that is much higher than that of other children.

Qi Yan was very coquettish until he was two years old, and later the more victories on the front line were fought, the emperor's army advanced all the way, and the more Concubine Ru mentioned Jiang Wan in front of Qi Yan.

He knows everything in his heart.

Concubine Ru just didn't expect such a small person to be able to understand some things so clearly.

He knew that the Concubine Ru in front of him was not his biological mother, he could only call her Ru Niangniang, and his biological mother was the Queen of the Great Jin Dynasty who would be full of longing when everyone mentioned it.

He knew that he was the prince of the Emperor and the one who would inherit the Great Jin Dynasty in the future.

also knew that the father and queen mother in Concubine Ru's mouth went far, far away to the sky, and collected a large area of territory for him and Dajin.

Now they're coming back.

As everyone said, Qi Yan had no complaints about Jiang Wan and Qi Ying's absence for more than three years.

He seemed to be able to understand the love that was almost great.

The three-year-old little prince already knows to have mercy on the world and for his subjects.

He just feels that he should do a good job to be worthy of this identity and everyone's expectations of him.

The small body transmitted a lot of energy, and Concubine Ru couldn't stop her tears, in addition to being distressed, she was also relieved.

Lu Ran listened to Concubine Ru cry once a day, and occasionally remembered her majestic appearance when she first met Concubine Ru two years ago.

As soon as the time came, Lu Ran asked Qi Yan to hurry up, and Concubine Ru hugged him and rubbed his legs, glaring at Lu Ran with a resentful face.

This kind of drama is staged every day, Lu Ran is used to it, and after assigning Qi Yan the homework of reading yesterday's poems, he left in a hurry.

At this moment, Qi Yan's milky reading voice was coming out, and as soon as Concubine Ru entered the house, she went straight to Qi Yan: "Yan'er, your father and queen mother have reached the Nine Immortals." ”

Qi Yan's face showed the panic and joy that belonged to a child, and after a while, the little guy solemnly lifted the book longer than his face: "Ru Niangniang, I want to study." ”

Concubine Ru looked at the sky tiredly and retreated silently.

The child grows up and doesn't kiss himself anymore.

Aggrieved, helpless, uncomfortable.

Two months later, the emperor returned to Beijing.

Qi Yan was dressed up more formally, and was surrounded by hundreds of civil and military officials to welcome the arrival of the emperor.

Lu Ran held him, and also gave Qi Yan a lot of encouragement.

In his memory, there are still things that Qi Ying and Jiang Wan are very clear, he only knows that his father, queen and mother are very powerful people, and they are also people who are supported by his subjects, and he needs to go through more experience to become a person like his father.

Concubine Ru Qing and Concubine Yu stood in the rear position, Concubine Ru hooked her body to look at Qi Yan, and remembered the emperor's team in her heart, and she couldn't see it.

The doors of the imperial city opened one by one, Qi Yan unconsciously clenched Lu Ran's hand, and took a step behind him, after a while, he felt that he couldn't do this, and after struggling for a while, Qi Yan stood up silently again.

Jiang Wan and Qi Ying came on horseback.

From a distance, Jiang Wan saw Qi Yan on the steps.

The moment the four eyes met, Jiang Wan's heart was about to jump out.

She turned over and dismounted, Qi Ying let her run a little more, and also kept up with Jiang Wan's pace.

The way up the stairs is not far, coming back from the Dongshu Imperial City, the road has been walked for so many months, but when it comes to the front, the stairs that have climbed half of it suddenly become extremely long in Jiang Wan's eyes.

Her steps slowed down unconsciously, and her gaze kept falling on Qi Yan's face, without moving an inch.

Her children have grown up peacefully.

Qi Yan looks like Qi Ying, his eyebrows and eyes are similar, and his lips are similar, standing upright like this, it is more similar.

can take a closer look, there are also many similarities with Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan's eyes were a little red, she didn't dare to stretch out her hand, for fear that Qi Yan would resist her, and she was also afraid that Qi Yan would be unfamiliar with her.

But I haven't seen each other for three years, and being rusty was supposed to be.

It's just that as a mother, it is inevitable that there will be loss and disparity in my heart.

She shouldn't have asked a three-year-old child to do that, as long as he was good, in the next ten years, twenty years, they still have a long, long time to fill in the gap of those three years.

Jiang Wan told herself not to worry.

But I still want to hug my child for the first time.

Because he slowed down, Qi Ying quickly caught up, he took Jiang Wan's hand and made eye contact with Qi Yan.

Like a miniature version of Qi Ying, Qi Zhigao saw it in Beijing after a while, and he must say so.

Qi Ying glanced at him, Qi Yan seemed to notice the similarity between the man in front of him and himself, and a feeling that he had never experienced before flowed through his brain all over his body.

Neither of them stepped forward, Qi Yan pursed his lips, and after a long while, he let go of Lu Ran's hand and took a step forward.

He saluted uprightly: "The sons and daughters greet their fathers and queens, and welcome their fathers and queens back to the palace." ”

He has been practicing these words for a long time, and he specifically consulted Lu Ran.

Concubine Ru didn't know about this, and he practiced over and over again by the bed when he slept at night.

Will the father and mother think he is doing a good job?

He also wants to be recognized by his father and queen mother, and he also wants to be their pride.

So I've always worked hard to do everything well.

When Qi Yan stepped forward to salute, Concubine Ru almost cried again, feeling that the child she had brought out was too good.

Qi Yan saluted, and the civil and military officials naturally followed the prince to salute, and the voice of greeting the emperor resounded in the Jinchi Hall.

Jiang Wan's brain buzzed with Qi Yan's crisp cry from the queen mother, happiness came too suddenly, she was still thinking that it didn't matter if Qi Yan avoided her, she could slowly warm him with love, the child could feel sincere, as long as he was good to him, mother and son were connected, he would accept himself one day.

As a result, Qi Yan directly skipped the steps that Jiang Wan had been thinking about for a long time, and when he came up, he called out the mother, Jiang Wan cried happily, and didn't care about so many people watching, so he turned around and said excitedly to Qi Ying: "Yinglang, did you hear that?" Yan'er called me, he called me, he called his father and queen mother, did you hear me? ”

Qi Ying smiled softly: "I heard it." ”

Qi Ying also heard it, it was not her illusion.

Greatly encouraged by these words, Jiang Wan stretched out her hand tremblingly, and shouted cautiously and nervously: "Yan'er? ”

Qi Yan was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously turned back to look for Concubine Ru's figure, but he didn't find it, and looked at Lu Ran again.

Lu Ran nodded to him encouragingly, Qi Yan got a positive answer, and his heart was a lot more settled.

In fact, he also thought about what the queen mother's arms should look like, and whether it was as warm as Ru Niangniang.

He took a step forward and stretched out his hand in response to Jiang Wan's hug.

When he was taken into Jiang Wan's arms, Qi Yan felt Jiang Wan's majestic heartbeat.

His doubts for so long were answered.

The queen mother's arms are warm and full of reassuring feelings.

He ran his fingers through Jiang Wan's long hair and looked at the blue sky.

Shengjing is excellent.

Everyone who should meet is here.

·

The Queen Mother's body was about to be unable to hold on.

After the New Year's Festival of the ninth year of the Jin Dynasty, Qi Yan passed the fourth birthday of having a father and a queen mother.

He also doesn't have the memory of the imperial grandmother in his memory.

He only knew that the imperial grandmother was not in good health and had been in Yunde Palace, and Ru Niangniang had never taken him to visit.

But a few days after his birthday, the father and the queen mother discussed together for a long time, and their expressions were a little solemn, as if they were comforting each other, and as if they were struggling between pain and relief.

Qi Yan couldn't understand such complicated emotions, he only knew that in the evening of the same day, the queen mother took him and stepped into the palace gate of Yunde Palace with his father.

He saw a very thin old lady on the bed.

Qi Yan felt a little scared, the Yunde Palace was gloomy.

Jiang Wan didn't let Qi Yan come forward, those grievances between her and the Queen Mother may be eliminated one day in the future, but Jiang Wan will never let her get close to her child again.

So Qi Yan was taught to salute the Queen Mother five steps away, and without saying a few words, he was led out by Jingyue.

Only Qi Ying, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, and Jiang Wan, who was standing a little farther away, were left in the room.

The news outside, the Queen Mother has not asked for a long time.

The Great Jin Dynasty won the battle and destroyed Dongshu, and this major event was also reported just now.

The Queen Mother has been silent, not knowing if she has nothing to say, or if she has lost the strength to speak.

When she looked at Qi Yan, the emotions in her eyes were too complicated.

There may be regrets, there may be longings.

Originally, she could enjoy family fun with her children and grandchildren.

It was ambition and desire that ruined the mother-son relationship between her and Qi Ying, as well as the relationship between her and Qi Yan's ancestors and grandchildren.

She is now at a limit, and in the past four years in Yunde Palace, the Queen Mother has always thought back to many things in the past.

If you think about it too much, you will become calmer.

This should be the last time Qi Ying came to see her, and the queen mother's body didn't know how long it would last, but Qi Ying still ordered to watch it, and the decoction should not be broken.

Jiang Wan never had the intention of talking to the Queen Mother, she stood silently, waiting quietly, the Queen Mother and Qi Ying didn't talk much, asked where Qi Dao was, and after knowing that he couldn't come back, she was silent for a long time, and then talked about the early years, people love to remember the past when they are old, and the Queen Mother is naturally the same.

Qi Ying listened patiently and answered from time to time, not letting the Queen Mother's words be unacceptable.

At the end of the conversation, only the sigh of the Queen Mother was left in the room.

It seems like.. There's really nothing more to say.

But there's really no way to stitch up the rift in my heart anymore.

The Queen Mother waved her hand and said that she was tired.

She let Qi Ying and Jiang Wan go, and during the last period of time, she could stay by herself.

When the two turned around and were about to walk to the door, the Queen Mother suddenly called out to Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan looked back and saw two lines of tears hanging on the queen mother's pale face.

"I know you won't forgive me, but I still want to say that I was wrong," she said. ”

The words that have been pent up in my heart are just a relief for myself.

The thorn in Jiang Wan's heart was pulled, and when it came to her mouth, she still didn't say it.

When she pushed the door open and went out, Jiang Wan looked at Qi Yan who was playing with Jingyue under the steps, and finally muttered, "I don't accept it." ”

Arrived in the underworld.

Neither can this sin be removed.

·

Because of the Queen Mother's affairs, Jiang Tingye, who was originally going to wait a little longer, and then ask for grace after Jiang Yu and the others came back, couldn't sit still.

The Prime Minister's Mansion is now being taken care of by Shen Linglong and Yibo, and in the past few years since the expedition, the Shen family has done a lot of things.

Shen Lingji didn't have a good time after she got married, and she cried with Mrs. Guo for three days, Mrs. Guo felt sorry for her daughter, and complained that Shen Kang and Shen Jin were useless.

Shen Jin couldn't stand this stimulation, and after a fight with the son of the Ministry of Works' squire, Shen Kang was suppressed everywhere in the court.

When Shen Linglong came back, the Shen family's life was already very difficult, Shen Kang came to her, begged, and repented, and now the Shen family can still speak and help, and only Shen Linglong can help.

Shen Kang, whom Shen Linglong met in the lobby, asked him where he was when her mother died.

Shen Kang was speechless.

She asked where she was when she was dying.

Shen Kang raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat.

Shen Linglong took a deep breath and asked Shen Jin where he was when he was going to sell her to the gambling house to pay off her debts and take away the dowry left by her mother.

There were too many words that had been accumulated in my heart, and at this moment, they were all drowned out by Shen Kang's silence.

Shen Linglong knew that she couldn't get an answer, she should stand up to protect her father, and she didn't stand up once.

He didn't even stand up for her after the fact.

When her mother was here, the Shen family was still home.

After her mother died, the Shen family was no longer a home in Shen Linglong's heart.

Shen Kang is Guo's husband and the father of Shen Jin and Shen Lingji, what does it have to do with her Shen Linglong?

She stood by and watched to seek justice for her and her mother.

Having come to this point, Shen Linglong understood why the prime minister said that she should not worry.

When it really came to the pivotal position of the Shen family, Shen Linglong realized that she didn't care anymore.

She had already let herself go and fled from the past, she didn't care what happened to the Shen family, it was the biggest revenge on the Shen family.

And ahead of her, the sun will be shining.

Jiang Ting entered the palace in a hurry at night, and when he saw Jiang Wan and Qi Ying in the Golden Pond Palace, Jiang Wan was sitting on Qi Ying's desk painting.

Jiang Ting's night qi hadn't even smoothed over, and before he could say anything about asking for peace, he knelt down first.

Jiang Wan's pen paused, and Qi Ying glanced at each other, crying and laughing: "What day, this kid does this big gift." ”

Qi Ying raised her eyebrows, looking like she had guessed.

Jiang Tingye took a deep breath and eased up, simply kowtowed directly, and said loudly: "Brother-in-law, sister, I'm here to exchange merit for grace." ”