Chapter 123: Departure
The wedding banquet began in the music and ended in the music, it was night, Ling'er and the emperor were going to send Ah Jue and Qingyang to go on the expedition. Liu Cambodia's army has been assembled, and the army is already on the way to northern Xinjiang, and Liu Cambodiaxiong led his personal guards to pick up Ah Jue and Master Qingyang.
Ah Jue put on armor, with a waist sword, and held Ling'er without saying a word, Ling'er just packed some underwear for him at random, and it was useless for the army to bring too many things to fight.
"Sheep's hair! You follow the colt, and you follow the colt in the future. Ling'er turned to Yang Hao and said, "You know how to ride a horse, right?" ”
"Slaves can ride horses, and slaves obey orders!" Yang Hao didn't know whether he was happy or excited, and kept laughing.
A person suddenly ran out of the guards, knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, let Aji go with the horse master to conquer in person!" ”
Ling'er glanced at Ah Jue, then at Shigong, and said to Ah Ji: "Go, I'm alone with you!" ”
"Your Highness Xie, Your Highness Xie." Aji kowtowed happily and stood next to Yang Hao.
Ling'er took the big coat from Taoxin's hand and asked her to take it, put it on Ah Jue, tied the belt for him, lowered her head and said: "You go to Northern Xinjiang immediately, it's going to be hot in summer here, but Northern Xinjiang is still much colder, and I don't know when the war will end, I'll wait for you in the palace." This big coat is the fur that my master gave me in the past, I brought it to my father and queen mother, and the queen mother returned it to me when it was ready, and asked me to take it to northern Xinjiang for you..."
"Ling'er, I, will you wait for me to come back?" Ah Jue was also a little choked, and a thousand words were just this sentence.
"Hmm." Ling'er burst into tears and laughed: "If I don't wait for you, who else can I wait!" ”
"I'm afraid I'm not by your side, you recruit another one..."Ah Jue also spoke in a different tone, full of vinegar.
"Yang Hao and Aji will follow you, one serves you to live, the other follows, there are no female dependents in the military camp, I don't worry about you." Ling'er took two steps back and looked at it after tying it up, is it quite handsome, and there is a shih in the eyes of the lover.
"You almost scared me out today, you're going to change your girlfriends." Ah Jue is still scared when she thinks about it now, and she doesn't have time to chat with Ling'er yet.
"I know, I'll act with you, are you good at acting without a book!" Ling'er raised her head to look at him and smiled charmingly.
"You're so good-looking." Ah Jue felt uncomfortable and couldn't bear to be separated.
"Did you find out?" Ling'er didn't want the atmosphere of parting to be too sad, and began to speak in a naughty tone.
"I really want to kiss you before leaving." Ah Jue also teased her naughtily.
"What's so difficult about this, you can cover it up with this big cover." Ling'er looked at Ah Jue mischievously, as if asking, do you dare?
"Then I'm here." Ah Jue covered both sides of the big gun, hugged Ling'er with one hand, kissed Ling'er in his arms, and asked unsatisfied: "Are you still satisfied?" ”
"Well, bad guy, I'll give you the Fa-rectification when you come back." Ling'er lifted the big puff and went out, looking at Ah Jue angrily.
"Okay." Ah Jue looked over there, he hadn't said goodbye to the emperor yet, everyone was looking at them, and they had never been paid attention to like this, well, except for today's wedding moment.
Ah Jue walked to the emperor and knelt down: "Father, queen mother, the child is gone." ”
"Go there and promise your father and protect yourself, if it weren't for Ling'er's intercession, I really wouldn't let you go." The emperor helped his son-in-law up and said earnestly: "Father, the emperor is also full of your filial piety." ”
"Father, the emperor, and the sons all understand that they will not disappoint the expectations of the father and the queen mother, as well as Ling'er." Ah Jue held the emperor's hand and said firmly.
"Go, the army has already departed, and tonight is another sleepless night of marching. If it doesn't work, find a carriage and sleep for a while. The emperor let go of Ah Jue's hand and drove him on his way.
After Ah Jue rode on the horse, Master Qingyang, Yang Hao and Ah Ji all rode on the horse one after another, Liu Cambodia Xiong was already waiting on the horse, and a team of people and horses all set off after Ah Jue drove and left.
Ling'er's cave room spends candle night, and he is the only one living in this new bed. Actually, it's not a new bed, it's just a festive new linen.
"Your Highness, Peach Heart should be cleaned up and then go to sleep." Xiao Taoxin looked at the bed full of dates, peanuts, longan, and lotus seeds and wanted to clean up.
"Don't move!" Ling'er roared: "Seal this room, and wait for the horses to return to the court." In the future, I will go to live in the room where Ah Jue used to live in Moyang Palace. ”
"Yes, Your Highness." Xiao Taoxin helped Ling'er, who had no strength in her body, to go to Moyang Palace.
Moyang Hall has not moved since Ah Jue came home, and there is still his residual breath on the quilt, smelling this familiar smell, Ling'er really fell asleep in bed, and had no dreams all night.
Master Qingyang reminded him: "Ah Jue, your brothers have already set off early, and it should arrive tonight, it will be useless for you to run like this, the big army can't catch up, you are going to reinforce here, I believe the old general will definitely stabilize the situation." ”
"What the master said is that we will set up camp tonight and rest for the night." The horse that Ah Jue had been running all night suddenly became much quieter and more mature.
"Your Majesty's meaning, this time you can return to Luan if you want Beimeng to surrender, after all, Ling'er is still waiting for you." Master Qingyang was running on the side and talking to Ah Jue.
"This summer, the Northern Mongolian cavalry is invincible, and in the winter it will not be able to fight again, and it will be possible to take the Northern Mongolia within five months at the latest, I want not only to surrender, what I want is the territory of the Northern Mongolia to draw into East China, my father has guarded the Northern Xinjiang all his life, and even I have not returned from the big wedding with Ling'er, and I will take the Northern Mongolia region and rule, and it will be done once and for all. Father can also go back to Beijing to retire. Ah Jue ran slower and spoke his heart.
"No matter how powerful the cavalry of Beimeng is in summer, their supplies can't keep up, and they can't fight when they enter the customs, and there are a few cavalry talents, the army in Northern Xinjiang is stationed all year round, and Datong Mansion is easy to defend and difficult to attack, taking advantage of His Majesty Xia's meaning is to create Beimeng, let him surrender, really into the territory, Your Majesty also doesn't want to, Beimeng is all nomalist, they themselves are not united, difficult to govern, and the winter is cold except for their own people, we can't stand it at all. What you say won't work. Master Qingyang disagreed with Ah Jue's opinion.
"Let's win the battle first, we are all thinking too long-term. Is there a military newspaper today? Ah Jue asked.
"The military report should be received at least tomorrow, and His Majesty should also receive the military report the day after tomorrow. When our army arrives in Datong, your letter to Ling'er can be passed through the military newspaper in the future. Master Qingyang didn't want Ah Jue to be so angry, so he used Ling'er to remind him.
"Ling'er ......" Thinking of Ling'er, Ah Jue became a lot gentler, and her anger disappeared, "After the military report is received tomorrow, I will write a letter to Ling'er to report safety." ”
"That's right, Your Majesty gave you 200,000 troops for your filial piety, and accompanied you to the north to protect your safety for the division, Your Majesty is for Ling'er, and Ling'er is for your heart. You know, if you leave Ling'er, the anger on your body is too heavy. "Master Qingyang doesn't beat around the bush.
"Thank you master for mentioning it, I remembered it." Ah Jue is actually worried about his old father, thinking about the current situation, he is not too pessimistic, but he is sorry for his Ling'er, and the newlywed cave room spent candle night to do his filial piety.
Here, Ling'er still practiced swordsmanship in the morning, and the commander didn't know whether to be happy or worried when he saw Ling'er so well-behaved.
"Your Highness, you were tired yesterday, and it's okay not to practice today." The Grand Commander looked at Ling'er's appearance of squatting in an orderly manner, and was a little at a loss.
"Master, the seventh chapter of the apprentice always can't make progress." Ling'er has been practicing Chapter 7 for a long time, and I don't know why I haven't made any progress.
"You practiced too fast in the front, resulting in a lack of stamina, and it is estimated that it will take some time to practice this seventh chapter." The Grand Commander stood still and observed Ling'er carefully.
"Master, what are you looking at me like this? Is it different to spend the night in vain? Ling'er looked at the worried appearance of the Great Commander, and couldn't bear that he was worried about himself, joking.
"How did Ling'er arrange it today?" The Grand Commander changes the subject.
"Go to the Criminal Department today, I'll go and meet that former imperial historian." Ling'er said that the clouds were light and the wind was light.
"Does Your Majesty agree?" The Arch-General asked.
"Your Majesty doesn't agree with me going to try a prisoner, and I'm not going to kill Shi Jing, I'm just going to the meeting." Does Ling'er think that this also requires the consent of her father to go!
"The minister advises His Highness to report to His Majesty first before going." The Grand Commander frowned.
"Then when I ascend the throne in the future, do I have to ask my father about everything?" Ling'er felt a little displeased.
"Your Highness, the minister lost his words, but he just felt that it was a little inappropriate for you to judge Shi Jing, so the minister would say that. Your Highness, the minister is guilty. The Grand Commander knelt down after speaking.
"Master, get up quickly, the apprentice is wrong, the apprentice will ask his father in a while." Ling'er hurriedly stood up and walked over to help the commander up.
"Let's talk about swordsmanship. His Royal Highness and the minister practiced the seventh chapter together, and the minister took you to practice. The commander drew his sword, stood still on one foot, pointed at the ground with the sword in one hand, Ling'er did the same some distance away from him, and the master and apprentice began to practice the swordsmanship in Chapter 7.
After breakfast, Ling'er went to the imperial study, His Majesty was talking to Qi Hai, and he didn't shy away when he saw Ling'er coming.
"Father, my son has come to greet you." Ling'er came in and saluted first.
"Your Highness." Qi Hai stood up and saluted Ling'er.
"Marquis Jiayong is polite." Ling'er hadn't seen Qi Hai for a while, so she asked, "How do you have time to come here today?" ”
"The minister is telling His Majesty about the trial of the rebel Shi Jing." Qi Hai has been at home since Qi Rong's accident, and he has been his own marquis, and he doesn't know when he started to try Shi Jing.
"Father, the son is also here for this matter, and the son wants to go to judge Shi Jing." Ling'er got straight to the point.
"Your father, Marquis Jiayong, has already been tried. Overnight trial. His Majesty the Emperor looked at Ling'er and stopped talking.
"What's wrong?" Ling'er asked curiously.
"This old guy has a hard mouth." Qi Hai replied to Ling'er's words: "He told Weichen that he wanted to see His Highness, and as soon as the minister asked His Majesty for his will, His Highness came." ”
"Then what else is there to say, I'll just go, he's in prison, what can I do." Ling'er got up and wanted to leave.
"Ling'er, I'll go with you, I don't worry about you." The emperor also got up and took Qi Hai and Ling'er to the punishment department together.
His Majesty's imperial trial, the people in the Criminal Department did not dare to slack off, but His Majesty did not interrogate Shi Jing first, but asked Mrs. Shi to come over first, and she and Shi Jing were placed separately in prison.
Mrs. Shi is from a beautiful background, she has never been guilty in her life, she wants her sister-in-law to have a son-in-law in Shifu, she wants a status to have a status, she wants money to have money, and her friends are all high-level women and princesses who have a fate, isn't Princess Gong her best friend, this time she became a prisoner, she is really a little unacceptable, her eyes are straight, and she can't believe everything in front of her.
"Who's in the audience?" Qi Hai was in the position of the chief judge, His Majesty was behind the curtain next to him, and Ling'er sat next to him to listen.
"How can I also be a lady of the commandment, do you just fulfill the decree of His Majesty?" Mrs. Shi didn't answer Qi Hai's question, and sat weakly on the ground.
"Your decree has been gone since you were imprisoned, and it should be said that it has been gone since your son and your husband began to deceive the king." Qi Hai slapped the table, intending to shock her.
"You are talking nonsense, do you have evidence to prove that my son is bullying the king, and my husband is bullying the king!" Mrs. Shi's Tai Chi skills are also first-class, I don't know what the emperor wants to say when he interrogates her first.
"You said, you asked Princess Gong to send the set of jewelry to Her Royal Highness, the most important thing is the letter, how do you explain it! Your son Shi Mi was in the valley and wanted to murder the concubine, and was sent to Zhouzhou Mansion without the help of your family, how could he escape and go nowhere. Where did he go, how did you get the letter he gave you, you honestly explained, your husband may still have a way out, and he was arrested because of you. Qi Hai wanted to deceive Shi's words.
"That set of jewelry has always been kept at home, Mi'er's letter was picked up by the next person at the door, of course I believe in my own son, doesn't Your Majesty believe in Her Royal Highness? Don't you believe in your own son?! Shi Zhang's mouth was also difficult to pry: "Besides, since the lord said that the husband was arrested because of me, then it is enough to leave the concubine to be tortured here and let my master go." ”
"Did you know that yesterday's assassin said that Mi'er in your mouth has become a special slave in the tent of the crown prince of Beimeng! Your Mi'er has treasoned! Qi Hai provoked her with words and looked for a breakthrough.
"This is Her Royal Highness the Empress Dowager." Shi Zhang looked at Ling'er and ignored Qi Hai.
"Madame recognizes Lonely?" Ling'er saw her turn to herself, so she asked rhetorically.
"The lady who can sit here, this dress and bearing, who else can there be except His Highness. Besides, His Highness went to Shifu, and the concubines had seen His Highness. Shi Zhang turned his face to Ling'er: "Your Highness, Mi'er's infatuation with you can be seen from the sky." The concubine and the husband couldn't bear to be so sad, and always wanted to fulfill him, and he knelt for a few days and nights before His Majesty for you, just so that he could accompany you to the valley, but I haven't seen my son since I went to the valley. Saying that, Shi Zhang cried.
"Your son has done something wrong, otherwise he will be a colt, and no one wants him to do those things, and he will ruin his own future and the fate of his parents and family." Ling'er looked at Shi Zhang proudly.
"Your Highness is wrong, Mi'er in the eyes of the concubine will not do such a thing at all, you are framing him, if you have evidence, you will not let him go on the spot, you have no evidence, this is just your speculation, why don't you think this is a play directed and acted by the master himself?" Shi Zhang's didn't forget to beat Ah Jue at this time.
"You are presumptuous!" Ling'er was excited by her, stood up and pointed at her!
Seeing this, Qi Hai hurriedly shouted: "Your Highness is angry! Let's come on. ”
Ling'er reacted suddenly, and she fell in love with her, no wonder her father didn't ask him to meet them alone, they were not simple people.
Qi Hai then asked: "I see that you didn't have a big reaction when you heard that Shi Mi was taken in by the crown prince of Northern Mongolia, you should have known about it a long time ago." You colluded with Beimeng, the last time someone in Beimeng came to assassinate Rong'er, it was also Shi Jing's handiwork, but in the end, he was safe to the then Duan Wangye, of course, Duan Wangye must also be unclean, otherwise he would not have committed suicide in fear of guilt and found such a good scapegoat. There is evidence for this. Qi Hai took out a stack of testimonies and threw them to Shi Zhang's. Otherwise, I wouldn't have agreed to be your chief judge this time, I am for Rong'er, what is wrong with him, you want his life, your eldest son is the eldest son, isn't my eldest son! Qi Hai said and became excited.
Shi Zhang took the confessions of those people below and sat down on the ground, she thought that she would not admit that this was an end of the case, and no one would mention it again, only she and Shi Jing knew about it, and she didn't even tell Mi'er, for fear that he wouldn't act like it, for fear that he would enter the palace with a sense of guilt in the future, parents love their children, she and Shi Jing are willing to pave the way for Mi'er, and Mi'er doesn't need to know at all.
Ling'er looked at Shi Zhang's reaction, and knew that this was true, it turned out that Qi Rong was killed by Shi Mi's parents, it turned out that Qi Hai went out of the mountain to try the case again because of his son, Ling'er's old injuries and new hatred struck, and when she heard the cause of Qi Rong's death, she didn't come up in one breath, and fainted on the spot, Xiao Taoxin stood behind her and hurriedly helped her.
"Your Highness, Your Highness!" Xiao Taoxin helped Ling'er and shouted anxiously, and the emperor hurriedly ran out from behind the screen and hugged Ling'er.
"Ling'er, Ling'er! Quick, call the prison doctor to come and have a look! Seeing that Qi Hai couldn't go down the trial, he asked someone to take Shi Zhang's family down, and asked people to go to the prison doctor, and the closest thing was the prison doctor.
Before the prison doctor arrived, Ling'er woke up by herself, and all the bits and pieces of the past were recalled, at that time, Shi Mi also pretended to save herself, and was not seriously injured, she was not interested in anything because of Qi Rong's death that time, and she didn't ask for grace for his life, but fortunately she didn't, this is really the murderer, if you give him grace again, you are really sorry for Qi Rong.
"Ling'er, my son, my father didn't call you here, you said you!" The emperor was frightened by her. Ling'er slowed down for a while, choked with tears: "Father, is Qi Rong's death really because of the Shi Mi family?" It turns out that the real culprit is here. ”
"Father has also been suspicious, some time ago because of Shi Mi's matter, I arrested some people below to know some roughly, and I am not sure, today is framing Shi Zhang's words, at least she is better than Shi Jing." The emperor helped his daughter to sit in a chair.
"Father, Qi Rong was victimized, and Ah Jue was in distress several times, it seems that it was because of his sons." Ling'er said and tears fell straight down.
"How can I blame you, my father didn't protect Rong'er, and I can't tell Jue'er to make any mistakes this time." His Majesty the Emperor took Ling'er to the back of the screen and asked Qi Hai to go to Xuan Shijing for trial.
After a while, Shi Jing was brought, and Qi Hai was only suspicious at first, but now he is sure that Shi Jing did it, and he can't wait to go down the hall to break his whole family into pieces.
"Just now, Shi Zhang's family has already explained everything, saying that you are the one who hired the murderer, Rong'er was killed by you, and you are also the one who has been in danger several times today, and it is also you who colluded with Beimeng!" Qi Hai and Shi Jing got straight to the point.
"Haha, Madame has admitted it, she is too composed, too, if you don't admit that you will give her some punishment, she will admit it, my lady is afraid of pain." Shi Jingyun is light and breezy, and saying this is the same as saying what the weather is like today.
"Shi Jing, do you have anything else to explain?" Qi Hai knew that Qi Rong was a little exhausted, gritted his teeth, and insisted on the trial.
"I don't have anything to explain all the time, I just want to see Her Royal Highness, the woman who has been thinking about her for a long time." Shi Jing has no taboos, anyway, he is dead horizontally and vertically.
"Do you want to see Her Royal Highness the Empress Dowager for anything? I'll convey it to you. Qi Hai didn't know if Ling'er was willing to come.
"I won't tell you if she doesn't come." Shi Jing smiled and looked left and right.
Ling'er patted His Majesty's hand, walked out from behind the screen, looked at Shi Jing and said, "Shi Zhongcheng, is there anything wrong with finding Gu?" ”
"The old man is not a middleman, the old man is now a prisoner, the old man called you to come, just to let you raise your noble hand and let go of Mi'er, he is just infatuated with you, he is an idiot, he doesn't know anything, it is all done by the old man alone." Shi Jing pleaded with his son, he doesn't know where his son has gone now, but it should be safe.
"He's in Beimeng, the crown prince's tent." Ling'er said calmly this time.
"The old man has been a military general for decades, training for you and your father, there are always so many cronies in his hands, Liu Cambodia Xiong took away my soldiers for only a year, those people are still willing to repay my kindness back then, among the 200,000 people who went out to take away, many of them are my people, I told them, if the master of the horse kills Mi'er, ask him to also bury Mi'er, stay in Beimeng and don't come back. Oh, I forgot to tell Your Highness, maybe someone will make a move in the next few days, and the journey of the master of the horse to Beimeng will not be very safe. Hahahaha! Shi Jing laughed after speaking.
Ling'er's face was full of horror after hearing this, and she walked behind the screen tremblingly: "Father! ”
"Take Shi Jing down, keep the night long and dream, he and his wife and mother are all beheaded, tomorrow I will behead him and Shi Zhang's family first!" The emperor was really angry this time, and came forward to help Ling'er.
"Father, my son is going to Northern Xinjiang!" Ling'er turned around and wanted to run out again, but she was too frightened today, her legs were weak, and she fell down after walking a few steps.
"You listen to what your father says, and then decide!" The emperor was not clear by Shi Jing's anger, but his thinking was clear, and he picked up Ling'er and said: "You see why he wants to tell you this, first of all, he is puzzled by the army's heart, let you report to the horse, and be suspicious of everyone in the army who has been under Shi Jing, and there is no suspicion of suspicion, Ah Jue's safety there Qingyang will be responsible, there are still his three elder brothers, and his own father, you go to danger is a word, you will soon ascend the throne, I will never ask you to go to Northern Xinjiang at this stall, Beimeng can't eat us in East China, His national strength and manpower are sitting there, Datong Pass is not as easy to get in as you think, how to hold it all these years, General Wen is not a vegetarian. The emperor pulled Ling'er and forgave her.
"Go and find the man he said, and come back, father." Ling'er can't wait to fly to Ah Jue's side now.
"Can you go and your horse can run past the guards, I will send a guard to bring the words, but, don't you think this is Shi Jing's discordant plan?!" His Majesty the Emperor still felt that it was inappropriate, "Let's go back to the palace first, and think about it in the long run!" It's impossible for you to go to Northern Xinjiang! ”