Xue Huai smiled lightly: "Actually, I don't know if I can believe in the king, but right now, I have to fight - the same is true for the king, right?" ”

Su Linhuai's eyes were acquiescing. However, he still asked: "You have Hingtai as a guarantor, so you really haven't thought about forcing Gu to abdicate or waving his army south to seize Great Xia?" ”

Xue Huai: "I never wanted to take something that didn't belong to me. Not to mention other reasons, we have just passed. The North Court is the King's North Court, and that will not change. As for Great Xia," he smiled rather self-deprecatingly, "the soldiers who can be used by me at the moment are only in the Lingering Strait, and the total number is only 50,000, even if Great Xia only sends two generals from the Yue family to come, I am vulnerable." ”

is the truth, and it is also ordering Su Linhuai, don't think about taking the opportunity to take the opportunity to bear the burden with Great Xia at this time

Su Linhuai had affirmation in his eyes, and then said: "You have also heard of all kinds of performances in Yingtai Garden. He smiled knowingly, "You could have been obscure, but you have been made to do nothing, and you have worked hard." ”

Xue Huai only smiled: "The king praised it." ”

Su Linhuai looked into his eyes: "Your conditions? ”

Xue Huai also looked at him seriously: "Don't dare to ask too much, I hope that during the reign of the king, there will be no more war between Beiting and Great Xia." ”

Su Linhuai's eyes were condensed, obviously thinking deeply.

Eventually, he replied, "Lone promises you." ”

Xue Huai got up and walked to Su Linhuai and knelt down, bowed deeply, and said almost reverently: "May the king be healthy and live a long life." ”

Sure enough, not long after they finished talking, the eldest princess's people came to call Xue Huai to leave. Su Linhuai and Xue Huai discussed the chess path in front of Wai Rao, and there was some unfinished blessing, Su Linhuai rewarded Xue Huai with some ancient chess books and jade chess sets, and agreed to play again next time.

Back in Yingtai Garden, Xue Huai went to visit Yingtai Qiang first according to the usual rules of returning from the palace, and still had to report everything in detail, even what the king used to eat today. After listening carefully, Yingtaiqiang said: "This Ahuai doesn't know what he wants to do, he always invites you to play chess, and there are no other actions, like wooing you, and like a temptation, but there is always no next move, which is even more worrying." ”

Xue Huai said lightly: "The king loves chess and studies it hard, and there are no attendants and playmates of the same age around him. ”

Yingtai Qiang thought for a moment and said with a smile: "In this case, if I send some kabuki and cockfighting polo dice into the palace to relieve his boredom, I probably won't always look for you." ”

Xue Huai didn't answer, his expression was still faint.

Yingtaiqiang looked at him and said with concern: "Recently, the weather has become warmer, and there are a lot of new good materials in the garden, so someone will tailor a few more sets for you." ”

Xue Huai: "Thank you. ”

Yingtai Qiang said again: "The Yue Ke family in Great Xia is about to get married, and the wedding date is set at the beginning of summer. She carefully observed his expression, "General Guiying is the main promoter of peace between the two countries, according to the courtesy, we should send a generous gift, you, what should you give?" ”

Xue Huai's expression did not change, and replied: "Whatever she wants, she will give it." ”

Yingtai Qiang smiled and quipped, "Then shouldn't I send you over?" ”

Xue Huaiyin's hand under the sleeve tube was clenched, and there was no wave on his face.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Yingtai Qiang felt a little bored, and said stupidly: "She has more than fifty heads in her house, and she wants to marry someone else, but you don't even want to accept a concubine?" ”

Xue Huai smiled shallowly, with a slightly indifferent look of "the Tao is different, not conspiring with each other", and said: "How she is, it has nothing to do with whether I accept concubines. ”

Yingtai Qiang laughed mockingly: "Didn't you guard her like a jade?" I don't believe your. ”

Xue Huai was still faint: "It's useless." ”

There was already anger in Yingtaiqiang's eyes, but her tone was still gentle: "Jing Xuan, if you grew up in the palace of Xi Kingdom, you should have one or two children at this time, why do you have to suffer so much?" You can't possibly be with that general, don't you know that? If you succeed, you must exterminate the Yue family to eliminate the hatred of the betrayal of the Xi people, and severely punish the rebellious power with the new monarch, if you are defeated, you will stay in the north court forever to be an idle royal family, and it is impossible to have anything to do with the enemy general! ”

Xue Huai's eyes were a little tired, as if he was unwilling to have this kind of conversation again. However, he was not angry, he didn't even have a disdainful expression, and his tone was still as calm as water: "First, there is no if, and I don't feel self-suffering; Second, no matter whether it is successful or not, there is no need for outsiders to know how the relationship between me and her will progress in the future. ”

Yingtai Qiang was really annoyed: "I'm an outsider? I am your mother! ”

Xue Huai: "Between the two identities of the eldest princess and my mother, if you can only choose one, what do you choose, mother?" ”

Yingtai Qiang was stunned for a moment, frowned and said: "These two identities are not contradictory, why do you choose?" ”

Xue Huai: "What if there is a contradiction? ”

There was a moment of surprise for her, as if this kind of question had been asked to her a long time ago. It's just that the question at that time was: "Choose between the concubine of Xi Guo and the princess of the northern court, what do you choose?" ”

The person who questioned her was the cousin of the king of Beiting and Yingtaiqiang at the time, and the man who personally sent her and kissed.

She still remembers that she proudly replied, "Of course she is the princess of the North Court, and she will always be the princess of the North Court", which won the favor of the king.

And now?

She didn't know how to choose, but she clearly realized that she was not willing to be just a spare mother.

She was so used to the thrill of being in power that she couldn't tolerate the loss of that feeling.

So she stared at Xue Huai, and suddenly smiled: "You can ask such a thing, it shows that the power I give you is still not enough." When you have tasted the feeling of being in power, you will never give up lightly. ”

Xue Huai smiled indignantly: "He is already a Condor general with a heavy army, how can he go to the next level?" ”

Yingtai Qiang smiled and said, "This is the game between me and the king." I only hope that when you begin to worry about the power in your hands, you will tell me clearly and clearly, lest I always wonder if you will do something against the throne. ”

Xue Huai smiled kindly: "If there is that, you must tell me." ”

Haunting Taiqiang was a little comforted, but also a little lost.

She doesn't know how to get close to this son, and she doesn't seem to be able to get close, and she has to work hard to get close to him, especially in front of outsiders, she must be a mother and son filial piety, cherish and renew the relationship between mother and son.

It's just that she herself knows very well that the mother-son relationship that has been reunited halfway is like the light glass and the strange rainbow after the rain, which is fragile and easy to disperse.

She recalled the time when she had just fled back to Beiting from Xi Kingdom, and she didn't know how many people she had been, how many people had despised her, and with a breath of anger and unwillingness in her chest, she had survived all the way to the present, becoming the head of the clan and a veritable regent eldest princess. She always thought that she had an excellent deck of cards, as long as she took them out, she could kill the Quartet and help her reputation, but she didn't expect that this card might have been hidden too deep for too long, and the dust was so deep that she couldn't recognize it.

She was a little abrupt, and a little embarrassed for many years. It seems that during the many nights in the deep palace of Xi Guo in those years, she sighed that if she didn't have the identity of the princess of Beiting, she could reach the high position of the concubine, I am afraid that she would not even be as good as a palace maid.

She hates embarrassment and helplessness.

She had made a vow never to allow herself to experience this despair again.

It's just that she watched her son's back as she retreated and walked out, and this feeling still invaded her, like maggots attached to her bones, lingering.