In King Ning's Mansion, the atmosphere was very serious.

In the middle of the night last night, Yan Qingge received a secret letter from Le Yi, which was still sent by an ordinary-looking barbarian who couldn't be found in the pile.

After only reading a few lines, Yan Qingge covered his chest in shock.

The emperor died, and this letter was sent by Le Yi to Yan Qingge before he secretly helped the coffin back to Beijing. Counting the time, now Le Yi is already on the way.

Now that the spring is blooming and the temperature is getting higher and higher day by day, even if the coffin is filled with lime and other embalming things, it is still necessary to send the emperor's body to the capital as soon as possible to bury it. Therefore, it is impossible for Le Yi to have time to send another letter to Yan Qingge on the road.

Counting the time, even if the person who sent the letter to Yan Qingge was faster, the current Le Yi should be able to reach the capital in ten days at the latest.

In the letter, he instructed Yan Qingge to prepare to leave the capital, and once he arrived in the capital, he would immediately hand over the appointment of the emperor's handwritten letter, and Yan Xiuyu and Yan Qingge's family would immediately go to Qingzhou.

They have been preparing for various matters to go to Qingzhou since last winter, and they have nothing to prepare for a long time. This day finally came, and Yan Qingge was excited.

Yan Xiuyu's face was solemn, he looked at Yan Qingge, and suddenly said, "Qingge, can I take Shen'er, Aman, and Wan'er to my brother's place." After all, once we went and came back, I don't know what year or month, I heard Wan'er say that she and Ling'er had a good time. No matter what conflicts we have with our brother and sister-in-law, I hope it will not affect the children. ”

Since Yan Xiuyu returned to King Ning's Mansion, he heard about what happened to Yan Qingge before, in order to accommodate Yan Qingge, he really didn't go back to the Yan family in the suburbs again, and even the gifts to be given during the New Year's Festival were all personally mentioned by Yan Qingge to prepare, and he definitely didn't say half a word about the Yan family.

The husband did this kind of work, even if Yan Qingge had been wronged before, he would have forgiven the Yan family because of Yan Xiuyu in his heart.

Her husband can do so much for her, so she naturally has to repay the favor and be generous.

"Okay, then I'll tell the kids to pack up and salute, and you can take them back to live for a while. Shen'er hasn't gone over there yet, and you're asking people to keep an eye on it. Yan Qingge said. She didn't plan to go back this time, so as not to be unhappy when she saw the eldest princess of Roufu, so she wouldn't have wronged herself.

Yan Xiuyu is a big man, he is better than her with children, and she is still childlike, she can play with the children, and she is relieved to hand over the children to her.

When Yan Xiuyu left with the children, Yan Qingge's surroundings suddenly became clear, and he actually felt a little lonely. They had only been gone for less than half a day, and Yan Qingge thought that their intestines hurt.

But she endured it, because she still had a lot of things to do, and the first thing was to see Ruyi.

In the past, she hinted at Ruyi and asked her to ask the Cao family if Ning Wangfu moved to Qingzhou at home, if the Cao family would be willing to go with her. The left and right Cao family is like this now, if Yan Xiuyu becomes a Qingzhou guard, although Cao Yu's reputation is degraded, his white body does not affect being a soldier, with Yan Xiuyu watching, Cao Yan's ability is also good, and he will soon be a good officer.

At that time, Ruyi meant that it was all up to Yan Qingge to make the decision, Yan Qingge went to Qingzhou, she also went to Qingzhou, and she was the one who supported the Cao family now, and her mother-in-law and Cao Yan listened to her everything.

Sitting in the carriage, Yan Qingge came to the place where the Cao family now lives.

Although it is in the outer city, the environment is quiet, and the surrounding areas are rich families, but it is not much worse than the inner city.

If Yan Qingge came in person, he hurriedly greeted him: "What's wrong with the eldest lady?" Something tells me to come over, you are pregnant, don't run around. ”

"I'm bored at home, and the children have gone to the suburbs with Brother Yu, so I'm here to sit here." Yan Qingge said to Xunshuang and Xue who were waiting for Ruyi: "You go and watch the door, I have something to say to your sister Ruyi." ”

Only Ruyi and Yan Qingge were left in the house, and Yan Qingge said bluntly: "I told you to prepare last year and leave for Qingzhou at any time, and now that I have a letter, this matter will soon be put on the agenda." How's it going for you? ”

Ruyi's face was full of surprise. Cao Yan was very supportive of going to Qingzhou and starting again from the barracks, and after knowing about this, his spirits were much more uplifted. It's just that Yan Qingge hasn't given feedback, and they can't urge it, in fact, the Cao family can't wait for a long time.

Only Ruyi sometimes thinks that his child is still young, and he is afraid that he can't stand the bumps on the road, so he will feel that it will be too late.

"Miss, we've been ready for a long time." Ruyi smiled: "Since Cao Yan started last year, he has worshiped his master to practice martial arts, and now he can't get close to three or five big men when he is idle." At home, he reads military books when he is free, and when he goes, he will never embarrass the young lady and the little prince. ”

Yan Qingge knew that Cao Yan was a usable person, and a person like Cao Yan, as long as he was given a chance, he would definitely shine, and he couldn't help but nod: "Very good!" ”

Since there is no problem here, Yan Qingge is relieved, she talks to Ruyi for a while, and then goes home.

After three or five days like this, Yan Qingge couldn't hold back any longer, and couldn't even care about the dislike between herself and the eldest princess of Roufu, she just wanted to go to the Yan family's Zhuangzi to see Yan Xiuyu and the children, but she had to endure it hard, so she barely endured it.

endured it until about ten days, Yan Qingge couldn't bear it anymore, and asked the maid to pack her luggage, she must go to Yan Xiuyu, not only to find him, but also to lose her temper with him.

Obviously he knew that his uncle was going to enter Beijing soon, and he knew that she couldn't do without him, and she wouldn't come back as soon as she went out, did the Yan family make him so happy, she was so wronged!

Just when Yan Qingge kept fantasizing about how to be coquettish with Yan Xiuyu when he saw him, Forsythia hurriedly ran in and said, "Niangniang, someone has sent a letter again." ”

Yan Qingge's feverish brain calmed down slightly.

If it is an ordinary prayer post, Forsythia and the rest of the maids will help her screen and stop it, and what can be delivered to her is a very important letter.

When he opened the letter and read it, Yan Qingge's heart became cold.

This letter was still written by Le Yi, he was almost in the capital, but he inexplicably encountered a bandit and surrounded the group, and they had sent someone to the capital for help. But Le Yi was thoughtful, and when he checked the body of a bandit who was killed by them, he found that he knew this person.

That person is a son of a small aristocratic family in the capital, and has been serving as a Praetorian Guard in the capital. Le Yi and this person's father went on a scientific expedition in the same year, and his father once took his child to meet Le Yi. Le Yi has a strong memory and will never recognize the wrong person.

Originally, Le Yi wondered why there were such powerful bandits so close to the capital, but it was only at this time that he understood that they were deliberately stopped by someone to prevent him from escorting the emperor's coffin back to Beijing.

It was not easy for him to send someone to break through and send this letter to Yan Qingge, telling them not to worry when they got the news, because according to him now, this group of Praetorian Guards pretending to be bandits had no intention of killing them at all, they just wanted to trap them.

There are still those who can mobilize the Praetorian Guards in the capital, except for the crown prince, there is no one else.

Yan Qingge couldn't figure out why the prince did this. Could it be that it is better to be the crown prince when he ascends the throne and becomes the emperor?

In Chuxiu Palace, the prince sat in front of the desk, his thin lips pursed into a line.

"And pro?" He muttered, his eyes full of playfulness, playing with the note in his hand.

Although the fool of the fourth prince is dead, the harm is endless.

He didn't know where he learned that the emperor in the palace was a fake emperor, and the real emperor was the Qingzhou guard, and he told the barbarians on the grassland about it.

No wonder those barbarians have been attacking the Qingzhou camp more and more vigorously since last year.

As soon as the emperor died, those barbarians immediately knew, and not only captured several cities in Qingzhou, but also sent envoys to the capital to deliver letters.

They demanded that the crown prince give the whole of Qingzhou to the barbarians, respect the current leader of the barbarians, King Lüyan, as the emperor of the northern kingdom, form a brotherhood with the Great Zhou, and marry a princess of the Great Zhou to King Lüyan as the queen. At the same time, it is necessary to open up the mutual markets between the two countries and return the barbarians who have been scattered and resettled in various parts of the Great Zhou......

If Da Zhou agrees, they will send congratulatory gifts when the prince ascends the throne and officially becomes the emperor, giving the prince enough face to show that the prince has recovered the four seas and is a generation of Ming monarchs.

If Da Zhou does not agree, they will immediately press the territory with large troops, and reproduce the beautiful scene of the barbarian army entering Beijing again, so as to give the prince who is about to ascend the throne a powerful taste.

Looking at the conditions listed on the list, a contemptuous smile appeared on the prince's face.

Relying on these barbarians themselves, they would never have been able to come up with these terms and conditions, and these were all the result of those Great Zhou rebels who defected to the barbarians to give advice to the barbarians.

These people are really greedy and can't swallow elephants!

However, he did want to ascend the throne smoothly.

Anyway, what is written on the list is clear, as long as the prince marries a princess of the Great Zhou as a hostage first, then the barbarian will treat the prince as if the prince agrees to the conditions, and after the prince ascends the throne, he will fulfill the rest of the promises, then, he might as well give it a try.

Anyway, there is still a princess in the palace who has only been married!

Although the matter of Kang Susheng was very big last time, and it had something to do with Qianning, the prince had no impression of Qianning's younger sister, and he hadn't seen her for more than ten years.

"Xuan Xining went to the side hall of Chuxiu Palace." The prince gave the order to go down, and he had a plan in his heart.

Although he knew that after he officially ascended the throne, he still had to clean up the barbarians, and when the time came, Qian Ning who married him would inevitably be killed by the angry barbarians, but for the sake of his brother's plan, Qian Ning would definitely accept this sacrifice. As a royal daughter, from the moment she was born, she must have this awareness.

The prince stood up nonchalantly, packed up his clothes, and slowly walked out of the study, thinking about the next plan step by step.

On the eldest prince's side, the people he sent out have already arrived, and things must have come to a good end. As long as the barbarians are temporarily pacified here, the trapped Le Yi can release them.

As soon as the emperor's coffin arrives, it will be the time for him to reign in the world!

For a while, the prince's heart was extremely refreshed, his thin palm was clenched in the void, and a rare smile appeared at the corner of his lips.

...

(Tianjin)