The tactical layout of this battle was agreed upon by Lu You and several generals a long time ago, but there are accidents in everything, let alone war, so Lu You is also nervous.

It may be that the other party is really defenseless, first, I didn't think that Da Zhou would sneak attack on Chinese New Year's Eve, and second, I didn't think that people would fall from the sky, so the first batch of soldiers who entered the city quickly killed the Khitan soldiers who were still asleep guarding the city with crossbows in their hands, thus opening the city gate.

In this battle, Da Zhou once again defeated the Khitan, not only that, but also captured several Khitan generals, including a first-class general.

After dawn, Lu You sat in the garrison office in Baozhou City and wrote a letter to the emperor and Yan Yan, and then ordered someone to fly a pigeon to pass the book into Beijing.

Yan Yan only learned the news of Baozhou's repossession when he entered the palace on the second day of the Lunar New Year to pay New Year's greetings to the Queen Mother and the Emperor.

Coincidentally, Lu You had just taken Baozhou back, and there was also good news that Lu Ming had taken back the state, and Lu Ming had also captured a second-rank general.

Now Li Cong also has a bargaining chip to negotiate with the Khitan, and the first-rank general can be exchanged for Lu Duan with a second-rank general, and the Khitan prince and the two Zhou family heads can still be detained for the time being.

To Yan Yan's surprise, this time the Khitan happily agreed to the quid pro quo.

When the news came, Yan Yan seemed to understand Zhou Lu's true intentions, he didn't want to exchange this Khitan prince back at all, so when he caught Lu Duan, he proposed to exchange the Khitan prince and the two heads of the Zhou family, knowing that Da Zhou did not agree to this condition, he still proposed to add another Yan Yan a few months later, which shows that his purpose is never to promote this matter, but just to show outsiders.

In this way, Yan Yan is somewhat sure of Zhou Lu's identity as the Khitan prince, and he must be running to the Khitan dragon chair, will such a person be her traveling companion?

Yan Yan still doesn't know.

Lu Duan returned to Beijing at the end of February, he was already injured when he was arrested, and he has been locked in a cell by the other party for half a year, so his physical condition is very bad.

After Lu Duan returned to the capital, he saw his mother and wife, and before he could talk in detail, the emperor sent someone to take him into the palace.

After coming out of the palace and returning to Lu's house, Lu Duan called Mrs. Lu, Zhu, and Yan Yu together, drove the people in the house away, and then began to interrogate the beginning and end of this private affair case.

Lu Duan interrogated Yan Yu first, and asked her how she made a private agreement with Lu Ming for life, how the two came together, and how Yan Yan calculated.

Yan Yu didn't want to speak, but when he saw the anger on Lu Duan's face that couldn't be hidden, and Lu Duan had already entered the palace to see the emperor, he must not be able to hide it.

So, Yan Yu spoke, from Lu Ming to the Yan family, he talked about a few of their sisters and brothers as private schools, saying that in addition to teaching them, Lu Ming would also teach them to write poems and paint, and also comment on their poems and paintings.

Once, Yan Yu suddenly had a whim and wanted to tease Lu Ming, so he deliberately took Yan Yan's poetry manuscript and mixed it with his own to meet Lu Ming, wanting to hear Lu Ming's true evaluation of Yan Yan.

Seeing that Lu Ming admired Yan Yan's talent very much, but was a little disdainful of his paintings and poems, Yan Yu lied to him angrily and said that the good ones were hers, and the bad ones were Yan Yan and Yan Tong.

Lu Mingxin thought it was true, and from then on, the way she looked at her was really different from others, and the two often discussed some poems and paintings together, and unconsciously, the relationship between the two became closer.

"I'm asking how the two of you make a private decision for life, who spoke first?" Lu Duan blew his beard and asked with a glare.

"It was my husband who hinted at me first, saying that it was a pity that creation made people. So, we agreed to find each of our own mothers and see if there was any way to fulfill us... ”

Zhu couldn't help but interject when he heard this, "Nonsense, I heard Ming'er say that you were pestering him, and he couldn't do it, so he came to me." ”

"No, I didn't pester him, the two of us are really happy with each other, so I want to ask the adults to fulfill it, but my mother said that this family affair is made by the queen mother, and there is no possibility of retreating. Yan Yu saw that the Zhu family pushed the responsibility on her, so she was not polite.

"Master, what happened is this, after Ming'er told me about this, I took into account Yan Yan's eight characters and life experience, and I was indeed a little unhappy, so I moved my mind to fulfill them. Besides, when things have developed to this point, I am also worried that the Yan family will ask Ming'er for the crime, and if it spreads, Ming'er's reputation will be ruined, so I have to agree to the request of my in-laws. Zhu argued.

"Hmph, I'm afraid you've been thinking about how to retire this family business for a long time, right? Don't you just want to say that Dalang's daughter-in-law can't help Erlang without a father and mother? Lu Duan snorted coldly.

He still knows a lot about this wife, and he has a little ability, but his vision is not high, and he has a fatal flaw, greed for money.

The reason why she didn't want Lu Duan to give birth to any concubines over the years was because she was afraid that these concubines would be divided into the Lu family's furniture, so when she was pregnant with Lu Han, she ordered someone to put Lu You in a small courtyard and let him fend for himself.

Later, I saw that I gave birth to a daughter and injured my body, and I couldn't get pregnant anymore in the future, so I released Lu You.

After that, although Lu Duan had two more concubines, he never had a concubine, not because he was incompetent, but because the Zhu family was moving behind him.

Later, in order to prevent future troubles, the Zhu family simply poured a bowl of decoction medicine into each of those concubines.

Therefore, Lu Duan guessed that his wife didn't look down on Yan Yan only because he was afraid that there was another reason, Yan Yan's dowry was too thin, and the orphan who had no father and mother had a little dowry left by her mother at best, and the Yan family had a lot of fields and shops in the hands of Mrs. Yan in those years, so she didn't need to ask to know that Yan Yu's worth was definitely much thicker than Yan Yan.

"For the sake of your diligent housekeeping for the Lu family over the years, let's separate." Lu Duan closed his eyes after saying this.

Husband and wife for more than 20 years, it is a lie to say that there is no relationship at all, and another point, the Zhu family has indeed paid a lot for the Lu family over the years, at least the Lu family's industry has returned to the heyday of the Lu family, which the Zhu family has contributed to.

Another point, Lu Duan has been on the battlefield several times, and the old and young of this family are all left to the Zhu family to take care of, aside from Lu You and those concubines and concubines who did not survive, the Zhu family still has a lot of commendable things over the years, so Lu Duan can't make a move to divorce his wife.