Chapter 490: The Coming Storm (2)
The queen mother's sentence "forever" is reassuring and heart-wrenching.
She would stay in the palace and continue their time together. However, she will always be his sister, his relative, not his woman!
Changsheng's thin lips pursed vigorously, revealing a look that seemed to be smiling but not smiling. "Erchen understands."
This is an extraordinary time, and Meng Xilan has to wake him up again. No matter where she is, she is just his sister.
Changsheng turned around and walked back into the night. At the same time, Shen Dan was already standing on the steps outside the Heart Cultivation Palace, waiting for him to come back. She waited and waited, and finally saw a line of palace lights slowly coming in the distance.
She pursed her lips and smiled, and followed briskly down the steps.
Changsheng was still in a trance, and when he saw her coming forward, his eyebrows moved slightly.
"Your Highness, you're back." Shen Dan stood in front of it, with a sweet smile on his face.
Under the dim lantern, her smile looked a little glaring.
Shen Dan looked at him with a smile, and when he saw that the prince had a calm face, he lowered his head a little bit with a smile.
If you think about it, she has been with him for two months.
"I heard that His Highness still has to stay up late to read the excerpts, so the slave maid ordered the imperial dining room to make some of His Highness's favorite snacks."
She followed him, following closely, following in unison.
Changsheng looked at those delicate and small dim sums, and frowned slightly: "I have never liked dim sum." ”
Shen Dan was slightly stunned when he heard this, and only said: "But the slave maid heard about ......"
The prince's living habits, she was familiar with it early on. His three meals a day are set according to the imperial dining room, and snacks are indispensable every day.
Osmanthus cream and snowflakes are his favorites.
Changsheng said lightly: "This is all worry-free. ”
He called her by name, and his tone was full of melancholy.
Shen Dan's expression changed slightly, he lowered his head again, and asked hesitantly: "The slave maid heard that General Chu has won a big victory. Her Royal Highness the Princess...... Are you coming back? ”
When Changsheng saw her ask about this, he suddenly remembered the two words "forever" that his mother had just said.
Shen Dan saw him frowning, so he took a step back and said, "Your Highness atoned for your sins, and the slave asked what you shouldn't say." As if she was afraid that he would be angry, she turned around and pointed to the moon outside the window and said, "Your Highness, you see that there is a beautiful moon tonight." ”
Changsheng didn't even look out the window, his eyes still fell on her, and he silently withdrew it after half a sound.
The worry-free return, the worries of the queen mother, and the long battle situation in Cangzhou are enough to make his heart mixed and unable to distinguish between the ups and downs.
Because of Chu Jingchuan's victory, the imperial court was relieved of the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy.
When Zhou Youchen learned of this, he also had doubts in his heart, but he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and he became more and more determined to exterminate Zhou Youlong.
The timely arrival of backup made a significant change in the situation of the war.
Zhou Youlong thought that as long as he held Cangzhou City, he would be able to resist the onslaught of the imperial court. But he didn't expect that without the Turkic attack, his alone power would not be able to confront the imperial court at all.
According to the current situation, he can hold on for ten days at most, and after ten days, there will be chaos in the city.
Zhou Youchen changed his previous resoluteness, patience, and began to besiege the city. He wants to let Zhou Youlong come out and surrender by himself, and let Zhou Youlong come out and die without wasting a single soldier!
The battle of the trapped beasts will only make the people in the city more uneasy.
Zhou Youlong has only been the emperor for 100 days, and he has no confidence in his heart. Since, I learned that the imperial court sent troops, and it was Zhou Youchen who drove the expedition in person.
Just when Zhou Youchen was full of confidence and was ready to wait for the rabbit, there was an urgent report from the capital.
It was a handwritten letter written by Meng Xilan to him. There are only a few lines on it, which means that he should make a quick decision and return to Beijing immediately.
Zhou Youchen grabbed the letter in his hand, looked at it again and again, folded it, and put it back on the table.
His fingertips tapped lightly on the tabletop, his heart secretly tangled.
He promised Meng Xilan that he would understand all this as soon as possible. However, things did not go so smoothly. Zhou Youlong's strength is exhausted, and he must take him down in one go.
It's almost July, and it's the hardest time of the year.
Chu Jingchuan returned to Beijing with no worries all the way, in order to take care of her body, he did not travel day and night, but chose a relatively comfortable waterway.
Without the toss of cars and horses, the worry-free tire gas is still stable.
But along the way, the worry-free mood is a little depressed.
Chu Jingchuan didn't know how to comfort her, she was pregnant with a child, and her body was naturally hard, but more, she was still uneasy in her heart.
Wuwu asked Chu Jingchuan more than once, in what capacity does she want to go back? Chu Jingchuan always looked at her with a serious expression: "Of course, it is as your royal princess." ”
In his eyes, she only has this layer of identity.
Worry-free listened to it, and his heart was very heavy. Did my uncle forget it on purpose? She is now also Tudu's wife...... The concubine of the Turks.
The closer to the capital, the more sad the worry-free heart is. She washes her face with tears almost every day, and even when she sleeps, she still has a little tears in the corners of her eyes.
Chu Jingchuan saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, and one day he couldn't look past it and talk to her.
"Don't worry, why are you crying like this? Is there anything in your heart that you can't let go? ”
He couldn't understand where her grief came from. In the matter of kissing, for her and the Chu family, there is only humiliation and grievance.
Wuwu lowered his head and stroked his stomach, and said quietly: "Uncle, this is my child with the Great Khan." This child can't live without a father......"
Tu Du is indeed not her destined person, but they are already husband and wife. And she was also pregnant with his flesh and blood, she thought that things would take a turn for the better, but she didn't expect that what was waiting for would be a great change.
Chu Jingchuan said calmly: "This child, although he is the bloodline of Tudu, he will never have anything to do with them in this life. When you return to the capital, you still have to go back to live in the palace. Then this child ......" His tone hesitated slightly, and continued: "He is only your child, and he is and will be. ”
Hearing this, Wuwu looked at Chu Jingchuan sadly, his lips trembled slightly: "It shouldn't be like this...... Are they father and son, will they never be seen forever? ”
"Don't worry, everything you sacrificed for Beiyan will not be in vain. Uncle will get justice for you! Chu Jingchuan saw that there were tears in her eyes, and he couldn't bear to look at her, so he only turned his head to the side.
Worry-free looked at him: "I don't want justice, I just want ......"
In the middle of her words, she suddenly stopped, clenched her slender hands into fists, and said secretly: "Uncle, what if I say I want to go back......
As soon as these words came out, Chu Jingchuan's whole person was shocked. The expression on his face is not as simple as an accident!
"What did you say?"
Wu Wu bit his lower lip hard, and said in a deep voice, "I said I wanted to go back." ”
Chu Jingchuan's eyes turned sharp all of a sudden, extremely sharp, and he couldn't wait to pierce her heart to see what was going on.
He stood up suddenly, accidentally brushed the cup in his hand, fell to the ground, and shattered all over the ground.
"What are you going back to do? Continue to stay in that claustrophobic mansion and continue to live that life under house arrest? What kind of wolf ambition is that Tu Du, he forced you to marry you in the first place, but did he treat you well? ”
Chu Jingchuan was emotional, anxious and angry.
Why does she not understand self-love so much? Tu Du is a black-hearted thief, he will do whatever it takes to snatch everything he wants.
Carefree took a deep breath and said, "Da Khan treats me very well. ”
When Chu Jingchuan heard her say this, he felt that his chest was even more congested.
He slammed the table and said, "Don't worry, you can't go back." ”
Wuwu held his stomach and stood up with difficulty: "When I return to Beijing and see my mother, I still have to go back." ”
Chu Jingchuan shook his head again: "Impossible." You are now a traitor in the eyes of the Turks! ”
This sentence suddenly made a cool wind blow in the carefree heart.
"The map you carried in that letter to me. I was able to win big this time because of that map. ”
Chu Jingchuan used the cruel reality to shatter her soft-heartedness.
"I don't know, I didn't know." When Carefree said this,
Tears rolled down.
Chu Jingchuan looked at her, turned around and said, "Don't worry, you take a good look at all this." The struggle for power has never allowed for the private feelings of children. ”
He left the words and wanted to leave the cabin.
Wu Wu suddenly remembered one thing, and asked, "Then where is Wu Mingshi now?" ”
"He's in the aft compartment, with half his life left."
He was thinking about worry-free, so he let him survive until now.
Carefree spoke up again: "I want to see him!" ”
Chu Jingchuan frowned at him, thought for a moment before saying, "Wait for me to arrange it." ”
Wu Mingshi is now haggard, and the whole person is so thin that he has lost his appearance, and only a pair of skin and bones remains.
By the time the soldiers came to talk to him, he had no strength to walk.
Chu Jingchuan looked at him coldly, and ordered his subordinates to bathe him and change his clothes, and not let him look like this to see Her Royal Highness the Princess.
Wu Mingshi didn't expect that he would still be able to see Chu Jingchuan, he looked at him with half-squinted eyes, opened his mouth, and then spat on the ground.
"Bold, you dare to be disrespectful to the general!" Someone shouted, but Chu Jingchuan waved his hand indifferently.
He came to Wu Mingshi and looked at him with a calm face: "If you want to see you, you'd better be honest, otherwise, I'm afraid you won't be able to save your life in the capital." ”
Wu Mingshi grinned, gray-headed, and dejected. "Villain! I thought that your Chu family was full of loyal martyrs, I respected you as a true hero, but I didn't expect you to be villains......"
Knowing this, he should have done nothing, didn't think about anything, and wholeheartedly assisted the Great Khan to help him achieve great things.
Chu Jingchuan saw that he still had the strength to scold himself, so he smiled coldly: "What a hero? I, Chu Jingchuan, have lived a bright and upright life, but I never regard myself as a gentleman. You know why? ”
Wu Mingshi glared at him, his whole body tensed, and he didn't say anything.
"A murderer, how can he be a gentleman? Everyone says that I, Chu Jingchuan, am the god of war in Beiyan, but I don't know how many people I have killed...... Killing with all hands, how can you talk about heroes? What a joke! ”