Chapter 439: Choice
After so many years, Lian Jingxing's study is still neat and orderly, and it is obvious that someone has been cleaning it.
The shelves are full of books, and the bookcase is also covered with rice paper, and there is also pen and ink, as if waiting for the master to come back to write.
Shen Qiutan sighed in her heart, speaking of which even Jingxing and her father are old friends, how can you be polite when you meet the other party's wife and daughter, who knows that she will teach such an impossible daughter.
Shanfu's words are only one-sided words after all, and the news that Zhu Siwu got before was not so simple.
When this old man was here, he often said that he would find ten or eight men for his daughter to be wives, there is no reason for a man to have three wives and four concubines, and a woman should have three from four virtues, her daughter Lian Jingxing is naturally worthy of the best man in the world, how can one be?
She said so much that at that time, when she was too old and not too young, she kept it in her heart, and when she grew up, she put it into action.
That is, Lian Jingxing died early, otherwise how should he feel when he sees the daughter he recognized become what she is now?
Shen Qiutan roughly flipped through the books on the shelf, and the locked cabinets were all pried open, but except for some landscape notes, calligraphy, paintings, and literary plays, almost all of the rest were account books.
Shen Qiutan called Cardamom and Shannai to help her find it, and the three of them found it at dawn and didn't find anything useful.
On the contrary, there was news from Li Xuan's side.
These days, the army of King Qi is like a bamboo, and has captured Puban and Yongji, and is getting closer and closer to the capital.
At the same time, the three kings who rebelled in Shuzhong were beheaded, and the Yizhou capital city was re-hung with the two flags of "Li" and "King of Qi"; The rebels in Huainan were also taken down by Wang Chengzhu and the two brothers Lin An and Lin Yuan, and continued to wave their troops south to quell the chaos in Lingnan; As for Henan Province, which suffered the most disasters, suffered the most diseases, and the rebels claimed the most kings, they received medicines and food from Huainan, and when asked again, it was the king of Qi who spent several months and years of arrangement to pacify Huainan before he tried his best to send them over.
Now they are still only refugees, and most of them write about the old, weak, sick and disabled who cannot go to war, and even the rebels do not accept the existence.
Poorly clothed, hungry, sick, unable to run and unable to run, inseparable from it, only torture with no end in sight, many of them have been desperately waiting for death, who knows that there are still people thinking about them at this time?
Whether the medicines sent by King Qi are good or not, let's talk about it first, it is important to be able to temporarily fill the stomach.
When you have eaten enough, you will have the strength to explore whether those medicines can cure the disease.
King Qi's people came quickly, and as soon as they came, they went to the three areas with the most refugees, and when the refugees were full and even the medicine was used up, the anti-kings knew about the refugee area one after another, and as a result, when they went to check, King Qi's people had disappeared without a trace.
The anti-kings are everyone in danger, and King Qi, who is shameless, is enough to grab the territory, and he has not forgotten to brush up his reputation. He made such a play, and he didn't know how much verbal benefits he could earn.
But the one who can't sit still the most is the eldest princess of Changshou.
Others are waiting for the beginning of spring when they go out to fight, but this Li Xuan pulled out the camp after the autumn, and now it is the middle of winter, and he actually hit the gate of the capital.
Is it to fight for food and grass, who is more sufficient? Or is it to fight whose soldiers are more suitable for winter combat?
Changshou was anxious and angry, and her old nightmare was a little unsteady when she saw that her nightmare had come true.
In fact, she can't be blamed entirely, after all, she has been planning and enduring for decades, and what she planned was just to sit in that position, but what about after she sat down? She hadn't had time to think it through yet.
Seeing the Manchu Dynasty civil and military shrinking into quails one by one, she was even more angry: "Everyone has hit the door, you still call the palace to calm the anger, the anger, in addition to this, what else will you do?" ”
"The eldest princess is angry."
"Get out!" Changshou flipped the table.
The ministers retreated like birds and beasts, and the huge palace was empty in an instant, and the palace maids and eunuchs were cautious, for fear that they would make a little movement and cause murder.
The candle flame danced and danced, like a dance of silence.
I don't know how long it took for Changshou to sigh and find a chair to lean on.
Both the king of Chu and the king of Qi rebelled, and the king of Chu was not to be afraid, but what about the king of Qi? Sure enough, the dog that can bite people doesn't bark, Li Qi is here......
Looking at the mess all over the ground, Changshou has never felt as lonely as he did at this moment.
There was no one useful in the Manchu Dynasty, and her husband had always lived separately, and her daughter died, and the remaining son was unwilling to come back at this time.
Does he really, hatefully himself?
I heard that the Shen family, the princess of Naqi, has already given birth to three, and if you look at it again, whether it is the Da Liang family or the Xiao Liang family, they are not happy with their sons, let alone grandchildren, and they don't even have a granddaughter. Changshou sometimes thinks that if he had received the news of the secret guard, he would have asked Yang'er to accept the Shen family as a side room, would it be different?
"Shizi, haven't heard back yet?"
Wei Chun cautiously approached, bent over, and pondered: "The prince came back with a message, no matter what, Liangzhou cannot afford to be lost, he is willing to bury his bones in Liangzhou, in order to protect the peace of the country." ”
"Huh...... Huh, tranquility? Daning tranquility? Tranquility fart! Look at what the chaos is now, his mother is about to be cut by Li Xuan's little sick seedling, and he still has to guard Liangzhou? What if Liangzhou was breached? Why is the whole world suffering from war, everyone in the world is selfish, he still has to save these people, and even these people don't care about the old lady. ”
Wei Chun was silent, and he didn't dare to speak, only quietly glanced at Mama Lian, hoping that Mama Lian could persuade her.
Mama Lian gave him a look back and told him to shut up. At this time, I still want to speak, isn't it looking for death?
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The winter in Liangzhou is cold and long.
The heavy snowfall that came early and quickly buried the blood stains in the northwest along with the desolation, and the heavens and the earth were clean.
Xiao Yang, who had just returned from a battle, had a piercing gaze, and his whole person looked murderous, and it was becoming more and more difficult to approach.
Taking off his armor, he soaked himself in the bathtub, and the water wrapped his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and he felt a little relieved, and he missed his grandfather a little.
If it were a grandfather, how would you choose at this time?
The enemy is raging in front of him, and he is embattled behind him.
He guarded a gate, a city, an entrance, and guarded the devastation behind him.
Bang Bang Bang Bang ......
He floated out of the tub, raised his left hand and wiped a handful of water from his face, got up, dressed himself, and sat down in front of the bookcase.
In front of him was a pile of letters, all of which belonged to his mother, the eldest princess of Changshou, who wrote them by others at first, and the last few letters were written by herself, with tones ranging from orders to consultations to pleas, all of which were for him to lead the army back to the capital and relieve the siege of the capital.
There was already a thick pile of tiredness, and in stark contrast was another thin letter.
If you open it, you will find that there are only a few words on it, "You guard Liangzhou, I will settle the world", and the payment is Li Qi, the king of Qi.
Xiao Yang looked at it, brought the brazier over, and whoever wrote it threw it into the brazier together.
Xiao Yang's cheeks were flushed in the firelight, and the lines in the corners of his eyes were also deep and shallow in the firelight, and he looked at the firelight slightly.
This world is already full of holes, if you can settle the world, what if I keep a Liangzhou?
He put on his robe and prepared to convene the generals, and when he changed his clothes, he habitually carried a small sachet into his arms, although there was no fragrance in it.