Chapter 246: Retreat
The Dayue capital, which is thousands of miles away from the imperial city of Dashun, is also full of lights. [Ran^Text^Library] []. [774] [buy]. [com]
In the Dongming Palace, the palace banquet that Mrs. Wen, Mrs. Miao, and Liu Zhaorong worked together to take care of began at three o'clock in the unitary hour.
Although the border pass has not started a serious battle, the armies of the two sides have been facing each other for four months. Therefore, the concubines at the palace banquet were all frightened and cautious.
Even the musicians who played the silk and bamboo did not dare to pluck the high notes.
Emperor Jianning sat on the main seat, with no smile on his face, looking at the concubines sitting below who were detaining the cups and changing the lamps, without a trace of joy.
After drinking a glass of wine, Emperor Jianning pointed to the dancing girls on the high platform and said, "The dance is good." ”
Mrs. Miao raised the corners of her mouth and echoed, "Yes, I heard that this year's teaching workshop has changed to a new teaching mama, and it does look different from before." ”
Qing Xiuyi, who was sitting beside Mrs. Miao, also nodded and said, "The emperor and Sister Miao haven't said it, and the concubines haven't found out yet, but now that I say it, I really think that today's dancers are all aura." ”
Mrs. Wen leaned forward, glanced at Tao Niangzi in the distance, and said with a smile, "What is Tao Niangzi doing, isn't she drunk?" ”
Mrs. Wen's words successfully attracted the attention of several people to Tao Niangzi in the distance.
Tao Niangzi wore some light blue palace clothes today, with a low bun and not many hair accessories. At this time, the jade face was slightly red, his eyes were hazy and drunk, and he was holding two small pearls with a pair of silver chopsticks in his hand.
The pearl is small and round, and when Tao Niangzi clamps it hard, the pearl slides to the side, and then clips it, and slips again.
Tao Niangzi was not annoyed, and took the silver chopsticks to clip it over and over again, and the smile on her face did not diminish at all.
Seeing this, Mrs. Miao raised her head slightly, the steps on her bun swayed slightly, she looked at Tao Niangzi with a sneer on the corner of her mouth, and asked, "Tao Niangzi, but you are drunk?" ”
Tao Niangzi raised her head slightly, looked at Mrs. Miao and said with a smile, "The concubine is not drunk......
After that, he lowered his head again, and took the silver chopsticks like a child to clip the pearl in front of him.
"Since Tao Niangzi is drunk, go back and rest." Wen Chongyuan proposed coldly, and her heart was full of disdain for Tao Niangzi.
Tao Niangzi was not favored by Emperor Jianning at first, but then somehow, she acted a little more like Mrs. Zhaoyue.
In just three months, she has risen from a small maid to the position of a lady.
"If you are not drunk, then come to the main palace." Mrs. Wen stretched out her hand to Mrs. Tao and smiled, "Come, come here." ”
After Zhen Ronghua glanced at Emperor Jianning on the main throne, he turned back to look at Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Tao, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Tao Niangzi bit her lip and said to Emperor Jianning, "The concubine will not go." ”
Emperor Jianning raised his eyebrows and drank the wine and tea lightly.
"Your Majesty, this whole palace is spinning around." Tao Niangzi raised her finger and pointed at the temple, frowned and said, "It's all turning, and the concubine is dizzy." ”
The people sitting next to Tao Niangzi covered their mouths and chuckled, slightly breaking the stiff atmosphere at the palace banquet.
"Tao Niangzi, this is drunk." Yun Ronghua, who was sitting not far from Tao Niangzi, poured herself a glass of wine, raised her beautiful eyes and said, "Let's go and rest." ”
"Your Majesty, the concubine is not drunk." Tao Niangzi didn't pay attention to Yun Ronghua's words, but looked at Emperor Jianning Jiaojiao, "Don't believe it, the concubine will prove it to you." ”
As he spoke, he staggered to his feet with the hand of the palace maid, shook his slender waist and swayed back and forth a few times.
She glanced up at Emperor Jianning, took the hand of the palace maid and walked out of her seat, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, you see, the concubines are not drunk, that is, the sisters are shaking, and the concubines are so faint......"
"Hurry up and help Tao Niangzi here." Mrs. Wen said to the palace maid who was holding Tao Niangzi.
Tao Niangzi looked at the road under her feet with wide eyes, facing Mrs. Wen with her face, but she was slowly approaching Emperor Jianning.
Just as she was about to walk in front of Emperor Jianning's table, Ning Xiao suddenly ran in from outside, saluted Emperor Jianning and said, "Your Majesty, Miss Xie Ruyu of the Xie family asks to see you." ”
"Who?" Emperor Jianning took his eyes off Tao Niangzi's body, doubting in his heart.
"Xie Ruyu." Ning Xiao said word by word, "General Xie's granddaughter Xie Ruyu asks to see you." ”
"She ......" Emperor Jianning narrowed his eyes, Xie Ruyu had been in Dashun for two years, how could he suddenly return to Dayue silently, and how did he enter the palace?
Holding a golden short spear, Xie Ruyu, who strode in from outside in dark blue clothes, relieved Emperor Jianning's doubts.
Two years ago, Emperor Jianning once rewarded her with a golden short spear, and the holy decree of the reward said that she could enter the palace at will with this short spear.
Emperor Jianning held the wine cup and looked at Xie Ruyu, who was holding a child in his left hand and a golden short spear in his right hand, and was stunned.
The concubines in the first hall were all stunned.
Xie Ruyu walked to the front of the throne, her face was as cold as frost, she did not salute Emperor Jianning, but to the little prince in her arms who was playing with her fingers, looking at the surrounding concubines with wide eyes and curiosity, choked and said, "Yu'er, this is your father." ”
Emperor Jianning stood up suddenly and knocked over the wine cup on the table. The wine cup touched the dishes lightly, making a ping-pong sound.
"Isn't it just for him that your army is pressing?" Xie Ruyu burst into tears, and after putting the little prince on the ground, he raised his head and said, "Retire, the prince of Dayue, I sent it back." ”
On the third day of the first month of the sixth year of Jianning, Emperor Jianning ordered the withdrawal of troops for 100 miles.
Under the rain, Dayue Tieqi set up camp under the order of General Zhenyuan, and at the beginning of leaving, he retreated a hundred miles.
The four princesses who were marching with the army sat in the wide carriage, lifted the bamboo curtain and glanced at the territory behind them with nostalgia.
It used to be her home, but now she can't go back, and she has no face to go back.
Lu Boyun, the general of Zhenyuan, who was sitting in the carriage because of the wind and cold, looked at the woman in front of him who had not spoken since she came to his mansion, covered her lips and coughed lightly.
This person is not the one who has been haunting him for two years.
He prepared a carriage in the general's palace, a loyal guard, and enough silver taels. As soon as the army leaves the capital, Lady Zhaoyue can be freed.
The woman who went to battle with him could be anyone, and no one would suspect it in front of the two armies.
But she wasn't, she wasn't the Lady Zhaoyue.
Lu Boyun trembled for more than three days because of this, and finally came to the conclusion that Emperor Jianning was reluctant, so after giving a holy decree to reward, the reward given to him was a fake.
Really, still inside the palace.
Coughing violently twice, Lu Boyun leaned against the trunk and slowly closed his eyes.
Outside the carriage, the faces of the soldiers were filled with the joy of victory.
Their emperor rewarded Mrs. Zhaoyue to his subordinates as concubines, and trampled the face of the Dashun royal family under his feet.
Emperor Dashun did not dare to send troops, nor did he dare to jump over the short distance of twenty miles. Their counterattack was to fall and kill an older child in front of the two armies.
He also said that it was the prince of Otsuki.
It's really ridiculous, the fact that there is no prince in Otsuki is known to the entire people of Otsuki. This way of venting anger made Otsuki's soldiers shameless.
On the twentieth day of the first month of the sixth year of Yongning, Dashun retreated for 100 miles.
The iron-blooded men pulled up their tents and evacuated Rongcheng under the afterglow of the setting sun.
It was night, and the camp was celebrated, as if a battle had been won.
Around the bonfire, Dong Jilin, the general who commanded an army of 300,000, laughed loudly, and said proudly when he was drinking with the soldiers, "Da Yue, but Erer!" The only prince of Otsuki fell and killed in front of the two armies, no matter how angry they are, they are not obediently retreating! ”
Li Lingyi sat on the other side of the bonfire and didn't say a word. Watching the flames in front of him lick the backs of the cattle and sheep, emitting bursts of fragrance.
When he returned to the camp that day, Xie Ruyu had already taken advantage of the chaos to run away with the little prince in his arms.
There was chaos in the camp, and after learning that it was the prince of Dayue who escaped, they shouted loudly and wanted to capture the prince of Dayue back to sacrifice the flag.
Li Lingyi was the only person who knew the Great Moon Prince, and he was full of indignation, and he asked for his life in front of the tent, and he was determined to bring the woman and the Great Moon Prince back.
Then, Li Lingyi let go of Xie Ruyu and returned to the barracks with an innocent poor man.
He watched as the burly general in front of him threw the innocent child to death under the military flag.
The child's blood stained its brownish and yellow land and ignited the morale of the Dashun soldiers.
Li Lingyi felt a chill rise from the bottom of his heart, he couldn't accept this kind of combat method of slaughtering women and Confucians.
On the tenth day of the second month of the sixth year of Jianning, Dayue retreated 500 miles.
On February 25 of the sixth year of Yongning, Dashun retreated 500 miles.
At the beginning of March of the sixth year of Jianning, the town of Shiyi re-moved into the business hotel and was still prosperous.
On March 20 of the sixth year of Jianning, the first batch of Dashun merchants who went to Dayue to do business successfully passed the checkpoint between the two countries......
Everything is back to the same.
On March 15 of the sixth year of Yongning, King Yi rode his horse back to the capital of Dashun.
didn't return to King Yi's mansion, his eyes were red and bloodshot, and he came directly to the imperial city.
In the Yongshou Palace, Li Lingyi saw Li Qingmu, who had not been seen for four months.
Li Qingmu squatted under the peach tree in the garden of Yongshou Palace, wearing a powder blue palace dress, with long green silk untied buns, naturally hanging on both sides of his shoulders, and a little peach blossom fell.
Li Lingyi walked over, squatted down, and saw that Li Qingmu was holding a silver-headed hairpin, and tied peach blossoms one by one.
"Fifth Emperor Sister." Li Lingyi called lightly and said, "I'll take you out of the palace." ”
Li Qingmu did not answer, and continued to tie the peach blossoms with hairpins.
Li Lingyi called again, "Fifth Emperor Sister." "The phoenix of the descendant of the warbler leads the country:
Seeing that Li Qingmu still didn't react, Li Lingyi grabbed Li Qingmu's tender jade hand with a hand that had cracked a few bloody wounds.
Li Qingmu raised his head and looked at Li Lingyi who was squatting in front of him. The little face is thin and dull, and the eyes that are as clear as mountain springs are full of confusion.
As if she didn't know, she lowered her head, changed the silver hairpin from her right hand to her left hand, and continued to tie the peach blossoms.
"Fifth Emperor Sister," Li Lingyi choked up, "Yu'er is still there, he is still alive." ”
As if he hadn't heard it, Li Qingmu held the silver hairpin without stopping, and tied a bunch of pink peach blossoms.
"Fifth Emperor Sister, my mother is waiting for us, I will take you out of the palace." Li Lingyi stepped forward, stretched out his hand to take Li Qingmu in his arms, and strode towards the outside of Yongshou Palace.
Li Qingmu jumped over Li Lingyi's shoulder, and his unfocused gaze fell on the peach tree with peach blossoms floating behind him. One more is offered~