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Jian Feng didn't understand his daughter's thoughts, and felt that Mu Yin was a little indifferent, at least not like she usually talked to Mu Qing Qi Hui, but if it was her attitude towards herself before, it was a little different, he didn't know what he did wrong to make the eldest lady angry, but Mu Yin's heroic posture made him shocked, and at this moment he was still shocked in his heart, it turned out that a woman could be so beautiful.
Mu Yin was faint, she didn't want to be jealous of her sister-in-law, but she was really envious, envious of so many people praising Xiangxiang for being good, envying Wei Meng Jianfeng's undisguised admiration for her, she didn't want to be a woman like her sister-in-law everywhere, she was afraid that she would not be able to do it in her life, she looked forward to becoming the man she loved in the eyes of tens of millions, the most beautiful one, which could give her a solid support.
But when it comes to relying on, how can a weak reader like Jian Feng be enough to protect her arms for the rest of her life?
"Let's go." Mu Yin shouted to Wei Meng, and they went out to ride horses. And their whereabouts are also "protected" by the emperor in a bright way, but Mu Yin and Wei Meng acted quickly, and they left people behind after a few streets, and when they went to the suburbs, those people didn't know where to go around in the city, and the smarter ones went directly to the suburbs to find them, and they couldn't tell which door Mu Yin and Wei Meng were outside for a while.
And when Mu Yin raised her whip and galloped to her heart's content, she also thought of Jian Feng's angry appearance, saying that the ghosts of those who followed the shadow were not gone, she couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart, and said secretly: "It's not because you're useless." ”
Far away from the capital, as in the army that usually marches, Qi Hui Muqing and a few people have been dealing with the generals of various armies and battalions for many days. They are all senior generals with seniority and status, although they are a little hostile to Qi from the matter of the firearms battalion general, but now that the situation is so chaotic, they have to think about themselves. What's more, on the battlefield, what you fight is experience and strength, even if Mu Qing is thirty years old, he has never experienced the war, the power can be seized, and the war depends on the soldiers to fight with real skills.
But the biggest problem at the moment is that everyone wants to have the final say, Qi Hui and they really want to find a person who can command the three armies and make the generals and soldiers happy and convinced, and they do their best to let the team continue to advance to the front line, otherwise if it drags on like this, there will be more and more people killed, and the contradictions in the stranded team will gradually intensify, and the best way to avoid civil strife is to let them deal with the enemy with the same hatred.
As for Pang Shifeng replacing his father, the people below are not convinced, it is always the son who inherits Lao Tzu, and it is not necessarily Pang Jun to find an outsider to replace himself, but Pang Shifeng is young and untrustworthy in the eyes of many people, such a problem Qi Hui and Mu Qing expected that they could work hard with Shifeng to overcome it, but they couldn't stand someone falling into the well at this time.
Because the team is getting farther and farther away from Beijing, the information coming and going between the two places is very lagging behind, the emperor dangles in the Mingde Hall every day and waits for the military intelligence to report, but every day only sends sporadic news that is not painful, if it is not for the fact that he also planted some eyeliner, if it is not for the other ministers of the court and the central government staring there, from the words that came back from the mouths of Pang Shifeng and Qi Hui, it is impossible for him to know what is happening in front of him, and he can't imagine what kind of momentum the three armies are now.
At this moment, the emperor was not worried about whether they could retake the city and drive out the enemy, but only how long the dragon chair under him could sit. It was also at this moment that something unexpected came.
Let's say that the assassination of Pang Jun is the enemy's heart-killing technique, once Pang Jun is dead, the dragons will be leaderless, and the three armies will inevitably be scattered, but they didn't expect Qi Hui Shifeng and these people to suddenly appear, their behavior not only saved them trouble, but several young people worked hard to gather the hearts of the army, and the team was still majestically pressing towards the border. That night, the man said that they starved to death the people in a few cities to enough food and grass for the army, but in fact, those towns were poor and miserable compared to Gyeonggi Jiangnan and other places, and there were originally few people and small cities, even if they killed all the people in the city, they could not save much grain and grass, so they could not stop the pace of iron hooves.
They didn't really intend to fight the three armies head-on, but now the more they fought, the sooner they were about to meet the army, in order not to go to this point, or to continue to disturb the morale of the army, they suddenly stopped the pace of aggression and sent an elite force to send the peace letter into the capital.
Just ten days after Pang Jun's death, the emperor suddenly issued an order, and the holy decree of 800 miles was rushed into the military camp, asking the three armies to stop advancing, and then the two countries would discuss peace talks to avoid war.
When Mu Qing saw the holy decree, he shook his hand with a sneer, Shi Feng sat in front of the big case, looking at the holy decree on the ground in a daze, Qi Hui was immersed in the moment, leaned over and picked it up, and said: "Don't let the person who sent the holy decree go back, when we haven't received it, if the emperor has patience to send it one by one, and see how long his patience lasts, or we go fast." In three more days' journey we will meet their vanguard, Shifeng, and we will continue on our way. ”
Shi Feng said in a deep voice: "What about the people in the capital, Xiangxiang, Yan'er, Xi Niang, the women of my family, as well as Jian Feng and the family, what should they do?" ”
Qi Hui's heart trembled, but the two armies were about to fight, and it was really a fight, that is, in a different situation, would the emperor have the courage of Pang Jun to threaten with their lives?
Shi Feng said: "We can make a bet, but if they are gone, they will really be gone." ”
Qi Hui didn't know, but he came here with one heart, and finally stabilized the morale of the army, and now he said that if he didn't fight, he wouldn't fight? He had blood surging in his heart, and said: "When they seek peace, they are afraid, that is, they know that they are powerless to fight against us, and that is our chances of winning." ”
"But ......"
"The emperor is asking for a dragon chair, and we will give it to him." Qi Hui said, "But what we want to protect is the country." ”
"Do you want to reply to the emperor and make him feel at ease?" Shi Feng asked.
"It's already a decision, I hope he can still have some heart, for the country and the people." Qi Hui said, then spread out the paper and grind the ink, and sent someone to send it back to the capital quickly.
Originally, the two places were separated, even if the emperor killed many horses in a hurry of 800 miles, it was impossible to catch up with the speed of the three armies and the enemy's vanguard head-on, when he received a reply from Qi Hui, saying that the three armies could not be withdrawn, the war could not be stopped, and he would repel the enemy army to support the emperor, at this time, the fight had already started over there.
Looking at Qi Hui's handwritten letter, the emperor was shaken, and naturally he had a family and country, so he had this dragon chair under him, but what should I do after the battle, what should I do if Qi Hui returned triumphantly, doesn't he have to wait for death?
The emperor was very hesitant, he didn't even have anyone to discuss, in his opinion, whether it was the royal family or the officials who remained in the capital, no one looked at him pleasing to the eye, wishing that he would be driven out of the Mingde Palace, no one here was worthy of his trust, and he didn't want to listen to anyone.
And during these days, Jingshu was by the emperor's side every day, and the emperor found that he couldn't do without her more and more, he no longer treated Jingshu tyrannically, and he no longer regarded her as useless, and he didn't expect that when he came to this point, it would be this woman who stayed by his side.
He still thinks of Xiangxiang in the Luo Temple from time to time, but he doesn't even have the courage to take a look, he doesn't want to see the contempt and contempt in Xiangxiang's eyes, Xiangxiang's noble and holy posture is now more and more breathless for him.
But he didn't want to kill Xiangxiang, Xiangxiang was the woman on the clouds after all, the existence he had been pursuing, this was something that Song Jingshu couldn't compare, and she could never compare.
Although Jingshu is more and more trusted by the emperor, she is also more and more soberly aware that the emperor's momentum is declining, he is just a person sitting alone on the dragon chair, he is now an emperor who does not even dare to do the tyrannical and reckless things of the past, the better he is to himself, the more trusting he is, which means that the less and thinner he can control in his hands.
Jingshu often looked at the stunned emperor and wondered if she would be wiped out with the emperor in the end, and when the comfortable and peaceful days she was looking forward to came, her life would come to an end.
She doesn't know how to fight, she doesn't understand state affairs, and she doesn't know the importance of the world, she just wants to live well with the emperor, she just wants to keep the glory and wealth she has, and she just wants to continue to live a life where everyone is trampled underfoot. She couldn't go back to the past, that day she secretly put on the old skirt in the Longevity Palace, only to find out how incompatible the people in the mirror were, even if the clothes were so heavy that she couldn't straighten her neck that the bun pressed her, but she would rather die like this than go back to the past.
So she knew from the emperor's mouth that she couldn't continue to fight, she couldn't let Qi Hui make military exploits, she couldn't let Prince Shuo return triumphantly, and she couldn't let Xiangxiang have something to look forward to.
And the cloud of war shrouded not only the people of the towns who were killed, but also the people of the capital who were still at ease, so they were terrified, and the natural disasters* were not as terrible as the war, just thinking about the bloody slaughter scene with their eyes was enough to make people tremble.
In the capital, there is no one who used to be bustling and prosperous, and even the flower street and willow lane are also much deserted. On this day, a carriage came slowly to the quiet long street, because the street was too narrow for the carriage to enter, Jian Feng jumped out of the car, and helped Mrs. Pang and the young grandmother down, Mrs. Pang looked haggard, and after a few days of not seeing her gray hair, she asked weakly: "Is this it?" ”
Jian Feng said: "You have to go inside, Madame comes with me, it's not very far, if you really can't walk, let the juniors carry you." ”
Mrs. Pang waved her hand, supported each other with her eldest daughter-in-law, walked deeper step by step, and walked to the door of a quiet house, where the people said a few words to Jian Feng, and then welcomed Mrs. Pang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law into the door. It's just a small courtyard with two entrances, and before I stepped through the door, I heard a middle-aged woman's voice coaxing: "Come, open your mouth, take another bite, it's not too late to take another bite, the eldest lady is the most well-behaved." ”