Chapter 14: The Rebellion of the Three Kings
Cui Ranxin sat on the cushion, leaning in Cui Jiu'an's arms, listening to him tell about the dusty past.
Thirty years ago, Cui Jiuan did not see or experience the Three Kings Rebellion with his own eyes, but since ancient times, there will be sacrifices when there is war. In addition to the blood of soldiers spilled on the battlefield, the people will be innocently affected. Especially this war is not to protect the family and defend the country, but for the greedy desire of the highest ruling class, Cui Jiuan was disgusted, and Cui Ran frowned slightly when he heard it.
At that time, the first emperor was critically ill, and the king of Shu, King Jing and King Hui, who were far away in the fiefdom, took the opportunity to besiege the city with mercenaries, all the way to the capital, the old grandfather Cui Guang was surrounded and suppressed by the army of King Shu on the bank of the moat and died, King Shu ordered, as long as you can get any part of Cui Guang's body, you can receive a reward, it can be seen that if the corpse falls into the hands of the enemy, the old grandfather is afraid that the corpse will be broken into ten thousand pieces.
Therefore, Zhu Qingfu risked his life to carry the body of the old grandfather in the midst of thousands of troops, how could he not make the Guogong Mansion grateful. As a result, he himself fell ill, so he has been staying in the Guogong Mansion to manage family affairs since then, and he is no longer heroic.
Compared with the grief of the Manchu Mansion that lost its pillars, Xijing, which is not far from the capital, has greater sacrifices and more blood, King Jing and King Hui jointly attacked Xijing, and the most elite army stayed in the capital and the south moat, so although there was a victory in the case of sacrificing countless old princes and soldiers.
The unknown Xijing was full of blood, and the sound of grief resounded inside and outside the city.
Fu Lao General Fu Wei, Fu Xiao General Fu He, and the young lady Gu Lian never returned to the capital after that battle.
Xijing, which was besieged, ran out of ammunition and food in the city, starved everywhere, the two soldiers fought for three months, from the warm spring to the hot summer, the father and son of the Fu family fell one after another, there was no general in the city, seeing that the siege was in an instant, it was the wife of Fu He, a small general of Fu, who climbed up to the head of the city, encouraged the soldiers, dressed in dazzling red clothes, and told all the soldiers that the Fu family still had people, and the heavenly family still needed to be guarded, and the rebellious ministers and thieves could not be allowed to win the world. The soldiers were really touched by the determination of a woman who had never killed a chicken or even a worm since she was a child.
It's just that the red is too dazzling, and the enemy's arrows are accurately shot at her, and Cao Hong, who rushed to read the holy decree with a hundred horsemen, rushed to the city, and the cavalry has been reduced from a hundred to ten and only one horse left.
Cao Hong read the holy decree outside the city gate, bringing the news of the victory in the war on that side, giving the light of day here, and greatly boosting the morale of the defenders, and just as he was about to leave, the city gate was wide open, and the woman with several arrows in her body came to him and said such ordinary words. "Everyone in the world thinks that eunuchs are lowly, but now they are not as incompetent as court officials. If you can win this battle, the world will be stable, and why be afraid of death? Please also bring reinforcements and food and grass. ”
Cao Hong was deeply moved, in such a grim situation, none of the ministers took the initiative to read the imperial order, only the eunuchs around his emperor were in danger. She understands herself, so the moment the city gate was closed, he was even more determined to break out, he had to bear the trust and trust of the emperor, and also bear the expectations and lives of the soldiers.
With such a sense of mission, Cao Hong really broke out of the encirclement, and no one could beat him.
Two days later, Cao Hong swept away the rebels with grain, grass and reinforcements, and arrived at the city, the woman at the head of the city was still red-clothed and black-haired, her face was pale, and the blood stains on her body had already dried into a scab.
After the rebellion of the three kings was quelled, the first emperor dragged his sick body to rectify the government and the opposition, and a few years later passed on the throne of the current saint, although the saint is young, he governs the country well, which is why there is today's peaceful and prosperous world. Therefore, now Daliang does not have too many royal relatives, and that war took away the flashy dreams of the three kings, as well as their lives and descendants.
After listening to this past, Cui Ranxin was the same as Cao Gong, sad for the soldiers who died in the war, but even more admired the red on the city wall, which was their grandmother. Mother and aunt, and even the queen's grandmother, who has never confided in half of it, is actually such a heroine among women.
She thought that their grandmother died of grief and early death, but it turned out that although she could not fight and lead soldiers, she was as brave as a man and died on the battlefield, and she was a heroine who died for the country.
"Second brother, my grandmother is amazing." Cui Ranxin felt that a force in her heart was slowly rising, and she also wanted to be like her grandmother, to be a person who is beneficial to the country and the people.
Cui Jiuan looked at the brilliance in the girl's eyes, he knew that when he came to that point in the future, she would definitely get into the net he had woven, because she had a pure heart.
"Second brother, the saint is also a person who values love and righteousness." Cui Ran was full of emotion, the Fu family lost all their pillars in an instant, but he did not betray his promise, such a person with deep affection sitting on the throne is a great luck for the people.
"The Holy One is indeed wise." As for whether he is affectionate, Cui Jiuan doesn't want the girl to know too much. Of the five princes of the previous emperor, now there is only one idle prince alive, and people who can kill each other, how can they be affectionate? But he also admires that, he is determined to marry Fu Rongke who has no support, it seems that he has lost the strong support of a family, but he has won the favor of the emperor and the blue eyes of pure ministers who do not form a party.
The smell of rice came for a while, and Cui Jiuan took the girl's hand and pulled her up from the stone.
"Childe, Miss can eat." He Luo happily placed the dishes and chopsticks.
Sake intimately boiled water to make tea, Qingshi was busy serving rice, and Zhu Zhu cleaned the utensils one by one.
It is rare to eat in the wild, although there are some setbacks in the process, but the result is not bad, four vegetables, two meat and one soup.
The vegetables are wild vegetables that are dug up by everyone with local sake and are very tender all over the ground, Cui Ranxin and Cui Jiuan have never eaten it, and the two are eager to try it.
"Let's all sit down today! You've worked so hard! ”
Hearing his master's words, He Luo unceremoniously sat beside Cui Jiu'an.
Qingshi and sake glanced at each other, and then looked at Cui Ranxin, the girl smiled and nodded, and they sat on Cui Ranxin's left hand side on the ground, and Zhu Zhu sat shyly opposite Cui Jiu'an.
Now the six people are exactly forming a circle, and only the two brothers and sisters of the Cui family are eating carefully with chopsticks and one bite at a time. Every time He Luo wanted to move his chopsticks to pick up vegetables, he was stopped by the eyes of sake, and he could only helplessly pull the rice in the bowl.
And Zhu Zhu, who was sitting on the opposite side, lowered her eyebrows shyly, occasionally peeked at it, and didn't care about eating at all.
Cui Ranxin knew that because Cui Jiu'an was restrained in Qingshi sake, he ate a little faster than usual.
But no matter how fast she ate, there was always food in the bowl, and the person sitting to her right didn't eat a few bites himself, and kept piling them in his bowl. Cui Ranxin had no choice but to slow down, her speed slowed down, and the person stopped picking up vegetables for herself.
Finally, they finished eating, and the remaining four people were wiped out in a while, and everyone was so hungry that although the sake was not very tasty, it was still swept away.
Packed up and prepared to go back, Cui Ranxin refused to ride a horse or take a carriage, she needed to eliminate food, so Cui Jiuan led the horse to accompany Cui Ranxin in front, Qingshi sake followed, Zhu Zhu led the horse for a long time and stared at the back in front of her, listening to Qingshi next to her and decided to go back and practice her cooking skills.
He Luo drove the carriage and followed behind, humming an out-of-tune tune in his mouth.
"He Luo, stop singing, it's too ugly!" Qing Shi really couldn't stand the buzzing sound like a fly.