Chapter 66: Before Parting
When she arrived at the gate of the palace, Su Wenmei gently patted Cheng Ye's back, and said in a somewhat eager voice: "Let me down!"
Cheng Ye said and put Su Wenmei down: "Does your foot still hurt?" Can you go? ”
Su Wenmei nodded: "If you can go, I'll go back, you can take care." Cheng Ye nodded and watched her walk towards the palace gate.
"Hey." Su Wenmei seemed to remember something, and suddenly turned around: "Seventh Prince, will you leave Xiling City?"
Cheng Ye also turned his head and looked at her. He was stunned for a long time before smiling and shaking his head at Su Wenmei: "There are people I want to protect, I don't want to leave."
"As the old saying goes, the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die. The Seven Princes are planning for the future, and if there is any king's order, it is better to abide by it. Su Wenmei looked at him: "Although the prince is profligate, there is no need to risk offending the king for unworthy people."
"Unworthy people?" Cheng Ye walked towards her step by step and got close to her again: "If you think it's worth it in your heart, it's worth it." What I love is a person's present, no matter what her past or future may be. ”
However, in life, everyone has their own last resort. In other words, does the prince have the ability to protect his sweetheart now? If not, it will only add to each other's troubles. Su Wenmei said this, just to let him obey the emperor's orders and not anger the emperor's rebels.
Cheng Ye looked at her, hesitated for a moment, and finally asked, "If I really leave Xiling, will you miss me?"
In the lights that were clearly extinguished, Cheng Ye's eyes were as bright as the starry sky. Su Wenmei looked at him and almost fell into his eyes, and in his eyes, there was reluctance, sadness, love, and ...... Expect.
Su Wenmei's heart hurt inexplicably, and she nodded lightly: "It's not early, the seventh prince will go back early, no matter where the prince is, I ...... The main palace, the main palace will be ...... Read yours. Her face was crimson and a little embarrassed, but in Cheng Ye's eyes, she was extremely cute.
Cheng Ye nodded, reaching out to touch her hair, but his hand stopped in the air. He paused, and finally withdrew his hand: "It's not early, let's go in quickly."
Neither of them tacitly did not mention anything that had happened before. Cheng Ye watched her enter the palace gate, and then turned around, and the dim light hit his body, pulling his back long, looking lonely and lonely. The wound on his back was cracked, and it hurt, just as much as his heart.
The war in Western Xia was urgent, and tomorrow was the day of the expedition. Cheng Ye thought that the imperial brother had already become a friend because of himself and Su Wenmei. Perhaps, her departure will reduce a lot of ties and gossip for her, which can be regarded as a different kind of protection.
It's just that if he wasn't there, she would be so straightforward, and how would she deal with the open and secret battles in the harem?
Su Wenmei returned to Mingyang Palace, and someone went to report to Cheng Qian, and Cheng Qian was relieved.
She played outside late into the night, seemed very tired, hurriedly washed up, and quickly fell asleep in bed. She had a hazy dream, in which there were Xiling's cruise boats, Xiling's ten-mile long street, and the soft and lovely girl in the Qinglou, and she slept very well. Since entering the palace, I haven't slept so easily for a long time.
Day 2.
The winter sun is particularly hot, in front of the Zhengyang Gate, the coach Li Xian stands in front of the six armies, and the army is displayed, and the momentum is huge. He was about to perform a grand deed, and his expression was indifferent, not angry and arrogant. No one knew, and he was faintly worried.
This time, the emperor chose a deputy general who didn't look very reliable, and it was almost time, and Cheng Ye hadn't come yet. He was a little worried that Cheng Ye would not come.
"Your Majesty." Cheng Qian stood at the top of the glazed pagoda in the palace, looking at the array of the six armies, Zhuang Xianren and Mo Lanyan stood on both sides of him, Zhuang Xianren spoke: "According to the knowledge of the concubines, the Seventh Prince has always been a bohemian and unruly, and the previous emperors have said that he is like a wild horse that has escaped the leash. It's almost time, the Six Army Array, he won't resist the order, won't he come? ”
"Yes, Your Majesty, throughout the ages, courtiers have hoped to make contributions in the court and in the field. The emperor had the heart to train the Seventh Prince, and gave him such a good opportunity. If the Seventh Prince lives up to the emperor's high expectations, then he really doesn't know how to do it! Zhuang Xianren echoed.
Recently, the matter of Concubine Wen and the Seventh Prince, true or false, has been spread in private. In their eyes, the Seventh Prince is also standing on the opposite side of him, and if he can push him into the fire pit, it will naturally be pushed.
Cheng Qian calmed down and said, "He won't not come." He definitely didn't want to come, but for the sake of Su Wenmei and his future, he would definitely come. Even if he doesn't come, he has a way to revive the Sixth Army and make Cheng Ye pay the price!
In the distance, a handsome man in a silver armor robe galloped on, bringing up smoke and dust along the way.
When Li Xian saw it, he let go of half of his heart. Cheng Ye finally arrived before the time of the hour, which is not a disadvantage. However, he has always been a man who does his own thing, and in the future, he doesn't know how much trouble he will have to add to himself in the army. But that's for later.
Cheng Ye arrived in front of the army, and the commander Li Xian and the soldiers held up the Zhuangxing wine: "Everyone! Li is a rough man, and he went out on the expedition today, with only this sentence: throw his head, spill his blood, protect my rivers and mountains, and protect my Xiling! ”
The soldiers raised the wine bowl in their hands: "Throw your head, spill your blood, protect my rivers and mountains, and protect my Xiling!" The sound shook the sky, and as he spoke, he killed the first bowl of Zhuangxing wine in one gulp.
In the second bowl, Cheng Ye held up the wine bowl: "Soldiers! Xixia offended my Xiling, and his heart can be punished. When we arrived at the scene, we threw our heads, spilled blood, took the head of the Western Xia Emperor, and kept our lives, and came back to reunite with our wives and children! He raised the wine bowl in his hand to the top again: "Swear to take the head of the Western Xia Emperor!"
As he spoke, he looked intentionally or unconsciously at the woman dressed in red in the cloister. She wore a red rabbit fur jacket inlaid with gold, and stood far away, but she was also extraordinarily beautiful. Whether she's plain or gorgeous, she's always beautiful.
Usually, she always dressed modestly. This time, it must have been specially for him to see him off. Cheng Ye thought about it, and his heart was sweet, and he felt that his morale was doubled.
"Swear to the rank of Emperor of Western Xia! Swear to take the head of the Western Xia Emperor! The soldiers echoed, finished the wine, learned from the coach and Cheng Ye, and threw the wine bowl on the ground, quite a bit of momentum that Loulan would never be returned.
The woman in the cloister smiled at him, he must have seen it.
A smile is enough.
Cheng Qian was on the glazed tower, following Cheng Ye's gaze, and then he saw the woman smiling at someone in the corridor from a distance, and he couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
He had left the palace before, but he had never seen her so attentive. Fortunately, the Seventh Prince has left, and I don't know when he will return!
The Sixth Army set off, Cheng Qian watched the soldiers leave in a majestic manner, and only then did he come down from the glazed tower and send Zhuang Xian and Mo Lanchang back to the palace.
Su Wenmei also left, there have been a lot of rumors about her and the Seventh Prince recently, and she didn't want to stay outside for too long. As soon as he arrived at the gate of Mingyang Palace, he saw that on the opposite side of the palace road, Cheng Qian was standing far away, looking a little displeased.
"I remember, you always didn't like to dress brightly, why today?"
"The concubines see the emperor." Su Wenmei saluted Cheng Qian from afar: "People's preferences will always change. The emperor has a huge harem, and presumably the places in it are better than the concubines. But the emperor doesn't have to worry too much, the concubines just changed their clothes. ”
"It's only you who have the audacity to dare to choke with me." Cheng Qian said: "I don't care about you. However, I have 3,000 beauties, and if you speak coldly to me, others may not be like this. In the long run, you can only suffer from it. ”
"The long night in the palace is long, but there is no leisure, and the concubines like it very much." Su Wenmei responded with a smile. She was submissive, but her words were intertwined with guns and sticks. She maintained the posture of kneeling just now, bowed her head and continued: "The concubine sends the emperor."
She gave an eviction order, Rao is Cheng Qian has a good temper, and she was so angry that her face changed. He shook off his yellow robe and turned around and left.
"!" Bing'er said: "The emperor is right, there are three thousand beauties in the harem, the emperor has been quite tolerant and takes care of you, Niangniang's words, if you really anger the emperor, I am afraid that only you will suffer!"
Suffer, Su Wenmei smiled bitterly, she was not afraid of loss.
She is a noble concubine, and there seem to be countless pairs of eyes staring at her in the palace, so uncomfortable. Without Cheng Qian's so-called favor, maybe there would be less trouble. What's more, after being snubbed twice in a row, she didn't have much affection for him anymore because he didn't have a child.
Her queen mother wanted her own life, her mother died at the hands of the queen mother, and she didn't want to please him at all.
Although it is winter, there is a rare warm sun today. Su Wenmei raised her hand and looked at the clouds in the sky through her fingers. A little bit of light is refracted through, but with a chill that is difficult to eliminate.
This is probably this winter, a rare warm sun.
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For many days, it snowed in the imperial capital of Xiling City, which covered Xiling City with a layer of snow white, and a thick layer of ice formed on the palace wall. On the palace roads of all roads, there are also palace people with low status who are assigned to clear the snow.
"Mother." Su Wenmei was rocking her rocking chair under the porch, listening to the silence within the palace walls. Suddenly, someone stepped on the snow and landed silently: "Chen Yan see Niangniang!"
Su Wenmei slowly opened her eyes and looked at Chen Yan who was kneeling on the ground. She now knows that Chen Yi is Cheng Ye's person. If it weren't for Chen Yan's desperate report that day, Cheng Ye rushed to Gu's mansion to save her when she was in danger, I am afraid that she would have been ruined at this moment, and even died without a body
She looked at Chen Yan and smiled lightly: "Is the injury all healed?"
"Back to the mother's words, the slave's injuries are all healed, but they are sent by the mother!" Chen replied. He is the most outstanding secret guard under Cheng Ye, and has been responsible for protecting Cheng Ye's comfort in the past. At that time, in the Gu Mansion, it was the enemy who was dark and I was clear, and I was outnumbered by everyone. When it comes to ability, it is also first-class.