Chapter 365: Flesh and Blood
Lan Jing'an's mind was all on the matter of recuperation, but this was a lifeless but abrasive asthma, as if she was against her, enough to raise the army to the south, and she still coughed. The whole person has lost a lot of weight, and she looks haggard like a weak lady with inadequacy.
During this time, Lan Jingan also received Xiao Qingyun's belated birthday gift. Double Ten is a whole birthday, and the gift he prepared for her is very grand. Except for all the strange things she read about when she was a child. What's more, he brought all the people who could impress her the most.
When Bai Qingfeng arrived with Wan Ping on the fifth day of the first month, he apologized to her vigorously. Later, she found out that it was because Xiao Jiaqi was sick, so they delayed until now. When Lan Jing'an saw Gu Jiaqi, no matter how much she couldn't bear it, her eyes were still red, and she almost cried again.
Bai Yiqing, the cousin who used to have the best relationship with Lan Jing'an, was the only one left when Bai Mansion was punished, and the only one left was this six-year-old Gu Jiaqi, who was raised in Yiyong's Mansion.
Lan Jing'an still remembers that when she went to Yiyongbo's Mansion to see her for the last time, Jia Qi shook her hand and coquettishly called her aunt to help her talk to Bai Yiqing and take her back to Dingyuan's Mansion to play. At that time, her closest eldest sister sat with her brother-in-law Gu Qishun, watching her and Gu Jiaqi make a mess with a smile.
Because of her and Brother Qingyun, Gu Jiaqi lost her mother, and almost lost her father's protection. When Lan Jing'an fled from Yonghua City, it wasn't that he didn't think about seeing Gu Jiaqi again. But she couldn't protect herself at that time, how could she drag others down? What's more, she doesn't know if she can trust the rest of Uncle Yiyong's Mansion except for her brother-in-law Gu Qishun.
With the passage of time, today's Gu Jiaqi has gradually faded into a childish appearance, and Xiao's mother has become more and more beautiful in appearance, which makes Lan Jing'an sad and relieved. Gu Qishun, who had lost the qualification of the prince, after hearing that Xiao Qingyun had raised troops, stepped into the red dust again, first returned to Yiyongbo's Mansion to participate in the seizure of power, and then gradually got in touch with the cadres.
Although Lan Jing'an knew that Gu Qishun was a secret chess move buried in Yonghua City, she never thought that before the Qianjun army attacked Yonghua City, she might still see Gu Jiaqi first. Eleven-year-old Gu Jiaqi only knew that her aunt, who was the most patient and able to coax herself to play when she was a child, even though she was sick, her eyes were still burning when she saw her, but she couldn't understand where Lan Jing'an's love for her came from.
And the most incredible thing for Lan Jing'an was that Xiao Qingyun didn't know how to let Lan Jing'an see a real blood relative that even she couldn't find herself.
In that year, a Qianguo War not only caused Lan Jingan to lose her mother's clan, but even her father's Li clan was affected, and all families were killed. In addition to Li Huixian, who had already married into the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion at that time, and Li Huizhen, the eldest daughter who married Youzhou, escaped by luck. It's just that Li Huizhen went early, as early as when Lan Jing'an was four years old, she had already died.
At that time, Li Huixian settled in Baiyuguan with the Marquis of Dingyuan, but Li Huizhen's husband's family was in Yuyang, Youzhou, one west and one east, seven or eight thousand miles apart, not to mention Li Huixian's special identity, and he was afraid that going to Youzhou to pay tribute would cause Emperor Wei's jealousy.
Lan Jing'an only knew that he had an aunt who died early in Youzhou, as well as two cousins and a cousin, but he had never met him in person. Although Li Huixian mentioned her cousins to Lan Jing'an, the cousins she had never met were just a few vague names for the young Lan Jing'an. But Xiao Qingyun, who was three years older than her, always remembered these things for her.
Now that her aunt has become an aunt, her blood relationship with her cousins has always existed. When Lan Jing'an saw his cousins He Yuwen and He Yuyi, there was a hint of kindness in the strangeness. He Yuwen is about the same age as Bai Qingfeng, but he is already the father of three children. And He Yuyi has also married and has a son under his knees. Her cousin He Wangqing was pregnant with a child at this time, and it was inconvenient to travel thousands of miles, so she didn't come on this trip, but only wrote her a long letter and asked her brother to give Lan Jing'an a little something.
The He family is a family in Youzhou, but because Youzhou Prefecture Mu Shi Ding voted for Zhao Hu, the He family, who is close to the Shi family, naturally did not dare to move, let alone admit the relationship with Lan Jing'an. The last time Xiao Qingyun sent Liu Cong to carry out Xianbei's plan, he specially contacted the He family on the return trip, and at this time, the helmsman of the He family had changed from the grandfather of He Yuwen's brother to He Yuwen's father, that is, Lan Jing'an's uncle He Zhongshan.
He Zhong is good at judging the situation, and naturally there is no reason not to respond. It's just that Youzhou is still under the control of Dayong, and the contact between the two compartments can only be secretly contacted, and cannot be done openly. After Xianbei withdrew the army and Qianyong fought again, the situation became clearer and clearer, He Zhongshan not only sent these two sons who were close to Lan Jing'an to the Qianjun, but also quietly enveloped the Youzhou clan, only waiting for the fall of Yonghua City, and sacrificed Youzhou.
Although the He brothers arrived at Xiao Qingyun in the second half of last year, Lan Jing'an was busy subduing Xiao Jian at that time, so Xiao Qingyun naturally wouldn't send the two brothers to cause trouble for her at that moment. He only waited for her birthday to surprise her.
When He Yuwen and He Yuyi set off from Sili, Lan Jing'an had not yet taken Tianjing Pass, so the two had to go around the big mountain on Chaoge's side, and encountered heavy snow in the mountain, which was delayed for a few days, and they arrived at Tianjing Pass a few hours later than Xiao Qingyun.
Seeing Xiao Qingyun's relatives who bothered to find for her, Lan Jing'an said that it was fake not to be moved. As Xie Weining said, Brother Qingyun does understand her, and even sometimes, Lan Jingan feels that Brother Qingyun understands her more than herself. But she has never been able to forget the second half of Xie Weining's sentence. Does she really know the current Brother Qingyun?
Since the distress of Brother Qingyun in Jizhou Daying, in addition to her instinctive attachment to him, she doesn't know if she has really touched the depths of his heart. He talked to her about what he wanted her to know. Behind those things that are never mentioned, how many things are hidden that she doesn't know? He didn't talk to her about Xie Weining, was it like she didn't want to touch the name Li Xie again. It's not that I don't mind, but I care too much.
If it was someone else, Lan Jing'an would have made up his mind a long time ago. But in the face of Xiao Qingyun, she lost her usual decisiveness. A serious illness, a seemingly real and illusory family time, finally made Lan Jing'an have some different ideas.
However, what Lan Jing'an thinks is not so important anymore, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the cadre army have already surrounded Si Lituan, and the final general attack is coming. As the commander of the cadre army, she is duty-bound to stand by Xiao Qingyun's side, ready to write the final chapter for a once glorious empire.
On the sixteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of Yankang, just after the Shangyuan Festival, the 100,000 troops of Tianjing Pass, under the leadership of Xiao Qingyun and Lan Jing'an, went south to gather with nearly 100,000 people in Xingyang. At the same time, Xiao Qingyun ordered Chen Yang and Yan Chong to take Xiangling with an army of 50,000 as soon as possible, and then go south to attack Hedong County, lock the cities of Dayang and Jiaocheng, control the river, and completely cut off the connection between Yonghua City and Luoyang.
On the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the fourth year of Yankang, the Tianjing Guan cadres and the Xingyang cadres converged. Ten days after the renovation, on the fourth day of the second month of the fourth year of Yankang, the real battle of Luoyang began.