Murong Jin came to Jinhua Palace, and the forbidden army guarding Xie Fanghua hesitated for a moment before letting him in.

Murong Jin went to the backyard of Jinhua Palace, and Xie Fanghua was indeed there.

Dressed in a purple and blue palace suit, simple but elegant.

Sensing that there was someone, Xie Fanghua, who was standing in front of the peony flower in a daze, came back to his senses, turned his head, and saw Murong Jin who was in his heart.

"Why are you here?" Xie Fanghua was stunned, and soon walked towards him again, his steps were very light, but he walked very fast.

Murong Jin looked at her with a smile, "Your Majesty ordered me to stay in the palace temporarily for the past few days, and I have nothing to do to come to see you, so I came." ”

"Staying at the palace temporarily?" Xie Fanghua frowned, "What's wrong?" ”

Murong Jin shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

Xie Fanghua answered, asked Murong Jin to follow him to the pavilion, and then instructed Qingzhi to prepare some pastries.

"Fu Xi, by mid-June at the latest, I have to go to the frontier to resist Western Vietnam, the strength of Western Vietnam is not inferior to Nanyu, and I don't know when I will be able to come back this time. You are in the capital, be careful. After Murong Jin sat down, he said.

Xie Fanghua nodded, "Don't worry." ”

said so, but Xie Fanghua already had an idea in his heart.

Murong Jin looked at her, always with a smile on his face, "Fu Xi, although I don't know why you insisted on entering the palace in the first place, and I don't know why you let me go on the expedition. But whatever you do, I'll support you. ”

Yes. At the beginning of the confrontation against Beidi, it was Xie Fanghua who asked Prime Minister Xie to say that Murong Jin could fight.

But Murong Jin just didn't understand what Xie Fanghua was doing this for. Isn't she worried about herself?

Hearing this, Xie Fanghua was stunned, and finally smiled.

After chatting for a while, Qingzhi brought a few pastries and put them on the table one by one, and then withdrew from the pavilion, leaving only Xie Fanghua and Murong Jin.

On the third day, the emperor issued an edict to transfer General Xia Lingsheng back to the capital from afar, and asked him to reunite with Empress Xia, but in fact it was only for his own country.

Xia Lingsheng also knew the emperor's purpose, but he was loyal to the first emperor and loyal to Nanyu, and now his family and country were in trouble, so he had to return to Beijing.

Of course, he also understood the matter of his younger brother Xia Lingchi, but fortunately, the emperor handled this matter correctly - let Yu Qing pay for his blood debts. This can be regarded as giving him an explanation, so that Xia Lingsheng's mood will not be too bad.

After ten consecutive days of galloping, Xia Lingsheng returned to the capital as fast as possible.

In the Jinhua Palace, Xie Fanghua sat in his study and painted.

She painted a fully open landscape painting.

There are mountains, rivers and petrels in the distance, and there are flowers and pavilions in the near distance. The whole painting is full of atmosphere, and if you look closely, there are two people playing against each other in the pavilion, and there are many onlookers standing behind them. And then there's the waterfall, which cascades between two mountain peaks.

When he was thinking about what to do, Qingzhi walked in from outside the door, blessed his body, and said, "Niangniang, General Murong has been sent by His Majesty to pick up General Xia." ”

Xie Fanghua put down the brush and looked up at Qingzhi, but did not talk about Xia Lingsheng, "Qingzhi, come and see this painting." ”

Qingzhi was stunned before she walked to Xie Fanghua's side and looked at the majestic landscape painting seriously.

"Say, 'What should I pay?' Xie Fanghua asked Qingzhi while thinking about it himself.

Qingzhi frowned and thought for a while, "Qingshan is not old? ”

"It's too narrowly named." Xie Fanghua shook his head, not satisfied with the name.

"Secluded Diagram?" Qingzhi said again.

Xie Fanghua still shook his head, "It's too vulgar." ”

Qingzhi tried hard to recall the names of the landscape paintings he had seen, and read them out one by one, but Xie Fanghua was not satisfied.

"Mountains and rivers lining me, what do you think?" Xie Fanghua suddenly had an idea and asked.

Mountains and rivers lining me?

Qingzhi twisted her eyebrows, "Niangniang withdraws money like this, if it is seen by someone with a heart, will it ......?"

Qingzhi's worries were not superfluous. The emperor has always been afraid that someone will covet his great rivers and mountains, but Xie Fanghua said that the mountains and rivers lining me really want to be pointed out, with the emperor's suspicions, Xie Fanghua will definitely suffer again.

But Xie Fanghua was not worried, smiled slightly, picked up the pen and prepared to withdraw money, "It's okay, you go and help me prepare the tools for mounting, I'll frame the painting myself and then put it away, nothing will happen." With that, she began to make the payment.

Xie Fanghua's movements were very skillful, and after a while, the flowing line of books fell out.

Qingzhi sighed, "Niangniang's words are so good." It adds another temperament to this majestic painting. ”

Xie Fanghua didn't say a word, but put down the pen and admired his masterpiece again. While appreciating, she was also thinking, when will I be able to let this mountain and river line me?

"Oh yes, Xia Lingsheng has arrived in the capital?" Xie Fanghua came back to his senses and thought about Qingzhi's first words when he entered the house just now.

Qingzhi nodded, "It is estimated that it will not be long before I will go to the imperial study to see Your Majesty." ”

Xie Fanghua sat down slowly, looked at his painting again, and was distracted.

.

In the imperial study, there is the emperor, Murong Jin, and a heroic man wearing heavy armor - Xia Lingsheng.

Xia Lingsheng's eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Queen Xia's, and the beard that has not been shaved for a long time is just like when Murong Jin came back.

"The envoys of Xiyue will arrive in the capital in a few days, and this time General Xia will be transferred back to the capital, and the general also knows my intentions, right?" The emperor sat on the high seat, twisted his eyebrows slightly, and said.

Xia Lingsheng nodded, "The last general knows." At the same time as returning to the capital, the last general also inquired about some news about Western Vietnam, so the last general estimated that the number of troops sent by Western Vietnam was between 300,000 and 500,000. As for the main general, the last general is still under investigation. ”

The Emperor waved his hand, "These are not important. The envoys of the Western Vietnamese must have told us. What worries me most now is, are you sure you can win this war? ”

Xia Lingsheng thought for a moment before he said slowly: "I will do my best to fight!" ”

The emperor didn't seem to be very satisfied with this answer, and exhaled a breath with a little anger, and said: "General Xia has returned to Beijing in the dust, and he is tired of thinking about it, I miss that you and the queen have not seen each other for many years, and I am allowed to go to Fengtai Palace to see her!" I'm tired, General Murong, you can go down too. He said, closing his eyes and rubbing his temples on both sides.

"Yes!" The two of them bowed their hands and turned to leave.

Out of the imperial study, Xia Lingsheng looked up at the sky, because of the sun, he squinted, "I have also heard about General Murong's battle against Beidi, and it is simply unexpected to recruit soldiers and run out of food." ”

"General Xia praised it falsely," Murong Jin said lightly, "Murong Jin is just a small general, naturally he is not as good as General Xia." ”

Xia Lingsheng retracted his gaze, and his eyes were no longer squinting, but so bright, "New star, I'm very optimistic about you." As he spoke, he glanced sideways at Murong Jin, and when he saw that the other party's gaze was calmly looking into the distance, he patted him on the shoulder and strode away.

Looking at Xia Lingsheng's distant back, Murong Jin couldn't help frowning.

Xia Lingsheng rarely returned to the capital once, and the indispensable thing was to meet his own sister Queen Xia.

Empress Xia heard that her brother was returning to Beijing today, so she had already prepared delicious pastries and waited for him in the main hall of Fengtai Palace.

Under the leadership of the female official Dongchan, Xia Lingsheng came to the main hall of Fengtai Palace and met his sister who he hadn't seen for many years.

"Brother!" As soon as she saw Xia Lingsheng, Queen Xia, who was distracted, was stunned, but soon, she ran down from the high seat regardless of her manners, rushed to Xia Lingsheng, and threw herself into his arms.

Xia Lingsheng looked at his sister who he hadn't seen for many years, and rubbed her hair helplessly but dotingly, "Look at you, it's been so long, and you still look like a child who doesn't grow up......"

Dong Chan looked at this scene and was happy for her master in her heart, because in this world, apart from her, only General Xia would be good to the queen wholeheartedly.

Thinking of this, Dong Chan withdrew from the main hall, and only Queen Xia and Xia Lingsheng were left in the hall.

After a long time, Empress Xia came out of Xia Lingsheng's arms and rubbed her eyes that seemed to be tearful, "Brother, you don't know, you don't know how many grievances I have suffered in this palace......"

Xia Lingsheng looked at his sister distressedly, and he was also very uncomfortable.

At the beginning, he just wanted to keep his younger brothers and sisters safe, but he didn't want to, his sister was safe, but he was wronged; The younger brother was rich for a while, but he lost his life. In the end, he still couldn't give his younger siblings a good home.

"Brother, Chi'er's matter is my fault, I didn't protect Chi'er......" Queen Xia lowered her head and blamed herself.

Like Xia Lingsheng's thoughts, Queen Xia only wanted her younger brother to be happy and spoiled her younger brother in everything, but she didn't expect that in the end, her younger brother would die like this.

Xia Lingsheng sighed, with mixed feelings, "Sister, don't think about this anymore. From now on, only our brothers and sisters will depend on each other, you can rest assured, with my brother here, you will not be wronged again. ”

Queen Xia nodded vigorously, completely different from the past, in front of her brother Xia Lingsheng, she was like a sister who always loves to be spoiled, "Brother, I personally prepared food, which is your favorite home-cooked meal." ”

In the past, it was my sister who cooked for herself and my younger brother, but I haven't tasted it for a long time, Xia Ling missed it, "I ran all the way, and I haven't eaten lunch until now, but fortunately, my sister prepared my favorite ...... for me."

"Haha! Brother, come and eat! Empress Xia smiled and greeted.

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It's dark night again.

This kind of time in Su Rili is always the time when the emperor is most looking forward to, but also the most afraid. Because, he is both looking forward to the arrival of the red girl and fearing the arrival of the red girl.

The expectation is because the Red Girl will help him, and the fear is because the Red Girl will harm him in this dark night.

But these days, he is not afraid, he only expects.

Because, there is Murong Jin.

"It seems that His Majesty the Emperor has been waiting for me for the past few days!" The voice of the red girl sounded in the empty imperial study.

The emperor lowered his head, and he could glimpse a red shadow in his afterglow, "I am just curious, the war between Xiyue and my Nanyu is imminent, and you will not show up for such a big thing." With that, he put down his pen and slowly raised his head.