[Chapter 5, Volume 5]

Section 529

This year's New Year's Festival is particularly deserted because of the siege of the Rong people.

Because the empress still had to keep filial piety, and in order to save grain, there was no banquet in the palace on Chinese New Year's Eve, and only some things were rewarded to officials above the fourth rank in the imperial capital. This reward is similar to before, mainly clothing and gold silk, but at this moment, it seems to remind everyone of the problem of storing food.

It is rare for a wealthy family to be reunited at home on this night, but now this reunion is gloomy because of the uncertainty of the future. However, because the baggage in the city is still sufficient at the moment, and when I wake up, I find that the teacher of King Qin has come, and the children who do not know the sorrow make a fuss for a while, and the atmosphere is warm.

Wei Changying has to deal with two naughty and energetic sons, and has to keep the New Year, and she is still thinking about her husband who is far away in Yanzhou - or has now left Yanzhou...... So when everything was over and she returned to Jintong Courtyard, she held on to the last bit of strength to appease her two sons, but she was so tired that she didn't remove the hairpin ring and her dress was puzzled, and she fell asleep on the couch.

…… She was woken up by Huang's panic.

In fact, Wei Changying had never seen Huang have such a frightened and chaotic appearance, her clothes were untidy and her hair was scattered, she didn't have the grace and calmness that an aunt should have, her hands grabbed Wei Changying's shoulders, and for the first time, she didn't have any scruples about hurting her, and even tears splashed on Wei Changying's face when she spoke: "The grain and grass have been burned!! ”

"What did you say?!" Wei Changying was too tired, so he was woken up at this moment, and he didn't wake up a little at first glance, so he muttered a rhetorical question.

Huang almost cried and said: "About two hours ago, there was a fire in the warehouse! Because it was daylight, it burned for a while before it was discovered by the patrolling soldiers! Rushed over, but I don't know when a small group of elite Rong people took advantage of last night's Chinese New Year's Eve, and the soldiers slackened and touched into the city! And he found the location of the storehouse, killed the guards, poured oil on the grain, and lit a fire! Now the whole city is rushing to put out the fire, but the Rong people outside are also attacking the city, and by this time, the fire has not been extinguished! It is said that seventy or eighty percent of the food stored in it can't be saved! ”

Wei Changying only felt that the blood in her whole body froze in an instant, and then boiled like an angry wave, rushing into the top of her head and jumping back to her feet - she grabbed the brocade on her body hard, and was suppressed and screamed: "Now ?!" ”

"The lord of the valve has entered the palace and gone to the court." Huang choked up and said, "It is said that Ximen is in a very bad situation - Madame just sent a message asking people in the mansion not to move around at will...... But he privately sent the whole house over, asking us to pack up our things for the two little boys! ”

There are no elite soldiers in the imperial capital now, and it is not too much to say that the Imperial Forest Army without the Xuanjiawei is a rabble! Before, it was because everyone saw that the grain was sufficient, and it was also known that the army of King Qin would definitely rush to relieve the siege before the grain was exhausted. The Imperial Forest Army, which has been lax in military discipline for many years, plus private soldiers, guards, and young people in the city can work together, which can be defended.

Now the grain storage has been burned seventy or eighty percent - the key is that it was burned in front of everyone's eyes, and the blow to the hearts of the people in the city can be said to be fatal! Simon is not good at this moment, under such a fluctuating heart, God knows how long he can hold on, and whether he can hold on to it or not? Even if we get through today, what about next? Even though the high-ranking family didn't hand over all the grain storage before, it was handed over because the Taishi's leader was handed over! Next, the food and grass are urgent, what will this city full of people do?

Anyone should think of cannibalism after starvation! In this way, the Rong people don't want to fight, as long as no one is the king, they just besiege and not attack, and they can wait until the time when the emperor is not attacking and self-defeating!

At this point, unless King Qin's army arrives immediately and can be seen in the city, the imperial capital will basically not be able to defend it.

In this case, each family should consider preserving the bloodline...... Wei Changying didn't even have time to cry for the separation of mother and son and her next fate, so she got up in her clothes and rushed to the side house where her two sons lived to pack their bags for them.

While she was scrambling to find the winter clothes that she had to wear in this season, she packed up the soft clothes that were easy to carry, and asked the nurse to wake up the two children and dress them.

Because Chinese New Year's Eve was observed until dawn, the two children played for most of the night, and they were sleeping darkly at this time. The nurse couldn't wake up no matter how she screamed, so she had to dress them like this.

After putting on the clothes, the maid twisted a cold handkerchief and came over to wipe their faces, but they made the two children open their eyes, and saw their mother squatting in front of them in front of them to comb the clothes and the wind hair on the small fur, Shen Shuguang sighed, subconsciously looked at the sky outside the window, and muttered: "Mother, you have to get up so early?" Didn't grandmother say that the child would sleep until mid-afternoon? ”

"Guang'er, take care of your brother in the future, you know?" Wei Changying put her hands on the shoulders of her eldest son, and said a thousand words, but at this juncture, she couldn't think of anything and couldn't say anything - after saying this sentence in a trembling voice, she turned her head to look at her second son Shen Shuxie, who was still rubbing her eyes and ignorant, and said in a low voice, "Xie'er, you will listen to your brother in the future...... No, my brother told you to mess around, so don't listen to him. ”

Although Shen Shuguang was only six years old, he was extremely smart, and at this moment he sensitively sensed that the situation was wrong, so he stood up from the couch and asked, "Why did Mother say this to us?" ”

"Be good in the future." Wei Changying gently touched his cheek and looked greedily at his little face full of doubts - it is very likely that the mother and son will never see each other again! She is unwilling from the bottom of her heart, she was born in a famous family, married a good son-in-law, a loving husband and wife, and has two sons...... If she hadn't met this damn world, her life and her family would have begun and ended in splendid wealth!

The two children are still so young, even if there are dead soldiers to protect them to break through, but the swords and arrows are raining, and such a small and fragile child is just a little rubbed by the blade...... And this army is in chaos, who knows if they can be sent to their husband Shen Zangfeng safely? If something happens to her husband, the two children can only be sent back to Xiliang to live with their uncle.

Will you be wronged by then?

Even if he successfully reunited with Shen Zangfeng's father and son, her husband is young and has a high status, how can he not continue in the future? The stepmother entered the door, and the son of Yuan Pei was the most eyesore, and it was two...... Wei Changying herself has not been wronged in the backyard, but from her grandmother, Mrs. Song, and her aunt Huang, she has also heard many private things in the inner house, not to mention, Zhang Shaoguang, the stepmother of the former crown princess Liu Ruoyu, is not a ready-made example? !

In case his two biological flesh and blood stalls with a stepmother like Zhang Shaoguang, Wei Changying felt that he couldn't feel at ease even if he died!

She is 100,000 unwilling!

But what's the solution? The mother-in-law only asked her to pack up the two children's things, which was tantamount to telling her that once the city was broken or forcibly broke out, the dead man would only be responsible for taking the two children out, and there was no part of her.

This can't be said that the mother-in-law is ruthless, if Wei Changying's guess is correct, even the mother-in-law herself is ready to stay...... After all, there are 200,000 Rong people outside the city! And they are all the elite of the Rong people, which is not at all comparable to the Royal Forest Army, which also claims to have 200,000 and the actual number of more than 100,000 in the city.

Although it is said that it is scattered to four gates, and there are 50,000 soldiers outside each gate, it can be said that there is no danger at all near the imperial capital, and once it leaves the protection of the city wall, it will have to face the pursuit of the Rong people who are naturally good at riding and shooting!

Under such circumstances, it was impossible for the existing dead soldiers of the Shen family to protect all the people of the Shen family from escaping. Because even the elite of the Xiliang Army, which has been tempered in the flames of fighting with the Di people year after year, confronts Rong and Di in this kind of terrain, unless the opponent's morale is greatly reduced first, it will inevitably have to be equal in number and go all out, and there is no burden at all!

You can't protect everyone, so of course you have to choose...... This sect is about to usher in a catastrophe, and at this time, the priority is of course the male heir who can inherit the bloodline.

Shen Xuan and Shen Zhou are still in their prime, and in the future, the maintenance of the status of this sect will also require them to come to the town, and they will have to clean up the situation after the breakthrough, and they will definitely not be abandoned.

And among the heirs under their knees, the sons will have to ride and shoot, and they will not drag the dead back, like Shen Zangli and Shen Yushi, and even have outstanding martial arts, which can also reduce the pressure on the dead soldiers.

But the grandchildren are all very small - if it weren't for the fact that the Shen family has few male heirs, and the grandfathers, uncles, and uncles are all in the prime of life, and there is no one who needs special care except for the grandchildren, I am afraid that all the children will be left behind this time!

I told myself over and over again in my heart that my two children were blessed with great fortunes, and that there were many elders and dead people to protect me, and that it was better to be able to escape alive than to stay in the imperial capital and watch them die...... Even if she will be wronged in the future because she has no biological mother to take care of her, hasn't Liu Ruoyu grown up the same? Besides, Fujun, he is not a father like Liu Hai - Wei Changying tried his best to hold back his tears and whispered, "Guang'er is the elder brother, and I will protect the younger brother in the future." ”

"Mother?" Shen Shuguang looked at her suspiciously, "Why later?" ”

"Go to your grandmother." Wei Changying suddenly leaned down and hugged the two children tightly on the left and right!

She hugged so tightly and so tightly that she used almost all her strength, and she wanted to rub the two children back into her body - the young Shen Shuxie even screamed uncomfortably......

After a while, she suddenly let go of her hand, stood up, turned her head resolutely, and asked Huang, "Is Zhu Lei here?" Tell him to come in, and hurry up and send Guang'er and Xie'er to the room! ”

"Mother, why are you going to grandmother now?" Shen Shuxie is still young, nominally four years old, he is actually only three years old, when he was hugged by his mother before, because he felt pain, he also took the opportunity to make it bad, reached out and loosened the long hairpin of his mother's sideburns, and at the moment he was pulling the corner of Wei Changying's skirt to play, completely unaware that goodbye was imminent. Shen Shuguang, who was two years older than him, had already heard the suspicions, pulled his mother's sleeve in fear, and asked one after another, "Didn't we just come back from grandmother?" Grandmother said we could sleep more today, why do we have to go now? Why did Uncle Zhu send us instead of my mother to accompany us? ”

Wei Changying looked down at him, the eldest son's dark and bright pupils, clearly reflected his own image, his childish and beautiful little face, ignorance mixed with confusion, at this moment there are more unexplained but instinctive fears are slowly spreading - this is her first child, born before the full week was handed over to her mother-in-law to raise, soon after she went to Xiliang to accompany her husband, after returning to the imperial capital, she thought that she could finally make up for this child, but who would have thought that it was only less than three years, and she would leave him again?

And this time, maybe forever.

She pinched her palm hard to stop the urge to cry, smiled, raised her hand gently, touched Shen Shuguang's head casually as usual, and said with the softest and most reluctant emotion in this life: "Good, you go over first, there is still something to do for your mother...... In a moment, you will go to your grandmother's, you and your brother, go first! ”

"......" Shen Shuguang is used to pleasing his mother, and when he saw his mother say this, he habitually agreed, but after agreeing, the boy felt suddenly empty in his heart, as if he had lost something, he was too young to accurately describe this feeling, but there was an instinct, so he suddenly grabbed his mother's clothes and shouted: "No! The child should go with his mother! ”

The moment Wei Changying turned her head, she quickly blinked away tears, and she looked down at her eldest son with a smile: "You have to be obedient!" ”

Shen Shuguang still insisted that his mother accompany his brother to his grandmother's place, and he didn't want Wei Changying's hand to arrange his clothes for him suddenly flicked lightly on his sleeping hole, and he fell down softly. Only then did Shen Shuxie realize that something was wrong, and pulled the corner of Wei Changying's skirt blankly, and said in a milky voice: "Mother, what's wrong with the second brother?" ”

"The second brother is asleep, Xie'er is good, after going to grandmother with Uncle Zhu, you have to listen to grandmother for everything, you know?" Wei Changying said very gently, she hugged her eldest son, bent down, gently kissed the pink cheek of her second son, touched his forehead, touched it, her voice turned flat, and ordered in a tone without any emotion, "Call Zhu Lei in!" ”