At the end of the winter of the second year of Jianxing, Yuwenchu defeated the Zhongshan Wang army in Ganzhou, annihilated more than 40,000 enemies, recaptured the strategic places of Ganzhou, Minchuan and Yunxian, and won the first battle.

On the day the news reached Beijing, it happened to be the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the entire capital was covered in heavy snow and covered in snow. Mingzhu took the two children to keep the New Year, Mi Li'er was already running around, and could say a few simple words, and sat opposite Zhuang Zhuang to play tangram. Zhuang Zhuang puzzle, she looked lively, and from time to time reached out for Zhuang Zhuang to correct the tangram that was not properly placed.

Every time at this moment, Zhuang Zhuang would raise his head and smile at her, and she would also smile back to Zhuang Zhuang, an indescribable tacit understanding between brother and sister.

Mingzhu was very relieved, and when she was approaching, Dong Hui came in with a cold wind and said with a smile: "Everyone is waiting for the princess outside." ”

Mingzhu sat up, looked out through the glass block on the window, and saw a group of people standing in the courtyard, all of them smiling, led by Zhou Shuyi and Li Xinxin. They seemed to know that she was watching through the window, and said in unison: "New Year's greetings to the princess, brother and sister, the princess and brother and sister are all the best, and the year is safe!" ”

Mingzhu took the child out, and asked Su Lan to take the red envelope to reward, Zhuang Zhuang saw it, and he also wanted to help his mother. Mingzhu was relieved and boldly handed over to him to do, he was wearing a bright red cotton jacket, a circle of fluffy white fox fur inlaid on the neckline and hat, round eyes and round face, chubby hands, two little short legs "Dong Dong" ran over, "Dong Dong" ran over, milky voice, with a smile from beginning to end, everyone liked him very much.

Zhou Shuyi said to Mingzhu again: "There is still a group of people waiting for the princess to reward it." "It's the subordinate officials of the palace, they all know the news of Yuwenchu's victory, and the worries of the past few days can finally be put down, and it is the festive season, so they have to come to ask for a good fortune.

Mingzhu had already found out that something was wrong, and quietly let people reward him, and said words of condolence and encouragement, so he asked Zhou Shuyi: "Zhou Changshi, what happened?" ”

Zhou Shuyi and the others all laughed, and saluted her again to congratulate her: "Our Highness has won the battle!" ”

Mingzhu almost reached out to cover her mouth, and then held back, secretly admonishing herself to be reserved, reserved, and felt that it was almost enough to laugh "as expected": "This is a great joy." She felt very reserved, but she didn't know that the corners of her mouth were about to crack next to her ears.

Zhuang Zhuang listened to the people around him talk about fighting, and he was already able to distinguish the difference between winning and losing, and he knew that his father had won the battle, so he happily stomped his feet and circled: "Victory, victory." ”

Zhou Shuyi handed a letter to Mingzhu: "It's a letter from His Royal Highness, and it has just been delivered." ”

Holding the envelope, Mingzhu became absent-minded, and couldn't wait to go back and hide from the letter. Zhou Shuyi was shrewd and capable, and immediately thoughtfully led everyone to retreat, Mingzhu took a child in one hand, happily ran back to the house, handed the child to Su Lan and the nurse, and carefully opened the envelope with a silver knife.

Yu Wenchu humorously introduced the customs of the north to her, and said that the north is bitter cold, and the food sent is always cold quickly, and it is not easy to find firewood and other things, thanks to her dettol pot, the food made is not only delicious but also keeps warm for a long time, and he has nothing to do every day to teach the fire head army how to use this pot to make better meals. and asked her to send a copy of the Dettol pot recipe at leisure.

Mingzhu smiled heartily, she couldn't imagine what kind of expressions the firehead soldiers would have when His Royal Highness the Wise and Expressionless Lord Regent walked into the camp to guide the way of cooking. After thinking about it carefully, she thought that he was lying, and that he couldn't have the time to do this, at most he was just directing the people around him to do it. Yu Wenchu told her this, just to reassure her.

At the end of the letter, she saw a line of words and couldn't help but burst into tears.

Zhuang Zhuang had been quietly observing her expression, and when he saw this, he broke down from the nurse's arms, walked to her side, grabbed her cuffs and asked, "Why is my mother crying?" ”

Mingzhu hugged Zhuang Zhuang, cried and laughed and said to him: "Father said that your second uncle is a hero. This time he won the battle, thanks to him, it was he who led people to ambush in the snow for several days and nights, assassinated one of the enemy leaders, and got the most urgent report, although he was disabled at the time of the battle, he was braver than many people, and killed more than ten enemies with his own hands......"

Yu Wenchu didn't say whether the second brother was injured or not, but Mingzhu imagined it, how could he not be injured if he killed the enemy like this? The second brother finally washed away the shame with his blood. Mingzhu choked up and couldn't continue, Zhuang Zhuang didn't understand it, but he wiped her tears very considerately, and patted her back like she usually coaxed him, and said decently: "Mother, don't cry, be good, share your candy." ”

Mi Li'er also repeated: "Don't cry, don't cry." ”

Mingzhu burst into tears and laughed, hugged the two children into her arms, and kissed one of them: "What two good babies." ”

This year has been joyful and peaceful.

On the day, Mingzhu will enter the palace to pay New Year's greetings according to the rules. This year is very different from previous years, the emperor is still in power, but there is no queen, the empress dowager is seriously ill, and it is impossible to come out to accept the worship of the wives, so the person in charge is the empress dowager Xu.

Empress Dowager Xu was a little lacking in confidence, and pulled Concubine Min again. Concubine Min also felt that it was inappropriate, so she sent a letter to Mingzhu to enter the palace earlier to help, so as not to make a joke for others. Mingzhu slept for less than an hour and got up to dress up and entered the palace, and when she arrived in the palace, Concubine Min had just finished dressing up, and Fu Ning had just woken up and hadn't gotten up yet.

Concubine Min heard the good news, and hurriedly ran to the Buddha to put on a few sticks of incense, and asked Mingzhu to worship, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law cleaned up, and went to the Queen Mother to pay New Year's greetings to the Queen Mother in a warm sedan chair.

The Empress Dowager saw that she was already dead, but she had been staying up, but except for Fu Zifei, Aunt Mu, Mulberry, and Jiangzhouzi, she had refused to see anyone. Even Yuwenguang may not be able to see it, Mingzhu and Concubine Min thought that this time they would probably just kowtow outside the main hall and leave, but they didn't expect Aunt Mu to come out and spread the words of the Queen Mother: "Niangniang said, today is the New Day, the affairs in the palace are complicated, please ask the concubine Niangniang to go ahead and be busy, and the princess regent will enter the house to see you." ”

Mingzhu was quite surprised, and even had a bad guess, so she said goodbye to Concubine Min and followed Aunt Mu inside: "Does Aunt know what is going on?" ”

Aunt Mu said calmly: "I suddenly woke up last night and asked if it was Chinese New Year's Eve, drank half a bowl of porridge, and since then I have been more energetic, asking when you will enter the palace and want to see you." ”

Isn't it a return to the light? Mingzhu felt that something was wrong, so he ordered the palace people to hurry up and inform Yuwenguang and Yuwenxin and let them come over early, so as not to be in a hurry at that time.