I sighed lightly and rested my head on his shoulder, "Ah Ping, don't do this in the future." ”

"What not?" A shallow voice asked above his head, "Are you going to let me ignore you?" ”

"No, I just want you not to expose yourself to danger whatever you decide in the future. Not for yourself, but for me. "As the king of a country, he can convey the order to save me to the people below him, instead of taking risks himself. Don't take the big country and the society to regulate, at least think about it for me and the children.

In fact, judging this situation, it stands to reason that I will not have to worry about my life if I am captured by Zhu Di, and no matter how ruthless Zhu Di is, he will not kill me at this time. But it is precisely because it is Zhu Di that Ah Ping cares about him very much.

In the future, there will be a lot of confrontations between Aping and Zhu Di in this battle of Jingjing, I don't want him to be emotional every time, reason is not necessarily the key to victory, but impulse is definitely the root of failure.

Ah Ping was silent for a long time, wrapped his arms around my shoulders and confessed softly: "I couldn't control the situation at that time, and what I was most afraid of was not what he might do to you, but to take you away and take you to a place where I would never find you." So I didn't even hesitate to let Zhu Gaoxu go, only in this way can I have the chips to exchange for you. Alain, do you know what I'm most afraid of? ”

I'm afraid I'll leave.

He told me more than once that no matter what happened, I couldn't leave him. Once, because I was always deceived by him, I was angry and said that I wanted to leave, but he was either a scoundrel or a fool, and I was not allowed to go anyway.

I wrapped my arms around his waist and said helplessly and distressedly, "You're just a fool, aren't you?" I have two sons with you, what other reason in this world should I leave you? You have to believe that even if something really happens, I will do everything I can to come back, because my home is here. ”

I'm afraid that the only person who is uncertain and unconfident in Ah Ping's life is me, and I don't know how to use to erase his worries. Words didn't seem to make him feel safe, especially after he learned that I wasn't of this era.

Maybe he wasn't afraid of Zhu Di, what he was afraid of was that I left his controllable range, and he was afraid that I would disappear inexplicably where he couldn't see. That's what he's really worried about and worried about.

I don't know about it, and I can't predict whether there will really be such a day in the future, but from a certain point of view, it is actually unfounded. People live for a lifetime, who can guarantee how long they will live in the future, birth, old age, sickness and death are the normal state of human beings and the laws of nature, and each of us is born in this law.

After this incident, I thought that Ah Ping would still be a tendon to the end and would not change his concept and attitude, but I didn't expect that a few days later, he took out the Xingyue bracelet and returned it to me. I was slightly surprised how he suddenly figured it out, and asked him the reason that after listening to my words that day, he pondered for a few days and figured it out, as long as my heart is here, nothing can separate us.

I was relieved, but soon after, I heard reports of the defeat of the Southern and Northern armies.

At first, Ah Ping tried not to show his face when he came back, but he seemed a little tired to me, but gradually the atmosphere in the palace changed. The surrounding palace maids and eunuchs are very anxious, and often make mistakes because of absent-mindedness, and sometimes Ah Ping will come to report as soon as he comes back from the court. I only invited the eunuchs who accompanied the court to ask, and I learned about the current situation and understood the root cause of these many changes.

To be expected. It is not because of the prediction of the historical trend, but that the northern army is accustomed to fighting on the battlefield, while the southern army is all reserve army, basically has no experience in warfare, not to mention the soldiers, even the main generals of the DPRK and China. In the dynasty after Ah Ping came to power, the military value of the southern army was obviously not as strong as the northern army, and the so-called "advice" of the civil ministers would inevitably only speed up the process of defeat. This is the serious consequence of the imbalance between the rule of culture and the rule of the military, and neither the light culture nor the light force is good for the governance of the country, and the civil and military forces are bound to complement each other.

And this is no wonder that Ah Ping's strategy is wrong, first of all, his thoughts are mostly based on Confucianism, and secondly, Zhu Yuanzhang also paid attention to the tendency of literature in the later period, thus guiding Ah Ping to take this road. Zhu Yuanzhang never thought that the vassal system he had set up for the division of power and control of land would eventually become a sharp blade to slaughter the government he created.

This year's Chinese New Year's Eve is coming at a time when foreign wars are raging, at the end of the third year of Jianwen, and about to enter the fourth year of Jianwen, that is, the last year of Emperor Jianwen.

Because it was Chinese New Year's Eve, no matter how stubborn the war outside was, it was impossible to pass the fog all the time, and the palace did not intend to celebrate, so I asked people to arrange the dormitory slightly. If the happiest are not the two brothers, Yuan'er and Yue'er, Yue'er will be two years old as soon as the year passes, and Yuan'er will be six years old, as if he is a little adult, and he will tame this younger brother obediently.

Yuan'er has a playful temperament, and Yue'er is much quieter, but when the two brothers get together, they can always have some moths. For example, Yun Gu and Xiaoxiao were making dumplings, and the two bear children ran to say that they wanted to help, but they knocked over the pot with the filling and got the dumpling skin to the ground.

"Brother, do you think I'm doing the right thing?"

"It's okay, it seems a bit deliberate that you knocked over that pot just now, and it could be a little more natural."

"Brother, but I secretly tasted the vegetable filling, and it was delicious."

"If it's delicious, you have to knock it over, this is the task I assigned to you, do you understand?"

"I understand, I listen to my brother."

I coughed lightly twice, and the back of the tree stopped talking for a moment, and then Xiao Yue'er walked out and greeted me with a weak heart: "A-Niang." I quietly glanced at the tree and asked, "Yue'er, what are you doing here?" ”

"I didn't do anything." Yue'er is small, and there are not so many twists and turns.

I said deliberately: "Then A-Niang seems to have heard who you were talking to just now?" When he heard this, he immediately shook his head: "No, I didn't talk to my brother." "It immediately made me laugh, didn't you sell Yuan'er on the spot? The corners of his mouth hooked up and snorted: "Don't come out yet?" Yuan'er first popped up from behind the tree, and then walked out grinning embarrassedly, pretending to be surprised: "A-Niang, why are you here?" ”

"Just passing by." I looked at him with a smirk, "What are you whispering to Yue'er behind a tree?" ”

Yue'er was relatively simple, looked at his brother and then looked at me, and went to pull the corner of his brother's clothes and asked in a whisper: "Brother, can you tell A-Niang?" Yuan'er glared at him, he couldn't deny it, so he had to confess to me: "Just now, Xiaoyue and I accidentally knocked over the filling basin when we went to help Aunt Yun and Aunt Xiao make dumplings, and we are thinking about how to make up for it." ”

I raised an eyebrow, "Did you think of that?" ”

"I thought of it, but I'm afraid that A-Niang won't agree." Yuan'er hesitated to speak.

"Let's hear about it."

"We want to make a new filling."

I was surprised: "You two will?" Yuan'er was also sincere, shook his head and said, "No, but you can ask Uncle Yan for help." I weighed it and it wasn't a bad thing and agreed.

As I watched the two brothers walk away one after the other, I suddenly felt as if I had fallen into their routine. I guess this conversation was meant to be told to me on purpose, so that I could agree with them about what they could play openly.

Thinking about it anyway, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, so it is rare to let them be presumptuous and harmless. But when Xin'er came to me to complain, he knew that he had a wrong idea, saying that Yuan'er and Xiao Yue'er almost burned down the stove of Ah Ping's imitation of Ginkgo Village's house. When I heard the news, I saw smoke rising from the stove house, and the big and small people were standing in front of the door.

I frowned and shouted "Yuan'er", and the two of them turned around, only to see two big black faces like ghosts. Asked what happened to them, Xiao Yue'er squeaked and couldn't say, Yuan'er forced herself to calm down and said that she didn't pay attention to the ignition and let the smoke go.

At this moment, a figure walked out of the smoke, and I fixed my eyes and saw that it was Yan Qi, who was covering his mouth and nose with a cloth towel and was also slightly embarrassed. When he stepped forward to ask if he was okay, he glanced at me and said "It's okay" in a low voice.

Yan Qi is getting older and more depressed, the first perverse and poisonous tongue seems to have worn off the edges and corners, and now he has become less talkative and dull. Obviously, I couldn't ask anything from his mouth, so I simply turned my head to lock Yuan'er's gaze, lowered my face slightly, and said, "If you don't tell the truth again, don't blame A-Niang for telling your father about this." ”

They are not afraid of Ah Ping, but they listen to their father very much, and they all want to show their strengths in front of their father. So when Yuan'er heard me say this, there was hesitation in her eyes, and Xiao Yue'er hurriedly pulled his sleeve: "Brother, let's tell A-Niang." ”

Yuan'er made up her mind and gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, A-Niang, Xiaoyue and I deliberately knocked over the filling basin of Aunt Yun and Aunt Xiao, and we also deliberately hid behind the tree and said those words to you, so that we wanted to make a dinner for you and my father." There are clouds in the book, for the son of man should put filial piety first, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, Xiaoyue and I want to do our best to let Auntie and Father Emperor taste the dumplings and side dishes we made ourselves. But...... But the fire could not be kindled. ”

In the end, Yuan'er showed annoyance, as if he couldn't figure out why the fire was not lit but also made a room full of smoke, alarming the people of the first palace.

The answer was unexpected to me, I didn't expect that these two children turned around so much for such a simple filial piety.