Chapter 9: Bad News
In the next few days, Xiao Moxi had been following Bai Zehui's instructions and secretly replaced the cold white open stored in the big crockpot at night.
Under the nourishment of the spiritual spring water day after day, not only the bodies of Ren Hanjun and Ren Hantang gradually recovered their health, but even Yao Yuzhi's foot injury healed unconsciously.
Only Deng Xibin and Deng Qin, who are not sick or painful, have not changed significantly, but the physical condition of both of them is much better than before.
Time came to August 22, the 35th year of Jingping, and Yao Yuzhi and others, who had been in exile in the mountains for nearly a month, but had only been chased and killed at the beginning, came to the other side of Funiu Mountain, which was opposite the location of the Ren family's courtyard.
Deng Xibin left Yao Yuzhi, Deng Qin, and the three children in the mountains and forests, while he himself took the silver taels to the bottom of the mountain.
Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qinshi waited in the mountains with their three children for a whole day and a half, and Deng Xibin rushed back with a small bag of rice, a horse of cotton cloth, and two baskets of vegetables.
He handed over the things he brought back to Deng Qin's clan to settle, and he himself told Yao Yuzhi two pieces of news with a heavy face.
Bai Zehui, who was held in Yao Yuzhi's arms, was too young to be taken aside by Deng Qin's family like Ren Hanjun and Ren Hantang, so she listened to everything Deng Xibin said word for word.
“...... Emperor Jingping had died four days ago, and Zhao Jun, He Qi, Ma Hui, and Zhang Jiu, the servants of the Central People's Republic of China, held the edict to support Liu Yu, the fifth son of Emperor Jingping, who was only six years old, to ascend the throne on the second day of Emperor Jingping's death. In addition, the army of the Northern Dynasties had already reached Yuci, Shanxi, and the new emperor decided to abandon the capital city of Bianjing and flee to the south of the Yangtze River, so the coffin of Emperor Jingping was only stopped in the palace for three days before being hurriedly buried in the imperial tomb. ”
Because of the situation, he abandoned the capital city of Bianjing, and fled to Jiangnan with his henchmen and eunuchs and a group of courtiers.
Because he was afraid that Yao Yuzhi would not be able to bear the second news if he heard it, Deng Xibin not only deliberately put the news of the change of the imperial throne in the middle of the court in front of him, but also hinted at part of the content of the second news between his words.
Yao Yuzhi immediately heard that something was wrong as he expected, and she asked Deng Xibin with a white face, "You said that the Northern Dynasty army hit Yuci, Shanxi?
Her eyes were full of anxiety and confusion, and Deng Xibin subconsciously lowered his head - he couldn't bear it, he couldn't bear to look at the disbelief and worry in Yao Yuzhi's eyes.
"Ma'am, it's true. Deng Xibin's voice was muffled, "The subordinates also inquired, the general ...... General he ......"
Yao Yuzhi's body shook, "Senior brother, he...... What's wrong with him?"
Deng Xibin's head hung lower, "He was killed by that dog emperor!"
His voice was soft, and there was a crying tone, but every word he spit out pierced Yao Yuzhi's heart like a steel needle.
Her eyes were straight, and she fell straight down.
Bai Zehui was so frightened that his soul flew away, but fortunately, Deng Qin, who had been paying attention to the movement here, flew over and helped Yao Yuzhi.
"Madam!madam!" Deng Qin held Yao Yuzhi in one hand, held the small swaddling clothes on Yao Yuzhi's chest in the other, and shouted Yao Yuzhi in a stack of voices.
"Mother!" Ren Hanjun and Ren Hantang, who were not far away, were also alarmed, and the two children stumbled over while crying.
Deng Qin helped Yao Yuzhi sit on the big bluestone, and then took Bai Zehui out in her arms and put it aside.
"Mother, mother, don't scare me!" Ren Hanjun pulled his younger brother with one hand and dragged Yao Yuzhi's clothes with the other.
Ren Hantang also shouted "Mother", and the two children cried hoarsely.
I don't know if it's really because of the mother-son connection, anyway, after a while, Yao Yuzhi finally moved his eyes.
She looked down at her two children blankly, and had the heart to say a few words of comfort to them, but she moved her lips, and a mouthful of blood spurted out without warning.
Deng Qin's and the others were all frightened, Ren Hanjun and Ren Hantang were so frightened that they forgot to cry, and the two children were so stunned that they were stunned in place.
Deng Xibin is a man who has experienced a lot of battles and has a stronger mind, and he has already lost his temper once when he heard the bad news before, so he seems to be calmer than everyone else at this time.
He silently poured a large bowl of cold white water (actually spiritual spring water) from the clay pot, and then walked over and handed it to Deng Qin.
Deng Qin took the bowl as if he had just woken up from a dream, and then shook his hand to let Yao Yuzhi rinse his mouth.
After Yao Yuzhi rinsed her mouth, Deng Qin helped her to change her clothes behind a large black rock nearby.
Deng Xibin squatted down on his knees and comforted the frightened Ren Hanjun and Ren Hantang in a low voice.
The two children were a little stunned, no matter how Deng Xibin explained and persuaded them, they just stared at the big black stone that blocked Yao Yuzhi's figure.
When Deng Qin's family helped Yao Yuzhi out, the two children immediately took three steps and two steps and ran towards their mother-in-law.
After this toss, Yao Yuzhi's sanity has recovered a little.
She hugged the two children, and then asked Deng Qin to take them aside.
"Tell me the details. Her voice was hoarse and weak, and the mouthful of blood she had just vomited had clearly hurt her body.
Deng Xibin endured his sadness and worry, and concisely told Yao Yuzhi about the information he had found.
When he heard Deng Xibin say that the eunuch sent by Emperor Jingping, He Qi, the middle servant, was actually going to kill Ren Zixian secretly, Yao Yuzhi's eyes suddenly lit up.
“...... Now the area north of Bianjing can be described as full of mourning, the people are dying, fleeing, I went down the mountain, almost everywhere I went, I could hear the people cursing the emperor for being incompetent and wantonly cruelty. ”
Deng Xibin's words comforted Yao Yuzhi to some extent, but the pain of losing her husband will not be alleviated in the slightest because the people agree with Ren Zixian's dedication.
She asked Deng Xibin in a dumb voice, "Didn't you say that there were immortal cultivators behind the Liu family? Why did the Southern Dynasties occupy a small half of the country, but those immortal cultivators didn't react?"
Deng Xibin frowned, "My subordinates went to find their former acquaintances to investigate, it seems that the royal family of the Northern Dynasty also has the support of immortal cultivators, and the immortal masters are not willing to fight to the death for mortal affairs, so it was agreed that no one would interfere in the battle between the two countries." ”
Deng Xibin's so-called "acquaintances" are actually his former military colleagues with Ren Zixian, although Ren Zixian died unjustly, but many people still remember his good and remember the favors owed to him.
If it weren't for the fact that Emperor Jingping, who was already dead, was too quick to attack Ren Zixian's family, and the whole thing only passed through the hands of his confidant eunuchs, so that those military attachés in the court would not have had time to report or help, Yao Yuzhi's mother and son would not have fallen to this point.