When Xiao Yu was rectifying the grassland royal court, his daughter-in-law was seeing a character that Xiao Yu couldn't even think of when he broke his head.

The location is in the palace of Zhongdu.

The saintess of the Demon Sect in the previous generation, and now the actual mistress of the Xiao family in the Eastern Capital, is the wife of the great prime minister Xiao Lie, Yan Keqing.

The princess of the grassland, the justifiable hostess of the Xiao family in the middle capital, the princess of the Northwest, Lin Yinping.

These two women, who were barely part of a family, got together.

Not to mention the knife hidden in the smile, let alone the sabre-rattling, the two women get along in their own unique way, at least now, the effect is not bad.

"Sheng Gong is just too big a shelf, good face, it is inevitable that he will not be able to put down the shelf, and he will not be able to wipe off his face. It's just that Mingguang is also a virtue with his Lao Tzu, these two men who want to save face collide together, can they still have a good relationship? No wonder people say that father and son were enemies in their last life, in my opinion, this is not bad at all. ”

Yan Keqing sat on the soft couch of the Tingfeng Pavilion, looking at Lin Yinping, who was separated from him by a delicate case, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

Yan Keqing took a sip of the teacup, and said in a gentle tone, "We don't mix the things between their father and son." They beat them, we said we, I came today mainly to see you. ”

"Anyway, they are still father and son after all, and when Mingguang is older, he will not be as extreme as he is now. Lin Yinping said with a smile, Lin Yinping has no good impression of the father-in-law who has never met, although he is a masterpiece of a generation, but he is too ruthless in temperament, as a woman, Lin Yinping will inevitably resist, but he is an elder, and many words still can't be put into words.

Yan Keqing shook the teacup in his hand, looked at the tea in the cup swaying from side to side, and said: "Men are like the tea in this cup, it was very clear at the beginning, but after a long time, it became turbid, and the taste was not as good as before." ”

Lin Yinping asked, "Shouldn't men be wine?" The older you get, the stronger the taste. ”

Yan Keqing smiled charmingly, "Good wine can be cellared, if it is bad wine, if it is left for a long time, it will be dull and tasteless." ”

Lin Yinping looked at this woman who seemed to be in her twenties, and said, "Mrs. Yan, you came to see me today to talk about Mingguang's father and son?"

Yan Keqing laughed, her smile was very sincere, like a kind elder, "Just say something from the heart, I can barely be regarded as half an elder of your husband and wife, and some words for me to say are not abrupt." ”

Lin Yinping looked directly at Yan Keqing's gaze and said gently: "If Mrs. is here for family affairs, Yinping is naturally welcome, but if Mrs. is for national affairs, then Yinping can't call the shots." ”

Yan Keqing said with a smile: "Don't deceive me, I'm not an ignorant woman who lives deep in the inner house, I have heard of the princess's name, and the mastery of the husband is superb, so that the king of the northwest has not dared to accept half of the concubine, the princess's birthday, no one in the northwest dares to slack off half a point, and even not long ago, the princess was in charge of the northwest, but now she says that she can't be the master, which is too dishonest." ”

Lin Yinping stretched out his hand to caress his slightly bulging lower abdomen, his face was soft, and he said softly: "There are many rumors in the outside world that are untrue, Madame is a smart person, so she should naturally understand that Mingguang doesn't accept concubines because Mingguang doesn't want to make me sad because he misses the old feelings, not what my Lin Yinping wrist is." As for the matter of taking charge of the power in the northwest, it is not that Yinping deceived Mrs., but that Yinping has put down his authority since Mingguang woke up, and even inside and outside the palace, it is also handed over to the sister-in-law Xiao Yue and her daughter Yuyi to take care of. ”

Yan Keqing stared at Lin Yinping for a long time without saying a word.

Lin Yinping calmly looked at her.

After a long time, Yan Keqing smiled, "Actually, you and Mingguang are both good fortunes, how many people swore an alliance when they were young, what did they say about holding the hand of their son, and growing old with their son, but when the woman Shaohua was not there, most of the men would leave all these behind and find a new love, leaving only the poor woman with the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha for the second half of her life." ”

Lin Yinping said in a calm tone: "Every family has a difficult scripture, although Mrs. suffered from ups and downs and wandering in the first half of her life, but after having a daughter, it will make the second half of her life run well, and I have almost enjoyed the honor of the world in the first half of my life, but I may not be able to accompany him to the end." ”

"There are rumors outside that you are weak and have been ill for a long time, is it ...... Has it really come to this point?" Yan Keqing looked at Lin Yinping with complicated eyes, "Or is Xiao Yu like his old man, there are people outside?"

Lin Yinping never deliberately avoided his body, and said indifferently: "There are people and no one, that's Xiao Yu's matter, I don't know and don't want to be clear." But I still know best how my body is. In the end, it's just that there are too many things to put down, and it's just holding on. ”

Yan Keqing suddenly sighed, his eyes were in a trance, as if he had returned to decades ago, as if in a dream: "They are all hard-working people, and they are all owed to their Xiao family in their previous lives." ”

Yan Keqing, who should have been resentful in her heart, softened her expression unconsciously when she recalled the past events of the past, as if that was the best time in her life.

Lin Yinping put his hands on his lower abdomen, his expression calm and serene.

Yan Keqing glanced at it, with mixed feelings in his heart, and asked softly, "How many months?"

Lin Yinping smiled: "It's been more than five months. ”

Yan Keqing leaned forward and looked at it carefully, "Do you want to be a boy or a girl?"

Lin Yinping thought for a while and said, "Boy, after all, Xiao Yu still needs a son to inherit this huge foundation, and the Xiao family also lacks an eldest grandson." ”

"yes. Yan Keqing looked at Lin Yinping's loneliness and sighed quietly.

Yan Keqing suddenly got up and said, "Okay, let their father and son solve some things by themselves, and we women won't get involved." Yinping, if you bring a message to Mingguang, just say that Sheng Gong asked him to go to the Eastern Capital to meet at this time next year, as for going or not going, it is all from Mingguang's meaning. ”

After that, Yan Keqing said goodbye and left.

Lin Yinping was the only one left in the Tingfeng Pavilion, and she just sat quietly on the Fugui couch, thoughtful.

Today, most of the crisis in the northwest has been broken, and after a chaotic battle, whether it is the shepherd, Xiao Yu, or Lu Qian, who is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, has all hurt his vitality, but Xiao Lie in the eastern capital is intact, and all of this is naturally a plan arranged by Xiao Lie.

Xiao Lie and Xiao Yu, father and son, no matter what they think in their hearts, are already openly torn on the surface. And the alliance between the herdsman and Xiao Lie will also have irreparable rifts after this battle, and now it is no longer Xiao Yu who is isolated, but Xiao Lie in the Central Plains.

That's why there will be Yan Keqing's trip to the northwest.

Lin Yinping looked out the window and whispered to himself: "When we meet in the Eastern Capital next year, it seems that the father and son will have to make a break by then." ”

Then Lin Yinping was silent for a long time.

It wasn't until Mo Shu walked into the Listening Wind Pavilion with small steps that there was irrepressible joy in his words, "Princess Qiqi, good news!"

Lin Yinping came back to his senses and asked, "Whose good news?"

Mo Shu smiled: "It's the good news of the Metropolitan Governor and Mr. Lan!"

On the Xiheyuan side, Xu Lin personally led a large army to pursue the herdsmen.

Wei Ban led more than 10,000 light horsemen, abandoned all the baggage and marched all the way, and finally stopped the herdsman to raise an army before the shepherd rose and joined forces with Zha Mang. Xu Lin and Wei Ban joined forces and fought with the herdsmen at the junction of Xihe Prefecture and Shaanzhou, and Xu Lin broke the herdsmen's army formation with 9,000 heavy horses.

Lan Yu took the opportunity to attack the city on a large scale, but Shaanxi was lost, and he abandoned the city recklessly.

The Northeast Army collapsed, and the shepherds Qi and Zha Mang led the remnants to flee from Shaanzhou in disarray.

At the end of the spring of the third year of Jianwen, under the premise of internal emptiness in the northwest, especially in the critical situation of being surrounded by enemies on all sides, Xiao Yu almost died, and the northeastern army was approaching the central capital, Xiao Yu reactivated Xu Lin at the cost of abandoning the entire Huzhou and transferring all the troops of Shuzhou and Xiliangzhou, and reused Wei Ban and Lan Yu to completely reverse the tide of the war.

In this battle, 40,000 soldiers of the Northwest Army were killed, while only more than 20,000 soldiers of the Northeast Army withdrew from the Northwest.

This huge turmoil, which began in the Northwest Army's southern expedition and then spread to the northwest, northeast, Central Plains, Jiangnan, and even most of the world, finally subsided with the shepherds fleeing back to the northeast in embarrassment.