It's been a year, two months and seven days since Brother Xiang left.

Huanhuan looked at the snow outside the window in front of the window, and wrote the poem he wanted to give to Dong Xiang on the paper again:

The heart is leisurely to send you away,

Tears and tears look forward to the king's return,

The mountains are full of mountains and look at the king's road,

Don't forget to go back when the water is murmuring.

This poem Huanhuan has been written four hundred and twenty-six times, and this is the four hundred and twenty-seventh times.

The battle report from the front came that the grain delivery team led by Dong Xiang was intercepted by the Zhou army, and less than 300 people came back from the 2,000 army and 1,500 people, and Dong Xiang was not among them. Missing.

Daddy said that if the battlefield is unknown, he will be killed, and there will be no other possibility.

Huanhuan kept telling himself that it was also possible that he was captured, after all, Brother Xiang was an officer, and Zhou Jun might think that Brother Xiang was a little useful and didn't kill him.

But Daddy said that even if he was captured, he couldn't get it back, and if he was put back, he would be beheaded.

Huanhuan is very conflicted now, and wants Brother Xiang to come back, but he is afraid that he will be beheaded when he returns.

The last time I went to see Uncle Dong, in just one year, Uncle Dong's hair was almost white, and he drank every day except for going to the mine.

Huanhuan is really worried about Uncle Dong's body.

It's really boring to be alone in Qingling City now, and I don't know why my childhood playmates don't care about her now, and even avoid her.

Yesterday, my father told me that the younger brother of Concubine Qi in the palace is a talent, and he is very good at learning, but he is older, so he asks for his opinion.

I don't know what he's talking about.

Today, I heard the little maids and maids in the house chew their tongues and know that my father is going to marry him to Concubine Qi's younger brother.

I don't want to get married, that person is only four years younger than my father, how can I marry him, and I already have a marriage contract with Brother Xiang.

After talking for a long time, my father only said that he was fortunate not to get married at the beginning, otherwise he would not be able to climb up to others now.

Huan Hwan wondered, why could he marry his daughter to someone who could call him a brother?

Is it because his sister gave birth to a prince for the emperor? The emperor is the only prince other than the crown prince.

During this time, my father didn't let me go to Uncle Dong's house to see him, only saying that he might not be a person all the way in the future.

Huanhuan doesn't understand these things, but Huanhuan knows that if Brother Xiang is not there, he has to do his filial piety for Brother Xiang.

Hwan dries the finished poem and places it in a box next to the dresser.

The box was full of the poem, a whole box.

Put away his poems, imagine the scene when Brother Xiang came back to show him in the future, and happily prepared to go out to Uncle Dong's house.

But the little guy at the gate didn't let him go out, saying that his father didn't allow it, and Concubine Qi's brother would come to marry him in a few days.

The uneasiness filled Huanhuan's heart, and he felt that he couldn't just wait, otherwise he would definitely regret it for the rest of his life.

He belongs to Brother Xiang and can't marry someone else.

I went back to the room and simply packed up two clothes, and secretly went out through the back door, which is the door that the kitchen lady often goes out to buy.

Daddy didn't know, Daddy never cared about these little things in the house.

Huanhuan, who went out, hurriedly went out of the city to Dong's mansion in Dongjia Town.

Uncle Dong was still drinking, and Huanhuan stepped forward to fill Uncle Dong with a glass of wine.

Uncle Dong saw that it was Huanhuan, and happily beckoned her to sit down and eat together.

Feng Fuling came, with more than a dozen servants.

Uncle Dong just asked Huanhuan to sit for a while, and then personally took more than 30 personal soldiers out to catch up with Feng Fuling.

Huanhuan sat in the hall eating food, not because she didn't want to see her father, but because she didn't dare to see her, she was afraid that she would be married to a man who was more than 20 years older than herself.

Huanhuan didn't know if he was doing it right, but for Brother Xiang's sake, he had to do that.

Even the scolding and fighting outside were faintly heard, but it didn't happen.

Dong Xiang's father and Huanhuan's father are still antagonistic in the end.

Qi Guifei, the favorite concubine of the old emperor of the Jin Kingdom, left a prince for the old emperor.

The crown prince has offended many people in the court over the years by relying on his position as the prince, and originally because he was the only heir of the Jin Kingdom, he gritted his teeth and endured it.

Now that there is a second candidate for the throne, a large number of votes that do not deal with the prince have fallen to the newborn little prince, the prince is young, Qi Guifei can't have too much intersection with the court officials, and Qi Guifei's brother has become the hottest figure.

Huanhuan's father, the government of Beiyuan Prefecture, and the feudal official on the fifth grade, easily got on the line with Uncle Guo.

And Dong Xiang's father, a ranger general, the highest military governor of Beiyuan Province, has a garrison of 15,000 troops, and also controls the copper mines in Qingling County, and is a staunch Taizimen.

Originally, Dong Xiang's life and death were unknown, and Feng Fuling wanted to marry his daughter to others, and General Dong and law and reason were not easy to interfere with.

But today, Feng Fuling actually came to the door to ask for someone, and repeatedly said that he was going to enter the mansion to search, which made General Dong very unhappy, and after beating Feng Fuling away, he let Huanhuan live in Dong Xiang's original courtyard.

Huanhuan sat on Brother Xiang's bed, recalling the night when it rained heavily last year, when the two of them were so entangled in death that they couldn't help but bury their heads in the pillow.

At this time, the maid of the Dong Mansion came over and called Huanhuan.

Dong Xiang has news.

Huanhuan hurriedly rushed to the front hall, and Uncle Dong told Huanhuan with a complicated expression.

Someone has seen Dong Xiang in Xuncheng County...

After a pause, in Huanhuan's expectant eyes, he finally began to say the following words.

Dong Xiang is now the governor of Zhou Guoling's palace and the county magistrate of Xuncheng County.

...

"This king knows that you are not a soldier of the Zhou Kingdom, you are a native of the Jin Kingdom."

"Your Highness, I..."

"It doesn't matter, you have seen it now, your Jin dynasty is decadent, the emperor is mediocre, the prince has no way, your Xuncheng County has been ceded to my Great Zhou, and it is under the rule of this king."

The third prince was still working on the documents in front of him, and he didn't raise his head.

"In that case, you don't have to be foolish and loyal to his Jin Kingdom, you might as well be the long history of this king and govern your Xuncheng County."

Dong Xiang recalled the process of being called to the public house by the third prince after entering the city and talking to him alone.

Dong Xiang admitted that he had never seen such a person as His Royal Highness, and he had never been so appreciated.

It's just because when he entered the city, he cut down the Jin State guard who surrendered for His Highness, the guard general in the fish and meat village on weekdays, and the guard who forcibly ordered him to send food without considering his own and the names of his subordinates.

In fact, Dong Xiang cut down the guard general just because of personal anger, because this guard general ignored the tension of the battle situation and ordered him to send food, knowing that Xuncheng County was already in danger, he did not send someone to inform him, so he plunged into the scout circle of the Zhou army, resulting in the dilemma of life and death when he was now captured, and he would never see Huanhuan again.

This is actually a misunderstanding, a very interesting and funny misunderstanding.

He cut down the Jin Army guard because of personal anger, but His Royal Highness thought that he was unbearable to be exploited by him, so he ignored the military order and looked at the Jin Army guard.

In the end, His Royal Highness also felt that the use of the locals of the Jin Kingdom could win the hearts of the people as soon as possible, and appointed himself as the governor of the Lingwang Mansion and the county magistrate of Xuncheng County.

Thinking of this, Dong Xiang was quite emotional, and sighed at the wonder of life.

At this time, the master knocked on the door outside, saying that the winter supplies sent by the third prince had arrived.

Dong Xiang hurriedly got up and went out to greet the supplies.

Dong Xiang has been a county magistrate in Xuncheng County for more than a year, and although he can't say how outstanding his political achievements are, at least his official reputation is very good.

In fact, Dong Xiang's principle of being an official is also very simple, referring to Feng Fuling's practice of being an official, as long as it is good for you, you can copy it directly, as long as it makes you feel unreasonable, then do the opposite.

remembered that the respect he didn't get in Qingling City and Dongjia Town actually got it in the land of Zhou, so Dong Xiang picked up his childhood ideals again: "Wang Tu hegemony and benefit the people of Li"

Dong Xiang followed his master to the Yamen public house, and saw the person sent by the Third Highness to transport supplies, and when this person turned around, both of them stood in place.

This person is a native of the Jin Kingdom, and the prince's subordinate is Pingjing Wei Sima.

Dong Xiang also drank with him when he was studying martial arts in Jinzhou.

However, neither of them said anything, and they both pretended to meet for the first time and greeted each other.

In the past year, Dong Xiang, as a county magistrate, climbed the ice and snow to carry out post-war reconstruction, personally organized farming, and presided over the operation of iron mines.

But the two of them recognized each other anyway.

waited until the master was taken away and the two sides saluted each other before they spoke.

He was sent undercover by the crown prince of the Kingdom of Jin.

And he was mistaken for being sent by the prince.

This made Dong Xiang feel a little afraid, he was really reluctant to be loved by the county order now, and he was reluctant to live a full life now.

So I came up with a plan and made up a lie.

Now the situation of the crown prince in the country is not optimistic, the position of the prince is threatened by the little prince, there are still many enemies in the court, and an opportunity is urgently needed to consolidate his position and establish prestige.

The idea hit it off with the other party, and the two began to sum it up.

This Pingjingwei Sima used his one-line relationship to send the news to his father in Qingling County without notifying anyone.

Dong Xiang's rhetoric is that the current prince's subordinates can't tell who is reliable, and the Feng Mansion Order that turned to the uncle is the best example, how much the Feng Mansion Order was trusted by His Royal Highness the Prince, but now it has become a thorn in the side of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Therefore, Dong Xiang faked an attack plan of the Zhou State on the Jin side.

At the same time, he offered a strategy to the three princes on the side of the Zhou State, and he planned to take Beiyuan Mansion.

Just when Dong Xiang's father, according to Dong Xiang's words, arranged his troops and waited for the third prince to throw himself into the net.

The three princes beheaded the Pingjing Wei Sima and sacrificed the flag, and then led an army of 30,000 to Qingling County.

With mental calculation or unintentional, Qingling County was captured, and most of Beiyuan Mansion fell into the hands of the three princes.

The monarch of Zhou personally wrote a decree to reward the three princes, and for a while, the three princes had no second reputation in Zhou.

And what Dong Xiang got was that Feng Fu ordered the whole family to be destroyed, and his own family was the same.

Dong Xiang watched his father and father-in-law behead, and Huanhuan was nowhere to be found.

When I thought of the flower clothes (shrouds) that Yaya said on that rainy night, and the hundreds of playmates and elders who grew up with me and watched me grow up buried in the mine, the only trace of guilt was washed away by the ideal of "benefiting the Li people".

All this is for the people, for the three highnesses who have the grace of knowing themselves, and for their own ideals.

Maybe.