Chapter XXXVIII: Substitute Marriage 38

Sending her family on the expedition is the first time for Yu Yanling, but for Mrs. Pei, it is countless times, she is familiar with the arrangement, and she doesn't even have much emotion, only with a smile, she explains her son over and over again: "You must be careful, protect yourself, and you must not be reckless on the battlefield......"

"Mother, I see." Pei Xiuli put on the silver armor, and the young man's hard face was half hidden in the helmet, revealing only a pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle, reluctant to look at the two people in front of him.

A mother, a wife.

Yu Yanling sent him away for the first time, he was emotional, and he didn't talk much, and when he looked over, his mouth was deflated, and he lowered his head again, hiding the tears in his eyes.

They are still in love, sticky for two months, and they are about to separate suddenly, and they may not see each other for a year and a half, which is still very uncomfortable.

Suddenly, there was a weight on the top of her head, and a big hand patted it gently, and then she was hugged into a hard embrace.

Pei Xiuli touched her earlobe and said in a low voice: "Be careful of the four princes, don't slack off in martial arts, wait for me to come back and check." ”

After speaking, before she could nod, she was suddenly let go again.

When Yu Yanling looked, he could only see a back.

Mrs. Pei patted her shoulder comfortingly: "It's good to get used to it, this kid is very smart, don't worry." ”

Yu Yanling pursed her lips and smiled, nodding.

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Even if he was reluctant, Pei Xiuli still left.

After he was gone, the days ...... It became more boring, and after a month, the doctor checked Ping'an pulse as usual, and found no pregnancy, Yu Yanling began to increase the intensity of training, but passed the boring time a little.

The whole of Kyoto seems to be as calm and boring as her life.

Zhao Qingfeng gave her an invitation several times, complaining that there was nothing interesting in Kyoto recently, and the imperial court seemed to be making some big moves, and he always felt that his father had become busy.

Yu Yanling secretly remembered it in her heart, and turned her head and told Mrs. Pei that she couldn't do anything, but Mrs. Pei must have some means, if there is really something, it is nothing to protect the Pei family.

But she hoped she was wrong.

Without Pei Xiuli telling herself about the situation in the court from time to time, she couldn't judge, so she waited quietly.

I thought that there would definitely be some time before the incident, but I didn't know that two days after I told Mrs. Pei, she was woken up in the middle of the night, and the entire Pei Mansion was waiting for her, and Mrs. Pei also took the Liu family to the mansion.

"Mother, is there something wrong?" Yu Yanling wiped her face with a cold cloth to sober herself up.

Mrs. Pei's face was ugly, and she said in a low voice: "The movement at the gate of the palace is unusual......"

Because of Yu Yanling's words and everything her son said before leaving, Mrs. Pei has been paying attention to the palace, and the general's mansion is not far from the palace, so she felt it when there was a slight change.

If it was other times, he might not care so much, but today, the struggle between the four princes and the crown prince is becoming more and more serious, and the emperor already looks at the prince unpleasantly.

But the prince is kind and decisive, knows how to make good use of people, and has a very high prestige, but after the old emperor is old, he has done a lot of disappointing things, and he has to defend the four princes and concubines, and everyone in the court is more inclined to the prince at this time.

Although this situation in the plot happened three years later, it was because Zhao Zhi and Xie Cheng were in two different camps and confronted each other, which caused the time to drag on for so long.

Now Xie Cheng unexpectedly entered the camp of the four princes, but Yu Yanhe was caught by the prince's party and forced to ask about all kinds of things in his previous life, the prince already had the upper hand and occupied the prophet, but Xie Cheng's cooperation with the four princes was not so smooth.

In addition, such matters of imperial power are already sensitive, and a little wind and grass will cause major changes, and it is normal for the progress to be accelerated abruptly.

Therefore, as soon as Mrs. Pei said that the movement at the gate of the palace was not right, the faces of Liu Shi and Yu Yanling changed, and now she didn't need a cold handkerchief, she sobered up directly: "Then what now?" ”

Mrs. Pei smiled comfortingly: "It's okay, let's just wait." ”

It's enough to stay awake, no matter how much they can't do.

As he was talking, the housekeeper of Pei's Mansion came in a hurry, with a bloodstained man behind him, before he crossed the threshold, the man knelt down, and presented the paper folded into a square with both hands: "Mrs. Pei, the subordinate Imperial Forest Army rode Shen Li, and got the command of His Royal Highness the Prince, now the four princes are forcing the palace, His Royal Highness is leading troops to resist, and his subordinates are desperately fleeing to ask Mrs. for help!" ”

Mrs. Pei's body trembled, and she hurriedly stepped forward to take the paper and unfold it, and wrote a paragraph in slightly scribbled handwriting on it-ask Mrs. Pei to lead the troops into the palace to protect the lord

"It's the Prince's handwriting." She muttered.

The man was afraid of delaying time, so his tone was hurried: "Wan Sheng, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, is dead, and now the deputy commander Tang Ji leads 50,000 Royal Forest Army to surround the entire palace, and the remaining 30,000 people are still in the camp outside the city because they don't want to listen to Tang Ji's transfer!" His Royal Highness said that Madame would go, and they would definitely be willing to follow Madame, so they ordered their subordinates to find Madame and bring someone there. ”

There were not many troops in Kyoto, the Imperial Forest Army had a total of 100,000 people, the rebels took away 50,000, and 20,000 were in the hands of the prince, who were resisting the other side, and the remaining 30,000 people did not have orders and did not dare to break into the palace.

Someone has to lead.

Mrs. Pei's face had already become serious after hearing this, she clenched the paper in her hand, and said in a deep voice: "Mrs. Ben is going now!" ”

The messenger immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then his body shook and fell to the ground, and the butler quickly carried him up to the doctor.

Mrs. Pei didn't wear those cumbersome clothes due to the change, and she was about to leave alone at this time, when she saw this, Yu Yanling hurriedly followed: "Mother, I'll go with you." ”

Mrs. Pei frowned: "Nonsense, such a big thing, what are you going to do?" Guarding the rest of the people at home is. ”

Yu Yanling also frowned: "I'm better than my mother, it's naturally useful to go, and the housekeepers can protect Pei's Mansion, so they don't need me." ”

Mrs. Pei paused, hesitated for a moment, and nodded.

The two of them took a few guards from Pei Mansion, and galloped away, there were no idle people in Kyoto in the middle of the night, the road was empty, and the horses ran faster, when they were about to arrive, Yu Yanling's sharp eyes saw the city gate heavily guarded from a distance, and said decisively: "Mother, it is estimated that the nearest city gate next to the Royal Forest Army camp has already been guarded by the people of the four princes, and we can't go from there." ”

Mrs. Pei immediately nodded: "Then go to the east side of the city." ”

The east of the city is farther away, but at this time riding a horse, the speed can still be accelerated, galloping all the way, sure enough, although there are people guarding the east side of the city, but there are few guards, more of them know their identities, they don't dare to resist at all, and honestly open the city gate.

The group quickly came to the Royal Forest Army barracks, the Pei family army is the most powerful army in the Xia Dynasty today, even the Royal Forest Army has many from the Pei family army, Mrs. Pei came in person, her identity alone is enough to make people trust, and the remaining 30,000 people have long known what the people Tang Ji took were doing.

They refused to rebel, and when they saw Mrs. Pei at this time, they naturally followed without saying a word, and they didn't have time to prepare, they didn't have a rest all night, just waiting for someone to come.

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After the assembly of manpower, everyone entered from the gate in the east of the city again, and rushed directly to the palace, the palace gate was not opened, and Mrs. Pei said: "Attack the city directly!" ”

"Yes!" The Guards immediately responded and began to attack the city.

The palace and the city gate are naturally different, and the resistance ability is also different, especially now that most of the troops are encircling and suppressing the prince and the emperor, the palace gate is not well guarded, but in a quarter of an hour, the palace gate is wide open.

"Rush!" With a hoarse shout, Mrs. Pei took the lead and killed the resisting rebels.

When you get here, it's a real fight.

The smell of blood gradually lingered on the tip of her nose, and when the rebels cleaned up, Mrs. Pei looked back at her daughter-in-law with some worry, for fear that her daughter-in-law would not be used to this atmosphere of fighting and killing.

At this glance, I happened to see that the impression should be a well-behaved and sweet little girl, who was frowning and looking a little more solemn, wiping the blood stains on her sword.

Mrs. Pei: "??? ”

As if sensing her gaze, the little girl raised her eyes to look over, and her calm eyes suddenly bent, revealing a light smile, which looked exceptionally bright in the dim light.

"Mother?"

Mrs. Pei came back to her senses in a trance, instinctively continued to move forward with most of it, to find the prince, and at the same time she was a little confused, her daughter-in-law's adaptability is really strong.

Yu Yanling looked at her back and smiled weakly, she was not adaptable, just because she had experienced a lot.

This is not the first time this has happened.

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The Emperor's Bedchamber

Zhou Wentan wiped the blood stains on his face and motioned for the person behind him to push him in.

One step faster than him was the fourth prince, his face was full of excitement, and he strode forward: "Mr. Zhou, you are still amazing!" Now there is only news from the East Palace! ”

Zhou Wentan pursed his lips and smiled, his expression was a little more complacent, and it was displayed just right, which would not be boring or boring: "Your Highness has a good reputation, if it weren't for Your Highness, the plan wouldn't be so smooth, only Commander Tang Ji caught the waste prince, and everything would be completely settled." ”

"That's nature!" The four princes walked in presumptuously, the old emperor in the hall was watched, and the graceful and luxurious concubine Niangniang was looking forward to it, and when she saw her son, she hurriedly came over: "My son is fine." ”

The old emperor who was behind him was surrounded by a knife rack, and his face turned pale: "Son! ”

The fourth prince didn't care at all, and only cared about comforting his mother: "With Mr. Zhou here, how can there be anything?" Mother, don't worry. ”

The concubine also looked at Zhou Wentan with a smile: "Thanks to Mr. Zhou, he has no last resort." ”

"Mother's welcome." Zhou Wentan hurriedly saluted, he was still in a wheelchair, in order to avoid the search of Dali Temple, he was ruthless and changed the original broken leg to an old injury, resulting in Dali Temple Qing could not be convicted, but the price was to become a complete waste.

Fortunately, he escaped the interrogation of Dali Temple and returned to the Four Princes' Mansion, thinking that the Four Princes would not cooperate with him, but he didn't expect him to still be willing.

For this reason, Zhou Wentan will naturally not live up to his expectations.

The four princes are favored by the old emperor, and the power at hand is not small, but the prince is menacing, and Zhao Zhi helps, Yu Yanhe has an accident so that he can't use many plans for future development, so he has to take dangerous moves, taking advantage of the current power, directly forcing the palace.

Zhou Wentan knew that few people could compare to him in terms of talent and learning, but compared to strategy, he was slightly inferior to Zhao Zhi.

In fact, in his plan, Zhao Zhi was supposed to be sent to the four princes, so when he inquired about the examiner Xu who often went to the restaurant for dinner, he led a group of students to come over.

The excuse is to open meat, in fact, at the dinner table, he guided them verbally, let them express their contempt for Lord Xu, Xu Qi this person has a small belly and chicken intestines, he will definitely keep it in his heart, and give him another chance, it will definitely not let them go to high school.

The rest of the people were all affected, and the only one he wanted to target was Zhao Zhi.

Failed in the imperial examination, life is difficult, but this person is smart, not only has the knowledge of traditional students, but also knows how to go sideways, he wants to get ahead, and he is not such a chivalrous and courageous person, so he should go to a dead end, he will give up the bottom line of those actions.

Such a person and the four princes get together, it is definitely a strong combination.

It was his plan, and he never told anyone about it, and everything should have been implemented according to his plan, until Yu Yanhe changed.

At the beginning, although he was a little disappointed, he didn't care, who knew that it didn't take long for Yu Yanhe to turn back again, and Zhou Wentan had no choice but to agree, and choose a suitable person again, it was better to continue to use this woman who looked shrewd but was actually stupid.

It's just that he never expected that things would start to change......