Pei Qingyan lowered his eyes and did not make a sound.

What he wanted to say, the emperor didn't want to hear.

What the emperor wanted him to say, he would never be able to say.

Is it war or peace?

It seems to be a battle between generals, but in fact it is a party dispute, he Pei Qingyan is a lonely minister, a neutral faction, and has always been reluctant to get involved in the entanglement of interests, so the emperor is not asking his opinion, but testing him and testing him.

Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Emperor Duanming asked, "What, you don't know how to choose?" ”

Pei Qingyan knocked on the ground with his head and said in a deep voice: "The minister is His Majesty's close minister, and the minister will choose whatever His Majesty chooses." ”

Emperor Duanming: "......"

He sat above and looked at Pei Qingyan.

This nephew who has hurt him since he was a child.

Once, I was so close to him, but now I am getting farther and farther away.

He was silent for a while before he said, "That's it, this shouldn't be difficult for you, you get up." ”

After Pei Qingyan got up, he said again: "I'm tired, if there is anything to talk about tomorrow, Fuquan, help me go back to the palace to rest." ”

"Yes."

Father-in-law Fuquan hurriedly stepped forward and helped Emperor Duanming to leave.

Seeing this, Pei Qingyan naturally didn't want to say more.

After coming out of the palace, he suddenly wanted to see Song Anning.

For no reason, I just want to know where she is now and what she is doing.

Pei Qingyan set off for Qingzhou that night.

On the Qingzhou side, under the leadership of Song Anning, the fortifications are in full swing.

On the third day, welcoming the arrival of Pei Qing's banquet, Song Anning was extremely surprised.

"Why are you here?"

Pei Qingyan smiled, "I wanted to meet you, so I came." ”

Song Anning couldn't help but blush.

Since the two have known each other, their expressions have been subtle and introverted, and it was the first time she had seen him so Meng Lang.

After Pei Qingyan finished speaking, he was also a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Shen Jiao came over at this time.

She was not surprised to see Pei Qingyan here, and said with a smile: "Master Pei is here, it just so happens that I am going out for a trip, you and Ning'er are sitting here, and I will hand over the affairs of the store to the shopkeeper Huang, Ning'er, you accompany Master Pei more, don't rush over." ”

Song Anning was a little surprised, "Mother, where are you going?" ”

Shen Jiao patted her hand and said: "It's not safe outside now, your grandparents are old, your uncle and their business are in the north, and there is no way to do it now, so my mother thought about taking them over first, the family is together, if something really happens, there is a response." ”

After a pause, she was a little apprehensive.

"This matter is urgent, I haven't had time to tell your father, Ning'er, you won't mind, right?"

Song Anning smiled: "How can I mind? ”

She turned her head to look outside, thought for a while, and said, "Mother, I'll pick up my grandparents and uncle instead of you, you have worked hard all day, just stay at home and don't run around, I, I and Pei Qingyan will go to pick them up together." ”

After speaking, Pei Qingyan walked out.

Shen Jiao was stunned, and she couldn't cry or laugh because of her.

"Eh, you don't even know which gate they came in from, how do they pick them up?"

"I know that my grandmother's house is on the south side, so I must have come in through the south gate."

As she spoke, she pulled Pei Qingyan and ran away.

Shen Jiao laughed for a while.

ran out of Song's house all the way, someone prepared a carriage, Song Anning explained to the little girl that he would go on behalf of his mother, and the two got into the car.

After getting into the carriage, Pei Qingyan asked, "Why are you running in such a hurry?" It's as if someone is chasing after you. ”

Song Anning glared at him.

"You're embarrassed to say that if it weren't for you, I'd be ......"

As for being so embarrassed?

Song Anning didn't want to say more, so he just said: "Okay, stay for a while, you have a little bit of eyesight, although my father and mother have no opinion on you, but my grandmother is not necessarily, don't lose your sense of proportion." ”

Pei Qingyan raised his eyebrows.

"What Ning'er means, I don't really understand, what is proportion? What do you mean...... What kind of proportion? ”

As he spoke, he leaned over.

Song Anning's inexplicable little face turned red.

Slit at him and pushed him away, "If you don't know, forget it." ”

Pei Qingyan looked at her ashamed and angry appearance, and couldn't help laughing.

Fortunately, Pei Qingyan really knows how to measure.

It didn't take long for the two to pick up the Shen family outside the south gate of the city.

Shen Jiao is just an elder brother, and her parents are still there, although Song Jianing has not stayed with them since she was a child, but she hasn't seen them for so many years, and it is not a life to meet again, and they soon became acquainted.

Pei Qingyan smiled and stepped forward to say hello.

"The younger Pei Qingyan has seen the second elder of the Shen family and the uncle of the Shen family."

The three of them were stunned.

"Uh, this is ......"

Song Anning's eyes wandered.

"He's—he's a friend of his granddaughter, uh...... It's friends. ”

In the end, Song Anning couldn't go on.

I imagined that I was very bold, but when it was time to introduce it, I still had to bite the bullet.

Fortunately, the Shen family is a very transparent person.

Since this person was able to pick them up with Ning Er, it meant that it was approved by the Song family and his wife, and they both approved, and the Shen family naturally didn't say anything more, so they smiled and pulled Pei Qingyan into the carriage and went back.

Along the way, everyone was not curious about Song Anning, but they were very curious about Pei Qingyan.

From the city gate all the way back to the Song family, on the way, Pei Qingyan's identity, occupation, hobbies, and the process of getting acquainted with Song Anning were all inquired about, and he almost didn't pick up the graves of the eighteenth generation of his ancestors.

Even Song Anning couldn't look at it.

Pei Qingyan was also very good-natured and answered them one by one, as if he didn't feel offended.

When he arrived home, the uncle of the Shen family secretly gave Song Anning a thumbs up.

It's kind of a recognition of this person.

Song Anning was even more red-faced.

Shen Jiao was naturally happy to see her parents and brother.

In the evening, he ordered someone to make a large table of dishes, and he did not let Pei Qingyan avoid suspicion, so he immediately left him to eat with his family.

Pei Qingyan was also not polite.

During the meal, Shen Jiao was quite moved.

"Now the north is completely chaotic, and the army of the imperial court can't win against the northern enemy at all, but fortunately, our Qingzhou is still stable, since you have come, my heart will be steady, and when Hexing and He Lan come back next year, our family will be reunited, and we will never be separated again."

The old lady of the Shen family asked suspiciously, "Where did they go?" ”

Song Anning explained, "Go to the Southern Tang Dynasty and buy food, since there is chaos, it is naturally the best food in this troubled world." ”

"That's just as well."

The old lady and the old lady are old, and they have also experienced troubled times, knowing that in this situation, sometimes money may not necessarily have good food, so they don't say anything, and the family and He Lele finished eating, and Shen Jiao personally arranged a place for them to collapse, which is considered to be dispersed.

Fortunately, the Song family's house is big enough, even if a few more people live in, it doesn't matter.

After eating, Song Anning didn't bother her mother and her mother's family to get together, and wandered around with Pei Qingyan to the moat.

At this time, it is already August, and it is the time when the heat has dissipated and the evening breeze is slightly cool.