The sky was gloomy and could salivate, the thin window paper could not penetrate any light, the eyes of the girl in red reflected the gray general's mansion, and the sound of the guards in her ears was the sound of the strict and killing guards, she grabbed the hand of the girl in the green skirt, and said unevenly: "Ah Yao, if they force me again, I will not accept my fate." ”

……

When she went to see Mu Ruan in the morning, Su Yao's heart hung high, and she did not return to the county lord's mansion after leaving the general's mansion, but went to the Changgong mansion.

After waiting for a long time, Ying'er came to invite her to the Warm Pavilion.

The warm pavilion is placed simply, there is a small mahogany case on the kang table, the back side of the half-moon hanging screen, the incense burned seems to have the function of relieving fatigue, Su Yao sat for a while, and his heart was unconsciously quiet.

When the elder brother was still there, Su Yao had seen the eldest princess, and the impression left by the eldest princess on her was astonishing, like a camellia blooming to luxury, Ming Ao was slightly cold, and when she walked to the side of the person, the treasures and jewelry on her body rang loudly, and she was one of the most delicate in Beijing.

There is a Wan in her name, and the third brother seems to often make fun of her.

Today's eldest princess is really called gentle, but he is a little indifferent to others.

When Wei Wan came, she brought the house doctor, and after she finished diagnosing Su Yao's pulse, she stepped back, she raised her hand and took a sip of tea, "Are you here for Ru'an?" ”

Su Jiao was not surprised at all, now that the marriage between the Hussar General's Mansion and the Five Princes was well known, and her relationship with Ru'an was well known to everyone.

"Your Highness, is there any room for this matter to turn around?"

Wei Wan shook her head lightly, her expression a little more helpless: "Ah Yao, the saint is my brother-in-law, I didn't want to marry and there was a lot of trouble in the city, and I had a stalemate with him for more than ten years, and it was not until last year that it eased up. But at that time I was forced by my life, and my brother did not make a decree, and if I had given him a marriage, I would not have been able to make him retract his will. ”

Su Yao's heart gradually sank, how could she not know this? But Ruan is trapped in the General's Mansion, and the only person she can trust is her, as long as there is a little hope, she also wants to try, but now it seems that the eldest princess can't.

Wei Wan glanced at her and said, "But I can try and postpone the wedding." ”

Su Yao was stunned for a moment, and her eyes lit up instantly, "Really? ”

"When did I lie to you?"

Su Miao was overjoyed, and immediately wanted to stand up and thank him, but was supported by Wei Wan, and sighed slightly: "But this can only delay for a while, you should know, it is the princess, the saint's own flesh and blood, and the saint wants to marry her, and she has to obey the order." ”

"Ah Yao understands."

For Mu Ru'an, it must be that the later she gets married, the better, and it was beyond Su Yao's expectation to be delayed, so that when she accompanied Wei Wan to gossip, she was obviously a little absent-minded, and Wei Wan also knew that she wanted to tell Mu Ru'an the news, so she didn't keep her longer, and ordered someone to send her out of the house after dinner.

……

As soon as Wei Jingji returned to the East Palace, he began to approve the folds, the candles were bright, the files were stacked on the shelves, and the gold bricks in the hall were on the ground, Liang Yuan stood in front of the case and said solemnly: "Your Highness, people have no worries about their lives. ”

The young man snorted, and there was no wave in his eyes.

Liang Yuan sighed almost imperceptibly, "When our men arrived in Qingzhou, the thief drew his sword and was about to stab him in the chest, but the two sides were far apart, and the man stabbed a sword against the archer's arrow. ”

Wei Jingji placed the pen on the pen mountain, took out an old file from the dark grid, Liang Yuan immediately moved the lampstand closer, the file seems to have been buried in the sand for 180 years, and has been beaten by the wind and rain for several years, the ink traces are faint, and you need to look carefully to make out the handwriting on it.

"In June of the thirteenth year of the Shengyuan Dynasty, Qianzhou and Qinzhou allocated 20,000 taels of silver, 100,000 stones of grass, 1,000 war bows, 1,200 catties of lead pellets, 5,000 arrows, and a total of 3,000 heavy artillery......

"In January of the 14th year of the Shengyuan Dynasty, 16,000 taels of silver, 300,000 stones of wheat and rice, 10,000 plates of fire ropes, 5,000 catties of lead pellets, and 6,000 ...... of 36 taels of heavy artillery."

During the Great Zhou War, military towns were set up on the frontier, and in the tenth year of the Sheng Yuan Dynasty, the sage placed the Longmen guards to command the envoys, and stationed them on the Yidi border with the two guards on the left and right sides of the Longmen.

Liang Yuan will never forget the day before May, when the soldiers outside the tent were in close contact, Wei Jingji's armor was covered with blood, and the hand holding the battle report trembled slightly due to the long effort, and the white bracers turned blood-red, and he made a hoarse voice.

"Yancheng is gone."

Yancheng is the residence of General Li, and he knows that what His Highness said "gone" contains a deep meaning.

Later, his speculation was confirmed: Li Lao was defeated, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were slaughtered, and by the time the reinforcements arrived, Yancheng was already a purgatory, and the war horses that were full of evil were unwilling to go any further.

The slaughter of the city was not without the news of this incident back to the court, and the sage only summoned Li Jingpei's family into the palace to give some prestige and property, and then gave up, just as he did with the county lord, but His Royal Highness did not stop there, and Liang Yuan did not have much hope at first, until the informant desperately asked people to bring back a painting.

At this time, the painting was placed on Wei Jingji's right hand, and the person who painted it was obviously handy, and there were many ink spots on the paper, mixed with blood spots.

The painting is a long strip that has been broken. Gun.

Liang Yuan didn't understand what he meant, Wei Jingji glanced at it, and then sneered: "I'm really tired of being alive." ”

Immediately, Wei Jing ordered people to immediately go to Qing, Liang, Qian, Nanzhou and other places to secretly search, and when he was grounded and the people behind the scenes were relaxed, they found the last group of people who cleaned up the battlefield.

Liang Yuan later realized the meaning of this painting, how could shoddy weapons be used to defend the city! I'm afraid that the burning of the city is just a pretense!

The millions of silver taels allocated from various places to make such defective products must have been bought at a high price in secret, greedy for kickbacks, and even made their hands and feet to the prince's side.

"Your Highness, although most of the weapons in the hands of the Yancheng soldiers have been confiscated by the Dongou Department, there are not a few swords and guns that can be damaged, and they still need to go through the hands of many people, but none of them have reported it, which shows that the hands and eyes of that person are all over the sky."

His words implied worry, no matter how popular His Royal Highness is by the people, but he is only a prince, and the dog jumps over the wall when he is in a hurry, not to mention what high-powered figures can be involved in this case in the end, I don't know yet.

"Don't worry," Wei Jing was extremely patient, tied up the file, and said in a rambling voice: "You go and check who has got the salt lead." ”

Later, due to the huge cost of the army, Prime Minister Gao Ju proposed that merchants living on the border send grain to the army in exchange for salt, and there were strict regulations on how much salt each stone of grain could be used, which could save a lot of transportation time and manpower.

Liang Yuan should go down, and when he was about to walk out of the door, he suddenly stopped, turned around and said, "Your Highness, there is one more thing." ”

"Hmm."

"Lord Duan came to the house again the day before yesterday to deliver a post, and said to Weichen that his brother will perform a crown salute soon, and if His Royal Highness has leisure, why not meet him at the banquet."

Wei Jingji knew that Duan Rin sent the post some time ago for his marriage with Su Yao, after all, he dragged someone out at random in the capital, and he knew that Su Yao was his sister-in-law, and he had to do enough work on his face.

But in Lishui Villa, he personally disturbed their marriage, and Duan Rin felt that there was nothing to talk about now, so he changed the time to the crown ceremony.

Liang Yuan, as Wei Jingji's attendant, naturally knew that he had never liked to go to the courtier's house as a guest, and he only had characters related to the eldest princess and the county lord, so he could get a few special exceptions. Duan Rinding also knew that the gist of this move was to convey that the original matter had been variable, and he did not dare to disturb the prince's tranquility again, and if the prince did not go, the original post would be stopped.

Wei Jingji asked, "Is Yongjia going?" ”

Liang Yuan hissed long, "County Lord, I'm probably going." ”

"Hmm." He said lightly: "Arrange it." ”

……

Su Yao rushed to the hussar general's mansion overnight and told Mu Ru'an what the eldest princess had said.

Jiang Lianhai was still waiting in Su Yao's mansion, and when she saw her coming to the flower hall, she hurriedly got up and walked towards her, "Why did you come back so late?" But what happened? ”

Su Yao shook her head: "It's okay, I just chatted with Ru Ando for a while, my aunt came to look for me so late, but what's the matter?" ”

"It doesn't matter, when you come back from the villa today, I want to wash the dust for you, and tell you something by the way, but it's late at this moment, so my aunt will make a long story short."

"Okay."

Jiang Lian held the invitation card in her hand and said kindly: "Originally, Lang Jun and I both felt that Da Lang's appearance was destined to be impossible to meet people, and we did not dislike it ourselves, but we were afraid that others would be disgusted, so that he had never performed the crown ceremony for him in the previous two years. ”

She looked at Su Jiao: "But when you saw Ah Jiao that day, you were not frightened or afraid, and treated him as a normal person. ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Lian's eyes seemed to have tears, "Therefore, we have decided to make up for everything we owe him, starting with the crown ceremony." ”

Su Yao knew that the eldest cousin was the knot in her aunt's heart, and now that it was untied by mistake, she had no reason not to go.

"Auntie, don't worry, I'll go."

Jiang Lian was afraid that no one would come, this was the first time Duan Jiao had held a banquet for him since he was ten years old, so he sent posts everywhere, regardless of the size of the official position, just hoping to be more lively, Su Jiao said so, she felt more at ease, paused for a while, and hesitated: "Ah Jiao, you know a lot of people in Beijing, maybe invite some of your friends to come?" I'm afraid ......."

Afraid that the door would be crowded, everyone avoided it, but made people laugh at Ah Jiao behind their backs.

Su Yao understood, and after thinking about it, he said: "Yes, aunt, do you want someone to send a post to the Hussar General's Mansion, and I will go and talk to Mrs. Mu and invite Ru'an to go too?" ”

She must be suffocated in the general's mansion.

Jiang Lian had nothing to do, and it was too late to take care of the hour, so she only sat for a while and left.

Early the next morning, Mu Ruan received an invitation.

She seemed to see the life-saving straw, and held it tightly in her hand, and outside the window there was a white flower with very small buds, as inconspicuous as a weed, and on the vermilion window lattice, a few flower buds were stained with dew and stuck to it.

She glanced at it and looked up, as if inadvertently sweeping the buds away.

Chapter 26

Su Yao waited in the mansion for a few days, and when she was anxious, she thought that she should really inform Ru An of the eldest princess's words later, and if there were variables, she would not be overjoyed.

Fortunately, this morning, the eldest princess finally came to the letter, saying that the saint had agreed to postpone the marriage, and that Qin Tianjian had discussed with General Mu and that the saint had set the wedding date for the beginning of spring next year.

"It's August, and we'll have six or seven months until the beginning of spring." Bai Lu was relieved: "The county lord can sleep peacefully." ”

Su Jiao turned over on the beauty couch, and sighed, "It's only been half a year." ”

This is how the world is impermanent, and the month before last she went to the Beauty Pavilion with Mu Ru'an, talking nonsense, and in a blink of an eye, she was going to marry in front of her.

"County Lord!"

She looked sideways, and a guard with a knife walked to the corner gate, followed by a man dressed as a guard, and he saluted and said, "County Lord, Jiang Wu, the chief of the guard beside His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, asks to see you." ”

Su Yao sat up, covered his face with a fan, and looked at the strange man in front of him.

The eldest princess sent a message one second ago, and the next moment Wei Yuan sent someone to her house, shouldn't he want to settle accounts with her?

Jiang Wu bowed his hand to Su Yao and said with a smile: "County Lord, Your Royal Highness would like to invite you to Muchun Pavilion for a talk." ”

Muchun Pavilion was the teahouse she invited Wei Jingji to that day.

Su Yao put his hand on his forehead, trying to find a reason to push his head, Jiang Wu added: "I heard that the county lord likes red robes, His Royal Highness specially selected the tea given by the saint to boil, and also invited Miss Mu San to come over to taste tea together, the county lord should not be polite with His Royal Highness." ”

This remark has a bit of a sense of catching ducks on the shelves, Su Yao was noncommittal, the person in front of him was smiling, but he did not leave a way out between his words, and he said that he was servant of his master, maybe Ru'an's words that day were right.

"Ruan is going too?"

"His Royal Highness has sent someone to the General Mu Military Mansion to invite the third girl, and she should have already left at this time."

……

Hussar General In the military mansion, the Fang clan took two maids, crossed the vermilion corridor, and stopped in front of Mu Ru'an's house.

"Open the door."

Mu Ru'an's personal maidservant was called Hong'er, and just then passed the words of the eldest princess to Mu Ru'an, and when he was on the platform, when he heard the words, he immediately knocked on the door.

"Miss, Madame is here."

No one answered, so Hong'er pushed the door open.

Almost everything that could be smashed in the house was smashed, and Mu Ru'an fell on the kang in disheveled clothes, Xu knew that the wood was already in the boat, she was much quieter than some time ago, and she no longer went on a hunger strike, as if she had finally compromised, and was waiting to be married.

Fang Shi entered the door, the maid closed the door, and she walked up to Mu Ru'an.

"Mother knows that you are not ashamed in your heart, but your father and I are really helpless, the concubine is thick, and the fifth prince has been sent to take charge of the sixteen departments of Don'ou, which is the time to shine. Don't say you, the boudoir woman in Beijing, except for Yongjia, who does the five princes want to marry, who can not marry? Besides, he said to your father that he has admired you since he was a child, and that this is how men and women get married, and I see that the fifth prince is a humble man and a good husband. ”

Mu Ruan didn't believe these nonsense words in the man's mouth, and she also knew that her mother might not be sure in her heart, but she had to say something to comfort her, so that she could marry honestly.

"Got it." She said.