Yunzhu is young and obediently listens to the two share their life experiences.

Liu Jing didn't forget her, and said with some worry: "Uncle Guo is a person of great affection, I think he has been too calm these days, and he may be holding it in his heart. ”

Yunzhu: "Well, I'll talk to him in the evening." ”

With Zhang Xingjian's burial, the Zhang family had nothing to do, Yunzhu and Zhao sent people home, and after a while, they left and left.

When Yunzhu returned to the Dingguo Mansion, he realized that Cao Xun had not come back, and went directly to the Governor's Mansion on an errand!

Although most of the governors are busy with official business, are they so busy?

Yunzhu had no choice but to wait for him to come back.

In fact, Yunzhu is not good at comforting people, Cao Xun cried in front of her, she could still comfort her, but she was afraid that he would be calm and quiet, making her seem to be doing more.

Wait, wait, Cao Xun didn't come back until it was dark.

Yunzhu sat in the hall, saw him, looked up and down, and asked, "Have you eaten?" I haven't eaten yet. ”

Cao Xun was surprised at first, and then said helplessly: "Didn't you ask Ah Jiu to come back and deliver the message, there are a lot of things today, so I told you to eat first?" ”

Yunzhu: "What's the point of me eating it myself." ”

Cao Xun motioned forsythia to go to the kitchen to deliver food.

The meal was served quickly, and Yun Zhu secretly observed the man opposite while eating, because Cao Xun had been on the vigil for the previous three nights, and he hadn't slept for long at all, and his face at this time was hardly good-looking.

After eating, Yunzhu hurriedly urged him to go to sleep, and she also followed him to bed.

Cao Xun habitually hugged her for a while: "I've worked hard for you these past few days." ”

Yunzhu: "I don't have anything to suffer, but you, cry when you feel uncomfortable, and be less reckless." ”

Cao Xun smiled: "I'm not a child. ”

Yunzhu touched the corners of his eyes: "Who said that children can cry?" They all say that it is easy to hurt your body if you hold back, you are older than me, and you are more old when you are sick, so you have to cry when you should cry. ”

Cao Xun grabbed her finger, kissed her, and said, "I didn't want to cry, I didn't cry when my father left." ”

Yunzhu: "......"

Cao Xun: "Do you think I'm too unkind?" ”

Yunzhu: "No, I'm just a little curious, have you ever cried for something?" ”

Cao Xun: "Well, when I first went to the battlefield, I cried a few times when I saw so many soldiers dying in front of me, and then I gradually got used to it. ”

Can you get used to it?

Yun Zhu didn't know what else to say, only that even if he got used to it, he would definitely still be sad about Zhang Xingjian's death.

"I'll just hug you, when you want to speak, I'll listen to you."

Cao Xun was indeed very sleepy, his body was extremely tired, and his spirit was naturally difficult to support.

He only said one word to the unusually gentle little lady: "Hold it for a while, and then let go when I fall asleep." ”

Chapter 70 Plot Chapter, Li Xian, King of Li, counter-kills + brother suppresses bandits

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the Marquis of Huai'an in the capital was buried, King Li, Li Xian and others, who had been away from Beijing for two months, had just stepped into the boundary of Guizhou, and there were still more than ten days away from Liping Mansion, the land of the domain.

In addition to the palace maids and eunuchs and other subordinates, they were accompanied by 300 personal soldiers given to King Li by Emperor Qianxing.

In order to prevent the vassal king from rebelling, now each vassal king can only have 300 personal soldiers on the surface, and the bold can raise soldiers privately, but once they are discovered by the imperial court, they will naturally be punished.

King Li has not even arrived in the domain, and even these three hundred personal soldiers may not be willing to be loyal to him, let alone raise soldiers.

For the three hundred personal soldiers in their hands, after observing all the way, King Li and Li Xian already knew in their hearts. The three hundred personal soldiers, most of them are selected from the barracks in the capital, they have no ability, and even some of them have died of illness after the sun and rain that can't bear the way, and they only wait for King Li to report to the court after they arrive in the domain, to see if the court will send someone over, or ask him to select and supplement himself from the locals.

There are nearly 100 real elite soldiers, but these elite soldiers were sent by Emperor Qianxing to supervise King Li, and King Li was treated with great contempt.

Li Wang 14, Li Xian 15, even though they are all people who have practiced martial arts since childhood, have laid a good physical foundation, but because of the first time they went out, they still went to a place with a very different climate from the capital, and they have been sick once or twice in the past two months. At that time, Lang Zhong arranged by Li Yong was still alive, and the two relied on the medicine prepared by Lang Zhong to recover from their illness, but it didn't take long for this Lang Zhong to be shot by Wei Gang, the commander of his own army, on the grounds that Lang Zhong was sneaky in the middle of the night and was regarded as a thief who intended to assassinate.

King Li and Li Xian were very angry, but the three hundred soldiers were all people of Emperor Qianxing, so they could only endure it.

Li Xian was okay, and he had a clear conscience when he tried his best to protect King Li, but he didn't know how much pressure King Li was under.

First of all, King Li himself was afraid of death, surrounded by wolves, and he did not have any ability to protect himself.

Secondly, King Li was afraid that Li Xian would also be implicated by him, and the imperial physician was clearly instructed by Emperor Qianxing to kill him with his hands and feet on medicine, and the Lang Zhong arranged by the Li family ruined Emperor Qianxing's plan, and Wei Gang took action to eradicate the stumbling block of Lang Zhong, so the next time King Li was sick, he must drink the "good medicine" carefully prepared by the imperial doctor.

He just died with this one life, but Li Xian was so innocent.

It was the fifteenth day of August, but the night sky was shrouded in hideous and heavy black clouds, and no moonlight could penetrate it.

King Li couldn't sleep, so he stood by the window of the post house, staring at the night sky.

Li Xian slept with him, pretended to sleep for a while, and realized that King Li might continue to stand like this, so he came over and said in a low voice: "I have to go on my way tomorrow, so the prince should go to bed early." ”

King Li turned around, and under the shaking light, the young prince, who was only fourteen years old, actually had a slight crease in the center of his eyebrows.

He used nostalgia to hide the apprehension in his heart, and asked with a smile: "It's the Mid-Autumn Festival, do you miss the grandfather of the country very much?" ”

How good, at least Li Xian still has family to miss, but he has nothing.

Li Xian was silent for a moment and said: "Yes, but I have grown up and have my own path, and they all understand, so I just need to take care of myself and not worry them, and then go down this road firmly." ”

In the eyes of King Li, although Li Jiazaburo is thin, he already has the arrogance and courage that is not inferior to his brother Li Yao.

How fortunate he was to have such a good talent with him on the last leg of the road.

Pity......

King Li rested, and Li Xian also lay on his bed, the night was as heavy as water, and his eyes were clear.

After a rainstorm, King Li fell ill again.

The imperial physician personally brought the decoction he had boiled, and Wei Gang, the commander of his own army, came with a knife, and the guards like tigers and wolves stopped in front of the hospital bed, looking down condescendingly at the sick and weak prince leaning on the head of the bed.

King Li smiled bitterly.

"Lord Wang, the medicine is already warm, you should drink it quickly." The imperial doctor lowered his head and hid the complexity in his eyes, he didn't want to do this, but Gonggong Wan threatened him with the lives of the family, and he could only be obedient.

King Li glanced at Li Xian, who was standing next to him in a green robe, and stretched out his hand to take the soup bowl.

Just as King Li's lips were about to touch the edge of the bowl, just when Wei Gangdu's pupils shrank with excitement from this scene, a little eunuch outside suddenly tried to break through the guards of the two pro-soldiers at the door, and hurriedly shouted: "The medicine is poisonous, and the prince can't drink it!" ”

Wei Gang subconsciously looked over, and his body also turned sideways towards the door.

At this moment, a cold sharp dagger suddenly fell out of Li Xian's sleeve, which had no sword on his body, and plunged into Wei Gang's exposed side waist with lightning speed.

The blade of the dagger was more than four inches long, and it was completely submerged in Wei Gang's flesh and blood.

The sharp pain hit, Wei Gang looked back in disbelief, and his right hand was about to pull out the saber on his waist, but at this time, King Li on the bed suddenly jumped up, and the dagger in his hand accurately sank into Wei Gang's heart.

As if it was just two blinks of an eye, Wei Gang, who was looked up by a group of pro-soldiers, fell straight to the ground.

The two elite soldiers at the door were stupid, before leaving Beijing, they had to obey Wei Gang's orders, and now that Wei Gang is dead, what should they do?

At this time, Li Xian had already taken down the imperial doctor, and King Li took the opportunity to pour the bowl of decoction into the mouth of the imperial doctor.

The Imperial Physician struggled and tried to vomit out the potion, but where did he succeed?

After pouring the decoction, Li Xian and King Li both let go of their hands, watched the imperial doctor sit on the ground, and after about a cup of tea, he suddenly died of foaming at the mouth.

Li Xian had already picked up Wei Gang's saber and looked coldly at the two pro-soldiers at the door: "Wei Gang and Imperial Physician Song teamed up with the intention of poisoning the prince, can you two know?" ”

No matter how you say that King Li is a prince, the majesty of the whole body is there, how dare the two personal soldiers admit that they mixed up and poisoned the prince, and they really did not mix, at most they just saw that Wei Gang had a secret order from the palace to kill King Li, and their personal soldiers only needed to turn a blind eye.

"The subordinates don't dare!"

The leader died, and the two pro-soldiers chose to submit to King Li for the time being, and wait for the palace to send someone to take over again.

The other soldiers all had similar thoughts, and they really didn't directly receive the order to assassinate King Li anyway.

This kind of big crime of exterminating the clan once it is found out, it is okay to see others do it, and it is their turn, and the pro-soldiers below are eager to avoid as far as they can.

Ten days later, King Li finally managed to reach his vassal palace, a stone village left behind by the raid of the local barbarian leader.

It can't be compared with the carved beams and paintings of the imperial palace in the capital, but in the local area, this kind of stone village can indeed be lived in by chieftain-level people.

Li Xian's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the towering stone walls around the stone village and said: "Lord, although this mansion is simple, it occupies the terrain and is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is more solid than the ordinary feudal palace. ”

King Li said with a smile: "I am also a prince, who dares to gather a large number of people to attack me, no matter how strong this stone village is, I am afraid that it will be useless." ”

On the contrary, Li Xian's expression seemed to have been assigned to a stone fortress where he could practice the battle of attacking and defending the city, and it was difficult to hide his excitement, and he was rarely a little childish.

King Li disliked this stone village at first sight, because when he saw Li Xian's excited expression, the depression of the tiger falling into Pingyang quietly dissipated.

"Let's go, let's go in and have a look."

No matter how shabby Shizhai is, it is his palace, and it is his first home after leaving the palace, and it is indeed time to pick it up.

Before the new order came from the capital, those soldiers did not dare to act rashly, just to give them time to select loyal and trustworthy men from the local area for their own use.

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The carriage went slowly, and the messenger sent King Li's fold back to the capital with a whip, and the speed was much faster, and it only took a month.

Therefore, at the end of September, Emperor Qianxing finally saw the handwritten book of his second half-brother again.

King Li mainly told the emperor's younger brother three things.

First, he has arrived at the domain, the mountains and rivers are beautiful here, thank my brother for giving me such a good fief, so that my brother does not have to worry.

Second, more than 20 of the 300 soldiers died of illness on the way to Guizhou, and asked my younger brother where to make up for these 20 people.

Third, Wei Gang actually coveted the wealth of the vassal king, and united with the imperial physician to poison him, scaring him into a serious illness, and asked his younger brother to investigate the matter thoroughly.

King Li seems to be just talking about things and saying some polite things that a vassal king should say, but Emperor Qianxing has a ghost in his heart, so he feels that this letter is full of yin and yang weirdness, and it is King Li's ridicule of his poison!

"I'm so angry!" Emperor Qianxing threw the fold to the ground heavily.

Gonggong Wan knelt down, and before he could speak, Emperor Qianxing kicked him over, and said angrily: "How did you promise me in the first place, and what happened?" ”

Gonggong Wan didn't dare to cry out, picked up the fold and looked at it, and said suspiciously: "No, at the beginning of the month, the slave maid also received a secret report from Wei Gang, saying that the Langzhong arranged by the Li family for Li Xian had been killed by him, and as soon as Langzhong died, King Li could only obediently drink the medicine of Imperial Physician Song......"

Emperor Qianxing: "Do you still need to guess, of course he refused to behave, so he killed Wei Gang first!" ”

Gonggong Wan frowned: "Wei Gang's martial arts are strong, no worse than Li Yao, although Li Xian has the true inheritance of the Li family's marksmanship, he is young and lacks strength, he can't be Wei Gang's opponent, not to mention that Wei Gang has nearly 100 elite soldiers under him." It's a pity that in order not to leak the news, the slave and maid only kept a letter with Wei Gang secretly, and as soon as Wei Gang died, the slave and maid could only send someone to investigate again. ”

Emperor Qianxing: "Then send someone quickly!" It just so happens that there are more than 20 personal soldiers on his side, so you pick someone for him again, go and find out how Wei Gang died first, and then find a way to kill King Li! ”