There was a faint fragrance in the cloak.

This is the incense that Pei Yuxue set up in the hall. Xue Yuxiao lowered her head and sniffed, her heart was full of plum fragrance, she didn't look back, turned her back to him and asked, "The child's name, have you ever thought about it?" ”

Pei Yuxue leaned against her chin and looked at her in a more comfortable position, half of her body was covered by the shaking curtain. He said softly, "I think I think about it." But the dragonborn princess wants to let his wife name it, so that it looks dignified and solemn, you don't want to be able to escape. ”

Xue Yuxiao chuckled lightly and said, "But I never know how to name it." ”

Pei Yuxue said: "I heard 'Compassion Shines on the Most Holy Heavenly Maiden of the Lotus Sutra', which is not bad. But your limit? ”

Xue Yuxiao heard his teasing, raised his eyebrows slightly, and assured him: "When I come back from the discussion, I will tell you the name." ”

Pei Yuxue raised the corners of her lips slightly and looked at her quietly.

The cloak was tightened, Xue Yuxiao went to the Qinzheng Palace, she did not take the chariot, but walked, and said a few words to the imperial attendant on the way.

When she arrived, there were already Fengge Zhuqing and everyone in the military palace waiting for a long time. The two sides are distinct and do not sit in the same place. The Fengge ministers on the left have a happy and worried expression, the joy is that they have prevented the sneak attack of the Hu people and have not damaged the people and assets, and the worry is that the army is about to be dispatched, the war will start again, and they can't have trust in the military government to win a hundred battles.

The generals of the military government were different, and on the night when this incident was conveyed, the faces of the generals could not hide their excitement and enthusiasm. They really want to get military merits and glorify the lintel, and this moment is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Eastern Qi Dynasty, after the defeat of a hundred battles, the offense and defense finally changed shape.

Xue Yuxiao took her robe and sat down, and the hundred officials saluted to the throne, she nodded, and her expression didn't show much clues.

Xue Quan, the servant of the Ministry of Works, is the daughter of the Xue clan, seeing that His Majesty has a calm expression and an expressionless face, and his colleagues on the left and right are frequently flying here, and under pressure, he took the lead in asking: "General Huan, General Xiao...... There are also two generals Li, as well as the lieutenants Xiao Pingyu, Huan Poyu, Duan Yan, etc., all of whom are willing to immediately send troops to conscript, and during the discussion of the Feng Pavilion, they feel that it is better to see the prisoners brought back by the Ming Holy Army first, and how about the holy will of His Majesty without trial? ”

She spoke, and the rest of the people seconded.

"After all, peace is still precious, please Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, when you know that raising an army is a disaster of war, you must think twice before acting."

Xue Yuxiao followed their tone and said, "Naturally, it's better to see the captives first." ”

The people of Fengge breathed a sigh of relief, a large part of the people still didn't want to raise troops to start a war, they didn't rely on their military exploits to promote their official positions, and it was a good choice to live in peace.

Xue Quan listened to this sentence and felt that this answer did not conform to the young master's true intentions, so he asked worriedly: "Then ...... you see the captive?"

"When you see a captive, of course, you will drink and talk merrily, and treat you solemnly." Xue Yuxiao continued, her tone was bland, "She is the princess of the Xia Kingdom, she was captured for a while, and she is also the lord of the tiger and wolf who has been fighting for the past twenty years, how can you not show more respect for her?" ”

There was a sudden silence in the hall, and everyone looked at each other, wanting to speak and stopping.

At this moment, the emperor often serves tea, Xue Yuxiao took off the tea cup casually, and suddenly asked, "What tea?" ”

Chang replied: "The large-leaf holly provided by Yuzhou." ”

Xue Yuxiao's face did not change, he drank it indifferently, and said, "Serve tea to Zhongqing." ”

The waiter got up and stepped back and gave a command, so the palace attendant rushed in and brought the freshly cooked hot tea. The tea is emitting wisps of white mist, and the tea soup is green.

Many people don't know what "big-leaf holly" is, and when they see His Majesty's gift, they drink it, and a strong bitter taste gradually rolls up their lips and teeth, and the astringency of "bitter ding" pours into their throats. Some pampered civil aristocratic girls couldn't get used to drinking, so they frowned and forbeared.

Xue Yuxiao drank all the tea and said, "This tea was tasted by me when I went to Yuzhou to see Sima Shi. At that time, my reputation was still weak, and I had to hold back and drink it secretly. ”

She glanced at everyone and suddenly asked Xue Quan: "Aiqing thinks that the suffering of this tea is worse than the shame of Daqi for decades?" ”

Xue Quan's heart was beating violently, her back was tense and almost stiff, and she affirmed: "The humiliation of losing Yanjing has made the hearts of the ministers of the world very bitter, and it is even more than this tea!" ”

Xue Yuxiao let out an "um" sound.

She stood up and swept past Wang Jie. Although Wang Jie is in charge of the Fengge Pavilion, she is dedicated to completing Wang Xiu's will, and she will definitely not oppose the expedition.

Xue Yuxiao's footsteps walked through the Yuan, Li, Yang and many other high-ranking nobles, some of whom held prominent official positions in the Feng Pavilion, and some were idle and noble, only receiving rewards and food, and there was almost nothing to do. She examined and considered them one by one, and said, "Do you think so too?" ”

The cup of clear green tea was filled with heat, and the white mist was slow, as if it was burning in everyone's hearts.

"Once upon a time, the enemy was strong and I was weak." Xue Yuxiao stood still in front of the hall, the door was open, and she looked at the snow-covered Biwa Zhu wall, "So endure the pain of being devoured by tigers and wolves, endure the pain of the land falling apart, endure the root of your teeth to be crushed, and swallow the blood into your stomach." Forbearance, this word, is really what all the Aiqing in the Great Qi Dynasty are best at. ”

"Your Majesty." Zhang Yejun couldn't hold back and wanted to get up.

Xue Yuxiao raised his hand to stop it, and continued: "However, the high position of the court, you meat eaters, and Lu eaters, are just reputations damaged and ambitions are difficult to pay, and what really endures this hardship is the chaos of the people, the mountains of corpses, and the blood debt of the Tuoba royal family for slaughtering the city. Now that the situation is reversed, he does not dare to ask for it immediately, but wants to see the captive princess who was captured alive......"

She laughed, and her laughter was tinged with sarcasm: "What's next, peace?" Want some money and food, waiting for their next contract-breaking sneak attack? The people who were attacked were all the people, not the people in the temple! ”

"Your Majesty." "Your Majesty."

Several more people got up, looked ashamed, and knelt down in front of Xue Yuxiao's back.

When one person moves, everyone is shaken.

Xue Yuxiao didn't look at them, but said, "That's just a captive, an enemy, a lost dog, not your master." ”

"Your Majesty!"

Almost everyone stood up.

Xue Yuxiao said: "Your lord is here, not in Huying, thousands of miles away. ”

She turned around and spoke clearly to everyone: "I will personally drive the expedition, attack the imperial court of the Xianbei Xia Division, personally behead the new khan, collect the thirty-two northern departments, cross the Canghe River, cross the Chongling, and unify the world." I want you to remember that the lord of the country you serve is me, and I can kill all the Hulu! ”

"Your Majesty——!"

Everyone knelt on the ground, and although there was no word of persuasion, there were weeping among them.

It was just three sounds, first shock, fear, then shame and guilt, and then tragic and painful, which made people breathless. The emperor is so powerful that many people can barely react to Xue Yuxiao's decision.

She said to the military government: "You are all my favorite generals, and you know my thoughts. Passing on my will, I ordered Zhou Shaolan to cut off Tuoba Ci's head, send an envoy to the Xianbei Imperial Court, and enshrine this head to the new Khan, saying, I have come to kill her. ”

"Yes!"

Xue Yuxiao said again: "The matter of logistics grain and grass is still handed over to Feng Pavilion for dispatch. Zhang Yejun, you supervise the transportation of grain and grass. ”

Zhang Yejun bowed deeply and kowtowed: "Obey the holy order." ”

The seat was full of clothes bowing their heads and weeping. In His Majesty's words, they remembered the deceased Prime Minister Wang, and remembered that she shouted to the north on her deathbed - but the sadness is not the same in Kyushu, but the sadness is not in sight, and Kyushu is the same.

Xue Yuxiao didn't listen to this cry, but said, "Feng Pavilion has drafted a decree and sent it to me." The tea is going to be cold...... Take a sip, many of you have never suffered and have not endured. ”

She said no more and walked out of the temple.

……

In order to prepare for the expedition, the famous generals of the military government took turns to come to visit. Xue Yuxiao met one by one, and saw that they were either directly or implicitly asking for the vanguard official position, and she handed them all over to Li Qingchou to manage.

A few hours later, Xue Yuxiao returned to Taiji Palace to accompany Feng Jun for dinner. It was not too late, Pei Yuxue wanted to get up to make vegetables, but Xue Yuxiao sat down, grabbed his hand and touched it for a while.

Pei Yuxue let her touch it, slowly held it, and said in a low voice: "I heard that you are angry?" ”

Xue Yuxiao said: "Hmm...... Not really. It's just that sometimes, if you don't take a tough attitude, others will feel that there is room for change. ”

Pei Yuxue smiled and said, "I know." You were born with such a gentle face, if you don't speak hard, others will think you are a bully. ”

"That's the truth." Xue Yuxiao sighed softly, leaned over and asked him, "I look really easy to bully?" ”

Pei Yuxue stared at her and nodded seriously.

His fingers were raised and slowly stroked on Xue Yuxiao's cheek, both cherishing love and pity, and it seemed that there were thousands of words between the touches. It coincided with the slanting sunset, and the glow spread over the table, casting the shadows of the two on the screen.

Xue Yuxiao got closer, closer and closer, so that he could touch him. In a light caress that traced her eyebrows, Pei Yuxue whispered, "I'll give this to you." ”

He withdrew his hand and took something out of his sleeve.

Inlaid with jade and gold, sharp as snow, it is the golden knife worth 100,000 yuan.

Xue Yuxiao stared at it for a long time, took it, first sighed, then smiled, and said, "Good Pei Lang, why do you still have a knife in your sleeve?" ”

Pei Yuxue looked at him quietly, and replied: "Although it is a sharp weapon, because it accompanies you from birth to death, I have traveled far away several times. I have to store it close to me to feel safe......"

Xue Yuxiao said: "I will return it with me." ”

Pei Yuxue stepped forward to hug her, buried herself in her arms, took a deep breath, and whispered: "Wife, is there a return date?" ”

"Wait until the child is born." She said, "The birth of a daughter is called the universe, and it has been the universe throughout the ages." Giving birth to a boy is true, honest and true, and will not be violated, what do you think? ”

“…… It's all good. He said softly, "It must be all good from your mouth." ”

His voice was clear.

It is this softness and warmth that seems to wrap everything about her. Even a resolute and resolute person like Xue Yuxiao was in a trance for a moment, and he was attached to the gentle hometown. She lowered her eyes, her heart trembled with a hint of sadness, and murmured: "The plum blossoms in the palace are blooming, I will break a branch ......and take it away."

“…… Okay, please trust it on my behalf, so that I can dream of my wife. ”

Arrows Fall Warriors Scramble (1)

Chapter 96

Xia King's Court.

Tuoba Ying had just subdued the generals left behind by the old khan, and she turned defeat into victory in the battle not long ago, driving her second sister Tuoba Ci out of Xilin, returning to the royal capital, and officially accepting the ceremony of becoming the new khan.

Singing and dancing in the royal court, the Hu men are more open and wild by nature, wearing vaguely visible half-exposed clothes, exposing their chests to serve the Xianbei nobles in the banquet, drinking and having fun, and talking with the ministers of the Xia Kingdom during the banquet.

"Who would have thought that the second highness who was in the limelight would be defeated miserably at the hands of the third highness!" Wu Luolan begged and sighed, "When the Third Highness was chased to my city by the Qi people, I was still surprised, thinking that His Highness's ability was insufficient, who would have thought that the Qi people would be born and kill people by surprise, this is a defeat of bad luck, and it is not the fault of His Highness." ”

"The lord of the kingdom is the most beloved daughter of the previous lord of the country, she is much pampered, and she is personally taught, and if you want me to say, she is the choice of the new lord of the country. It was only the defeat of the Eastern Qi and the loss of fame that allowed the civil strife to come to this point. Another minister said, "This time regroup, win more with less, and use soldiers like gods, so that you can show your true colors!" ”

"We should take this opportunity to gather the rest of the tribes, build up our forces, and swallow that-" she raised her hand and pointed at the guide, "swallowing it completely." ”

"Don't you dare, don't you know that the lord of the country is very jealous of that white-robed general, if you can't think of a perfect plan, you'd rather not send troops." Uroran begged, "What's more, that person has already ascended the throne as the emperor, and such a person has become the emperor......"

Qi Yunfeng, who was sent to negotiate peace, was also at the table, and he was originally immersed in eating vegetables, but when he heard this sentence, he suddenly sneered and said, "If this person is not removed, he must be the bane of Great Xia." Back then, under the city of General Uroland, you should immediately connect with all the departments, send troops to chase, and you must kill Xuzhou to take her head, that time you let go of this person, and it will be even more difficult to get such an opportunity! ”

Uroran's face changed slightly.

The two looked at each other, and some sparks flew between them. Seeing this, Tuoba Baby, who was sitting at the top, raised his glass to celebrate the drinking, and guided: "Why do the two of you only talk about not drinking, and don't mention state affairs, just to celebrate the stability of the overall situation, drink, drink!" ”

Only then did the two put aside their prejudices and drink together. One of the two of them looked down on the other party's failure to negotiate peace and the conditions they obtained were too weak, while the other thought that Wu Luolan, as a general, could not judge the situation and maintained his arrogant prejudices and let go of Daxia's fierce rivals, so they complained a lot.

Two glasses of wine are in the stomach, and the heat is diffused. On this celebratory winter night, the fire in the royal court burned hot and floated with sparks. Just when everyone was staggering, a Xia Guo Palace attendant suddenly came rushing outside, holding a letter with feathers sticking to her, and without notification, she pounced into the banquet.

The crowd fell silent.

Hu Nu knelt on her knees, her back was prostrate, her shoulders trembled, her breath was not even, and under the gaze of everyone, she said with a heavy breathing voice: "Great sweat...... Defeated Xinzhou's ...... Target...... The rebel Tuoba Ci tribe attacked Taiyuan and was defeated......"

Tuoba Infant woke up when he arrived.

This sentence carried a chill that instantly rushed from the soles of his feet to the back of his head. As if she was stabbed in her back, she immediately got up, propped up the table and asked, "What else?" What else? ”

Hu Nu replied: "Second Highness...... The traitor Tuoba Ci was captured. The remnants were completely lost, and there was no one who could escape as an formation. ”

Tuoba Baby's face sank like water, she slapped the table suddenly, slowly sat back on the throne with a wooden face, and said, "...... I knew it was so. I knew there was a fraud! There must be an ambush in that place, Xue Yuxiao's scheming is extremely deep, and she must not easily move what is under her eyelids. ”

Someone couldn't help but say: "Why should the Great Khan be afraid of her to this point!" ”

"Afraid?" Tuoba Ying said coldly, "Soldiers don't get tired of cheating, think twice!" The second sister is not afraid, but now that she is being captured and has become a prisoner under the stairs, how can she despise this person anymore?! ”