night

There is a different kind of beauty in the snowy and moonlight on the vast fields outside the city walls.

This kind of beauty can only be found in the border areas.

Jiang Yao stood on top of the city wall, holding on to the wall with one hand and looking into the distance.

His posture is still so upright, as if he first entered the border from the hinterland of the dynasty more than ten years ago, and has not changed.

"General, it's cool at night, put on your coat. A pair of delicate hands gently draped the fox fur's cloak on Jiang Yao's body, and it was none other than his wife, the person who had accompanied him for ten years in the bitter cold land here.

Looking at Lin Mei in front of her, the years don't seem to have left too many traces on this gentle woman, but if you look closely, you will find that there are crow's feet between the delicate eyes and eyebrows at some point.

Sighing softly, Jiang Yao reached out and took his wife into his arms, under the background of the fire on the city wall, it was a tenderness that was rare for him to have in his iron and blood.

"Mei'er, it's been difficult for you in the past few years, I haven't been a good husband and a father. ”

Fingertips gently slid over his wife's cheeks, and Jiang Yao said softly.

Ten years of fighting horses, he is no longer the young and vigorous Nine Emperor Princes in the dynasty, and the years have portrayed him more as a person who would never have thought of him back then.

Time is a strange thing to be serious, sometimes it feels like it's going slowly, but it seems like a lot has passed in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Yao lowered his body, his forehead against Lin Mei, and looked carefully at the woman in front of him, this woman who did not hesitate to follow thousands of miles to the border pass for him, and gave birth to a barbarian child for him, and held the border for ten years.

The corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise slightly, he still remembered or would never forget the first time he met his wife anyway.

"Phew, it's all old husband and wife, what do you want to make trouble like this all of a sudden?" Lin Mei's cheeks flushed, and she said coquettishly, but her heart was warm, especially in this cold night.

"yes, ten years. With a light sigh, Jiang Yao turned around and changed his posture, took Lin Mei into his arms again, and sighed softly: "This life is only a short hundred years, if I Jiang is fortunate in the first half of my life, it is the honor to marry you into my Jiang family." ”

"My husband is getting poorer and poorer, giggles, what about the second half of my life?" The little joy in her heart, Lin Mei didn't notice it, and suddenly blurted out such a cute name for her husband only after a person.

"In the second half of my life, I will be able to grow up with you with our little man. Jiang Yao lightly scratched Lin Mei's nose, it seemed that such an intimate action had not been done for a long, long time, or since he was guarding the border pass, he had never been able to talk to his wife so well as he did today.

"Now that my Jiang clan's great enemy, the Wolf Tinglan Clan, has been eliminated, and all the eight million miles of barren grasslands belong to my Great Xia Kingdom, I have done enough for my father and emperor for this country. ”

Looking at the bonfires burning in the distance, Jiang Yao said slowly.

There, it won't be long before new cities will be erected.

There, the immigrants who had moved from the hinterland of the imperial dynasty were burying their heads in the wasteland, and from then on beyond this land was the new hometown of these people of the Great Xia Kingdom.

This time, the imperial border army pacified the most powerful opponent in the north, the Steppe Wolf Court, and its power can be said to have reached the peak of five hundred years. And Jiang Yao is even more indispensable, if it is said that it is a bit illusory to divide the crown prince with this military exploit, but Jiang Yao's prestige among these tens of millions of border troops has also reached a terrifying level.

"If I hadn't met you, maybe I would have fought for the throne. ”

After a slight pause, Jiang Yaozu said softly, looking into the distance, his brows frowning slightly, and he was a little worried.

Of course, he does have the qualifications to say this, not to mention the tens of millions of border forces, just the matrilineal clan in the hinterland of the dynasty is enough to support the competition with any of his brothers.

"But now with you, and later with a barbarian, now I just want to be a carefree prince with peace of mind, accompany your mother and son here to look down on the wind and clouds, and never return to the Central Plains. ”

It seemed that because of the unfolding of the knot, Jiang Yao chuckled and said: "Let the boss, the fourth and the eighth fight for those fame and profit." ”

"Giggles, can the general think about it, won't he regret it?" Lin Mei asked with a light smile, her husband's career as a horse warrior over the years has worn away the sharp spirit that was once unstoppable, and there is a trace of precipitation over the years.

Either way, it's undoubtedly good.

"Silly Nizi, do you think the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom is so deserved, I don't want our barbarians to have so many aunts and a group of competitive half-brothers like me in the future. Jiang Yao touched his forehead, and then reached out and tightened the fox fur around his wife's neck, and said with a smile.

"Hmph, it seems that the general also seemed to have thought about the three palaces and six courtyards back then, and there were groups of wives and concubines?!" Lin Mei raised her willow eyebrows, and her eyes narrowed slightly as she glared at Jiang Yaozu and said lightly.

"Hehe, where is it, for a husband, he has the heart of a thief and has no guts, right?" Jiang Yao turned his head a little embarrassed, and he didn't dare to look at his wife, to be honest, this kind of idea has never been thought of by a man, let alone how he is really possible.

"Ahem, that Mei'er, seriously speaking, our little barbarian will be seven years old in the New Year, and it's time for this little guy to choose the future path. Jiang Yao coughed dryly and secretly changed the topic, saying that in the Great Xia Dynasty, boys have always been crowned at the age of seven, and it is time to really accept the experience.

"I have also considered this for a long time, and I originally discussed it with my husband when I was waiting for my husband to return victorious. ”

Glancing at her husband, who has a thief's heart but no courage, Lin Mei said: "Although this place is bitterly cold, there are many capable people in the husband's army, so I wonder if we should leave the barbarian at the border pass, and choose a strong man in the border army as the enlightenment mentor of the barbarian." ”

Although the tens of millions of border troops in the border areas of the Great Xia Dynasty have their own commanders, the real people in charge behind the scenes are still the members of the royal family stationed here.

Jiang Yaogui is the ninth son of the current Great Xia Holy Emperor, and he is naturally one of the behind-the-scenes leaders in this army.

Hearing Lin Mei's words, Jiang Yao touched his wife's hair and fell into deep thought.

To be honest, his wife's advice was actually exactly what he wanted.

The Jiang clan of the Great Xia Dynasty commanded the southern region of this land, tens of millions of territories, and had just solved the only great enemy on the southern region for thousands of years, the steppe wolf Tinglan clan that dominated the eight million barren grasslands.

Relying solely on his military exploits, as one of the leaders of the Grassland Wolf Court of the border army's expedition, Jiang Yaozu's limelight was not unpopular in the imperial dynasty.

Not long after returning from the expedition, the forces belonging to his own matriarchal clan in the hinterland of the dynasty sent a secret letter, and what the letter said made Jiang Yao have to be cautious about the path he chose after the crown of his only heir.

"That's great!"

After being silent for a while, Jiang Yao looked at his wife and spoke slowly, his eyes were extremely dark.