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Taiwei Pei had always wanted his eldest son to settle in the capital and his second son to join the army. Unfortunately, Pei Xu had been reluctant to leave the capital before, but now he finally thought about it.

As a descendant of the Pei family, there is no need to rely on military merit to become an official. His Majesty directly issued an edict to appoint Pei Xu as the school captain.

Before he left for Liangzhou, he went to the East Palace again. Zhao Zhen seemed to be angry. He looked at her quietly with almond-shaped eyes, pursed his lips and said, "Do you regret it? You are avoiding me again."

"No." The young man remembered what his brother said and looked gloomy, "I want to gain military merit and then marry you."

He wanted to gain military merit and power, and then... kill everyone who wanted Zhao Zhen to marry him, and then returned to Chang'an to marry her.

Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, smiled, and then reluctantly suppressed his joy and hugged the waist of the young man in front of him.

"What are you doing standing still? Kiss me quickly." She frowned, "If you don't move, I will go find someone else as soon as you leave."

The young man's ears and neck were all red, and finally he lowered his head and kissed her forehead.

On the way to Liangzhou, Pei Xu still missed that kiss.

When he arrived at the military camp, he frowned. The military discipline of the famous Liangzhou Cavalry Camp in the past was lax. They were either skinny ordinary soldiers or fat military attachés.

During Beihu's previous plunders, the generals of Liangzhou Cavalry were having sex with prostitutes in their tents. They had no intention of sending troops. They just said, "We can't defeat the left and right. We are isolated by the pass, so nothing will happen to us."

Pei Xu was silent, no wonder the people outside the customs were fleeing one after another, preferring to be refugees rather than stay in their hometown.

Now that it was summer, Beihu would not go south to plunder, so he wrote letters home and tried every means to find out about the situation in the capital.

Hearing about the floods in the south, His Majesty wanted to build a princess palace for Zhao Zhen. The scale was so large that it would take three years to complete the construction. Zhao Zhen declined the offer and requested that both the budget cuts and his own salary be used for disaster relief.

Zhao Zhen secretly wrote a letter to him and asked Xu Huiyi to help him send it out. He mentioned the matter and said that the officials were exploiting him at all levels, so he needed more money than he actually needed. Therefore, the princess palace might be too shabby, and he and himself would have to be wronged in the future. We live together in a small courtyard.

He wrote a lot, fearing that the letter would be intercepted, but in the end he just cut off a strand of hair with a sword and sent it back.

Zhao Zhen received the letter that Huiyi brought into the palace, opened it and took a look, but refused to show it to her.

"What on earth is it?" Hui Yi smiled very narrowly, "It must be some disgusting words, you are embarrassed."

She touched the face of the girl in front of her with her finger, "Your face is completely red."

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A few months after he arrived in Liangzhou, his eldest brother was promoted to the governor of Liangzhou.

Mr. Pei's previous official positions were noble, but now he can go to Liangzhou and be ranked among the ninth ministers when he returns home. This is a very typical promotion route for important ministers in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

"A Xu came to Liangzhou for the first time, are you still used to it?" Pei Ji looked at his younger brother who was already taller than him, and felt inexplicably.

He said with a subtle expression: "Father said that the princess is now well-known among scholars and common people. She is frugal, kind-hearted, and not domineering. She is suitable to be the mistress of the Pei family."

Pei Xu's eyelids twitched, mistress?

"The eldest brother has already married."

"Delegating my wife to a concubine means that if the princess doesn't want to, I can make peace with her." Pei Ji smiled and patted the young man on the shoulder, "Axu may want to call your highness sister-in-law in the future."

"Your Majesty will be willing?"

"The governor of Yangzhou rebelled last month. In order to suppress the rebellion, my father did a lot of work."

Pei Xu was silent for a long time, watching his eldest brother leave, his hand holding the hilt of the sword bulging with veins.

The future head of the Pei family must be the eldest brother?

He wants Zhao Zhen and the family fortune.

After the first heavy snowfall of winter, Beihu finally went south, and the scouts came to report. This time only a small group of light cavalry came.

Pei Ji, the new official, took office three times and was proud of his martial arts skills. He wanted to lead the troops out of the customs himself.

He took away all the elite Liangzhou cavalry. Unexpectedly, behind the small group of light cavalry, it was Beihu Shanyu who personally led the army south.

The young Chanyu who had just succeeded to the throne was not anxious to plunder food, but was eager to cut off the head of a powerful Zhou Dynasty official to prove himself.

The eldest son of the Pei family in Yanzhou, the governor of Liangzhou, and the son of a Taiwei.

enough.

Chanyu cut off Pei Ji's head and returned the useless body to Zhou.

Everyone who stayed in the pass was waiting for Pei Ji's biological brother to make a decision, but Pei Xu looked at the ordinary soldiers with thin limbs and the old horses that could not run, and he did not hesitate to choose to guard the pass without taking a step.

He wrote down the battle strategy and handed it over to a few relatively reliable military attachés, while he rode back to Chang'an day and night to ask for help.

As he expected, his mother, who had always been noble and self-possessed, said in a cold voice: "Those domestic servants who follow your eldest brother are all highly skilled in martial arts. It is not a problem to escort him back from the chaos. What about the people?"

The young man looked sad and said, "Mom, my eldest brother is stubborn and only brought Xian Zhi with him. If you don't believe me, you can go check it out."

After the words fell, the Taiwei's wife turned pale and sighed resignedly.

Pei Xu's performance was very good. No one knew that the escaped servant shot an arrow at the eldest brother's horse, so that the eldest brother who wanted to leave the army and escape was captured alive by Shan Yu.

The pass in Liangzhou was defended. When the captains received the order to thank them, they mentioned the strategy written by Pei Xu. His Majesty smiled and said: "It seems that Aiqing is better at strategizing than going into battle to kill the enemy."

He was appointed as the governor of Donglai County in Qingzhou. His Majesty heard that he was too sad and allowed him to rest in Chang'an for a few months before taking up his post.

Pei Xu often went to the East Palace, ostensibly to reminisce with the prince, but in reality he was hidden in the carriage by Zhao Zhen, and the two secretly had a private meeting in Chunshan Palace.

In the corner of the inner hall, the two sat opposite each other, occasionally leaning forward to kiss each other's cheeks, not even daring to touch their lips.

Zhao Zhen was a little dissatisfied. Pei Xu refused to hug her. He was so disobedient and unqualified.

The young man held her hand again, kissed the corners of her eyes and said, "If you are seen, my reputation will be ruined."

"No, Spring Mountain Palace has long been abandoned."

Zhao Zhen's mouth may have been open, but it wasn't long before she heard a man's voice. Her eyelids jumped, and it was her father.

There seemed to be more than one beauty talking and laughing.

The emperor was so absurd that the beauties in the palace could no longer live in him. He still selected concubines among the people, and the maids around him were not even allowed to wear obscene pants.

Zhao Zhen understood that his father was probably passing by the deserted Chunshan Palace and saw a palace official he had never seen before. He thought he was quite attractive and dragged him into the inner palace to be favored.

She was so confused that she took the young man in front of her and hid in the golden nanmu cabinet next to the couch.

The cabinet was narrow, and she pressed close to the boy next to her, and she could hear his gradually heavier breathing in her ears.

The sound on the couch came through the cracks in the wood. Zhao Zhen's face became paler and paler, and his ears were suddenly covered tightly.

A quarter of an hour later, Pei Xu lowered his hands after hearing His Majesty's sound of retreating.

After Zhao Zhen got out of the cabinet, he complained: "The hilt of your sword hurts me."

She noticed that the fair face of the young man in front of her was red as if dripping blood, "I'm just telling you, why are you so angry? Forget it, I know your precious sword, so I won't tell you anymore."

She leaned over and looked at the sword on Pei Xu's waist. She held the hilt of the sword with her white fingers and asked doubtfully: "It seems to have become a lot thinner?"

Pei Xu felt uncomfortable swelling down there, and he couldn't bear the sweat on his forehead. He took a few steps back and said hoarsely: "Your Highness, can you go out for a while?"

Zhao Zhen went to the side hall. When he returned, he saw that his face was still very red and asked if he felt uncomfortable during the journey.

After he went to Qingzhou, the Xu family began to look for a husband for Hui Yi. After picking and choosing, they found that the King of Hejian was the best. The Xu family didn't care whether they should restrain their wives or not, as long as their status was respected.

Everyone felt miserable for Hui Yi, but only Zhao Zhen knew how happy she was.

In the boudoir of the Xu Mansion, Zhao Zhen propped up his chin and peeked at the fire escape diagram that Mrs. Xu gave Hui Yi. His face turned red when he looked at it, and he understood what happened in Chunshan Palace that day.

The emperor recently went to the south of the Yangtze River to select women and brought back a boatload of beauties. When passing by Qingzhou, he heard that the wife of the governor of Qingzhou was beautiful, so he summoned her to the carriage and talked about it. The lady committed suicide when she returned home.

The governor of Qingzhou rebelled, and 20,000 Qingzhou troops surrounded the emperor's guard of honor. The Imperial Guards around His Majesty were used to being pampered, and they showed signs of decline every time.

After Pei Xu heard the news, he took the lead in rushing into the rebel army with 500 elite troops stationed in Donglai County. He dragged the panic-stricken emperor onto his horse and rushed out of the rebel army.

Unscathed, he escorted the emperor all the way back to Beijing.

His Majesty was greatly moved and appointed him as the new governor of Qingzhou.

Pei Xu had no time to celebrate his promotion, so he had to face the discussion and impeachment of Chang'an officials.

He had previously served as a civil servant in the East Palace and had never been on the battlefield when he was a school captain. Everyone thought that this young master of the Pei family was not good at martial arts.

Who knew he had the ability to go out and rescue people with thousands of troops? If so, why not save his brother.

Amidst the storm in the city, Zhao Zhen remembered that when he returned to Chang'an, he sat on his horse and smiled at her from a distance. He suddenly raised his finger and pointed at the crown of his hair, as if asking her if she had received that strand of hair.

She was sitting in her bedroom, describing the events of that day one by one, writing on the side, when Hui Yi's laughter suddenly came from behind her ears.

"What night is this? Hey, what are you covering up?"

"Get out quickly, you are not allowed to look."

"Okay, okay, I won't look at it." Huiyi picked up a pastry, glanced at it quickly and said, "The noble lady of Chang'an calls him Jade Face Pei Lang, no wonder he won the princess's heart."

Even though Pei Xu was impeached many times, he still held a high position at a young age and was handsome, so he could not avoid being talked about by the ladies in his boudoir.

After Hui Yi left, the prince came to find Zhao Zhen. When he saw his sister put away the scroll on the case in a panic, he frowned and said, "Zhen'er, you can stay in the palace with peace of mind during this period and cannot go to see Pei Xu."

She opened her eyes wide and said, "Why?"

"I don't care what you did before." The prince's eyes were calm, "But Pei Xu is too cold-hearted and is not a good match."

Zhao Zhen hurriedly defended: "But Mrs. Pei has already said -"

"She only has two sons. The eldest son is dead and the remaining second son is more promising. How do you think she will choose? Her choice can only show that the Pei family is a pit of fire and the family is ruthless." He patted her gently. Patting his sister on the head, "Brother will choose a good marriage for you."

Zhao Zhen realized that his brother did not like Pei Xu. The more he thought about it, the more he became afraid that the things in his bedroom would be discovered. He simply called Xu Huiyi into the palace and gave her the painting to help hide it.

Zhao Zhen thought that her brother would let her out in a few months, but she never thought that until Zhao Xuan, the king of Hejian, became the governor of Yuzhou and Hui Yi wanted to leave the capital with him, she could not even step out of the East Palace.

Huiyi was afraid of losing Zhao Zhen's treasure, so she went into the palace and asked her what to do. Zhao Zhen sighed and said, "Just put it away for me first."