After rebirth, I made the princes cry

"Still no news on Ribeji?!"

After Sikong Beichen asked this question in a rage, he could not help but kick the table in front of him, and the cups and plates were immediately in a mess. At the beginning of the banquet, a certain official of Ziwei Palace had been talking about how exciting it was that Northern Zhao had raised an army to attack Northern Han. Suddenly, the prince was so angry that he almost bit off his chopsticks. The official hurriedly said, "I'm afraid Li Buer can't return to Henan. After all, it's wartime now."

The so-called Li Bu Er was actually the code name for the prince's lackey who was killed by Xuan Ying. How could a person with rotten bones possibly bring back any news? However, Sikong Beichen saw that Jiang Mo was transferred to Xiangyang City, while the third and fifth royal brothers returned to Dayu unharmed. Not only did the emperor allow Qiao Zizhan to lead his troops to rescue Xiangyang, he even appointed Nan Ci to train with the army. Sikong Beichen suddenly felt like he was surrounded by enemies. These things that had never happened in his previous life, what on earth provoked and changed the trajectory of his fate?

At this time, Sikong Yuewu and Sikong Mujiao had already been engaged, and they married women from the He and Zheng families respectively, and they were fighting each other to the death. After Zheng Bei lost power, He Ao's foundation in the court was also shaken. Although the momentum of the two factions has been suppressed for now, Sikong Yuewu and He Ao are rolling up their sleeves and working tirelessly to hunt down poison doctors, clearly intending to attack him as the crown prince. Sikong Mujiao was actually trusted by his emperor and father because of his mission to the Northern Han Dynasty. When he returned to Jiankang, he was directly appointed as the Central Guardian of Changping Guard. Although Changping Guard was originally an external military force under the control of the Zheng family and was not actually under the control of the Central Army, it was even more impossible for Changping Zheng to abandon Sikong Mujiao to help others at this time. Changping Guard was originally a state guard that supported Sikong Mujiao in his bid for the crown prince, but the emperor and father formally appointed Sikong Mujiao as the Central Guardian, which was of course very different from the past.

From then on, Sikong Mujiao had the legitimate power to mobilize the troops of Changping Guards!!!

Madam Zheng had fallen out of favor with the monarch, and her position in the harem was already in jeopardy. However, because Sikong Mujiao was in power, many palace ladies had recently come to serve her in Changfeng Palace. And the Empress of the Central Palace, the legitimate mother of all the princes and his biological mother, had moved to Ci'en Palace and had been begging for mercy in the name of Xuancheng Yuanjun. People in Jiankang Palace had even forgotten the fact that the Empress was still in power. Unfortunately, Crown Princess Lu, even though she came from a powerful family and now assisted Madam Xie in handling inner court affairs, had not established any prestige at all. Not to mention compared with Madam Xie, she was even far inferior to Mrs. Jian!

Liang broke off the engagement and refused to marry Sikong Yuehu. Although Sikong Yuehu lost a wife's family like Shangcai Liang who was in charge of military affairs, he was pleasantly surprised at first. However, Sikong Yuehu's marriage fate was left unresolved because of this change. Recently, even her whereabouts have become a mystery. It is unknown what secret order she received from her father and king. If Sikong Yuehu can make achievements, his father and king may not make new plans and fight for him to find a wife's family that is more powerful than Shangcai Liang's. Although Wang Jie, who has close ties with Sikong Yuehu, is not a concern for the time being, there is still Zhou Jing!

Zhou Jing is now in charge of the central army. He can no longer use the old plan to poison Zhou Jing with Zhou Chang. He can't even be sure whether Zhou Jing is a reborn person. Now Zhou Jing has a reborn person like Xue who is assisting him in the name of a female subordinate. If he plans to murder Zhou Jing again, it will not be a sure thing and may be exposed. Then the situation will immediately become worse.

In his previous life, Sikong Yuehu finally won the trust of Denglingzhou's clan. Even though they no longer had the military genius Zhou Jing and the power of Denglingzhou's "Book of Instrument Making" was greatly reduced as it was destroyed, Sikong Beichen was still wary of them. And now, Zhou Zhi has sent his daughter to Jinling and entrusted her to Xie Liuniang for care. It is clear that he has plans to marry into the royal family. Zhou Zhi got his job in his previous life because of Sikong Yuehu's recommendation, and the son-in-law he has his eyes on is most likely Sikong Yuehu.

If the course of events of the Northern Han Dynasty remained unchanged, next year, the emperor would lead the army in person and die on the way back, and he would still sit firmly on the throne. Perhaps Wang Lan, Xie Jin and even Lu Jing and others would still follow the orthodoxy and support him to ascend the throne legally, and he would not have completely lost the initiative. However, the war between the Northern Han and Northern Zhao had already begun. Even if the Northern Han Dynasty could defend Tongguan and not lose Chang'an, how could it have the strength to provoke the Dayu army to come out of Hanzhong and threaten Bashu next year?

Sikong Beichen only felt that he was now surrounded by enemies, and even Sikong Nanci was enough to become a threat to him!

He was feeling uneasy, so he summoned his concubine, Yu.

It was not yet October and the weather in Jinling was still cool and pleasant. Yu Bihua could not stand the heat, so she was very lazy during this period, eating and sleeping a lot. She took a nap today and did not wake up until the end of the afternoon. She was still leaning lazily on the couch, listening to the two maids beside her saying bad things about the Crown Princess and Liang Liangdi to wake her up. When she learned that the Crown Prince had actually summoned her on his own initiative, she felt the strength in her waist. She dressed up, put on the latest popular star-shaped makeup, stuck yellow and silver hairpins all over her face, then tied a pomegranate red shawl embroidered with blue lotus flowers, and hurried to see the Crown Prince.

On the way, he met Liang Liangdi.

She didn't even look at Liang Liang Di, she just passed by. She had neither just seen the Crown Prince nor was she planning to see him. She sneered and stopped him, proudly holding up her "starry" face. As she spoke, her hair full of pearls and jade fluttered: "The Crown Prince summoned me to sleep with him today, so of course he won't see you. Don't make yourself bored. But if you really feel lonely, you can cut a box of flower ornaments for me. I sleep with him a lot, so I have to use up a lot of flower ornaments. Unlike you, you haven't cut flower ornaments in a long time. If you don't do it now, you will become even more clumsy."

Liang Liang Di looked at Yu Liang Di as if she were a fool. "You have a round face, but you insist on putting on makeup. It's really a waste of money. How come you don't have a skilled servant around you? I don't lack skilled maids around me, but... I have a habit of never lending my own hands to others."

Yu Liang Di could hear that the other party was not only mocking her for her big face, but also ridiculing her for being born in a poor family and only worthy of having stupid slaves and maids. She was so angry that she was about to fight again. The eunuch who was summoned by the prince hurriedly advised: "Liang Di, you'd better not let His Royal Highness wait. His Royal Highness has been in a very irritable mood recently."

After all, a "fight" was stopped. Yu Liangdi became more and more furious, running with her skirt lifted up. Sikong Beichen saw a mad woman almost rushing into the pavilion. Before he had time to frown, he heard Yu's complaints. How could he have the mood to pay attention to the friction between the two concubines? He was disgusted with Yu and felt indescribable hatred for Liang.

In her previous life, Liang was the Concubine Xinsu, and her temperament was extremely violent, jealous and aggressive. Now that she was willing to be a concubine, her temper had not changed. Not only did she care about a fool like Yu, she even said a lot of slanderous words about Lu behind her back. None of his wives and concubines knew the overall situation.

"What is the Liang family? How dare she look down on the descendants of the family!"

Hearing Yu's roar, Sikong Beichen's expression became even colder.

Although he knew that the Yu family was truly a poor family, or, to put it in a better way, could barely be considered a wealthy family, this had always been a concern for him. He certainly could not ask the world to respect his descendants, and he had never even thought of helping his mother's family to become a noble family. But Liang, as his concubine, dared to despise his mother's family. It must be said that from this point of view, although Lu's origin was far inferior to Liang's, at least Lu had never been sarcastic about his mother's family.

"Go tell Liang to follow my order and cut a box of flowers and deliver it to Yongxing Pavilion in person. She doesn't like to let others tell her maids to do things, so let her do it herself."

Yu Bihua succeeded in her complaint and was beaming with joy. She didn't even notice that Sikong Beichen didn't even look at her "starry" face.

"Please contact your uncles yourself. Do you remember my earlier instructions? Has Zhou Jing's family been in frequent contact with the Jian family recently?"

"How dare I neglect the things that His Highness entrusted me with? Xie Lanyue has never interacted with the Jian family, but that Xue has been to the Jian residence several times. Although my father has planted people in the Jian family, he can't find out many confidential matters. I only know that Jian Sanniang is about to get married, but Xie Lanyue has never had any contact with the Jian family. On the contrary, Xue has an aunt who married into the Jian family and is called aunt by Jian Sanniang. She took advantage of this kinship to go and dote on Jian Sanniang."

"Only Mrs. Xue went, but Mrs. Zhou's daughter didn't come with her?"

"Now everyone knows that Xue is very absurd. She is a widow, but she offers herself as a female guest. Zhou Jiuniang is a lady from a rich family after all, so how can she let Xue ruin her reputation?"

Yu Bihua seemed to know Sikong Beichen's worries, and offered a suggestion: "Sikong Yuehu's marriage, let alone the Jian family, even Concubine Jian can't make the decision, it's still His Majesty who has the final say! Since Your Highness is worried that His Majesty will choose Zhou Jiuniang as his concubine, why not just poison Zhou Jiuniang first."

"It's not like the Zhou family only has one daughter."

Sikong Beichen would never use such a stupid method. If the poisoning plan was safe, why would he kill Zhou Jiuniang, a woman? Poisoning Zhou Jing and Zhou Zhi would be the only way to get rid of the root of the problem.

"Go back tomorrow and tell your uncle to use Deng Lingzhou's secret agent..."

Sikong Beichen repeated the plan several times until Yu Bihua could repeat it word for word, and then he felt relieved.

This was another worry for him. Empress Yu lost power, causing his several uncles to become wavering. They blamed him for not protecting Empress Yu and for allowing a mere Liu to dare to frame the Empress. Among the entire Yu family, the relatively wise Yu Duo and Yu Luan were killed one after another. After all, Yu Luan's sons were still young, and Yu Huai was the head of the family. How could he allow his nephews and nephews to "order him around"?

But Yu Huai was already dissatisfied with him as the crown prince because the queen was under house arrest. When he heard that he was indifferent to Yu Bihua, he became even more worried that the queen position that the queen had promised him would also become a bubble. As a result, Yu Bihua was still as arrogant as in her previous life. She was obviously a fool, but she even threatened him to grant him the important task!

It is also true that during this period of time, Sikong Yuewu and He Ao have been keeping a close eye on the descendants of the family. Now, no member of the Yu clan can serve as a subordinate of the Eastern Palace anymore. If Sikong Beichen were to contact Yu Huai and others directly again, there would be hidden dangers. Instead, he could use Yu Bihua. Everyone in the world knows how stupid she is, and since she is Yu Huai's daughter and often interacts with her mother's family, she would not arouse Sikong Yuewu's vigilance.

Sikong Beichen firmly believed that even if all personnel and personnel were out of control, at least Yu Bihua's life and death were still under his control.

This woman can be eliminated at any time when she is no longer of any use.

And even if he abandoned the fool Yu Bihua, a greedy man like Yu Huai would never give up his ambition to let Yu's daughter occupy the throne forever. Yu Huai would certainly not hide any secrets from Yu Bihua, and Yu Bihua would still threaten him. For example, in his previous life, seeing that he favored Yingshu, the crazy Yu Bihua actually faked a pregnancy, and he had to tolerate it and cooperate with Yu Bihua to have a "miscarriage" and slander Lu and Yingshu. Finally, he used Zheng Lianzi as a knife to get rid of Yu Bihua, executed Zheng Lianzi, and deceived Yu Huai.

He took a lot of risks for Yingshu, but he had no regrets. Everything was worth it. Only Yingshu would truly do it for him, regardless of the gains and losses. He needed Fanyang Lu's continuous assistance, and Yingshu was willing to show her goodwill to Lu. If Lu hadn't had Yingshu's sincere protection by her side, she would have been tricked to death hundreds of times in the harem, and she would not have been able to guard against the vicious schemes of stupid women like Yu Bihua and Zheng Lianzi, let alone suppress concubines like He Chaoxi and Xiao Feiliu who came from aristocratic families.

It was even thanks to Yingshu that Lu was able to give birth to her eldest son safely.

Yingshu didn't care about the position of queen, but he was determined that only Yingshu was qualified to be his queen.

Sikong Beichen now deeply misses the woman who is still in Northern Han, and who mediates with Jiang Tai and other Qiang people for the Lord of Shenyuan Palace. It is not easy to win her heart, not to mention that there is now Sikong Nanci as a stumbling block. But he will not give up. Yingshu, who did not marry Pei Yu, is now shining in Jiankang Palace. As long as he can do his best to win her heart like he did in his previous life, with her help, he can even defeat a hundred thousand soldiers.

It was Yingshu who offered advice and even acted as the "vanguard". Jiangdong He and Changping Zheng were no longer a concern. Lanling Xiao finally joined the camp of supporting imperial power. He even completely destroyed Jiangdong Zhang. This was the first time that a powerful clan was exterminated by another clan. And because of Yingshu, the Jiangdong Gu and Lu clans also became weapons for him to intimidate Sikong Yuehu, otherwise Sikong Yuehu would have rebelled long ago... This person once used public opinion to force him to keep the evil offspring of Sikong Yuewu and Sikong Mujiao, and also secretly sent spies into Guisu Mansion, intending to find out who instructed Sikong Nanci to take poison!

No one's sincerity matters in this world.

He only wants Yingshu's sincerity, and he only believes that Yingshu is sincere.

Sikong Beichen certainly couldn't have imagined that Yingshu was currently having dinner with his biggest enemy.

Still in a cliff cave somewhere in Lantian, the fire was re-ignited. Dinner was actually a few Hu cakes brought by Feiyingzuo in the morning. Yingshu picked some wild vegetables, used a broken clay pot found nearby, fetched mountain spring water, and boiled wild vegetable soup. Although Sikong Yuehu was injured, he was not disabled. He split the bamboo tube and turned it into a "soup bowl", which even served as a "soup spoon". With cakes and soup, the dinner was actually quite sumptuous for those who were fleeing.

Actually, lunch was more substantial, a roast chicken, but it had been eaten up. Yingshu had worked so hard last night that she even felt that she could finish a whole roast chicken. She had an urge to share it with Sikong Yuehu, but she couldn't be so shameless. After all, without Sikong Yuehu's prior arrangement, she would have to do some work to contact Feiyingzuo. How could she get roast chicken and Hu bing to fill her hunger today? In fact, she was already prepared to chew wild grass and eat wild fruits for three or two days.

"If I were more foresighted, I should have asked people to prepare tea leaves and teapots in this cliff cave." Sikong Yuehu held the "soup bowl" in his tiger's mouth and poured the still warm soup into his mouth with an upright but elegant manner. He glanced at the woman across the fire. She actually brought a silver spoon with her. It was small and exquisite. It could not be used to serve soup in the clay pot, but it was very "harmonious" to pour the soup from the "soup bowl" into her mouth.

This is actually a teaspoon. When Xinsujun looked at the spoon, he was inexplicably craving for tea.