Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

The girl he likes will never be blinded by hatred and take revenge on others by any means necessary.

On the contrary, she saved loyal ministers, protected good generals, and used her thin shoulders to pull them out of the quagmire little by little.

This is why the Hu family and the He family came into being, and they did not follow the same path as in previous lives.

Only then did the Zhong family get rescued from the He family's implicated execution.

So, he didn't ask why Yanyan didn't save the maid Xing'er.

Li Shuangwan went to see Gu Xingyan: "Guess what Ling Heng will do next?"

Gu Xing smiled: "I can roughly guess it, but we won't let him get his wish. Right, Yanyan?"

Li Shuangwan glanced at Gu Xingyan playfully: "In that case, Your Highness the Ninth Prince, why don't we find him something to do?"

Gu Xingyan raised his eyebrows and looked at her: "Madam, please tell me, and I will listen."

Li Shuangwan has become accustomed to him calling her Madam all the time.

"Ling Yan is almost done lying dormant. Ling Heng still has tens of thousands of private soldiers in Liangshan. We have to tell Ling Yan the good news."

Gu Xingyan looked at the girl beside him lovingly, pulled her into his arms again, and kissed her hard on the forehead: "Good idea."

"What are you going to do?"

Li Shuangwan whispered two words into Gu Xingyan's ear.

Gu Xingyan raised his eyebrows and looked at her, a smile curled up on the corner of his mouth: "It's a very good idea. However, it will take some time to reveal the news to Ling Yan, and then he will send people to verify it and arrange the next things."

Li Shuangwan chuckled: "Don't be too hasty about this matter."

Otherwise it would arouse Ling Yan's suspicion. If he found out, it would be bad. His father-in-law, Xi Wenquan, Marquis of Zhennan, controls a large military camp of 200,000 troops.

"You really can't be impatient. You still have to find a way to tell your father about this so that he can be prepared as soon as possible."

Li Shuangwan nodded. When his father returned to Shengjing, he brought 5,000 people with him. They were the ones who had truly crawled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Each of them was a skilled fighter who could fight ten people at once.

If a palace coup occurred, Ling Heng would hold the crown prince's order or the imperial seal and order his father to serve the king.

This king, is his father diligent or not?

There was no way to rescue them, not to mention the 5,000 men brought by my father and brother. No matter how skilled the fighters were, they could not withstand the wheel-like fighting of thousands of troops.

By then, all the people will be killed, and even the entire Zhenguo Mansion may be destroyed.

If I don't save him, my father will be disobeying my order, and the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion will also be destroyed.

Li Shuangwan's face darkened: "When I go back, I will ask my father and brother to ask Emperor Jingzhang for permission to return to the northwest."

"Wait a few more days." Gu Xingyan said suddenly.

Li Shuangwan thought about it and understood: "Are you afraid that Ling Heng won't agree?"

"Ah."

Who doesn't want to command a large army? Although Ling Heng, the crown prince, was suddenly named prince by Emperor Jingzhang, his foundation is not stable after all.

If he wants to secure his position in the Eastern Palace, Ling Heng will find ways to seize the military power from the Duke of Zhenguo.

It’s not possible in a short period of time, but it is possible to keep people in Shengjing.

"If your uncle and your brother want to return to the northwest, they must have a legitimate reason. Why do you think Ling Heng wanted to confer the title of Duke of the State on your uncle?"

Li Shuangwan immediately understood what Gu Xingyan meant: "He wants to exchange a virtual title for the 300,000 troops in my father's hands?"

Gu Xingyan nodded: "Or rather, the loyalty of three hundred thousand people."

Li Shuangwan felt a little scared. That day she had urged her father to give up his military power.

Just imagine that the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, without military power, is like a soft lamb, vulnerable to being slaughtered.

Li Shuangwan asked anxiously: "How do you plan to arrange it?"

"Cui Jingyu has already set off to return to the northwest. I asked Jia Cheng to go with him. A few thousand people will be enough to create some chaos on the northwest border."

Li Shuangwan remembered what Xingyan said when they came out of Qinglan Courtyard just now, "He is busy."

Gu Xingyan sat there lazily, with one hand around the girl's waist.

"At most half a month, when the news reaches Shengjing, your uncle and your brother will ask for permission to return to the northwest. It will be a natural thing for them to do so. There is no way Ling Heng will refuse."

But Li Shuangwan's expression did not relax. On the contrary, he frowned.

There are 300,000 Li family troops in the northwest, and they can quell the chaos of a few thousand people.

It is not necessary for father and brother to go there in person.

So, a few thousand people still won’t work.

"I have to go back home immediately and explain this to my father."

Gu Xingyan held her hand and said, "I think it's better not to tell my uncle about this for the time being."

Li Shuangwan thought about it and it made sense. His father and brother were soldiers. They had not experienced what he had experienced in his previous life. It would be difficult to convince them not to be loyal to the court.

She was someone who had died once, but they didn't know that.

Li Shuangwan stood up and immediately wrote a letter: "Use your Saker Falcon to help me deliver a letter to the deputy general in the northwest."

"I have to find a way to get my father's private seal on it. Wait for me for two days, and I'll have Hong Shuang give it to you after it's done."

Gu Xingyan raised his hand and nodded: "Okay."

Li Shuangwan thought of another thing: "By the way, how is the investigation of Fu Chenhui's case going? Can it be delayed for two or three months?"

"I asked Shu Wenbo and Liang Tianyou to go to their government office every day. Now Bai Hongxian and Zhang Maozheng get a headache whenever they see them."

"So, there is still no clue?"

Gu Xingyan looked at her with a smile: "Why, Madam, you look at me like this, do you have no confidence in your elder brother, or do you have no confidence in your husband?"

Li Shuangwan glared at him and said, "Your Highness the Ninth Prince is extremely smart and no one can defeat him."

The smile on Gu Xingyan's lips spread out little by little like the blue waves in the spring breeze.

Li Shuangwan was distracted by such a smile.

The two of them stood up and stood by the window, watching the people coming and going in Shengjing City.

To be honest, the scenery of Shengjing City is indeed nice.

However, nowadays, only Shengjing City is left to see in Northern Jin.

Unfortunately, the royal descendants of the Ling family only saw the illusory prosperity of Shengjing City and the chair that symbolized supreme power.

There is no such thing as people’s livelihood suffering.

"Hu Muyan told me that although Shengjing City looks prosperous, it is actually just an illusion. The roots are rotten to the core, and I don't know how many dirty things are hidden inside."

"Look, she sees things very clearly. I am the one who is blinded by my own eyes and cannot see the corruption of Northern Jin."

Gu Xingyan put his arm around her shoulders and looked at the people's livelihood below with her.

"You are just too kind and cannot bear to see the suffering of the people. That's why you did so many good things and saved so many people on your way from Daliang to Shengjing."

Gu Xingyan pulled Li Shuangwan over and looked into her eyes: "Yanyan, you have done a great job. It is the Ling family who shouldered the heavy responsibility of the Northern Jin Dynasty and the people's suffering, not a weak woman like you."

Li Shuangwan knew it, but...

As they came all the way from Daliang, they saw devastation everywhere and the displacement of people.

They even encountered situations like cannibalism.

Due to several major disasters at the end of last year and the locust plague a few months ago, the people had no harvest.

Today, there are still several states and counties that have used the seeds from spring plowing as food to fill their stomachs. The seeds dispatched from other places are unable to meet the needs of so many places due to limited local quantities.

There is a gap between the old and the new.