Drunk King and Minister

The war to put down the Xiaobo Rebellion dragged on for four months.

From January to early May.

First, Zhou Wenyu retreated to Qianshao, and Ouyang Hou and others retreated to Nixi.Later, when reinforcements arrived from Andu, Zhou Wenyu sent Yanwei General Zhou Tiehu and others to capture Ouyang Wei, and then sent his general Ding Fa to capture Fu Tai.Xiao Zi and Yu Xiaoqing's army retreated after hearing the news.

In March, when Xiao Bo learned of the defeat of Ouyang Hou and others in Nankang, the army panicked. His subordinates, Chen Fawu and Tan Shiyuan Yu Shixing, beheaded Xiao Bo and surrendered his head to Liang.

In April, Xiaozi and Yu Xiaoqing still occupied the city to resist.

At the beginning of May, Pingnan general Hou Andu dived and burned his ships at night. Zhou Wenyu led the navy and Hou Andu led the infantry to attack together. Xiao Zi surrendered and Yu Xiaoqing fled to Xinwu.

At the end of May, Yu Xiaoqing also surrendered.

But Princess Yuhua Chen Yan's illness cannot be delayed any longer.

"Is father finally willing to see me?" Chen Yan smiled wryly and coughed a few times.

"How did my cousin get to this point?" Chen Qian couldn't bear to see Chen Yan's pale face.

Chen Yan smiled: "Didn't the doctor say that lovesickness is a heart disease? Maybe, my cousin gave General Han to my cousin, and my sister's illness will be cured."

Chen Qian choked.

He seemed to shoot himself in the foot with a rock.

"Okay, I'm joking. My cousin looks like my sister is such a poisonous woman." Chen Yan said, turning her eyes to Han Zigao who had been standing beside Chen Qian and didn't talk to her, "It's just , I have a few words I want to say to General Han alone, I don’t know..."

Chen Qian looked at Han Zigao questioningly.

Han Zigao nodded slightly.

In the women's boudoir burning with spices, brightly colored gauze is casually tied at the four corners.

Only Han Zigao and Chen Yan were left in the room.The two were relatively silent, and the room was extremely silent for a while.

Chen Yan first broke the silence: "Why don't you speak, shouldn't you discuss future plans with me?"

She had a bright smile on her face. , how can there be half of the sickness just now.

Han Zigao said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I..."

His voice was weak, and he didn't know what else to say for a moment.It was a long time since he left the princess' mansion that day that he suddenly recalled the phrase "remnant flowers and willows" frequently mentioned in the conversation between Chen Yan and Chen Qian.

Han Zigao vaguely guessed that it might be the guard he called in, Chen Yan's personal guard.

It was he who killed her.

Facing Chen Yan at this moment, Han Zigao felt that the guilt in his heart was so heavy that he lost the courage to raise his head and look at her.

Chen Yan was originally puzzled by Han Zigao's sudden "sorry", but at this moment, seeing Han Zigao's guilty and evasive eyes, he vaguely understood.

Blame Han Zigao?How could she blame him?What position does she have to blame him.

In such a situation, Han Zigao withdrew in time, didn't be rude to her, and even called his bodyguards. Such a move was enough for him.

Even though she would rather Han Zigao not leave.

Even if she would rather Han Zigao could be rude to her.

Even, this wish can be exchanged for expectation...

Chen Yan gave a low laugh, her eyes wandering: "If you are truly ashamed, then help me to be safe this time."

Han Zigao's gaze gradually became firm: "Okay."

In June, Princess Yuhua traveled northward from Wuxing to Jiankang, referring to Han Zigao, a general of a hundred households, to escort him.

"Zigao..." Chen Qian squinted at the convoy, said only two words and then remained silent.

Han Zigao looked at Chen Qian, who had an obviously unhappy face, and knew that he must be upset with him for escorting Chen Yan to the north.

How to act like a child.

Han Zigao raised his hand quickly, and touched Chen Qian's lips while everyone was not paying attention.

"You..." Chen Qian looked at the cunning person in front of her in astonishment, "You're getting bolder, huh?"

Even so, the smile on his own face became more and more distinct.

"Safe travels."

"En." Han Zigao responded, turned around and got on the horse. The moment he raised his whip, he looked sideways at Chen Qian and shouted "Drive".

Han Zigao slowly disappeared from Chen Qian's sight with the guard of honor of the princess.

It wasn't until she could no longer see that person and horse that Chen Qian turned around and returned to the palace.

At that time, neither of them knew that this parting would last a whole year.

In mid-June, before the guard of honor of Princess Yuhua came to Jiankang, a rain made the already frail princess catch a cold, and had no choice but to stay in Hanxi for more than ten days.

"Just tonight." Chen Yan looked at the full moon outside the window, and smiled slightly. Her cheeks were rosy, and she didn't appear to be frail and cold at all.

Han Zigao stood aside with calm eyes.

"What is the plan of the princess in the future?"

"Don't call me Princess." Chen Yan raised her eyebrows slightly, "Can I understand that you care about me?"

Han Zigao let Chen Yan scrutinize him with a calm expression: "Yes, I am worried about your future life. A weak woman..."

"Stop, stop." Chen Yan breathed a sigh of relief, raised her hand to stroke the hairpin, "I just realized that you have been with your cousin for a long time, and your words are somewhat similar to his. "

She stood up with joy in her eyes: "You are worried about me, I am very happy. You don't have to worry about your future life."

Chen Yan slowly said seriously: "Don't forget, I am not the daughter of an ordinary family."

The radiance in her eyes made Han Zigao slightly dazed.

He seemed to have never understood this woman.

On the night of No. 13, when she was stranded in Hanxi, Chen Yan, the princess of Yuhua County, passed away suddenly.

According to a close attendant, Princess Yuhua's illness was caused by lovesickness, and that night, before Princess Yuhua passed away, she summoned the master who made her fall in love, that is, to escort her to the north. Jiankang, Han Zigao, the handsome general of a hundred households.

An attendant also described that on that night, they faintly heard the quarrel between the two and the weeping of the princess.

People in the world have speculated that Princess Yuhua died for love.

There was a romantic scholar who felt deeply about Princess Yuhua's steadfast affection and wrote a poem for her.

Humanity's fan is like a full moon,

According to the Tao, the full moon is not long.

May Yanzhou be frost-free,

In and out of Huanxiu for thousands of years.

This is something.

Because Princess Yuhua had just passed away, something happened that caused everyone in the team to be devastated.

On the second day after the coffin was stopped, a fire broke out in the post house. Although the fire did not cause any casualties, it was more troublesome than causing casualties—the body of Princess Yuhua and the coffin were in the fire together, and the ashes were wiped out. .

Early July.

Light rain.

Not long after the rain stopped, there was a trace of humidity in the forest.

A man in a stunning green dress and black sleeves leaned against a branch.

In front of him was a short, thin boy in blue clothes, with a sallow complexion, wearing a certain light-colored cap, and a smile in his eyes.

"Heh, it's strange to say that no one has recognized my appearance for so long." Chen Yan looked at the lazily looking man leaning on the tree trunk in front of her with a smile, and raised her eyebrows, "Hey, speaking of which, you've been to me recently. My attitude has changed a lot. In the past, no matter what the etiquette was, why have I become more and more careless about manners recently?"

Han Zigao looked sideways slightly, looking at the attendant who was a hundred meters away.

"If you are not afraid of others being suspicious, that son Gao Da can treat the princess like a courtier."

Chen Yan snorted softly, then said after a pause, "I'm going to leave for Beimo today."

What happened suddenly, Han Zigao was stunned for a moment before he understood: "Aren't you going to stay in Nanliang?"

The man in front of him frowned slightly, and there was a hint of disapproval in his eyes.Chen Yan couldn't tell whether she was more happy or more regretful.

"I have admired the northern land since I was a child. This time, I just happened to go on a tour. It's just that I'm sorry for you. I'm afraid that I will bear my father's wrath because of the rumors spread by those servants."

"No problem." Han Zigao actually admired Chen Yan in his heart.

The freedom and ease on her body moved him at that moment.

"Han Zigao, can we meet again in the future?"

"If there is a destiny, we will meet each other."

Chen Yan said with a smile: "It's that sentence again, why does everyone like to say this sentence when they say goodbye. Haven't they thought about it, what if they don't have a chance?"

Han Zigao was silent.

"That's all. You are a person who will avoid Huatou." Chen Yan raised her hand and stretched under the sparse sunlight from the forest, "I believe you, if there is a destiny, we will meet each other." .”

The verification of this sentence has been waiting for ten years.

In July of the second year of Taiping.

Han Zigao, General of Hundred Households, escorted the remains of Princess Yuhua to Jiankang. The so-called remains had been reduced to a speck of sand in a porcelain pot in the fire.

Shangshu Chen Ba first heard the rumors.

The rumors are convincing, saying that Princess Yuhua died of coughing up blood because of Han Zi's high demands, but she was too worried.

Chen Baxian was furious. On the day Han Zigao first arrived in Jiankang, he led two hundred soldiers to remove Han Zigao and put him in prison.

There is no sunlight in the cold prison.

The old wounds on his body were aching, especially his right arm, which had been injured many times, as if tens of thousands of ants were gnawing on it, the pain was unbearable.

Han Zigao had been hung on the dark and cold stone wall of his cell for three days and three nights.

He expected that Chen Baxian would be furious because of the rumors, but he didn't expect that Chen Baxian would directly remove his official uniform and throw him in prison.

Why?Does Zihua know?What will Chen Baxian do?Kill him?

Han Zigao still thought about these questions in his early days, but by the third day, he had no energy to think about them.

He couldn't exert any strength in his whole body, and the severe pain in his right arm that gradually penetrated into the marrow made him wish to cut off his right arm immediately.The cold air was like an all-pervasive bug, crawling freely in his limbs and bones...

He has been unable to think about the reasons and countermeasures, and there is only one word left in his mind: live.

He wanted to live, even if he saw Chen Qian for the last time, he wanted to live.

In the early morning of the fourth day, the cell door slammed softly, and a few guards raised the semi-conscious Han Zi out.

The sun shone warmly on his body, and the joy of seeing the sun again made Han Zigao hardly feel the almost brutal push and pull of the jailer.The sunlight brought him back a little bit of consciousness and strength.

There was no sunlight in the prison, so Han Zigao couldn't judge how many days he was locked up.

But it should not exceed four days.He hasn't had a drop of water these days, and he doesn't think he can survive four days without a drop of water.

really.

"Prison for three days, do you know where you are wrong and what is your crime?" The man with a serious face in the seat was probably Chen Baxian.

Where is the fault and what is the crime?

Han Zigao secretly thought, if he still had the strength, he might laugh out loud.

If you want to add a crime, there is nothing wrong with it.

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In the next chapter, Han Zigao and Chen Qian will be separated for a year.