mountain river road

When she fell asleep with Zhenqing in her arms, Chu Xi vaguely remembered that when Zhenqing kissed her, something seemed to disrupt her thoughts.

Too many things happened tonight, but a charming kiss lightly covered everything up, allowing Chu Xi to hide in a gentle place in a world full of undercurrents.

When a ray of morning sun shone into the room, Zhenqing had already woken up, but didn't get up.He placed himself next to Chuxi, and looked up to see his face emerge in a clear outline in the room that was gradually illuminated by the morning light.

Even though the sudden kiss was mixed with other things, it still caused a small earthquake to Zhenqing. When the window paper was pierced, all the carefully sealed emotions overflowed.

My heart is full of strange emotions, a little uneasy, a little anxious, and a little joyful.It was as if something that had been suppressed for a long time broke out of the ground and grew wildly in my heart, very unaccustomed and uneasy.Zhen Qing couldn't help lowering her head, and pressed her profile against Chu Xi's arm. The touch of skin to skin miraculously soothed the faint uneasiness in Zhen Qing's heart.

With a slight movement of her arm, Chu Xi woke up, and raised her arm to loosely embrace Zhen Qing.

The shoulders were pressed heavily, and Zhenqing felt a long-lost sense of relaxation, as if she had finally touched the ground after being in a tall building.

Chu Xi looked sleepily at the small shadow cast by Zhenqing's eyelashes, and dazedly leaned over to kiss her.Zhenqing couldn't help shrinking into his arms again.

The repressed emotions are vented and turned into the loneliness and hunger of the skin.

I want to be with him all the time.

The two thought in unison.

Soon, they arrived in the capital.

After a year of absence, the palace is no different from when he left.

After getting off the carriage, Chu Xi ran to her mother's room.

Ye Shangzhu was still sitting and drinking tea, when she suddenly heard footsteps, and when she looked up, she saw Chu Xi running towards her. "Mother!"

Chu Xi couldn't tell it by herself, but Ye Shangzhu could feel that Chu Xi had grown darker and thinner, and what radiated from her eyes was the demeanor of a general, calm and mature.He was finally no longer that worrying teenager, but this change made people feel a little hard to let go.Through Chuxi, Ye Shangzhu seemed to see her husband in high spirits.Eyes were a little hot, Ye Shangzhu stood up and hugged her son, smiling happily: "But I'm back, my son really looks like a general."

Chu Xi looked up at Ye Shangzhu. Since Chu Shu passed away, her mother no longer wanted to dress up, she always wore plain clothes, kept filial piety and worshiped the Buddha. Grieving woman who has lost a loved one.

With a sour heart, Chu Xi held Ye Shangzhu's hand tightly, "I always win big battles."

Ye Shangzhu covered her mouth and laughed, raised her slender hand and tapped Chu Xi's head.Some things have changed, but some things have been silently lying in time, and will not be changed by anything.

Loved ones disappear, cuteness doesn't.

People change, but cuteness doesn't.

It was already the twelfth lunar month, and after Chu Xi and Zhenqing came back, the palace returned to life.Zhenqing stayed in his side room again, and the difference from a year ago was that Zhenqing liked to run to Chuxi more and more, and liked to be next to him.The stove next to it was crackling and burning. Zhen Qing didn't read, but sat lazily next to Chu Xi with the cat in her arms, brushing the cat's fur one after another.

Chu Xi frowned and looked at the battle report.After a while, he slapped the table with a "slap", and said in a deep voice, "This can't go on anymore. I have to go back to Xijiang."

Hearing this, Zhenqing frowned and looked at him: "The emperor even transferred you back from Xijiang, obviously out of fear of you, how can he let you go back?"

Chu Xi said: "Then hand over my Nanchao Jiangshan to others?"

Zhenqing's voice turned cold all of a sudden: "Without the emperor's will, it's useless even if you go."

Chu Xi felt that there was something wrong with Zhenqing, but after thinking about it, there seemed to be nothing wrong, so she said, "I will try it. At least we still have Wang Shangshu here."

Chu Xi picked a day and went to Wang Lang's residence alone.

Wang Lang was dealing with affairs in the study, when he heard the servant's report, his face turned pale instantly, and he invited him in.

Wang Lang looked at the handsome young man with sword eyebrows and starry eyes in front of him, and sighed leisurely: "Little prince, why did you come to the old minister's mansion."

Chu Xi: "I came here this time to ask for something."

Wang Lang: "You don't have to think about going back to Western Xinjiang."

Chu Xi was taken aback for a moment, unexpectedly Wang Lang was so predictable.Wang Lang smiled helplessly: "Apart from the matter of Xijiang, what else can you come to me for. You, you are like your senior brother, and you always think about the Southern Dynasty."

Chu Xi: "I implore Shangshu to say a few words for me."

Wang Lang shook his head, "It's not that I don't want to help you, but that I can't help you. The collusion between Wencheng and military generals has been the most taboo since ancient times, so the emperor called you back from Xijiang. I just came back not long ago, and I will speak for you, Mrs. inappropriate."

Chu Xi looked anxious: "What should I do?"

Wang Lang pondered for a while: "I still hope that the prince will keep his own place. Don't talk about Xijiang right now, the prince can hardly take care of himself."

Chu Xi was taken aback, Wang Lang continued: "The emperor attaches great importance to power and is easy to be suspicious. You must not come to me in private in the future."

Having said that, Chu Xi didn't know what to say for a while, so she could only take a sip from the teacup in front of her.The two were speechless.Wang Lang's old and cloudy eyes looked at him quietly, and Chu Xi keenly caught a little bit of nostalgia for his old friend from this gaze.

Wang Lang sighed again, and picked up the teacup on the table: "When your father left, he entrusted me to take care of you. Your father and I are brothers and sisters, we are like brothers, we must protect you."

Chu Xi didn't know about this past, and said in a low voice, "I never knew."

Wang Lang laughed, "Few people know about this."

Yes, it is a taboo to have too close a relationship between civil servants and military generals.Chu Xi felt that she had nothing to say, so she silently lowered her head.

Wang Lang said again: "You still don't know what is going on in the court, the emperor is afraid of you, you have to be clear about this."

"I see."

Chu Xi stood up and bowed solemnly to the worried Wang Shangshu.

Royal Palace.

Chu Yuanzhi was wearing a fur coat sleepily, and there was a lot of charcoal fire in the palace, so he still felt chills.

A man in black came out from the shadows, knelt down on one knee, and presented a secret letter with both hands.

After Chu Yuanzhi finished watching, his brows furrowed deeply, and he waved his hand to make the man in black back down.

There was also the battle report of Xijiang on the table - Yan Qi was defeated again and again, Tuoba Yuan was pressing on like a tiger, and the situation was urgent.The secret report in his hand told him that General Chu had a good personal relationship with Wang Shangshu, and his son also visited him.

Chu Yuanzhi thumped the table resentfully, felt short of breath for a moment, and suddenly gasped like a broken bellows.

"Kill!"

"Go ahead"

The sound of shouting and killing was endless, and Yan Fei charged left and right with the spear tightly in his hand.The opponent's manpower is several times that of his, and they are some brave cavalrymen.Yan Fei's soldiers were chased and fought for more than a month, but none of them won the battle.

He was constantly forced to retreat, and now nine cities have fallen into the enemy's hands.

Today, Yan Fei was once again blocked by Tuoba Yuan's [-] troops.

The opponent had an advantage in strength, and several people fought around him, too busy to take care of themselves, unable to command at all.The soldiers gradually began to break up.

Tuoba Yuan raised her long knife to the sky and shouted loudly, "Whoever takes the head of an enemy general will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold!"

In an instant, countless people rushed towards Yan Fei, and the sound of killing shook the sky.Yan Fei's guard showed fear on his face, his face was earthy, he waved his spear randomly, and wanted to rush out of the encirclement crookedly.

"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Yan Fei shouted hoarsely, and the remaining less than [-] troops collapsed instantly, and Yan Fei was about to break out of the encirclement.

"Chase!" Tuoba Yuan snapped.

Unlike the previous few times when they left after fighting, Tuoba Yuan gave the order to pursue.

It's too boring, let's get rid of it quickly.Tuoba Yuan thought so, and said again, "Take the head of the enemy general, and reward a hundred lambs!"

As soon as the voice fell, several soldiers had already galloped towards Yan Fei.

Yan Fei panicked, clutching the reins tightly, kicking the spurs desperately.The war horse let out a shrill neigh, and rushed forward like crazy.

Yan Fei couldn't see clearly, when suddenly, the horse neighed fiercely, he was thrown up violently, and fell hard to the ground.His chest was kicked hard by the horse's hoof, and the sound of bones breaking was accompanied by severe pain. He panted "hehe", blood foam gradually overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

The soldiers of the Southern Dynasty had already fled, and Tuoba Yuan dismounted from the horse, and walked slowly towards him dragging the knife. The tip of the knife cut across the rough sand, and the rustling sound could clearly be heard in his ears, who was lying on the ground.

Yan Fei felt fear occupying every inch of his skin, he trembled uncontrollably, and blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth.

The tip of the knife slowly slid up his legs, calves, thighs, waist, chest, lips, nose, and finally stopped between his eyes.

Tuoba Yuan's face was still splattered with dirty blood, and her eyes were as enchanting and beautiful as a demon.The long knife was erected and pierced the skin vertically. This sharp pain was extremely clear amidst the dull pain in the entire chest.

Tuoba Yuan smiled, exerting a little force on her right hand.

The sound of broken bones.

Those who were still in the future and screamed, General Yan's soul returned to the west.

There are still two gates away from the capital.Tuoba Yuan looked at the south from a distance, where the water and grass were luxuriant, there were carved beams and painted buildings, gold, silver and jewelry, everything he wanted.

A pair of glazed eyes flashed in front of his eyes.

Tuoba Yuan unconsciously stroked the handle of the knife.

The setting sun was like blood, and one hundred thousand Xijiang soldiers stood like a pack of wolves in the boundless blood.

"Your Majesty, are you really sending General Chu?" Yan Shigao asked cautiously.

"Otherwise, you go?" Chu Yuanzhi said lightly.He looked down at Yan Shigao's wrinkled face.Yan Shigao felt the cold sweat gradually drenching his clothes, he raised his hand tremblingly and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Don't think that I don't know what you did." Chu Yuanzhi gave him a sideways look, stood up and walked past him.

Yan Shigao froze on the ground, fear gradually creeping up his body along the veins.

As soon as Chu Xi entered the courtyard, she threw herself on Zhenqing, half excited and half worried: "Zhenqing, get ready, we will go to Jingzhou today." In a word, after hearing his words clearly, his face changed instantly.

"what happened?"

"Yan Fei is dead. The emperor ordered me to replace him." Chu Xi said with a more serious expression, and said seriously, "Tuoba Yuan has already attacked Jingzhou."

Zhenqing was stunned for a moment, opened her mouth, and wanted to say something, and finally said lightly: "Okay, I'm still your military advisor."

All the way to Jingzhou.As soon as Chu Xi arrived, she felt that the situation was worse than expected.The soldiers of the Southern Dynasties were already frightened by beatings, and their number was less than [-].The opponent is a division of fifty thousand tigers and wolves.

Chu Xi made a decisive decision and recruited troops on the spot.

The old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled are not required, and young and middle-aged people are specially called.Because Chu Xi had won many victories outside the customs, and became famous for a while, as soon as the conscription notice was issued, many people who were displaced by the war came.Hatred can temper the sharpest dagger.

However, this is not enough.