After wearing white lotus princess

The northern border is freezing cold, and many soldiers can't bear the dry and cold climate here.The north wind lacerated their faces like knives. The clothes they wore during the march were not very warm. Many of their hands and feet were so festered that they couldn't even lift their weapons.

This time is not the coldest time, if there is strong wind or heavy snow, the march will be more difficult.Therefore, in many cases, the Daluo Dynasty would avoid fighting in winter. Fontaine chose to occupy Qiongzhou at this time because he speculated that Daluo was helpless against them.

The accompanying military doctor also prepared ointments for the soldiers to use, but these ointments did not work and cost a lot.Ah Xi had been out with Mu Jinyu for the past two days, and frostbite had grown on his hands, so he quickly took out the chilblain ointment he begged from Dieqing to use.Several generations of Ning Huan's ancestors used this ointment for winter battles. It was passed down from their ancestors.

Mu Jinyu recognized that it was the ointment made by Ning Huan.

He is very concerned about military affairs, and when he saw Ah Xi using this, he thought of some soldiers whose hands were too swollen to hold a weapon: "Is this useful? How does it compare to the military doctor's?"

A Xi said: "I didn't use the one made by the military doctor, I only used this one. After using the one given by the Crown Princess, my hands get feverish."

Mu Jinyu still remembered the prescription. Ning Huan wrote it down for him at the time, and it happened to come in handy now, so he told the military doctor.Most of the medicinal materials needed were relatively cheap, and sheep oil was not difficult to obtain in the northern border. The military doctor quickly distributed the new chilblain ointment to everyone.

The culture of the Fontaines is different from that of the Central Plains. Most of the Fontaines are barbaric and tyrannical.After Yicang was attacked by Mu Jinyu, their supply of food and grass was not enough for a while, and there was news that the people of Qiongzhou were used as food.

For a while, the army was furious.

After Mu Jinyu came to the Northern Territory, he went his own way and never listened to the advice of these old ministers sent by the emperor. The former general Zhang Zhao was quite critical, and Zhang Zhao's subordinates also spread rumors in the army that the crown prince occupied Yicang and led to Qiongzhou After this catastrophe, the people blamed the evil deeds of the Fontaine army on the crown prince.Zhang Zhao even spread the matter to Beijing.

The army led by Zhang Zhao is the most elite. In fact, Zhang Zhao has not been on the battlefield for more than ten years, and has always been pampered in Beijing.Mu Jinyu didn't show any reaction on the surface, but he must not let this person be the forward general of the army, and the army's morale must not be shaken. It is far from enough to kill a few Hanzhou officials in the army.

General Wang Jun was a member of Mu Jinyu's flock, and he had shown his affection to Mu Jinyu many times on the way to the northern border. He was not close to the emperor in the court, and he was rarely smooth and gentle among generals.Mu Jinyu had a good impression of Wang Jun.

Dreaming back at midnight, he dreamed of Ning Huan many times.

The time of marriage with Ning Huan was too short, and the two of them didn't get along much. Mu Jinyu suffered from insomnia at night and recalled all the words they said when they got together.

Ning Huan was always calm and didn't have too many emotional ups and downs. When he was happy, he only curled his lips slightly, and when he was angry, he just glanced coldly.

Mu Jinyu really wanted to know what would happen when Ning Huan was really emotional.

Ning Huan was quite strange, as if he knew something.

"When you get to the northern border, don't trust your subordinates who talk sweetly and flatteringly. Don't lose your mind whether you win or lose..."

Ning Huan's words were vivid in his ears that day, did the eloquent subordinate refer to Wang Jun?

He called one of his subordinates to come in, and said coldly: "Keep an eye on Wang Jun for the past two days."

On New Year's Eve, the army was stationed dozens of miles away from Qiongzhou City. Mu Jinyu was about to retake Qiongzhou City. The soldiers patrolled closely at night. Mu Jinyu looked at the map in the army tent and thought of Ning Huan again.

The two are newlyweds, and they were supposed to celebrate the New Year together, but now they are far apart.After thinking about it for a while, Mu Jinyu wrote a reply letter to Ning Huan, and it took many days to write a reply letter to him, and she didn't know if Ning Huan would be angry.

In the middle of the night, there was a sudden noise in the army, and the flames lit up the sky for a while. Mu Jinyu wiped his fingers, folded the letter and put it in his arms.Fontaine suddenly attacked at night, and Mu Jinyu's personal soldiers came to guard his camp.

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"Qiongzhou has been taken back." The queen mother took a sip of tea, and the fragrance of the tea permeated her mouth. It was clearly the same kind of tea, but Ning Huan cooked it with a different flavor. "The prince is indeed quite capable. He didn't mess around like this when he was a teenager, and he also made military achievements at that time, and then he grew more and more crooked."

Ning Huan finished boiling the tea, poured the rich tea soup into the clear jade vessel, he hooked the corners of his mouth: "The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. If the prince is virtuous and upright, there will be many people who want to destroy it."

He held the tea vessel with his slender fingers, and he couldn't tell which was more beautiful, the hand or the white jade, and the Queen Mother Qiu was thoughtful.

The Queen Mother Qiu also thought a lot during this time.

For some reason, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that Mu Jinyu looked similar to the late emperor when he was a child, with beautiful and delicate eyebrows and eyes.

She was also slowly numbing herself, making herself believe that Ning Huan's hint was true.The first emperor is dead, but the first emperor still has a child. Mu Jinyu's absurdity these years is just to make the emperor take it lightly and prevent the emperor from killing him.

There was a trace of sadness in the Queen Mother's brows: "Although the crown prince won the battle and took Qiongzhou back, but he killed Zhang Zhao and angered the emperor—"

"Zhang Zhao neglected his duty and his patrolling staff didn't notice Fontaine's night attack. The crown prince killed him a little bit more. But the rules in the army have always been ruthless, how can they care about human feelings in everything like the capital. If you don't kill Zhang Zhao today, tomorrow will be." Another dereliction of duty Zhang Zhao appeared, the crown prince and the army were lucky enough to turn defeat into victory this time, but what about the next time?" Ning Huan filled the empress dowager's empty tea vessel with a cold voice, "After all, it is about the survival of our Daluo Dynasty. "

The new year has arrived, and the weather in the capital is a bit warmer, but Ning Huan knows that the northern region is as cold as ever.

The queen mother is also old now, her eyelids are drooping, and she often thinks about the past.

At this time, a concubine came to pay her respects to the Queen Mother. It was Concubine Qiu, the Queen Mother's niece.

Concubine Qiu has a beautiful appearance, but she is really ordinary in the harem. She can't compare to the queen's alluring beauty, nor can she compare to the charming, plump, bright and eye-catching concubine.The Qiu family sent her here to stabilize their own status, but the emperor didn't care about her face at all, and only made her a concubine for the empress dowager's sake.

Concubine Qiu was not good at words, she only said a few words in a soft voice and left.

The queen mother shook her head and said, "Our Qiu family's girls are all like this. They can't learn how to seduce men, and they can't win the emperor's favor."

Ning Huan chuckled inexplicably: "Speaking of this, the young master of the Qiu family is very flirtatious. I heard that he had a fight with His Highness Prince Rui because of the competition for Miss Yingying from Zuihualou."

The Empress Dowager was disturbed, she remembered that both Prince Rui and Yue Wang had the same virtues as the Emperor, and they were the most beautiful in their life.One went to the Zuihua Building to listen to the girl playing the piano, and the other went to the Chunfeng Building to find a young lady to drink.These two are close to him on the surface, but in fact they don't even have the patience to sit down and have a cup of tea, and they are even less close to the Qiu family. Prince Rui even beat up her little nephew because of a woman in a brothel.

After the queen mother became a monk, she returned to vulgar life just for the sake of the Qiu family, taking care of the girls sent to the palace by the Qiu family, but now she feels that she has not played the slightest role.

After Ning Huan left, the Empress Dowager sent a message to Qiu's family, asking them to support the Prince in court.Although it was not right for the crown prince to kill Zhang Zhao, after all, he had made great contributions, and the credit had completely offset the crime, and Zhang Zhao really deserved to die.

Ning Huan lazily came out of the Empress Dowager's Palace, and met the Emperor not long after leaving.

The emperor has sword eyebrows and star eyes with some beards, and looks radiant and majestic.

Ning Huan looked at the people following the emperor and remembered their faces one by one, and then saluted the emperor.

The emperor heard that Ning Huan had been to the Empress Dowager's palace a few times recently, so he asked casually.

Ning Huan said: "The Empress Dowager heard that my minister is interested in Buddhist scriptures, so she explained the Buddhist scriptures to my minister."

The emperor himself knew that the queen mother was lonely, because the queen mother had a weird personality, and the princesses and princes were not close to her, and even the emperor himself was unwilling to go to the queen mother.

Ning Huan and the emperor's expectations were different. The emperor thought that Ning Huan was a troublemaker, but the prince's mansion was not disturbed by her.

Fortunately, the Marquis of Dingyuan's mansion is not very powerful, and Marquis Dingyuan has no real power either.Now I heard that the relationship between Ning Huan and the crown prince is weak, even if the relationship gets better in the future, the Ning family should not be of much help to the crown prince.

The emperor originally thought that the prince would never return, and it would be no wonder that the prince's irritable character could beat Fontaine, but he did not expect to take back Qiongzhou by a mistake.The emperor was also a little depressed, and the crown prince killed the emperor's confidant Zhang Zhao, so the emperor didn't even eat his meal last night.

"The crown prince is not in Beijing, so you can come and accompany the queen mother more." The emperor said, "It is also a happy event for the crown prince to take back Qiongzhou."

"A tiger father has no dogs," Ning Huan complimented, "The prince is brave and good at fighting, probably because His Majesty is also wise and martial. With His Majesty as an example, the Prince is also invincible on the battlefield."

The emperor laughed, the crown prince was indeed like him in this way, he had the demeanor of his youth, the emperor led troops to fight and held great power when he was young, and then easily killed his brother to seize the throne.His cowardly and incompetent elder brother would definitely not be able to go into battle to kill the enemy. The late emperor could not even defend his own country.

After returning home, Ning Huan took a bath and changed into a new set of clothes, and a letter came from the north.A man named Chu He in the mansion is now at Ning Huan's disposal. This man is indeed one of Mu Jinyu's confidantes.

He took the letter from Chu He, and said casually: "It's time to spread the news about Huimin Pharmacy, and ask the storytellers in various restaurants in the capital to tell everyone."

Chu He replied: "Yes."

Originally Chu He was very unhappy, he only obeyed His Highness the Crown Prince, and he was not willing to obey the Crown Prince's woman at all.But after getting along with each other during this time, Chu He found that Ning Huan's moodiness was not visible, it was definitely not as simple as he thought.