My country is dead again [Rebirth]

Shen Ci realized that he shouldn't show such private things to outsiders casually, so he hurriedly turned his hands behind his back and hid the peach blossom note behind his back, preventing Yue Tingchuan from seeing it again, and coughed to relieve the embarrassment.

"I'm not familiar with Hengchuan, but this kind of peach blossom paper is very popular everywhere in Dayu, I think it should be sold everywhere." Yue Tingchuan also coughed, suppressed his wild thoughts, and then resigned Asked where the peach blossom paper was sold and replied, "But there are no shops in front of the village or in the back of this place, and Xu Zishen's soldiers and horses appear outside at any time. It is very dangerous for you to go to the nearest county."

Shen Ci thinks about it, it is indeed so, just now he was also impulsive, and only wanted to give Xie Ruzhuo back a piece of exactly the same peach blossom note.

"You don't have to use this kind of peach blossom paper, do you?" Yue Tingchuan took out a few pieces of moon-white simple and elegant brushstroke paper from under a pile of official documents and military newspapers, and threw them to Shen Ci, "I'll give you this, it's no better than that girl's home." Something nice?"

In the eyes of Shen Ci, the note in front of him is more eye-catching than the pink and fragrant peach blossom note. The corners are painted with elegant flowers and moons, and the middle is a hazy landscape. It looks like an elegant thing that is very popular among the princes of the family. It is reasonable to like it.

But since Xie Ruzhuo also used peach blossom paper, it is the most beautiful, there is no doubt about it.

"Thank you, General." Shen Ci accepted it, and commented, "It's not bad, I can barely see it, but there is no peach blossom, no gold powder, and no fragrance. It's still a little bit worse."

Relying on his good upbringing, Yue Tingchuan resisted rolling his eyes, pointed to the outside of the tent, and said, "Get lost."

Before Shen Ci left, he glanced at what Yue Tingchuan was writing, and said in his heart, "It's so miserable", Xie Ruzhuo sent me peach blossom paper, you can only have a confidential letter full of nonsense.

It's miserable, really.

He ran back to the tent, scrapped five sheets of the note that Yue Tingchuan had given him, and finally wrote what he thought he was satisfied with on the last sheet:

A few times the soul dream is the same as the king.

He put the jade pen that Xie Ruzhuo gave him into his bosom, and pressed it to his heart. He had nothing to give to Xie Ruzhuo. After thinking about it, he dug out a jade-white stone from his luggage.

This is when he passed by the Huanjiang River near Guzhou while marching some time ago. He accidentally kicked this stone on the river beach. When he picked it up, he thought it was wonderful. The cracks bloomed on the stone like a flower, and for some reason, he still felt like a peach blossom.

It was the first time he did such a naive and boring thing as picking stones from the river beach, and he thought of giving it to Xie Ruzhuo after returning to Beijing, but since Xie Ruzhuo gave him a gift now, he should send it out in advance.

The army couldn't find a wooden box, so Shen Ci could only make the best use of it, put the stone and a note back into the wooden box that Xie Ruzhuo had sent, and sent them to the capital together after Yue Tingchuan finished writing the reply letter.

At the beginning of September, King Yan attacked Suifang from Ningya, and the imperial court appointed Wu Xianrong as the chief general to attack King Yan. The battle between Hengchuan and Xu Zishen continued, from summer to autumn, and from autumn to winter.

Shen Ci remembers to write letters to Xie Ruzhuo every month, but most of the time, Xie Ruzhuo's letters arrive first. In the later letters, Xie Ruzhuo doesn't have many words to express his thoughts and feelings. Sometimes he just writes some small daily things, such as reading a book one day. I heard an interesting sentence, I ate a delicious snack one morning, and I saw a beautiful flower blooming in the imperial garden one afternoon...

Although it was just a trivial matter, Shen Ci still had to read it over and over again, and he never got bored no matter how he looked at it. He also felt that his mind was not normal. I am afraid that Xie Ruzhuo would be very happy if Xie Ruzhuo just wrote him a word and sent it to him.

After discovering that Xie Ruzhuo likes to write about these trifles, Shen Ci is not so afraid of writing letters - he will write like this.

So Xie Ruzhuo, who is far away in the capital, seems to have several sheets of letter paper in the letters he receives every month. When he opens them, they are all more boring than what he wrote. There is probably nothing interesting every day when he is out on the march. Shen Ci’s letter has become Hengchuan weather records, Hengchuan forest birds, animals, insects and fish records, and Dayu army food records, he could not help but laugh every time, but he couldn't get enough of them.

Shen Ciyue doesn't have much time to practice calligraphy on weekdays, and the handwriting on the monthly letter is still unsightly, and there are several pages of eloquence. People who have no patience really can't read it. Xie Ruzhuo thinks that his handwriting when he was seven or eight years old is more neat than this up.

But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Xie Ruzhuo looks at Shen Ci's handwriting every day, and thinks it looks pretty good after reading it several times.

After winter, the fighting between Hengchuan and Ningya became much more gradual. In mid-November, Shen Ci wrote that Xu Zishen should retreat in less than a month. Dayu is evenly matched, and has been fighting everywhere, has never had a rest, the money and food have bottomed out, and the officials in Pingdu are urging Xu Zishen to return to Beijing, this battle cannot be fought.

But Ningya’s side has always been much smoother than Hengchuan’s. Using the northern cavalry as the main force to clean up the soldiers and horses of King Yan who have lived in the hinterland for a long time is actually overkill. King Yan also has no generals who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Wu Xianrong. After two months , the northeast of Ningya has been cleared for the most part.

Xie Ruzhuo had already figured it out, to deal with King Yan is to cut through the mess quickly, and must not be delayed. If it is as slow as dealing with Xu Zishen, Dayu will be overwhelmed, and the northern army can't afford to go south after a while. I'm afraid Wu Xianrong doesn't have the patience to do it all at once, so the number of times to attack Ningya should be as little as possible, and each time should be concentrated in two or three months, and the most elite soldiers and horses should be cast to clean up all the way.

As for Xu Zishen's side, the land is vast, and he has a well-established imperial court. It will definitely take several years. This is something that Xie Ruzhuo must face on his own. The key to the shame is that if the imperial court does not have an army of its own and no generals who can fight, Dayu will still not be able to change the fate of the country.

The battlefield in Hengchuan was difficult in the early stage, and although it was not smooth sailing later, it did not encounter too many ups and downs.

Of course, what Xie Ruzhuo didn't know was that for Shen Ci, he was too familiar with many places in Hengchuan, and he already knew how to fight. He had also figured out Xu Zishen's fighting style in his previous life. It can be said to be more than enough in the case.

At the end of November, the army had reached the last state near Fengyu Mountain.

In December, Hengchuan was suddenly cold, and Xu Zishen's food and grass were cut off in the meadow, but Xu Zishen was so ruthless that he persisted for another half a month, and led the main force back to Beijing when he was really unable to eat. Not a loss, but a loss to their own court.

Seven days later, Yue Tingchuan led an army to capture Yinzhou and pushed the battle line to the foot of Fengyu Mountain.

At this time, it happened to be in late December, and there were still ten days left in the first year of Longxing.

Xie Ruzhuo thought, Shen Ci really would not break his word most of the time, the year before the end of the year was the end of the year, and he would not let the war drag on until the second year of Longxing.

It doesn't matter if you break your promise very rarely.

At this point, all the east of Fengyu Mountain was recovered, Hengchuan was divided into two, and the third Southern Expedition also ended in great victory.

The army stayed in Hengchuan for a period of rest to strengthen the defenses of the cities, reorganized the defenders, and returned to the court on the fifth day of the first lunar month.

Xie Ruzhuo informed the whole city of Lezhou as agreed with Shen Ci in the previous letter that this year’s Shangyuan Festival will be grandly held. On the night of Friday, fireworks will be lit in front of Bei'anmen in the palace, and the emperor will climb the tower of Bei'anmen to have fun with the people.

Before Shangyuan, Xie Ruzhuo rewarded the army and held several palace banquets. He was so exhausted every day that he never met Shen Ci in private, so He Xiaoman sent someone to ask Shen Ci if he would return on the Yuan Festival. Nangu, Shen Ci had agreed to watch lanterns and fireworks with him in a letter before.

Shen Ci replied quickly, with only one sentence: I will definitely do what I promised Your Majesty.

Because of this sentence, Xie Ruzhuo smiled all day long.

During the few days waiting for Shang Yuan's arrival, Xie Ruzhuo secretly met Wu Xianrong again in the palace.

It has nothing to do with official business, he took the initiative to pass Wu Xianrong here because of Liu Yan'er.

After autumn, Liu Yan'er began to cough, and she liked to wear a thin red dress to go to the city tower to have a wind. The cough became more and more serious. As soon as the frost came, she fell ill. Always have a fever.

Xie Ruzhuo secretly asked the imperial physician, although the imperial physician dared not speak, but he knew in his heart that Liu Yan'er's foundation was broken, just like her worn-out butterfly chasing flowers to comb her back, and she couldn't return to the old one every day. The color is bright, and no matter how much the owner of the back comb uses medicine to recuperate, this body will not be able to repair it.

The imperial doctor said that it should be better in the spring, and there should be something left to say. It can be delayed for a year and a half. I don't know how many winters I can survive.

In his free time, Xie Ruzhuo would go to Jiezhi Palace to see Liu Yan'er. Her cheeks were sunken a lot, and her heroic eyebrows and eyes looked fragile. Several times Xie Ruzhuo saw her clutching the mattress under her body in a daze, and her voice was hoarse. He murmured softly, "Why don't you come..."

Ning Ya ended this year's war at the beginning of December, Wu Xianrong returned to Beijing in the second half of the month, Xie Ruzhuo rewarded him as usual, and was preparing to return to Xishan these few days, Xie Ruzhuo walked out of Jiezhi Palace silently, Wei Yang said, : "Let Jin Yiwei go to Wu Xianrong and tell him that the Empress Dowager's illness is not very good. He can enter the palace or not. If he wants to come, he can be brought secretly."

Wei Yang took the order to go down and report in the afternoon, Wu Xianrong agreed to enter the palace, he will come tonight and return to Xishan tomorrow.

That night Wu Xianrong quietly entered the palace under the escort of Jin Yiwei, and went directly to Jiezhi Palace, Xie Ruzhuo was standing at the gate of the palace waiting for him, his eyes were cold, but there was a bit of compassion.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, she..."

"Very bad." Xie Ruzhuo interrupted him directly, and said indifferently, "Since she entered the palace, she has been insane every day, unable to sleep, unable to eat, haunted by nightmares, and the situation is even worse in the cold palace, shutting herself in the room Talking nonsense, and only sleeping for more than an hour at night. The foundation is broken, and it can't be cured, how long can it be delayed by drinking medicine."

Outsiders didn't know how the queen mother's illness was. Xie Ruzhuo looked at Wu Xianrong's expression, he obviously didn't know, and he didn't even think that the situation was so bad.

"You can't come to Beijing often, so if you have anything to say, hurry up and say it." Xie Ruzhuo smiled at him mockingly, walked around him, "If you don't say it this time, maybe you won't have a chance next time."

Wu Xianrong had deep pain in his eyes, and the fine lines at the corners of his eyes were filled with deep sorrow, and his steps were a little staggering, as if he mustered all his courage to push open the door in front of him.

The author has something to say: the next chapter will be about the love story between Liu Yaner and the scumbag Wu Wu. It can be regarded as explaining the story between these two characters clearly. If you don’t want to read it, you can skip it. Xie let’s go to see the lantern together. Spoiler alert, the relationship line will advance by leaps and bounds, such as kissing my mother on the head√

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