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Liu Polu's imperial driver entered Yongjing City on October [-].

Although the city of Yongjing was repeatedly hit by wars, under the control of Bai Yansheng, it has recovered a bit of vitality.Liu Polu offered sacrifices to the ancestral temple and rewarded all the ministers, causing chaos for more than a month.

When the twelfth lunar month was approaching, Bai Yansheng began to work on Yanfeng's marriage.Because Yujia returned to Beijing, Yanfeng and Shonan's wedding was postponed for another month.Mencius Ying sent the dowry from Jiangling early, which was very impressive.

Xiangnan was embroidering under the window that day, and saw Xiao Rongyue holding colorful silks and satins from a distance, followed by a bouncing little follower Pei Shao, who was also holding a jewelry box in both hands.She hurriedly got up to greet her, and said with a smile, "Why did you two bump into each other?"

Xiao Rongyue put the cloth on the table, and instructed Pei Shao to put the jewelry box away, and said: "This little brat was sneaking around outside the second gate, and I caught it temporarily."

Pei Shao cried and said, "Sister Xiao, don't tell my brother."

Li Xiangnan wondered, "Why did you fall into her hands?"

Xiao Rongyue was about to say, but Pei Shao hurriedly grabbed her sleeve to stop her from saying it. The two pulled into a ball, and Li Xiangnan smiled and said: "Okay, okay, don't be too big or small, you should go quickly. You're not lazy anyway. If you don't practice handwriting, you don't practice swordsmanship, you can guess it. Anyone who has the patience to complain in front of your brother."

Pei Shao, who was in his teens, left with a dark face.His elder brother Pei Lie and Bai Yanxing have left the residence now, and both of them are in the army for board and lodging.Mrs. Pei, Zhao Wan, also took him out of the mansion to live alone. He was the only child left at home, so he couldn't sit still, and often came to the general's mansion to hang out.

When Xiao Rongyue opened the jewelry box, Li Xiangnan gasped.There is a set of pure gold head and face inlaid with gemstones, and there are countless jade hairpin rings and bracelets. The most unusual thing is that there are ten pearls the size of the thumb, which are round and translucent, without a trace of blemish.

Xiao Rongyue said: "It was sent by some official in the court. It was said that the younger brother of Cheng Guogong, General Xiaobai, was going to get married, and he was rushing to curry favor. Sun Shuye said that there is no need for nothing, so I asked me to pick some and send them to you. You see You can still like it."

Li Xiangnan frowned and said, "Our sons and daughters in the Jianghu don't like these hairpins and rings, but this gift is too expensive." Presumably, Mencius knew her well, 32 pieces of incomparably precious jade articles, and [-] swords that are well-known , and also collected countless piano score secrets for her, all of which are very suitable for her.

Xiao Rongyue had an expression of "it's true", Li Xiangnan pulled her to sit down next to her, hesitated to speak, finally smiled, and said: "Miss Xiao, Mrs. Pei has moved out. After I leave the mansion, the courtyard I will leave it to you. I have explained everything to my servants. Brother Bai has always had a simple life and diet, and there is no need for outsiders to intervene. There is only one thing that I am afraid you can't do well. The general is not good at new clothes, old clothes If there is any damage, bring it to Dongfu to repair it for me." Bai Yansheng sent two maids in the family to Dongfu to serve her, and there was no time to buy girls, there is no female relatives in this mansion except Xiao Rongyue .

Xiao Rongyue didn't seem to understand the deep meaning in her words, she just nodded, but suddenly said: "Sister Xiangnan, I have something to discuss with you."

The vicinity of Yongjing King Kong Bridge is where temple fairs are concentrated. Whenever one stands on the upstream stone bridge and looks down, there are always paintings and drums on the river, day and night.

It was the last year of Jingning, after the war, the people were sparsely populated, and the streets were deserted and saddle horses were sparse.

In the cold winter, the willow trees on both sides of the river have lost all their leaves and have no branches to break.A carriage was parked under the bridge, and there was a line of people holding up big characters of "Avoid" and "Quiet".There is a lantern hanging on the eaves of the carriage, with a big "cheng" written on it.

Seeing that it was the brochure of Cheng Guogong's mansion, passers-by would avoid it from a distance.

The long bridge is like a moon, like facing the cold waves.

Cheng Guogong and General Bai Yansheng stood on the bridge, wearing a black cloak, silently watching the flowing water under their feet.Ten years ago, he met Meng Ziying here, and his life really started here.Ten years have not arrived, and everything is wrong.The joys of the past have become deep-seated lovesickness.The clever man works while the wise man worries, when will he be able to travel in an untied boat, full of food.

The sky was getting dark, and suddenly there was the sound of horseshoes in the distance.He raised his eyebrows and looked, there were two horsemen rushing by the river, both dressed as Imperial Forest Army soldiers, they got off their saddles and saluted from a distance.

It turned out that the emperor had lost his temper for a day in the palace, and Eunuch Gao asked Cheng Guogong to come into the palace to comfort him.

With the emperor's decree, he is now free to come and go in the palace.

Walking to the center, Bai Yansheng saw a person coming out of the military department in a hurry, he remembered that it was a child of the Xie family, Jingning was ordered by Xie Kun to support Xuzhou in the early years of Jingning, and lived in Beimingtang.

Xie Liancheng had already seen him, and there was no way to avoid him, so he came over and greeted him with a lukewarm, business-like attitude.

When Bai Yansheng heard that he had come to the Ministry of War to return the military talisman document, he couldn't help but asked with concern: "What is Mr. Xie's plan?"

Xie Liancheng said without hesitation: "Liancheng, like my sister, has a wish to read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. From now on, I will travel around and enjoy the customs and customs of all parts of China."

Bai Yansheng was silent for a while, and asked: "Is your sister okay?"

Xie Liancheng said indifferently: "I don't know how to lose weight over the years, but Sumei Gujie should not be reduced."

He went to Yanbo Hall, the emperor's bedroom, and it was already time to light the lamps.At the entrance of the hall, two servants were waiting there with lanterns, reminding him: "My lord, be careful of the broken porcelain on the ground." The hall was indeed in a mess, and Liu Polu smashed everything that could be smashed.

Bai Yansheng followed the palace attendant to the side hall, and saw a small figure curled up in front of the desk, sitting with his knees tucked in, his chin resting on his knees, indescribably tired and pitiful.

He was going to pay respects, but the emperor said in a muffled voice without raising his head, "Come here."

Eunuch Gao next to him quietly left the palace gate.Then Bai Yansheng stepped forward, and was about to kneel down, but Liu Polu stretched out his arms on the dragon chair and hugged his waist, and leaned his head on his body, preventing him from bowing down.

Liu Polu trembled slightly, and resentfully said: "I just don't understand, am I much worse than my father? Why don't they always use my father to teach me a lesson. If you are so loyal, why don't you go into the sea with your father's dragon boat?"

The desk was full of memorials, one of which was open to him, and Bai Yansheng read it at a glance, it was the notebooks of the group of officials who fled to Yuhang.He smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth: "It's well written. Luzhou Zhou Qin is a great Confucian of a generation." After he said this sentence, he changed the subject and said, "Your Majesty is powerful in politics and wants to rule the world. Why don't you make a decision?"

Liu Polu shook his arm holding him again. Since the founding of the country, Daxia has respected Lao Zhuang and treated his ministers and workers with kindness.

Bai Yansheng felt that he was hesitating, so he broke away from his hand, knelt down in front of him slowly, and said, "Does Your Majesty doubt me?"

Liu Polu hurriedly raised his head and said, "How could I doubt you!"

Bai Yansheng stared into his eyes, and said softly: "During the reign of the Supreme Emperor, Duan Fu was in power, and this person did not have a single word of advice, which caused the court to be in chaos. If you have a serious fault, you will advise, and if you do not listen repeatedly, you will change positions. The world is the most important thing, and the way of the monarch and his ministers hangs in the balance, how can it be advisable to seduce each other and trap the monarch without virtue?"

It was a great shame when the Hulu were rampant and the Emperor Yuan traveled south.When it comes to Emperor Jingning, the whole court emphasizes pleasure, and the affairs of the world are declining day by day.Because of the rebellion of a feudal town in Xichuan, the emperor's father went out of Beijing, and the imperial court spread far and wide, disgracing the face of this great country.

"A person like Zhou Qin is not a minister of the country. Gou Sheji eats blood, so there is no such thing as a monarch! If your Majesty wants to be a famous monarch, he must use people like Pei Xiu and Xie Kun."

The ministers of the country come out and serve as officials, for the world, not for the emperor; for the people, not for a single surname.It's just that it's not easy to say this clearly in front of the emperor.

Liu Polu looked up at him, yearning and admiring at the same time, nodded and said: "I know." Then said: "When is your brother's wedding date, I want to go."

This is nothing less than a great grace.However, Bai Yansheng shook his head and said: "The inside and outside of the city haven't been cleaned up yet, there may be remnants of the Meng Clan making trouble. Your majesty is so high in the palace that it is not appropriate to tamper with the emperor's family. The ministers are young and have not made any achievements. Your majesty's rewards are already beyond what he can bear. , I’m afraid it will ruin his fortune.” There are already rumors outside that he led troops to escort the emperor back to Beijing.Yanfeng was married, the emperor had rewarded a lot of things, and granted Xiangnan an imperial order.If the emperor comes here again, I am afraid it is not the way to stand in the world.

Liu Polu wanted to say anything else.Bai Yansheng knelt down and resigned firmly: "No meritorious service will not be rewarded. When he makes meritorious service for His Majesty, His Majesty will reward him again."

Yongjing in the last years of Jingning ended in a simple but grand wedding in Chengguo's mansion, and people ushered in the early years of Yuanyan amidst the sound of firecrackers.

In the early years of Yuanyan, Duan Hui and Fu Xi carried the Supreme Emperor and the prince of Guangling from the sea to Yuezhou Prefecture.In March, Duan and Fu issued a call to action, denouncing Liu Polu for stealing the throne for being unkind and unfilial, and Bai Yansheng for his wolfish ambitions to overthrow the country, calling for righteous soldiers from all over the world to fight against the thieves.

"Begging thieves, begging for thieves, begging for half a lifetime of being a thief, I became a traitor myself." Sun Shuye smiled and threw the copied document on the table.

"Do you want to show it to the general?" the official of the general's mansion asked with his head probed.

Sun Shuye coughed twice, frowned, and said: "The rhetoric is gorgeous, it should be able to make General Bai smile."

The mansion of Qingche General Baiyanfeng is next to Cheng Guogong's mansion. There is a corner gate in the back garden of the two mansions. Once the corner gate is opened, it becomes a courtyard.Li Xiangnan passed through the corner gate from Dongfu on this day, and came to the backyard of Duke Cheng's mansion.

In late spring and March, the grass grows in the south of the Yangtze River, the peanut trees are mixed, and the warblers are flying around.

From a distance, I could hear the "soughing" of the wind among the flowers, but when I got closer, I saw the petals fluttering and the fragrant dust scattered.A group of silver sword lights covered a figure, a slim figure, a woman, the long sword was handed out through the sleeve wind, and the tassel belt around the waist shot straight to the left and right.After dancing a cup of tea, Li Xiangnan turned pale and said, "Be careful!"

Before she finished speaking, Xiao Rongyue sharpened an apricot flower and handed it to her. There was a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, and her eyes sparkled.

Li Xiangnan smiled and took the red apricot flower hairpin on his head, Xiao Rongyue leaned against the flower tree, raised his eyebrows and said: "Come to practice?" Seeing the other party shaking his head, he was very puzzled.

Li Xiangnan then put his right hand on his abdomen and made a stroking motion.

Xiao Rongyue was stunned for a moment, and when she understood, she threw the Fengming sword and rushed over, overjoyed: "You have it?"

Li Xiangnan and Bai Yanfeng have been married for three months, they are lingering in love, tender and affectionate, and it is a matter of course that they are pregnant.

Arm in arm, the two walked along the corridor, whispering along the way.There was a breeze in the deep courtyard, and the flowers were flying randomly. Unexpectedly, an eight or nine-year-old boy in Tsing Yi jumped out of the corner, holding a robe in his hand. Seeing that the two of them couldn't stop, they were about to hit Li Xiangnan.

Xiao Rongyue flicked his big sleeve and brought him over, the two bumped into each other, the little boy grinned in pain.

"The general was practicing swords in the martial arts field, and his outer robe was scratched, so he asked for another one to wear."

Li Xiangnan took the outer robe and said to Xiao Rongyue: "Go, let's talk in your yard."

The mansion was newly bought, and everything was complicated, so she still came here every now and then to have a look and give advice.

The two chatted in the yard, and saw a big girl bringing the little boy in Tsing Yi over with a mournful face, and said to them, "Second Grandma, Miss Xiao, what should I do?" He was extraordinarily diligent in his hands and feet, seeing that the weather was fine a few days ago, he washed Bai Yansheng's robes and took them to dry.Unexpectedly, the torrential rain yesterday wet the clothes hanging outside, and they haven't dried yet.Just now when the boy came to pick up his clothes, she gave him a new unworn dress from the bottom of the box.The little boy sent it to Bai Yansheng, but was severely scolded and came back crying.

Li Xiangnan smiled unconsciously: "It's hard for you, the general has not corrected the problem of the new clothes?"

Because the martial arts field was occupied in the morning, Xiao Rongyue had to practice swords in the back garden and ruined the flowers and trees. Xiao Rongyue was in a bad mood, but now her face became darker, and she stretched out her hand: "Let me have a look."

The big girl timidly handed her the new dress, and she shook her hand. It was a royal blue gown, which she said was new, but in fact she just didn’t wear it very often. new.

Li Xiangnan glanced at it, understood something in his heart, and said to the girl and boy: "Put this clothes back. I will mend this clothes with three hands and two hands. Wait a moment." The sewing basket has already been taken out. When Rongyue talked about the origin, she hadn't started yet after the needle was threaded.

Xiao Rongyue lifted the table and said angrily: "Why does he have so many problems! Sister Nan, you are pregnant, and sewing hurts your eyes, so don't do it. He likes to make patches, so hurry up and buy a few maids who know how to sew." .”

As she spoke, she rushed out the door.Li Xiangnan wanted to stop her, but suddenly felt a pain in his stomach, he couldn't help but sat down again, and quickly pointed to the little boy, "Follow and have a look."

In the backyard of Cheng Guogong's mansion, there is a martial arts arena wide enough for horse racing.Today's rest, Bai Yansheng led Yan Xing, Pei Lie, Pei Shao and his soldiers to practice here.

Because Pei Lie accidentally cut the front of his clothes during the match, Bai Yansheng took off his outer robe and stood on the sidelines in only his middle coat.He watched Pei Lie and Yan Xing fight intently, his eyes getting darker.Thinking about ten years of hard work, even Pei Lie has made such progress, and he sighed in his heart.

It was cold in the spring, and he was wearing only unlined clothes and standing still, so he felt a little unbearable.He only heard the sound of light footsteps behind him, and before he could turn around, a blue robe fell on him lightly.

When he saw the hem of the robe, he frowned deeply. Just as he was about to speak, Xiao Rongyue jumped in front of him, put his hands on his hips and said, "The clothes are not dry yet, sister Nan is helping you mend the clothes. Only this one, your lord general." Let’s make do with a large number.”

Bai Yansheng was stunned, but he still took off the blue robe. Xiao Rongyue's heart became angry, and he said loudly: "The clothes are not new, why did you get them? You are shabby, and you have to look at them! Don't you know how old you are?" People are more precious than things, and I'm tired of sister Nan, so I'll see what you say."

Her lion's roar could be heard everywhere, and everyone on the field trembled.Yan Xing couldn't stand it anymore, and was about to abandon his sword and come over, but Pei Lie stopped him with a wink: "It's okay, let's continue practicing."

Bai Yansheng held the blue robe in his hand, feeling mixed feelings. It was the last robe that Yan Rong made for him when he went to Yongjing ten years ago. He was reluctant to wear it all these years and kept it at the bottom of the box.Clothes are the same as people, after these years, the colors are no longer bright, and the traces of time have been left.

He looked up at Xiao Rongyue, she looked at him provocatively, very much like Xiao Yu back then.

It is better to take pity on the people in front of you than to be full of mountains and rivers and empty thoughts.

So she turned her head and said to the little boy, "Go and tell the second grandma in Dongfu that there is no need to mend it, I will wear this."

The little boy was overjoyed immediately, and jumped away.

Xiao Rongyue felt bad for him being so obedient.Bai Yansheng turned to her and stretched out her arms. She took a step back unconsciously, hugged the Fengming sword tightly in her arms, and said vigilantly: "What do you want, fight?"

Bai Yansheng couldn't laugh or cry.He just saw the apricot petals on her head and wanted to pick them off for her.

At this moment, a sentry came over the flowers and said anxiously: "General, the Ministry of War has received news that Beiyan's 20 troops will be divided into three groups, heading south from Youzhou, Yunzhou, and Luoyi. Your Majesty, please go quickly!" Participate in the Chongzheng Palace."

The flowers and leaves shake off, and the fragrance wafts away.

Xiao Rongyue murmured: "Brother is here..."

The author has something to say: Since ancient times, powerful officials have to sacrifice their hue~~~

As I write this, I feel so desolate, and the loyal supporting characters have died one by one, and this article is gradually coming to an end~~~~

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