Suya

In the next few years, Feng Chen was extremely busy training troops, digging rivers, building cities and farming fields in Beiling. In his spare time, he took a few subordinates to gallop in the desert, and at night, they drank and ate meat around the campfire under the moonlight.

Four years have passed in the blink of an eye like this, during this period, the State of Yu did not invade again, and Feng Chen never returned to the capital.

Those who used to be very afraid of him seem to have gradually forgotten him, the officials no longer tried their best to poach his feet, and the civil and military ministers who had admired him very much gradually stopped talking about him. Emotion.

Like a wisp of green smoke, Feng Chen fluttered out of the capital, out of people's sight, and finally disappeared from people's memory.

Feng Chen didn't have any dissatisfaction with this. He felt that his original decision was right - he gave up the title and the rich salary promised by Yu Guo, and what he got in exchange was peace and harmony. He no longer needs to go through life and death for others, fight east and west, and live his life as he pleases, freely. He feels that even if he lives like this, there is nothing wrong with it.

Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. Just when Feng Chen was still considering whether to build a few plank roads so that nearby countries could communicate with Beiling, news came from the capital——King Feng passed away, and the queen mother ordered him to return to the palace immediately. .

Feng Chen sent someone to investigate the situation in the palace, and after arranging everything in the city, he returned to the capital alone.

Everything was the same as five years ago, with appalling whiteness and low whimpering everywhere, barren concubines crying and being driven to Liyuan by guards.After the death of the kings of all dynasties, the concubines who did not have children would be placed in this place. The high walls and the cold compound buried the rest of these women's lives in this way, making them feel like they were dead.

Feng Chen walked quietly, looking out of tune with the chaos around him.A concubine rushed towards him suddenly crying, and knelt on the ground begging him to save her. Feng Chen stood there watching the guards pull the woman down, slapped her hard several times and reprimanded her loudly, and then was Dragging, drifting away.

When everyone was gone, Feng Chen turned around and walked into the imperial garden, the path paved with gravel made soft choking sounds under his feet.I haven't been here for five years, and the scenery in the garden has not changed much, but it seems to be more deserted.

Arriving at the Empress Dowager's dormitory, she heard bursts of crying from a distance.

The palace people in front of the door were stunned when they saw him, Feng Chen held Su Yejian in his arms, and said coldly: "Feng Chen sees you."

The palace people were startled, and all of them just stared at him with wide eyes, as if they saw some terrible monster.Feng Chen raised his eyebrows, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled smugly: "What's the matter, this general is so handsome, did he scare you?"

The maids blushed one after another and lowered their heads not daring to look at him. One of the maids bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I will report to you." Then she turned and opened the door and entered the bedroom.

Soon, the Queen Mother let him in.

The dormitory was very large, as if it had no edges, and layers of heavy curtains were hung one after another as before, but the color changed from dark gold to snow white.

The light groaned, thread by thread, thread by thread, seeping into the room from the closed windows, barely illuminating a small corner faintly.

The green smoke in the incense burner rises gracefully, passes through the light frozen in mid-air, caresses the dust hovering in the light, swirls, dances lightly, and finally disperses in the cold air, drowning in the darkness of the room Down.

The cries came intermittently from the depths of the bedroom, which made people feel desolate and chilled, and suddenly felt sad.

The maid opened the last curtain, Feng Chen saw that the queen mother was sitting at the table, sighing non-stop, a gorgeously dressed woman was lying on her lap, her shoulders trembled slightly, as if she was crying, Feng Chen guessed, This person should be the queen.

Then, the kid in white clothes, wearing a golden crown, sitting on the other side of the table drinking tea with a blank face should be Prince Feng He.

Feng Chen stepped on the floor hard and walked over, then knelt down on one knee, and said nonchalantly: "My son is visiting the queen mother, I don't know why the queen hastily recalled my son, what's the matter?"

The queen mother frowned slightly, pointed to a chair beside her and said, "Sit down, I have something to discuss with you."

"Yes." Feng Chen got up and walked forward, Prince Feng He raised his head to stare at him, turned the cup on the table with his left hand, and after Feng Chen sat down, he lowered his head and began to drink tea by himself.

The queen stopped crying, and carefully wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief. There were two clear tear stains on the cheeks painted with light red rouge. It looked so funny that Feng Chen suddenly felt like laughing.

The queen mother did not speak, and the prince was also silent, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

Feng Chen saw that the Queen Mother had no intention of speaking, so he cleared his throat, and said in a neutral tone: "Queen Mother, it's useless to get hurt, and I'm sorry."

"En." The queen mother also responded with the same tone of unease and anger, and then said slowly: "Can you not be sorry? There are so many people in the world who are eyeing Si'er's throne, and now Si'er has left. If I collapse too, leaving He'er mother and son alone and helpless, I don't know what the world of this Feng family will become."

Feng Chen sneered in his heart.

He clasped his fists in both hands, raised them up to his forehead, lowered his head and said, "Please rest assured, Queen Mother, I will assist the Crown Prince wholeheartedly, without any second thoughts."

The queen mother looked down at him with no expression on her face. After a while, she sighed and said: "Chen'er, although you were not born in my October pregnancy, I have always regarded you as my own. Your mother and concubine leave You were only three years old when I was here. I have watched you grow up with Si'er for so many years, and I know your temperament. I called you here today, and I didn't really want to force you to do anything. I just hope you can understand that I am You and Si'er's mother is also the mother of thousands of subjects. Every mother hopes that her children will be safe forever, and I am the same. I really can't bear to watch my children kill each other, fighting to the death. , I can't bear to watch them being displaced, blood flowing like rivers, can you understand my feelings?"

"Understood." Feng Chen nodded.

"It's good to understand, it's good to understand. I'm old, and I won't live long. After all, this world belongs to your younger generation. However, I am still worried about the issue of the army."

"Huh?" Feng Chen put on a blank expression: "Is there a problem with the army?"

"The territory of the feudal country is so vast. Although Beiling is important, it is only a small place. What's more, there are natural barriers there. Big danger."

"What does the Queen Mother mean?"

"It is enough to send [-] troops to garrison."

"Queen Mother." Feng Chen pondered for a moment, then said with a serious face: "The national strength of the Yu State is growing stronger and stronger. In the past five years, many small countries have been annexed, and the generals of the Yu State have more than enough to overcome the crowd. They use their troops like gods." Yes, moreover, this Beiling can be regarded as the only barrier that prevents Yu State from going south. Once it is defeated due to insufficient troops, there will be no natural danger in the territory of Feng State to stop the attack of Yu Army. At that time, Feng State can only sit and wait for death. Queen Mother , I understand your intentions, but you must act cautiously."

The Queen Mother looked at the incense burner without saying a word.The sandalwood has been burnt out at some point, turned into a little bit of soot and piled up on the bottom of the furnace, the green smoke has long since disappeared, leaving only a faint lingering fragrance that fills the room.

The Empress Dowager was always unsmiling, and the marks carved by the years on the face of this woman who had gone through three dynasties made her look so resolute, stern and cold.

She looked at Feng Chen for a moment, and said: "Chen'er, come back to the palace, you stay in Beiling all the time, it's not good for you or for Feng Guo."

She reached out, touched Feng Chen's skirt, smoothed the folds on it, and said lightly: "Now that the former king and Si'er have left, you have suffered enough. Forget it." She sighed softly: "Come back to the palace, be an idle prince, and talk to me every day, it would be a good thing."

Feng Chen was silent for a while, then smiled: "Queen Mother, you know this is impossible."

The queen mother looked at him for a long time without saying a word, finally sighed, waved her hand and said, "I understand, since you have made up your mind, I have nothing to say." The queen mother closed her eyes and said, "Back off!" .”

Feng Chen got up and clasped his fists in both hands, made a bow, turned and walked out the door, when he got to the door, he heard the queen mother say in a tired voice: "Chen'er, remember what I said today - you will always have blood flowing from your body. The blood of the people of the country."

Feng Chen smiled brightly: "I will remember it in my heart."

Feng Chen thought that this time, he could finally stay safely in Beiling for the rest of his life, but he didn't expect that trouble would come soon.

Prince Feng He summoned Feng Chen back shortly after he came to the throne, Feng Chen was very surprised, scratching his head but couldn't figure out what Feng He's purpose was.

When he rushed back to the capital all the way and met Feng He, things became even more bizarre.

When Feng He saw him, he just said lightly: "This king just wants to see the emperor's uncle, and has no other intentions." Then he dragged Feng Chen to drink all night, and let him go back to Beiling the next day , making Feng Chen baffled.

Later, every year during the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, Feng He would call him back, and every time he would just drag him to drink.Gradually, Feng Chen refused to go back, and every time he found various reasons to evade, thinking that the matter would pass like this, and everything would return to the way it was before.Unexpectedly, half a year later, the situation turned around. Feng Chen not only became very willing to return to the capital, but also went back several times a year.In fact, all of this is not because General Feng, who has always been a wolf-hearted dog, suddenly developed feelings for the court. It is all because Feng He gave him another identity - an assassin.

This is of course a secret, and everyone only knows that the king of the current dynasty and the general who was exiled by the late emperor for many years are congenial, and they have to meet each other from time to time.The relationship between the monarch and his ministers is so harmonious, which is really a blessing for the country.