He reached out and put my hand on his knee and patted it lightly, "Tang'er, do you know why I told you all the truth of the year in front of the queen? You are at the door. I haven't heard much before, if I'm perfunctory, I can just make up a reason."

I closed my eyes and shook my head, "Tang'er doesn't know."

He pondered: "I only have a few days left..."

"Royal father..." I couldn't help interrupting his words, he raised his hand to signal me not to speak, and said, "After I leave, for the queen, you are her biggest threat, and she has feelings for you in her heart. Both ashamed and afraid, you will eventually reveal your background... You have done so many things in the court as a princess over the years, and there are countless people who have offended you. A few faces, it was a serious crime, but you saved them in disregard of the law and discipline. Others saw it in their eyes and did not speak because you are a princess. If they know that you have no royal blood, they will only gang up and attack them. Your hundred sins will put you to death, and at that time, even Jingyan won't be able to save you..."

I hooked the corners of my mouth, "Tang'er naturally understands this."

"Zhen, I just want to ask you one question..." He asked, "Since you already know the truth, now, do you want to be a princess under this person above ten thousand people, or the sky is high and the birds fly? life?"

I was stunned for a while, unable to understand the purpose of this question for a while.

The father said: "If you want to continue to be your Princess Xiangyi, when I leave, I will let the queen follow me and bury this secret forever in the soil..."

I couldn't help but be startled, he looked at me quietly, "If you don't want to be confined to the imperial city, and you don't want to stay by Jingyan's side to assist, then there can be no queen mother in the court..."

And the Queen Mother will never allow me.

I met my father's eyes, "How I would choose, my father should know better, right?"

"Okay, so..."

The royal father reached into his arms and placed a golden token on my palm. I took a closer look and said in amazement, "The order of the Secretary of Mingjian? Didn't the Secretary of Mingjian have been given to the Crown Prince? Why..."

Father Huang said: "From now on, there will be no Mingjian Division who listens to the emperor's order, only Mingjian Division who listens to Xiao Qitang's dispatch."

I was so shocked that I was speechless.

He slowly said: "All the people and files in the Mingjian Division who are involved in the court have been transferred to the prince's hands, and now the rest, except for the eight hundred shadow guards in Beijing, are merchants and soldiers scattered all over Daqing. As long as they don't involve the imperial power and the imperial power, all of them can't disobey your orders... If you are in a difficult situation in the future, this order can help you turn a bad situation into a lucky one. No matter where you go, it can protect your safety. Worrying about things outside of you."

This is equivalent to giving me a golden bell, even if one day my mother finds someone to put me in the sky prison, the eight hundred shadow guards can easily rob me of a prison and escape without a trace; With a universal silver ticket, no matter if you flee to the end of the world or the cape, you can find someone to offer you gold and silver jewelry, and you will never fall into the dilemma of firewood, rice, oil and salt.

After a long while, I said, "...These are for Jingyan, I don't..."

"This is... the only and the last thing I can do for you..."

My heart froze, and I stared at the father, "But Tang'er is not the father's biological bone, Tanger..."

"You are." The royal father's eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and he said word by word: "In my heart, you have always...are my daughter...and always will be."

In the hazy eyes of tears, the moments of those years passed by, and he grew up slowly under his protection, and he held hands to go to the high place where thousands of people worship, and there are countless chūn summers, autumns and winters with smiles and laughter.

Days and nights are so long, when the father was still so young, and I was still so young, everything in the future is looking forward to and yearning for.

I slowly got up and took a step back, knelt on my knees, put my hands on the ground, and slowly bowed my head.

The moonlight outside the house was clear and slanted, and I fell on the ground until the tears were gone, and it was a long time before I started.

That was the last time I had a long talk with my father. After a few days, bad news came from the palace. For a time, the palace hall was full of mournful cries, and there was silence between heaven and earth.

After Jingyan ascended the throne, it was the funeral of the father and the emperor. After the ministers discussed the text, the new emperor was approved by the Xuanzhimen, and the Hanlin Academy wrote a posthumous book, and the funeral was carried out.

After the national mourning, I sat alone in the stele pavilion of the imperial mausoleum for a long time, holding the token of Mingjian Division in my hand, but my heart was at a loss.

The war has not yet settled, and Jing Yan has just ascended the throne. Can I really just walk away and leave the imperial city without paying attention to anything? So what about Song Langsheng? He is still fighting the enemy on the battlefield. I promised to wait for him to come back. If he can't find me when he comes back, what should I do?

I walked out of the mausoleum in despair, and from a distance, I saw that there were still people quietly kneeling in the direction of the mausoleum. I was overwhelmed with emotion. As I was about to turn around and mount my horse, I seemed to see something in my eyes. When I looked back again, I saw a person in the crowd wearing a half-old robe and blue shirt, with his sleeves horizontal and his head bowing deeply. The breeze swept over him However, the broad sleeves swayed lightly, and the whole person exuded an air of air.

I stood in a daze for a while, then I walked forward with my sleeves up, getting closer step by step, until he finished the solemn ceremony, I stood in front of him, he looked up at me and looked at me with a slight surprise in his eyes, Immediately, she showed joy, "I haven't seen it for a long time, I almost don't recognize it..."

I looked at the face of Yinglang that had been added to the vicissitudes of the past, and heard my voice like a dream, "Yeah, I haven't seen you for a long time, big brother, after all these years, where have you been?"

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Yuelu Teahouse.

The person who brought me to this teahouse for the first time when I was a child was the eldest brother Jing Lan. Now that the times have changed, the teahouse is still there, and the personnel has changed.

Jing Lan poured the tea for me, and when she saw me staring at him with my cheeks up, she couldn't help but smile, "Have you seen enough?"

I shook my head and said, "I haven't seen it for so many years, and it's only been so long now, how can I see enough? Hey, brother, how you maintain it has not changed. This is what makes us women qíng..."

Jing Lan laughed and said, "You, you, you are a grown-up girl. How can you still talk as if you were a child? It seems that the concubine spoils you very well."

"He, forget it..." I smiled slightly, "When did you come to the capital?"

"Yesterday." He said, "I heard that my father... I happened to pass through Chengde when the emperor was immortal crane. I just wanted to come to Beijing to worship and leave, but I ran into you..."

Hearing such careful evasive remarks, I felt really uncomfortable, and suddenly I was a little fortunate that he didn't know his background, so he didn't have to struggle in a sea of ​​misery like me.

I turned the hot tea cup to warm my hands, "By the way, why didn't my sister-in-law come with you?"

His eyes dimmed.

"She's gone." Jing Lan lowered her head and said, "Three years ago, she contracted a sudden illness and couldn't make it through. It was me... who didn't protect her."

My heart shuddered, "Why, how could this be..." I didn't want to continue to touch his sadness, so I just asked, "Then, it's been so long, why didn't you come to the capital to find us?"

He smiled relievedly, "I've traveled all over the world these years, and I'm used to it, and I'm used to it when I come back... Besides, I promised not to go back to the imperial city, but I didn't want to break my promise. I knew that you guys were doing well. Peace of mind."

I whispered: "You don't care about us, we still care about you..."

He reached out and flicked my forehead, "Don't always talk about me, talk about you."

"What do I have to say... Day after day, year after year..." Living a miserable and calculating life, and then having to face the long road of being hunted down by the current queen mother, it really has to make people feel He sighed, "However, I met a fierce rival a while ago, and the city was full of ups and downs, and I almost calculated Jingyan, ah, the emperor's younger brother, this person is nicknamed Pineapple..."

"pineapple?"

I said: "I call myself Feng Li, Nie Guang's advisor, he is very familiar with my affairs... I once... regarded him as you..."

Jing Lan was dumbfounded, "Me?"

"In the end, I found out that he is Xiao Huaijin, the big brother..."

"..."

My eldest brother and I chatted like this for most of the afternoon. After sunset, I remembered that I had made an appointment with Jingyan to discuss important matters, so I asked him where he lived and told him not to leave silently. It is rare to meet again. There is much more to say to him.

Jing Lan smiled and promised me.

Naturally, what I want to discuss with Jingyan is the war, and now I am most concerned about the battle situation of the Southern Army. This battle has been fought for nearly half a year. At first, the two sides fought in full swing and were evenly matched. In the past two months, the imperial army has won several battles, and the situation has begun to reverse. On June 15th, General Huo Chuan knocked on the pass, lured some enemy troops into the city, gathered and annihilated them. But on June 20, when the two armies fought in Zezhou, the Nie family had assassins disguised as our army guards and attempted to assassinate Huo Chuan.

Jingyan put down the report and said worriedly: "I didn't expect Nie Guang to be so cunning and to attack our army commander secretly. Now we can only withdraw troops to temporarily guard Zezhou City, and Song Langsheng will temporarily take care of the affairs."

I stared at the map spread on the long table by the candle light, and Jing Yan asked me, "What is the emperor thinking?"

I pondered: "I'm just thinking... If the enemy army wants to continue to raise troops north, there are three possible routes: Zezhou, Tongguan, or detouring from Liangshan. After fighting for so long, the enemy's military supplies should not be enough to continue the stalemate. The possibility of mountains is very small, and Tongguan is easy to defend and difficult to attack. They should not send troops rashly. Now that our army is frustrated and Huo Chuan is unconscious, it is a good time for them to take the opportunity to take Zezhou. They will definitely be in Lize. Not far from the prefecture, they set up camp, and when they were all gathered, the Lu army captured them in one fell swoop…”

Jing Yan nodded and said, "We need to mobilize troops to reinforce Zezhou."

"It is necessary to transfer troops... I just think..." I said, "Will this crisis be a good time to defeat the enemy?"

"What's the meaning of this?"

When the enemy thinks that our army and horses need to wait for reinforcements from the imperial court, they should relax.It will be faster than the reinforcements of the imperial court. From the perspective of the terrain, our army is very likely to be retreated into the canyon of the Shili River by the enemy army.Waiting for the court reinforcements, they can make dangerous moves, and dispatch the 100,000 soldiers and horses of Tongguan to attack back and forth, and wipe out the rebels in one sweep.

It's just... Now that Huo Chuan has been seriously injured, Song Langsheng has the sovereignty. If he wants to convince Nie Guang's army, Song Langsheng must personally lead the army to charge.

If this plan is not careful, if you fall into the canyon, you may be killed in battle. How can I make a joke about the fate of the concubine?

Jingyan was stunned to see me thinking, and asked, "Sister Huang?