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Chapter 1259 at a loss
A thin charcoal pencil draws a circle on the gridded paper.

"You are not allowed to teach her." Zhao Jin, the writer, first explained to Han Qiaoer in this way, then looked at Zhang Wenwan with a smug expression, and said, "You really can't beat me, right?"

"Who said that, I just have to think about it."

Zhang Wenwan stubbornly refused to admit defeat, but frowned, staring at the chessboard in thought.

Zhao Jin was bored waiting, so he asked Han Qiaoer: "Do you think Li Xia taught you this backgammon?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"He is so boring, but he still knows this."

As soon as Han Qiaoer heard it, she became alert and turned her head, "Why is Brother Li so boring?"

"It's just boring." Zhao Jin took it for granted, "At his age, he lives like an old man. Every day is official business, and my father is not as busy as him."

Han Qiaoer was about to refute, but Zhang Wenwan asked, "What does your father do?"

"Don't tell you."

"I don't want to know yet, my brother-in-law is the emperor, of course he's busy."

Zhao Jin was a little speechless, glanced out of the car window, and said, "And Li Xia was so boring when he was 16 years old. My uncle said that he has no youthful spirit."

Han Qiaoer became angry when she heard this, raised her hand and pointed at the paper chessboard, teaching Zhang Wenwan to play chess.

"Why? Just tell the truth, and I didn't say anything bad about him."

"Anyway, I'll teach my second sister how to play chess."

Zhang Wenwan followed Han Qiaoer's pointer for a few steps, her eyes gradually brightened, and she said happily, "I won!"

Zhao Jin looked at it and couldn't help being annoyed.

"You bully people, I won't play with you anymore."

At this time the carriage had just started to move, she jumped down as soon as she lifted the curtain, turned her head to look, and suddenly realized that although there were tens of thousands of people in the team, none of them were her relatives, so she simply hid behind Nested in the wagon carrying sundries.

There was a little awkwardness between the three friends.

After only half a day, Han Qiaoer went to find Zhao Jin to reconcile after losing her anger.

Zhao Jin didn't know whether he was willing to reconcile or not. He lowered his head and said after a while: "It's true that I was too presumptuous and forgot my identity. A survivor who has ruined his family and is about to destroy his country always speaks without restraint. Talking bad about him will of course offend you."

Han Qiaoer was stunned for a moment, and said, "I don't dislike you."

"Oh."

"Then let's go, this carriage is so bumpy."

Zhao Jin shook his head, and refused to go back to the front carriage with Han Qiaoer, but said that he had to reflect on himself.

Han Qiaoer only thought she was weird, but she couldn't figure out what she was thinking anyway.

……

That night, Han Qiaoer told Li Xia about this before going to bed.

"She's idle, and she was spoiled by others since she was a child." Li Xia replied casually, "It would be nice if she could be sent to work for a month or so, but it's a pity that Yan Rong won't let her."

Speaking of this, he misses Yan Rong a little bit, and also misses many people in Chang'an.

Han Qiaoer was taken aback, and thought to herself that it would be bad to bring trouble to Zhao Jin because of her talkativeness, so she quickly shut up and dared not say more.

I also secretly observed Li Xia's reaction, and found that he didn't care about Zhao Jin's affairs, so I was relieved.

~~
A few days later, the team finally arrived at Mengjindu.

Zhao Jin was rubbing his waist on the hardwood carriage, bouncing until his bones were falling apart, when someone came in through the curtain.

Taking a closer look, seeing Li Xia's handsome face, she was inexplicably dazed, and finally looked away, secretly thinking that she hadn't seen him for a long time, and she was a little surprised.

Although this person is boring, he has a good skin.

"Many of my documents and maps are placed here. Are you staying here to spy on the military situation?"

"Don't scare me, I'm not afraid of you." Zhao Jin stared, and said again: "And I didn't even look at your things."

"Whether you look at it or not, this is not where you should stay."

"What are you here for?" Zhao Jin asked, "You came to persuade me?"

Li Xia raised her hand and pointed at the box she was sitting on.

"Oh."

Zhao Jin moved to the other side and said, "Take it."

Unexpectedly, Li Xia stepped on the shaft and climbed up, and got into the carriage.

The carriage is small, and he is tall, blocking the light, and it looks very oppressive in Zhao Jin's eyes.

She was feeling scared, but his head accidentally hit the roof of the car, and the sound of the impact was not light.

She couldn't help but covered her mouth and smiled, not wanting him to think that she was gloating, so she quickly lowered her head.

Taking a sneak peek, Li Xia had already sat down on the box. It turned out that she didn't want to get something, but wanted to sit down and talk to her.

Zhao Jin couldn't help but get nervous.

"I...I can go to work, but if you want to bully me, I'll tell Yan Rong."

"How do you count as bullying you?"

"Well, you didn't bully me." Zhao Jin said, "It's my temper."

She paused for a while, seeing that Li Xia didn't answer, she continued: "You know, I can't worship you like they do, it seems that I... have no position."

"Who did you learn the words from?" Li Xia snorted lightly and said, "That's not what I'm talking about. Let me ask you why you are so awkward."

"I didn't get into trouble, did I?"

"Know that Jia Sidao invaded Sichuan and Shu?"

Zhao Jin looked at Li Xia, paused for a moment, then nodded foolishly.

"Well, I just heard about it recently."

Li Xia asked again: "Feel ashamed? Don't dare to stay in front, come here to hide?"

"You... how do you know?" Zhao Jin was surprised, "Even Qiaoer doesn't know what I'm thinking, how do you know?"

"Feeling overwhelmed?"

"Ah."

After a while, Zhao Jin muttered: "You are pretty good at using idioms. That's the feeling. I don't know what to do. I don't know who I am and what to do. I also want to work, weave cloth or something, but I don't know what to do. ..."

She didn't say anything for a long time, but Li Xia spoke for her, saying, "You're lazy."

"certainly not."

Zhao Jin glanced at him and said, "Uncle has invaded Sichuan, do you hate me? I mean, will you condemn me?"

Li Xia didn't answer, just stared at Zhao Jin.

Facing such gaze, Zhao Jin wanted to avoid it, but there was nowhere to avoid it, so he had to lower his head.

Until he finally agreed to speak.

"I intend to take you as my concubine."

"What? Ouch!" Zhao Jin was startled, and wanted to stand up, but his head bumped, and he sat down covering his head in pain, "It hurts!"

She just kept rubbing her head.

The topic was shelved.

Li Xia waited for a while, then continued: "I haven't told you before, there have been courtiers who surrendered from the Song court to ask me to accept you, because your status is good for my unification. Since Jia Sidao entered Shu, this matter has become more and more meaningful..."

"Why have I never heard of anyone persuading you to accept me?" Zhao Jin plucked up his courage, looked up at Li Xia, and said, "I think you did it on purpose."

"I don't need to make excuses like that."

"Okay, it's for your great cause, right? Why should I be accepted by you? What if I don't agree?"

"The Zhao family has ruled the country for 300 years, and its strength is exhausted. As the grandson of the Zhao family, how about you contribute to speeding up the unification of the world?"

"Hmph." Zhao Jin turned his head and said, "It's a high-sounding statement, but it's full of male thieves and female prostitutes behind the scenes."

"You don't use idioms well."

"But you are shameless."

"Anyway, think about it first." Li Xia said this, got up and got out of the carriage.

The more Zhao Jin thought about it, the more angry he became, he lifted the curtain and shouted, "I won't agree! I won't agree! Just kill me if you have the ability."

~~
"Your Majesty, according to the urgent report from Luoyang, Lu Wenhuan has dispatched troops to Songzhou. The Song army has many soldiers and horses, but Songzhou's defenders are insufficient. Dong Wenzhong ordered them to withdraw from Songzhou, and made an apology to His Majesty."

"Understood, how long will it take to cross the river?"

"Your Majesty, do you want to postpone crossing the river?"

"It doesn't matter." Li Xia said: "I won't be scared by a Lu Wenhuan."

So Tang Jun continued to cross the river.

The Yellow River was surging, and when the ship reached the south bank, another messenger arrived immediately.

"Your Majesty, Jiang Sishi has arrived in Luoyang."

"Just arrived, I must be entering the city at this time. This is his secret report to His Majesty."

Li Xia glanced roughly, and ordered: "Prepare the horse, I will go to Luoyang first."

Soon, a small group of cavalry was ready, and Li Xia got on his horse and galloped towards Luoyang.

Once he got out of the Yi frame, his traveling speed became much faster, and he arrived at the Luoyang city in less than a day.

~~
Luoyang Palace.

When Jiang Fan came to have an audience, there were several people behind him. They were Wang Yinglin, Zhou Mi and others who were captured in Jiangling at that time.

They surrendered to Li Xia, and Song Ting regarded them as rebels. They were sent back to Lin'an this time with the thought of dying, and they never thought that they would be rescued. It was like a miracle, and seeing Li Xia again , all of them are old tears.

"Zhao Yu's thief not only conspired to rebel and usurp the throne, but now he is also colluding with foreign captives. It can be said that everyone will be punished. However, Lin'an is full of blind clothes and hats. The minister is heartbroken, Your Majesty..."

After everyone made such a statement, Li Xia ordered them to go down and rest first, and then asked Jiang Fan about Lin'an alone.

"Your Majesty, we have contacted some Song officials in Lin'an, Jia Sidao is having a hard time..."

Jiang Fan talked for a while, couldn't hold back, and said with emotion, "It's a pity that Wang Xiao didn't join the Public Opinion Department."

"Wang Dazui has long sleeves and is good at dancing, so that he can move people with words?"

"Yes, he is very good at making friends. He made friends with Jia Yuqing before he arrived in Lin'an, so he was able to take care of Wang Yinglin and others along the way. After arriving in Lin'an, he quickly climbed the ranks of Zeng Yuanzi, Zhang Jian, who are now important officials of the Song court. , Chen Yizhong and others."

"He didn't reveal his identity?"

"No, only Jia Yuqing knows his identity, and others only regard him as Jia Yuqing's aide." Jiang Fan said: "The courtiers like Zhao Song still expect Jia Sidao and Lu Wenhuan to win the battle first, and then release them." Gained their military power, and reaped the benefits of the fisherman..."

Li Xia had heard it, thought for a while, and felt that although the ministers of the Song court wanted to stab Jia Sidao, on the other hand, they were full of hostility towards Li Xia.

This is treating him, Jia Sidao, and Kublai Khan as crickets. The question is, do they have the strength?
"Your Majesty." Jiang Fan said: "I think that Wang Luo can help those people, so that Jia Sidao can be brought down first."

Li Xia shook his head and said, "What do you do for them? What we want is the benefit of the fisherman..."

(End of this chapter)