The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 368
As in the usual night, after dinner, Geng Qing took Geng Nian and his other two sons for a walk in the garden to digest food, chatted about homework and the principles of life, family and country, and then went to the side of the backyard to meet Mrs. After leaving his mother, he lit a stick of incense in front of his father Geng Youxi's spiritual tablet, and talked with the old man for a while, and the husband and wife went back together when Qiao Niang came to say hello and greetings.

"Husband, the concubine has already heard what Jiuyu said."

The two walked under the eaves, the woman spoke softly, with a slightly hesitant expression on her face. After many years of husband and wife, how can they not understand what kind of temperament the husband has. At such a juncture, Su Qiaoniang still does not want her husband to go.

"Wars are the affairs of the generals. Husbands are majestic kings. Of course, my husband is determined to go, and I can only pray for my husband in front of the Buddhist hall every day, and bless the victory of the flag and return safely!"

On the side, Geng Qing walked quietly. In the night, he was illuminated by the lantern under the eaves, but he was quiet and expressionless.

There are some things that he doesn't want to talk about in too much detail with his wife and daughter. After all, no matter how much he talks about politics and the country, it won't have much effect. Women are emotional. Thoughts follow emotions after all.

"I know what you think in your heart, but this battle must be fought as a husband."

"Only for the concept of family and country in my husband's heart?"

Hearing Qiaoniang's words, Geng Qing smiled and nodded, and came behind the fence of the promenade, looking at the tip of the crescent moon exposed behind the clouds, "Today I told Nian'er and the others too much, I didn't want to say any more, But let's chat with you, save you, and use dozens of people in the family to suppress me."

Geng Qing lowered his eyes and looked at the corner of the house in front of him. The shadowy figure was hiding in the dark and looked towards this side. He probably understood that it was the concubine's room of Bai Yunxiang and others.

Then he laughed softly, and said: "Khitan established the country, and the army is powerful. If we are in the south of the Yangtze River, it will be fine. Anyway, there are people to support us in the north. It is a pity that you and I are in Chang'an. Although there is Li Cunxu in front, once we can't stand up , it is us who are facing the Khitan directly. If the Khitan is not hurt in this battle, they will think that the Han people are sheep and can be bullied and plundered at any time. Make a plan and fight a few more battles for them, so they will fight less and suffer less humiliation in the future."

"In addition. This battle is also a pavement for the future of my Geng family. In the world, it is not enough to have a strategy and means to be able to sit firmly, but also to be ruthless. If you are able to attack your relatives and friends, you must be prepared to be ransacked and exterminated. On this point, I can't do it, as my husband is already the King of Yong, if I go on, I will definitely be pushed to the throne, which is very dangerous."

"Look at this world, how many times have the emperor come and gone? The people below may not have the idea of ​​being an emperor. They pushed me, but there was a big tree that sheltered me from the wind and rain. Come on your own. Zhu Wen, Li Keyong, and Wang Jian are all living examples.”

"At that time, it will be too late for the Geng family to quit. I am soft-hearted, and I don't want to see people around me have accidents. I have seen the older children since I was a child, and one of my children is gone. It is a good thing for my husband. Speaking of it, it is a great pain. People like me are not expected to be emperors. If we become emperors in the future, will these children kill each other because of the throne? In the harem, will the originally harmonious sisters Because fighting for favor has become an enemy. They are all their own mothers-in-law, they are all their own children, and they are upset when they see this."

"The whole house is restless, so what's the point of being an emperor? He can control the life and death of others? As a husband, I can do it now. I can kill whoever I want, but I'm not that perverted Zhu Wen. It's okay to kill people for fun."

The man babbled a lot, and Qiao Niang listened quietly. She was born in a poor family, married Geng Qing, and became a lady of the royal family. Extravagant.

Right now the harmony and tranquility of the family is already the greatest happiness, if it becomes what her husband said, she would rather go back to Gengjia Village to be a little maid serving Geng Qing.

Hearing that her husband was playing Khitan, she was still thinking about her family, Qiaoniang felt somewhat at ease, as long as a family is neat and harmonious, in her eyes, she cherishes it more than being an emperor or empress.

Only those who have tasted bitterness know the preciousness of sweetness.

"But it's not that easy to get out of the vortex completely." Geng Qing turned his face, looked at his wife who was lost in thought, reached out to hold her in his arms, and said softly: "Those people under my command have tasted After enjoying the sweetness, how can you be willing to retreat behind the scenes with your husband."

Qiao Niang leaned against her warm chest and spoke softly.

"How does the husband plan?"

"Retire, but never retreat. If you don't stand on the cusp, everything in the family will be safe and secure. You have already made arrangements for your husband. You and the women and children in the family can communicate with each other, so that they can feel at ease."

Gently stroking his wife's back, Geng Qing walked to the house over there, gently pushed Qiao Niang to the shadowy corner, waved goodbye, then turned and walked to the study in the middle hall.

The light of the fire shone through the paper cover, Geng Qing opened the drawer, opened the letter sent this afternoon, read it again, the handwriting was beautiful, it was indeed from a woman's hand.

The letter came from Kaifeng, as expected, it should be written by Empress Dowager He.

The letter is full of lovesickness, saying that after Geng Qing left Beijing, there were very few letters to her, and he only came to visit Yunyun
'hehe.'

After reading it again, Geng Qing chuckled and took off the lampshade, put the letter paper on the bean flame and lit it, then threw it on the ground and burned it to ashes. The handwriting on the letter was indeed written by the Empress Dowager He, but the content was not true.

Although he had written letters with that woman, he had never had an affair. The woman would write like this, and there was only one possibility, being persecuted.Or the woman is using this layer of ambiguity to warn Geng Qing not to come to Kaifeng, because someone will kill him.

In fact, Mrs. He didn't write a letter later, if she didn't warn her, Geng Qing would have to go to Kaifeng.In the evening, the news came that the Khitan had brought 20 troops to the south, and Li Siyuan from Jindi also wrote a letter, saying that he had gone to Yanmen to be stationed and rescue Youzhou in the near future.

At this time in Kaifeng, Zhu Youzhen was also mobilizing troops to gather by the Yellow River, intending to cross the Yellow River north and attack Weibo through Taihang.

"Gu told you not to move, you still didn't listen"

Geng Qing leaned against the back of the chair, stretched out his legs to the desk and overlapped them, dangling the toes of his shoes, watching the flickering candlelight, his eyes gradually narrowed.

"Given you ten years, you still haven't made any progress. Brother, brother, don't blame Qing. I said that back then, it is up to him to become a worm and become a dragon. If he doesn't live up to expectations, he can only do this as a younger brother."

Soon, an order was issued from the palace. The people in Chang'an who woke up from their sleep in the morning of the next day faintly noticed that the atmosphere in Chang'an had become a bit dignified. It is known that there are signs of a large number of soldiers and horses being mobilized outside the city.

An atmosphere of imminent war made countless people uneasy.

(End of this chapter)