Chang'an is good

Chapter 633 Someone is setting a trap for her
For Yu Mingluo, the "trophies" that he failed to take would be stained with a dark color of frustration over time, becoming a hidden thorn that pierces his flesh and blood.

She once thought that she was Cui Jing's best choice. His reputation in the army was gradually increasing. The nobles behind him were fighting openly and secretly with the saint. The saint needed him but was also afraid of him. Marrying her, the saint's niece, to resolve the saint's knot was his best choice.

What's more, she is different from other women. She is talented, holds an official position, and has insight... She is clearly the most suitable match for him.

But unfortunately, this "trophy" that she was determined to get was intercepted by a man who fell from the sky... Before that, she had never thought that he would treat any woman differently.

Ever since that person appeared in front of people using the identity of Chang Suining, he had been biased towards that person for no reason or reason...

It was also from then on that everything about her changed.

The name Cui Jing has always been a link in the upward path she had planned for herself. When this link got out of control, everything quickly got out of control.

Eventually, she was abandoned from the prosperous capital of Dasheng to Tuyuhun in the western border, and only got the position of a princess given as alms.

The source of all this was the appearance of that person, that person... She didn't even want to mention that person's name, Li Shang.

She naturally hated her aunt, but it was still not as much as her hatred for Li Shang, especially after she knew that Chang Suining was Li Shang...

Princess Li Shang of Chongyue, she was too familiar with this identity and name... She was once very grateful that such a person existed. With the help of her similarities with that person, she climbed out of the quagmire by chance and walked into the Ganlu Palace.

Countless times, she tried to understand the eldest princess's habits when she was alive and repeatedly practiced her expressions in front of the mirror.

She thought that as a teenager, she should be truly grateful to the other person.

But a grateful dead person should just live peacefully in memory...Why should he come back to this world?

At this moment, Ming Luo looked at the shadow under his feet and let out a suppressed sarcastic laugh.

It was really ridiculous. She once thought that Chang Suining was deliberately imitating Li Shang, and even ridiculed him for it. How would he feel at that time? Condescending? Complacent? Disdainful? Would he regard her as a clown or a self-righteous shadow?

Whenever she thought about this, she felt that all her dignity had been torn apart.

She could not accept her dignity being trampled upon, and could not accept herself as a defeated and embarrassed abandoned child.

Therefore, on the day she left the capital and went to Tuyuhun, she swore in her heart that she would definitely come back... back to Dasheng and back to the capital, no matter what identity or means.

Now that she had taken this step, the person who was supposed to die for the second time actually came back alive and escaped from her sight. She didn't have time to stop and kill that person, and she didn't even have the chance to see him...

Ming Luo felt a surge of shame and panic in her heart that she was unwilling to admit. After a moment, she turned around abruptly, hurried back to her tent, and hurriedly spread out paper to write the letter.

She wanted to write a letter to Li Yin to tell him that Li Suining was back alive!
Moreover, Li Suining's victory was very strange... From the words of the defeated Tibetan soldiers just now, we can know that the army led by Cui Jing is still elite and powerful, and there is no sign of a rapid retreat, injuring one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of their own troops.

In other words, after Li Suining won in the north, he still retained his combat power that could not be underestimated!

This is also a huge threat to Prince Rong. He must act quickly and kill Li Suining before the news of Li Suining's victory spreads!

Oh, and there's also the fact that Li Suining is Li Shang...

When she tried to persuade Prince Rong to cooperate, she left a mystery about the matter. However, after Prince Rong agreed to her cooperation, he did not rush to investigate further.

Was it because of his scheming and cunning mind, his unwillingness to be passive, and his disdain for urgent investigation, or was it because he simply did not go to the Tiannv Tower and failed to see the jade statue?
Ming Luo knew that cooperating with Prince Rong was like courting disaster. The reason why she kept this mystery hidden and did not immediately reveal the answer was that she hoped to use the truth of this matter as a bargaining chip to secure a way out for herself one day...

But she couldn't care less at this moment.

She wanted to let Li Yin know Li Suining's true identity immediately.

What's the deep affection between uncle and nephew? Even if the affection in the past was real, so what? A mother and daughter can still turn against each other for power... What will a person who chooses to collaborate with the enemy and betray his country for the throne do when he knows that his most outstanding "nephew" is back? Need I say more?
He would only be afraid, and this fear would give rise to an even stronger murderous intent!
Ming Luo did not hesitate and quickly sent someone to deliver the secret letter to the capital at full speed.

Three days later, the letter appeared in Li Suining's hands.

The letter sent by Mingluo was intercepted.

Li Suining was on his way and took a rest at night. He sat in front of the fire and read the contents of the letter.

Last summer, the leader of Tuyuhun died suddenly. Mingluo had probably been thinking about colluding with Tubo since then, but he still felt it was not enough, so he colluded with Li Yin.

In order to further block his troublesome niece's way of returning to the capital, to exhaust as many of her and Cui Jing's troops in the northern border as possible so that he could pacify Huainan and Henan provinces at the lowest cost after ascending the throne, and also to force the emperor and officials who refused to cooperate in returning to the capital out of Taiyuan... driven by all these interests, he chose to invite the wolf into the house.

Li Yin committed treason.

Li Suining folded the letter slowly, and the neatly folded paper was like a thin blade in her hand.

The sky began to brighten, and Li Suining raised his eyes and looked straight ahead, in the direction of Luoyang.

She did not go back to Taiyuan in the east as that would take too much time, and there was basically no one else in Taiyuan except Cui Lang and others.

As early as when Tubo first invaded the territory, her teacher took the emperor and officials away.

Before the teacher left, he secretly sent a secret order from Taiyuan, asking Xue Fu to lead troops to make early arrangements for defense against Tubo. This was what Li Suining learned from Cui Lang on her way back. Most of the secret letters she received along the way came from Cui Lang in Taiyuan, and the information he sent was very comprehensive.

But there were some things that Cui Lang could not know, such as how could the Grand Tutor predict in advance that there would be unusual movements in Tubo?
Cui Lang didn't know, but the Grand Tutor knew, which meant that the source of the information was not secret agents in various places, but information channels that had never been and were not convenient to be made public.

Since the Tibetan invasion was indeed the work of Li Yin, this news was most likely leaked at the source. However, Li Yin has always been cautious in his actions, and this is related to treason and collaborating with the enemy. The only person who has the opportunity to access such secrets can be Li Yin's confidant...

What flashed before Li Suining's eyes was a solemn face that almost never smiled.

That was after she ignored the advice and insisted on going to the northern border, and then she left in despair and anger and disappeared "Mr. Qian".

A gust of wind blew, and sparks floated and rose, lighting up the sky at dawn.

Li Suining jumped onto the horse's back in the morning light, his eyelashes and eyes were slightly dampened by the morning mist.

She wanted to go faster and faster.

After killing Ashina Tilie and leaving the Beidi royal court, she thought the biggest stone in her heart had fallen to the ground.

Of course, there was one last thing waiting for her to do - killing Li Yin and taking that position, but in her cognition, it was almost a matter of course. The most difficult path was like that death calamity, and she had already completed it.

Li Suining had this idea not because she was arrogant, but because she had enough confidence. She chose to join the war in the northern border and then went deep into the northern barbarians. All the risky actions in the eyes of the world were for today - she wanted to pacify the northern border at the lowest cost and preserve the troops and morale to the greatest extent, so that she could have enough troops to continue to resist the wolves like Tubo who took advantage of the situation, and also to keep the remaining strength and deal with Li Yin with peace of mind.

She wanted the country to be stable, and also to have the confidence to bring the country into her hands.

She once told Dai Cong that she was the only one who could pacify the northern border, and as for the capital, she could take it when she was qualified.

The Northern Di had retreated, and she considered herself qualified.

So when the North was settled, her heart was also at peace.

The road ahead is almost predictable. She has troops in Huainan, Henan, and Hebei that can be mobilized, no matter it is a battle of swords or a political struggle for people's hearts... This process will certainly be time-consuming because Prince Rong has ascended the throne first, but she has enough patience. As she said to her teacher, for the sake of the people of the world, it doesn't matter if she gives up her third son, even if it's ten years later.

She was prepared for a time-consuming confrontation.

But on the way back, every secret letter sent from Taiyuan, every step she took after returning to her homeland, and every voice she heard, were indirectly telling her one thing - someone was setting a trap for her.

There are many people setting up a big trap for her.

Even though they weren't even sure if she would come back alive, they still spontaneously did all this for her.

This game can be played without her, so the person who set it up did it for her as well as for the common people.

It is not an easy task to save the people from falling into a long war again. It requires more than just wisdom and courage...

The only option to avoid the killing of common people is to control the killing to the smallest scope. This is an exchange, and the price of such an exchange has long been written in history books. Bloodshed is inevitable, but the person who bleeds has been replaced by the person who set up the scheme.

The schemers would not be unaware of this, so they must have been prepared to die.

Whether it was Li Shang or Li Suining, she never believed that her teacher would ignore her.

At this moment, she was afraid that her teacher would control her too much and even ignore himself.

The teacher was like this, Mr. Qian was like this, and many people in the situation that she didn't know were like this as well.

Li Suining should have gone straight to the capital from the Guannei Road, but the areas south and west of Ningzhou had been controlled and infiltrated by Li Yin, so that route was blocked.

Moreover, although the news of her triumphant return had not been reported to the "imperial court" and had not yet spread widely through the mouths of the people, and patrols and reconnaissance in the northern border had been repeatedly strengthened, Li Suining was absolutely convinced that Li Yin's spies were still lurking in the northern border - so, without Ming Luo's message, Li Yin had probably already learned of her alive return by now, otherwise he, the new emperor who was about to ascend the throne, would be too incompetent.

Now that Li Yin knew this, he would try every possible means to prevent her from approaching the capital and would use all means to kill her.

Therefore, taking the route to Luoyang is Li Suining's best choice, and she also needs to know the teacher's entire plan.

When a teacher does things, he fears being disrupted by stupid people the most. Therefore, he believes in keeping things secret. No one outside of him can possibly know the whole picture of his plan. However, he always needs someone to cooperate with him, and he also needs to leave a message for her.

If the teacher has to choose, he will definitely choose the smartest person.

So that person must be Wei Shuyi.

The morning mist dissipated, the sun rose and set.

The road to Luoyang was also not easy to travel. This was Li Suining's territory, and every place had been closely checked. Large-scale military raids and ambushes could not occur, but small-scale assassinations occurred frequently.

As Li Suining expected, Li Yin obviously knew that she was back.

They quickly locked onto her itinerary and had no time to consider the means or the cost. All the assassins, both visible and invisible, that they had painstakingly planted came out in full force, wanting to do everything possible to get rid of her.

Since there is attack, there is defense. Knowing ourselves and the enemy, we were well prepared. These assassinations did not stop Li Suining from heading straight for Luoyang.

Wei Shuyi had received the news in advance.

As the Qingming Festival approaches, there is a lot of rain inside and outside Luoyang.

It was a drizzling day, and it was getting dark early in the morning.

Wei Shuyi held an umbrella and waited quietly outside the gate of Luoyang City, his eyes looking towards the north through the raindrops along the edge of the umbrella.

Behind him were the officials of Luoyang City, Duke Zheng and his wife, Wei Miaoqing and Prince An Li Zhi, Yao Yi and his family, Wu Chunbai and her father and others... They chose to stay in Luoyang, each with their own reasons, but they all looked forward to hearing the news of the princess' safe return every day.

This almost miraculous news was finally received, but everyone felt it was unreal and they had to see it with their own eyes to feel truly at ease and convinced.

When it was almost completely dark, the sound of horse hooves finally drowned out the sound of rain.

Almost everyone waiting subconsciously moved forward, some holding umbrellas, and some walking in the rain.

The troops and horses were marching forward in the rain and fog, with the gray-blue sky behind them.

The horse's hooves gradually slowed down, but Wei Shuyi did not dare to slow down. The closer he got, the faster he quickened his pace.

Wei Xiang, who had always been well-mannered and clean, was now walking quickly in the mud, with his shoes and clothes wet. It was the first time in his life that he was so eager to greet someone.

When the dark figure dismounted, he called out "Prime Minister Wei". Wei Shuyi had already put down his umbrella and raised his hand to salute, his wide sleeves falling, but his eyes did not fall away. He looked at the figure and smiled at her: "Welcome, Your Highness, and we return with a great victory!"

Every word he spoke was clear, and all his emotions were expressed in these eight characters.

Their eyes met, and Li Suining smiled back at him. He raised his hand to pull the hood of his cloak back, and looked at the people who followed Wei Shuyi and saluted him. He met excited, grateful, and even tearful gazes.

"...Fortunately, our lord is blessed by God!!" Some people knelt down and kowtowed in the rain with tears in their eyes. Among them was the counselor who came from Jiangdu with Qian Shen.

"I knew that His Highness would be able to come back safely!" Duan Zhenyi was about to run forward with tears in her eyes, but was stopped by Duke Zheng - he always felt that his wife was too out of control when facing the Crown Princess, with so many people around.

Duan Zhenyi pushed her husband's hand away, rushed forward crying, and hugged Li Suining.

Her Highness has returned, from Beidi! How could outsiders understand the word "return"!

Good night~