Queen Sun

Chapter 51
"I have a rock in my heart, and I can't change it. I have a heart in my heart, and I can't choose it."

Sitting at the banquet, Ruoshui softly recited verses from the "Book of Songs", the son in his arms opened his clear eyes, held his mother's finger, and softly recited: "My heart is full of stone... "

"Mother!" Mingyao's voice seemed to be heard not far away, Ruoshui called outside the curtain in surprise: "Guangyue, is that Yao'er?"

Before Guangyue could answer, the curtain was pulled open forcefully, and Yao'er, who was smiling brightly, almost rushed to Ruoshui's side: "Mother, didn't you expect that?"

Every time Ruoshui sees her daughter who has her hair tied up in a bun, she always feels a little bit reluctant. She reaches out and touches Mingyao's still immature face, and says affectionately, "It's been more than a year since I got married, why are you still acting like a child?" of?"

Ming Yao is still the same as before, following her mother's coquettish way: "Didn't Mother say that no matter how old Yao'er is, as long as she is in front of Mother, she will always be a child?"

Ruoshui smiled slightly, only to hear the young girl on her lap calling Mingyao her sister sweetly.

Mingyao hugged Sizi excitedly: "Sizi, do you miss my sister?" While talking, she suddenly thought of something, "By the way, mother, why don't you see Suzi?"

"Your father took the last son to ride a horse." Ruoshui explained.

"Riding a horse?" Ming Yao exclaimed in disbelief, "Mother, Mo Zi is still so young."

Ruoshui patted his daughter's hand softly and said, "That's why your father is holding her."

"Father, it's true, there is already a big brother who has gone to the battlefield, and the last son is going to be on the horse so early." Ming Yao curled her lips.

Ruoshui's eyes flashed a trace of worry, and then he said with a smile: "The one you gave birth to, your father can't care about it."

Mingyao's always bright eyes flashed a flash of dodge at this moment, she lifted her sister up in front of her, covered Ruoshui's temptation, and said in an unstable tone: "Mother, what are you talking about."

Ruoshui frowned slightly, took Sizi from Ming Yao's hand, and asked seriously: "Is there something wrong with you and Chong'er?"

The corners of Mingyao's mouth seemed to bend into a charming smile deliberately, and she pulled Ruoshui's arm and said, "Mother, you think too much, how could brother Chong treat me badly, then uncle wouldn't be the first one not to spare him ?”

Ruoshui gently stroked her daughter's temples, seemingly unintentionally said, "Why are you still called uncle? Shouldn't it be time to change your tune?"

"Ah." Mingyao was at a loss for words for a while, and then explained with some reluctance, "When you talk to mother, of course you have to call him uncle, otherwise how can mother know which father I am talking about."

Ruoshui felt that something was wrong, and was about to continue asking, but was interrupted by a question from outside: "Why don't I know how many fathers Yao'er has?" Li Shimin smiled heartily The sound came in from outside.

Ming Yao suddenly felt relieved, and said to her father in a charming voice: "Father, we are talking about uncle."

Li Shimin was wearing a riding suit, with a heroic air, sitting across the desk, sitting opposite his wife and daughter, and said with a smile: "We and your uncle are getting closer, which makes me always think that Yao'er is just a girl." I went to a relative's house as a guest."

Ming Yao hastily poured a cup of tea and handed it over to gag her father: "Father, where is the last son? Didn't you bring it out?"

Li Shimin drank the herbal tea in one gulp, and said helplessly, "That boy, when he was riding a horse with him, he was so happy that he refused to get off. When he was tired from playing, he fell asleep on the horse. I just let him go Danyun took him to take a bath first, he was covered in sweat."

"It's not very warm today, so don't catch a cold." Ruoshui said with some concern.

Ming Yao interjected from the side: "Mother, Aunt Danyun is not a father when she works, so there is nothing to worry about."

Li Shimin was taken aback for a moment, and laughed out loud: "Yao'er's mouth is still the same, I don't know how Chong'er can control you?"

Ruoshui watched her daughter's reaction carefully, sure enough, as soon as the words of Changsun Chong or her husband's family were mentioned, Mingyao's reaction would be very strange.

"Don't talk about me, dad." Mingyao smiled calmly, "Don't you think mother has become younger these days? When you stand with mother, don't you feel that you are a wrong generation?"

As soon as the words fell, Li Shimin's face darkened, and Ming Yao was startled.

Ruoshui rounded things up with a smile, "You're really unfilial, my mother is obviously sick and thin, and she still laughs at her."

Ming Yao asked in astonishment: "Hasn't it been half a year? Mother's illness hasn't recovered yet?"

Before Ruoshui could answer, Li Shimin had rushed to say: "Okay, Yao'er, you have been out for a while, and now you are still married, no matter how much your uncle spoils you, you should go back."

Mingyao got up suspiciously, and didn't say goodbye until she saw her mother gave her a comforting look.

"What's the matter, second brother?" After his daughter left, Ruoshui saw Li Shimin staring at him for a long time strangely.

Li Shimin regained his composure a little bit, and after being told by Mingyao just now, he suddenly felt that since last year's serious illness, Ruoshui's whole person has indeed changed a lot. At first, it might just be Shen Yun, and there is always a trace of desolation in his gestures. Gradually brought tranquility and tranquility, the profundity hidden in the depths of the eyes gradually turned into the openness between heaven and earth.But now, her face seemed to be stuck in a past age, quietly watching herself go away day by day.He heard his wife's question, but he just silently buried his horror in his heart.

After a moment of silence, Li Shimin seemed unaware of the silence just now, looked down at his attire and said, "I haven't kissed my son today, if it wasn't for my body being stained with a layer of dust..."

Ruoshui made a gesture to take his daughter away, and said angrily, "Second Brother, don't try to dirty Si's new clothes."

Li Shimin deliberately showed disappointment, and then when his wife was not on guard, he bypassed the case, hugged her in his arms, and said with a light smile: "If you don't let me hold my daughter, let's hold her mother. "

The son sat on the side and looked at the parents who were stuck together, showing a few front teeth and said: "Daddy bullies mother."

When Li Shimin heard this, there was a deep smile in his eyes, and he lowered his head and kissed Ruoshui's lips. After a long time, he raised his head and said to the bewildered daughter, "Did you see that, son, this is called bullying."

Ruoshui wanted to push away her husband's heavy body angrily: "What did the second brother say!"

Li Shimin looked at Ruoshui's vivid expression, and whispered in her ear: "I just received the report from the army, and it shouldn't be long before Chengqian comes back."

"Really?!" Ruoshui couldn't help but say, "The army returned victorious? Is everything okay in Chengqian?"

Li Shimin's expression was full of pride as a father: "When Chengqian comes back, it's almost time for him to get married."

Ruo Shuikuan calmed down, finally, another worry could be let go.

In the ninth year of Zhenguan, in May, Li Jing chased Fuyun, the Lord of Tuyuhun, in Wuhai, and before he broke his army, Fuyun was killed by his left and right. His son Murong Shun was made Khan and returned to Tang Dynasty.

Another great victory. Since the first year of Zhenguan, the people of Datang have always watched with great reverence and pride as their king brought them more and more territory, but some people The mood is more complicated, because their son is rushing to fight on the battlefield, life and death are at stake.Ruoshui deeply experienced this feeling for the first time, even though she knew that Chengqian might be the safest one in this Western Expedition, but after all, swords and guns have no eyes, and with his pride, how could he tolerate himself shrinking behind others , will definitely want to lead by example.If his identity was found out by Tuyuhun's spies, even Li Jing might not be able to protect his safety during such a long journey.

When the eldest son who returned from the battlefield stood in front of him, Ruoshui almost wept with joy, he was tall and straight, his facial features became more and more refined, and his dark eyes were shining with a compelling light.

Chengqian knelt in front of Ruoshui's knees, and said in a deep voice: "My son is not filial, he failed to take care of his mother when she was sick, please scold her."

Ruoshui pulled Chengqian up and sat beside him: "Where did you learn so many rules? Tell your mother, are you not hurt?"

Chengqian smiled calmly, with a hint of Li Shimin's expression: "Don't worry, I didn't hurt anything, but mother, have you ever suffered from qi disease?"

Ruo Shuiyu comforted him and said, "It's been almost half a year, and your father doesn't even let me out of the gate of Lizheng Palace, so why would something happen?"

A smile also flashed across Cheng Qian's eyes: "When I come back this time, Dad promised me a two-month vacation, and my son can take this opportunity to spend time with my mother."

"I just saw that you seem to be a lot older, why are you talking stupid again now?" Ruoshui smiled gently, "With your father's temperament, why would you give you two months' leave for nothing? It is for your big wedding. After this battle, we can finally rest assured that you will take on the responsibility of the state and family."

Chengqian smiled restrainedly, completely missing the stubborn urgency before the expedition: "Mother, let the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Internal Affairs take care of your son's wedding. Don't work too hard."

Ruoshui smiled warmly and said: "You can be your groom at ease, Weixi has really worried enough for you these days, go and meet her."

Chengqian withdrew from his mother's inner room as promised, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared, leaving only calm and perseverance. Unlike his father, what was left to Chengqian on the battlefield was not heroic spirit, but arrogance The deep color outside.People in the world only know that this Western Expedition is just a continuation of the legend of the undefeated Tang army, but they don't know the unspeakable dangers involved.

In April, when the enemy army retreated, whether it should immediately take advantage of the victory and pursue it almost caused many generals to split, and he, who had followed the Northern Army along the way, continued to follow Li Jing deep into the mountains as a matter of course.In the Battle of Chishuiyuan, a team he was in was besieged by the Tuyuhun army, bloody and severed limbs were all over the sky, that was the first time he had seen so truly and cruelly what it meant to be brutal, to kill or be killed, that world was so simple .

Although the Xue family brothers tried their best to protect him behind him, when the war horse under his crotch fell down with a mournful cry, and his arms and shoulders were deeply cut, the pain had become numb. At that moment, he really thought that he would Unable to come back alive, his mother's clear and smiling eyes even appeared in his confused eyes, death may be waiting for him not far away.

However, the reinforcements still appeared at the last moment. When Cheng Qian woke up again, in the big tent, Li Jing's weather-beaten eyes showed incomparable relief: "Your Highness, if you don't wake up again, the old minister will almost say goodbye to your majesty." Kill yourself and apologize."

Cheng Qian twitched the corner of his mouth with difficulty: "General Li, my father has already said that even if there is any emergency, it is my own responsibility." It is not a joke, nor is it a burden, Cheng Qian said with a calm tone and night-like eyes. Eyes, declaring that this is the dignity and responsibility that the prince of the Tang Dynasty should have.

In fact, the wound on his body was not healed at all, and just now he was holding back at his mother's side, unable to show any pain, Cheng Qian smiled wryly, and walked into the side hall, only to see Wei Xi had already run over excitedly.

This is the wife he is about to marry. Chengqian felt warm in his heart, stretched out his arms to hug her, and sat together, with a faint guilt in his heart, looking at Weixi's smiling eyes, falling in love with him, he didn't know It was her fate or luck, but no matter what, after more than a month, she will be the wife I respect, the noble concubine, the woman I am determined to hold hands for the rest of my life.

(End of this chapter)