Ma Erniang's Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 296
Some people say that a man at forty is not confused. When Xia Zhen stood in front of Emperor Yuantai, he saw the emperor who was over half a hundred years old and had a stronger sense of control over power. .

This kind of reluctance came through his burning eyes.

You are a gentleman, but I am also not a vegetarian. Xia Zhen calmly and indifferently performed the courtesy of a monarch and minister, "My minister, Xia Zian, pays tribute to the Holy Majesty."

Yuan Tai drooped his shoulders slightly, seemingly slack, but the corners of his mouth slightly pursed revealed his bad mood, and he did not respond to the courtier's salute for a long time.

The monarch and his ministers confronted each other, the air pressure suddenly dropped, and the senior officials watched Zhao Xiaoxun's eyes, nose and heart, and did not dare to move.

The corner of his eyes swept eight hundred miles away, and Yuan Taidi sighed secretly and took a break first, and said leisurely: "Zi'an doesn't need to be too polite."

"Thank you, Lord Long En." Xia Zhen straightened up, raised her head slightly to look at the emperor, and waited for him to signal for a lecture.

Emperor Yuantai didn't play tricks anymore. Ever since he acquiesced in the six departments' search of the Sima Mansion, he had already made a compromise, and raised his hand to push the paper on the dragon case.

Da Nei waited for Zhao Xiaoxun to step forward and took the folder with both hands, bowed and turned around, came to Xia Zhen, and handed the folder to him respectfully, "North County King——"

Xia Zhen deliberately didn't understand and didn't answer, "My lord, this is—"

"The nomads who have been quiet for seven or eight years are starting to make trouble again."

"But I remember that the Jin, Xixia and other clans have been driven to the Western Regions by the minister?" Xia Zhen pretended to be surprised, but actually told the emperor secretly that as the king of the North County, he had done his duty and at least wiped out the Jin and Xixia clans. , As for the remnants being merged by the Liao people, he has nothing to do, he is not a god, and it is impossible to wipe out the nomads.

Emperor Yuantai snorted secretly, if I settle accounts with you, I won't destroy the Sima clan, it's really a good thing to be a good boy, with a slight smile on his face, "Zian, why be nervous."

"Yes, Your Majesty is wise."

Emperor Yuantai had a solemn expression: "The Liao people are advancing fiercely to the east, Zi'an hastened to lead people to guard our Great Wei, and wiped out the Liao people."

A simple sentence is as heavy as a thousand weights, "Guard me the Great Wei" This is Xia Zhen's duty. Without the Great Wei, there would be no North, and without the North, Xia Zhen would have no place to stand. 'The Liao people are exhausted', don't say whether he has this ability, even if he does, would he dare?If the Liao people hadn't moved eastward this time, would Xia Zhen have left the capital alive?

"Returning to the Holy Lord, I will try my best to defend our Great Wei, but if I wipe out the Liao people, I am afraid that I will have more than enough heart and not enough strength..."

Emperor Yuantai narrowed his eyes, "The Liao people have an army of 30, Aiqing..."

Xia Zhen interrupted the emperor's words, "I only have 20 troops, and the cavalry only occupies the third rank of the army. I will try my best, but I am afraid that the cavalry will be too close..."

……

This sentence, on the one hand, is a routine official statement of Emperor Yuantai as the emperor, and on the other hand, it is also a word to suppress Xia Zhen and make him work hard, but the courtiers who hold military power are not threatened by him, so they refute his words.

The fire in Emperor Yuantai's heart surged up, but he couldn't let it out, because apart from Xia Zhen, the Great Wei Dynasty really couldn't find an actual combat general like him who could stop foreigners like him.

"The war is tight, Zi'an should hurry up and leave." Emperor Yuantai suppressed his anger and looked at him seriously.

"Yes, for the sake of the Great Wei Dynasty, I will do my best to protect the territory."

"Well, let's go." Emperor Yuan Tai waved his hand and said, "Let's go immediately, I'll wait for your news."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will live up to my expectations."

Except for the fact that the military power in his hands made Emperor Yuantai uneasy, Xia Zian was quite reliable at other times. For some reason, he thought of this the moment he turned to leave.

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When Ma Min'er heard the news that Xia Zhen asked her to stay in the capital, she was shocked, "Why? Could it be the emperor?"

Xia Zhen shook her head: "No, it's my own idea."

"Why?" Ma Min'er was puzzled.

"This war with the Liao people may last for a year or two..." It may even be three to five years, but he dared not say it in front of his wife.

"I used to fight a lot!" Ma Min'er didn't take it seriously, she was used to being inseparable from him, and couldn't accept the decision to let her stay in Beijing.

Xia Zhen said: "This war is different from the past."

"It's different there?"

"In the past, it was the Allied Forces of the Four Nations. Although there were many people, they were like a mess, so we were easy to win. But this time, there are only Liao people, and they will be united. Moreover, the Liao people have five times more cavalry than our Great Wei Dynasty. So this battle It may take a long time, but it is safer for you to stay in the capital."

"We're safe, what about you?" Ma Min'er threw herself into his arms, tears streaming down her face.

"Don't cry, don't cry..." Xia Zhen, who has always been clinging to his wife, wants to keep her in the capital, but he knows that the battle with the Liao people is no longer an ordinary battle, but a large-scale war.

The emperor didn't give Xia Zhen much time to coax his wife and children not to go north with him. Fortunately, Ma Min'er is a reasonable woman, and she took it easy. There must be a reason for him to stay.

"The emperor asked me to leave the palace and go directly to the north. I've been at home for several hours!" Xia Zhen held back his reluctance and hugged his wife tightly, "Take good care of the child and wait for me to come back."

"En." Ma Min'er burst into tears, feeling the pain of parting again, hugged him tightly, and cried in his arms.

……

If his wife and children hadn't fallen asleep, Xia Zhen thought that he might not even be able to leave the capital, riding a tall horse, wading in the night, looking back at the majestic gate tower of the capital, taking a deep breath, pulling the reins cruelly, The horse disappeared into the night.

Ma Min'er, who pretended to be asleep, boarded the attic of the tallest person in the North County Prince's Mansion, and looked into the distance. Summer nights are always so charming, and the dark blue sky is full of shining stars, which is extraordinarily dazzling.

A round of bright moon hangs high in the sky, and the faint light is like a thin gauze, floating and scattered, reflecting on the roof, eaves, and streets... It seems to be sprinkled with a layer of broken silver, shining brightly.

The summer night wind is something to look forward to, it blows slowly, it is extraordinarily fresh and cool, but it’s a pity that parting is sad, Ma Min’er just feels like her heart is empty, facing the summer night wind, she mutters to herself being blown far away by the wind .

"Xia Zhen, my child and I are waiting for you in the capital, waiting for you...you should come back quickly..."

Emperor Yuantai didn't expect Xia Zhen to leave his wife and children in the capital. Surprised, his wariness and dissatisfaction with him seemed to be less intense, and he even asked Concubine Ma Shu in a good mood to invite their mother and son into the palace to bond with each other.

Ma Min'er did not expect that in the days without Xia Zhen, she would take the children to visit most of the nobles' homes in the capital. It was either a flower show or a wedding or wedding event. If Xia Zhen was not the king of the North County and she could make money, she would really Doubt, their family can go bankrupt.

"My God, what does this mean?" Ma Min'er was so angry that she dumped the account book, "What do you want to do?"

Xing'er had a headache and said: "These nobles must be following the trend to please you when the Holy Majesty invites you to the Empress and Concubine Ma Shu."

Ma Min'er was so angry that her teeth were itching, "From tomorrow on, I will not accept any postings. I will tell the public that the Princess of Beijun misses her husband very much and is bedridden in grief."

"Ma'am..." How could she curse herself like that.

Shan Xiaodan sighed, and thought to herself, originally seeing that his wife had been stuck in the matter of the prince going east to fight the Liao people, she just accepted a few posts, but she had thought that there were a lot of them, and one family invited them every day, sometimes even a day There are several invitations, and I wish I could do it well.

(End of this chapter)