from widow to dame

Chapter 109

"In your opinion, what does Empress Li mean?" Su Huiniang asked softly after a while.

The corners of Yan Hongzhen's lips immediately showed a very disdainful arc: "Beating and wooing are nothing more than these two things."

"I think so too." On this point, the husband and wife are surprisingly unanimous: "It's just that I don't quite understand one thing. Empress Li seems to be a little, um, too enthusiastic." Last time, the Lu family almost had a miscarriage After all, the matter belongs to the private affairs of the palace, and it is absolutely not good to make it public. Even the culprits behind the scenes were quietly dealt with by the emperor after returning to the palace. However, after several months, Concubine Li suddenly summoned her. And it is a bit unreasonable to give a big reward for this reason.Yan Hongzhen has always known that his sister Hui is a very knowledgeable woman, especially when it comes to some things, she is very sensitive. No, she immediately noticed something was wrong.Yan Hongzhen touched his nose unconsciously, Su Huiniang looked over at once, frowned and said, "Did something happen that I don't know about?"

"It's nothing." Yan Hongzhen's eyes wandered, and he tried to show a calm look: "It's just that I haven't told you about one thing, um, the Miao people in Qiangui have been making trouble recently. It's so powerful that His Majesty intends to send troops to suppress it."

Su Huiniang was immediately taken aback when she heard that, the first thought in her mind was, Oops!Su Wen is still over there!And the second thought was——she asked in a daze, "You, are you going to the battlefield?"

Yan Hongzhen glanced at her a little uneasy, and nodded slightly after a while.

Su Huiniang didn't say anything more.

Later, when Mu Xiang came back with Yuanyuan in her arms, Su Huiniang looked at her daughter's white, chubby and carefree face, and suddenly felt sad and couldn't help shedding tears, which scared Yan Hongzhen beside her. After a while, he held Su Huiniang's shoulders tightly, his face full of fear and anxiety: "Sister Hui, it's my fault, I, I should have told you earlier."

Su Huiniang thought bitterly, it's not that you are bad, it's that I'm too stupid.I can't blame him for studying military books so hard every night, it turns out that he already knows everything about sending troops.I cried for a while, venting the grievance and dissatisfaction in my heart caused by being concealed.Su Huiniang wiped the tears off her face, and said seriously: "What's going on, please explain it clearly to me."

Yan Hongzhen immediately explained: "This matter started a year ago..."

It turns out that apart from the Han people, the land of Guizhou and Guizhou is mostly inhabited by Miao people. They are divided into red Miao, white Miao, yellow Miao, blue Miao, and black Miao. Each tribe has a chieftain in charge. The reason is mostly hostility.Of course, this situation is also what the imperial court would like to see. After all, Guizhou is poor and far away, and the central government's control over the local area is far less than other prosperous places.However, this situation changed more than a year ago. The red, white, yellow and blue seedlings formed a camp and defeated the black seedlings together, destroyed their stockade, kidnapped their women and killed their children. Seeing that the situation is not good, he immediately asked his son to come to the capital to sue the "imperial court", let alone that man really came to the capital, somehow , actually saw the emperor.Ordinarily, Zhu Chongguo, who belongs to the Miao people's internal "drinking", should have no interest. As long as the region is stable and his country is stable, it doesn't matter if a few Miao people die.

But I can't stand the news that the young patriarch brought.His original words were: "Your Majesty, as a member of those four clans, why did you suddenly kill us? It's because they discovered a gold mine and an iron mine on the border of our black seedlings. "Zhu Chongguo couldn't sit still after hearing this. Needless to say, gold mines, iron ores are important "strategic materials"!"Swords and halberds, which one is not made of iron?You Miao people slaughtered other people's villages in order to hide the news. What are you doing?This is to rebel!
"It's a confidential matter, I really couldn't tell you earlier!" Yan Hongzhen's face was full of apology.Then Zhu Guozhong will definitely not fully believe the one-sided words of an exiled chieftain's son, he will send people to investigate, and it will take time to go back and forth.It wasn't until the news was confirmed that Zhu Chongguo was furious and decided to send troops, and gradually rumors spread in the palace.

"The emperor intended me to be a vanguard, and you also know that as long as the imperial army arrives, those Miao people will be nothing more than chickens and dogs. This is really a good opportunity to accumulate military merits." He wanted to go down to accumulate military merits, Others can naturally think of it, such as Concubine Li, although she is unparalleled in beauty, but her background is not very good. Her family is just a merchant.She would be so eager to win over Yan Hongzhen, all she wanted was to use his hand to take care of some family members.

Hearing this, Su Huiniang felt that it was so.She sighed deeply, put her head on Yan Hongzhen's shoulder, and murmured: "Why don't you just stop, why don't we live a normal life?"

Yan Hongzhen's hand stroking his wife's long hair paused for a moment, and then said: "Okay! Wait for me to take back what belongs to me, wait for me to bring you the greatest glory, Sister Hui, and wait for the last person in the world who dares to do things for us." Then, just live a normal life.”

It always makes me so worried, Su Huiniang lowered her head and her eyes quickly showed sadness in a place where Yan Hongzhen couldn't see, what I want is obviously not those, why don't you understand!
This is the difference between men and women. In a woman's world, husbands, children, and a warm family are all their happiness.But men are different, career, future... There are too many things that will divert their minds, even if Yan Hongzhen says it is all for her, but fundamentally - I want to do that!
Since the conversation that day, Su Huiniang could clearly feel that Yan Hongzhen had become busier. He almost disappeared day by day, even at night, sometimes he would not come back.Su Huiniang thought that he was about to go to the battlefield, and she felt more reluctance to give up, and she was not in a hurry to go back home, so she simply stayed at the hot spring village.It took more than half a month to live like this, and the news about the imperial court sending troops to Pingmiao also began to spread wildly, and it was no longer a secret.Many people would guess that the emperor will still let King Jin lead the army this time, but unexpectedly, the commander-in-chief referred to by the emperor is actually Mao Zedong.In recent years, this person has been so ruthless that the emperor loves him a lot, and the speed of his promotion is like sesame seeds blooming-increasingly high.And it is worth mentioning that he has a daughter named Ouyang Qin, who is currently working as a side concubine in the Emperor Taisun's mansion.

With this order, the Ou family immediately became very popular, even the emperor's grandson was almost broken through the threshold, and the determination that was slightly shaken by the birth of the little prince was settled again, look!The emperor's most important thing is indeed the emperor's grandson, otherwise why would he only promote that grandson? *** is in full swing, thanks to this, Yan Hongzhen, who is also on the expedition list, is not so eye-catching.

Probably because of the idea of ​​a quick battle, the 51 army was assembled on the third day after the imperial decree came down.Why don't men wear Wu hooks, gold and iron horses, sprinkle blood on the battlefield, become famous, and glorify their ancestors? This is probably the fantasy that all men have deep in their hearts, even Yan Hongzhen is no exception.The night before his departure, Su Huiniang cooked in person and made dumplings stuffed with pepper and meat. Yan Hongqi ate [-] of them in a row until he couldn't swallow any more.

"Come back earlier, the child and I are waiting for you!" She didn't cry, but said with a smile.

Yan Hongzhen hugged his wife's waist tightly and kissed her deeply.A night of love, lingering until death, the next morning, when Su Huiniang opened her eyes, there was no man beside her.Only then did she allow herself to cry.His face was buried in the pillow that still seemed to linger on his scent.Su Huiniang cried unceasingly.

After he left, Su Huiniang no longer had any reason to stay at the hot spring village, and after giving orders, she brought Sister Yuan back to the mansion.After crying bitterly for a while, she felt a lot more comfortable in her heart. After all, Su Huiniang was not the kind of young woman who didn't do anything. She knew in her heart that since the men had already entered the battlefield, there was no way they would back down halfway.As long as I take good care of the elderly, take good care of the children, and keep the family in peace, that is the most important thing.Of course, regarding the matter of serving the elderly, if she has it, she doesn't have it (Lin doesn't count), so she might be more courageous than others.

The man was not at home, so Su Huiniang simply came to the house for a while.Every day, she only coaxes Sister Yuan to play. She is a little heartless. At the beginning, she turned around in circles to show that she was looking for her father, but within three days, the little girl completely forgot about her father. After that, I played foolishly every day.But thanks to having such a pistachio like her, Su Huiniang's life is always full of laughter.

Mu Xiang, on the other hand, seems a little abnormal recently, and she often stands there in a daze.But Su Huiniang also knew what she was thinking, so she said to her alone: ​​"I once mentioned your marriage to Xiao Shunzi with my master."

Mu Xiang's face flushed suddenly when she heard the words, showing a look of bewilderment, Su Huiniang patted her hand, and after beckoning to be calm, she continued, "Xiao Shunzi is caring, the master said, he hopes I can make a way out with my master, and then come to me to formally propose marriage, he will use eight sedan chairs to marry you as his wife!"

"Where am I worthy, where am I worthy!" Mu Xiang couldn't bear it anymore and cried loudly on Su Huiniang's lap.

"Good boy, just to let them rest in peace and kill the enemy on the battlefield, we have to cheer up, you know?" Su Huiniang said with a smile, her eyes wet.

"En!" Mu Xiang nodded heavily with tears on her cheeks.

(End of this chapter)