National Beauty

Liao’s cavalry is strong in speed, and the sturdy Khitan barbarians are equipped with thundering horses. If the soldiers of the Great Zhou are scattered, they will rush into the sheep pen like a pack of wolves. Therefore, the best way to deal with the cavalry is to form an army. Unbreakable, the cavalry can't charge, so they can only ride on a horse in a hurry. And if you want the army to be solid, you must have crossbow troops to suppress the intrusion of the cavalry.

Zhao Heng's idea is very good, and every crossbowman is equipped with a pair of warm holsters, but how did his holster come from? It was his princess who meticulously picked the best deerskins from various leather materials, and then put them on the place to pay tribute to the cotton in the palace, which was naturally warm. The coach Li Long and Zhao Heng are not very friendly. They all think this leather case is good. They also want to sew them at the order of the prince. But the question is, where to find deerskin, cotton, and embroiderers?

The military expenses are limited, and deerskin cannot be used, so inferior pigskins and sheepskins can be used instead. Most of the cotton is old cotton. As for the embroidered women, most of them are the female relatives of the common people, and they are paid according to the number of holsters sewn. Under Zhao Heng's supervision, Dazhou sews leather cases intensively, and finally rushed to make a batch when the cold winter struck.

The Liao soldiers invaded everywhere, and the cavalry was fast. Maybe they fought in Daizhou today. They ran to Xiongzhou in a blink of an eye. I don’t know if the holster played a role or the East Army generals were effective. After several battles, just look at the results. It is true that the army with holsters has won many battles, and the casualties and losses are small.

"Fortunately, the prince has a brilliant calculation. He expected that it would be difficult to pull the bow with the Tianhan bow and crossbow. The army was asked to prepare in advance. Otherwise, the bow would not be able to be pulled. At this time, the infantry would easily suffer." At dusk, Father Fu followed his family. When the prince came back from the camp, he poured hot tea for the prince and flattered him sincerely.

Zhao Heng said indifferently: "The work of the princess." She sent the leather case, and Father Fu didn't know what flattery he said.

Father Fu did not change his smile, and brought the tea bowl to the prince, and continued to praise: "The princess has strange ideas, and the prince has clever plans. It is a match made in heaven."

Zhao Heng glanced at him and didn't reprimand him again, but Father Fu noticed sharply that the corners of his lips curled up slightly when the prince was drinking tea. Father Fu understands again. The prince is humble and doesn't like to be slapped, but the princess is a treasure on the prince's heart. The princess is praised, and the prince is more happy than he is praised.

Of course Zhao Heng is happy, because she deserves it. Song Jianing is gentle and obedient, but only he knows how good her is. Now...

At the entrance of hot tea, Zhao Heng looked down and pondered. After a while, he swallowed the tea, put down the tea bowl, and whispered to Father Fu: "The work of the princess will be passed on in secret."

She remarried to Guo's family with her widowed mother, with flawed status. She is absolutely right, but it is full of wit but not elegant enough. She and Lu Zhen looked at each other, but she fell into the water and was laughed at. She had a rash on her face in the palace draft, and her appearance was full of rumors. Before she got married, her uncle went to Beijing to knock on the drums to recognize her, and the incident became a big deal, and it became an after-hours conversation among the people. All of this undermined her majesty as a princess.

It's time to let the people know about Princess Shou.

Fu Gonggong stayed with the prince every day, and he almost reported these things to the prince. So when the prince opened his mouth, Fu Gonggong understood the meaning and bends down and promised: "Don't worry, the younger one will make arrangements."

Zhao Heng also said: "It's okay to be truthful, not to exaggerate."

Father Fu nodded.

So the origin of the holster was first spread among the soldiers of the military camp, and gradually spread to the ears of the frontier people. Most of these people are old and weak women and children who have not participated in the war. The women helped make leather cases and experienced the ingenuity in person. When I heard that the princess was afraid that the prince would freeze his hands and figured it out, it embodies the wife's concern for her husband on the border. Nostalgia is no different from those women who look forward to their husbands' well-being, and pity each other with the same illness. These women naturally lament the well-being of the princess of longevity.

The people like to make irresponsible remarks. The good and the bad will be passed on. There is no need for Fu Gonggong to send people to build momentum in the capital. This anecdote between the Shouwang husband and wife also drifted to the capital with the biting north wind.

Madam Tai and Lin went to see Song Jianing together. Lin looked at her daughter with satisfaction and smiled, and in front of her mother-in-law, he was not embarrassed to praise her daughter. She doesn’t boast, the madam boast, holding on to Brother You, who has been getting longer and more beautiful for five months, smiled and boasted, she was about to praise Song Jianing as the reincarnation of the queen mother. After all, Song Jianing’s leather case is a blessing. A great blessing for soldiers and common people.

Brother You didn't understand, he looked at the lips of his elders curiously, sat in his grandmother's arms, knowing that the great-grandmother was complimenting her mother, and smiled with crooked eyes, as if the wife was complimenting her. Song Jia would rather be ashamed, and quickly explained that she didn't think so much when she made the holster, but just wanted to help the prince keep out of the cold.

"This is called unintentionally inserting willows into the willows." The wife said kindly.

Lin said modestly for her daughter: "Silly people have a blessing for being stupid."

"Mother..." Song Jianing snorted coquettishly, boasting that she was smart and she was uncomfortable, but she couldn't be said to be stupid.

Zhaozhao glanced at his mother, then at his grandmother, he understood, and giggled: "Mother silly!"

The little girl smiled heartlessly, teasing her mother, and Brother You, who saw her, also grinned stupidly. The five-month-old boy's eyebrows gradually opened up, and he smiled a bit like a mother, but the clear eyebrows and the long phoenix eyes followed his father. Song Jianing couldn't help staring at his son, and suddenly missed him especially without warning.

Fame and fortune are all things outside of the body, and only the prince is in the heart.

Suddenly there was the sound of footsteps outside, and Jiu'er pulled in the curtain, saying that there was a visitor from the middle palace, and the family members on the warm bed hurriedly went to the ground.

It turned out that Empress Li sent her father-in-law, saying that Empress Li missed Brother You and Zhao Zhao and announced that Song Jia Ning will enter the palace tomorrow.

The palace passed the verbal message and left, but Song Jianing turned pale, only feeling the cold air rushing up from under his feet. Empress Li lost her fifth prince and asked her brother Sheng to be raised in the palace. King Chu was convicted. Empress Li gave up her brother because she was afraid of being implicated. Brother You had only been in the palace once after he was born. Why did Queen Li miss her and wanted to **** her children again?

Song Jianing, daughter and son, would not give up! Especially Brother You, who was just five months old and was really carried into the palace. Will he still remember her as a mother in the future?

It was just a thought that Song Jianing burst into tears and looked at her mother desperately. The prince is not in the capital, what should she do if the emperor is really partial to Queen Li ordering her to hand over her children?

"An An, don't worry, she doesn't have that skinny." At a critical juncture, the wife didn't pay attention to it, holding her granddaughter's hand, and whispered comfortingly. No one in the palace is a fool. Empress Li wanted the eldest grandson of the emperor for the first time, which coincided with the new funeral of the fifth prince. Empress Li was indeed pitiful, and the emperor agreed when he felt distressed. Now Empress Li came here early, she dared to ask the prince again, the emperor was the first to hate her, although the emperor is arbitrary, he is by no means fainted.

Song Jianing was just too afraid that Zhaozhao and Brother You would be snatched away. She was in a state of anxiety. After hearing Mrs. Tai's words, her mother said the same. Song Jianing thought about it carefully and slowly calmed down. It’s just analysis. No one can be sure about Queen Li’s heart. That night, Song Jianing left her siblings in the upper room. She lay outside, holding her chin, and the two little guys fell asleep. She still couldn’t bear to shut it down. Upper eyes.

The next morning, Song Jianing helped her son and daughter dress up. Brother You said, he loves beauty, wants to wear his favorite dress, and is afraid that the little girl will simply miss her lips. Song Jianing is afraid to tell her daughter that she is too beautiful and might be snatched by the emperor's grandmother. The father is fighting at the border, and the mother misses the father, and she has no strength to dress up. Zhaozhao wants to be the father?"

Zhaozhao nodded and hugged her aggrievedly. She missed her father, and wanted him to come back every day.

"Why does Zhaozhao still want to wear a beautiful dress?" Song Jianing questioned seriously.

Zhaozhao looked at her mother, then looked down, and finally loosened the beautiful skirt that she was holding tightly, and then replaced her with the lotus-colored jacket that her mother had picked for her. In fact, people look good and look good in everything they wear. Song Jianing just made her daughter less beautiful. She also knew that this kind of trick was useless, but Queen Li really wanted to grab it. Unless the prince nodded, she would rather commit disobedience to the emperor. The queen's charges would not be agreed.

Two quarters of an hour later, Song Jianing took her daughter, and the nurse held Brother You, and the family of three went into the palace.

He walked around to the middle palace, and as soon as he entered the door, Song Jianing first caught a glimpse of a vermilion figure, and the emperor was there!

Song Jianing couldn't help but clenched his daughter's chubby hand.

Zhaozhao didn't pay attention. Seeing the emperor grandfather, the little girl smiled habitually, her white face, her apricot eyes were black and moist, and the mother came in hand in hand, like two pearls, enough to make the dark room shine. Who has such a face and eyes? Will you pay attention to what clothes the mother wears? Of course, Emperor Xuande was far past the age when he was easily tempted by women's beauty, not to mention that it was his own daughter-in-law, who simply swept his eyes across Song Jianing's face, and fell on the obedient little granddaughter.

"Zhaozhao is here." Emperor Xuande said with a smile.

Song Jianing let go and ran over happily. He threw himself in front of the emperor's grandfather like a butterfly, and was carried on his lap by Emperor Xuande.

Emperor Xuande glanced at his granddaughter and combed the head of a small ball, and asked casually, "Why didn't Zhao Zhao wear a flower today?" Emperor Xuande, who has a lot of wisdom, also remembers this granddaughter of the third family who loves beauty every time she enters the palace. Will wear a real flower or silk flower.

Song Jianing's heart was tense. He didn't expect that the emperor would have noticed her daughter's changes all at once. Then, would she be suspicious of her?

She pretended to look at her daughter calmly, Zhaozhao, touched her head, suddenly stopped smiling, and looked at the emperor grandfather aggrievedly: "Zhaozhao misses the father, where is the father?"

Emperor Xuande was taken aback, and immediately understood that the granddaughter thought that he could see the father and the king when entering the palace, and was so anxious to enter the palace that he didn't even wear the flowers.

The little girl is so filial, one is the filial blood of their Zhao family, and the other is the princess's credit for educating her. Emperor Xuande touched his granddaughter's head, and while coaxing her granddaughter, he glanced at the skirt of his daughter-in-law. Emperor Xuande was not satisfied with Guo Boyan's cheap daughter. The third child insisted that Song Jianing was indeed beautiful and gentle and obedient, and Emperor Xuande gave the marriage. It now appears that Song Jianing is a good wife and a good mother who can teach children well and assist her husband.

"The Liao army invaded, and the youngest was fending off the enemy. You brought two children alone. It's hard work." Emperor Xuande rarely encouraged his daughter-in-law.

Song Jianing's legs are weak. It's hard to take two children, but just take one easy? Does the emperor mean this? Are you trying to coax her to hand over a child?

"Children are not bitter, I only hope that the army will repel the Liao soldiers, the soldiers will return home, and the people will be peaceful and free from the pain of separation." Anxious and wise, Song Jianing said steadily, only the apricot eyes looking at the ground revealed the hesitation in his heart.

"Well said, this is what I want in my heart." Emperor Xuande nodded, feeling more and more that this daughter-in-law is better, and she has the people in her heart.

Song Jianing was still in fear, lest the emperor said the next sentence was to want her child.

How can Emperor Xuande have that leisure time? It was nothing more than hearing that the third daughter-in-law had unexpectedly made meritorious services, so he proclaimed the people into the palace in the name of Empress Li to encourage him. The rare, well-behaved and lovely granddaughter, hugging the white and fat grandson who looked like the third child, took a short break, and Emperor Xuande continued to work on political affairs.

Song Jianing's feet were finally able to stand firm, and the emperor won't leave, the clothes inside her will be wet in the winter.

"Jianing sit down, don't be restrained with me." Empress Li pointed to the warm couch and persuaded intimately. A woman under thirty has black hair and shiny skin, delicate skin, bright and still like a flower, only the bottom of the eyes is dark and vicissitudes of life. The King Shou hid too deep, but whenever he revealed a little bit in advance, she would not give up the promotion of her brother, nor would she, she would become a lonely widow, frequent wars in the unintentional harem, and no children around her knees.

She was as gentle as yesterday, but Song Jianing could see through those things. Although Queen Li lost her son, she was pitiful, but she was also a queen who robbed her of a son.

"No, it's okay for Erchen to stand." Song Jianing looked down and said respectfully.

In one word, one gesture, Empress Li understood that it was dead to build the road through Song Jianing and King Shou.

The heart sinks like a stone and has no intention of socializing. After being polite for a while, Empress Li asked Song Jianing to return, with the reward prepared by the emperor's order.

Song Jianing was relieved and returned to the carriage. Song Jianing did not see the reward, hugged Zhao Zhao and You brother, and kissed each other.

She continued to live her little life, hoping that the prince would be safe, and Queen Li was in the palace, with various things in her head. In the winter moon, it started to snow on the first day of the first day of the year, and the cold wind cheered, and it was so cold that people didn't want to go out for half a step.

"Niang, I heard that Concubine Wu gave the emperor a leather case and made it by herself." Queen Li's confidant, Aunt Mao, said ironically. The Shouwang husband and wife were young, and the Shouwang was in the north, so he really needed a leather case. The emperor stayed in the warm pavilion every day. Concubine Wu clearly wanted to fight for favor, and his granddaughter won both regardless of his own age.

Queen Li smiled bitterly. Concubine Wu Gui has a Rui Wang, and there are things worth bothering about. She has nothing, and naturally she doesn't bother to argue.

"Is Princess Rui going to give birth soon?" Empress Li asked smoothly when she mentioned there.

Aunt Mao shook her head, squeezed her fingers, and calculated: "It is estimated that we have to wait before and after the Spring Festival. It should be this month for Rui Wang's concubine."

As a maid of the palace, Aunt Mao also sees and listens to all directions.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished speaking, a little **** came in with his head down, and reported softly: "Niang, the Royal Palace of Rui gave a letter to the palace, and the concubine is about to give birth."

Aunt Mao raised her eyebrows, she really said that Cao Cao had arrived.

Empress Li hummed, not interested in the belly of a side concubine. If she changed to Princess Rui, she might still guess whether it was a male or a female.

King Rui is different. He is nearly thirty years old but has no children. What the King Rui lacks most now is his son, and his concubine is also a treasure. Therefore, after going to the emperor to ask for instructions, he returned to his palace in excitement and anxiety. Princess Rui had a big belly, she didn't want to worry about it and was afraid of taking responsibility for the accident. She just stayed in the main courtyard and waited for the news. She silently asked the Bodhisattva to give Chen Xiu a daughter, and did not even want to give Chen Xiu the status of the eldest son.

Rui Wang went directly to Chen Xiu's yard.

It is difficult for women to give birth to their first child. Chen Xiu started it in the morning and stayed up until midnight.

Rui Wang was anxious, and the imperial physician was even more anxious. Wan Fang's concubine could hardly produce good or evil, and they would also suffer.

However, Chen Xiu really had trouble giving birth because of what he was afraid of. The opening of the palace mouth was too slow, so slow that there was no other way, mother and child would be in danger.

"The prince, the official is incompetent, and the concubine and the child can only protect one of them."

At dawn, King Rui didn't sleep all night. After washing his face and barely refreshing himself, the imperial physician knelt in front of him and threw a problem.