Swearing? Zhou Hou couldn't believe that these words came from her husband's mouth. She felt an unspeakable sadness in her heart. Tears fell unconsciously and she cried: "Your Majesty still can't trust my concubine after all."

, if you feel that my body is dirty, you can simply kill me as a concubine."

Seeing his wife crying, Li Yu couldn't help but feel distressed. He took a handkerchief to wipe away Queen Zhou's tears and said comfortingly: "How could I not trust the queen? I'm really worried about you... I won't mention it again in the future."

Empress Zhou said sternly: "If your majesty feels that my concubine's oath can be trusted, I will reassure your majesty!" As she spoke, she raised her hand and pointed to the sky and said: "I, Emperor Zhou E, swear to my ancestors and ancestors on the thick earth of the sky.

If my innocent body is taken away by Xu Xian, I will be punished by heaven and earth and be a slave forever..."

The moment Zhou Hou raised his hand, Li Yu stared closely at her face. Seeing the resentment on her face without any guilt, he was already eighty-nine percent convinced. When he saw her swearing a poisonous oath, he quickly covered her mouth.

"The queen must not say such serious words to harm her own welfare. I trust the queen in my heart."

However, Zhou Hou seemed to have been greatly wronged. She fell into Li Yu's arms and sobbed. Her delicate body was shaking with sobs. Even though Li Yu was full of doubts, she was also very distressed.

"Okay! Queen, don't cry anymore. You must have been in fear for many days in Yangzhou. Just have a good sleep tonight."

Zhou Hou wiped her tears with her sleeve and said, "I have never seen two children."

"Don't worry, they are both fine. Concubine Liu has been taking care of them during your absence. It's getting late now and maybe they have gone to bed. It won't be too late to see you tomorrow."

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

Li Yu caught a glimpse of Ruan Xiaoyu standing outside the hall and said, "I have some trivial matters to deal with!"

Li Yu walked outside the hall and Ruan Xiaoyu immediately handed over a roll of paper and said softly: "This is the confession stated by Eunuch Xu."

Li Yu reached out and took the stone lantern by the door and swept it quickly. The tense expression on his face suddenly relaxed, and he breathed out a heavy breath. He reached out and took off the cover of the stone lantern, and held the paper in his hand over the candle.

"Tell that old gelding to keep his mouth shut and not to make irresponsible remarks in front of the queen, or I will chop off his head."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and returned to the palace. With a wink, the palace servants who were waiting in the palace bowed and retreated, and then said to Zhou Nuying: "It's getting late. Nuying should go back and rest early."

Zhou Nuying pouted and said: "I just said a few words to my sister. I will stay here tonight and sleep with my sister."

Li Yu smiled and said: "If you sleep here, I will sleep somewhere. Go back and rest quickly."

"Nvying has something to say tomorrow. Sister is also tired!" Zhou Hou drove Zhou Nuying away with a few words of comfort and said to Li Yu: "I have not bathed or changed clothes in the past half month. Please let me bathe and wait for you."

Your Highness."

Li Yu stepped forward and hugged Queen Zhou's slender waist, "I haven't seen the queen for many days, and I miss her so much that I can't wait any longer."

As he spoke, he pulled Queen Zhou to the bed, couldn't wait to take off their clothes, pushed Queen Zhou down on the bed, and after a while of oral and tongue intercourse, he kissed down the neck.

Empress Zhou felt a sense of guilt in her heart and tried her best to cater to her. Suddenly she caught sight of the bright candlelight on the bedside and said, "Your Majesty, please put down the tent first."

Li Yu replied casually: "If you put down the tent, you won't be able to see clearly."

Zhou Hou raised her head and looked at Li Yu, only to see his eyes wandering over her body as if searching for something. A disgusting thought immediately flashed through her mind. Could it be that he was looking for some evidence?

Zhou Hou suddenly felt panicked and confused, as if something was stuffed in her throat. She suddenly let out a cry, and Li Yu had already fallen down...

After Wu Shan Yunyu spent a cup of tea, Li Yu contentedly leaned on Zhou Hou's body and rubbed his temples with her, and said softly: "The queen is still my queen, and I will be as usual.

Treat you like that."

Empress Zhou tilted her head and looked at the bright candlelight beside her with a dazed look on her face, with an expression as if she was chewing wax. There seemed to be tears flashing across her beautiful eyes, and she softly replied: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

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"My subordinates have seen Commander Chen!" Hu Zheng immediately clasped his fists in greeting when he saw Chen Niu'er. When no one responded, he raised his head and saw that the strong man in front of him was also sizing him up.

Chen Niu'er stepped forward and pinched Hu Zheng's arm, patted his shoulder and shook his head, saying: "I am too young and my body is too thin. I don't know what use I will have in battle."

A group of veterans watching the fun said: "Who says it's useless? Commander Chen can use him as a little guy who makes beds and folds quilts."

Hu Zheng looked at the veteran and said: "This man made a mistake. I am the secretary appointed by the Taiwei, not the little guy who makes the bed and folds the quilt."

The veteran asked again: "What is a secretary? You want to be an official even before you have made any achievements here. You must not be a distant relative of the Taiwei."

Another veteran said: "The secretary is a scholar who writes and draws. The hunchback with a broken finger is also the secretary-general of the Jiedu Dynasty. It's just that he came to the camp. We don't have so many people to write here.

Yes, as long as you can kill people with a knife, you little kid can go back to where you came from."

Hu Zheng replied: "This man doesn't know something. I, the secretary, is different from the secretary-general of Jiedu Dynasty. I am responsible for taking care of the daily life of the brothers in the camp. If there is a war, I will also charge with everyone.

"

"Oh, the Lieutenant really cares about our brothers, but there are more than five hundred of us. Let alone making beds and folding quilts, I'm afraid we can't handle it even if you serve meals one by one."

Hu Zheng laughed and said, "If I had three heads and six arms again, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to serve five hundred people."

"Then what can you do?"

"I think this man is probably here in Kaifeng. I'm afraid he hasn't heard from his family for a long time. If necessary, I can help you write a letter home!"

"Huh? How much?"

Hu Zheng shook his head and said: "No money! This is my job!"

"Seriously? That's great!"

"In addition to writing family letters, I can also help you write IOUs when brothers have money transactions. If you have any inconveniences in your life, I will help you solve them. If you have any physical discomfort, I can help you find a doctor. In addition, in addition to my daily routine,

To maintain military discipline, one can also record meritorious deeds during wartime. Whoever performed meritorious service in front of the battle line or who backed down, I will write it down one by one so that the lieutenant will know."

Chen Niuer said: "Damn it, you have a lot of control, so what do you want me to do?"

"This subordinate is sent by the Taiwei to help the commander with trivial matters. It is the commander who has the final say in rewards and punishments before the battle. If the commander has any matters, big or small, he can also arrange for his subordinates to handle them."

"That's enough! Let's not talk about anything else. First, you should send each of the brothers from Kaifeng a letter home."

Everyone immediately rushed forward, surrounded Hu Zheng and asked him to write a letter home. Hu Zheng immediately found a case table and took out his pen and ink. He wrote from noon to dark, a hundred letters, and he didn't even bother to eat dinner.

I took the letter and headed to the inn.

Halfway through, I saw Er Zhuzi limping over with one black eye, "Er Zhuzi, what's wrong with you?"

Erzhuzi said angrily: "I had a fight with an old pawn."

"Why do you want to fight with him? The Taiwei said that we are the link between him and the soldiers. We must have good dealings with the soldiers. Why do you want to fight with him?"

"Who wants to fight? Someone asked me to write a letter to my family. I wanted to write it in even when I went to the latrine. I said he was nagging like a mother-in-law, so we started fighting. But I didn't suffer any loss. Old Uncle Zhang taught me that

A few strokes are useful.”

"It's no big deal. Today someone asked me to help him get a match. You said I'm not even married yet. How can I do this? When you write letters to people in the future, if you encounter someone who talks a lot of nonsense, just summarize it and write a sentence.

That’s fine, he can’t read anyway.”

Erzhu said: "Sure enough, you are smarter, I will do this in the future!" Then he sighed and said: "If I had known that this secretary was so troublesome, I would have stayed with the Taiwei as a personal soldier. By the way, you

But you know Song Zhen, that boy actually asked his sister-in-law to take him to take office, and the commanders were all polite to him."

Hu Zhengdao: "Don't be envious of Song Zhen. There is no good for him doing this. He dares to steal the limelight of the commander. As long as the commander files a complaint with the Taiwei, he will definitely be removed from the clerkship."

"You don't have to worry about him. That boy is a member of the military. He knows everything about the military and doesn't dare to mess around!"

The two of them arrived at the inn while they were talking. They saw a number of horsemen galloping towards the city gate, rushing past them and going straight to the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion.

Hu Zhengdao: "Something important must have happened."

Erzhuzi looked excited, "It's almost likely that we're going to fight. Last time we fought with the Tang Dynasty, the captain didn't ask us to participate. This time I want to make a big contribution and don't write any more letters to anyone."

Er Zhuzi was tired of writing letters, and Xu Xian was tired of reading letters these days. They were not written by any relatives, most of them were secret letters written by officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the contents were not only flattering but also effective.

In terms of loyalty, I have to say that the ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty were more conscious than the emperor.

In the Battle of Yangzhou, most of the 80,000 Tang troops were captured. The emperor left his queen behind and fled with only his body. It can be said that he lost his wife and lost his troops. Almost everyone thought that Xu Xian would take advantage of the opportunity to capture Jinling, but Xu Xian unexpectedly did not take the opportunity to attack Jinling.

, after ruthlessly extorting money, he actually released tens of thousands of prisoners together with the queen. How confident is this?

Now that the Southern Tang Dynasty has lost its navy, the Yangtze River no longer blocks Xu Xian's journey southward, and there are troops stationed in Huainan outside Jinling City, it is only a matter of time before the Southern Tang Dynasty collapses, and there will be people who take precautions to express their allegiance to the new master.

In fact, this was what Xu Xian expected, but he didn't expect that there would be so many people. Xu Xian threw away the letter in his hand and said: "I didn't expect that such a big official would surrender to me. It seems that Li Yu's prestige is completely gone."

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Xu Lang said: "What kind of prestige can he have if his father has slept with his women? Others don't know how to laugh at him in their hearts. If they want children to say that their father should take the opportunity to capture Jinling, he is called a loner with his back to the north."

Han Wei waved his hands repeatedly, "This is not a penny gain. If the Taiwei proclaims himself emperor now, how can he have any reason to interfere in the affairs of the Central Plains? Besides, it is not easy to truly annex the Tang Kingdom. We only need to use his money and grain to strengthen ourselves."

enough."

Xu Xian handed the thick stack of letters in front of him to Han Wei, "If you can use it, just ask them, but you can't trust these idiots. It's getting late and ask the kitchen to serve food."

A few people cleared the table and were about to start eating, when Jiubao hurried in and reported, "Something serious has happened to the Lieutenant!"

"Just tell me how serious the matter is. Could it be that the officials are calling again with their troops?"

"This one is more troublesome than that one. The lieutenant will know it when he sees it!"

Jiubao said hello behind him, and someone immediately helped an injured man into the lobby. When he saw Xu Xian, he immediately saluted and said: "Gao Dechong has seen the Taiwei. Please help the Taiwei to save my family's servants and all the elders of the Gao family."

Small!"

Xu Xian frowned and asked: "Gaode? I hear you have a Jiangling accent. The waiter you are talking about shouldn't be Gao Jichong, the guide for the generals, right?"

Gothe replied: "Exactly!"

"Is my information wrong? As far as I know, Gao Jichong surrendered to the government. Why did he come to Yangzhou to ask for help from me?"

Gao De said angrily: "It's not that we, the lieutenant, want to offer land to Zhao Kuangyin, it's because the Song army occupied Jinling in the name of Taoism, and we, the lieutenant, had no choice but to surrender."
To be continued...