In the 22nd year of Jingyuan, Emperor Zhao Yelin abdicated, and Prince Zhao Yan, who was only 20 years old, inherited the throne and changed his reign name to Mingxi.
In the fifteenth year of Mingxi, when Yue'an was about to receive her hairpin, there was some turmoil and controversy in the court, and some partisan fights affected our Xiao family.
The eldest father and mother-in-law are nearly eighty years old. Now that the world is stable, they have long wanted to return to Yunzhou to retire.
But at this time, the ministers did not want all the Xiao family to return to Yunzhou.
Especially now, the court is divided into two factions, one is headed by Tai Fu Zhang Funing, and the other is headed by the Prime Minister.
The Xiao family has been guarding its fiefdom for hundreds of years, and it has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In the eyes of those who care about it, as long as we, the Xiao family, want to, we can establish ourselves as kings at any time.
The Xiao family must stay in the capital.
I had known the behavior of these courtiers, so it is understandable that they would be so suspicious. Their achievements and power are overwhelming, and they are feared by the superiors in every dynasty and generation.
But the elderly man, who had devoted his whole life to Beiyuan, wanted to go back to take care of his old age but was blocked by these courtiers. He immediately got so angry that he beat up the prime minister and others in the court.
This is not only for himself, but also for Yue'an.
Because some ministers proposed that Yue An marry the current prince Zhao Xiu.
The eldest father couldn't agree, so he directly said that Yue'an had already promised to marry someone else, and they would get married as soon as they got hairpins.
But I don’t know how the sage’s secret decree leaked out, and the Prime Minister’s faction learned about it, and used this decree to suppress our Xiao family.
As soon as this imperial edict came out, my mother was so shocked that she almost fainted, and my father was so angry that he couldn't stand still.
Even though Grand Tutor Zhang Funing stood by the Xiao family, he had no choice but to do anything once the imperial edict came out.
The eldest father did not accept the order, and the situation became somewhat deadlocked.
But not accepting the order means resisting it. Even if the eldest father is the Duke of the country, resisting the order means disobeying the emperor's order and disobeying the emperor. He also beat the prime minister and several ministers. These crimes were punished at the same time. If the emperor didn't do something
What, can't convince the public.
So the eldest father was imprisoned.
Even if it was just a show, the eldest father could eat and drink well in prison, which also angered the generals who followed the Xiao family.
Just when tensions were rising in the court, Yue'an disappeared.
Less than half a day after I received the news that my eldest father had been imprisoned, I received the news that Yue An was missing. My mother-in-law was very anxious.
Relatives and family members all over the capital were helping to find the person. After searching for a whole day and night, no one was found.
When the secret decree of the sage came out, it not only caused turmoil in the court, but also angered Sara.
After Que Wu got the news, he immediately sent troops outside the border and directly issued a declaration of war to me.
There is a line written on the war book: If the moon is disturbed, Sara will start a war and will not stop until death.
Once the war begins, the alliance between Salo and Beiyuan will end, and they will be enemies in the future.
Salo is the leader of the kingdom. If Salo goes to war with Beiyuan, the other states will no longer ally with Beiyuan, at least on the surface they will side with Salo.
Those stupid courtiers only want to control our Xiao family, but they don't know that the little girl they want to blackmail is the third princess of Salo, the sweetheart of the Lord of Salo.
I looked at this letter of challenge and sent it to the capital intact.
Emperor Mingxi Zhao Yan threw this letter of war directly on the Prime Minister's face.
Some tough-talking ministers said: "Sara will fight if he wants. Our Beiyuan country is rich and powerful, and the Xiao family holds tiger talismans and has tens of thousands of elite soldiers. How can we still be afraid..."
Before the minister finished speaking, Zhao Yan said coldly: "Here, give me a fight!"
The minister was pinned down in the court hall and beaten with thirty sticks until his flesh and blood were bloody.
Zhao Yan said to the minister: "Beiyuan has only been peaceful for a few years, and you want to start a war and make the people uneasy. If you want to fight, tell this to the people at the border! Let's see if you can come back.
no?!"
"You still want the Xiao family to fight, the Duke is still in prison, and Yue'an has been lost, do you have the nerve to say such things?"
"If the Xiao family wants to rebel, then you are the biggest sinners. They were forced by you, a bunch of fools!"
That day, I heard that half of the ministers were pinned down, beaten, and demoted.
Zhao Yan was usually a gentle emperor who seldom criticized him harshly, but this time he got angry and let the ministers know what the true majesty of the emperor is.
Not only that, some of the ministers who had been the most aggressive in instigating war were thrown to the border. Zhao Yan issued a decree and asked me to give them a team of troops to fight against Salo's army.
I asked Xiao Lie to lead a hundred people and take these ministers to the battlefield.
When they came back, these ministers all fainted. Xiao Lie looked disgusted and said that before they were beaten, they were frightened and fainted by the Salo soldiers who rushed towards them on big horses.
Originally, Xiao Lie wanted to take his men to practice with the Salo soldiers.
The people with the Sara army on the opposite side are Yue Dynasty.
The couple performed a scene together, and the menacing Salo soldiers scared the ministers who were on the battlefield for the first time so much that they wet their crotches.
After that, no one in the court dared to speak out about starting a war.
How could this hard-won peaceful age plunge the border people into war just because of one person?
I waited for a few more days, and after the court had almost settled the matter, I handed over all the matters in hand to Xiao Lie and went to the capital.
Although Zhao Yan suppressed the matter and handled it well, the Xiao family is still a hidden danger in many people's minds.
Since someone needs to stay in the capital, let me go back.
After so many years of wind and sand, I also want to calm down and go back to the place where Yue'er and I grew up together.
When I returned, it was already winter and it was snowing heavily in the capital.
My eldest father and my mother-in-law sighed again and again when they saw me going back. I stood at the door of the Duke's Mansion, looking at the old and faded door plaque. Everything seemed like yesterday.
The eldest father rushed out of the house with a big stick. I am already over 40 years old, and the eldest father still treats me as a young man in the past.
"You are already in your forties! Why are you still as stubborn as you were when you were a child? I told you not to come back. Don't come back. You have to come back! At worst, I will die in the capital. I have lived here all my life anyway!"
In the end, the stick failed to fall on me. Dad took two steps with the big stick and dodged his waist.
After all, he is an old guy and thinks he is strong.
Daddy is getting old, and I am no longer a teenager, but Yue'er will always stay at her most beautiful blooming age.
She will never grow old in my memory.
"Uncle and uncle! I'm back!"
I turned around when I heard the sound and saw Yue'an standing on a well-made pulley, with two beautiful big dogs pulling the pulley running towards us.
"To attract wealth and treasure, stop!"
Yue'an called the two big dogs to a stop and jumped off the pulley. A handsome young man beside her quickly stretched out his hand to support her: "Ping Ping, slow down, be careful not to fall."
Seeing Yue'an, the eldest father immediately put a smile on his face, supported his old waist and said with a smile: "Xiao Pingping is back, are you having fun in Hanzhou?"
Yue'an stepped forward quickly with a bright smile on her face: "I'm happy! I also saw bears and ferrets in Hanzhou! A Chong said he would raise one for me next time."
"Raising bears? That's not okay. Bears are ferocious beasts." The eldest father's face immediately fell, and he said to the young man behind Yue'an: "You kid, don't always let her raise any kind of beast that Ping Ping has. Bears
How can I raise a bear..."
"Uncle!"
Yue'an interrupted the eldest father: "It's not about raising bears, it's about raising mink. I saw that Aunt Wenzhu had a pure white mink before. It was very beautiful. Aunt Wenzhu originally said she wanted to give it to me, but she kept it for a long time, so I
Don’t want it.”
After Yue'an finished speaking, she noticed me standing aside. She looked at me for a long time before her eyes lit up and she recognized me.
"Second uncle?"
I smiled and touched her head: "It seems that Xiao Pingping has not forgotten his second uncle."
Yue'an hugged me happily, then let me go and pointed at my face and said, "Second uncle, you have to shave. Ping Ping almost didn't recognize you."
I touched the stubble on my face and said with a smile, "It's time to shave."
"Second uncle."
The young man stepped forward and bowed his hands respectfully to me.
I said: "Are you Xiang Chong?"
The young man said: "Yes, my father, the governor of the capital, Xiang Cheng."
Looking at the upright, gentle and polite young man, he is much more pleasing to the eye and less aggressive than when Xiang Cheng was young.
Now Yue'an and Xiang Chong are engaged and will get married in spring.