Chapter 832 The meeting hall was tense, and Xu Fengnian decided to go south
Xu Fengnian subconsciously reached out to take the embroidered winter knife, which was not unfamiliar, and then the light in front of him dimmed. It turned out that Huang Man’er stood in front of him, blocked everyone, and said coldly, “Whoever stops my brother will die!”
Xu Fengnian patted Huang Man’er on the shoulder, and the latter turned his head, and Xu Fengnian said softly, “Sit back.”
Xu Longxiang shook her head.
Xu Fengnian said calmly, “Sit back.”
Xu Longxiang roared, “No!”
Bai Hu’er narrowed her peach eyes, pressed the handle of the Chunlei Knife with her thumb, and was about to push the knife out of the sheath.
Xu Fengnian sat back on her seat, placed the embroidered winter knife on her knees, bent down again to pick up the tongs, and her lips moved slightly.
A slight stinging sound was particularly harsh in the silent conference hall.
Like dripping water into the fire.
Bai Hu’er’s face was full of anger: “Xu Fengnian!”
Even Xu Yanbing was murderous, and looked at Han Laoshan: “If you don’t sit down, then take my shot. Next year’s Qingming Festival, at worst, I, Xu Yanbing, will toast you.”
For some reason, Xu Yanbing blinked when he saw this guy, and had a little inexplicable smile.
In the main seat, Xu Fengnian, who was invisible, lowered her head and said sadly, “I’ll go and go, and then flashed away. In less than a stick of incense, the young vassal king returned to his seat.”
During this period, the young man went to the house where he had no owner. This year, the first time outside the shabby house was posted a pair of Spring Festival couplets and the word “Spring” was posted. He did not post it in person, but asked the two apprentices Wang Sheng and Yu Dilong to come here secretly.
He originally wanted to pick her up and see if she would be surprised if she would be a little surprised after she returned to Qingliang Mountain.
It seems that I have to break my trust.
Xu Fengnian rubbed her cheeks and raised her head.
There are many people who stay up to the New Year everywhere in the Central Plains, and the sound of firecrackers bid farewell to the old year in the capital of Xichu. In a celebratory atmosphere, a young woman in a dragon robe sat alone in the imperial study room, with a large stove with a lot of charcoal at her feet. From the twilight to this time, the charcoal fire was just right, warm but not hot. The Queen of Western Chu, Fengyi, who was in the world, had no sleepiness. She sat on a small stool, curled up with her chin against her hands. There was a small gourd tied to his wrist, with a trembling sound in it, which was light and pleasant. People live for a lifetime, and plants and trees fall in autumn, and grass and insects are in a hurry. However, the Great Chu Palace had a tradition that the Ministry of Internal Affairs caught crickets, grasshoppers and other insects every year in the beginning of autumn, raised them with embroidered cages and tiles on the hot kang, covered them with soil and watered them. After laying eggs, they were barely adults until winter came. They were used at the New Year’s New Year’s Spring Festival banquet, and their loud roars complemented the sound of firecrackers. At this time, there were a few long-lived and straight-lived insects in the small gourd on Jiang Si’s hand, with thin wings.The sound is endless. Gourds are homophonic to “Fu Lu”. There are records in ancient books that “eat melons in July and cut pots in August” very early. Among the people, there is also a saying that they can absorb all the evil spirits between heaven and earth. Therefore, the empresses of the Great Chu Palace personally planted gourd seedlings every spring. Whenever the gourd shed is green in the midsummer, they will be picked from the Interior Department or made into water scoops or wine pots, and then given to the ministers who have made meritorious. Jiang Si raised her arm and looked at the small yellow gourd. She was not thinking about the tradition of Jiang’s family in the Great Chu, but about the greenness of the vegetable garden on the mountain back then. After working every day, she squatted there and watched with her own eyes the greenness became more and more intense, and the joyfulness she had never mentioned to outsiders. Even if she was the uncle of the chess and the old man in sheepskin fur, she had never shared this happiness. Because since she can remember, even though she has now sat on the dragon throne of the Emperor of Western Chu, she still feels that only that small vegetable garden in her life is truly her. She is very unfamiliar with the great Chu country, the western wall battlefield, and the capital city, and she can never get close to her.
He moved books to Wudang Mountain, and later made money for someone to study, then practiced calligraphy and swords with Li Chungang, and finally put on the most elegant and luxurious clothes in the world…
Jiang Si sighed and put the little gourd in her ear. Listening to the hissing inside, she couldn’t hear any joy. She felt a little melancholy for no reason.
Looking at this big room where the red candle is not gloomy, although there were palace maids standing outside the house, Jiang Si was still a little scared. She has been very brave since she was a child and has only done two feats in her life: one is to assassinate someone with a dagger and the second is probably to practice swordsmanship. As for the first female emperor in Central Plains history, she has been famous throughout the ages, she actually has no feelings. After thinking about the word home, she found that deep down she was actually the dilapidated house that was so cold that every winter it was the most like a home. At that time, every New Year’s Eve, there would be a detestable guy of the same age who would follow the old man she was most afraid of and swagger to post Spring Festival couplets. Once, the young man deliberately ran to her house and asked her with a smile if she wanted to hang Spring Festival couplets on both sides of her room. Of course, she said she didn’t want to, but she knew but was unwilling to admit it. She wanted it. The sound of firecrackers in the city became more and more intense. Jiang Si stood up and went to the window, knowing that it was about to change the old and the new.
Suddenly a creaking sound came from behind her, and someone pushed the door in. Jiang Si turned around with a smile. As expected, it was uncle who was the chess attendant. She would feel relieved when she looked at this kind elder.
Cao Changqing closed the door gently, and the palace maids outside the door turned a blind eye to it. This man who is known as the most proudest in the Great Chu, his status in the hearts of the people of Great Chu is actually incomparable to His current emperor. His admiration for Cao Changqing, the imperial teacher, from top to bottom in Western Chu, everyone comes from the heart.
Cao Changqing squatted beside the stove, reached out and placed his hand above the charcoal fire to keep warm. Logically speaking, with the cultivation of this Confucian saint’s land god, he had long been invincible for the cold and heat.
Jiang Si sat back on the small stool with a bright smile.
Cao Changqing hesitated for a moment and said, “It’s the New Year soon. It should have been a good news, but there is something I thought I’d better explain to His Majesty first. I just got the news not long ago that many major groups in Beiliang gathered in the conference hall in these days.”
The young empress said in a confused and puzzled manner: “Ah they went to pay New Year so early.”
Cao Changqing was so amused that he was a little sad: “As I expected, he wanted to send troops to Guangling Road, but Beimang could not stop it because it was not suitable to send troops south in a hurry, and Li Yang could not stop it, because the two of them served as the General Commander and Jiedushi of Jing’an Road, and the only person who could stop it was left was the inside of Beiliang. I thought that Chu Lushan, Yuan Zuozong, Chen Liangxi and Xu Beizhi would help him speak, so that he would not mobilize the troops like this. It seems that I still underestimated the cohesion of Beiliang and the civil and military officials of Beiliang for victory. Once this is the case, if it were last year, Xu Fengnian would insist on sending troops, and at least he would go south alone, but now…”
Jiang Si lowered her head, umbrella, and said softly: “It’s okay, I didn’t think he would come.”
Cao Changqing was silent for a long time, and his voice hoarsely said, “Your Majesty, there is one thing that must be remembered. It’s not that he doesn’t want to come, but that he can’t come. This is really no wonder Xu Fengnian.”
Jiang Si stared at the fire in a daze without saying a word.
Cao Changqing smiled bitterly and said, “I originally planned to go north when they would send troops to Guangling Road in Beiliang. Now I have to make other plans.”
The absent-minded Jiang Si obviously did not pay attention to the fact that the uncle who was talking about “me”, rather than leading the army to head north.
When Cao Changqing used pliers to fiddle with the charcoal fire to make the stove warmer a little, he whispered: “I was wrong. I shouldn’t have forced Your Majesty to return here with the righteousness of the country.”
Jiang Si shook her head.
Cao Changqing suddenly showed an unconcealed anger for the first time: “Xu Fengnian never let Beiliang down and feel heartbroken. Why is it this way for you Beiliang? What’s the difference with me Cao Changqing!”
Jiang Si raised her head, but looked relieved. She smiled and picked off the small gourd and handed it to Cao Changqing: “Uncle Chess and Attendant, listen.”
The Confucian scholar with frizzy temples did not take the small gourd, clenched his fists, and closed his eyes in pain.