Zhao Li looked up at his mother Ji Jiang and said, "Mom, I will go out to attack Zhongshan Kingdom tomorrow." Ji Jiang smiled and said, "Our Li'er has grown up and knows that he can share the worries of his father. "The maid next to her said: "My dear, the eldest son is not young anymore, he should be a family affair." Ji Jiang said: "You are right, we should find a home for Li'er." Then he said "Let's discuss it after his father returns to the palace." Zhao Li stood up and said confidently: "Mother, I don't want to have a family before my career is complete." Ji Jiang said: "There are three types of unfilial piety. The biggest one is not having children. It matters. We have the final say on your life-long affairs. You must obey the words of the matchmaker and the orders of your parents." Zhao Li became a little unhappy and said: "Since it is the order of the parents, the child just obeys." Then he continued He said: "Mother, we will go to Zhongshan Kingdom tomorrow. There are some things that need to be arranged by the child, so it is inconvenient to disturb mother. Please leave." Then he took a few steps back, turned around and walked out of the harem.
Queen Ji Jiang looked at the back of Zhao Li as he walked out, and said angrily: "How does his temper resemble that of his father? He didn't just follow his uncle Zizheng." He kept coughing again. The maid next to her advised: "My dear, don't worry, maybe the eldest young master has a sweetheart outside." Ji Jiang coughed and said, "What kind of sweetheart does he have? He is busy with his military affairs all day long." Again. It was coughing up blood. When the surrounding maids saw this, they were shocked and said: "Queen." Ji Jiang repeatedly warned: "Don't tell the king at this time, I will be fine in a few days."
It was already midnight. Ji Jiang stood up and walked out, looking up at the sky outside the window, and said, "It's getting late. You all should step aside." The maids all stood up and saluted, then looked up and said, "Your Majesty." Ji Jiang Said: "You all please step aside." These maids exited the queen's palace, leaving one or two maids standing vigil outside the palace gate. Queen Ji Jiang walked into the curtain and sat in front of the bed. From time to time, there was a sound of coughing. Everyone standing outside the palace gate felt distressed after listening to it. Their eyes began to blur and they said: "Your Majesty."
At this time, King Hui finished his official business, got up and walked out of Zhao Palace to the queen's bedroom. King Hui, accompanied by the eunuch Changshun, walked out in the dark night. When the maids saw him, they bowed and said, "Your Majesty." King Hui said, "You all can excuse yourself." Then he asked, "Has the Queen gone to bed?" The maids replied, "Back to Your Majesty, the Queen has just gone to bed." One. In the end, the palace maid couldn't hold it back and stepped forward and cried: "Your Majesty, your Majesty's health has not been good. She has been coughing today, and she coughed up blood several times. I really can't worry about your Majesty." King Hui comforted him and said: " Don’t cry, don’t cry, the queen is fine, I’ll go take a look at her.”
When King Hui entered, the eunuch Changshun stood waiting outside the palace door, and then closed the palace door. The queen walked out of the curtain and saluted: "Your Majesty." King Hui immediately helped Queen Ji Jiang and said, "Queen, you are not in good health, so you don't need to salute." King Hui felt much more relaxed as soon as he returned to the queen's palace. The queen helped King Hui into the curtain tent. King Hui helped the queen sit in front of the couch and saw that she was coughing non-stop. King Hui squatted in front of the queen and asked, "Queen! What makes you uncomfortable?" The queen said, "It's okay. I've disturbed your political affairs. I'm really sorry." King Hui felt a little ashamed and said "I have been busy with political affairs in the past few years and have neglected you. This is my fault. I apologize to you." The queen looked at King Hui and said, "My head has always been dizzy these days, and sometimes I have a headache. King Hui took out the silver needle, inserted it into it, and stimulated the acupuncture points on its head, which can relieve the headache. Then he said: "If there is blockage, it will hurt. Treat the headache. I will use the silver needle to stimulate the acupoints on your head, which can relieve the headache." "The queen lay flat on the bed. King Hui stood up and covered it with a quilt and said, "Queen, please rest for a while. I'll be back soon."
King Hui walked out of the queen's palace, walked to the royal kitchen, and personally made rock sugar and snow pear soup for the queen. Cut the pear into thin slices, add some ginger slices, squat next to the fire, wait for time, add some rock sugar after boiling, and simmer for another ten minutes to allow the juice to better dissolve into the soup. Then pour the boiling juice into the bowl. King Hui stood outside the palace gate with a steaming bowl of rock sugar and snow pear soup. When the palace maids and eunuchs saw him, they saluted and said, "Your Majesty." King Hui just waved one hand and said, "It's late at night. You all should go down and have a rest." The palace maids and attendants said, "Your Majesty, we are not tired. Let your servants serve the king and the queen." Seeing how loving the king and queen were, these palace maids were really happy for them and envious of them. Because there are few kings in the past who have put down their noble airs like them. This is also the respectability of King Hui.
King Hui walked into the queen's palace, entered the curtain and said: "Queen, get up quickly and drink some rock sugar and snow pear soup. It will relieve coughs and moisturize the lungs." Seeing that the queen could not move, he put a pillow under its head and blew the spoon away. Feed him the heat himself and drink it. The queen looked at King Hui's serious look and said movedly: "Ant! You are the king, these things can be left to the palace maids and attendants." King Hui took a spoonful, blew the heat away from the soup easily, and fed it Drinking it, he said: "How is this possible? How can I rest assured that they will do it? In addition, I have been busy with government affairs in the past few years and have neglected to take care of you. Maybe this is my compensation for you. You see, it is already late at night There is no need to bother them." The queen looked at King Hui's eyes, tears streaming down her face, and said, "Ants! If there is an afterlife, we will still be husband and wife." King Hui put down the soup bowl in his hand and took out the silk She wiped away the tears on both sides of the towel and said: "There is no need for the next life. We haven't lived enough in this life, because I want you to see the prosperity of the Zhao Kingdom." After hearing this, the queen said with tears in her eyes: "Okay." King Hui soothed and said: "Don't cry, don't cry. We are an old married couple. Are you ashamed?" The queen laughed happily. King Hui saw that the time was almost up and took off a few silver needles from its head. The queen sat up and said: "Your Majesty, Li'er is not young anymore. I wonder which family you will choose for her marriage?" King Hui stood up and said: "Xu Jing, the order of Jinyang, has a daughter who will come of age this year and is so virtuous. It's suitable for our carp. After the Zhongshan Kingdom is destroyed, we will arrange this marriage for it. What do you think?" The queen nodded and said: "Okay, everything will follow your arrangement."
The next day, General Dao Yan led a million-strong army out of Jinyang City and advanced towards Jingxing, where he happened to encounter the cavalry of the Zhongshan Kingdom. The two armies faced each other in battle formations, with war drums roaring like thunder. General Dao Yan drove up in his chariot, stood in front of the army, and shouted: "We, the soldiers of the Zhao Kingdom, and in front of us are the cavalry of the Zhongshan Kingdom. Do you have confidence?" The sergeant behind him shouted: "Fight! Fight!" General Dao Yan pulled out the long sword from his waist, pointed forward and shouted: "The army rushes to kill the enemy's formation." The cavalry on both sides rushed out and rushed towards each other. The horses are galloping, and the dust is flying, covering the sky and the sun. The sabers slashed at each other, the two soldiers collided and rushed past. Some generals fell from their horses and rushed back to each other. The two armies were fighting each other. The fallen soldiers were trampled to pieces by the horses' hooves. The horse neighs like a long neigh. The army behind them rushed forward, dividing and surrounding these Zhongshan Kingdom's cavalry. A group of cavalry rushed in from the outside. The chariot knocked over the war horses. They picked up a general with a halberd and cut off its head with a sword. The head rolled out in the blood-red mud. As the sun sets over the western mountains, the soldiers withdraw their troops, the battlefield is stained with blood, and the battle flags are burning with fire and fluttering in the wind in the thick smoke. The blood-red sunset reflected the clouds in the sky red, and the earth was littered with corpses.
Zhao Li led a group of elite cavalry out of Handan City. King Hui personally marched and led a large army to Jinyang to boost the morale of the Jinyang defenders. He joined the Jingqi led by Zhao Li in the capital of the Zhongshan Kingdom, captured Gucheng in one fell swoop, and destroyed the Zhongshan Kingdom.
As the sun sets and the moon rises, the army led by Zhao Li lurks day and night, sneaking quietly. As night fell, I saw many torches rising under the mountain and many military camps. There were many cavalrymen dispatched in the military camp. They had entered the territory of Zhongshan Kingdom. Obviously this was the cavalry barracks of Zhongshan Kingdom. Zhao Li stood on the top of the mountain and ordered the army behind him to put out the torches. At this time, a woman jumped out of nowhere and called out: "Hey, who are you?" Xu Yong rushed out and pulled out the long sword from his waist, saying: "This woman must be a spy of the enemy country, take it down." Zhao The carp walked up the road and said, "Wait a minute." The woman looked at them and said, "You must be the army of the State of Zhao." They were shocked. Just as they were about to step forward to ask questions, the woman said, "You must be thinking of me." How do you know? That's right." Zhao Li just nodded silently. The woman said: "We also moved here more than ten years ago, so how come we don't know you are Zhao Jun?" Zhao Li looked at the woman's smart eyes, as if her eyes could talk and she was meditating. In the middle, the woman said again: "You go to my house, and your adoptive father will lead you to attack Gu City." After the woman said this, Zhao Li couldn't refuse anything and followed the woman down the mountain. They do not ride horses, but lead their horses forward in the dark. The woman looked at Zhao Li who was following behind, but Zhao Li stood stupidly in front of it. The woman covered her mouth and snickered: "You are the general of Zhao State, right?" Zhao Li nodded and said: "Exactly." The woman began to say worriedly: "But he is too handsome." This sentence made Zhao Li start Senseless. The woman looked at its cute look and thought it was quite cute. She said happily: "You are stupid! You are so handsome. You are not an insect from our Zhongshan Kingdom." The woman stared at Zhao Li, who looked at him for a long time. Only then did he react and said: "What the girl said makes sense, makes sense." But he didn't know what to do to be considered a bug in Zhongshan Kingdom, so he stood stupidly. The woman looked at it and said, "Squat down!" Zhao Li then squatted down, and the woman stepped forward and put her beard on it. Zhao Li looked uncomfortable and aggrieved. The woman looked at the bearded Zhao Li, patted it on the shoulder and said, "This makes it look like our insect from Zhongshan Kingdom." The army behind him couldn't stop laughing. Ji Xun stepped forward and teased: "eldest son, this girl has fallen in love with you. Why don't you just stay here and leave Gu Cheng to us to attack." The woman's face turned red with embarrassment. Zhao Li said: "General Ji Xun, what are you talking about?" Then he stepped forward and stood behind the woman and said: "Girl, that's not what I meant." The woman said shyly: "I know you didn't mean that." Then he looked at He said to the army behind him: "You guys come with me." The woman kept walking in front to lead the way for them, secretly having fun the whole time. Zhao Li also blushed and said: "Ji Xun, don't talk nonsense anymore. You see, other insects are embarrassed to say it." Zhao Li saw that it was enjoying it and said: "You are still laughing." Ji Xun said happily: "Master, you like it." Zhao Li said: "Where can I have it? Stop talking nonsense." Looking at the woman walking in front of them, Ji Xun and Xu Yong walked together and teased : "Young master must be interested in this woman. The way you look at her, your eyes are almost falling on her." Xu Yong smiled beside him without saying a word. Zhao Li deliberately turned his eyes to one side, pretending to be cold and indifferent.
This woman belonged to a family of hunters. Zhao Li left his army stationed in a secret place on the mountainside and followed the woman into the house of the hunters. The woman pushed open the firewood door and called out: "Father, father, my daughter is back." The old man greeted him with concern: "Yun'er, where have you been? Let me find my father." The woman said: "Father, look at my daughter. Who brought it back to you?" The old man looked at the bearded man behind him, who was still dressed like a beetle, and asked: "Guan family, are you...?" Zhao Li walked up and saluted: "Uncle, Zhao Li is polite. ." The old man said: "You are a insect from the State of Zhao, right?" Zhao Li said: "To be honest, I am a general of the State of Zhao." The old man asked again: "I heard that your king is a benevolent and virtuous king. But is this so?" Zhao Li said: "That's right, your king is cruel and unkind. This attack on Zhongshan Kingdom is actually to save the people of Li." The old man said: "It's good that you are here. The people of the country have been looking forward to you for a long time. ”
