Qin Zhen's army was already in Qinzhou. Now that the world was in chaos, Lu Ze was really worried about Lu Yun and ordered his soldiers to look for Lu Yun nearby.
When the mourners returned to the Huang Mansion, it was already early morning on the second day. It rained intermittently during the night. The road was not easy to walk. If the military situation was not urgent, they would not be in such a hurry.
In the Huang Mansion, Qi Yuning changed her clothes after taking a bath, and then went to the hall to eat.
When Shen Nian returned to the mansion, he was so tired and sick that he could no longer get up, and he didn't even come for lunch.
Shen Qian toasted Qi Yu'an and Lu Ze Qi Yuning with a glass of wine and said, "Thank you very much, King Qi, Prince Lu, and Princess Qi for finding innocence and justice for my family, Shen Nian. I would like to dedicate this glass of wine to you all."
Qi Yu'an raised his wine glass and said, "You're so polite, Mr. Shen. After all, Shen Nian is also my former sister. This is as it should be."
Lu Ze and Qi Yuning both finished their glasses of wine.
Qi Yuning asked: "Qin Zhen's troops are about to arrive in Longzhou. His sister and nephew are dead. I'm afraid they will try their best to attack Longzhou City. Are you setting off back to Shuofang today?"
Ning Wen nodded and said: "Wait for Nian'er to rest for a while. After Shenshi, he will leave Longzhou and return to Lingzhou. If you have any difficulties, you can come to Lingzhou to find us."
Qi Yuning nodded and said, "Yes."
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When Shen Nian returned to the room, she closed her eyes. Half asleep, all she could see was her relationship with Huang Rui, "Husband!"
"I am here."
Shen Nian heard a man's voice and woke up in fright. Looking at Lu Yun who came in from the window and was all wet, she was so frightened that she said, "Lu Yun!"
Lu Yun was trembling, with rain on his face. He stepped forward and said with a cry: "Madam, someone drugged me to separate us. I will not leave you. I ran back secretly. Madam, I've been here in the rain all night and have been waiting for you all day..."
Seeing Lu Yun's pitiful appearance, Shen Nian knew that if Lu Yun hadn't saved her that day, she would have died long ago.
Nowadays, Lu Yun has lost her soul and gone mad. She remembers the little Lu Yun who ran in from the dog hole when she was a child. He would give her many new gadgets and help her make her adoptive mother happy. See you again. He was now wet and helpless and crying, and Shen Nian also felt compassion.
Shen Nian said to Lu Yun: "Ahem, I'm really not a lady, but you said you don't know anyone now. I can let you stay with me, ahem, until you regain your memory."
Lu Yun said: "Great, I can be with my wife!"
Shen Nian remembered the worries that Qi Yuning and Lu Ze had about Lu Yun, so she stood up and took Lu Yun to see Lu Ze and Qi Yuning.
Seeing Lu Yun following Shen Nian'e all wet, Lu Ze stepped forward and said, "Yun'er, why did you escape? Do you know how worried we will be about you?!"
Lu Yun looked at Lu Ze and said unhappily: "You are not my biological brother. If you were my biological brother, how could you drug me?"
Shen Nian pulled Lu Yun's sleeve: "He is your biological brother."
"Ahem, Prince Lu, Princess, I think now that Prince Lu only recognizes me, it's better not to embarrass him. The world outside is in chaos, and it's dangerous for him to run around alone. Why don't I take him to Lingzhou first? Go and ask a famous doctor to treat him in Lingzhou...what do you think?"
Qi Yuning and Lu Ze looked at each other, but now this was the only way.
Lu Ze said: "This is too difficult for you."
Shen Nian said: "He is also my savior after all, so he is not in trouble."
Lu Yun smiled at Shen Nian and said, "I won't let my wife embarrass me!"
Seeing Lu Yun follow Shen Nian, Lu Ze sighed softly, "Well then, if he does anything outrageous to you, just teach him a lesson. It doesn't have to hinder his identity."
Shen Nian nodded very weakly.
At the time of application, Qi Yuning and Lu Ze escorted Shen Qian, Ningwen and Shen Nian out of the city gate.
Shen Yuqi, a young boy riding on a big horse, walked up to Qi Yuning and said, "Sister Qi, is it okay if I want to join the Qi family army when I grow up?"
Qi Yuning touched Shen Yuqi's head and said, "Of course you can, but you have to practice martial arts well and read military books well. When you grow up, the door of the Qi family army will be opened for you."
After watching everyone in the Shen family leave, Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "Do you want to write a letter to the princess explaining what happened to Lu Yun?"
Lu Ze said: "It's better to wait first. The doctors in Lingzhou must be better than those in Longzhou City. If Yun'er can be cured, my mother will not have to worry in vain."
Qi Yuning said: "Well, Qin Zhen is about to attack the border with his troops. It's going to be a fierce battle. If they can get all the way to Qinzhou, it means that it will be impossible for Qinzhou, Qinzhou, Shanzhou, Chang'an, and Shangzhou in the future. Like Liangzhou and Longzhou, they can defeat the enemy without fighting."
Back in the city, Qi Yuning and Lu Ze separated. Qi Yuning went to check on the army rations, while Lu Ze and Qi Yuan discussed the battle plan.
On the hottest day in June, following a thunderstorm, the largest civil war in Dasheng in the past forty years was fought in Sanlipo outside Longzhou City.
In the medicine shed of the military camp, Qi Yuning saw the wounded Qi soldiers coming one after another, and ordered the accompanying military doctor: "No matter what, every soldier must do his best to treat them, no matter whether the medicine is precious or not, now we There are enough medicines.”
The military doctors responded one after another.
This fierce battle with Qin Zhen's army lasted for a full month, and the Qi family's army approached Shanzhou City.
The moment he stepped into Shanzhou City, Qi Yuning couldn't believe the sight in front of him. It was a group of skinny people eating tree bark. They were all young and old. When they saw a mouse, they all swarmed towards it. Go up, grab the mouse, and want to eat the mouse meat.
Some people dare to eat even the swallows flying in the sky.
Qi Yuning saw several old people trying to pluck the feathers off the swallows, so he stepped forward and said, "You can't eat them. These swallows are full of poison. If you eat them, you won't survive."
The Shanzhou people who were eating swallows ignored Qi Yuning at all, "Eating swallows is poisonous to death. If we don't eat swallows, we can't survive today. We haven't eaten for three days and three nights. This In a month, we have almost finished chewing the bark.”
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Zed beside him and said, "Is there a disaster in Shanzhou?"
Lu Ze shook his head and said: "No, after experiencing the great disaster four years ago, there should be a lot of food reserves in Shanzhou City, so that the people in the city will not be in such a situation."
"It's all you officials who don't care about the life and death of our people for the sake of your own whispers and the position of the Nine-Fifth Supreme Being!"
"It's hard, being a common people is such a hard life!"
Qi Yuning said repeatedly: "Since there was no disaster, why did it happen like this?"
"Earlier, when those soldiers passed by Shanzhou City, they first came to the people's homes and robbed them of food and silver. All those in their families who were in their prime were dragged away to serve as soldiers. The more beautiful daughters at home were also humiliated by them. Now that you want food and we don’t have any, why do you care about us eating swallows?”
Qi Yuning tightened the reins in anger and said: "Those beasts of the Qin family! Don't worry, there will be food! Stop eating these swallows and mice. Go and spread the news. The Qi family's army is giving porridge at the gate of the city."
Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning and said: "Our military rations are not enough to feed the people in the city. After Shanzhou City are Chang'an and Shangzhou, each city is more difficult to attack than the other."
Qi Yuning said: "We raised the army for the sake of the people of the world. Do I still want to watch the people in a city starve to death? When we get to Chang'an, we will have military food supplies, but the people of Shanzhou City are more important."
Qi Yuning went to find Qi Jiajun and asked Qi Jiajun to take food to various villages in Shanzhou City and distribute rice porridge at the gates of the southeast, northwest and northwest of the city.
Qi Yuning and Lu Ze personally gave rice porridge to the people at the northern city gate.
Qi Yu'an came to look at it wearing armor and said: "Sister, Chang'an City is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Now that the general's food has been given to the people, we are afraid it will be extremely difficult."
Qi Yuning said: "We can't watch all the people in the city die because of the Qin family's evil deeds, and I have already transferred military rations from the Zhou soldiers."
Qi Yuan sighed softly.
Qi Yuning said: "The Qin family has done many evil things, God will not let them go."
As Qi Yu'an said, Chang'an was originally the capital of prosperity and was extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack.
This place is Qi Yuning's fiefdom, but it is also a fiefdom with no title. The aristocratic families are entrenched in Chang'an City, and it has always been the strongest military force in the imperial court. After a long time, the military supplies are somewhat insufficient.
Towards the end of July, Chang'an was still difficult to capture, but two pieces of good news came from Beicheng.
One was the big wheat harvest in the summer, and all the grain had been sent to Beicheng. The other was that A Ping gave birth to a son, six pounds and six taels...
Qi Yu'an saw the letter written by A Ping's hand and held it tightly in his hand. Qi Yu Ningbu saw his brother happily saying, "Aren't you happy that my eldest nephew is born?"
Qi Yu'an said: "I'm happy, but I feel guilty that I couldn't be with her."
Qi Yuning said: "Princess Pingrou, Lu Baozhu, is here with me. It is a great joy for A Ping to have a son. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and the military pay will be doubled this month. What do you think?"
Qi Yu'an said: "That's fine."
Qi Yuning was much happier than Qi Yu'an when she learned that A Ping had given birth. She also received a letter from Lingling. Under Lu Baohua's guidance, Lingling's calligraphy practice had improved by leaps and bounds. In just a few months, Lingling's handwriting had improved. Can see clearly.
Lu Ze looked at Lingling's letter, thinking about Lingling's small hands holding a pen and writing down the fact that she had a cousin, and smiled softly, "It's a pity that Lingling didn't know that it was a cousin, not a cousin."
Qi Yuning said: "I miss Lingling. I can't let her spend my birthday and Mid-Autumn Festival with me."
Lu Ze remembered and said, "Speaking of which, your birthday is coming soon."
