The fifth day of March.
On this day, Xue Zhaoyi of Wu State quietly left the Wu State Palace with only five followers.
The carriage drove out of Dongxu City and stopped by the official road two miles outside Dongxu City.
Xue Susu got off the carriage.
She looked at the towering city wall in the distance, with a touch of nostalgia and a touch of sadness in her eyes.
After all, this is where she has lived for thirty-nine years!
When she came here she was still an innocent and lively girl, but when she left she had a few strands of silver in her black hair.
When he came, the emperor was indeed able to urinate three feet in the wind, but when he left... The emperor secretly peed last night, but it was only three feet!
Time is a thing that makes everyone grow older without leaving any trace.
She withdrew her gaze and landed on a peach tree beside the official road.
The peach blossoms are blooming again.
Peach blossoms bloom every year. People only see the beauty of the flowers, but no one notices that the bark of the peach trees has withered.
Sooner or later it will die.
So do people.
I originally thought that I would die in the Yixing Palace at some point in the future, but now I had to change my mind.
Because of the words of the owner of the garden.
Also because of those words of Xia Guogong!
It's not a pity to die myself, but I can't let my son die!
We can't let our sons die all over the house!
Some things must be done, and some people have no choice but to give up!
"Goodbye, Your Majesty!"
She took another deep look at the city wall, turned around and came to the carriage.
The driver was an old man wearing black clothes and a hat.
"Mother, it's time to go."
"...let's go!"
She got into the carriage.
The old man waved the riding whip in his hand, and the three carriages rolled away.
Not long after the carriage left, two more carriages came to the place.
An old man got out of one of the carriages.
He was holding a birdcage in his hand, and in the birdcage was a very beautiful thrush.
He is Xia Mochou, Duke of Xia!
He looked at the disappearing carriage in the distance and suddenly grinned: "Chu Tianji is driving! He really belongs to Xue Zhaoyi!"
A woman's voice came from another carriage: "Do you believe what I say now?"
"Chu Tianji's surname is Chu!"
"He is originally from Nanchu!"
"Still a member of the Nanchu royal family!"
"Xue Manzi dared to marry his daughter to Emperor Wu. Firstly, of course he wanted peace for Southern Chu. Secondly... of course the Emperor of Southern Chu hoped that the future king of Wu would be Xue Susu's son!"
"In this way, the two countries can have good relations, and Southern Chu can truly sit back and relax!"
"Then Prince Ping Wu Hui, if he becomes the emperor of the Wu Kingdom, it will be a great good thing for the male Chu, and for your Xia Guogong Palace..."
"You are already old. Even if you sent Xia Li to Xia Yuanzhou and became the general of Zhenbei, do you think that after you and Emperor Wu are dead and Prince Wu Qian ascends the throne as emperor, the Duke of Xia will let you go?"
"Don't forget, Xia Hua likes Li Chenan! And Wu Qian regards Li Chenan as his lifelong enemy!"
Xia Guogong pondered for three breaths and asked: "You have kept a low profile for more than twenty years. In my memory, you have always been a person who does not care about worldly affairs but only cares about money."
"I don't understand why you suddenly became interested in Li Chen! Aren't you worried that Emperor Wu will find out and burn down your Guiyuan and Lita?"
The woman in the carriage is Lu Ruyi, the owner of the returned garden!
Duke Xia Guo didn't see the joy on her face:
"There is no need for me to tell you about the future king of Wu State."
"But after much thought, I still have to tell you."
"Li Chenan, he is my son!"
"Xia Hua... is one of my future daughters-in-law!"
Duke Xia's eyes suddenly widened. He looked at the hanging curtain of the carriage, and after a moment he suddenly laughed:
"I see!"
"Then you won't be able to yell at me anymore!"
"Xia Hua is my granddaughter! When you see me in the future, please greet me..."
"Stop it!"
Lu Ruyi opened the car curtain, "Get in the car, aren't we married yet? Let's get down to business first!"
"……good!"
The two carriages did not go to Guiyuan, but to the shore of Acacia Lake.
There is an Acacia Residence by the Acacia Lake.
There is Li Xiangsi in Acacia Curia.
In addition to Li Xiangsi, there are four other people here today.
Four old people!
they are:
Dongfang Hong, the master of Songshan Sword Academy.
Lu Chuqi, the master of Mushan Knife Mountain.
Wu Wen, the former pavilion master of Tianyin Pavilion.
Another one is Zheng Qiuchen in the front yard of Bailu Academy!
I won’t eat pickled vegetables and simmered deer antler today.
What we ate was a pot of dog meat stewed by Lu Chuqi himself!
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On the evening of the fifth day of March, Wu Qian, the crown prince of Wu Kingdom, went to Xingyun Pavilion.
Emperor Wu was sitting in front of a stone table under a peach tree, holding a cup of tea and looking at the peach blossoms on the tree.
Zhang Jingzhong, the eunuch in charge of the palace, stood respectfully beside Emperor Wu and was talking to Emperor Wu:
"...there are 10,000 people in the Divine Guard Army, led by Yuan Su himself. They got rid of the Divine Eagle Army and are now probably entering the Jianshan Mountains."
"in addition……"
Zhang Jingzhong turned around and saw Wu Qian walking in. He closed his mouth and said nothing more.
Emperor Wu frowned slightly, took a sip of tea, and looked up at Wu Qian with a smile on his face.
"Father... I have come to pay my respects to my father!"
Wu Qian lifted his clothes and knelt down.
Emperor Wu put down the tea cup and said calmly: "Get up."
"Thank you, Father!"
Wu Qian stood up, bowed and stood on the other side. He was about to say something, but unexpectedly Wu Di glanced at Zhang Jingzhong again, "Go on!"
"Old slave obeys the order."
"The forces entering our Wu Kingdom from Ning Country are a bit complicated."
"In addition to the Divine Guards coming from Xiayuanzhou blatantly... there is also the 500 Xuanjia Battalion that became famous in the battle at Wushanyuan in Ningguo!"
"This Xuanjia Camp, judging from the news coming from the main room of the Jishu Fang, it is indeed secretly established by Sun Jinghong, the former chief minister of Ningguo Imperial City."
"When Li Chen'an became the deputy of the Imperial City Department, Changsun Jinghong handed over the Xuanjia Camp to Li Chenan... Therefore, the Xuanjia Camp is Li Chenan's true confidant!"
"The other is the three thousand wind-controlling guards that the Imperial City Division has always had."
"As early as early February, Xuanjia Camp and Yufengwei had already sneaked into Wu State and entered the Jianshan Mountains..."
At this moment, Emperor Wu suddenly raised a hand to interrupt Zhang Jingzhong's words, "Whose domain did they pass through?"
"Back to the emperor, we mainly pass through Beiqiongzhou in the northern mansion of Prince Ping..."
Emperor Wu was suddenly startled.
He sat up straight at once, "Didn't the Beifu soldiers and Wu Hui's soldiers notice?"
"This...back to the emperor, it was a cold winter when they entered the Kingdom of Wu. They probably went to Beiqiong Mountain...the mountain was blocked by heavy snow, so it was really difficult to find them."
However, Emperor Wu did not agree with Zhang Jingzhong's explanation.
He suddenly stood up: "Inform me of my decree, and the commander of the black-clothed guards of the Privy Council, Wei Xiaoxian, led the black-clothed envoys to catch up with Xue Zhaoyi...bring Xue Zhaoyi back to me!"
"Pass my message to Prince Ping Wu Hui... I am slightly ill, and thinking of my grandson, I asked Wu Hui to bring his family back to the capital to fulfill his filial piety in front of me!"
"Pass my decree to General Gou Zhong, ordering him to give up the pursuit of the Divine Guards and speed up the Divine Eagle Army to return to the capital... stationed at Siliangshi Camp, ordering Gou Zhong to come to see me alone!"
"Demonstrate to the border troops in all directions that without my tiger talisman... no one is allowed to leave the station even half a step! Violators... will be killed without mercy!"
"Go and draw up the decree!"
Zhang Jingchu's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly bowed and said, "I'll go right away!"
Only then did Emperor Wu look at the stunned Crown Prince Wu Qian again.
"If it were your eldest brother... no, I should say if all the vassal kings planned to rebel, what would you do?"
Wu Qian was ecstatic, and he knelt down again with a bang: "My son, I should lead the troops to suppress them all!"
Emperor Wu smiled slightly, "But you don't have any soldiers!"
"I came here just to tell my father about my plan!"
"Oh... tell me."
