Jiang Xuanjin stood still for a long time, rubbed his eyebrows with his hand, and let out a long sigh.

  It's also said that he wishes him a long life of one hundred years, but this is clearly meant to scare him into an early demise.

  The scoundrel who can change his words easily but cannot change his nature!

  After grinding his teeth, Jiang Xuanjin turned his head to look at the just arrived Wu Dao and said: "Pingling is short of men. Today, General Hu and others are about to set off. You follow them together."

  What's wrong?

  No, let's talk reason, why are there so many people here, and you want to implicate him?! He is so innocent! Not even the two young masters have seen his face yet!

  "What? Don't want to go?" Jiang Xuanjin looked at him coldly.

  "No, I am following the orders of our lord."

  Since he helped him deploy troops last time, he has been mixed with a military position in the Imperial Guard. The meaning of the palace is that it is beneficial for his official career in the Imperial Guard. Indeed, the emperor promoted him and let him do all the good things, but secretly glanced at Jiang Xuanji, and felt that this person seemed to like throwing him far away every time.

  And it's getting farther and farther away.

  Cheng Xuan looked at him with a sympathetic gaze.

  There's no way around it; the master of the house can't bear to blame his wife, so only those close to her will take the fall. Moreover, who let this person speak ill of the lord to the lady in the first place?

  She took a step back and turned her head three times, then reluctantly walked away. Jiang Xuanjin turned sideways and asked Qi Jin: "When will she be okay?"

  "Having a month of confinement is naturally over a month. The lady has lost a lot of blood and her body is very weak, so she needs to stew more chicken soup to nourish herself."

  After finishing speaking, he glanced at him and couldn't help but say: "Don't you want to ask about the well-being of your younger sister and young master?"

  I've never seen anyone like him. From the moment his child was born until now, he hasn't even taken a glance at them.

  Jiang Xuanjin paused for a moment, as if he had just remembered that there were two more children. He looked slightly dazed and then asked: "What about them?"

  Qí Jǐn: "I'm sorry"

  If it weren't for seeing him so nervous when his wife was about to give birth, I would really suspect that this child wasn't his.

  Twins are smaller than ordinary babies, but it's rare that these two children are very healthy, wrapped in swaddling clothes and sleeping quietly, several wet nurses smiled and surrounded them, as soon as they saw Purple Sun enter the door, they came up to greet him: "Congratulations, sir!"

  Cheng Xiao sent off the red envelope with money in the back of the house. Jiang Xuanjin walked through the door and stood beside the small bed, taking a look.

  The wet nurse picked up one and handed it over with a smile: "This is the young master, look, his eyebrows and eyes are so much like yours!"

  The newborn baby was ugly, without even eyebrows, and looked like him? Jiang Xuanjin disdainfully stared at it for a while, didn't reach out to hold it, and then lowered his head to look at the other one in the cradle.

  The daughter is obviously much prettier than her son. With a small nose and small mouth, she has a strong milky fragrance.

  His eyebrows relaxed and he hooked his lips.

  The wet nurse held the young master, and also took a look at the cradle with the little sister, with a smile on her face, but in her heart, it was inexplicable. Who doesn't like having more boys? This Zi Yang Jun is good, he only dotes on his daughter.

  Behind them, a group of people waiting to see the child were getting anxious, seeing Jiang Xuanjin not making a sound or holding the child, each one was so anxious that they were scratching their ears and cheeks, wishing they could hold the child for him.

  He glanced at them and said, "There are too many people."

  It seems like they're trying to shoo us away, Lu Jinghang chuckled with his hands behind his back: "We've been waiting for two hours just like the young master, not even allowing a glance, isn't that too petty?"

  "That's right!" Murong Qi echoed, raising his hand and saying, "I want to hold the baby, I haven't held one before!"

  Jiang Xuanjin slowly walked out of the room and sat down, saying: "Lu Zhanggui and Bai Hua Jun look first, the rest of you go have dinner and come back later."

  There were too many people and the air in the house was thick, everyone felt that this arrangement made sense, although it was a bit annoying. Qingxuan and others still listened and retreated.

  Lu Jingxing only then noticed that there was a girl beside him, this girl was extremely beautiful, with bright eyes and white teeth, her eye corners were slightly upturned, her waist was slender and could be grasped in one hand, her figure was elegant and wrapped in black gauze.

  The weather in early spring is still not warm, the wind blows very cool, but this person seems to be unafraid of the cold. She wears a black-based butterfly-patterned chest-bundled skirt inside and a thin transparent black gauze outside, vaguely visible her white arms.

  Very bold outfit, but because it's a deep black color, it doesn't show off, instead it has an inexplicable coldness.

  As if sensing someone was watching her, Murong Qi turned sideways and raised an eyebrow, smiling at him.

  Provocative and meaningful.

  Lu Jinghang paused for a moment, withdrew his gaze, and focused on looking at the two children in the cradle.

  Murong Qi originally wanted to hold a baby and play, but she suddenly felt that the man in front of her seemed more interesting. A pair of phoenix eyes were beautiful, looking down gently like spring breeze blowing over emerald waves.

  Look at his elegant demeanor, unlike Jiang Xuanjin's seriousness, he must also be a seasoned veteran of the red dust. But just now looking at her, it seems like she doesn't have any interest at all.

  Rubbing her own face, Murong Yi began to doubt her own appearance for the first time.

  "Have you thought of a name?" Lu Jinghang asked Jiang Xuanjin outside.

  "The latter said: 'No need for Mr. Lu to worry.'"

  "How can I not work hard?" Lu Jinghang smiled lightly, "Earlier, Huaiyu even asked me to name him, saying that calling him Lu something or other sounds pretty good."

  This remark was simply asking for trouble, several wet nurses turned pale with fright, and Mu Rong's eyelids also twitched.

  However, Jiang Xuanjin heard it, but there was no ripple at all, and he just held the tea and gently skimmed off the foam.

  "Master?" Cheng Xiao couldn't help but softly call out to him.

  He sipped his tea and said lightly: "At this time, you still care about Lu's shopkeeper, is your heart made of iron?"

  Lu Jingxing: "I'm sorry"

  This person wasn't very good at talking like this before, who did he learn from to master the skill of killing people with his words?!

  "Master." Yu Feng brought in several letters and frowned, saying, "There's a battle report."

  With a composed expression, Jiang Xuanjin took it and scanned it twice, sneering coldly.

  Li Huairan surprisingly dared to reuse Liu Yunlie and sent him to lead troops to Pingling for support.

  Liu Yunlie was a humble-born young man who had been selected to serve in the imperial court, with only one relative, an aunt. Years ago, he had distinguished himself in the war against the rebels and had risen to the position of Ting Wei, skilled in the art of manipulation, hiding behind a mask of integrity. He had deceived Jiang Xuanjin for many years.

  Jiang Xuanjin was once puzzled as to why this person wanted to harm him and Danyang. He had thought it was because of excessive loyalty, not tolerating anyone who could threaten the emperor. But after leaving the capital, he looked back and realized something was off.

  This person's purpose is not so simple.

  He stood up and ordered Cheng Xū: "Do as previously agreed."

  Pingling successively fell eight cities, and the imperial army's force was unstoppable as it rushed straight to Pingling's main city. Li Huairan greatly rewarded the brave generals from Western Liang, thinking that they were his own merits. He also set up a banquet in the palace to celebrate with all officials.

  However, a few days later, an urgent report came from the outskirts of Beijing - "Your Majesty! Twenty miles west of the capital, there are large numbers of cavalry and infantry heading towards the capital!"

  The hand holding the cup suddenly loosened, and with a "crack" sound, Li Huailin's face turned pale.

  "In exchange for the eight city pools, the imperial court's army has penetrated deep into Pingling's territory, and it will be difficult to defend Kyoto again. This time, the strategy is beyond our reach." Nanping Jun sat in the tent, sighing, "These past few days, Pingling Jun hasn't been able to eat or sleep, I suppose he's also been shocked enough."

  Li Fang was shocked, almost thinking that Jiang Xuanjin was going to abandon Pingling. As a result, the Twelve armies of 120,000 soldiers sent by the imperial court were all tied up in Pingling. The 50,000-strong Ziyang army marched secretly and directly surrounded the capital.

  "Following Ziyang Jun is a good thing." He pointed to the high-flying Imperial Army flag outside and Changlin Jun laughed, "He said he's leading troops to support the Emperor, not a single suspicious voice from the people. Even when the court issued a proclamation saying Ziyang Jun was rebelling, hardly anyone believed it, haha, those people are really speechless."

  Due to the public's reaction, several vassals who had originally intended to support the king also temporarily halted their actions. The losers of this war would not have a good outcome, so except for those few people who were inexplicably framed by Jiang Xuanjin and put on the boat, the rest of the vassals did not dare to make a decision lightly.

  "Who let the Emperor really listen to those few old things, and use the generals of Xiliang." Li Fangwu shook his head, "As soon as the people of Xiliang come, don't we have a reason for our expedition to save the king?"

  Li Huaiyu made a very crucial move, using 3,000 grains of rice to deceive Li Huailin into frantically seeking medical attention, and pulling in the Western Liang. Although the original intention was only to maintain Jiang Xuanjin's reputation, the consequences triggered by this matter really helped their side a lot.

  This noble lady is recognized by them, except for the Empress Dowager, no one else can match her.

  "Now let's see what Ziyang Jun means." Changlin Jun twirled his mustache and said, "He has already arrived at the outskirts of Kyoto, and is about to take it a step further."

  Further on, it really was rushing to overthrow the emperor.

  Several princes in their hearts are very clear, on the one hand yearning for more fiefdom wealth, on the other hand worried that with Ziyang Jun's kindness and loyalty, will he just try to scare the emperor?

  No, Jiang Xuanjin clearly answered them with his next move of attacking the city.

  In the ninth year of Daxing, on the fourth day of April, the loyalist army broke through the gates of the capital city and marched straight to the imperial palace. The emperor fled in a hurry. He took with him hundreds of officials and retreated southward, while also summoning the Western Liang army into the border to confront the loyalist army. The Western Liang army looted and burned everything in their path, leaving the people in a state of desperation wherever they went, causing an uproar throughout the land.

  Li Huai'er's original intention was to ask the Western Liang for help, offering a large amount of gold, silver and grain, as long as they could suppress the rebels, Northern Wei would even cede several cities. However, the development of the situation far exceeded his expectations.

  Situ Jing suddenly died, Liu Yunlie took over his 70,000 troops and disobeyed the imperial edict, avoiding the loyalist army along the way.

  "What do you mean?!" Li Huailun burst into rage in the imperial carriage, "Why didn't we fight? Why did we retreat?!"

  Liu Yunlie cupped his hands and said, "At present, our military strength is insufficient to contend with the Purple Sun Envoy. Your Majesty might as well let another million Western Liang troops enter the border, letting them fight each other, while Your Majesty reaps the benefits from the sidelines. Wouldn't that be delightful?"

  Li Huailian narrowed his eyes: "Do you think I'm a fool?"

  Within the Northern Wei borders, there are already 80,000 Western Liang troops. If they let in another 100,000, it would be easy to invite the gods, but sending them away would be difficult. He is now regretting why he listened to Liu Yunlie's words and asked for reinforcements from Western Liang, and how could he make mistake after mistake?

  Liu Yunlie didn't panic at all. He looked up and stared straight at the emperor, saying: "I am sympathizing with Your Majesty, if you insist on not listening, then I can only continue to retreat south."

  "Your" gaze touched his eyes, Li Huailin finally sensed that something was wrong, "What do you want to do?"

  He always thought that Liu Yunlie was the most reliable person around him, after all, when he had not yet taken power, Liu Yunlie stood by his side without hesitation, helping him plan how to seize power and take revenge. Without him, Li Huailin would not have been able to kill Danyang.

  After the matter was settled, Li Huairan, in order to show his gratitude and trust, also promoted Liu Yunlie and increased his salary. Whatever important matters there were, he let him handle them, so that his current position in the court was comparable to that of Zi Yang Jun at the beginning.

  But now, Li Huailian looked at these eyes and suddenly woke up with a start.

  Has he fallen into some kind of trap?

  Looking at the emperor's reaction, Liu Yunlie smiled slightly: "The concubine is pregnant and wants to return to Xiliang. I will see her off."

  It's "return", not "go".

  His heart skipped a beat, Li Huailin stared at him blankly, and suddenly reacted: "You!"

  "I bid you farewell." Yu Yunlie calmly stepped down and waved his hand. The people outside the door immediately stood up in unison, blocking the entrance.

  When Princess Ning came over, the Emperor was smashing things with all his might. Everything in the palace that could be broken had already fallen to the ground. As soon as she took half a step forward, a vase flew over and shattered, shards flying everywhere, grazing her forehead.

  "Get out!" Li Huairan roared with red eyes, "All of you get out!"

  Something warm slid down and blurred her vision. Ning Yuwei pinched a handkerchief to wipe it, silently looking at the bright red above.

  Seeing her, Li Huailian stiffened for a moment, then strode over, looked at the wound on her forehead, and asked in a low tone of anger: "What are you doing here?"

  When he loses his temper, he always likes to smash things and has accidentally hurt people more than once or twice. Why doesn't she stay far away?

  "I'm afraid Your Majesty will exhaust yourself." Ning Yuwei said softly, grasping his hand and taking a look, "You're injured."

  A thin line was drawn somewhere, much shallower than the one on her forehead. Li Huailin took a look and didn't think much of it.

  Ning Guifei was stubborn and brought a medicine box from beside, sat on the soft couch to wipe for him.

  Her movements were truly gentle, her own wound still bleeding profusely but she didn't care, she used medicinal wine to clean his hand and then wrapped a strip of white cloth around it.

  Li Huailian's throat tightened and he said in a low voice: "Put some medicine on yourself too."

  Ning Wanwei nodded and got up to find a mirror.

  Not a single complaint was uttered.

  Li Huailian looked at her back and suddenly felt a bit annoyed: "Actually, you can leave."

  Like other concubines in the harem, take advantage of the chaos to leave him and go to the Ziyang area, where there is no war or danger, and with silver tickets, she can live a stable life for the rest of her life.

  Ning Wanyi's hand, which was applying medicine to herself, paused as she slowly turned her head to look at him.

  Li Huairou rarely made eye contact with people, and when she did, her eyes would inexplicably make others feel uneasy.

  "Your Majesty," she said, "Why do you think I am unwilling to leave?"

  Why can't he just give up his position and wait for him to make a comeback in Kyoto or go somewhere else.

  Li Huailian wanted to say so, but looking at Ning Yuwei's eyes, he hesitated and didn't speak out.