Rebirth of a Female General

Chapter 228

The empress smiled, lowered her head, turned the teacup in her hand, and said: "I will remember the prime minister's instruction."

Xu Xiangfeng frowned, and his hand holding the teacup tightened slightly.

There was a moment of silence, and no one spoke in the hall.

Xu Xiangfeng lightly put down the teacup, sighed softly, and said, "Chu'er, our Xu family has been prime ministers for generations, and we are the only one in this court. Countless people are staring at us, just waiting to find a mistake, and we are going to put it to death." My Xu family has fallen into a place where there will be no redemption. So don't blame the father for being ruthless, for the father... there is no other choice."

The empress slightly pulled the corners of her stiff lips, but never lifted her downcast eyes: "I know."

There was another half moment of silence.

Xu Xiangfeng's lips moved for a while, and the knuckles holding the lamp tightened a bit, and suddenly asked an irrelevant question: "How is the Holy Majesty treating you?"

"With your care, the Holy Majesty is naturally good to me."

The queen frowned, and smiled meaninglessly, "New tributes from all over the world always have a share in the Qihuang Palace; usually, I don't care about the affairs of the harem, and leave it to my palace to take care of it. Except that I don't see people often, Everything else is fine."

Xu Xiangfeng's throat was astringent: "Are you still blaming me for not preventing you from entering the palace?"

"it's already over."

The queen said indifferently, "I can't blame you for what happened back then. The emperor issued an imperial edict that all unmarried official women must enter the palace to be selected. As the prime minister and the head of all officials, you naturally have to lead by example. No favoritism is allowed. My daughter understands all of this."

The queen said words of comfort to Xu Xiangfeng, but Xu Xiangfeng obviously didn't feel relieved.

"If I hadn't delayed you and..."

Xu Xiangfeng stopped talking, with guilt and self-blame all over his face, "If I hadn't had to test him three times, you and him should have settled before the draft. If you followed him, our parents I'm afraid that the daughter will not be born here. You will not be alone in this palace."

The queen's hand holding the teacup tightened, and what she thought she had let go of, was taken up again in a few words.

The old scars were torn off, stained with blood, tearing the surrounding intact flesh, and it hurt deeply.

strange?

Resent it?

Everything was left behind when she entered the palace.

After all, she has nothing to do with him.

If there is no result, thinking anxiously, in the end, it is nothing more than torturing myself and others.

"it's already over."

The queen repeated this sentence, but only she knew the pain in her heart, "This matter is not your fault. As a father, you naturally don't want your daughter to marry an ignorant person easily. Your painstaking efforts I know it all, and I don't blame you."

After so many years of living in the deep palace and high walls, he pondered over and over a few things.

No matter how much you can’t figure it out or let go of it, you should also figure it out and let it go.

"If you want to blame, you can only blame the sky for failing to meet people's wishes, and good fortune to trick people."

The queen stroked the rim of the teacup with her fingertips and whispered softly.

Looking at his dejected daughter, Xu Xiangfeng's gloomy eyes were inexplicably dark: "Everything will be fine."

The queen was slightly taken aback, thinking that he was referring to King Duan's accession to the throne.

In this deep palace, a mother is more expensive than a child, and her care for her children used to be the foundation for her to settle down in this palace.

Now, he is his only thought.

If it wasn't for this child, I'm afraid she would not have figured it out so quickly, nor would she have accepted her fate so quickly.

Up to now, those past regrets and grievances are not important anymore.

She only hoped that her child would be a little more free than he is now after he ascended to the life-saving position, and don't want to have many regrets like her.

Xu Xiangfeng stopped talking, got up to leave, but after leaving, he suddenly asked: "Chu'er, if it is possible, would you give up everything in this palace and go find the person from back then?"

The queen was stunned, not understanding why he asked such a question.

"How is this possible?"

The father and daughter looked at each other for a long time, and the queen asked back with a wry smile.

Xu Xiangfeng took a deep look at the queen, and finally turned and left the palace without saying anything more.

In the Qihuang Hall, only the Queen was left sitting alone in the main hall, staring blankly at the bustling hall, thinking about what Xu Xiangfeng said.

At the same time, in Xinde Hall, the emperor was listening to the shadow guard's report with a livid face.

"There is still no whereabouts of the second child?"

The emperor asked calmly.

The shadow guard who came to report lowered his head, not daring to answer.

Angui poured tea for the emperor, and persuaded him: "Your Majesty, calm down. For the current situation, it is good news that there is no news about His Royal Highness. At least it means that His Highness should be useful to the people behind him, and he will not for the time being." What's the matter?"

Hearing this, the emperor looked at An Gui, and was a little surprised at the successor that An Ning had single-handedly trained.

An Ning is submissive in front of him, not daring to speak out when he is angry, but he is more courageous than An Ning.

I don't know if Angui's words really comforted the emperor, or it was simply because of Angui's interjection that disturbed the emperor's emotions.

After Angui's words, the emperor was indeed not as angry as before.

Tapping the table with his fingertips, the emperor thought deeply for a long time before saying to the shadow guard, "Come on, keep looking."

The shadow guard got the order, and immediately got up to leave, but he heard the emperor say, "If you find the second child, tell him not to come back. He has always disliked this messy court. Since you don't want to go back, let's go." Let's go. The farther the better, I've been to the wild cranes he wants."

I think he has been trapped in this court all his life, working hard for power, thinking that he has a talent that can reverse the defeat of the Wen family's royal family.

Bury his lover, heirs, and even himself in this calculation.

In the end, everything was empty and nothing could be grasped.

That's it.

He was already buried in this throne and couldn't get out, the eldest brother died, the third child could not escape the same fate as himself, so let the second child live his own life.

If he is still alive.

The emperor pressed the center of his eyebrows heavily, and finally felt infinitely tired.

But as long as he is still sitting on the throne for one day, he has to count another day for Wu'an's country.

"An Ning is already on her way back?"

The emperor asked Angui.

"Yes."

Angui replied, "The adoptive father has handed over the imperial decree to His Royal Highness King Shu, and now he has set off to return to Beijing. He will be back in the palace by the end of June."

"Ah."

The emperor responded, and asked again, "How is the matter of letting Wu Ren escort Princess Xirong back to Beijing?"

"General Wu's team went up the Xiangzhang River and arrived at Jicheng. It will take at most ten days to reach Kangdu."

Angui replied.

Hearing this, the emperor thought for a moment, then suddenly asked An Gui to fetch the imperial decree and write with a pen.

When the pen and ink were dry, the emperor handed over the imperial decree to Angui, saying: "Let someone take this imperial decree to find Wu Ren, and ask him to hand it over to Liu Tong after he arrives in Beijing, and immediately rush to the six guards of the capital, who will serve as the governor of the six guards." same job."

(End of this chapter)