National Beauty

Chapter 195 195

In the battle of Chenjiagu, Dazhou and Liao were both hit hard. The fighting stopped for a while. Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao wanted to consolidate her internal affairs. If she could not take action for the time being, she would retaliate against Dazhou. On the side of Great Zhou, Emperor Xuande withdrew Cao Yu, Pan Xun, Wang Sheng and other generals were demoted and assigned, and then a group of veterans were deployed to guard the frontier with troops to prevent Liao from going south.

Without the war, the situation in the capital became even more tense. The Northern Expedition was defeated and General Li Jizong died tragically. An official in the court bluntly wrote about the faults of Emperor Xuande. While the people cherished the memory of General Li, they also felt that the emperor was a waste of money. Defeat the war. The prestige of Emperor Xuande plummeted.

Emperor Xuande was in the palace, but he had countless eyeliner spies, and he knew everything he should know. He had a toothache. This time the fire was added oil, and half of his face was hurting and swollen. He invited several famous rivers and lakes. Taoist priests enter the palace to treat him.

At the end of April, Prince Gong and his wife returned to Beijing. Prince Gong didn’t want to see anyone, and even the emperor didn’t go to see him. They drove directly back to the Prince Gong’s mansion and stayed behind closed doors. Emperor Xuande missed his son, and took the brothers Rui Wang and Zhao Heng to visit. When I walked to the door, there was a thunderous sound of smashing things, followed by Prince Gong’s cursing: “Get out, get out of me!”

When the general loses his arm, it is like a woman’s disfigurement. Can he calm down for a while?

Emperor Xuande felt distressed and asked Rui Wang and Zhao Heng to wait in the yard, and he went in alone.

Li Mulan was in the General’s Mansion and went to guard his grandfather, and Prince Gong was lying alone with his back to the bed. Seeing his son’s empty right arm, Emperor Xuande burst into tears and walked quickly to the bed, holding his son in tears. Prince Gong dared to lose his temper with his servants, but he did not dare to push his father away. He also didn’t want to push. He closed his eyes and choked out: “Father, my son is useless…”

He was useless and couldn’t save her grandfather, causing her to cry.

He was useless, he had broken an arm, and his disabled body made him unworthy of her.

He was useless, and the dignified son himself conquered, but he lost to the Liao State and lost the prestige of the Great Zhou.

People are in the battlefield, life and death, King Gong has no time to feel inferior and blame himself, but on the way back to Beijing, King Gong only feels discouraged, and would rather die than live so crippledly.

Both father and son cried, and their voices reached the courtyard, Rui Wang bowed his head and sighed, Zhao Heng also couldn’t bear it. Although he and King Gong did not have much brotherhood, King Gong went to the battlefield to defend his family and the country, and Zhao Heng sincerely admired him.

Because King Gong was emotionally disturbed, Zhao Heng and King Rui were not allowed to visit the house. After a few words of reassurance through the doors and windows, the two brothers went back to the house separately. Song Jianing didn’t know that General Li died in battle and Prince Gong broke his arm. Zhao Heng didn’t say that, no one around her dared to tell her that she was raising a baby in the palace with her big belly, and she was deaf to the outside world.

Someone just wanted to let her know.

Zhao Heng had just returned to the house and was changing clothes in the front yard. The steward suddenly came to report and said that Princess Rui came to visit and wanted to visit the princess.

Zhao Heng sneered and said to Fu Gong justly: “It is not suitable for the princess to raise her baby to meet guests.

Father Fu bowed his head and exited the inner room, looked at the direction of the door, and whispered to the steward: “Go and tell Princess Rui, that she will not see guests before she gives birth.” Princess Rui is also really stupid. Come, are all the people in the Shou Palace are fools?

“I got it.” The steward knew everything, and quickly walked outside the palace gate, unceremoniously, relayed the words of Father Fu to Princess Rui in the carriage.

Princess Rui gritted her teeth with anger. Yesterday she just learned that Chen Xiu was three months pregnant. She had been hiding it, deliberately hiding it from her. Princess Rui had been uncomfortable all night and wanted to see Song Jianing. Song Jianing’s child is catching up with the fiasco of the Northern Expedition of the imperial court, and she must be depressed. She will add energy and jealousy to talk about the broken arm of King Gong and the loss of her grandfather. Maybe…

Who ever thought that Song Jianing was so careful that she wouldn’t even let her see him?

Opening the curtains, Princess Rui gave a vicious look at the inner courtyard of King Shouwang, and secretly cursed Song Jianing to continue giving birth to a daughter.

Song Jianing just ate an apricot here. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, Myolie was not fully ripe and sour. Zhao Zhao licked it and threw it in disgust, but Song Jianing loved it so much. He ate two apricots in a row. Zhao Zhao’s eyes widened. The nurse smiled and coaxed: “Sour son and hot girl, the princess must be a young child.”

Just finished speaking, Zhao Heng came in.

“The prince.” Song Jianing hurriedly put down the apricot kernel, smiled at him a little embarrassedly, and was caught by the prince again.

“Father, sour!” Zhaozhao threw himself into his father’s arms, pointed to the plate on the low table and complained that she wanted to eat sweet.

Zhao Heng picked up his daughter, kissed him, and slowly said, “My sister will come out, and Xing’er will be ripe.”

Zhaozhao heard this, and wanted to see her sister soon, and then eat sweet apricots with her sister.

The second child is male or female, Zhao Heng doesn’t care much, all he wants is that she is safe. After kissing his daughter, Zhao Heng raised his head and smiled at the princess inside: “Eat if you want, don’t worry.”

The man had a gentle expression. Song Jianing looked at the apricot in the plate, then touched his belly, suddenly looking forward to it.