National Beauty

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Although Guo Boyan did not send troops to fight against the Liao, he also led the 30,000 imperial army to guard the Xidayan on the outskirts of Beijing, ready for battle.

"Duke Guo, Yingzhou has a battle report!"

Guo Boyan was looking at the map, and he immediately ordered his subordinates to bring people in. He still stood with his hands on his hands. When the footsteps were approaching, Guo Boyan turned his head solemnly, but saw that the messenger sent by Yingzhou was dirty and dirty. Escaped from the fire! Guo Boyan's heart sank: "Liao army attacked grain and grass?"

As he is always concerned about the military situation on the front line, he naturally knows that Cao Yu's army is close to Youzhou, and only then did he walk to Yingzhou.

The messenger threw himself down on his knees, crying bitterly: "Yes, the Liao soldiers attacked and burned the grain and grass last night at the third clock, my son, my son..."

He didn't finish speaking, but Guo Boyan buzzed in his mind and almost took a step back. With people around him, Guo Boyan tried his best to keep his face calm, but his hands trembled faintly. He stepped forward, staring at the messenger with his long eyes: "How about the son?"

The messenger glanced at him, crying as he spoke, and said with trembling lips: "My son, my son is fighting to death, and he is killed in flames..."

Speaking of the end, the courier lowered his head and couldn't bear to watch the grief of the father-in-law of the loss of his son. However, he waited for a while with fear and sadness. There was no sound above his head, and the clothes and black boots in front of him remained motionless. The messenger wiped his eyes, raised his head questioningly, and unexpectedly met a pair of blank eyes.

Guo Boyan was not surprised, not angry, or crying, but the man as tall as the mountain showed this stunned look, but it made the surrounding subordinates more uncomfortable, some clenched fists and turned their heads, some stared nervously at the father-in-law, ready to go anytime. Give a hand forward.

"The body, found it?"

After a long while, Guo Boyan finally moved his eyes and asked with his eyes down.

He was looking forward to another voice, expecting that as long as there is no son’s body, the death will be unsubstantiated, but the caller once again destroyed his only expectation: "Master Ma saw the son being cut down by the Liao soldiers... Look back, son The whole body is scorched..."

The horse was cut down, and his body was scorched.

Imagining that situation, Guo Boyan spouted blood.

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The battle report soon spread to the palace.

Emperor Xuande overthrew the desk on the spot!

Guo Xiao died, and he also regretted the premature death of a young general, but the top priority was that Emperor Xuande was more worried about the entire East Road army, which was his overall plan to recover the Fourteenth State of Youyun. Cao Yu disobeyed the emperor's order, causing him to lose the food and grass of his son-in-law and the army for several months. If Cao Yu was in front of him, Emperor Xuande could not wait to kill him!

"Come here, spread my will, let Cao Yu stick to Zhuozhou, and dare to attack Youzhou without authorization, I want his life!" Xuande roared.

"The emperor, the emperor, Youzhou battle report!"

He hadn't sent anyone to reprimand Cao Yu, but Cao Yu's eight hundred li expedited arrived first. Emperor Xuande greeted him some distance, snatched the battle report, and found that the man who was over fifty shook his body. Zhao Heng's expression changed drastically, and the second prince Rui Wang had already rushed over, nervously holding on to Emperor Xuande.

"Cao Yu, Cao Yu..." Leaning against his son with a white face, Emperor Xuande was almost unable to say what he said, but it was Cao Yu who attacked Youzhou City yesterday morning. Ye Luxiong was unable to defend himself, and was deadlocked for a while. Empress Dowager Xiao and Han Rang led the Liao State with one hundred thousand reinforcements. Cao Yu was defeated and retreated to Zhuozhou. Simply this battle did not hurt his muscles and bones. Only three or four thousand soldiers were lost, and the main force of the army remained.

After the battle report, Cao Yu finally asked Emperor Xuande what he should do next.

What else can I do? The East Route Army must not be able to retreat. After retreating from the Liao State, they immediately changed their directions to support Yuzhou on the Middle Road and Yunzhou on the West Road. Those two roads reported successive successes. The confluence of the city and the East Road is just around the corner, and there is absolutely no room for mistakes. Therefore, Emperor Xuande issued an order to make Cao Yu stick to Zhuozhou, and the capital would immediately adjust the grain and grass.

Arranging major events, Emperor Xuande clutched his left cheek, while suffering from toothache, while waiting for frontline news.

He has no time to care about Guo Xiao's death.

But to others, the news of Guo Xiao's death is tantamount to five thunderstorms.

Guo Gong’s mansion, the bad news came in, the lady who was over 60 years old turned her eyes and passed out. Lin took care of her mother-in-law with red eyes, and could only give the second lady who was crying and crying to the second lady to take care of her. Princess Duanhui sat blankly, her tears streaming down uncontrollably, but she didn't believe it. If she didn't see her cousin for a day, she didn't believe her cousin was really dead!

The masters cried, and the people cried no matter whether they were sincere or fake. Next door to the Palace of Shou, Song Jianing led Zhaozhao to enjoy the flowers in the garden, and vaguely heard the movement.

"Cry." Zhaozhao heard it all, looked at his grandpa's house, raised his head and asked his mother, her eyes confused.

After such a big battle, Song Jianing's face turned pale, and she first thought of Mrs. Tai, an old man in her sixties, just in case...

"Hurry up and have a look!" Song Jianing eagerly ordered Liu Xi to be supported by Shuang'er.

"Wang Hao, don't worry, it's okay." The pair held her shoulders firmly, fearing that the princess might have fetal gas.

Song Jianing was holding her belly with one hand, and when she lowered her head, she saw her daughter looking at her baffledly. The little girl looked at her mother the same day. She laughed when her mother laughed. Something happened to her mother. She was afraid. Maybe in this world, all No one is more dependent on her than the daughter at this time, and no one wants her to be happy more than a daughter.

Song Jianing didn't panic so much, and smiled and coaxed her daughter: "Mother is tired, let's go back first, and bring Zhaozhao out to play another day, okay?"

Zhaozhao nodded obediently, her little hand clutching his mother's hand tightly.

The two of them were heavy and had short calves. They walked back slowly. Liu Xi ran to the gate of the Guogong Mansion, and after inquiring with the steward, he returned in a complicated mood. Then he wandered in the front yard for a while, guessing. After the princess had entered the room and sat down, Liu Xicai hurried back to the backyard, bent over and stepped into the east room.

Song Jianing sat on the chair, clinging to her mother in front of her coquettishly, carefully pressing her belly to listen to what her sister was doing. Song Jianing touched her daughter's hair, thinking about Mrs. Tai. Seeing Liu Xi, Song Jianing immediately asked with her eyes. Liu Xi lowered his head and said gravely: "There is a battle report from Yingzhou, the Liao army attacked the grain and grass at night, and his son was killed in flames..."

Guo Xiao, is dead?

Song Jianing forgot his daughter and stared at Liu Xi in disbelief.

Liu Xi knelt down and kowtowed: "Please, the princess is sorry."

He was from the Shou Palace, because the prince did not like Guo Xiao, and Liu Xi didn't feel much about Guo Xiao's death. Shuang'er, Liu'er, and Jiu'er are different, especially Shuang'er and Liu'er. They were the maidservants of Mrs. Tai. They have known Shizi since they can remember. There are masters and servants, and there are women in the boudoirs against heroes on the battlefield. He admired him, and suddenly heard the news of the death of the son, the two daughters knelt down and started crying in a low voice.

Song Jianing has been hiding from Guo Xiao, but she has never said bad things about Guo Xiao to the maids around her, so these maids at best know that the princess is not close to the world, but there is a relationship between brothers and sisters, so she starts from the heart and has no worries. too much.

Listening to their crying, Song Jianing seemed to be in a dream, still unable to believe that Guo Xiao was dead.

How could Guo Xiao die? The previous life Song Jianing had a horrible life. Guo Xiao treated her as a little red carp, and she couldn’t go anywhere anyway. Song Jianing obediently became a red carp. Guo Xiao came and waited for her. If Guo Xiao didn’t come, she raised flower seeds on the Zhuangzi with peace of mind. grass. After entering Beijing for seven years, Guo Xiao often left Beijing. In his previous life, Guo Xiao also went out. Song Jianing had no way of understanding the situation of the war. He only remembers that he fought for more than a year before and after the Northern Expedition. Goodbye Guo Xiao, Guo Xiao has become darker and thinner, and more cold. It looked like it had been defeated.

But no matter what the result was, Guo Xiao returned well in his previous life.

Today, he is dead, buried in flames.

Song Jianing was afraid of Guo Xiao and hated Guo Xiao. He hated him in his previous life and robbed her, but Liang Shao should be blamed for that. In addition to seven years of getting along with each other, it doesn’t make much sense to hate or not. The initial resentment became weaker and weaker. Thinking of eating and waiting to die. In this life, Song Jianing is mainly wary and afraid of Guo Xiao. If he hates Guo Xiao, it means hating Guo Xiao for daring to use her hands after her marriage, and hating Guo Xiao for making her unable to live well.

However, people die like a lamp. At this moment, Song Jianing can remember that it is all Guo Xiao's kindness to her.

As a stepdaughter, Princess Duanhui has repeatedly ridiculed her at the Guogong Mansion. As long as Guo Xiao is present, she will definitely scold her. The twin cousin of the second room teased her, Guo Xiao sneered, but he would teach the twins afterwards. Guo Xiao personally picked the dates and gave them to her and her younger brother. Guo Xiao took care of her younger brother as if he were his own siblings...

Song Jianing cried.

Guo Xiao has been both good and bad to her, entangled for two lifetimes, she was afraid that he would hate him, and never wanted him to die. Mrs. Tai and stepfather treat her like a jewel in the palm. For the elders of the Guo family and the friendship between the brothers and sisters of the Guo family, Song Jianing sincerely hopes that Guo Xiao can marry a good woman An An and live on. But when he is dead, Mrs. Tai will be more sad. Stepparents and brother...

Song Jianing couldn't tell what he was crying.

"Mother..." With a wow, Zhao Zhao also cried, crying loudly.

The complex emotions that surged in Song Jianing were dissipated by her daughter’s cries. It was also at this time that she realized that her face was full of tears and quickly wiped it off. Song Jianing touched her daughter’s head and ordered her children to prepare. She was going to take her daughter. Take a trip to the Guogong Mansion. The elder brother is dead, she should go there for reasons and emotions.

The mansion was crying. The wife was already awake, and she was crying sickly on the bed. Seeing the little granddaughter with a big belly, remembering how the brothers and sisters were getting along, the wife was crying and she wanted to have grandchildren. , Crying sorely. Song Jianing persuaded while crying, but in the end the wife was worried about the child in her womb and insisted on calling her back to the palace.

Song Jianing tried his best in love and courtesy, and was helped out of the wife's yard by his mother.

Lin couldn't get out of her body, and hurried back after sending her daughter out of the government office. Can't see the grief of the elders, Song Jianing slowly stopped tears, and honestly lay down on the bed to raise the baby, not daring to move. Zhaozhao cried with her. At this moment, she fell asleep and was carried away by the nursing mother. Song Jianing lay unconsciously until she fell asleep unknowingly.

The couple didn't dare to disturb her, and when the prince came back in the evening, the maids saluted very quietly.

Zhao Heng walked into the inner room alone, and the gauze tent fell down to cover the people inside. Zhao Heng opened the tent silently and saw her lying facing outside, her apricot eyes closed, and her fine eyebrows slightly frowned, as if worried. Why worry? Zhao Heng stood there and guessed the answer. He felt a little discomfort in his chest, but he couldn't blame her. After all, he was a girl raised by the government.

"Master?" Song Jianing woke up leisurely, opened his eyes, and saw his man.

Zhao Heng nodded, walked to the bed, helped her get up and got close. Seeing bloodshot eyes in her eyes, Zhao Heng whispered, "Have you cried?"

Song Jianing nodded, leaned against his chest, and sighed: "I'm not kissing my eldest brother, but he died young, and I can't bear it either."

This is what she said in her heart. People who have been entangled for two lifetimes died when they said they died, or died on the battlefield. Song Jianing only felt embarrassed. Furthermore, when Liu Xi answered her words, she shed tears. The prince would definitely know that Song Jianing must have There is a saying.

Zhao Hengxin has no personal affair with Guo Xiao, and naturally she knows that her tears are only out of compassion.

"The child is important, don't be too sorrowful." Holding her shoulders, Zhao Heng quietly soothed, and kissed her on the head.

Guo Xiao is alive, and he will settle accounts with him sooner or later. Today Guo Xiao died heroically, and his past grievances disappeared, so why bother about a tear or two.