September 29th of the second year of Zhide.It has been raining continuously for more than ten days, and the temperature has dropped suddenly. As the saying goes, in Chang'an, the weather is still mild and sweet at this time. However, Fengxiang is full of cold fog, and the sky is covered with dark clouds every day, making people breathless. "Shi'er, be good—give me a piece of cake." In Concubine Zhang Shu's bedroom, Concubine Zhang Shu and Shen Zhenzhu were teasing Li Shi and Li Tong.It is said to be the sleeping hall, but it is actually just a simple furnishing room of more than ten feet square, divided into two rooms inside and outside, but it is larger than the room where Li Chu and Shen Zhenzhu lived.

Li Shi was one year old, he learned to walk very early, he could toddle and walk in just ten months, and now he was walking very smoothly, learning language a little slower, babbling, only calling "mother" and "daddy", Wearing a small brocade gown, the little man has a fuller face, white skin and straight eyebrows, more like Li Chu.Although he couldn't speak, the little man was extremely smart, and he understood it in his heart. Hearing Concubine Zhang Shu's words, he put aside the maid who was holding his little hand, stepped forward, and walked steadily to the soft table with pastries.Standing on tiptoe, stretching out his hand, just looking at the edge of the case, the little man was in trouble, and looked at Shen Zhenzhu as if asking for help: "Mother—"

Both Shen Zhenzhu and Concubine Zhang Shu smiled gently, the maid took down the lacquer plate containing the cakes, bent down and handed it to Li Shi, and said softly, "Your Majesty, please take it." The mother's smile was an encouragement. Li Shi "giggled" and took cakes from the plate, holding one piece with his left hand, pinching another piece with his right hand, and taking another. Concubine Zhang Shu laughed and scolded: "Little greedy! A lot!" As he said, he took Li Tong's small body from the hand of the palace maid who was staring at the scene with wide eyes, shaved his little face, and said with a smile: "You, you, when did you look like your imperial nephew? Learn to walk by yourself? Save yourself worrying about your mother!"

Shen Zhenzhu lowered her eyes and replied with a low smile: "Dong is not yet ten months old, the empress is too impatient!" Concubine Zhang Shu has two sons, Li Bi and Li Tong, who are both very young, and the older Li Bi is only four years old. age. Concubine Zhang Shu said: "Mothers are always like this. They always hope that their children will grow up within a day. Pearl, I don't believe you don't think so." "Of course it's good to be an adult earlier. I think Shi'er is like this now. He grows up day by day, and every day is different. It's even more interesting." Shen Zhenzhu's eyes are as bright as water, and she doesn't want to take her eyes off her son for a moment.

"Your Majesty also said yesterday that Shi'er has no brothers or sisters, so it's because she is lonely." Concubine Zhang Shu narrowed her phoenix eyes and said with a smile, "Pearl, when we conquer the two capitals, you have to add a few more for Shi'er." Heir." Listening to his voice, Shen Zhenzhu had a deep meaning, although her heart was slightly sad, she raised her eyebrows and looked at each other with a smile: "We, Li Tang, have many heirs, so my mother is too worried." "That's true, but it's just me worrying too much!" Concubine Zhang Shu smiled, and her eyes fell on Li Tong in her arms again, "The emperor has fourteen princes under his knees, which is still relatively small compared to the previous emperor." She sighed again. In a thoughtful tone, he said, "I don't know how the battle is going ahead?"

Shen Zhenzhu shrugged slightly.There seems to be a ray of anxiety floating in the air. The daily battle report ahead shows that the Tang army and the rebel army have fought in the suburbs of Chang'an. It is bloodshed. While speaking, Li Shi walked up to Concubine Zhang Shu step by step, raised the pastry in his left hand, and called out to her, "Ah!" Concubine Zhang Shu saw that the mung bean cake, which was originally square and square, had been squeezed by his little hands. Unable to get the original shape, he leaned over to pick it up, and said with a smile: "What a good grandson."

Facing her son, Shen Zhenzhu put the unhappiness and uneasiness behind her for the time being, and couldn't help but hugged Li Shi, fragrant his little face, but she heard him still calling "Mother, mother" in a childlike voice in her arms, and fell down. It seemed that there was something very important, and when he let go, he found that he was holding a piece of pastry in his right hand, and was eagerly handing it to her.Concubine Zhang Shu said from the side: "Shi'er will be extremely pure and filial in the future." "The Emperor is here—" While the chief servant was speaking, Suzong Gunmian walked into the room slowly, obviously just coming down to court.Shen Zhenzhu took Li Shi and knelt down to receive him.

Su Zong's expression was dull, exhausted and haggard, and he waved his sleeves casually, gesturing everyone in the room to get up.After Li Chu led the army to dispatch, he dreamed every night and couldn't sleep peacefully. Sometimes he had nightmares that the whole army was annihilated, sometimes the rebels killed Fengxiang, and sometimes Xuanzong accused him angrily. He sat heavily on the floppy seat, heaved a long sigh, and looked dignified.Shen Zhenzhu was about to resign, seeing his expression, her heart felt uneasy again, not knowing how the battle situation ahead would be. "Li Fuguo!" Suzong stared at the table for a while and began to give orders.

Li Fuguo has been by Suzong's side all the time, and hastily agreed. "People are waiting in the city tower. As soon as there is a battle report, they will return to me immediately, without delay!" Li Fuguo smiled, "Return to Your Majesty, the slaves have already been deployed." Su Zong gently tapped a few cases, and said to himself: "Why is today's battle report so late?" A court lady offered tea from the side, Concubine Zhang Shu winked, took the tea and placed it on the table with her own hands, and persuaded gently: "Your Majesty, don't be in a hurry, it is inevitable that there will be delays due to heavy rain for days and roads being blocked, maybe today Good news is coming!"

Suzong listened and nodded again and again, raised the teacup to his lips, took a sip, put it down, got up and walked slowly in the room.After going around twice, he turned his head to Li Fuguo and said, "Why hasn't the messenger come yet?" After going around twice, as if he had just seen Shen Zhenzhu's mother and child, he stopped and walked over. Li Shi stared at him with blinking eyes. Squeezing out a smile, he stroked Li Shi's small head with his palm, and said, "It's getting late, let's all go back." "The messenger from Chang'an has arrived, the messenger has arrived—" a loud and urgent voice came from outside.

"Quickly pass it on!" Suzong didn't care that this was the concubine's bedroom, and shouted the order to pass it in. The messenger Xuanyi and Mingjia, soaked all over his body, untied his sword outdoors, gasped and entered the room together with Cheng Yuanzhen, just about to kneel down and walk up the mountain to call for a big gift, Suzong stopped him and said: "How is the battle ahead? Report to me quickly." The messenger still knelt down, cupped his hands and bowed his head, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the marshal defeated the rebels yesterday and regained Chang'an!" Suzong jumped up from the couch, his joy was beyond words, but the news of the victory came too quickly, as if it was untrue, he asked: "The news is correct?!" The messenger kowtowed: "It's absolutely true." As soon as the words fell, Li Fuguo knelt down on the ground, shouted long live, and congratulated him in a long voice.When he knelt down, everyone in the room including Concubine Zhang Shu and Shen Zhenzhu knelt down to congratulate Suzong. On September 27th, Li Chu led a large army to the east bank of Fengshui in Xiangji Temple in the west of Chang'an City. The rebel army, led by An Shouzhong, led 100,000 soldiers and horses to the north.Afterwards, the Tang army received a secret report and discovered that the rebels were hiding in the ambush to the east of the position. Ye Hu led the Huihe army and beat the ambush to pieces. The two sides continued to fight fiercely for six hours until the next morning. rebels.The rebel generals An Shouzhong and Zhang Tongru all abandoned the city and fled that night. With tears in the corners of Suzong's eyes, he bowed westward with his robes in front of the former emperors of this dynasty, and then he greeted everyone to lay down.Suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Did the Huihe soldiers plunder in Chang'an?" The messenger said: "The Marshal once persuaded Prince Ye Hu that if you wantonly plundered in Chang'an, the people of Luoyang would be renounced, and we will talk about it after Luoyang is conquered. Prince Ye Hu obeyed the Marshal's words and only stationed outside Chang'an City, but did not enter the city. " Suzong was even more delighted, and slowly sat back on the soft couch, picked up the cup of tea again, and said with a smile: "Our army from the Celestial Dynasty has returned to Chang'an, and the people must be very happy." "The marshal led the troops into Chang'an yesterday, and there was no crime in the autumn. The people greeted them with praise, and they all called 'King Guangping is really the lord of Huayi'." "Oh?" Su Zong's hand holding the tea froze slightly, then drank the contents of the cup in one gulp, put down the teacup, nodded repeatedly, and said with a smile to Concubine Zhang Shu: "Chu, I really have a heavy responsibility to entrust." On October 19th, Suzong Yujia set off from Fengxiang in a mighty manner and returned to Chang'an. On the evening of the 22nd, the huge and mighty team arrived at Wangxian Palace in Xianyang, which was only forty miles away from Chang'an City.The new county magistrate of Xianyang heard that Yujia was here in person, and led hundreds of people around him to present fruit and food.Suzong recalled the scene of fleeing last year. The world was different, and the personnel were completely different. Now that he is the master of the world, he no longer needs to be as frightened as he is like the day. What's more, Chang'an was lost in the hands of the emperor and recovered in his hands. This merit was not lost, and he was in a good mood, and ordered to stop at Wangxian Palace for one night, and set off again at Chenshi tomorrow.After recapturing Chang'an, Li Chu's army took advantage of the victory and rushed to Luoyang. In Chang'an, Li Ju, king of Guo, stayed behind. Shen Zhenzhu put Li Shi to sleep, and then went to visit Cui Caiping.This time back to Beijing, according to Concubine Zhang Shu's thoughts, she originally wanted to place the crazy Cui Caiping in Fengxiang, and then make plans after the situation is settled, but Shen Zhenzhu couldn't bear it. Knowing that the Tang Dynasty wanted to abandon this poor woman, she insisted on taking Cui Caiping was traveling with her, but fortunately, Cui Caiping only fell asleep every day and did not suffer from illness, otherwise, it would be unsightly in front of the royal family, and even more disgusted by others. With the faint light of the candle, Shen Zhenzhu saw that Cui Caiping's face was slightly flushed, she was sleeping peacefully, her face was wiped by a court lady, her cheekbones were thin and protruding, only at this moment, she still had the beauty of the past . "The imperial doctor has seen that there is nothing wrong with her, but she has been lethargic recently." Su Ci said softly beside her. Su Ci holds her baby in her arms.Shen Zhenzhu was worried about leaving Suci alone in Fengxiang, so she claimed that Suci's husband went out with the army and took her mother and son with him. Because Wangxian Palace had very few rooms, she was asked to go out with Cui Caiping and several court ladies. Share a room. The child was less than three months old, curled up in Su Ci's arms like a kitten and fell asleep.Shen Zhenzhu lowered her head to look carefully, and said in a low voice: "I have been traveling for days, and the child has also suffered." Holding Su Ci's hands encircling the child, she sighed: "Fortunately, although our sisters are displaced, we can always be together. Here, my wish is enough." Su Ci's eyes were red, and she choked up slightly, "Miss, you are too kind to me. I, I... It's really embarrassing for you to have such a thing happen... I will have no face to see the master and madam from now on." Eye sockets rolled and fell down. Tears come. Shen Zhenzhu took the child, put it on another bed, turned around and took Su Ci's hand, frowned and said: "What stupid words are you talking about, all the suffering you have suffered is caused by me, I will listen to you next time If you say this like this, I'm going to get angry." Su Ci leaned on Shen Zhenzhu's body, sobbing at first, and finally crying out slowly. Shen Zhenzhu sent out all the maids.Wangxian Palace was ransacked by rebels, Xianyang county magistrate hastily set it up after Yujia's visit, and the bedroom that the servant arranged for her is still gorgeous.Four palace lanterns with bright corners are shining under the painted ceiling, and the west wall is a huge mural "Drinking Banquet and Outing in Spring". In front of the mural, there are several empty soups—there were several treasures and utensils, all of which were looted by the rebels. .She lifted the golden brocade curtain hanging down from the ceiling, and slowly lay flat on the spacious bed. Outside the hall, there were many falling figures, torches, and even Yan Ming's soft pacing and muffled coughing could be heard outside. The night before Li Chu left, he held her hand and stared deeply, feeling quite uneasy.He may think of the expedition two years ago, but because of his momentary mistake, she suffered a lot. But she was determined and safe, snuggling into his arms, her jaw raised, with a graceful arc, "Don't worry, Shi'er and I will be safer than ever." No matter how suspicious and murderous she was, she dared not do anything to her mother and son.If something unexpected happened to the two of them, Li Chu suddenly felt bad, the so-called sky is high and the emperor is far away, wouldn't it be very bad to repeat Suzong's journey of proclaiming himself emperor by Lingwu? She remembered that he once sighed: "I have been married to you for four years, and we always get together less often and leave more—" She was deeply guilty, but she understood his intentions, and blocked her mouth: "Now that God has sent a great mission to you... You, Pearl only advances and retreats with you." Needless to say the other words. He raised his eyebrows and looked at her with a smile.She also smiled, looking from his face to a new moon in the sky. In his heart, after all, there was still a sense of regret, which he couldn't see.He also looks at the moon, the moon is bright and bright, this life is still so long, and there are so many things he wants... Now, Chang'an is approaching.She had thought of conquering Chang'an several times. He was admired by all people and stepped into the city. His heart was shaking. He was originally sitting on the top of the world. She had thought of keeping pace with him. Now she knows that he has been struggling to support her and support her. Holding her, pulling her forward. What he and she rely on is nothing more than a heart of knowing each other. He went to Luoyang to fight An Qingxu to the death.An Qingxu was close to madness, Shen Zhenzhu closed her eyes, she really didn't dare to think about this war... Suddenly, she faintly heard a noise coming from a distance, the voice was very low at first, and gradually became louder, she listened attentively.Outside the hall, the maid of the guards moved around in disorder, and the torch flickered back and forth, reflecting the dark night sky filled with blood. She asked through the door of the hall, "What's the matter?" "Someone is being checked, it's the voice from His Majesty's place." Yan Ming replied outside. "Hurry up and escort, there are assassins—" Amidst the noise, a voice like a duck's voice suddenly sounded. "General Yan, hurry up and escort him!" Shen Zhenzhu was startled. Yan Ming agreed, but he didn't hear the sound of him moving away, thinking it was an agreement, he didn't move at all, he only planned to protect Shen Zhenzhu.Shen Zhenzhu's thoughts turned, he didn't know who would dare to assassinate, it is better to sit quietly and watch quietly, so she hurriedly said: "Let some good men go to escort, the general will go and see the prince!" Only then did Yan Ming hurriedly answer "Here", walking quickly and powerfully, he hurried to the side of Li Shi's hall.Shen Zhenzhu was only worried about her son, she was about to open the palace door and rush out, so she got up and was only wearing a middle coat, ran over and put on her outer robe and went out. Li Shi hadn't fallen asleep yet, he was playing with the nurse on the couch, the sounds of fighting and fighting from Suzong's place faded in and out, Li Shi saw Shen Zhenzhu coming in, he stood up and threw himself into his mother's arms. Yan Ming said: "According to my humble opinion, the princess and the prince should stay here and do not move. This matter will be settled within half an hour after listening to the debate." Seeing that Shen Zhenzhu was slightly suspicious, he explained: "The princess may not be able to Listen clearly, Yan, who is a martial arts practitioner, can hear the "swish" sound of the southwestern crossbow firing at this moment, which is louder than the sound of knives and guns intertwining. It must be that His Majesty's inner dragon envoy has surrounded the assassins before he can shoot and kill them. .Now I'm afraid that some fish that slipped through the net will escape everywhere, the princess and the prince are together, and they will be guarded by Yan, so a certain person will be in charge." Shen Zhenzhu summoned Su Ci and the nearby maids here, and sent additional people to guard the sleeping Cui Caiping.Sure enough, less than half an hour later, a guard came to report that His Majesty was safe and sound, and all the assassins were executed. Shen Zhenzhu asked: "Do you know who the assassins are?" The guard said: "There are more than ten assassins, all of whom are extraordinary in martial arts. The Neifeilong envoy killed several of them on the spot, and the rest were already captured. Who would have thought that these people would bite the poison hidden in their mouths and commit suicide. Your Majesty was furious, and it has been reported Mr. Feng, the minister of punishment, conduct a thorough investigation!" Mr. Feng was referring to Feng Shengyi.Because he has been promoted to be a servant and has a prominent demeanor, Li Chu was unable to follow Li Chu when he set off for the expedition. Su Ciyuan stood beside her with her baby in her arms, when she heard the word "Master Feng", her body trembled slightly, her white teeth lightly bit her lower lip, she lowered her head slightly without moving, she tried her best to cover up the sadness and pain in her heart, Shen Zhenzhu saw it in her eyes, It is also sad. Sheng Jia was frightened, and Shen Zhenzhu was escorted by Yan Ming to pay respects to Shengqian. Many princes and princesses who had heard about the interrogation came outside the Suzong Palace. After seeing the driver and asking how he was, when the night was getting dark, Shen Zhenzhu saw that Li Shi was fast asleep, so she went back to the dormitory.Yan Ming hardly left Shen Zhenzhu at every step, seeing her about to step into the hall, he hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Rong XX enters the hall to visit first." Shen Zhenzhu knew that Yan Ming was rough but delicate, and he must be worried that she would be away from the people behind the hall Sneaked in, smiled and nodded in agreement. Yan Ming strode forward, regardless of whether this is the place where Shen Zhenzhu sleeps, he looked around for a while without hesitation, then came back and said to Shen Zhenzhu: "Wangfei can come in." The maid quietly exited the palace and closed the door. Shen Zhenzhu walked wearily, she stretched out her hand to brush the curtain, and suddenly felt a white light shaking above her head, a shiny and beautiful circular arc, whipped up a vigorous wind, and slashed towards her. Shen Zhenzhu didn't even have time to close her eyes. Die, so simple.Under the light of swords and blood, there is no distinction between princes, princes, relatives, and untouchables.