Thin Mei·Love Fragrance Quilt

Chapter 199

Tang Tianxiao guessed that those assassins were greedy for life and afraid of death, so they must carry Ke Qianmei to go as far as possible.

Unexpectedly, they never went far after crossing the river, wasting Tang Tianxiao's many arrangements for nothing.

Tang Tianqi thought that Tang Tianxiao was still in Linshan Town, only four or five miles away, and he would arrive there in no time. When he arrived with his troops, Tang Tianxiao should have received the secret letter and arrived there first, so there was "immediate help" and so on.

It seemed that Tang Tianxiao was in a moment of impatience, wasting most of the night in vain, and was still spinning in circles.

He took a breath and asked the guard beside him: "Quick, go to Jianfeng Xiaozhu..."

The guards hadn't had time to ask where Bihu Xiaozhu was, but he heard the sound of a horse's hooves running down a small hill about a few miles away, like thunder rolling, galloping all the way towards the official road, setting off a large cloud of yellow dust, Soared up in the dark night and floated to the place where Tang Tianxiao and the others were standing.

Judging by the momentum, there should be hundreds of fine riders, but they can't tell which route they are from.

Tang Tianxiao hurried forward and said, "Go and have a look!"

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After a while, he arrived at the small hill, and someone shouted and asked from a distance: "Marquis Cheng An is stationed here, where are you waiting for soldiers and horses?"

When Tang Tianxiao looked intently, he saw that the hill was densely covered with soldiers and horses, all dressed in Zhou Jun's costumes. The more suspicious he became, he asked anxiously, "Where is Marquis Cheng An?"

The sergeant recognized that it was the Emperor of Great Zhou himself, and when he hurriedly greeted him, Tang Tianxiao had already jumped off his horse and galloped up the mountain road.

On the mountainside, there is a south-facing courtyard with lights on, but it is a house built along the river. From a distance, you can see the mountains and mountains in the south reflected in the river. It seems to be Jianfeng Xiaozhu.

Tang Tianxiao ran all the way, and when he rushed into the courtyard with the wide open door, he saw Tang Tianqi at a glance.

He was pacing back and forth under the lamp in panic, constantly wiping the sweat off his brow, his face pale, as if he had been terribly frightened, and Tang Tianxiao didn't even notice it when he rushed closer.

Tang Tianxiao called out: "Tianqi!"

Tang Tianqi suddenly realized, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Your Majesty, you... why did you come..."

Tang Tianxiao pulled him up, feeling his palms were covered with sweat, and asked anxiously, "Where's Qianmei?"

"gone."

"Go... go?"

Tang Tianqi's expression settled down, and he pointed down the mountain and said, "Just now...Zhuang Bilan took her away."

Was it among the cavalry that had just been swept away like thunder?

This time, it was Tang Tianxiao's turn to turn pale and pale.

He roared: "You let him take her away from under his nose? Are you dead? Are all your subordinates dead?"

Just as Tang Tianqi was about to explain, a babbling baby was suddenly heard from the back room, and the tender and soft voice immediately melted away all Tang Tianxiao's anger, and even his heart seemed to melt away softly following the voice.

His feet were also a little weak, as if he was stepping on clouds, he rushed in quickly.

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The room was filled with a pungent bloody smell, and under the light of four or five high-burning candles, the scene in the room was shocking.

After pulling away the curtain, it seemed that there was blood everywhere.

Blood-stained dresses, blood-soaked cotton wool, blood-stained scissors, wooden basins filled with blood, and pillows, mats and quilts on the bed stained with blood in large groups.

The half-worn bamboo basket on the table was covered with clean plain white clothes, containing a small baby, babbling and crying silently, with a thin voice, it sounded like singing.

The two stable women in the room fell to their knees.

Tang Tianxiao turned a blind eye, and walked over quietly like a baby, afraid of being startled, and carefully hugged him between his wrists.

So light, so soft, so tender and immature that it seemed that he couldn't bear his light touch.

But he couldn't help it, and gently touched the red and wrinkled little face.

The baby opened its mouth as if nothing had happened, yawned big, and continued to "babble", whether it was crying or singing.

His mouth is small, and his nose can vaguely see the delicate and straight outline of the shallow and charming. His eyes have been opened by a line, but they are clearly resembling Tang Tianxiao's phoenix eyes.

And when she was crying carelessly, the lazy tone was no different from Ke Qianmei's usual lazy.

Tang Tianqi approached, as if he was afraid of disturbing a child, he lowered his voice and said, "Your Majesty, he is a little prince. He was just born in Haishi, so he is still healthy."

Haishi...

Wasn't it a whole day and night from the night before when I was robbed with abdominal pain, to the time the child was born at Haishi this night?
Tang Tianxiao's lips trembled for a while, before he managed to utter a few words: "Then...she...she..."

Tang Tianqi lowered his head and said in a low voice, "It's a dystocia. Those people came to Zhuang Bilan for help when they realized something was wrong. Zhuang Bilan brought the best doctor in the army to rush over, and she was born at night. But...but the third sister was bleeding profusely." , I can’t stop it, it’s bleeding all the time…”

Tang Tianxiao's body turned cold, "She...is bleeding profusely! You still want Zhuang Bilan to take her away?"

"I...I can't help..."

Tang Tianqi's eyes were red, "When I came here, I only thought that the third sister might be weak after giving birth, so I brought the best century-old ginseng here, and planned to force Zhuang Bilan to hand over their mother and child and help her recuperate. Who knew that Zhuang Bilan didn't get along with her at all. I called, gave up half of the mountain road, and asked me to lead the soldiers up the mountain. I didn't know that the third sister would have a difficult delivery! Because I was afraid of Zhuang Bilan's hands and feet, I stayed in this room with him, listening to the movement inside through the curtain."

He pointed to the bamboo basket and said: "We have never experienced this before, and I am afraid that the things here are not clean. This bamboo basket was scalded by Zhuang Bilan himself with boiling water, and the clothes inside were also Zhuang Bilan's own. It's mine. I thought it was all right, and when I was thinking of taking the child away first and then grabbing the third sister, the steady lady said that the third sister was bleeding profusely. Zhuang Bilan seemed to have known that the third sister might bleed profusely. The medicine came, but it couldn't be stopped, so I asked him to take the third sister away."

Tang Tianxiao was powerless, but he hugged his child tighter and tighter in his arms.

He stared at Tang Tianqi and said bitterly: "How can you let him take her away? Since you can't stop it, you should find a doctor quickly. How can you let him take her away? How can she withstand the bumps along the road?"

Tang Tianqi sighed: "I heard from Zhuang Bilan that the third sister was injured and ill many times before and after her pregnancy, her liver qi was stagnant, and there were signs of a rare disease in her blood. Li Mingyuan had a doctor brought back from outside the Great Wall who discovered this disease as early as the first month. , I have been taking medication for her these days. If she could give birth to the baby in a relatively short period of time, she would be fine; who knows that accidents happen frequently, and she gave birth under such conditions, so..."

The baby seemed to be sleeping uncomfortably on his father's skin-tightened arms, crying louder and more frequently, but it still seemed to be singing, and there were no tears in sight.

Tang Tianxiao stroked his soft black hair, which was still moist, and suppressed the resentment in his heart, and slowed down his voice: "Accident? But Qianmei dared to lure me here at this time, so she probably didn't know about it? Maybe it's for her What an accident! But Li Mingyuan single-handedly planned the assassination when her childbirth was approaching, so how could he not have thought that something would happen to her?"

Tang Tianqi was silent for a moment, and replied: "Zhuang Bilan didn't know that Li Mingyuan was planning this assassination. According to his speculation, the emperor delayed the war, but used Li Mingyuan to conceal Kanati's death to carry out countermeasures in Beihe, and successfully instigated a palace coup, making Zuo Prime Minister and King Beihe jointly seized the power of Empress Dowager Li. However, the most elite part of Li Mingyuan's troops were still from Beihe, but without the support of Beihe, the situation began to be difficult. At this time, the emperor left Ruidu. We must seize the opportunity and take risks."

"If one strike is successful and the Great Zhou is in chaos, the chances for him to take the opportunity to occupy Jiangnan will be much greater. It's a pity that he failed, and even the third sister was killed by him... Zhuang Bilan just gave the third sister a lot of blood-stopping Peiyuan pills." Pills, now I want to take her to find the miracle doctor outside the Great Wall. Li Mingyuan thought that Sanmei might have something wrong, so he started to ask the miracle doctor to prepare medicine for her illness since spring. As long as Sanmei can arrive in time, it will stop blood, and you will be saved.”

"Saved, saved..."

Tang Tianxiao leaned his cheek against the baby's small head, his eyes filled with steam.

"She has harmed me so much. If she dies, I should be glad that there is no fatal disaster. Why do I only hope that she can survive?"

Not only do I hope that she will survive, but I also hope that she will return to my side.

It's a pity that she refused in the end, and she finally chose to abandon him.

Holding their child, he sighed wearily: "I have tried my best to treat her well, but she only remembers those hatreds, and only returned the word ruthless!"

The little guy was tired from crying, or from singing, but he closed his eyes and fell asleep naively.

But he was not reconciled after all, and asked Tang Tianqi: "She... did she say anything before she left?"

Tang Tianqi shivered, and said with a wry smile: "What else can she say? Before the baby was born, I heard her groan once or twice; after the baby was born, I didn't hear her make a sound. Seeing Mrs. Wen throwing out bloody cotton wool and clothes, one after another, one after another, Zhuang Bilan and I turned pale. When Zhuang Bilan and I discussed taking her away, her His sanity is not quite sober... Killing people on the battlefield, one knife after another, taking a person's life is so simple... But it is so difficult to save a person's life!"

Hearing that Qianmei never mentioned herself from the beginning to the end, and never even said a word to herself, Tang Tianxiao was even more discouraged, and forced the corners of her lips to curl up, and said in a low voice: "She doesn't remember me, why should I always think about it?" she?"

Tang Tianqi had no way of answering, and only said: "Probably because I shouted for too long, I don't have the strength to say anything else!"

He turned his head to Wen Po who was kneeling beside him and asked, "Before I came, did that... little lady have been crying for a long time?"

Wen Po replied: "Crying? No, no. This little lady is strange. We have repeatedly said that if the pain is severe, you can cry out and shout out loudly. Maybe the baby will come out with a little effort. But She didn't listen to us, she kept clenching her teeth and biting her lips until blood was all over her. When she couldn't bear it, she would moan once or twice. When the pain passed and eased up a bit, we took honey water and The ginseng slices were given to her, and while she was eating, she stared blankly at the top of the tent, shedding tears one after another, but still did not speak."

Another steady woman suddenly interjected: "Who can't speak? It hurts so much a few times. I obviously heard her speak."

Tang Tianqi asked, "What did she say?"

Wen Po said: "Yeah... I didn't say anything, I just said one word every time, it seemed like I swallowed it halfway through the utterance, and then the tears fell down."

Tang Tianqi asked, "What word?"

The two stable women answered together:
"sky……"

"sky……"

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sky……

God... Xiao!

Tang Tianxiao couldn't restrain himself anymore, his body swayed, and he sat down on the ground, and the dense water vapor condensed into water droplets.

Then, big and big, it fell.

Tang Tianqi was afraid that he might not be able to hold the baby firmly, so he hurriedly hugged the baby and handed it to Mrs. Wen.

Wen Po took the baby, and suddenly said: "By the way, that little lady is bleeding badly. I was afraid that she would not be able to hold on, so I took the baby to her to show her and persuade her to cheer up. She seemed to have written something and stuffed it in in the child's clothes."

Tang Tianqi hurriedly said, "What is it?"

When Mrs. Wen was busy unpacking the baby's clothes, a piece of silk handkerchief fell to the ground.

Tang Tianxiao picked it up with trembling fingers.

If there are wet marks on the pure white silk handkerchief, there are three words written with blood winding and breathing incoherently.

"Tang Qianfeng."

Tang Qianfeng, Qianfeng.

Who had a bright smile on his face, moved his neck and kissed him, and acted like a baby with him?
Who chuckled and slipped into his arms, calling him loudly: "Tianxiao, Tianxiao... I like Tang Tianxiao, I like it very much!"

Who tilted his head, wrung his fingers, and discussed with him back and forth: "Is it enough to have a pair of children? Do you want to have many, many children? The first boy is named Fenger, and the first girl is named Hu. Son……"

Fenger, Qianfeng.

Is she planning to have many sex with him?
Did she want to say that the distance between them was too far, as if they were separated by many insurmountable peaks?

Or, is she saying that she wants to have many friendships with him, but when she wants to hold his hand, is there a thousand mountains and rivers between them?
The life and death agreement is broad, and Zicheng said. Hold your hand and grow old together.

Yu Bo is broad, but I am not alive.Yu Wei Xun Xi, I don't believe in Xi.

I want to spend my whole life with you, swear to be forever with you, and grow old hand in hand.It's a pity that we are separated, and we will never see you again in our lifetime; it is a pity that we are estranged, and we can no longer fulfill our vows.

The young emperor couldn't bear it anymore, he staggered and ran out, standing on the hillside, facing the turbulent river nearby, and facing the distant high mountain peak, he called loudly.

He called out her name loudly.

"Qianmei! Qianmei! Qianmei..."

Responding to him, except for the echo of his own sorrow, is the endless night.

Why is this dark night so long, so long that there is no end in sight...

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The war continues.

Accompanied by the war, there was a fierce struggle for power in the North and the North of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

That kind of struggle that cannot see the smoke of war is also life and death, and then affects the life and death of more people.

Li Mingyuan concealed the death of Kanati, and wrote a letter to Xiang Yi, the left minister, claiming that he was enjoying the mountains and rivers with Ke Qianmei; but the emperor of Zhou Dynasty not only managed to let Xiang Yi find out about the death of his son, but also secretly supported King Beihe Join forces with Xiang Yi to put Empress Dowager Li under house arrest, and prevent Empress Dowager Li from helping her younger brother restore his mother's family.

At the same time, the Empress Dowager Xuan of the Great Zhou went to the north to have a detailed talk with Dingbei Wang Yuwenqi.

No one knew what they were talking about, but after the Empress Dowager Xuan returned to Beijing, there was no single soldier in Beihe who could step into the Central Plains.

Yu Wenqi is old and has no successors. He is a veteran of the second dynasty. He has a great reputation and has always regarded himself as a loyal minister. There is no reason for him to ruin his reputation in his dying years.

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