Rebirth of the Merchant Girl

Chapter 245
The commander of the palace must be such an official, he can't climb up after many years of hard work.

How could he miss such a good opportunity now?

When Xie Yanniang heard that the palace sent someone to invite her, she was a little puzzled and said, "I am the one who invited you, not your mother?"

It's a bit strange to not invite the eldest princess, but to invite her specially.

The Imperial Forest Army who came to report the letter said through the screen: "The Empress Dowager held a banquet in the palace and invited many girls from the boudoir to enjoy the flowers, so she wanted to invite the Princess to go and have a good time."

Since it was the empress dowager's intention, Xie Yanniang couldn't refuse.

It's not just her alone, Xie Yanniang felt relieved: "In that case, I'll clean up and go with you."

Reported to the eldest princess, it happened that the eldest princess had caught a cold in the past two days, and finally took medicine and fell asleep.

Xie Yanniang signaled the nanny not to wake her up, and said in a low voice: "I'm going to the palace, I'll be back in a while. Nanny is staring at my mother, don't let her worry too much, asking me, she just went out to relax."

Mammy was a little worried, but in the end she still stuffed two female guards and asked them to follow behind Xie Yanniang for protection.

Seeing the carriage going away, Mammy always felt uneasy, and couldn't help frowning.

The carriage drove into the palace and changed to a soft sedan chair.

Dazed, Xie Yanniang was helped out of the carriage and then stuffed into the soft sedan. She was dizzy and didn't know where she was.

When the sedan chair stopped, there was no sound around, she felt strange, lifted the curtain and got out of the sedan chair, but there was no one there.

Not to mention the accompanying guards, even the four bearers disappeared.

Xie Yanniang got off the sedan chair in a panic, and saw the plaque on the gate of the hall in the distance - Qingxi Hall.

Isn't this the palace where the young emperor arranged for the ghost doctor to live?

It should be the place to go to the Empress Dowager, how could it come to the ghost doctor.

When she came back to her senses, Xie Yanniang narrowed her eyes, obviously this was not an accident, but intentional.

The young emperor asked people to trick him into the ghost doctor, what exactly did he want to do?
Now that you've come in, I'm afraid there will be someone guarding you outside the hall.

Even the princess's personal guards were taken away without a sound, which shows that there are not many hidden piles around here.

Xie Yanniang looked around and walked into Qingxi Palace. I don't know if it was an illusion, but this place looks particularly eerie.

There were no lights in the hall, and it was tightly covered with curtains, so that it was almost impossible to see clearly.

A figure in a cloak stood in front of the window, she stopped in her tracks, hesitating whether she should go forward or not.

The other party took off his hat and showed his ugly face. Xie Yanniang was startled when she met those warm eyes, and she had a vague guess in her heart. She opened her mouth and asked, "My lord...no, my lord?"

Why is the regent here? Shouldn't he be missing in Ghost Valley?
"I knew you would recognize it," Ruan Jingxin quickly stepped forward, holding her tightly in his arms.

Since Xie Yanniang heard that he was missing, she didn't think about eating or drinking, but now that she saw this person, her full of doubts turned into hugs.

Tightly, with all the strength, as if to confirm that the person in front of him is really Ruan Jingxin.

"Why is my husband here? Could it be that the ghost doctor in Ghost Valley is a fake?" Xie Yanniang couldn't figure out how it was the ghost doctor who came and became the regent.

"The ghost doctor is real, and so am I." Ruan Jingxin smiled, stretched out his hand to caress her cheek, and sighed, "I've lost a lot of weight, I made you worry."

Xie Yanniang shook her head and said: "You are fine, that's enough. It's just that the husband is back, what should the border town do?"

Ruan Jingxin stroked her black hair and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Lian Kingdom has already moved and became an ally of Qing Kingdom. Now the Rong people are under attack from both sides, and they can't take care of themselves. This battle will soon be over."

"Is that true?" Xie Yanniang raised her face in surprise, this is really a great thing: "The new emperor of Lian Kingdom has finally figured out that he wants to join hands with Qing Kingdom?"

Ruan Jingxin nodded and said, "Even if the Lian Kingdom is not happy, that's fine, because the Qing Kingdom dispatched the war horses sent from the Lian Kingdom."

When Xie Yanniang heard this, she suddenly realized that as soon as Lian Kingdom's war horse came out, the Rong people would naturally be able to guess that the former vassal state had already surrendered to Qing Kingdom.

The country of Lian was exposed, so they had to act first, otherwise the anger of the Rong people who were betrayed would be burned on their heads.

She cast a coquettish glance at Ruan Jingxin, obviously he came up with the idea.

Not only made Lian Guo have to move, but also reversed the whole situation: "The emperor must not know about this matter, otherwise how could there be no news from Beijing?"

"I blocked the news, because I was afraid that the emperor would send people to take credit if he found out." Ruan Jingxin had already done more than the Lord, and this big victory was what the people wanted.

Only then did the young emperor wipe out the rebels in the civil strife, and he would be the next one to be attacked.

The regent had no choice but to guard against it. It would be better to pass the news after the victory, so that even if the young emperor wanted to attack him, he would not dare to do it blatantly.

Xie Yanniang breathed out, Ruan Jingxin is always good to be on guard against the young emperor, she remembered something again: "That hidden guard has always been in the palace, bowing his head to the emperor."

She was a little worried whether the hidden guard had defected to the young emperor and betrayed Ruan Jingxin.

Ruan Jingxin met Xie Yanniang's worried gaze and smiled again: "You don't know that the secret guard will only be loyal to one person in his life."

This is also the reason why the young emperor didn't doubt it, because he always thought that Ah Yi was the hidden guard left by the late emperor, how could he have thought that this was Ruan Jingxin's exclusive hidden guard?

It is ridiculous that he keeps the most dangerous person by his side and treats him as a confidant.

Xie Yanniang was relieved when she heard that the hidden guard did not betray Ruan Jingxin, as for the others, she never cared.

The young emperor treated the regent badly and tried every means to put him to death, that is her enemy.

The life and death of the enemy naturally has nothing to do with her.

Xie Yanniang raised her hand, and carefully traced on Ruan Jingxin's cheek.

After being frightened, her nostalgia for Ruan Jingxin deepened, as if if she let go of her hand, the person in front of her would disappear.

Xie Yanniang was secretly annoyed more than once. When Ruan Jingxin left Beijing, she shouldn't have lost her temper with him: "Will my husband blame me? I was too ignorant before, did I make it difficult for you?"

"No, I can only understand if you are willing to say it. If you have been hiding in your heart and being depressed, it will make me difficult." Ruan Jingxin has been on the battlefield for nearly ten years and is used to fighting. She really doesn't know how to figure it out. A girl's heart.

It's okay for Xie Yanniang to say it directly, and he also has a countermeasure in his heart.

If you don't say it, it may be difficult for Ruan Jingxin to guess.

Xie Yanniang was a little embarrassed, did Ruan Jingxin forgive her?
"It's nothing, everyone will have such doubts." Ruan Jingxin leaned over, put his forehead against hers, and said with a smile: "At first, I just felt familiar, but then there was an indescribable intimacy, and it didn't take long for me to recognize her. It's a pity that Qiuniang has long forgotten me."

"My dreams are intermittent and vague, and I can't tell them apart." Xie Yanniang shook her head and hurriedly explained.

"Okay, don't worry, I believe you." Ruan Jingxin lowered his head and wanted to kiss her, but seeing his current appearance in Xie Yanniang's pupils, he couldn't help but pause.

Will Xie Yanniang have nightmares if she kisses like this?
"It's true that I accidentally met the ghost doctor on the battlefield. He can't be called a life-saving benefactor, but just helped him. He is a man with a weird temper, but he has a clear distinction between love and hate. He can repel the army this time. The clansmen also need his help. The ghost doctor has prepared a medicine that can make the Rong people have hallucinations."

He raised his head pretending nothing happened, and explained in detail: "I tried it before, but the Rong people are strong-willed, and it is not so easy to fall into hallucinations. After several failures, I changed dozens of herbs, and finally let the ghost The doctor successfully prepared it. I went this time because of the emperor's will, and because the ghost doctor informed me that this medicine has been prepared, and I will go get the prescription myself."

As for Ruan Jingxin's appearance as a ghost doctor, it also means ghost doctor.

He has always been a loner and doesn't like to get involved in things other than Ghost Valley.

If Ruan Jingxin hadn't helped him, the ghost doctor would never have gotten involved in the war between the Rong clan and the Qing Kingdom, let alone put Qing's emperor in his eyes.

He didn't like it, so he made a fake human skin mask for Ruan Jingxin to put on, and went out of the valley pretending to be himself.

"The ghost doctor deliberately used a weed that is unique to the grassland where the Rong people live as a medicine. As long as they are five hundred miles away from the grassland, they will have hallucinations and can't distinguish between illusion and reality."

Xie Yanniang couldn't help but praise the ghost doctor in secret, such a trick did not hurt anyone's life, but firmly bound the Rong people to the grassland.

Then, she worried again: "This kind of medicine only affects the current Rong people. When the next generation grows up and makes a comeback, won't it be invalid?"

Ruan Jingxin shook his head and said, "No, the ghost doctor also thought of this. The medicine taken will be integrated into the blood and passed on to the next generation, unless..."

"Unless what?" Xie Yanniang grabbed his sleeve and asked anxiously.

"Unless the Rong people are willing to marry other people to dilute the blood of the Rong people." If so, then they are not completely Rong people.After marrying with other countries and mixing blood, the bond with other countries will be deeper.

I have you, you have him, we are all a family, who would want to use a knife or a gun again?

Xie Yanniang's eyes widened, she really didn't expect this ghost doctor to be so powerful, she even thought of this.

"Several countries are married, and if the Rong people want to leave the grassland for five hundred miles, they must change and compromise. In the end, the Rong people will not be so unified." The blood of different countries is mixed, and the ties of the tribes due to marriage will be broken. , has to be biased.

After a hundred years, or a few hundred years later, the Rong people may have split up and formed a new country, or merged into other countries.

The most troublesome thing about the Rong people is the cohesion of blood, which is so powerful that it makes people tremble.

If they disperse slowly, there is nothing to be afraid of.

If the Rong people were unwilling to change their old habits, and continued to intermarry with various tribes, and the secret medicine was integrated into their blood, they would only be able to move within five hundred miles of the grassland, and would no longer be a threat to the Qing Kingdom.

Even if the secret medicine gradually becomes thinner due to the continuation of the blood, it will be a hundred years or more later.

With such a long period of time, the Qing Kingdom had enough time to recuperate and deal with the Rong people.

(End of this chapter)