Biography of Concubine Shujia

Chapter 167

Nanluojia County, Weifu.

Du Jiuniang glanced at the letter in her hand, put the letter on the candlestick and burned it.Staring at the blue flames in his hand, he let go when the heat touched his fingers, letting the letter paper burn to ashes and fall to the ground.

Since Du Jiu arrived in Nanluo, the Du family rarely passed on news to her.After the Du family stronghold and the old department were collected by King Ze, a major adjustment was made.She has gradually lost contact with the dark forces of the Du family, and she should be kind if she seeks benevolence.

Back then when Wei San worked for the royal family and almost died in the sea when he walked the inner sea, the husband and wife planned to retire.

Later, due to the desolation after the battle of Fengcheng, the Nanluo property in his hand was not easy to resell.

After everything calmed down, Du Jiuniang faded out of the Du family's influence, and Wei San also released a message to stop.The husband and wife have made an agreement that they will not interfere with the affairs of the royal family and live a stable life.

The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is very helpless.The emperor was grateful for the Wei family's dedication to the country during the Battle of Fengcheng, and gave the Wei family the errand of the imperial business.

The couple had no choice but to stay in Nanluojia County.Originally, the parents and their children were planning to return from Yujing, but something happened.

When Concubine Jia was summoning her sisters in Beijing to speak, she heard that Du Jiuniang's two children were in Beijing, but they didn't go to school, so she kindly arranged Du Jiuniang's eldest son to work with King Ze.Du Jiuniang's youngest son, however, was assigned to study with the prince when the sixth prince started school, and now he is studying in Du's Academy.

Du Jiuniang's parents-in-law were worried about their children, so they had to stay in Yujing.He also sent a letter to tell the husband and wife to do their errands well and not to worry about Jingli, as the Du family will take care of them, everything will be fine for them.

Du Jiuniang is such a shrewd person, after thinking about it, she understood what the Du family and Concubine Jia meant.The Du family wanted to take advantage of her original staff to slightly restrain King Ze, and at the critical moment, they wanted to pass on news from the family; while Concubine Jia buried her own game for her son.If there is a conflict between the family and her son, she must help him, so she should make a plan first and not be too passive.

Du Jiuniang, as a figure balancing the forces of the two parties, naturally wanted to stay in Jia County.Du Jiu is in charge of the military affairs of the thirteen counties of Nanluo, the envoy of Nanluo Salt Transport is the father-in-law of King Ze, and the Wei family who is a big salt cook, the three parties maintain a strange balance.

Du Jiuniang's daily behavior has changed a lot, and she no longer shows up in public, but it's not that she doesn't know anything about Nanluo's situation, and she is as indifferent as she originally showed.

When she led the dark forces in Nanluo Thirteen Counties, she also had some confidantes she could trust.Although these people were pushed out of the most central position due to the change of power, it is not difficult to inquire about some news.

The turmoil in southern Xinjiang on the Nanluo border was also sent to Du Jiuniang immediately.

The high priest of Nanluo died strangely not long after the war between the prince and the prince in southern Xinjiang.According to Nanluo people, the high priest betrayed the master and was punished by heaven to die.

Before the high priest was alive, because he didn't deal with the eldest son, he always supported the eldest prince of southern Xinjiang.Now, even if the eldest prince yells that his son-in-law was murdered by the eldest son, he can't restore the lost popular support.

Du Jiuniang was not very interested in the civil strife in Nanluo. What really cared about her was the news that people from the Du family and Concubine Jia asked her to help stop the concubine of the son of Nanjiang.

The news from the Du family was vague, which made Du Jiuniang vigilant and did not rush to act.In Concubine Jia's letter, she used a secret female script to explain the identity of Hong Dan, the concubine of the eldest son of Southern Xinjiang, and the emperor's concern for this matter.

After Du Jiuniang understood the key point, she secretly sent people to investigate the people who had recently entered the city in Jia County, as well as the people who had crossed the border in southern Xinjiang.

The secret cooperation of the Du family, Concubine Jia and King Ze's forces made this investigation much easier.Not long after, traces of these people's contacts were discovered, but Du Jiuniang's people did not rush to do it, but began to follow this group of people to see what kind of medicine they were selling in their gourds.

And the group of people being stared at, under close surveillance, finally finalized the moment to meet another group of forces.

The DPRK and China are divided into two factions regarding the civil strife in southern Xinjiang. One faction does not want to cause trouble and advocates sticking to the frontier and not participating in the attitude;The dispute between the two parties was not small, and the emperor waved his hand and sent out his three sons and Xin Yin, who led the troops in the Gyeonggi camp.

King Ying, King Ze and Wu Beizi went out of Yujing together with Xin Yin, who was the soldier this time.The emperor made it clear that if the southern border would not disturb the border of Daliang, he could send troops to guard it, and he could also help the son of the southern border at critical moments.If Nanjiang took advantage of the civil strife and wanted to act as a demon in Daliang, Nanjiang would be flattened.

However, Mu Xinyin still has the leadership to lead the troops to suppress the border this time.

The army can be set off after tapping the number of people.The emperor passed a secret decree to the Chen family who stayed in southern Xinjiang, ordering him to fully cooperate with Xin Yin in defense work.

Now it is the Chen family who is guarding the southern border. Most of the members of the family hold important positions in Yujing, and some people stay at the intersection of southern border and Nanluo.Most of the members of the same family in the Chen family's army were unwilling to give up the life of rich clothes and good food in Yujing from generation to generation, and the number of children who came to southern Xinjiang gradually became scarce.

The people who separated the family had to guard the southern border because of the suppression of the family.Therefore, the branch families of the Chen family accounted for a large number of the Chen family's army, so the weight of speaking was naturally not small.

Although the current leader of the Chen family army is the third master of the Chen family, Mrs. Huimin's brother, and the commander-in-chief of the second rank, he is a bit older and less bloody after all.They don't care about the occasional provocations in southern Xinjiang, and peace is the most important thing in everything. This approach makes all the young generals in the army dissatisfied.

Chen Song had been training soldiers in Yujing as a contemporary left-behind candidate of the Chen family branch.From the commander of the Imperial Palace to the commander of the Gyeonggi Daying, and from the third-rank guerrilla general, he personally experienced the baptism of the Fengcheng Battle, and his blood and ambition naturally convinced the young generals in the army.

He has a high popularity and prestige in the army. Unlike the many uncles and brothers in the branch of the Chen family, he is not someone who is easy to compromise and avoid, and his bloodiness cannot be ignored because he has experienced war.Therefore, Patriarch Chen's family made things difficult for him and suppressed him many times, but the more they suppressed, the more his fighting spirit was aroused.Especially after Mu Xinyin, who led troops to suppress the border, came, the situation of the Chen family's army became even more lively.

After Mu Xinyin stopped in Fengcheng, he went to the Gyeonggi camp to train new recruits. He was a secret guard himself. He had gone through the two biggest battles during Emperor Rui's reign. He naturally had his own opinions on taking advantage of the civil strife in southern Xinjiang to take advantage of the fire. plan.

Ever since he ascended the throne, the emperor has devoted himself to suppressing the aristocratic family, expanding the territory, gathering the forces in his hands, and firmly controlling the military power in his own hands.As a sharp sword fighting for the emperor, Xin Yin naturally knew what the emperor was planning.

The situation in southern Xinjiang is no more complicated than that in the northwest, but it is also difficult to recover.When the Kunsang Grassland in the northwest was defeated, the emperor adopted a soft policy and still married his own daughter. What he wanted was to softly regain the Kunsang Grassland.The branch of the Lu family sent troops to the northwest of Kunsang. For so many years, the old general Lu has been stationed in the northwest. On the one hand, it is to prevent Kunsang from invading again, and on the other hand, it is to deter the remnants of the Ouyang family and the regent in northern Xinjiang.

In southern Xinjiang, there is no need to worry about many factors in the northwest. However, due to the difficulty of witches and Gu in southern Xinjiang, and the hidden dangers in Fengcheng, the emperor hesitated again and again when he moved southward, and waited for the right time now.

After Xin Yin arrived at the border, he was not in a hurry to deploy troops, and was familiar with the local garrison troops.Instead, he took the people under him to visit near the border to learn about the local situation and the gossip from southern Xinjiang.After that, I visited the local pharmacy, sent a large number of people to grab and dispense the medicine, and boiled the medicine in the camp.

The soldiers in the army were assembled not for training, but to treat the soldiers' bodies with the military doctors and distribute medicines.In addition, all the generals of the Chen family in the army were very angry and bluntly said nonsense.

The reason why Xin Yin made such a fuss and the people under him cooperated so much was that this time the generals, his personal guards were all from the original Xin Ministry.

Xin Yin was tossing all kinds of potions and pills in the army, accompanied by a cold woman disguised as a man, which made the Chen family's family have to obey others because of secret orders, and their dissatisfaction deepened.However, the Chen family chose to side with Xin Yin for unknown reasons.

And the woman who caused dissatisfaction among the generals of the Chen family was Xiao Hei who was next to Concubine Jia.

Xiao Hei had infiltrated the southern border royal city long before the chaos in southern border, and she was also involved in the death of the high priest.

Xiao Hei's biological mother is a shaman from southern Xinjiang, and shamans are not allowed to get close to their clansmen. The shamans of all generations have served the contemporary high priest.

Back then, Xiao Hei's mother had a relationship with the head of the Bai family in Fengcheng by mistake, and she had a child.The child who was supposed to be executed was rescued in secret. To avoid the high priest, he grew up in the dense forest of southern Xinjiang.However, the woman who was a witch but betrayed the high priest was burned alive by the high priest on the altar, and after she died, she poked her bones and ashes, and she did not die well.

When Xiao Hei returned to Fengcheng, the Patriarch of the Bai family didn't see her very much because she resembled her mother, but her aunt really regarded her as a little girl and raised her wholeheartedly.Her sister-in-law also took good care of her, until the daughter-in-law of the Bai family was pointed out to King Fengyang in an almost insulting way.

After her sister became a victim of a power struggle, she hid behind the scenes.Therefore, the nine girls of the Bai family are not eye-catching.

It wasn't until her biological father and elder sister introduced her to the current favorite concubine Du Shi because of her tribe that she reappeared in the eyes of everyone.

She followed Concubine Jia because she was grateful for the kindness of her sister and aunt's upbringing; Concubine Jia's trust for decades made her gradually open up her defenses. In 23 years, she sneaked back to Fengcheng to find out news for Concubine Jia. Later, she opened the door for Xin Yin and successfully rescued her sister's son.

Her biological father and Fengcheng Bai family, who caused her mother's death, were also killed and injured due to her inaction.After returning to Concubine Jia, she still followed to protect the Eighth Prince.Until this time he came to southern Xinjiang to avenge his mother.

After the death of the high priest, Xiao Hei followed the red pill beside Shizi all the way, crossed the border of southern Xinjiang, and entered Nanluojia County.After realizing that the person this pedestrian was about to meet was a ruthless character, she immediately turned back to the border to find Xin Yin.Xin Yin tossed and prepared pills in the army, and Xiao Hei was largely in charge.

After all, no matter how capable Xin Yin is, he still has to take into account the safety of the two princes and the news of Southern Xinjiang.When Xiao Hei formulated the pills and obstacle avoidance powder he wanted, he stopped making large-scale pharmaceuticals.

Afterwards, he began to train soldiers, and the unconvinced members of the Chen family were even suppressed by him.The two princes who followed were also sent by him to lead people to investigate the enemy's situation.

King Ying's men were followed by soldiers from the Gyeonggi camp and members of the Chen family, while King Ze was followed by the secret guards of the Xinbu and people from the Chen family branch.

Unlike King Ying who tried to find a way to penetrate the enemy, King Ze Muyao led people away from the southern border from the very beginning.Under his signal, the secret guards of Xinbu under him quickly threw off the Chen family's secessionists, and the group secretly went back to Nanluo Thirteenth County.

After the Battle of Fengcheng, the Du family's network of contacts in the thirteen counties of South Gong was gathered by the royal family; the series of turmoil caused by the change of power was only for the south to see.King Ze knew better than anyone else that his father had used him to take over the turmoil in Nanluo Thirteen Commanderies for nothing more than to cover up the royal family's purpose of secretly stationing troops in Nanluo Thirteen Counties.

The soldiers and horses stationed in the thirteen counties of Nanluo are the majority of the troops of the twelve dark guards.Mu Yao thought that his father spent so much money to take advantage of the opportunity to attack Southern Border for one reason, and the other was to wipe out all the forces behind that man.

But what he wanted was to take the opportunity to weaken the Chen family's power in the army and deter the Chen family's family and Mrs. Huimin.Is it true that relying on the little affection with the mother and concubine back then, can she always be in the right and left of the situation without taking the dust?Since you want to be a loyal minister, don't provoke your own forces to marry the Du family.After getting married, they evade all kinds of excuses and refuse to give others an advantage. There is no such cheap thing in the world.

The Nalan family secretly took refuge in King Ze, but the old fox, the head of the Nalan family, was not easy to handle.That being the case, let the two Patriarchs have a sense of urgency and fight hard.After the beating, it is also a good way to unify the outside world.

Because of the situation in southern Xinjiang, and because of Xin Yin's special status, the emperor had to reveal to Mu Yao a little about the garrison and the plans behind it.

Of course, Mu Yao would not let go of such a good opportunity. In the thirteen counties of Nanluo, with his influence and the help of the Du family and the Yue family, it is not difficult to deter the Chen family.

Nanluojia County, an old house near Weifu.

The glazed lamps illuminate every corner of the room brightly.The man sitting at the top was wearing a moon-white long shirt, and his hair was not tied up, but simply loosened.In the man's apricot-core eyes, there was indifference, as if nothing could arouse his emotions.

A man and a woman sat on either side of the man.The man on the left is dressed in black, with his hair neatly tied behind his head. Although he has not crowned, he already has the demeanor of a young man.His eyes are similar in shape to those of the man above, but they are different in the same almond-shaped eyes.There was a trusting gleam in his eyes, as if he could handle any difficulty.

The woman on the right is older, she is already a married woman, and the aura on her body is quite familiar.At this moment, she picked up the teapot and stood up to store hot tea for the two men present.

The man above looked up at the color of the soup in the teacup, with a hint of a smile, "Aunt Nine is very handy, Tegong's tea, my nephew is lucky today."

"Your Highness's words frightened the servants. The Wei family leads the imperial merchant's errand, so it is natural to entertain you with this tea." The woman even Du Jiuniang replied lightly.

"Auntie is being polite, but this king is just expressing emotion." Mu Yao, known as His Highness, sniffed the fragrance of tea, glanced at the tea drinkers, and continued, "Aunt Jiu is more generous than Uncle Jiu. Uncle chased me all the way into Jia County, but he didn't even plan to entertain him with good tea before."

"Yao'er has so many capable people and strangers, and even bought this house in Jia County. Why do you have to worry about the things in your uncle's hands? Your aunt is young and can't give you good things to entertain you. Naturally, uncle Bringing you to your aunt to please you." Du Zicheng cupped his hands to Du Jiuniang, "My nephew is not sensible, and our uncle and nephew are bothering Jiujie."

As soon as Du Zicheng said these words, there was a clear distinction between closeness and closeness.Being able to call the current prince's name face to face is enough to see Du Zicheng's weight in front of King Ze and Concubine Jia.

Compared with the other three and four families of the Du family, Du Zicheng, the eldest son of the Du family, the brother of the noble concubine, and the uncle of King Ze, Du Zicheng deserved this.

"Ninth Brother, you're being polite. A while ago, my father said that Ninth Brother is in Nanluo, and I will take care of him as an older sister. But it's inconvenient for me, a girl who goes out, to go to Ninth Brother's place, so I've been delayed."

"One family doesn't talk about two families. Since Ninth Sister appeared in Yao'er's house, my sister must have told you what to do. Yao'er is young and ignorant. I entrusted my father and sister to help this child hold eyes." Qiao Yicheng seemed to be smiling all over his face, but what he said was indeed merciless.

Both the Du family and Concubine Jia have selfish intentions. The Du family wants the prosperity of the whole family, which no one can match. Concubine Jia wants her son to ascend to a high position, but at the same time she does not want the family forces to control her son.The two sides maintain a delicate balance, but for now, the Du family is still willing to follow Concubine Jia and be sent by King Ze.

In addition, among the four households of the Du family, the third household has no heirs, and gradually declines; among the three members of the third generation, Du Zicheng of the fourth household is the most valued by the family.

As the younger brother of the imperial concubine, Du Zicheng can understand her sister's heart best, and can reconcile one or two between the family and her sister.

The situation in Nanluo, before King Ze came, the Wei family and Du Jiuniang could still get the attention of both parties; but now that King Ze came in person, Du Jiuniang lost the advantage of seeking benefits from the two.

Du Jiu's words were a clear warning to himself not to play tricks in front of King Ze and the Du family.

Thinking of her act of pretending not to know about King Ze's entry into the city before, Du Jiuniang didn't show her face. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of King Ze who had only said two words that seemed to be a joke from the beginning to the end, and saw a twinkle in those eyes. After being so cruel, I was startled, and the words came out of my mouth.

"Hong Dan, the concubine of Nanjiang Shizi, brought someone to Jia County, and met someone at Wuliting." Du Jiuniang paused, and Fang then said in a trembling voice, "The person next to Hongdan is hiding the Nanjiang Shizi concubine. , the person I met with, judging from the portrait, should be the current eldest princess."

(End of this chapter)