Chapter 685: For Me... Horses Trampling the Grassland
Jiang Qingzhi was a little surprised by his wife's sudden outburst.
He tried to comfort her for a long time until his mother-in-law arrived, and the two of them worked together to persuade Li Tian to stay calm.
"Take a break." Chang said.
Li Tian shook his head and asked someone to get needle and thread, saying that he wanted to make clothes for Jiang Qingzhi.
"Quiet down." Jiang Qingzhi's anger suddenly exploded, and Li Tian was stunned.
Chang was a little embarrassed and was about to persuade him, but Jiang Qingzhi sighed, "It's my fault."
He underestimated the fear of war among women of that era.
"That year, the neighbor's nephew came to visit. He looked about the same age as my husband, very energetic and a little shy." Li Tian sat on a chair and said slowly, "He came to ask for a patchwork of cloth. My mother asked me to sew it for him. While I was sewing, his mother was chanting Buddhist scriptures beside him..."
This means asking the family to pray for their son.
"The next year, his mother came to the house and brought a thank you gift, a goat's horn. Along with it came the bad news."
"That man died in battle outside the Great Wall, and his body could not be found."
"His wife gave birth prematurely upon hearing the news..."
Li Tian looked at Jiang Qingzhi with tears in her eyes.
Pregnant women's emotions are prone to fluctuate, and the fact that Jiang Qingzhi was about to go to war was like a huge rock pressing on Li Tian's heart.
Over time, this boulder fell and turned into today's hysteria.
Jiang Qingzhi squatted down and held her hand. "I am the commander-in-chief. I will not charge into the battle line myself. I have Shitou and his men by my side, as well as the most elite soldiers... Besides, do you think that old man Altan can be a match for your man?"
Li Tian looked at him, tears suddenly welled up in her eyes, and she choked up and said, "I've been having nightmares lately, dreaming about..."
"Dreams are always the opposite." Jiang Qingzhi said with a smile, "I've said before that there are many people in this world who want to kill me, and many have tried to kill me, but I'm still here...
We will grow old together. I promised you that when the children grow up, I will take you with me and we will travel around the country... I may lie to outsiders, but I never break my promise to my family."
"Ok!"
Chang went out quietly, and Duoduo looked at her curiously from the opposite side.
Chang sighed, "What a great age!"
When Li Huan was away as an official, she was also reluctant to let him go. At that time, she was pregnant with Li Tian.
Time flies, and now it is her daughter's turn to miss her husband.
that's nice!
Chang said sincerely.
Xu Wei went to the vegetable market.
"coming?"
"coming."
Yang Zhaodi handed him a piece of cake and said, "Homemade."
Xu Wei squatted down and took a bite. "It tastes like mugwort."
"Yes!" Yang Zhaodi said, "It can drive away evil spirits."
Xu Wei said, "I'm going on a long journey in two days."
"Ok!"
"If you have any problem... that you can't solve, go to Xin'an Lane and ask for an audience."
"I'm just a pork seller, who would pick on me?"
"Just remember it."
"I remember it."
"Also, if..." Xu Wei hesitated, "If you still don't hear from me by next spring, go to Xin'an Lane and ask for an audience. Tell them I have something for you."
Yang Zhaodi looked at him for a long time and said, "I won't go!"
Xu Wei felt disappointed and felt that the pancake in his mouth had no taste at all.
The stubbornness in this woman's bones is what Xu Wei admires most.
No matter how hard life was, she always looked up and looked forward. No matter what happened, she always believed that she could get out of it...
Even if she became an old maid who couldn't get married... this was a recognized fact in the vegetable market, she still looked ahead stubbornly.
It seems as if there is a bright road waiting for me ahead.
After eating the pancake, Xu Wei stood up and bowed, "Then I will leave."
Yang Zhaodi put down her butcher knife and looked at him steadily.
"You will come back."
There was firm conviction in those not-so-beautiful eyes!
Xu Wei only felt a spring breeze blowing across his face, and his whole body seemed to be floating.
"Yes, I will definitely come back."
Xu Wei left.
The old man who was setting up a stall next door sighed, "Since you like each other, why bother yourself?"
Yang Zhaodi looked at Xu Wei's back and said, "Today, there are a lot of people buying meat. I vaguely heard that something big happened in the past two days. What big thing could it be? It can only be the army going out to fight."
Thirty thousand troops were mobilized from all over the country to enter the capital, causing the price of meat in the capital to rise a lot.
"He said goodbye to me, which means he must be going to follow the army into the war." Yang Zhaodi suddenly lowered her head.
"Then you should at least give her some comfort." The old man thought she was going too far.
"I heard that the more you expect something, the less you will get it. On the contrary, God will constantly give you what you don't ask for." Yang Zhaodi said: "If I comfort him, he will definitely be happy. It will be like he got something..."
"Let him keep you in his heart."
"Even if I'm running for my life, I'll run faster than others."
……
Two days later.
early morning.
Emperor Jiajing looked at the memorial and suddenly became furious. "This is outrageous. Let Yan Song come."
Huang Jin whispered, "Your Majesty, Yuanfu went home to rest yesterday."
We are going to set out today!
Yan Song is old, it is impossible for him to stay up all night and travel with the army, so Emperor Jiajing asked him to go home and rest yesterday.
"I actually forgot." There was a hint of confusion in Emperor Jiajing's eyes.
He suddenly found that he seemed to be reluctant to part with the old dog Yan Song.
It must be because I didn’t sleep well last night.
"Your Majesty, how about taking a nap?" Huang Jin said.
Yan Song, Jiang Qingzhi and others will come to say goodbye later.
"Bring some strong tea."
Emperor Jiajing was good at keeping in good health and had never been interested in strong tea.
After drinking a cup of strong tea, the Taoist priest felt more energetic.
Huang Jin came in with his men, "Your Majesty, it's time to change your clothes."
When a minister comes to bid farewell to his king before going to war, it is impossible for the king to receive him in Taoist robes.
After changing clothes, the two princes also came, but they were outside.
……
Jiang Qingzhi got up carefully at this moment, fearing that he would wake up his wife.
Finally, he got out of bed, secretly proud of his improved skills.
But he didn't notice that his wife on the bed had opened her eyes, "Husband!"
Jiang Qingzhi smiled bitterly, "If people scare others, they will scare them to death."
……
"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister and Chang Wei Bo request to see you."
Yan Song and Jiang Qingzhi walked up the stairs side by side.
He saw the two brothers, Prince Yu and Prince Jing.
Huang Jin came out and took the two of them inside.
It was rare for the Taoist to wear formal attire, but he was standing.
Uh!
This is wrong!
Shouldn't you be sitting upright?
and……
He actually wears a sword!
The only emperors who wore swords besides Emperor Taizu were Emperor Chengzu and the previous emperor.
"I am seeing off the army today." The emperor wore a sword and personally saw off the army. This was a signal.
Is it possible that warriors will rise from now on?
It is not known what this signal will trigger in the future.
But for Yan Song, this signal was a huge trouble.
Yan Song glanced at Jiang Qingzhi in a daze, suggesting that it was you who instigated this.
Jiang Qingzhi shook his head slightly.
"Your Majesty, breakfast is here." Huang Jin brought people to deliver breakfast.
Jiang Qingzhi and Yan Song also had it.
But they had already eaten at home, so they reluctantly accompanied the Taoist to eat some. Jiang Qingzhi was fine, but Yan Song, who had eaten a huge amount for breakfast, felt a little uncomfortable.
"set off!"
Emperor Jiajing walked out. At this moment, the morning light had not yet emerged and the sky was dark.
The two princes stood on the side and saluted Jiang Qingzhi.
"Triumph!"
Jiang Qingzhi nodded, "Triumphant!"
The army had just finished breakfast when the cavalry carrying the message entered the camp.
"All units assemble."
All the troops immediately left the camp and assembled.
Military orders continued to come.
All units were to wait on the long street.
"Out of town!"
Troops marched silently on the streets in the early morning.
On both sides, the soldiers who were maintaining order looked at them solemnly, looking at these comrades who were about to go to the battlefield.
The people left their homes early and the soldiers walked past them.
Zhu Shitai followed the team and looked at the people on the right.
No one said anything.
But there was hope in those eyes.
This battle!
The Ming Dynasty can’t afford to lose!
If we are defeated, Altan can march straight in and lay siege to the city.
Zhu Shitai hesitated for a moment and raised his hand towards the people.
The people also raised their hands.
This action seemed to be contagious, and the soldiers raised their hands one after another.
The people raised their hands one by one.
It's like a dense forest.
A child standing by suddenly shouted, "We will win!"
This childish voice broke the silence.
"Must win!"
Countless arms were raised high, and a cold morning breeze blew by, but it could not blow away the surging blood.
Zhu Shitai looked at the old men shouting, the women shouting, and the...
An inexplicable warmth surged up in his heart, and he couldn't help but shout, "We must win!"
"Must win!"
Amid the cheers, Emperor Jiajing, who had just left the palace, said: "The morale of the soldiers is good."
Jiang Qingzhi said: "We have meat every day these days. When the soldiers learned that it was from His Majesty's private storehouse, they all said they would fight bravely against the enemy..."
Emperor Jiajing looked to the right, where a carriage was parked.
Next to them are the Jiang family guards.
Huang Yaner was right under the car.
The car curtain opens.
Emperor Jiajing smiled and said, "Go!"
Jiang Qingzhi felt a little embarrassed, but still rode over.
"Why are you here?"
"Send my husband away."
The two looked at each other.
After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Qingzhi reached out and touched Li Tian's cheek. "I'm fine."
"You too."
Jiang Qingzhi turned his horse around.
"Husband!"
"Ok?"
"My child and I are waiting for you!"
Jiang Qingzhi paused for a moment and nodded vigorously.
"it is good!"
outside the city.
The army gathered.
"What are you waiting for?"
"Is it about time?"
The generals were a little puzzled, thinking that if they missed the time, according to military law... could Jiang Qingzhi and Yan Song really be executed?
"coming."
someone shouted.
Everyone hurried to meet him.
When they saw Emperor Jiajing, everyone was stunned.
"His Majesty!"
Emperor Jiajing nodded and said, "I am here to see off these brave warriors of the Ming Dynasty."
The morning light rose from the horizon, shining on the armor of tens of thousands of soldiers.
The generals dismounted.
"I have met His Majesty!"
Tens of thousands of soldiers knelt down on one knee.
"I have met His Majesty!"
Emperor Jiajing said: "Qingzhi, follow me."
"Yes."
Jiang Qingzhi rode his horse and followed beside Emperor Jiajing.
The two riders arrived in front of the army.
"Be flat!"
Tens of thousands of people stood up.
He looked at the master of this vast empire with sharp eyes.
Emperor Jiajing was also watching these soldiers.
The civil servant next to him looked at him with complicated eyes, looking at the long sword he was wearing.
"It's just a show." Someone whispered.
"The remnants of the Mongols have always dreamed of returning to the Central Plains. They dream of herding horses in the capital again and enslaving us Han people again!"
The voice of Emperor Jiajing echoed throughout the early morning.
"I will not agree, and my brave soldiers will not agree!" Emperor Jiajing looked at the soldiers with sharp eyes.
"Although I cannot lead the army in person, I will watch over the north from the capital."
Choking!
With an exclamation, Emperor Jiajing drew out his long sword and pointed to the north.
His beard swayed in the morning breeze, and his sleeves were blown, making a loud noise.
"Go for the Ming Dynasty, for me... Ride on the grassland!"
(End of this chapter)
