Chapter 445: Triumphant Return
Cui Jing turned to look at her and asked in a somewhat faint voice: "You forgot the moon, have you forgotten the others too?"
Hearing him ask this, Chang Suining raised his hand and pounded his head in annoyance: "It seems like I have no memory of it at all..."
Cui Jing raised his hand and held her wrist to stop her from hitting.
Chang Suining looked at the hand that was holding his wrist.
Under the moonlight, the young man's palms were slender and clean, with distinct tendons and texture, and a slight warmth between his fingers.
The owner of the hand said in a tone of advice: "Be careful not to become stupid."
Chang Suining: "It seems that you are not worried at all that I won't remember."
Cui Jing took his hand back and put it behind his back, a smile flashing in the corner of his eyes: "Your acting is not very convincing."
Chang Suining also put his hands behind his back like him and looked at the moon again: "That's because I didn't put in the effort to act seriously with you - so as not to disappoint you."
Cui Jing: "Thank you very much for showing mercy, Your Highness."
Chang Suining nodded lightly: "No problem."
"So," Cui Jing turned to look at her and asked, "Your Highness remembers what I said, right?"
It was not his character to ask again and again, which showed that this matter was very important to him - he rarely took something so seriously.
"Of course." Chang Suining also looked at him, smiling and confident: "Didn't I say that even though I was drunk, I didn't say a single stupid word."
She repeated exactly what she had said last night, which showed that she remembered it very clearly.
The two looked at each other, and Cui Jing's smile spread: "Such a wine is indeed excellent."
Chang Suining smiled, raised his eyebrows, and nodded his chin, looking quite complacent.
Then she said, "I am a drunkard and I remember it so clearly. You should also remember it and take good care of yourself."
"I'll remember it." Under the stars and the moon, the young man's voice was not loud, but it was like the most solemn promise of his life: "I will wait for your highness's mountain and moon feast."
The surroundings were silent, and the night was as deep as a long river.
Until the twinkling stars were covered by the first rays of sunlight, the night faded away, and the world became bright again.
In the early morning light, Chang Suining and his group were already ready to set off.
Yueshi hung a bundle on her daughter's shoulders and said tearfully, "Ani, mother can't go with you, you have to take care of yourself. Over the years, mother has never helped you at all, and now..."
"Okay." Kang Zhi interrupted her: "Mother, why are you saying this now..."
Pulling the bundle, Kang Zhi said, "As a mother, I always have to take care of the most useless child. I understand that."
Yueshi wanted to say something else, but Kangzhi said, "I'm leaving now. Mother, remember to take good care of my brother."
Having said that, he mounted his horse and rode towards the direction of the team.
Yueshi chased after him for a few steps: "...Ani, you must be fine!"
"I know!" Kang Zhi sniffed her slightly sour nose without even turning her head. She was not the useless child. She would be fine! Kang Zhi drove her horse and followed into the group of female soldiers led by Shepherd's Purse.
Yuan Xiang also sat on the horse and was talking to He Wuhu beside him.
Strictly speaking, no one instructed Yuan Xiang to follow Chang Suining back to Jiangdu.
Yesterday, when Cui Jingben was thinking whether it was necessary for Yuan Xiang to continue to follow him, the next moment, Yuan Xiang came to bid him farewell with his bag on his back...
Cui Jing nodded silently.
Deputy General Yu standing by was not surprised - since it’s a dowry, one should be aware of this!
At this moment, Chang Suining had also mounted her horse, but Chang Sui'an was still beside her, saying reluctantly, "Ningning, take care of yourself."
Chang Suining has heard the words "take care" hundreds of thousands of times in the past two days. She feels as if these two words are weighing on her whole body. It really couldn't be more important to take care of her.
"Don't worry, brother." She finally responded, looking at Chang Sui'an and Cui Jing beside Chang Sui'an, and said with a smile: "I should go now."
Looking at my brother's posture, there are already two big balls of tears in his eyes, just like two balls of explosives that will explode with tears and tears flying at any time.
It would be better to get away as soon as possible and leave this ball of explosives with the fuse already lit to Cui Jing.
Cui Jing had not yet realized that Chang Suining wanted to be a hands-off boss, so he just nodded to her and watched her leave.
Chang Sui'an also nodded with tears in his eyes. He felt that he still had countless things to say to his sister, but he didn't know what else to say.
But seeing that his sister's horse had already moved, he still became anxious and sobbed loudly: "... Ningning, tell Daddy, I miss him!"
"If he doesn't like this, tell him another one - I will do my best!"
The girl in green robe on horseback did not look back. She held the reins with one hand and waved with the other hand, saying, "I've got it!"
"Ning..." Looking at the figure gradually moving away, Chang Sui'an could no longer hold on, and the remaining words turned into a "wow" and exploded.
He leaned his head on Cui Jing's shoulder and burst into tears.
Hearing this majestic cry, Cui Jing did not dare to move: "..."
February is full of new things.
Chang Suining and his companions rode their horses at a rapid speed. As the view became wider, their reluctance to leave was gradually blown away by the east wind.
Kang Zhi looked at the mountains in front of her, and the bitterness of parting with her mother and brother disappeared, and was replaced by novelty, excitement, and hope in her heart.
Chang Suining returned to Dongluo first.
Now, a small number of remnants of Kangding Mountain are still fleeing, but they are scattered and no longer a force to be reckoned with. It is difficult for them to protect themselves and hide. They dare not take the initiative to show up and provoke Chang Suining's troops.
Therefore, the road to the east is smooth and unobstructed.
Wu Jue, Bai Hong and other generals had been waiting in Dongluo. When they heard that Chang Suining had returned, they hurried to meet him.
Chang Suining looked at Bai Hong and the others who had gained a lot of weight and were full of energy. Even Wu Jue's complexion had improved a lot. He couldn't help but nod with relief.
With such good generals, her soldiers should be well-maintained as well.
"...This meal really took a long time, and it cost your country a lot of money."
Inside the Dongluo Palace, in a pavilion built by the water, Chang Suining and Jin Chengyuan expressed their gratitude.
"Compared to the benefits that the exemption from war brings to Dong Luo, this mere hospitality is not worth mentioning." The fair-skinned young man, wearing Dong Luo's royal robe, had a pair of phoenix eyes with a smile: "Besides, it's just the beginning of spring, so this meal won't take long."
"It's been two whole months." Chang Suining looked at the spring scenery outside the pavilion and said with a smile, "The sea is now sailable. It's time to return to Jiangdu."
Knowing that she had a lot of things to do and that Dasheng was in internal turmoil, Jin Chengyuan did not force her to stay.
The two discussed some affairs of the two countries in the pavilion.
Afterwards, Jin Chengyuan once again apologized to Chang Suining for concealing his identity.
From this, he talked about his not-so-lucky life experience and why he decided to go to Dasheng. His words were not heavy and were very heartfelt.
At the end, he looked at Chang Suining and said slowly: "I brought back many priceless treasures from my trip to Dasheng, enough to benefit me for the rest of my life."
"We have countless national treasures in Dasheng, and we believe in the way of integration. As long as your country is sincere in its friendship, Dasheng will treat you as a distinguished guest."
A girl with a ponytail sat in the pavilion, her eyes smiling, her posture upright but not pretentious, her whole demeanor majestic, as profound as a lake or sea.
Xi Zhiyuan held up the teacup with both hands and said slowly: "Dong Luo wishes to establish a friendly relationship with the Great Shengzong Kingdom for hundreds of thousands of years."
Chang Suining also picked up the teacup and replaced it with wine.
When he put down the teacup, Jin Chengyuan said, "In fact, before I wanted to return to Dongluo, I wanted to wait for Madam Chang to return to the capital so that I could say goodbye in person—"
He changed back to the way he used to address her in the Imperial College, and said, "It's just that I haven't waited long for Madam Chang to come back, and I never thought that we would meet again through that polo ball."
The polo ball handed to him, like the Dragon Boat Festival polo match in the Imperial College two years ago, led him to a new situation.
Talking about the mechanical polo ball that Chang Suining originally used to send a message to him, Jin Chengyuan said, "But there is one thing I am curious about..."
Chang Suining: "Want to ask me how I know Jin Chengyuan is Xi Zhiyuan?"
Jin Chengyuan nodded.
Chang Suining said honestly: "It was Cui Jing who told me."
"Xuan Ce Mansion, General Cui?" Jin Chengyuan was quite surprised.
"Yes." Chang Suining nodded and said, "He had secretly found out your identity a long time ago and had been on guard. But later, he was probably sure that you had no intention of harming anyone and knew that you were not easy to deal with, so he did not rashly expose the matter and did not report it to the emperor."
Otherwise, if this matter were to be heard by the emperor, although it would not lead to personal disaster, there would still be some trouble.
In other words, after finding out Jin Chengyuan's secret, Cui Jing chose to keep it secret for him.
Cui Jing aims to control the truth, but he will also decide whether to speak it out based on different facts.
Jin Chengyuan was stunned for a long time before he said, "I am not familiar with General Cui..."
From this small incident, we can see that the Grand Commander Cui, who in his impression was cold, taciturn and extremely difficult to approach, actually possessed a silent background of generosity and kindness. He was willing to use a plain and subtle perspective to understand the difficulties faced by strangers in their struggle for survival.
"No wonder Cui Liulang always said that he had the best elder brother in the world." Jin Chengyuan smiled and said, "But only his father didn't know."
Chang Suining also smiled, but his mind was a little far away. After the incident with the Zheng family, the Cui family has been walking on thin ice, deeply caught in the vortex of fighting with the imperial power...
It was only because the wars at that time were too frequent and difficult, the order of the court was already shaky, and the previous purges of the Pei, Zheng, Yuan and other aristocratic families had damaged their foundation. The emperor was unable to spare the energy to continue to strike at the deeply rooted Cui family.
In this time of storm, the Cui family and the emperor seemed to have a temporary balance and coexistence, but this was only a temporary stalemate caused by the situation.
This stalemate will eventually be broken.
When she was in Youzhou, she also talked about this with Cui Jing. Cui Jing had his own ideas about this and tried to secretly persuade his grandfather Cui Ju...
Chang Suining's thoughts were briefly distracted until she heard Jin Chengyuan ask, "Speaking of Cui Liulang, I wonder how he is doing now?"
"I was copying books all day long in the old house in Qinghe." Chang Suining said without thinking, almost saying "copy" instead of "steal".
"Copying books?" Jin Chengyuan found it strange and couldn't help laughing: "Cui Liulang is making progress now."
He then asked about Qiao Yubai and Hu Huan and others.
Chang Suining told him roughly what he knew, and finally said, "But I haven't been back to Beijing for a long time, so I don't know what happened more recently."
Jin Chengyuan nodded slightly and said, "After all the current affairs are settled, I want to write to Cui Liulang and Yubai to explain the whole story."
He looked at Chang Suining and said frankly, "I went to Dasheng for my own benefit, but the friendship between me and Yu Bai and the others was never false."
Chang Suining nodded, but his mind paused slightly.
After a moment, she raised her eyes and looked at the new green buds on a dead tree.
If interests are real, aren’t feelings fake too?
Because it's not fake, so we can't see the clues, right?
…
Chang Suining stayed in Dongluo for only three days before he set off with his army.
Jin Chengyuan brought the Dongluo officials and personally saw him off at the ferry.
Watching Chang Suining board the boat and the boat gradually sailing away, Jin Chengyuan lowered his eyes and looked at the mechanical polo in his hand.
During these few days, he tried to speak many times, but each time he realized that even if he spoke, nothing would come of it.
She is a bird in the sky, a soaring Kun, and there is no way she can be confined to his little world.
Jin Chengyuan turned around and faced his own country - but this small world was his responsibility.
As the king of this land, he will use what he has learned to realize the ambitions of Dong Luo.
As for everything that belonged to Dasheng, perhaps he only needed to look at it in awe from afar.
The sea breeze blows and the coldness disappears.
Pulling up the heavy anchor, hoisting the huge sail, and taking advantage of the spring breeze, Chang Suining led 30,000 soldiers and embarked on a true triumphant return journey.
It was the first day of March when the warships entered the Jiangdu coastline.
The news that Chang Suining led his troops to dock here today was not announced in advance, but the nearby fishermen had already guessed it from the martial law at the ferry and were waiting here in advance.
As soon as Chang Suiningfu got off the boat, he saw crowds of people and fishermen, and overwhelming cheers.
The ferry could not accommodate so many people, and most of the civilians were kept outside by the soldiers, so that order was barely maintained.
Chu Xing came to greet them personally, and walked forward quickly with his men to salute, with a smile on his face, and said in a powerful voice: "Greetings, young lady!"
Chang Suining raised his hand and helped him up with a smile: "Uncle Chu, how are you?"
The next moment, a tall figure came like a gust of wind.
Before Chang Suining could react, two big hands grabbed her shoulders and shook her with joy: "...Xiao Suining, you are finally back!"
It’s Adian.
After knowing that Chang Suining was His Highness, he and His Highness put the names "Ali" and "Little Ali" deep in their hearts and preserved them properly as a trace that belonged to Ali alone.
"Okay... stop shaking. Otherwise, I won't get seasick, but I will get sick from Adian's hands." Chang Suining, who was shaken like a sieve, begged for mercy from Adian.
Hearing Chang Suining's words, Ah Dian quickly straightened her up. He was still too excited to control himself, grinning and urging, "Let's go back quickly. Uncle Chang is so anxious waiting that he's almost turned from General Chang into General Long Neck!"
Chang Suining walked forward with him, and asked jokingly: "Who taught you to tease like this?"
Ah Dian opened his mouth to answer, but he was not sure what he was thinking about. He bent down mysteriously, covered his mouth with his hand, and whispered a name in Chang Suining's ear.
Chang Suining blinked in surprise.
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