Chapter 1443: Timidity
In the great victory in the northeast, King Liang was seriously injured and fell into a coma. General Qian replaced King Liang to command the army to counterattack, and King Liang stayed in Yangzhou City for treatment.
The Emperor put down the report in his hand and remained silent. He looked at his father and moved his fingertips slightly. "I will send Doctor Li to treat King Liang."
The Emperor raised his eyes and met the Emperor's gaze. "Okay."
The emperor thought that Prince Liang was his father's son after all, and his father was becoming more and more soft-hearted. However, he still had doubts about Prince Liang's serious injury. If Prince Liang was not feeling well, he could just stay at the rear. Regardless of whether Prince Liang was planning to trade serious injury for safety, he would not make things difficult for Prince Liang's Mansion in the future.
As the good news of the great victory spread, the entire capital was filled with joy. The news spread quickly, and the people who were uneasy about the war seemed to have received a shot of cardiotonic medicine, and their panic slowly dissipated.
Xuemei didn't believe the news and went back to her parents' home to confirm it. "Mom, was there really a great victory in the Northeast?"
Zhu Lan smiled and nodded, "Really? With the great victory in Northeast China, Pingzhou will be fine, and Zhoujia Village will be fine."
Xuemei was holding Buddhist beads in her hand, a strong Amitabha.
Zhulan stared at him, "Did you worship Buddha?"
"Well, if I don't find a way to comfort myself, I can't bear the worry."
Her daughter told her the reason why she didn't want to return to Beijing. What could she do? She could only support her daughter. She was happy and distressed at the same time. All she could do was pray, praying that the war would not reach Pingzhou.
Zhulan, "You can rest assured this time. Your father mentioned Jiang Miao to the Emperor last time, and the Emperor said that you two will educate your child."
Xuemei was surprised, "The emperor actually praised us."
"You are kind-hearted. Your father said that the Jiang family supports Jiang Miao this time, and the emperor has also changed his mind about the Jiang family."
Xuemei hadn't expected this benefit. "My husband was secretly worried about whether the in-laws would affect Mu Fan. Now we don't have to worry about it anymore."
Zhulan, "Your mother-in-law is waiting for news at home, you should go back soon."
Xuemei smiled even more. Since the daughter-in-law didn't return to the capital, her brothers wrote to her. This time, her mother-in-law understood the situation and told her brothers that they could come to the capital only after Miu Miu came back, and they would be well taken care of if they went together.
She didn't care what her mother-in-law was thinking, at least she felt it was pleasing to hear her say it out loud.
"Mom, I'll go home first."
"good."
The eldest wife, Mrs. Li, stopped lying in bed and groaned when she heard the news. She sat up and said to her two daughters-in-law, "I want to eat pork elbows and roast chicken. Yes, give me a watermelon. I want a whole one."
Ran Wan and Liu Jia were startled. After they recovered, Ran Wan still understood her mother-in-law and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll let the girl go to the kitchen now."
Li raised her hand and looked at her thinner arms. She had always been fat, and her skin looked bad after losing weight. She wanted to gain weight back. She raised her hand and touched her belly, "I'm sorry for having troubled you these days."
I drink heat-reducing soups every day, and even water tastes bitter.
Liu Jia followed her sister-in-law out and said worriedly, "Mom's illness hasn't healed yet. Will eating so much cause her harm?"
"Our mother is worried, and the news of the great victory is the best medicine. Just wait and see, she will be fine by tomorrow morning."
Liu Jia was still a little worried, but she had to swallow her worry because she had just married into the family and didn't know as much as her elder sister-in-law.
In Zhoujia Village, Jiang Miao was under a lot of pressure. She refused to leave, and someone would come to her house every day to check with her. Her words could soothe her.
As time went by, the pressure in her heart became greater and greater. Only after she heard the news of the great victory did she sleep soundly.
When Jiang Mufan entered the yard, he saw his wife sleeping on a bench. He walked towards her lightly. Under the sunlight, the blue color under her eyes became more obvious.
Jiang Miao didn't sleep well and woke up soon. "When did you come back? Why didn't you wake me up?"
"I couldn't bear to see you sleeping so soundly."
Jiang Miao took the handkerchief handed to him by the maid and wiped his face. "I am finally relieved now that I have nothing to worry about."
Mu Fan thought of Ming Qing and said, "Today, the county master asked the Zhou clan leader to go to the county government office. The county master's wife brought you a gift, and the clan leader asked me to bring it back to you."
Jiang Miao then saw the box on the tea table, took it and opened it. "It's too expensive."
It turned out to be a set of gemstone head ornaments, which could not be purchased for less than two hundred taels.
Mu Fan, "This is the county lord's way of thanking you. If it weren't for you, the county lord wouldn't be so stable. I heard from the clan leader that Pingzhou is the most stable state."
Jiang Miao closed the box and said, "I didn't expect that the county magistrate would not let his son and my second uncle go before we set off."
Mu Fan, "It's time for the uncles to return."
Jiang Miao burst out laughing, "In order to escape to the capital as quickly as possible, my uncle and his family spent a lot of money to hire an escort agency to escort us. It cost a lot of money this time."
It's not easy to save family wealth, and this time, several uncles will be hurt to death.
As for continuing to go to the capital, well, her parents won't let anyone in. They abandoned her and ran away. Calculating the days, her letter should have arrived in the capital.
Inside the palace, the Emperor asked Zhou Shuren to play chess. Now that Prince Liang was seriously injured, the Emperor missed his youngest son even more. "According to the time, my personal soldiers should be picking up Rongchuan and his wife soon."
Zhou Shuren looked up, "Did the emperor send his personal soldiers to support us?"
The emperor nodded, "Yes, the troops in the various states have been secretly transferred by the emperor, and the remaining troops are only enough to guard the states. Of course, I am not confident about the soldiers in the states. When Rongchuan returned to the capital, I transferred some of the palace soldiers, but they were killed and there were not many left. If it weren't for the death squad sent by the emperor to support him, Rongchuan would be in great danger."
Zhou Shuren felt relieved, as the emperor's personal soldiers were all elite experts.
The Emperor sighed, "Rongchuan went to the southernmost part. It's a long way to go back to the capital. When the Emperor sent his assassins to pick him up, I should have sent my personal soldiers to pick him up. I was afraid, too. Forget it."
Zhou Shuren understood what the retired emperor didn't say. The emperor had already dispatched his death squad to escort Rong Chuan, so it would be inappropriate for the retired emperor to continue arranging his personal soldiers. It seemed as if the emperor didn't trust him. The retired emperor was afraid that the emperor had some grudge against Rong Chuan.
As the emperor's prestige grew, Rongchuan's power gradually increased, and the emperor was no longer as blatantly partial to Rongchuan as he was when he first returned to the royal family.
The retired emperor hoped that the emperor and Rongchuan, his biological brothers, could support each other, and that the emperor would trust Rongchuan, so he became timid.
Zhou Shuren was silent for a moment before he asked, "Does the Emperor know about the personal guards?"
The Emperor nodded, "I know, so the Emperor did not continue to mobilize troops from various states to escort them."
Moreover, the emperor trusted the death squad even more, so he even sent out the leader of the death squad.
Zhou Shuren, "The provincial capitals are no longer able to mobilize troops."
After the war broke out in the northeast, the emperor had concealed nothing from him. Except for the disaster-stricken ports and several southernmost state capitals, each state had secretly transferred troops. The troops in the northwest were assembled so quickly because of the emperor's secret mobilization.
Thinking of the battlefield in the northwest, Zhou Shuren's mouth curled up. The grassland tribes couldn't understand why the northwest gathered troops so quickly.
The next day, Jiang Miao's letter arrived in Beijing. After reading the letter from her young lady, Xuemei slammed the table in anger. Xuemei was either not angry or her anger was so scary.
Old Mrs. Jiang was so frightened that she trembled and didn't dare to say a word for a long time.