"Why would a woman like you go to the battlefield?" an old and pedantic minister among the ministers couldn't help but say.
"What do you mean by 'you are a woman'? Just because I personally conferred the title of princess on you, do you still think you can just scold me?" Li Yu frowned slightly and spoke in a strong and defensive manner.
A certain pedantic person quickly apologized, "It was my fault for speaking out of turn, but I was also concerned about the northwest and your majesty's kingdom! Although the princess is a martial artist, war is no joke!"
Song Wan leaned over to Gu Yanji's ear and asked, "Did he call me by the wrong name? My name is Song Wan, not Junzhu."
She was thinking, could it be that the other person has Alzheimer's disease?
Gu Yan quickly turned around and explained in her ear, "Before you came to the palace, the emperor had already appointed you a princess, granted you the land of Shengzhou, and a fief of 800 households."
"Princess?" Song Wan hadn't expected this title, but she soon became curious, "Will I get any money for being a princess?"
Gu Yan smiled anxiously, "Not only is there silver, but also food."
Song Wan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she suddenly felt that it wasn't so annoying when that person called her Princess.
But the old man was wrong about one thing. Song Wan grabbed the whip at her waist and walked towards him, pressing him with a fierce look. "You think I'm no match for you? Then fight me! Whoever's stronger gets to rule!"
The old man was frightened by Song Wan and stepped back, pointing with a trembling finger, "As a princess, how can you casually use force in the hall!"
Song Wan was too lazy to waste time talking to him. "Old man, are you going to fight or not?"
She swung the whip directly at the old man's feet, and the ground was cracked.
Old pedant: "......"
Can't you just talk to him nicely? It's somewhat unsportsmanlike to fight with a scholar.
"Sister Awan, you don't need to compete with Lord Chen. He can't even beat the general." Li Yu rescued Chen Yufu in time.
"Who is the general?" Song Wan asked with his head tilted.
"Ahem, it's me, the general." Gu Yan hurriedly reminded him in a low voice. He suddenly realized that he needed to show himself more in front of his wife in the future.
"Then there's really no need for a competition." Song Wan glanced at the civil officials and military commanders and said, "You can't even beat Gu Yanji, and you still have the nerve to compete with me?"
The generals said, don't look at them, they haven't said a word since they entered the hall.
At this moment, they felt extremely resentful towards Chen Yufu, wondering why he had to argue with the princess for no reason.
"Gu Yan was anxious. Princess Changle said that you can't beat her. Is this true?" Wei Xuezhi walked out and asked.
Gu Yanji admitted frankly, "The princess's martial arts skills are indeed better than mine."
He looked at Song Wan with a touch of tenderness in his eyes. "Moreover, the group of 5,000 people who were able to enter the capital quietly and ultimately defeat the nearly 100,000 imperial guards and defense camp soldiers in the capital, now everyone who sees the princess calls him "Grandmaster."
"If it weren't for Princess Changle during our exile, we wouldn't have been able to protect the Emperor even if we sacrificed our own lives." Gu Yanji would have different feelings every time he recalled what happened back then. "Thousands of death warriors and secret guards, Lord Chen, can you really defeat a thousand of them alone?"
Perhaps in the eyes of others, admitting that you are not as good as your future daughter-in-law is a very embarrassing thing.
But for Gu Yanji, as long as it's her, it's fine.
Master.
When Song Wan heard this word, she inexplicably tried to be more calm.
"In that case, it's not a bad idea for Princess Changle to lead the troops." Wei Xuezhi remembered that Song Wan once followed his grandfather. The previous Marquis of Weiyuan stayed in the northwest for five years. Compared with Gu Yangji, perhaps Song Wan is indeed more suitable.
"Lead troops?" Song Wan didn't think too much about it. She was just curious about the red poison powder in the hands of the Qiang people. The most important thing was that she always felt that those soldiers were too weak. If she led the troops, she would probably leave the main force far behind. However, this did not mean that she was willing to be looked down upon.
"So the court is empty-handed? You actually let me, a weak woman, lead the troops?" Song Wan counterattacked lightly.
Wei Xuezhi choked up, then said, "Princess Changle, it's not that I forbid you to go."
Song Wan blinked, "Oh, I didn't say it was you."
Chen Yufu received several more ambiguous looks:...
I used to think that Song Qinsheng, the grandson-in-law of the Song family, was very free and didn't like being restricted, but I never thought that his sister was even worse.
Wei Xuezhi suddenly felt fortunate that it was Song Qin and not Song Wan who came to the Wei Mansion to ask for Xin'er's hand in marriage. No, it was impossible for a woman like him to marry Xin'er. He was so angry that he was confused.
"Then Sister Awan, do you still want to go?" Li Yu asked.
"Go, but I won't bring any soldiers with me." Song Wan said leisurely. Song Qi and the others were enough. She hated trouble.
After she finished speaking, she paused for a few moments, then walked over and patted Gu Yanji's shoulder, "He will take it."
In Song Wan's eyes, Gu Yan was quite good at cleaning up troubles.
To be honest, when Li Yu heard that the other party was unwilling to lead the troops, he actually felt a little distrustful of his second brother.
Maybe it was because in the past two years, it was always Sister Awan who walked in front with the whip, while his second brother was always helping to pick up the silver from the back. Over time, he almost forgot that his second brother was actually very powerful, but Sister Awan was just too strong.
"Then I will issue an edict to appoint Gu Yanji as the Grand General of National Defense, commanding the Northwest Army to resist the Qiang!"
Gu Yanji's expression was solemn. He accepted the order solemnly and knelt down. "Your Majesty, I obey your command!"
"Wait!" Song Wan wanted to say something more, "Ayu, please help me change my title."
Li Yu was speechless, "Sister Wan, isn't Changle okay?"
This is something he has been thinking about for a long time.
Song Wan scratched his head. "It was all good, but Ayu, have you forgotten that I hung that guy named Wu Liao on the Changle Gate for three whole days?"
If she were to continue using this nickname, there would always be the illusion that she had a piece of garbage on her head.
Li Yu: “…”
I was careless.
"So, let's change it?" Song Wan thought carefully and said, "How about calling her Princess Xiaosha?
"It's not unacceptable to be rich and powerful."
To live a free and easy life, with no shortage of money and no hunger, this is Song Wan's wish that has never changed in her two lifetimes.
Li Yu was speechless again.
The word "carefree" was already enough to make people at a loss of what to do, but who would have thought that it would be followed by the words "rich and powerful".
The hall was eerily quiet, probably because no one had expected that Song Wan would not only dare to reject the title bestowed by the emperor on the spot, but also want to take it for herself.
It would be fine if you just took it yourself, but why did you think of something so indecent?
"Otherwise, General, come and think of one?" Since he couldn't think of one anyway, Li Yu turned his gaze to Gu Yanji.
Judging from Li Yu's expression and everyone's reactions, Song Wan probably knew that his choice didn't seem to be very good, so she also turned her attention to Gu Yanji.
Gu Yan thought for a moment and raised her eyes, "Why not call me Xiaoyao, Princess Xiaoyao."
Nothing could be more appropriate than the word "free and easy" to describe her naturally free and unrestrained nature.
"Free and easy?" Song Wan repeated it several times. "It seems to be a little better than my Xiaozao and Dafudagui."
Li Yu: ...
Everyone: ...
Only Gu Yan responded to her hastily, "Awan's suggestion is also very good."
Song Wan likes to straighten her body when she feels guilty. "Of course! But I see you've been thinking about it for a long time and it's really hard, so I decided to adopt your idea."
Gu Yan saw through the problem but didn't say anything, and even helped to patch it up.
He smiled and agreed, "Well, thank you for your kindness, Princess."
After just one trip to the palace, there was a princess in the family who was about to go to the battlefield. Qi's heart, which had just settled down, was immediately tense again.
The army was going to set out in three days, and time was running out, so Qi prepared her luggage in a hurry.
"Otherwise, Awan, you shouldn't go. Mother is worried." Qi said worriedly.
"Mom, don't worry, I'll be fine." Song Wan promised confidently, "Even Gu Yanji can't beat me!"
Hearing her say this, Qi sighed helplessly, "You still say Yan is anxious, but you are already eighteen this year. It will take at least a year for this war to end. Ordinary girls at this age would have become mothers."
"I'm not in a hurry." Song Wan took a casual approach to marriage. She always thought in a modern way. "Nineteen isn't that old."
Qi thought she was just embarrassed to bring up this matter, after all, she was still a girl.
So she added, "Even if you're not in a hurry, Yan Ji is already 22 years old. Your second brother is the same age as Yan Ji. Look at how cute Chi Chi is now."
"And your eldest brother. When he was Yan Ji's age, An Nan was also born." Speaking of her eldest son who died so early, Qi's mood was inevitably a little depressed, but she did not forget to remind her daughter, "A Wan, don't mention your eldest brother in front of your eldest sister-in-law from now on, especially when Qin'er is here."
The two brothers reported back the news of their sacrifice at the same time. In the end, the second brother's wife saw her husband come back alive by chance. The eldest brother's wife watched helplessly, and she felt a little lost and sad in her heart, but she just never showed it.
As someone who had almost lost both her husband and son at the same time, no one could empathize with the eldest son's wife, Chu Ying, better than Qi.
Song Wan nodded to show that she understood. The memory of that elder brother was still very clear in her mind.
She didn't know if it was because of her memories, but when she thought of Song Yu, she would naturally feel a familiar and intimate feeling in her heart. In her memory, this elder brother was the most mature and steady. No matter how much trouble she and Song Qin got into at the border, he would always cover for them.
"Who among the Qiang people killed my elder brother?" Song Wan thought about it and said angrily, "Let me chop off that bastard's head!"
"Mother doesn't know." Qi shook her head, recalling, "At the time, we only received the letter that your eldest and second brothers had died in battle, and the armor on your eldest brother that was heavily scarred by knife wounds."
"What about my eldest brother's remains?" Song Wan was confused. She had always thought that the remains of Song Yu and Song Qin were buried in the Song family's ancestral tomb, so she had never asked her two brothers. "It can't be that there is nothing left."
Qi shook her head. "I heard from your grandfather's lieutenants that your elder brother was forced into a trap by the Qiang soldiers. By the time they realized what was happening, they could only see the Qiang soldiers stabbing your elder brother repeatedly with their swords from afar."
After listening to Qi's description, Song Wan clenched his fists, making a crackling sound.
In that battle, the Qiang tribe suddenly launched an attack and also learned some of the plans and whereabouts of the Northwest Army, which led to the death of two and injury of one of the three generations of the Song family.
This is also the reason why Qi Shi, knowing that Song Wan was very good at martial arts, still did not want her to go to the battlefield. She had already lost a son and did not want to lose a daughter as well.
Mrs. Chu was holding two newly made dresses and leading her daughter to stand outside the Wutong Courtyard.
After a long silence, she took her daughter away silently.
Halfway through the journey, Anan, who was already five years old, had bright eyes, and looked very much like her father.
She tilted her head back slightly, shook her mother's hand, and asked, "Mom, will Daddy never come back? Doesn't he want Mom and Anan anymore?"
When Mrs. Chu heard her daughter's question, tears welled up in her eyes and finally fell on the pebbles.
She squatted down and forced a smile, "No, as long as Anan eats well and grows up quickly, Daddy will definitely come back to see Anan."
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