Chapter 114 Returning to the Palace, a New Beginning
During this period, the lord of Xixia was completely convinced. He held up the white flag outside the city gate and voluntarily regarded Jin Yuan as the superior country. From now on, he would pay coins every year and pay tribute every year.
The two-year fierce battle finally brought a perfect end to a great victory. Emperor Yuan of Jin was very happy and held a big banquet in the military camp and invited the generals to celebrate together.
In the camp, there were torches and beatings and drums and music, but the Emperor Yuan of Jin was wearing a golden dragon robe, with a stern body and a steady step on the master's seat.
The emperor's majesty shocked all directions, and the generals left the seat one after another, shouting like clouds, long live our emperor, long live our lives. The sound of gongs and drums stopped, and the soldiers knelt down in unison, crawled on the ground, holding their breath to wait for the emperor's next banquet.
Emperor Yuan of Jin stood on the high mat with a bronze three-legged wine bottle in his hand. His eyes slowly flew past his eyes, and millions of generals and soldiers in military uniforms. After pondering for a moment, he said loudly:
"Today our army successfully captured Xixia, and it is inseparable from the relationship with you and the thousands of martyrs who died on the battlefield. You and your soldiers traveled thousands of miles to travel through fire and water. Tonight, I will give you the first bottle of wine here, and I will help you protect the country and protect the safety of your country. You and others will make this immortal achievement for our Jinyuan!" After saying that, I immediately drank it happily.
A loud and powerful voice swirled in the open camp, and the bonfire jumped and spread throughout every corner.
The whole audience was silent. In a moment, no general came back to his senses first, and his face was excited. He shouted loudly that the emperor was wise! The other young and resolute soldiers in the audience reacted and drank the wine in their glasses on their backs. The deafening cheers, like mountains and seas, resounded throughout the sky, and they kept resting for a long time.
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The Jin Yuan army held a celebration banquet, which delayed its trip. However, the good news of the victory of the war first spread to all cities and places in the Central Plains.
The people cheered and the streets and alleys were decorated with lights. They looked forward to the husband or son who joined the army at home to return as soon as possible. The soldiers also missed their relatives and looked forward to reunion every day, so they rushed along the way, and the journey lasted half shortened.
In fact, when she left Xixia, Su Wanrong felt a little reluctant. After all, she lived in a place for two years, and every grass and tree had feelings for each tree. Even now that she has entered the Central Plains, she will always miss her days in the cave. These memories will probably be easily forgotten for the rest of her life.
But even though I miss it, the Central Plains is the place where she was born and raised. In addition to returning to Beijing, Su Wanrong finally saw her father, Brother Che, Madam Zhou and others. She was very homesick, so in comparison, she was still more happy than sad.
On the day when the army returned to the capital, in late May, spring was warm and flowers were blooming, grass was growing and warblers were flying. Su Wanrong leaned against the carriage, slightly lifted the roller blinds with her fingertips. They had arrived at the palace. After two years, when they saw the whole piece of magnificence, they felt a little surprised in their hearts.
In the past two years, I have experienced too many things. It is like a butterfly breaking out of the cocoon. It has encountered a disaster and changed my mind. I have gradually figured out what I couldn’t understand in the past.
I still remember when I left, in order to tell Brother Che not to repeat the mistakes in my previous life in this life, the man exchanged his younger brother's future and asked her to go to Xixia with him. After some measurement, she finally reluctantly agreed, but she felt extremely unwilling in her heart.
At that time, she always thought that after the "half-year appointment" passed, she would find a way to come back from Xixia and never get into the river with this man.
Now that I thought about it, I was still a little too naive and a little too naive. I took it for granted that I had already planned everything and had no courage to face my heart.
Since you are destined to have endless bonds with this man in this life, instead of just escaping, it is better to try to face it bravely.
The past life and this life should indeed be related, but the things in the previous life cannot completely represent this life.
Nowadays, life is still long. I am only in my early 17 years old and still at the age of a beautiful flower. My destiny is in my own hands. Who can tell me how this so-called future will develop in the future?
Thinking of this, Su Wanrong looked at the magnificent green tiles and red tiles of the palace. She slowly lowered the roller blinds and leaned back to the soft pillow, a calm smile appeared on her lips.
If she spent the next few decades in this deep palace, she would have to plan and manage her for the rest of her life.
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"What kind of dress is the palace concubine going to wear today?"
The cranes were flying in the incense burner of Ganoderma lucidum, and the stringed silk carvings were swaying on the bed. Su Wanrong lifted the curtain with light pink dogwood embroidered patterns and sat up from the bed.
She turned her head and her eyes fell on the two sets of palace clothes that Yicui took out from the vermilion lacquer and gold-painted phoenix-patterned cabinet.
This is Fengyi Palace.
Two days have passed since they came back from Xixia.
As for the spring banquet set up in the palace tonight, Su Wanrong couldn't tell that the man was trying to find her favor. Not only did officials of the fourth rank or above have received the post, but even her wet nurse, Madam Zhou, was on the list.
After all, it is a serious palace banquet. It is better if officials and their families attend the dinner. How can there be any reason to invite the servants in the mansion to go there?
Sometimes the man's unruly and rude temperament is really a love and hateful person.
However, before the lights were off last night, when the man was looking through the invitation list for the palace banquet, Su Wanrong also looked at him and accidentally caught a glimpse of another surprising name, which surprised her slightly.
The second girl Su Shiwen is actually among them.
But this was not what surprised Su Wanrong. What really surprised her was Su Shiwen's identity at the palace banquet tonight. She was not Miss Su Er from the Grand Tutor's Mansion, but the second wife of the right prime minister.
Later, Su Wanrong realized that in the past two years when she was not in Beijing, the backyard of the Taishi Mansion had undergone earth-shaking changes.
Su Jinxuan, who is a five-bedroom house, has already been married to a merchant in Beijing in February this year. The merchant started from scratch five or six years ago and has achieved it now. Although he is not well-off, his family still has some foundations. His facial features are not outstanding, but fortunately he is quite kind and there are only two private houses in the house.
After all, the fifth girl has an ordinary appearance, and she has been ignorant since she was a child and is also a petty family. Although she is known as a noble girl from the Grand Tutor's Mansion, she is only from a commoner. It is actually very good to be able to find such a marriage and marry a main house.
If the fifth girl could know a little about restraining her temper after she got married, her life after marriage would not be rich, but it should not be bad either.
The second girl Su Shiwen married her as early as the end of last year and married Xiao Zhengyuan, the right prime minister of the dynasty. When this incident came to Su Wanrong's ears, she was really unexpected.
The Xiao family is a family of prime ministers. Xiao Xiang is thirty-two years old this year and can sit in this position when he is thirty years old. In addition to the powerful and dependent on the court, he himself has extraordinary talents and eloquence since childhood. All the old ministers in the court have been convinced.
Although this person is a civil servant, he is also full of heroic and calm military generals. It is said that he has sword-eyed eyebrows and starry eyes, nine feet tall, humble and upright.
Such a man who seems to be born superior is naturally a good husband in the eyes of a noble lady of the capital. But such a man is in his thirties, so how can he not get married yet?
In fact, Xiao Youqiao, in his early twenties, had a good wife's original wife. Later, he worked in Beijing. A few years ago, the wife of the Xiao family gave birth to a man and a woman. Now the youngest son of the Xiao family is five years old. The young lady of the Xiao family just passed the full moon ceremony a few days ago. It can be said that she has both children and a perfect life.
And this Su Shiwen was born the most noble direct line in the mouth of her ancestors. She was the concubine who was envied by everyone in the circle of noble women in Chang'an City and extremely noble in the palace. In this life, she married this Xiao Youxiong and committed herself to someone else's concubine.
If this news had not been learned from the eunuch and confirmed to be accurate, Su Wanrong would have thought that someone had maliciously spread rumors outside.
After all, Miss Su Er in her memory has always been more arrogant than the top. She entered the palace as a beautiful girl in her previous life, and she was rushing to the throne of the Queen. How could she be so mean to be a concubine like this in this life?
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A good show is coming.
Chapter completed!