Hudong Mountain is close to Longhua Mountain, but unlike Longhua Mountain, which is very popular, the terrain here is steep and extremely desolate. There are no other people except the family members of the Qi Army's garrison.
The Qi Jiajun military camp is at the top of the mountain. Qi Yuning goes up the mountain almost twice a year. The mountain road is difficult to travel. In winter, there are dead branches and leaves. You can still see the mountain road. If you go up the mountain in spring and summer, you have to bring a machete. If you encounter branches blocking the road, you will Branches cut off.
The weather is cold. It snowed on Hudong Mountain last night, making walking on the mountain road even more difficult.
Lingling said in Lu Ze's arms, her little face flushed: "There's so much white snow!"
Qi Yuning said: "It's really a bad day with this snow. It's freezing cold."
Seeing Qi Yuning shivering from the cold, Lu Ze stepped forward and held Qi Yuning's hand and said, "Princess's hands are so cold. Let me help Princess go up the mountain."
Qi Yuning said: "You should hold Lingling tightly with both hands! We are almost there."
Lu Ze said: "One hand is enough to hold Lingling."
The mountain road was difficult to navigate, and it took us almost an hour to reach the top of the mountain.
The terrain at the top of the mountain is gentle, and there are many wooden houses built along the mountain. In front of the wooden houses, every household raises chickens and ducks and cultivates vegetable fields. It is much more lively than down the mountain.
When Qi Yuning reached the top of the mountain, a woman wearing armor walked up to Qi Yuning, half-kneeling and said: "I pay my respects to the princess.
"Aunt Ren, get up."
Lu Ze saw the woman in armor in front of him and said, "Is this the star-chasing female general Ren Yaoren?"
Ren Yao looked at the young man, looked at the little girl who looked similar to him in his arms, and asked, "Who are you?"
Lu Ze put down Lingling and said, "I am Lu Ze, the eldest son of Duke Lu Guo and Princess Pingrou."
Ren Yao said: "It turns out to be Prince Lu. Is this his daughter?"
Qi Yuning stepped forward and said with a smile: "Aunt Ren, Lingling is also my daughter. I have long wanted to bring Lingling to see you. I am busy with business and have never had the chance to come. Lingling, please call me great-aunt."
Lingling sweetly shouted: "Great aunt."
Ren Yao said: "When did the princess get married to Prince Lu?"
Qi Yuning said: "Although we have a child, we are not married yet."
Ren Yao's eyebrows frowned more and more, and she looked up at Lu Ze, who was very unhappy.
Lu Baoshuang pulled Lu Baoxue forward and saluted: "General Ren, junior Lu Baoshuang has heard that General Ren is a hero among women. He admires General Ren very much and wants to join General Ren with his sister!"
Qi Yuning said: "Aunt Ren, your health has become worse and worse in recent years. It's time to go down the mountain to take care of yourself. The two sisters from the Lu family want to become female generals. I think it's better to let them lead the troops and give it a try." "
Ren Yao said: "But according to the princess's instructions, I have prepared a banquet and invited the princess to sit down and have a meal."
Qi Yuning climbed the mountain for an hour and was hungry. When he got to the table, Lu Ze sat next to Qi Yuning.
Ren Yao looked at Lu Ze with eyes full of displeasure and said, "Since Prince Lu and the princess have a daughter, why are they not responsible?"
Lu Ze said: "General Ren, I will be responsible to the princess. If I get married to the princess in the future, I will definitely treat General Ren to a wedding wine."
Qi Yuning also chuckled and said, "Aunt Ren, the past between Prince Lu and I is a long story, and he is not irresponsible."
Ren Yao knew that Qi Yuning had never suffered a loss since she was a child, which meant she was relieved.
Lingling ate very obediently at the dining table. Ren Yao learned that Lingling was Qi Yuning's child, and her eyes looking at Lingling became more loving.
"Princess, what is this child's name?"
Lingling held the chicken leg and said, "Lingling's name is Lu Yiling!"
"Lu Yiling...Yiling!"
Ren Yao had tears in her eyes when she heard this, "When General Liu left, Yi Ling was almost born. If it weren't for someone's plot..."
Qi Yuning asked: "Are you being plotted against? Aunt Ren, do you mean you are being plotted against?"
Ren Yao even wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand, "No, it's nothing."
Qi Yuning looked directly at Ren Yao and said: "Aunt Ren, what do you mean by being plotted against? I met Wang Tao not long ago, and he said that Uncle Huo An was not dead, but was hiding in the Shu Palace incognito. Is it related to being plotted against?"
Ren Yao was secretly annoyed that she had said the wrong thing and said repeatedly: "Princess, there are outsiders here." Qi Yuning said to Ren Yao: "Come outside with me."
Qi Yuning walked to the edge of the cliff, where he could have a panoramic view of the entire Shengjing City.
"Aunt Ren, you also know that Uncle Huo An is still alive and lurking in the Shu Palace, right?"
Ren Yao nodded and said: "Yes, this matter started talking about thirteen or fourteen years ago. At that time, General Qi led us to attack the Northern Desert, and we were sure of victory.
However, there was a problem with our military rations. There was a shortage of military rations and medicine, and every move we made was leaked to the people of the Northern Desert.
At that time, General Qi had already guessed that there was a traitor inside the military camp.
It was also such a snowy day at that time. When the troops in the Northern Desert came to the city, the cotton-padded clothes in the army to keep out the cold were torn and torn, and they were made of reed catkins, which could not keep out the cold in the Northern Desert.
Most of the Qi's army died of hunger, cold, and lack of medicine! We tried our best to defend the city. General Qi discovered that someone in the Northern Desert was colluding with the Dasheng Dynasty. He led his troops to pursue the Northern Desert bandits. He wanted to find out who the people in the Dasheng Dynasty who colluded with the Northern Desert bandits were unexpectedly... Falling into a trap in the Northern Desert, General Liu went to rescue General Qi while pregnant with Liujia, but was also killed by the blades of the Northern Desert thieves.
Even so, there were still people who said that General Qi was greedy for military glory and took the risk to attack the Northern Desert. However, General Qi just wanted to give an explanation to the dead Qi family army.
Later, the soldiers and horses of the old prince arrived. With the pain of losing his son, the old prince attacked the Northern Desert, turned the Northern Desert into the Northern City, and made the subjects of the Northern Desert surrender to me. Finally, I avenged my great revenge, and I will not let Qi After the general died, he still had to bear infamy.
But Huo An and I have never dared to forget the tragic death of General Qi and General Liu.
At that time, Huo An realized that it might be related to the Prince of Shu's Palace. He had been in the Prince of Shu's Palace these years, trying to find evidence of collusion between the Prince of Shu's Palace and Bei Mo.
Unexpectedly, he died two years ago, and his death was very strange. "
Qi Yuning asked: "Uncle Huo's death is indeed strange. Since he already suspected the King of Shu, he should not have taken Princess Shan's body out of the Prince of Shu's palace.
As long as he lets people discover that Princess Shan's body is in the Prince of Shu's palace, then the King of Shu will not be able to carry it around. Why should he take Princess Shan's body out of the Prince of Shu's palace? "
Ren Yao nodded and said: "Huo An is an upright and single-minded person. I think the real murderer of Princess Shan was not the King of Shu. Huo An took Princess Shan's body out of the Prince of Shu's palace, but he colluded with Bei Mo in the first place. The possibility of being the King of Shu is very high..."
Qi Yuning clenched her hands. She had always thought that her parents had just died at the hands of the Northern Desert thieves, but she didn't expect that it was a conspiracy, and the Da Sheng thieves were involved.
The Qi family is full of heroes, protecting the peace of Dasheng, but there are such treasonous traitors in the Dasheng Dynasty! How unjust it was for her parents to die, and how unjust it was for the sister in her mother's belly to die?
"The county master..."
"Aunt Ren, please let me be alone here for a while."
Ren Yao sighed and glanced at Qi Yuning worriedly.
They had kept the news from Qi Yuning that there was a traitor in Dasheng who killed General Qi. Firstly, they thought the princess was young, and secondly, they were afraid that the princess would be sad and carry hatred in her heart.
Qi Yuning said: "Aunt Ren, let me take a break alone."
How could she accept that her parents were killed by people from the Dasheng court?
She always thought that her parents died on the battlefield killing enemies in the Bei Desert. The Bei Desert had long ceased to exist, and her parents' revenge had long been avenged.
But my parents not only died at the hands of their enemies in the Northern Desert, but also at the hands of the Dasheng courtiers they desperately protected.
Ren Yao turned back three times and left.
Qi Yuning looked at Shengjing City in the distance. He could see the entire Shengjing City at a glance from the top of the mountain.
When she came to Hudong Mountain in the past, she liked to overlook the entire Shengjing City. She could see the harmony of the country protected by the Qi family. The people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the heroic spirit of the Qi family died unjustly.
It turns out... the heroic spirit of the Qi family was killed by someone from Dasheng.
"Princess." Lu Ze took off his black cloak and put it on Qi Yuning, "It's cold and windy here, and it's snowy. Go inside."
Lu Ze looked down at Qi Yuning's phoenix eyes with tears, and his heart couldn't help but hurt.
Lu Ze had never seen such a sad look in the eyes of the aloof Qi Yuning, "Princess Princess, what did General Ren say to you?"
Qi Yuning threw herself into Lu Ze's arms, sobbing and crying.
Lu Ze slowly put his hand on Qi Yuning's back and patted it gently to express comfort.
(End of this chapter)