Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family-Chapter 771 - : Returning to the Court with the Troops
Chapter 771: Chapter 771: Returning to the Court with the Troops
“Sisi, you’re overthinking it! Who doesn’t know about the Bloodthirsty Demon General Di now?”
Whenever Zuo Xingyu brought up this topic, Liu Sisi’s mouth couldn’t help but curl up in a smile.
“As long as they see the bright yellow banner with the black ‘Di’ character written in the style of a dragon and phoenix flying, those barbarians panic and flee in terror! He has such invincible abilities, what are you still worried about?”
He is her husband, so it’s natural for her to worry about him. However, Liu Sisi would never mention this to Zuo Xingyu.
“Then why are you…” so troubled?
“It’s like this, a few days ago, there was some gossip in the court.”
Zuo Xingyu pursed his lips: “Reliable news came from the border city that Elder Brother Di decisively defeated the ethnic group’s army, and both sides retreated thirty miles to rest. The marshals of both sides have already sat down to negotiate, and if nothing unexpected happens, Elder Brother Di will return to the court in no more than three or five months.”
“Is the news true? Big Brother Zuo, you’re not lying to me, are you?”
Liu Sisi couldn’t sit still anymore, excitedly getting up and pacing back and forth: “Ye Lei is coming back! Ye Lei is really coming back! Ye Lei is coming back…” The more she thought about it, the more excited she became, and she wished she could run to see him right now.
This excitement of Liu Sisi severely stimulated Zuo Xingyu, and his gaze suddenly darkened for a short moment, but he quickly regained his composure as if nothing had happened.
Liu Sisi suddenly remembered a question and hurriedly turned around to ask.
“Big Brother Zuo, have you asked whether Ye Lei will return to Gongzhou City first or go to the capital when he returns to the court?”
“I’m afraid that’s not something he can decide; it will probably depend on the Imperial Edict.”
Liu Sisi laughed sheepishly, indeed, she was so worried that she even forgot about that.
“This time the news of the victory came so fast. Wasn’t it just two months ago that it was said that Northern Liao had sent another 300,000 troops? How come they retreated so suddenly?” Liu Sisi instinctively spoke up.
“You and I are sitting here, how could we know the outcome of the border situation? When Elder Brother Di comes back, you can ask him in detail. At present, it’s getting late, and I should take my leave.” Zuo Xingyu said, and then he directly got up and walked out of the flower hall.
“Wait a minute, Big Brother Zuo! Have you heard any recent news about Xuan’er and YingEr?”
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Four years ago, Liu Sisi, anxious to protect the Di family’s bloodline, entrusted a few children to Prefecture Princess Luo, who had taken them to the capital.
After Di Yelei left, she ordered someone to bring the children back. Due to the interference of the main Di Family and Di Xuan’s insistence, Di Xuan and Di Ying stayed in the capital.
“Recently, there has been no letter from the capital, but a few days ago, I heard that Xuan’er will take the imperial exam this year. I don’t know if this is true or false.”
“Taking the imperial exam this year? How could it be so fast?”
Di Xuan is only thirteen years old, and he’s already taking the imperial exam?
Liu Sisi hesitated, thinking that the main Di Family was pushing too hard.
“You don’t need to worry either. Those in the court are all shrewd people, no one wakes up early without profit in it. Even if the Di Family wanted to control Elder Brother Di, they wouldn’t try to hurt Xuan’er.”
Zuo Xingyu spoke with hidden meaning and then took his leave.
Liu Sisi felt both joy and sorrow in her heart. She was delighted that Ye Lei was finally coming back, but worried about Xuan’er, the child she hadn’t seen in years, becoming more and more distant. When Ye Lei returned, how should she explain this situation to him?
With her mind occupied, Liu Sisi decided to go out for a walk.
Now, she wasn’t living in the city center of Macheng County but in the backyard of the academy. This place was originally a rocky beach, but Liu Sisi had moved here and built the current garden.
Time is the best sculptor!
It silently changed many things.
It also altered the fate of countless people.
Take the academy before our eyes, for example. It used to have only sixty or seventy students; now it has become a refugee shelter, filled with displaced elderly people due to the chaos of war.
The academy itself did not escape the baptism of fire in the beginning. The children were brutally killed by Zhao Jiong’s troops.
The horrible scene at the scene completely infuriated Liu Sisi!
She personally led four Hidden Guards and the spontaneously organized locals, using iron-blooded tactics to kill all 5,000 soldiers and horses that came to flex their muscles!
Corpses piled up like a mountain at the foot of the academy’s hill! Blood flowed into a small stream.
She even cut off the head of the leader and carefully packed it in a gift box to send it to Zhao Jiong as a congratulatory gift for his ascension to the throne under the name of Prefecture Princess Ruyu!
After opening the gift, Zhao Jiong immediately executed the person who had sent it, and his roaring could be heard far away. He also declared that he would personally lead the troops to kill this “jumping clown”.
It wasn’t until much later that Liu Sisi learned that the reason Zhao Jiong hadn’t taken action was that he had made a deal with Nan Tianzong. The content of the deal was unknown, but from then on, Zhao Jiong’s troops no longer easily set foot in Liu Sisi’s territories. Nan Tianzong, on the other hand, led the “Zhao Country” troops to strategize and fight in various wars, annexing the entire area of Chengdu Prefecture, Tongchuan Prefecture, and Xingyuan Prefecture into his territory.
This made Liu Sisi feel a multitude of emotions, as she and her siblings gradually drifted apart…
There are many temporary thatched sheds around the playground of the academy, housing many people who have fled from danger and are staying here, as well as some people who engage in small businesses. As Liu Sisi walked past, everyone greeted her one after another.
“Greetings, Prefecture Princess.”
“Greetings, Prefecture Princess Ruyu!”
“Greetings, Prefecture Princess…”
With a smile, Liu Sisi thanked each person who greeted her, and not until she walked to the boulevard in the academy’s lawn did she stop her footsteps.
As she habitually looked back, she gazed upon the dormitory building as she had many times before but didn’t see the scene from those days. Unable to help herself, she lowered her head and sighed silently.
Such scenes of familiarity and unfamiliarity could never go back to the way they used to be!
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Border city.
The sky filled with yellow sand almost engulfed everything in sight. The suffocating heat came in relentless waves, making it nearly impossible to breathe.
In the midst of such scorching heat, there was a small oasis where countless tents were set up.
Horse hooves kicked up rolling clouds of yellow sand, galloping from a distance. They quickly approached, sped past the towering checkpoint, and rushed into the inner streets, heading towards the main tent at the center.
“Report! Marshal, there’s new information from the front,” a soldier rushed into the camp and reported with a fist greeting.
The man sitting in the center of the main tent raised his head, revealing a weather-beaten, dark face. His knife-like features, broad forehead, and thick, black eyebrows slanted upwards, while the pair of lips, suitable in thickness, pressed tightly together beneath his straight nose.
“Show it to me.”
The soldier handed over the letter and quickly withdrew.
“Who sent the letter, and what’s mentioned in it?”
There were a circle of other people sitting in the tent, several of Di Yelei’s confidants, all gathered here, each of them casting their gaze at the letter in his hand.
Di Yelei quickly read the letter and immediately burst into laughter: “Good news, great news! Haha… It’s a letter from His Majesty, ordering us to set off immediately and return to the capital!”
