phoenix knot

Liang Xuanchen was blind, but the way he looked ahead always made people feel that his eyes were still good. At this moment, he turned his face slightly, facing Su Mingyue's direction, and said slowly: "People are mine, but not I asked them to attack the garrison, and I heard that after the White Disaster in the North, they starved to death and killed countless people, so it is very difficult for me to control these people now."

Su Mingyue said: "It's about the same as what I guessed, so why don't you give them food?"

Liang Xuanchen said: "I entrusted someone to play the switch of the imperial court to trade with the Mongols and exchange grain for silver. The emperor was worried that there would be no grain to relieve the disaster in Sichuan. Long Yan was furious, so he was not sure, and ordered all the gates in the north to guard against death. Ma Yu was arrested, the road to Yanmenguan was cut off, and I couldn't get through my food. I wanted to win over Dong Yiming, your husband, but he didn't want to get in, and other thousands of households didn't dare to talk to him because of Ma Yu's affairs. This matter has something to do with it. The Mongols under my command were concerned about their relatives outside the pass, so they turned against me. I couldn’t hold them back. It should be said that they didn't know where I put the food, so they had to go and grab the food from the garrison."

Su Mingyue said: "Since you know that Dong Yiming is Ah Yuan, why don't you ask her for help?"

Liang Xuanchen smiled wryly, "Can I involve the empress?"

Su Mingyue said: "You are from the Liang family, and the Empress has long been involved in it."

Liang Xuanchen shook his head, "No, my surname is Mu, and I am full of beautiful things. I am known as Lord Shisan. What Mu Shisan does has nothing to do with the Liang family. I was kicked out of the house a few years ago."

When he said these words, his tone was flat, as if he was talking about other people's business.

The pain in Su Mingyue's stomach hit again, but fortunately Liang Xuanchen couldn't see it. She turned her face to the side and bit the pillow, and endured it desperately. Counting in her heart, she finally endured this wave again.Seeing Hong Ling, she helped her to drink some water. Liang Xuanchen also heard her shortness of breath, so he stopped talking and just accompanied her silently.

After taking a breath, Su Mingyue said again: "Where is your food now?"

Liang Xuanchen said: "It's at sea, I'm going to take the water route, and go to Liaodong and the Jurchen Ministry to connect first."

It is a capital offense to smuggle food and grass out of customs, of course Liang Xuanchen knows it.

"But..." Liang Xuanchen said again, "I just got the news that only a small part of the grain went out, and my pier was seized. I put the grain and grass that didn't go out elsewhere. The person who sealed me was the one who was in charge of the three gates of Beidi Chang Qinghe, commander of the Dragon and Tiger Guard. Last night I invited Chang Qinghe to Chunfuli to discuss this matter, but I heard that there was smoke on the Great Wall. I was worried... the army was overwhelming, the war had already started, it was too late, and Chang I'm afraid Qinghe still suspects that it was my trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain." Liang Xuanchen supported his forehead, and it was only at this time that his face showed some fatigue.

"Chang Qinghe thinks the emperor is doing the right thing, so he won't cooperate with you, right?" Su Mingyue said.

Liang Xuanchen asked without answering: "Do you know him? It seems that you know this person very well."

Su Mingyue said bitterly: "He is Ah Yuan's superior, he slapped Ah Yuan the first time we met, it's hateful!"

Liang Xuanchen couldn't help laughing, "Ah Yuan also endured it?"

Su Mingyue sarcastically said: "A man can bend and stretch, she probably regards herself as a man." After Su Mingyue finished speaking, her complexion changed again, and she began to bear the pain while supporting the bedpost. After enduring this for a while, she wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, " When my stomach hurts, I feel that it's better to be a man after all, even if I don't have to bear the pain, even if I get slapped, it's nothing."

Liang Xuanchen felt that she was quite interesting, so he smiled faintly. Seeing his expression, Su Mingyue felt that Liang Guanjing still resembled this third brother when he smiled.

Liang Xuanchen said: "Miss Su thinks that the court of the Song Dynasty paid tribute to the Northland every year, but it was an act of losing power and humiliating the country?"

Su Mingyue said: "In the Song Dynasty, culture was more important than military affairs, and the control of the northern border was weak. Although there was no such thing as a general rebelling, the northern land was in chaos. The common people below are not willing to take out money. No soldiers, no generals, and even the subjugation of the country have nothing to do with whether they pay tribute coins. Anyway, it is not difficult to take out this little money, but it is more expensive to raise millions of soldiers. The stability of the border is not a loss of power and humiliation to the country, but it is clearly a result of the imperial court's laziness and reluctance to work, fearing that it will feed tigers."

Liang Xuanchen said: "Does Ah Yuan think the same as you?"

Su Mingyue said: "Not necessarily, I think she and Chang Qinghe can be regarded as bosom friends. If Ah Yuan becomes the emperor, the first thing he thinks of is to move the capital, and then control the northern border, so that the Mongols will bow their heads and become ministers. As for the death of Bai Kao She probably doesn't care much about how many outsiders there are."

Liang Xuanchen laughed softly, "She is cruel by nature, do you still want to be her wife?"

"I just want to try my best not to let her become a tyrant." Su Mingyue was still smiling just now, when the labor pains hit her, she began to moan and cry again, "Why hasn't Zhang Liuzhi come back yet, really? It hurts so bad, hey...I can't take it anymore."

While weeping and weeping, Lian Xiangkong came back in a carriage with Zhang Liuzhi and the weaving lady who was about to give birth. The lady's husband's family refused to let her go. He also said that he was too deceitful and robbed the women of the people to report to the officials. Lianxiang picked up the pregnant woman and got into the carriage, letting them report to the officials.At this time, Yanmen is closed and the smoke is about to burn out, and the people in the government's military camp are all on standby. How can they have time to take care of the matter of robbing puerpera and fighting for stable women.

The weaving lady was placed on the kang where Hongling was sleeping next door. At this time, she didn't even have the strength to howl, and she only moaned softly, like a seriously injured sheep.

This lasted until noon, when Hongling Cailian helped Su Mingyue to drink some soup while she was in pain, and Liang Xuanchen was also served by Shuikong for lunch.The labor pains became stronger and stronger, and they became closer and closer. Su Mingyue could no longer spare time to talk to Liang Xuanchen. Zhang Liu pointed out, "It's almost time, we're going to get through it."

After saying this, she ran to the next room to get busy.

Su Mingyue heard Zhang Liuzhi say to the weaving lady: "If you can't reproduce, the child will suffocate to death. I have to dig it out with my hands. It will hurt a lot. Just bear with it."

Then there was a horrified scream from the next door, the sound was quiet, but it was extremely penetrating, as if Zhang Liuzhi had ripped open his stomach, and pulled out all the internal organs of the weaving lady, and at this time, the person was still awake, suffering from pain. The extreme pain can always make people faint, but the pain of giving birth is so extreme that it still makes people sober.

Su Mingyue's face turned pale with fright, Hong Ling hugged her and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, Miss, she is having a difficult labor, we won't suffer like this."

"Come out, come out." Zhang Jiujin said from the side, but he didn't hear the cry of the child, and the exhausted weaver lady didn't have the energy to ask if the child was okay, whether it was a boy or a girl.

After working for a while, I heard the child's delicate cry, as if it was a kitten meowing.Zhang Liuzhi said to his granddaughter: "Take the baby outside for some air, don't cover it, come and take a look at it, the mother has passed out."

Feng Xu took the initiative to ask Ying, "I'll look after her, what else does Granny Zhang want?"

"If she's bleeding a lot down here, you can call me. The blood on my whole body needs to be washed clean, and I can't give it to the wife of Liu Ye's family when I'm sick." After Zhang Liuzhi finished speaking, he went to the yard outside, and picked lotus to give her a bath. Wash your hands with water, and then went into the house and changed into clean clothes.Na Shuikong saw the blood-red water in the wooden basin and poured it in the yard. The air was filled with a strong smell of blood. He couldn't hold it back, and suddenly vomited into the ground with a "wow".

Liang Xuanchen supported his forehead, "You go outside for a stroll before you come back, so as not to embarrass yourself."

That Shuikong also felt ashamed, so he thanked Liang Xuanchen, saying that he went to the street outside to inquire about it, but there was a fight at Yanmen Pass.

Suddenly Feng Xu yelled in the room, "Grandma Zhang, it's not good, she's bleeding a lot."

Then Zhang Liuzhi entered the room again, and with the help of Zhang Jiujin, the two force-fed the brewed decoction into the mouth of the unconscious parturient, and also inserted a hollow jade stick into the parturient's vagina, stuffing the medicine inside to stop the bleeding.He also called Feng Xu to fetch cold water from the well in the front yard, wrapped it in a sheepskin bag and pressed it on the pregnant woman's stomach.

Feng Xu said: "This well water is so cold, if you put it on the pregnant woman's stomach, won't there be any root cause of the disease?"

Zhang Liuzhi was not in the mood to explain to her, so Zhang Jiujin said: "Cold water can help the blood coagulate. It is better to have a little ailment than to die from a blood collapse. If you take good care of it, there will be no root cause of the disease."

Such external application and internal use of decoction, the blood collapse gradually stopped, and the bluish-purple face of the little baby on the kang gradually became rosy, with vitality.

Lianxiang said: "Grandma Zhang is truly rejuvenated."

When it was dark, Su Mingyue hadn't given birth to a child yet, and was only dying of pain on the kang.Now Zhang Jiujin was also a little anxious, and just said, "No way, no way".

Liang Xuanchen has been waiting outside, at this time Shui Kong finally finished his stroll, he ran back to report: the defenders of Yanmen Pass listened to Chang Qinghe's orders, and went east to intercept the enemy.It turned out that it was not the Mongols who attacked Yanmen Pass, but the Jurchen tribe was in chaos. Doro Khan was killed by his son Chuole.For some reason, the gate of Shanhaiguan was opened by a Han guard from the inside. After this guard led the Jurchen troops into the pass, fifty thousand soldiers slaughtered ten cities with their iron hoofs, and came straight to Peiping.These news are about to be sent to the capital in an urgent manner of eight hundred miles, the emperor may not know yet, Changqinghe's troops are mainly stationed in Shanhaiguan, and now there are only more than 2 mobs in the area around Yanmenguan. If Fang's men and horses meet tonight, a big battle will break out immediately.

"Slaughter ten cities in a row? You haven't heard of it? It's not Ke, it's Tu?" Liang Xuanchen asked.

Shuikong nodded, "That's what it says outside, men, women, old and young, don't keep one, no, keep a few fast-legged ones, tell them to run forward, inform the defenders and people in the next town, saying that they slaughtered the city and killed them." Come."

When he said these words, he deliberately avoided Su Mingyue who was in the room to prevent her from hearing.The more this happened, the more Su Mingyue became suspicious, and she called Liang Xuanchen repeatedly while suffering from pain.

"Third brother, is third brother outside? Is there any news from the front line?" His voice was trembling and weeping.

Liang Xuanchen said through the curtain: "Miss Su, Chang Qinghe is a fierce general, and A Yuan is even more good at strategy. Together, they will be invincible and invincible. Don't worry about it."

Zhang Liuzhi ordered Hongling Cailian to help Su Mingyue up so that she could stand up on the bedposts while leaning on the kang to give birth. Su Mingyue bent down in pain and could hardly stand up.Zhang Liuzhi yelled: "Put harder, harder! Jiujin, help me hold her down, come on, push her stomach!"

Su Mingyue let out a shrill scream from her throat.

Shuikong said: "I'll go out to inquire again." He ran into the courtyard, at this moment a dazzling light flashed in the east, and Shuikong couldn't help shouting, "Look!"

Liang Xuanchen was originally standing at the door, but now he raised his head subconsciously. He is blind, but not completely blind. He can roughly distinguish day from night. Dawn shines through the dark night.

"What did you see?" Liang Xuanchen asked hurriedly.

"It's strange to say that a very bright and bright star crossed the sky. The star didn't fall, but rushed to the north."

Liang Xuanchen said with a smile: "Sure enough, Ziwei's star is moving. It will be good to record this in the history books in the future. Unfortunately, I can't see it in person."

"Young Master, haven't you seen it yourself?" Shui Kong's attention was still on the sky, he took a few steps back, his eyes flicked across the roof to look at the northern sky.

Liang Xuanchen said: "In other words, it can be regarded as seeing it in person. Even a blind man like me was dazzled."

At this time, the loud cry of the baby came from the house.