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Chapter 21: The First Peace of the World(1/2)

He had to continue to go south. After staying in Xiaojiazhuang for a long time, Xu Buling said goodbye to the Xiao family and took Xiao Qi and Xiang'er to leave Xiaojiazhuang.

The ghost lady who was originally with him didn't know how to coerce and tempt him, but she didn't follow him anyway. Xu Buling naturally didn't ask about this. After returning to the boat, he took the team to sail and rushed to Jinling, 300 miles away.

It was a smooth trip to Jinling and it would take about two or three days to arrive. Xu Buling was on the boat, except for accompanying Lu Hongluan to raise her baby, and at night, he did not forget the baby's suggestion and played a role.

Xu Buling's true nature appeared, and turned into Xu Taishi who brought the Xiliang army into Chang'an and stayed in the dragon bed and was in chaos in the palace at night.

Xiao Xianger also plays the role of Empress Dowager Xiao. She has played many roles before. She wore the queen mother's phoenix skirt and leaned against the head of the bed with her hands tied up. Her chaste appearance, "Misfortune, sad, sad, and heartbreaking" is very good.

Cui Xiaowan is a serious queen and must not be absent. But Xiaowan is white and tiger, and has basically no acting skills. She just shouted "Rareless, let go of this palace" in a phoenix skirt, and then turned around.

Chen Sining, who became the little princess of Dayue, became much more interesting. She was pulled over for no reason and was unhappy. She struggled and instead played the role of the "poor princess who was forced to submit" in a very fascinating way.

There were four people performing in the boudoir, but the boat was so big, maybe it was a little louder, so Xiao Qi ran over in the middle, and naturally participated in it, becoming a female prime minister who sacrificed herself to protect the harem.

Then Jiujiu became a doctor girl, Yuhe became a Taoist nun in the Imperial Heavenly Prison, Qingye Chuchu became a chivalrous woman who was caught in eliminating thieves, Manzhi became a female wolf guard who chased the chivalrous woman, Nightingale became a female general who was coerced by her superiors, and even Yufu became a princess' female husband, and came to be punished for the students.

The taste is...

It's hard to describe in one word!

Xu Buling was very excited at first, but finally found that the traitor leader who was in trouble in the harem suddenly became a poor scholar who was captured into the Kingdom of Women. After round after round, it was really hard to say who would harm him.

After the performance, two or three days passed, and the boat arrived outside Jinling City without realizing it.

After Yang Zunyi arrived in Jinling, Jinling City had no intention of fighting. Before the defenders could resist, they quickly opened the city gate after shelling the city wall and let the Xiliang army enter the city. The battle was not fierce, so that Jinling City did not seem to have much change, just a few pits bombarded by artillery on the city wall.

The main force of the Western Liang Army has just recovered Jinling and is currently stationed outside the city. After a little renovation, it continues to move according to the march route.

The war was about to start later, and Xu Buling would not be able to take Aunt Lu, who was pregnant, to accompany the army. According to the plan, Aunt Lu stayed at her parents' home in Jinling City to raise her baby, and several older sisters were accompanying her. After he invaded Hangzhou and completely quelled the civil strife, he would come back to accompany her for childbirth.

The boat was docked by the Qinhuai River, and the members of the Lu clan from the Jinling family came to greet him, and the maids also moved the items on the boat.

The girls who had been traveling for a long distance also entered the Lu family's high walls and deep courtyard in a little in a hurry. Because they were in other people's homes, the girls who had always been noisy were much quieter. They stayed in their own rooms and stayed in the house and stopped going out.

Xu Buling and Lu Hongluan's mother and brother sat in the living room for a while, then returned to the courtyard where Lu Hongluan lived when he was young.

The setting sun sets in the west, and in the deep courtyard, the unmarried girl from the Lu family walked around the alley. When she met, she would call Lu Hongluan "Auntie", and Xu Buling's name was changed to "Son-in-law".

Lu Hongluan held her belly with her hands, and her face was a little uneasy, and she didn't dare to respond openly, but just walked behind Xu Buling with her head down.

Xu Buling came to the courtyard and opened the small door. The exquisitely decorated embroidered building stood in it. The yard was clean and the osmanthus tree planted under the wall of the back alley felt a little bigger. The swing next to it was still the same as before.

To live here forever, Yuenu brought his maid to bring various items in and put them into the embroidery building.

Lu Hongluan came to the swing with her eyes burning. Against the setting sun in the early summer, her cheeks were a little bright red. Her eyes were slightly raised under her slender eyelashes, and her charming side face was very charming. After looking for a while, she touched her belly with her hands, looked back at Xu Buling, and said a little childishly:

"Ling'er, I can't play on the swing now?"

Xu Buling curled the corners of his mouth, walked under the swing rack, pulled Lu Hongluan over and sat on it, then held her under her ribs and said with a smile:

"It's okay, I'm here."

There was still a maid in the yard. After all, Lu Hongluan was about to be a mother. She was a little embarrassed and shirked her responsibility. Then she sat on the swing with Xu Buling, holding the swing rope in both hands, tapping the ground with her embroidered shoes, and swayed slightly.

Crack-

The swing that had not been moved for a long time made a slight sound, and the skirt was sprinkled in the air, causing the beautiful and beautiful flower woman to add a bit of girlish feeling.

Xu Buling hugged Lu Hongluan from behind and said with a smile:

"If you want to play, you have to hurry up. When you become a mother, you will compete with the doll for a swing, but you will be laughed at."

When Lu Hongluan heard this, she looked down at her stomach, a little dazed:

"I remember last time I asked me to be the concubine here, but I was not happy. I said I wanted to be the wet nurse for you. Now, the concubine has not been retrieved, so I have to feed and be a mother..."

The words are a little sour.

Xu Buling had long been used to this tone. He hugged Lu Hongluan and swayed, his eyes looked down along his shoulders, looking at his clothes that were more spectacular than before, and raised his hand to drag it:

"Didn't Aunt Lu want to be a wet nurse at that time? She said she was so big..."

Lu Hongluan remembered the nonsense he said back then, and her face turned red and hit Xu Buling with her elbow:

"You are so embarrassed to mention this? At that time, you talked nonsense and said you could just press more and press. I believe you, but you, a person who is unscrupulous, took advantage of you for half a year."

Xu Buling looked around and saw that the maid didn't pay attention, and said softly:

"Why try again now? I'm already pregnant, maybe..."

Lu Hongluan is not a silly aunt who didn't know anything back then. Since she got pregnant, she has actually asked Jiujiu secretly in order to hold her to feed her something. Unfortunately, the answer she got was not satisfactory. She turned around and glanced at Xu Buling:

"Don't scare me, Jiujiu said, the baby will not be born two or three days after it is born. You just want to bully your aunt... Let's talk about it later, let you eat enough."

Xu Buling's heart swayed and nodded and praised:

"It's better for aunt."

"Ling'er, don't talk about your aunt. It's been five or six months. Maybe you can hear us chatting, so it's not good for your child to hear it."

"Okay, listen to Aunt Lu."

“…”

Lu Hongluan had no choice but to lean in Xu Buling's arms, swayed slightly on the swing, thought for a while, and then asked softly:

"Ling'er, what's the name of the kid? I've been thinking about this recently. Xiang'er just needs to say that her nickname is good, and she is called 'Xu Sanduo', which means that she has a lot of family business, knowledge, and connections..."

??

Xu Sanduo...

Xu Buling frowned, feeling that the name sounded a little familiar, and seemed to have heard it somewhere. He thought about it and shook his head and said:

"No, no, this is too rustic. If a girl is a girl, will she still marry her in the future?"

Lu Hongluan felt that was the same. She leaned against Xu Buling's shoulder and raised her eyes:

"What's that? You are a father, so you have to make a decision. I actually think Xu Xian sounds pretty good."

"Xu Xian is a hero of grass python, and it's not very good. How about 'Xu Siluan'?"

Lu Hongluan felt numb and frowned, and gave Xu Buling a glance:

"Don't get close to you, why don't you call 'Aunt Xu Si'?"

"Well... Siyi seems to be good, happy and has a good meaning."

Lu Hongluan blinked her eyes and thought it was quite interesting, but after thinking about it, she said:

"Isn't it Si Ning a lifetime?"

Xu Buling shook his head and said earnestly:

"Aunt Lu called Xiang'er an aunt, Si Ning called Xiang'er an aunt, she was a generational person."

??

Lu Hongluan was so angry that she took Xu Buling:

"Sining is the lady of a widow. What kind of messy algorithm do you have? Are you really going to do this genealogy in Houzhai?"

Xu Buling was just kidding, he thought about it carefully and said:

"When you remove the 'sci', it's called 'Xu Yi', it's both a man and a woman, how about it?"

"Xu Yi...Aunt Xu, Aunt Lu...What do you call me in the future?"

"I call Xiaoyi...Ayi...it seems wrong..."

...

In the quiet courtyard, the swing swayed slightly beside the osmanthus tree. The beautiful woman in a dark green dress leaned in her husband's arms, muttering the name of the future doll softly.

After drowsiness during pregnancy, Lu Hongluan leaned into Xu Buling's arms, closed her eyes, and fell asleep peacefully.

Xu Buling leaned over and picked up Lu Hongluan and walked into the tidied embroidery building.

The room was the boudoir where Lu Hongluan lived in his childhood. The furnishings inside were arranged as they are now used to. The portraits of Xu Buling and Xiao Xianger were still hanging on the wall opposite the bed, and you could see them with your eyes raised.

Xu Buling placed Lu Hongluan flat on the pillow, gently took off the embroidered shoes, spread the spring quilt, and covered her body.

Looking down, Lu Hongluan lay quietly, breathing evenly, her eyelashes moved slightly, as if she was sleeping, and she was still thinking about the baby's name.

Xu Buling half-squatted beside him. After staring at him carefully for a long time, he curled his lips and smiled, leaned over and kissed Lu Hongluan on the forehead, then stood up and walked out.

Just after walking a few steps, another soft voice came from the bed behind him:

"Ling'er, come back early. I really want to see you as a father."

Xu Buling paused, looked back and saw that Lu Hongluan had woken up at some point, turning her head to look at him, her eyes filled with tenderness and attachment.

"Don't worry, Aunt Lu, I'll be back soon."

Xu Buling smiled brightly, just like when he first met Lu Hongluan in Chang'an City...

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After settling down his family in Jinling, Xu Buling returned to the Xiliang military camp and personally took charge to inspire morale. After the Xiliang army and the government soldiers were repaired, he set out again and launched a general attack on Dongyue, who was already struggling dyingly.

Jinling is 600 miles away from Hangzhou, along the way, Changzhou, Liangxi, Suzhou and Jiaxing. This is already the inner abdomen of Jiangnan and the last territory currently under the Song family of Dayue.

With the defeat of the Liaoxi Army, the rebel army led by Dayinglou collapsed, and all the aristocratic families turned against each other. Emperor Dongyue Song Shaoying was left with only more than 100,000 personal troops, including less than 30,000 elite troops, who had no money, no food, and had reached a desperate situation.

Normally, when you reach this point, you can surrender long ago when facing the Xiliang army, which has the best time, place and people.

But this battle is not a quelling rebellion or a small fight between two forces, but a sign of change of ownership in this world, a country that changes its name and surname.

The Song family rose in front of Jiazi, holding millions of powerful troops to sweep the eight deserts, bringing a peaceful and prosperous era to the war-torn world. This contribution to peace and peace in the world cannot be erased.

However, the Song clan has only experienced three generations of emperors, and has not even come out of the rest of the chaos of fighting before Jiazi. The Song clan members have only enjoyed the treatment of royal relatives for 60 years, and the whole world has to give up. How can the Song clan let go?

If Song Shaoying surrenders, it is impossible for the Song family to be restored with the puppet emperor Song Ling in Chang'an City. This acre of three-point land in Jiangnan is the last territory of the Song family and the last chance for the Song family to turn the tables.
To be continued...
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