The herbal medicine of peasant doctors and women fills the garden

Chapter 351
Xiao Zhou nodded quietly, and said, "There is another one, and that is me."

Yao Shanbao smiled: "How could you?"

Xiao Zhou said: "Of course you believe me, but it doesn't mean that the civil and military officials in the court believe me, now the four kings in the court are fighting, excluding Wei Wang and Qi Wang, only me and Zhao Wang. Narrowing his eyes slightly, he stood up slowly and said, "Shanbao, I have an idea, would you like to go with me to the north to guard the frontier?"

Yao Shanbao seemed to understand what he meant, and tried to analyze in detail: "If you lead troops to defend the north and resist the Northern Zhou Dynasty, this will show your determination not to be emperor, and secondly, you can also stand in the north It is not a good way to monitor the family of the noble concubine Duan, if you find any rash actions by her family, you can fight against them."

Xiao Zhou nodded: "That's right." He added, "It's just that the environment in the north is no better than the capital, I'm afraid it's..."

"What kind of hard life have I never had?" She giggled and said, "As long as I can follow you, as long as I can heal diseases, I will be the same wherever I am."

Xiao Zhou pursed his thin lips tightly, suddenly lowered his eyes and smiled, then stretched out his hands to rub Yao Shanbao's hair.

Suddenly there was a burst of applause from inside, Yao Shanbao was startled, but Xiao Zhou calmly embraced Yao Shanbao into his arms.

The man who came out of it, in his thirties, was somewhat similar to Xiao Zhou, except that he exuded a kind of forbearance.

He has a fair face, delicate features, thick eyebrows and starry eyes. When he looks at people and smiles, his eyes are like a pool of clear springs.

Looking at this stranger, Yao Shanbao suddenly thought of the eldest son of the previous crown prince that Xiao Zhou had told her about, and couldn't help turning his head to look at Xiao Zhou, and asked him with his mouth, Xiao Zhou nodded to her.

The man said: "Brother Zhou, I remember that when I first left, you were still a little kid, but I didn't expect you to be so big now."

Xiao Zhou also sighed: "Yes, 15 years have passed, and we have all grown up."

The man said: "No, Ah Zhou, you have grown up, but brother is already old..." When he said this, there was a trace of sadness and nostalgia in his eyes, and there was a sparkle in his eyes.

Xiao Zhou didn't have time to talk to him about the past, he just said: "Brother Huang, you should know about the affairs in the palace, my younger brother came to you today because I was entrusted by my father." He took out a piece of bright yellow cloth and slowly unfolded it. Seeing that he had knelt down, he said, "This is an imperial decree from my father before he died. It is an imperial decree to make you the crown prince. My father said that in the past ten years , He has never lived in peace for a moment, and in his later years, he is still poisoned by others. He knows that his time is short, so he wrote this imperial decree and ordered me to hand it over to you."

The eldest son of the former crown prince was called Xiao Tong, and his pupils shrank when he heard Xiao Zhou's words. This time, he also remembered the scene when his second uncle often carried him on his shoulders to play when he was young.

In fact, he never blamed the second uncle, because he knew that if the second uncle hadn't taken the lead in launching a mutiny at the Meridian Gate, his father and king would launch a mutiny and kill the second uncle's family.So, it's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's probably the case when born in the royal family.

But now among the kings, only the eldest son of the second uncle in front of him has no desire for power. The others all want to be emperors, or even if they don't want to be emperors, they are forced to be emperors.

Seeing that Xiao Tong kept his head down and did not speak, Xiao Zhou felt a little nervous because he was afraid that the imperial brother would not accept the order.

If Xiao Tong refuses to be emperor at this time, then the whole Daliang will be in chaos, or it will be controlled by his relatives.

"Brother?" Xiao Zhou reminded softly.

Xiao Tong stretched out his hands, put them horizontally in front of his eyes and said: "I accept the order, thank you Lord Long En."

In the next few days, there will naturally be a battle to be fought in the palace, but this has nothing to do with Yao Shanbao.Yao Shanbao stays in the palace every day to read books and refine medicine, it seems that as long as she has books to read and research on medicinal materials, she can forget everything.

She didn't know the situation outside until one day Xiao Zhou came back and told her that Xiao Tong had become emperor.

Undoubtedly, it is most beneficial for Xiao Zhou to be the enemy of Xiao Tong. Xiao Zhou has no desire to be an emperor and has many years of experience in the battlefield.

For Xiao Tong to be emperor, he must have a talent like Xiao Zhou who has both military power and no imperial desire.

The king of Qi did not proclaim himself emperor, and Concubine Duan Gui was punished. The family of Concubine Duan Gui, who guarded the north, joined forces with the Northern Zhou Dynasty to invade the borderlands of Nanliang.The first imperial edict issued by Xiao Tong as the empress was to make Xiao Zhou, King of Chu, the Grand Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses, and order him to lead the troops to fight in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

There is an old saying: "Soldiers do not attack and mourn."And Bei Zhou actually provoked a war against Nanliang at this time, it must be because someone provoked it.

But no matter what, now Beijing and China have finally stabilized. As the saying goes, to fight against the outside world, you must first settle the inside. Xiao Tong has already ascended the throne, so the next thing to do is to fight against the outside world.

Xiao Zhou's mood also improved a lot. He looked sideways at his beloved wife with a very serious expression.

Yao Shanbao was originally sitting under the lamp reading a book, but when she saw him out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly smiled, put the book on the table, and a hungry tiger pounced on Xiao Zhou.

Xiao Zhou was caught off guard by the beating, he quickly caught his beloved wife with both hands, hugged her horizontally after kissing her, and walked towards the bed while smiling.

The flowers in the yard bloomed very vigorously, and the whole Chu Palace was full of fragrance. Xiao Zhou said to his wife that the family is very big, but there are few people. They plan to increase the number of people in the family by one child a year.

Qizhou, Anping County, Lianshui Village.

It is the busy season of autumn farming. In Lianshui Village, the rice fields are yellow and orange. When the hot wind blows, the ears of rice fall to one side.

This is a good season for autumn harvest. It is October, and every family walks to their rice fields with sickles.Although it is already summer, the autumn tigers are not gone yet, and the weather is still very hot.

Lianshui Village is next to a family at the entrance of the village. This family lives in a dilapidated thatched cottage with a mud fence outside.There are a few chickens and two piglets in the fence, and a little girl with two braids is squatting aside, feeding the chickens with vegetable leaves in her hand.

The little girl is Yao Shanbao, seven or eight years old, wearing a worn-out red shirt with patches all over it.But the little girl was very beautiful, with a heart-shaped face, a pointed chin, big round and watery eyes, and a head of black and healthy black hair.She was pinching a green vegetable leaf with her slender hands, tilting her head and feeding it to the chicken's mouth. Seeing that the chicken was eating happily, she also laughed.

When she smiled, her brows and eyes were curved, very cute and charming.

"Shanbao, see what I brought back for you?" While the little girl was feeding the chickens, a boy in a blue silk shirt walked outside. He was twelve or thirteen years old, with a handsome face, and he looked like Gentle and polite, he dragged a paper bag in his hand, and was smiling at the little girl, "Shanbao, I brought you the most delicious plum cake in the county, do you want to eat it?"

(End of this chapter)