A dark camp was lined up outside the city of Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia. Sixty-thousand or seventy thousand elite soldiers lined up in the cold wind, waiting for the order to set off. Over the past few years, the soldiers seemed to have become accustomed to the frequent harassment of Emperor Li Liangzuo, and then such a large-scale attack as before It was the first time in several years that they were dispatched. Everyone's face showed a kind of numbness of submission, but in their hearts it was as cold and windy as the weather in front of them. They knew that their opponent this time was the Song Dynasty; they were even more Knowing that they will face not only Yanzhou Zhonge and Zhongyi's strong defense, but also the Song Dynasty's backup: a powerful army led by Yue Li and Wang Pangjianjun. Especially this supervisory army, there are several None of the Xixia people knew the name of this man who once persuaded Li Liangzuo to promote trade between the Song and Xia Dynasties, and also borrowed troops from the Liao Kingdom to make the Japanese slaves hear about it.

Many people are also guessing that Li Liangzuo's large-scale dispatch this time is to propose better terms to the Song Dynasty. They hope that maybe this time it will just be a show, and then return with a full load like every time. This is probably also the case. The only excuse they could use to comfort themselves, and Li Liangzuo no longer even dared to think about this excuse and expectation.

In the palace in Xingqing Mansion, Li Liangzuo stood in the bedroom with an expression on his face like a wooden man. The maid in the palace put the helmet and robe on Li Liangzuo's clothes rack, and then gently exited. In the main hall, Li Liangzuo tightened his cuffs and glanced at Liang Luoyao who was sitting behind the Long Bookcase. Liang Luoyao was looking at the memorial on the bookcase as usual, and Li Liangzuo felt confused. Who is the real person in this hall? Your Majesty? He turned and walked out of the palace. Liang Luoyao behind him seemed to feel something: "Your Majesty, stay here!" Her voice was very soft, with this soft voice mixed with this unquestionable command.

Li Liangzuo stood with his back to Liang Luoyao. Liang Luoyao couldn't see Li Liangzuo's frown, and a deep vertical line formed in the tightly knitted eyebrows. Such vertical lines should not appear in the first place. On Li Liangzuo's face, such a tightened brow has not existed for a day. This expression has been there for many years, making Li Liangzuo, who was just twenty years old, look helpless and vicissitudes of life. To the ancients, twenty years old was the right age. A weak year means that he has reached adulthood. However, Li Liangzuo, who has been emperor for several years but has just come of age, is now mentally and physically haggard.

Liang Luoyao sat up straight and sneered in her heart when she looked at the familiar figure in front of her. She said in as calm a tone as possible: "The Holy Spirit sent troops to the Song Dynasty this time. He originally wanted to take advantage of the transfer of imperial power to catch him off guard. The concubine didn't understand. The news that could have boosted the reputation of the Holy Emperor leaked out so quickly. Now it is reported from the front that Song Shenzong has sent troops to greet him. As for who is coming, the Holy Emperor must have heard about it. "[

Li Liangzuo didn't look back, he stood there and said coldly: "What do you mean by the queen? It's better to tell her directly!"

Liang Luoyao stood up and walked to Li Liangzuo's side, stretched out her hand to touch Li Liangzuo's jersey, and said softly: "I just want to remind the Holy One that this is not a good thing. The Holy One must take care of the dragon's body during the expedition. Moreover, the formations of the two armies Don’t say too much about what should or shouldn’t be said before.”

Li Liangzuo brushed Liang Luoyao's hand away: "Humph, thank you Queen for reminding me."

"Your Majesty, haven't you been able to let go of that matter in your heart? I would like to advise Your Majesty again, what happened in the past is in the past, and it's useless for you to bring it up now." Liang Luoyao rubbed the hand that Li Liangzuo had brushed away. said.

Li Liangzuo turned his head and looked at Liang Luoyao coldly: "Okay! Today I will ask you one last time. When I came back from training in Qiuwei, you said that the child died. And you also executed several palace maids and guards, saying It's because they neglected their duties. But you did it very cleanly and didn't leave any trace behind?!"

Liang Luoyao chuckled: "The people of the Song Dynasty were weak. After the death of Emperor Renzong, he had many children. Didn't even the newly ascended Song Shenzong have three deaths? Isn't it strange that one child died in infancy?"

Li Liangzuo grasped the hilt of the sword tightly with one hand and glared at Liang Luoyao. Liang Luoyao was not afraid of his gaze at all and met his gaze and said: "The one who wanted to bring this child in was the Holy One who ordered Leng Qing to do it. Who knew? Will such a big thing happen in Wang Pang's house? Does it matter that you escaped from this matter? If Wang Pang knew that the child also died in our Xixia, I am afraid that Xixia would have been wiped out long ago. You can still be stable in the past few years Are you sitting on the throne of the emperor? If you don't send troops to attack the Song Dynasty today, the Song Dynasty may turn around and attack Xixia tomorrow. Now Tubo has leaned towards the Song Dynasty, and even the Liao Kingdom does not care about Xixia. Are you going to attack Xixia just because of a king? Xixia surrendered to the Song Dynasty? You are willing, but I am not willing to just sit back and wait for death?!"

With a "cang" sound, Li Liangzuo's sword was half pulled out of its sheath, and cold light shone on the blade.

"What? Your Majesty, do you want to kill me? Your Majesty, don't worry. As soon as I die, news will be spread to Wang Pang. How did you send someone to take back Wang Pang's son? And I believe that the civil and military officials in Chao Zhong may not have any If you don't worry about the Song army crushing Xixia, just hand over Xixia to the Song Dynasty when the time comes!" Liang Luoyao raised her forehead, as if she didn't care about the cold light on the sword blade at all.

Li Liangzuo returned the sword to its scabbard. Liang Luoyao was right. Maybe it seemed like nothing to outsiders, but it was related to Li Liangzuo's heart knot that he couldn't untie. He knew better that today's Xixia court The person who holds the power is already the brother and sister Liang Luoyao. He killed these two people, but he could not kill the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty, let alone destroy the people. Liang Luoyao clung to him tightly, but what Li Liangzuo couldn't get over was the knot in his heart. People, all When he is confused, especially for Li Liangzuo, who has just entered his weak years, he has been hiding in the shadow of this incident. No matter whether he blames himself, feels guilty or is at a loss, no one can explain it to him. , he couldn't possibly tell anyone.

"Pa!" A heavy slap hit Liang Luoyao's face. Liang Luoyao raised her head again. Li Liangzuo pointed at the tip of Liang Luoyao's nose: "Don't think that I don't know. You can't escape the involvement of Leng Qing's disappearance. I I can take the throne back from the Wu Zang family with all the hard work, and I am not afraid to take it from your Liang brothers and sisters again. If it were not for the sake of my son Bingchang, I would not be able to tolerate you today." After that, Li Liangzuo walked out of the dormitory angrily.

Wu Su was already waiting in line at the stone steps outside the palace, "Let's go!" Li Liangzuo waved his hand, and the group followed him out of Li Liangzuo's Forbidden City. Outside the Daqing Palace in the Western Xia Imperial City, Manmei and his son, who were waiting there, had already ordered their orders. When the elite soldiers saw Li Liangzuo striding through the Daqing Hall, Man Chang led Li Liangzuo's horse, and the two teams came together. Thousands of people came out of the Xingqing Prefecture brigade meeting and set off for Yanzhou.

In the palace of the imperial city, Liang Luoyao listened to the footsteps getting farther and farther, and finally the imperial city became quiet again. She sat down on the throne weakly, holding half of her cheeks that were still slightly hot with her hands, and thought about it. What Li Liangzuo said just now. The relationship between them as husband and wife has long been gone. She betrayed the Mu Zang family back then, and although she became the queen in the following days, facing a romantic emperor who was not yet an adult, Liang Luoyao only had two thoughts. One word supports him, and that is imperial power.

"Come here! Go and invite the Prime Minister here." Liang Luoyao ordered.

Prime Minister Liang Yibu was sitting in his study with a smile at this time, watching Liang Yibu, who was three or four years old, grabbing a brush and scribbling on the paper. The ink marks had already stained his little face and hands.

"To inform the Prime Minister, the Emperor's troops have left the city." A guard came in to report.

"Got it!" Liang Yimi said, his eyes not leaving Liang Yibu's body for a moment.

The guard retreated. Liang Yibu looked up at Liang Yibu and asked in a childlike voice: "Dad, do you think what I wrote is okay? This is Yi, Yibu's Yi."

"Haha, good, my son is smart!" Liang Yimi stroked his beard and smiled.[

"I don't want to write anymore, daddy is playing with me." Liang Yibu threw the pen on the table and put it on Liang Yimi. Liang Yimi picked him up and didn't mind the child's dirty little hands and rubbed the ink on himself. .

Mrs. Liang smiled and walked up to the "father and son" pair: "Okay, let dad do his work and go back to the room with mom, okay?" She said that she wanted to come over and pick up Liang Yibu.

"No!" The child turned around and rubbed against Liang Yi.

Liang Yimi was really fond of this child. From the time the child was a few months old, he watched helplessly as the child could crawl, walk, babbling, and learn to speak. Every day, except for matters in court, Liang Yimi returned from court. The first thing he did was to look at the child. Until Liang Yibu learned to call him daddy, Liang Yimi seemed to have forgotten that this was not his biological son at all.

"Prime Minister, I think you might as well take him with you when you go to court in the future," the lady said with a smile.

"Why not? When he gets older, I can take him and let him spend more time with the prince. Maybe if our Yi Bu and the prince study with us, then the son's future will definitely not be inferior to his father's, hahaha!" Liang Yimi said proudly.

The madam also smiled: "You are inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. I guess it will be difficult to surpass you. This time the emperor is out of the city. Didn't the prime minister go to see him off?"

"He always goes out of the city, either to fight or to be happy with the capital. Without the Queen's will, who would send him off? I have sent him kung fu, so I might as well watch my little Yibu happy!" Liang Yimi said disdainfully. .

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, the Queen has sent someone to invite you into the palace!"

The lady hugged the child in Liang Yibu's arms. Liang Yimin shook his head and gently pinched the child's cheek: "Good boy, be obedient!" After saying that, he changed his clothes, turned around and walked out of the room.

Half an hour later, Liang Yimi arrived at the queen's palace. The first thing Liang Luoyao asked when she saw Liang Yimi was: "Brother, how did the matter you wanted to arrange go?"

Liang Yimi hurriedly said: "Don't worry, sister Queen, I have already made arrangements. As long as that boy Li Liangzuo reaches the frontline, even if the Song soldiers cannot catch him, I'm afraid he will go back this time!"

Liang Luoyao's eyes were slightly red: "Well, after all, we have been married for many years. I am just afraid that if he settles accounts with you and me one day, I am afraid that you and I, brother and sister, may not be luckier than the Buzang family!"

Liang Yimi thought to himself, please come less. If I hadn't secretly arranged it, I'm afraid Li Liangzuo would have had many sons outside, and you, the queen, might have been guarding him in the cold palace.
Chapter completed!