After Wang Xiao finished handling the business, he suddenly turned his head, and his eyes showed some expressions that were not consistent with his status. He was a little childish, a little bored, and seemed to be looking forward to something.

He suddenly wanted to tell Zuo Mingjing the news in person, although it was already very late at this time.

He changed his clothes and went out from the front door of the Jing'an Palace. On the way, whenever the guards and maids saw him, they wanted to say hello, and Wang Xiao would make a "shhh" move.

After a walk around, I walked around the back door of the government office, and at the entrance of the alley between the governor's office and a row of houses behind me, I met a team of guards on night.

Because there are all female officials here, Qin Xiaozhu specially arranged a female hero as a guard. It is said that they were originally female bodyguards, female butchers, and they all looked even stronger than Wang Xiao's personal guards.

Wang Xiao had never been here, and was not familiar with these guards, and he didn't want to come up with a signal. He had to go back to the Jing'an Palace, go out through the back door, and pass through the Governor's Court.

Zuo Mingjing's courtyard gate was closed, but some candlelight shone out in the courtyard.

Wang Xiao stood in the alley and suddenly felt a little stupid.

He looked up at the courtyard wall, thinking that he still liked climbing walls when he was reborn.

If I climbed Zuo Mingjing's wall today and was beaten by the guards, it would have damaged my face as the king of one-word shoulder to shoulder... Then I'd better knock on the door honestly.

He reached out and held the door knocker. Before he could knock, the door was opened with a "creak" sound. Zuo Mingjing and Qian Duoduo were standing inside the door.

The two seemed to be saying something. Zuo Mingjing was holding a lantern in her hand and wanted to send Qian Duoduo out. Suddenly, they were shocked when they saw Wang Xiao.

Then, Qian Duoduo's little hand was stuffed into Wang Xiao's hand.

"Why is Xiaolang here?"

"Well, come and pick you up."

Qian Duoduo held his hand and after hearing this, his cheeks turned slightly red.

Wang Xiao didn't know why he responded to this sentence for no reason. The moment before, he was still in love with "Who is standing in the middle of the night for the wind and dew", and the next moment he felt that he was very flirtatious.

He turned his head to look at Zuo Mingjing, and then said, "By the way, you will have nothing to do with the He family in the future."

He told the matter.

Zuo Mingjing didn't look very surprised, but just looked at Wang Xiao with her beautiful eyes. After a while, it was like a fog covered with a thin fog.

"If King Jin promised me not to implicate the He family, I had no responsibilities with the He family and had no relationship anymore." She responded in a low voice.

"It's better if you can be happier and free." Wang Xiao said, "By the way, I met the soldiers who offered thieves in Guanzhong this time. I asked about it. Your father is now in Chengdu. I will send someone to pick him up..."

He had said "right" twice in a row, and it seemed a little tight. Well, there were many things I wanted to say, but the only thing I had to say was that was serious.

Zuo Mingjing always responded gently, quiet but not dull.

She is not as lively and interesting as Qin Xiaozhu, so Wang Xiao fell in love with Qin Xiaozhu earlier in the past.

But she was so beautiful that she felt that the longer she had been together, the more she felt liked Wang Xiao. Although she was just talking indifferently, there was still a wave in her eyes...

That night, when Wang Xiao and Qian Duoduo left, Zuo Mingjing hugged the door and leaned on her back, but her expression gradually became distressed.

The heart is like a double wire mesh, with thousands of knots in it...

For Wang Xiao, what is more important now is naturally to accompany Chunning to give birth.

Chunning's condition always made him feel uncomfortable. Although Wang Xiao had made every effort to stabilize the situation, the wars and heavy state affairs in the past year still made Chunning too worried.

She is not like Bumubutai and Tang Qianqian. Although they were running around during childbirth, one was skilled in archery and horses, and the other was very skilled in martial arts, and had a better body.

Chunning has been spoiled in the palace since he was a child, and his nutrition is not very good... He has never eaten all kinds of things.

Wang Xiao knew her best, and she was pitifully weak...

That's why he studied the method of caesarean section early.

From just cutting off the sewing or removing the uterus to correct suture method, from vertically cutting the uterus to changing to horizontally cutting the cut... The postsection technique he studied was finally theoretically improved after many bloody experiments.

Now Liao Xingliang has performed a section on twenty-three women with difficult labor, three of whom failed to suture and their uterus was removed, and one died of wound infection...

Liao Xingliang is called a miracle doctor, but Wang Xiao is not satisfied with this probability. However, due to the limitations of the times, he seems to have no better way.

In short, this is just an extra insurance, so Wang Xiao still hopes that Chunning can give birth smoothly.

He no longer let Chunning worry about other things, but he took over any official duties himself. Qian Duoduo then said, "No wonder Xiaolang went to find Sister Mingjing last night. It turned out to be to win over Sister Mingjing to do things." I don't know if this girl is really simple or has a good mind...

Wang Xiao planned to take Zhou Yan back to Jinan. The official system reform he wanted to do had been laid out. What he had to prepare for was to send the emperor back to Beijing next year...

In addition, Wang Xiao remembered something. He promised Mrs. Zhang to go with her to meet Bumubutai. So he sent someone to pick up Zhou Yan and also brought a letter to Wang Yan, asking him to find Mrs. Zhang, and escort some supplies and books to Sun Zhixin... there is no need to rush back for the New Year.

In the past few years, Zhou Yan has proved that he is not a foolish emperor, and Wang Xiao has no reason to abolish him; but he also proved that he is not a pioneering lord and does not have the ability to take away power from Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao hopes that he can become a transition, a transition from imperial power to an emperor without an emperor. He doesn't know how long this transition process will take, decades or hundreds of years... Maybe when Zhou Yan gets old, he will have an opportunity to become a "citizen", and maybe he will spend his whole life without anyone's attention.

As a brother-in-law and friend, Wang Xiao gave Zhou Yan a choice on his 18th birthday. The reason for his 18th birthday is a little bit of bad taste in Wang Xiao’s heart, or a sense of ritual...

This is also one of the reasons for Dorgon to abduct a fake emperor. If Zhou Yan chooses freedom, then the "Emperor Chu" will die in Guanzhong.

But Zhou Yan chose responsibility.

Wang Xiao opened Wang Xian’s letter again and looked at it for a while, murmured in a low voice: “I hope you won’t regret it, and I hope we can get along well for the rest of our lives…”

"Remember, there is only one chance." Tu Hai ordered in a low voice, "Zhou Yan will definitely pass by here from Kaifeng to Jinan..."

He pointed his finger on the map.

After the Yellow River diverted, it flowed from the north of Jinan City, while the Taishan Mountains crossed the south of the Yellow River.

As a result, the official road in the southeast of Jinan was squeezed between the Yellow River and the Taishan Mountains.

"This is an excellent place to set up a ambush." ​​Tuhai said again: "As long as we kill you from a high place on Mount Meng, Zhou Yan will have no choice but to escape."

"I don't understand what the purpose of assassinating Zhou Yan is."

The person who spoke was a woman in her forties named ‘Jiphuhe’.

Jibchuhe also came to Jinan as a refugee very early. Her peak was called "Helasu Qiqige". At that time, their mission was to bring Wang Xiao back to see the Empress Dowager.

But Jibuchuhe was unable to find an opportunity, but instead was arranged to pound rice in the workshop. Because he was too busy, he lost contact with Qiqige.

Her job is to put the rice in the wind valley cart every day to remove the shells. I have to say that she is indeed very capable.

I don’t know how many stone military rations I pounded for the Chu Dynasty. More than a year later, she became the female manager of the workshop and obtained household registration documents, making her much more free.

But at this time, his yard was gone...

After a lot of time passed, Tuhai contacted her and brought her new instructions from the Empress Dowager.

Jibu Chuhe once again felt the wisdom of the Queen Mother. With the current momentum of Northern Chu, the best choice was to merge Northern Chu.

Jibchu liked life in Jinan very much. She started with a little hard work, but now she is getting richer and more stable, and she is much more comfortable than the days when she was chasing sheep outside the pass... Even her whole body has turned white.

Once the Chu Dynasty was merged, she could live better in the Central Plains as a Mongolian woman...

She tried her best about this job, but was puzzled by Tu Hai's methods, so she repeatedly put forward her own opinions.

"Why don't we catch Wang Xiao back and let the Empress convince him?"

"If you have the ability to catch Wang Xiao, you won't have achieved nothing in more than two years."

Jibchuhe said, "Then let's go and assassinate Zhou Mei. I heard that she is about to give birth. We will clear the obstacles for the Empress."

Tuhai shook his head, feeling disdainful of the woman's proposal.

"If Wang Xiao is willing to bow his head to the Empress, it will be easy for the Empress to get rid of Zhou Mei. But Wang Xiao refuses to bow his head. What's the use of assassinating Zhou Mei?"

He said this and said, "What's more, this couple lives in the city and has guards to protect them at all times. Especially now that Jinan City is martial law, it is difficult to deal with them. Zhou Yan is different. Wang Xiao would not have thought that we would assassinate Zhou Yan..."

"Of course I didn't expect it." Jibchuhe sneered: "Because it is useless to assassinate a puppet emperor."

"When Zhou Yan died, Wang Xiao would either proclaim himself emperor or establish a new king. One way, it would make him more alienated from the Chu royal family; the second way, the greater his power, the higher the status of the little prince, and the smaller the Qing Dynasty's opposition to peace talks; the third way, once the new king was established, the Southern Chu would inevitably condemn, and the Northern Chu would be weaker; the fourth way, once the Emperor Chu died, he could reverse some of the defeat of the Qing Dynasty in terms of momentum... This is a favorable and harmless thing for the Empress's plan."

"But we are not in enough staff..."

"Enough."

Tuhai said, glanced at his subordinates, and in order to calm their hearts, he slowly said: "Do you know what happened to Zhang Liang assassinate Qin? In the 29th year of Qin Shihuang, Zhang Liang found a strong man, made a big iron vertebra for him, and sniped Qin Shihuang in Bolangsha. At that time, the strong man threw the iron vertebra and hit the co-pilot of Qin Shihuang, and almost stabbed Qin Shihuang to death.

Our assassination has more advantages. First, as the festival is approaching, the Chu army is slacking off, and the Jinyiwei is still silly searching for us in Jinan City; second, what is the terrain of Bolangsha? The Yellow River is the north and the Guandu is the south. And our Yellow River is the north and the Mengshan is the south, so the terrain is more advantageous; third, how much is the Emperor of Chu compared to Qin Shihuang? How many people in the north Chu care about his safety? So what if we have twenty elites, what if we are better than a strong man?”

After these words, a group of warriors really increased their confidence.

Seeing that morale is available, Tuhai breathed a sigh of relief and began to arrange an assassination operation...

He had a clear insight that Zhou Yan, as the Emperor of Northern Chu, had no authority.

Therefore, the Chu army regarded becoming the emperor's guards as a demotion in their hearts. Among the Jinyiwei, only those with average abilities would be transferred.

Under such circumstances, he is 70% sure about the assassination...

Wang Zhu recently had a private matter.

Maybe it was because he was dissatisfied with Wang Xiao and locked him up, maybe it was because he wanted to keep himself safe and not get involved in Wang Xiao's affairs, maybe it was because Wang Zhu wanted to do this in her heart... In short, he took Song Lan'er to Kaifeng.

Of course, it was not just about private matters. It was all about providing supplies to the Chu army in Guanzhong and arranging the fake Chu emperor to be captured by the Qing army.

But these business matters were very relaxed for him, and what made him spend more energy was that he proposed to Song Li and expressed his intention to marry Song Lan'er as his wife...

Song Li looked at her daughter who was almost twenty years old and had not yet married, and she was difficult to make a decision for a while.

More than two years ago, he had thought of marrying the Wang family and using the power and money of the Wang family to plan for the emperor.

Two years have passed in a blink of an eye, Du Zhenghe is dead, Wang Xiao's power is getting stronger and stronger, and the reform of the official system has been completed. Now Northern Chu has won consecutive victories but no emperor participates. The court officials only know that there is King Jing'an but not Your Majesty...
To be continued...