Southerners

Chapter 112

New year and new atmosphere, no matter what kind of misfortune happened last year, on the first day of the new year, Song Zhi still cheered up, put on the new clothes cut a year ago, and put on a square scarf.

He is already 21 this year, although no one held a coronation ceremony for him, but in Song Zhi's own heart, he should be an upright man.

Apart from other things, Bai Man'er should be taken good care of.

When Bai Man'er woke up, she found the lucky money tied with colorful ropes at the foot of the bed.

In the past, it was her mother and father who gave her the lucky money, but now it is Song Zhi.

Bai Man'er touched the few copper coins, caressing their cold curves.

Although the copper coins were cold, Bai Man'er's heart was warm.

She put on new clothes, put on the silver hairpin that Song Zhi gave her, faced the mirror, put on rouge and flower yellow to make sure that she looked glamorous, and walked out of the room with a smile.

Song Zhi has already got up, and she is also wearing new clothes. She looks beaming and is putting up Spring Festival couplets.

"Young master!" Bai Man'er put his hands behind his back, walked up to Song Zhi's back, and called out.

Song Zhi turned her head and saw Bai Man'er, she also smiled and said, "Are you hungry? I made breakfast. You go and bring it out. Let's eat."

Bai Man'er nodded: "Yeah!"

She agreed, but didn't move. Bai Man'er raised her head and looked at Song Zhi, with a rare look of a daughter on her face.

"What's wrong?" Song Zhi was curious.

Bai Man'er shook her head and said with a smile, "It's nothing."

"I just think that the young master has lost weight, so he needs to eat more."

"Otherwise, Mr. Meng will feel distressed when he comes back."

When Meng Huan was mentioned, Song Zhi's movements froze, and she immediately scolded with a smile: "What do little girls know?"

Song Zhi has indeed lost weight. He was originally on the thin side, but in Meng's residence, he had no worries about food and clothing. Meng Huan looked at him every day, and he still had a few ounces of flesh on his body, but now he looked sharp and angular, and he was inexplicable. Showing a bit of calmness and determination.

Perhaps it was the experience last year that completely changed Song Zhi.

The young master who was originally under the protection of Xiu Niang grew up.

During the festival, it is natural to walk around with relatives and friends.Song Zhi accompanied Bai Maner back to the Bai family, of course, as her husband.

Apart from the Bai family, the two have no other relatives.Song Zhi went to Heli Huosun's prime minister's mansion on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, but found that the prime minister's mansion had already been vacated. Song Zhi didn't know, so after inquiring, she found out that last winter, Heli Huosun was dismissed as the prime minister's mansion. Mai Shuding and Zhang Xiongfei who he promoted were also dismissed.An Tong replaced Heli Huosun and became the new right prime minister.

After Heli Huosun was dismissed, his spirit seemed not as good as before. He originally wanted to introduce Song Zhi to the prince, but Song Zhi refused, so Heli Huosun had to give up and let Song Zhinian come back again.

This group of people were all promoted by Prince Zhenjin after the downfall of Ahema, and now they have fallen together. I don't know what the deep meaning is behind it.But Song Zhi didn't know about this.

Bai Man'er went to look at Liu Yanhan, but Liu Yanhan had already arrived at Lian Shen's residence.In the past two years, Lian Shen has done very well in Qi Xue, and seems to have the tendency to become the leader of Qi Xue.He is proud of his official career and love, and his whole person exudes an air of pride.

In addition, Qi Luqian came to visit Song Zhi in person.Seeing that Song Zhi's family was in the cold, he was shocked, but Song Zhi didn't want to say more, so he didn't ask, and wanted to find a way to help Song Zhi, but Song Zhi refused.

In a blink of an eye, the Spring Festival passed, and Song Zhi went to Heli Huosun's residence as agreed. Of course, with Bai Man'er, he found that Heli Huosun was ill.

After last year's disaster relief, Heli Huo Sun felt that it was too unfair to arrange Song Zhi to serve in the study, and wanted to recommend him to do something more valuable, but Song Zhi also refused, saying that he only wanted to be an idle scholar.

Heli Huosun later investigated Song Zhi's affairs in the Meng Mansion, and thought that Song Zhixu was sad because of Xiuniang's death, so she had no intention of career and did not force her.Regarding the relationship between Song Zhi and Meng Huan, Heli Huo Sun didn't believe it. Based on his understanding of Song Zhi, such a beautiful person like Jiyue should not be the husband of the Israelites, so he didn't let go. on heart.

The fighting on the Annan battlefield became more and more intense, and copies of military newspapers were sent to the court in a hurry.

In the first month, the Mongolian army aggressively attacked Wanjie, Plaishan, Jialin, Wuning, Dong'an and other places, killing many Annan soldiers, and Annan retreated steadily.

In February, Emperor Shengzong sent his youngest sister, Princess Anzi, to Tuohuan to buy time to defend against the enemy.At this time, the Mongolian army was aggressively attacking, and Annan had no choice but to retreat.

In March, Chen Nong, the Marquis of Wenzhao in Annan, surrendered to Tuohuan, and then, King Chen Yiji of Zhao and others also surrendered to the Mongolian army.

Meng Huan's uncle instigated General Du to lead an army of 50 to Champa, joined forces with the Yuan army led by Meng Huan in Uri Prefecture, occupied Huanzhou and Aizhou together, and stationed in Xijie.

When the situation was good, in April, it took a sharp turn for the worse, and Annan began to counterattack.Chen Renzong ordered King Zhaocheng, Marquis Huaiwen and others to lead troops to attack Xijie. The Annan army was commanded by Chen Riyu and defeated the Mongolian army at Xianziguan.This Chen Rixiu is very remarkable, he is a military genius, and more importantly, there are quite a few Song people in his soldiers.

These Song people were taken in by Chen Rixiu when the Southern Song Dynasty died, and they took refuge in Annan outside the border.

The Mongolian army was defeated, and the news spread to Dadu. The government and the public were shocked. A group of civil servants satirized the court. These military officers took their salaries, but they did nothing on the battlefield. They lost to the small country of Annan. The shame of the invincible Yuan army.

Shizu was also furious, and ordered that Tuohuan must wash away his shame and beat Annan down.

At this time, another major event occurred in the court.

There is a censor in the south of the Yangtze River who doesn't want his head, and he wrote a book, saying that the ancestor is old, and the prince has a powerful voice, and the ancestor should be in the prince.It turned out that this death-seeking note was pressed by Yu Shitai, and it was not heard by Datian.

But the hundred-legged worms of Ahema's party feathers, dead but not stiff, quietly stabbed this matter to Shizu.Although Shizu was old, the power of heaven was still there after all, so he immediately seized the official censor and called the prince to scold him.The prince fell ill when he returned to the East Palace.

Bad things piled up one by one.Unexpectedly, the sky failed to fulfill people's wishes. In May, the Mongolian army continued to be defeated.

They all marched from Qinghua, were defeated by various militiamen led by Chen Guangqi, and retreated to Lujiang.On the [-]th, Jidu and Meng Huan led an army to invade the Tianmu River again from the sea, but they were still defeated.

On the [-]th, Chen Shengzong and Chen Renzong arrived at Dabusongbu, and Zhang Xian, the head of the Yuan Dynasty, surrendered to Annan.On the same day, Annan defeated the Mongolian army in Xijie, captured [-] Mongolian troops, and all the generals were beheaded.In the middle of the night, Meng Huan escaped by boat.

Zhennan Wang Tuohuan was also defeated by Chen Xingdao, and retreated again and again, not to mention half of the soldiers were killed, General Li Heng was also shot by poisonous arrows on the way to retreat.

In late May, the Yuan army returned after a disastrous defeat.

Unlike the high spirits when they set off, Zhennan Wang Tuohuan and Lieutenant Meng Huan who came back from Annan were all seriously injured.

It was July when Shizu returned to Beijing, and Shizu was in Shangdu, so Tuo Huan took the remnants of the defeated generals to Shangdu to plead guilty, and was punished by Shizu for half a year.But Meng Huan and others were not so lucky, the penalty was light, Meng Huan was demoted, and Zhang Xian, the general manager who took refuge in Annan, was on the ancestor's must-kill list.

Meng Huan had never been defeated since he was 15 years old, but it was the first time he lost so badly that he almost lost his life on the battlefield. Not to mention, his own uncle was beheaded by the enemy right in front of his eyes.

The news spread to Huduhu who was fighting in Cochin, and Ake of Menghuan found out that he almost fainted from crying.

Meng Huan is different from his Ake, he doesn't cry, he just keeps his face cold and tightens the already sharp face lines, planning to attack Annan again in the future and behead the person who killed his uncle Lose.

This is also the meaning of loving Chige Huduhu and Akebayar.

He wants revenge.

After returning to Dadu from Shangdu, Meng Huan learned about the earthquake that happened in Dadu last year. Before he had time to worry about Song Zhi, he found that Song Zhi was no longer in the Meng residence.

And the person who drove him out was Chuo Man.

Meng Huan didn't go to Chuo Man to settle the score. He had to get Song Zhi back first before he could think about other things.

It is easy to find out that Song Zhi is in Heli Huo Sun's residence.

How to bring him back is a problem.Heli Huosun has been ill since the beginning of the year, and has already closed the house to recuperate, not accepting outside guests.This person belongs to the prince. Although the prince loses power, the possibility of being reused is still very high.

Meng Huan didn't want to offend easily, so he handed over a post to Heli Huosun's residence, unexpectedly Heli Huosun received him after seeing the post.

This surprised Meng Huan.

Seeing people, Meng Huan knew why Heli Huosun thanked guests behind closed doors.

He was indeed very sick, his whole body was thin and lifeless, and he seemed to be alive in a few days.

"Hazier has met the lord." As a junior, Meng Huan performed the junior ceremony. He came to pick up Song Zhi, so he had to lower his posture a little.

He Li Huo Sun nodded, his breathing was a little rough, and it seemed that he was struggling to even nod: "You just came back to Dadu and came to my place in a hurry, what's the matter?"

"Shouldn't you go see the prince?"

Meng Huan said: "His Royal Highness, auspicious people have their own auspices, besides, going up at this juncture will have no other effect except to make His Majesty jealous all his life."

Meng Huan had just suffered a disastrous defeat, and he didn't want to be accused of forming a party with the prince at this time.

Heli Huosun originally didn't believe that there was anything between Meng Huan and Song Zhi, but now that Meng Huan came, he believed it.Not only do these two people have something, but their friendship is probably not shallow.

Since Meng Huan left Beijing in July last year, and returned to Beijing this year, the two haven't seen each other for a full year.

At this moment, Meng Huan only felt longing to the bone, anxious to see that person, but Heli Huosun still managed to save face here.

Seeing that Meng Huan was restless, Heli Huo Sun understood that although he didn't like these two, it was someone else's business after all, so he didn't want to say much, so he turned around and ordered the steward to call Song Zhi.

After Heli Huo Sun fell ill, Song Zhi didn't see him often, and she was a little surprised to be called out today, but when he stepped into the door of the study, Song Zhi understood.

Seeing Meng Huanzheng sitting in a dignified manner, and following Huo Sun's hand, when he saw him coming in, he hardly cared about the etiquette, so he stood up eagerly, and finally held back.

His eyes were still fixed on Song Zhi.

But when Song Zhicai caught Meng Huan's line of sight, she quickly lowered her eyes, not daring to look at him, not because she was afraid of Meng Huan or He Li Huo Sun seeing something, but because she was afraid of losing her composure.

He has lost weight.

At this moment, these three words emerged in their hearts at the same time.

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Note: See Du Niang in the war between Meng Yuan and Annan.It was a man named Umar, not Meng Huan, who attacked Tianmu River with Aodu.