She waited until midnight before Zhao Ruiyun came back with a tired face, and when she entered the door, she saw Xiao Yao sitting alone at the table waiting for him, and came over a few steps to hug Xiao Yao into her arms.
Xiao Yao's flustered heart sank suddenly, "It's over, he must have been ordered to go to the border to fight."
Somehow, the tears flowed involuntarily, and she quickly raised her hand quietly to wipe them away.
Pretending to be calm, he sneered: "Don't make trouble, why did you come back so late?"
Have you eaten?
” Zhao Ruiyun let go of Xiao Yao and said, "I ate, I ate with the emperor and several ministers." ” Xiao Yao helped him take off his coat and hang it up, took his hand to the stove and pushed him to sit down, and went to the table to pour him a cup of hot tea and brought it over.
Zhao Ruiyun took the tea and put it aside, pulled Xiao Yao to his lap and sat down, buried his head and kissed her on the lips, the two lingered for a long time before he raised his head and said in a hoarse voice: "Yao'er, I'm going to the border to fight, I know you can't bear me, and I can't bear you."
But the emperor's order is difficult to disobey, and now that the country is in trouble, how can I, as a general, sit idly by?
Don't worry, I will defeat the enemy as soon as possible and come back to accompany you as soon as possible.
I have already told the emperor that after this battle, I will be disarmed and returned to the field and no longer be an official.
The emperor has already agreed. ” Xiao Yao looked at him, tears flowed down her eyes, she didn't say anything, and she knew that it was useless to say anything, she just felt uncomfortable, and she just wanted to cry uncontrollably The military situation was urgent, and the imperial court mobilized 500,000 troops in just 20 days, and the prime minister and the six old princes were responsible for raising grain, grass and military salaries.
Zhao Ruiyun's eldest brother and another general were in charge of escorting grain and grass.
The main forces are all Zhao Ruiyun's original old department.
The army will be drawn in five days.
Xiao Yao initially made up her mind to go on the expedition with Zhao Ruiyun, she talked to Zhao Ruiyun so much, crying and making trouble, but Zhao Ruiyun was determined not to take her.
He was reluctant to let her suffer, and he didn't want her to see such a cruel scene.
Xiao Yao ran to the imperial brother for help, but Zhao Ruiyang also flatly refused.
Seeing that he couldn't resist them, he also knew that it was taboo to bring women on the battlefield in ancient times.
Xiao Yao could only give up.
She immediately put aside everything at hand and served Zhao Ruiyun wholeheartedly, not only carefully preparing her clothes, including food, clothing, housing and transportation, she did everything that was Zhao Ruiyun, and did not let the maid do it.
Every day, in addition to breakfast, she cooks lunch and dinner by herself or directs the chefs in the house to change tricks to cook the meals that Zhao Ruiyun likes to eat.
She never sleeps lazily anymore, every day when Zhao Ruiyun gets up, she gets up whenever she wants, and she can't stop it, she accompanies Zhao Ruiyun to finish breakfast early, and personally sends her out of the house hand in hand.
At night, no matter how late it was, he waited at the concierge to pick him up.
Even on the bed, she also tried her best to meet Zhao Ruiyun's requirements.
Never miss every minute of getting along at the end, in front of Zhao Ruiyun, he is always smiling like a flower, gentle like water, and considerate.
This made Zhao Ruiyun's heroic shortness of breath and children's love grow.
On the eve of the expedition, the emperor set up a banquet for the soldiers on the expedition, in addition to the performance of kabuki, the emperor also specially selected two concubines who were good at piano skills from the harem concubines to play for the soldiers to show their kindness and special grace.
Xiao Yao saw the performance of the concubine, so she had the idea of playing for Zhao Ruiyun and the soldiers who went out, she felt that these ancient silk and bamboo sounds were too soft and festive, and there was no heroic spirit that was about to go out, which was not enough to boost the morale of the soldiers.
The most important thing is that her dear son gave up her comfortable life for the sake of the court and the country, and went to life and death to fight on the battlefield.
She wants to make the emperor and the ministers present grateful.
She felt that the heroic song "Serving the Country with Loyalty" sung by Tu Honggang could best express this feeling.
So she quietly passed a note to the emperor, saying that she wanted to play a song for the soldiers.