This year's Lantern Festival is more lively and grand than in previous years in order to sweep away the previous turmoil and soothe people's hearts.

The people were in high spirits, smiling and laughing. Not only were beautiful lanterns hung high in front of every house, but also all kinds of lanterns were adorned on the trees beside the streets and roads.

The palace banquet ended early, and the ministers went back to their homes. Calling friends, bringing wives and children, they all took to the streets to participate in this rare event.

On the street, fire trees and silver flowers are shining brightly.

The cub was wrapped in a small cape and was held in arms by Chen Ming. The two of them walked around the lively night market together, quietly followed by a group of guards dressed as pedestrians.

Chen Ming closed the red cloak on the little man in his arms again, and said to the cub:

"The night wind is cold, don't catch a cold." 

The cub agreed twice, sitting on Chen Ming's arm, twisting and twisting. Go, turn your head to look at the goldfish lamp hanging in front of this shop for a while, and look back at the rabbit lamp in front of that house for a while, looking dazzled and dizzying.

The little doll was addicted to all kinds of lanterns and was extremely excited. When saw something interesting, immediately leaned out and stretched out my little hand to touch it.

Chen Ming almost couldn't hold her.

"Be careful, it's hot!"

He hurriedly grabbed the little hand that was about to touch the candle, and held the cub aside.

"I want that—" The little doll grabbed the black hair on Chen Ming's chest and leaned out.

Seeing that the little cub was about to fall to the ground, Chen Ming quickly hugged her tightly. Some seriously said: "Don't make trouble."

"Humph." Failing to touch the golden lotus lantern as she wished, the cub pouted unhappily.

"I didn't make trouble!"

Chen Ming saw the little doll's bulging cheeks, stretched between his brows, and laughed: "Yes, you didn't make trouble, you are the best."

Some things are so helpless, you are obviously making trouble unreasonably, but the other party is so cooperative. Kanshula seemed to have punched the soft cotton, and the cub lay unhappily on Chen Ming's shoulder, 

the little milk muttered: "The nest is the best..."

Chen Ming is gentle He smiled and patted the little doll's back with his big hand, but didn't speak.

When Zizai raised her head, he held Zizai's fleshy little hand and said softly, "It would be a pity if such a beautiful little hand was burnt and scarred, right?"

Zizai looked at her little chubby hands, nodding in agreement. It took a lot of effort to feed the original thin chicken feet into fat pig trotters, bah bah, wrong, it should have become such a beautiful and cute little hand, if you accidentally leave a scar, it will be bad.

Although she thinks that the villain in the storybook will look less messed up with a few scars, but she is already so powerful, she doesn't need it.

Seeing that the little doll was no longer making trouble, Chen Ming's mouth slowly evoked a smile. He knew that she would still be able to listen to him if he reasoned with Xiao Budian well.

Chen Ming hugged the little cub and turned around and walked in the direction just now.

"Let's go, let's go buy lanterns." 

The cub was happy, her little hands wrapped around his neck, and kept urging: "Hurry up, hurry up, or someone else will buy it. I want the flower petals. I want that red goldfish lantern, and more! I want that little rabbit too!"

Chen Ming smiled and said, "Can you bring so many?"

Cub cub said nonchalantly, "Isn't there still you?"

"I only have two hands." 

"Well...then..." Zizai hesitated for a while, and said very reluctantly: "Just...let's have a few less..."

Chen Ming looked at the little baby. The doll looked worried and was amused. Finally, bought a lot of various lanterns such as lotus lanterns, goldfish lanterns, and rabbit lanterns.

Zaizai held a small goldfish lamp in her hand, and looked at the lotus lamp in Chen Ming's left hand and the rabbit lamp in his right.

After admiring it all, she turned around again and looked at the lanterns each of the guards behind him were holding in their hands, taking turns looking at them one by one.

Look at this one for a while, and run to see that one for a while. Chen Ming stood aside, watching the little doll tenderly.

Zaizai shuttled between the bright lights, with a bright smile on her little face.

**

After the fun, it's time to get down to business.

Come one by one, always have to clean up, don't worry.

The fake emperor fled south and occupied the southern border, so he couldn't just leave it alone. Previously, it was to clean up the remaining forces of King Sui and others, and then he was busy stabilizing the situation of all parties, so he did not spare his hands for the time being.

The fake emperor is nothing to be afraid of, but Shen Shixing, Xu Chengting and others who follow him are still a bit tricky to deal with.

When discussing matters in the early court, he learned that His Majesty wanted to recapture the southern border. Duke Zhongguo took the lead and asked to lead troops to conquer the false emperor.

Then, the ministers came to the spirit, and their eyes were bright.

The people who eat melons understand that there is another good show to watch.

Who are the generals under the pseudo-emperor, who is present is clear. For example, what is the name of Shen and what is Shixing. This man is Duke Zhongguo's... ex-son-in-law.

Everyone knows about the Zhang family and the Shen family.

Now, this is the scumbag son-in-law of the old man!

When the fake emperor was in power, almost everyone knew how the Shen family bullied his Zhang shi. There is a saying that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge in ten years; there is also a saying that Feng Shui turns around.

It was also time for Shen family to be unlucky.

The long-suffering sullenness in Duke Zhong's heart was finally able to find an outlet. With the determination to beat the Shen family and the fake emperor to death, there is no more suitable person in the court than him.

So, things were decided so happily.

The Duke of Zhongguo was the commander in chief, leading troops to crusade against the false emperor and others.

...

There is civil unrest in the southern border.

The contradiction between the aborigines and the pseudo-emperor has intensified, and no one obeys the other. The information from the imperial city was stopped, and when these people received the news, the army led by Duke Zhongguo had already been stationed at the gate of Southern Border.

"Damn! That old man!" The pseudo-emperor was so angry that his face turned pale, at this time he was afraid and angry.

He still knew the strength of Duke Zhongguo leading troops to fight, otherwise, he would not have been so taboo at Duke Zhongguo's mansion.

The pseudo-emperor lowered his head. He looked at the bright gold dragon robe he was wearing. The patterns and patterns were so delicate and beautiful, so fascinating.

In the past, he only dared to envy quietly in his heart, and never thought that one day he would also wear this dragon robe. But the world is so wonderful, he, the vassal king who was ignored by everyone, has ascended to the supreme position.

but why?

Since he has already been seated on the throne, why can't he be seated all the time. From his accession to the present, he has only been the emperor for a few years!

The power of that sentence to determine life and death is really addicting.

Back then, not all the wealthy families in the imperial city had to look at his face. Duke Zhongguo is nothing but a dog kneeling at his feet.

How could he be reduced to where he is today!

A sudden appearance of the son of the former empress occupied the imperial city, now he has justly ascended the throne and he has become a traitor who rebelled... The fake emperor was crying and laughing like a madman.

After applying for the puppet, she heard the report from the maid next to her, and learned that Duke Zhongguo had called and smashed the tea cup on the table by accident.

But she still pretended to be calm and said, "What's there to be afraid of, with His Majesty, Shixing, and the Xu family and Zhen family, so many families who moved south together, could they just watch that Zhang call over there? No way !"

Shen Shixing and Xu Chengting led their troops to fight.

As of now, they have no way out. It should be said that from the time they chose to follow the false emperor to move south together, they could no longer turn back.

The wind was cold, and the atmosphere was tense and chilling.

Shen Shixing and Xu Chengting meet Duke Zhongguo on the battlefield.

The two armies confronted.

The old husband and the ex-son-in-law are not pleasing to the eye.

Shen Shixing, dressed in armor, looked at his former father-in-law who was still in good health. Although he knew that today was either your death or my life, he hesitated for a long time, he couldn't help but ask,

"...Madam, she and the child, are they all right?"

Shen Shixing was heartbroken when he learned that Mrs. Zhang had chosen to leave him with the child. It would be a lie to say no resentment, but he also knew that he had always been wrong to her a lot.

Now that the two were separated, he looked at the noisy house all day long, either this or the other, or the one who murdered this, and he was exhausted. Finally began to remember Zhang's goodness. That valiant woman, and those two lovely and sensible sons, all made him miss them so much...

"You thief, don't be so pretentious here!" Duke Zhongguo roared angrily. 

He was extremely disgusted when he saw this person, and when he heard Shen Shixing mentioning his poor daughter, he was even more angry. He even had a face to mention it!

"How you treated my daughter in the past, today I want you to pay it back together!"

No more nonsense, the two sides went to war.

Duke Zhongguo is merciless, vowing to kill this bastard who bullied his family!

...
Under the powerful offensive of the imperial army, Shen Shixing and Xu Chengting retreated steadily, and they could only retreat to the city with the remaining remnants.

Xu Chengting clutched the bleeding wound on his arm, looked at the still fierce enemy army, and panted,

"Brother Shen, you can't go on like this! I'm afraid you won't be able to defend!"

Shen Shixing dragged his injured left leg, Supported by his guards. He looked at the injury on the leg, the knife went deep into the bone, and he knew that this leg was considered useless.

They can't stand anymore.

...
In the main city of Southern Border, when they learned that the army was defeated, the families who moved south along with them regretted it too much.

"It's all your fault!"

"If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be here in this shitty place!"

"It's you who killed us all!"

Cries, screams, and resentments came one after another.

Husbands and wives abuse each other, brothers blame each other. There was chaos inside and outside the house, some concubines swept away money, and some servants took advantage of the chaos to escape.

Everyone who scolded and cried finally came to their senses, now it is more important to find a way to save their lives first.

"Let's surrender, we are only deceived, we will not die!"

"Yes! We were deceived! We don't know anything!"

"We are willing to confess! We are willing to surrender!" 

A large number of southerners Qian's officials and families scrambled to show their loyalty, just to save their own lives.

However, the false emperor refused to admit defeat.

He continued to flee with the rest of his men.