dhibooks Chapter 37 37
Chapter 37 37
Seeing that Xie Fanghan's second bowl of rice was about to bottom out, the "host" Yan Yutang came late.
Well, the main reason is that the bowls used to serve rice in the palace are small.
Yan Yutang was originally assigning tasks to the hidden guards in the house, but when Mingyue reported that Xie Fanghan was coming, she thought she had heard wrongly, and after confirming it twice, she rushed to the front hall angrily.
"What are you doing here!" Yan Yutang slapped the table in front of Xie Fanghan, rarely losing his composure.
Xie Fanghan was also so frightened that he stopped his hands, and the chopsticks that were chopping the rice stopped stiffly.
Seeing her like this, Yan Yutang became even more angry: "You are thinking about eating even if you are dying!"
Xie Fanghan came back to his senses, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he calmly swallowed the last mouthful of food.
"People are like iron and rice is steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry. How can you have the strength to beat someone if you don't eat enough?" She said in a relaxed tone, and put a cup of hot tea into her mouth with a satisfied expression.
"You already know what's going on outside." Yan Yutang frowned lightly and said in a firm tone, before she could wait for Xie Fanghan's answer, she calmed down.
"What do you want?" She looked at Xie Fanghan with burning eyes.
"What do you want?" Xie Fanghan was stunned, she felt that she couldn't keep up with Yan Yutang's thinking.
"The Zhenbei army entered the imperial city to quell the chaos, what do you want?"
Things will not go well tonight, and several princes have been involved, with many troops involved.Yan Yutang breathed a sigh of relief when the Zhenbei Army joined in.
Compared with other forces, the "reputation" of the Zhenbei Army is much better, but then again, even if it is the Zhenbei Army, it is inevitable that things will not happen. "Agent" is right in front of my eyes, it would be best if I could negotiate the conditions in advance...
"You think I'm here to negotiate terms with you?"
Yan Yutang's thoughts were interrupted by Xie Fanghan.
She raised her head subconsciously, and what she saw was Xie Fanghan's face as black as an inkstone.
Yan Yutang was in a daze for a moment, not understanding why Xie Fanghan suddenly changed his face.
No matter how "loyal and patriotic" the Zhenbei Army is, it is impossible for Old General Wei to not have any requirements for such a major event on the side of the Qing emperor. Even if he did not, Emperor Yan would still consider rewards afterwards.
Is there anything wrong with this?
Xie Fanghan looked at Yan Yutang's puzzled eyes, sneered twice, approached her, and said with a rebellious face: "Can I ask for anything? Including you?"
"Presumptuous!" Having grown up in a deep palace, Yan Yutang's expression darkened immediately.
Xie Fanghan sneered, his anger was aroused, and he said with a look of disdain: "Didn't His Highness ask me what I want just now? Why, I mentioned it to Your Highness, and I want to go back on my word?"
Yan Yutang had never seen Xie Fanghan talking to her like this, and for a moment she didn't even know what to say.
Not
It's not that she has never seen Xie Fanghan like this.
She has seen it.
In other words, Xie Fanghan has always been like this.
It looks low-key, but it is actually public.
Brilliant but contemptuous of imperial power.
Yan Yutang's back was covered with cold sweat, and when he recovered, he met Xie Fanghan's dark eyes.
Those eyes were darker than the night tonight.
"I have not regretted it."
she said so.
Xie Fanghan smiled.
Not as clean and bright as usual.
There was seven points of sarcasm in that smile, two points of indifference, and one point of complexity.
Yan Yutang's heart beat a beat slower.
"..." She looked at Xie Fanghan, her throat seemed to be choked, and she couldn't make a sound.
Xie Fanghan left.
The hands covered by the sleeves were tightly clenched into fists.
Before turning around, she thought, "Let Yan Yutang take her feudal thinking and struggle to defend this broken imperial power."
But after leaving the gate of Tangyuan, her footsteps slowed down.
After all, Yan Yutang is a princess who grew up under the imperial power. What she does and thinks is no problem as a member of the royal family. She can't accept it because she is incompatible with this era...
Xie Fanghan went back to her yard to take the sword, and wandered around the courtyard to the front of the main hall. She found enough reasons for herself, no matter what, she had to spend the night first.
The main hall was brightly lit, but there was no sound from inside.
Xie Fanghan stared at the door of the main hall for a long time, then... sat down on the stairs in front of the main hall.
There was still some unmelted snow in the palace. Although there was no wind tonight, it was still a bit cold to sit on. Xie Fanghan held his sword and looked at the white breath he exhaled, and the anger in his heart gradually calmed down.
Yan Yutang returned to her study after Xie Fanghan left.
The originally restless heart became even more irritable because of Xie Fanghan's arrival.
Xie Fanghan's smile before leaving kept reappearing in her mind, which made her restless.
"Come on."
The dark guards who guarded in the dark appeared from the shadows.
"Your Highness."
"Where is Xie Fanghan?" She said with a bit of fatigue in her tone.
"At the entrance of the main hall." The dark guard replied.
"..." Yan Yutang paused because of the hidden guard's words, thinking that this person is crazy, but continued to ask: "Has the Zhenbei Army already dispatched troops?"
"No." The dark guard continued to answer.
"Is he crazy!" Yan Yutang finally said what was stuck in her heart.
He went to the entrance of the main hall without sending out troops from the Zhenbei Army. Isn't that going to be a target for the rebels!
Yan Yutang stood up with a "huh", lifted her hem and walked out in a hurry.
When he came to the door, he stopped suddenly, turned his head to look at the dark guard and said, "Is everything arranged for the concubine mother?"
……
"Your Majesty." The eunuch quickly interjected while taking advantage of Emperor Yan's time to pick up his pen and ink, "The Fifth Highness is coming from behind."
Yan Huang said "Mmm" without raising his head, finished writing the last sentence, put down the pen, and then ordered: "Let her in."
The eunuch nodded and went to greet Yan Yutang in person.
Yan Yutang was welcomed into the main hall through the side door, looked at the empty main hall, then raised her head to look at her father, who was high above her, and bowed respectfully.
Yan Yutang: "See Father."
"Get up." Yan Huang turned a blank page again.
"Thank you, Father." Yan Yutang got up, and stood there with her eyes closed.
Yan Huang didn't speak, Yan Yutang didn't make a sound, the father and daughter didn't make a sound, the eunuch stood beside Yan Huang, watching his nose, nose and heart.
The first thing to break the silence in the house was the screams from outside.
Yan Yutang's eyelids twitched, and she tried not to turn her head to look at the entrance of the main hall.
Xie Fanghan should have already left...
Without waiting for her to think too much, Yan Huang, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke.
"It seems that you are not the only one who wants to see me tonight. I don't know which brother or sister of yours will come in next."
Yan Yutang didn't talk to her, and she didn't dare to talk to her, but Yan Huang suddenly talked more.
"Your elder brother is mediocre, but your temperament is not bad, but it will be difficult to become a master after all."
Yan Yutang's eyelids trembled, but she didn't make a sound.
Yanhuang continued on his own: "Your second brother is good at running the army, but he is arbitrary, can't be benevolent, and can't be useful if he insists on going his own way."
"As for the third child, she has been spoiled by her mother and concubine. He can't even manage himself well, let alone manage a big Yan."
"Lao Liu is young, but his temper is simple and honest, and he is not a material that can inherit the great line."
When Yan Huang said this, he finally raised his head and glanced at Yan Yutang, his eyes could not be described as sad or happy, and there was no emotion.
"I sometimes doubt myself. Among the six children, the two princesses are the ones who look the most like kings. If you are not daughters, I don't have to delay the establishment of a prince."
As Yan Huang said, he also sighed melancholy.God really played a big joke on him, his two most outstanding children turned out to be daughters, if they were boys, how could Dayan get to where he is today.
"Father..." Yan Yutang yelled, and then he didn't continue. His father had been thinking about it for decades, and he didn't hesitate to cut down the imperial power. He could barely stand Dayan on a balance pole. When she got older, the balance became more and more unstable, until she and Xie Fanghan set up this stage, the balance finally couldn't be maintained.
After all, Emperor Yan still has secret agents in his hands. Even if Emperor Yan didn't know what they were planning at the beginning, he should know about it by now.
He didn't come forward to mediate, but he himself knew that this balance could not be maintained, it was only a matter of time.
"What does Wei Baili want?" Yanhuang said suddenly.
Yan Yutang came back to her senses and shook her head: "I don't know."
"Oh?" Yan Huang put down his pen, and looked at Yan Yutang below seriously: "That old fox never traded at a loss. Didn't his grandson come to make a request when he entered the palace at this critical moment?"
Yan Yutang hesitated for a moment but still told the truth about what happened just now.
It's not that she has a clear conscience, it's just that she is in the palace, and she didn't deliberately hide the conversation with Xie Fanghan just now. Her father wants to know, and he will know sooner or later, so it's better for her to take the initiative to say it.
After Yan Huang finished listening, he stared at Yan Yutang blankly and silently.
Yan Yutang stood where she was, silently bearing the pressure from his father.
After a long time, there was another sound in the main hall.
Yan Huang: "Is that so..."
Yan Yutang didn't have the heart to distinguish the tone of Yan Huang's words, her inner clothes were soaked in cold sweat, this was the first time she felt the power of an emperor positively.
"When the emperor was angry, he buried millions of corpses."
Xie Fanghan sincerely does not deceive her.
"Tang'er."
Yan Huang seldom called her that, Yan Yutang was stunned, and paused before replying: "Father Huang."
Yanhuang was playing with a jade pendant in his hand, and there was a three-point smile in his tone: "Which brother do you think will be the one who came in first?"
"..."
Yan Yutang gasped calmly, and then realized that the smile in Yan Huang's words just now was clearly a sneer.
Normally, she would pretend not to hear, but today...
Yan Yutang glanced out of the door without any trace, wondering if it was her illusion, she seemed to see a shadow sitting on the steps of the door from the palace door.
She retracted her gaze, and her cold voice echoed in the main hall:
"I guess no one can break in."
The noise outside had been going on for half an hour, but Xie Fanghan sat in the main hall but didn't even see a single rebel.
The forbidden army has long since disappeared. I don't know if they are going to stop the rebels, or they are waiting in some corner to be a fat mantis catching cicadas.
Xie Fanghan is more inclined to the former idea.
Although the second prince became the first bird and gave the eldest prince faction and the third prince faction a reason to send troops in an open and honest manner, but these three parties had to restrain each other because of their respective interests.
The three of them wanted to kill each other.
As for Emperor Yan, it doesn't matter whether he is alive or not, the winner and the loser, and the reputation of regicide can be carried by the loser at will.
They are not in a hurry to fight to the main hall, just because in their hearts, the emperor is already a optional "easter egg", which is indisputable and will not affect the ending of this drama.
Of course, it is not ruled out that one party is being clever and self-righteous and wants to act out the drama of "taking the emperor to order the princes".
Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived.
"Zhou Yu, deputy commander of the forbidden army, was ordered to escort him."
Xie Fanghan stood up with his sword in his hand, looked at the hundreds of imperial guards under the steps, and stood calmly at the entrance of the main hall.