dhibooks Chapter 39 39
Chapter 39 39
"Where are you going?"
Xie Fanghan was caught by Wei Baili the moment he arrived at the middle court.
"Enter the palace." She tugged at her clothes without hiding anything.
"What are you going to do in the palace?" Wei Baili's expression was as usual, and his tone could not be heard to be happy or angry.
Xie Fanghan pursed his dry lips, she didn't believe that Wei Baili didn't know about Beidi.
"Is it to make the emperor not agree to Da Yue's conditions?" Wei Baili spoke out for her: "Or let the emperor change his mind and marry the first princess."
Xie Fanghan twitched the corner of his mouth, he moved a little more when he got up just now, which affected the knife wound that was still not healed.
She understood what Wei Baili meant, and it was impossible for Emperor Yan to take back his life just by talking about it. Da Yue was about to hit the customs, or he could settle down and exchange the lost land with food and the princess according to Da Yue's request.
Or, send troops to fight back.
The military strength of the Zhenbei Army is not weak, even if there is trouble in Xijing, the border will not be beaten like this.
Was it authorized by someone?
No, it's hard to say anything else, it is absolutely impossible for the Zhenbei Army to commit such a traitorous act.
Xie Fanghan, who was stimulated by the news of the hidden guard, finally calmed down.
Wei Baili still had a cold face, but his tone was much better than before: "Your Majesty is not as incompetent as the world thinks, and he is clear about many things."
"Then why..." Xie Fanghan was puzzled.
"Clarity is clarity. How to do it and whether it can be done are another matter."
What Wei Baili said was specious, but Xie Fanghan felt that he understood a little bit.
"Do you still want to enter the palace?" Wei Baili asked again.
Xie Fanghan pressed his wound, and replied without any hesitation: "Go, I'm going to the palace, and I'm going to the Northland as well."
Wei Baili was not happy because of his words, even though at first he only wanted to send him to the Zhenbei Army.
"Have you thought about it? You didn't want to go before." Wei Baili asked again.
"I didn't want to go before, it's just that the time didn't come, and now it's here." Xie Fanghan looked at Wei Baili, and said seriously: "It's better to ask for yourself than to ask for help. You can ask for help once or twice, but you can't rely on it every time." Others, after all, have to become stronger themselves."
Wei Baili sighed, waved his hand at her, and said nothing more.
Xie Fanghan looked at the old man's slightly bent back, and finally asked a question: "Did His Majesty arrange for you to go on a trip in the first month of this year?"
Wei Baili looked at her, his originally clear eyes were gloomy.
"I see." She turned around before finishing her sentence.
I don't know if it was because there were three princes missing in the palace. After Xie Fanghan entered the palace, he felt that the city was much more bleak than before. The early spring flowers bloomed well along the way, but he still couldn't suppress the desolation.
"Thank you, young master."
Xie Fanghan seemed to be the eunuch who had been waiting for a long time, his expression did not change.
Xie Fanghan: "Eunuch, please lead the way."
After all, it was the servant next to the emperor, who was not at all flustered by the "anti-general" and raised his hand to signal her to follow.
The wound on her body hurts faintly, like a whip whipping her to calm down, reminding her all the time: this is the price of being smart.
On the way before entering the palace, she thought a lot, and sorted out everything she needed to sort out, and the only thing she couldn't figure out in the end was Emperor Yan.
What is he thinking?
The emperor was full of contradictions, as if he didn't care about anything, but he used himself to check and balance the situation in the officialdom of Xijing.
He is not an incompetent person, but he has done all the incompetent things.
"Young Master Xie, Your Majesty is waiting for you inside." The eunuch's words interrupted her thoughts.
Xie Fanghan calmed down his emotions, and entered the inner hall alone.
"Grassman Xie Fanghan sees His Majesty." Xie Fanghan had a wound on his leg, but after a little consideration, he still didn't kneel down.
"Why don't you kneel." Yan Huang seemed to be approving the memorial, looked up at Xie Fanghan, and lowered his head while talking.
"Your Majesty didn't let me kneel." Xie Fanghan lowered his head, looking very humble.
"When did I say that?" Yan Huang said without raising his head.
Xie Fanghan opened his mouth, paused, and said, "If the rules of imperial power are followed, grassroots people should indeed kneel, but Your Majesty, you yourself disdain imperial power, so why should grassroots people follow it?"
Yan Huang stopped writing, casually put it aside, raised his head and looked directly at Xie Fanghan, his voice was like a morning bell: "Do you know what you are talking about?"
Xie Fanghan met his gaze, calm and unfazed: "Isn't this what you want to hear?"
The two looked at each other for a long time, and finally Yan Huang looked away first.
"You're very brave."
There was no anger, no temptation, Yan Huang's tone was flat, as if he was simply describing the matter.
"That depends on who you are treating and what you are dealing with." Xie Fanghan replied.
Yanhuang seemed unwilling to say more about this matter, so he picked up his pen again and began to critique the memorial: "Tell me, why did you come to see me?"
Xie Fanghan: "Your Majesty has asked the personal eunuch to wait for me at the gate of the palace, don't you know what I am for?"
"Xiao Wu is very lucky to meet someone who does this for her." Yan Huang said with a bit of melancholy in his tone.
Xie Fanghan took the opportunity to bow and salute: "Your Majesty, Da Viet's wolves' ambitions are clearly revealed. Concession will only fuel their arrogance, and it will also chill the hearts of the soldiers who are fighting bloody battles in the frontier."
Yan Huang looked at him, but didn't say a word.
He was waiting for a word from Xie Fanghan.
Xie Fanghan knew what he was waiting for.
She was silent for a long time before she said with a sour voice: "I am willing to go to the northern border to recover the territory for Dayan."
After all, she couldn't jump out of this vortex.
"Is it worth it?" Yan Huang's voice was very weak, if it wasn't for the silence in the room, he might not be able to hear his words clearly.
"It's worth it." She answered solemnly.
"Since you like her, why don't you take the opportunity to ask me for a marriage proposal." Emperor Yan continued to ask.
"I..." Xie Fanghan thought of that night, his eyes darkened, "She may not like me."
Yan Huang glanced at her after hearing this, but didn't say anything else.
Xie Fanghan remembered his considerations on the road, and took the initiative to add another sentence: "Your Majesty, the emperor in the hearts of the people should be 'the emperor guards the gate of the country, and the king dies in the country'. I don't know what you think of the chair you are sitting on, but since you are still sitting Here, there must still be expectations, life is short, just like life and death are all about fighting, and other things are the same."
Yan Huang seemed not to have heard Xie Fanghan's words, and did not respond for a long time after she finished speaking.
Xie Fanghan frowned, raised his hand to salute and leave.
Almost at the same time, Emperor Yan made a sound, with a solemn tone: "Go back and pack up, and leave for the northern border when the imperial decree arrives."
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"Your Highness, Your Highness..."
Yan Yutang came back to her senses, and when she turned around, she saw Xing Xing looking at her worriedly.
"I was thinking about something else just now, what's wrong?"
The star sighed faintly. Since the day when the accident happened in the palace, her highness has been distracted frequently, and she doesn't know what she is thinking about. Could it be because of the recent rumor that she is going to send the princess to Dayue to get married?
Thinking about it, Xing Xing carefully conveyed the news he had just received to Yan Yutang.
"There was news from the front, saying that young master Xie was taken away by the eunuch next to His Majesty the moment he entered the palace."
Xie Fanghan...
The name alone made Yan Yutang's eyes a little dazed, and then it became complicated.
She knew why she entered the palace.
But he didn't know how to face her.
Obviously she lied to herself, but she was also the one who was embarrassed.
Star: "Your Highness, you are ready, you can go."
Walk?where to go?
Yan Yutang came back to her senses, only to find that she was already dressed, did she just order it?
Yes.
If it wasn't her order, how would the star dare to make his own claim.
"Let's go." She said softly, her voice sounded the same as usual.
When they reached the front hall, they just caught up with Xie Fanghan to get in the car and leave.
Yan Yutang thought that he didn't want to see her, but after seeing that figure from a distance, she couldn't help but walked a few steps quickly.
Xing Xing pointed in Xie Fanghan's direction and said quickly: "Your Highness, Young Master Xie seems to be injured."
Yan Yutang looked at Xie Fanghan's bloody coat from a distance, and she unconsciously pinched bloodshot eyes on the palms that were put together.
The carriage slowly drove out of her sight, and only the bloodstains on the ground indicated that someone had just come.
And the remaining bloodstains were quickly wiped clean by the passing palace people.
"It can't be wiped clean." The star beside him suddenly said.
Yan Yutang suddenly turned her head to look at her.
Xingxing didn't know why His Royal Highness reacted so strongly, thought she was concerned about what she just said, and quickly explained: "The blood stains are not easy to clean up, even if they are wiped off now, they will leave marks. A brick is broken and replaced with a new one."
Yan Yutang lowered her eyes.
The star didn't notice the change in Yan Yutang, and continued on his own: "But replacing it with a new one can't change the fact that there was blood dripping there. There will always be traces of it on the original brick."
Yan Yutang's heart trembled because of these unintentional words.
She stood by the hall, looked at this magnificent imperial city, closed her eyes, and said to the people around her: "Let's go, go to the concubine mother."
Xie Fanghan only found out that his wound had opened after he returned to the General's Mansion.
In order not to worry the old man, she wanted to carefully go back to her room, but Wei Baili caught her just as she entered the second door.
The expected reprimand did not appear, Wei Baili just glanced at the blood on her body, and then looked away.
"The Northland is no better than Xijing. When you get there, it's your own battlefield. Whether it's me or your father, it's beyond our reach."
"Being soft-hearted to the enemy is being cruel to yourself. You were only injured last time, but you may lose your life next time."
"I won't say anything superfluous. This is the path you choose. Whether it's life or death, I can't interfere."
After Wei Baili said these few words to her, he turned and left. Xie Fanghan looked at his back as he was striding away, and sighed in his heart.
The old man has fought all his life, and it is rare for him to be so entangled.
He hoped that he would inherit his mantle, but he was worried about her life and death. He said the most important words in order to let her live.
Xie Fanghan returned to his room with a calm expression, re-bandaged his wound, called the secret guard and began to explain everything...
The most discussed issue in the Dayan court recently is the matter of Dayue. The court is divided into two factions. One faction advocates agreeing to Dayue's request and exchanging grain for the lost land, while the other faction advocates sending troops to conquer the lost land. The two factions are arguing in the court Darkness, most of the time Emperor Yan listened to the struggle between the two sides in silence. The courtiers thought it would be the same today, until the eunuch next to Emperor Yan read out an imperial decree...
It has been a long time since anyone from the palace has been to the general's mansion, but the palace people who haven't arrived for a long time are not looking for the general Wei Baili, but his grandson Xie Fanghan.
"Following the heavens, the emperor ordered that Xie Fanghan be exempted from kneeling and worshiping, and Xie Fanghan in the general's mansion will accept the order..."
In the 17th year of Jiahe, the ruling emperor of Dayan personally wrote the most powerful imperial edict in his life, intending to recover the land and return our land.
In the 17th year of Jiahe, Xie Fanghan, who was only 17 years old, was named the general who conquered the North, awarded the Tiger Talisman of the Zhenbei Army, and led the troops to the north.
On the eve of Jiahe's 17th year, the general who conquered the North, Yan Yutang, the Fifth Princess of Yan, said to her mother and concubine——
She fell in love with someone.