dhibooks Chapter 40 40
Chapter 40 40
Xie Fanghan set off to the north with 30 deniers of grain and grass.
I don't know if Yanhuang arranged it on purpose, the amount of food and grass allocated to her happened to be the amount proposed by Dayue.
In other words, it also expressed Yan Huang's own attitude.
On the side of Zhenbei Army, Cheng Qi was unable to go back to Beijing to report on his duties, but Jing Bufan insisted on returning to Beidi with Xie Fanghan, and she did not shirk it. It was the first time to lead the army to fight, and she dared not take it seriously.
On the day of leaving Xijing, the journey from the General's Mansion to the gate of the city was extremely lively. The common people came to see the excitement, and people in the dark were sizing her up.
A rich man who had never been on the battlefield suddenly led the army. No one believed that this was the truth. Everyone believed that Xie Fanghan was just a cover, and the real arrangement of the imperial decree was for the general.
Xie Fanghan doesn't care what other people think, and he doesn't want to care, since he has entered the game, don't blame her for flipping the chessboard.
On the second floor of an inn at the gate of the city, Wei Nanyan retreated from the window, looked at the person sitting behind him and asked, "Aren't you going to see her off?"
She couldn't figure out what His Highness was thinking, so she went out of the palace to look for her before dawn this morning, but ended up occupying such a good position, but she didn't even look at her when she arrived.
What are these two doing again?
Yan Yutang's complexion looked a little tired, but she was in good spirits, and she just shook her head when she heard the words: "Don't watch."
Don't see why we are here.Wei Nanyan slandered in his heart, but there was helplessness on his face.
Yan Yutang raised her hand and refilled herself another cup of tea steadily. She stayed up all night last night and left the palace in a hurry this morning, so she was very tired by now.
Thinking about her abnormality today, Wei Nanyan tentatively asked, "You two are still fighting, aren't you?"
"No quarrel." Yan Yutang replied seriously: "There has been no quarrel."
Okay, okay, no quarrel, you are the princess and you are the biggest, anyway, if you don't look at anyone, you will disappear.
Wei Nanyan didn't dare to speak out, so he simply stopped asking.
"Your Highness." The dark guard quietly appeared behind her.
For this way of appearance, Wei Nanyan is no stranger to it, she was scared a few times at the beginning, and she got used to it after more times.
Yan Yutang: "Is it done?"
The hidden guard: "Yes, everything you ordered has been done, there is only one thing..."
It was rare for Yan Yutang to see the hidden guard hesitate so much, he frowned and asked quickly, "What's the matter?"
The dark guard hesitated for a long time, as if he didn't know how to speak, he simply took out the object from his arms.
It was a letter, and there was half a piece of jade, the shape of which was very familiar to Yan Yutang.
With a guess in her heart, she quickly opened the letter.
It's Xie Fanghan's handwriting.
The more Yan Yutang read it, the more complicated her heart became. After finishing it, she couldn't sit still anymore, got up and walked quickly to the window, but there was no one there.
Wei Nanyan didn't know what was written on it, she only saw that Yan Yutang's expression gradually became complicated and unpredictable, she knew that Yan Yutang asked the hidden guard to send Xie Fanghan some news about the Northland, and she didn't know what Xie Fanghan replied, Let Yan Yutang lose his composure like this.
"Go back to the palace." Yan Yutang said with a pale face, then turned and left in a hurry.
"Ma'am, the princess is here."
Liao Han heard the servant's report, put down the book in his hand, and told the people in the room: "Go down first."
"Yes." The servants in the house filed out.
Liao Han looked at the empty room with dim eyes.
It will come sooner or later.
During this period of time, Yan Yutang often came to her place and didn't speak. She just sat in a daze. Her own daughter was just as thoughtful as her. If she didn't talk, she, a mother, wouldn't ask.
Last night, she hurried over in the moonlight, sat upright on a chair and told her seriously that she fell in love with someone.
Liao Han was happy for her, but also worried for her...
"Mother concubine."
Yan Yutang came in a hurry, as if there was a wind under her feet, even the etiquette that she had always followed was scattered a bit.
"Don't worry, speak slowly." Liao Han handed her a cup of tea with a calm tone.
"Did you already know?" Yan Yutang looked at Liao Han with sharp eyes.
Liao Han didn't care, put down the teacup casually, and nodded lightly: "Yes."
On the contrary, the calmness of her mother and concubine made Yan Yutang not know how to face it. She should be angry, angry that Liao Han was hiding it from her, but the warm jade in her hand blocked all the words she wanted to complain.
If you really want to count, it is their mother and daughter who are more sorry for their family.
She somehow got a clue of those stories hidden in the elapsed time.
The mother and daughter were silent in the room for a long time. Yan Yutang ran his fingers across the lines on the jade, and suddenly asked, "What does the concubine like the person look like?"
Liao Han wasn't surprised by her question. When the time came, she didn't intend to continue to hide it. There was nothing shameful about the person she liked. She was caught in the memory and smiled unconsciously while talking.
In my impression, this was probably the day when Liao Han talked the most to her, but from the words of her mother and concubine, she heard a lively and willful woman.
Not at all like Xie Fanghan, she subconsciously said in her heart.
It's just that as soon as this idea appeared, her originally relaxed expression became stiff.
Liao Han looked at his daughter's reaction, and explained her thoughts in one sentence: "Do you think these two people are not alike at all?"
Yan Yutang lowered her head and remained silent for a long time.
Liao Han didn't force her to ask, and continued talking about the past between her and Wei Xun.
In order to stand out for her, you fought with the young master of Junhou's mansion, and pressed the other party's head to ask him to apologize to him.
Also, when I heard that she liked a certain master's book, I searched everywhere for the rare copy of that master and gave it to her regardless of the price.
And in order to protect her, she did not hesitate to offend the princess, and in order to make her happy, she secretly sneaked into the royal courtyard to enjoy the flowers. One by one, it was a long time ago, but her mother and concubine even remembered the details clearly.
"Actually, they are very similar." Liao Han changed the subject sharply.
Yan Yutang didn't speak up, it was a tacit consent.
Xie Fanghan is indeed not as reckless and arrogant as her mother. Most of the time, she is low-key and introverted. Only when she encounters things about her will she be different, standing in front of her like an unsheathed sword Overcome obstacles for her.
Liao Han didn't want to say much at first, but maybe the mention of Wei Xun today made her heart a little bit softer for no reason.
Liao Han: "You came to tell me last night that you have someone you like, but Wei Xun's daughter?"
Yan Yutang could tell that the last two words were said by her mother and concubine on purpose.
She thought for a while, but didn't hide it: "It's her."
Liao Han: "Is it because of her that you are out of your mind these days?"
Yan Yutang nodded: "Yes."
Liao Han continued to ask: "According to what you said last night, but you suddenly figured it out? Now that you figured it out, why did you react like this today?"
Yan Yutang was silenced by Liao Han's question, and remained silent for a long time.
Liao Han was not in a hurry, and quietly waited for Yan Yutang's answer.
Yan Yutang thought for a long time, until the hot tea turned cold, before she struggled to open her mouth: "Before, I just thought she was very good, knowledgeable and talented, but after getting to know her slowly, I gradually discovered a different side of her, she knows Zang Feng, who knows how to be humble, is only like the sun when facing me, bright and dazzling, sincerely makes people want to get close, but also worried that he can't bear it."
Liao Han quietly listened to Yan Yutang's narration, a smile flashed in his eyes, but a touch of melancholy filled his heart, and he said to himself that they are indeed mother and daughter, and Yan Yutang now resembles her at that time very much.
Yan Yutang didn't know what Liao Han was thinking, so he paused and continued: "The day the three kings forced the palace, she was injured in order to protect me and exposed her identity. I thought I would be angry, or feel disgusted like before, but no, nothing. No, I was so calm that I felt that this shouldn't be me..."
"She probably knew that I had discovered her identity, and she never came to see me once after waking up. I knew what she was worried about, but I couldn't help but be angry with her, not because she concealed it, but because of her never came to see me."
"That day she went to the palace to ask her father to ask for an order to go north. When I arrived, I only had time to see her back. Her wound was still bleeding, but she jumped into this muddy water for me."
When Yan Yutang said this, her expression was austere: "Concubine Mu, I've been thinking these past few days, how can I deserve her to do so much for me."
Liao Han looked at his daughter's struggling eyes, and lowered his voice: "So, you say you like it, just because she has done so many things for you?"
Hearing this, Yan Yutang suddenly became embarrassed, clutching her sleeves uneasily, and her tone was a little out of control: "Mother concubine means that I don't like her?"
Liao Han looked at her reaction, with a little gentleness in his calm eyes: "You have to ask yourself, do you like her, or the person who does these things for you."
The room returned to silence again, Yan Yutang frowned in thought, Liao Han looked at her profile with a smile on his face.
Seeing the night fell, Liao Han didn't expect her to be enlightened suddenly, so he called the palace servants outside and told them to prepare food.
After finishing the order, Liao Han looked back and saw Yan Yutang got up at some point, her eyes were no longer confused, but firm and serious.
Liao Han looked at her with a smile, waiting for her answer.
Yan Yutang's voice was a little hoarse, it lost its usual gentleness but was extremely candid.
She said: "I like her. I like people who do these things for me. I don't know how I would feel if someone else did these things for me, but I know that there are many people who can do these things, but She is the only one who is willing to do it for me."
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Liao Han watched Yan Yutang leave, watching the light disappear into the distance little by little.
"Your Majesty, are you happy today?" the maid who held the lamp for her whispered.
"Is there?" she asked.
"You always have a smile on your face," the maid replied.
When Liao Han heard this, he simply agreed: "Well, I'm a little happy."
Her daughter, she really resembles her even in her heart and mind.Her second question was a cover-up, but she was smart all her life, so she was confused for a moment, and couldn't distinguish her small thoughts, so she sat there all afternoon and thought of a set of plausible explanations.
The onlookers knew, if she didn't like it, why would she think so much.
"Your Highness, you are back." The star waited for a day before finally waiting for his highness to come back.
Yan Yutang nodded: "Yes."
Xing Xing took the cloak she handed over. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that her highness was in a good mood.
Did something good happen?
Yan Yutang went straight back to her study, closed the door and told others not to disturb her casually.
"Dark guard." She said softly.
Unlike before, this time after she finished speaking, the hidden guard who appeared from the dark became two people.
The extra one belonged to Xie Fanghan's subordinates.
Xie Fanghan explained some things to her in his heart, so Yan Yutang didn't beat around the bush, and asked directly, "How did Xie Fanghan explain to you?"
The hidden guard: "Little master, let us follow your arrangements."
Yan Yutang frowned: "Then she went north this time, and brought a few hidden guards with her."
The dark guard replied honestly: "Four."
"Nonsense!" Yan Yutang reprimanded: "She is messing around, you just let her go."
"We also don't agree, but the little master said that this trip is going to the battlefield, and the hidden guard has a limited role, so it's better to follow you, so she can feel at ease." The dark guard said that "limited role" tone was a bit aggrieved.
Yan Yutang breathed a sigh of relief, and said to herself that she would settle accounts with her later, and then told the secret guard: "Choose ten more people to follow secretly, don't let her know, and reply to letters once every half a month, and let everything go I know."
"Yes." The dark guard took the order.
"Also, check the secret social networks of these people." Yan Yutang said, and then handed another hidden guard a note with a string of names on it, and there could be a dozen or so.
"These people are all from the former peace sect." Yan Yutang said solemnly: "They want to send me to Da Viet in exchange for lost territory, I don't care about it, but the two countries are going to war soon, I can't let them trip Xie Fanghan again son."
"And my second brother, because of the face of the royal family, the emperor didn't give an explicit order. He doesn't know where he fled now, so arrange some people to investigate and prevent him from causing trouble again."