Zhou Tianqi was guarding the southern city of Fengnan, if the Nanyue Kingdom wanted to start a war with the Great Feng State, then the first thing to bear the brunt of was the southern city of Fengnan.

Hong Qiong's 500,000 troops were guarding outside Fengnan City, and 200,000 elite soldiers were guarding the border of Xiling Kingdom. Lin Wan guessed that the military power of these 200,000 elite soldiers must be in the hands of Xu Nuo. And the weapons created by Ximen Yuling, if they were not for their own rebellion, they must have been prepared for Xu Nuo's 200,000 elite soldiers.

If the Nanyue Kingdom wants to attack the Great Feudal State, there are only two entrances, one is to seal the southern city, and the other is Fuling Mountain. What Zhou Tianqi wants to defend is to seal the southern city, while Lin Wan wants to block this entrance to Xiling Kingdom.

Lin Wan felt a little headache, and when Lan Ziheng and Lu Manting came, she would have even more headaches.

Shangguan Yun packed up the things in his room upstairs and walked downstairs again. Seeing that Xinhu had gone, Lin Wan sat alone in the main hall, wrinkling his eyebrows and pondering. Slowly walked to her side and sat down, and asked tentatively, "Qi Niang, what are you thinking?"

Lin Wan took a deep breath, raised his head, smiled at Shangguan Yun and shook his head, and said, "It's nothing, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince may not come back in a short time, we are in this back garden, don't go out." Now that Prime Minister Xu Cheng and Princess Ziyu of Nanyue have set their sights on me, let's keep a low profile. ”

Shangguan Yun didn't pay attention to it at all, and said happily: "If you don't go out, you won't go out, I used to stay in the back garden all day, it's very interesting here, and it won't be boring." I can teach you how to grow flowers, how to catch butterflies, and how to sing, dance, and play the piano...... By the way, will you?"

Lin Wan covered her lips and smiled, shook her head, and said, "No, you can teach me." ”

Shangguan Yun became proud again and continued: "After the prince's cousin took me into the palace, he also arranged for me to have several masters to teach me piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. However, I didn't study well and made the teachers angry. So, I know everything, but I don't have any mastery. However, you can rest assured that there is no problem in teaching you some things to get started. ”

Lin Wan nodded very modestly and studiously, and said, "Great, our days are much better now." ”

Shangguan Yun frowned slightly, and said with hatred: "It's not a mess, pass the time." You must study hard, at least shine at the concubine selection feast, so that you can become the concubine of the prince's cousin. Otherwise......"

Lin Wan smiled lightly, shook his head, and said, "I don't plan to be the concubine of your prince's cousin, and I am not qualified to participate in the concubine selection feast." ”

Shangguan Yun's brows tightened even tighter, and he said anxiously: "Qi Niang, I really hope that you can become the concubine of the prince's cousin and stay in the palace forever, so that we can meet often." Moreover, the prince's cousin likes you so much and thinks about you everywhere, are you really not tempted at all?"

Lin Wan looked at Shangguan Yun in a daze, and didn't know how to answer for a while. Shangguan Yun's words moved Lin Wan very much, because Shangguan Yun originally liked Ximen Yuqing, and he was very repulsive to the women around Ximen Yuqing, but suddenly changed his mind because of Lin Wan. Instead, he hopes that Lin Wan and Ximen Yuqing will be together and become Ximen Yuqing's concubine.

Shangguan Yun saw Lin Wan's thoughts, saw the doubts in Lin Wan's heart, sighed heavily, lowered his eyes, and said in a vague manner: "On that day, what you said touched me a lot. All these years, I was in the palace, doing nothing all day, thinking nonsense. And the prince's cousin is so good and excellent to me, that's why I think I have fallen in love with the prince's cousin. Actually, no, I'm just too bored in the palace, and the sisters in the palace are very busy, and I'm the only one who has nothing to do. So, I just found something to fill my empty loneliness. ”

Lin Wan smiled slightly, looked at Shangguan Yun gently, and said, "It's good that you figure it out, it's a very painful thing to like a man who doesn't like you." Figuring out who you really like is even more painful. So, you're happy and good right now. ”

Shangguan Yun smiled and said, "I have you now, and Sister Nuan Xiang and Sister Nuan Sleeve play with me, and I can still live in this back garden, of course I'm happy! In the past, I came to this back garden alone to play with those flowers and plants, butterflies, and bees that couldn't speak, it was really boring." Speaking of which, although I have been in the palace for almost five years, when I saw the prince's cousin, I was pitiful, and I completely relied on my own fantasies to persevere. ”

Lin Wan pursed her lips and wanted to say, I will also have to leave here sooner or later, and you still have to find your own life in the end. However, seeing Shangguan Yun so happy, Lin Wan couldn't bear to tell her this bad news. I had to nod and ask from the side: "Yun'er, have you ever thought about whether you are willing to leave here and live under the mountain if you are not happy in the palace?"

Shangguan Yun was stunned, obviously she had never thought about this question, and frowned: "In this world, I only have one relative, the prince's cousin, where can I go if I leave here?"

Lin Wan smiled faintly and said, "The two of us are not relatives, and there were conflicts before we got to know each other. But now we are good friends, good sisters. So, it doesn't matter if you don't have relatives, you can make more friends and get more relatives at the bottom of the mountain. Life under the mountain is different from that in the palace, the interpersonal relationships in this palace are too complicated, and the relationship between the master and the subordinates is unequal, so it is difficult to make real friends. However, at the foot of the mountain, it is different among the people, everyone is an ordinary person, busy for a livelihood every day, there is not so much intrigue and power. ”

Shangguan Yun hesitated a little, frowned, and muttered, "But ......" But after a long time, he didn't know how to continue. After living in the palace for so long, she has long lost the ability to survive on her own, and she is afraid of life outside the palace.

When she was a child, she lived in the countryside with the nurse, and she was also envious of the nurse who watched the nurse and those neighbors doing farm work together, so happily working and living together. However, she didn't know anything, and the nurse wouldn't let her do anything, only let her read and write. Later, the nurse died, and after she entered the palace, she still didn't have to do anything, she couldn't even wash a piece of clothing.

Lin Wan looked at Shangguan Yun's hesitant, expectant and frightened expression, couldn't help but smile, leaned into Shangguan Yun's ear, and said in a low voice: "Yun'er, in a few days, if there is a chance, I will let Xinhu take us down the mountain to play, okay?"