Ah Ye leaned against a tree not far away, looking at Chen Pingxiang reading Xiao Chumo's name with a rare gloomy face, as if he had discovered some new continent.

He'd seen this guy many times, and the smile on his face had almost never changed. Now because of a Xiao Chumo, he finally broke the appearance of such a smiling tiger, which is really a little strange.

If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have any ties with this person and didn't know how to read minds, he really wanted to see what Chen Pingxiang had just thought.

For the situation in the palace. Yu Panxi didn't know anything. Although he was still relieved of Yu Feng's physical condition, he still did not enter the palace to visit.

"I heard that Chen Pingxiang has been here during the day?"

At dinner, Xiao Chumo asked as if unintentionally. I must have heard Steward Liu mention this matter before, so I want to ask more clearly now.

Yu Panxi nodded, she just wanted to tell him about it, but she didn't expect to be preempted by him.

"He came to me and said that my father had fallen ill due to the cold and fatigue for many days, so he wanted me to enter the palace to help arrange the singing and dancing at the prime minister's birthday banquet."

"Father-in-law is sick? Have you ever asked a doctor to see it? ”

Xiao Chumo heard the worry in her words, so he followed her words and asked. After all, Yu Feng is his father-in-law, and he should be more or less concerned about it.

The worry between Yu Panxi's eyebrows never dissipated, and she didn't look up at him, but just said the news that Chen Pingxiang had told her: "I've seen it, and it's okay, but I just need to pay attention to rest for a while." But I didn't get to see it with my own eyes, and I always felt relieved. ”

"Don't worry, since the Imperial Doctor has said so, there shouldn't be any problems."

After Xiao Chumo finished speaking, his voice paused, and he carefully considered the words that he had originally put in his heart, and then spoke: "Since Chen Pingxiang is here to ask you for help, why don't you agree to him?" After all, this can be regarded as helping my father-in-law solve the current problem. ”

Hearing this, Yu Panxi turned his head to look at him, as if he heard something wrong from his words. After staring at Xiao Chumo's face for a long time, she suddenly grinned and leaned in front of him, her voice clearly teasing him: "What's the matter, you're jealous?" ”

With such a straightforward question, the latter naturally denied it: "How is it possible, it's just that you just said that your father-in-law should have a good rest, if you don't help him, what should you do about singing and dancing?" ”

For this explanation, Yu Panxi obviously didn't buy it.

She knows Xiao Chumo's temperament very well, and they had an awkward quarrel because of Chen Pingxiang last time, of course she knows that she needs to coax him now, so as not to cause any misunderstanding in the future.

So, she told her what she had written to Yu Feng, and pointed out that Chen Pingxiang's ability to do things was passable, and he should be enough to cope with the singing and dancing at the birthday banquet. Except for Ah Ye's matter, she didn't hide anything.

"I have spent so much effort to find Zilei Mountain, and now it is rare to have such an opportunity to go over and look for it, so I naturally put this matter in the first place."

Yu Panxi said what was in his heart. The two of them have finally come to this point, and she doesn't want Xiao Chumo to have any unnecessary misunderstandings with her because of this.

In fact, the latter didn't think much about it, because Yu Panxi had already told him that she and Chen Pingxiang were just friends who had been friends for many years. No matter how close the friendship between the two was before, now that she has tried her best to avoid meeting each other, there is no need for him to worry about it anymore.

It's just that Yu Panxi didn't take the initiative to mention the matter of Chen Pingxiang's coming to the house today, which made Xiao Chumo feel a little jealous. Now that he learned that she didn't even have time to see Yu Feng, just to go to Purple Thunder Mountain to find the spirit stone, what was he unhappy about?

I have to say that the news brought by Chen Pingxiang did not cause much turmoil. After Yu Panxi asked him to bring a handwritten letter into the palace, he still set off with the team that went to the border to negotiate the next day.

Just like ordinary young ladies, even if she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Yu Panxi has not been able to learn to ride a horse. This is a long way to go, and it is obviously impossible to let Xiao Chumo take her to ride the horse with her. Therefore, the latter was very kind to prepare a carriage for her.

"Won't that slow down the whole team?"

When the team stopped to rest for the first time, Yu Panxi quietly asked Xiao Chumo, obviously worried about whether he would become a burden to the team.

However, after hearing her words, Xiao Chumo laughed and pinched her cheek affectionately, and then pulled her towards the middle of the team. There, there were dozens of carriages parked.

"See? The wagons were loaded with all the rations of the team until they reached their destination. The rest, with His Majesty's consent, will bring some Kyoto food to the border brethren. ”

Xiao Chumo walked through the carriages with Yu Panxi and introduced to her the things on the carriages. His words were not only to reassure Yu Panxi, but also to let her know the hard work of those soldiers who have been stationed on the frontier all year round.

"Because of the perennial war, the soldiers stationed on the border basically only maintain one principle, that is, they can eat enough, and they have long lost any requirements for other appetites."

"It's rare that I didn't lead troops out for the war this time, so after obtaining His Majesty's consent, I bought a lot of candied dried fruits in Kyoto. Although there are not many of them, they can give the soldiers who are still there a taste. ”

His words were very sad, which made Yu Panxi's heart also sigh with emotion.

Even if she hadn't actually been to the frontier, she knew that the land there had long been no decent crops because it had been trampled by iron riders all year round. For example, fragrant rice, which can be found everywhere in Kyoto, is never seen there.

Even the food that the soldiers ate every day, in addition to being purchased in the surrounding cities, was mostly transported from farther away.

In addition, Mo Baozhou was mediocre and greedy for pleasure before, and emptied the treasury of Ning State. These soldiers who defend their homes and defend the country don't talk about eating and drinking spicy food on weekdays, and even oil and water are rarely seen.

Fresh meat is hard to preserve, and it's impossible to really drive a herd of chickens, ducks, cows and sheep to the frontier. Although Xiao Chumo wanted to bring some food for the soldiers there, in the end, he could only choose things that were easy to preserve, such as candied fruits and dried fruits.

"The princes and nobles in Kyoto are full of fish and meat every day, and they wear silk and satin. If you haven't seen the hardships of those soldiers with your own eyes, how can you know that the prosperity of Kyoto is guarded by them with their flesh and blood! ”

Yu Panxi had thought that after the last refugee uprising, she would not see these hardships again. But now she really hasn't seen it, but she can hear the current situation of those soldiers' lives from Xiao Chumo's mouth.