Chapter 224: The Western Frontier of the Ning Kingdom
"Your Highness, don't keep yourself stuffy in the house. Stay in the house and eat and sleep, sleep and eat, and you can only read books, how boring this is, it is not good for your Highness and your children. Shao Yulan squatted on the soft edge of Yuran, her arms folded on the soft armrest, and then gently lay on the back of her hand, a pair of smart eyes looked at Yuran and blinked and blinked.
Yuran seemed to have listened to Shao Yulan's chatter for a long time, she put down the book with both hands, and her dark and translucent eyes showed a bit of helplessness, "Yulan, I don't." ”
"Your Highness, you have." Shao Yulan bumped into Yuran's eyes and said again very sincerely.
"So what do you think I should do? As long as Yu Lan wants to figure it out, I'll try to do it, okay? Yu Ran tilted his head and said with the same smile.
Shao Yulan seemed to think about it seriously for a while, and then her eyes lit up, and she grinned: "By the way, Your Highness, do you want to go to live in another courtyard for a while?" Anyway, since those ministers knew that His Highness was pregnant, they no longer dared to disturb His Highness directly. If Your Highness has documents to read, you can also directly order someone to bring them with you. Just take a few steps and take a break? ”
"Nope."
This sentence in response to Shao Yulan did not come from Yu Ran's mouth, Shao Yulan's eyes suddenly looked in the direction where the voice came from, and found that it was indeed Zhuo Lengyan who was slowly walking into the inner room.
"Sister Leng Yan, why can't you?" Shao Yulan asked in some surprise.
"Miss is now seven and a half months pregnant, not to mention the fatigue of going out in the carriage, the situation in Hua Shangning is also complicated now, if Miss leaves the Regent Palace, if anything goes wrong, the final responsibility is not something any of us can afford." Zhuo Lengyan's voice still sounded calm and steady.
Shao Yulan pursed her lips, and there was a bit of loss in her eyes, but she was a sensible person, and she knew what she should and shouldn't say at this time.
"Okay, Yu Lan, don't worry, I'll put my business aside for the time being." Yu Ran couldn't help laughing, then reached out and put his index and middle fingers together, and lightly touched Shao Yulan's forehead.
"Sister Leng Yan has something to say to His Royal Highness, right? Then I'd better go out first, and come back to see Your Highness later." Shao Yulan grinned at Yu Ran, then stood up straight, a strand of her dress, and walked out of the house in a sassy manner.
Shao Yulan's departure brought a burst of bead curtains swaying, the crisp sound of rubbing, and the elegance of the breeze seemed to blend together at this moment.
"Miss, you shouldn't let Rong Xi go." Zhuo Lengyan looked at the jade dye with a clear face, and sighed softly, the first sentence was this sentence.
Yuran's eyes flickered, she looked at Zhuo Lengyan, and then the corners of her lips raised a little smile, "Even if I don't let him go, he will have a way to leave after all." In that case, it might as well make it rare for me to be a good person who is empathetic. ”
Zhuo Leng smoked the corner of his eyes, and said coldly: "Miss, do you have some misunderstanding of the word empathy?" ”
"No, how could it be? I've always been very self-aware. Tamarin tilted her head, squinting and grinning.
The sunlight that came in from the window just shone on half of Jade's face, and her black hair glowed with a faint golden light in the sun, giving people a soft and elegant feeling.
But Zhuo Lengyan knew that Yuran's softness actually coexisted with her coercion, but the person standing opposite her could still see an incomparable elegance from her, as if she should have stood on the throne of the king, and she should have enjoyed the dignity and glory she deserved.
The jade dye's dark and translucent eyes seemed to be churning with flickering ripples, but it made people feel that they would fall into it at a glance and couldn't extricate themselves.
All this is enough to prove that Yuran's mood now is not as plain as she seems. Her calmness, at some point, may make people shudder.
"Hua Jun seems to have a close connection with Shang Guo in recent days, but Hua Jun seems to be very defensive of the outside world, and even the people around him don't seem to be able to find out the wind, so we don't know what Hua Jun is for." Zhuo Lengyan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said in a deep voice.
Hearing this, Yuran's eyes moved slightly, and the corners of her curved lips slowly became straight, but her face still looked very calm.
Her knuckles gently clasped the limp armrests with a low, crunchy crash. Suddenly, Yuran's eyes changed from translucent to deep, and she raised her eyes suddenly, "I know what he's for." ”
Yu Ran paused and continued to explain: "Hua Jun knows that the power behind An Guo can't escape from my palm for the time being, so he has no way to unite An Guo. And the closest to the northern border of Ningguo is Anguo, if Huajun wants to send troops to Ningguo, then he must not break through from the northern border of Ningguo. If he forced his way into the northern border of Ningguo, if he didn't make it happen, Huaguo's army would be attacked on his back, and he couldn't take this risk. Therefore, the border city in the west of Ningguo has become a point that he wants to try. ”
"What Miss means is that Hua Jun wants to take over the Shang Kingdom and attack the border city in the west of the Ning Kingdom." Zhuo Lengyan also suddenly understood.
"That's it." Tamarin gave an affirmative response.
"Miss Nayi thinks, should we secretly send people to the western realm to prepare early, or do something else?" After Zhuo Lengyan thought about it, he asked.
Yu Ran withdrew the hand on the armrest, her fingertips lightly tapped her chin, her phoenix eyes slightly raised, and the corners of her lips slowly outlined a perfect arc. Although she is seven and a half months pregnant, Yuran only looks a lot rounder on the abdomen, and if you want to say that her original melon seed face, now that she looks carefully, there is not much difference compared to before, but her skin looks more hydrated.
"Cold smoke, do me a favor." Yu Ran suddenly opened his lips with a smile.
As soon as Zhuo Lengyan saw Yu Ran's slightly cunning expression, he felt that things were not good.
Sure enough, before Zhuo Lengyan could reply, Yu Ran spoke again, "Leng Yan, you help me spread the news, just say that the regent went out to the city to relax because he was pregnant." ”
Yangui City is a small city close to the south of the capital of Ningguo, only half a day's distance from the capital of Ningguo, the scenery is excellent, and it is not troublesome. At the beginning, Yuran ordered the creation of a separate courtyard there, also because she had not spent much time in Ningguo at that time, and she was afraid that Shao Yulan would be bored in the capital, so she created a place for them to walk around and have fun, and it was good to clean up from time to time, and their bodies and minds were comfortable.
"The news gets out very quickly." Zhuo Lengyan's words came to this point, and she paused abruptly, then her eyebrows raised, and she stared at Yuran with her arms folded on her chest with a lazy expression, "But Miss, do you want to tell me, where are you going after this news is released?" Do you still want to go to the West? ”
Zhuo Lengyan's words seemed to be deliberately a little sharp, her brows were almost twisted, and she looked at Yu Ran with an unbelievable look. She was really afraid that Yuran would say the word "right", but she would come whatever she was afraid of.
Because next, Yu Ran smiled and said, "It's not the westernmost realm." Cold smoke, I want to go to Xilin Town. ”
Xilin Town is a small town next to Cuiyang City, a border city in the west of Ningguo, although the scenery there is okay, but it is sparsely populated on weekdays, and there are fewer people who really live in the town, but it is a very quiet place.
But Qingjing is quiet, Xilin Town is at least ten days away from the capital of Ningguo, and now that Yuran is pregnant, how can it be delayed for four or five more days.
"Miss, I know you're never a joker. Seriously, I think you should think about it again. You're seven and a half months pregnant, and you can't stand such a long and bumpy road. What's more, out of the capital, the outside forces are mixed, and the subordinates are really afraid of danger. Zhuo Lengyan's face was worried. It was precisely because she knew that Yuran never joked, so she was even more worried that Yuran would not change her mind.
"Even if it's in the capital of Ningguo, isn't there also Huajun's power moving around in the dark?" Yu Ran said gently: "I still know my body, you just think I am going out for a walk according to Yu Lan's wishes." ”
Zhuo Lengyan looked at Yu Ran, her eyes were complicated, and after a moment of silence, she asked, "Miss, do you have any other considerations in your heart?" ”
"Although Rong Ying's return to China this time was within my expectations, it always made me feel that there was something I hadn't thought of. Hua Jun wanted to force Rong to attack back, and I saw this very clearly. And in order to keep the one-year covenant he proposed, Rong Xi has not left Ning Guo for half a year. Don't expect Hua Jun to be as confused as An Jun, Hua Jun is very shrewd, Rong Xi is not in Hua Guo, and he can't directly supervise Hua Guo's courtiers, so this is the best time for Hua Jun to do it in secret. I'm afraid that Hua Jun will let Rong Raid go back this time, precisely because Hua Jun has confirmed that there are no more people left in the court of Hua Kingdom, so he wants to put Rong Raid under his nose, and he wants to see what kind of reputation Rong Raid is ready to toss. Yuran propped her right elbow on the soft armrest, her palm gently supporting her right cheek, and her phoenix eyes sometimes flashed with gold.
"Then since Rong Xi knew that Hua Jun did it on purpose, why did he want to go back? Is he preparing to return to China to regain control of some of the forces in the DPRK? Zhuo Lengyan asked thoughtfully.
"Rong Xi's forces account for less than half of the Hua Dynasty's central and military forces, so even if Hua Jun has already dealt with it to a certain extent, he doesn't dare to attack Rong Xi directly. Rong Xi went back this time, and it was safe for the time being, and I am afraid that Rong Xi wanted to do it himself. It would be best if Rong Xi could contain each other with Hua Jun, but judging from Rong Xi's current control of Hua Guo's situation, the situation is a little delicate. After all, it is not easy for Hua Guo to get to where he is today, it was all done by Hua Jun himself step by step, so even I have no way to underestimate him. ”