After brushing off the bowl and tidying up the house, Jiang Yun made himself a pot of tea and drank it in the living room. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Xu Huanting went out when it was unitary time, and when she returned, it was past the time of Hai, which was more than two hours, which shows that the two of them do have a lot of old things to tell.

When she came back, Xu Huanting moved very lightly and seemed cautious, and when she walked through the front yard, she saw the candlelight in the main house at a glance, she paused at her feet, and then walked towards the living room.

"Haven't slept yet?"

"I'm getting ready to go to sleep." Jiang Yun put down the tea bowl, got up and stretched.

"So coincidentally?" Xu Huanting smiled, stepped forward and pressed him back to his seat, and sat down on Jiang Yun's lap. "What? Just worry about me? ”

"Sort of." Jiang Yun sighed, "Ever since Fluttershy's accident, I've always felt a little less secure. In Yizhou, such a thing still happened in his own land, let alone in the capital? You are General Xu in the battle array, and if you take off your armor, you are just a little girl in her twenties, and if you don't return in the middle of the night, I can't let go of my heart. ”

Standing up, Xu Huanting walked around to the wooden table and sat down, supported her chin with both hands, and blinked: "Don't ask what happened today?" ”

"Don't ask." started talking, and it couldn't end in a sentence or two, Jiang Yun simply made himself a new pot of tea. "When you want to tell me, you will."

"His name is Cao Hua, the first man I fell in love with."

"Oh."

"Oh?" Xu Huanting was beautiful and slightly picked. "Xianggong, don't you think you're acting too bland?"

"And what do you think I should be? Anger? Or is it jealous like Luo'er? Jiang Yun smiled. Who hasn't a little bit of a past? If I had taken care of these things, my days would have passed. No matter what you have in the past, it doesn't matter, half a year later, you Xu Huanting will be my Jiang family, isn't that enough? ”

"You." Xu Huanting shook her head. "Sometimes I like your indifference that you don't care about, but sometimes I hate it. You make me feel like I'm not really important. ”

After a moment of silence, she continued: "When I was young, I didn't like military affairs, and what I envied the most was the three sisters of the Xiaoluo family, who were spoiled by their mothers and used to their fathers. Don't worry about anything, grow up carefree and playful. But my family is different from Wu Wangfu, my father's status is all about military affairs, and my eldest brother has a frivolous and impulsive temperament since he was a child, and he is not the material for commanding the army, so my father hit me with the idea. ”

Xu Huanting's eyes were a little empty, and she seemed to be completely immersed in her memories, and muttered: "When I was twelve years old, Cao Hua, as an overseer, worshiped under my father and learned to be in charge of soldiers. Then my father arranged for me to audit, and I had to do what Cao Hua did. In the end, it was decided by my father that the one who did poorly did not have dinner. ”

She suddenly laughed and said, "What will I do then?" But what about Cao Hua? He already has enough ability but is still the commander of the Praetorian Guard, as long as he is put into the foreign army, it is not difficult to get a rank of general at all, he has enough ability to command the army. Compare me to him? Xianggong, tell me how to compare? ”

Jiang Yun was silent, geniuses may never appear spontaneously, they are all forced out by the cruel reality. Xu Huanting's childhood did make him feel distressed for a while, but that's all, because in comparison, the one far away in Yizhou, his childhood seemed to be more miserable. Xu Huanting studied military affairs at the age of twelve, and just two years later, fourteen-year-old Lu Xun was forced to use his young shoulders to carry the future of millions of people in Shuibei. With precedent, there is immunity.

Xu Huanting is still immersed in her own thoughts. "It stands to reason that I should be the one who loses every time. But in fact, every time there is no food to eat, it is Cao Hua. He let me, and how many times I was harshly punished by my father for this, I can't remember it now. At that time, he was perfect in my heart, and extremely powerful, so I started to think carefully. She laughed to herself. I thought, if I can marry him in a few years, then someone will take on the responsibility of me. I will be able to live the life I want happily like the county lord of the Wu Palace. ”

"You're not stupid."

"But his humility to me has become my father's biggest dissatisfaction with him." Xu Huanting stretched out her hand and picked up the tea bowl in front of Jiang Yun and took a sip of herself, moistening her throat before saying: "There is no father and son on the battlefield, and the military is the most taboo and humble?" This is a taboo in the military. Daddy is old-fashioned, how can he not think that this is a virtue, looking at Cao Hua naturally more and more unpleasant, he feels that this person is useless, and he is destined to have no interest in the future. Later, my father talked to Cao Hua alone behind my back, and strictly ordered him not to get too close to me until I was seventeen. It was in this situation that he deliberately let me perform martial arts for two consecutive years. ”

"So you're going to have a fight?" Jiang Yun was a little unable to understand her thinking. "You can't blame him, if he has affection for you, he can't help but listen to your father."

"Oh, is that so?" Xu Huanting looked at Jiang Yun with a smile and said, "Then tell me, when have you heard my father's words?" ”

"Uh...

"That's why I gave up on him, and that's why I chose you." Xu Huanting's smile was put away, and her face gradually turned cold. "When I was a child, I longed for a strong man to protect me and take care of me, and this idea has not changed to this day. But Cao Hua, a person who is bound by layers of concepts, no matter how strong he is, it is superficial after all, his heart is still weak. Xianggong, but you are different, compared to Cao Hua, you can even say that you are so weak that you can't lift your hands and your shoulders, but you are such a person, but your heart is a little ridiculously strong. ”

It sounded good, but Jiang Yun couldn't help but feel embarrassed. You just say that I have no face, no skin, no heart and no lungs. "And you've been talking for so long?"

"Cao Hua came to me this time, and in addition to reminiscing about the past, he also told me some things." Xu Huanting said lightly: "This time, the king of Shu asked him to bring martial arts is not the Shu Heavenly Army, but the old and weak miscellaneous soldiers under the guise of it, and as early as more than a year ago, the Shu Heavenly Army has been secretly expanded five times, on the surface it is still 30,000, but in fact its scale has reached 80,000. Coupled with the garrisons of all the territorial parties, the number of troops that Ji Mingxuan, the king of Shu, can directly mobilize, may be close to 150,000. ”

"What does he want to do?"

"I don't know." Xu Huanting shook her head and said: "Maybe it's just like Uncle Ji, in order to protect himself, but I don't rule out the possibility of waiting for the opportunity to go further." Prince Minghui died too early after all, otherwise the court would still be a peaceful scene of brothers, friends and brothers. Regardless of ability or prestige, the grandson has no advantage over those uncles, although he has an orthodox reputation, but he also has to cancel out a lot of seniority factors, no one knows what he will do after he ascends the throne in the future, so the preparations that should be made must be done. ”

"Why is he asking you to do this?"

"This time I entered Beijing with Cao Hua, and there is a strange person, who is good at judging life and death by looking at faces, he has secretly seen Your Majesty, it is said... Your Majesty's time is probably only about three months. Cao Hua looked for me, so I must bring the news back to Jinling and tell my father. Within half a year, the big week may be chaotic, so prepare early so as not to be caught off guard. And, this should be the last time we'll see each other. ”

Xu Huanting stood up and closed the door, turned her head to look at Jiang Yun, shook her head with a wry smile and said, "If the Taisun intends to be unfavorable to the imperial uncle after ascending the throne, it is very likely that the kings will raise troops to force the palace. If he loses to the imperial court, naturally there is no need to say much, only death. But if you win, who doesn't want the throne in front of you? The Governor's Mansion of our five armies has been tied to Uncle Ji, and the Shu Heavenly Army formed by Cao Hua has sworn to serve the King of Shu to the death. He won't hold his hand anymore, I... Nor will it be. ”

It is indeed embarrassing that a pair of lovers once came to such a situation step by step. But this doesn't seem to have anything to do with Jiang Yun, his opponent has never been the imperial court, let alone the vassal king, but the behemoth standing behind the imperial court.