"It's delicious, but it's tasteless." Yue Tang drooped his face, "The stinky monk asked the cook to make the taste of the wood the lightest, which is as unpalatable as chewing wax." ”

Hong Ding: "Then you're still done eating......"

Yue Tang: "If you don't finish eating, the stinky monk won't give candied fruit to eat - the medicine is even more unpalatable, and I don't want to take medicine without candied fruit." ”

Hong Ding was simply shocked: "If he doesn't give you candied fruit, you will give in?" ”

Yue Tang glanced at him: "Otherwise?" Don't take medicine? ”

Hong Ding remembered that the former military doctor prescribed bitter medicine to Yue Tang, and was chased and beaten by her all over the military camp, and then had to buy her all kinds of sweets for a month before stopping, and never dared to prescribe bitter medicine to her again.

Holding back his thoughts for a while, Hong Ding comforted: "Let's go eat when you're all right, you shouldn't be able to drink wine and eat meat now." ”

Yue Tang frowned: "Of course not, otherwise I'll still wait?" Alas. ”

Hong Ding looked at her and sighed for a while, and said, "Those I just ...... Doesn't the general have anything to order? ”

Yue Tang: "Yes, yes, but I don't think it's interesting." She smiled self-deprecatingly, "I thought that without me, Lanxi would be in a mess, but you see now, even Beiting has come to ask for peace." ”

Hong Ding hurriedly said: "What is this, of course it won't work without you, this Xue Huai is just a moment of luck, the situation is in his direction to thwart the Beiting Army so smoothly, if you didn't clear the epidemic before and besiege the Beiting Army in the city, how could he win stability?" ”

Yue Tang smiled: "I am used to comforting people." ”

Hong Ding waved his hand and smiled to show that he was telling the truth, and said cautiously: "Xue Huai is not just a monk, but sometimes I suspect that he himself does not know who he is. If I were him, I was afraid that I would take as much power as possible to protect myself, but he had been taking care of you in the infirmary except for making thorough arrangements, and he had not done anything to drill the camp. ”

Yue Tang remembered some old things when he was in Beijing.

At that time, it was still the reign of the former emperor, but from time to time he would be bedridden to recuperate due to cough disease, and there were always seven or eight days a month when he could not go to the court to govern the government, and he could not complete all the notes. The former emperor was a usurper in power, and there were many unequal forces in the country, and the eight hundred miles of urgency was not broken, but sometimes the former emperor coughed in the middle of the night before falling asleep, and no one dared to disturb him, so these reports gradually piled up, and some urgent situations evolved into riots.

Under these circumstances, Yue Rong, who was the most trusted by the former emperor and the head of the important figures who helped him ascend to the throne, gradually began to deal with these reports, but he still had no right to intervene in any incident involving the core of Gyeonggi.

And the right to dispose of these incidents, Duan Shuqing, who was still Her Royal Highness the eldest princess when the former emperor handed over the curtain. At that time, the former emperor had no heirs, but there were a few brothers who could be useful, but he handed over these things to an imperial sister, and at that time it seemed that he was afraid of several princes, and later, this became one of the important proofs that Duan Shuqing succeeded to the throne is the former emperor's heart.

At that time, Yue Tang was only thirteen or fourteen years old, but he was keenly aware of something because he often accompanied Duan Shuqing's side. She could see that the former emperor's wariness of Yue Rong was not very heavy, it was just the emperor's general defense against important ministers, but under Duan Shuqing's "reminder", it gradually deepened, and finally the authority to deal with the important affairs of Gyeonggi fell into the hands of Duan Shuqing, Yue Rong still didn't know what made the former emperor unhappy.

Yue Tang's great pleasure at that time was to admire his father's eyebrows and eyes in the house, and the eldest brother who didn't dare to say much. She doesn't care about the honor and disgrace of the Yue family, nor does she have the slightest so-called tension of both prosperity and loss, all she wants to see is that her father and brother are sad, nervous and worried, whoever can make them like this, she likes to be with whomever she likes.

Duan Shuqing obviously knew Yue Tang's mind very well. Although she is the same age as Yue Tang and is called "cousin" by Yue Tang, she is actually fourteen years older than Yue Tang, how can she not know what a young woman who is thirteen or fourteen years old and hates her father and brother thinks? So she often took Yue Tang with her, went in and out of the palace, showed her the cruelty of the palace from time to time, and gave her warmth and favor from time to time, so that she knew who could really help her.

So later, during the time when the former emperor had a cough attack, the important affairs of Gyeonggi were monopolized by Duan Shuqing. Because she is a woman, although she holds great power, she has not spoken about the impeachment, and some people even sang praises for her and praised her for her talent in the town.

When Yue Tang, who was far away in Taizhou, heard the news of Duan Shuqing's accession to the throne, she suddenly connected the previous events before and after, and felt that the empress was unfathomable.

But at that time, she knew that in addition to the empress, there were several princes who were eyeing the former emperor during his cough, and Duan Shuqing's holding of power as a woman made them relax their vigilance for a while, thinking that this authority could always be taken back and take it lightly, which was another matter.

If it wasn't Duan Shuqing at that time, but several princes planning to fight, it would just be a change of prince sitting in Gyeonggi and inheriting the throne after the death of the former emperor.

At present, it seems that Xue Huai was pushed to the forefront by others, or he himself took advantage of the situation to meet the waves, it is more like the situation to create heroes, just like Duan Shuqing in the past, taking advantage of the former emperor's stubborn cough and mastering Gyeonggi. But what if you don't have a cough? Will there be something else? If it weren't for Duan Shuqing, would it be someone else?

Just like herself, if Yue Tang did not come to Lanxi to fight the plague, there would be others, and there would be similar situations, there would also be Xue Huai or someone else to help, and there would also be tricks from the North Court, and there would also be King Hui stirring up the storm in it.

Troubled times are like a chess game, every step is always new, but the game is fixed.

Suddenly, I felt tired.