It was also early summer, and the cool wind in the west was still steep. The imperial capital, even on the shore of Chuncao Lake, has a lake breeze to neutralize, but there is also an obvious restlessness.

As soon as the cicada chirped, it was all glued away by the Wei Chang Ying's order, so as not to disturb everyone to rest.

But even without the noise of cicadas, this summer is destined to be sad for the royal family and nobles who are used to being pampered.

Because the imperial capital was besieged by the Rong people last winter, it was impossible to go out of the city to dig ice and store it. Even if someone took some ice in their own garden, after the city was broken, the burning mansion of the Rong people turned into clear water.

The summer heat in the imperial capital is no less than that in the south, and if there is no cool room, it will be very difficult to move to a place such as a water pavilion. Especially now that Shen Jishi's injury in the other courtyard has not healed yet, Shen Shuguang and other children are still young, and they have been tossed when they broke through before, and now they are experiencing the scorching heat, which is really unreassuring.

Ice cubes are heavy and difficult to transport. It's not easy to buy from elsewhere.

This kind of worry became more and more intense when Wei Changying went to the city to visit her husband on this day.

The buildings that were hastily renovated to serve as the six departments were very unruly.

With Shen Zangfeng's current status in the court, there is only one room in this yamen that can be used for special purposes.

The room was full of official documents, and it was Chenzhong when Wei Changying entered, and at this time, the dew by Chuncao Lake had not yet dried, but there were already clear sweat stains on Shen Zangfeng's clothes. Not far behind him was a wooden shelf, a golden basin resting, and the water soaked in a white linen handkerchief was slightly cloudy, apparently Shen Zangfeng had used it to wash his hands or face more than once.

"Why hasn't anyone replaced this water?" Wei Changying sighed and waved her hand at her husband, who was about to ask about her intentions, "It's not a very urgent matter, I'll change the basin of water for you first." ”

"Now that there is a shortage of manpower, Shen Di asked me to send out to do things." At this time, Shen Zangfeng said that it was not too much to say that there was a lot of opportunity, so he hurriedly said a word, and immediately picked up Zhu Bifei's review and read the official document.

Wei Changying looked at him for fear of delaying for a moment, sighed secretly, rolled up his sleeves, walked around behind him and went out with a basin.

At the door, Huang and the others didn't go in because the room was small and the husband and wife had something to say. Unexpectedly, Wei Changying walked out as soon as she entered the door, and she personally carried the basin, and she couldn't help but be stunned.

Huang Shi reacted the most, and hurriedly went up to take the basin and asked, "What is this?" ”

"Wash the veil and change the basin of water." Wei Changying frowned and said, "There is a shortage of people around Fujun, and there is no one to change even the basin of water for fresh ones." ”

Speaking of which, although Shen Zangfeng is not particular to the point of having a habit of cleanliness, his growth experience since birth is also destined for his cleanliness. If this was before the change of the imperial capital, not to mention that the water color was obviously turbid, he would not continue to wash his hands after washing his face once, but would let people make another basin of clean water.

But then again, in the past, Wei Changying, a pampered wife who grew up and was favored by her husband, had the most people to change the basin for him, so how could she personally serve the basin?

Thinking of this, Wei Changying smiled self-deprecatingly: The so-called exquisiteness is just a self-confident identity in a privileged situation, and when it is really embarrassing, why is it fussy to be picky.

Huang found a well, rinsed the veil, and changed the water.

Wei Changying took it, took it in, twisted a handkerchief, stood behind Shen Zangfeng, waited for him to finish approving an official document, put down his pen for a while, and then stepped forward to wipe his forehead and face for him, and said, "Or I will send two more people to serve you?" Just Shen Die, like now, he was sent out, and you don't even have a person here to study ink. ”

"Not necessarily." Shen Zangfeng closed his eyes, rested for a while, and said with a hint of exhaustion, "It was an accident to send Shen Stack out today, some soldiers in the Xiliang Army had a conflict with the Qingzhou Army, and it is said that the matter is not small, and even the uncles know about it." That's why I sent Shen Diedai to see what was going on? Normally he's here to take care of me. ”

After a pause, he said, "You have also seen that I have a lot of official documents here, although it is said that Dawei is very erosive now, and many things are known outside even if you don't talk about it." But there are always some things that are inconvenient for outsiders to know, and although we have gathered some old servants to come back to serve, there is nothing left of the former henchmen...... Now there are many places to employ people, and it will be just a moment. ”

Wei Changying sighed, and seeing that he had finished wiping his face for him, he turned around and threw the handkerchief back into the basin, and stretched out his fingers to gently press the temples on both sides for him. Although she had never learned the craft of serving people, Shen Zangfeng was extremely tired from working hard all day long, and she felt very relieved by kneading it twice.

"How could the Xiliang Army clash with the Qingzhou Army?" Since it was not good to add someone to serve Shen Zangfeng here, Wei Changying casually asked about the reason for Shen Die's absence. The Shen family and the Su family are two generations of in-laws, Su Xiuming and Su Xiuwei are the uncles of Shen Zangfeng's brothers, it is said that even if the Xiliang Army and the Qingzhou Army can't be as close as a family, there should be no conflict!

Of course, the two border armies now add up to hundreds of thousands of people, and so many people are stationed in a place like Gyeonggi. Not to mention each other, my comrades in the army are afraid that there will be dozens or hundreds of conflicts every day. However, it is impossible for these arrogant generals not to know the relationship between the Shen and Su families, so they have to give the coach some face, right?

In addition, when Shen Zangfeng said it, he put the Xiliang Army in front, Wei Changying wondered, did someone in the Shen family do it on purpose? The intention was to provoke contradictions between the border troops, not only to destroy the relationship between Shen Zangfeng and the Su family's nephew, but also to make Shen Zangfeng busy with this matter and have no time to take care of Xiliang.

…… Could it be that in Xiliang, have they already started to do it?

Wei Changying frowned slightly, and the strength of rubbing for her husband couldn't help but increase a little.

"It's said to have been caused by a verbal altercation." Shen Zangfeng didn't know if he had seen too much of this kind of thing or if he had already taken countermeasures, the tiredness between his eyebrows was clear, and his tone was faintly careless, "Jingshu, my temper is very big, I think I am busy with political affairs these days, and my military discipline has been relaxed." ”

"Those people you want to punish the Xiliang Army?" Wei Changying asked this sentence, and then remembered what her mother's family told her in the past, "A woman should remember her duty, and if your husband and wife are different in the things ahead, then don't ask", she was muttering whether to say something else to divert the topic, but Shen Zangfeng had already answered: "When Shen Die comes back and tells him, I will know how to deal with it." However, unless the Xiliang Army is too angry and resentful, even if it is punished, it will be a matter of time. Now it's still important to protect them. ”

"Won't the uncles' faces look bad like this?" Wei Changying actually agrees with protecting her shortcomings in her heart, she is not a gentle and tolerant person, since she is the wife of the Shen family, and the Xiliang Army is the private army of the Shen family, no matter why those Xiliang soldiers clashed with the Qingzhou Army, she was biased towards the Xiliang Army first.

But hearing Shen Zangfeng say this, he was a little skeptical.

"Uncles are elders, and they have always been magnanimous." Shen Zangfeng opened his eyes, gently brushed away her finger, and said, "Let's take a break, I'm much better." ”

Wei Changying saw that he was indeed in good spirits, so he went around to the outer seat and sat down, and said thoughtfully: "Of course, the two uncles are our elders. ”

With such a sentence, Shen Zangfeng knew that his wife understood the unfinished meaning of his words, and smiled faintly: "No matter what, we have no way back and steps for the younger generation." ”

The two border armies stationed in Gyeonggi, the commander of the Xiliang Army is Shen Zangfeng, and the Qingzhou Army is Su Xiuming, and the two are nephews and uncles. Originally, Shen Zangfeng was inferior to Su Xiuming, and if there was a conflict between the slaves of the two families, it was appropriate for him to be a nephew and let his uncle go. Others will also say that Shen Zangfeng is sensible and filial, and he will never laugh at him for being weak and cowardly.

But the conflict is that the armies of the two families are different.

The so-called soldiers are the power of the generals and the courage of the soldiers.

As Su Xiuming's nephew or Dingguo Gong, Shen Zangfeng can make concessions to the Su family. But as the commander of the 300,000 Xiliang Army, he can't bow his head!

Because he bowed his head, it means that the Xiliang Army bowed its head in front of the Qingzhou Army, so that the Xiliang Army will inevitably be despised by the Qingzhou Army more and more. Not only that, the coach bowed his head to others, how could the soldiers below not be affected?

Demoralization is low, and the blow is very fatal for any army.

Especially now when the army is in chaos, the Xiliang soldiers still follow Shen Zangfeng all the way to Gyeonggi to fight, if their morale is weakened, there will be deserters.

At that time, it will be a major event that shakes the hearts of the military.

On the contrary, the Su family can take this step back.

Because Shen Zangfeng is a junior, he himself is a head lower than Su Xiuming, and he will show cowardice if he retreats. As an elder, Su Xiuming, because the two families have not been at odds at the moment and have always had a good relationship before, it doesn't have much impact on him to take a step back.

But there is another problem here, that is, although Su Xiuming is the commander of the Qingzhou Army, Su Xiuwei and Su Yuwu also have a role in the army. The father and son of the third room now have no evidence to expose Su Xiuming's usurpation, but relying on the manpower left by Su Pingzhan, they also have a place in the army, which is not something that Su Xiuming can ignore.

The delicate relationship between the Su family's big room and the third room, Wei Chang Yingzi also noticed it - after all, she heard her aunt Wei Zhengyin reveal it with her own ears, and Su Pingzhan clearly designated the third room to take over Fufeng Hall. Now the Su family is headed by Su Xiuming......

Su Xiuming and Su Xiuwei are still maintaining brotherly harmony on face at the moment, but they have obviously begun to compete in private. And when the Xiliang Army clashed with the Qingzhou Army, they might be caught by these two uncles and make a big fuss.

Obviously, no matter how Su Xiuming deals with it, Su Xiuwei will propose the opposite. In turn, Su Xiuwei said the disposal method first, and Su Xiuming would immediately object.

“…… Is it a member of the Xiliang side? If you think about it this way, is this conflict caused by a verbal altercation, and why is this quarrel so coincidental...... Wei Changying sighed, "Is it the eldest uncle?" ”

She didn't want to be the third uncle in her heart, although she said that she was not familiar with Su Xiuwei, who was both an uncle and an uncle, but Su Yuwu was her cousin! Thinking of her aunt Wei Zhengyin's goodness, Wei Changying didn't want to become an enemy with this cousin.

But she also knows that many times, people can't help themselves.