Hearing this, Ye Tianhuai frowned and was about to speak, but he sneezed.

This sneeze made her body shake violently.

Lu Yanchen was shaken by her, and wanted to step forward to help, but he didn't dare to get up without authorization, and he was in a dilemma for a while.

Ye Tianhuai stabilized his body and asked, "This is not the first time that Mr. has petitioned to join the army to the Northern Expedition. I want to know, did Mr. insist on petitioning twice because he wanted to join the martial arts, or because it was Yunju? ”

She asked tactfully, because she still couldn't figure out the relationship between Lu Yanchen and Chu Boliang, so she first used this way of knocking on the side to test him.

However, before Lu Yanchen could answer, Ye Tianhuai sneezed out again.

"Ahh

This time, without Lu Yanchen's persuasion, Ye Tianhuai himself also felt dizzy.

If it continues like this, I'm afraid that it will really catch the cold. This place is some distance from the palace, if you fall ill here, and it is inconvenient to summon Aunt Fanghua and Zhou Shouyi to come over to change clothes and take the pulse, then your woman's identity will be exposed.

Thinking of this, Ye Qian said: "I am a little uncomfortable. Sir, get up first, let's talk on the way back to the palace. ”

Lu Yanchen then put away the watch in his hand, stood up, and followed Ye Tianhuai downstairs.

The neat officers and soldiers under the Ming Tower were waiting there, Li Baoquan stood in front of the queue, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, his face was still full of melancholy, and when he saw Ye Tianhuai coming downstairs, he immediately greeted him, handed the tea over, and said, "Your Majesty warm up." ”

Ye Tianhuai took the teacup and instructed: "Li Baoquan, go find a spacious carriage, I want to go back to the palace." ”

After instructing Li Baoquan, she turned back to the officers and soldiers guarding the mausoleum and said, "It's hard work to stay in this desolate place. ”

It was rare for these people to see the emperor once, but they felt that the emperor was far from the rumored image of ruthlessness, and everyone was stunned, and then immediately stood up straight and said, "I am willing to serve Your Majesty." ”

Ye Qianhuai nodded and didn't say anything more.

Li Baoquan's work efficiency was very high, and Ye Tianhuai had not finished drinking a cup of tea, so he came back with the carriage and the coachman.

The carriage was big enough to seat five or six people.

But such a carriage could only travel through a wide avenue, and it would take half an hour to reach the palace.

There were only two people in the car, Ye Tianhuai and Lu Yanchen.

Soon after the carriage hit the road, Ye Tianhuai said straight to the point: "I remember that when Mr. and I first met in the Wenxuan Palace, I once told me that you were enlightened at the age of four, and you read the book of sages. I don't remember, but my husband also has an ambition, which is to use military survey to determine the world. ”

Lu Yanchen's eyes sank, as if he had thought of something from the past.

There was silence in the carriage for a while, and Ye Qianhuai asked again: "Mr. petitioned twice to accompany the army to the north, is it because he is already in the army, or is it because it is your hometown?" ”

She paused and asked, "Or, is it because of Chu Boliang?" ”

Hearing this name, Lu Yanchen sighed briefly and said, "Chen and Chu Boliang have had a two-sided relationship. ”

"When he was a young man, he once ran a horse at the foot of Yin Mountain, and encountered a caravan besieged by horse bandits, so he came to their aid. The leader of the caravan was none other than Chu Boliang, but he used a pseudonym and said that he was a Yunzhou merchant who traveled between several countries. To thank me for saving my life, he also taught me a few kung fu. ”

"A lot of people in their caravan were wounded. Horse bandits were rampant in that area, so I escorted them for three days until they reached the border between Yunzhou and Beidi. When he was leaving, he told me that he was Chu Boliang, the master of Xingyun Village. Seeing that my martial arts foundation is good, he told me that if he can't stay in Yunzhou one day, he can go to Baishan Xingyunzhai to join him. ”

Lu Yanchen paused, frowned and said: "Although Xingyunzhai is outside the Guan, it was quite famous in Yunzhou at that time. They often helped the Jingren and Yunzhou army scouts who were scattered outside the pass, and if the Beidi army moved, they would also report to the Yunzhou army and the surrounding people in advance. The people of Yunzhou jokingly call Xingyunzhai the forward bunker of Yunzhou. Because of this, Beidi attacked Xingyun Village several times, but they were not defeated. First, because the terrain of Xingyunzhai is complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and second, because once Beidi sends a large army, General Xu Ye will send the Yunzhou army out of the pass to besiege the main city of Beidi. ”

Ye Tianhuai was a little surprised, she had always thought that Xingyunzhai and Dajing's army were hostile relations, but hearing Lu Yanchen say this, it didn't seem to be the case.

"In this way, Xingyunzhai and Yunzhou Army seem to have a relationship of watching and helping each other?" She interjected.

Lu Yanchen nodded and said, "Indeed." Although the two sides did not explicitly say that they were allies, they were always able to tacitly help each other. ”

"Aren't they the remnants of the rebellion of the king of the Northern Capital? Why do you help each other with the Yunju Army? ”

Lu Yanchen glanced at Ye Tianhuai with a complicated expression, and said, "Although Lu Yuxing rebelled, not the entire Yunzhou rebelled. Moreover, in the early years of Shunping, when the world was amnestied, the first emperor had already issued an order not to pursue Lu Yuxing's remnants who fled abroad. General Xu helped them, but also for the peace of Yunzhou, which is understandable. ”

"But if they really didn't rebel, then they ......" Ye Qianhuai's voice suddenly froze.

If so, have they not been wronged?

Don't these people hate the court?

But she couldn't ask.

Because if they are really wronged, it is the fault of the court, and she, the first spokesperson of the court, is the one who should be hated the most.

Lu Yanchen lowered his eyes, looked a little lonely, and said: "Perhaps for some people, national righteousness is more important than fame and innocence. ”

His words made Ye Qianhuai feel even more guilty in his heart.

If these border people still have such an awareness, then how ashamed they should be of these powerful people who sit in Beijing all day long but only know how the party fights and fights among themselves!

The two were silent for a moment, and Ye Qianhuai asked, "In that case, why did they join Beidi?" ”

Lu Yanchen shook his head and said, "The minister doesn't know. This is exactly the reason why the minister wants to join the army to march north. The last time the minister saw Chu Boliang was before going to Beijing to take the exam, and the minister went to Xingyunzhai to say goodbye to him. At that time," Lu Yanchen smiled bitterly, "He also wished me the title of the gold list, and I would enter the photo as soon as possible." ”

"Three years ago, he once sent a letter to the minister, saying that he was going to join Beidi and hoped to meet with the minister. But at that time, the first emperor had just died, and the minister, as a prince, needed to rectify the eagle guard left by the first emperor, and he couldn't leave Beijing at all, so he only wrote a reply to him. But the letter was lost. Later, the minister asked someone to return to his hometown to inquire, only to hear that Xingyunzhai was scattered, and Chu Boliang did not know where to go. But the minister knew that they had gone to Beidi. The minister wanted to join the army in the northern expedition because he wanted to ask him face to face on the battlefield what happened back then. ”

(End of chapter)