Listening to Tang Yin's compliments, Wu Mei smiled brightly and asked in a coquettish voice, "Tell me, husband, what ability do you admire about this concubine?"
Tang Yin rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "You know people well."
"Ah?" Wu Mei was stunned by what he said.
Tang Yin bent down, leaned close to her ear, and whispered, "If Mei'er hadn't been able to recognize people, how could I have stayed in the army? If Mei'er hadn't been able to recognize people, how could I have become the monarch's wife now?"
"
Wu Mei turned around and scratched Tang Yin's cheek, and said with a smile, "Are you praising me or yourself? You are so shameless."
Tang Yin laughed, and with a little strength in his arms, he picked up Wu Mei by the waist, and then walked towards the inner room. Wu Mei realized what he was going to do, her face turned red, and she whispered, "It's still daytime..."
"A shameless husband doesn't know the difference between day and night," Tang Yin laughed.
The next day, Xiao Muqing, Nie Ze, Shangguan Yuanrang, Jiang Fan and other generals took the first step to go to Chizhou. The main forces of the Pingyuan Army and the Baizhan Army had already been south for several days. They had to catch up with these two armies to prepare for the upcoming war.
Wuying did not leave Zhenjiang immediately. As the commander of the direct army, she wanted to leave with Tang Yin. Tang Yin was not in a hurry to leave now, and he still had some unfinished matters, such as the matter between him and Yin Rou.
After the early morning dismissal, Tang Yin set out for the palace. He didn't see Yin Zhun, so he went directly to find Yin Rou.
When Tang Yin came to Yin Rou's Yonghe Palace, he happened to meet Fang Xiaoxuan coming out of it.
Tang Yin had met him a few times in the imperial court and did not have a deep impression of him. However, Cheng Jin mentioned this person to him several times and said that he was very close to Yin Rou during this period and often ran to the palace.
, asking to see the princess
I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence this time. I bumped into him at the gate of Yonghe Palace.
No matter how much Fang Xiaoxuan hated Tang Yin in his heart, his outward courtesy was still acceptable. When he saw Tang Yin, his expression changed slightly, and then he hurriedly bowed and saluted, and said seriously, "Wei Chen has met His Highness Feng Wang."
Tang Yin looked him up and down, smiled indifferently, and said, "Master Fang and the princess have a good relationship. The princess is even more diligent than me when she comes to Yonghe Palace."
Fang Xiaoxuan was shocked. During the time when Tang Yin left Zhenjiang for Chizhou, he ran to the palace every now and then, repeatedly persuading Yin Rou to do harm to the imperial court and eradicate Tang Yin, the thief. Unfortunately, the princess never agreed. Fang Xiaoxuan didn't know.
Whether his persuasion to the princess to get rid of Tang Yin was leaked out, and whether Tang Yin knew about it, so he seemed extremely nervous in front of Tang Yin, and his whole heart was in his throat.
He forced a smile and said, "Reporting to His Highness Feng Wang, the princess is smart and talented, and Wei Chen has many questions about Chinese studies and asked the princess for advice. Princess Meng did not give up, and did not find Wei Chen troublesome. Wei Chen was also very grateful.
"
Tang Yin took a deep look at him, sneered, and said, "I am also very knowledgeable in Chinese studies. If Mr. Fang encounters something you don't understand again in the future, you can come and ask me for advice."
"Yes, yes, yes, I will bear in mind His Highness Feng Wang's teachings." Fang Xiaoxuan bowed his hands repeatedly, and then said, "If His Highness Feng Wang is fine, I will leave first."
"Go" Tang Yin waved his hand casually, but his sharp eyes did not move away from Fang Xiaoxuan.
Fang Xiaoxuan suppressed the nervousness in his heart, deliberately slowed down, and walked out calmly until he was far away. He could still feel Tang Yin's burning eyes coming from behind him, like thorns on his back, until he reached the corner.
Out of Tang Yin's sight, he felt that the pressure from behind was much lessened. This also made him take a long breath. Suddenly he felt a chill on his body.
His shirt was almost soaked with his sweat
Tang Yin didn't know what Fang Xiaoxuan's intention was in coming to see Yin Rou so frequently, but one thing he was sure of was that Fang Xiaoxuan didn't tell the truth to him.
However, he is not afraid of what Fang Xiaoxuan can do. The huge imperial court is in his hands, and the emperor Yin Zhun is his puppet. How can he be afraid of a mere bachelor like him?
People always take things they know very well lightly, and this often leads to catastrophe. This is what Tang Yin's situation is now.
When he walked into Yonghe Palace, there was no need for the concubine to go in to report. He walked directly into the main hall. When he came in, Yin Rou was sitting on the couch by the window in a daze, with red eyes, as if she had just cried.
Tang Yin frowned secretly, walked forward silently, stood beside Yin Rou, and looked at her silently. Although the two had broken up on bad terms before and hadn't seen each other for so long, Tang Yin found that he was very interested in Yin Rou.
His love has not diminished at all. Sometimes even he himself is not sure whether his love for this woman is his own sincerity or the sincerity of the other half of his soul.
The two of them sat and stood, one in a daze, the other thoughtfully, neither of them spoke or moved, as if the scene was frozen.
I don't know how much time passed, but the wind blew in outside the window, and Yin Rou's hanging hair stuck to her face, which also brought her thoughts that had flown to nowhere back to her body.
When she came back to her senses, she sighed quietly, and as her eyes moved, she happened to see Tang Yin standing not far from her.
Unprepared in her heart, Yin Rou was startled and couldn't help but let out a low cry. Tang Yin's originally expressionless face immediately revealed a smile, she walked forward slowly and said with a smile, "Rou'er, did you scare me?"
"Why didn't you make a sound when you came in?" Tang Yin could take the initiative to come to her, which made Yin Rou very happy, but after a second thought, her mood fell to the bottom again, and the words that Fang Xiaoxuan had persuaded her in the past few days rang in her ears again.
Tang Yin was an imperial minister and the greatest scourge of the imperial court. If Tang Yin did not die, the emperor would perish and the empire would perish.
"I see Rou'er is thinking about something, so I don't have the heart to disturb you." Tang Yin sat down next to Yin Rou.
"Didn't you... go to Chizhou?"
"Yes, I went back this time to deal with the affairs of the court. In a few days, I have to go to Chizhou again." Tang Yin put his hands on the couch, raised his head, looked at the roof, and murmured, "But if I go to Chizhou again,
I’m afraid it will take a long time to return to Zhenjiang.”
"Going to fight again?"
"Huan Guo wants to use troops against An Guo, and Feng'an is an ally. An Guo is in trouble, and Feng Guo has to help." Tang Yin didn't want Yin Rou to know too much about the intrigues between the countries, so he simply explained a few words.
Yin Rou really didn't understand the war between nations. She nodded slightly, changed the subject, and asked, "Will it be... dangerous?"
Tang Yin shrugged and said, "On the battlefield, no matter the enemy is strong or weak, danger will always exist. But Rou'er doesn't have to worry, I can handle it. If everything goes well, after this battle, Huan Guo will be removed from the list of other countries."
The land will be returned to the imperial court."
Looking at Tang Yin, whose eyes flashed when he spoke, Yin Rou could only sigh in her heart.
She didn't know whether the court Tang Yin meant was the imperial court or the court of his Feng Kingdom. She lowered her head and whispered, "When the two countries fight, the people who suffer the most casualties are the common people. If you can defeat the enemy without fighting, it will still be the same."
...It’s better not to fight”
Yin Rou rarely expresses her attitude towards the wars of other countries. This is the first time that she has explicitly raised her objection to war in front of Tang Yin. Tang Yin looked at Yin Rou squarely, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Did Fang Xiaoxuan teach you this?"
When Fang Xiaoxuan was mentioned, Yin Rou's heart suddenly tightened and she hurriedly said, "Of course not, I think so myself."
After hearing her denial, Tang Yinwei continued to ask, "If you can achieve your goal without fighting, there won't be so many wars in the world, right? Kindness to the enemy is connivance to the enemy, and cruelty to oneself. In this regard,
Rou'er shouldn't worry about it."
Yin Rou was silent, Tang Yin was like this. No matter who tried to persuade him to do what he wanted to do, it would be useless. This had become Yin Rou's biggest worry. If one day he really wants to overthrow the imperial court as Fang Xiaoxuan said,
, to depose the emperor, can I really stop him?
Seeing her lonely expression and silence, Tang Yin changed the subject and asked, "I heard that Fang Xiaoxuan often comes to see you these days."
Yin Rou nodded sincerely and said "yes" but she didn't explain much. Tang Yin was too smart and too keen. Lying in front of him would only arouse more suspicion in him. It would be better not to say anything.
Tang Yin blinked and said, "Fang Xiaoxuan is just a pedantic scholar. Don't get too close to him."
His words immediately aroused Yin Rou's disgust. She asked, "Do I have to inform you first if I want to see anyone in the future? I can only see him with your permission?"
Tang Yin didn't understand why Yin Rou had become so sensitive and unreasonable now, but his well-intentioned suggestion attracted such a strong reaction from her. He said, "Of course I didn't mean it like this, I'm just worried that some people have bad intentions..."
Yin Rou said sternly, "Master Fang is a loyal and loyal person in the court. In my opinion, he is a thousand times stronger than many ministers."
Tang Yin had no choice but to smile bitterly. He did not say that Fang Xiaoxuan was disloyal. He just felt that this person was too pedantic, had only one thing in his head, was biased in his thinking, and was short-sighted.
Not wanting to let himself and Yin Rou have a dispute over such an unimportant person, Tang Yin met Yin Rou's eyes and asked, "After all this time, is Rou'er still angry with me?"
Yin Rou knew what he was asking, so she turned away and said nothing more on the matter, saying in a low voice, "I'm a little tired."
Her attitude made Tang Yin feel like a big stone was weighing on his heart. He couldn't vent his suffocation. He stood up and said, "Rou'er, are you issuing an eviction order?"
When Yin Rou heard this, her body trembled, but she still did not look back or speak.
Tang Yin knocked on his forehead in frustration, feeling depressed and powerless at the same time, and said, "Why are we like this now? Every time we say a word, we have an argument. Is this your problem or mine?"