The Ugly Empress《丑娘娘》Chou Niang Niang
The Ugly Empress vol 1, Chapter 44: After Zhen gets the virtuous empress, he could secure the world (Sweet stuffs)
Xue Jun Liang didn't expect that he would ask. In fact, there are many things that are obvious, just invisible to someone blindfolded by obsession. Some superficial metaphors can make people understand a lot.
Teng Yun took a deep look at him, as if he was recollecting, and said slowly: “His majesty knew why Teng Shang would not die? Why does Teng Shang preferred to marry the Marquis of Wannian, who is a man, to save his life so he can keep on breathing again? Teng Shang is not stupid either, just because he received a big favor, when Yongquan reported to the other person."
Teng Yun paused and said: “When Teng Zheng Xuan fought in the South and in the north, and there would be patients in the places where the dead died miserably. No matter what the purpose was, as long as it was a war, the final victims were the people. Teng Zheng Xuan gave up porridge even if he was ill. He once rescued a dying child. Seeing that the child was pitiful, he accepted him as his adoptive son. The child said, “May there be a garment to resist the wind and cold" Teng Zheng Xuan named him Teng Shang."
Xue Jun Liang listened to him quietly and sighed, "No wonder."
“Since his majesty has gained most of the world," said Teng Yun, “Why not settle down the world here?"
Xue Jun Liang was silent for a while, nodded his head, went out the Yunfeng palace, and asked Jiang Yu to convene the Imperial court official to discuss the disaster relief.
Shen Yi guessed that Teng Yun had said something and moved Xue Jun Liang, knelt down with a smile, and said, “After emperor has got a virtuous empress, he can secure the world down."
The disaster relief can't be delayed. The Imperial drive must go, but the Imperial drive is slow. Even if Xue Jun Liang orders everything to be simplified, it won't be done too fast. Xue Jun Liang ordered Shen Yi to take a group of people to set up a porridge factory first to solve the urgent need.
Shen Yi didn't refuse either. As expected, he didn't just use his tongue. He immediately backed out and asked people to prepare all the items and set off on the road.
Because the journey is not to a near place, Xue Jun Liang arranged Xue Hou Yang, to be the replacement Emperor, to preside over the overall situation in the Imperial capital. All transfers of troops and guards should be known by Xue Hou Yang. Only with his official seal can we further deal with them.
Within a few days, things were ready for the Imperial drive. Xue Jun Liang was about to leave. Teng Yun didn't take the initiative to come here. Xue Jun Liang had no choice but to live in the Yunfeng palace the night before he left.
Knowing that Emperor Xue is going to leave tomorrow, Xiu Yao can't be idle this night, so he “Considerate" sent all the palace people out, and the Teng Yun himself didn't go there for convenience, so he had to think crookedly.
It's said that Teng Yun and Xue Jun Liang have close relationship in skinship. Especially during the period of Teng Shang's expedition, Xue Jun Liang asked for a change of the report, but he didn't do too much after all.
As a result, Teng Yun felt that although she had become a woman, her mind was always a man. Although she didn't hate Xue Jun Liang as much as before, she did know that he was a good monarch these days, but she didn't really know how to deal with him.
Secondly, Teng Yun is a man with more intelligence, but not good at talking about feelings. It's OK for him to read military books and let him talk about who he's interested in. Teng Yun can't really say it, mainly because he didn't think about it.
From time to time, Xue Jun Liang made small gestures to warm-up to him. Teng Yun thought it's because Xue Jun Liang thought he is his Empress and had rights to get close to his wife. Who else should he get close to?
But Xue Jun Liang is also used to being a monarch, with a higher eye than the top. He is really sour to say what he felt about Teng Yun, which is really not easy to talk about.
So Xue Jun Liang, who is used to being thick at ordinary times, and Teng Yun, who is used to being thick at ordinary times, sat face to face silently.
The palace maid and the palace attendant were all rushed out by Xiu Yao. The door was closed and the candle was lit. The table was full of delicate dishes and drinks.
Xue Jun Liang thought that he should travel far tomorrow. As a concubine, should he say some auspicious words or offer hospitality? After all, he will not be in the palace for such a long time.
Teng Yun was sitting on the opposite side and thinking, tomorrow is a long journey. Why is Xue Jun Liang still sitting here in high spirits without talking or eating wine? Shouldn't he keep his energy up?
Xue Jun Liang finally couldn't help coughing and said with a smile, “It's really boring to sit so dry. You may as well tell a few more stories."
Teng Yun didn’t understand why he didn't get up to leave and tell a story when he felt bored? Usually, the little crown prince came here and bothered on him to narrate stories. It turned out that he has a father and a son who were the same bothersome. It's not Xue Pei's eccentricity to like to hear stories.
Teng Yun thought for a moment, and his mind was full of his own battle stories, but most of them were about fighting with Xue Jun, which of course can't be said, so he had to tell some stories about local customs and ancient sages.
Because Teng Yun is from the Teng state. It's located in the south. It's different from the north. Xue Jun Liang was just looking for a topic at first. Later, he was fascinated by it and said with a smile, “You are really knowledgeable. You know so many things about the Teng state."
Teng Yun suddenly thought that he had said a lot, but seeing Xue Jun Liang's face had no special meaning or exploratory meaning, he gradually calmed his heart back.
Xue Jun Liang said: “He is proud to know well about marching, but he doesn't know anything about the water army. It seemed that he will ask you for advice next time."
Teng Yun didn't say anything. He was vague about the past, and he still tied his knot in his heart. Even though the Teng State’s emperor has become the Marquis of Tengnan, he still can't afford to accept it for a while. It's natural that he didn't like to give his knowledge to Xu Hou Yang, his former enemy.
After all, Teng Yun can defeat the Marquis of Wannian by his water army. Xue Hou Yang is a native northerner. There are almost no big lakes and seas in the north. All the battles were on land. The soldiers suddenly turn into waterways. It's inevitable that they won't accept the local conditions. Moreover, the ships on the sea are unstable. They swing left and right, and the soldiers were not sure how to use their guns and knives.
Under the ambiguous candlelight, they talked for a while and were silent for a while. They sat very late. Xue Jun Liang didn't have much spirit when he saw Teng Yun. It seemed that he was sleepy, so he asked Xiu Yao to withdraw his food and drink and prepare to go to bed.
Xue Jun Liang was lying outside, looking at the top of the bed, but he didn't go on patrol. But he was reluctant to not look at Teng Yun for such a long time.
Want to bring Teng Yun along? It's just that no matter how she looks or how she really relieves the disaster, she will suffer a lot. Moreover, the memorial said that the disease in the south was very terrible. Xue Jun Liang didn’t want to take Teng Yun with him. What should he do if she gets sick?
He looked at the top of the bed in the middle of the night, and suddenly sighed. He could think of others like this. Was he fascinated? In particular, the other party is still a person of a different surname. Even if he is different, he should not be so alert. Now that he has accepted the Teng state, the Feng state has always been a serious problem.
Xue Jun Liang looked over his head, and Teng Yun slept with his back to him and his face to the inside. From Xue Jun Liang's side, he can only see the black hair like brocade, and he can't see the expression. He almost fell sleep soundly after listening to the breath.
Xue Jun Liang stood up with one hand on the bed and the other hand gently brushed away the hair scattered around Teng Yun's cheek and neck.
Maybe it's that the hair is all pulled together, the neck felt windy, Teng Yun shrunk his neck, and Xue Jun Liang is too scared to move because of this move, just like being a thief fear of being caught.
After waiting for a moment, he saw that Teng Yun didn't move anymore. It seemed that he didn't wake up just now. Looking at the eyelashes like a small fan on Teng Yun’s eyes, they always trembled from time to time. In his heart, Xue Jun Liang had a feeling of opening up. Suddenly, he thought of Shen Yi's words, “After the emperor get a virtuous empress he can settle down the world.”
Xue Jun Liang lowered his head slowly, kissed Ting Yun's earlobe gently, arranged the quilt for him, and laid down again.
The next morning, Jiang Yu came to wash and change for Xue Jun Liang and put on a more formal snake-skin robes than usual.
Xue Jun Liang motioned to Jiang Yu to keep quiet. After wearing it, he asked Jiang Yu to arrange breakfast in the outer room and not wake up Teng Yun.
The person on the bed heard the sound of opening and closing the door, only moved slightly. After a long time, he slowly reached out of the quilt and felt the ear lobes with a faint fever.
Teng Yun didn't know why. He couldn't sleep last night. Xue Jun Liang has been staying in the Yunfeng palace for not one or two days. When he started to go crazy, he came to stay almost every day, but he didn't do anything. When he went to bed, he teased him at most, and then put on the quilt to sleep.
Teng Yun felt that he should be used to such a mode, but he did lose sleep last night. Xue Jun Liang leaned on his back. It was much colder in the north than in the south. With their body temperature, Teng Yun was not easy to feel sleepy. As a result, he heard a sigh from the back, and then he got up.
Teng Yun didn't want to deal with him at first, but the man's hands were irregular. He was always pulling his hair. Teng Yun moved for a while, and the man was honest for a moment and began to be uneasy.
Later, the warm air blew on his neck, the hot and humid kiss fell on his earlobe, and Teng Yun almost bounced up, but he restrained himself from moving, and his hand hidden in the quilt tightly grabbed the corner of his clothes.
If Xue Jun Liang found him pretending to sleep, he doesn't know how embarrassing it is.
Xiu Yao waited for Emperor Xue to leave. He came in a long time later. He saw the empress sitting on the bed, feeling his earlobe with one hand, and he did not know what to meditate on. There was a faint suspicious flush on his cheek.
Can't help but laugh: “Empress, came back!"
Teng Yun was shocked, and Xiu Yao even smiled, “Empress must have been tired last night. Otherwise, how could you sit in a daze in the morning? It's almost half an hour since his majesty left. "
Seeing that he looks bad and stared at her, Xiu Yao doesn't dare to make fun of him. In case of anger and shame, it's still her who suffers. So she took out a letter and presents it to Teng Yun.
“Empress, this is what he Majesty gave you before you left. It will let you open it when you wake up."
Teng Yun didn’t know what Xu Jun Liang is selling. He needs to get a mysterious letter, just like a magic trick.
He took it and tore open the envelope. There was only one letter in it. He opened it and looked at it. There were only eight words
— When Zhen gets a good woman, he can secure the world
Teng Yun looked at these eight words and was lost in his mind for a long time. He didn't know what it was like.
Looking at his thoughtful expression, Xiu Yao didn't dare to read what was written on it. After standing for a while, she retreated silently. She couldn't understand what the empress was thinking.
On the way back to the Teng state, the Marquis of Tengnan stayed in the post house. The post house in a small place is a mixture of fish and dragons, and the food is not very exquisite.
After dinner, the Marquis of Tengnan went back to his room for a rest and continued his journey tomorrow morning.
Just as the entourage was about to close, someone came to visit. The Marquis of Tengnan didn't know who it was. After all, there was no shop in front of the village or back of the village, and there were no familiar people. Moreover, it's strange that someone came to visit him now.
It's just Xue Yu.
Xue Yu didn't bring the counselor named Lang Jing with him this time. He came here alone.
The Marquis of Tengnan didn't know what conspiracy he was fighting. Xue Yu saw that he was so wary and said with a smile, "Lord Marquis doesn't have to be so. The younger generation has said that we need to help each other later. Otherwise, you can't live stably in your "Imperial city” I can't defend my northern border, right?"
The Marquis of Tengnan said nothing, and Xue Yu said: “Surely if you are not willing to be called Lord Marquis, then you can understand my mind? When the late emperor of the Xue state was alive, the person he loved most was me. If it wasn't for Xue Jun Liang to use tricks and gain the throne, if it wasn't for me to escape quickly, how could he live to this day when he arrived in Northern border? Now that you are Lord Marquis and I am Lord Marquis, you should understand my mind. "
The Marquis of Tengnan was still silent.
Xue Yu said: “Once known as his majesty the enemy, now he is your highness. Are you willing to call his that? If you say yes, I'll leave at once, and I won't bother you again. "
At last, the Marquis of Tengnan's face changed. After a long time, he said, “What's your best way?"
“If you dare to come, you will have a plan." Xue Yu said with a smile, “I'm also an old acquaintance of Lord Marquis. Naturally, I know that Lord Marquis is a man. Now it's not convenient to tell you what the strategy is. When you return to the Teng state, I will send someone to answer you and tell you the details of the strategy."
The Marquis of Tengnan wanted to be angry. He was a monarch before, and no one dared to doubt himself. He said to himself like this, but Xue Yu was not afraid of him. He smiled and said, “If you want to be a human being or a slave for life, it depends on what you do at this time. You are in the south. I have the military power in the north. Our relationship should be more intimate. "
With a smile, he opened the door and went out.
The Marquis of Tengnan didn't know whether what he said was true or not. He went to the Teng state with half confidence.
A few days after he arrived in the territory, someone came to make a plan. At that time, the epidemic broke out, and even many people in the capital were ill. The man asked the Marquis of Tengnan to order the soldiers to search the city door-to-door. Anyone who was ill, whether the people or the dignitaries, would be buried alive.
After the first major war, the people's livelihood of the capital itself withered. In this way, the patients were driven out of the city, and the people's voice was soon spread to the ears of Xue Jun Liang.
The man began to make plans to let the Marquis of Tengnan secretly recruit troops and horses to ambush the swordsmen and axes on the only way from the Xue state to the Teng state.
The Marquis of Tengnan thought that this is a stupid plan, and he does not believe that the emperor of a country can come to relieve the disaster in person. Even if it is a flood, even if it is a disease. Which emperor is not afraid of death, but what he did not expect is that Xue Jun Liang really drove the relief.
However, this is not enough to convince the Marquis of Tengnan, how powerful and how defensive is the Imperial drive? Where it must be that the emperor leave and makes extraordinary preparations, how can the swordsmen arranged by him succeed to break through that?
In particular, the counselor asked many places to arrange swordsmen and axes. Isn't it not to scare the snake, ambush twice and three times at a time as a warning it wouldn’t be a laughter off the big teeth?
But the counselor had long expected that he would just smile and tell the Marquis of Tengnan, Xue Jun Liang, are these people who can be killed by a few swordsmen? The purpose of the axe maker is to attract the attention of Emperor Xue. The Marquis of Zhenjiang doesn't want to kill Xue Jun Liang. He has a way to let Xue Jun Liang watch his own country being broken apart by others.
The Marquis of Tengnan is still dubious. He thought that if Xue Yu is really capable, why does he need him for? Doesn't use himself as a target to lead Xue Jun Liang here. He can take the chance to fall down.
In particular, Xue Yu was always named Xue when he came to the Imperial court official. At that time, the first blow must be himself.
On the surface, the Marquis of Tengnan was taught to hear the counselor's plan, sent a knife and axe man on the road, and immediately his face changed, so that the counselor could be arrested, put into prison, and kept under strict guard. He could neither escape nor die.
If things don't work out, the Marquis of Tengnan decides to be the first one to hand over the counselor and shift all responsibilities to Xue Yu, so that he can protect himself.
Xue Jun Liang walked all the way to the south. Generally speaking, the beautiful mountains and rivers in the South should be a rich scene. Unlike the Xue state, there are many deserts and the snowy mountains.
The Teng state is not only close to the bodies of water, but also to the mountains. It should be widely used in farming and fishing. However, as soon as it entered the Teng state, a large number of refugees can be seen. After Xu Hou Yang returned with his soldiers, he left an order that all refugees who wanted to enter the customs could only plough with their own strength, and could not create difficulties on making schemes. They would be allowed in after a duration of inspection.
Before they reached their destination, they had to set up a porridge factory temporarily and gave up two porridge sessions.
Xue Jun Liang stood with the snake-skin robes on one side, and the refugees rushed to grab porridge. At this time, he knew that in the eyes of the people, who is the emperor is irrelevant. In the face of hunger and cold, they have no time to think about these issues, let alone talk about which country's righteousness.
Xue Jun Liang also asked people to set up temporary tents for the refugees to stay, distribute clothing to keep them warm, and set up some accompanying doctors to stay, so as to treat the refugees.
After walking for a few days, Xue Jun Liang met the leading Shen Yi.
People were surprised to see Shen Yi. After all, he came out so long ago but he didn't arrive. They thought he was neglecting the important decree and didn't want to help.
Shen Yi said with a smile, “I've been watching the stars these days and nights. There are black clouds in the south. The Imperial court official is an idiot. There is no dragon aura to protect the body. If I go south rashly, it will be dangerous."
People can't help laughing, but they are more certain that Shen Yi is a white faced scholar who dare not go to the disaster relief.
Only Xue Jun Liang heard Shen Yi's concerns hidden in the voice.
Xue Jun Liang smiled and said, “Oh? The Imperial tutor even watch the stars to predict good fortune? What else does the Imperial tutor see?"
Shen Yi said, “To be honest with his majesty, the Imperial court official see the stars which are saying that the dark cloud and black aura are moving northward, and it means to go straight to the capital. I'm afraid the capital is in danger!"
This kind of expression of God will made everyone laugh, almost treat him as a monkey, but he said it, before long, people with a little bit of brain seem to understand something and shout “Bad!"
Shen Yi said with a slow smile: “Bah, it's unlucky. Although the dark cloud is fierce, there is a premonition about the Imperial court official, so I left a book of plans for the Marquis of Wannian. "
Xue Jun Liang chuckled: “So you are the first-class skill plotter. You can control the ferocity of the capital. How can you solve this problem at present?"
Shen Yi has arranged everything for a long time. He is unavoidably proud of his negative height and said with a smile: “I don't dare to be a little proud as an Imperial court official. It's the Marquis of Wannian who lives in the capital. In front of us, emperor only needs to send a hundred archers to cover the forest in front of him. Emperor's drive will be done later, and it will be OK, so it won't disturb his majesty. "
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~ The Ugly Empress ~
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