Chapter 143 Sensible

Lu Qing was to be sent as an official of the Honglu Temple to the Northern Barbarians.

For the sake of national dignity and to prevent Lu Qing from making a fool of herself due to ignorance, Lord Liu sent a recorder to give Lu Qing lessons in the past few days to help her improve her knowledge of diplomatic etiquette and the Northern Barbarians.

Su Fengyi gave up her study room for them to use as a class space, and she sat by the window in the corridor drinking tea and reading.

And Chen He happened to be carrying a small kettle to water the phoenix wing flower.

Since planting the flower, Shen He seemed to feel that it was his responsibility and came to take care of it every day.

Sometimes, when Su Fengyi was handling chores in the study and felt tired, she would open the window and see Chen He squatting in front of the phoenix wing flower, staring at the flower silently.

At that time, Chen He was so quiet that he seemed like a completely different person.

Su Fengyi watched Shen He watering the flowers quietly and wondered if Young General Shen was worried about something. Should she ask about it since Shen Quan was not around?

For example, was it because Chef Gui didn’t serve him well enough that he didn’t enjoy his meal?

After Shen He finished watering, he saw Su Fengyi reading a book in the corridor and ran over to greet her happily:

"Your Highness!"

Forget it. Seeing him recover in just a second, Su Fengyi thought that he was worried about something. She must have been overthinking it.

Su Fengyi closed the book with a smile and asked him:

"I heard that the young general asked to be the chief envoy to the Northern Barbarians?"

Shen He sat on the chair next to her, picked up the teapot on the table, poured a cup of tea for Su Fengyi, and poured another cup for himself, and said happily:

"Yes, the tribe of the Right Wise King is deep in the northern barbarians. As for the others, I'm not underestimating them, but I'm afraid they won't be able to do it."

Shen He is indeed the best candidate for this mission to the Northern Tartars.

One is that he is familiar with the Northern Tartars, and the most important thing is that if he fails to reach an agreement with the Right Wise King and the marriage fails, they will have to go to war on the spot.

Su Fengyi had no confidence that others could win the war against the Northern Tartars, but if it was Shen He, Su Fengyi felt that it was a sure thing.

She had also wanted to persuade Shen He to go.

But before Su Fengyi could speak, Shen He took the initiative to volunteer, which she did not expect.

She drank the cup of tea that Shen He poured for her and said with a smile:

"Major General's righteousness."

Shen He hummed, and after a while he said:

"Actually, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I don't like fighting. I never have."

Su Fengyi glanced at him and agreed:

"Why am I laughing at you? I don't like war either. Who would want to fight if they can live a peaceful life?"

Chen He's face was full of "You understand me" expression, and he kept nodding and said:

"Yes, yes, that's right, so you think so too.

Therefore, I must go this time. If I can accomplish this, without saying much else, the border can be peaceful for at least ten years.

Ten years of peace and prosperity without war is so beautiful that I dare not even think about it. "

Su Fengyi raised the cup of tea to him:

"Then help the young general to achieve his goal, and win ten years of peace for our Great Mu Dynasty and the people of the world."

Shen He also raised his glass, and the two of them drank a glass together, using tea instead of wine.

After drinking the tea, Chen He didn't leave. He sat half lying and half sitting on the armchair, not saying a word, just staring at the sky outside in a daze.

Su Fengyi didn't say anything. She read the book for a while, turned around and saw Shen He was still in a daze, and couldn't help asking:

"Young General, are you in trouble? Do you need my help?"

Chen He turned to look at her, and seeing that she was asking sincerely, he smiled and said something completely unrelated:

"My brother once said that he would never get married until the Northern Barbarians were defeated. Now that the Northern Barbarians have been pacified, he should finally be able to fulfill his wish."

Su Fengyi agrees:

"That's right. General Shen used to work for the country and the people, but he delayed his lifelong event. Now that General Shen is back, he should take good care of it."

Hearing Su Fengyi say this, Shen He turned his head and stared at her intently, and said:

"In the past, when I was a kid, I always snatched my brother's things. As long as my brother liked something, I liked it. If I wanted to snatch something, what do you think my brother would do?"

Su Fengyi didn't know why he suddenly talked about his childhood and speculated:

"Beat you up?"

Shen He smiled:

“No, my brother only talks big but he’s never hit me.

As long as I want something, even if it's my brother's, as long as I show a little interest in it, he will give it to me, every time."

Su Fengyi sighed:

"General Shen is both a brother and a father. Naturally, he would rather suffer injustice himself than let the young general suffer injustice. It is really not easy."

Shen He could tell that the eldest princess meant what she said.

He skipped the topic, tilted his head to look at the title of the book in her hand, and read:

"The Genglu Book? What's it about?"

Seeing that she was interested, Su Fengyi handed him the book:

"Speaking of going out to sea, it has been decades since the ban on sea transportation at the end of the previous dynasty, and there has been no news from the sea in the court for many years.

Although sea transport is prohibited, private trade certainly exists among the people. I have asked someone to buy some books related to private trade for you to read."

Chen He took the copy and flipped through it casually:

"You want to go out to sea?"

Su Fengyi drank tea and nodded:

"I want to send someone out to check, otherwise I don't know what's going on outside."

The original book did not include a map of the other side of the sea, so Su Fengyi knew very little about the world on the other side of the sea, and felt very uneasy.

Shen He took the book:

"Any more? Lend it to me."

Su Fengyi not only had some, but she had a lot more. When she said she wanted to read them, Dangui collected dozens of boxes of books related to sailing for her and placed them in a side hall of the study. She would not be able to finish reading them until next year.

Since Shen He was interested, Su Fengyi took Shen He to the side hall to pick out books.

She had read some good books before, so she recommended a few to Chen He. Su Fengyi agreed, and Chen He accepted all of them. In the end, he took away more than a dozen books.

Before Shen He left, he suddenly said to Su Fengyi:

"I used to steal my brother's things, but now I'm older. If I do that again, I'd be a jerk, wouldn't I?"

Su Fengyi was startled, wondering why he still remembered this topic, and followed his words and said:

"General Shen has grown up, and General Shen will be pleased."

Chen He held the pile of books in one hand, turned his back to Su Fengyi, waved with his other hand, and said casually:

"Okay, I get it. You two, be good to each other."

From the next day on, maybe because the novelty wore off or he was fascinated by the pile of books about going to sea, Chen He never came to see the phoenix wing flower planted outside her study window again.

It was as if the flower had been forgotten.