Chapter 226: Draft a plan immediately and send it to the Marquis of Zhenbei by express horse to attack Xiliang!
Yu Youning nodded obediently, letting Li Shuhe hold her in his arms. She lay on Li Shuhe's shoulder and soon closed her eyes.
Feeling Yu Youning's body soften in his arms, Li Shuhe's heart softened as well. He stood up holding Yu Youning and said, "I'm going to take Youning to rest first. Tingwan, Shiyan, you two should rest early as well. You must have been exhausted during this period. Now that you're back, you should rest for a few days. You can leave Youning to me."
Listening to Li Shuhe's gentle words, Yu Tingwan smiled and nodded, "Okay! As long as my mother is here, I can be lazy openly!"
Looking at Yu Tingwan's playful look, Li Shuhe was amused again.
After talking to Yu Tingwan for a few more words, Li Shuhe carried Yu Youning out.
Seeing this, Yu Mubai hurried to catch up.
"Madam, please give Youning to me. She's grown a lot bigger now and has become a lot heavier. It must be hard to hold her. Let me hold her!"
"No need for you!" Li Shuhe refused without any hesitation, "I'll sleep with Youning tonight, you can find a place to stay by yourself!"
"lady--"
Yu Mubai had just said these two words when he saw Li Shuhe instantly speed up and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Tengshe was also very fast. Seeing Li Shuhe taking Yu Youning away, he hurriedly followed them.
The two shadows quickly disappeared, leaving only Yu Mubai standing there.
After a while, Yu Mubai shook his head helplessly, "Forget it, I'd better go find Old Chu!"
Chu Huaishan has already fallen asleep.
But he was still woken up by Yu Mubai in his sleep.
The moment he was called, Chu Huaishan's hair and beard stood up.
Scratching his head in annoyance, Chu Huaishan walked to the door and opened it.
Looking at Yu Mubai standing at the door, Chu Huaishan was furious.
"What are you doing at my door in the middle of the night?"
Yu Mubai put his hands behind his back, his expression serious and his brows slightly furrowed. "Of course I came here to talk to you about something serious. How have you been along the way—"
Before he could finish his words, Chu Huaishan interrupted him with a sneer.
"It's fine if you just pretend to deceive others, but you actually want to deceive me?"
Chu Huaishan sneered.
"Did your wife kick you out?"
Although he asked this, the expression on his face was very determined.
Being looked at like this by Chu Huaishan, Yu Mubai could no longer pretend and immediately became listless, "She wants to take Youning to sleep with her..."
Chu Huaishan burst into laughter instantly, "I knew it! If it wasn't like this, you wouldn't have come to me!"
The two knew each other when they were young, and decades have passed in the blink of an eye.
After decades of friendship, such ridicule seems harmless.
Although he was laughing, Chu Huaishan still opened the door and let Yu Mubai in.
The two men sat down on either side of the couch, relit the oil lamp, and placed the chessboard on the table.
When they were young, one of them liked to study medicine, and the other liked to be a hero. They had endless things to deal with every day and had no time to sit down and play chess, nor did they like playing chess.
But no one knew when it started, but whenever the two met again, they would definitely play a few games of chess.
After a long time, it has become a habit.
If I don't play a few games properly, it will feel like something is missing.
The night gradually deepened, and the two had already fought for several rounds.
Finally, after the two of them cleared the chessboard once again, voices were finally heard in the room.
"I've heard everything about what happened to you in Nanzhao. She must have arranged the assassination, right?"
Yu Mubai said as he placed a white piece on the chessboard.
Chu Huaishan stared at the chessboard without blinking. "Apart from her, I can't think of anyone else. If I had known this would happen, I should have taken Youning away from Nanzhao earlier and wouldn't have let Youning go through that."
"It's already happened, and it's too late to talk about it now. The dead are gone, but for Youning, this incident is not entirely without benefits.
Look at Youning today. When she heard that the seal could be lifted, her eyes were full of anticipation. She was not just looking forward to it for fun.
She wants to become more powerful so that she can protect the people she wants to protect and avenge those who died.
Even though Youning was young and never mentioned those things again, they were all in Youning's mind and she never forgot them for a moment.
This child is born different from ordinary people, and her abilities have not been wasted at all."
Chu Huaishan said in one breath, "If possible, I hope that Youning can grow up happily and carefree like an ordinary child, without having to go through so many things and without putting so much pressure on herself..."
Upon hearing this, Yu Mubai threw the white piece in his hand onto the chessboard and sneered, "Anyone can say these things, but you can't. I'm afraid you're getting more and more confused as you get older. Have you forgotten that you wanted to take Youning away when she was one year old? If I hadn't stopped you—"
Seeing that Yu Mubai started to bring up old matters, Chu Huaishan knew he was in the wrong and quickly admitted his mistake.
"I was wrong! I was wrong about those things! But at that time, I was just eager to admire talent. I thought Youning had an extraordinary talent in medicine. If he didn't study hard, it would be a waste.
Facts have proven that what I did was not wrong. Look, Youning has made a lot of achievements in the past few years with me in Medicine King Valley. He has researched so many medicines and even developed a way to regenerate severed limbs...
If it weren't for Youning, who knows how long it would take for these things to be researched, and how could so many people be saved? Youning's merits are immeasurable..."
Although Yu Mubai still stared with his eyes wide open, he had to admit that what Chu Huaishan said was right.
Although it is entirely possible to wait until Yu Youning grows up a little before studying medicine, someone may die during the years of waiting.
If Yu Youning could learn it sooner, it would be better for the people...
It's good for others, but for Youning, it's really too hard.
Two old men over fifty years old, you looked at me, I looked at you, and no one spoke for a long time.
After a long while, Yu Mubai finally said, "Let's not talk about the past. From now on—"
"Old Yu, you should understand better than me that with great power comes great responsibility. These children have long been deeply involved in this, and we can't stop them.
If you really try to stop them now, it will not be a good thing for them.
You can protect them for a while, but can you protect them forever? If one day we are gone, what will they do?
No matter how much we feel bad for them, no matter how much we don’t want to let them go, we can’t keep them like caged birds.”
Chu Huaishan spoke for a long time without waiting for Yu Mubai's reply, and looked at Yu Mubai with some surprise.
"Old Yu? Why are you silent?"
Yu Mubai glanced at Chu Huaishan unhappily, "Now that you've said this, what else can I say?"
Chu Huaishan touched his nose embarrassedly, "How about we go to bed? At worst, I'll let you sleep on the bed tonight and I'll sleep on the couch!"
“I should have been sleeping in the bed!
As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Mubai couldn't help laughing.
After laughing, Yu Mubai thought of something. "By the way, have you told the Emperor of Dayong about your visit to the island? Those secret guards can't keep up, will the Emperor of Dayong be worried?"
"Shouldn't it be...?"
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Dayong.
The emperor and the empress had just washed up and were about to go to bed when eunuch Wang came in hurriedly with a secret letter in his hand.
The emperor and empress, who had been feeling a little sleepy just now, became alert the moment they saw the secret letter.
Why would the secret letter be delivered at this time?
"Come to think of it, it's been a while since I received a secret letter since the New Year," the emperor said with a smile. "Last time, he said he would be back by the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. He should be on his way now, right? I don't know where he is. If I knew his exact location, I could go and greet him."
When the Queen heard this, she also laughed and said, "Your Majesty is very busy and certainly can't go, but I can go in your place!"
The queen hadn't seen Chu Huaixu for such a long time. Even though she knew from the secret letter that Chu Huaixu had always been doing well, she was still worried.
The emperor looked at the queen with a smile and said nothing more. He just opened the secret letter in his hand, and the couple looked up at it together.
But when the two saw the content above, the smiles on their faces gradually froze.
Eunuch Wang was smiling at first, and he had even planned on saying a few auspicious words to please the girl.
Whether or not he could get the reward was not important to Eunuch Wang.
But if he could make the emperor and empress laugh more, his position would be more secure.
I had already prepared the speech and was just waiting to speak it out, but I could only watch helplessly as the expressions of the Emperor and the Empress gradually became serious.
Even the queen's eyes began to turn red.
Although the emperor was still calm, his eyes were full of anger and his face turned ashen.
Upon seeing this scene, Eunuch Wang instantly forgot all the remarks he had prepared, and he no longer dared to smile. Even his calves began to tremble.
What's wrong?
What is happening?
What exactly is written on the secret letter?
The Queen is suddenly so sad, and the Emperor is so angry. Could something have happened to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?
If that's really the case, judging by his head, it will probably be separated from his body tonight!
The more Eunuch Wang thought about it, the more frightened he became, and cold sweat soaked his back.
Just then, Eunuch Wang finally heard the emperor speak.
"Xiliang is simply going too far!"
"How dare they assassinate someone on the streets of Nanzhao's capital, and even cause Xu'er to be injured and poisoned! What do they want to do?"
"Come here! Immediately draft a plan and send it to the Marquis of Zhenbei by express horseback to attack Xiliang!"
"I want Xiliang to see clearly that Dayong is absolutely not afraid of them. This time, I must teach them a lesson!"
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