Song Lin raised his hand to wipe his lips, which were slightly swollen from his wife's kiss, and walked out of the tent with an unhappy look on his face. "Didn't you ask outside before coming in?"
Pei Zhiyuan stood at the door of the tent, trying hard to suppress his laughter, and said with a sigh: "I didn't expect Brother Song to be the one below. Miss Shen is really strong and handles both state affairs and family affairs."
Song Lin's face darkened, and he retorted unhappily: "It's better than you being face-blind and your wife and aunt being unable to tell the difference."
Pei Zhiyuan was about to start a quarrel with him, but he saw Shen Xu standing at the door of the tent, interrupting their conversation, "Pei Zhiyuan, you've come just in time."
"Did this just ruin your good fortune?"
Song Lin coughed lightly and explained with a blushing face: "Xiu Xiu is my wife, married in a formal ceremony. It's normal for a couple to be intimate with each other."
"Brother Song, why are you feeling guilty? Why do you need to explain?" Pei Zhiyuan smiled and whispered, "Do you feel that you are becoming less and less worthy of her?"
Shen Xu quickly took Song Lin's arm and said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. You are my serious husband."
These days, Shen Xu found that her husband Song always looked distressed and worried, fearing that he was frightened by her murderous look.
Just when I was thinking of explaining it to him properly and finding a chance to tell him that I would not leave him and would not look down on him because of my sudden increase in status, I didn't expect Pei Zhiyuan to tell me this directly.
So she hurriedly explained, "Our marriage certificate has been stamped by the county magistrate, making us a legal couple. His status is my status, so there's no such thing as being incompatible."
But Song Lin smiled dotingly and touched her head, "Are you afraid that I will think too much?"
He leaned forward slightly, his amber eyes fixed on her slightly red cheeks. His calloused fingertips gently touched her slightly swollen, full lips. His deep voice was so sweet that it melted my bones: "How can a husband be so hypocritical? If I don't even have the courage to face the gap between us, how can I be worthy of standing by your side and being your husband?"
"Okay, Lord Pei has just experienced a blow, don't provoke him anymore." Shen Xu whispered in his ear.
"Okay, I won't be so jealous of him anymore." Song Lin smiled and nodded, pecked her on the cheek, and whispered, "I haven't finished asking for my wife's reward yet, I'll come back later."
Pei Zhiyuan looked at the two flirting with helplessness, and interrupted with a shallow cough: "Didn't Miss Shen make an appointment with Pei to discuss important matters?"
"Yes, yes, I just wanted to discuss the next action with you." Shen Xu lifted the curtain, let Pei Zhiyuan into the tent, spread a map on the table, and discussed with him.
"I informed the Northern Xue Family about the Thirteenth Prince's ascension to the throne, but they are still unwilling to withdraw their troops and surrender. This is a very tricky matter." Shen Xu handed the reply letter from the Northern Xue Family to Pei Zhiyuan and roughly repeated what Xue Yan had said in the letter.
Pei Zhiyuan carefully read the letter and frowned, "This Xue Yan is quite stubborn. Is he going to fight till the end? What is Miss Shen going to do?"
Shen Xu picked up a pen and buried his head in writing something on the paper. Without even looking up, he said, "I want to meet this Xue Yan in person and persuade him to surrender."
Pei Zhiyuan immediately objected, "No! The two armies are now facing each other, and the battle has reached a point where they will fight to the death. I heard from the front that Su Yi was seriously injured and unable to command. I think the Xue family also wants to take advantage of this situation and defeat the king's army in one fell swoop.
If a girl goes to the enemy camp as an envoy to persuade them to surrender, she will undoubtedly be stretching her neck out for them to chop off. It is too dangerous.
In Pei Zhiyuan's opinion, every move she made since she met Shen Xu was a risky one.
Although wealth and honor are achieved through risk, it is inevitable that one will fail if one often stands under a dangerous wall.
If you fail in such a big thing, losing your life is just the most basic consequence.
But Shen Xu did not listen to his advice. Instead, he nodded as he wrote, "Well, someone has to stabilize the royal cavalry and not let their morale collapse.
I think there must be quite a few traitors among the royal army. Does Lord Pei have any information on these generals?"
Pei Zhiyuan nodded and handed the list he had compiled to Shen Xu.
Shen Xu spread out his words on the table and started discussing with him.
Pei Zhiyuan pointed to the three passes on the map and said, "The royal army lost three passes in a row because they fell into the Xue army's scheme. Their formations were extremely sophisticated. The royal army's elite cavalry suffered heavy losses against the Xue army's infantry."
Chen Xu stared at the red and black dots on the map. "It seems that there are experts in arranging troops and formations in Xue's army. Let's go to the Wang army camp first and analyze it after we see the actual formation."
Pei Zhiyuan nodded, looked up and saw that she had already written a whole page of dense words on the paper, and asked, "What is this?"
He tilted his head in confusion to see the following written on the paper: 5,000 rolls of blue cloth, 30,000 kilograms of lapis lazuli pigment, 800 kilograms of gold lacquer, 5,000 kilograms of white lacquer, 10 sets of long-handled wooden horns...
Shen Xu hung the paper to dry and said to Pei Zhiyuan, "We need to get these things as soon as possible before we enter the camp."
"What do you want with this?"
"Give it to the King's Army, and turn out 100,000 soldiers and horses." She smiled mysteriously, picked up the pen and drew a few circles on the map.
"Only these things?" Pei Zhiyuan exclaimed in surprise. Most of the items on this list were paints and cloth, and there wasn't even a powerful crossbow or a set of armor. How could one conjure up 100,000 soldiers out of thin air?
Shen Xu nodded and said, "We need to speed up our journey and advance towards the northern defense line at full speed starting tomorrow."
Although Pei Zhiyuan didn't know what the purpose of these things she prepared was, he believed in her plan. He immediately took the order and asked people to quickly buy and prepare the things on the list.
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