Chapter 127 Thank you for your hard work
Ye Lanzhou didn't understand these officialdom affairs, but since the Pei family almost became her sister's husband's family, she knew a thing or two about the Pei family. Especially since Elder Pei had entered the officialdom as a teenager, topped the imperial examination that year, and had assisted three generations of emperors.
No one dared to say anything against such a person, but Xie Chengyan said that he was about to fall.
Ye Lanzhou asked, "Did Lord Pei do something wrong?"
Xie Chengyan seemed tired, leaning back in his chair. With a relaxed attitude, he said, "Lord Pei did nothing wrong; he simply held a different stance. The world is in turmoil, yet he still advocates for benevolent governance. The Southern Barbarians are practically riding on Dayin's heels, yet he's still clamoring for peace."
He sighed lightly, and suddenly recalled the scene of the battle in Jinling in the past. The soldiers of the Southern Barbarians were not as brave and good at fighting as the cavalry of the Northern Barbarians, but the Southern Barbarians were cunning, and the Moon Worship Sect was bullying them. The battle back then was really fierce.
He went on to say, "It's no use negotiating peace with the Nanman. We must go to the battlefield and subdue them."
Ye Lanzhou knew he was referring to the time when he defended Jinling. If he hadn't led the 30,000 troops left by the royal family to defend Jinling City, Nanyang would have fallen. Back then, the Nanman invaded Jinling after a defeat at Zhennan Pass outside Jinling, resulting in countless casualties. Even now, the sky over Jinling still seemed to glow blood red.
That was clearly the blood of the people of Jinling, now floating in the air.
At this moment, she suddenly looked up at Xie Chengyan and found that he was lowering his eyes with a rare sadness in his eyes.
Xie Chengyan was a man who never showed his emotions, but when he recalled the past, a sadness came over him. He was only eighteen years old then, the same age as Xie Chengyuan is now. He would never forget the day when Prince Ning opened the Zhennan Pass. The southern barbarian army was a black mass, and it seemed that it was going to crush the entire Jinling city.
Ye Lanzhou sat opposite and looked at him.
he……
It shouldn't be easy, right?
Thinking of this, she suddenly spoke and said softly, "Thank you for your hard work."
The unexpected words pulled Xie Chengyan out of his thoughts and made him raise his head.
He seldom heard this sentence. The last time he heard it was from his father, and it was because his father said it with regret after leaving him in Jinling City.
He didn't know how much truth and how much falsehood were in his father's words, but he knew that if his father were given another chance to choose, he would still choose to keep Xie Chengyan in Jinling.
Regret afterwards is just a way to justify your choice.
But the man before him had nothing to do with the whole thing, yet he was willing to say such a thing because of his experience. He used to think that Ye Lanzhou was very bad, who would do anything to survive, even daring to climb into his bed, but now he felt pity for him.
He suddenly remembered a sentence Yang Zheng had said when he was young: "The most evil people perish because of their cunning, and the most good people perish because of their stupidity. Therefore, there are no people who are either completely good or completely evil in the world. Goodness contains evil, and evil contains good. This is the diversity of human nature."
Xie Chengyan looked up and met Ye Lanzhou's eyes. He thought, this was her kindness.
She raised her eyes slightly, and the upturned corners of her eyes were a bit charming, which instantly reminded him of the past night in Guangfu Temple. At that time, he was also intoxicated by her medicine and asked her for it several times without restraint.
That night, every time he saw Ye Lanzhou's eyes, he felt like he was insane and had lost his mind.
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