Chapter 10 Returning to Beijing, Chai Heng knew that he was ill again...
When she spoke like this, Yang Yan suddenly felt a little powerless.
He had always thought they were just having a quarrel. After all, they had conflicts like this before. But it would eventually resolve itself. But he had never seen anyone so eager to push him out and send him to someone else like this before.
He really wanted to ask her, if she gave him to someone else like this, wasn't she worried that he would really be with someone else?
If he really was with Xue Ruyue, would she really be happy for the next few decades?
Thinking of this, he had countless things to say, but in the end he cleared his throat and said nothing.
Xue Ruyue was still setting up the house. Seeing Chai Heng coming over, she probably guessed his intention: "How is Xingzhi's injury? Do you need my help?"
As she asked, she stood up and picked up the medicine box.
Chai Heng doesn't like Xue Ruyue, and Xue Ruyue doesn't like Chai Heng much either.
Her mother died young, and the families in the Xizhimen area who were close to her father took good care of her. Mrs. Chai, Su Baiyu, had been close friends with her mother in their early years. After losing her daughter, Chai Heng, she took extra care of Xue Ruyue. It could be said that in those early years, Xue Ruyue was practically raised by Su Baiyu. She truly considered Su Baiyu her own mother, but everything changed after Chai Heng's return.
The other brothers and sisters of the Chai family began to shift some of their attention to Chai Heng, and the love they gave her was not as great as before. Although Su Baiyu still treated her well, now that Chai Heng, his biological daughter, had returned, her father no longer allowed her to stay at the Chai family for half a month as before.
In Xue Ruyue's eyes, Chai Heng was just a bandit.
She had snatched away her aunt, who was like a mother to her, and her brother, whom she had loved for many years and with whom she had once truly shared a deep affection. Under such circumstances, expecting her to like her was simply impossible. Therefore, her greatest kindness towards Chai Heng was to maintain basic decency, not mocking her, not ridiculing her, and not causing embarrassment for her aunt and Yang Yan.
That's what she thought, and so did Chai Heng. It was good enough to maintain basic decency.
"He's still bleeding, go bandage him." Chai Heng said as he squatted down and picked up wood with Xu Jianxian.
Seeing Xue Ruyue go in like this, Xu Jianxian didn't quite understand: "There was a rumor in the capital that Lord Yang had a white moonlight before marrying you. It must be Miss Xue. You let her go. Do you mind?"
Chai Heng: "I used to mind it, but now I don't mind it."
"Why?"
Chai Heng continued to pass the wood to him: "When I cared before, I was the only one who cared, and no one cared whether I cared or not. I found it was useless, so now I just don't care."
Xu Jianxian had been in business for nearly half his life, and still hadn't found anyone he liked. Naturally, he had no idea what Chai Heng was talking about, so he poked Chu Yanhuai, who was working hard, rolling up his sleeves, revealing his muscular build, and asked, "Can you understand what a girl is saying?"
Chu Yanhuai had joined the army to serve his country precisely because of his disappointment in love. If he had believed he had a more intelligent mind, he wouldn't have ended up like this. He simply said, "I don't understand."
He is a straightforward person.
He is stubborn, strong and capable.
In his previous life, Chai Heng's master, Prince Jing, admired him very much. However, in the final battle between the Jingnan Army and the Western Rong, which lasted for three days and three nights at Xiyue Ridge, the military merit of the victory was indeed snatched away by Chu Yanhuai.
In that battle, the Jingnan Army clearly won. Chai Heng remembered it clearly. Everyone heard the sound of triumph, but the court said it was a defeat, and his senior brother even received the military stick on behalf of his master.
Not only that, the imperial court also announced to the world that the reason why the Western Rong people were defeated was because when the Jingnan Army was about to lose, a white-robed general came with his troops to rescue them, which changed the situation of the battle.
And this white-robed general is Chu Yanhuai.
Things happened so turbulently back then that it was difficult for Chai Heng to tell who was right or wrong.
In a sense, Chu Yanhuai had lucked out in his previous life, but he hadn't really wanted it. It was the aged sage who, among thousands of others, had spotted him and felt he could one day assist the new emperor, thus bestowing the title upon him. When he first accepted this inexplicable military achievement, he felt like he was taking on a hot potato. It was only Prince Jing's magnanimous advice, encouraging him to accept his fate with peace of mind, that stopped him from stubbornly confronting the sage again.
Chai Heng didn't understand many things at the time and asked her master why. Her master only told her that all he wanted in his life was to protect the families of the former ministers on Furong Mountain. Being able to defend Furong Mountain was already very good. As for whether he really lost the battle or not, it was not that important.
What's more, there is no general who always wins in the world. He is old, and there will come a day when he will have to admit that he is no longer victorious.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a little more nostalgic about her past life. While she was thinking about something, Ji Zhangqing's eyes suddenly lit up and he shouted:
"fire!"
"Over there, there's a huge fire!"
Xu Jianxian looked in the direction Ji Zhangqing mentioned and suddenly realized that it was Tuoba Yuanli's camp: "It seems that there is a huge fire not only on the right, but also on the left!"
In an instant, everyone's eyes lit up.
Even Yang Yan and Xue Ruyue, who were originally in the house, came out.
"What's going on?"
"It's Tuoba Yuanli and Tuoba Ying who are having a complete internal conflict. I think the two brothers have completely fallen out just now, and now they are burning each other's tents."
Chai Heng put down the wood in his hand and suddenly realized that there seemed to be no need to build this broken house anymore.
Xu Jianxian slapped his thigh and said, "What about my food and grass?" As he said this, he hurried to Tuoba Yuanli's camp.
"Why are you running alone? Even if you saw where your food is, you can't drag it by yourself. Are you going to help Tuoba Yuanli put out the fire?"
Chu Yan grabbed him with a look of frustration.
At that moment, a specially made smoke bomb from the Jingnan Army appeared in the western sky. At the same time, signal smoke was set off at the border. Yang Yan looked up and said in a deep voice, "You really don't need to go. Prince Jing and his men are already here."
The sound of horse hooves and the shouts of killing could be heard from all directions. Chai Heng knew that he could finally leave this hellish place.
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The carriage ride from Xirong back to Shangjing was very bumpy. The Jingnan Army and the Xirong people were still fighting. Chai Heng did not see his master and mistress as he wished. He only met his senior sister who came to rescue them, and then hurriedly set out on the road back to Beijing.
Because of Yang Yan's instigation, the Tuoba brothers staged a drama of killing each other. Along the way, Ji Changqing couldn't figure out why they really came back, and their return was so sudden.
"After I joined the Ministry of War, I studied military books for many years. I always thought that war was a game of intrigue and deception, and that you had to compete with your opponent in cunning. I didn't expect to meet such stupid brothers this time." Ji Changqing leaned on the sedan chair and sighed.
Chai Heng said, "Actually, the Tuoba brothers aren't stupid. It's just that since ancient times, no one wants to lose in the battle for the crown prince. Tuoba Ying knows that if his elder brother wins, he will completely lose the support of the people in Xirong. At that time, it won't be a question of whether Xirong's territory is large or not, but whether he will survive. If it were you, you would also make things difficult for your brother. Similarly, Tuoba Yuanli was about to accomplish his plan, but his camp was burned down by this idiot brother. Naturally, he was very angry, and revenge was reasonable."
What she said makes sense.
Ji Zhangqing couldn't help but look at him with admiration: "Chai Si, did you learn this from your master, or from Yang Yan?"
Her master and his mistress taught her martial arts only for self-defense. The battlefield was dangerous, and they never talked to her much about marching and fighting.
This was actually what she asked from Yang Yan in her previous life.
"Yang Yan." She answered truthfully.
Ji Zhangqing's eyes suddenly flashed with cunning. "Are you really planning to ride in the same carriage with me all the way back to the capital? Didn't you see that when we were having lunch at the post station, Lord Yang's eyes fell on you, intentionally or not? He looked cold, but that didn't mean he didn't care about you."
Chai Heng smiled nonchalantly, "That's just your conjecture. He's been in the same carriage with Xue Ruyue all day, dining together and chatting about the past. He must be very happy. What's there to see in me?"
"Chai Si, Chai Si, you are such a piece of wood."
Ji Zhangqing shook his head, looking like an incorrigible child. "The reason he's with Xue Ruyue is actually because he wants you to keep him. If you had been with him this morning when we were riding in the carriage, he wouldn't have been with Xue Ruyue."
There were a lot of milk cakes on the carriage, which were prepared by her master and his mistress at the request of her senior sister.
Chai Heng reached out and took a piece, eating while laughing and teasing him: "You only have one wife, Chen Lianyi, why do you act like a romantic?"
Ji Zhangqing: "You don't understand this. In this life, when you meet someone who understands what love is, and they happen to be right, then naturally everything will be clear to you."
He is proud and cocky.
Chai Heng couldn't bear to criticize him, but he had to admit that his life with Chen Lianyi was indeed enviable: one who didn't abandon her new husband when she was down and out, and one who didn't forget her wife even after passing the imperial examination.
Unfortunately, there are many infatuated women like Chen Lianyi in this world, but there are too few conscientious men like Ji Changqing.
After a long and tiring journey, five days had passed by the time he returned to the Marquis's residence. Sleeping in a carriage was difficult, so the first thing Chai Heng wanted to do upon returning to the mansion was to get a good night's sleep, leaving everything else to him later.
It was strange, too. She and Yang Yan had clearly arrived in the same carriage, but when it was time for dinner, this man went into the study and searched for something for ages. The kitchen was left wondering when to serve the hot dishes, so Chai Heng only ate a few bites of the cold dishes before retreating to her room.
Chai Heng and Yang Yan's house was divided into an east wing and a west wing. The west wing was usually unoccupied, as Chai Heng had stored some of her favorite wood there. The east wing was where she and Yang Yan would rest. Although they usually just chatted under a quilt, when Chai Heng returned, she discovered that Xiang Qiao had already laid out the bright red mandarin duck quilt they had worn at their wedding.
Chai Heng was blinded by the bright red color and turned around to go into the west wing and get on the bed.
In the middle of the night, Yang Yan came back from the study.
The first person he saw upon returning was Xiangqiao: "Where's the Madam?"
Xiang Qiao rubbed her sleepy eyes and said, "It seems like it was in the west wing. Son-in-law, is your leg injured?"
"No problem."
Yang Yan pondered for a moment, straightened his navy blue uniform, and walked towards the west wing.
Chai Heng was a light sleeper, waking up at the slightest noise. When she opened her eyes, she felt a slight pain in her scalp. Then she discovered that the magnolia hairpin she had originally worn was now in Yang Yan's hand.
"Why did you stay up late at night and steal my hairpin?"
"Who stole your hairpin?"
Yang Yan twitched his lips and sneered, "Do I need money from you to buy a hairpin?"
He had only come with good intentions, wanting to invite her to sleep in the east wing, which was a pile of broken wood and reeked of rotting dust. They hadn't divorced yet, and if word got out, people would think he was abusing the women in the Pingling Marquisate. He had only taken her hairpin out of fear that she would pierce herself to death in her sleep.
"If you are not going to steal my hairpin, then what are you doing here?" Chai Heng was puzzled.
"Go back to sleep."
Yang Yan straightened his face, and in order to not seem so frivolous, he added indifferently, "You came back in a hurry today, so I don't mind you not showering or changing clothes, but tomorrow will be the same as before, so please wash yourself thoroughly."
Chai Heng was very sleepy. When she heard him say that, she knew that he was sick again.
She didn't even intend to reply to him. She just covered herself with the quilt and fell down again.
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