Everyone was joking around. Ye Chen had already developed an indestructible face. Facing everyone's teasing, Ye Chen remained calm and pulled Chen Qiu to sit down. Chen Qiu stood up again with a red face and walked to the big couch to play with An An.
"Chen'er, did you enter the palace today?" The old Duke asked Ye Chen while playing chess.
"Yes, I talked to the emperor about the Wuzhou matter." Because there were many people here, Ye Chen just mentioned it and didn't intend to say more.
"I heard that Lan Yu and Ling Shu's senior sisters are here, how come I didn't see them? We, the hosts, are all here, where did we leave the guests?" Madam Xiao had heard Yan Guqi talking about their trip early in the morning. She was listening to other people's stories, but she was also savoring her own life.
"Oh, they are in my room. Their master has passed away, but Lingshu doesn't know yet. Her senior sister is comforting and enlightening her. Let's come over here and make some room for them." Chen Qiu picked up An An. Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan were already fighting with their eyelids, but An An was still restless, clicking and clacking at this and that, preventing them from sleeping.
"Alas, birth, old age, sickness and death are the most helpless. The little girl had to cry when she just got the news." Madam Xiao put down the teacup and said with emotion.
"Nurse, please coax An An to sleep for a while. She hasn't slept for almost two hours." Seeing that Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan had fallen asleep, Madam Xiao asked the nurse to coax An An to sleep as well.
"Miss Lingshu is here," the maid outside suddenly reported.
As soon as the sound fell, the door curtain was opened, and Lingshu pulled Jingxin into the house.
Ling Shu's eyes and nose were red as she stepped forward to introduce her senior sister to Madam Xiao. "Madam Xiao, this is my senior sister Jingxin."
"Greetings, old lady!" Jingxin bowed.
"Is it her?" Ye Chen noticed Jingxin when she came in.
In the previous life, three years after Shen Qiu's death, Zhennan King Lu Chenyuan married a wife. Ye Chen went to Zhennan King's Mansion and made a big fuss, hoping to find out the whereabouts of Shen Qiu's body on his wedding day, but he returned empty-handed. He remembered that the bride at that time was this person named Jingxin.
At night, Chen Qiu and Ye Chen opened the letters written to them by Lan Yu and Xiao Hang. After putting the letters down, Chen Qiu sighed again, "The love, hate, and vengeance in this world are so heartbreaking and helpless!"
"Qiu'er, everyone has their own story. For them, we can only be listeners and express our feelings."
"Qiu'er, I want us to be fine. Please never leave me, okay?" This is someone else's story, but it is also their own story. Ye Chen cannot tell Chen Qiu. Their story is too bitter, so let him taste the bitterness alone. He doesn't want Chen Qiu to taste even a little bit of bitterness in this life.
At night, Mu Qing was sleeping when he knocked on the door. "Master, there's a letter from Wuzhou saying Xing'er and Black Hawk are missing."
"What?" Chen Qiu woke up faster than Ye Chen.
"When did it happen?" Chen Qiu got up and put on his coat. Outside, Jin'er had already let Mu Qing into the main room.
"The letter was sent eight days ago. When the letter was written, Ye Er and the others had been searching for three days without any clues. Including the time it took to deliver the letter, Xing'er and Black Hawk have been missing for eleven days. I don't know if there are any clues now." Ye Chen and Shen Qiu came out from the inner room and took the letter from Mu Qing's hand. It was indeed sent eight days ago.
"It seems that there are quite a few members of the Phoenix Order in Wuzhou. The situation in Wuzhou is much more serious than I expected. It seems that we can't celebrate the New Year in Kyoto."
"Mu Qing, make the arrangements. I will go to the palace tomorrow and set off as soon as I come back. We will go to Wuzhou." We must not let the Phoenix Society start a rebellion in this life. The lives of the people in Dayin have just gotten a little better, and we cannot let them suffer from war.
"I'll go with you. I'm worried about you going alone." After Mu Qing left, Chen Qiu asked Jin'er to help him pack his things. Winter is different from summer, and you need to bring a lot more things when going out.
"Okay, let's go together. We can only ask Master and the others to take care of the family." Ye Chen certainly wanted to stay with Shen Qiu forever, so he did not refute Shen Qiu's suggestion.
The next day, early in the morning, Ye Chen entered the palace. He wanted to make arrangements in Kyoto. This was the core of Dayin and also where Ye Chen's family lived. He could not let the things that happened in his previous life happen again.
In his previous life, after he was lured away from the mountain, Fuxia sent people to attack Kyoto, and from then on Dayin began a five-year civil war. He had to prevent Fuxia's attack, at least not like in his previous life, when the emperor fled Kyoto.
"You want to go to Wuzhou in person?" The emperor had just met Ye Chen yesterday, and this was not something they discussed.
"Yes, I received news last night that Black Hawk and Xing'er are missing. Black Hawk is the leader of your uncle's secret guards. You know his abilities, but even he met with an accident. This shows that the situation in Wuzhou is more serious than we thought." Ye Chen had no mood to drink tea. What happened in his previous life must not be repeated, otherwise he was afraid that he would not be able to protect his Qiu'er in this life.
"Well, I'm in Kyoto, don't worry. Be careful when you go there. How many people are you bringing this time?" The emperor was still worried about Ye Chen. After all, this was different from going to the northwest for disaster relief. This time it might be a war.
Those in the court were only good at talking about war on paper, with few capable of actually going to the battlefield. Great Yin was surrounded by powerful enemies on all three sides, and the soldiers at the border could not move a single one.
"I won't bring anyone with me. I'll just take ten Black Cloud Guards with me. That place is under Lu Chenyuan's jurisdiction. I'll make a special trip to Binzhou to get some men from Lu Chenyuan. One-third of Great Yin's military strength is in his hands."
"The soldiers in Kyoto cannot move. I suggest that after we leave, uncle, a curfew should be implemented. The curfew will start at 10:00 p.m. every day, and the city gates will be closed and no one will be allowed to enter or leave." Ye Chen wanted to protect Kyoto. This was one way. With a curfew, it would not be so easy for those people to launch a sneak attack at night.
"Are you afraid?"
"I'm afraid that the people from the Phoenix Society will target Kyoto. After all, my most important people are here. I can't let anything happen to you. I have to go to Wuzhou without any worries." Ye Chen put down the teacup in his hand and picked it up again, but he didn't drink a sip. After coming back in this life, he developed a habit. When he was thinking about things, he would touch the calluses on Chen Qiu's hands, and his thoughts would be clear. When he couldn't touch the calluses on Chen Qiu's hands, he would be uncontrollably upset when thinking about things.
"I'll go back first. When I leave, I'll send someone to give you a set of regulations. There are some things I haven't thought through yet. I'll set off at the end of the hour of Wei, and the regulations will be delivered to my uncle at that time. He can adopt them as appropriate. Also, if there's no one available at the critical moment, you can summon my grandfather to the palace." Ye Chen left in a hurry after saying these words.
The emperor looked at Ye Chen's leaving back and said to the sky, "Sister, brother-in-law, please bless Chen'er to be safe."
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