Chapter 3261 After all, there is always a return
Zhu Feng glanced at her with a half-smile.
"How do you know?"
Nan Yan said, "I know a lot."
As she spoke, she came over, grabbed Zhu Feng's arm, and dragged him to sit at the table. Zhu Feng glanced at the food on the table and couldn't help but frown. He said, "You know I haven't eaten all day, and you still brought me some soup? How come there's not even a bit of fish?"
Nan Yan poured a bowl of porridge into his hands and said, "Fish generates fire and meat generates phlegm. I've heard Your Majesty coughing constantly these past two nights. He must be getting a sore throat. The weather has been dry lately, so you'd better eat less of those things. Eat a light diet for the next two days."
Zhu Feng was not very happy, but Nan Yan had already stuffed the bowl into his hand, so he had no choice but to sigh and pick up the chopsticks.
Nan Yan immediately pointed to a plate of shredded vegetables.
"This, I specifically told them to add more vinegar. It has a sour and spicy taste, and it's perfect with porridge. Your Majesty, please try it."
Zhu Feng took a little bit of porridge and ate it in a bad mood, with no expression on his face. But he took several more bites and ate half a bowl of porridge. Nan Yan sat beside him, holding her face with a smile, watching him.
Zhu Feng was in a bad mood before. In addition to the fact that an issue that had been lingering in his mind for these days had never been resolved, several of his generals had been asking for battle, which made him uneasy. Indeed, hunger was also a reason. Now that he had eaten something, the gloom between his brows was dispelled a lot.
Nan Yan also picked up her chopsticks and helped him put some food on the plate. Then she asked softly, "But why didn't the emperor send them to the battle?"
Hearing this, Zhu Feng frowned again.
"What's there to fight about at this time?"
“…”
"If we could have won, Chen Zixiao would have fought here for all these years and would have won a result. I don't want to make any more unnecessary sacrifices."
"But, there's no way to avoid fighting, right?"
Zhu Feng narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Of course."
“…”
"For the past two years, I have focused all my attention on Jiangnan, which is why the Eastern Chaga tribe has grown so powerful here and Arslan has enjoyed so many benefits. If I don't fight back, this journey to the northwest will be in vain."
"That--"
"However, you also saw the map that day, and I believe that what Chaolu saw was only the most basic deployment of Arslan's troops. Attacking White Tiger City is not that easy, not to mention the cavalry of the Eastern Chaga tribe."
“…”
"If we can't accomplish our goal in one fell swoop and wipe them out, there will be endless troubles."
Nan Yan said, "But, the generals who requested the battle are all using the same old tactics. It's impossible to annihilate the forces in White Tiger City in one go, right?"
Zhu Feng nodded.
Then he continued, “That’s not all.”
Nan Yan looked at him with wide eyes: "What else?"
Zhu Feng lifted the bowl to his mouth, but did not drink the porridge immediately. Instead, he curled the corners of his lips slightly and revealed a cold smile, saying, "You may not know that the report I received a few days ago showed that the Kingdom of Dian has begun to stir."
"What?"
When Nan Yan heard this, her brows knitted together: "Monk? What does he want to do?"
Zhu Feng sneered, "What he wants to do depends on the outcome on our side."
Nan Yan frowned and thought for a moment, then immediately came to her senses and said, "The Emperor means that although he has a grudge against Arslan, he will not allow the Emperor to eliminate Arslan and reap all the benefits of the entire northwest?"
"Of course."
Zhu Feng said, "Although Arslan was driven out of Kulun City and Neng Country by him, he was able to stay safely in Baihu City. This was because of his deliberate indulgence. He wanted Arslan to keep wasting time with me. Only by wasting both of us would he have a chance."
Nan Yan said, "So this time, if the Emperor deploys troops against White Tiger City, and the battle becomes stalemate, Monk will stab us in the back?"
Zhu Feng said: "This is inevitable."
Nan Yan said, "But, according to everyone's thinking, as long as troops are used, the war will almost certainly end in a stalemate."
"so,"
Zhu Feng said in a deep voice: "If you can't defeat them in one fell swoop, don't use your troops lightly."
Nan Yan nodded and said, "I understand."
As she spoke, her expression grew heavy. Seeing her serious and troubled expression, Zhu Feng couldn't help but smile and said, "This has nothing to do with you. You don't have to be so sad."
Nan Yan said, "I want to help the emperor."
Zhu Feng asked, "Help? What can you offer me? Do you know what I want to do?"
Nan Yan blinked and said nothing. Zhu Feng didn't intend to continue the topic, so he asked, "Why don't you eat?"
Nan Yan smiled and said, "I've eaten outside."
"Humph, those things outside are so dirty, you're going to take Cheng Jun to eat them?"
"Your Majesty just wants him to walk around outside. There's no need to treat a boy like a delicate flower, right?"
"snort."
Zhu Feng snorted coldly, then couldn't help asking, "What did you eat?"
Nan Yan smiled and said, "What to eat is secondary. I took him to a restaurant and originally ordered some delicious dishes, but there was a storyteller telling stories in the restaurant, so Cheng Jun didn't care about eating at all. He just drank a bellyful of rice soup and just listened to the story."
Zhu Feng asked, "Are you so engrossed in listening? What is the storyteller talking about?"
"The Three Kingdoms."
Nan Yan said, "The storyteller used to come to the restaurant every afternoon, tell a story, collect the money for the drinks, and then leave. But our son wasn't satisfied with just one story and insisted on asking the storyteller to continue. He wouldn't let the storyteller leave even when he wanted to. So, he ended up using his New Year's money to reward people. He listened to the storyteller's story for two hours straight, and his voice became hoarse."
Zhu Feng couldn't help laughing.
Asked: "What stories were told?"
"From the three visits to the thatched cottage, all the way to the Battle of Red Cliffs."
Nan Yan paused, looked at Zhu Feng with a twinkling gaze, and said, "The piece I like to listen to the most is the one called - Borrowing the East Wind."
Zhu Feng's eyes also flickered.
After a while, he smiled casually and said, "Why do you like it?"
Nan Yan said, "If only there were a Mr. Kong Ming who could control the wind and rain for the emperor at this time, it would be great."
"Call the wind and rain?"
Zhu Feng repeated these four words and sighed with a hint of emotion, "How can it be that easy?"
Nan Yan also nodded and murmured, "Yeah, it's not that easy..."
She still remembered that she had prayed to God more than once, just like when she was outside Changqing City and was about to be caught up by Prince Ning's fleet, she also asked God to "borrow" a gust of wind.
If you borrow something from God, you have to pay the price.
Just like Zhuge Kongming, he borrowed an east wind at Chibi, but in the end, he repaid it with a heavy rain in Shangfang Valley.
After all, what you borrow must be returned.
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