Chapter 3492 Late Night Secret Report
With a "clang", the window was blown against the wall by a sudden gust of wind.
The room was originally very quiet. After dinner, Zhu Feng and Nan Yan had agreed not to rest, nor did they play around. Instead, one sat at the table reading, while the other sat by the bed, embroidering a handkerchief. Although they were silent, the room was peaceful and quiet, but the atmosphere was very warm, even gentle.
But that sound suddenly broke the tranquility.
When Zhu Feng looked up, the candlelight began to flicker. He was about to stand up when Nan Yan immediately said, "Your Majesty, don't move."
After saying that, she went over and closed the window.
She looked back at the teacup next to Zhu Feng, seeing that he had almost finished it, and went to refill it with some more hot water.
After finishing all this, she did not go back to her needlework, but stood aside and looked down at Zhu Feng. After a while, Zhu Feng seemed to notice her gaze and looked up at her: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Nan Yan whispered, "Your Majesty, why aren't you panicking at all?"
Zhu Feng looked at her with a half-smile: "Why should I panic?"
Nan Yan frowned and said nothing.
Speaking of which, such a major event as the meeting with the King of Yue went on and ended exceptionally smoothly. After returning, apart from Xinping's ignorant fuss over there, this major event seemed to have no impact on them at all.
But Nan Yan knew in her heart that this was impossible.
Something big is bound to happen.
She was about to say something when, as if her anxiety was confirmed, a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside, breaking the tranquility of the night. Only Xiao Shunzi's breathless voice rang out outside the door: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty."
Zhu Feng put down the book in his hand: "What's the matter?"
Xiao Shunzi said, "Commander-in-Chief Li, Lord, requests an audience."
Li is not hurt?
Upon hearing this, Zhu Feng's face suddenly darkened.
He hadn't accompanied the emperor when he went to meet him, nor had he come to greet him after he returned. Yet, he had suddenly come to see the emperor at such a late hour, and he had come directly here—
Seeing his brows furrowed, Nan Yan said softly, "Your Majesty, perhaps he has something important to report."
Zhu Feng sneered and said, "Of course it's something urgent. Otherwise, with his wife still injured, how could he come here so late?"
Nan Yan pursed her lips and said nothing.
Although his expression was not good, Zhu Feng still said, "Let him in."
Nan Yan immediately retreated to the inner room and lowered the curtain.
Soon, the door opened and Li Bushang hurried in from outside. He kowtowed to Zhu Feng and said, "Your humble servant greets the emperor."
When the door opened, a sudden gust of wind blew in, causing the already subdued candlelight to waver again. Zhu Feng's expression also became somewhat uncertain under the flickering candlelight. But when he spoke, his voice was calm, and he simply said, "It's so late, what are you doing here?"
Li Bushang knelt on the ground, and just by turning his head calmly, he could see the inner room separated by a curtain.
There, is Nan Yan's figure.
He took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, I have come to apologize to Your Majesty."
Zhu Feng placed the book in his hand on the table beside him and said slowly, "Your wife is injured, so it's only right that you stay and take care of her. If I had found you guilty, I wouldn't have granted you leave today. You're being too cautious to come here in the middle of the night for such a small matter."
Li Bushang lowered his head and said, "There is one more thing."
Zhu Feng asked, "Oh? What?"
Li Bushang said: "Before, the emperor asked Lord Ying to inquire about the news of Doubei Town, but, but this humble official——"
Zhu Feng narrowed his eyes slightly: "You went too?"
Li Bushang said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. It's not that I dared to disobey your orders. However, ever since I arrived in Yongzhou two years ago, I have been worried about the situation in Doubei Town. Therefore, I allowed some people to enter Yue State early. Now, Doubei Town is heavily guarded. Ordinary people can no longer enter, and no news can get out. I have tried to contact them."
Zhu Feng raised his eyebrows: "You are quite attentive."
Li Bushang said, "I hope the emperor will forgive me for my crime of presumptuous behavior."
Zhu Feng smiled and said, "I asked you to come to Yongzhou to do something, so I allowed you to do it at your own convenience. This is just your caution, what's your crime? However, you came here in the middle of the night, so you didn't come here to ask for forgiveness, did you?"
"yes,"
Li Bushang whispered, "I came here suddenly because I just received a piece of news about the situation inside Doubei Town."
"oh?"
Zhu Feng opened his eyes wide, and from the corner of his eye he saw Nan Yan standing in the inner room. She was obviously moved when she heard these words, and took a step towards the curtain, causing the bead curtain inside to crackle.
He stared hard inside.
The figure immediately took another step back.
Zhu Feng then turned around and looked at Li Bushang: "What news do you have? Tell me."
Li Bushang raised his head, his wolf-like eyes gleaming with an almost green light in the flickering candlelight. He said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, the King of Yue, seems to have encountered something unexpected."
"What?"
Zhu Feng frowned: "What accident?"
Li Bushang said, "The details are unknown to my humble servants. However, after today's meeting, the King of Yue was supposed to return to his camp, but he suddenly stayed at Chen Biri's residence. After that, General Xiahou Jiu hurriedly left, gathered his troops, and returned to Chen Biri's residence. The two sides clashed and almost came to blows."
Zhu Feng asked, "A conflict between the two of them? Then, what about Li Wuyu?"
Li Bushang said, "The King of Yue has never shown up."
Suddenly there was a gasp in the room.
Zhu Feng and Li Bushan both subconsciously turned their heads to look into the inner room. Li Bushan's gaze lingered for only a moment before he heard two deep coughs from Zhu Feng overhead.
Although it was just a cough, his voice was so deep and heavy that it even made people's ears buzz.
The people in the inner room seemed to have been punched twice and took several steps back.
Li Bushang immediately lowered his head.
Zhu Feng's face was grim. He thought for a long time before saying, "Over the years, Xiahou Jiu and Chen Biri have been fighting each other all the time. However, they have always fought in secret and never openly."
Li Bushang immediately said, "Yes."
“…”
"I just find it strange. Both sides gathered a lot of troops this time, and they almost came to blows outside the Chen Mansion. This kind of thing hasn't happened in the past ten years. More importantly, since the King of Yue has been in the Chen Mansion, he should have sent someone to stop it. But from beginning to end, not only did he not show up, he didn't even send a single person."
“…”
"So I suspect—"
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