Furthermore, Rong Chengxuan was indeed certain of victory. If he were alone, he wouldn't be so confident, but if Yun Wanwan were to join him, the situation would be completely different. With his and Yun Wanwan's combined metaphysics, they would surely be able to crush the Western Zhou Dynasty.
However, the actual situation on the border at this time was not as bad as the battle reports said. The border area was not safe, but it was not completely occupied. It is not known whether the Western Zhou army suddenly had a change of heart and showed mercy, or whether the border army really put up a strong resistance. Only half of the border was lost, and the other half remained.
This is good news amidst the bad news, although this good news may be broken soon.
Rong Chengxuan knew that it was only temporary. Maybe the Western Zhou was tired of fighting and wanted to stop and rest. Rong Chengxuan knew that he had to rush to the border before their next attack.
Even Ji Yuheng, the governor of Cizhou, which is right next to the border, knew that the Western Zhou people broke through the border and entered Beichen, and they must be heading for the capital. If they really broke through the border, it would only take a blink of an eye for them to enter Cizhou. He had to think carefully about how to deal with it.
Even if reinforcements didn't arrive by then, he would arrange for the evacuation of the city's inhabitants. He absolutely could not leave the inhabitants to wait for the Western Zhou to conquer Cizhou and be massacred. Living and dying with Cizhou City was his duty as the governor of Cizhou.
Rong Chengxuan had never expected to regret taking Yun Wanwan with him before he even took her to the battlefield. That morning, Rong Chengxuan comfortably slept with his wife in his arms, and he hadn't seen Yun Wanwan since.
Rong Chengxuan really didn't expect that Yun Wanwan, the accompanying person, was even busier than him, the commander-in-chief. Not to mention that he couldn't see Yun Wanwan at night, even when Rong Chengxuan returned home to eat, he rarely sat at the same table with Yun Wanwan. It was as if he had never married this wife.
The main thing was that Yun Wanwan was avoiding him, and even when he wanted to go into the study to bring her a midnight snack, he was stopped by Yun Wanwan's personal maid.
Rong Chengxuan couldn't help but get angry when he mentioned this. Ah Kui was sent from Prince An's mansion to serve Yun Wanwan. Rong Chengxuan really didn't expect that in just a few months, his maid would completely switch sides and join Yun Wanwan's side. "Your Highness, the Princess Consort said that no one is allowed to disturb her, not even Your Highness."
Seeing the gloating smile on Akui's face, Rong Chengxuan felt his temples throbbing. He also felt that he hadn't used a whip for a long time and his hands were itching.
Perhaps Ah Kui had been with Yun Wanwan for so long that she had forgotten even the ability to detect her beauty. She simply ignored the gloomy expression on Rong Chengxuan's face and stabbed him in the heart. "My Lord, do you think you have offended the Princess in some way? Otherwise, why would she have asked this servant to stop you as well?"
After Ah Kui said that, Rong Chengxuan thought about it very seriously, wondering if he had offended Yun Wanwan in some way, but in the end he couldn't figure it out. He had only met Yun Wanwan a few times, and every time she left in a hurry without even saying a word. How could he have offended her in some way?
Rong Chengxuan answered the question irrelevantly and changed the way he entered the room to threaten A Kui, "I want to ask you, who do you belong to?"
"Your Highness, even you belong to the Princess, so Akui, as a servant serving the master, naturally belongs to the Princess as well."
Rong Chengxuan: “…”
Although this sentence doesn't sound right, it does make sense!
So in the end, Rong Chengxuan still failed to enter the study. When Rong Chengxuan saw Yun Wanwan again, it was already the night before departure.
Rong Chengxuan had just returned from the camp outside the capital when he saw Yun Wanwan sitting in the main hall drinking the steaming three-fresh bone soup that the chef of Prince An's Mansion had just prepared for her. Seeing that Rong Chengxuan looked at her strangely as soon as he entered the room, Yun Wanwan became more alert, thinking that Rong Chengxuan was attracted to the bowl of bone soup in her arms.
Yun Wanwan quickly took the bowl of bone soup into her arms and looked at Rong Chengxuan warily: "Rong Chengxuan, are you interested in my soup?"
Rong Chengxuan looked at the bowl of soup in Yun Wanwan's arms. It dawned on him that they had only been married for a few days, and his family status was not even as good as that bowl of soup.
Rong Chengxuan chose a seat closest to Yun Wanwan and sat down. Seeing Yun Wanwan's expression that said, "If you dare to snatch my soup, I'll fight you to the death," Rong Chengxuan sighed for his family status and said soothingly, "Don't worry, I've already eaten. There's no way I'm going to snatch that bowl of soup from you."
Yun Wanwan finally felt relieved upon hearing this. She picked up the bowl of soup again and sipped it. However, as she sipped, she felt that Rong Chengxuan's expression was still a little off. Since Rong Chengxuan wasn't interested in her soup, why did he have such an expression? So Yun Wanwan decided to strike first and asked, "Since you're not thinking about this bowl of soup, then what exactly are you thinking about, Rong Chengxuan?"
"I miss you and I'm off to war." Rong Chengxuan said, "Will you get bored lying down in the middle of the night and sneak out? Who knows what you're doing behind my back? Maybe you'll find horse hoof repairs interesting and run off to join the craftsmen in repairing horseshoes."
Yun Wanwan: “…”
“Or maybe you think cutting grass to feed horses is fun, so you go out in the middle of the night to cut grass and feed the horses!”
Yun Wanwan: “???”
For the first time, Yun Wanwan discovered that His Royal Highness Prince An also had wild imaginations. Yun Wanwan had no idea where this idea came from, and she also couldn't understand why Rong Chengxuan was so obsessed with horses. It was a bit puzzling.
Yun Wanwan felt that Rong Chengxuan's train of thought was beyond her comprehension, so she followed his lead and asked, "Why would I repair horseshoes? And I don't have to mow the horse's grass, right? Why can't I comb the horse's hair, or at least give it a bath? That would at least keep the horse clean, right?"
Rong Chengxuan just felt that he was careless for a moment and had never thought about this. He looked at Yun Wanwan and fell into deep thought. If Yun Wanwan might not be able to do the first two things, but the one that Yun Wanwan said herself at the end, she might really be able to do it.
After all, Yun Wanwan loves cleanliness, which Rong Chengxuan knew from the beginning. What if Yun Wanwan really couldn't stand the sight of the army's war horses being so dirty and went to wash them...
Well, there are a lot of war horses in the army. If Yun Wanwan is determined to find this to kill time...
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