Heaven and earth return to one

Old Master Yuan Hou stared at him for a long time, then let out a soft snort, and finally heaved a sigh of relief: "Your Majesty, please come in."

Li Yunke nodded slightly, "Thank you, Lord Hou."

"I don't know that the lord came here late at night, there is nothing to entertain, the lord can take care of it." The old master said this, and he had already sat down by himself, obviously not taking Li Yunke seriously.

Li Yunke didn't take it seriously at all, and found another chair to sit on by himself, and said, "This king didn't come here to beg for tea with Lord Hou."

The old Hou Ye said with a cold face: "If you have anything to say, just say it, it's getting late, the old man can't compare to the young man, and he can't bear it anymore."

Li Yunke didn't go around in circles with him, and said bluntly: "Master Hou, we will fight this battle sooner or later, but not now."

Old Master Yuan Hou was stunned for a moment, and said with a serious face: "The emperor asked the prince to check on the old man?"

Li Yunke laughed, "Why doesn't Lord Hou believe this king? This king uses Xiang Shang's head as a guarantee. I really don't know that I am here. Besides, fighting is my personal idea. He doesn't agree with it. If what I said here today is taken by him I know, I'm afraid I'm going to lose my head too."

Master Yuan Hou rolled his eyes a few times, and said, "That's not what Wang Ye said when he came here earlier."

"It was for the emperor's sake, not out of my own heart." Li Yunke sighed, "But at the moment, making peace can be regarded as giving us time to prepare, after all, Chengning does not have the absolute strength to fight."

Old Master Yuan was even more angry, his eyes widened, "Leave time to prepare? Does the court have any intention of preparing? Besides, who said that I, Cheng Ning, can't beat him? As long as Zhang Shuai comes back from the south, he will destroy a mere qiujue." Jue, I think two or three months will be enough!"

"Master Hou, don't be angry," Li Yunke said, "If Zhang Shuai leaves Cang Xun alone, even if he can destroy Qiujue quickly, it will not be as fast as Cang Xun's going north, right? By then, Qiujue will be taken down, but the southern half of the country will be gone." Is it not worth the loss if it is lost?"

Old Master Yuan Hou frowned, and stopped talking.

Li Yunke looked directly at him, and said clearly, "Master Hou, the imperial court does not make preparations, but I will. Give me five years, and I will show you a different Chengning."

Old Hou Ye was slightly startled and said: "My lord, could it be..."

"I don't have any disobedience, and I have no interest in that position," Li Yunke smiled a little helplessly, "But I am always the Li family."

If Master Yuan felt something, he asked in confusion: "Why did the prince come here to tell this old man these words?"

"To accomplish this, my king will inevitably ask Lord Hou and the three generals to contribute. And the news of Lord Hou's resignation will sooner or later spread to the army. This king hopes..."

"My lord wants me to send a secret message to my three sons, telling them not to make trouble after they learn about this, right?"

Li Yunke nodded, "Exactly."

Old Master Yuan Hou groaned for a while, slapped the armrest of the chair heavily, stood up and said: "Okay, I can wait for five years, just trust the prince this time."

Li Yunke didn't expect things to go so smoothly, so he got up and bowed deeply to him, "Thank you, Lord Hou, for your trust."

"Your Majesty, there is no need to thank the old man. If Lord Qi Lan and the rest of the adults hadn't been running to the old man these two days, the old man might not have believed what the prince said."

After hearing this, Li Yunke didn't see any surprise on his face, obviously he knew it long ago.He didn't pick it up and continued, but only jokingly said: "When it comes time to fight, if the manpower is insufficient, the king may come again to ask Lord Hou to lead the troops to the battlefield. At that time, the three generals will not come to fight with me. Is the king desperate?"

Mr. Yuan Hou Ye was ignited by his words that had not yet cooled his blood, and his back straightened immediately, "If you brats dare to block my way, I will shoot them one by one and pick them all out!"

Li Yunke laughed, "So in order to wait until that day, Lord Hou must take care of his body and don't get angry."

When it was too late to return to the palace, Li Yunke came in through the back door and went to take a bath first.He wanted to sleep in his own room so late and not disturb Nangong Xuan, but after he lay down, he felt that his posture was not right, and he couldn't fall asleep after turning over and over for a long time, and finally decided to go to Jingyuan.

When he reached Nangongxuan's gate, he pushed it lightly, and the door opened—unexpectedly, Nangongxuan would listen to him, and he really didn't lock the door anymore.

Li Yunke closed the door softly and walked to the inside, took off the long gown and lay down next to Nangongxuan, carefully hugging him into his arms, only then did he feel that the posture was finally right.

Nangong Xuan didn't even open his eyes, and said, "I told you not to touch me."

Li Yunke: "..."

But Nangong Xuan seemed to be just talking and didn't move.

Li Yunke smiled, reached out and squeezed his waist a few times, "Why didn't you sleep?"

Nangong Xuan would never admit that he had been lying on the bed for so long and couldn't help thinking about Li Yunke in his head. He said dissatisfied: "How can you sleep in such a hot day? You don't allow them to put some ice in the room at night."

"If you hadn't been shouting about being hot, I wouldn't have wanted Yingying to put ice in your room during the day." Li Yunke stuck his chin into his shoulder socket, "Is it hurting again? sleep?"

This posture was a bit too intimate, Nangong Xuan couldn't help shrinking his neck, "No, the child is very honest today, and the wound doesn't hurt."

"So you are waiting for me?" Li Yunke laughed, "I'm sorry, I should have come to you as soon as I knew I came back."

Nangongxuan almost asked, "Then where have you been?", but he didn't feel right when the words came to his lips, and he swallowed them back, saying: "How can I have the energy to wait for you? You stay away, you are already hot .”

Instead, Li Yunke hugged him tighter, just avoiding his bulging abdomen, "No, you can only lie on your side now, and you will get tired after a long time. I will rely on you to sleep well."

"I can lean against the wall."

"How can the wall be weaker than me?" Li Yunke said with a dead skin, "Anyway, don't let it go, go to sleep."

Nangong Xuan: "..."

After a whole night of energy, being disturbed by him for a long time, and talking so much, he actually felt more sleepy than when he was quiet before.Could it be that after only two or three days, you got used to having one more person in the room?Everything in the past was easily changed by this person, Nangong Xuan didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing, and...

He closed his eyes and felt the arm across his waist, his heart fluctuated.

It seems that he is too dependent on him, and he seems to have no intention of breaking this dependence.

He touched his swollen belly, and secretly asked himself whether the Nangongxuan from six months ago would ever come back.

As busy as Li Yunke was recently, Nangong Xuan was as free as he was. Apart from caring for the baby, the only thing he could do was wait for the news.

He didn't know if Li Yunke had asked someone to inquire, and when the news would come back, so he had to wait every day.

Not long after Li Yunke left after breakfast that day, Xu Mingxi ran in from the outside, helped Nangongxuan who was walking in the courtyard to sit on a stone chair by the pond, and said, "Master, are you bored?" Is it? There is excitement ahead, do you want to go see it?"

"What excitement?" In the past, Nangong Xuan would definitely not inquire about this kind of thing, but denied it outright.But now that Xu Mingxi had hit the mark, he was so bored that he couldn't bear it anymore, so he asked this question.However, as soon as the words came out, he frowned again, looked down at his abdomen, and shook his head, "Forget it, how can I look at me like this?"

Xu Mingxi followed him to look at it, and said: "There are clothes specially made by the prince for lining, and it doesn't look very obvious. But the leader is right, one thing more is worse than one thing less, so stay out of this yard."

"Then you still come to tease me?" Nangong Xuan rolled his eyes at him.

As soon as he finished speaking, Kong Ying came in from the outside with a lot of scrolls in his arms, and said to Xu Mingxi: "Brother Xu, I can't get them and ask someone to put them at the door. Go and get them for me."

Xu Mingxi let out a hey and ran over.

Seeing that Kong Ying put all the scrolls on the stone table in front of him, Nangong Xuan asked curiously, "What is this?"

"Master Nangong, this is something sent by the empress dowager, and she told the prince to take a good look at it." Kong Ying listened and stopped calling him concubine, "The queen mother thinks that our prince is wandering around all day long. Without a family, she said that state affairs cannot be abandoned, and lifelong events cannot be delayed any longer. So her old man asked a painter to draw portraits of all the ladies of the right age in the family of the senior officials in the court. Today, the painted portraits are sent to let The prince took a good look at it, and told him to choose a princess as soon as possible. There are so many portraits, I was afraid that the prince would be dazzled, so I discussed with Brother Xu, and I will send it here for you to have a look, and you can pick out a few suitable ones first. Bar?"

Nangong Xuan: "..."

What to choose?princess?

Xu Mingxi brought in the remaining portraits at the gate of Jingyuan, put them together with those on the table, picked up a roll, untied the string tied on it, and said: "Master, let's see what this official lady looks like." , I haven’t seen any famous lady in my life.”

"See what it can do, even if you want to marry, they won't marry you!" Nangong Xuan said angrily.

Xu Mingxi: "..." It's so poisonous.

"Of course he won't marry Brother Xu, isn't this all thinking about marrying the prince?" Kong Ying said with a wink at Xu Mingxi.

Xu Mingxi nodded again and again, "That's right, I'm not a prince either, so I don't have such a good fortune."

"The queen mother said that if you like several of them, you can tell her. The prince will marry more than one at a time, so that the branches and leaves will spread quickly."

Nangongxuan felt angry when he heard that, he stood up and wanted to go back to his room.

Xu Mingxi laughed softly, and bumped Kong Ying's shoulder, "Is it right? I said that the leader will definitely taste it."

"Really, I always thought that the leader of Nangong didn't care about my lord's, so he likes it too!" Kong Ying whispered to him.

Nangong Xuan: "..."

These two guys did it on purpose!