Reborn as the favorite of the cold-faced general

As the night fell, the red clouds disappeared into the thin clouds, and a half-circular crescent moon slowly climbed into the sky from the east.

The atmosphere in the entire East Palace also became quieter with the sky. After Chu Tingyun casually glanced at the confession, he seemed to think of something, "Did you pay attention to those people's martial arts moves today?"

Ye Huaiyun recalled it carefully, "Everyone used the nine-section soft whip, and the moves were ruthless and weird, not like the decent martial arts of the Central Plains."

"It's the work of several foreign sects in the northwest border." Chu Tingyun came to the conclusion directly and lightly.

"You know?" Ye Huaiyun was a little surprised, but just after asking, she remembered, "Why did I forget, you are originally from the Northwest."

As the voice knocked in the air, the color of Chu Tingyun's eyes changed suddenly, like a severe winter wind blowing, even the candle flames were a few degrees colder.

Ye Huaiyun noticed the change in his face, and apologized in a low voice. It seemed that he really cared about others mentioning the massacre of the city.

Chu Tingyun also knew that what he said was unintentional, so he suppressed his coldness, and said "um" as a response.

He continued expressionlessly: "So they probably haven't seen King Xiang at all, and they didn't recognize you as the person who broke the prisoner robbery plan today." That's why after Ye Huaiyun stopped the prisoner robbery , Still pouring dirty water into the East Palace as planned.

It has to be said that the level of framing is really clumsy.

The evening wind with a light fragrance of flowers came into the window, and the candle seedlings flickered, and a little clarity appeared in Chu Tingyun's eyes.

Ye Huaiyun listened to his detailed analysis, but suddenly stared at that face in a daze.

He didn't come back to his senses until Chu Tingyun finished speaking and turned his head to the side. Pretending to be nonchalant, he took the outer robe from the screen and handed it to him, "It's late at night, be careful of catching a cold."

It's not yet midsummer, and the night is still a bit chilly. The fingertips of Ye Huaiyun and Chu Tingyun's ink-colored robes suddenly touched each other, and their eyelashes trembled unconsciously.

I don't know if it's because of the wind blowing while sitting by the window, but the temperature of Chu Tingyun's skin seems to be cooler than that of ordinary people. It spreads from the fingers to the blood, mixed with the fragrance of green grass in the south wind, and flows into the lungs with an unspeakable moistness.

"Gu go back to rest first." Ye Huaiyun suddenly withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted, "General Chu sleeps well."

Before he finished speaking, he immediately strode out of the study room, as if fleeing in despair.

Ye Huaiyun stood in the night wind and patted her hot cheek.

He was clearly talking about something serious, but how could he have those embarrassing reactions... Ye Huaiyun fully realized that something was wrong with him!

He's in love!

Not to the scholar Bai Yueguang from the previous life, but...Ye Huaiyun looked back at the figure reflected on the window paper.

This person is vigorous and resolute on the battlefield, addicted to food in daily life, and even has a bad temper.

"Hey, have you heard about the gossip between His Highness and Lord Xie?"

"I heard, but... isn't Your Highness having a great relationship with General Chu?"

In the corner of the East Palace, two maids who were sweeping the floor took advantage of the early morning when there was no one there, whispering to each other lazily.

"Hey, you don't understand." Gong Ejia lowered her voice and said, "Our Highness is the crown prince, and we will sit there in the future, and there must be three thousand beauties around him. Even if General Chu is of high authority, It is also impossible to monopolize an acre of land in His Highness's heart."

After hearing this, Gong Eyi felt that it made sense, she nodded but couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "General Chu is so pitiful, he fell out of favor so quickly."

After leaving Ye Huaiyun from the early court, he heard such a conversation just after entering the East Palace.

He clasped his hands behind his back and coughed lightly, scaring the two palace maids to be quick-witted and knelt down to plead guilty.

"Anyone who dares to chew on General Chu's tongue is heard by Gu again, and I will definitely not take it lightly."

Ye Huaiyun didn't stay long, just said such a sentence and walked away, causing Gong'e to have another daydream. It seems that General Chu is more favored!

He went straight to the study, and the guard outside the door put his hands in his hands, and said cheerfully, "Master Xie is inside, and he seems to be in a bad mood."

Ye Huaiyun pushed open the door and went in, only to see a person sitting lazily at the table with his legs crossed in the light of the rising sun, but his brows were furrowed.

"Who upset you again?" Ye Huaiyun asked, pouring herself a cup of thirst-quenching herbal tea.

Chu Tingyun said concisely: "You!"

Ye Huaiyun was at a loss, what happened to him?

"It's been said outside that His Highness has empathized with Mr. Xie." Chu Tingyun stared at him with a pair of peach blossom eyes.

He dragged his chin with his hand, and raised his eyelashes, but he was rendered three points of grievance and seven points of sadness.

Ye Huaiyun: "..."

He suddenly understood where the so-called unhappiness came from. Chu Tingyun had also heard the gossip of the maids outside the palace.

But it doesn't make sense to eat vinegar?What's more, who is Mr. Xie who is rumored outside? Does this person have no idea?

It's just that Chu Tingyun's sour attitude at the moment really makes Ye Huaiyun think that he likes her too.

Subconsciously, she raised her eyes and looked at this expression twice more. Ye Huaiyun seemed to be answering him, and also seemed to be confirming to herself, "No, I only like you."

It would not be like this to admit empathy, but the truth made Chu Tingyun a little stunned.His eyes were on his face to find out what was true and false, and finally his eyes focused on Ye Huaiyun's eyes, which were obviously black and blue, "Did you not sleep well last night?"

Ye Huaiyun shook her head, it's not like she didn't sleep well, she just slept through the night.

He originally thought that his liking was just to protect the other party's Changan every year, but he never thought that one day, this kind of affection would be so strong that he wanted to get a response, and even hold his hand, what should he do.

"Why did you come to the study so early in the morning?" Ye Huaiyun narrowed her eyes, and changed the topic calmly.He remembered that according to Chu Tingyun's temperament, he would never give up until the meal time.

"I want to ask you something." Chu Tingyun casually took a memorial on the top of the desk and opened it, with a trace of indifference on his face, "Can such a nonsense memorial be accurate?"

Ye Huaiyun didn't realize the crime of tampering with the prince's official documents, and after scanning the booklet, he said: "I haven't read this yet."

Chu Tingyun pointed to the ink red words on the blank page, "Who wrote the Zhu Zhu on it?"

"..." Ye Huaiyun was helpless, "That was approved by the prime minister."

Letters handed over from prefectures and counties to Beijing must first be approved by the prime minister after arriving in the capital, and then sent to the East Palace after careful sorting, and then Ye Huaiyun will pick out important military and state affairs worthy of mentioning, and reject the stereotyped purely asking for peace. , and finally submitted to the imperial study.

Chu Tingyun said "oh" without a tone, no wonder those words are so ugly.

Ye Huaiyun shook his head amusedly in his heart. After all, he was a great general, so why didn't he even know the most basic memorial process.

Chu Tingyun didn't take it seriously, "I don't write notes for Shi Chang, why do I need to know?"

Getting used to his style of speech, Ye Huaiyun smiled, continued to read the memorial carefully, and asked him: "It's just an ordinary invitation for credit, and there is no extra reward, why can't it be approved?"

This letter is full of more than a dozen pages, but apart from respectful greetings to Sheng'an, the real and substantive content can be summed up in one sentence: the bandits who have been rampant outside Zhiyang City for many years, All disappear!The governor of Zhiyang County and a group of officials are complacent, flattering the prefect for his good governance, and influencing the bandits and barbarians with benevolence, so that the people can live a stable life without worrying about robbers.

"Do you think this letter is okay?" Chu Tingyun asked vaguely.

"There is indeed some element of exaggeration in it." Ye Huaiyun thought for a while, and replied: "But the eradication of bandits is a good thing."

"Eradicate bandits?" Chu Tingyun smirked, "You really think so?"

Ye Huaiyun turned his head slightly to look over, he always felt that Chu Tingyun had been a little strange since he picked up this memorial.

But he didn't see what was wrong for a while, so he said: "Whether the bandits are still making trouble, we only need to send a supervisor to check and find out. It is impossible for local officials to deceive and report such things."

"It's not a lie." Chu Tingyun said: "It's that those bandits went elsewhere because of a certain opportunity."

Hearing what he said, it seems to have some truth.Ye Huaiyun thought for a long time, but he was still confused, "But recently, there have been no reports from other counties or counties that banditry has occurred in the surrounding areas."

Chu Tingyun gave a "tsk" and spoke again, adding a sense of coldness between the lines, "I said I went elsewhere, but I don't necessarily want to be a bandit."

Ye Huaiyun frowned and pondered, "Then what do you mean?"

"I'm not interested." Chu Tingyun lowered his eyebrows and peeled a fresh lychee from the fruit plate, then raised his chin slightly and asked him, "Do you want to eat?"

Ye Huaiyun shook his head, he never liked being distracted by food when he was thinking about business.But at this moment, when he raised his eyes, he bumped into Chu Tingyun and looked at him with deep eyes. He was fascinated for a moment, and contradictoryly took the plump and white eyes.

The entrance is sweet, and the aftertaste seems to have a touch of floral fragrance.

The sweetness of lychees still lingers on the tongue, Ye Huaiyun asked: "Why are you paying attention to this all of a sudden?"

"It's nothing." Chu Tingyun twisted another lychee, "I just remembered a past event."

The bright red and juicy lychees were on his fingertips, and with a slight force, the white flesh burst out of the shell, and upon closer inspection, it appeared that the knuckles of the fingers were even whiter.

Ye Huaiyun looked at him suspiciously, "What happened in the past?"

The sweet lychee was on Chu Tingyun's lips immediately, the fragrance was still there, but the smile between the brows suddenly disappeared, and even the vermilion at the end of the eyes seemed to darken a bit.

"What happened in Yanbei County when I was young?" Ye Huaiyun felt some clues.

After a moment of silence, Chu Tingyun said, "Yes."

Knowing that Yanbei County was a shadow in his heart that he didn't want to touch, Ye Huaiyun consciously stopped the topic.

Unexpectedly, Chu Tingyun continued in a flat and low voice: "It turns out that there are bandits outside Yanbei County."

Yanbei County is located on the border between Dachen and the northwest, and the life of the people is inevitably poor and difficult.Coupled with the fact that Dachen's army is weak, and the various ministries in the northwest are restless, there are many families who cannot make ends meet. Ye Huaiyun has always been aware of these.But when the people live in poverty for a long time, it is inevitable that some people will have evil thoughts in their hearts, and they will become bandits because they want to get something for nothing.

But what he heard from Chu Tingyun at this moment was another story, which made people break out in cold sweat with their palms in early summer.