After the subjugation of the country, she became the favorite concubine of the enemy

After a few more days of cultivation, Shen Chen quietly left the palace with Ling Xiche, and no one in the palace knew about it except Shen Yu.

Shen Chen and Ling Xiche were on their way to Yedi in an ordinary carriage.

Ling Xiche quietly observed Shen Chen's face, leaned over, and put his hand on his wound.

"How do you feel? Is it too crazy?"

Shen Chen held his hand, "Don't worry, the injury is fine, I'm fine."

"That's good."

Ling Xiche took his hand away and sat a little further away from Shen Chen.

Shen Chen said sullenly, "It seems that it is true, you will treat me better when I am injured, but now that the injury is not completely healed, you can't wait to stay away from me."

Seeing that he seemed really unhappy, Ling Xiche went over to caress his back, and said with a smile, "Chen'er, you are good, I didn't want to stay away from you, really not, Chen'er, be good~"

Shen Chen patted his hand away, "Get out of the way."

"Don't call yourself Zhen outside." Ling Xiche said softly.

Shen Chen pinched Ling Xiche's obedient face, "There's really nothing I can do about you."

Ling Xiche kept smiling and sat still, sighing in his heart, I'm the one who can't do anything with you, right?

When it was getting dark, the carriage came to the original imperial city of Ye Kingdom, and found an inn that looked okay and planned to stay.

Ling Xiche first jumped out of the carriage by himself, and left the thick cloak in the carriage. He was dressed in a water-blue elegant young man's attire, causing passers-by to look at him more than once.

Shen Chen raised the curtain of the car, "You are so flamboyant, do you want others not to recognize you?"

Ling Xiche walked to the window, pressed his ear through the carriage and said, "Then what do you want me to do? Wear a bamboo hat? Wouldn't that be more conspicuous?"

"So you have to wear your signature aqua blue?"

"I haven't worn it for a long time, just one day, tomorrow I will change the color."

Shen Chen also stood up and was about to get off the carriage. The coachman lifted the door curtain, and Ling Xiche stood under the carriage and stretched out his hand, "Chen'er, I'll help you."

Shen Chen jumped down by himself, the wound was painful.

Just as Ling Xiche was about to come over to ask about his injury, Shen Chen hugged him, "If you call me Chen'er again, I will really bully you at night, believe it or not?"

Ling Xiche laughed and said, "I can't call you by your name now, can I? How scary it is to be heard."

Shen Chen didn't want to talk about this topic with him anymore, so he dragged him into the inn.

"Stay at the hotel."

Xiao Er greeted them, and seeing that they were both very handsome and dressed in fine clothes, he asked, "Do you want two rooms in the upper wing?"

Shen Chen replied, "One room is enough."

Afraid of being misunderstood, Ling Xiche explained, "My friend has injuries and hasn't fully healed yet. It's more convenient to live in a room."

Xiao Er couldn't help but sized them up again before leading them to the guest room.

Although it was already in the upper wing, it was still more than a star and a half behind in the palace. Shen Chen looked around with a little distaste, while Ling Xiche lay down on the bed carelessly.

"I'm exhausted after sitting in the carriage for so long."

As Ling Xiche said, he turned over and lay on his back on the bed. Shen Chen walked over and bent down to hold his face.

"I have to say, you look really good in aqua blue."

Ling Xiche smiled and said, "That's right, why is my fairy's eyesight so bad?"

Shen Chen immediately straightened his face, "I'll throw away this dress tomorrow."

"Hey!" Ling Xiche rolled over from the bed and sat up, "Why are you really not able to take any jokes?"

Shen Chen found a piece of clothing from the luggage and threw it to Ling Xiche, "I will wear this outfit tomorrow, and I specially chose it for you."

Ling Xiche caught the white ball that was soft to the touch, and when he unfolded it, it was a white shirt with large sleeves. The upper body and sleeves of the dress were pure white, and the hem began to be smudged with black, like The light ink slowly faded away, and finally formed black bamboos.

"Bamboo..." Ling Xiche said softly.

"Yes, I think the temperament of bamboo suits you very well. It is as gentle as jade and as clear as bamboo."

For some reason, Ling Xiche started to feel a little strange again, moreover, his head hurt a little.

In order to prevent Shen Chen from seeing anything strange, he smiled lightly, "Okay, why is it so embarrassing every time I hear you praise me?"

Shen Chen sat down beside Ling Xiche, put his arms around him and said, "I didn't praise you, I was just telling a fact, gentle as jade, clear as bamboo, isn't that you? No one is more worthy of this description than you .”

Ling Xiche pressed his forehead, feeling that his headache was getting worse.

"Don't say it."

Only then did Shen Chen realize that something was wrong with him, "Xi Che, what's wrong with you?"

Ling Xiche pressed his forehead and shook his head, "Listening to what you said gave me an inexplicable headache."

Shen Chen touched his forehead, but there was no fever.

"Why do you have a headache again? Are you tired from the journey? When you return to the palace, you must find the imperial physician to take a good look at you."

Ling Xiche closed his eyes and adjusted, the headache seemed to ease a lot.

"Xi Che?"

Ling Xiche opened his eyes, "As long as you don't keep irritating me with inexplicable words, I won't have a headache. I found that the last few times I have had headaches, it was all caused by some inexplicable words you said."

"I didn't say anything just now..."

What sentence just now stimulated him?Wen Ruyu?

still......

clear as bamboo......

What happened to these three words?

Ling Xiche didn't want to entangle him with this issue anymore, so he asked, "Are you tired? Do you want to rest?"

"I'm fine. How about you? How are you... feeling?"

Ling Xiche smiled, "It's okay, I'm fine."

Shen Chen was a little worried, and touched his forehead again, it was indeed not hot.

Ling Xiche took his hand off, "Shen Chen, did you come out to hear what the people really think?"

"Yes."

"What if they scold you?"

Shen Chen thought for a while and said, "Now I'm not the emperor of Duanguo, so no matter what they say, I naturally don't care."

Ling Xiche nodded, "That's good."

"Xi Che, do you have any thoughts?"

Ling Xiche stood up and said, "In fact, there are three places where people are the least defensive and the easiest to express their true thoughts. One is a brothel, one is a gambling house, and the other is a wine shop. We are in one of them now."

"You mean, let's go down and trick the guests who come here to drink?"

Ling Xiche said with a slight smile, "What a cliché, just chat, I think they will tell you what you want to know."

Ling Xiche and Shen Chen left the room together and went downstairs, where there were still a few guests drinking.The two of them walked slowly beside the drinkers, and when they came to a table next to two young men, they heard them talking about marriage, Ling Xiche pulled Shen Chen to stop.

"Brother, I accidentally overheard you talking just now. Is a good thing approaching? Congratulations, can you ask for a wedding drink in advance?"

The two young men looked at Ling Xiche when they heard the words, and saw that the young man in aqua-blue clothes had an elegant demeanor and an extraordinary appearance, and the man in Tsing Yi beside him was also graceful and luxurious.

"You two, are you the official son?"

Ling Xiche glanced at Shen Chen, and said with a smile, "No. He and I are cousins, and our family is in business. We have been doing business in Zhao Country before, and we just came back."

The young man boldly moved out of his seat, and the man opposite him also moved out of his seat, and Ling Xiche pulled Shen Chen to sit down together.

The man poured a glass of wine for Ling Xiche, "You guys just came back, no wonder. You say you want to drink my wedding wine now, but I guess you're about to do it yourself. You're handsome and have money in your family. It’s no wonder that the threshold is not broken by matchmakers.”

"Brother, are you joking?"

The man opposite said, "He wasn't joking. Do you know how many women are chasing men like the two of us with mediocre looks and family backgrounds? Just yesterday, three matchmakers came to my house."

Ling Xiche picked up the wine and took a sip, "Is everyone in a hurry to marry a daughter?"

The man next to Ling Xiche said, "That's not true. In the battle with Duan country, how many men died in Ye country? Almost every household had men killed in battle. Now there are only so many capable men alive in Ye country. point, can't you grab it?"

Another man also said, "Yes. He and I were just lucky. I was also in business before, and I was in Duanguo. After the war broke out, I couldn't go back. I didn't come back until the war was over. What about him? Before the war, I accidentally injured my leg while doing farm work, so I didn't go to the war and lost my life. Now, we do a small business together, and we can barely have some money after paying the taxes. Not to be robbed?"

Shen Chen couldn't help but interjected, "You said just now, do you still have to pay taxes?"

The man sitting next to him lowered his voice and scolded, "Yes! Do you think this is unacceptable? So many people have died in Ye Kingdom, and we are not given time to catch our breath, and we are required to pay taxes. That Shen Chen The dog emperor wants to drive the people of our country Ye to death."

Ling Xiche glanced at Shen Chen, and sure enough his complexion was very bad.

He asked, "When the Zhao family of Ye State was in power, the tax was very heavy. My family just went to Zhao State to do business. Is it harder now than it was then?"

He took a sip of wine and waved his hand, "At least most of the people could pay for it after holding back, but now, too many people have died in the half-year war, even women and old people have gone to work in the fields." If you live, you can make ends meet, but you still have to pay taxes? If you do, you will starve to death.”

The other man also sighed, lowered his voice and said, "I still had a hope before. After all, the old emperor is getting old, and the little prince heard that he is very kind. My cousin, who was a maid in the palace, said that Mrs. Zhao The prince has never punished his servants, but he is very kind to his servants due to his noble status. He is a considerate master. When he succeeds to the throne in the future, maybe everything will be better. But now, Shen Chen is still young, so nothing will happen If you don’t, you won’t be able to die for a while.”

"Yes, I heard that the little prince was imprisoned in Duan Kingdom by that dog emperor, and I don't know whether he is dead or alive now."

Ling Xiche glanced at Shen Chen, his face was already hard to see a certain level.

Because I'm not sure whether he's just in a bad mood or not feeling well, I'm really afraid that he'll be so angry that he'll spit out a mouthful of blood, so I can't help but ask, "Are you okay?"

Shen Chen looked up at him and shook his head.

The man sitting next to Ling Xiche asked puzzledly, "What happened to him?"

Ling Xiche replied, "He was injured earlier, and he hasn't fully recovered yet. He must be tired, so let's go back and rest first."

Ling Xiche got up to help Shen Chen leave, and the two men also said to take care.

After helping Shen Chen back to the room, Ling Xiche hurriedly asked after closing the door, "How are you? Are you okay?"

Shen Chen still didn't speak.

Ling Xiche pulled him to sit down on the bed, stroked his chest to help him calm down, "Calm down, I'm really afraid that you will be so angry that you will vomit blood on the spot."

Shen Chen still didn't speak.

"Say something, don't scare me."

Shen Chen held Ling Xiche's hand, "I'm not angry and they scolded me."

"really?"

Shen Chen lowered his voice and said, "I made a decree to exempt Yedi from paying taxes for three years. Mrs. Xu, so that's how they carried out my decree."