Jiang Ye never expected that after Xisu started the war, not only did he not go to the front line to fight, but he was also assigned to take care of Cen Lixuan in the military camp. Xue Ziqin urged thousands of times that he must see Cen Lixuan unscathed when he came back. Although Jiang Ye was very reluctant, he was forced by Xue Ziqin's lewd power and did not say a single "no". The same as Jiang was also arranged to protect Cen Lixuan, as well as an elite team under Guo Linchong.
Just by looking at the expressions of the elites, Jiang could also guess that their minds were similar to his own - he couldn't go to the front line, and he was really useless to bring children here.
Jiang also watched the smoke rising in the distance outside the general's tent, but he was not too worried about the battle situation.
After all, there are 10,000 people from the Northern Army here. To be honest, this elite team Jiang also felt it was a waste. It was impossible to attack from outside, or even to the general's tent. Therefore, to protect Cen Lixuan's safety, to put it bluntly, there was nothing to do.
On this day, Cen Lixuan was reading the book as always, and Jiang was sitting in the tent in a daze. He's not like Wei Lin, who can always get along with others with just one or two sentences. After guarding Cen Lixuan for more than ten days, he didn't say a word to those elite soldiers.
People suddenly entered the general tent, and Jiang also thought it was Xue Ziqin and the others who came back, but he didn't hear any sound outside. On weekdays, when people came back, there was always a lot of movement, and Xue Ziqin could hear Xue Ziqin giving orders from far away.
It turned out that the person who came in was not Xue Ziqin.
Jiang was also stunned when he saw it. The few elite soldiers next to him understood people. Jiang also estimated that they might have seen Xue Changfeng before. He hadn't figured out his thoughts, but the elite soldiers had already knelt down on one knee and said: " See General."
Although Jiang Ye was stunned for a while, he also knelt down.
The person who came was Xue Changfeng.
Cen Lixuan's thoughts were interrupted by their voices, she raised her head to look, and happened to meet Xue Changfeng. Jiang also quietly raised his eyes and looked at it. It goes without saying that Xue Changfeng was accompanied by his personal guards. Besides, there was also a noble son who was very noble at first sight. At this moment, with Cen Lixuan, the three of them were all full of faces. Surprised.
Jiang Min didn't have a deep understanding of Xue Changfeng, so he could see that behind Xue Changfeng's surprised expression, there was clearly a trace of anger.
Cen Lixuan closed the book and got off the couch.
Xue Changfeng said, "His Royal Highness the Ninth Prince..."
The young man beside him said, "Ninth brother..."
Jiang Ye was completely stunned. He looked after him every day, and even the young boy who used to take Wei Lin with him to read lewd books was actually the Ninth Prince? This is too fucking fantastic, isn't it
I saw Cen Lijin walked slowly to the two of them and said, "I have seen the emperor, I have seen the uncle."
This "uncle" helped Jiang to clarify his thoughts - no wonder Cen Lixuan would call him cousin Xue Ziqin, because Cen Lixuan was the son of Xue Ziqin's father's sister.
The three exchanged a few words, and then sat down in front of several cases in the general's tent. Cen Lixuan whispered to Jiang Ye, "Serve tea."
"Yes... yes!" Jiang also got up in a hurry and hurried out.
As soon as he got out of the tent, he noticed that there was a little perspiration on his forehead. Every time he sees Xue Changfeng, he has an indescribable sense of tension, which is probably the majesty of the legendary general
Jiang also brewed tea, filled it for the three, and then stood behind Cen Lixuan, like Cen Lixuan's servant. He felt the same way in his own heart, and he was a little unhappy, but thinking about the fact that Cen Lixuan was the ninth prince, Jiang was not at a disadvantage.
He unconsciously thought of Wei Lin. If Wei Lin knew about this, would he stutter in surprise
"Why is the ninth brother here? Brother Huang thought..." "Brother Huang thought I was dead." Cen Lizhen said with a smile.
This made the eldest prince a little difficult to answer, so he could only sneer and say: "Ninth brother, please don't talk nonsense, father, queen and mother are very worried about you."
"The ninth prince is safe, it can be said to be a happy event." Xue Changfeng said.
Jiang was also listening next to him, always feeling that something was weird.
Cen Lixuan has always been ignorant of people, except for Xue Ziqin, he and Wei Lin at most. In general, no matter what he says or does, Cen Lixuan is no different from a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, and he is still a little shy. At this moment, the tone of speaking to Xue Changfeng and the other prince was unusually calm.
Is this his nature
"Thanks to General Xue's rescue, I barely managed to save my life." Cen Lixuan said, "I wonder what happened to the assassin at the time of sacrifice?"
"The assassin committed suicide on the spot, but the ninth brother can rest assured that the third brother is safe and recuperates in the capital."
"It's really lucky for me and the third brother." Cen Lixuan said, deliberately looking at the eldest prince more.
Jiang Ye couldn't recognize which prince this prince was, but he could infer from their words that it was either the second prince or the eldest prince. Jiang also knows a little about these matters of the royal family. Whether it is the eldest prince or the second prince, they are all from the queen, and naturally have a delicate relationship with the Xue family.
After that, a few people didn't say anything else, and even Jiang couldn't stand the awkward atmosphere. He just wanted to find a chance to go out quickly. But helplessly, including a few elite soldiers, Cen Lixuan didn't want to let them out.
Time passed, and it didn't take long for Jiang to hear a sudden noise outside, and he didn't need to think to know that it was Xue Ziqin who came back.
Xisu attacked this time, and no one on Xuan Guo's side paid attention to it. The number of the Northern Army alone is enough to make Xisu Dongming and other small tribes intimidated, so no matter how noisy Xisu is, it is a loser. The only thing that worries the Northern Army is the possibility of Xisu and Dongming joining forces.
Xue Ziqin was explaining something to Zhou Xiao and Guo Linchong beside him. His voice was not loud, but it was very penetrating, and it suddenly attracted the attention of the three people in the tent. Xue Ziqin turned his head sideways and didn't pay attention. He swaggered into the general's tent as he spoke: "So, Zhou Xiao, the loss must be minimized, otherwise it will be embarrassing, you know? The old man is not easy to explain."
"..." Zhou Xiao didn't answer, and pushed Xue Ziqin with his elbow.
Xue Ziqin didn't realize there was anything wrong, so he turned his head and shouted, "Yu'er, I'm back."
After that, Xue Ziqin was speechless.
The place where he usually sits is now sitting with the eldest prince. On the left and right sides of the eldest prince is Xue Changfeng, the "old man" he just called, and the other side is sitting on the other side of the "Yu'er" he just called.
Guo Linchong was also frightened by this scene. He didn't speak from the beginning to the end. In the end, Zhou Xiao responded quickly, and immediately bowed and said, "I have seen the general, the first prince... the ninth prince."
The three of them had just come down from the battlefield. They were all dressed in military uniforms. There was still a lot of blood on their bodies. There were also knife marks on their armor. They looked a little embarrassed.
After Zhou Xiao's reminder, Xue Ziqin and Guo Linchong followed, "I have seen the general, the first prince, and the ninth prince."
Cen Lixuan narrowed his eyes and smiled, looking at Xue Ziqin as cute and innocent as usual: "The general is back?"
"..." Xue Ziqin did not speak.
The eldest prince said: "You are all brave generals of our Xuan Kingdom, so you don't need to be more polite."
Even though the First Prince said so, the three of them kept their heads down, bowing, not daring to raise their heads.
Seeing this, Xue Changfeng said solemnly, "The First Prince has spoken, what are you still doing?"
Only then did Xue Ziqin and the three straighten up, but they dared not lift their heads.
Jiang also looked at Xue Ziqin's cautious appearance beside him, and he felt a little dark in his heart for some reason. If Wei Lin was there, seeing Xue Ziqin's appearance, he would probably have laughed out loud.
But in fact, in this scene, the most embarrassing thing was not Xue Ziqin, but the eldest prince.
Even if the eldest prince is still only a prince, there is still a distinction between the monarch and the ministers between the royal family and the foreign ministers, and there is a clear distinction between the superior and the inferior. He asked the three people in the hall to get up without salute, but no one answered. Xue Changfeng asked them to get up before they got up, which was very meaningful.
Even so, the eldest prince smiled humbly and politely on the surface, and did not show any displeasure.
Xue Changfeng continued: "I will not hold you accountable for the crime of being rude in front of the eldest prince because of your merit in saving the ninth prince. This time the eldest prince has invited himself to the front line to kill the enemy. How is the current situation, please report to us."
Xue Ziqin honestly reported the results of these days, and Xue Changfeng was inquiring about all the details, and the eldest prince had almost nothing to say. Jiang also looked at the eldest prince's serious listening appearance, and felt that he was pretending, if such a bastard became the emperor... Jiang also secretly sighed in his heart that Xuan Guo was about to finish.
In the end, the tent of the general was naturally reserved for the eldest prince. Seeing that it was getting late, Xue Changfeng took everyone to retire, leaving only the servants who were personally served by the eldest prince in the tent. Guo Linchong's tent was closest to the general's tent, so he arranged for Cen Lixuan to rest so that they could send someone to protect him.
After leaving the general tent, Xue Changfeng arranged in a deep voice: "You let the five teams take turns to protect the eldest prince and the ninth prince outside the tent. It is bound to protect the safety of the two princes."
This was said to Xue Ziqin, and Xue Ziqin said impatiently to Zhou Xiao next to him: "Do you hear me? Go and do it."
Zhou Xiao nodded: "Yes."
"I'm telling you," Xue Changfeng's anger did not hide, "you come with me."
"Yes." Xue Ziqin lowered his head and said.
The old man came suddenly without a single greeting, which caught him off guard. In particular, there is still a character like Cen Lizhen hidden in his military camp. It would be better if the old man came alone, but now he is bringing the eldest prince with him... Xue Ziqin knew that he was wrong, and now he did not dare to disobey Xue Changfeng.
The two tents were given to the prince, so Min Qiu's tent was also confiscated for the two generals of the Xue family. Xue Changfeng led Xue Ziqin into the camp, pulled the whip from his waist and pointed it at Xue Ziqin.
"I see that you are becoming more and more presumptuous now." Xue Changfeng scolded.
Xue Ziqin said, "I don't."
"Why is Yin'er here?" Xue Changfeng said. "No one even told me. Are you trying to get Wei Yuanting to catch our fault? Don't think I don't know, Wei Yuanting has been here."
"Yes." Xue Ziqin lowered his head and said, "Yu'er he..." "It's the ninth prince!" Before Xue Ziqin could finish speaking, Xue Changfeng slapped the ground with a whip and corrected, "My name is Yao'er, don't forget your own. identity."
"When the ninth prince was found by my people, he was seriously injured, but he was suffering from nutritional injuries in the army. He planned to escort him back when he recovered..." Xue Ziqin explained honestly.
"This time Wei Yuanting was going to follow him. Do you think he will give you a chance to prepare and let you hide people? You are ridiculous!"
In the face of Xue Changfeng's accountability, Xue Ziqin really had nothing to say, so he could only lower his head and say nothing.
Xue Ziqin rarely appears to be so aware of his mistakes, so Xue Changfeng's anger also went down a lot, and he continued: "This time the eldest prince is here, don't let him have an accident in the military camp."
"It's inevitable." Xue Ziqin said, "But wouldn't it be a disservice to have to dispatch manpower to protect him?"
"Why did the First Prince invite himself to join the war, don't you understand?" Xue Changfeng asked rhetorically.
The things in this are not complicated, just think about it a little and you will know its purpose. Xue Ziqin nodded and said, "Got it."
"However, swords have no eyes on the battlefield, there are dangers and unpredictable." Xue Changfeng said, his voice suddenly became smaller, he walked to Xue Ziqin's side, patted Xue Ziqin on the shoulder, "No one can compete with the Xue family." Xue Ziqin's chilling air could be heard clearly.
He not only understood Xue Changfeng's hint, but also did not have any doubts.
The Xue family naturally refers to the two princes born to Concubine Jin. Xue Ziqin has always been protective of his shortcomings, and his thoughts on Cen Lixuan are very clear. If he can help Cen Lixuan inherit the throne, it will really follow Xue Ziqin's wishes.
At this moment, Jiang Ye's voice suddenly sounded outside the tent: "General!"