Xia Luotong allowed Wu Zechen to take him away from Lingshan Pavilion, and after getting on the carriage, he held him tightly in his arms.
From the beginning to the end, Xia Luotong was very quiet and didn't say much. He just leaned obediently in Wu Zechen's arms, stretched out his arms to hug him, and listened quietly to his not too calm heartbeat.
Chu Junxiu said this in front of Wu Zechen. It was normal for Wu Zechen to feel unhappy, and it would be the same for herself, so she didn't say much just now. Even if Wu Zechen took her away directly, she had no objection. , because she knew very well that Wu Zechen would be willing to accompany her here tonight, which was already a sign of great generosity and trust in her.
A moment later, Xia Luotong suddenly heard a man's voice above his head: "Don't go to the southwest to look for him."
Hearing the uneasiness in the man's tone, Xia Luotong raised her head and looked at him, and asked with a smile in her eyes: "Didn't the prince confidently tell the young prince just now that he would not give me a chance to go to the southwest? "
"Call my name!" Wu Zechen said stubbornly.
"Ah Chen, don't you have any confidence anymore?" Xia Luotong looked at Wu Zechen's unusually awkward look and couldn't help teasing him.
"I'm confident! But I want to hear what you say!" Wu Zechen was confident, but he still felt uneasy in his heart. Whenever he thought that the person in his arms might leave him one day, he felt as if he was suffocating. It felt like my heart was being clenched tightly, full of fear and uneasiness.
Xia Luotong looked back at the tension and uneasiness in Wu Zechen's eyes. His face was already filled with softness. He couldn't help raising his hand and gently caressing his cheek. Looking at him persistently waiting for his answer, Xia Luotong smiled. He said: "As long as you live up to me, I will never leave you. Even if the road ahead is full of swords and fire, I will accompany you to the end, even if we go to hell together."
This is her confession and her promise.
With her affectionate voice in his ears and her gentle smile in front of him, Wu Zechen felt that at this moment, his world seemed to have completely changed, filled with intoxicating warmth, and the emotions filling his chest almost overwhelmed him. Drowned!
Wu Zechen couldn't control it anymore, lowered his head and covered her soft lips, and the friction continued to deepen, as if this could relieve the surging emotions in his heart.
This kiss was lingering and lingering, as if the two people's hearts that had been wandering for a long time had finally found a peaceful place, and they had not been separated for a long time.
It wasn't until the carriage stopped that Xia Luotong realized that he had returned to Shaoguang Pavilion, and he quickly pushed Wu Zechen away with a blushing face.
Wu Zechen stroked her cheek with a smile, raised his hand to tighten her cloak, and then took her hand out of the carriage and returned to the main house.
After taking a bath, the two of them hugged each other and lay on the bed, talking about the night's events again.
Xia Luotong still didn't understand something about what Wu Zechen and Chu Junxiu talked about that night, so he asked: "There is a banditry in the southwest? Aren't the Yuejia still in the army and not back to Beijing? Why are they Instead of sending troops to suppress the bandits, you want Chu Junxiu from the capital to go?"
"The banditry in the southwest has been rampant for more than half a year. Yuejia actually sent people to clear it out. It's not that they didn't send troops." Wu Zechen explained.
"Then why were they not wiped out? Is it possible that the bandits were so powerful?" Xia Luotong asked even more puzzled after hearing this, "The Southwest Army has been dispatched, but they can't even wipe out these bandits?"
"The Yue family failed to suppress the bandits, mainly because they did not want to waste their own troops and tried to push out Chu Junxiu's generals to suppress the bandits. However, Chu Junxiu's men did not fall for the Yue family's deception, so it was delayed until now. "Wu Zechen explained, "Once Chu Junxiu's men lead troops there, not only will they not be able to successfully eliminate the bandits, they may even get themselves involved. Yuejia will not miss such a good opportunity. They are waiting to unify. The Southwest Army has been waiting for a long time."
"This extravagance is actually for personal gain. How can such a thing be used as a trap? Aren't these troops soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty? Are the people who were persecuted by bandits so ignored by them? Here?" Xia Luotong frowned deeply, hating the Yue family even more.
"In order to take sole control of the Southwest Army, the Yue family has already lost its bottom line, and will not take these human lives seriously." Wu Zechen's eyes were cold.
Although he didn't tell the dirty things that the Yue family had done over the years, Xia Luotong could probably guess some of them after hearing what he said.
"But the banditry has not been eliminated for such a long time. Doesn't the emperor mean to blame Yue Jia?" Xia Luotong asked dissatisfied.
"Of course someone blames Yue Jia. It's just a verbal rebuke. It doesn't hurt." Wu Zechen sneered and suddenly said, "But those bandits are probably not that simple."
Xia Luotong raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Is it possible that this banditry has a big background?"
"It's not certain yet, but it's not simple. They have a large number of people who dominate the mountain. They are well-equipped and well-trained, and they are extremely well-informed. They have been informed of several clearing operations in advance, including local garrison forces. They returned in vain." Wu Zechen paused and said, "And among the bandits, there are many people from Poland."
Xia Luotong's expression condensed and he asked tentatively: "Do you suspect that these bandits are a conspiracy of Poland?"
"It's possible." Wu Zechen said solemnly, "They are very well-guarded. They don't look like ordinary bandits at all. Instead, they look a bit like regular troops, and it is difficult to penetrate and investigate."
"That's really suspicious." Xia Luotong frowned, suddenly worried about Chu Junxiu.
However, after listening to the conversation between the two of them just now and Wu Zechen's warning, Chu Junxiu should have been alert.
Xia Luotong was thinking about things in the southwest when the man next to her suddenly came over and embraced her passionately, leaving her unable to think about anything else but to let him lead her up and down. …
On the second day, Wu Ning Hou Chu Junxiu made a rare speech in the morning, and this speech was to ask for battle to go to the southwest to suppress the bandits.
The emperor was reluctant at first, but the suppression of bandits in Yuejia in the southwest was ineffective. The banditry continued for more than half a year, and the local people were in dire straits. The situation became worse and worse, and it had to be dealt with.
But the emperor finally managed to get Chu Junxiu back to the capital. If Chu Junxiu is allowed to return to the northwest this time, wouldn't all the previous efforts be in vain?
So as soon as Chu Junxiu mentioned this matter, the emperor once again used the excuse that Wu Ning Hou Mansion had no heirs to excuse him, and wanted to reject Chu Junxiu and send other generals there.
However, what the emperor didn't expect was that as soon as he said these words, he immediately inspired many censors and generals to speak for Chu Junxiu. The emperor couldn't resist every sentence, so he finally had to nod and let Chu Junxiu Xiu returned to the southwest and led troops to eliminate banditry.
