Chen Yuan looked serious, and his eyes looked a little serious when he looked at Shu Yao. Shu Yao didn't seem to care about this. So who wants to test himself and the young master through her? Is it the newly promoted princess, or the Jiang family? Or - the new prince Li Xi?

But as far as Chen Yuan knows now, Li Xi has always had secret contacts with the young master. They should have been tacitly aware of it and would not be so suspicious. Then the Jiang family, led by Princess Jiang Shuyu, must be doubtful.

"The young master told me that when the situation settled, he would take me to seclusion. We have all experienced great life and death. We have long thought of staying away from right and wrong. At that time, Shu Yao should not be reluctant to leave me." Chen Yuan smiled slightly, and could not express his sincerity.

Shu Yao felt a little embarrassed, and then envious: "You are as open-minded as you, and are not afraid of life and death, and they are really popular. You probably don't know why the King of Yongxiang wanted to bet on his own and assassinate the emperor."

"I hope to hear the details."

"He saw your identity..." Shu Yao sat over mysteriously, "I heard Xiangcheng tell him that if he didn't cooperate with Xiangcheng, Xiangcheng would give you who was in Yujing..."

Chen Yuan felt it was incredible. How could such a ridiculous reason be possible?

However, looking at Shu Yao, Chen Yuan felt a little heavy in his heart. Although Li Mao was not as talented as an emperor, he would not be so reckless and wanted to kill his father and seize the throne. So Xiangcheng should have promised him the benefits and threatened him. In this way, Chen Yuan suddenly understood why Xiangcheng said that that day that day Qi Yan would withdraw his troops because of him. Could it be that Li Mao felt that King Qi would never put her at that time, Gu Chenyuan and gave up the plan to continue attacking Yu Jing, so Li Mao was worried that he would suffer danger in Xiangcheng, so he implemented a plan to assassinate the emperor so that the emperor could order King Qi to return to the court...

"Who did you hear?"

Shu Yao curled her lips, "Otherwise, the King of Yongxiang wanted to usurp the throne, why didn't the Wang family plan carefully for him? That's because his thoughts were known by the Crown Princess at that time. She was afraid that the King of Yongxiang would lose her status after the successful usurpation of the throne, so she let the King of Yongxiang take a gamble. We still don't know what the Wang family is like. What they want to do will be really hard to stop, not to mention that my brother-in-law and your young master are not in the court..."

Listening to Shuyao's analysis, Chen Yuan felt that there was some truth. If this was the case, Chen Yuan would probably be ashamed. It turned out that all this was not as simple as she thought. Li Mao was really a pity... Chen Yuan couldn't understand when Li Mao valued her so much.

Or maybe... Chen Yuan remembered the young master, why did Chen Yuan think that all this was under the control of the young master? Rather than saying that Xiangcheng was threatening Li Mao with his own life, it would be better to say that he was threatening the young master. If it weren't for the young master's mediation, perhaps the King of Yongxiang would be more than just being deposed. Xiangcheng might have thought about two more steps than ordinary people, but the young master could have thought about several more steps later, so Xiangcheng felt that she was calculating Li Mao to Qi Yan, but she never thought that the young master was calculating the world.

"To be honest, fortunately your young master is still there, otherwise, I should have been worried about my sister." Shu Yao joked.

Chen Yuan blamed her for being insignificant of speaking. Her son is now on the war with the army and doesn't know what the situation is.

A month later, the good news came from the front line. The Gan Ronghou captured the three counties of Yujing and went straight to Yinyou Pass. Xihua really wanted to send reinforcements to Yujing, but unexpectedly, Jiang Shuwei, who was ambushed halfway, was caught off guard and captured Xihua's general. Qi Yan celebrated the whole country. When Chen Yuan knew about this, she didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

Although she is standing on the side of the young master now, Xihua is her motherland after all. Even though Xihua is sorry for her Gu family, after all, the place where she is home, that kind of relationship cannot be overturned by anyone.

She knew that if Yu Jing was captured, Xihua would not be far away.

A few days after the good news, another war report came from the front line. I heard that the Gan Rong Hou did not listen to the words of the young master and was eager to make progress. He rashly led his subordinates to the Yinyou Pass.

The young master grew up in Yujing since he was a child and knew the terrain of Yujing. They were not familiar with Yinyou Pass, and they did not know where the two mountains were attacked and the military roads were dangerous. It was an excellent place to set up ambush. The young master knew that there would be ambush in Xiangcheng, so he advised the Gan Ronghou not to advance rashly. However, the Gan Ronghou felt that he was too cautious and did not take the young master's words seriously, which led to the loss of soldiers and generals in the Yinyou Pass battle, which greatly damaged morale.

"Why didn't you take the road from Yihe this time? My brother-in-law defeated the Yujing army there last time!" Shu Yao was indignant, and seemed to be doubting the ability of the young master to lead the troops in his words.

"The last time the prince led his troops to attack the Yihe River was because Xiangcheng was not in Yujing's command line. In addition, the Yihe River was close to, and our army had the upper hand, both in the right time and in the right place. But this time, the general of Xiangcheng, Yujing's military power, was assigned to the deployment. She must know that the Yihe River is easily a must-fight, so there must be ambush there. Even if our army attacked the Yihe River again, the Yihe River was covered with plains on all sides and it was difficult to become a place to defend. How could our army trap a large number of people here? If Yujing gathered heavy troops and came together, wouldn't we return without success? So the young master took the way from Yinyou Pass, on the one hand, to overcome the difficulties so that the army could march straight in, and on the other hand, it was because of food and grass."

"Food and grass?" Shu Yao was puzzled.

"The terrain in Yinyou Pass is steep, and there are no crops after dozens of miles. Our army is outside the pass. When attacking from the front, the food and grass can be directly used from the three counties that have been captured, so it is abundant. However, the Yujing army is stationed in the pass. Although it has all the initiative, it is insufficient, and it must be transported from other places. In this way, our army can't stand still and keep calm, but Yujing's army must fight quickly and decide to win." Although Chen Yuan does not have the ability to kill the enemy in front of the battle, she has been referring to the terrain there these days. I believe the young master has the same opinion as her.

However, killing tens of millions of enemies is a good thing for Qi Yan, but for Chen Yuan, it makes her feel uneasy. The young master can help Qi Yan to seize the country, but cannot appease the lives of the soldiers who died due to the war. The killing is too heavy and there may not be any blessing. So Chen Yuan wanted to go to Huguo Temple, one to atone for the young master, and the other... she was going to meet her father for a while.

Autumn has arrived, golden leaves are floating on the mountain road, layer by layer of stone steps are covered with slowly falling leaves. Looking up from under her feet, it turns out to be a golden road, winding to the temple gate of Huguo Temple. Chen Yuan remembers that the last time she came was because Ziyi was imprisoned here, and she met her father for the first time without knowing it.

The little novice monk who led her to take her to Gu Xiao's Zen room with the intention of presiding, but Gu Xiao stayed in the door. Chen Yuan was also stubborn and stood under the ginkgo tree in the yard waiting for her father to open the door. She vaguely heard the sound of gentle and orderly wooden fishes coming from the Zen room. The autumn wind was gentle, and with such knocks, everything seemed to be still.

Chen Yuan wanted to speak to her father, but she swallowed it again when she was at her mouth. She stopped or wandered outside the door, feeling uneasy inside. She had never had such a complicated emotion.

"Forget it," Chen Yuan sighed for a long time, "You don't want to see me, and I don't force me. Maybe my father and I have never met or get along with each other. Perhaps, the only daughter you admit in your heart is Dong Yuan, so whether my existence or not, my joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness are irrelevant to you. Or... You recite scriptures every day, and seem to have forgotten that mortal world has passed away, but in fact, your knot has not really let go of your heart, so you can't stand it. Because you can't let go of your sweetheart, you don't want to come out after she left; because you can't let go of the crushing defeat of that war, you have no face to go back to the court and explain to your grandfather; because you can't let go of your guilt towards your mother, you would rather ignore me than face all this."

The sound of wooden fish in the room was still beating slowly. It seemed that Gu Xiao seemed a little indifferent to Chen Yuan's words.

"I came here to tell you that my sister is gone. If you still don't want to see me, please take good care of yourself. Because my mother said..."

The sound of wooden fish in the room suddenly stopped. Two people inside and outside the door were waiting quietly for each other to speak. This was the first time Chen Yuan felt that she and her father had such a tacit understanding. It was said that blood was thicker than water, no matter how stalemate or how resentful it was, but after all, the person in the room was her father. How much she hoped that things would be like people after separation for many years.

With a creaking sound, the door was suddenly opened. Gu Xiao was wearing a cassock and holding Buddhist beads in his hand, standing in the wind, as if time had never urged people to grow old, and he was still the elegant young man back then.

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