Stepmother Shaoguang

Chapter 177 Wasting Time
Within a few days, Lu Xiaowen felt that the schedule was too slow and far from the original schedule.

So at night, while everyone was camping and resting, they announced that they would speed up their pace from tomorrow and strive to reach Jianan Prefecture before the end of March.

Now the speed of the march depends on the saint. The saint insists on showing his physical strength, so he rides a horse.

But as he was getting older, he felt tired after a while and couldn't keep up.

In order to protect the saint's face, everyone naturally slowed down their pace.

But the war situation could not afford to delay, so Lu Xiaowen allocated five thousand elite soldiers to follow him to explore the way forward. King Zheng and the fourth prince accompanied the saint and led the large army to follow.

After hearing his decision, the saint didn't say anything bad, but just smiled happily: "It's me who is holding you young people back."

King Zheng folded his fan and smoothed things over: "Haha. My father's sword is not old yet. General Lu and his sons naturally know that you are striving for stability. You are too humble."

Saved many troubles.

"Okay, you are getting better and better at flattering me." The saint looked impatient, but the relaxed look in his eyes told everyone that he was in a good mood now, "Get out of here quickly, Kang Shouzhong will go pick up Ye."

King Zheng and Lu Xiaowen then resigned.

When he came out, he happened to meet Ye Guiren who was about to go in.

Lu Xiaowen lowered his head, but King Zheng had to say hello when he met him.

This woman was younger than him, but she was his father's concubine.Although his position was not high, King Zheng still greeted him kindly: "Ye Guiren is really radiant today, and the flowers in the hairpin on his head are also beautiful."

Ye Guiren's eyebrows were filled with joy: "Your Majesty, I was very complimentary. I just saw a bunch of flowers blooming very beautifully on the roadside, so I asked the palace maid to pick them. Since Your Majesty thinks it looks good, and father and son are connected, I think the saint must also like it." "

King Zheng almost laughed when he saw her frivolous behavior, but luckily he endured it.

He pretended to be profound and said: "Hey, noble sir, how do you want me to answer this question? What does my father like? You and I should not speculate on the holy will."

Ye Guiren's casual joke made her embarrassed.

She smiled and smoothed her loose hair.

However, before leaving, King Zheng left a message for her: "Your Majesty, it is better to throw away these wild flowers, lest there is any poison in them, and it will be bad if you accidentally attract the eyes of your father."

Are you talking about the flower on her head?

After walking away for a while and observing that no one was around, Lu Xiaowen said: "The prince has a good reputation, why should he offend a noble person?"

After all, the saint has favored him recently. Although sometimes Ye Guiren asked people to go to nearby towns to buy something, which delayed a lot, Lu Xiaowen felt that King Zheng had always been forbearing and would not get angry with a frivolous little nobleman.

They are not serious masters, and they have no direct conflict with him.

King Zheng blinked at him: "Xiao Wen thinks I bullied her?"

After all this, the two people who have been working together can be considered friends.

As they were leaving tomorrow, Lu Xiaowen simply sat down and chatted with him.

"We are out on the march, not to mention that you have been eating and living with the soldiers. Lao Si and I have been studying the terrain of Jianan with you every day and deducing how hard it is to arrange troops. My father went to the battlefield against all the opinions. Forget about taking the concubines, Ye is seducing the emperor and having fun in the camp. What does this make the soldiers around think?"

In fact, King Zheng had accumulated a lot of resentment, and he had been helping the saint cover it up these days.

Although the saint's tent is far away from that of ordinary soldiers, there are always guards at the door!People who listen to Qianggen may not spread the word when they go back.King Zheng couldn't help complaining that the saint couldn't distinguish priorities.

After saying this, he felt that the depression in his chest had been cleared away a lot, so he simply took off the wine bag tied around his waist and drank to the moon.

In fact, the saint was really full of ambition before he came and wanted to show off his talents.

But the journey was too long, and marching was boring. At this time, it was just right to have a lively Ye Shi to relieve his boredom.

He stayed with Mr. Ye every day, but he was not favored every day. After all, he was old, and sometimes he traveled all day and had no energy at all at night.

At this time, it is even more pleasant to drink some wine and watch Ye's dance under the lamp.

Prince Zheng has always pretended to be nice and gentle on the surface.

But he had secretly had thoughts about that position. Even if he woke up from the dream and was so scared that he decided not to take risks for the sake of his family, there would still be some residual passion in his heart.
Think about people's livelihood and the battlefield.

So when he met Ye Guiren, whom he even looked down on, he was not so polite.

As for Ye Guiren giving him eye drops or something, he didn't care.

Just for a little noble man who has no children?He has been the father and son of his father, the Saint, for decades, so he still has some confidence.

Lu Xiaowen can also feel the dissatisfaction of the fourth prince these days. He aims at the battlefield, and Ye Guiren is simply an eyesore to him.

Unexpectedly, King Zheng, who has always been the best-tempered, also had problems with Ye.

Lu Xiaowen found it interesting and chuckled twice.

When the soldiers passing by on patrol saw General Lu, whom they admired, they couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and then whispered to each other.

"Look, General Lu is there! And Prince Zheng."

"Yes, yes, the two of them must be talking about the war. I passed by General Lu's camp these days, and I was still quarreling with the two princes!"

"Tsk, tsk, how about saying that General Lu is the God of War in our court?"

"Yes. It would be great if I could have a god like General Lu in my life."

"What the heck are you thinking? Hahaha, Old Li Tou is already fifty, and he still thinks about defeating General Lu every day."

"Hey," the soldier narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, "Actually, Prince Zheng is quite good. You see, he is such a noble prince, and he still smiles when he sees us."

Soldier B, who had received the favor from King Zheng, also smiled and echoed: "Prince Zheng is a very nice person. I went there when he attacked Yizi, and he cooperated with General Lu. It was a perfect match! I was injured, and he You have to ask someone to give me some medicine, otherwise you won't have the chance to see me."

The conversation between the two did not reach the ears of Prince Zheng and Lu Xiaowen. They talked incessantly, looking at the camp with dense bonfires and full of thoughts. They were thinking only about the border war and their relatives at home.
On the second day of separation, Lu Xiaowen walked away very gracefully.

After bidding farewell to the saint in the early morning, he led his 5000 men into battle lightly.

He was fine at first, but after confirming that the saint's team could no longer see him, he started galloping like a wild horse that had escaped the reins.

What he didn't say in his heart last night was that he often felt impatient with the procrastinating Ye Guiren and Yu Jia, but as a minister, he couldn't show anything.

It’s so cool to be away from the big team now!
Ten days had been wasted before, and his forward troops had to make up for the lost distance in these two days.

(End of this chapter)