Husband has a sweetheart

Chapter 123 Talking Hearts
Lu Wei was so startled that he almost fell off the couch.

He sat up straight and stared at Zhang Yuqing with wide eyes.

After realizing that Zhang Yuqing was not joking, he was in a bad mood, and he couldn't even speak coherently, "I, I, I, why, why do you think about her?"

Zhang Yuqing said empathetically: "There are no outsiders here, so you don't have to be so afraid, no one will hear you."

"Even if someone heard me, they wouldn't miss her!" Lu Wei was shocked.

Zhang Yuqing pondered that the ending of the world should not change, so Lu Wei should have pressed his affection to the deepest part of his heart and hid it up. Before he could figure out how to tell Lu Wei, Lu Wei hurriedly said: " She is married to the prince, what do I think she is doing?"

Zhang Yuqing blinked, but the crown prince will die, and Zhang Yuying will become a widow!
"No, it's not!" Lu Wei broke out in a cold sweat. After blurting out the words, he felt that he had answered wrongly, and quickly corrected him, "My wife is you, and you are much better than her. Why should I think of someone I don't like?" people?"

Zhang Yuqing felt that Lu Wei had misunderstood her meaning, so she raised her hand to comfort her: "I'm just asking, there's no other meaning, don't worry."

Lu Wei stood up, he was not at ease, how could he be at ease?

Looking at Zhang Yuqing's dark and innocent eyes, Lu Wei had an idea and suddenly figured it out, as if he had pushed through the fog with one hand and revealed the truth in front of him.

Zhang Yuqing has always had reservations about him, is it because he minded that he was engaged to Zhang Yuying before, thinking that Zhang Yuying is still in his heart?
Thinking of this, Lu Wei was overjoyed, and looked at Zhang Yuqing with piercing eyes, "Do you think I..."

At this moment, Fang Qin shouted from outside the courtyard: "My lord, His Royal Highness is here!"

Lu Wei was stunned for a moment, and when he was about to go out to greet her, Zhang Yuqing got up from the recliner and asked, "Do I have to pay a visit too?"

"The king of the county is not an outsider. We grew up together." Lu Wei smiled, and looked at Zhang Yuqing with gentle eyes, "If you want to see me, follow me to see you. If you don't want to see me, just wait here." I'm back, I have something to tell you."

Zhang Yuqing was a little overwhelmed by Lu Wei's look, she blushed and lowered her head, and said, "Let me go over and say hello!"

She didn't go there when the angel group announced the decree in the afternoon, and it would be a bit rude not to go now.

Lu Wei nodded and walked over to the front yard.

The sedan chair of His Royal Highness has arrived at the gate of the post house.

The sedan chair landed on the ground, and the accompanying guards lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, and the county king limped out of the sedan chair.

"You don't mind bothering you at such a late hour, do you, Sir General?" the Duke laughed.

Lu Wei stepped forward and patted the county king on the shoulder, "Go, let's talk inside!"

By the light of the lantern at the door, Zhang Yuqing glanced at the county king. He was still thin, with a sickly white face, and a warm and amiable smile.

Zhang Yuqing saluted, "I have seen His Royal Highness the Duke."

"Madam sister-in-law is well!" The county king smiled and cupped his hands.

Zhang Yuqing then withdrew, and asked Fang Qin to order the posthouse to light a fire, make wine, and cook some dishes. He also ordered the guards to guard the courtyard, and no one else was allowed to approach.

After the king of the county and Lu Wei sat down on the stone table in the yard, the king of the county said with emotion: "Nowadays we are separated from each other, and it is rare to see each other. There are outsiders in the afternoon, even if I have a lot to say to you, I can't say a word."

Lu Wei poured wine for the county king and said, "There are many people with mixed eyes, so you should be cautious in your words and deeds."

After the two drank a few drinks, the king of the county suddenly put down the wine glass, and said with red eyes: "A Wei, do you know that the crown prince ordered the officials to speak to the emperor again, to increase the tax! And it will increase by [-]% in one breath!"

Lu Wei was taken aback, "Who is taxed?"

No matter who is taxed, adding [-]% in one go is unbearable.

"Who else can I ask? I can only ask the people!" The king of the county took a deep breath, tears fell, "The country is in such a mess, chaos is happening in the south, east, west, and north, but their father and son just want to enjoy themselves, so why don't they say The tax was raised because the officials couldn't resist the request, such a stupid way!"

The night wind blew across the courtyard of the post house, and the blowing branches swayed.

Lu Wei silently patted the prince on the back.

"I'm afraid you can't think of what they are raising taxes for. They are building the mausoleum for the emperor!" The county king couldn't hide his grief and anger, "To build an imperial mausoleum, the budget alone will cost Daxia more than [-] years of taxes! The foundation of the ancestors It will all be destroyed in the hands of this father and son!"

Lu Wei let out a deep breath, and said softly: "You can just talk about it with me, and you must not mention it to anyone after you go back. You can just be an idle clan in the capital, and don't listen to anyone else. No matter what you ask, don’t disobey them. Over the years, isn’t that father and son killing fewer clan members?”

"I can only tell you what I'm holding back in my heart." The king of the county smiled miserably, raised his wine glass and drank it down, "If they want to kill me, kill me! If they have the ability, they will kill everyone named Fang!"

The king of the county pulled Lu Wei, and said sadly: "I only hate that I am a useless person, and I can't be as capable as you! If I have half of your ability, I..."

Lu Wei sighed. The king of the county is the son of the emperor's younger brother. He was able to survive because he was born lame, which was not conducive to walking. If the king of the county had intact arms and legs, he would have been killed by the emperor before he learned how to do it.

"You beheaded the barbarian prince this time, and you deserved so much credit, but you were only promoted to the rank of general! There is no reward, and no real power! It's perfunctory, without sincerity, just to stop Youyou's mouth! "The king of the county said angrily, "They are so suspicious of the heroes guarding the border, do they think that the future will be full of Jin Yongkang!"

Lu Wei said: "I didn't guard the border wholeheartedly for them."

"When I set off from the capital, the envoys of the Hu people also arrived in the capital. They were still the same as before, extremely arrogant. They even clamored that the kings and ministers of the Great Xia were inhumane and killed their crown prince and so many soldiers!" said the king of the county.

Lu Wei frowned so much that he could kill a fly, "This is not in line with common sense."

The Hu people are a defeated country, not to mention bowing their knees to the victorious country of Daxia, they have to tuck their tails anyway, the Hu people's envoys are in such a posture, they are not afraid of the dignity of the Daxia emperor at all, it really makes people wonder.

"After the Hu envoys arrived in the capital, I was on my way. I don't know how the emperor will deal with them." The county king sighed.

After seeing off the drunken king, Lu Wei hurried back to the backyard, happily going to talk to Zhang Yuqing, but found that the candles in Zhang Yuqing's room had already been extinguished.

Lu Wei looked up, and the moon was already in the sky.When he got together with the county king, they talked until late at night.

Early the next morning, everyone set off for Baochuan.

Along the way, Lu Wei didn't find a chance to talk with Zhang Yuqing alone.

When it was about a hundred miles away from Baochuan City, it was already noon, and everyone stopped to light a fire to cook.

Suddenly there was the roar of horses in the distance, as well as screams and cries.

Zhang Yuqing was startled and looked towards the prestige, but there were so many trees and dense forests that she couldn't see anything.

Fang Qin immediately rushed over with a dozen guards on horseback.

After a while, a guard came back in a hurry to report that people from nearby counties were chasing and killing unarmed civilians.

"Are they crazy!" Zhang Yuqing exclaimed angrily.

Lu Wei asked coldly: "Why kill the people?"

The guard also looked angry, "Those people are from their prefectures and counties. They want to drag their families to our Baochuan. Those people chased them all the way. They would rather kill them than let them enter Baochuan!"

Since Lu Wei and Zhang Yuqing came to Baochuan, Baochuan has changed rapidly. Not only is the government clear, but also many taxes have been reduced and exempted. The lives of the people are much better than before.

According to word of mouth, more and more people came to Baochuan to seek refuge.

But it was the first time Zhang Yuqing heard of such inhumane incidents that officials from other prefectures and counties killed people.

Lu Wei asked: "How is the situation now?"

The guard said: "Master Fang stopped them and said that he would not ask them to kill another person, and asked me to report back."

"I'll go over and have a look." Lu Wei said, getting on his horse neatly.

Zhang Yuqing immediately said, "I'll go too."

Lu Weile stopped his horse and held out his hand to Zhang Yuqing.

Zhang Yuqing hesitated for a moment, and handed her hand to Lu Wei, who knew that Lu Wei didn't play cards according to common sense, bent down and directly hugged Zhang Yuqing onto the horse, put him in front of him, and hugged Zhang Yuqing from behind. Clamping the horse's belly with his legs, he rushed out.

Under inertia, Zhang Yuqing leaned back directly into Lu Wei's arms, and Lu Wei's chin rested on Zhang Yuqing's shoulder.

Zhang Yuqing suspected that he did it on purpose, but the wind was blowing, the horse was bumping constantly, and her back was pressed against Lu Wei's chest.

Fortunately, it arrived soon, Lu Wei got off the horse, took the rein in his hand, and left her on the horse.

Zhang Yuqing looked around and saw hundreds of ragged civilians huddled on the ground, while Fang Qin and a dozen guards confronted the officers and soldiers facing each other with knives.

There were still a few corpses on the ground, as if they had just died, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.

A little baby who couldn't walk sat in a basket, crying heart-piercingly with his mouth open.

And the young woman who was carrying him was already slumped on the ground, with blood gurgling from her chest, staining the soil under her body red.

Zhang Yuqing covered her face and took a few deep breaths before calming down the murderous anger.

"I want to come down." She said to Lu Wei.

Lu Wei stretched out his hand to help her get off the horse.

Zhang Yuqing walked over quickly, picked up the little baby in the basket, and gently rocked and coaxed it.

"What's going on?" Lu Wei asked coldly.

Fang Qin pointed at the officers and soldiers on the opposite side angrily, "When we came, we saw them killing people!"

"Mind your own business! Believe it or not, I'll kill you with one knife!" The leading officer and soldier on the opposite side stared and shouted, "Who are you?"

Lu Wei glanced at him like ice, "General Baochuan, Lu Wei."

The officers and soldiers on the opposite side did not expect a big man to come, they were taken aback, put down the swords and guns in their hands, and muttered: "Lord Lu, we are also following orders!"

"Follow orders? Whose order?" Lu Wei asked coldly.

(End of this chapter)