I asked, "By the way, I don't know what happened to Your Majesty summoning the daughters."

He lowered his head and picked up a letter on the table, walked over and handed it to me, and said, "This is my order to transfer troops to you. After you bring Miaoyan to Xi'an Prefecture, you will give it to Gao Tianzhang. He knows what to do."

I looked down and didn't answer, but looked up at him: "Your Majesty..."

"Um?"

"I... dare not do this."

He raised his eyebrows, as if he couldn't believe he had just heard: "What did you say?"

“…”

"You said, you dare not?"

When he spoke the last three words, there was a bit of joke in his eyes, and he couldn't help but chuckled: "Yan Qingying, this is the first time I have heard you say that. Don't you dare? Is there anything you dare not do in this world?"

I ignored the sarcasm in his words and said in a deep voice: "In the past, I could do things without regard for consequences, because if I did the right thing, I would benefit myself alone, and if I did the wrong thing, I would only pay a life, and nothing. But this handwritten in Your Majesty involves Your Majesty's safety, the wealth and life of too many people. Perhaps, it is the entire country and country. I-I really don't dare."

Hearing me say this, the joke in his eyes slowly faded away.

After a while, he said, "But I am determined to hand this over to you because I believe in you."

“…”

"No one is more suitable than you. This is the truth."

"..." I looked at his eyes silently, and after a while, I said softly: "It's true that I just said I didn't dare."

“…”

He frowned and was about to say something, I continued, "Your Majesty, if we really leave Linfen, I don't think the pursuers will ignore it completely. Yan Qingying is just a weak woman with no power to tie up. If such a letter is handed to me, Your Majesty can rest assured for a while. Can you still feel at ease?"

His brows frowned even tighter.

Obviously, my words were of no use. He himself understood that I would not use this handwriting to mobilize troops to do other things, but in such a chaotic world, I could not even be sure whether I could protect myself.

His hand holding the letter slowly drooped.

I said, "But there is one person who I believe can fulfill His Majesty's trust."

He looked up at me: "Who?"

"Xiao Yusheng."

I thought he would ask about Xiao Yusheng immediately, but he turned to look at me: "You ask me to hand over the letter to someone else, what about you?"

I was slightly stunned and replied: "I, I plan to stay in Linfen."

"What?!"

An incredible expression immediately appeared on his face. He looked at me in surprise, and I also looked at him, repeating: "I also decided to stay in Linfen."

"Why?"

“There are many reasons.”

"Then I will listen to you one by one."

“…”

His eyes seemed to have not given up easily without asking for one. I was silent for a while and then said, "I know my own body best. Now I really can't withstand such bumps. If I follow along, the people sent by Your Majesty must be concerned about my physical condition, and I am afraid that the matter of dispatching troops will be delayed, which will be detrimental to major events."

"And there."

"One more person stays here will give you another way."

"And there."

"I stay here, they will be a little scruple...what I think."

When the Jiehe River was separated, Pei Yuanxiu said that we would meet again. He would do his best. I think that the meeting he said would not be about seeing my body.

Since he wanted to see me, if I stayed in Linfen, he would naturally send more people to siege here, and the people entering Guanzhong would be easier, and Miaoyan would be safer.

I didn't tell Pei Yuanhao about these words, but his dark and deep eyes seemed to have seen through my flesh and blood, and also seemed to have seen through my thoughts. But even so, he still stared at me tightly, without any intention of relaxing: "What else?"

“…”

I was silent for a while and said, "When Qinghan leaves, let me wait for him."

“…”

"Let me wait for him in Linfen."

“…”

"I think since he said that, there must be an arrangement."

As soon as I finished speaking, I heard Pei Yuanhao sneer.

I knew that when Qinghan mentioned it, there would inevitably be a tense atmosphere, so I immediately changed the topic and said, "Your Majesty, Xiao Yusheng's affairs..."

"Xiao Yusheng?" He seemed to know that I was deliberately changing the topic. He only looked at me, but did not say anything else. Instead, he repeated the name and immediately narrowed his eyes: "It's the one you brought with you this time?"

"He is a student of Xishan Academy and once studied under Fu Badai."

I heard that I had studied under Fu Badai, and Pei Yuanhao's expression calmed down a little.

I said again: "Besides, he is the second-in-command of Xishan Academy. This man is not only skilled in martial arts, but also brave and resourceful. If he was asked to pass this letter, I believe that it will definitely be delivered to Gao Da's hands accurately."

“…”

Pei Yuanhao did not express it immediately, but after a long silence, he slowly said: "This time he went to the capital to save you, it was Liu Qinghan who took him there."

After all, he still has to mention Qinghan.

I hesitated for a moment, and of course I still had to tell the truth: "Yes."

"He is also a student of Xishan Academy and is taught by Fu Badai, so he and Liu Qinghan are calculated--"

"Liu Qinghan is the teacher's disciple. Although he is late in the school, he has a high seniority. Xiao Yusheng is his junior brother."

“…”

This time, he didn't say anything, but I clearly saw in his eyes that he was very alert and cold.

I frowned, remained silent for a long time, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, don't you believe him?"

He said coldly: "He came here and Liu Qinghan brought him, and he stayed here and Liu Qinghan asked him to keep him. Do you think I should believe him?"

I said, "Your Majesty does not believe in Qinghan after all, do you?"

His eyes became colder: "Should I believe him?"

The two people's words inevitably collided. I bit my lower lip and said, "But Your Majesty should also be clear that Qinghan did not cause any trouble for Your Majesty along the way. He took Jingxing Pass to buy a lot of time for Your Majesty to continue to move south; and now we are in Linfen--"

Before I finished speaking, he suddenly interrupted me: "What you mean is that I am wrong to come to Linfen. You should listen to him, right?"

“…”

His words were not stern, but I had already seen the danger signal in his eyes.

This is also the emperor's reverse scale.

The emperor cannot be wrong.

Although Qinghan had reminded him several times before that he should go to Xihe and not stay in Linfen, Pei Yuanhao did not listen to his opinion. Now, Linfen was attacked by three groups, as if Qinghan's previous worries had fulfilled Qinghan's previous worries.

But he cannot allow such thoughts.

I was silent for a while before saying, "His Majesty, calm down."

He sneered and looked down at me: "See I'm angry?"

“…”

"I guess you must think so in your heart. If I hadn't been determined and stubborn, I would have to come to Linfen, and I would not have fallen to the point of being attacked by three groups. Now I can't walk, and I can't stay, right?"

"I didn't think so, I just thought-"

"You just think I should listen to him?"

"During his rule, he also listened to many suggestions from his ministers."

"That's right, during my rule, I did listen to many suggestions from my ministers, but Liu Qinghan, he is not my minister now. If he were still my minister, I would have been punished for his crime of deceiving the king. How could he let him attack my affairs again!"

"His Majesty……"

Pei Yuanhao sneered: "Yan Qingying, do you still believe him?"

“…”

"Just the same as when he used his burnt face to deceive everyone, right?"

“…”

"You can really tell which sentence is true and which sentence is false?"

When he said this last sentence, I could almost feel the anger in his tone, and then I realized that Pei Yuanhao's anger did not refer to Qinghan's argument about his travels this time, nor was it the unverified actions that he went out those nights, but the lies he had said at the beginning, which completely collapsed Pei Yuanhao's trust in him.

As an emperor, he was deceived by someone he thought he could completely control for so long, which is unprecedented, so now, he is obviously more alert to Qinghan than anyone else at any time.

The relationship between him and Liu Qinghan is different from mine. Although I was deceived, I was deceived the most miserable, but the love and hatred between men and women are all in a moment. Choosing to forgive or not depends only on my heart; but the relationship between them is more complicated than that of ordinary monarchs and ministers. That kind of balance is also as dangerous as it is. Even if the trust between them is established, it may not be indestructible, and once it is destroyed, it will be irreversible.
To be continued...