Marrying a Disabled General and be His Wife

Despite the old man’s gruff tone, he was quite hospitable.

“You hadn’t eaten yet?” the old man asked.

Tan Chuyan had tied up Zhaoye somewhere and said, “We brought dry food, so we could just eat a bite.”

The old man said, “Don’t bother with it. It just so happened that I hadn’t eaten either. I could still afford food for two more people. Come in.”

The warm welcome was hard to resist, and the two of them finally sat at the table with the old man.

The dinner table was very quiet. Halfway through the meal, the old man sighed: “The taste of the rice was really different this year.”

Tan Chuyan also ate it. The rice didn’t taste sweet. It looked like old rice at first glance, but it was worse than old rice.

Tan Chuyan saw through it without saying anything: “I think it was okay.”

“What’s good!” The old man slammed his chopsticks on the table: “This was all the old rice that was distributed! All the new rice grown last year was taken by that Cui Yuanqing. The thief took it away as military pay, and he was going to starve us ordinary people to death!”

Tan Chuyan didn’t speak but looked at the rice in his hand and fell into deep thought. The old man also realized that he had talked too much, but he still couldn’t stop talking: “With such chaos now, which army did you join? Dayong Dynasty’s Feng Family Army, or the Feng family’s Wolf Eagle Cavalry?”

Tan Chuyan said: “We joined the Wolf Eagle Cavalry.”

“Why not join the Feng Family Army?” The old man said, “A skinny camel is bigger than a horse after all, and the Feng Family Army should be bigger than a wolf. The Wolf Eagle Cavalry should be strong; but there are not so many people.”

Feng Chilie was immediately unhappy when he heard this: “Whether the army is strong or not doesn’t depend on the number of people but on the strength. Besides, if the Feng family army is really strong, why is Cui Yuanqing could so arrogant until now?”

“It seems reasonable.” The old man swept away the rice in the bowl and said, “I don’t know much about these things. Anyway, if you let that dog Cui Yuanqing lose, I won’t be giving you this bowl of rice in vain.” The old man stood up and waved his hand: “You can do it yourself. If you want to take a bath, just boil water yourself. I am old and need to rest.”

In the blink of an eye, there were only two people in the yard instead of three.

After eating, Feng Chilie volunteered to boil water.

Looking at the back of the busy man, Tan Chuyan took a look over and wiped the ash on his face: “Are you really good at it?”

“Nonsense,” Feng Chilie stretched out his hand on the black coal after rubbing it on Tan Chuyan’s face, he said, “When this general was crawling around in the military camp, you might still have been hugged by your wet nurse.”

Tan Chuyan leaned on Feng Chilie’s shoulder and laughed, and praised again: “The general was really awesome.”

“It’s good for you to know.” Feng Chilie patted Tan Chuyan’s waist and picked up the pot of hot water with one hand: “Let’s go back to the house. I will help you bathe and change clothes.”

Tan Chuyan: “Can you, do it?”

Feng Chilie: “Haven’t you experience it many times?”

Tan Chuyan smiled and said nothing, followed Feng Chilie.

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After entering the house, he leaned against the door frame and watched Feng Chilie adjust the water temperature.

Then, Tan Chuyan took off his dust-covered clothes and stepped into the warm water.

Feng Chilie stretched out his hand to untie Tan Chuyan’s hair tie, and his long hair spread out instantly like splashing ink.

He wet Tan Chuyan’s hair with water, smeared each strand with honey locust, and then gently rubbed it.

Feeling the hands that usually wield swords move through his hair, Tan Chuyan looked up at him and said something that had been on his mind: “What do you think about tomorrow?”

Feng Chilie dipped his soft hair into the water prepared aside and began to wash the hair. He said casually: “I don’t have any opinion, war is inevitable.”

This was indeed the truth, but this incident truly reflected the ambition of the Xiyi people.

Things that originally took a month to negotiate were resolved in only ten days.

It seemed that the Xiyi people had long expected that Cui Yuanqing would find another way to go south, so they not only prepared the flying ship in advance but also made plans to receive the envoys and set off at any time.

However, this incident also conveyed a very important message to Tan Chuyan – the flying ship was extremely fast!

It stood to reason that Tuoba Rou went out from Qi Kingdom and arrived in Xiyi today. Even if she worked hard, it would still take two more days to go back.

Even so, she couldn’t come back so soon unless she took the flying ship.

If the flying ship could really be seen tomorrow, it would prove that the flying ship could shorten the eight to ten-day journey to two or three days, or even shorter.

At this speed, it only took a moment to cross the Lingjiang River, and there was no time to even prepare for the battle!

The most terrifying thing was that so far, although they had a way to defeat the enemy, they didn’t have anything real. Once a fight actually broke out, they would only be passively beaten.

Now, Tan Chuyan only hoped that tomorrow’s trip would go well, as there was really not much time for them to prepare!

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At this time, Cui Yuanqing was reading the letter sent back by Tuoba Rou.

After reading it several times, he looked at Wu Guangping and asked, “Can the flying ship really arrive tomorrow?”

“Don’t worry, General Manager,” Wu Guangping moved the whisk in his hand: “the flying ship travels thousands of miles every day, they will definitely arrive tomorrow.”

“I believe you this time.” Cui Yuanqing put the letter away and looked at Wu Guangping carefully: “Eunuch Wu, I am suddenly very curious about something. Can you answer it conveniently?”

Wu Guangping lowered his head: “Big brother, if you ask me, I will definitely answer everything I know.”

“Okay!” Cui Yuanqing shouted and raised Wu Guangping’s chin: “I’m curious, where did you hear about the flying ship, Yunzhou?”

Wu Guangping said calmly: “The general manager must have forgotten that I am the most trusted person by King Qi. I know any information he collects.”

Yes, although Tan Hongyun was a tyrant, he also cared about the throne under his butt.

In order to maintain his ambition and hegemony, he established his own secret guard organization, specializing in collecting information from all over the world, including Xiyi people who were eyeing the land of Dayong Dynasty.

Therefore, it was not surprising that Wu Guangping knew these things.