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Visibly, Jia Si blushed and felt flustered, and raised his voice to cover up his guilt:

"How can I, the commander, read a script? I heard what others said when I was on the road."

"Anyway, the princess is good! Better than the women in the storybook!"

Everyone agreed on this, including Yue Jian, who also added heavily:

"Not only is she a storyteller, the princess is better than any other woman in the world!"

Shen Dongsu and Ling Moxiao happened to come over at this time. When they heard this, Ling Moxiao whispered in her ear:

"My husband thinks so too."

Shen Dongsu blushed and lowered his head with a smile. Since you all praise me so much, if I don't do something, wouldn't I be sorry for such a comment?

So for dinner that day, Princess Ling gave extra meals to all the Youzhou soldiers!

All the vermicelli brought are soaked, and the vermicelli stewed with bacon and cabbage is served in a big bowl per person, with unlimited noodles.

Of course there was not enough bacon to feed the whole army, so she used her private money and asked Jia Si to take people to buy meat. She bought hundreds of live sheep and made radish stewed with mutton.

Along with Mr. Pang and other generals and counselors, Shen Dongsu personally went to the kitchen, stir-fried hot pot ingredients, stewed mutton base, ate hot pot, and drank fine wine.

It's a pity that the glutinous rice cakes we brought have been eaten on the way, because the glutinous rice cakes will spoil easily when the weather is hot.

But there was glutinous rice flour, so Shen Dongsu made a big plate of glutinous rice candy cake, which is considered a Gwangju specialty.

This dinner is said to be the most delicious meal that Youzhou Frontier Army has had in the past few years!

The whole army and even the whole city had spread the news that Princess Ling came to Youzhou and brought her entire dowry to reward the whole army!

When I heard that everyone who followed Princess Ling had been promoted and made a fortune. I don’t know who said it first, but it spread like that.

'Follow Princess Ling and you will have meat to eat! '

Mr. Pang thanked Commander Shan emphatically. Everyone else was his own, and only the Imperial Army was a guest.

It's easy to talk to a smart man like Mr. Pang. Shen Dongsu only said, "Children who cry can get candy." '

Mr. Pang took Commander Shan to patrol the military camp, saying that he was considered a close official of the emperor. Since he had the chance to come to Youzhou, he naturally wanted to look around.

Then Commander Shan saw that the soldiers were wearing shabby clothes and their armors were damaged. There are as many stones as rice bran in the cooked rice.

Mr. Pang also said cheerfully: "It doesn't matter, it's okay if there are a few pebbles and sand in the porridge."

Then there were the soldiers watching the training. It was not hot in April, but these soldiers were all topless.

Everyone has wounds on their bodies, including missing fingers, knife marks, sword scars, and strangely large scars, as if they were digging out pieces of flesh.

Mr. Pang still did not complain and said with a smile: "These are all minor injuries, and those with serious injuries have been discharged. In Youzhou, even a missing arm or a lame leg is not considered a wounded soldier!"

"There's nothing we can do! It's difficult to recruit border troops. Veterans are familiar with the terrain. Even if they lack arms and legs, they are still better than new recruits."

In the face of suffering, the more you complain, the more others will find excuses for you.

That’s all! Wouldn't it be hard to call the border troops?

But if you don't complain or talk about suffering, people will feel guilty instead.

Commander Shan and other generals of the Forbidden Army were very unhappy to see them. They were also soldiers. Compared with those at the border, their conditions and treatment were as good as heaven and earth.

That night, while Ling Moxiao was still at the banquet, Shen Dongsu went back to the room to write a letter.

She deliberately wrote straightforwardly, calmly describing everything she saw in Youzhou from the perspective of the peasant princess.

Let me first talk about the people who were fleeing. At first they thought they were a group of monkeys, because they were all thin and small, and their clothes were not covering their bodies.

What they eat is mud pancakes, but they are different from the mud pancakes in her hometown. In Gwangju, they eat black noodles mixed with salt mud, while in Youzhou people eat black noodles mixed with mud.

People also said that there were wild vegetable roots in the mud, which were fragrant...

Just lack of food and clothing is not the most difficult thing for the people. The most difficult thing is that the Tatars will come to the village to loot at any time.

Stealing food and livestock, snatching away women and young men, killing old people and children, and burning down houses...

Every time they heard the sound of horse hooves, they didn't even have time to see who it was, so they immediately dragged their families and ran into the forest.

The people of Youzhou City have one family, and every family has a relative who died at the hands of the Tatars.

The common people who have the ability want to escape to the south, at least there is a way to survive. Those who were left behind were unable to escape, and the only thing they could rely on was the border troops.

The people are suffering, and the border troops are suffering even more. Many soldiers suffered from frostbite last winter. By April this year, their aspics were purple and frostbitten. Pus oozed out every day and had to be dug out.

Some veterans have old cold sores on their bodies and no good skin on their bodies. Their fingers and feet are frostbitten and have to be amputated. Half of the veterans have all ten fingers missing...

There is a lack of wound medicine, and some sword and arrow wounds can still be saved if they are treated with medicine in time. However, due to lack of medical treatment and medicine, 90% of the wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks will die.

There was no new rice to eat, and all they ate were relief grains for disaster relief. Old rice and noodles that had been aged for an unknown number of years were all infested with worms.

But the soldiers would not pick out the worms. They said that the worms were meat and treated them as meat. Because they haven’t had oil and water for a long time...

Shen Dongsu had read the excerpts written by officials, which were all classical Chinese essays that could be used for exams. It was probably the first time that she had written such straightforward and straightforward words for the emperor.

The Imperial Guard was leaving tomorrow, so she had to finish it overnight. She doesn't exaggerate, everything is true. If Commander Shan and the others were to testify, the emperor might even question Chen Xingyao, and he would be considered a witness.

Let's first see if her "crying for poverty" is of any use? If it doesn't work, cry harder next time.

If it helps, cry more.

The calligraphy she wrote with a brush was extremely ugly, and she couldn't get it right after practicing so much. She usually wrote with charcoal, but this time, she used the ugly calligraphy to write to the emperor.

Anyway, everyone knows that she was born as a peasant girl, so it makes sense that her handwriting is ugly, and it is more convincing.

She asked Yue Jian to invite the prince and Mr. Pang to the service living room behind the Moon Gate, which was her office.

Further back is the backyard, which Mr. Pang must not enter.

When she handed the thick stack to Mr. Pang, it seemed like she was writing a letter to her family in Guangzhou. Ling Moxiao had laughed at her before, saying that while others were writing letters, she was writing a book.

Mr. Pang smelled of alcohol, but he was not drunk at all. A strategist like him would never let himself get drunk.

At first, he read the letter with a smile. He didn't know whether he was laughing at Princess Ling's ugly handwriting, or at Princess Ling's straightforward writing.

But as he looked at it, his face became serious, and finally his eyes turned red, and he wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve from time to time.

Ling Moxiao found it incredible that he could actually make Mr. Pang cry!

Shen Dongsu raised his eyebrows at him and smiled with pride, do you understand? The reason why the storybook is so attractive is that it has a strong sense of immersion!

I can't write a storybook, but I write straightforwardly, with a unique perspective and a strong sense of empathy. No matter how hard-hearted you are, you will burst into tears.

After Mr. Pang finished reading, his voice was choked with sobs and he said: "The princess plans to present this directly to the emperor?"

Shen Dongsu nodded: "That's right! You all said that the imperial court knew about the difficulties at the border, so the above chapters never wrote about the hardships of the people at the bottom."

"I, the princess, originally came from a peasant family, so let me, a peasant girl, talk about the border from the perspective of a commoner at the bottom."

"Or do you think you need to polish your pen?"

Mr. Pang shook his head: "No, there is no need to polish the writing, it is just such a straightforward writing style. I have read it carefully and found that there are no prohibited or disrespectful words, so I can submit it."

"As for how the court will react, it depends on God's will."

After receiving Mr. Pang's correct words, Shen Dongsu felt relieved and wrapped the long letter and placed it with the supplies for the Forbidden Army.

When I prepare to send the Imperial Army to the Imperial Army at dawn tomorrow, I will personally hand it over to Commander Shan.

It was a busy day, no, it should be said that it was a busy journey, and she felt that she hadn't had a solid night's sleep in a long time.

It's amazing. When she first traveled through time, she was in the Shen family. Because of the original owner's obsession, she didn't have a sense of belonging to the Shen family.

But today, the first day she came to Youzhou Palace, to this big house built specially for her by Ling Moxiao, that sense of belonging, this feeling of being at home, swept through her whole body.

After Mr. Pang read the letter, she was so sleepy that her eyelids trembled. Ling Moxiao asked her to sleep first as he also had to deal with the military affairs.

Shen Dongsu was not polite to him, and she didn't intend to be a little wife who waited for her husband to come home every day. She would have a long life in the future, so it was not a good start.

Yue Jian has already prepared bath water. In Youzhou, unlike in Guangzhou or Chang'an, there is a bathtub with milk and roses for you to soak in.

Unless she is a demon concubine who confuses His Highness Prince Ling and becomes the most delicate person in the world, then she is qualified to take a milk bath at the border.

Now, if you wash it in an ordinary bathtub, it's already good.

There is also milk, which Ling Mo Xiao specially prepared for her. Two cows and three ewes can milk a lot of milk in a day.

But she couldn't bear to use it to take a bath or wash her face. Wouldn't it be delicious to keep it for making milk tea? It can also replenish the health of soldiers in the wounded barracks.

She had already started to take a nap while taking a bath, and she didn't forget to ask: "Have the residences of my eldest brother and cousin been settled?"

Yue Jian helped her press her temples and whispered: "Don't worry, Princess, everything has been arranged."

"But Mr. Mo originally lived in the same courtyard as Mr. Shen, but he wants to live with Mr. Lu."

Mo Xiujin was still worried about Lu Yunzhou. He was preparing for long-term surveillance!

She lay down on the bed, and the last words she told her were: "Put the food you brought from home in a ventilated place, so that it doesn't get moldy."

Yue Jian didn't tell her that she had already eaten most of the food she brought from Guangzhou, and ate some on the way, as well as extra meals for all the soldiers tonight.

It was already midnight when Ling Moxiao returned to his room. The April night in Youzhou was still quite cold. He used to feel tired and cold after handling official duties every night.

But at night, he felt that his whole body was burning. When he thought of Dong Su lying on the bed, sleeping soundly, his heart beat uncontrollably.

It's the wine! It must be because I drank wine at the dinner party!

When he saw the orange night light left in the bedroom, Ling Moxiao stopped deceiving himself. The problem was not drinking because the little girl was here!

The girl he had longed for and dreamed of finally came to him!

He went in quietly. Two maids who were keeping watch at night were about to come over to wash themselves, so he waved them to leave.

After closing the door and gently opening the layers of red curtains, the little girl was wrapped tightly in quilt, with only a small face exposed.

Her black hair spread out and covered the pillow. Smooth forehead, long eyelashes like crow feathers, small nose, cherry red lips.

His eyes stopped on his lips, Ling Moxiao's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and the scene of kissing in the valley during the day appeared in his mind.

He could never kiss those lips enough.

He first put his hand under the quilt to warm it for a while, then reached out and gently touched the girl's face.

Feeling the delicate softness, he felt an indescribable ecstasy in his heart, and at the same time, a feeling of fear swept over his body.

Thinking that Bai heard the guards coming to report that the princess was in danger.

At that moment, Ling Moxiao felt that half of his three souls and seven souls had flown away. In just a few breaths, he felt like he was falling into the abyss.

When he ran away and saw the little girl running towards him alive, his soul finally returned to its place.

In front of everyone, the only thing he could do was hug her tightly.

But now, he wants more...

At this moment, the little girl seemed to be restless in sleep because of his touch. She rubbed her face on his hand and murmured:

"It's cold, Yue Jian. Don't move."

Ling Moxiao:......

Did that girl Yue Jian sleep in the same bed with her while he was away?

Although he had given Yue Mian the order to protect the princess personally, there was no need to be so personal!

He was actually a little jealous of Yue Jian.

He remembered that before he met Dong Su, he heard about the entanglements between crazy men and women, such as jealousy, infatuation, lovesickness, etc.

They all find it unbelievable. They think these people have a brain problem and are so crazy for a woman?

But after getting to know Dong Su, he could completely understand the feelings of those people.

Just thinking about the fact that there is another man in the little girl's heart, he wants to kill that man!

During the more than a year of separation, he suffered every day. Except that the military could paralyze him, whenever his mind was free, he would think crazily about the little girl.

It turns out that this is lovesickness!

He nodded Dong Su's nose and sighed softly: "I have fallen into your hands in this life."

Dong Su was finally woken up by him. Half asleep and half awake, her eyes only opened a small slit and she said sweetly:

"My lord, you are back."

After saying that, he pulled the quilt away a little: "Come in and warm yourself up."

At this moment, Ling Moxiao's heart was like a pot of boiling sugar water, bubbling with sweet bubbles.

I fell into your hands, I admit it!

He restrained his boiling blood, just like before, he just hugged Dong Su from behind and slept in each other's arms.

She was too tired from the journey, so she had to take things slow when it came to the bridal chamber.

Moreover, more than a year of separation gave Ling Moxiao more time to think about the past between the two of them.

The more he thought about it, the more he understood Dong Su's emphasis on the contract.

The little girl was very scared and insecure about the extremely unequal status difference between the two.

She is not an ordinary girl. Some girls always lose their true feelings when faced with a man's sweet words.

She regards a man's words as a lifelong commitment, but the little girl does not. She can always keep her heart and always leave enough escape routes for herself.

Therefore, Ling Moxiao respects her and will never force her to change for him.

If she believes in the contract, then he will abide by the contract. He never makes promises easily, but he guarantees that every promise will be fulfilled.