Your Highness, has he stopped today?

After Lu Zheyu tidied up his clothes, Chu Heng walked in, cupped his hands and said, "Young Master Lu."

Lu Zheyu hurriedly asked: "Have you ever found Yun Jing?"

Chu Heng inadvertently glanced at the wound medicine and the blood-stained gauze on the side, raised his eyes to look at Lu Zheyu, then retracted his gaze, and responded in a low voice: "This subordinate is incompetent. Your Highness intentionally made mistakes at the many crossing post roads along the way." The traces after the camouflage induced the subordinates to search in the wrong direction, and the subordinates turned back and searched along another road, but they still did not find it.”

Lu Zheyu sat down silently, and it took a long time before he spoke: "I heard from him that he had learned the art of anti-tracking from Commander Ye before. He knew that I would send someone to look for him, so he deliberately prevented me from finding him."

Chu Heng lowered his eyes and said: "The few spies around His Highness and Miao Xing are all the best at this. However, this subordinate is not completely sure. Can Mr. Lu send me a team? I want to..."

"That's all." Lu Zheyu interrupted him. "He intends not to let you find it, and you will never find it no matter what."

Chu Heng said nothing.

Standing aside, Feng Yang scratched his head and asked, "Where are the stations along the way? Have you asked?"

"I asked, but they said they never saw His Highness." Chu Heng said.

"He didn't go back to the direction of Xingcheng at all." Lu Zheyu's expression darkened slightly. "Probably because he didn't want to be found, he went to travel in another direction. He didn't return to Xingcheng until we gave up looking."

Feng Yang was surprised when he heard the words: "...Huh? It's okay." This little Highness really knows how to play.

"If you want to find him, most likely you have to go back to Xingcheng and wait for him." Lu Zheyu said.

There was a long silence in the room.Lu Zheyu sighed lightly, turned to look at Chu Heng: "What are your plans?"

Chu Heng hesitated for a moment, as if thinking.

"Go back to Xingcheng." Lu Zheyu said. "When your master has had enough fun, he will definitely go back, so you won't be looking for him like a headless chicken."

"His Highness has instructions in the letter to let his subordinates follow Mr. Lu." Chu Heng said.

Lu Zheyu pondered for a while, and said: "Hou's mansion is not short of manpower now, but Yun Jing, he has only one Miao Xing by his side now, you have been with him for a long time, it is still inconvenient for him to leave you."

Chu Heng was silent for a moment, then narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice: "Your Highness orders, and my subordinates dare not disobey."

Lu Zheyu: "You really don't want to go back?"

Chu Heng: "The subordinates only follow orders."

Lu Zheyu sighed lightly: "Forget it, since you listen to him like this, forget it. If I have a chance to see your master in the future, I will return you to him."

Lu Zheyu walked to the front of the room with his hands behind his back. The spring water was gurgling in the yard, the green plants were abundant, and a few koi were swimming back and forth in the water.He spoke softly, as if talking to himself: "I just don't know, when will I see him again."

After a few days.outskirts.

Shi Yunjing confidently walked on the mountain path, playing with the whip in one hand, and holding a small wine jar in the other, pouring a sip into his mouth from time to time, looking carefully, the style of the wine jar was still unique in Yecheng. Some rose dew.

In the distance, Miao Xing galloped towards this side on his horse. When he got there, Yun Jing tightened the reins by his side, clasped his fists in both hands, and said respectfully: "According to His Highness's instructions, my subordinates have already marked those post roads."

"Yes." Shi Yunjing agreed lightly.

Unknowingly, the wine jar bottomed out, Shi Yunjing threw it away, and continued to trust the horse with a blank expression.

"From today onwards, there is no need to mark it anymore. They can't find me, so they probably have given up." Shi Yunjing ordered.

"...Yes." Miao Xing agreed. "Then Your Highness, are we going back to Chu now?"

"No, go to Yicheng first." Shi Yunjing replied lightly.

Yicheng is the most populous city in Chen country except Yecheng. Miao Xing scratched his head and asked in puzzlement, "Yicheng? What are you going there for?"

Shi Yunjing rode slowly, without speaking.

Seeing that his master was silent, Miao Xing didn't dare to speak again.After a long time, Shi Yunjing said.

"Go buy a few altars of rose dew. If not, you won't be able to drink it again when you return to Chu."

"Oh..." Miao Xing thought for a while, then looked up at him again, "Then should we hurry up, at this speed, when can we reach Yicheng?"

Shi Yunjing glanced at him, then looked away: "Do you want to go to Yicheng quickly, or go back to Chu country quickly?"

Being told what was on his mind, Miao Xing showed embarrassment.Shi Yunjing didn't bother to pay attention to him, and suddenly whipped the horse, the horse was frightened and ran away, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.Startled, Miao Xing hurriedly rode his horse and chased after him.

"Master...Master, wait for your subordinates!"

Seven days later.Dingyuanhoufu.

"By God's fortune, the emperor said. Beidi and our dynasty had a three-year truce, and we were in peace every year. In recent months, Beidi has repeatedly caused rebellion in the junction of Lizhou, invaded our city, and injured our garrison. It is unacceptable. It is difficult to appease. General Wu Jie is specially summoned to gather a large army and go to the border to quell the chaos on the first day of next month, so as to save the people on the border. I can't call you back to Beijing, so please."

The edict officer rolled up the imperial edict and handed it to Lu Zheyu.

"I obey the decree." Lu Zheyu accepted the imperial decree with a blank expression on his face.

Feng Yang, who was standing aside, hurried forward to help his master up. He stared closely at the golden brocade, feeling that the imperial decree was burning his eyes sorely.

The Chengzhi officer left.Lu Zheyu didn't say a word, Feng Yang said anxiously: "My lord, what does this imperial decree mean? Why did the emperor make a decree that you can't return to Beijing without a call?"

Lu Zheyu pursed his lips. As early as when he resisted the imperial edict and refused to marry in Yushufang, he had thought that such a day would come.Emperor Chongde was disobeyed by him, which was equivalent to being slapped in the face, so how could it be as simple as punishing him to kneel in the rain for a few hours.

In the study, Lu Chi sat behind the desk and quickly read the edict.After reading it, roll it up again and put it aside.

Lu Chi said slowly: "The matter has come to this, it is useless to talk. You have disobeyed the imperial decree once, and there must be no second time. Since His Majesty sent you to quell the chaos, then you go."

Lu Zheyu nodded: "Yes."

Lu Chi: "Three years have passed in the blink of an eye when the Dingyuan Army was fighting chaos in Beidi."

Lu Zheyu still remembered that battle.That was when he was 16 years old and followed his father on the battlefield for the first time.He closed his eyes and said softly: "After all, I have stayed there for a while, and I am familiar with the defense there, so don't worry, Dad."

"As for what His Majesty said, you can't go back to Beijing unless you're called," Lu Chi slowly sighed. "One is to punish you for disrespecting the order before, and the other is that the people of Beidi have always been cunning. Three years ago, they signed the surrender document and carried out sneak attacks from time to time. It is really abominable. Your Majesty let you stay at the border to keep those The barbarians took care of it, so that they had no chance to make trouble."

Feng Yang was very dissatisfied: "The emperor is really enough to avenge his own private revenge, and he came up with such a harmful move..."

Lu Chi squinted at him, and said in a deep voice, "Speak carefully."

Feng Yang immediately shut his mouth.

"Since you can't go back to Beijing without summons, then wait for His Majesty's edict." Lu Zheyu was very calm.

"The man's ambition is everywhere. Why bother to be confined to this small city of Ye." Lu Chi also took this matter very seriously.

Feng Yang raised his eyes and watched quietly as the father and son sang together, it was unanimous to the outside world.He curled his lips and didn't answer.

Lu Chi added: "From this point of view, the emperor wants you to be the master and the general will be stationed in Lizhou. In other words, you are still young, and His Majesty's willingness to let you take charge of your own affairs is a sign of trust in you."

Lu Zheyu narrowed his eyes: "Don't worry, Dad, Zheyu will definitely not disappoint Dad."

Feng Yang became anxious again: "Even though the young master has military merits before, he has never led the army alone. Even if the emperor trusts the young master, it is too trusting, right? Does the emperor want the young master to make some mistakes and then..." Said At this point, his voice became quieter, and he didn't dare to continue speaking.

"Which of the most respected generals in the court has never led an army independently?" Lu Chi looked at him coldly, "There is a first time in everything, and a few Beidi people are nothing to be afraid of. If you are worried about him, you can be Zheyu's deputy general. Let's go to Lizhou together."

"Ah? What?" Feng Yang was surprised.

Lu Chi: "Why, you don't want to?"

Feng Yang hastily denied it: "No, no! The general is willing! If you let the young master go to the border alone, the general will not be at ease..." Feng Yang sighed softly in his heart, he is really better than his own father as a lieutenant general Caring.

Lu Chi: "Well, then it's settled. After all, you have more combat experience than Zheyu. When you arrive in Lizhou, you should mention it more."

Feng Yang stood up, clasped his fists, and said, "The general obeys!"

Good guy, his lieutenant general is from his ancestors, right?I pass it on to my son. In the future when Lu Zheyu has a child, maybe Feng Yang will be a lieutenant for someone else... Well, not necessarily, my son is in love with that little highness, so there may not be a child... What if one is adopted?There are not many children in the Lu family branch, so I don't know if they can be adopted to the right age.Just adopt one?Pick one up?Didn't he, Feng Yang, be picked up by Lord Hou from the battlefield... His thoughts flew farther and farther, and he was about to fly to Beidi before disappearing.

late at night.Houfu Bieyuan.

"Your Majesty sent me to Lizhou to quell the chaos, and I will be leaving in a few days. You have never been on the battlefield, so I don't plan to take you with you. In my opinion, you should go back to Xingcheng."

Moonlight poured over the yard.Lu Zheyu sat on a stone bench in the courtyard and thought for a long time before making this arrangement.

Standing beside him, Chu Heng bowed his head and said, "Your Highness ordered me to protect Mr. Lu. If I go back to Xingcheng privately, His Highness will punish me."

Lu Zheyu sighed lightly, frowned and said, "If you don't go back, you can only stay in the Hou's residence."

"I can go to Lizhou with Mr. Lu." Chu Heng said. "A few years ago, I was a subordinate of the Great General Xiao, and I fought with the Great General in Xirong, and then I was transferred to Mingluan Hall to be His Royal Highness's bodyguard."

Lu Zheyu considered for a moment, but still did not agree: "You call me Mr. Lu, but you don't regard me as your master. In this case, if you have any accident on the battlefield, I can't explain it to your highness."

Chu Heng showed a look of embarrassment, and was about to speak, but Lu Zheyu took the first step: "Shi Yunjing said in the letter, if I don't want you, I can drive you away. If you don't want to go back to Xingcheng, I will I'm not going to take you to Lizhou."

Lu Zheyu paused for a moment, then said lightly: "From tomorrow onwards, you can go to the Yan Mansion as an errand, and you don't have to follow me any more in the future."