LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 33 - I
As Tan Chuyan woke up, Feng Libai felt no burden in his heart and took the Wolf Eagle Cavalry back to Tianyou City without any hurry.
Unexpectedly, only halfway through the journey, an eagle flew over from a distance – it was Feng Chilie’s eagle, Nama.
Nama stopped firmly on Ji Bei’s shoulder and stretched out his foot to him very intelligently, indicating that Feng Chilie had a letter for him.
Ji Bei took out the letter and read it, then patted his head, indicating that it could go back.
“Ji Bei,” Tuoba Lan’s ears were very sharp, and she could hear the sound of Nama flapping his wings from a distance.
After Nama left, she opened the curtain of the carriage, stuck her head out, and asked, “What news did Ah Lie send you?”
Ji Bei tightened the reins, turned around, and walked to the carriage: “Madam, a cold disaster broke out in the thirty-six cities of Pingchuan, and the general was sent to provide relief. The Wolf Eagle Cavalry will stay to assist the general. I will send a team of people when the time comes to send you and the second young master back to Tianyou City.”
“What is His Majesty thinking! Ah Lie’s leg is not healed yet. If something happens again, who should I find to accompany my son?” Tuoba Lan’s face showed dissatisfaction: “Well, let me stay with you. Send someone to bring Xiao Bai back.”
Ji Bei: “But, madam…”
Tuoba Lan interrupted him: “Why? Did Ah Lie’s letter tell you that I’m not allowed to stay?”
Ji Bei hesitated for a moment: “That’s not true, but the thirty-six cities of Pingchuan has not yet been completely recovered, and the situation is treacherous. It would be dangerous for madam to stay, and I cannot bear this responsibility.”
“You don’t have to worry about it,” Tuoba Lan ‘s face revealed the majesty of a superior person: “Don’t forget who I was before I got married. Besides, if I stay here, I can still protect Ah Lie. After all, he is my own son!”
If it hadn’t been for the conversation in the military tent, Feng Libai would have believed what his mother said.
As someone who knew the inside story, Feng Libai knew Tuoba Lan ‘s purpose for staying.
He clenched his fists and raised his head: “Mom, why don’t we go back? The eldest brother’s fall wasn’t too serious, and he should be able to walk.”
“Shut up!” Tuoba Lan glared at Feng Libai: “Everyone knows how deep the water in the Pingchuan. Your eldest brother’s leg has not yet recovered. What should I, a mother, to do if something unexpected happens?”
Tuoba Lan lowered the curtain: “This matter is settled. I will go to Pingchuan with you, and they will only escort Xiao Bai back.”
“…”
Ji Bei was silent for a long time and could only agree.
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Without the army, Feng Libai’s pace was much faster. He was escorted back to Tianyou City at noon the next day and informed Feng Chilie that Tuoba Lan was left behind.
Feng Chilie nodded to indicate that he understood and began to make preparations before departure.
Chu Minghan took out 300,000 taels, 5,000 shi of grain, and more than 10,000 pieces of cotton-padded clothes from the treasury.
Five thousand shi of food was the most that Chu Minghan could provide. After all, Xibo was also short of food. Now that the two sides had not officially started a war, they had to fulfill the agreement they made back then and exchange one thousand shi of food with Xibo every year.
As for cotton-padded clothes, more than 10,000 pieces were definitely not enough. There are thirty-six cities in Pingchuan, large and small. Except for the main city, which had about 10,000 people, the other cities were all around 5,000, but even if they were scattered like this, they added up quickly. With a population of 200,000, only 10,000 cotton-padded clothes were useless.
But fortunately, the silver was quite enough, so he could buy the remaining cotton-padded clothes when passing by other cities.
When Feng Chilie got on the carriage, he did not prove to anyone that his legs had begun to heal. After all, the person who poisoned him had not yet been found out, so he asked four boys to work together to lift him into the carriage.
To be honest, these boys were really bad. He thought about Ji Bei who could move him up alone.
After getting on the carriage, Feng Chilie opened the curtain and stuck his head out to look at Tan Chuyan: “Go back, I’m not going to fight.”
Tan Chuyan stood in the wind wrapped in a red cloak, and his facial features were highlighted a little brightly.
His long eyelashes trembled, and he took out the token representing Young Master Yan’s identity from his arms and handed it to Feng Chilie.
“Take this.” Tan Chuyan looked up at him: “If you encounter trouble, go to Ling-han Pavilion in Pingchuan. The steward there will spare no effort to help you after seeing the token.”
Looking at Tan Chu who was surrounding him, with the red string on of the token on his fingertips, Feng Chilie took the jade pendant over and his expression was deep for a moment: “You just gave me the token that Young Master Yan gave you. Won’t he be angry?”
Angry?
Why would he be angry? Anyway, he had several jade pendants like this.
Tan Chuyan’s face was expressionless: “No, he said, this jade pendant is mine as a gift. I can do with it as I please.”
Feng Chilie said in a strange way: “He is quite generous.”
He was so shameless at first.
That young master didn’t give him one when he asked, and even after he said he would give him the token from Purity Sect in exchange for it. He didn’t expect that he would get it easily today.
He didn’t know how Young Master Yan’s face when he learned about this.
Anyway, he just liked to see him angry and embarrassed!
Tan Chuyan didn’t know what he was thinking about, but he knew that bad water was definitely starting to flow in this man’s stomach.
Like it or not, their current relationship could be regarded as grasshoppers tied to one rope. Feng Chilie would never cheat him if he had any brains.
Feng Chilie stuffed the jade pendant into his arms and asked casually, “Aren’t you afraid that I will do bad things with it?”
A gust of wind blew between the sky and the earth. Tan Chuyan’s half-dispersed hair moved with the wind as he replied, “Will you?”
After a while, Feng Chilie smiled, “You are really good.”
The wind was still blowing, and Tan Chuyan tightened his cloak, saying, “Go. I’ll wait for you to come back, and I won’t go anywhere.”
Feng Chilie leaned half of his body without moving, “Tan Chuyan, do you remember what I once said?”
Tan Chuyan asked, “What?”
Feng Chilie repeated, “Sooner or later, I will let you willingly step into my general’s mansion and become the bird in the cage never fly out again, you just wait for me to watch all day long.”
Tan Chuyan stepped forward, grabbed his collar, and used a cold hand to pat his face, saying, “Wake up. If I want to leave, the General’s Mansion will be demolished first.”
The two of them looked at each other, the distance between them was still quite a bit, and their breaths intertwined inadvertently.
Feng Chilie raised his arm and covered the two people’s heads with his cloak, blocking everyone’s sight.
The sky and the earth turned pale in an instant. Feng Chilie raised his hand in the darkness and pressed on the back of Tan Chuyan’s neck, shortening the distance by a few points.
“Tan Chuyan,” Feng Chilie lowered his voice, and his warm breath blew on Tan Chuyan’s face, “You are so close, do you want to seduce me?”
Tan Chuyan did not retreat but advanced, almost touching the tip of his nose, “If I seduce you, are you willing to take the bait? The. Great. General-” Before he could finish his words, someone sealed his lips.
At that moment, Tan Chuyan’s eyes widened in confusion, but soon he stood on tiptoes not to be outdone, and started biting each other with Feng Chilie.
It was strange that emotions between men were always dominated by the most primitive desires first. It seemed that when the atmosphere reached certain point, they didn’t consider whether there were those illusory feelings between each other.
The two of them locked lips and teeth, exchanging each other’s breath, making gentle wet sounds.