mtl008 Chapter 237 I have a chapter to tell you
Chapter 237 I have a chapter to tell you
When Lu Xinran returned, the queen had not yet woken up.
Lu Xinlan looked at her slightly flushed cheeks, and thought of how she had just left with Song Junyan, and she couldn't help but feel worried.
But everyone has their own destiny. She cannot try to persuade others for something that hasn't happened yet, nor can she impose her own ideas on others.
So when Lu Xinran saw her, she just asked her softly if she wanted to go and rest first.
How could Lu Xinran sleep soundly as she felt that she was taken advantage of? But she didn't want to talk about that little incident either, so she just repeated Song Junyan's words in a depressed tone.
"He's right. Let's wait for the queen to wake up and take a look."
Lu Xinran continued to nod dully. She had no right to interfere in other people's lives. She only hoped that the queen could put aside her responsibilities and be willful for once.
With food and supplies, they found a lot of materials for making explosives on their way back.
The military camp began to work overtime to make homemade explosives. Lu Xinran stayed behind to take care of the queen, while Lu Xinlan went to the military camp to study with some clever people how to further improve the explosives.
Previously, explosives were used to clear the way for the convoys transporting food and grass. Having tasted the sweetness of gunpowder, everyone in the military camp put all their efforts into making improvements.
The knife wound on Xie Lang's back was very serious, and the military doctor told him to stay in bed for three days, but he appeared in the military camp early the next morning.
Completely ignoring whether the wound behind him might tear.
When the queen woke up the next day, she ignored the injury on her shoulder, bandaged her shoulder tightly and entered the military camp.
Lu Xinran followed behind her helplessly, "Aunt, reinforcements will be here soon, and we still have explosives. The Qiang people dare not attack the city rashly. Why don't you take this opportunity to heal your wounds and rest."
"This little injury is nothing."
The queen suddenly smiled in relief as she spoke: "I have been pampered in the palace these years, and I have recovered from all the hidden injuries left by the previous wars. My body is also in great shape, so it can be considered a mixed bag."
"Aunt, will you go back after the war?"
Seeing that the Queen took the initiative to mention the imperial palace in the capital, Lu Xinran took the opportunity to ask a question.
The queen was stunned for a moment and then hummed: "If you want to go back, my home is still there."
The palace is not her home, but the Duke's Mansion is.
She couldn't put her family in danger for her own sake.
"Xinran, when you reach my age, you will understand that once a person is past the age of wanton behavior, the rest of his life is a matter of paying for all the things he has done in the past."
If she had listened to her family's advice and not become curious about the emperor in the capital who was different from the man in the border town, her life would have been different.
But who can say for sure about something they have not experienced?
Perhaps, if she had not married the emperor, the late emperor would have been even more suspicious and their Zhang family would have completely ceased to exist.
Lu Xinran pursed her lips and suppressed all the words that were about to come to her lips under the queen's indifferent gaze.
The amount of food and fodder urgently transferred was not much, only enough for the soldiers in the city to eat for one month.
If a portion of these food and fodder were to be distributed to the people in the city, they could only hold out for half a month.
Xie Lang looked at the situation in the military camp with a gloomy face. He turned sideways and saw the slender figure of the queen. He took a few steps to her side.
"Why did you come out? Didn't I tell you to recover from your injuries?"
"Didn't you stay in the room to recuperate?"
The queen replied calmly, "How much explosives have you made? We have to make Chahar withdraw its troops within half a month, at least to make sure Hanyu Pass is no longer blocked and outsiders can enter the city."
Especially the grain merchants from the south and the horse dealers from outside the country.
Speaking of military affairs, Xie Lang immediately became serious, and the two of them started discussing as they walked.
Song Junyan was just nearby and heard the entire conversation between Lu Xinran and the Queen.
Seeing the queen walking away, he stepped forward and said worriedly, "Mother doesn't have such thoughts. You must not want to know these things in the future. Don't even think about it in your heart."
Lu Xinran really wanted to roll her eyes at him, but she knew that would seem unreasonable, so she just turned away and said "hmm".
Song Junyan wanted to laugh when he saw her awkward look. "I received a secret letter from my father yesterday. Once the reinforcements arrive, we should go back."
"Go back?" Lu Xinran turned around instantly: "Isn't the war over yet?"
"Have you forgotten why we are here?"
Song Junyan reminded him softly, and Lu Xinran was confused for a moment and then remembered the purpose of their trip.
"Will the Queen go back with us?"
"She's not going back."
When and how she returns is decided by the emperor.
Ma Linyuan, the main general of Haishan Pass, rode at full speed all the way. According to the speed at which they came, the reinforcements would arrive in three days at most.
Thinking that they would be leaving for Beijing in three days, she felt a rare sense of reluctance.
Although the climate here is very bad and the food and supplies are extremely simple, the freedom here is incomparable to that in the capital.
Thinking about going back and starting to live the stable life of a lady from a wealthy family, she was already experiencing withdrawal symptoms before she even left.
Song Junyan looked at her changing eyebrows and eyes, and his fingertips felt inexplicably itchy.
Putting his hands behind his back, he whispered another sentence.
"On the way back, I have something to tell you."
After saying this, he walked away quickly, without giving Lu Xinran a chance to load his booklet.
"Tongzi, what can't he say now?"
The system hummed for a long time, "Maybe he is too embarrassed to say it now. You see, he has already taken advantage of you before. Maybe he wants to tell you that you can be a real couple after you get married."
Lu Xinran was speechless. She strongly suspected that the booklet that belonged to Liu and Tang Quyan had tainted this system!
Otherwise, why would it always think of mosaic scenes that are not suitable for children?
Lu Xinlan didn't expect that they would leave so soon, but her mind worked very quickly and she realized the next moment that she didn't come with Song Junyan and the others, she was brought here by the Queen.
"I should be able to go back with my mother."
Lu Xinran: “?!!”
Why!
She also wants to go back with the queen!
"If the subsequent war continues for another two or three years, will you stay here forever?"
"why not?"
Lu Xinlan smiled brightly: "If my grandmother and mother agree, I can also find someone to marry here."
Lu Xinran: “…”
No, she became even more jealous.
Why should she go back to be a princess when she can live freely here?
She felt sick when she thought about the complicated etiquette during the New Year.
"Zhao will definitely not let you stay here, so just give up on this idea."
If she really wrote a letter back to the capital saying that she wanted to stay here, given Zhao's personality, she would be able to rush to Hanyu Pass and take her back.
Three days later, Ma Linyuan led his troops into the city.
When the Queen learned that Song Junyan was going back to Beijing, she smiled and kept Lu Xinlan by her side, and had someone escort him and Lu Xinran back to Beijing.
Lu Xinran looked back every few steps, but all he saw was the Queen waving goodbye.
"Let's go. We have to go back and prepare for our wedding."
Song Junyan stepped forward and helped her onto the carriage. "I have something to tell you after we leave the city."