Outside the south gate of Jiyang City, Tao Yuanyuan was commanding the soldiers to station outside the city in an orderly manner.
Emperor Rongcheng has now restored his imperial dignity, but...in the past few days, neither he nor Tao Yuanyuan paid attention to the other.
Yu Zheng and his son have returned, and Tao Yuanyuan already has capable generals around him. Faced with Xia Lihong's current situation, there are more veteran generals around him. Even if there is a real fight, facing the fifty-fifty soldiers of the other side who are not fully motivated,
Ten thousand Zhenbei troops can defeat them 50-50 at worst.
Seeing Tao Yuanyuan's appearance, Emperor Rongcheng's heart was complicated.
He imprisoned Tao Yuanyuan in disguise in a deep palace for most of his life, destroying her wings. In the end, when he was most in danger of falling into the hands of his enemies, it was this woman who rescued him...
For the first time, Emperor Rongcheng really felt that he was old.
There was too much love and hatred between him and Tao Yuanyuan. This situation could not be resolved in a day or two.
But Emperor Rongcheng also understood that Tao Yuanyuan no longer had any desire to restore her country...otherwise, she would not have saved herself that day, and might even have killed herself directly.
Rongcheng's face was filled with confusion. That day, her vicious and vicious words were still ringing in his ears, which ultimately left a deep shadow in Emperor Rongcheng's heart.
He wanted to talk to her countless times, but Tao Yuanyuan seemed to be avoiding him. No one was there all day long.
As the king of a country, his reputation among the people is pretty good, and even in the future history books, he will be recorded as a good emperor... However, facing Tao Yuanyuan, he is always a little inexplicably complicated.
Emperor Rongcheng took a deep breath and suddenly felt like a young boy in love.
"Your Majesty..." Now that the emperor's bodyguards are no longer around, Qianyu still takes on the responsibility of taking care of and protecting Emperor Rongcheng even if he doesn't want to.
"What's up?"
Qianyu sighed, looked at the emperor with gray hair on his temples, and whispered, "If you really want to talk to the empress, why not be more direct?"
Emperor Rongcheng: "..."
He turned back and glanced at Qian Yu with some deep meaning.
"Do you also think that I want to talk to her because I doubt her?"
Qianyu lowered his head and did not dare to reply.
"I... want to apologize to her..." Emperor Rongcheng sighed, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes seemed to get deeper.
Waiting until night, Tao Yuanyuan finally finished her work and returned to her tent. As soon as she opened the tent curtain, she saw the figure in bright yellow lying on her couch, reading the latest battle report.
Tao Yuanyuan was silent for a while, squeezing her neck and wanting to leave.
On the couch, Emperor Rongcheng closed the last page of the battle report and whispered, "No need to hide, I have made arrangements for everyone outside..."
Tao Yuanyuan: "..."
She raised her head, looked at Emperor Rongcheng, and suddenly bowed and said, "I am guilty, please your Majesty to punish me!"
Such an attitude that was neither salty nor bland, even suggesting a confession, blocked Emperor Rongcheng's full words.
"You..." Emperor Rongcheng looked helplessly at the woman who had been sleeping with him for twenty years, and for the first time he put away the remaining power of the emperor.
"Can't you just talk properly?"
Tao Yuanyuan's expression remained unchanged, as if she was wearing a mask called calmness.
"How does Your Majesty want my concubine to speak? Or...do you need me to sleep with you?"
Emperor Rongcheng closed his eyes and felt aggrieved for the first time.
He got out of bed, walked slowly to Tao Yuanyuan, reached out to help her up, and whispered, "I have sent people to work hard to deliver the edict of succession to Shuang'er..."