Li Shilang frowned slightly and followed Feng Ci out: "Master Feng, these soldiers under your command are too young and will cause trouble. If you offend the prince today, I'm afraid they won't be able to reap the benefits when you return to the capital.
Can you see if you can arrange them to guard the border here and replace some obedient people with escorting the prince back?"
"Master Li, you are serious." Feng Ci glanced at him calmly, "They are actually very obedient on weekdays, but after all, they are still a group of children, and it is inevitable that they will be rebellious sometimes."
"Children?" Li Shilang frowned, with a tone of relying on his elders, "Where are there children in the military camp? Since they have joined the army, they should understand that military orders are as high as mountains, not to mention that His Royal Highness is the crown prince. They are so disrespectful, Mr. Feng will not
Take good care of it?"
Feng Ci was unhappy: "Even the prince can't control them, how can I control them?"
Li Shilang choked. He always felt that this sentence was wrong, but when he thought that Feng Ci was also a young man and had only led troops to escort the princess for the first time last year, it was indeed possible that he could not control these unruly teenagers now.
But where did these teenagers come from?
How many years has it been since the Feng Family Army was activated? The lieutenants and officers in the army should be quite young, and the teenage children...could it be that they are all descendants of the Feng Family Army?
But this is not important for now, we will talk about it after we return to Beijing.
Li Shilang quickly put aside this idea and said seriously: "Isn't Feng Chief Assistant at the border? You can ask him if a new group of people can be used to send the prince back? These young men have such a bad temper that they have offended the prince now.
Once the prince returns to the imperial city, he will inevitably settle accounts, and Mr. Feng doesn’t want to see these half-grown teenagers being questioned, right?”
Feng Ci said calmly: "You don't need to worry about these things, Sir."
"Why are Mr. Feng so disobedient?" Li Shilang frowned, "Forget it...how many days do we have to rest here?"
Feng Ci looked around: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been too tired from traveling these two days. Didn't he get beaten just now? Let's rest for two days. If the Crown Prince's health is not serious, we will leave earlier."
After saying this, he turned and walked away.
Li Shilang subconsciously wanted to stop him, but when he thought that Feng Shoufu was also at the border, if he was unfriendly to Feng Ci, it would be even worse if the news reached Feng Shoufu's ears, so he gave up.
Is it just that the journey has been delayed for too long? Li Shilang turned around and walked to Yun Chen's tent: "Is His Highness the Crown Prince in any serious health condition?"
Yun Chen lay on the bed as if he was boneless. Hearing this, he yelled angrily: "My whole body hurts to death. Do you think it's anything serious?"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince." Although Li Shilang also felt powerless, he just patiently persuaded him at this time, "We have been walking for more than a month since we came out of Dongyou. The delay is too long. If His Highness the Crown Prince has nothing to do,
Oh, can we leave early tomorrow morning? The longer the delay is, the colder the weather will be, and the more uncomfortable the journey will be."
Yun Chen didn't say anything. He hated rushing. The hard work of traveling and driving was really unbearable, especially when there was no beauty accompanying him on the road. Sitting alone in the car was boring.
"And if we go back earlier, the emperor can feel at ease earlier." Li Shilang sighed, "I always feel that it is not a problem to delay like this."
"Master Li." Yun Chen sat up and looked at Minister Li, "Do you think Feng Ci has ulterior motives?"
Li Shilang's expression changed slightly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince means..."
"He must have some ulterior motive." Yun Chen's face turned cold, "I just have to bear with it. When I get back to the imperial city, I'll see if I don't settle the score with him."
"If there are no more accidents on the road, we should be able to return to Dayong safely by the end of October." Li Shilang sat on a chair nearby and sighed softly, "It is better to get back home as soon as possible. It is better to be trapped in Dongyou.
It’s been so many days, and now I’m so nervous even when I’m on the road... Sigh.”
Yun Chen had different thoughts from his.
Hearing what Li Shilang said, Yun Chen suddenly remembered the letter he was forced to write to his father. In the letter, he said that King Jing went to fight in Western Xinjiang. Is this considered deceiving the king?
What if his father thinks he is cowardly and incompetent? What if his father asks him where King Jing is now and why he didn't come back with him?
Will his father suspect that he is colluding with Dongyou and deliberately fooling him?
The more Yun Chen thought about it, the more he felt that Yun Zishu's decision to let him come back alone and keep King Jing trapped in Dongyou was a decision with ulterior motives.
Did she deliberately want her father to doubt him?
Thinking of this, Yun Chen suddenly felt uneasy and began to feel uneasy, so he simply fell asleep.
Unexpectedly, I slept straight into the night, and was awakened by a burst of hurried shouting: "There is an assassin! There is an assassin!"
"Come here, catch the assassin!"
Countless torches illuminated the entire border military camp, and the footsteps of soldiers were numerous and chaotic, occasionally accompanied by the sound of weapons clashing.
Yun Chen jumped up from the bed in excitement: "Assassin? Why are there assassins at the border?"
He got dressed and got out of bed, walked to the door and opened it. When he saw Feng Ci walking this way in a hurry, he quickly shouted: "Feng Ci!"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince." Feng Ci looked solemn, "Just now our guards discovered traces of the dead soldier outside."
"Dead soldiers?" Yun Chen's face changed drastically, "How come there are dead soldiers here? Is it Yun Zishu... Yes! It must be Sicang and Yun Zishu who sent the dead soldiers here. We never met them when we were in Dongyou territory.
To the assassin, why did the assassin come to your door just after crossing the border?"
"Assassin? Where did the assassin come from?" Other envoys heard the movement and ran out of the tent one after another, "Mr. Feng, have you caught the assassin?"
"Your Highness, please be patient." Feng Ci walked up to Yun Chen with a sword on his waist. His hand was always on the hilt of the sword. "Based on my judgment, the dead man did not come from Dongyou."
Yun Chen hesitated: "Are you sure?"
Feng Ci nodded: "I suspect they were sent by Dayong Imperial City."
Great Yong Imperial City?
"How is this possible?" Yun Chen looked shocked, "Did you make a mistake?"
"Yes, how is it possible?" The envoys were also surprised and wondered, "Who in the imperial city dares to send someone to assassinate the current prince?"
Feng Ci shook his head: "I have a basis for my judgment. At present, King Jing and the Crown Prince are not in the capital. King Qi has been trying to win over the ministers in the court, and Prime Minister Wei is trying his best to win over the civil and military ministers in the court for him. Yesterday, I
I also received a letter saying that the King of Qi had bribed assassins from the Jianghu and sent well-trained soldiers from the palace to assassinate the Crown Prince. He also issued a death order that His Highness the Crown Prince would never be allowed to return to the Imperial City safely."
Yun Chen's color changed little by little. He couldn't believe that King Qi had such ambitions and wouldn't hesitate to kill him halfway?