Chapter 91 A Rare Opportunity (Conscientious Lonely Brother
On the loess plateau, in front of the royal tent, Queen Fu Shou is sitting in the middle, with the noble Song Du sitting on one side, and Tang Ji and Cai Yan sitting on the other side.
There was a pottery cauldron hanging on the bonfire, and the water was already boiling and foaming. The maids took out the cooked horse meat, cut it into small pieces, and put it on the plates in front of everyone.
"Eat it, eat it while it's hot, it won't taste good when it's cold." Fu Shou smiled lightly and raised his hand.
"Thank you, Your Highness." Song Du bowed and saluted.
"Thank you, Queen." Tang Ji and Cai Yan also saluted, picked up the plates, picked up the horse meat, dipped it in some sauce, put it in their mouths, and chewed it slowly.
"Sister-in-law, please eat more." Fu Shou rolled up his sleeves with one hand, picked up a piece of meat with the other, and brought it to Tang Ji. "I heard that if I can win this time, the information provided by my sister-in-law is crucial. If my sister-in-law is a man,
Now I will sit in front of His Majesty and celebrate with the generals."
Tang Ji said calmly: "The queen's words are serious, and I don't dare to take them seriously. This battle can be won because your majesty is calm in the face of danger, the ministers plan well, and the soldiers are attentive. It has nothing to do with the concubines."
"Sister-in-law, you're welcome." Fu Shou picked up another piece of meat and brought it to Cai Yan.
Cai Yan quickly took the meat, put down the plate, left the table and knelt down to thank him.
"Madam, there is no need to be formal, this is not a palace." Fu Shou said with a smile.
Cai Yan said softly: "The sage said that sincerity is in the middle and forms the outside. Therefore, a gentleman should be cautious and independent and dare not exceed the rules. He also said that the sacrifice is as if it were there. Even if you are not in the palace, the ceremony should not be forgotten."
Fu Shou sighed softly, put down his chopsticks, and reached out to help Cai Yan up. "What Madam said is shameful. Since the imperial court's expedition to the west, everything has been in chaos, and there are not many people who can still observe etiquette like Madam."
Tang Ji frowned slightly, swallowed the meat in her mouth, and put down the bowl and chopsticks. "Thank you, Queen, for the meat. I am full, please leave first."
Fu Shou was surprised and said: "Sister-in-law, how come you're full after just a few bites?"
Tang Ji said calmly: "I am a small concubine, please forgive me, Queen." After saying that, she paid her respects and stood up to leave.
Fu Shou looked embarrassed. He wanted to get angry, but he didn't want to lose his dignity in front of Cai Yan.
Cai Yan did not expect this situation and was in a dilemma. She thought about it and thanked her: "Thank you, Queen, for the meat. I have just escaped from trouble. It is not appropriate to eat too much meat. I may not be able to bear it. Please leave."
Fu Shou was in a bad mood and waved his hand nonchalantly, signaling Cai Yan to help himself.
Cai Yan left the table and went to the small tent nearby, but did not see Tang Ji. When he came out, he saw a figure on the plain in the distance, who looked like Tang Ji, so he walked over and took a closer look under the moonlight.
Sure enough it was her.
"lady?"
Tang Ji turned around and saw Cai Yan, so she waved to signal Cai Yan to come closer.
Cai Yan walked over, bowed and saluted. "Please forgive me, madam, I am not..."
Tang Ji smiled silently, took Cai Yan's hand and caressed it gently. "It doesn't matter, I come from a humble background and have the name of eunuch. How can I be compared with the Langya Fu family, who has been a high-ranking family for generations. And I am in the same place.
Bit, some things have to happen, she just got used to it and it was an unintentional mistake. I don’t blame her."
Cai Yan looked at Tang Ji, pondered for a moment, and then turned to look at the brightly lit Chinese army tent in the distance. "Actually, what the queen said makes some sense. Madam is masculine. If she were not a woman, she could still sit here at this moment.
In front of the emperor, he celebrated his victory with the generals."
Tang Ji looked at Cai Yan in surprise. "What have you heard?"
"It's nothing. I just heard from Yang Xiu, the servant, that my wife puts the overall situation first and is very magnanimous. Even His Majesty is grateful."
Tang Ji laughed: "This Minister Yang..." She closed her mouth mid-sentence, looked at the camp in the distance, and raised a warm smile at the corner of her mouth. "Mrs. Cai, I heard that you want to go
Are you staying with the Yang family?"
"I have no relatives, and now only the Yang family can have a place for me." Cai Yan said with a bitter smile: "My father used to be colleagues with the Taiwei in the past, and they were studying history in Dongguan, and we had a close relationship. My Cai family and Yuan family are also in-laws.
, I think Mrs. Yuan can also protect me for the sake of old friendship."
"I have heard a little bit about your relationship with the Yuan family. However, at this moment, I do not recommend that you stay at the Yang family."
"Why?"
"If I remember correctly, your father seems to have only one daughter, you, and no other heirs."
"It's just as Madam said." Cai Yan sighed deeply, feeling sad in his heart.
Although her father Cai Yong was proud of her, she was a woman after all. Cai Yong had always wanted to have a son and inherit the family business. Now that everyone is dead, naturally there is no such thing.
This vein is considered extinct.
"Your Majesty was killed by Wang Situ because of a blunder. Who else can inherit the unfinished business besides my wife?"
Cai Yan frowned slightly, not understanding what Tang Ji wanted to say.
"Your Majesty is determined to rejuvenate the country. The next ten years or so will be full of turbulence and heroes, no less than the founding of the country by our great ancestors and the resurgence of Guangwu. Your majesty's words and deeds should be recorded in history and passed down to future generations. Madam, if you can
If I stay with His Majesty, become a female official like Ban Zhao, and record His Majesty's words and deeds, how can my achievements be inferior to those of your Majesty?"
Cai Yan's heart was moved for a moment, and he unexpectedly thought of the emperor's warm eyes.
But then she felt ashamed again.
I have been trapped in a bandit camp for several years and have lost all my reputation. How can I be a female official beside the emperor?
As for Ban Zhao, it was not something she dared to hope for.
But what Tang Ji said was also very attractive, and she couldn't help but yearn for it.
For her personally, this is a good opportunity to inherit the legacy of her late father Cai Yong.
For historians, this is probably an extremely exciting period of history. How lucky it would be to experience it personally and record it one by one.
Even Ban Zhao didn't have such a chance.
"What Madam said is true, but I..." Cai Yan hesitated, not knowing whether to agree or not.
She heard Yang Xiu say that Tang Ji had a greater influence on the emperor than Queen Fu Shou. If Tang Ji proposed, the emperor would most likely agree.
But in that case, she would have to be involved in the dispute between Tang Ji and the Queen.
"You don't have to rush to agree to me, you can think about it slowly." Tang Ji smiled. "Anyway, this war will not end in a day or two. Li Jue, not Li Shi, is not that easy to deal with."
Thinking of Li Jue, Li Shi and his son, Cai Yan couldn't help but shudder and wrapped up his clothes tightly.
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"Do you still have the nerve to come back?" Li Jue sneered and flattened the golden cup in his hand.
Li Shi knelt on the ground and burst into tears.
"What are you doing?" Mrs. Hu glared angrily. "Although Ah Shi was defeated, he still tried his best. It was those damned barbarians who disobeyed the general's orders and refused to save them. This led to Ah Shi's failure. You
You don’t punish them, but you come to embarrass your son?”
Li Jue was furious. "Have you tried your best? Where did he use his strength? You haven't figured it out yet?" He stood up, walked behind Li Shi, and kicked Li Shi on the waist. "
Look at his waist, which is as soft as a soup cake. Can he still sit firmly on a horse?"
Li Shi screamed out in pain, fell to the ground, and huddled up.
Hu was so anxious that she spread her arms, lay on Li Shi, and shouted angrily: "If you want to kill me, kill my mother and son together. Young people, how many of you are not lewd? What kind of good thing do you think you are? Back then,
I fell in love with Mrs. Hongnong Wang, and she looked like a dog in heat..."