Chapter 199 People have thousands of faces and their hearts are ever-changing
When Jie Chen came back, he saw Xiang Ying smiling brightly at Lu Pi.
While they were talking, they both touched Aren's head.
It looked like a family of three.
Xie Chen looked at Xiang Ying's own child.
The three little ones are nearby, studying and behaving obediently.
Jie Chen frowned, walked over and said, "Xiangying, come with me to the camp."
Xiangying was smiling, turned around and saw Jin Chen coming back, her eyes lit up.
She hurriedly caught up and followed Xie Chen's footsteps into the camp.
"Why did you come back so early? Shouldn't you be going to open a tent to give porridge?"
Jie Chen was taking off his armor. Hearing this, he looked sideways, with doubts in his eyes.
"Why do you know?"
Xiangying coughed lightly: "I did it, of course I guess it will develop."
Jie Chen put down his sword and put his armor on the shelf.
He raised his eyebrows and sneered: "I knew it was you."
Using a little grain of rice as a clue, it attracted the attention of the imperial envoy.
Then they discovered the cave where the Sixth Prince hid his weapons.
Jie Chen clearly remembered that he and Xiang Ying had already vacated this place.
How could weapons come back overnight?
After much deliberation, it can only be done by Xiangying.
He walked to the table, picked up the written letter and handed it to Xiangying.
"For you."
Xiangying was startled: "What is this?"
She unfolded it and looked at it. Her smiling face gradually turned cold, like white-cold jade.
"Xie Chen, what do you mean, you asked someone to send me away again?"
This letter was written by Jie Chen to his staff and confidants, asking them to receive Xiang Ying and the children.
Jie Chen's thin eyes were dark: "Don't get angry in a hurry. I'm not sending you back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, but I'm sending you to Beijing first."
Xiangying was startled.
Xie Chen continued: "I have several mansions there. I can arrange for you secretly first, which is better than following the exile team into the capital."
After all, the meaning is different. Once Xiangying follows the exile team into the city, he will be detained by the people sent by the emperor on the spot and become a prisoner completely.
She still doesn't know that her father has used her as an exchange of benefits and dedicated her to his father.
Jie Chen didn't want to say it because he was afraid Xiang Ying wouldn't accept it.
Xiangying put down the letter, with a hint of doubt on her pretty face.
"I don't understand. You arranged for me to leave early, but then asked me to follow you to Beijing. Do you want to let me go, or lock me up?"
When she spoke, she put her palms on the table, leaned forward slightly, and had stern eyes.
Jie Chen met her gaze calmly.
"I want to keep you, stay with me, and protect you."
His voice was low and serious: "I will wrong you at first. You will live in my mansion for a period of time. You can't go out, but give me some time. Within three months, I can let you walk in Shangjing City openly. ”
Xiangying frowned: "What do you want to do?"
Jie Chen did not hide anything, but simply said: "The reason why I will come back is to settle my hatred. After I handle my own affairs, we... will talk about our affairs."
Xiangying saw that what he said was extremely sincere.
She fell into a faint daze.
Yes, she admitted that she had a crush on Jie Chen, and she was definitely not just a lustful person.
But she never thought about spending her whole life with a man.
Did Xie Chen's words...do he mean to marry her?
Xiangying, who has lived in the last days, is used to living alone.
Once she thought about being permanently bound to someone for the rest of her life, she hesitated.
Jie Chen seemed to see her hesitation and frowned: "What are you thinking?" Xiangying came back to her senses: "I won't leave. I want to follow the exile team into the city. I don't want to accept your arrangement."
"Why?"
"Xie Chen, I am not a passive person. You asked me to stay in the room and wait for you to handle everything, but don't you understand my character? I am not such a person."
Jie Chen's eyes were like endless deep pools.
He looked at Xiangying, and after a moment, a faint smile escaped from his thin lips.
"You're right. You don't want to be hidden in a golden house, so naturally I can't restrain you. Then what I just said is our matter..."
Xiangying held Jie Chen's hand.
It was his turn to be stunned.
Xiangying narrowed her eyes and said with a smile: "Let's not think so far ahead. After you finish handling your affairs, I will also complete my goal. Let's discuss it carefully later."
After saying that, she withdrew her hand happily, turned around and hurried out of the camp.
Jie Chen's thin eyes were cold, with a touch of complex emotions hidden in them.
He was keenly aware that Xiangying... didn't want to have a future with him.
Before Xie Chen's words of marriage could be uttered, she implicitly rejected them.
So he thought that Xiangying and he were in love, but he thought?
On this day, Jie Chen sat in silence until midnight.
For the next five or six consecutive days, Xie Chen did not stay in the camp.
Even Xiangying hasn't seen him for several days. I heard that he is either busy opening a tent to give rice or making friends with various forces.
King Yong intends to promote him, and Lu Hong even wants to recruit Jie Chen to marry his daughter Lu Panchu.
I heard that they went to the lake together yesterday.
When Xiangying heard the news, she felt sour in her heart.
Damn it, she must have eaten the wrong thing!
So these days, Xiangying forced herself not to pay attention to any news about Jie Chen.
She spends most of her time hiding in her own space, feeding the cartoon villains crazily.
Speaking of which, these villains are also trying to live up to their expectations, and they will arrange a group of teams to recruit soldiers every now and then.
The original 50,000 people have gradually grown to 70,000 people.
Xiangying's goal of feeding 100,000 people will be completed soon.
She spared no effort to throw grain, cattle, sheep and horses into the screen.
Lu Peiyi seemed to sense that Xiang Ying was absent-minded these days, so he asked her to go feed the horses with him.
He took the initiative to talk about Xie Chen and Lu Panchu.
"Actually, even if you don't say it, I can feel it. You don't like Xie Chen and Lu Panchu being together, but what's wrong with you two? One doesn't come back and the other doesn't talk? I'm not used to it."
Xiangying put the fodder into the manger.
Her eyes were dark and her tone was cold: "It's nothing, don't talk nonsense."
Lu Beiyi nodded thoughtfully.
He turned to smile and said: "When I was a child, I wandered around and saw other people having relatives and families. I was extremely envious, but the master who adopted me told me that there was nothing to envy."
"Once a person has someone he likes or has close relatives, he will have weaknesses. If you want to be an indestructible person, it is best to have no weaknesses."
Xiangying suddenly raised her eyes to look at him. Under the sunshine, Lu Baizhi smiled very warmly.
This couldn't help but remind Xiangying of his master.
He also said something similar——
"Yingying, in the end of the world, don't believe that anyone can stay with you forever. People have thousands of faces and their hearts are ever-changing."
She has followed Master since she was a child, and these concepts have always been with her.
If you don't place your hopes on others, you will never be disappointed; if you don't test people's hearts, you will never be hurt by them.
Xiangying felt more and more bored.
She threw all the fodder into the manger: "I'm going to see what's for lunch."
Lu Beiyi turned around and followed her figure with his eyes. His smile never changed, but the look in his eyes gradually deepened.
Xiangying didn't take two steps before Skinny Monkey came running over in a hurry.
"Sister-in-law, um...Miss Lu's family sent someone to take you to the prefect's mansion."