Jiang Yun blinked his eyes.
“Will this… harm Your Highness’s reputation?”
Sui Heng immediately realized what he had said.
Clearing his throat, said, “Gu also doesn’t… Looks like Gu can do it ah.”
Jiang Yun continued to look at him innocently.
“What Your Highness means is that people can tell that I can do it at a glance?”
Sui Heng dare not say that.
But it’s rare for his little lover to be so attached and seek help from him. Just now, he already spoke it out, if he immediately denied it, it would seem very irresponsible.
Sui Heng said, “Gu didn’t mean that. What Gu means is that since we were separated for a year and a half, Gu has been training on Mount Li, eating and living with the soldiers. Even if Gu says, Gu gives birth himself, no one would believe Gu either.”
Jiang Yun stretched out his fingers and entangled him with a strand of hair.
“I heard that men who are pregnant may not necessarily show signs of pregnancy.”
Sui Heng lowered his eyes and looked at those black, crystal-clear, and incredibly sincere eyes. Suspiciously asked, “Are you serious?”
“Naturally.”
Jiang Yun nodded his head with certainty.
Sui Heng thought of something, and his gaze immediately fell on the jade belt around Jiang Yun’s waist.
“At that time, you didn’t show any signs?”
His topic suddenly changed, and Jiang Yun’s ears turned red.
Sui Heng’s eyes were so sharp that he immediately raised the corner of his mouth, leaned over, and asked in a low voice, “Could it be, it’s obvious?”
He couldn’t help but feel an itch in his heart just by thinking of that scene, so he couldn’t wait to know the answer.
Jiang Yun bit his lip and glanced at him, saying, “I’m discussing serious business with you.”
“Gu is also talking about serious business. Quickly tell Gu whether it’s obvious or not.”
Jiang Yun ignored him.
Sui Heng was extremely curious, and whenever he thought of such a cold and big beauty like him, he couldn’t help but feel a surge of excitement.
Sui Heng insisted on asking, “If you don’t say it, Gu will just ask Meng Hui.”
“You dare.”
“You will see if Gu dares or not. Gu doesn’t care about other things, but Gu must get to the bottom of this.”
Although Jiang Yun had removed his outer robe, the weather was cold, and he still wore a light green long coat. However, his waist and limbs were slender, and although he was wearing a jade belt, he was still charming.
Since they parted ways, they have never had a true skin-to-skin relationship. Now, looking at the shy appearance of the beauty under the lamp, Sui Heng couldn’t help but reach out to that jade belt.
While hooking the jade belt, he whispered, “Tell Gu, alright?”
Jiang Yun was enveloped by his dominant aura, and his body, following his force, leaned against the wall of the carriage. He looked at him cunningly and said, “If I tell Your Highness, will Your Highness fulfill what he just said?”
Sui Heng feels like a hundred claws were scratching his heart, and his mind was filled with images of the beauty’s pregnancy, so he answered vaguely.
Jiang Yun quietly raised the corner of his mouth and wrapped his arms around his neck. His skin was delicate and his breath was soft. He whispered in his ear, “If I tell Your Highness, please don’t speak out.”
He made it as if it were a major secret.
Sui Heng was willing to cooperate and said, “Look at what you’re saying. How would Gu tell anyone about such a private matter? You say it quickly.”
Jiang Yun blushed and whispered something in his ear.
Sui Heng’s brain exploded.
“Seriously?”
“En.”
Sui Heng looked at his little lover’s waist more and more like a treasure. If it weren’t for his heartache for his body, he would have wished he could make him give birth to another one for him tomorrow.
Jiang Yun looked at him with a smirk.
The light was dim, and the beauty was as beautiful as jade. It was difficult not to get a little flirtatious, after all, he was not incapable in that matter, or the gentleman who doesn’t mess around. Sui Heng couldn’t help but press down a little more and called out in a muffled voice, “Rongyu.”
However, just as the tenderness and flirtatiousness filled him, a heavy cough suddenly came from outside the carriage.
“Your Highness?”
Fan Zhou’s voice immediately sounded outside.
Sui Heng was like being splashed with a basin of cold water on his head and suddenly regained consciousness. His face turned black, and he said, “Didn’t you say he wouldn’t come back?”
“I also don’t know, perhaps the Master is looking for me for something.”
Jiang Yun suppressed a smile and gently pinched his nose, whispering, “Why don’t Your Highness hide first? If my advisor catches Your Highness, it will damage Your Highness’ dignity.”
Sui Heng’s face darkened even more.
After a moment, Jiang Yun said from the inside, “Sir, please come in.”
Fan Zhou bowed and said yes, then pushed the carriage door out and walked in. Jiang Yun sat upright behind the table and wrote something. A lamp was lit on the table, and a piece of rice paper was placed on the table with ink marks halfway down.
Fan Zhou first scanned left and right.
Jiang Yun looked up and asked, “What is the Master looking for?”
“Oh, nothing.”
Fan Zhou felt strange; just now, when he was outside, he clearly heard movements in the carriage. At that time, he was angry. He thought, if he caught him in the act, even if the other party was the Crown Prince of Sui, he would also scold the other party and let him know the etiquette.
Who’d have thought that there’d be no one?
Fan Zhou suspected that the other party was hiding, but there was no hiding place inside the carriage. Fan Zhou even glanced at the roof of the carriage.
“Master?”
Jiang Yun called out again.
Fan Zhou, realizing his impoliteness, quickly withdrew his gaze and took out a document from his sleeve, saying, “These are some newly revised articles by the subordinate based on Your Highness’s opinions, so please have a look at them, Your Highness.”
Fan Zhou sat down and discussed the details with Jiang Yun in the carriage for almost half an hour before bidding farewell and leaving.
Before leaving, he glanced at the entire carriage again, intentionally or unintentionally.
There is no abnormality.
It’s probably a hallucination.
Fan Zhou thinks.
As the carriage door closed, Fan Zhou’s footsteps faded away. Jiang Yun put down his brush and opened the carriage window. Sui Heng tumbled in from the outside with a dark face, some dew falling on his shoulders.
God knows how he managed to maintain a strange posture, hanging upside down from a nearby tree.
Jiang Yun lifted his sleeve to help him wipe off the dewdrops on his face and shoulder armor. Seeing his embarrassed appearance, he couldn’t help but chuckle.
Sui Heng gritted his teeth.
“Do all these advisors under your command have dog noses?”
Jiang Yun couldn’t help but laugh.
Sui Heng then tickle his crotch.
The two of them played and frolicked for a while, but dared not make any bigger noise and alarmed Fan Zhou again. Jiang Yun took him by the hand and asked him to sit down. He said, “Master Fan is loyal and meticulous, he was worried that I might suffer a loss.”
“After we get married, the Master naturally won’t interfere in our private affairs anymore.”
Sui Heng was not an unreasonable person, so naturally he would not argue with Fan Zhou because of his loyalty to the lord.
After wandering around, Sui Heng’s mind was already clear. He took out an object from his pocket and handed it to Jiang Yun, saying, “Take this.”
Jiang Yun looked at it and saw that it was a hand warmer with a layer of animal skin wrapped around it.
He couldn’t help but wonder, “Where did you get it from?”
The Qinglang Battalion is made up of men who’ve climbed and fought in the snowy mountains of the Northern Border. On a normal day’s march, one would never bring this kind of thing that is normally only used by noblewomen in the palace.
Sui Heng said, “It’s just hand warmers, not something rare. But it’s you, on such a cold day, you don’t have a fire basin or other heating thing in the carriage. What if you freeze?”
But Jiang Yun knew that he must have put in a lot of effort to find one for him.
Jiang Yun placed the delicate and small hand warmers in his palm, and with a flick of his mouth, he said, “Where am I that delicate?”
Sui Heng bent his finger and lightly flicked it on his forehead.
“This is not called delicate, but cherishing oneself.”
After spending so much time together, Sui Heng also knew that Jiang Yun’s temperament was quick witted, sensible, and lacking in love. On the bright side, he has a good mindset, seeing everything as plain and indifferent. On the dark side, he just doesn’t know how to feel mindful of himself.
The identity of the Crown Prince and the loyalty and submission of his advisors have made him demand even more stringent standards from himself. Most of the time, he only remembers that he is the Crown Prince of Jiang and forgets that he is also a living person.
For example, during this march, Jiang Yun felt that he was already delaying the progress by riding in a carriage, so even if his hands and feet were cold, he felt embarrassed to use things like hand warmers.
Sui Heng couldn’t help but imagine how he had been suffering on his own for the past nineteen years. No wonder his stomach disease had been dragging on for so many years, he didn’t even recuperate for a while.
However, that’s all from the past.
When they get married, he will definitely take good care of him and never let him suffer any more pain.
Jiang Yun extended his hand in front of him with a slightly coquettish tone, saying, “It’s not enough.”
Sui Heng understood, raised his eyebrows and smiled, reached out his hand, and used his broad palm to hold onto Jiang Yun’s hand.
Jiang Yun felt the dry heat in his palm, his eyes narrowed, and he snuggled comfortably in his arms. In the quiet space, the heartbeat of the two overlapped, and Jiang Yun felt immensely at ease.
Fan Zhou watched too closely, and Sui Heng dared not stay for too long. After talking to Jiang Yun for a while, he quietly climbed out through the carriage window and left.
One day later, two large armies arrived at Muyun Pass simultaneously.
Jiang Yun returned to the pass, while Sui Heng brought tens of thousands of iron cavalry back to the Sui army base across from him.
With Emperor Sui and the Left Prime Minister Jimo Qingyu’s support, the situation at the base was stable. The first thing Sui Heng did when he returned to the camp was to hold a meeting and reward the three armies.
After the meeting ended, Sui Heng had someone bring Chen Qi over.
Chen Qi was tied up in various ways and brought back from Dongzhou. He had lost all his former energy, but there was still a strong sense of unwillingness and jealousy in his eyes.
Sui Heng had someone untie him.
He said, “Gu has asked himself, Gu treat the Military Advisor well, is that how the Military Advisor repays Gu?’”
Chen Qi knew that the moment he escaped from the Sui army camp, he had completely lost Sui Heng, the new ruler. But he doesn’t regret it. If time were to go back and start over again, he would still choose to risk everything and expose the evidence of Jiang Rongyu’s guilt to the public.
Sui Heng knew from his expression that he had no remorse.
Sui Heng knew how to strike a person’s heart very well. He took out an object from his pocket and threw it in front of Chen Qi, saying, “Why don’t you take a look at this?”
Chen Qi picked it up with suspicion and saw the content on the paper. He was momentarily taken aback, then showed an incredulous expression.
That is a recommendation letter.
Regarding the recommendation of the candidate for the Right Prime Minister, Chen Qi’s name is listed in first place, followed by Lu Jishi and Lu Anmin.
Sui Heng said, “This is the list of names handed to the Ministry of Justice in duplicate before Gu sent out the troops. Two copies were made. Originally, as long as you were obedient and did your best to assist Gu, you could have obtained this coveted position. Unfortunately, there is no chance now.”
Chen Qi’s spine finally trembled violently, as if it had been pulled apart.
“Of course, there is one more thing, Gu thinks, Gu should also let you know.”
“When you went to Lanxin Palace to meet the Crown Prince of Jiang but were rejected, did you encounter a wave of bandits intercepting you while walking back to the Chen capital? You were originally going to die under the bandits’ swords, but at this moment, two skilled knight errands happened to pass by and saved you. Don’t you want to know where those two knight errands came from?”
Chen Qi trembled and looked up, his face as white as paper, puzzled as he looked at Sui Heng.
Sui Heng looked down at him.
“They come from the Lanxin Palace, under the command of the Crown Prince of Jiang.”
“You made friends through literature in the Jiang capital, your sharpness was too strong, and you provoked enemies without realizing it. It was the Crown Prince of Jiang who sent people to save you after learning the news. Although he did not know your identity, he took care of every scholar who had visited him. He only objectively commented on your article, and in your eyes, it turned into narrow-minded and jealousy. Have you ever thought that perhaps the strategies you proposed were really hasty and needed to be corrected? Your selfishness, arrogance, and narrow-minded mentality have continued to this day. In order to retaliate against him, you even go as far as to resort to vulgar means and give him that kind of drug at Liushang Banquet. In the battle between the two armies, you became even more clever. You tied up and kidnapped a baby to come to Gu to claim credit, almost destroying Gu’s Qinglang Battalion’s entire reputation. You step by step pushed yourself to a dead end. If you were willing to accept his advice with a calm attitude and humbly reflect on the problems in your article that day, would there be a different result today?”
Chen Qi couldn’t accept this kind of collapse. He shook his head and said, “It’s impossible, it’s absolutely impossible.”
Human stubbornness cannot be changed overnight. Besides, how many people in the world can be like him? Even after encountering difficulties and hardships, he is still willing to treat the world with kindness and tolerance.
Sui Heng allowed Beauty Xin to meet Chen Qi for the last time.
The next day, Sui Heng publicly beheaded Chen Qi on the commanding platform and ordered the soldiers of the three armies to watch.
He wants everyone to understand that in the Qinglang Battalion, although force is important, but loyalty is the first priority.
Treason against the country and the Lord can only lead to death.
After dealing with Chen Qi, Sui Heng’s next step was to start preparing for the grand wedding. The marriage alliance between the two Crown Princes is not a small matter, and the process is cumbersome. He must go back to the Sui capital, then follow the rules to come to Muyun Pass to pay respects and propose marriage.
This is no longer a secret among the Sui army. In the past two days, the battalion has been filled with a joyful atmosphere.
Emperor Sui ordered the palace attendants to make beautiful new clothes for his two grandsons.
Jiang Nuo’s little double-layer jacket was still snow-white, beautiful as jade snow with dark eyes, and as beautiful and lovely as a jade porcelain doll. Xiao Junwang Sui Zhang no longer wears armor and also needs to wear a double-layer jacket.
The eldest grandson’s skin was dark, wearing snow-colored clothes will make it even darker. Thus, the palace attendants cut a black double-layer jacket for him.
So as soon as Sui Heng entered Emperor Sui’s tent, he saw two pieces of black and white dumplings sitting opposite each other, sitting cross-legged on the bed and playing with the mechanism birds in each hand.
It was Sui Heng who bought them back from Dongzhou.
Sui Heng and Emperor Sui briefly discussed the matter of the grand wedding. Emperor Sui had no objections but raised the same concerns as Jiang Yun.
“What do you plan to do about Nuo Nuo’s background?”
Sui Heng said vaguely, “Erchen has a way. Emperor Father, rest assured, Erchen won’t let you lose your grandson.”
Emperor Sui looked at him with half belief and half doubt.
Sui Heng perfunctorily replied to Emperor Sui and then carried Jiang Nuo back to his tent.
He had more difficult things to deal with than just whose belly the little baby had crawled out of.
Sui Heng put Jiang Nuo on the table.
One big and one small, four eyes facing each other.
The little baby was obedient and clever in front of his imperial grandfather. As soon as he arrived in front of Sui Heng, he continued to seize him up with cold eyes.
Sui Heng held the mechanism bird in his hand, lowered his face, and warned, “You don’t need Gu to teach you how to behave when you see him later, do you?”
“One principle: hold onto Gu’s thighs and make a show of reluctance, don’t let go, do you hear?”
“Otherwise…”
Sui Heng held the mechanism bird and made a false snapping movement.
T/N: lmao Nuo Nuo’s doggy father is so cheap xD
