The Prince Consort's Beloved

He Wenzheng sighed in annoyance again. He squatted down, looked at the princess in the eye, held her shoulders that were shaking from crying, and explained in a panic: "Yuan Tao, don't cry. You know I'm not good at talking and I can't comfort people. Although I can't explain it clearly, you can understand what I mean, right? Don't cry, Yuan Tao, your crying makes me feel uncomfortable..."

He kept talking to himself: "I must have hurt my head. My speech is becoming more and more incoherent..."

The eldest princess wiped away her tears and looked at He Wenzheng with her red and swollen eyes.

Her voice was a little hoarse: "When I first met you, you were not so stupid in talking. You were very good at praising people."

He Wenzheng recalled the scene when they first met and couldn't help but smile. He seemed to be quite talkative at that time, but later on, for some reason, he became a little stupid in front of the princess, especially after An'er was born, he became more and more like a fool.

He stared at the princess with clear eyes and whispered softly, "Yes, maybe I met a beautiful woman, so my mind is confused. The deeper my love, the dumber my words become."

The princess couldn't help laughing after hearing this: "You are quite good at talking."

He Wenzheng was overjoyed: "Yuan Tao, you smiled, you are not angry anymore."

Li Youan finally got his wish and officially recognized his father.

In the evening, the three of them sat together for dinner. Li Youan knelt on both knees in front of He Wenzheng and kowtowed three times solemnly: "My son greets his father."

He Wenzheng smiled happily and hurriedly pulled Li Youan up: "Hurry up, your father's good son, I am happy today, drink a drink with your father."

The princess glared at him angrily: "An'er is only eight years old, you let him drink?"

He Wenzheng smiled and said, "Eight years old is not young anymore. I have been drinking since I was five years old. I am really happy today, so let An'er drink less."

The princess's face became serious. He Wenzheng immediately changed his words when he saw this: "You don't have to drink this wine. An'er is still young and shouldn't drink."

Li Youan curled his lips in disgust.

He Wenzheng said flatteringly: "Yuan Tao, are you tired? I will massage your shoulders and loosen up your muscles."

He Wenzheng stood up servilely as he spoke and pinched the eldest princess's shoulders.

Li Youan was watching from the side with a twitching face. He really couldn't connect the flatterer in front of him with the mighty general who was mentioned by everyone and fought bravely on the battlefield with great dignity.

Li Youan sighed, "Father, you are probably the type of husband that my aunt described as being controlled by his wife."

He Wenzheng looked puzzled: "What does it mean to be a henpecked husband?"

Li Youan explained: "I am very afraid of my wife. I listen to her in everything. She controls me so tightly that I dare not resist even a little bit."

He Wenzheng said as a matter of course: "Why do you want to resist? Besides, your mother is the head of the family. As your father, I am the daughter-in-law of the family. Of course, I have to listen to your mother. Is there anything wrong with that? Not only does your father have to listen to your mother, but you and everyone else in this house have to listen to your mother. If anyone dares to displease your mother, your father will be the first one to not let him go."

After he finished speaking, he secretly thought about the word "henpecked", and found it very fresh. He murmured to himself: "henpecked, this word is interesting, a good word."

Li Youan asked him: "What's so good about this poem?"

He Wenzheng smiled mysteriously: "You are still young, you don't understand, having a wife to take care of you is also a kind of happiness."

After he finished speaking, he no longer paid attention to Li Youan, but looked at the eldest princess flatteringly, and said with a smile: "Yuan Tao, I will listen to you in everything."

The princess sighed, patted his hand, and pulled him to sit beside her. Her expression became more serious. "Now that you are not dead, Yuan Qi will not let it go if he knows. No one knows that you are alive yet, but we are trapped in this princess's mansion. If it takes too long, the news may leak out."

He Wenzheng stopped playing around after hearing this and said, "All my soldiers have been taken away by His Majesty, but I still have Chengfeng and the other fourteen, who are enough to help me take you and An'er away. But if we do this, I'm afraid we won't have a peaceful life in the future. We, a family of three, have just been reunited. Are we going to be displaced again?"

The eldest princess' eyes suddenly became firm: "A Zheng, I have an idea."

He Wenzheng also said seriously: "You say."

The princess had already made up her mind: "Yuan Qi thought you were shot dead, didn't he? We will take advantage of his trick and push the boat along. Although he is imprisoned in this mansion, the dead are the most important. I want to bury my late husband, so he can't stop me..."

The eldest princess told her thoughts. She planned to write a letter to Li Yuanqi, asking someone to pretend to be them, on the pretext of escorting He Wenzheng's body back to the He family for burial, to make a big fuss to attract everyone's attention, and then return to the princess's mansion after the coffin was buried.

And they took the opportunity to return to her fiefdom Huiyang City. The He family lived far away in a remote village. The round trip, including the burial and other matters, would take at least three days. These three days were enough for them to stay away from Shangjing City. When Yuan Qi found them, they had already arrived in Huiyang City.

When she arrived in Huiyang City, Li Yuantao was the king, and the county magistrate and others in Huiyang City were her confidants.

The emperor is far away and the mountains are high. If Li Yuanqi wants to move against them again, it will not be so easy.

When He Wenzhen was "killed" by an arrow, she had already repented and realized how ridiculous everything she had done was. She had let down her son and her lover, and in the end, her dream was all in vain.

She felt that God must have been moved by her true love and did not take A Zheng away from her. Now that she could start over again, she wanted to make it up to A Zheng and An Er, as well as to herself.

They have been separated for too long, and she decided to give up what she shouldn't insist on and hold on to what she has. She wants to take the people she loves and those who love her to her fiefdom and spend the rest of her life enjoying the fireworks that belong to them.

But she was still worried, and couldn't help but sigh: "The private soldiers you trained for me have also been recruited by Yuan Qi. If Yuan Qi insists on killing them all and sends troops to besiege Huiyang City..."

He Wenzheng's blood boiled when he heard the princess's plan. He grabbed her hand excitedly and said, "Don't be afraid. The war between Dai Viet and Bei Luo is not over yet. I'm afraid your majesty can't spare any extra troops to deal with us. Besides, your sister's Shanyang City is adjacent to Huiyang City. The two thousand soldiers that Ating trained for her are now in Shanyang City. I'll give Ating a call and ask him to take everyone to Huiyang City. In short, Shanyang City is behind Huiyang City. If something happens, Huiyang City will be in front to block it. It doesn't matter whether Shanyang City has troops or not. Besides, Princess Shanyang is not in her fiefdom now, so we can just borrow her soldiers. Also, don't forget what your husband does. With your husband guarding the city for you, I won't let even a mosquito fly into Huiyang City."

The princess was surprised and asked, "I remember that General Rou'er had taken back the jade pendant used to mobilize the troops."

He Wenzheng laughed and said, "Yes, she took it back. She turned around and gave it to Xiao Luobai. Xiao Luobai had already planned to take Princess Shanyang back to the fiefdom after all the things here were dealt with. So he contacted Ating privately and returned the jade pendant to Ating. Xiao Luobai had already made arrangements and asked Ating to take everyone to Shanyang City."

He Wenzheng couldn't help but sigh as he spoke: "Xiao Luobai is still foresighted. Shanyang City is thousands of miles away. Your Majesty would never have thought that Xiao Luobai would have a backup plan in Shanyang City. Speaking of which, your sister is also lucky. She has no scheming, but Xiao Luobai is paving the way for her behind the scenes and planning everything. She is happy to be free and easy, making jokes and eating, drinking and having fun all day long..."

As he was speaking, Cheng Feng came hurriedly to report: "Princess, General, we captured a female assassin alive."

Several people stood up at the same time, and He Wenzheng asked, "Whose people are they?"