Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 1731

Suddenly a strong wind blew outside the house, blowing dead leaves all over the ground against the window frames, making a rustling sound.

Xiao Zhi chuckled, and his slender fingers gently stroked the celadon teacup, causing tiny ripples in the tea. "Is the imperial sister testing me?"

Shi Anxia's fingertips tightened slightly in her sleeves, but her face remained calm, "I dare not. But thinking about what Miss Chi wants, I am afraid that there will be complications."

The most difficult thing to understand is the human heart.

She was frightened by her uncle. In her heart, he was such a perfect person, but he hurt her the most in her previous life.

What's more, the person in front of him is the future emperor.

The hall suddenly fell silent, with only the ticking sound of the copper clock.

Xiao Zhi stood up, and the corner of his black robe swept across the table, bringing with it a scent of pine ink. "Imperial sister, you don't have to be so cautious in front of me. Father trusts you, so I naturally trust you too. Imperial sister and the prince consort are the heart of the Northern Wing, and the sun and the moon can testify to that. I have eyes, and I can see."

He still remembered a snowy night many years ago when Cen Yuan came alone on horseback, crushing the snow in the courtyard and aroused his interest with a volume of "Northern Border Defense Strategy".

For the next three years, on every new moon night, Cen Yuan would deliver a handwritten letter to Xiao Zhi.

The Iron Cavalry Drill Manual is as thin as a cicada's wing, but every word is as sharp as a knife, describing in detail how to defeat the heavy cavalry of the State of Wan with light armor and fast horses; in the more than an inch thick Northern Frontier Battle Formation Atlas, each move is accompanied by key steps outlined in cinnabar, and even the angle of the horse's leaping is accurate to the millimeter.

The most amazing thing is the set of "The Initial Explanation of Military Formations", which is clearly the kung fu practiced by the students of Yunqi Academy. After being annotated and modified by them, it has evolved into multiple killing moves, which can be used to fight against the Wan people and kill everyone in Guicheng.

After they got to know each other, Cen Yuan planned for him in great detail, from which general to befriend to which powerful family to avoid, and even the monthly salary of the staff in the palace was calculated for him.

Cen Yuan even found out clearly which staff members were worth keeping and which were useless.

Xiao Zhi initially thought that Cen Yuan wanted to be his aide and earn money.

He specially put the silver he had saved for many years into a mahogany box and presented it to the emperor. In it were the silver from the sale of his calligraphy and paintings, the salary he saved, and even a few gold ornaments left by his mother.

When he held the box, his ears felt hot. This was probably the most humble gift money ever given to a prince in history.

He was different from what everyone imagined a prince to be, he was poor.

Cen Yuan refused calmly, took out a fifty thousand tael silver note and stuffed it into his pocket, saying, "Use it first, and don't be too stingy with your loyal subordinates."

Xiao Zhi's ears felt even hotter, and he was at a loss. He felt that Cen Yuan was like a fairy from a storybook, who had come to earth to help him.

He asked Cen Yuan, "What exactly do you want?"

There was a sadness in Cen Yuan's eyes that he couldn't understand, so she just answered him sullenly, "Don't worry about it, I won't hurt you anyway."

Xiao Zhi also felt that Cen Yuan would not harm him.

How could someone give him money and books and pave the way for him to harm him?

The prince consort said, "If you believe me, stay away from the capital, a place of trouble."

Therefore, Xiao Zhi left Beijing whenever he had official business, and he also left Beijing whenever he had no official business, and he rarely stayed in the capital.

Moreover, the prince consort is like a divine fortune teller, and he can always accurately calculate where there will be natural disasters and man-made disasters.

He didn't believe it at first, then he was half-believing and half-doubting, but when everything turned out to be true, he became numb.

Later, he was too lazy to ask. Anyway, wherever Cen Yuan told him to go, he would go with his followers.

During those years, the number of people he saved and the disasters he managed to save were so many that they could not be recorded in a single book.